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Hyperinflation vs Deflation: Rebutting FOFOA
May 23, 2012Discuss this article at the Economics Table of the Diner One of the first Economic/Monetary threads begun when we openned the Doomstead Diner for Bizness a few months ago was a Hyperinflation vs Deflation thread. As often as this debate has been engaged in all across the internet, it still remains one of the most vehemently argued topics from both sides, and no clear "Winner" in this has emerged as of yet. The arguments surr...
Riding the Rails on The Last Great Frontier
May 22, 2012Discuss this post in the Frostbite Falls Daily Rant As we come to the close of the Age of Oil and the automobile, the Older Technology of the Railroads is often held up as a possible solution, at least in the medium term. Jimmy Kuntsler in particular is a fan of this idea. In this article, I'm going to look at the many variables involved with a conversion back to Rail technology as an intermediate level solution to the more general ...
Hyperinflation vs Deflation….continued
May 20, 2012More from inside the Diner on the Hyperinflation/Inflation/Deflation Question. Click here to read the full debate ETERNALLY in progress. Ashvin Pandurangi of TAE wrote: I recommend everyone here to take a look at FOFOA's latest (behemoth of a) post - Hyperinflation or Deflation? The most interesting thing for me is that I agree with 99% of what he writes in that post, and I think he provides A LOT of genuine insights (such as the im...
Facepalm Suckers the Suckerbugs
May 20, 2012Discuss this article at the Market Flambe Kiosk in the Diner As the spin down proceeds along here, the circular nature of Money Creation and Destruction becomes ever more apparent, even I think to the Casual Observer now. Reason it is becoming much more obvious now than in the past is that BOTH Money Creation and Destruction are occurring exponentially more rapidly these days than just a few years ago. We have all been Witness to...
Hypocrisy and Weathermen
May 18, 2012A recent thread inside the Diner brought up a very old problem many of us, including myself, have to deal with on just about a daily basis. The problem is one of HYPOCRISY. Bloggers and Commenters alike, most of us who have access to the internet LIVE inside Industrial Cultures, and while we decry the consequences of Carz or Iphones, we still "Live the Life". Just about a year ago on TBP while I was writing on that Blog as a Guest Autho...
Praying for a Pony
May 17, 2012Discuss this post here. This essay is going to seem like I’m going around my ass to get to my elbow. I probably am. Bear with me. A friend of mine, a remarkable musician and a local pastor, tells the story of a friend’s wife who has been recently diagnosed with ALS. His friend’s initial instinct was to pray for peace and that God’s will be done... However, after a few weeks, he decided that it seemed reasonable that he reac...
Cacophany of Pundits and Commentariat
May 16, 2012Discuss this article inside the Frosbite Falls Insider (Edit: Preface this with an apology to the Slogger. He did in fact cross post the Theory of Everything Part II on The Slog. I just missed it in the vast volume of stuff he writes himself every day. Otherwise, most of the observations made here about the difficulty of getting cross communication between blogs still remain true. IMHO.) One of the biggest complaints I have wit...
Send in the Clowns
May 16, 2012Discuss this article at the Greek Souvlaki Buffet in the Diner Here we go again, for Round 12 or so of the 15 Round Thrilla in Athens & Brussels, as the Greeks will now rev up for yet ANOTHER round of "elections". See, they were too fractured to form a Goobermint that could agree on anything, so a NEW round of elections which likely will see entirely NEW parties emerge outta NOWHERE should be better, right? Now, probably at this ...
Planet Earth- F.U.B.A.R.
May 15, 2012Posted originally by Ashvin Pandurangi on The Automatic Earth on May 14, 2012 TAE Commentary Diner Commentary Warning: This commentary is not for the faint of heart. I thought I'd start this particular Monday morning, May the 14th, with a little rant. Sometimes it helps to ditch the uber-rational, cool-headed analysis and remind people just how screwed up things are on this third toxic landfill from the S...
