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Mandatory Two Week Vacation at Chrysler and other Automaker happenings...
With the dramatic collapse of the SUV, full sized truck, AND mini-van markets, all three US automakers are in trouble compared to their Japanese counterparts. However this downturn isn't all sunshine and happiness for the Japanese automakers either. Toyota is loosing a considerable amount of money as they rush to retool factories to build more of ( Read more... ) -
Oil market is bubbling...
Inflation and monetary policy is forcing a large amount of investment into the oil market causing huge problems in the form of higher fuel prices and shotty investment in oil alternatives. It will be no surprise to me if the oil market collapses in the next couple of years once the housing market recovers.
http://mises.org/story/2999
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And you thought the Days of Animal Labor on the Farm was DEAD!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90Q70M80&show_article=1
High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules
"This fuel's so high, you can't afford it," he said. "We can feed these mules cheaper than we can buy fuel. That's the truth."
-- John O. -
Why Crude Oil is Trading so High...
Allot of people are wondering why crude oil is trading at $114 and continually climbing in price and why gas and fuel prices are rising as a result ( Read more... ) -
Futility of Competing Environmental Causes...
Most people are not full aware of it, but in the recent years, the various global warming/environmental organizations that have developed have turned against each other. The reason is simple, each organization that has a cause for improving the environment competes with another cause for both money and for stated goal. For instance, biofuels are ( Read more... ) -
Books... and more...
I recently read again, Thomas DiLorenzo's How Capitalism Saved America and Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and have been reading John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government, and I bought and just received a copy of the "Anti-capitalistic Mentality" by Ludwig von Mises ( Read more... ) -
ad hominem ad nauseam
I've been encountering a large number of blogs using intellectually dishonest argument techniques, particularly the overuse of ad hominem to the point where it turned me off from wanting to read anything they have to say.
Intellectually dishonest arguments are commonly referred to as logical fallacies and their use is what caused me to abandon the ( Read more... )