vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"&gt; In response, Pyongyang promised to accelerate its weapons program.  &gt; “The DPRK will redouble the efforts to increase its strength to safeguard the country's sovereignty and right to existence and to preserve peace and security of the region by establishing a practical equilibrium with the US,” a statement from North Korean Foreign Ministry said, as cited by KCNA news agency.   This is all posturing by North Korea.  If they had capacity to double their military strength, don't you think they would have already done it?  They are actively provoking nations with much larger militaries.  They better have all available resources in their military.  NK is responding like a little kid when the big kid takes their football.  ""I'm going to get big and strong and beat you up one day...""  I'm not saying Trump's actions are the right move, but this reaction could have been predicted by a monkey with slight understanding of international policy.  Doesn't mean it is going to amount to anything."
when weed is no longer a crime to grow, nobody will pay for it, but instead they will have a couple of plants growing in the kitchen window..  tobacco is a hideous drain upon the economy, not the other way around.
I don't have as strong of feelings as others here do. I actually like tipping in restaurants. Servers get paid more than they would getting a higher flat wage, at least if they do a good job and I think it does encourage better service. I do however dislike when people try to get tips out of every profession and especially something like this where people are and were already making pretty solid money(at least in my area they do) and now because a competitor offers it I should start tipping. I'd rather Uber decided to give a larger share of the profits to their drivers or even to very slightly up the prices. Fact of the matter is there isn't really much of a difference between Uber drivers in my experience. With the rare big fuck up driving or terrible attitude, most people are fine and driving someone from point a to point b doesn't leave a lot of room to provide exceptional service worthy of a tip. Very much unlike being a server or something.
"I'm going to put this very, very simply. **The banking system does create money through leveraging and the money multiplier**, this is absolutely true. The current theory is that this is how the economy is expanded because of the basic premise that an economy can only grow with ample amounts of **Land, Labor, and Capital**, and it is assumed that the money multiplier allows the development and purchase of all of these things that have the **net effect of growing the economy beyond the level of debt built up as part of the process of wealth creation.** I have no problem with the above in principle, the problem comes when the cycle of debt is built up recklessly and irresponsibly with little, if any, regulation. That leads to a system in which debt and interest buildup faster than wealth is created. I also have issues with who ends up holding a ""piece of the pie"", as it is called, but that's a separate issue entirely. **The Fed's job is to stop the economy from collapsing overnight due to fluctuations in the price of money.** It would be no different if money was backed by gold, and in fact part of the reason why we abandoned that notion as laid out at Bretton Woods was because of how **Gold was being sold as a commodity thus affecting the price of money the way speculation on fiat currency occurred**, due in part to Charles De Gaul being an asshole. In today's world where **arbitrage** happens almost instantaneously and markets shift rapidly there is **danger** in not having a Central Bank that can regulate the price of currency to prevent disastrous inflation or economy shattering unemployment. Every nation in the world has one because they are necessary in the context of the current economy.
December, 7, 2011 ( 01:50 pm) :-  Bullion are sparked at the late or and session of MCX &amp; Comex.  USA investors are not worried about the coming events because European leaders signals that IMF providing help for European countries who are facing financial crisis.  Crude oil momentum also range bound whole day, a rising tension on the Iran exports resistance will trigger oil prices will at new high.  Silver have strong resistance at $ 33.20 above this level it's trend bullish under this its trend totally down.  Gold have strong resistance at $ 1742 above this trend totally bullish side &amp; unless its in down trend.
Many people think money velocity is the most important thing in the economy that is why war is *good* for the economy.  But during WWII the USA and all others countries had rationing.  The whole reason to have a better economy is so we can live better lives; not to put rationed on but we can buy.  After WWII where peoples lives better?  No we(US) had 418,500 dead, many wounded and many years of rationing.  Same apples to Hurricane Harvey families had homes and jobs.  Now they have nothing.  Just because they are spending retirement fund on rebuilding doesn't mean their lives are better.    So yes there is more velocity in money in where Hurricane Harvey hit.  But it is happening for the wrong reasons.
.they can crash our economy like swatting a fly, yet the sit there and we talk shit day after day after day and the just smile and say some diplomatic shit, they are playing the long game for sure and we have no clue what the fuck it is. I guess we are going to have to pick a fight with Canada soon, everybody else is so edgy and starts wanting to shoot back at us, how the fuck is one supposed to run an economy when the keep threatening to bomb us. At least there is a Wall between the Chinese and US . .not sure who built it. .could have been the Mexicans . . .didn't get the bill, definitely not paying for it.
Correct, kept orange demand in a microcosm to simplify.  In the example, ~1 or 2 people would have been highly paid to build the machine, and the house would have created temp jobs for 2 or 3, or the money would have flowed to another tree owner and put into a bigger house.  Point is the new inflow of money hasnt cycled through the economy fast enough to have an effect on consumptive demand. New money has a slower velocity with net effect on inflating asset prices up.
