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Airlines also are regaining some pricing power: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012812589_airfare05.html There was an article a few days ago about movie theaters selling fewer tickets at higher prices. Higher end clothing retailers like Nordstroms have been doing well lately. Appa...

US consumers are split into two clear and distinct groups. The ones with secure jobs, who are surviving the economic downturn are spending as much as ever, while the ones who war dealing with chronic unemployment have cut back sharply, spending only on the bare necessities. I saw an article saying ...

Falling real estate prices will have another benefit besides letting young people buy houses at reasonable prices which correlate more with income. It will also decrease the relative political power of property developers and real estate agents. Just about anyone in a bubble area over the last 30 ye...

China sure seems like they're in an awakening phase to me. They sure as heck didn't have much of one in the 60s when 20 million people starved. And would a people in a crisis mode conceive of something like this? http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-u...

I realized in 2002 that we were headed for a new 1930s style Great Depression when I was eating lunch at the mall reading the Boston Globe, and I saw a graph of the Dow Industrials going back to the early 1900s. I took one look at it and said, "Ohmigod, the stock market is going to crash." It was t...

One strong trend I notice is that recently retired boomers, including my parents and parents of friends, have not given up on stocks. Many seem virtually obsessed with CNBC. Last time I saw him my dad asked me if I had "heard of this Roubini character - awww, he's just a big pessimist". Anyways, man...

I thought Manna by Marshall Brain was a good read. I'll have to check out Plastic Children.

What I found most interesting about the article was that I read about 100 of the comments, and all but 5 or 6 seemed to condemn the NAACP for making the blanket condemnation of the Tea Party as racist. I had the same thought when I read the comments. Usually the only thing that will make comments t...

banks are still extorting 30% interest rates from their credit card customers, and using the money to pay themselves million dollar bonuses, How can you complain about government interference in health care in the first paragraph and then complain about non-government interference in the second wit...

You know, there's a very odd feeling surrounding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It's such a huge disaster, that it actually seems like something out of the Old Testament. What surprised me when I tuned into the 24 hour news outlets lately is the lack of footage of oil-soaked beaches or creatures. Th...