A Philosophy For Everyday Living

A Guest Post by John A. WoodPassing The Buck (Shifting the Burden of Responsibility)PREAMBLEA daydream of mine, destined to be unfulfilled, is to know how my grandfathers saw life - in a sense, what their philosophy for everyday living was. What follows, like the grab-bag of personal musings I’ve penned over the past 15 years, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:56:07

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White gold tarnished

At the start of last year sheep and beef farmers looked enviously at the returns dairy farmers were enjoying and aimed to get prices for meat, ... September last year. The state of global commodity markets isn’t the only problem facing Fonterra ... in any future investment in China.However, the financial losses from the Sanlu investment have already [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:59:59

Dark Harvest ~Norman Partridge

Dark Harvest ~Norman Partridge –published 2006 –169 pages, Tor Books –Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award –4 ... and future of an entire town and its inhabitants, for it is the night of an annual town ritual ... was an unknown commodity to me. I must admit that I had seen this novel before and was attracted [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 12:58:02

Commodities Reprieve Coming to an End

A guest post from Frank Shump. Frank is a veteran from the financial services industry, and currently authors a blog called Thefinancecastle ... in the near future, as some oil fields out there aren’t nearly as cost effective at these prices ... are out there on the future of other commodities. The World Bank, for example, believes that the global [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:54:45

Looking Back At 2008

2008 was a year to be remembered by investors, but certainly not in a good way. While most investors probably lost a substantial amount of money, hopefully they at least learned some powerful lessons. James Picerno from The Capital Spectator looks back at 2008 and some of the things investors should take away from it in his blog post below [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:14:05

As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia

“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18

Where is the global economy headed?

At this stage in the financial crisis, it is difficult to discern exactly where things are headed. However, let me give a general road map of how I see things shaping up. The credit crisis started in August 2007 as a result of the dual realization amongst investors and global financial institutions alike that large credit writedowns due to [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 17:15:30

Competitive Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar on the Way?

The U.S. dollar has moved to multi-week lows vs. the euro (top chart) and is challenging longer-term lows vs. the yen (middle chart) ... that there have been times when exchange rate policy has been an effective weapon against deflation ... accustomed policy rate has been forced down to zero has most definitely not run out of ammunition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:21:00

Deal Or No Deal...The Buck Is A Bust

Oil Curve Steeper Than '99 Shows Possible Gain in '09Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The steepest plunge in crude prices on record may be setting up oil investors for a rally this year, if history is any guide.The so-called forward curve of futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange suggests oil will rise 28 percent to $60 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 01:28:00

beyond avoidance...deep generosity

Jesus talked more about money as an obstacle to God during his ministry than he did about crime, sex, bad family relationships, or drunkenness....but we get so wrapped up in our anxiety about money that we sometimes can't hear what he's really saying.or, better yet, we think: yes we can! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:39:00

Useless T.A.-T.A.’s?

By John Galt January 1, 2009 The question that is the title of this piece has been bothering me since the “mysterious” rally on August 15-17 of 2007. It took me the entire month of December of 2008, that’s right through yesterday, to figure out why the traditional methodologies may no longer apply, at least in my opinion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:35:11

personal finance free ware

personal finance free ware 2009-01-05 16:01 at 2009-01-05 16:01 · Filed under stock market investing Medical malpractice, while rough to accept, ... by the Palmerston Government to help excavation group save for their futures and as a means of raising commodity day future investing trading funds for populace spending. Im conversation about a live [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:31

Art's Birthday!

It's approaching Art's Birthday again! January 17th of each year.What is Art's Birthday you ask? Read on.. ... made not to be bought, sold or traded as a commodity, but given "freely" as a gift.Robert Filliou ... , underwater (pool) soundtrack, artist performances, open mic, children's workshops, happy birthday choral [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:23:00

Memo to Obama: National Health Insurance The Only Solution

"First off, congratulations to you and your party on your sweeping election results!Together with a sizable majority of Americans, I am again hopeful for the future of our country ... just another commodity to be bought and sold in a deregulated market based on ability to pay, not medical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:49:00

Worldchanging Interview: Paul Gipe, Wind Energy Pioneer

This article was written by Hassan Masum in January 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Paul Gipe has been involved with wind energy for 30 years. He has authored several books in the field, and was instrumental in the successful campaign for Ontario's 2006 implementation of Advanced Renewable [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 20:27:12

Tin Pan Alley for Sale

Now might be a good time to take a look at Tin Pan Alley, because The NY Post reports that "the birthplace of American song" has become a real estate commodity. Dating back to 1885, when music publishers came to the area ... . Ekman, whose apartment floors sloped a radical five inches. "She thinks the future of the row [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 20:30:12

