[GJM] Two more programmes

[Steve Consilvio]

On SaturdayJan 5, 2008, at 2:00 PM, discussion- 
request at globaljusticemovement.net wrote:

> On The Agenda  Moeen Yaseen (Globalvision2000) and I forcibly put  
> the case that there is going to be a slump.

Rodney,

How can you say "there is going to be a slump," isn't already here?   
Or at least started?

Anyway, predicting bad things is as easy as predicting good things.   
There are deaths and births every day.

How about a more serious question: WHY do these cycles of boom and  
bust occur?

Observing them and predicting them is easy.  That is what  
stockbrokers and day-traders do every day for specific companies.   
Doing it for a macro economy is even easier, since one can  
selectively choose the facts that fit their prediction.  If you  
predict a sunrise or a sunset you will eventually be correct,  
regardless of the current time.

What I would like to ask of you and Robert Searle (and any one else  
who wants to chime in) is why these fluctuations occur at all?  The  
sun rises and sets every day.  We plant in the spring and harvest in  
the fall.  There should be a similarly natural rhythm to explain the  
cause of financial droughts and windfalls, as a mathematical  
phenomenon.  Our numbers are man-made afterall.  If we plant, then  
why is there no harvest?  Shouldn't a manufacturing-industrial  
economy be easier to maintain at a steady rate?  (Call it sustainable  
growth or sustainable consumption, either way there are no wild  
fluctuations.)

Let us assume that you are correct.  The slump is "real."  WHY is  
there a slump?  WHAT is causing it, again?  We can't fix it if we  
can't explain it.

Thanks,

Peace,
Steve Consilvio
www.behappyandfree.com

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