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    • Mon Aug 4th 11:50 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is This a Recession? Wrong Question.
      In the "Brilliant Idea" category: Since our whole economy is Consumer based. And since the American consumer has no savings, and even worse is deeply in debt-(supporting this economy)- -becoming unemployed, and loosing his home. In other words couldn't buy if he wanted to.

      Lets simply crank up the presses any mail everybody "money from Heaven"!! Do you suppose we can just do that forever???

      Do you suppose big Hank would approve?? I think I'll tell him!!
      An idea worthy of Bankers Row where credit makes all dreams come true.
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    • Mon Aug 4th 11:03 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The U.S. Dollar: A New Accord
      A higher rate: Just what our Robust economy needs.

      Housing, banking, exports everyone is clambering for a rate increase so they can leave on vacation just like Congress. Something will collapse all right but it won't be oil.

      At this late date I really would wonder if Beneficent Benny would start unwinding all his recent brilliant moves to save his Banker Buddies---But---wait a minute---He's reaching for one of the heavy darts!!!. Get out the Survival Gear!!, I fear another Benny Bullseye!!
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    • Sun Aug 3rd 11:20 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The US Dollar Elevator is Going Up!
      It requires years of study at the Maputo school of economics to believe the unbridled expansion of the currency pool will result in an increase in the value of the individual dollar.

      When the pigs are not only flying but landing on strips paved in gold, and the Airlines take $50 off your ticket price for every extra bag you bring aboard.
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    • Sat Aug 2nd 12:56 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Is GM Still Alive?
      So the Oil Co's won't make provisions to sell hydrogen --or charge batteries while they're running out of oil.

      And the U.S. auto Mfg's won't make and fuel a car themselves that will get you home when the oil is gone.

      Sounds like a holding hands--off-the--cliff, Lovers-Suicide-Pact to me.??
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    • Sat Aug 2nd 12:42 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Toyota Tinkers With Baby Segways
      Obviously Toyota has it's finger on the Global shopping pulse.

      Testing in a Japanese Seaside resort will get more riders than Wal-Mart's.--I'm afraid consumers will be a little thin over here in 2009.

      And spending money to avoid what little exercise one derives walking around spending more money sounds like--just what the American loves,--but may have to sacrifice with a "give up".

      Also note: The pics don't show the package trailer this thing will have to pull around to be a success here. Baby rack would be nice too. And cup-holder a must!! In fact we could probably bury that thing with so many fox-tail options, the battery would go flat just holding them up!.
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    • Sat Aug 2nd 12:17 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Crude Reality: Big Oil's Purposely Restricting Supply
      This is from "The trying on his shoes dept".

      Were I a Big Oil Exec and had scrimped and saved through 6 years of College, put in years tramping the wilderness, living in tents, more office years of 12hr days. Had to be away for months on end, flying around the world trying to talk sense to a pack of unwashed Bedouins.

      Were I all that and I was just awakened last night at 2AM, by my new neighbor, who having partied all night was bringing the nights Trophy's home is his Streach Purple Pimpmobile.

      And I realized the American Public were rolling over for more millions to be entertained by this "Artiste" than I was making.

      And knowing his "Major" sacrifice was cutting the 5th grade to shoot hoops, thereby missing English, and having to talk like an illiterate Hip-Hopper to the public two or three times a week.

      Were I in this position--I don't think I'd find any sympathy if you had to go to the game on a bicycle,- until the picture changed.
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    • Sat Aug 2nd 11:30 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      California, New York Facing Fiscal Crises, Cuts Inevitable
      I don't believe wages should just be summarily slashed. That would lead to a flood of new housing foreclosures.

      The Gov. should have to "work" for his goals, not just achieve them with the stroke of the pen.

      Therefore the Capitol steps should be painted with a Pay scale, starting with minimum wage at the first step rising with each step to the Gov. at the top.

      Each employee who wished to contest or appeal his pay cut could bring in one Illegal Mexican who Arnold would toss from the top and where he landed would establish that employees pay level.
      No women or children would be allowed since they're smaller and sail further. Also fat lazy ones would be rejected as a fair offset.
      Also in the interest of fairness a scale at the top would assign a pound/step ratio handicap.
      Employees bringing in ones with criminal rap sheets, Junkies and Gang Bangers would also get a 5 step bonus raise.
      The savings in deportations would go a long way towards alleviating the pay cuts.

