EMME Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 It was a long long time ago that a pound of coffee ceased to be a pound and growing smaller every day. Hey, what happened to my font size? Is it getting dark in here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 It was a long long time ago that a pound of coffee ceased to be a pound and growing smaller every day. Hey, what happened to my font size? Is it getting dark in here? ...And a pound of bacon was 16oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Reducing product size while keeping price the same or raising it has been going on forever, it's not new. Mostly it happens with stuff that comes in boxes, so it doesn't affect me much except for cereal. It's an inflation mind trick. I think the only thing where the opposite is happening is fast food drinks. A current "medium" is bigger than a large used to be, there is no small, and the damn extra large is a half gallon. 64 oz of soft drink and fries, why again are americans fat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 All other things remaining equal, an increase in treasury interest rates should correspond with a decline in stock prices for two reasons: 1) better yields on debt lures capital out of the equity markets and into the bond markets, and 2) increased costs of capital weigh heavily on firms' abilities to engage in new projects or refinance sub-optimal capital structures.Treasury yields are increasing in spite of massive open market purchases of treasury debt by the Federal Reserve. Stocks prices are also increasing, reflecting a shift of capital out of bond markets and into equities. Commodity prices are also increasing. Equities and commodities are hedges on inflation.The US Dollar is weakening. Aside from measures of market psychology which have very little predictive power, the only good news is that the rate of job losses seems to have peaked in the January-to-March period and that the rate of loss has declined somewhat since then; that's hardly a symptom of recovery, however.To me, the indicators point to stagflation.Anybody that can make a compelling argument otherwise would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 The decade of the 2000s, by the numbers.http://2010.newsweek.com/essay/party-like-its-1999.htmlNot overly impressive, when you look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 The decade of the 2000s, by the numbers. http://2010.newsweek.com/essay/party-like-its-1999.html Not overly impressive, when you look at it. Not impressive at all. The most relevant 'pocketbook' numbers are wage growth and unemployment (the real unemployemnt number is U6), and by those measures we've lost ground the past 10 years. If you measure revocery in terms of workers/consumers, and not just GDP, it looks like the recovery could last longer than the recession itself. It seems that the Fed finally got the memo: Fed Officials Say Recovery Will Be Hampered by Unemployment http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avesmJ.KupaM&pos=5 Talk about understatement of the year. Have they been living underground, or what?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 The decade of the 2000s, by the numbers.http://2010.newsweek...e-its-1999.htmlNot overly impressive, when you look at it.No doubt...this has been one of the worst economic cycles in a long time. However, cycles are cycles. In the more global cycle, we saw a massive ramp-up in the 80's and 90's. Cycles do what bicycle wheels do - they go around, but move forward. We felt the road in March. It was painful. Cheers to moving forward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 No doubt...this has been one of the worst economic cycles in a long time. However, cycles are cycles. In the more global cycle, we saw a massive ramp-up in the 80's and 90's. Cycles do what bicycle wheels do - they go around, but move forward. We felt the road in March. It was painful. Cheers to moving forward!I'm not so sure this time. Everything we have in modern life is pretty much optimized. The last 100 years:Industrial RevolutionAerospace RevolutionInformation Technology RevolutionHenry Ford set up a way to mass produce thousands of cars in the early 1900's.Jet travel became the norm in the 1950's.The late 80's, 90's we learned how to connect all the world's computers together.There is nothing left to do. No other sectors to expand or "grow" into. Nothing really left to make better, either.What we see now is the new normal. We're screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I'm not so sure this time. Everything we have in modern life is pretty much optimized. The last 100 years:Industrial RevolutionAerospace RevolutionInformation Technology RevolutionHenry Ford set up a way to mass produce thousands of cars in the early 1900's.Jet travel became the norm in the 1950's.The late 80's, 90's we learned how to connect all the world's computers together.There is nothing left to do. No other sectors to expand or "grow" into. Nothing really left to make better, either.What we see now is the new normal. We're screwed.That reminds me of the urban legend that some politicians wanted to close the US Patent Office in the late 1800's because they felt everything important had already been invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I'm not so sure this time. Everything we have in modern life is pretty much optimized. The last 100 years:Industrial RevolutionAerospace RevolutionInformation Technology RevolutionHenry Ford set up a way to mass produce thousands of cars in the early 1900's.Jet travel became the norm in the 1950's.The late 80's, 90's we learned how to connect all the world's computers together.There is nothing left to do. No other sectors to expand or "grow" into. Nothing really left to make better, either.What we see now is the new normal. We're screwed.Think about every revolutionary industrial advance that has ever been devised. Do you think that it could have been fathomed just a decade before-hand, even by the individuals credited with taking part in the advance? I don't think so.Btw, on a personal note, you are in the wrong line of work to be saying that what humanity can do to optimize its existence it has already done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 There are still plenty of things that will get made, new technologies, etc. The vast majority of humans on this planet, however, will not be able to afford to buy any of them. The debt bubble is a sign that markets have been reduced to eating themsleves. That, I believe, is very much the new normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 There are still plenty of things that will get made, new technologies, etc. The vast majority of humans on this planet, however, will not be able to afford to buy any of them. The debt bubble is a sign that markets have been reduced to eating themsleves. That, I believe, is very much the new normal.The vast majority of humans may be struggling just to survive due to unchecked population growth and limited availability of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 The vast majority of humans may be struggling just to survive due to unchecked population growth and limited availability of resources.Ah, yes...the Malthusian dilemma. Except that as countries industrialize their population growth rates decline, eventually going negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Ah, yes...the Malthusian dilemma. Except that as countries industrialize their population growth rates decline, eventually going negative.Fertility and living standards: Go forth and multiply a lot less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Judah Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 A rich investment banker in Houston is trying to get his son's teacher fired for criticizing bankers:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6712738/Barclays-banker-Hugh-McGee-wants-sons-teacher-fired-for-sleazeball-comment.htmlThe article doesn't mention that before he was head of Barclays Investment Banking he was head of Lehman Investment Banking. Is he (or rather his industry) beyond reproach? Are these Kinkaid's "core values" as he states? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Judah Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Bailout Tally Reportby Nomi Prins and Krisztina UgrinMarch 3 2010© Nomi Prins LLC 1Supplemental Analysis forIt Takes A Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall StreetTOTAL BAILOUT: $10.4 TRILLIONhttp://www.sitemason.com/files/foZeWA/bailouttallymar2010.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 America's most recession-proof citiesTexas and its circle of influence (of which I'd include Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma) looks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Skip to 3:30. Made in 2008. He was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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