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Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

No one has mentioned the externality of increasing the total US fleet MPG. We've slowly did this in the early 80's with new mileage standards, but then letting "trucks" (including SUV's) get lower standards eventually brought the total fleet MPG *down* in the late 90's onward as SUV's increased in popularity and size (Hummer).

If you increase the fleet MPG by say 2 MPG, how much oil consumption does that offset? Its significant.

If the aggregate petrol savings is greater than the cost of the program, that alone makes it work out, aside from some minor economic benefits.

Dow 6500 in 6 Months or Less?

"Federal policy via Fannie Mae pressured banks to make loans to those who should not qualify for loans. This was not only the poor, but also included illegal aliens."

While you are right about the illegal aliens part (I know because I wrote the code for a major institution's loan origination system that allowed loans without SSN's) it most *certainly* wasn't because of the Fed. It was because they wanted to make money, and they wanted market share, not because anyone was compelling them to make loans. Believe me, they *wanted* those loans, and they charged a damn good premium for them too, thinking they had correctly priced the risk. Blaming CRA is such a red herring that its a joke. youknowyoureright.blog...

Dow 6500 in 6 Months or Less?

"There isn’t enough printed money in the world to cover all the debt being issued for bailouts…i.e. We don’t have enough money on the planet to pay for this mess now."

Um, yeah M0 < M1 < M2 < M3. I think anyone, or the Fed's wonderful FRED graph can tell you that. The physical money supply is, and always has been, a fraction of the actual amount of money.

Why We'll Probably See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off

"If America had the apparent problems China has, Americans would be dancing in the streets. "

The US does not want the problems of China. I'll use Premier Wen Jiabao's own words:

"First, China is not a superpower.

Although China has a population of 1.3 billion, and although in recent years China has registered fairly fast economic and social development since reform and opening up, China still has this problem of unbalanced development between different regions and between China's urban and rural areas. China remains a developing country.

We still have 800 million farmers in rural areas, and we still dozens of million people living in poverty. To address our own problems, we need to do a great deal. China is not a superpower."

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An Oil-Driven Paradigm Shift?

Conventional geothermal and hydro are all utilized where they are available, and some new projects are going on like Hydro-Quebec's big one, but there's only so much you can do. EG has been a hard sell, because it tends to cause geological problems... like mini-earthquakes.

10 Winning Stock Themes in an Obama Administration

Yeah? Maybe check out some data. angrybear.blogspot.com...

Inflation: Pass It Through

Historically, currencies were tied to gold. Now, no major currency is. Gold has no major industrial or intrinsic value. Why wouldn't platinum, oil, or anything else with actual industrial or intrinsic value besides simple scarcity be a better indicator of inflation?

An Oil-Driven Paradigm Shift?

The fact is, the NRC has 20 some applications in the pipeline for new reactors. These things don't get built overnight. There are only two companies in the world that can produce the castings for LWPR's.

Studying the Dow / S&P 500 Ratio

Dude, what is your point? They are 95.5% correlated since 1980, and if you look at a year chart or at a daily, the correlation is very strong. If you look since 2001, there really hasn't been a huge difference, if anything the DOW has all the upside.

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Introducing the Minsky Theory - Stability Is Destabilizing

Do you read the rest of the site you contribute to?

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April Jobs - Another Report from Bizarro World

Demographics: www.bos.frb.org/econom...

Have Recent Crises Blown a Hole Through Modern Financial Theory?

The word "WHOLE" should be corrected in your title.