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By that I mean, anyone who believes that the era of cheap oil is over, and that life will probably get steadily tougher for the majority of people, but doesn't think that we'll be resorting to canniba ...

Hate to shatter your perception of reality, but I kinda have to laugh at the witch hunt that congress, the general public, and much of the media (both main stream and conservative talk radio) are all ...

with all the talk of energy policy and energy independence, and both major party candidates saying the other party's energy policy is the wrong track, just thought I'd point out that the republican po ...

Thank you for that, MrBill.

I have learned the basics of ecomomics in college courses in the past, but it's true that it has been a while since then. Perhaps I will go back to refresh and improve m ...

Saw this thread last time I was here, so now that I'm back browsing thought I'd add with high gas and oil prices which are the things most people notice (because they see the ever increasing prices at ...

wow have not been back in this section of the board in a long time, anyway just thought I'd point out that I don't think many americans at least in my neck of the woods (which happens to be car crazed ...

I guess I could tell ya all secrets I keep, but if I did then I'd have to kill ya all!!!!!!

Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's

I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '6 ...

There was an article in the LA times that caught my eye titled, "Americans may be losing faith in free markets."

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-losingfaith16-2008jul16,0,3202010.story

just th ...

Its kind of like dating. Although I think its more about having unrealistic expectrations then having high ones. If you're too googly-eyed your going to get burned or develop dependency issues, which ...

I'm not too surprised that so far no one has been up the challange to answer the question what does it mean to be an american. This is because this country is basically going thru a balkinization proc ...

I keep on coming back to this web site, out of fascination with the issue of peak oil. This part of the site in particular I find interesting, cause I like reading about the psychology as related to p ...

MrBill

I'm not an economist, but I do like looking at a problem from several points of view, cause ya never know when some little tid bit of info can come in handy to solve a problem...

the econ ...

In china cutting subsidies I read will mostly apply to gas bought at gas stations (think of it as window dressing) to try an appease politicians around the world (who have no idea about the big pictur ...

Would anyone care to summarize how they would invest $500,000 (or any $$ amount) in each of the scenarios - deflation, stagflation and hyperinflation ? For the "where to invest" challenged (myself) - ...

Are you an optimist or a pessimist?

What about adding another catagory, such as realist?

Seems to me the optimist, is the kind of individual who believes that nothing bad is going to happen at l ...