Tyler Cowen says traditional conservative responses to wealth inequality - a stronger work ethic and embrace of the entrepreneurial spirit - are growing tired: "Modern conservative thought is relying increasingly on social engineering through economic policy, by hoping that a weaker social welfare state will somehow promote individual responsibility. Maybe it won't." [View news story]
"Modern conservative thought is relying increasingly on social engineering through economic policy, by hoping that a weaker social welfare state will somehow promote individual responsibility"
My wife is a teacher, don't tell me about social engineering. Our schools are mandated to brainwash our kids with polital crap by the politicians to try to socially engineer our society. No wonder the kids can't do math or point to a country on a map (or read a map). They teach social studies (social engineering political correctness) instead of geography. I could go on, but most can't read or comprehend it anyway.
Peak Lithium: Death Blow For Electric Cars? [View article]
Lithium will not hold up the sales of EVs. However there are better uses of resources than EVs. If you like Tesla for the cool factor, just say so, but don't use the green talk to say how good they are. That electricity has to come from a power plant somewhere, whether a nuc., gas or coal and our electric infrastructure is already severely taxed to keep up with normal growth (rolling black outs in summer). Yeah, I know about solar, takes a long extension cord from home to work to recharge during the day. Sorry, but the battery tech just isn't there yet and neither is the tech to recycle those batteries. All in all, if you like the car, can afford it without tapping my wallet and feel secure with the range, go for it, just don't fool your self into thinking it is better for the ecology.
How Microsoft's OS Update 'Windows Blue' Will Impact Investors This Summer [View article]
I have put Win8 Pro on 5 computers in my home and more for friends and family. We are all very happy with the OS especially after I installed a free program that gave us back the start button. It ends up being a much cleaner and faster running Win7. It already works fine on computers, tablets and phones. I don't understand what the authors beef is with the OS since what they are talking about is a way for developers to simplify development for the total OS. Or are you talking about the Win8 RT OS which is set up for ARM not x86 processors maybe? Please be more specific with your rumors.
Current Rate Of Silver Buying Cannot Continue At Current Price [View article]
I agree maybe the SEC and the CFTC should look into it, just as soon as they finish looking into JPM and the 100,000 pages of investigative paperwork. If Sprotts only purpose is to break price discovery of silver away from the paper market and back to the physical metal, I think this would be good, but it has to be done with out a conspiracy between buyers and sellers. Comex has lost all credibility since the MF Global fiasco and I have heard that large buyers have been bypassing Comex and going straight to producers. That and when Page opens in China later this year may be all it takes.
8 Breakout Stocks In Energy Storage [View article]
Wow InsuranceDude, Most folks will state what they don't like and why and then move on to other investment DD for other stocks. You seem to have a particular beef against AXPW based more on emotion rather than logic considering your persistent, droning dribble.
Battery-Powered Locomotives: Compellingly Green Economics [View article]
JP, Thanks for the article. This is great news with a lot of potential. I live an hour away from San Bernardino CA. where the EPA and the State AQMD have been all over the rail yards to cut down on emissions. At the port of L.A. they passed regulations for the intermodel trucks to upgrade the fleets to reduce emissions and I imagine there are regulations for the rail head there also. Now that alone makes for a good potential market! Makes you wonder whether they may consider all electric or hybrid yard goats at the port.
Evaluating Risk: Why I Sleep Better With 50% Of My Money In Precious Metals [View article]
JS, Thank you for the well written article. You were able to articulate the thoughts and feelings of many of my acquaintances and myself. Personally, I only see GLD and SLV as trading vehicles that have no real value beyond the paper (or electronic bits) they are recorded on. I also agree with RBF that an investment in copper coated lead used with brass and the normal steel accouterments are a necessity to maintaining freedom. Fortunately, people that think like us are few and far between (have to admit it is kind of depressing), unfortunately when more people start thinking like this it will likely be to late for them to protect their finances in a cost effective manner. I am not of the hard core survivalist mentality, just recognize that any infrastructure that man has built, man or nature can destroy.
324 Years Of The Gold-To-Silver Ratio And $195 Silver [View article]
Plan B, Thanks for the article, the thundering herd of detractors should arrive shortly. Watch out, silvers detractors have been very vocal and loud lately. Must mean that silver is set to take off again.
