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Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Uncertainty

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With far too much of the world gripped in a panic induced by a pandemic, I've been contemplating how poorly the vast majority of humans ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Time of EVE Kickstarter Makes Stretch Goal

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Having already recommended the anime Time of EVE and how it blew through its initial $18,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours, I am ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Germany Removing Gold From the Fed

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German courts want an auditing all its gold holdings and has begun moving 50 tons a year from the Fed to Germany. This is very interesting ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Global Tensions Rising: China and Japan

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Things seem to be escalating quickly over a group of islands, with one Chinese general telling his troops to prepare for war with Japan. Thi...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Runaway Inflation Is Now Unavoidable

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Bernanke has chosen to do the worst thing possible and that is an open ended qualitative easing . If you have savings or an IRA, expect to l...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Insert Title Here

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Pick a title, any title, my creativity is not flowing today. While I have more energy than I did over the weekend, yesterday was a busier th...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

China Going Backwards

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It has been fashionable in multiple circles to believe that China will take over the title of most powerful nation during this century. Much...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Productive Pain

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Living with chronic pain is not pleasant, no matter how you look at it. But there is pain and then there is pain from actually doing things....
Monday, August 08, 2011

Things Fall Apart

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One inescapable reality is that all things break down at some point. Some can be repaired, some can be replaced, some are lost forever, but ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dueling Banjos

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Sometimes it seems like politics is all about who shouts the loudest, but the reality is that the winner is often the one allowed to shout t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Bad Moon Rising

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There are those who actually believe we emerged out of the recession and are worried we are going into another. Well, we aren’t. We never go...
Friday, July 01, 2011

The Shutdown

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The big news in Minnesota is the state government shutdown due to an inability to get a budget passed. As I expected, the media is backing G...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Comic Books and Economic Realities

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Back in high school, I was a serious collector of comic books. Financial problems for the family compelled me to sell off my collection for ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Ceding Sovereignty

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AKA Joining the EU or the Greek Regret For some time I’ve been collecting links to articles for a large post on the American economy.  Sad...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Fall of Roman America

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Is America repeating Western history? Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting piece up comparing the Roman Empire to the United States. It...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

State of Disunion Speech

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Well, that was a dismal performance last night.  Watching the talking heads on PBS try to spin the State of the Union speech being a great p...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Mayo Clinic Testing Dumping Medicare

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The world famous Mayo Clinic is piloting a program of refusing Medicare patients at their Scottsdale, Arizona clinic.  While technically no...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Rekindling the American Dream

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A plan to get America out of the financial crisis. I normally don’t post material written by others, but when I read this message put out ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

What Recovery?

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I find it fascinating how government agencies such as the Commerce Department fudges numbers for media consumption. They put out projected n...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Another Debt Crisis or Two

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Ran across a few interesting economic pieces last week, but didn’t feel well enough to write about them. Fortunately, or more accurately unf...