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If we roll over and test the lows, and right now it is still a big if, it will likely come if and when there is a realization that the $1T stimulus had a far smaller impact than expected maybe by late summer or the fall. I would not be shorting in front of the feeding frenzy that Washington is...

So why not just be a humanist with the same beliefs in the good old fashioned values which do not need religion for their justification, simply human decency, respect, and compassion for your fellow human? There are plenty of far more valid and rational secular humanist reasons why abortions are...

Thanks for posting this ByLo, it explains what I think some of us have intuitively understood, and that is that very little of what has been done thus far has had any meaningful impact on economivc activity. Hope you have a great 2009!

Very informative and eye opening thread, thanks Brandon for starting it and giving so freely of your time and experience, and to others who have contributed too. I am an old school entrepreneur and while I have businesses that utilize the web and have rudimentary function driven websites I can...

Not so sure as oil rising will help stocks like XOM which do more for the indexes than the airlines. Also will show that perhaps the deflation fears are overblown if oil supply concerns again trump what has until recently been concerns of falling demand. It could signal the beginning of the end...

Good point and a good argument for massive improvement in the rail system in particular, the most efficient means of moving people and stuff large distances over land, and public transport in general. We should also take a page out of Pollen's book Omnivore’s dilemma and produce/consume...

:) he has a point though, the electric car is a great output but the input needs work too ie more efficient sources of clean energy like this http://www.nanosolar.com/

Interesting discussion and thnsk for the ultra capacitor mention Running Bear. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4252623.html http://www.zenncars.com/media/documents/nytimes.pdf http://www.worldandi.com/subscribers/feature_detail.asp?num=23938...

We all know what is brewing in the mid east, looks now like Iran may get involved if Isreal sends ground forces in to Gaza. Is this the excuse that Isreal needs to take out Iran's nuke ops before Obama comes in to office?

I am always wary of the squeeky clean types. They usually also excessively groom themselves trying to hide what is really inside. If anyone has ever seen the film Happiness (Parker Posey's classic line "we are not laughing at you, we are laughing with you" lol) you will know just what I am...

Problem is that step 2 is broken.

Has happened over and over in history that the serving country ends up usurping the country it has been serving. Makes sense when you think about it, those in power get fat and lazy and too comfortable. The last vestige of power to go is always military power long after the economic power has...

It would all make more sense to you if you spent more time thinking about what you are saying rather than posting nonsense, reading a history book or two also wouldn't hurt.

Of course China spies, half their grad students and businessmen engage in soft spying activities but they are not flying planes bristling with spy technologies up and down our coasts on a routine basis. I was responding to the poster who took umbrage that the Chinese would hold one of our spy...

To some extent? It was US corporate greed that threw our own qualified peope to the outsourcing wolves. It was done with the consent and encouragement of the US people who wanted better earnings and cheaper goods. People like Pat Buchanan, one of the few on the right with real intellectual...

What's really scary is that while every country has people who's grasp of international relations and political history is rudimentary enough to lead them to make gross misjudgements, in China the government's propaganda machine intentionally distorts the historical record and encourages...

While I am no China apologist and recognize the very real danger of Chinese nationalism being used to keep stability and central control in the face of economic unrest we should also understand that it is not China flying spy planes up and down our coasts. The only time that a US navy jet and a...

Its very simple, countries act in their own self interest. The US does, no less should be expected for China (and for those talking about how China is what it is today because of the US, well that is true but the reverse can be said also, if it wasn't a mutually beneficial arrangement it would...

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I was at a Mall in Natick MA, Macy, Nordstrom etc and the parking lots were compeletely packed last night, I only went in to the American Girl store and there was a long line at the checkout registers. I drive by Best buy fairly often and its parking lot has been fuller than I have seen in a...