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  • Book Review: The Return Of The Great Depression

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    Ordinarily, I bypass books with prophetic titles. In the case of The Return Of The Great Depression by Vox Day, I was willing to make an exception. I've been lurking on Vox's Blog for years, as well as reading his WND columns, and like most bloggers who have been around' [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:53am EST
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  • Book Review: Keynes, The Return Of The Master

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    It's good practice to pick up a book, from time to time, that you know you're going to disagree with. Knowing why you favor one idea over another requires knowing both. This was the reason why I read Keynes: The return of the master by Robert Skidelsky.Having already written a' [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:54am EST
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  • The Currencies Of Last Resort

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    As one of my favorite bloggers, Sybil's Star often says, "you can take the gold out of the standard, but you can't take the standard out of the gold." A case in point was the 1970's. In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S., and the rest of the world, off [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:00am EST
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  • Twitter In The Over 50 Club

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    A buddy of mine at work, who is roughly the the same age as me (55), informed me one day that he had been "talked into signing up with Facebook." He then went on to describe how stupid and pointless it is. I asked him about Twitter;"Oh hell no", he [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:33pm EST
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  • More From The Transparency Wars

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    In a clear case of the Empire striking back, Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, who chairs the domestic monetary policy and technology subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has "gutted" H.R. 1207, the bill to audit the Federal Reserve. Some possible motivations for Mr. Watt's actions come [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:04am EST
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  • A Presidential Clunker?

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    Edmunds car guides have been around since 1966. In 2006 they ceased paper publication and went all online as edmunds.com. They have become a "must use" site for anyone buying a new or used car. So when they came out with a report that the governments Cash for Clunkers (CARS) [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:18am EST
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  • Globalization's Downward Spiral

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    In 6,000 years of recorded human history there has never been a country, or an empire, that grew strong with a weak monetary system. The fall of empires is always foreshadowed by devaluation; Always. From Byzantines byzant, to Rome's drachma, to England's pound, the deliberate cheapening of the money marks [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
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  • Development In The Public Eye

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    Another October, time for me and my brother Steve to make our annual pilgrimage to Laguna Seca Raceway for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) 4 hour endurance race in Monterrey, California. The series usually features 4 classes of cars, 2 prototype (experimental) and 2 production (street cars). Recently they [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:14am EDT
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  • The Common Knowledge Pool

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    Dr. Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics this week. Her selection was somewhat controversial, not because she's a woman, but because her nearly 60 years of field work and research challenge the left/right political and economic establishments. Her work centers around the Common' [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:34am EDT
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  • Trditional Media Wins The So-What Prize

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    Now that the who-haw over President Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize is subsiding, was the story really that big of a deal? Is it so big that the traditional media needs to spend the better part of a week on it? It seems everyone is trying to find [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 6:14am EDT
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  • The Economic Workshop At UNR (Part 2 of 2)

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    The REAP and BEA websites offer a wealth of regional information and both encourage republication of their data, tables and charts.The Regional Economic Analysis Project (REAP) is the brainchild of retired professor Gary Smith of Washington State University. Along with the charts and tables, REAP includes analysis on what things [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:30am EDT
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  • The Economic Workshop At UNR (Part 1 of 2)

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    On Tuesday I attended the “Navigating Nevada’s Economy Workshop” hosted by UNR. As far as I could tell, with the exception of a UNR camera crew who stopped by for a quick interview, I was the only member of the media present. Too bad, the workshop offered a powerhouse line-up [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:50am EDT
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  • World Record Jump Video

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    As part of the Street Vibrations event in Reno Saturday, Ryan Capes set a new world record for motorcycle jumping at the Grand Sierra Resort. I arrived at about 4 PM and the jump was scheduled for 6. There weren't many people there yet, so I had my choice of' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:38am EDT
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  • The Renegade Fed

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    A major split has developed between the Treasury Dept. and the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has denied a request from Treasury Secretary Tim Giethner for a public review of the Fed's structure and governance. Earlier this year the Fed denied a similar request from congress. According to American [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 6:40am EDT
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  • Bernanke's Inflated Market