Substitutions…
May 14, 2012Posted originally on Economic Undertow on May 14, 2012 by steve from virginia Figure 1: Brent crude weekly futures chart by TFC Charts (click on for big): Fuel prices decline because there is less credit available to support the price, yadda, yadda, yadda … Estimable Gregor Macdonald had an interesting bit the other day regarding the last TED circus. For those unfamiliar The TED, here is their webpage: “TED is a ...
Pinky and The Brain Take Over the World
May 13, 2012In discussion recently inside the Diner and on TAE regarding the possibility that the takedown of the Native Population of the Americas might have been purposeful, an Epiphany came to me which explains mmuch of the migration patterns since the colonial era, as well as the durrent dire circumstances of the PIIGS Nations. This is a complex set of arguments I have never tried to detail before, and how this article will come out is something of...
A world terrified by impotent ghosts from the past
May 13, 2012Like the contracts always say, the past is no guide to the future There's an interesting piece in the New York Times this morning (where else?) by Paul Krugman, in which he rather oddly argues on the side of the bankers ("there isn't a structural problem really") to make the following liberal ("let's spend our way out of trouble") point: 'All of this strongly suggests that we’re suffering not from the teething pains of some kind of struc...
Energy, Oil & Money: Interrelationships
May 12, 2012Following below are a couple of the posts I made so far in a very interesting debate begun by Ilargi of The Automatic Earth in a thread called There Is Not Enough Money On Planet Earth. You can follow the full set of arguments being made on TAE by following the link. Do you follow Steve's argument? Possibly not, because much as I agree with his analysis, he has a very confusing style for making arguments. Sorry Steve, this is true. LOL. ...
Whales Sniffing Glue at JPMC
May 10, 2012Discuss this article at the Market Flambe buffet in the Diner Brown Swan it is, then. So it begins again, this time fo`real. -p01 ponziworld.blogspot.ca/2012/05/this-time-will-be-different.html Begins is the operative word here, because like with Bear Stearns, this is going to take a while to play out. A $3B loss is of course Chump Change compared to what has been dumped so far into AIG and the Black Holes that ...
The Banksters go ALL IN
May 9, 2012Discuss this article at the Economics Table in the Diner What follows this introduction is one of the many articles I wrote on TBP in the aftermath of the Fuk-U-Shima Quake and Tsunami. Some of them are too dated to repost, but this one has particular significance because of a similar Quake and Tsunami building now in Eurotrashland, just on more of a financial level than a geological one. The Euro markets are crashing now in much the sa...
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Not so long ago, before I was wiped out in 2008, I excused my hypocrisy and [ obeisance to origins I might add] by writing calls on stocks. In particular in this case, I one day looked into the goings on surrounding Vale de Rio in Brazil which had been particularly remunerative and rewarding. What I found I was no longer able to turn a blind eye towards. It was not the destruction of the earth which of course I had been expecting, but the very young children with no remaining breadwinner at home, no possibility of schooling and no laws for their protection from exploitation, who, having left home before sunrise, knelt at the dark, cavernous mouth of the mine, and trembling in great fear, prayed to an effigy of the black demon,half Christlike, half devil, to allow them after the descent and the work, to reemerge with their lives intact and return home. How could I continue doing this, the most ugly American using the computer as a drone and living from their poverty and suffering even as I was driven by the terrible fear of not meeting the obligations of my own creditors? And I believe that from that moment I began to let it all slide,and in the end I walked on the whole pile, and of course I am still walking. -Karpatok |
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…Man, if it looks like a Dead Fish; if it smells like a Dead Fish, it IS a Dead Fish. People definitely did starve during the Great Depression, but no records were ever published on how many it actually was. At a certain point the MSM just ignored it. It would not have played very well against FDRs Fireside Chats preaching Hope and “the only thing we have to Fear is Fear itself”. Sound familiar? Goobermint Hopium…. A Tale of Two Depressions |
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