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    Cost Efficient Solar

    I would like to know what frame of reference is being used for the per KWh estimate for the chinese solar panels. Solar panels are, after all, a one time expense where the costs are absorbed up front and amortized through potential savings over the useful life of the panel. So is the $.14/kWh...
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    Auto industry now asking for 50 billion

    GM, Ford...etc... Should go back to the old Mercedes Model.... Produce a few really good vehicles....and just try to make them better and better......to last longer and longer..... Also....get to basics...get rid of all the gimics.... And have the legal largesse hangman's noose all...
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    Cost Efficient Solar

    Interesting.... Nuclear........ .417 cents per kwh fuel costs Less than 1/2 cent per kwh fuel costs Duke Power..... US http://www.duke-energy.com/newsarchives/2000/Jul/2000072401.html Obviously solar has a long way to go.....can't even get cheap in China..... Article...
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    Warren Buffett Show - Fannie & Freddie

    The world's major stock markets are all down.... The best being Canada at -7%, and he worst being China at -58%...... The US is at -15%..... Definitely a wide parameter within which to work...
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    Cost Efficient Solar

    http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/Industry/2008/09/01/112199.html
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    govt bail out of fannie mae and this monday...SP tanks or soars?

    One way to view the issue is rather simple..... What happens ....no Paulson bailout... What happens....Paulson bailout No Paulson Bailout.... Initial 15% haircut all bonds..... Short term confidence failure by foreigners limits credit supply.... Prices adjust to more normal...
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    Non Farm Manipulated Again

    What is clear is that prices are held in check by price fixing or oligopolistic price collusion outside of the US jurisdiction...... Also, what would be interesting to see is what is happening in terms of profit taking by the likes of Goldman, etc... Last time I checked....it is illegal...
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    government bailout of FNM and FRE

    Cutten wrote.... In other words, it's great news for the housing market, long-term. For decades these neo-Stalinist monstrosities have distorted US housing, especially in the last few years when they threw all measures of responsible lending out of the window. These two market-rigging...
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    Next bubble/growth Industry?

    Vulture funds...... Companies catering to the new energy proposals.....
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    No equity was wiped out...it was transferred

    Where it gets interesting is when one leaves the two sided ledger.....and examines valuation without transaction.....and thus the associated accounting issues with regards to legal disclosures......
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    Non Farm Manipulated Again

    10% at the pumps certainly is not very meaningful..... But oil prices by the barrel moving from apprx $147 to $107 and declining in a very short period of time.....at election time ? Is perhaps a little more interesting....... Perhaps related....perhaps not..... But reality is that...
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    No equity was wiped out...it was transferred

    Interesting........ Here is how........ For example.... There is a 100 unit condo project.... The units are identical.... In 2000.....one sells for $100,000 Total value 100x $100,000 In 2005....one sells for $200,000 100x $200,000 In 2008....one sells for $80,000 100x...
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    Non Farm Manipulated Again

    Notice oil price changes ......? At the Bush beginning....one bought a $1 in oil for a $1.... At the Bush/Cheney end....one bought a $1 for $5.... At US election time....oil drops almost 30% in a few weeks..... Coincidence ? Maybe, maybe not.....ok ....prove it .....disprove it...
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    Greenspan Continues In Self Denial

    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080905/greenspan_book.html This guy has no clue who he sees when he looks in the mirror..... So far he has managed to establish enough presence to sell books and make some dough for himself..... The job of someone in his previous position is to be able to...
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    The case for deflation

    RickB wrote... Until money "printing" exceeds credit contraction, which it does not, there will be deflation. Money printing does not do any good, if who it is distributed to consume it in their black hole of losses. Like say the banks, or the mae's, or car company's, or even idividuals...
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    The Future Of America

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality I see...... Looks like the choices are tough to make in the US.... .................................................................................... What is very true is that the trading profession allows one to make the world their...
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    The Future Of America

    By the way..... There seem to be some similarities between Obama and Chavez..... Both really know how to talk to the masses..... Chavez is ruining Venezuela....... ............................................................................................ The 2, 3, 4 party...
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    The Future Of America

    Hello Hydro..... You are preaching to the choir..... Reality is though, 2 of the 4 are going to get the podium..... Palin seems to be the least socialist..... Just your standard Repub party stuff that comes about every few years..... If you read my post....you willl note I do not...
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    The Future Of America

    For one thing....I prefer Palin's character type versus the other few people that she is to be compared with that are going to be serving the US......which is not a lot of people.... The bottom line is that the 2,3,4 party system is outdated, partially because the internet has arrived, and...
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    More Funny Accounting Allowed by The SEC via Lehman ?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQjsXBJ4uN1Y&refer=home So Merrill gets to do it too ? Ok guys....whatever you say.... After all, you da police...... FO
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