Some Thoughts On Obama And Job Creation [View article]
@ Leftfield " The overhead of excessive government that micromanages everything except rampant fraud by Wall Street and itself, and never cuts any of it's programs except the projected rate of increase, is just too bloated to be sustained."
Yep, central planning did not work for the USSR and allowing or turning a blind eye to corruption of any sort whether in the financial markets and/or govt. has always turned out bad through out history. Our problems won't be solved with more regulation, we have laws and regulation, they just need to be enforced or abolished. We are supposed to be a country of law, when the goverment picks and chooses which laws it will enforce and which to ignore, the people will also.
Lithium-Ion Batteries Were A Bust, But Advanced Lead-Acid Batteries Are Booming [View article]
GRobertson1, All the links are on the blog on SA for AXPW where you can research to you hearts content for your own due diligence. There is even a categorized index of all the different aspects that you may wish to research put together by BW. Until you use the available resources, your comments have become argumentative hot air and wasted space.
Axion Power: A Battery Manufacturer Charging Forward [View article]
IT, We agree on PMs, but disagree on this stock. Different parameters, metrics and cycles for a small cap and PMs.
Both do require patience however, look how long it took silver to finally get out of the teens.
I remember when you bought the stock and then quickly got out, my strategy is to put small caps in the sock drawer for 18 months before I re-evaluate the stock. I will re-evaluate in less than 6 months, but I am very familiar with the class 8 trucks having driven them for 15 years and am now working as an operations supervisor for a transportation company. We need solutions to the DOT 10 hour rest rule and the States that have passed no idle restrictions, Axion may be part of the solution.
If I am right, this stock will be a home run, if wrong I'm out a little bit of mad money. Small caps are risky by nature, if you can't stand the heat and be patient without having anxiety attacks then you are better off selling to save your sanity. But, your having anxiety attacks is not a reason to be negative to the extreme of a small cap stock.
Remember General Motors? The stock holders didn't do so well there either.
Mongolia Investment Climate At The Moment: Uh-Oh [View article]
NZ, It might help if you used spell check for your spelling. As to citing sources, Jon did state that it was an unconfirmed email awaiting confirmation from other sources. In other words, get off your high horse and do some of your own Due Diligence or you risk looking like the South end of a North bound horse.
Automakers Raise The Stakes Again In The Micro-Hybrid Battery Battle [View article]
IT, That is a very negative assessment of an R&D company that is beginning to commercialize. No matter how much oil the USA produces the gov mandates for CAFE won't be relaxed, so stop-start will continue. The electrical grid infrastructure needs to be expanded to include storage because of the increasing use of solar and wind. If you don't like the way management has kept the company out of debt through the use of capital raises during R&D, what can I say, go buy A123. Any small cap has risk, this one has great potential for a very good rate of return on investment, but it takes patience. IBM was a small cap at one point also. The "this one" we will be careful of is you, Chicken Little.
Are There Copper-Gold Value Stocks In Mongolia's South Gobi Region? [View article]
Wow, very comprehensive and a good read. Thanks Jon. It does seem strange for a drop in the stock given the info you have presented unless I pull out and put on a tin foil hat and consider a deliberate pummeling for a cheaper buyout attempt. It is too late at night for me to come up with more conspiracies, but see no legitimate reason for the drop.
Gold Confirms Investments In China Will Eventually Be Worthless [View article]
Tyler Cowen says traditional conservative responses to wealth inequality - a stronger work ethic and embrace of the entrepreneurial spirit - are growing tired: "Modern conservative thought is relying increasingly on social engineering through economic policy, by hoping that a weaker social welfare state will somehow promote individual responsibility. Maybe it won't." [View news story]
My wife is a teacher, don't tell me about social engineering. Our schools are mandated to brainwash our kids with polital crap by the politicians to try to socially engineer our society. No wonder the kids can't do math or point to a country on a map (or read a map). They teach social studies (social engineering political correctness) instead of geography. I could go on, but most can't read or comprehend it anyway.
Peak Lithium: Death Blow For Electric Cars? [View article]
How Microsoft's OS Update 'Windows Blue' Will Impact Investors This Summer [View article]
Current Rate Of Silver Buying Cannot Continue At Current Price [View article]
8 Breakout Stocks In Energy Storage [View article]
Most folks will state what they don't like and why and then move on to other investment DD for other stocks. You seem to have a particular beef against AXPW based more on emotion rather than logic considering your persistent, droning dribble.