The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic

This week, Panasonic quietly gathered some of the bigger brains in medical technology and introduced them to the company's upcoming Mobile Clinical ... not able to attend, but wanted to get a few answers from Panasonic about the discussion and the future ... technology. During the event we covered a broad array of topics including current and future hea [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:56:22

Nashville spars

TENNESSEE is no stranger to great presidential moments, true believers, and tonight the state hosts the second of three presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. The town-hall style affair will feature questions from uncommitted likely voters—because they're more important than the rest of you, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 03:50:01

Forget Climate Change: A Fossil Fuel Future’s a Fantasy

Jon Jenkins in his article “The warmaholics’ fantasy” (The Australian 06/01/2009) ends by asking this: “The real question is in acknowledging the end of fossil fuels within the next 200 years or so: how do we spend our research time and dollars?”Unfortunately, Jenkins has made the common error of not factoring in growth in demand [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 09:00:00

DrumBeat: November 26, 2008

Russia’s Comeuppance Any international economic crisis afflicts different countries in different ways, but an unfortunate few experience every painful dimension of it. In the current crisis, Russia is confronting virtually all the negatives at once--sharply declining export earnings from energy and metals, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 13:53:17

The four horsemen for hire

War, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, ... in what cannot be a coincidence – we have the government's "global warming advisor" warning ... one component of the raft of extra costs. The other major element is the EU's emission trading scheme which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:17:00

Invest on Stocks or Property?

It’s a very strange economic climate at the moment with stocks at very low levels, property prices well off their peaks, oil prices down, and commodity prices down as well. So if you were looking to invest your money somewhere, which ... account automatically. The major drawback with share investing is that you have to pick quality [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:34:31

Don’t neglect your business insurance

The owners of small businesses have a lot to worry about. And in today’s rough economy, actually staying in business probably tops the list ... buyers, according to Snow. Snow recommends that business owners talk with their insurance brokers ... new coverages and carriers takes time, and business owners are short on that commodity. Still [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:17:37

LIVE FROM THE RED COCKTOBER, T. BOONE PICKENS

Men and women file into a vast conference room. Large HD screens dominate the front wall; others are mounted on side walls and on scaffolding. On the screen is an empty chair in front of a scene of blinking lights, pulsing meters, and inscrutable technology. An old man in a form-fitting purple uniform sits in front of the camera [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 15:43:17

How To Register Your Business In The Philippines

What are the Philippine government agencies that you need to register with when starting a business? Remember that it is important to register your business to avoid any legal problems once business operations start. Furthermore, it’s common practice for competitors to check on you if you have all the necessary registrations completed because if [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 23:35:26

Microsoft offers cloud computing a hearty handclasp

just last week. Here is how Microsoft is describing Azure: The Azure™ Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Azure Services Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 18:35:37

untitled

Last year, the Financial Ombudsman Service received almost 800,000 complaints about financial products, a 27 per cent rise on the previous year. Even if we grant that many of these came from trouble makers and idiots, this still leaves a massive amount of discontent with financial services. Which raises the question [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:45:24

DrumBeat: September 5, 2008

U.S. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An unprecedented decline in driving will deplete the federal Highway Trust Fund by the end of September prompting the government to ask Congress for an $8 billion emergency infusion Friday. Gasoline sales are crucial to maintaining the nation's highway infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:22:45

The Death of Ethanol: One Thing Wall Street Saw Coming

Once upon a time, ethanol was seen as the future of clean energy and as leading the U.S. to energy independence ... to evaluate its options. And the company isn’t alone; the entire ethanol sector is getting ... is an understatement; all are trading under their offering prices and were doing so even before the credit crunch [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 10:48:00

2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP

I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15

10 Obscure Currencies Affected by the Credit Crunch

By Adam Kritzer The majority of forex traders limit themselves to the so-called major currencies because such are easy to monitor and trade with ... below for your edification. Korean Won: While its acceptance by the Continuous Linked Settlement Bank would suggest that it has become a major currency, the Korean Won remains relatively obscure [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 14:25:51

Future of Electric-Car Batteries Raises Concerns

When electric vehicles hit the roads en masse, they will have the latest lithium-ion battery technology under their hoods ... could be severe. Commodity prices and availability are the concerns. Lithium has to be extracted ... , the more expensive a commodity becomes, and li-ion batteries that are already possibly going to be [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 13:11:15

Sunday morning links

TOP STORIES $700 Billion Is Sought for Wall Street in Vast Bailout - NY Times Cultural and Structural Shifts Rise Out of Risk-Taking Titans' Hard ... crisis? - MarketWatch 'Panic effect could push Gold to $4,000 or $5,000' - Commodity Online ECONOMY Home ... of the Future - Shiller, NY Times Follow the money - Krugman, NY Times WaMu loaned millions to OC [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 12:56:00

A strong case for European energy independence, Part II

A strong case for European energy independence, Part II By Hannes Artens The EU is on the drip of foreign fossil fuels, ... , with whom our future relations remain questionable at best, and dubious or unstable regimes ... commodity market, whose roller-coaster volatility we've come to see over the last eighteen months [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 15:04:15

Dow Jones money: a stable future economy

I began to write this text in October when Ben Bernanke and his friends followed the laws of string theory (a Reuters blog) and cut the rates to fight against the self-feeding global panic. Note that to "push the strings" means to try to lower the rates in a situation where no one wants to lend or borrow, anyway [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 08:00:00

What'll be big in 2009?

