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Actually business is all about anticipating what happens in the future. A lot of capital sat out the Depression because the actions of government on the business climate were uncertain. Once uncertainty declined (war production had priority) business picked up. What you are talking about is investm...

1) How about the fact CO2 increase lags temperature increase? That suggests CO2 cannot be driving climate change. Or it simply validates one of the positive feedbacks that cause GW models to come up with the results they do. Do you disagree that the more CO2 is in the atmosphere the warmer it will ...

I just looked at the Russel 2000. http://www.russell.com/Indexes/characteristics_fact_sheets/US/Russell_2000_Index.asp It hasn't moved since your link from 25 November. Uh, well, right-- all of Obamas major economic announcements came on Nov 24 - 26. After that they were factored into the market an...

Now you may believe that the link I posted is bunk. But time will tell. The tax year ends 31 Dec. If you see a jump in unemployment post that date you can figure out what is happening. Wait-- I just went through all that effort to lay out why it makes absolutely no sense for someone to close their ...

Here is a supply sider who has decided to go out of business rather than face higher taxes and more government regulation. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blame_me_for_job_losses.html Now you have to ask yourself. What will it take to bring guys like this back into the market place? Sorry, b...

IMHO anyone that claims Global Warming is "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" should not be accepted as a trusted source of dispassionate information. This year he's fished 237 more "scientists" out that are willing to call themselves skeptics. But this list builds off of last ye...

Hmm... but I'm not sure that quote supports your theory that spending doesn't help. That quote comes at the end of the Great Depression and it is generally agreed that the New Deal and/or WWII spending were a major factor in pulling us out of it. I have nothing to say on the bailouts-- I'll leave th...

1) ...it is almost universally agreed that the U.S. gov actually needs to "waste" money in the short term in the form of an economic stimulus package to prevent the recession from spiraling out of control.... I personally disagree with this and also disagree with the supposed universallity of it. H...

I don't agree with you about wind and solar. Won't make a dent is my opinion on them. Wind: U.S. gov says it can supply 20% of electricity by 2030 A Standford study says with proper transmission lines, wind power can be steady and reliable source of electricity University of Delaware says entire Ea...

Maui, I'm still pretty skeptical. Not just supposition, people are studying these things closely. Why I read in a new study just released in the news today... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210171908.htm Huh... The last time I really looked into cellulosic ethanol, I didn't seem to...

I talked to a farmer once about switchgrass. You know what kills it? The cost of harvesting it and hauling it to a conversion plant 10 miles away. To be viable any energy production scheme has to have a minimum gain of 5 and better 10 to 20. Any less than that is not economical or practical. There ...

If we invest now, we are probably going to just be spraying the money around willy nilly on stuff that ain't going anywhere. You are on a polywell board for example. Assume something like the polywell works in 50 years from now, won't we feel stupid having 'invested' tons of cash into windmills and...

One thing I completely agree upon with you is that subsidizing something like biofuel is ludicrous. This will raise costs both for fuel and food, and to no good end at all. There's no new technology being developed there (hillbillies have fueled their vehicles on distillate of corn mash since befor...

Oh come on Maui, don't you know what that :D means? It means something like "tongue in cheek" or "take it with a large dose of salt." Oh. I guess I would have used :roll: or :wink:. But I still probably should have figured out :D I suppose. But I see from your data that you reealy got some snow las...

On this one I am inclined to agree with Simon. I live near the same latitude, and really not very far from him. I know that there is a short term cooling going on because it is -5 deg. C outside right now. :D Last winter was one of the coldest and snowiest on record, and the winter before that was ...