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Topic: Dollar Supply Spikes, Growth Rate Hits 21% |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 4
Views: 300
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:30 pm Subject: Re: Dollar Supply Spikes, Growth Rate Hits 21% |
| I'd noticed a month ago the plunge that the growth rate had taken. No doubt, it was from banks stopping their lending a great deal and the slowing economy. This, the rebound, was to be expected give ... |
Topic: Dow 8000? |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 17
Views: 687
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:27 pm Subject: Re: Dow 8000? |
I'm guessing around 8000-8500 on Nov. 4. We'll be below 8000 before Christmas hits, so I voted before Christmas season (late Nov.).
Really? What's the bottom? Like the human population, the DJ ... |
Topic: Can Chesapeake Energy be trusted? |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 9
Views: 256
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:05 am Subject: Re: Can Chesapeake Energy be trusted? |
| They likely mean 100 years "at current rates of consumption." That's how these numbers are usually given, and it's always disingenuous as hell. Especially, in this case, with all the buzz about buildi ... |
Topic: Depression Talk....in "Cramer"ica???? |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 16
Views: 826
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:54 am Subject: Re: Depression Talk....in "Cramer"ica???? |
Tonight Cramer was talking about having 5 years worth of cash on hand in a savings account. For a Wall Street guy he is now the definition of doomer.
joeltrout
Last night on the Colbert Report, ... |
Topic: Booms, Busts, and Construction Cranes |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 6
Views: 338
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:35 pm Subject: Re: Booms, Busts, and Construction Cranes |
I thought they were pretty much out of oil. Something like 10-20% of their income is oil related anymore. I think most of it is investing, business and tourism.
1 is wrong, 2 is correct. While ... |
Topic: Risk of Default on Government Debt Higher Than Exxon Debt |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 12
Views: 788
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:58 am Subject: Re: Risk of Default on Government Debt Higher Than Exxon Deb |
How can our government be run by Big Oil but do such a worse job than Big Oil on finances?
Is this really shocking? I think I, and just about everyone here, is better qualified for a loa ... |
Topic: Biden/Palin Debate...The horror! The horror! |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 284
Views: 7344
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:47 pm Subject: Re: Biden/Palin Debate...The horror! The horror! |
| I think there should be a difference noted between small businesses (which have profits of maybe a few tens of thousands or a couple hundreds of thousands per year) and corporations, which have CEO's ... |
Topic: Wachovia freezes accounts of nearly 1,000 colleges |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 15
Views: 930
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:30 am Subject: Re: Wachovia freezes accounts of nearly 1,000 colleges |
I never set up my university ID with Wachovia as a Freshman despite having an account with them. Then last year, so I could buy some Au and Ag, closed my account with them. Good riddance.
Lowem,
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Topic: For Treasury Dept., Now Comes Hard Part of Bailout |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 7
Views: 417
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:05 am Subject: Re: For Treasury Dept., Now Comes Hard Part of Bailout |
It sounds to me like the wolf is no longer guarding the hen house. Instead, he has taken up residence. Shocked
And he's hired a dozen more wolves to aid as "bodyguards" for the hens and charges t ... |
Topic: New Passat Bluemotion II. 57.4 mpg US |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 53
Views: 1049
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:26 am Subject: Re: New Passat Bluemotion II. 57.4mpg US |
| I got my first ride in a modern diesel passenger car(a Mercedes) this week via a coworker and wow, they really have come a long way. You'd never know it was a diesel. It wasn't noisy or smokey or an ... |
Topic: Honda Clarity update |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 20
Views: 677
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:21 am Subject: Re: Honda Clarity update |
When I say mass produced I mean on a market flooding scale like the Civic or Accord.
I already posted on the hydrogen infrastructure project in China and another poster commented on the planned proj ... |
Topic: Honda Clarity update |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 20
Views: 677
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:26 pm Subject: Re: Honda Clarity update |
Go do some math and tell me, how many more years before that price hits the median price paid for a car in America?
By basic economics, the easiest savings always come at first, especially when yo ... |
Topic: Honda Clarity update |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 20
Views: 677
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:02 am Subject: Re: Honda Clarity update |
Not mine.
But you're still USING that definition, making it your definition of "mass-produced".
I just saw the titles.
Perhaps you should read more than just the titles, ok, sheeple?
In ... |
Topic: Honda Clarity update |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 20
Views: 677
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:56 pm Subject: Re: Honda Clarity update |
People not buying a car because they are waiting for the financial world to settle is different than people not being able to get a loan.
I've actually heard a lot from car dealerships that peopl ... |
Topic: BIG drop in US oil consumption |
3aidlillahi
Replies: 35
Views: 1785
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:44 pm Subject: Re: BIG drop in US oil consumption |
| The latest First I'm having a semantics problem. Could somebody please explain what "Petroleum Products Product Supplied" mean? Second, I thought the US consumed 30mbpd, of which 10mbpd are domestic a ... |
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