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post hoc ergo propter hoc]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:38:06 -0400
post hoc ergo propter hoc]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/158422-how-phevs-and-evs-will-sabotage-america-s-drive-for-energy-independence?source=feed#comment-649458 649458
Or, put another way, it's a bit bizarre that you've managed to "prove" that a pure EV saves less gasoline than a hybrid--bizarre because the pure EV uses ZERO GALLONS.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:56:41 -0400
Or, put another way, it's a bit bizarre that you've managed to "prove" that a pure EV saves less gasoline than a hybrid--bizarre because the pure EV uses ZERO GALLONS.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/147047-dollar-s-days-of-dominance-are-over?source=feed#comment-581277 581277
Plus, that massive wealth was built on the foreign currency so many people say China stands to collapse.

What do I fear? The collapse of China. Just watch and wait.]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:32:06 -0400
Plus, that massive wealth was built on the foreign currency so many people say China stands to collapse.

What do I fear? The collapse of China. Just watch and wait.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/108866-economies-improve-in-three-states-how-can-we-copy-them?source=feed#comment-320212 320212
There are parts of downstate Illinois where your property tax will be on par with what you pay in Arkansas. Sadly, my county is not one of them. However, on the plus side, where I live you won't lose a subcompact in a pothole, which I can't say for the lower property tax counties/townships ;-)]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:45:00 -0500
There are parts of downstate Illinois where your property tax will be on par with what you pay in Arkansas. Sadly, my county is not one of them. However, on the plus side, where I live you won't lose a subcompact in a pothole, which I can't say for the lower property tax counties/townships ;-)]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/108893-bailouts-are-misunderstood?source=feed#comment-320206 320206
Cost to shareholders who lose their investment, cost to "consumers" in the form of lost jobs, cost to retail when "consumers" no longer have jobs...

This isn't rocket science. When big companies fail, there's a domino effect.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:40:28 -0500
Cost to shareholders who lose their investment, cost to "consumers" in the form of lost jobs, cost to retail when "consumers" no longer have jobs...

This isn't rocket science. When big companies fail, there's a domino effect.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/76554-what-if-we-d-been-on-the-gold-standard?source=feed#comment-300354 300354
Yeah, there's a lot of craziness on both sides.

I saw someone, and I think it was on mises.org, who suggested that we deal with the finite nature of gold by making it worth more.

So, bear with me a moment.

I think it's important to have quality controls on the money supply. Call me crazy, but I don't think anarcho-libertarianism can ever work, so let's just assume we use an institution already in place. The U.S. Mint could start pressing gold dollars, five dollar coins, etc. They would all be a uniform weight, size, etc. to make sure everyone knows at a glance what they're being handed, and blind people could handle their own money they way they handle coins now.

So. Let's say we've decided to re-peg the value of gold, because we're going through a period of stagnation right after a population explosion (it could happen.) That, or we go through a massive Midwestern drought and the value of food skyrockets due to scarcity. Either we just let people die, or we re-peg.

Okay. Let's say we re-peg. We've determined the coins should always be a consistent size, shape, and so on. Right?

So, we start cutting the gold in the dollars with lead...

Hail Caesar.

On Jul 1, 7:29 PM Ames Tiedeman wrote:

> If we stayed on the Gold Standard then the DOW would still be under
> 1,000 and the average home would be $45,000.00, and America would
> be much, much poorer.
> There would be no capital to finance anything. We went off the Gold
> Standard when we ran out of Gold. There was not enough Gold to back
> the number of dollars the economy could absorb to raise the living
> standard and to economically grow.]]> Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:25:52 -0500
Yeah, there's a lot of craziness on both sides.

I saw someone, and I think it was on mises.org, who suggested that we deal with the finite nature of gold by making it worth more.

So, bear with me a moment.

I think it's important to have quality controls on the money supply. Call me crazy, but I don't think anarcho-libertarianism can ever work, so let's just assume we use an institution already in place. The U.S. Mint could start pressing gold dollars, five dollar coins, etc. They would all be a uniform weight, size, etc. to make sure everyone knows at a glance what they're being handed, and blind people could handle their own money they way they handle coins now.

So. Let's say we've decided to re-peg the value of gold, because we're going through a period of stagnation right after a population explosion (it could happen.) That, or we go through a massive Midwestern drought and the value of food skyrockets due to scarcity. Either we just let people die, or we re-peg.

Okay. Let's say we re-peg. We've determined the coins should always be a consistent size, shape, and so on. Right?

So, we start cutting the gold in the dollars with lead...

Hail Caesar.

On Jul 1, 7:29 PM Ames Tiedeman wrote:

> If we stayed on the Gold Standard then the DOW would still be under
> 1,000 and the average home would be $45,000.00, and America would
> be much, much poorer.
> There would be no capital to finance anything. We went off the Gold
> Standard when we ran out of Gold. There was not enough Gold to back
> the number of dollars the economy could absorb to raise the living
> standard and to economically grow.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/97427-the-dummy-s-guide-to-the-u-s-financial-crisis?source=feed#comment-265500 265500
which ended in 1980, when Reagan proceeded to triple the national debt.

or maybe earlier than that, since the dollar came unhinged from anything sensible during the Nixon administration.