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    There's not much argument that Ben Bernanke has been one of the more active Federal Reserve Board Chairmen. The "cash injections", covert buys of Treasury Notes, and some rather strange occurrences in the metals markets over the past year, has everyone outside the CNBC cheerleaders wondering if this stock market [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 7:39am EDT
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  • End The Fed: A Review

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    Congressman Ron Paul's new book, "End The Fed" is an excellent book, especially if you're of a libertarian mind. If not, there are still several good arguments for the abolition of the Federal Reserve Bank that could have mass appeal. Speaking as one who was sympathetic with Dr. Paul's rEVOLution' [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 6:45am EDT
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  • Recession: Round Two

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    Six months ago economists and financial experts debated three scenarios; 1) the stimulus would take until September to pull us out of recession, 2) the stimulus would be good short term, but after September it was anyone's guess, and 3) after September the stimulus would be over and the economy [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 6:25am EDT
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  • JP Morgan/Chase Bails Out California

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    California's much heralded IOU's will be redeemable with interest at Bank of America between Sept. 9th and Oct. 9th. Wells Fargo will accept them between Sept. 4th and Sept. 30th, but will only credit interest above $5.00. According to American Banking News, three other banks, Citibank, Bank of the West, [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 6:43am EDT
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  • Congresscare

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    Are we still arguing about federal health insurance? Sorry, I tuned out for a while. It seems the "debate" has moved off of death panels and such, and into the realm of presidential popularity, or lack thereof. Former conservative, David Brooks thinks that the misnamed Obamacare may be the reason [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 3:28am EDT
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  • Transparency, And America's Most Powerful Woman

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    There's been a couple of important developments this week that have gone almost unmentioned in the press regarding the Federal Reserve. Nearly simultaneously with the announcement that Ben Bernanke will be renominated for another term as Chairman, a court case was being decided in New York. The case, Bloomberg LP [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:27am EDT
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  • Lessons from 1907

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    In 2007, a book was published called The Panic Of 1907 as a way of documenting the crisis on it's 100 year anniversary. My original interest in the 1907 panic is that it was the last in a series of panics that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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  • Deflation Series

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    Be sure not to miss the thrilling conclusion of "Deflation Threat Debunked", appearing today only on This Is Reno. If you missed part 1, you can find it here. [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
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  • New Blog In Town

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    A couple of weeks ago I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and found that a couple of blogger/journalist friends of mine had started a new website called This Is Reno. Bob Conrad and Ryan Jerz have some unique views on what journalism is , and what it can be. [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 8:32am EDT
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  • Notes On Woodstock Fatigue

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    Like weeds in a garden, Woodstock stories seem to be a fact of life. We are now at the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and since I started growing weary of Woodstock stories 'round about 1975, this year marks the 34th anniversary of the onset of my chronic Woodstock fatigue. Sure,' [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:16am EDT
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  • Faith, Les Paul, And Splatter Vision

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    We're all familiar with the term, "backed by the full faith and credit of the U. S. Government". Credit is difficult to quantify, as the recent banking troubles demonstrate, and faith even more so. Our credit deteriorates with each raised debt ceiling passed by congress. So, how's your faith doing' [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:39am EDT
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  • Why Limit Death Panel To Children And The Elderly?

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    Just as I was giving up hope that the health care debate would serve no useful purpose, along comes Sarah Palin to the rescue. I think a Death Panel is a terrific idea. Not so much for the elderly, but I have long felt that what unruly children need is [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 5:31am EDT
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  • One More Reason Not To Eat Paint

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    From the current issue of Forbes Magazine comes a story about chemists at Procter & Gamble (P&G). Back in 1996, they came up with a substance they called olestra. The stuff wouldn't stick to anything, including human intestinal tracts. It was supposed to be a calorie-free fat; a dieter's dream' [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 6:39am EDT
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  • Moral Hazard And The CDS Exchange

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    Way back during the Bush Administration, when bailouts were measured in mere billions of dollars, many writers in the economic field warned of the "moral hazard". The idea is that when failure is rewarded, those that have failed will have learned nothing and will continue their failing ways. Evidence of [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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  • Health Care Soundtrack, And A Modest Proposal

