tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post4695123579785087856..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: December 25 2011: Most. Tragic. Species. Ever.Ilargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85721076461150418652011-12-29T19:33:09.412-05:002011-12-29T19:33:09.412-05:00New post up
Trends 2012: The End of the Euro...New post up<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-29-2011-trends-2012-end-of.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Trends 2012: The End of the Euro, The End of the Investor</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48082309935154397542011-12-29T18:42:13.482-05:002011-12-29T18:42:13.482-05:00I put up that FT article in its entirety because i...I put up that FT article in its entirety because it brings up a number of points that TAE has been plugging for some time:<br /><br />1- People, banks (including central banks), hedge funds and traders will at some point have to sell gold to get cash.<br /><br />2- The preferred cash is the US dollar.<br /><br />3- When choosing what to sell, banks and hedge funds will sell their best-performing Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6748937987897952992011-12-29T18:31:05.497-05:002011-12-29T18:31:05.497-05:00Gold tarnished in dash for US dollar
Gold tumbled...<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6c4a1786-2675-11e1-91cd-00144feabdc0.html" rel="nofollow">Gold tarnished in dash for US dollar</a><br /><br />Gold tumbled below $1,600 an ounce for the first time in more than 10 weeks and silver fell almost 7 per cent as the precious metals bore the brunt of a dash for dollars among investors and traders.<br /><br />The sell-off in the bullion markets Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79152102686308710192011-12-29T10:17:18.429-05:002011-12-29T10:17:18.429-05:00I've been re-reading flame-starting comments l...I've been re-reading flame-starting comments last night then again this morning. Honestly, it does not seem to me that Lynford attacked Ashvin personally at all. Maybe a bit to grandiose about the "Greatest Generation". Honestly, my grandparents did not even know it was a "depression", there were just abnormal hard times at the moment for them, so here Asvin really has a p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80439839881201638642011-12-29T09:46:32.361-05:002011-12-29T09:46:32.361-05:00@A Fall Guy, jimmyjames & others
I appreciate...@A Fall Guy, jimmyjames & others<br /><br />I appreciate the support, and I am quite confident in my own path in this world, however shaky and uncertain it is and will become. What confounds me, or "jars my ass" so to speak, is the level of <i>presumptuousness</i> underlying commenters who have now taken it upon themselves to drag us "intellectual" bloggers out from our &Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8781215660665818362011-12-29T09:37:18.707-05:002011-12-29T09:37:18.707-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43584462598888178182011-12-29T08:23:06.077-05:002011-12-29T08:23:06.077-05:00Glennjeff,
I for one am interested in hearing abo...Glennjeff,<br /><br />I for one am interested in hearing about your system. <br /><br />I notice the bulk of commentary in this blog concerns past and current political and news events particularly in the economy. The lesser content is on practical information about what to do with your hands to prepare for an economic collapse. Both have their value but the way the site is set up with posts in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27237449173057749582011-12-29T03:55:55.921-05:002011-12-29T03:55:55.921-05:00Illargi, Stoneleigh, Ash, VK, TAE Daily.
We have ...Illargi, Stoneleigh, Ash, VK, TAE Daily.<br /><br />We have some raised vegetable beds, made from wood, that are collapsing (termites). We need to rebuild them and have allocated April to this task. We get very good yields from this system, which incorporates a bit of originality in design.<br /><br />I could make a video series of the whole process; construction, basic theory, soil husbandry / Glennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68256219036085536542011-12-29T03:17:11.383-05:002011-12-29T03:17:11.383-05:00@ Ash
I for one appreciate the service you provid...@ Ash<br /><br />I for one appreciate the service you provide at TAE and have no doubts that your own approach to preparing is as good a path to follow as any. There is no safe path, just ones with slightly lower risks. You have good insights, and I've learned lots from your posts and comments. I think it's important to plant trees, grow food and build community as well as to understand A Fall Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08646030011686964723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3020302239451279102011-12-29T03:12:44.145-05:002011-12-29T03:12:44.145-05:00Sorry kid I ain't your pa, you will have to go...Sorry kid I ain't your pa, you will have to go home if you want to have your ass 'jared'.<br /><br />*************<br />You and your always little juvenile girly snips-<br /><br />Pick any economic subject you wish to debate and i can guarantee that i will "jar" your ass from one end of the economic spectrum to the other-jjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815156481647277554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-5894310422778726162011-12-29T02:32:59.596-05:002011-12-29T02:32:59.596-05:00Ash why do you worry so about this current economi...Ash why do you worry so about this current economic system rather than how our lives could be? Do you plan to fix that broke down machine you study so assiduously. It is a junker and that's that. Better you should learn to pound sand in a hole you will at least develop the musculature to help you handle what the future could hold for you. There is more intellectual rigour and honesty in a vangoathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812354519884702024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52669115195004371312011-12-29T01:49:22.915-05:002011-12-29T01:49:22.915-05:00Ash--
Sounds to me like those condescending attit...Ash--<br /><br />Sounds to me like those condescending attitudes jar your ass as much as they do mine-<br /><br />imo--either try and prove your own point of view or disprove the others-with as much fact as possible-<br /><br />Simple shit really-<br /><br />All of us are nothing but irrelevant students groping around under the awesome shadow of the market-trying to understand the many tongues jjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815156481647277554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80401511085269717402011-12-29T01:37:03.646-05:002011-12-29T01:37:03.646-05:00The only skill required in driving a nail is the a...The only skill required in driving a nail is the ability to not hit your thumb ;}Glennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1040935274148905182011-12-29T01:04:29.250-05:002011-12-29T01:04:29.250-05:00peripety,
