{"id":3025,"date":"2016-10-25T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2016-11-15T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:46:16","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-bay-area-guy-sf-bay-area-fire-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Bay Area Guy about the SF Bay Area and the FIRE Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark, Rabbit & Alex von Goldstein talk to\u00a0Bay Area-based blogger\u00a0Bay Area Guy<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0 Occident Invicta<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bay Area Guy’s article\u00a0The Bay Area and the FIRE\u00a0Economy<\/a>, which reviews\u00a0Robert Stark’s interview with Laura Foote Clark of Grow SF<\/a>
\nHow as a renter in the Bay Area this issue personally effects Bay Area Guy
\nThe role that Banks and the FIRE sector play in driving up the cost of real estate
\nBay Area Guy’s point that he does not want\u00a0the Bay Area to become like SoCal: an environmental eyesore characterized by\u00a0track housing and strip malls
\nHowever Bay Area Guy does endorse Laura’s\u00a0proposal\u00a0of having Silicon Valley become more urbanized
\nThe role that mass immigration plays in the housing crisis on top of the FIRE economy
\nBay Area Renters Federation’s\u00a0Sonja Trauss: Advocating for Housing Development in San Francisco<\/a>
\nSan Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation<\/a>‘s\u00a0lawsuit against the city of Lafayette over a development<\/a>
\nThe argument\u00a0that white NIMBY’s oppose development because of diversity, and Bay Area Guy’s article, \u201cDiversity\u201d is Simply Code for \u201cNon-white\u201d<\/a>
\nBay Area Guy’s review of\u00a0Killing the Host by Michael\u00a0Hudson<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0FIRE economy<\/a>, which is an economy\u00a0based on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate sectors
\nMichael Hudson’s proposal to tax unearned income(ex.\u00a0Tobin tax<\/a>)
\nThe goal of a fair tax policy should not just be to redistribute wealth, but also to punish predatory behavior, and incentivize productive behavior
\nHow Michael Hudson invokes the arguments of\u00a0Classical Liberals such as Adam Smith, and John Stewart Mills, who distinguished between earned and unearned income
\nUnearned income is any wealth not generated by production or labor
\nDebt and living paycheck to paycheck is\u00a0the road to serfdom
\nHow the majority of people’s income goes towards unearned income(ex. rent, insurance, mortgages)
\nHow lower wages are bad for the economy, because consumers have less money to spend
\nWikileaks:\u00a0Hillary Clinton Calls Bernie Sanders Supporters Basement Dwellers<\/a>, and that she viewed Wall Street as best to manage the economy
\nThe Calvinist mentality in American culture, that your worth is based on\u00a0your wealth
\nWhat makes Hudson’s book so brilliant is he points out that the ultra rich make their money through unproductive or predatory ways
\nExamples of countries that have moved away from the FIRE economy include Germany and Japan, who have a high end manufacturing base
\nIn contrast the FIRE economies of the United States and the United Kingdom became dominant using protectionist and mercantilist measures, but liberalized their economies later on
\nWhy Universal Healthcare and Public investment in infrastructure benefit the economy
\nMichael Hudson debunks supply side economics by pointing out the rich spend most of their extra income on products they already own, or lend their money out at interest
\nHow the concept of a free market has been twisted from freedom from the rentier economy, into letting the financial sector do what ever they want
\nMichael Hudson’s point\u00a0that the primary function of banking is not to fund business or stimulate the economy, but to bid up assets already in place, and attach debt to rents<\/p>\n

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                          Robert Stark, Rabbit & Alex von Goldstein talk to Bay Area-based blogger Bay Area Guy of  Occident Invicta Topics include: Bay Area Guy’s article The Bay Area and the FIRE Economy, which reviews Robert Stark’s interview with Laura Foote Clark of Grow SF How as a renter in … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Bay Area Guy about the SF Bay Area and the FIRE Economy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,644,221,33,188,727,500,203,554,156,459,200,12,4,731,359,729,718,728,66,67,606,527,646,726,555,704,32,730,676,31,34,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-alex-von-goldstein","category-american-culture","category-banking","category-bay-area-guy","category-bay-area-renters-federation","category-bernie-sanders","category-capitalism","category-cities","category-corporations","category-culture","category-distributism","category-economics","category-environment","category-fire-economy","category-hillary-clinton","category-killing-the-host","category-lafayette-ca","category-michael-hudson","category-neoliberalism","category-oligarchy","category-radical-center","category-san-francisco","category-scott-smith","category-sonja-trauss","category-suburbia","category-taxation","category-third-way-economics","category-tobin-tax","category-urbanism","category-usury","category-wall-street","category-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}