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    I'm becoming increasingly dismayed at the trajectory of the health care "debate". Watching the videos of the town hall meetings, reading the hostile rhetoric of both sides, I see this as about to get way out of control. What's needed is a leader to calm everybody down, but I don't [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
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  • My Lying Eyes

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    "Everybody in, nobody out", so sayeth the Oz. Or, as Benito Mussolini once put it, "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state". You can flag me now. [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 5:50am EDT
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  • Financial Flame War

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    One of the great issues of the age is the new-media/old-media debate. Over the last year, as I've slowly immersed myself in what is more properly termed "social media", I've seen it takes many forms. The most common is print journalism versus bloggers. Hardly a week goes by without a [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
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  • At Last, Some Transparency

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    Once again an old rule sheds some light: If you want to know what's happening in America, read a British newspaper. It turns out the Federal Reserve really is being transparent, at least for some people. The Fed has emerged as one of Wall Street’s biggest customers during the financial [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 6:52am EDT
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  • Recovery, Or Bear Market Rally?

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    It's true that one can cherry-pick any numbers and find an economist to support any idea one wants to imagine. With the recent upturn on Wall Street, the bulls-versus-bears battle seems to be tilting towards the bulls and a recovery. The question remains; is this the recovery, or is it [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 12:06pm EDT
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  • Democratic Dogfights

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    There has been quite a lot in the press the last few days about political maneuvering in regards to the health care debate. One interesting thing about it is the terminology used by the big government control-freaks and their lackeys in the press. The term of the day is "blue" [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 6:41am EDT
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  • Supply and the Health Care Debate

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    Today's lesson in economics comes from Abe Lincoln. With the Civil War raging, and the Confederates approaching Washington, Lincoln received a report that J.E.B Stuart's cavalry had kidnapped a general and stolen 40 horses. The next day a messenger appeared saying, " There's good news Mr. President. We've found the'" [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 6:10am EDT
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  • The Coming Devaluation

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    It looks like the stars are coming into alignment for a devaluation of the dollar. The first set of signs comes from then recent run-up in stock prices, and subsequent multi-billion dollar bonuses, involving the Wall Street banks. An excellent look at this is by Daniel Harrison, who points out [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 6:32am EDT
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  • Blogola and Me

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    There are two questions about blogging that I am sometimes asked, and I have never found a satisfactory answer for; "What is your blog about?", and "When are you going to start making some money at this?". A blank stare is my usual answer. I'm 54 years old and no' [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 7:42pm EDT
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  • Please, Not Another Date Night

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    Photo by Penny Starr/cnsnews.comEarlier in the week, Joe Biden, last years smart VP candidate, addressed a meeting of the AARP in which he was quoted as saying: “We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 9:10am EDT
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  • Why I Should Be The Next Empathetic Supreme Court Nominee

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    Seeing as how we are about to set the precedent that empathy is the most important quality of a Supreme Court Justice, as opposed to say, brains for instance, I've been thinking that maybe I could be a Supreme Court Justice too. After all, I'd like to think I'm a' [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
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  • This Just In: Youtube Discovers An Honest Senator

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    We won't get to see how our money is being spent, but at least Omaha gets a new museum.' [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 5:17am EDT
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  • More Legislation Without Representation

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    In a previous post, I referenced the fact that the Energy Bill, that recently passed the House, was unread by anyone at the time of the vote. In fact, the bill wasn't even in completed form. Over the weekend, Rep Steny Hoyer, when asked by CNN, actually laughed at the' [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 4:42am EDT
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  • Text In The City

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    I guess it was only a matter of time before we were treated to this headline: Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting. Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 5:46am EDT
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  • Ode to the Unstimulatable

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    Incredibly, there is talk in Congress of a second stimulus package. For the record, the first stimulus is somewhere between 15-40% spent, depending on who you choose to believe. It's not due to get to 100% until sometime next year. Apparently, for the truly empathetic, one just can't spend other' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 5:59am EDT
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  • My Last Sarah Palin Post (At Least For A While)