"Lately I have been wondering abou...peripety,<br /><br /><i>"Lately I have been <b>wondering</b> about all the time spent by what seems to be a <b>younger set</b> who spend much time <b>writing about financial matters</b> and becoming so very wrapped up in them that <b>I doubt</b> that they spend much time learning <b>the skills</b>"</i><br /><br />Oh yeah? And who exactly would this "younger set" that "Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91660245230822524512011-12-29T00:51:46.433-05:002011-12-29T00:51:46.433-05:00well--
Since everyone is feeling sentimental and ...well--<br /><br />Since everyone is feeling sentimental and sharing something of themselves-i will give a profile of myself-<br /><br />I have a big wart on my nose and i illegally charge all the peasants a fee to cross my bridge-<br /><br />4 months away from pension eligibility-quit school at 15 in 1968-worked in various oilfield jobs and still do-loved being judged guilty by association with jjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815156481647277554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58101180932088708552011-12-28T23:53:51.733-05:002011-12-28T23:53:51.733-05:00"Ashvin is young, very smart and in possessio...<i>"Ashvin is young, very smart and in possession of an open mind. I'm sure he'd like to know how to sharpen a knife, if he doesn't already. </i>"<br /><br />I assume Lynford1933 was speaking metaphorically.<br /><br />Lately I have been wondering about all the time spent by what seems to be a younger set who spend much time writing about financial matters and becoming so vangoathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812354519884702024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52598057775492817942011-12-28T23:31:49.476-05:002011-12-28T23:31:49.476-05:00Lynford1933, Ash, etal.
I just watched a classic ...Lynford1933, Ash, etal.<br /><br />I just watched a classic Laurel and Hardy film on a national Art channel called "The Electricians". In this film Laurel and Hardy opened a store selling newfangled electrical appliances next door to a small grocery store. It turns out that the proprietors of the two stores had met each other before and the small man running the grocery told them to Biologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72286602788177392372011-12-28T22:00:09.800-05:002011-12-28T22:00:09.800-05:00I would like to take this opportunity, as the year...I would like to take this opportunity, as the year draws to a close, to thank the many people who have taken the time to make thoughtful, interesting, useful, sometimes entertaining, comments on this blog. I feel most fortunate to have the opportunity to ponder the ideas put forward here.<br /><br />I have one comment to add on the point of the hard-working depression-era folks, because this sumacarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844199642989140240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78672019274622022852011-12-28T21:54:55.669-05:002011-12-28T21:54:55.669-05:00Grandpa: fought in the war (on both fronts: with a...Grandpa: fought in the war (on both fronts: with and against the nazis, imagine that) Built his own house with the help of his brothers mostly from straw and clay (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirpici" rel="nofollow">chirpici</a>). Not terribly politically correct (by <b>any</b> standards), but extremely correct in day to day life without having a book with old stories to tell him p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58468629804727690072011-12-28T20:46:42.705-05:002011-12-28T20:46:42.705-05:00Frank wrote:
BTW, I'm not as impressed with t...Frank wrote:<br /><br /><i>BTW, I'm not as impressed with the greatest generation as some. They indeed survived the great depression (largely as dependents) and won WWII, but then they, and the silent generation that followed largely coasted the rest of their lives.</i><br /><br />Really. Well, my folks were a part of that generation. "Surviving" the great depression as dependents memphishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679189378406297005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61156286543974189692011-12-28T20:23:58.061-05:002011-12-28T20:23:58.061-05:00Annonymous hacks Strtfor -> Major Australian ba...<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/anz-bank-ends-stratfor-subscriptions/story-e6frgakx-1226232495808" rel="nofollow">Annonymous hacks Strtfor -> Major Australian banks advise customers to cancel credit cards and check for unauthorized transactions on their statements.</a>Glennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25542477044545414462011-12-28T20:06:12.424-05:002011-12-28T20:06:12.424-05:00To paraphrase former heavy weight champ Larry Holm...To paraphrase former heavy weight champ Larry Holmes, when it comes to the title of being the most ornery old bird on this blog site, I might as well just hang up my jock strap. I'm not even a contenda :-)el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46770491410925915402011-12-28T19:58:18.509-05:002011-12-28T19:58:18.509-05:00Former Fed VP Accuses Bernanke Of Bailing Out Euro...<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/former-fed-vp-accuses-bernanke-bailing-out-europe-currency-swaps" rel="nofollow">Former Fed VP Accuses Bernanke Of Bailing Out Europe Via Currency Swaps</a><br /><br />Did the former Dallas Fed Vice President:<br /><br />a) suddenly get a conscience<br />b) suddenly grow large testicles<br />c) forget meds while enjoying holiday events<br />d) other?Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61742021014846330462011-12-28T18:55:15.085-05:002011-12-28T18:55:15.085-05:00Ash - You've helped my understanding of many t...Ash - You've helped my understanding of many things. Thanks.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46912991767718224552011-12-28T18:47:19.126-05:002011-12-28T18:47:19.126-05:00El G,
Yup, I thought the Gordon T Long paper was...El G, <br /><br />Yup, I thought the Gordon T Long paper was interesting too - I guess that's why I posted it yesterday. Your presentation of it is clearly superior to mine (no sarc just being honest). Maybe there will be a few comments on it now since you are quite deservedly well respected at TAE.<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.com