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However this requires wage inflation which the FED really hates, but eventually it will come. All the Fed needs to do is keep lowering rates and get corporate spending to turn around.

Of course the ...

The main advantage is that they are cheaper to build than electric or internal combustion engine cars, and efficiency is somewhere in between. I wouldn't mind driving around with 80-100 miles per gall ...

I heard of someone who designed and built a compressed-air car that gets about 800-1000 miles on a 10 gallon gas tank. If only the big automakers put all their focus into that technology, we might see ...

As I said, we did not have a depression in 1981 when interest rates were for a short time 20%. Many countries control their inflation without depressions, Iceland 15%, Australia, 7.75%, China 6.5% etc ...

I have always been a big supporter of Ron Paul and his ideas about deregulation, but we can now see that this derivative crash was caused by deregulation. This proves that we need some sort of regulat ...

Anyone who plays real time strategy games know that controlling the resources means controlling the world.

I find this even more evident in many turn-based strategy games.

Sorry, I should have said Mad Max retirement.

I can understand that the Fed wants to stop a chain reaction of bank runs, but do they honestly believe that they can entice consumers into buying houses by keeping their prices high? I can tell you t ...

I remember one case a few years ago of a small group of truckers running a protest in California. They were enough in number to block all the lanes on a highway while driving 30 mph. I wish I could re ...

I have been watching Cramer for a few years. He gets it wrong sometimes, but he has some sound theories behind picking most of his sectors and stocks, and how to find the better times to buy.

He i ...

Too bad they didn't wake up earlier, before Ron Paul lost all hope of becoming the Republican candidate.

Hyperinflationary crashes can easily be worse than deflationary crashes. 1923 Germany, 1993 Ukraine, and 2002 Argentina teach us that. The easiest solution to a hyperinflationary crash is a replacemen ...

I can't see any reason why one area can't sustainably produce an agricultural surplus and so feed a second area. After all, why single out food for such restrictions?

It reduces the risk of famine, ...

We really are headed for a dark future. Enjoy today's plethora of food choices while they last.

Rip open a rotting log and you will see plenty of choices.

Cuts in food aid is a step in the right direction for sustainability. Food aid does not address the problem of overshoot, and usually makes it worse. Local agriculture should support local populations ...