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Groundbreaking WSJ Story on Gold

On Jul 13 09:22 AM Search4Truth wrote:

> Gold.
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> Silver.
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> Freeze Dried Food.
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> Water.
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> Guns.
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> Ammo.
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> A KJV Bible.
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> Come what may, I am ready.

I was going along until you included the KJV bible, even though I heard a story where it stopped a bullet, I think I'd rather have a reference book of health/medicine, you know non-fiction.

A trio of economists says the much-touted housing-wealth effect - the impact that home value has on consumer spending - is widely misunderstood. It's not about feeling less wealthy, or even the downfall of home-as-ATM, but rather that home-price changes are a proxy for people's income expectations.

a trio of economists, marginally more empirical than a pair of theologians or a single alchemist

In an uninspiring sign for the green economy, America's largest biodiesel plant is for sale by GreenHunter Energy (GRH -7.7%) after the company shut it down in the face of low demand.

We americans still love our giant shrimp, military intelligence, clean coal and energy independence!

A new book that explains how the world's poor live on $2 a day turns common assumptions upside down. Far from living hand-to-mouth, these families interviewed are borrowing, saving, and leading active financial lives because of their poverty, not in spite of it.

The micro loan concept an inexpensive feel-good program which remains only one piece to solving the poverty puzzle. 3 months ago the Pres. reversed a Bush's theocratic policy to block African governments from providing U.S.-funded contraceptive commodities to Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world’s leading family planning organisations. Promoting secular education (not non-profit church gospel) should receive greater funding so that women can be empowered to make more of the decisions that determine their quality of life.

GM confirms it's selling Hummer to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, which GM says will secure over 3K jobs in the U.S. Terms to follow.

Aw shucks, I guess we'll be seeing fewer Hummers with "freedom isn't free" and "support our troops" ribbons on american roads. The clock is ticking to see how long it takes Sichuan to haul all that scrapmetal and rubber back to the mainland where few remain in unsustainable aspiration to our conspicuous consumption; adieu, aufwiedersehen, good riddance.

Favorable Coal Conditions Now Moving In

This myopic perspective does not consider the costs to our healthcare system for "clean" coal emissions of carbon, sulfur and mercury. Not to mention the water consumption and water vapor produced. Health problems linked to aging coal-fired power plants shorten nearly 24,000 lives a year, including 2,800 from lung cancer even before considering consensus peer-reviewed AGW.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5.../

"Cheap electricity provides enormous benefits to society" including the incandescent bulb which loses 90% of its energy to heat, the ability to watch american idol on my always standby plasma screen, usw,,,

Time to Get Long Black Gold? How Option Spreads Can Pay Off

Thanks for the contemporary USO>UCO strategy. As far as your boast of owning a couple gas guzzling dinosaurs, I'd suggest getting in line for the government's cash-for-clunkers program, too.

Sunny News for Duke as $50M Solar Project Moves Forward

Ummm, we spend $720 million a day in Iraq... so much for a green revolution "in the works"; US energy independence is as magical as clean coal.

On the brink of deflation, the U.K.'s recession may be on the brink of a new and very dangerous phase: "There's a real danger here that we could get into a situation of constantly falling prices," economist Nick Bate says. "Firms cut wages, nobody buys anything and policymakers find it very difficult to deal with." (ETF: EWU)

however with the perpetual printing of currency for the zombie bank and automaker bailouts we run a greater risk of dollar devaluation

Obama's got the wrong agency: When lawless pirates captured an American captain, the Navy put the hostage first... But when lawless bankers captured the global economy, Geithner put the hostage-takers first - and they're stepping up their demands.

Arrr, the pirate story while made for the MSM is so easy for the dumbed-down masses to get emotional over, though the magnitude and effect of the banking/wall st. fiasco doesn't come close, even if there were a billion pirates transmutating scurvy...

Five Top Solar Power Stocks

Oy veh II
"All is disconnected during an electrical storm or even a threat of one."
Our inverter is tied to battery storage, we run our pump and frig and most lights off the pv battery storage when the grid is interrupted.

Oil As Money and the Decline of Energy Earnings

Um, Ferdinand, "EROEI has serious deficiencies, but I am not going to say what they are." sounds like unsubstantiated denial to me.

CEO Ken Lewis says Bank of America (BAC) could repay its $45B in TARP funds by late 2009 or early 2010. The bank expects to be profitable this year absent an 'unexpected meltdown.' Shares +4.9%.

Cheerleader Ken Lewis hoping for an unexpected gain on the writedown of their swaps and toxic assets, rah-rah

IBM (IBM) launches a water venture to design and install systems of sensors and back-end software to monitor water pipes, reservoirs, rivers and harbors. It thinks information technology for water management could become a $20B market.

Big blue discovers water- most precious 21st century commodity- worthy of stock-picking consideration even with a PE above 10?

A reporter asks Nouriel Roubini what he thinks of Madoff. His (abridged) response: We're all Madoffs.

there is no foreseeable technical solution to increasing human populations and their standard of living on a finite planet