Actually ...historically speaking the first american corperations were good things but then again they were also temporary things; conglomerations of individual private citizen contributors who came together for the explicite purpose of funding a specific public project such as a park or gas light distribution network or water works or bridge etc in their city or local area and once the specific project was completed they disbanded.

I have no desire to derail the main topic of this thread however. What should have been a single post on my personal yet learned historical based opinions conserning corperate motivations and what their evolution has done to effect economic matters has turned into to large of a sidebar to continue here so I am recomending that we make a new thread for it or take to pm any issues anyone may wish to have with my personal views to my pm box, I will be more than willing to continue such debate in eaither of those venues. I apologize to the other members for presenting this here and actively participating in its continuance.



Now back to the threads actual topic.

Ted I have to ask...what is you personal advice as an economist concerning all the jibber jabber about the economey?

What specifically are we layman to believe or not?

Should the government take a hands off approach or should they regulate things?

What exactly is it about layman opinions that is so wrong you find exception about in all the debate?

What big secret are the learned economists keeping to themselves that isnt being discussed by john q public?