landemva

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931.
by landemva 4y ago
I suspect if Putin is removed the hard-liners behind him will make things quite difficult for the west. Careful what we wish for?
932.
by landemva 4y ago
Thanks for the perspective from east side of the wall. It was not voted on directly. Like removal of Deutschmark under Köhl, it was done by those governing without direct vote. The people didn't react, so you get what you tolerate.
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by landemva 4y ago
> assess your energy independence before sanctioning the country you rely on for natural gas. Trump blurted that to the Germans around 2019. The press brushed it off as "highly misleading". https://www.cnbc.com/
934.
by landemva 4y ago
German government published a cookbook to teach people how to cook without electricity. "Kochen ohne Strom" https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/202... It would have been useful
935.
by landemva 4y ago
About the only tax increase in USA I would support is an incoming environmental parity tariff. Make iStuff in China India Indonesia, though the incoming environmental tariff won't make it cheaper to pollute over there.
936.
by landemva 4y ago
No worries about air quality as we will keep the smelters in .mx and pollute there. The input constraints for USA manufacturing will be process water and reliable affordable power.
937.
by landemva 4y ago
> The dollar is rising because people need American stuff Not really, and the USA trade deficit is going to get worse because USA stuff is more expensive due to exchange rates. There is increased demand for usd because: 1) Europeans are
938.
by landemva 4y ago
To know if you had it and developed antibodies, get the fingertip blood drop test at pharmacy. Then you will know.
939.
by landemva 4y ago
It will be disconcerting, though maybe likely, that voters will not do a full sweep and put these politicians into retirement. Almost like the voters are comfortable in their cages.
940.
by landemva 4y ago
For your item 1, those loans became gifts. And point 5 could be ever-increasing federal spending beyond federal taxation.
941.
by landemva 4y ago
The mandate is for "stable prices". When a person's body weight is stable it may fluctuate a little but basically stays the same year-over-year. This says "stable prices", https://www.federalreserve.gov&
942.
by landemva 4y ago
Move to a vacation resort and get a customer greeting job that provides housing. Then have fun snorkeling/skiing/boating.
943.
by landemva 4y ago
> a spark is just as effective and about 5 orders of magnitude more likely to occur. Seems you know of data about commercial airline fuel tank spark explosions. I didn't find much about this problem online. When else did this seemin
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by landemva 4y ago
> how do you get in? Be like the market insiders who profit from volatility. Open a futures trading account and go long oil around the elections. Sell sometime in winter.
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by landemva 4y ago
Western Europe has known this for decades and did not care. Germany used the past decade to decommision nuclear power and coal power. This was not a mistake and US taxpayer oil reserves should not be used to bail them out because they knew
946.
by landemva 4y ago
> a core necessity for the contemporary economy and society to function. I agree that petrol is fantastic. A great part of this federation of States is that if I really don't agree with the direction/taxation of an individual S
947.
by landemva 4y ago
Replace oil with interet rates and this could have been wrote by Ben Bernanke. Government price manipulation leads to problems and repeatedly fails. Typically governments become more authoritarian when the price and economy manipulation is
948.
by landemva 4y ago
This is the point which is overlooked - which of the enumerated powers granted by the people to the federal government allows the federal government to maintain a non-military oil reserve for the purpose of manipulating worldwide prices? Le
949.
by landemva 4y ago
This (fungible, worldwide market) may explain why embargoes don't generally achieve the stated goals. Your explanation shows the goods still travel, though through more middlemen.
950.
by landemva 4y ago
Physical items have geographic price differences due in part to transportation costs. If the point is to lower worldwide oil prices, the USA government should stockpile oil closer to China. I'm not recommending USA operate a CN Militar
951.
by landemva 4y ago
> US refineries are already operating essentially at capacity A perplexing aspect is why USA provides a strategic reserve to anyone other than USA. If the answer is "tactical price suppression" then let's change the brandi
952.
by landemva 4y ago
Hawaiian islands have struggled with this for a decade. Rich people put up solar cells with usage offsets and get grid scale reliability on the backs of those who can't put up solar cells due to being poor or living in an apartment.
953.
by landemva 4y ago
If poor people don't have much to timeshift then it doesn't much benefit them. A single parent working 1.5 jobs and then juggling laundry hours may not be useful for that family nor for society. Maybe the first nnn kilowatt hours
954.
by landemva 4y ago
> Charge your car at work in the sun and use it to power your home at night. And fill your coffee thermos at work and drink free coffee at home all weekend. And toilet paper and pencils from work can also be taken home and maybe resold a
955.
by landemva 4y ago
Poor people don't use/waste electricity in large volumes because they are poor and don't have money to waste. Rich people can waste enormous amounts of electricity and not be financially affected. It benefits rich people to s
956.
by landemva 4y ago
> Doesn't it make pretty intuitive sense? It may seem intuitive, but it does not match what happens in the #1 economy which issues the reserve currency of the world. > A decrease in the price of money is inflation. Federal Reserv
957.
by landemva 4y ago
> With a tax cut, US consumers have more money which they spend on imported goods. So the dollars go overseas buying imported goods and then partially those overseas dollars buy USA treasury debt. This puts the price inflation, if any, o
958.
by landemva 4y ago
Denver geography traps bad air into the occasional brown cloud. Get higher.
959.
by landemva 4y ago
For the small amount I consume, tiny potential savings are not worth the mental hassles. I switched a residence to flat rate to avoid these mental games.
960.
by landemva 4y ago
> In America, tax cuts lead to inflation I would find this surprising. Do you have charts for this, and which historical timeframes?

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