CommSec's Craig James presents his list:"Each year we attempt to identify the Big Issues for the coming year ... unemployment, monetary policy and emissions trading. As always, China will never be too far ... has translated to less demand for raw materials or commodities, notably oil. And slower consumer spending [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 00:12:00

Chevrolet Volt Review

When General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt concept car at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2007, it rocked the green-car world. Its technology—still a lab experiment, then—instantly leapfrogged standard hybrids (like the Toyota Prius) and even hybrids that had been adapted to recharge their battery packs from the power grid, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:31:00

Job Hunting in An Economic Depression: A Changing Landscape

Job Hunting in An Economic Depression: A Changing Landscape My young ward and I (along with DH) make an interesting contrast in job hunters. He, having dishwasher experience and a few other odd jobs under his belt, wants to find work that will pay him enough money to exist with an apartment, a few roommates, and public transportation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:58:48

Learn About Commodity Trading

Have you ever heard investors mention speculating in futures of the commodity market and wondered what it they are talking about? While most of us are familiar with investing in stocks, commodities can be an interesting way to have your money make money for you. But first, you might ask what is a commodity? commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:43:07

The Property Market in Greece

by Mary Bush The property market in Greece has seen some decline in demand in 2008, however the prices are not likely to crash, ... for people who have bought property recently of course and is better news for future investors ... . Construction costs are rising, as they are everywhere due to the rise in commodity prices although [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:04:57

Shadow Market

I don’t pretend to understand this, but it sounds pretty interesting ... to recapitalize my balance sheet, how would I do it? Through gross manipulation of commodity markets ... , dishonesty, and disloyalty to shareholders, and you care about the future of the United States, I urge [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:52:03

A New Lipstick Pigment

A new lipstick pigment combines vivid shine whilst helping to diminish the appearance of lip lines and wrinkles, says Shiseido ... will be incorporated into the company’s future lipstick products. In The Makeup Says: We do wish ... s very own press release. And if anyone knows when this commodity will hit the shelves, please tell us! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:12:13

Let's Make Sure the Alabama Broadband Initiative Benefits Consumers

As I live in a rural area and pay $70/month just for satellite Internet access, I never thought I'd write any blog post that's even slightly critical of efforts to expand broadband access to rural areas. It seemed so promising when Governor Riley and Kathy Johnson, director of the Alabama Broadband Initiative, announced a $1 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:58:03

When Argentina Calls Us a Banana Republic

By John Galt December 16, 2008 Prevailing wisdom on the morning of December 16, 2008 was that I would wake up, watch Bubblevision, drive to Vero Beach, FL, visit my accounts and today would be a non-eventful sort of financial market kind of day. The Federal Reserve was supposed to mark the Fed Funds Rate down to 0 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 04:13:55

Odd Man Out: Nick Swisher or Xavier Nady?

Now that the Yankees have signed first baseman Mark Teixeira, who will undoubtedly play first base for the bulk of his eight year contract, ... . The Case for Trading Xavier Nady The Yankees are never one to worry about a financial drain, so that Nady ... year for Nady, meaning that unless he's simply a late bloomer, his future stats will probably [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 06:32:00

Dr. Paul’s Speech - Rally for the Republic

’ One of the things we love so much about Dr. Paul is that he never reads canned speeches - he always speaks from his head, and, his heart. For the Rally for the Republic, Dr. Paul worked hard on an outline and wanted to share his notes. His exact words will differ, and some parts will improvised, but his sentiment is in this text [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 23:39:23

DrumBeat: October 13, 2008

Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

Space Lords ~Cordwainer Smith

Space Lords ~Cordwainer Smith –first edition 1965, this edition 1968 –206 pages, Pyramid Books –4.75/5 stars “This is science fiction, yes ... within a fictional world 14,000 years in our future. The bulk of Smith’s approximately twenty short stories and two novels are set in this same created world. That future finds humanity in a type [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:41:57

The New York Times and the information theory of the leisure class, Part 4/4

(This is the concluding section of a long essay I am posting online, “The Information Theory of the Leisure Class, or, ... in genuine Parisian wrapping paper, instead of merely buying a higher quality chocolate in Trader ... in conspicuous academic consumption.Yet the Times’s preferred path out of the wasteland of commodity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:28:00

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