tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post1302378925662312484..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: April 22 2009 1: Hunky dory homemade moonshineIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2995795941929976542009-04-23T11:49:00.000-04:002009-04-23T11:49:00.000-04:00Maybe I bring down the wrath of ilargi here, but ...Maybe I bring down the wrath of ilargi here, but <A HREF="http://rawfinance.wordpress.com/" REL="nofollow"> Raw Finance</A>has an interesting model portfolio that some may be interested in. I am in 90% cash and 10% gold but likely this fall will possibly look at moving towards what this portfolio suggests (no MacDonalds - the company that revels in food inflation )<BR><BR><A HREF="http://Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9837401843473575662009-04-23T09:35:00.000-04:002009-04-23T09:35:00.000-04:00Geithner and Obama are clueless. I saw this cartoo...Geithner and Obama are clueless. I saw this cartoon...it says it all:<br /><br />http://www.blamemymom.com/2009/04/21/cartoon-2/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13260102960025802752009-04-23T09:14:00.000-04:002009-04-23T09:14:00.000-04:00To understand why, read Stoneleigh's Inflation Def...To understand why, read Stoneleigh's Inflation Deflated in the Primers list, right hand column.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-577226777922891322009-04-23T09:12:00.000-04:002009-04-23T09:12:00.000-04:00DO
There's no such thing as food inflation.DO<br /><br />There's no such thing as food inflation.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46663871800748780122009-04-23T07:39:00.000-04:002009-04-23T07:39:00.000-04:00I & S
Deflation for all, or just some?
In ...I & S <br /><br />Deflation for all, or just some? <br /><br />In the UK, food inflation in last year has been 10%, same with some energy. The govt.'s favoured index, the CPI, hovers around +3% & not -3%. <br /><br />Admittedly mainland Europe shows strong signs of deflating. But I dare to say the UK shows almost none. <br /><br />DOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67711487756849629412009-04-23T04:52:00.000-04:002009-04-23T04:52:00.000-04:00to ahimsa @ 2.30...
Bravo to you on another intel...to ahimsa @ 2.30...<br /><br />Bravo to you on another intelligent insight(s). <br /><br />I am quite sure that the 'intelligent' contributors of this blog are guilty as hell. A real tragedy that humans can appear so 'intellectually' gifted and yet so profoundly ignorant (may I say stupid) at the same time. I wonder how many of them are dining on flesh today? <br /><br />'Ït's not what you say Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53802516247680348422009-04-23T01:00:00.000-04:002009-04-23T01:00:00.000-04:001) Saudi Arabia desalinates 70% of its fresh water...1) Saudi Arabia desalinates 70% of its fresh water supply. The entire world could do the same. Small IFR nuclear power plants would be the juice. Connect to oil-pipeline type networks to distribute the desalinated fresh water widely. There's plenty of excess Ice cap melt in the seas now. WE could use some of that on land.<br /><br />2) Start pipelining desalinated water to the margins of the xtropy27https://www.blogger.com/profile/07420203877034016710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-87603016420677055392009-04-22T20:50:00.000-04:002009-04-22T20:50:00.000-04:00@vk The uranium recycling number there is flatly w...@vk The uranium recycling number there is flatly wrong, which makes me wonder about much of the rest. France recycles its reactor fuel, and for the last 15 years or so, the US and UK (I think France as well, but am not sure) have been recycling both Soviet and American bombs into reactor fuel. (Even Putin is glad to see leaking nukes leaving Kyrghyzistan). I don't have the number, but it's not Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79050962882367009362009-04-22T20:18:00.000-04:002009-04-22T20:18:00.000-04:00Will someone please explain how a country that has...Will someone please explain how a country that has "completely stripped out manufacturing" remains the number one manufacturing economy in the world?<br /><br />Once in a while it pays to inspect our assumptions and update pur belief systems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58328679161485677002009-04-22T19:31:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:31:00.000-04:00How Long will it last?
