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- Fri May 10, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Likewise, not only will the infrastructure of roads, bridges and electrical systems not be maintained or replaced, vandals will rip up whatever they can salvage and cart it away - guard rails, manhole covers, or what have you. Houston police discuss ‘disturbing uptick’ in copper wire thefts The Hou...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
In this Dark Age Hovel, similar ideas have already been covered. Most people who move out to a rural area, do a remodeling project, and similar, think it needs to involve buying lots and lots of stuff. That's American culture. It's pretty much automatic. Even in a rural area where country folk are ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Record Wave of Americans Fled Big Cities for Small Ones in 2023 [/b] I guess I'm part of this statistic. Anyway, I saw a headline this week that said home gardening leaves a 5-6 times greater carbon footprint than producing the equivalent on large commercial farms. The Telegraph Carbon footprint of...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 2003
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Warren Buffett is now 'as bearish as he ever gets,' says Bill Smead Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, joins CNBC's 'The Exchange' to share his reactions to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting over the weekend. MON, MAY 6 20241:29 PM EDT https://www.cnbc.com/video/202...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 2003
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
During the Greenspan era, it was thought by some that blowing a generational bubble was OK because it would give the new technologies time to be commercialized and there would be some long term benefit to getting the internet companies established, then popping the bubble to revert everything back ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 2003
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
During the Greenspan era, it was thought by some that blowing a generational bubble was OK because it would give the new technologies time to be commercialized and there would be some long term benefit to getting the internet companies established, then popping the bubble to revert everything back t...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Provided it was in the "right" neighborhood. Old Economy Steve meme.Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 11:25 amI suppose if the average worker bought a house a long time ago he did OK too.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/05 ... steve.html
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 2003
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
These charts cover both the Greenspan and Bernanke eras. Though Bernanke's policies seemed more extreme, the outcome was about the same. I suppose if the average worker bought a house a long time ago he did OK too. https://i.postimg.cc/7hKKvRpC/Screenshot-2024-05-06-095744.png https://i.postimg.cc/g...
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C. November 21, 2002 Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here A broad-based tax cut, for example, accommodated by a program of open-market purchases to alleviate any tendency for interest rates to increase...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: The New Dark Age
- Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
- Replies: 2003
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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Fed needs mortgage-backed securities exit plan 'earlier than later,' George says By Howard Schneider January 23, 202312:36 PM CST WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George has urged her colleagues to come to terms "earlier than later" on a plan for the U.S. ...