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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:44 PM Original message |
Should everything be a commodity? |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. I will start the bidding: $10,000 for your daughter's virginity. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Not a joke. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I'm going to direct the hard-core Marxists I'm talking with in another thread to this thread... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I started the thread so a discussion could take place. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. OK. Now I get where you are. See marmar in #8 - I couldn't do better. n/t |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The secondary market in real estate loans is not a commodity market |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm no economist, but as I understand it commoditization is a natural process |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Commoditization is appropriate for some things, and not for others. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. That one makes me crazy too |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Petco Park sounds like a place where you need to be careful where you step! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Other than the $8.50 beers it is a very nice ball park |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I agree. The Rose Bowl and Rose Parade will always be thus. n/t |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. I thought the mortgage crisis was a result of... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Only in that the secondary market may spur more loan originations than should take place |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. Three quotes from the film "The Corporation" wrap it up nicely: |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. So, how did we get to this point? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Oh, and thank you for posting. n/t |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 06:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. Ah, Maude Barlow |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. I honestly don't see any point in "should" |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I don't think anyone is suggesting a utopia... |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. regulating doesn't make something less of a commodity |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
20. Do you know what the word "commodity" means? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-30-08 05:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Do tell. n/t |
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