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How do you successfully combat deflationary pressures in an economy when central bank measures aren't working? Particularly if you're at least somewhat worried about running budget deficits?

Raise taxes on large reserves of capital to fund fiscal stimulus, I guess.

Simon Wren-Lewis has been blogging about helicopter money lately, have you read that?
http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/

I haven't! Although it seems very right-minded, so I'll probably start.

Taxing reserves of capital is sensible, I guess, the only problem with it is that it is radically politically impossible - certainly in the US. And also I imagine there's logistic difficulties with it, but I haven't really looked into that.

Well, it might be politically 'easier' to tax transactions, but either way, really. The point is to 'prime the pump' of demand without having to run huge(r) deficits.

I still feel a little out of my depth when I read these blogs. I sometimes read Wren-Lewis. I read Krugman, who's mostly very accessible. I read a little bit of Bernanke's post-Fed blog when he started it, but I've not kept up with it. A lot of these guys link to each other.

For a more popularized (and populist, and very political) economics, but in a very USA-specific vein, Robert Reich is one of the most accessible to the layman.

Well, wouldn't taxing transactions have significantly different effects compared to actually taxing capital reserves? I mean it kind of seems to me that the purpose of this is two-fold: first, you want to raise money to pay for fiscal policies to increase demand, but you also want to incentivize people to actually invest capital reserves, right? And it doesn't seem like a transaction tax would really do much to accomplish the second aim.

I mean, I don't really know - I'm kind of trying to learn economics atm from a pretty low ground knowledge, so yeah. Actually via reading a literal economics textbook (I am the biggest dork in existence). I'm not a huge fan of Krugman or Reich just on grounds of style and a few questions of political orientation (not really content, more strategy I guess). Wren-Lewis seems much better though.

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raspberryrain - 2015-08-25 01:47 (UTC) - Expand

I thought of something else:

If interest rates are near zero, it's theoretically actually fiscally advantageous to borrow money now rather than later. So sell a very large value of bonds (say, greater than half GDP) in the immediate to near term, fund stimulus, and then raise taxes sufficient to pay those bonds back over 10 to 20 years. That does increase state debt (not my favourite choice) temporarily, but it might work.

Of course, it takes legislators who can count and have integrity, so it easily could fail comically.

Edited 2015-08-25 01:59 (UTC)

What are your thoughts on tagging fandoms? Like how much does a fic have to draw from Marvel comics to get that tag along with the MCU?

Or does deeply exploring a small bit of info from HoME in a Hobbit movie fic mean you should tag Silmarillion and related works? Or would you expect characters from the Silm to show up on that tag?

How do you feel about just using the catch-all fandom?

etc.etc.

I don't see the problem with using the catch-all in addition to the specific media -- unless the characters your work is about are ONLY in MCU. But even then anyone browsing has the character tags to guide them.

I'm not sure about the rest, though.

For instance, with MCU and Marvel comics...if there's only a brief throwaway line referencing the comics, I wouldn't tag it. If you heavily explore a specific comic arc or base your fic or characterization off the comics, then tag comics. But beyond that...I guess whatever feels appropriate to you. There's no rulebook, and I imagine everyone feels a bit different about it.

For your second example, I'd say if you want to tag something Silmarillion that isn't primarily Silmarrillion maybe you should mention it in the notes before the beginning of the fic?

I like catch-all fandom tags, if there is one established (because there are a lot of fandoms this could apply to), although I'd also like to know which version specifically you're writing for and for that to be tagged, too. I wouldn't consider "Marvel comics" or something like that to be a catch-all, though. I'd expect that to be a tag for the comics specifically. I haven't read any MCU/Marvel fic, so I don't know what's the done thing in that fandom, i.e. would you use both MCU and the comics tags (and possibly a catch-all tag, if available), or just the tag that applies most to the version you are writing for? I think if it's an MCU story, then as long as you tag MCU, you can tag for comics too because anyone looking for comic-only fic will see the MCU tag and know to back away, while those who don't mind a fic with both can have a look.

How do I start feeling successful? Ugh. I've just been wallowing in feeling inadequate all week. I've not found a job yet. I'm moving back in with my parents. And I just found out that I completely forgot about something really important. And I also missed out on a job possibility because I missread the deadline.

But I also finished law school, which is an accomplishment. So why do I just obsess over the bad stuff? Why do I feel so inadequate?

Just a random thought, but: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

That actually seems scarily accurate. I've never been able to really feel proud of anything I've ever done, and I obsess way more over even tiny little bad things.

I want to take a trip to New Zealand in the next 2-3 years. But I have no idea where to start! I mainly need ideas for what part of New Zealand to see right now. It would probably be myself, my sister, adn my mother. We'd want to see historical stuff, some tourist-y stuff, eat good food, and see the awesome landscapes.

See the Franz Josef glacier before it finally melts! One of the most incredible experiences of my life, seeing this white glacier rising out of lush rainforest, and walking on it on a sweltering 40 degree day.

