paulsjj

How Come Good Macro Policies Are Political Losers?

The proof is in the pudding....Where's the pudding?

A New Economic Indicator?

Your handle says it all...


On Nov 05 11:48 AM Witchy wrote:

> Two lists.
>
> A few people, in mostly random order, who in the past contributed
> much to how we are, who we are, some of our best and brightest, all-time
> most-interesting: Thales, Sophocles, Socrates, Moses, Buddha, Confucius,
> Jesus, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Copernicus, Galileo,
> Edw. Jenner, Darwin, Dostoevsky, Einstein, Heisenberg, T. Edison,
> Rachel Carson, Roberto Bolano ...
>
> A few people, in mostly random order, currently active and important
> to how we are, who we are, among our best and brightest, most interesting:
> E. O. Wilson, J. Lovelock, Obama, Bernanke, Gore, Jobs, Gates (both),
> Buffett, Branson, Soros, P. Roth, J. Gray, and many more ...
>
> Question: are, were, would any of them be, gun-obsessed?
>
> The gun-nuts are among the lowest of us, those who have the least
> to contribute ... Our Neanderthals ...

The Yin-Yang of Deflation and Inflation

The yin & yang symbol is boundried by an endless circle. We the people are the circle. As long as we continue reduce our spending of our real $'s blessed by our time, effort , and ability we favour yin...and can drive out speculation and corruption. The bailouts short circuit the process and favor the anointed at our expense.

Faber, Rogers, Dent and Celente: Collapse Dead Ahead

Every week Barrons Magazine reports a PE for the S&P500 in the 130's based an reported earnings. This is in the Indexes and PE's box of their Market Labratory.

Are We Headed for a Green World or Business-as-Usual?

I was a wage slave in a rust belt factory.


On Sep 02 12:23 PM nakedjaybird wrote:

> paulsjj - where were you when the US went from a manufacturing country
> to a services country???

Are We Headed for a Green World or Business-as-Usual?

If Tom Swift were around today he would make a fortune saterizing the Greens and their make believe dream world.

>a simpler lifestyle with less transport, and backyard gardens<

And the Statist Greens will make damn sure we have a simpler life style with their iron heel on our necks forever.

Are We Headed for a Green World or Business-as-Usual?

In the late 70's energy usage was about 24% of GDP. Now it is about 9% of GDP with a higher standard of living. This represents a hell of a lot of conservation through technology & without a lot of government command and control creating false markets.

4 Possible Market Scenarios

>(credit contraction = money destruction)<

Wow! If I put $100,000 in a Mutual Fund and it drops 50% than $50,000 Dollar Bills just disappear?

The Fed is Running Out of Options

FED: RIP. We are experiencing the greatest finincial fraud in the history of the universe. And nobody knows nothing: not Congress, not the Treasury, not the Fed, not the Regulators, and not the CEO's and not the Trustees. Why is that?

Treasury Continues to Harpoon the Real Economy

"We Owe It To Ourselves" (FDR). LOL

This Is Not "the Big One"

How does billions of dollars of mortages written against property become trillions of dollars of debt upstream to the big investment banks. No body is talking about t he leverage involved here from the base mortage to AIG's $trillions in liabilities that they cannot cover. I say let them fold. Soon the market on the ground will buy up the foreclosed properties and the paper will clear at various levels of loss. The leverage involved goes up in smoke.

Why Core Inflation?

Definition of Inflation: The dollar in your pocket will buy less today than yesterday, and less again tomorrow than today.