Recent content by vulture

Australia and New Zealand. Seriously, a large majority of residents in those two countries don't bitch about much of anything there. Prices of real estate have skyrocketed and there are some cost of living issues depending upon the area, but nonetheless, I'd say it passes your checklist.

I've noticed quite a bit of this sort of "generated hysteria" recently. It's clearly an attempt to try and generate a sort of false bidding war by planting articles with shills talking up the prospects of overwhelming demand, limited supplies of available products...err, kind of like the same...

Note the key phrase "14k with good mileage" i.e. slightly used...which anybody can do, even if the car were listed at $17k.

The current number of new construction probably tells me that the pace of new construction over the past 10, 20 years was excessive to then current demand. Creating and maintaining artificially low interest rates to stimulate demand at the cost of future demand played its part as well. I...

It's also why many narcissistic sociopaths rise to the top because, in their minds, they've always earned it, no matter whom they used or abused to get what they wanted. So yes, this is a pretty interesting question as it does have quite a bit to do with one's one sense of entitlement...

The problem with legacy costs....the financial burden of funding current and future retirees continues while the business itself is collapsing. Really, how many stamps does anybody use at this point. I doubt I even use a handful in a year... Of course, they've jacked the costs of certified...

Why stop there? Why pay $100 million over 5 years for a guy who throws a ball thru a hoop or $18 mil a year to a guy who throws a little white ball into a glove...Truly ridiculous logic. Maybe if you can convince the millions of fans of the sport to stop watching it on tv, going to events...

The point being most guys who do a custom build will pay attention to every component in the system because they force you to make a decision. Whether it be the power supply, the heatsink, the mobo, etc, etc.

If you spent enough time on any trading message board, you'd never develop a consensus of opinion to declare that any one particular trading strategy was singled out as inferior. In other words, all of the opinions, just like most of the strategies are "collective noise". For every guy who...

Agreed and it's hard to believe with the collective brainpower of many guys who can crunch numbers and data that they wouldn't make certain that every component in their pc's was well put together.

The one AND only positive I can take out of this is that finally there is some attention paid towards the fact that this is a monetary "idelogy" (i.e. Keynesian), 2 years ago you had the feeling as if there were no history outside the previous 20-30 years in this country. That it was written in...

That pretty much sums things up. At this point, it's all theatrics.

If the mortgages dont get paid, we'd finally get a reset to more realistic housing values. Why is it that so many individuals think this is the end of the world. I know why...because it's a generational war. The generation that benefitted from asset inflation, whose $105,000 ranch house is...

I guess no one sees the obvious. Perpetually extending unemployment benefits creates a captive, yet entirely dependent group of voters who will always vote for the party that promises to extend their entitlements. As the numbers of unemployed and disenfranchised continue to mount, the larger...

It doesn't surprise me in the least that some of these panhandlers literally make a good living off of it. I've seen the same guys in certain parts of Chicago and they have clearly put some forethought into the areas that they cover. One older guy has a few busy intersections and I've yet to...