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Houses don't appreciate. The dollars used to buy them depreciate. If you look at housing "appreciation" rates over the very long term and across all locations, it's about 0.5% above inflation. Negligible. So basically: appreciation = inflation. The constant rise in home values is an...

Jay, basically you're saying our deficit is funding the development of other economies. I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that. In fact, most are having a problem with exactly that. In a theoretical world, where time and distance and individual desires are blended together into...

Question: if inflation is not caused by bankers (as you say, "they are having their money stolen from inflation"), then what is the source of inflation? And what is your definition of inflation? I would suggest the definitions: - Inflation is a rise in prices caused by an increase in the...

The all or nothing argument. Noone said that gold would usher in a utopian era of everlasting peace and stability. But it would certainly remove one rather valuable tool of theft and control. At least we won't have bankers stealing from us via inflation. Nor will they be able to control...

true, but income to the company isn't necessarily beneficial to the country as a whole. Let's say the owner of the company is not a saver or investor or traveller and simply spends all his profits in the country. He buys million dollar houses, imports half million dollar cars, and hires...

I don't know the automaking business, but it seems reasonable that auto manufacturing has become so highly automated that labor costs may very well be less than transportation costs. Especially in a rising energy cost environment. Plus the fact that they have all these dollars they need to...

posted on http://www.switch2hydrogen.com April 27th: Instead of moving forward with our research, 100% of our time and money is now being spent on fighting a legal battle with the U.S. Government. Some time ago, the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) recruited the SWAT team and...

It seems this thread has accurately defined the problem of high oil prices and it's negative effects. But I've yet to hear a solution on any of this. Here's 2 possible solutions: 1. price of oil goes up causing a lot of strife and eventually the world goes into chaos and crawls out the...

I think what your saying is: If Iran changes their transaction currency, the dollar will drop, raising the price of oil for the US. Possibly pricing the US out. So why would they want to open a bourse that would do this? Maybe: - Iran isn't interested in maximizing profits and would...

This might clarify it: When you think about an individual transaction to buy oil (or any other commodity), you simply exchange your Euros for USD and buy it. So it all seems very transparent and liquid. But. How many transactions like that are occurring right this second? All priced in...

so libertad says that the Bush presidency was engineered by the board of Halliburton in an effort to raise the price of oil. limitdown says the whole idea of high oil prices is "wrong" therefore we need to do something about it at the congressional level. you know... it's costing me an...

I agree.... he makes no sense and I've also been battling back and forth... possiblities: 1. his original writings were a lie. (he didn't believe a word and simply felt they were socially advantageous) 2. his original writings were naive. (he has somehow surpassed his youthful daliances...

America! Fuck yeah! Coming again... to save the mother fuckin' day yeah. America! Fuck yeah!

and beautifully.. the consensus of the vote is: DO NOTHING we're so fucked

A couple of random thoughts: - I forget the percentages, but something like 90% of the oil produced comes from nationalized companies. ie. not "big oil". Exxon is like the 12th largest producer and #12 on the list doesn't have much pricing power. - It's important to realize that...

unfortunately most people don't understand this: the Fed sets policy and then lets human nature take over from there. imagine if you were in control of the central banks and money... Do you think your desires, ambitions, and goals might be different than the populace? maybe you'd even...

yeah it's a good chart. i kind of like it. it shows just how great the republicans are at working the system. they know where the REAL theft is at. damn that's impressive. the populace is clueless to it. the democrats don't understand that game, but they're excellent at sucking out...

yes of course. but i'm not sure i'd place too much planning on his shoulders. he panicked and flooded the world with liquidity. it happened to flow into housing. but it really goes back one step further though with japan printing unlimited money at 0%. the carry trade + greenspan...

assuming this isn't already blatantly obvious, account deficits: - why do we trade with other countries? because they have things we want like bmw's and dvd players. - to get those things, they will want something in return - for a long time we provided goods and services they wanted...

yes. Tara saw the 20% appreciation rate, multiplied that by $200,000 and found $40K just waiting for her. So she took her $5000 savings account and divided it by the amount of the interest only payment (after adding the "rental income" of course). this gave her the most important number...