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I'm making a cedar fence for my DW, and bought the material @ Lowes 10 weeks ago. I checked Lowes prices today. Cost of cedar dim. lumber is up in that period about 9% annualized. I remember reading Jane Jacobs, many years ago. She had a one size fits all theory about inflation. Any...

That's exacty what the difference is. Muni bond are purchased by high net worth individuals. The income is not earnings and has special tax treatment. If you still don't get it, there's a reason. Quote from Ray Liotta in Goodfellas: "Payroll taxes are for suckers". err... well maybe he...

Hey, I'm not a jealous guy (I'm not going to storm the Bastille), but I have to disagree. The operative word, and you use it, is <b>earn</b>. Most weathy people do not pay massive payroll taxes (earned income). They get large portions of their income from long term cap gains, qualified...

Mr. maxpi, that's a 10. We read every day that the trade imbalance is killing the U.S., uncontrolled money supply growth in the form of U.S. debt (foreign reserves). At a macro level, the consumption tax is just what we need, (or needed 25 years ago). The consumption tax would force...

This might not be a reasonable agument, but the fact is that a flat tax would put thousands of accountants/lawyers out of work. From my understanding, IRS procedures are codified from a vast patchwork of "letter rulings". Most of those letter rulings are/were obtained by accountants/lawyers...

The Series 7 doesn't really teach you anything that will make you money. But if you get sponsored (hired), take/pass the test, you might (but might not) get to hang around people who do know how to make money.

Yes, many problems here, and I hope that Mr. gnome finds his satisfaction (debt is no fun, hope you do better with the latter) . I recently read that the Japanese Central Bank holds more U.S. Treasuries than the U.S. Fed reserve bank. And that is a source of fear: Japan will dump U.S...

Slack tide - good point, maybe. I 'm certainly no expert, but any Lunar Power advocate wouldn't be advocating that it replace <b>all other forms of power</b>, but just be able to sell to the power grid at a cost below imported carbon fuel (or any carbon fuel for that matter). The town that...

How 'bout Lunar Power http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_10/b3974056.htm

Great thread - Bernanke seems like a nice guy, but is destined to become the poster boy for all bag holders. Anybody see that line of questioning from Sen. Sarbanes and Jim Bunning on Thursday. Hey Bernanke, go down like a mench. Next time tell those guys to go f*** themselves.