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    • ON: Sun Oct 12th 08:55 AM
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      What a Look Back at the Japanese Market Tells Us
      But we are about to elect a president more interested in protectionism and higher business taxes and punishing investment so the suggestions for how we should move forward mentioned above appear to be unlikely
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    • ON: Sun Sep 7th 12:32 PM
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      Obama's Windfall Profits Proposal Is Dangerous
      Wait a moment! An important part of those so-called "excessive profits" go to us old retired geezers who receive those profits in our 401K programs and pensions. I think all the retired persons in America should unite and revolt against the Democrats who are planning to make us poorer! That won't happen because AARP is a liberal insurance group and the media won't communicate the truth so us old folks will just end up holding the short end of the stick.
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    • ON: Wed Aug 27th 19:47 PM
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      The People's Republic of America?
      How soon we forget - does anyone remember the Republicans "Contract with America"? A republican congress during part of Clintons years held the line on government spending and then we had the dot com tax revenues to give Clinton a brief and surprising surplus (if you do not look closely at the Social Security "trust fund"! Also how come most of all taxes are being paid by the wealthy? The so-called unfair taxation is one of the great misunderstandings of all time fostered by the Democratic media.
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    • ON: Sun Jun 8th 22:01 PM
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      Black Gold or Yellow Gold?
      Cheap shots at Bush are popular right now but fail to deal with his repeated requests to an ignorant congress that supply of crude oil needs to be developed in ANWAR and off the continental shelf. There was an energy policy and congress simply failed repeatedly to act on it. If you think things are bad now just check back in 4 years of a Democrat in the White House and you will REALLY see the US trashed! By the way, Iraq was all about the threat of weapons of mass destruction (not finding them doesn't count unless all administrations can turn the clock back and revise history). The three books by Bernstein only mentioned the word "oil" three times - it was NEVER about oil - that's just conspiracy theorising..... too much nasty political prejudice in these posts which takes a bit away from otherwise wise concerns over peak oil and the disaster to come!
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    • ON: Mon Apr 21st 17:31 PM
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      When Will Solar Achieve Grid Parity? We're Already There!
      To: VintonCounty: The computer models provided by "nature Nazis" are only corroborative. The important science comes from measurements of global average temperature rise compared to measurements of CO2 increases in the atmosphere and the "fingerprints&quo... of Isotope ratios of radioactive carbon decreasing in the atmosphere because of the fossil fuel source. Time to wake up and stop tossing around false arguments against science.
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    • ON: Sun Apr 13th 16:01 PM
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      Misguided Calls for Activism
      Panskeptic missed a crucial point: you reduce regulation after you reduce the activisim that leads to the need for regulation.
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    • ON: Mon Apr 7th 17:16 PM
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      Comcast: Expect a Consumer Revolt
      Comcast service varies widely across the country. I just fearfully added their internet voice service and got an excellent installer who spent 3 hours in my house - adjusted everything so it was perfect - and I have had no problems at all.
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    • ON: Fri Apr 4th 20:41 PM
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      An Energy Policy that Makes Cents (and Sense)
      I will copy and save and distribute this post to everyone I know. The various "yes but.." comments miss two key points: 1. The peak oil problem is an economic disaster that MUST be addressed FAST and 2. There are ways to handle the environmental concerns over drilling and nuclear issues and dirty coal etc. - they require research, development, regulation, and tax assistance but are not unsurmountable. Watching angry truck drivers do a "slow down" and seeing mass movements to turn off the lights for an hour along with other laughably ineffective efforts to do something offers a serious warning - just wait for the chaos that comes when gas is $5 per gallon. Those days are approaching. Note that the media prefer to offer air time to worthless rants against big oil corporations for so-called unconscionable profits instead of offering thoughtful analyses about the real cause of the problem. Our society at large is unfortunately ignorant of reality and are fed nonsense. The complicity of the media to continue feeding misinformation to the public is what's unconscionable.
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    • ON: Thu Mar 13th 21:24 PM
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      Can Bush Save the Dollar's Fall?
      Based on the hate-Bush rantings on this post I cannot wait to see the nirvana about to befall the US in several years after a Democatic congress and Democratic administration fix everything and make the whole world beautiful again - Tax increases so we can give chickens away for every pot - protection for the rights of all Jihadists who wish to kill us - high tariffs to protect the few Union workers left - rationed health care paid for by the rich - marines in jail for having tried to kill people - $10 per gallon gasoline to protect the environment - oh I just cannot wait!
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    • ON: Sun Mar 9th 12:58 PM
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      Why We're Still in the Early Innings of the Bursting of the Housing and Credit Bubbles - And Implications for MBIA and Ambac
      Many websites offer a lot of generalized opinion but the reference suggested in the main posting here is full of remarkable and convincing detail - strongly urge readers to take the time and read the analysis - this is an example why I have learned to appreciate SEEKING ALPHA!
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    • ON: Sun Mar 9th 10:41 AM
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      The John McCain Market Selloff
      Jan is wrong. That never ending refrain "tax cuts for the rich" is an example of the phrase: "If you say something ridiculous enough, often enough, pretty soon everyone begins to believe it". If it were really true that the Bush years saw "tax cuts for the rich" then it would follow that the rich have ended up paying less then the rest of us in taxes. Yet when you log onto the IRS website and grab the data (that is as recent as you can get) you find that 39% of all federal income tax revenues come from the top 1% of income earners. This percentage has increased during the Bush years. So however the cuts were crafted you cannot cry over the breaks received by the rich. Meanwhile we are rapidly moving to a state where the majority of voters pay NO federal income tax at all. In fact the bottom half of workers in this country pay 3% of all income tax. My high school civics teacher would blanch at that number. Is this the future aim for our nations expression of civic responsibility?
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    • ON: Tue Jan 22nd 22:30 PM
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      So Much for the Decoupling...
      Where is this trashing of supply side tax cuts coming from? We are staring right into the doom of a lapse of these cuts coming up in several years because there is no hope a democratic congress will do anything but let the cuts expire. I would guess markets are looking forward to that piece of bad news. Past history of tax cuts offer a clear message that they work and so does the underlying logic.
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