http://www.newscientist.co...How Long will it last?<br /><br />http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/26051202.jpgVKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57077860196349703352009-04-22T19:16:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:16:00.000-04:00@ cowpoke
... dad at 73 ... a 16 month %100 guar...@ cowpoke <br />... dad at 73 ... a 16 month %100 guaranteed GIC paying 3.25%.<br />YES<br />Since I think that we have more than 16 months for when and if TSHTF, that would affect the deposits insurance and the GIC. <br /><br />I assume that this is not RRIF money. He might want to also open a tax free saving account to keep the money. ($5,000/year of those GIC)<br /><br />Since I'm going to jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8298803157670807842009-04-22T19:11:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:11:00.000-04:00@ Cowpoke
Is it worth it to have your money locke...@ Cowpoke<br /><br />Is it worth it to have your money locked up for 16 months?<br /><br />In a word and IMO: NO<br /><br /><br />When the government guarantees everything, nothing is guaranteed.<br />Your dad's money should be as liquid as possible. Remember we are in a deflation, your cash is gaining much more value everyday. More than the 0.86% interest rate implies.<br /><br />This prior postVKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3029190521948721102009-04-22T19:08:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:08:00.000-04:00I was thinking bad thoughts about why Kellermann w...I was thinking bad thoughts about why Kellermann would kill himself, since he wasn't in charge when all this was building, but only since September 2008, and had a family.<br /><br />This article, with its sound reasoning, quickly disabused me of any further bad thoughts. This is America, not a banana republic.<br /> <br />http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21592.htmlVincanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74251603115119237212009-04-22T19:06:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:06:00.000-04:00Hi Stoneleigh
I forgot to thank you for yesterday...Hi Stoneleigh<br /><br />I forgot to thank you for yesterday's posts. I'm sure I have that book you mentioned by David Landes, just never read it but perused through it.VKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58094279594413403862009-04-22T19:01:00.000-04:002009-04-22T19:01:00.000-04:00I shot an arrow into the air, it came to earth I k...I shot an arrow into the air, it came to earth I know not where.<BR><BR>Weaseldogsays:<BR><BR><I>There are men who rape and kill children. If you don't do this, are you just as guilty, on the basis of 'crimes of omission'? Your argument says that you are.</I><BR><BR>Point is, when one stands by and watches that rape or infantacide doing nothing, that is in my mind a crime of omission. What have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7269222982658281832009-04-22T18:58:00.000-04:002009-04-22T18:58:00.000-04:00To answer an anon question from yesterday, SDS has...To answer an anon question from yesterday, SDS has two meanings:<br /><br />1) A left leaning, anti- Vietnam War organization founded in the mid '60's by Tom Hayden. A more radicalized group splintered off to become "the weathermen." They choose their name from Dylan's line in Subterranean Homesick Blues, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60483550742187359932009-04-22T18:49:00.000-04:002009-04-22T18:49:00.000-04:00Hey guys,
My Dad(73 a) is considering moving cash...Hey guys,<br /><br />My Dad(73 a) is considering moving cash out of Canadian commercial paper(0.8%) into a 16 month %100 guaranteed GIC paying 3.25%.<br /><br />The GIC is through $ervus credit union in Alberta (formerly community $avings). The guarantee is backed by the credit union deposit guarantee corporation, they claim essentially the Government of Alberta.<br /><br />Here is a link to the cowpokehttp://reddit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-70463067997345274032009-04-22T18:42:00.000-04:002009-04-22T18:42:00.000-04:00@ Anon 4:45
Well maybe not Armageddon just yet, S...@ Anon 4:45<br /><br />Well maybe not Armageddon just yet, South Africa or Brazil seem very good models for the American future. South Africa has unemployment between 21-40% (40% being more realistic). It is a country with a very high income inequality, with a small minority controlling much of the country.<br /><br />The elites live walled off from the rest of the world behind private security VKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55049572664693816792009-04-22T16:45:00.000-04:002009-04-22T16:45:00.000-04:00Ahisma, you bring up excellent points.
However, h...Ahisma, you bring up excellent points.<br /><br />However, here in the US we also tend to forget the economic troubles we cause other nations.<br /><br />Case in point, a good friend of mine is Ecuadorean and we talk a lot of economics and one of the points that always comes up is, "How long will most of the underdeveloped world continue to support US."<br /><br />In other words, now that all we Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52963042505261218142009-04-22T16:44:00.000-04:002009-04-22T16:44:00.000-04:00On the rivers running drier...
Groundwater has be...On the rivers running drier...<br /><br />Groundwater has been dropping for decades. With water tables low, more water sinks into the Earth, and less flows into tributaries.<br /><br />Before the white man came to the American Southwest, the deserts there were dry prairies, dotted with watering holes and had many small streams that ran year round. This is because the water table was higher, and Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17729073621729754132009-04-22T16:43:00.000-04:002009-04-22T16:43:00.000-04:00Stoneleigh
Weaseldog is not Lisa Kalvelage. Lisa...Stoneleigh<br /><br />Weaseldog is not Lisa Kalvelage. Lisa is a woman born in Nuremberg Germany, a teenager when the Third Reich fell. She later was a war bride and moved to the United States. She was arrested in the 60's for blocking napalm trains and made a statement how she would not be considered responsible twice in her life for the crimes of her country. Pete Seeger picked up on it andel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79813312888652386792009-04-22T15:58:00.000-04:002009-04-22T15:58:00.000-04:00The marker ticker has some good articles concernin...The marker ticker has some good articles concerning … <br />Those who can’t pay won’t pay.<br /><br />http://market-ticker.org/ <br /><br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79668306602507028022009-04-22T15:42:00.000-04:002009-04-22T15:42:00.000-04:00I agree ... you are on a roll
Just a few highlight...I agree ... you are on a roll<br />Just a few highlights from those articles.<br />------ <br />The world economy cannot go back to where it was before the crisis, because that was demonstrably unsustainable. It is at the early stages of a long and painful deleveraging and restructuring.<br /><br /><B> Fortunately, policymakers have eliminated the worst possible outcomes.</B> But there is much jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41793545049864929842009-04-22T15:41:00.000-04:002009-04-22T15:41:00.000-04:00Walter sat nervously in front of Stan. The were cl...Walter sat nervously in front of Stan. The were close friends in high school and had played football together. Walter had inherited his father's farm. Stan had gone off to college and was now an officer at the local bank.<br /><br />"I'm afraid we have no more credit to offer you without additional colateral".<br /><br />"I have my tools and my animals and my equipment and ..."<br /><br />"I meanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69627858401088653882009-04-22T15:19:00.000-04:002009-04-22T15:19:00.000-04:00"the amount of self delusion among my colleagues a...<I>"the amount of self delusion among my colleagues about our biomedical research (what it accomplishes and the likelihood that it continues in near future"</I><BR><BR>What ?!! You don't mean to say they don't understand that is what puts the bread and butter on their tables? Golly!<br /><br />(br)with everything(br)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com