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    OK, here's the deal. The market is so over-saturated with Sarah Palin stories that even I don't read them anymore. It's time to let the poor woman exit the stage. Let her go make some peanut butter sandwiches for the kids and be a mom. Let her get, what had' [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 6:53am EDT
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  • Reid-Pelosi Date Night

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    Undisclosed sources are reporting that Senate Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a "night on the town" recently. A gushing Ms. Pelosi was overheard saying, "I've never been to the Senate cafeteria before. It's simply stunning!" The tab for the chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and green' [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 6:42am EDT
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  • Twitter Theater presents...

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    Twitter at the Siege of YorktownAny similarity between the characters and persons living or dead is strictly coincidental. However, I would like to thank the 40 or so people I'm following on Twitter for their inspiration. Icons are from clipart.com, all rights reserved.Cast of Characters……………....……..played byMeFirst…………………........General WashingtonYankeeYuppie……Aide to General' [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2009, 8:42am EDT
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  • Great Tweets Through History

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    I'm still in the lurking phase on Twitter, but I think I'm beginning to figure it out. In this mornings Financial Times Gideon Rachman is beginning to figure it out too. Along the way, he imagines what Twitter feeds might have looked like at different times in history. My personal [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 6:58am EDT
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  • Stealth Laws and Subsidy Bubbles

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    HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 passed the House on Friday. It is a 1,090 page document with a 300 page amendment document that apparently was never reconciled before the vote. This led to an interesting question from Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton: "If a" [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 7:48am EDT
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  • Vote For Me, I Only Take My Pants Off At Home

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    As a general rule, I don't comment much on social issues. It's not that I don't care about them, but I'm hardly a poster boy for the family values set. I make no claims to marriage counseling skills, relationship building formulas, or advice for the lonely at heart. However, given' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
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  • Keeping Up With The North Koreans

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    I don't remember hearing about this when it happened, or maybe it was one of those news items that went in one ear and out the other. The article describes a gunfight on Dec. 22, 2001 between the Japanese Coast Guard and a suspected North Korean "spy ship". It makes' [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2009, 11:10am EDT
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  • Fed Transparency

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    Texas Congressman Ron Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act (HR 1207) now has 234 cosponsors including Dean Heller (of course), and Shelley Berkley, along with 64 other House Democrats. From the summary:Directs the Comptroller General to complete, before the end of 2010, an audit of the Board of Governors of the [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
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  • Progressive Roots and Silent Tigers

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    When I was little I would sometimes ask my Grandma to tell me a story about "the olden days". She was born in 1892 and she was a Grandma straight out of central casting; short, plump, with wavy gray hair and enough wrinkles to make a prune jealous. She would [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 5:54am EDT
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  • Palin Hits Back

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    As if winning the election wasn't enough, the left continues their attacks on Sarah Palin. What are they afraid of?Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyI have to love the "so-called comedian" bit. Nice shot.' [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
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  • Fascism 101

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    Voxiversity 3 is starting this week with Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism". Before any of my lefty friends out there roll their eyes, Vox says there's plenty in there about Republicans too. Just having read the introduction (the first assignment) Goldberg has already identified Compassionate Conservatism as fascist and says that [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 6:19pm EDT
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  • Remember

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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 8:42am EDT
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  • The Negative Interest Rate Explained

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    There have been several articles written over the last moth or so about the possibility of negative interest rates. Conventional wisdom holds that interest rates can not go below zero. With the Fed Funds Rate currently at 1/4%, any further action by the Federal Reserve would have to be negative. [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 8:19am EDT
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  • Correction(s)

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    In case anyone missed it, Jillian's Dad left a comment that reads in part: They (the Mitty Monarchs) were playing for the Division II California Central Coast Section Championship and with the win they remained ranked #1 in the country on both the ESPN and USA Today high school softball [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 6:32am EDT
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  • Bernanke Loses Grip On Reality

