Ekonomics geek

Wikipedia official policies, guidelines, etc.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are links to some important Wikipedia concepts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POL (official policy)

NPOV

"Neutral Point of View": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute (maintenance process)

Verifiability

"Verifiability": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability (official policy)

No Original Research

"No Original Research": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research) (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary.2C_secondary.2C_and_tertiary_sources (primary, secondary and tertiary sources)

Behavior

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines (guideline)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reverting (help page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war (editing guideline)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing (behavioral guideline)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TE (essay on tendentious editing)

More on Verifiability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources (guideline)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Using_online_and_self-published_sources (guideline)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources (style guide)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_citation (Case citation)

Yours, Famspear (talk) 02:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Federal Reserve Dividends

You wrote:
While the Federal Reserve dividends are fixed at 6 percent, by law, the Federal Reserve member banks are required to return the dividend payments exceeding their operating costs. [1] The film completely overlooks this fact.

Um, no they don't. The dividend is the return on their (forced) investment. When interest rates are low, it's a good return. When rates are high, it's a crappy return. But it would be even crappier if they had to apply it to their "operating costs", whatever that's supposed to mean, and return anything above that! -- 01:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Money Masters

I am interested in the criticism section on your user page;

While the film came out in 1996, predicting an imminent major depression, this depression has not happened. -The Money Masters / Criticism (deleted section)

The current credit crunch could well be the start of what they were talking about. I should state here that I do not agree with the video as a whole, only on some of the content. --Zven (talk) 06:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)