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Topic: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
JFT
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:28 pm Subject: Re: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
| This is looking more and more as a case of simple drug addiction: the junkie needs bigger and bigger fixes to get high. |
Topic: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
JFT
Replies: 61
Views: 4350
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:19 pm Subject: Re: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
| Makes sense that oil prices are going to undulate. Price spike leads to demand reduction leads to transient price drop. I've been waiting for a sustained drop since $40 a barrel. Hasn't happened ye ... |
Topic: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
JFT
Replies: 61
Views: 4350
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:08 pm Subject: Re: It sure did get quiet in here all of a sudden |
| Makes sense that oil prices are going to undulate. Price spike leads to demand reduction leads to transient price drop. I've been waiting for a sustained drop since $40 a barrel. Hasn't happened ye ... |
Topic: Is America going to have a Revolution? |
JFT
Replies: 233
Views: 21503
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:46 am Subject: Re: Is America going to have a Revolution? |
| A riot lasts about three days. A revolution takes an ideology, some kind of belief system that offers the body politic something better than what it currently has. Anarchy is not a revolution. It’s ... |
Topic: Global crisis deepening - IMF Chief |
JFT
Replies: 36
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:45 am Subject: Re: Global crisis deepening - IMF Chief |
Is it just me, or is CNN burying this in a sub-page that few are likely to see?
LOL. "Chamem-lhes parvos" (call them dumb), like we use to say in Portugal. When word gets out, stocks are gonna drop ... |
Topic: THE Energy, Computing and the Internet (merged) |
JFT
Replies: 487
Views: 10825
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:58 am Subject: Re: So... When will the internet go down??? |
| well...there will always be something on, after all, the internet was designed to withstand a nuclear war. there will always be internet for the military, maybe to academia as well, to the rich, to th ... |
Topic: Is America going to have a Revolution? |
JFT
Replies: 233
Views: 21503
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:26 pm Subject: Re: Is America going to have a Revolution? |
| With a situation such as this one, you can have revolts, riots, uprising, mutinies, etc, but those do not make revolutions, although they are a part of it. In order to have a revolution, you need to h ... |
Topic: $110 |
JFT
Replies: 17
Views: 2387
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:53 am Subject: Re: $110 |
as all the other central banks begin to cut rates aggressively, the dollar is going to strengthen relative to the other major currencies, which will bring the price per barrel down
once we hit the ... |
Topic: Another Record ($143.67) |
JFT
Replies: 2569
Views: 211515
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:33 am Subject: $109 - what's next? |
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Oil futures advanced to a record for a fifth day, rising above $109 a barrel in New York, as the sinking dollar drew investors to commodities.
The euro gained to $1.5489 ag ... |
Topic: CERA .. There is no decline , well sort of . |
JFT
Replies: 4
Views: 1948
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Forum: Peak Oil Studies & Energy Reports Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:07 am Subject: Re: CERA .. There is no decline , well sort of . |
So, there is no peak oil...yet, we are past peak  |
Topic: $104.52. $5 hike in hours |
JFT
Replies: 19
Views: 2394
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:48 am Subject: Re: $104.52. $5 hike in hours |
| Going up: Oil Advances to Record $105.96 as Dollar Drops to All-Time Low [url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aW4zRJyt5Y9g&refer=home] link |
Topic: OPEC say NO! and may cut production! |
JFT
Replies: 22
Views: 2529
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:45 am Subject: Re: OPEC say NO! and may cut production! |
I agree. If we wanted to make a move, this is where I'd do it. Its in our backyard. They would be fighting us with "blow guns" and maybe a couple trebuchet. We have the cover of the Columbian Go ... |
Topic: OPEC say NO! and may cut production! |
JFT
Replies: 22
Views: 2529
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:57 am Subject: Re: OPEC say NO! and may cut production! |
| and you need to have this in mind: the Dollar is starting to collapse. Now you have 1 Euro=1,5USD. If they increase production and the price goes down, they will loose a lot of money just because the ... |
Topic: THE Alan Greenspan Thread (merged) |
JFT
Replies: 819
Views: 2059
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:50 am Subject: Re: Greenspan tells gulf states to dump the dollar |
It's the same as having Hirohito saying to the Americans: "please nuke us".
He's not aware AT ALL of the implications that would have for the US economy. It would be the end for the petrodollar r ... |
Topic: Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling |
JFT
Replies: 67
Views: 4337
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Forum: Environment Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:47 am Subject: Re: Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling |
| A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 yea ... |
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