      In the interest of humane treatment, a line of Ambulances at the bottom would afford the Toss-ees the latest medical care, splints and pain killers on the drive to the Border.
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    • Sat Aug 2nd 10:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      As Jobs Decline
      Good work Mish, keep it up. Even tho all Govt. stat reporting Bureaus are vaccinated against embarrassment on taking the job, it is still satisfying to see Pros like yourself kicking their ankles raw for foisting this garbage off as tho we are as unsuspecting as they are dumb.

      As in bygone days, when you really need this info to hit the target, a great deal of "Kentucky Windage" being applied identifies the true marksman.

      As with everything else, throwing more dollars at it will be a big help.
      I wonder how many of those 25,000 new hirees are at this moment holding wet fingers to the wind to gauge a 4% inflation hurricane.
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    • Fri Aug 1st 14:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Leasing and the Big Three Automakers
      In the not too distant past there was a the great age of "The Instant Approval". There, large masses of the greater unwashed, unemployed and debt addicted were indistinguishable from the legitimate upper income levels of society.

      That age is gone!, There is no liquidity left to fund it. All that is left is a great contaminated pool of pollution akin to the love canal but composed of noncollectable debt rather than toxic waste.

      It will take some time to clean up, longer to recover completely, and the poor credit scarred American consumer may wear the "Stigmata" for life.

      Oh-well, first it's pay back time, then both ends of the economic-(loan/borrow)... see/saw will equal, then at long last, we may-(be forced to)--become a saving nation.
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    • Fri Aug 1st 13:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Jeremy Grantham: Global Incompetence Is 'Officially' Scary
      Jib: That's where we--the electorate--enter the picture.
      When faced with a choice of dinner or feel-good speeches even the illiterate masses of America will vote.

      And; They may even learn to discern between the hard choice of truth--Ron Paul-who under the present game plan is sidelined to obscurity and the Obamanable song and dance man that so captivates them today.

      Maybe a little --hunger, the great motivator--will work.
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    • Fri Aug 1st 13:07 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      All About Investing in Agricultural Land
      There is no doubt that the day may come where the choice will be dance or eat. At that point in time there is little doubt that the cherished I-pods of today will find their way to pawnshop shelves, in a great transfer of wealth to Ham Sandwich's.

      One law that will never be repealed is that of supply and demand. And on a planet with the increasing population of ours the demand for food can only increase proportionately.
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    • Fri Aug 1st 10:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Jeremy Grantham: Global Incompetence Is 'Officially' Scary
      The bottom of this financial meltdown may just open a window of opportunity, though it will bring no joy to the afflicted.

      If we're willing to clench our teeth, close our eyes and undergo the ritual and pain of catharsis. There will be no better opportunity to cast out the profiteering, non accountable Pseudo economists composing the Federal Reserve.

      Return the responsibility and accountability to our elected officials which they have cravenly abdicated. And adopt a monetary policy as it was meant to be from the beginning.

      Return our currency to a "Gold Standard" or other such backing which will remove the ability of the larcenous, the incompetents and the political opportunists from plundering the economy of an otherwise healthy state.

      And thereby remove all reason, and possibility of a repeat of our present economic abomination.
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    • Thu Jul 31st 12:12 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Slow Start for Lithium-ion Hybrids
      If you think NiMh is the holy grail, put one in your cell phone and toss that LiOn, now see how long you last.

      In E-cars its ampere-hours and weight. And lithium has the gold medal in both. The only drawback is initial cost--but hold on--did someone just say oil is going up!!--Again??
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    • Thu Jul 31st 11:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      U.S. Oil Production Today Same as in 1948
      What a shock --oil wells run out!! Say it isn't so!.
      Well anyway let's drill some more, maybe these will produce forever, and alternatives will just become a bad dream.

      A short term cushioning is OK but it should take second billing to an alternative more permanent fix, electric, bio diesel etc.

      If the ratio now in cars/ per-barrel produced was the same as 1948 we'd all jump for joy. Don't make too much of coincidental numbers.
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    • Thu Jul 31st 11:43 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Dollar, Oil, Labor, and the FOMC
      If "The Chairman" thinks a strong dollar and declining oil prices portend a "Wiggle" in his future he really is out of touch with reality.

      I suspected it-just didn't have really hard info-now let's all join hands and go whistling off into a future made dark with NO oil.
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