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    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made some unbelievably stupid statements before a House panel yesterday. “Maintaining the confidence of the financial markets requires that we, as a nation, begin planning now for the restoration of fiscal balance.”Let's take a look at the "confidence of the financial markets" that Mr. Bernanke [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 5:37am EDT
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  • Notes on a Spring Break

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    For part of my vacation, I went to visit my Dad in Las Vegas. In between a busy schedule of eating, drinking, and laying about, we managed to visit a few petroglyph sites in the area. Grapevine Canyon is about 50 miles south of Las Vegas and well worth the [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 5:33am EDT
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  • Experts Grasping At Straws

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    I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, but the blame game over the economic situation seems to have entered full tilt boogie mode. First, it was all Phil Gramm's fault, no wait, it was Bill Clinton. Hang on a minute, it was Jimmy Carter's fault, no wait, [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 5:21am EDT
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  • On Vacation

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    At 5PM Friday I'll be off like a prom dress for some much needed and overdue R&R. I'll be away from computers most of the time, so my experiments in digital technology are on temporary hold. Not that there has been a lot of progress lately, so maybe a break [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 7:48pm EDT
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  • Geese Are Really Smart

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    It came to my attention recently, that certain Reno bloggers don't like geese. I would like to remind one and all that geese have several swell character traits. The following video may be old news to some, but I think it will prove my point.1)It is an established scientific fact' [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
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  • Notes from a Bystander

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    There’s been some interesting developments in the Reno blogger community lately, regarding first amendment rights and freedom of speech. It all started in an obscure corner of the world; women’s soccer at UNR. As the lawyers gathered, Ryan Jerz weighed-in with an opinion of it on his blog. Since Ryan’s [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:59pm EDT
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  • About That Government Transparency

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    Nick Gillespie of Reason, has a video interview with Mike Pickett, CEO of Onvia, who has recently created a new website called Recovery.org. It is in direct competition with the Obama Administration's Recovery.gov, which to date is reporting exactly zero of the stimulus money it was meant to track. Officials [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 4:47pm EDT
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  • Lockwood Goslings

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    I was out in Lockwood for part of the morning scoping out a spot for Episode 2 of "Tales from the Rue de la Noir." Normally, the geese there stay on the far side of the river where there's less people and no dogs. Today two groups came over to [...]
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    Posted: May 09, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
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  • Tales from the Rue de la Noir

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    In episode 1, a classic masterpiece of Johann Sebastian Bach is taken out of context and cut to pieces for the puerile amusement of the global community.On a personal note: My first effort is pretty sloppy, with lots of room for improvement, but I think I'm getting the hang of' [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
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  • Towards a Tangible Value Economy

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    I don't know if it's the fact that politics has become too depressing for me, or my preoccupation with my new digital toys, but I'm still paying marginal attention to the news. On President Obama's plan to reduce the importance of Wall Street though regulation, my Libertarian Thought Leader of [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 6:37am EDT
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  • Gosling Update

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    It's only been a week, and the goslings at Rancho San Rafael are noticeably bigger. They swim a little, nap a little, but mostly they eat. [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
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  • The Specter Trade

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    Republican Senator Arlen Specter was traded to the Democrats today for an undisclosed amount of cash and a governorship to be named later. In a prepared statement, Coach Harry "Silver Tongue" Reid said of the deal: "Arlen's unique abilities to drone on and on without ever coming to a point" [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
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  • Tales from the Rue de la Noir

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    I spent most of the weekend shooting meaningless and mostly unusable video. One of the places I went, for no particular reason, was Lockwood, up the canyon east of town. They're building a park there called Lockwood Trailhead. It looks like it will be pretty nice, once the landscapers are' [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
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  • Reno's New Arrivals

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    Yep, it's definitely springtime. [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 6:58pm EDT
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  • Memo To The Grasshopper

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    I regret to inform you that your job as mascot of Local So-And-So is being phased out. You have done your duty well, my little friend, but the situation has changed. The world turns, and time is a friend to no living thing. It's not even a friend to a [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
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  • Reid Fundraiser Protest Video

