LOL... At some point, you partisans will figure out what I've been saying here for over 2 years. But right now, you both couldn't be more off track.

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BTW, I heard that UBS suffered a sudden and unexpected $2 billion trading loss. How much does this add to the "uncertainty" being referred to above? Does it add more or less "uncertainty" than Solyndra?

LOL! Uh huh.

Yes, you keep offering that hollow reaction. Yet month after month, you keep scratching your head as to the real reasons for the global, systemic financial double-dip (which is here to stay). I'll let you get back to your partisan bickering. Should provide you the "answers" you both seek any time now.

No doubt, it's just flawed ideology that is to blame.

The pioneering work on the application of the regime uncertainty hypothesis as applied to the Great Depression:

http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_01_4_higgs.pdf

lololol

Excellent example. Do you know why the "rogue trader" lost $2B?

Because the SNB pegged the Franc to the Euro.

Surprise!

And what is this attempt to make the subject of regime uncertainty somehow partisan? Both parties are responsible for the government's crazed schemes.

lol Boro, much as I am interested in what a mises faculty guy has to say about "Keynesian economists, who generally do not manage businesses or make serious investments," given that I spent most of my day negotiating a business deal worth billions, I'm gonna go ahead and credit myself with having "manage[d] a business" and "mak[ing] serious investments".

Well it is also possible that some people are simply not smart enough to comprehend the bleedingly obvious.

Surprise indeed!!!

Well our friend 13th says it's Obama's fault, so I look forward to hearing from 13th how Obama convinced the Swiss to peg their currency.

Ok Elliot, Ill define uncertainty for you as I see it.

Uncertainty is when outcomes and results can not be determined.

How do Solyndra, Boeing, Gibson Guitar and the DoJ merger of AT&T and T-Mobile increase uncertainty?

Because they are violations of the principles of the free market and the continuation of "crony capitalism."

When the politicians in Washington are making decisions that individually decide winners and losers, we no longer have Rule of Law, we have Rule of Man.

Solyndra has showed that if you want your company to get loans in order to grow and develop, you would benefit greatly by lobbying and donating to your favorite politician. No longer do firms or investors need to worry about whether or not their products are economically viable.

No longer is the market regulated by the certainty that jobs are created by the most economically efficient firms. That certainty is now lost.

The example of Boeing has decreased the economic certainty that jobs and manufacturers flow to the states where they are cheapest to create. Now if you want to create a huge factory you have to make sure you aren't pissing off any groups with political influence first. Now people who would be inclined to invest in creating such factories are uncertain they will be able to pay off because a factory and 1,000 jobs can be stopped abruptly by the whims of some bureaucrats.

Do you get what I'm trying to say now?

This is much like what Justice Potter Stewert said "I can't explain it I just know it when I see it"

There is a lot of uncertainty right now from if OBama Care will go into effect in 2012, are we headed into a recession, can we possibly get our fiscal house in order, is inflation going to hit ....

Not saying all of it is Obama's fault but businesses do not want to just gamble and roll the dice and the uncertain future outlook has caused them to keep very high cash reserves. I think the uncertain future has also caused consumers to spend less and pay down debt. But it is hard to argue that Obama has not had a very pro business stance even in his rhetoric. Big Oil, wallstreet, the rich are all evil in his class warfare speaches.

I believe Obama was complaining about the Reps causing "uncertainty" during the debt ceiling debate and hurting the economy.

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Wait, really? This is news to you? Solyndra has showed the world this revolutionary new technique that has never been employed before? It's only This Administration that's picking "winners and losers"?

And more importantly, you're asserting that this form of "uncertainty", however that works, is news to investors or anyone in the business world?

OK, if there was high uncertainty due to government interference during boom times (Reagan, Clinton), then you've got an uphill battle to show that now the government has created so much more uncertainty than there ever ever was.

Well in the special case of Solyndra, it's showed that it doesn't matter how financially ****ed your company is either. At least before, the government was giving the appearance that these loans were for companies that you know... actually had a remote chance of turning a profit.

Wasnt Solyndra booming before the market prices of their products fell 40% in 6 months due to international competition?

Also if uncertainty is such a problem the government should put up taxes now enough to cover the deficit and pay off the debt in the future and fix them forever.

Its the only logical conclusion.

Troubled Asset Relief Program

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

United States debt-ceiling crisis

and finally...

American Jobs Act

Yes, that'd be true if raising taxes were the only way to reduce the deficit.

But here's a Hint:

MY GOD MAN, you mean to say the government is passing LAWS now! This is brand new information.

The laws, they're, like so, uncertain in their uncertainty, they're just uncertainizing this whole uncertain situation. We uncertainly can't ask an uncertain someone with some uncertain legal knowledge to read those laws and uncertainly tell us what they uncertainly mean and what they'll uncertainly do.

Hold on, no need to straw man, at no point did i say raising taxes is the only way to reduce a deficit. I know its easier to dodge the point that address it i guess, but cmon.

Funny, I remember people saying the same thing about this:

This Administration, pioneers in creating the Most Uncertainty Ever!

Listing off stuff the government does and saying it causes uncertainty is lol. Like, what is the American Jobs Act doing that's creating so much uncertainty? Why are you making posts like this

when massive reductions in government spending would also cause ZOMG UNCERTAINTY?