Yes and no. Assuming you have a strong password, it is still safe. The added benefit of a salt is to make even simple passwords impractical to crack.  However, the fact that unsalted passwords were obtained, there's no harm in changing passwords.  Then again, if these passwords were intercepted by something like a man in the middle attack... changing it now would result in your new password being re-intercepted.  Isn't security fun?
"One topic that I've been trying to learn more about is the affects of the low interest rates on businesses and the economy from quantitative easing. Due to the amount of ""free money"" corporations have received over the last 5 years there has been a few interesting consequences. There are several corporations that have borrowed money at little to no interest with the feds intentions of seeing it go back into the economy however instead corporations have used it to buy back stock which was not necessarily the plan in the first place. You could definitely have a unique thesis written about something within that flow of funds. If that makes no sense apologies stupid undergrad here."
"Friedman (and libertarian philosophy) has a lot of good ideas when it comes to the general economy. But, healthcare is one of those things that, in my opinion, should not be left up to a ""free market."" Arguably we do not have a free market anyway, so all the more reason not to hand our lives and well being over to profit seeking corporations. If we had actual competition and the government nurtured good business practices (instead of corruption) then I would have more confidence in deregulation. I think the waste/inefficiency that government introduces does less damage than immoral profit seeking on the backs of sick people."
qe is worthless - infusing, injecting precious blood, highly precious dollar to a zombie economy (a lifeless economy), an “absolute waste”. qe is brainless - simply do not know what will going to be the consequences to the economy. do not have the idea of what will going to be the final result. qe is only a dream - being over optimistic that one day everything will go back to normal, that at the end of the day the economy will recover and finally would realize growth. qe is just a fantasy - meaning punching the moon, the stars (thinking it will resolve the year 2008 economic meltdown). qe is an investment - yes!!! a massive investments to a dying economy, (absolutely wrong investments). qe will keep you running - it is like a ticking time bomb. qe is not good for the economy - the government acts (or play) as an investor instead of the businessman. qe is being very kind and generous to businessman, while keeping the country, the state's economy at stake or in jeopardy. qe is putting more money to a moribund business - supporting the company to stay, to exist for the time being. and later on will literally closed shop. qe is killing the mighty, precious dollar - slowly but surely. qe is hide and seek - like suze orman (of cnbc) say's, ""show me the money"". qe is treasure hunting - ultra rich, millionaires, billionaires is keeping it. they hide it. where are those precious dollars? making the economy sick, crippled, dead. qe is a money making machine (printing press) - once the economy becomes frail, weak, all they have to do is just print. qe is putting plenty of money to a basket full of holes - truly very few will benefit and so many will going to suffer. this is inequality. disparity is very disturbing (counter to a good economy). qe is experimental - (trial and error, testing) probability never done before.
The stock market is not the economy you dimwit. Also, it takes several months for economic policy decisions to take effect, as others have pointed out, so current economic situation is largely the effects of the previous administration.  This doesn't mean Trump is doing a bad job, it's just too early to tell for the time being. So stop being a stupid cunt and sucking Trump's proverbial cock, the man doesn't even know you exist and he's not an emperor and you shouldn't act like a peasant grovelling to get his grace bestowed upon you, you fucking dirt farmer.
If I claim that I have a goose that lays golden eggs, that does not make it so. What a nation _claims_ has absolutely no relevance when you look at the actual facts. Nazi germany committed genocide no matter what they claimed, and the Soviet union was as capitalist as any other country, no matter what they claimed, with the added bonus that you couldn't even work your way up in society, the classes of society were decided by The Party.  Pinochet was a free market dictator, yet you never hear him used as an example of how free market policies automatically turns into authoritarianism, genocide and a police state. And who would say that? It's absurd, and it's equally absurd to say that socializing schools or hospitals in a automatically leads to Gulags. Of course, an expansion of the state mixed with a dictator would probably be surprising if it _didn't_ lead to repression, regardless of claimed ideology.  The one thing authoritarian countries have in common is a big, militarized state, the illusion of ideology always comes in second. Not all flavors of socialism wants a state, mind you. So in one way, ironically, a country like the US is probably closer to authoritarianism than a country like mine (Sweden), even though we are clearly more socialist.
Should not be on economy.  It's essentially a opinion item slanted to the folks eliminating coal completly with no replacement plan in place. The anti coal plan was really putting in an acceleration of banning coal use while also flowing Down nuclear options and trying to destroy our natural gas production and transmission. That was what would have harmed the economy in a big way.
