Archive for August 2009

The Age of Decadence, redux

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Testable Hypothesis

Bloomberg provides us with an intriguing test of LMF Theory: “Swine flu [H1N1] may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S. this year… may infect as much as half of the population[,] and kill 30,000 to 90,000 people, double the deaths caused by the typical seasonal flu, according to the planning scenario issued yesterday by [...]

Is not! …
Is so! …

According to the Florida Today, “[T]here are no confirmed cases of the swine flu [H1N1] in Brevard County [Florida]’s 94 public schools, district officials said Thursday.”
According to the Florida Today, “Swine flu [H1N1] is likely in most Brevard County [Florida] schools, officials said Friday.”
Invest accordingly.
CWE

Cuba Allows Private Farms

The St. Petersburg [Florida] Times reports, “[T]he [Cuban] government recently began handing out idle state land to private farmers across the island in an effort to boost food production.”
This is one small step in the direction of the normalization of relations between the USA and Cuba.
Aprenda español y invierta en consecuencia.
CWE

Alternate-Day Pricing

Bloomberg, by way of CaribbeanNetNews.com, reports, “Venezuela[n government agents might] modify [Venezuela's] foreign exchange controls to create four different exchange rates.”
With oil revenues down, the threat of a Chinese Bubble meltdown, and a global depression that is recovering relatively slowly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is learning a bit more quickly than he seems to have [...]

The Sky Is Falling… Upward

It’s a sad dog that won’t wag it’s own tail, as my Southern relatives like to say. Thus, it bears repeating: 29 March 2009 I called the bottom of the US patch of the global depression that we now are climbing slowly out of.
Bloomberg reports:
“Making money on the thinking of [New York University [...]

Hero’s Welcome

A friend forwarded this yesterday. I post it verbatim.

Dear Friends,
I arrived in Edinburgh Thursday to the news that the Scottish government was about to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of killing 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie in 1988, on compassionate grounds. Mr. Megrahi is expected to die of [...]

Short the US Dollar

Bloomberg reports, “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who led the biggest expansion of the central bank’s power in its 95-year history to battle the worst economic slump since the 1930s, will be nominated to a second term by President Barack Obama, said David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser.”
“Bernanke, 55, slashed the main interest rate almost [...]

Researchers Grow Tooth in Mouse from Stem Cells

The Wall Street Journal reports, “Researchers used stem cells to grow a replacement tooth for an adult mouse, the first time scientists have developed a fully functioning three-dimensional organ replacement, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
No word on when human trials begin.
CWE

Dominium

Two days ago, I reiterated my prediction from 12 June 2009 that corporations will supplant national governments as the seat of power in the near future.
It seems that Zachary Karabell, author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It, to be published by Simon & Schuster [...]