tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post2970541910862071508..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: September 2 2010: Economists? Not a ClueIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20485780374598215882010-09-04T11:22:42.573-04:002010-09-04T11:22:42.573-04:00New post up.
Jim Puplava interviews Stoneleigh
...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-4-2010-jim-puplava-interviews.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Jim Puplava interviews Stoneleigh</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77940774960948528292010-09-04T11:04:42.575-04:002010-09-04T11:04:42.575-04:00Happy and safe Labor Day (even if it isn't the...Happy and safe Labor Day (even if it isn't the economy it was 40 years ago) to everyone in the US.<br /><br />Ditto regarding Labour Day for all those in parts north.soundOfSilencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13710900939537685362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82636716587327136512010-09-04T11:02:15.637-04:002010-09-04T11:02:15.637-04:00http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/03/afghan...http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/03/afghanistan-kabul-bank-clean-up <br /><br />Afghan officials resist clean-up of Kabul Bank as scandal engulfs elite <br /><br /><br />Mahmoud Karzai, a minority stakeholder with 7% of the shares, said he welcomed a full audit of the bank and that he was concerned about three problems that may have occurred under Farnood and Frozi: lending over the bank&jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-87505407543939541922010-09-04T11:00:17.151-04:002010-09-04T11:00:17.151-04:00VK,
Those were some good comments on ZH. I had no...VK, <br />Those were some good comments on ZH. I had no idea so many of the ZH regulars would not be able to comprehend peak oil. <br /><br />Everybody, <br />Dowload 'em here: <br />http://financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/big-picture<br />Stoneleigh is in the second segment (Sept 4 episode for future reference)Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80420476999611515602010-09-04T10:42:14.299-04:002010-09-04T10:42:14.299-04:00Re: Bowman on the military turning guns on Blackw...Re: Bowman on the military turning guns on Blackwater to protect dissidents and even regular citizens, rather than rounding them up and putting them in "concentration camps."<br /><br />As a military man, Bowman is overly optimistic. Most likely the military will obey orders of the commander-in-chief and enforce martial law together with Blackwater, as they already do in Iraq and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49782077367859984972010-09-04T10:35:01.985-04:002010-09-04T10:35:01.985-04:00Bonds,(gov), have been the key beneficiaries of eq...Bonds,<i>(gov)</i>, have been the key beneficiaries of equity outlflows. <br /><br /><br /><br />As the cult of the equity fades, it is being a replaced by a new cult of the bond. <br /><br />Investors are unlikely to pile back into global equities any time soon. It looks like they are likely to sell weightings down and move further into bonds. This is convenient for government bond issuers givenjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7586242617814494962010-09-04T10:34:31.374-04:002010-09-04T10:34:31.374-04:00A look at the sun
http://www.zerohedge.com/artic...A look at the sun <br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/article/why-end-equity-cult-means-trillions-upcoming-outflows-stocks <br /><br />Why The End Of The 'Equity Cult' Means Trillions In Upcoming Outflows From Stocks <br /><br />Robotic traders pick up on the positive feedback loops to take the market higher one more time as soon everything collapses.<br /> <i>(Cash out time for the jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8849412725207649452010-09-04T08:30:15.154-04:002010-09-04T08:30:15.154-04:00thethirdcoast said...
My deepest sympathies go out...thethirdcoast said...<br /><i>My deepest sympathies go out to the folks in Christchurch, NZ who were hit by a 7.4 quake around 1:35 PM US EDT. I also hope TAE regular NZSanctuary is unaffected.</i><br /><br />All good personally, thanks. A lot of property damage in Christchurch (hundreds of millions at least) but not to lives...NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04166233807474941124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-65124141486051761572010-09-04T07:33:29.608-04:002010-09-04T07:33:29.608-04:00@ilargi: "growth meme"
The need for gro...@ilargi: "growth meme"<br /><br />The need for growth is older than the current capitalist system.<br /><br />According to Carrol Quigley ("The Evolution of Civilizations") a civilization is a society with an "instrument of expansion". The entire civilization is then organized around that expansion.<br />When the expansion fails the consequences are catastrophic.<br message_in_a_bottlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12958911505180651936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15097140840965874162010-09-04T07:19:01.283-04:002010-09-04T07:19:01.283-04:00The problem with peak oil and peak credit is that ...The problem with peak oil and peak credit is that most people aren't willing to accept that there is a problem in the first place! If we can't agree that there is a problem, how do you go about solving it or atleast mitigating it?VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12305068088093889912010-09-04T06:58:39.439-04:002010-09-04T06:58:39.439-04:00One of the problems is the low interest rate polic...One of the problems is the low interest rate policy.<br />Low interest rates make marginal economic activity feasible -- but barely.<br /><br />Enormous human capital is devoted to activity that is not very profitable and kept alive by low interest rates and, in the case of banking, unlimited government guarantees.<br /><br />In the absence of this massive government intervention the activity message_in_a_bottlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12958911505180651936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60784997704983888672010-09-04T06:13:17.101-04:002010-09-04T06:13:17.101-04:00@ ElG. re Bowman
Sadly we found out in during the...@ ElG. re Bowman<br /><br />Sadly we found out in during the miners strike of 1984 that the police and the military (with the aforementioned police acting as their trojan horse)were only too willing to turn against their own citizens, hell, the BBC even famously played a selected sequence of charge and coutercharge events backwards to hoodwink the public that the miners were the protagonists, I zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30687518871029145372010-09-04T00:40:29.249-04:002010-09-04T00:40:29.249-04:00"Here's the cold, hard reality that Washi..."Here's the cold, hard reality that Washington won't share with you: The only thing that can fix today's problems is a time machine. Then we could go back to BEFORE the credit and housing bubbles got out of control, and do something to stop them."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.howestreet.com/articles/index.php?article_id=14452" rel="nofollow">http://www.howestreet.com/anon10https://www.blogger.com/profile/15846761986848381697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-23899994962648632662010-09-04T00:13:51.127-04:002010-09-04T00:13:51.127-04:00With carefull observation you might note that cert...With carefull observation you might note that certain feelings take place in definite locations in the body. Here are some examples:<br /><br /><br />1) Have you ever seen someone have a serious accident or injury and felt a rather uncomfortable electrical or prickly sensation at the base of your spine (between the anus and genitals).<br /><br />2) I am a heterosexual male and when I was young ifGlennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81749617504446419762010-09-04T00:10:16.759-04:002010-09-04T00:10:16.759-04:00@IMNobody,
Thanks for your kindness when my wife a...@IMNobody,<br />Thanks for your kindness when my wife and I were going through a rough patch, your thoughts were valuable. All the best.<br /><br />@ Ahimsa, Shamba<br />Buddhist's are cool. We recently did a meditation course at the local buddhist temple as part of my wifes recovery from cancer, my recovery from just too much fun living generally, and the lady monk absolutely glowed from Glennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31383549249637688822010-09-03T23:59:14.383-04:002010-09-03T23:59:14.383-04:00RobertM said...
