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Ready Or Not
As events in Japan this past March showed us, Big Ones really do happen. Richter 9 is about as large as they come, an event so enormous it takes away the breath of even a geologist like myself.
Lesson From The Past: The German Hyperinflation
The below quote is from a book written in 1931 which has now achieved cult status. I have been researching the German hyperinflation period post WWI in order to get some idea as to how to survive investment-wise were such a hyperinflation to befall the US....
International Women’s Day
Senator Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) today, honored the women of New York whose historic leadership and fight for equal rights and rights of women workers we commemorate each year on International Day of the Women, March 8, and Women’s History Month....Some Hard Truths About Energy
As the markets tremble at the massive changes now sweeping the energy-rich Arab world, once again we are reminded that the supply of energy is not something to be taken for granted. Clearly, a continued march upward of oil prices above $100 per barrel threatens an already tepid US economic recovery....
Jello & Deducing Climate Change
I hope you played with your food when you were young. Perhaps you experimented at some point with pushing a drinking straw through Jello....We Have Seen The Future - It Is Greece
Greece – the Road Not Taken Greece is now being forced to go hat in hand to the European Union and the IMF for a massive ...
FartMachine.com Delivers Tons Of Fun
Nobody wants to admit it, but everybody farts. Whether it is an audible rip or silent but deadly, everyone has to pass gas sometime. We all share this human trait....
Greece, China – Keep An Eye On Both
Greece—The International Moral Hazard Fund (aka IMF) to the Rescue...
Beware Of The IMF Bearing Gifts
The Economist is referring to the Greek financial crisis. Readers of my last piece Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Losses must know what I think of The Economist’s recommendation....
Helping Our Global Neighbors: One Bronx Solution To The Haiti Crisis
The following is New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera's statement on the current HAiti earthquake crisis....The Crisis Of 2008 - The Last Chapter
“It is frequently thought that relieving an alleged shortage of money will solve all social problems. Even today, with an economic crisis raging, the response ...
The Export Model
So the world may turn.The US is in a serious consumer led debt deflation. Unemployment will rise further. The realization has now come that the US third quarter GDP numbers were juiced up by the government’s cash for clunkers program, the $8000 credit to new homeowners and a modest inventory swing. These weren’t such good numbers as the market figured out a day later. Now we are starting to hear about a “W” recovery....
Celebrating Columbus Day
Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday....
14 Billion People Died In 14,000 Wars
It is a well-known fact that 70 percent of identical twins, even if they were separated at childhood, often share each other’s fate, even if it’s criminal. Investigators often come across situations that seem unbelievable....
Palestine - Hell On Earth
The purpouse of this article is to allow our readers the opportunity to face the stone-cold facts about a subject, on which we as a nation, and most of the rest of the "civilized" world, know practically nothing....
Is China In A Real Estate/Stock Bubble?
Answer: Probably not. The Chinese authorities are as aware of recent history as anyone else....
Coco Chanel's 126th B-day Anniversary
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion....
Little Boy's & Fat Man's Sad Anniversary
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki....
Major Aid Deployment To Pakistan
International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is dispatching urgently needed aid to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan where hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the fighting between the army and militants in the north west of the country....
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