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by scared_sh+tless
Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:55 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Climate Change
Replies: 112
Views: 170279

Re: Climate Change

While I am suspious of the hacked emails being authentic, no one has come out and said they are an outright fraud. The defense most commonly heard is 'taken out of context' or 'that is the lingo of the scientists', or 'its just curve fitting'. Here is some more common sense analysis: http://globalec...
by scared_sh+tless
Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:52 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Climate Change
Replies: 112
Views: 170279

Re: Climate Change

From : http://market-ticker.org/archives/1648-Global-Warming-SCAM-HackLeak-FLASH.html "Global Warming" SCAM - Hack/Leak FLASH Apparently a "Global Climate Center" was hacked and the contents have been posted to the Internet. A ZIP file exceeding 60MB and containing a huge number of emails and other ...
by scared_sh+tless
Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:49 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

Hi, Just thought you should know about a type in your "Budget Deficit Triples" entry. You typed in "more than tripling the record 2008 deficit of $459 trillion" which should be have ended with 'million'. Haven't read much in this forum for a while because the over whelming sentiment where I live is ...
by scared_sh+tless
Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:58 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

John » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:48 pm wrote: Today President Obama lectured us on the value of his universal health care initiative, implying that if we spend a few trillion more dollars on it, then we'll save money. Obama is beginning to turn into a used car salesman: The more he spends, the more money h...
by scared_sh+tless
Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:23 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

The reason appears to be optimism caused by the expected announcement tomorrow of China's next stimulus package. Shanghai's markets rallied 6%. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/bu ... 99,00.html Commodities prices rose 3% on the hope that China's manufacturing industries would begin to recover,...
by scared_sh+tless
Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:56 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

An interesting take on why the subprime mess is more damaging than it should of been:

Banks counterfeiting subprime papers

http://www.thesanitycheck.com/BobsSanit ... fault.aspx
by scared_sh+tless
Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:15 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

What do you think about the prospect of the US (and possibly other countries) devaluing their currency in order to reflate the economy? http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-g-20s-secret-debt-solution-27996 Is it just wishful thinking on the part of the gold bugs or is it a real possibility at some poi...
by scared_sh+tless
Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:05 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14759452

Re: Financial topics

Hi John, I am new to the site and find the points of view here very interesting and scary at the same time. You mentioned in a previous post that odds of a generational panic event are about 25% for each week going forward. Hasn't this panic already happened, the DOW has fallen from a high of 14000+...