Eh, there's enough blame to go around. Neocons, Republicans, I'm even betting there's a couple of Communists and Libertarians we could throw into the mix if we tried hard enough.]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:27:56 -0400
which ended in 1980, when Reagan proceeded to triple the national debt.

or maybe earlier than that, since the dollar came unhinged from anything sensible during the Nixon administration.

Eh, there's enough blame to go around. Neocons, Republicans, I'm even betting there's a couple of Communists and Libertarians we could throw into the mix if we tried hard enough.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/97274-what-the-president-didn-t-say?source=feed#comment-265403 265403
The blame goes to people buying far too expensive homes, the Federal reserve, the Federal government...almost no one blames bankers and other businessmen who were all-too-willing participants in this mess.

If it weren't for the loan officer forging documents, 30k-income folks would never have gotten loans for million dollar homes. If it hadn't been for willing banks, contractors would never have gotten loans for half-million-plus "spec" homes. If it hadn't been...bah.

I guess what I'm getting at is that everywhere I look, people want to put the blame on everyone EXCEPT the people who could have prevented this in the first place. We want to claim the banks couldn't make money any other way, but that's not true, now is it? Certainly there were other money-making opportunities, surer things, but they went for the riskier options, driven by greed.

Plenty of blame to go around, and I'm not sure why most people want to leave the entities who gave out loans out of this.]]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:07:52 -0400
The blame goes to people buying far too expensive homes, the Federal reserve, the Federal government...almost no one blames bankers and other businessmen who were all-too-willing participants in this mess.

If it weren't for the loan officer forging documents, 30k-income folks would never have gotten loans for million dollar homes. If it hadn't been for willing banks, contractors would never have gotten loans for half-million-plus "spec" homes. If it hadn't been...bah.

I guess what I'm getting at is that everywhere I look, people want to put the blame on everyone EXCEPT the people who could have prevented this in the first place. We want to claim the banks couldn't make money any other way, but that's not true, now is it? Certainly there were other money-making opportunities, surer things, but they went for the riskier options, driven by greed.

Plenty of blame to go around, and I'm not sure why most people want to leave the entities who gave out loans out of this.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/95320-current-market-turmoil-you-cant-explain-stupid?source=feed#comment-256095 256095
Honestly, is it just me or do the von Mises followers sound like anti-Marxists?]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:16:51 -0400
Honestly, is it just me or do the von Mises followers sound like anti-Marxists?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/94180-fannie-freddie-bailout-fast-money-recap-9-5-08?source=feed#comment-247037 247037
They could always claim that it stamps out terrorism. Everyone, especially Republicans, knows it's okay to expand the federal government's powers as long as it stamps out terrorism or otherwise expands our military and/or police-state powers.

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They could always claim that it stamps out terrorism. Everyone, especially Republicans, knows it's okay to expand the federal government's powers as long as it stamps out terrorism or otherwise expands our military and/or police-state powers.

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/93736-oil-the-inconvenient-truth?source=feed#comment-245082 245082
Shucks, the extremely publicly available numbers show that, percentage wise, U.S. demand is dropping slowly, while demand in the rest of the world is growing rapidly. However, in real, hard numbers--not percentages--our paltry drop this year WIPED OUT the demand increases from the rest of the world FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.

I'd point you in the right direction, but heck, you're the one who should have done the homework before you wrote this column, not me.]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:12:54 -0400
Shucks, the extremely publicly available numbers show that, percentage wise, U.S. demand is dropping slowly, while demand in the rest of the world is growing rapidly. However, in real, hard numbers--not percentages--our paltry drop this year WIPED OUT the demand increases from the rest of the world FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.

I'd point you in the right direction, but heck, you're the one who should have done the homework before you wrote this column, not me.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92004-where-does-oil-go-from-here?source=feed#comment-235921 235921
Also, if you ask the people of the Austrian persuasion what's going to happen to the United States, who would care if China hd 2 QUADRILLION in US Treasuries? Worthless paper. So's the yuan. So's the euro. So's many other forms of currency.

We're all screwed, unless we stop listening to those who want to destroy the world economy for some strange reason.]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:51:53 -0400
Also, if you ask the people of the Austrian persuasion what's going to happen to the United States, who would care if China hd 2 QUADRILLION in US Treasuries? Worthless paper. So's the yuan. So's the euro. So's many other forms of currency.

We're all screwed, unless we stop listening to those who want to destroy the world economy for some strange reason.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/83077-worst-june-since-1930?source=feed#comment-195560 195560
Both sides vote for pork. Both sides are just playing the regular politics. The Dumborats and Republitards are leading us down the path of ruin. If any of them had a bit of sense, we'd get back to working together as a nation. But since we've had our run of New McCarthyism, I doubt we'll get back together until after the collapse.]]> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:08:56 -0400
Both sides vote for pork. Both sides are just playing the regular politics. The Dumborats and Republitards are leading us down the path of ruin. If any of them had a bit of sense, we'd get back to working together as a nation. But since we've had our run of New McCarthyism, I doubt we'll get back together until after the collapse.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/82091-when-crude-drops-amr-will-fly?source=feed#comment-189539 189539
Not to mention that both their and India's GDP may be overstated by as much as 40% apiece...]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:25:34 -0400
Not to mention that both their and India's GDP may be overstated by as much as 40% apiece...]]>