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astounding
If you went back to 1969 and told me that by 2009 we would have personal communication that was better than a Star Trek communicator, I would have said "no way, man". If you had said that water was going to be sale-able at $1 a (small) bottle, I would have laughed in your face (even though I have always been bullish on the price of water, that ( Read more... ) -
beware the second wave.
I was going to talk about something more interesting and cheerier, but this seems more timely. The inefficiency in the commercial real estate market is about to dump a lot more pressure on the solvency of banks, and maybe even the system (again). Everywhere I've been lately, there are increasingly more empty storefronts, empty buildings, a great ( Read more... ) -
creep-age
So, of the four choices, you guys picked the one I least care about. I knew I chose the last post's title correctly ( Read more... ) -
relativity
I have a few topics that have been on my mind lately, and it has been awhile.
which should come next?
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oily matter
John D. Rockefeller built Standard Oil over a century ago. He used a lot of savvy to make the oil business. One thing he did was he'd negotiate with railroads for the cost of transporting his oil (and he did A LOT of transporting). Independent (or even just smaller) oil producers invariably paid higher transport rates. Rockefeller's haggling made ( Read more... ) -
the fight between the 'flations
Most of the battle of investing is determining whether we are in a part of the cycle that the immediate future is inflationary or deflationary ( Read more... ) -
4D Time or about time or.....
An old friend of mine has chided me to make a new post. Okay ( Read more... ) -
get with the times
I'd like to rarely amend/change the US Constitution. One of the few good changes was when the Twentieth Amendment changed the date of the Presidential inauguration from March 4th of the year after the election to January 20th of the year after ( Read more... ) -
inherit the wind
Your great-aunt Lily just passed on ( Read more... ) -
financial mashup
Stock markets worldwide just had another bad October. Whatta ya know?
I just saw this article about the world's reliance on the dollar. China has an awful lot of those dollars, considering. Makes me think the Chinese holders of that USD are going to start putting it elsewhere than US government paper, perhaps even into the US stock market more ( Read more... )