Archive - Jan 11, 2011 - Blog entry

December's stock market rally helped the UK's defined benefit pension schemes end the year back in the black, but that can shift abruptly...

All work and no play...

What to make of this stuff?

Not every insane act by a "lone wolf" is a political event. A tragedy to be sure, but in this case even if Jared Lee Loughner thought he was making a political statement, it was not a political event. It is an insane event. Yet the MSM insists on making it a political event.

Forget name-calling, let's look at the science ...

In America, the market is only allowed to go one way!

Interestingly, the esteemed economist John Maynard Keynes considered the love of money a form of mental illness. Our need for money becomes the ‘hook’ through which the Big Wetikos (who control the supply and value of money) can ‘yank our leash’ and manipulate humanity.

Not as entertaining and colorful as the original report but interesting none the less...

Like I said, the Euro in its current form is finished. Europe can no longer “kick the can” down the road. SOME KIND of resolution has to happen. And it is likely to happen before the end of February.

The electric battery gets its first real makeover in 152 years. Immense amounts of money are being made with the new battery technologies. Electric cars will take over 15% of the global car market, or 7.5 million units by 2020. At stake is nothing less than the viability of two economic systems. Will the operating instructions will come in English—or Mandarin. (BYDDF), (SQM), (XIDE)

This hypothetical comes pretty close to the perfect definition of a TBTF FUBAR.

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