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Quite the contrary! BECAUSE the dollar is considered the "go to" currency in times of instability or panic, it makes it even EASIER for us to print money without immediate repercussions. This is exactly what we've been doing! This is how we can have $3 trillion in bailouts, deficits, and stimulus, ...

This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package . You think they have that cash sitting in a bank account somewhere? Where did they get the $ for TARP? How/why did the FED's balance sheet increase by nearly $2 trillion last year? Total public debt just hit 10.6 TRI...

You've said the Fed can print all the money they want. I asked you to show that. A list of numbers doesn't do that. This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package . You think they have that cash sitting in a bank account somewhere? Where did they get the $ for TAR...

if they are going to create money I can't believe people are still saying "if"!! http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/ You've said the Fed can print all the money they want. I asked you to show that. A list of numbers doesn't do that. Do you really think I don't know what those numbers...

Marsh, if you could point to any articles on theoildrum that discuss modeling of complex system energy flows as mentioned in the post I made above, it would be appreciated. I don't read any peak oil sites, but am aware of the general theory from reading Jay Hanson's dieoff over a decade ago. I will...

John, It is interesting that most of the people on the oildrum.com have read you but you are apparently unaware of them. Marsh, if you could point to any articles on theoildrum that discuss modeling of complex system energy flows as mentioned in the post I made above, it would be appreciated. I don...

This is a very interesting insight, and I've never seen it expressed before. I speculated last summer that the world economy had reached some kind of tipping point, perhaps a structural limit in the markets that can't be cured in the short run. Maybe what had happened was some interlock involving e...

I actually have a feeling that we may see an upturn here. The bad news has been so bad that it really isn't having any effect of stocks at this point and history tells us that the market, and the economy, don't go straight down. --Fred Agree. I started making negative posts in early January but the...

AN excellent article at http://seekingalpha.com/article/116371-2009-economy-outlook-severe-recession-but-not-a-depression?source=article_lb_articles ... The Paradox of Deficit Spending Bailouts and Stimulus Packages I may be wrong in my thinking here but there appears to be a huge paradox at the he...

There's another point in the discussion about marginal barrels, and that is the net energy extracted from the barrels on the margin. What I mean by that is those marginal barrels may have cost $80 to produce at the peak of the boom but since our accounting system is money based rather than energy ba...