Battery-Powered Locomotives: Compellingly Green Economics [View article]
Thanks for the article. This is great news with a lot of potential. I live an hour away from San Bernardino CA. where the EPA and the State AQMD have been all over the rail yards to cut down on emissions. At the port of L.A. they passed regulations for the intermodel trucks to upgrade the fleets to reduce emissions and I imagine there are regulations for the rail head there also. Now that alone makes for a good potential market! Makes you wonder whether they may consider all electric or hybrid yard goats at the port.
Evaluating Risk: Why I Sleep Better With 50% Of My Money In Precious Metals [View article]
Thank you for the well written article. You were able to articulate the thoughts and feelings of many of my acquaintances and myself. Personally, I only see GLD and SLV as trading vehicles that have no real value beyond the paper (or electronic bits) they are recorded on. I also agree with RBF that an investment in copper coated lead used with brass and the normal steel accouterments are a necessity to maintaining freedom. Fortunately, people that think like us are few and far between (have to admit it is kind of depressing), unfortunately when more people start thinking like this it will likely be to late for them to protect their finances in a cost effective manner. I am not of the hard core survivalist mentality, just recognize that any infrastructure that man has built, man or nature can destroy.
324 Years Of The Gold-To-Silver Ratio And $195 Silver [View article]
Thanks for the article, the thundering herd of detractors should arrive shortly. Watch out, silvers detractors have been very vocal and loud lately. Must mean that silver is set to take off again.
Some Thoughts On Obama And Job Creation [View article]
Yep, central planning did not work for the USSR and allowing or turning a blind eye to corruption of any sort whether in the financial markets and/or govt. has always turned out bad through out history.
Our problems won't be solved with more regulation, we have laws and regulation, they just need to be enforced or abolished. We are supposed to be a country of law, when the goverment picks and chooses which laws it will enforce and which to ignore, the people will also.
Lithium-Ion Batteries Were A Bust, But Advanced Lead-Acid Batteries Are Booming [View article]
All the links are on the blog on SA for AXPW where you can research to you hearts content for your own due diligence. There is even a categorized index of all the different aspects that you may wish to research put together by BW. Until you use the available resources, your comments have become argumentative hot air and wasted space.
Axion Power: A Battery Manufacturer Charging Forward [View article]
We agree on PMs, but disagree on this stock. Different parameters, metrics and cycles for a small cap and PMs.
Both do require patience however, look how long it took silver to finally get out of the teens.
I remember when you bought the stock and then quickly got out, my strategy is to put small caps in the sock drawer for 18 months before I re-evaluate the stock. I will re-evaluate in less than 6 months, but I am very familiar with the class 8 trucks having driven them for 15 years and am now working as an operations supervisor for a transportation company. We need solutions to the DOT 10 hour rest rule and the States that have passed no idle restrictions, Axion may be part of the solution.
If I am right, this stock will be a home run, if wrong I'm out a little bit of mad money. Small caps are risky by nature, if you can't stand the heat and be patient without having anxiety attacks then you are better off selling to save your sanity. But, your having anxiety attacks is not a reason to be negative to the extreme of a small cap stock.
Remember General Motors? The stock holders didn't do so well there either.
Mongolia Investment Climate At The Moment: Uh-Oh [View article]
It might help if you used spell check for your spelling. As to citing sources, Jon did state that it was an unconfirmed email awaiting confirmation from other sources. In other words, get off your high horse and do some of your own Due Diligence or you risk looking like the South end of a North bound horse.
Automakers Raise The Stakes Again In The Micro-Hybrid Battery Battle [View article]
That is a very negative assessment of an R&D company that is beginning to commercialize. No matter how much oil the USA produces the gov mandates for CAFE won't be relaxed, so stop-start will continue. The electrical grid infrastructure needs to be expanded to include storage because of the increasing use of solar and wind. If you don't like the way management has kept the company out of debt through the use of capital raises during R&D, what can I say, go buy A123. Any small cap has risk, this one has great potential for a very good rate of return on investment, but it takes patience. IBM was a small cap at one point also. The "this one" we will be careful of is you, Chicken Little.
Are There Copper-Gold Value Stocks In Mongolia's South Gobi Region? [View article]