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Entries from October 2008

Property Prices Prepare to Plummet

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Sub-prime mortgages ripple effect has started and will continue to reverberate across the world and fittingly, where the whole thing started, in the ol USA, with almost 800,000 receiving at least one foreclosure-related notice from July through September, up 71 percent from a year earlier. RealtyTrac expects more than a million bank-owned properties to have [...]

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Tags: banks · money · property · usa

The Only Smart American?

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Quote: ‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until [...]

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Tags: banks · money · usa

Duelling Puppets

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Who writes their stuff?

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Tags: australia · politics

Google Pumps Up Energy Efficiency with GE

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Google and General Electric (two of the most advanced 21st century companies), have joined forces that should revolutionize North America and elsewhere with state-of-the-art “smart” electricity grids. The only thing limiting their success may well be the need for this high concentration in alternative energy … Peak Oil … where the world’s oil supplies are [...]

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Tags: alternative energy · electricity

The Mad Economist

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Look with care at Orlov’s comments on http://madconomist.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-collapse-lessons-every-american-needs-to-know “Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask them for anything.”  Alexander Sozhenisyn

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Tags: big picture