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- @tevenski Yes, and you had just as much fun hitting a ball of light back and forth. At the time we all thought that was incredible. Just like kids use to have lots of fun staring at a radio listening to the Lone Ranger or Howdy Doody. It's just a function of what you know.
- Collapse of the dollar on May 28, 2016?
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- @KennedyFinance Just checked. Your account is up 40% since Jan. of 2016, but still down 2% since you opened it. You stated just before a big rise in the dollar, so your account initially fell by 30%. The dollar has surrendered those gains, and if I'm right its about to get killed.
- China Calls for New Global Reserve Currency to Replace Dollar @SchiffGold https://t.co/PmZH6Zr8SV
- Gold is Doomed
- July Consumer Confidence unexpectedly plunged to 90.9 from 99.8 in June, hitting its lowest level since Sept. 2014. Forecast was for 99.6.
- "Good News" in Housing Starts Has a Dark Side @SchiffGold https://t.co/uFH8BTw2mx
- Hey guys, let's build some pyramids!
- Inflation: A Semantic Change Worth Noting https://t.co/2TlFI45lPM @SchiffGold
Thursday, December 17, 2015
What can a subjectivist say makes free markets preferable?
When I ask Austrians what makes markets desirable, I often hear the answer the line about markets "allocating goods to their highest-valued use." But any consistent subjectivist knows that we can't make interpersonal comparisons of utility/value, which means there is no "highest-valued use." What, then, can we say markets do or tend to do that makes them desirable to alternatives? We might say that markets make best use of dispersed and inarticulate knowledge, but what does this mean as a result? What general statement can we say about the markets' outcomes that is consistent when the school's foundational subjective theory of value. In short, my question is: What can an Austrian say markets do? Why choose markets?