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    Duty called and I was stuck at work on Wednesday, so I missed the TEA Party protest. I managed to swing by the Harry Reid fundraiser later that day. It was reported that Republican Mayors Bob Cashell of Reno and Geno Martini of Sparks would be at the Democratic Senator's' [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 11:46am EDT
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  • Homemade Charts

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    Yeah, it's been quiet around here lately- a little too quiet. In between messing with my new camera, video editing demos, and format conversion programs, I've reached one of my long-term goals; making my own charts. My method was to start with the most grandiose idea I could imagine, and' [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 6:34am EDT
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  • Japanese Robot Women To Invade Moon

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    Hardly a week goes by that I don't see a story regarding Japanese Robot Women. This time, they are preparing to land on the moon. Photo from Drudge ReportI can think of only three reasons for the Japanese Robot Women phenomenon:a) Japanese scientists really need to get out moreb) Critical' [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 6:44am EDT
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  • Speaking Truth To Power

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    There's been a welcome development on the freedom front lately. I've been a bit preoccupied with my new Flip video camera that I bought on Saturday ( more on that later). Last Thursday, Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister gave a speech at the European Union's Parliament. Daniel Hannon, a' [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 6:12am EDT
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  • No Heroes In Tone Deaf Corporations

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    There's an excellent post over on Pajama's Media about the AIG bailout and its relation to the Titanic. It should be of interest to anyone interested in marketing, the current dissatisfaction among the citizenry, and historical research. It's written by Bill Whittle and compares the AIG Officers actions with those [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
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  • Poker For Profit

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    The reviews are in and Treasury Secretary Geithner's newest plan to rescue the economy has been met with near universal disdain. The political left would rather see the banks nationalized, and object to the public/private aspect of the plan. The political right can't be in favor since, well, it's not' [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 5:10am EDT
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  • Is The End Nigh, Yet?

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    March 18, 2009, I’m marking it on my calendar. Was that the day our president admitted to a high bowling score of 129? No. It was the day the Federal Reserve announced they would begin buying Treasury Bills. In effect, we are now loaning money to ourselves. There is only [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 7:41pm EDT
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  • Protest Government Spending

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    I'm not sure how readable this flyer is going to be, but there is going to be a protest against the money laundering going on in our government these days. It will be on April 15th, 10:30 to 1:30 in front of the capitol building in Carson City. All are' [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
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  • Ignoring the Customer

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    It's hard to believe now, but I used to enjoy reading Kathleen Parker's opinion pieces in National Review. I stopped when she turned on Sarah Palin for not being sufficiently sophisticated for the Washington champagne circuit. I stopped reading a lot of people then. Now I've come to find out' [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
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  • Catching Up with Dilbert

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    As noted earlier, the new time zone is still wreaking havoc on my schedule. Looking through some old Dilbert blog posts, I found this:One could argue that previous economic bubbles were driven by sex, directly or indirectly. Guys bought cars to attract girls. The VCR business thrived because of porn. [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 6:59am EDT
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  • Finance Magic

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    In an article about the Obama Administration's problems in staffing the Treasury Department, Stephan Green, the Vodkapundit points out an interesting phenomenon:According to a recent Reuters story, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman estimates that “Between 40 and 45 percent of the world’s wealth has been destroyed in little less than [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 8:28pm EDT
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  • A Few Useful Links

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    Is it my imagination, or did the switch to Daylight Savings Time wipe out a few bloggers (including me) this week. The early morning hours are prime blogging time for me, so I haven’t accomplished much this week. But, I did promise a few examples of the presentations at the [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
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  • Notes on the Summit

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    I attended the Nevada Interactive Media Summit held at the Reynolds School of Journalism on Saturday. Is it possible to suffer information overload, and still not have heard enough? The conference was designed in three groups of workshops per hour, over five hours, so I didn’t get to hear everything [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
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  • End the Fed

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    Thanks to Vox Day for pointing this out. It's too good not to pass along.The Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy is a big mistake; it is not a panacea.Artificially low interest rates are achieved by inflating the money supply. Low interest rates penalize the thrifty and those who save' [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 6:24pm EST
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  • Housing and Recessions