Lets see if ViolentAcrez is a TROLL, what does that make Brian Moynihan, or Sheldon Yellen, or any one of the other 100-200 people who have been sucking this job market dry for the last 10 years and the headline news on CNN is about a TROLL on a message board, maybe some of yo dumb asses should be letting your daughters wear that jail bait outfits period, and maybe the NEWS CREWS should be focusing on the ECONOMY and the GREEDY FUCKS WHO HAVE BEEN BLEEDING IT DRY FOR YEARS??? Don't worry, we are addin' all the NEWS CREW CEOS especially and including gawkers. FTW.  http://contact-the-ceo.com/searchbyname.html http://contact-the-ceo.com/searchbyname.html http://contact-the-ceo.com/searchbyname.html
In the UK (similar laws exist throughout Europe, see European Consumer Rights Directive), you have the right to return for a refund for any goods that are bought off-premises for 14 days after delivery. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-contracts-regulations I understand that consumer protections in the USA are not as strong though.
Jamie Dimon, calling bitcoin a fraud for price bubbling is hilarious considering JP Morgan literally got bailed out by US tax dollars for investing in trash mortgage loans. Ok.  Knocks aside, I'm just buying low. The problem with financial analysis on bitcoin is that inevitably, financiers don't know anything about computer science, and they aren't in the business of making applications. Bitcoin is an application of an interesting concept: the distributed ledger, and the ability to have a distributed ledger verify and lock the ledger. The problem with this analysis is that he doesn't have application knowledge to infer the positive externalities of having a distributed ledger, and most of those use cases for the applications are in their infancy, or haven't been though of yet. Blockchain is an idea that can later power other tools. It's like when the Microsoft CEO said Apps aren't useful on phones. He didn't see the big picture, because the use cases weren't defined yet, and the same thing is going on here. We haven't really fleshed out all the possible use cases of a distributed ledger with a decentralized oracle.  Does it work for payments? Yes, bitcoin is proof of that, and the fact that it's been bailed out a total of zero times by American taxpayers is so far a strong indicator that it works. Are there other applications that are being developed? Yes. Are there some applications out there that are absolute shit? Yes. Are there some applications out there that are absolute gold? Yes.
Although a green economy would be great for the world, renewable energy cannot be widely adopted as the sole energy source until transportation of electric becomes more efficient. We are dependent on energy from chemical potential because it can stored and transported with ease. Hopefully technology will advance to allow renewables to be transported, but in 2017 it is not possible to have a completely green economy
Wow, that was certainly a change in tone for the worse. So much for civil discourse.   &gt;&gt;The multistep law went into effect in April 2015, when the city’s minimum wage became $10 or $11, depending on business size, tips and benefits. Another hike occurred on Jan. 1, 2016. By 2021, the minimum will be $15 per hour for all workers.  Minimum wage in Seattle isn't $15/hr, which is a direct contradiction to the article's headline.  Furthermore:  &gt;&gt;**Much of that success, though, can be attributed to trends separate from the minimum-wage law itself**, such as the growth of Seattle’s tech sector and its construction boom, according to a new report that University of Washington researchers presented to the City Council on Monday.   &gt;&gt;“Seattle’s experience shows that the city’s low-wage workers did relatively well after the minimum wage increased, **but largely because of the strong regional economy,”**   Seattle doesn't need minimum wage, it just needs to keep growing it's economy (which doesn't happen when you arbitrarily shut down successful businesses).
Frankly, things that would have seemed crazy to me as little as 5 years ago:  Moving most of my assets into precious metals, and since I can't afford (and don't think I have time to properly stock) a farm where I can be self-sufficient, looking at moving out of country to a place with a healthy economy that isn't too dependent on the US.  The other reason I'm looking at moving out of country is that the Federal Government seems to be preparing to transition into a police state - which makes some sense given probable large-scale riots when the economy collapses.  I don't think that who wins the Presidential election will make any difference to what the government will do.
The problem here is that the metrics that are used to track the economy are looking for things like growth and change. In a perfect world, everyone would have exactly what they need and there would no need for economists because the economy would be static.
Mortgage loan rates or other interests that you pay to the bank: If the risk free rate goes up, banks will increase these rates to keep the net interest they earn over risk free (= Δr = Rmort - Rf) the same. If Rf drops and if banks are not obliged to decrease loan rates then they will only do so if one of the banks does it first. P.S:- Wherever I have said they will do so when one of the banks does it first, I am not referring to a recursion but merely to the competitive market theory. Under such a theory, the first one to cut down the profit margin usually has a strong business incentive to do so (e.g., gain market share, or eliminate competition by lowering profit margins etc.). Others are forced to follow the trend.
