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This right here? This is the problem. I never asked you to present any argument. I already know your argument.
It doesn't appear that you do. You continue to get it wrong when you address me.
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What I was interested in was your idea that there is now tons of mainstream support for your theories. All I asked for were some examples of what you considered mainstream news articles that were supporting the idea of global economic contraction. I got none. Sorry, Popes don't count.
You got three links as examples, and a half dozen other reminders of how compromised the markets currently are, all of which contribute to show a global economy stuck in the mud. The "reasonable" pope was merely thrown in there as a topping, which you straw-manned to pretend I must think his opinion is paramount.
To be clear, your causa proxima, non remota spectator strategy is familiar.
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Even their revised forecasts are still positive. And the forecast for 2017 is higher than 2016. I'm not sure why you would mention this in the context of "growth and prosperity are over" when it obviously supports the opposite conclusion.
Again, you appear to miss the point. Of course they are positive, they have to be. It's what those entities do. The point is they're constantly forced to revise their initial forecasts downward. Quarter after quarter after quarter. Why are they never off in the other direction? The truth is, they're in the business of buoying confidence. Then, the actual numbers come in. Oops.
In any event, when the stimulus and helicopter money finally stops, those numbers are gonna be a little different.
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In the end, you may be right. I hope you're not.
I am right. If I wasn't, central banks would have presented us a solution by now, 10 years in, that doesn't just include printing more money and hoping investment banks lend it out.
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Either way, you're very difficult to have a conversation with.
Well, no. That's only with posters with a history of addressing me, unsolicited, by
being kind of a dick.
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