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by SovietofWashington
Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:36 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 16-Jun-14 World View -- Iraq catastrophe unfolds
Replies: 2
Views: 5446

Re: 16-Jun-14 World View -- Iraq catastrophe unfolds

Time for an update of your threat index John? Maybe just set them all to 1 would be quickest.
by SovietofWashington
Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:11 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

http://stories.weather.com/mudslide True heros [FWIW, I live 20mi south and 10mi west of the slide site and have local knowledge. Don't know any of the affected.] So they are A. Good folk out in the hills. Many of the Darrington folks (to the east of the slide) are ex-pat Tar Heels. Have a really g...
by SovietofWashington
Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:15 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

Same here. About 10% of the time. Most times a refresh fixes, but not always.
by SovietofWashington
Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:09 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

gerald wrote:Looks like the First National Bank of Mattress might get popular again.
Did somebody say mattress bank?

http://blog.mattressman.co.uk/2013/04/s ... -bank.html :D
by SovietofWashington
Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:19 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

. Obamacare - Obama Administration: 30% plus of Obamcare Software not yet Written In my experience the last 30% of the software takes 90% of the time. :-) Bruce Webster says that the first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the schedule. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the schedule. :D...
by SovietofWashington
Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:57 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

I don't think there's a lot of time left. I think it is on the order of months now, maybe 3 years at the very best before the lights go off in Washington and never come back on. I just had a couple of new projects assigned at work, likely my valedictory projects since I plan to retire about the sam...
by SovietofWashington
Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:36 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/12/folks-about-to-riot-twitter-explodes-with-outrage-over-electronic-food-stamp-shutdown/ I saw somebody try to pay with an EBT card today and it was declined. This link confirms it happened all across the country. Higgy, Paul Kersey at 'Stuff Black People do...
by SovietofWashington
Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:38 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 14-Jun-11 News -- Revisiting the 'Principle of Maximum Ruin'
Replies: 5
Views: 6145

Re: 14-Jun-11 News -- Revisiting the 'Principle of Maximum R

Keen is one of the few economists that deserve regular reading (weekly or bi-weekly would be sufficient given his posting rate) since he really gets it. He's with you, John in predicting a grinding deflation as the most likely outcome of the GFC. His article from 2009 entitled The Roving Cavaliers o...
by SovietofWashington
Wed May 11, 2011 6:57 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

a CRC. Ha, ha...Vince shows his age by reference to a CRC handbook. I bet few under 30 has ever used one (I can guarantee neither of my kids [graduating college with degrees in Bio and Civil Engineering respectively in June] have ever used one despite having both Math Tables and Chemistry/Physics h...
by SovietofWashington
Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:20 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29813
Views: 14785901

Re: Financial topics

But it does appear that Mish is coming around (for non-Generational Dynamics reasons) to John's position on Malthusian population overshoot and the potential for a Crisis of Civilization war. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/03/oil-prices-are-double-edged-sword-peak.html . See the bot...