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RUSS Waters said: "Money and jobs are not directly related enough for your theory to work" Perhaps not.But if investors on the stock exchange were only allowed to sell shares when a company is doing well then investors wouldn't be able to abandon companies that have started to underperform...

If paintings were not put in rectangular frames but in triangular or hexagonal or circular frames what difference would this make to the end product? Would the artist be forced to think differently?When the Romans came to the United Kingdom in the first century AD they brought the idea of right...

I think the main point of that wikipedia article was that the Great Depression could have been just a recession.What happened in 1929 goes to show that the need for investment, and hence employment, has to be linked to the money supply.People should only be allowed to buy large amounts of...

Ki Man: "The masses of ignorant people are being supported on the shoulders of great thinkers and big businessmen. if we loose one of those men the rest are going to fall off" I think this is right because there seems to be a lack of people with certain skills now and it is going to be...

Friedman and others blamed the Federal Reserve and in particular the New York branch which was run by New York banks for failing to provide liquidity to the smaller banks after some major banks had fallen.So businessmen couldn't get loans to invest...

JIM MCNAMARA said: "Anyway, one study I read umpteen years ago indicated no concordance for color." I would expect people to be fairly unbiased to colour genetically because most environments we have to survive in have a wide mixture of colour and getting stressed by one colour in...

Milton Friedman said that the depression that started in 1929 resulted from banks losing their nerve and failing to shore up the US economy.Was he right?

I have heard that many americans do not know what the capital cities of european countries are. But I don't know what the capital cities of most american states are and given that some of these states are bigger than european countries I think I should ask:are americans any more ignorant than...

Would the people who built the Parthenon think that the Guggenheim museum in New York is a great work of art?

There is no judgement - it is interesting to learn what point of view people have.And whether we are dealing with a question of morality or something more complicated.Does morality matter in a survival situation.I would think for a hindu who believes in karma it does but what about an atheist...

I think french is the nicest sounding language.English is a very efficient language - a lot is said with relatively few words.And I think that languages that are spoken with a lot of body language - hand movements and so on - have a beauty of their own.

What is an illusion?What is time? First we need to define both accurately and see if they are the same.

Radou said: "How? By having 2 wives and 20 children" And by running two charities! On second thoughts - I'd rather be dead!

What determines why we say a certain colour is our favourite colour? And do favourite colour choices run in families?

The bachelor has got to be the most awful programme ever put on television! I don't care how handsome or pretty the participants are - it makes me cringe.You've got to be desperate for love to be on the bachelor and you must know that you are too, but do people have to let the whole world know...