I'm guessing you'll be flying into Auckland, so North Island is a good place to start. If you have time, Cape Reinga is a gorgeous sweep of white sand beach that's the northernmost tip of NZ. The Maori believed that this is where spirits of the dead departed for the underworld:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Reinga

Whakarewarewa is a geothermal park in Rotorua with geysers and hot springs, and also a chance to look at traditional Maori buildings and ceremonies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakarewarewa

South Island has beautiful coastline and parks in the northern end, as well as lots of wineries. The west coast is a great drive, and you can see Franz Josep and/or Fox Glacier. Further down the west coast is Milford Sound (boat tours in the fjords and dolphin-watching), Queenstown and Fiordland National Park. At the southern tip is the Catlins area, which has lots of bays and beaches with sea lions, plus Stewart Island which is a bird sanctuary.

The good part is that there will be awesome landscapes wherever you go. I highly recommend renting a car and driving if you can. Fill up your tank at all times because there isn't much between cities escape for beautiful countryside and lots of sheep. Hotels in NZ are actually really nice, much homier than in the U.S. and people are super friendly and laid back. If you haven't done so already, watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy to scope out possible places to visit, I'm sure there are guides online to tell where what was filmed where and the scenery is incredible.

Well I can tell you a bit based on what I did there, I was only on the north island, a week in Auckland and week in Wellington.

There's a tour company in Auckland, FlexNZ Tours, working out of the Kiwi International Hotel at 411 Queen Street (main street in downtown Auckland, middle upper end) puts on tours to Hobbition, Rotorua and Waitomo (glow worm caves). The tour I went on was a full-day tour to all three, a free drink at the Green Dragon and lunch included. It has quite a bit of driving in between places, but I would say just being able to see the countryside on the drive is part of the fun.
(Phone numbers +6493361663, 0800623827 (in-country number?). The company has multiple options, including individual tours to the locations, half-day, full-day, overnight, and other activities available - I recommend at least taking a look at what they have. - www.FlexiToursNZ.com - )

Go on the hop-on-hop-off bus. Tickets available down at the ferry dock and the first pickup is just up the street from there. It goes around a number of Auckland's touristy features. If you want to stop at the Auckland Zoo, I'd suggest a multi-day bus ticket as the zoo is a day all to itself (plus if you're getting there via the hop-on-hop-off bus, you have to work with their schedule).

Wellington also has a hop-on-hop-off bus, though not as big as the Auckland one (Auckland is the biggest city in the country). It stops by a number of places like old landmark churches, the Weta Cave (Weta Studios' merchandise store plus the modeling workshop (which has tours)), Te Papa, the big museum. Also the driver I got the day I went on the hop-on-hop-off bus, the driver was the Haradrim driver from Return of the King. He does tour bus-driving in between acting gigs.

If you want a LotR tour in Wellington, I advise Rover Tours, who have a tour around the various spots used from filming in Wellington - parks, rivers, the quarry Helm's Deep was done in - as well as a visit to the Weta Cave and Weta Workshop, lunch included at a bayside cafe with a resident cat.
(Phone: 0800426211 (so phone when you're in NZ), half-day tour $95 per adult, full day $190 - I do recommend the full-day - www.wellingtonrover.co.nz - ).
I feel this company has informed and enthusiastic tour guides, so if you want a dedicated LotR tour in Wellington, go with them.

Thank yoU!

Any ONTD readers/posters here? What is the deal with randomly adding the letter T at the end of words? Like, "hmmmmT" or "nice try, sisT" or "OH LORDT". Idgi

is there a way to exclude tags from a search? I've tried using NOT and - but they do nothing.

Specifically, sometimes I just don't want to read any smut involving anal sex or rimming, okay. I would love to be able to search for, say, "Kirk/Spock -anal -rimming" and have the exclusionary modifiers work.

Go to the Kirk/Spock tag. Then do the -WHATEVER.

I just did that and it worked.

Well, there's two problems here.

First, you're searching by text, not tags. Filtering works way better if you're specifically filtering by tags instead of just by search term. UNFORTUNATELY Ao3 hasn't published a full list of all tags (it's only, like, a couple hundred thousand) so all we have is one short list of 200 (1).

Second, whatever you search by, it's only going to search the tags, the summary, and the ancillary data (so rating, title, author, etc). So, in other words, if someone writes a fic with anal sex, but they don't tag it or mention it in the summary, it's not going to show up. However you try to filter it.

That said, even given that stuff, you should be able to filter out at least a little of the things you don't want. And looking at an example search (2), it looks like you can - but unfortunately, that's only about 200 fics in total.

1: located here: http://thinkythinkythoughts.tumblr.com/post/88097093558/ao3-is-the-best

2: like this: http://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search[sort_column]=revised_at&work_search[other_tag_names]=&work_search[query]=-anal+-rimming&work_search[language_id]=&work_search[complete]=0&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=James+T*d*+Kirk*s*Spock

How can you tell if you have a UTI? I haven't had any burning or pain when I pee, but there's discomfort if I touch the area with my finger. I've also been needing to pee every few minutes when usually I'm like a camel. I've also been really listless and irritable, and have a very faint ache in my abdomen on the right side.

(There is no way this could possibly be an STD btw. I haven't had sex in years. I have also obviously made a doctor's appointment which I won't get for a week, but usually I've been able to tell there's an infection beforehand.)

The burning sensation is the most common symptom, but honestly, I'd see a doctor about this. You don't want to mess around with this stuff. In the meantime, hit the cranberry juice or supplements.

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