Think all those homes being vacated and foreclosed presaged new ghost towns as communities implode? Well sir, that’s what’s going on as “Recessions turns malls into ghost towns” says the WSJ.
I can only point to writing about the need to get out of suburbia that I’ve been writing about concurrently with the economic stories posted here./ How many times have I referred you to Jim Kunstler’s works over ast www.kunstler.com plus his book The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Have I or have I not pimped Michael Panzner’s When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Hand writing has been on the wall for years. If you’re not in a town where you can walk to where you need to get, or better – as was my choice in 2002 – getting to a sustainable hunk of land – then you get what you get.
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Not that cities will be unsustainable. My commodity broker JB Slear is writing up an ebook on how to use some technology he’s been working onj to do high density hydroponics – and he’s getting 18 heads of lettuce out of about 2 square feet of floor space – something that’s ideal for people living in apartments and condo’s – but more on that as things move along…
Another Bot Hit?
Reader is asking:
“Salve omnes I think is the way you say it…
anyway, Joe Biden is on his way to Lebanon to confirm US support for the country or something along those lines. You might look to see who interviews him, because there’s this lady here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Chidiac
She’s a journalist, was a vocal critic of Syria before getting blown up in a car bomb in 2005. She lost an arm and a leg and was burned badly in the attack but returned to broadcasting after recovery. She is a symbol of Lebanese independence and the Zionist types like her a lot….let’s see if she’s talking to Biden…”
Well, we’ll see if she shows up in headlines. Set an alarm for it. Yup, the scarred lady is due any old time now…
See why we shut down the rickety time machine? Just too much risk of seeing the future too clearly.
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Peoplenomics
The “Voices” & Woo-Woo Meet Serious Investing
I was genuinely surprise last week to learn about the number of people who hear “voices” in their head so I got to thinking “Gee, does this have any implications for investing? After a little research into such diverse areas a use of microwaves to generate specific ‘voices’ with subject’s heads, I’ve concluded that not only is there something (good) to be said about “tinfoil hats”, but in addition, there are some implications about investing and some things you may wish to consider trying which could influence your own investment and whole life decision-making processes. It is, as this week’s headline implies, where “woo-woo” meets investing and where we might really profit from rethinking the old computer term GIGO…
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Yep – still possible. I also took a bit of additional material that was pertinent from recent issues of Peoplenomics and included them. The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the aforementioned dollar amount, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you make a little more than that and do some active savings… Click here for the page with more details on it.
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