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K “But do they really want them to be financially literate.”
J “Who wants a citizenry to be financially literate. Illiteracy is so profitable.”
K “What would they teach.”
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K “For a few hours, they should teach them simply to consume less. That is the answer. Devour less. That goes against the spend and spend and spend and consume and consume and consume mantra they are fed every waking moment on every medium everywhere they venture.”
J “The same corporations and institutions that ceaselessly propagandize them to spend then underwrite a few hours of instruction advising them, in effect, not to spend.”
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K “You could teach supply and demand, yet supply and demand no longer drive or dictate price.”
J “Price/earnings ratios remain a sound financial metric in an economy with accurate price discovery. With all the government and private sector manipulation and intervention, they are not relevant or reflective metrics of reality.”
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K “Markets do not exist. The ‘stock market’ is a Racket. What few insider trading cases are prosecuted are overturned and repudiated by obliging federal appellate courts doing their job protecting the Kleptocracy.”
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K “Personal finance courses would at core contradict all the carpet bombing saturation advertising inflicted on the public. And look how the consequences define our age. We have evolved from the ‘Stone Age’ to the ‘Bronze Age’ and now to the ‘Debt Age’.”
J “Still prudent to avoid debt at any cost unless the return is nearly certain. The debt one assumes to spend time around a college may not be worth the return.”
K “To the individual and also to society. Buying a used car and not eating at a restaurant are sound pieces of financial literacy advice. However, someone must buy new cars and frequent restaurants on occasion.”
J “The loans for new cars exceed the expected life of the cars. Restaurants are moving to computer ordering and eliminating the wait staff.”
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K “All prices are manipulated and manufactured. What would you teach.”
J “Most current economic curricula in America’s colleges and universities is a secular religion built on inaccurate assumptions and the conviction that growth can continue forever.”
K “To educate the Nobel Prize winners in Economics in economics, night classes in financial literacy could be offered.”
J “The classes for them would need to be scheduled around their daily teaching schedules propagandizing the religious orthodoxy.”
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[See the discussions of the “Save” program and the “Credit Abuse Resistance Education” program.]
[See the e-commentary at “Consume, Don’t Invest (Nov. 9, 2009).”]
Bumper sticker of the week:
“The more flak you get the closer you are to the target.” World War Two bomber’s observation
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