Monthly Archives: November 2014

The Conforming Identity

Following the 2014 midterms, having gained a complete congressional majority, the GOP says it has a mandate. The two-party system has mechanically solved for “X” (conforming consent) and its existence is legitimately identified, conforming to the numbers, on demand. What … Continue reading

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The Rate of X-Change

Technical analysts are busy reckoning the rate of crude oil in a rapid price decline. The rate of change measures the risk, existing without much probability because, by definition, change is being measured unabstracted. Existing without abstraction, the rate of … Continue reading

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Menacing Management by Default

To manage the menace of our default condition we have two parties by default. The crime of forcing people into massive detriment, well that’s just a tort. It’s a civil matter to be decided by political process governed by two … Continue reading

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Inducing and Reducing

Resisting the Demand for Debt To counter the argument that capitalism tends to turn people into peons by default, lawyers argue that property is not expropriated but legally acquired by consenting parties. Capitalism induces the acquisition of debt. If it … Continue reading

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Financial Scotoma?

Resisting the Inducement of Debt On Demand What is the MIQ of financial markets? Assessing big, midterm losses, Senator Shumer says the Democratic Party suffered from a kind of financial scotoma. Shumer insinuates that Democrats did not deliberately do the … Continue reading

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MIQ

When dealing with public policy, policymakers must have a sense of moral value, operating with a Moral Intelligence Quotient (MIQ). Ferguson, for example, demonstrates the measure of an ethical standard when managing risk. (It can be the wrong way to … Continue reading

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Showing the Intended Form

The minimum wage issue is a positive-law issue. If we work full time and can’t pay the rents, without incurring debt, it’s a sub-subsistence existence. It’s worse than slavery, not only because the masters of proprietary, capital-risk management intend to … Continue reading

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Abstracting the General Case

The abstraction exists the standard measure. There are, for example, Standard Rules of Engagement when we go to war. In Ferguson, there is a “Unified Police Command” utilizing standard rules of engagement. Does this generally measure the standard of existence? … Continue reading

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Yielding to Maturity On Demand

Phenomenology of the Risk A contractual obligation naturally forms when parties agree on performance by a “certain date” to yield a “certain sum.” Certainty defines the negative space that controls for the risk, chipping away what it is by demanding … Continue reading

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Abstraction of Reality

The Object of Confirmed Conformity Propriety on demand is the art that imitates life. The freedom to “yield to it” is to demand it. If the measurable standard does not exist, then it is necessary to exist it, which means, … Continue reading

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