paulsjj

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?