We could be 5 years away from eno...RobertM said...<br /><i><br />We could be 5 years away from enough energy to last a thousand years and not a soul cares.<br /></i><br />A millennium ago, someone in Alexandria might easily have imagined that the Ptolemaic Government of Roman Aegyptus could be 5 years away from having a fleet of steam powered warships equipped with high-pressure flame throwers. With which they could have easily Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11515708554756171042010-09-03T23:20:43.332-04:002010-09-03T23:20:43.332-04:00@El G...that was a fantastic interview with Dr. Bo...@El G...that was a fantastic interview with Dr. Bowman! I hope he is right that the US military will not turn against citizens. Alas our Cdn police and military at the G20 meeting in Toronto seemed quite pumped up for the task.The complete lock down of the core of a free and democratic city was stunning, unforgetable.There was no break in the ranks.<br />I heard that a young female dissenter fromscandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14128791373066808462010-09-03T22:34:23.121-04:002010-09-03T22:34:23.121-04:00Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans rec...Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.3 million in June as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said.<br /><br />Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.2 percent from May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a anon10https://www.blogger.com/profile/15846761986848381697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15820056532857786902010-09-03T22:19:39.039-04:002010-09-03T22:19:39.039-04:00VK- I saw you on that thread as well. Here's s...VK- I saw you on that thread as well. Here's something from a recent study you should remember. The conclusion of the study was "Misinformed people rarely change their minds when provided with the facts". At some point you reach the point of diminishing returns and you realize that absolutely no glimpse of reality is going to change some people's minds. (unless of course, you RobertMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960912417983904202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50957261130028302122010-09-03T22:19:20.441-04:002010-09-03T22:19:20.441-04:00El G,
Thanks for recommending the interview on Gu...El G,<br /><br />Thanks for recommending the interview on Guns and Butter. Excellent!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45646305912899699152010-09-03T21:07:48.721-04:002010-09-03T21:07:48.721-04:00@The Estimable IM Nobody:
Peace to me means actin...@The Estimable IM Nobody:<br /><br />Peace to me means acting with more equanimity to life. I found a great deal of it by using the hatha yoga approach to life which I discovered about 20 years ago in an existential crisis. This has been my answer but other people find a spiritual approach to life in all kinds of practices and philosophies. <br /><br />I have a lot more peace than when I was Shambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074819389467884194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50928241120729967982010-09-03T20:39:30.358-04:002010-09-03T20:39:30.358-04:00VK -
Pour yourself another drink.
I agree with F...VK -<br /><br />Pour yourself another drink.<br /><br />I agree with Fuser. You came across calm and rational for most of the time using facts, figures, data, and logic to make your points.<br /><br />The people arguing against you came across as tools.ric2https://www.blogger.com/profile/16024736044583806876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60442034222817495062010-09-03T20:30:16.654-04:002010-09-03T20:30:16.654-04:00btw
www.synapse9.com/issues/reset$.htm
simple, ...btw <br />www.synapse9.com/issues/reset$.htm<br /><br />simple, a little crude, would work finepfhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496111608438462771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50512815458697917612010-09-03T20:28:27.345-04:002010-09-03T20:28:27.345-04:00We seem to keep overlooking that it's the use ...We seem to keep overlooking that it's the use of investment profits to leverage more investment profits at the heart of the financial cycle that drives our ever growing global struggle for profits at the expense of anything anyone thinks is expendable. <br /><br />So we become so ourselves for letting it operate toward its natural end.pfhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496111608438462771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11173097226011943402010-09-03T20:23:21.956-04:002010-09-03T20:23:21.956-04:00@VK & Fuser -
PEAK DENIAL ABOUT PEAK OIL by ...@VK & Fuser - <br /><br /><a href="http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/09/03/peak-denial-about-peak-oil/" rel="nofollow">PEAK DENIAL ABOUT PEAK OIL by JimQ</a><br /><br />more interesting comments at the original article<br />http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/09/03/peak-denial-about-peak-oil/bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.com