I didn't like it very much, because he's confusing money with credit. Money is accumulated work, not debt.  Suppose the farmer has apples and wants meat, but the hunter doesn't want apples. The farmer exchanges some apples for the miner's gold and barters that gold for the hunter's meat.  All three of them have already worked to produce what they have. There's no debt involved, only the accumulated product of work.  An economy cannot function on credit alone. The existence of accumulated work that somebody did before is essential for the existence of credit.  Suppose the farmer promises a bushel of apples to the hunter and the hunter promises to get a deer for the farmer. Now the farmer needs a barrel to collect the apples and he promises to give some apples to the cooper. The cooper promises to make the barrel for the farmer.  All we have up to this point are promises, but no one has done any work yet. Things won't start happening until the cooper does the work needed to make a barrel.   The economy functions on work, not promises. The farmer may promise a million bushels of apples and the hunter may promise a million deer, but that's just fantasy.  Now suppose the cooper dies. The farmer will have to get barrels from the neighboring town, so now he must give some apples to the carter who brings the barrel. The hunter will not get his full bushel of apples, he's experiencing inflation, the cost of apples has gone up.  No matter what the farmer and the hunter promise to each other, the fact remains that the barrels must be brought from the other town.  Economists like Paul Krugman seem to believe that everything can be fixed by increasing demand, but they totally ignore the costs of production. There exists plenty of demand in the US economy right now, but the cooper has died, the barrels must be brought from China.
"&gt; reasonable conversation where everybody treats everybody with respect is out of the question  You can't have a reasonable conversation with N.Korea.  Bill Clinton tried it... and we ended up with nuclear weapons from his ""Nuclear agreemen"" with N.Korea.  P/S: Reasonable conversation did not work with Nazi Germany. Even giving them Czechoslovakia did not appease them. Ask Chemberline from the UK."
&gt; TL;DR - I would have added three or more skilled workers to our economy in high school if I did not have to pay them minimum wage. I personally was priced out of hiring people because of it, so I hate it.  Yah, fuck the gubment. I couldn't get a bunch of slave labor on the cheap. I mean fuck if they hann't outlawed slaves I could have a thriving plantation and give all dem fools a place to live.
You should start by making a written complaint to the insurance company itself. You have two angles of attack: What was discussed when she was sold the policy. Make sure you set out exactly what you believe you were told and highlight that they didn't ask about commuting (assuming that's the case). Ask them to preserve any recordings they have of the call and to send you a copy. The nature of the journey where the accident happened. From the description - unless it was part of a journey to and from work - there's no good reason for them to classify it as commuting. Make sure you make good written notes now of anything that happened verbally - phone calls etc, and keep doing this as the process goes along. If that written complaint doesn't work, your next step is to go to the Financial Ombudsman, who are a neutral adjudication service. If the Ombudsman doesn't support your case, you could go to court directly, but it'll be expensive and a lot of effort, and by this stage it'd be unlikely you would win. The Ombudsman's rejection wouldn't count against you directly, but it'd be a strong indication that your case is weak. See https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/making-a-complaint-about-an-insurance-company for a more detailed walk-through.
"People worked a long time before ""business"" existed. But I believe what works best for the greatest number of people is regulated capitalism mixed with a limited socialism and a strong social safety net, aka, social democracy. But I believe that when a few people gain too much power, control too many of a country's resources, that they distort or destroy it. They make almost everyone's life worse just to make their own better. Historically I see that again and again.   Past a certain point money ceases to be money and becomes power. People with great wealth have power over the American people, power they hold without being elected by the people, power that does not end with their term of office, power that cannot be stripped from them for bad behavior. No one should be allowed to have that much unelected power. We should use progressive income taxes and estate taxes to strip power, a.k.a., money from such individuals and families. This should be done to keep the superwealthy from using unelected power for greedy or evil purposes."
The problem with a little bit of deflation is that it can turn into a lot of deflation very quickly.  That id the risk of the so-called liquidity trap.  a place where the Fed truly does lose its power and depressions become possible.  The US housing market is in a secular depression.  People aren't buying despite record low rates because they assume the house will be cheaper next year.  Now imagine that across the entire economy.  The longer you wait the cheaper things get.  It *sounds* groovy but the problem is that it isn't just you waiting...it is everyone waiting, all at the same time.  So the economy, such as it is, grinds to a halt and jobs vanish and things get even cheaper.  It is a cycle that is extremely costly to get out of.  The last time we fell into a depression it took massive new government spending programs plus a world war to fully pull us out of it.  Some people might make the argument that you need a good long depression every now and then.  They may say that, in fact, the Great Depression was the catalyst for policies that set America up for 70 years of solid economic growth.  I'm not so sure.  I do look at our current situation with bailed out zombie banks and I have to wonder if just letting them all fail may have been better even though the short term pain would have been severe.  We'll probably know in about 5 years if they did the right thing.