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Looks like the recovery is sputtering. I am not in the “double dip” camp, mainly because interest rates are so supportive – but the unemployment picture is miserable, and is going to stay miserable.
Brownstone Brooklyn prices cannot be insulated from the downturn forever.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina lawmaker on Thursday called a Republican gubernatorial candidate of Indian descent a “raghead,” saying we have one in the White House, we don’t need one in the governor’s mansion.
Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts later apologized for the slur, saying the remarks about President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley were meant as a joke.
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By Ringo on June 4, 2010 11:35 AM
Gas should be $6/gallon. Pay it or not, I don’t care. Have a second home, a giant car, private plane. I don’t care. But tax the hell out of it and get real about green energy — we’re twenty years behind on this. Yep, this means things will be more expensive. Get used to it.
Yes, excellent solution. create a false market for all the inefficient green energy “solutions” through taxation of what is economically the right choice.
The only economic option is NUCLEAR. Even Obama seems to understand this. And of course natural gas, which he mentioned yesterday.
Have you seen the chart on natural gas????? Have you seen the chart on UNG????? Here’s your chance to get in before the hedge funds. We were buying UNG yestarday.
DCB, i don’t know anything about the fundamentals at CSCO right here but that stock has been rangebound between $10 and 30 since 2001.
They are presenting today at the bernstein conference and everything they said does seem fairly positive…12-17% growth, hiring 3,000 people. 2010 $ $1.60 and 2011E @ $1.79 does look cheap
By the way, for all of you cow lovers, global cow flatulence is the source of 20% of all Methane gas emissions on Planet Earth. Not to mention cow poop. One of the things I did in my career was to locate “alternative energy” finance opportunities, i.e. landfill gas (you put a pipe system to capture gas from rotting garbage in garbage dumps, then feed the gas into small Catepillar generators for local use and sale into grid), also on farms collecting animal shit and dumping it into generators) for shit removal, stink removal and local power generation. The point man on the project was a guy we nicknamed Chicken Shit Ray.
Oh, my God I really do need to get back to work.
Slope;
Nowhere do I argue against the idea of regulations of these rigs (nor did Lech, it seems to me). Nowhere do I argue against the idea of learning from this catastrophe, and applying better technology, improved regulations, etc. I also said that BP should be held culpable.
What many folks will not acknowledge, however, is my original point: accidents WILL occur, no matter how well-regulated the rig, and our current environmental policies INCREASE that risk.
Why is it that folks are arguing for just a review of the policies concerning the rig, and not our overall energy/environmental policies.
Who has the “sacred cows” in this debate?? Hmmmm??????
Gas should be $6/gallon. Pay it or not, I don’t care. Have a second home, a giant car, private plane. I don’t care. But tax the hell out of it and get real about green energy — we’re twenty years behind on this. Yep, this means things will be more expensive. Get used to it.
Oh, and Noki should get QOTD. You are so right.
Hard for me to see how you could go wrong buying CISCO here, and holding long term.