So, every time he began to speak after listening to the interviewers or responding to their question, the first word out of his mouth was “so”.

So, why do you do this? I first noticed this ridiculous use of speech in May, and it is increasing.

So, the problem is that “so”, in speech, means “therefor”, or “it follows that”, “(you/we/I) can conclude that…”.

If someone asked you your name, would you respond, “But, my name is Dan” or “Therefor, my name is Dan”? Of course, you would not.

But, you might respond, “So, my name is Dan.”

So, it is ridiculous speech, incorrect and ignorant use of the language and is completely surprising when it comes out of the mouth of an educated man. It makes you sound as ridiculous as a “Valley Girl” who inserts the word “like” a half dozen times in a single sentence.

So, get my point. It was all I could do to not change the radio channel when Dan spoke like that.

Olen
Mays Landing, NJ

Step back 30 more years…. in 1962 Thomas Kuhn argued that a paradigm shift can only occur in the ‘hard sciences’.

Step forward to the present, perhaps more than 45 years after the publication of ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ sufficient scientific behavioral data is accumulating to allow the idea of rationality as a pure economic driving force to go the way of miasma and ether.

If this is true, it is in no small part due to careful, thoughtful, scientific work done by those brave enough to continue to question and test the current dogma.

Perhaps the stock market represents the largest social interaction for which we have substantial hard quantitative data. I am glad to see that the flame has been passed on to others brave enough to hold their candle close to the boundaries of the unseen.

I look forward to following your work closely.

If taxes are a drag on the economy, then why did the US economy create 200,000 added jobs a month during the Clinton years after Clinton signed the dreaded tax hike added onto the “read my lip, no new taxes” Bush tax hike, while tax cuts in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008 produced a mere 1000 added jobs during the Bush administration, leaving the economy in shambles and sinking fast. The Reagan years did have a tax cut followed by a recession, after which tax hikes in late 1982, 83, 84, 85, seemed to result in strong job growth that in Reagan’s second term matched the job creation of Jimmy Carter’s single term.

Added costs due to taxes or other costs result not only in money being paid by the consumers, but income to others, those who the tax collector or the price raiser paid than money to.

But I chalk that refusal to look at the data and rationally think about their opinions and theory, as the predictably irrational thought process of conservatives. They are conservatives because the hold tight to the ideas of the past, rejecting all data that doesn’t agree with their normative views of how things should work.

I could only sell to other traders.
They took my bikes, paid little, then resold them at a huge profit.
A trader once told me I was too logic to sell to your average customer and that I simply did not have a clue how they processed what I told them.

So I broke it all down into many small pieces, analyzed them one by one and when I “cracked the code”.
I was so horrified by it that I changed trade.
I simply refused to live your average buyer’s logic. I wanted no part in it.

I explain..

Can’t sell that $4000 bike for $3000?

This will work a few times: Advertise it for $2000.
Make sure you place the $2000 tag in your ad heading, sprinkle it throughout the ad body too so it hammers it home.
Then, when their minds are well sold to this amazing deal, at the very end of the ad simply add: no whels.

Place ad to come out on Friday and specify no calls till Sunday so you let them build their dream a little.

This ad will attract 10 times more people, ramming the $2000 well into their minds and the “no whels” at the end has almost no negative effect as they are already sold to it.

When Sunday comes and the phone calls pour in, the first thing they ask (when/if they can get a free line) is “is the price right” and “is the bike really perfect”.

“Yes! $2000 is all I want. Tested and Taxed last week. Come with $2000 and take it home, but make sure you bring a trailer as you aren’t getting the wheels”

“what, no wheels? What happened to the wheels?”

“the wheels are on it for your test drive but I am taking them off it as I was offered $500 each by someone, he’s been on it for a while and eventually I gave in. I understand that they are $1245 each from the shop” (and this is very true)

I guarantee that 8 out of ten will offer you $2000 for the bike and $1000 for the wheels.

Doing that they will also cause “the other” guy NOT to have his wheels so that’s an “extra reason” they have to buy it.