Is anyone even remotely concerned about Trump's economic entanglements. See, for example, this article http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html Of course, most of this is completely opaque since he never released his taxes (how the fuck did...

The Japan or USA can't default on their outstanding national debt because there's no liquidity limitation (unlike Europe). What you mean is that there's no rational reason whatsoever for Japan or the US (or any other independent currency issuer) to default. I agree with this. Where we might disagre...

Trump will likely increase the debt by trying to lower taxes and other stimulus measures while at the same time saying interest rates are too low. Not at all sure what will happen though, since it is Trump. Trump will actually do whatever is best for Trump. First order of business is drastically re...

sophie wrote: No particularly good candidates come to mind.

Hillary.

From http://gflec.org/sp-global-finlit-survey-methodology/ Survey Questions The financial literacy questions address five basic dimensions of financial comprehension on the individual level (correct answers in bold):   Risk Diversification Suppose you have some money. Is it safer to put your money i...

I have read "The Permanent Portfolio" by Craig Rowland and J. M. Lawson and applied for the service of globalgold.ch which is recommended in the book. Welcome! Everyone here knows this but might forget that newbies might not.  Both authors at least occasionally post here.  Craig Rowland a...

Shawn, What tennis shoe maker do you recommend? I play singles twice a week. New Balance is this best. They will last 6 months which is more than any other brand I have tried. Careful with that.  New Balance has shifted production for many of its shoes to places like Vietnam, with minor differences...

This is definitely a concern. Unless, maybe it isn't: see https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-bogeyman/ or http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/roundup-and-risk-assessment BTW - MG's quote is from here: http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-tell-the-epa-to-ban-glyphosate/ I...

MachineGhost wrote:

rickb wrote: Nope - it's a CO2 chart, not a temperature chart.

My bad.  But, correlation is not causation.

Indeed it's not.  But a correlation that seems to have stood up for 400,000 years might be something you want to pay attention to.

However, not even trying to do anything about things we can clearly see will be very, very bad seems a tad defeatist.  I don't think of it so much as defeatist as realistic. Spend a week in Jakarta.  Just one city in Indonesia.  You could give everyone in California a Prius and it wouldn't offset t...

Ah, the infamous Hockey Stick chart.  Nope - it's a CO2 chart, not a temperature chart.  We'll see what the temperature chart looks like in a 1000 years (or, our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's child...

I don't understand the debate about whether AGW is real or not. It doesn't matter one iota. There is not a single predictive model that works. There is no therapeutic remedy that could be implemented in today's world. There are plenty of global catastrophic risks that we really can't do anything ab...

The image on the top is atmospheric CO2 concentration going back 400,000 years.  The image on the bottom is the EPICA core data.  I've tried to arrange it so these line up.  The text in the image on the top says "For 650,000 years, atmospheric CO2 has never been above this line ... until now&qu...

Because I thought you were referring the to other site that rickb quoted from.  I'm too bored to read up on the whole pro argument again. I was simply quoting the site jafs referred you to. I haven't looked at the raw data myself (I'm not a climatologist), but my understanding is that it's pretty m...

What is that chart and where does it come from? Its ice core sample temperatures from Wikipedia.  If you look only at 1860 to date of course you're going to "see" and "prove" global warming just as you would have 125,000 years ago, 250,000 years ago, 375,000 years ago and 410,00...

Lest I go all theoretical on us, if I had a very large chunk of money I was going to roll into a PP I would spread it out over year, but using PP historical returns this most likely will prove to not be beneficial to the bottom line. Actually, one of the data mining hobbyists with access to daily d...

Bean wrote: Interesting read, what's the source? Would like to read the rest of it.

I don't know where MG saw it, but it is at http://thecrux.com/porter-stansberry-a- ... is-coming/

dualstow wrote:

lazyboy wrote: I'v been able to buy New Balance (made in America!)

My grey sneaks from New Balance say 'Made in Indonesia' unfortunately.

Some New Balance models are still made in the US - but I think at this point most are not.

http://www.newbalance.com/made-in-usa-1/

Just to be clear. Voting here means the folks who run this site (CraigR, MediumTex, and possibly TennPaGa as a moderator) can see the account name and IP address from which the vote originated. If you're uncomfortable with this, please don't vote.  I think these are trustworthy folks, and wouldn't h...

From another thread I posited that we have very few posters here in the top 1% (perhaps about 1% ), and likely no one in the top 0.1%.

Let's find out.

MachineGhost wrote: Very curious.  Now I want to know the backstory of why a peanut looks like a Baron Robber.  Were peanuts expensive and only avalable to the super-rich at one time?  Details, please.

There is (of course) a Wikipedia article:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Peanut

I just found out that the prices for ETF SCHX seen on Stockcharts.com and Yahoo! Finance do not match! And they don't match by large amount. Beware! I have given up on both, and have gone back to Schwab.com for data and charting, because SCHX is a Schwab ETF. It's a pain to log in, but damage from ...

Recalling a recent thread addressed to getting the money out of politics, I found it interesting that the overriding concern of the left-leaning folks was on silencing the political speech of conservative organizations-- not on ending the quid pro quo culture that has made Congress the bought-and-p...

But, if I could convince myself of this, should that make me feel any better about him becoming my president? Exactly.  Let's follow the logic here. 1) Hillary is the lowest of the low, clearly willing to say anything in order to get elected. 2) Trump is saying things for effect that he doesn't rea...

The modern monetary system is truly bizarre.  Modern money is not backed by a tangible resource like gold.  It's backed by debt.  What the levels of world wide debt increasing means is that people (overall) have more money.  It's like the gold supply increasing over time.  This is not necessarily as...