New Blogger in Town
Indy Mind is a new blogger. Here's a good post he did on Bambi and coming inflationary bubble.
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Wise words: Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
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Aisling: (Irish: aislinn; pronounced ASH-ling): A vision poem.
In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An SpÊirbhean (the sky-woman).
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"Love one another." Hari's last words.
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“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.” - John Donne, 1572-1631, English Poet
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"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses" - G.B. Shaw, 1856-1950, British Dramatist
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"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864).
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely [to the White Rabbit], "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely [to the White Rabbit], "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. —Frank Zappa, Chicago Tribune, 1978
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''Expressing the will of the people, the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Republic declares and solemnly proclaims the restoration of the exercise of sovereign powers of the Lithuanian state, which were annulled by an alien power in 1940. From now on, Lithuania is once again an independent state.'' -Resolution approved by the Lithuanian parliament, March 12, 1990
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche, sometime in the latter 1800s
It's nothing new, it's been happening since Nixon.
ReplyDeleteactually, nixon inherited lbj's inflation. at the start of jfk, we were around 3%. with all of lbj's spending, it doubled to 6% - and we never got control of it until reagan in 1981+
ReplyDeleteWhat does "floating dollars" mean? I understand a little of why Nixon took or had to take the dollar off of the gold standard. I do not understand the term "floating dollars". Is it the mere fact that the dollar is not backed by gold? I read an article proposing going back to that standard. would that be safe?
ReplyDeletethat's exactly right. while we were on the "gold standard" it was literally true that every US dollar was backed by an amount of gold in the ownership and possession of the US Government. gold prices were fixed at $35 an ounce.
ReplyDeleteonce we left the gold standard, the dollar "floated" without a mooring. it is currently valued based upon market supply and demand, international feelings about our economy, etc.
Wow, really, why is the government bailing out any industry? Foreign countries are feeling the affect of our economy, trade has to be slow because Americans are not purchasing their products or investing in their stock as well. It seems this should right itself. Is it true countries like China will not honor the floating dollar, opting ,instead, to have the US purchase bonds?
ReplyDeletegreat questions. why? because we have too many socialists in our government. the free market operates best when it is free. the problem is that the Community Reinvestment Act, our laws strongly protecting unions, and other laws have given us something other than a true capitalist system.
ReplyDeletethere's a great concept you may enjoy research - creative destruction. it applies when a true capitalist system allows - as it should - a business or industry to fail. the result is not doom and gloom. people don't sit around. capital isn't wasted. it finds a new outlet, workers retrain, and the result is a healthy economy that provides more to the consumer than ever before.
in some measure you can see the innovation in the stem-cell discussion. W says - no fetal stem cells except those lines already in existence. the libs cry. guess what? science found a way to create stem cell (from adult stem cells) that act just like fetal stem cells. let's not even discuss the fact that nothing has ever been productively produced from fetal stems - just from adult stems ...