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    I ran across a article at Calculated Risk that has 20 good charts; so many that I had trouble picking just one. This chart shows the relationship between housing construction and recessions, and brings up 2 important points.The first point is that housing spikes and recessions are not necessarily related. [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 6:38am EST
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  • Problems at CPAC

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    Republicans are the pro-business party. Why then are we so lousy at public relations?A case in point from Patrick Poole at Pajamas Media:...those of us inhabiting the official bloggers row, sponsored this year by Pajamas Media, are clearly considered the red-headed stepchildren by CPAC’s organizers. The best evidence for this [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 6:23pm EST
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  • The Soak the Rich Myth

    Number of comments: 7
    I once worked for a very wealthy man. He was the kind of guy who would make the interns, who were already working for free, take the company car over to his house to clean his swimming pool. He was the kind of guy who once had an employee load [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2009, 8:44am EST
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  • Real Trust Requires Real Capitalists

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    Plowing through the hyperbole that the financial sections have become, one can sometimes find a little perspective. Rob Kirby writing in Financial Sense looks back on the road we have traveled:Banks in the 19th century were owned by real capitalists and the equity capital of banks was about 60–80% of [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 7:24pm EST
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  • Leeches On the Back of Society

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    A universal constant in the world of the rich and powerful is that they will always do what is in their own self-interest. It's how they became rich and powerful to begin with. I have no problem with that, but anytime one of them says something that ordinarily would not' [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 7:32am EST
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  • Deconstructing the Lost Decade

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    There has been much talk of Japan's "Lost Decade" recently. In the IBD this morning, Robert Samualson lays out a few pertinent facts.First and foremost is that, historically, government stimulus has a mixed record. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and nobody knows why. Each situation is different enough [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 6:52am EST
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  • When Subs Collide

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    The Sun newspaper is reporting that a British nuclear submarine collided with a French nuclear submarine somewhere in the north Atlantic. There doesn't appear to have been a breach of the hull in either vessel and no loss of life. My dad served as a sonar man on a submarine' [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 7:06pm EST
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  • Economic Fascism?

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    I'd been thinking about this subject for a while now, and this morning Michael Ledeen had an article on it. Is what's going on in Washington socialistic, fascistic, or just plain bad policy?It has always been easy to tell the difference between capitalism and communism. They are divided by property [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 6:04pm EST
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  • New Improved Zombies

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    There is a new phrase being coined regarding a perceived impending disaster that is our economy. It is the "Zombie Bank". I vaguely remember this term being used during the Japanese banking crisis in the 1990's. It's origin may be older, but I'm beginning to see it used in the' [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 8:28pm EST
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  • The Individual Power Station

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    Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, has identified a basic modern problem, and the beginnings of how to solve it. One of the frustrations people have with the current economic downturn is feeling they are helpless to do anything about it. We are told by the media that only the government [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 9:22pm EST
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  • The Comedian's Craft

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    A confluence of events yesterday led me to Barnes & Noble bookstore to spend my Christmas gift card. One of the books I bought was "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin. It's a very readable book about his early years and has quite a few surprises.The biggest surprise is the' [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 10:51am EST
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  • Broken Windows and the Unseen

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    I happened across an interesting chart earlier this week. With all the back-and-forth about the next Great Depression one is tempted to look at the years 1930 to 1940. What is really instructive are the years 1941, '42, and '43. We might conclude from this chart that WW II was [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2009, 9:40am EST
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  • Chinese Automakers Outsell US

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    For the first time in history, the automakers in China have outsold their US counterparts. January auto sales fell to 9.8 million, compared to China’s estimated selling rate of 10.7 million. With our rising unemployment, one has to wonder when China will start shipping jobs over here to take advantage [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 8:21pm EST
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  • Geezer Misses Blogger Dinner

    Number of comments: 7
    One of the signs of the ageing process is that you stop paying attention to modern culture. You don’t know where the hangouts are anymore. For me, this happened about 20 years ago, before I moved to Reno. The announcement for the Blogger Dinner just said it would be at [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 6:42pm EST
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