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What is the future?
< !http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AN227B_MARKE_NS_20081009223754.gif> Where will the market go. The thing that is wrong about the chart is that it is not inflation adjusted, the 1970s chart is really straight down on a real basis.
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1970s
!<http://mises.org/images3/Dow65-84.gif! For some reason the 1970s don’t have a fancy label although I remember stagflation. Like the depression, it all started with the 1960s which featured massive deficit spending (to fund the Vietnam War, sound familiar) and loose monetary policy to reduce the sting of the deficit (sound familiar) but which caused a massive bubble…
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Understanding the Great Depression and the 1970s
Well how come the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression has a cool name, but the 1970s do not? Wikipedia as usual has a great analysis that includes how different countries were affect. Particularly relevant now in our interconnected world. But the causes are the big issue Causes of the Great Depression which comes down to Keynes and monetary theory…
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Sequoia issues warning of secular bear market (aka it is better to hold t-bills)
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Utilities in Seattle
It is amazing how easy it is to setup all your utilities from your coach in Seattle. You literally don’t have to talk with anyone. The only problem is that URLs for signup are so buried in information, As an illustration and what a dashboard should look like to signup and then to monitor/pay your…
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AVI on Mac
AVI is a Microsoft format that Mac OS X doesn’t read, so how do you make it work: Watching AVI Movies in Mac OS X – Mac Guides VLC Player is a cross platform application with a mac version available for download from the VLC website. [I’ve found that mplayer is there, but seems to…
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Top 100 Hits
“Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(United_States) is amazing, there is someone who actually keeps track of every top song over the last 50 years for each week. Kind of fascinating to see how culture has changed!
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Camera recommendations for the Christmas season
Well, the camera market is definitely maturing, so that now across three of the four major segments there are choices that are going to last a while: h3. High-end Prosumer for affordable luxury :0) If you love cameras, then the Canon 5D Mark II looks like the body to drool over. For a long time…