Saturday , 2 November 2024

Lorimer Wilson

Roubini: Hunker Down for More Job Losses (+2K Views)

Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. We can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other words, if you are unemployed and looking for work and just waiting for the economy to turn the corner, you had better hunker down. All the economic numbers suggest this will take a while. The jobs just are not coming back. Words: 536

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Why Should WE Make Sacrifices to Offset Global Warming? (Part 3) (+2K Views)

There is no more time remaining to examine or discuss any nagging questions or doubts concerning the merits of anthropogenic induced climate change. We must reduce our collective carbon footprints now. Electricity sourced from coal must be replaced by anything that doesn’t spew CO2, except, of course, nuclear power. Our next car must be a state of the art plug-in electric version, or at least a hybrid. But isn’t the single largest source of electricity the burning of coal? Hmm, how does buying and driving an electric car help? Regardless, we must get with the program...now! No more questions please! Words: 1346

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U.S. and Canada Are Global Warming Scapegoats (+2K Views)

Global warming is not a crisis created by man wantonly burning fossil fuels to the detriment of nature. Rather, global warming is a methodically fabricated issue cleverly designed and exploited by proponents of global governance under the tutelage of the United Nations. Words: 1839

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Will Copper Replace Gold as World’s "Most Valuable" Metal? (+4K Views)

I am convinced that we are still relatively early in a secular commodity bull market. In fact, with the modernization of Chindia and numerous other less-developed nations, I expect this bull market will be one for the record books. Fundamental demand coupled with inflation will push resource prices to unimaginable heights. Words: 805

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"The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between" – A Book By William Bernstein

Bernstein's attitude regarding the financial services industry is downright hostile: he suggests more than once that retail investors won't go too far wrong by considering any stock broker, financial advisor or insurance salesperson a "hardened criminal." That's with respect to evaluating whether their interests are more aligned with their own retirements or that of their clients. Words: 576

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Antal Fekete: The Fed Inadvertently Steering Economy on Road to Hell (+2K Views)

I would welcome a public debate of my thesis that risk-free bond speculation suppresses the rate of interest and destroys capital in the process. I have challenged neo-classical economists who still consider the open-market operations of the Fed as a ‘refined tool to manage the national economy’. I want them, instead, to see in open-market operations the cancer of the economy responsible for the withering of the world’s prosperity. So far my challenge has fallen upon deaf ears. Words: 2854

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