The “twenty-year rule”.

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 […]

JFK assassination. Conspiracy? Coup d’Etat? Other? And what it means for the next thirty years.

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 […]

Will a GM bailout involve Chinese dollars?

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 […]

Inflation. Is it here? Is it coming back?

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 […]