The Reason You Are Broke

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7 points·salexiev··6 comments

The post is pure garbage, a lot of half baked myths that were debunked a long time ago.

For a different viewpoint, from an actual economist, these posts might be interesting:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/how-much-of-the-...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/exchange-rates-a...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/inflation-here-a...

Ugh. Can someone more capable of stomaching the "smug teenager" tone than I am summarize and tell us if there's anything worth reading here?

If you already read market-ticker.org (or zerohedge or something similar), there's nothing for you here. Otherwise, this is a reasonable thing for you to read.

It's a sales pitch for hiredfor.com to disaffected, unemployed people. But they buried the lede under a bunch of gold bugging.

At the end, he gives you the recipe for your new favorite cocktail.

What is the HN score threshold for downvoting front-page articles? Because this garbage desperatley deserves it.

The goldbugging bothers me, because often times people who say otherwise worthwhile things about these subjects are plagued by goldbugging. I suppose you have to disregard the ad and the cocktail recipe to think it's worthwhile though.

Have you ever heard anyone explain why gold is The Only Real Money and that the US Federal Reserve is run by people who are (either stupidly or maliciously) engaged in a conspiracy that is perpetuating a scam at your expense?

If you haven't, and you want to suffer through alcohol-fueled ranting and explanations, read on. My advice would be to get your economic advice from actual economists (and preferably sober ones).

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