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It looks like i’m not the only guy to have figured out that the world works in cycles. Just look at the fashion industry—bell-bottoms have come and gone……….and come again. I’ve seen acid-wash jeans twice now. What’s next?–shoulder pads for womens’ jackets again?
Patrick Bedard is one of the old-hands at Car&Driver. This is one smart […]
. Nov 23, 2008
Filed under: Automotive, Pop Culture, long-term cycles, collector cars, depreciation, fads, in-fashion, inflation, market trends, muscle cars, out-of-fashion, Patrick Bedard, Pop Culture
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-jfkfade_22met.ART.State.Edition2.4a60df2.html
Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas. Networks aired the 1991 feature film “JFK” by Oliver Stone. I remember when it was released that it was draped in controversy, and accused of being a less-than-accurate rendition of what really happened. To this day, I don’t think anyone really knows what […]
. Nov 23, 2008
Filed under: Politics, Pop Culture, long-term cycles, Al-Quieda, assassination, Bill Clinton, black ops, CIA, Dallas, George W. Bush, inflation, inflection point, JFK, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Kennedy, Lennon, Martin King, Martin Luther King, Obama, Oliver Stone, Osama Bin Laden, Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan
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GM has now become a near-penny stock. GM’s business model is broken, and it could be argued that the unions were overly successful in sucking all the blood out of its employer, GM. The secret to every good parasite is that you’re not supposed to kill your very kind host!!! Not much point being Tommy […]
. Nov 21, 2008
Filed under: Automotive, Changing business models, bailout, bankruptcy, Big Three and China, bloodsuckers, bridge loan, Chery, Chevy, china, China buying Big Three, China buying Ford, China buying GM, China buying Jeep, Chrysler, Ford, GM, inflation, Jeep, loan, monetary inflation, parasites, SAIC, Saudi Arabia, UAW, union, unions
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the choice of this blog’s title comes from our forecast that the next inflationary bust-up and bust-down will be in approx. the year 2035. Now, only the brave, and/or foolish will go on record here in 2008 (and when this blog was started in 2007) with a title like this. I believe that there are […]
. Nov 18, 2008
Filed under: Investing, Market Timing, Technical Analysis, inflation, K-wave, Larry Berman, long-term cycles