And, yeah, I guess we need SOME crude oil, cause our Priuses cannot ALWAYS run on electricity. So I guess its fine to use crude oil if we have to, as long as we can obtain the oil in an ecologically friendly way…
November 5th, 2009 | Eric J. Fry | 9 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "california"
Smart People to Blame for Central Planning
‘The Singularity’ is an idea from Ray Kurzweil. The gist of it is that computers will soon be smarter than humans; by the middle of this century they’ll be smart enough to figure out how to get smarter and smarter, faster and faster.
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 21 comments | Continued
Americans Have No Money to Spend Because They Already Spent It!
From Florida, comes news of the first drop in population in 60 years. “Unemployment is soaring,” reports USA Today. “Florida is second to California on foreclosures.”
Yes, dear reader, there is trouble in the sand states…
September 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
England Sinks Deeper into Depression in Decade of Pain
“Decade of pain predicted for public services,” was the headline on Friday’s Guardian from London. The reason for the decade of pain is the obvious one. Tax receipts are down – because of the depression. Governments are caught in a bind.
July 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Stimulus Stimulates
After a half a century of stimulus – with credit, inflation and the money supply growing faster and faster – the Fed put the pedal to the metal following the nano-recession of 2001. It dropped interest rates to just 1% – well below the rate of consumer price inflation…
July 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
California Has Run Out of Money
California has so degraded itself into a laughably Leftist socialist/commie- think nightmare that they have, as all socialist/commie-think countries always do, finally bankrupted itself. As Margaret Thatcher, erstwhile prime minister of England, once said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
July 14th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 8 comments | Continued
California and its Ailing Economy
And what about California? This week’s Economist magazine gives us a new measure for California’ budget deficit — $26 billion, up from the $24 billion last reported in this space. A widely published photo shows Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking a cigar…
July 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
RIP Robert S. McNamara and California’s Holes in its Budget
Robert McNamara must have been in a hurry too. He never had time to wonder why he was sending 500,000 American boys to fight a war when Lyndon Johnson was “publicly promising in campaign speeches not to ‘go North,’ not to send American boys to fight wars Asian boys ought to fight for themselves,”…
July 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Hangover Nation
Have you noticed? Bernie Madoff bears a striking resemblance to George Washington. And so goes the nation…from the man who couldn’t tell a lie, to the man who couldn’t tell the truth…
January 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 11 comments | Continued