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Whatever Happened to Those Ethanol Companies?

converting food to fuel (corn to ethanol) never made sense.

With six billion mouths to feed on earth, there will never be enough land, water or fertilizer to grow food and fuel at the same time.

Will Ocean Power Technologies Surge Forwards?

Ocean wave power has been on my mind since I took Oceanography in college. I am now an Architect and think I found the answer.
Wave energy can be extracted from waves in three places, the top (floaters), the front (crashers) and the bottom (neutral buoyancy).
Crashers only can work at the shoreline Which is way to expensive.
Floaters work on the surface near shore in shallow water. Winter storms can rip out any moorings and shorten there useful life.

I chose the bottom of waves to extract power and began my invention, which by the way is sitting in some pile at the US Patent office in Washington D.C. It takes for ever when they don't under stand what there looking at.

I invented a device that floats below the surface like a jelly fish. It generates electricity by moving up and down with passing waves above. Its location below the surface protects it from storms and boats above. The electricity produced is then converted into Hydrogen and Oxygen threw the process of electrolysis.

I am looking for investors with the vision to see the future.
If you are interested in my idea, you can contact me at
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

I call it Reaganomics run a muck. If you remove the stop lights on a major street to make it run faster it will until there is a major crash. I know it sounds a counterintuitive, but free markets are regulated and taxed. This has been proven by this market crash. Free enterprise markets are not wild.
Its hard for me a Democrat to hear the conservative Republicans winne about nationalizations when it is their 'borrow and spend' Reaganomics that brought our great country to its knees.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Where do the Republicans get off calling Obama's plan, when they are leaving a yearly budget deficit of 1 Trillion. They are truly the party of 'borrow and spend.'

Why Property Taxes Must Be Cut

Haven't you been paying attention, lowering the property taxes will just cause home ownership to be lowered and then Real Estate Agents and Home owners will raise the price of owning a home. This cycle has got to stop, our governments can keep borrow and spending, most states are close to bankruptcy. Everyone needs food, transportation and a place to live. Housing prices have been distorted by supper low interest rates to 'create wealth' which the whole market melt down shows only goes so far. Owning property is having property taxes, renters pay rent which includes property taxes. The market will only recover when the cost of a house and taxes will equal the monthly rental value, It has been shown, by this bubble that lowering, interest rates or any thing that artificially lowers housing costs will only cause House flippers to get rich, everyone else will lose. So we must raise property taxes.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

I agree with SF in that business runs on basic trust. Now, if the Government fails to regulate or even notice, then its like leaving a door unlocked, it only encourages honest people to steal.

Federal Commitments Now Total $5 Trillion

Maybe the press should call it a new begining, since our ship is sinking fast.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Automaker bail-out or no bail-out, it makes no difference. OPEC loves $100 dollar a barrel for crude oil. As soon as this recession is over, it going back up. So what can we do? Glad you asked, America can out smart them by raising the gas tax till it reflects $100 per Barrel or about $4.00 a gallon. We are going to get $4.00 a gallon no mater what. We have been given a great opportunity with our cut in usage caused by the economic melt down. With $4.00 a gallon gas people will drive less and more fuel efficient cars which will save even more oil. With the tax money, mass transits and high speed trains can be built. Or we can let OPEC have the money. The choice is ours.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Does this mean the extinction of the endangered Hummer?
We will lose the beautiful morning cry of 'Filler-up'
GM loves those grandiose cars, OPEC loves them too.
What are we to do?

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Lack of regulation, low capital gains tax are some of the factors that created this mess.

Capital Gains tax 15%, I work for a living and pay over 30%.

Lack of lending regulation caused the lenders to loan to anyone with a pulse just to get a fee. This caused the erosion of the value of underlying assets guaranteeing the value of bonds.

Creation of wealth only occurs with natural occurring demand that is in line with the buyers ability to pay.

This economic melt down proves real growth or creation of wealth does not come from eliminating regulations or cutting taxes, only greed.

Our national debt has grown, with tax cutting.
Home values have increased way more than there real value because of easy money policies and lack of regulation.

Lowering the taxes on business and eliminating regulations help to get us into this mess.

So old sailor how is cutting business taxes and removing regulations going to pay off the trillions needed for the economy's resuscitation?

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

I hate to hear all the dumb Republicans who think the ecomony is a free-range chicken. All you have to do is lower taxes to the Investors, remove regulations and stand back. This assumes that the market is two dimensional creature that expands and contracts naturally and should not be interfered with.
The market is a multi-dimensional, artificial creation of Human beings. Taxes and regulations are only a small piece of the whole. We absolutely foolish if we just stand back and let this income provider die because political dogma. Its our source for bread winning not a tool to punish inept CEO's. England let its auto manufacturing die, and now Germany and Japan have replaced them. It is dumb-American to give our auto Industry to China. We must not follow the same dogma that got us into this mess to bury us deeper.
Our economy must be manage by clear thought, with a eye on the future. If can use these hard times to extract necessary improvements to the current system so that when the markets return we will be in a stronger position or we can behave like children (Bush) and do nothing now and buy all our cars in the future from some where else.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

I think we can think the Republicans and the Supreem Court for selecting George WMD Bush and allowing him to exercise Raganomics, limiting regulations and lowering taxes to creat wealth, for Obama's win. If giving tax welfare to investors and removing safe-guard regulation was going to creat wealth then why are we in recession? Voodoo economics do not work. Money and wealth has to be created the hard way, by working and paying taxes.

FDIC Graphs Show the Extent of the Financial Crisis

You are right Gordon. I noticed the slow down of commercial real estate in early 2008. But the recession is not the same as the banking melt down. Both are acting together, and its really scary. I think the markets slowdown was caused by a saturation of products and services. It was true with commercial real estate but the slowdown (recession). The underlying asset melt down is a separate event caused by lending agents lowering borrowers standards to create more fees. Greed. Now the whole market will pay.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

That's it, blame the incompetence of the Texas Republicans on the illegal aliens. Its not greed, its illegal aliens. No wonder that the lame Texas President thought he saw WMD's intermixed with large oil fields in Iraq. Too bad he was to dumb to know how to win a war.
If you knew any thing about history, the slavers of the southern states and the religious fanatics of the northern states that started this country were all illegal aliens.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

The wackos in office want to believe in Reaganomics, where low taxes on investors coupled with minimum regulations will set the market free to grow beyond everyone's expectations.
The market is not a free-range chicken. Investors capital gains are ordinary income. So giving welfare to the rich only gives them more money to invest. and lack of adequate regulation has caused the markets to run amock