That is a great illustration of how markets are markets even though it's 70 whatever years later. And, as I pointed out, look at the recent oil...
I agree in the sense that I don't see disaster unless there's 1) a derivative meltdown, 2) a major terrorist attack or 3) more banking...
Oh, and the cost of polysilicon is falling like a rock thx to the global economy all the while solar corporate earnings are booming:...
And, guys, I would argue that this is the real "nuclear" issue facing the economy. Somebody can tell me if this is old news, but I don't think...
Btw, I'm assuming it did not escape everyone's eagle eye the MASSIVE rate cut of the Bank of England and the large cut of the ECB. If you didn't...
Yeah, my only hope is to outtrade them before they outtax me. It's kind of like a guy in canoe with a leak at the bottom and a 20 oz drink cup in...
Guns and gold, baby...
Again, I've read the theory that the Chinese will jump all over this, let the dollar devaluate somewhat - not totally as you said - in order to...
Here's a purty picture of what happened to oil: http://seekingalpha.com/article/101220-oil-chart-with-fibonacci-retracements Demand broke...
Sobering article. Fortune is putting deflation in the headlines for those int'd:...
Oh, and if that isn't enough, on p. 74 they talk about a company named Aptera has created a vehicle with a drag coefficient about half of a Prius....
For anyone interested, there's a great summary article in Nov's Popular Mechanics on p. 63. It covers thin film solar, of course, and a new...
Very true. I definitely didn't mean short term...
I'm not sure what your point is: nobody is saying it's ready for market yet. I'd still lay odds that they'll come up with a viable thin film...
I live in a sunny state and I know someone with solar with about a ten year pay back if I remember right. It's happening right now...
It looks like potentially there is a huge break through in solar power at RTI: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103130924.htm...
The (funny) money has to go somewhere. With low interest rates, it's going to have a tendency to go into real estate...
I agree it can't last forever as you can see from above. But it can last for a very long time a la 90's. And, again, the 90's was not inflation...
Don't even try! Imagine trying to predict the price of oil in the last year or so. Talk about an unimaginable bubble. It's nothing but pure...
I would argue that that is becomingly increasingly difficult to predict. Think about this: they pumped so much into the system that we had an...
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