With oil prices falling dramatically, why haven't the fees the airlines instituted been dropped?
Why isn't gold performing like it should?
With an estimated additional 2 trillion dollars to be wasted by the government by the end of the year, why not just give a rough $6,000 each to every legal American to waste?
Such a deal. Why are some gas stations still charging as much as 15 cents more per gallon for gas than at your local Costco?
Is you job about to disappear? It could happen.
Why is the dollar still so strong? Will its value soon sink like a rock?
Should hedge funds continue to control the markets?
Is it time for you to get back into the markets?
If Obama reneges on his word to drill for oil, will oil prices skyrocket and put the economy in the trash heap?
Do you know what Cloud Computing is? (do a search) Will it be the next Google like investment?
Is your financial advisor causing you to consider bankruptcy?
Are financial industry employees, the ones that caused the current economic crises, still going to get year end bonuses? Really?
Because you aren't eating out, is that why restaurant workers are crying poor mouth? Help them out and eat out at least once this week.
Do you want carbon control? Here is a quote from Byron King in Agora Financial's 5 Minute Forecast.
“The new Obama administration will probably focus on controlling carbon emissions,” says Byron King, just back from his energy and resource scouting adventure in South Africa. “That was part of the campaign. That, plus the fact that there are many serious carbon controllers in the U.S. Congress.
“Carbon control is the whole basis for confronting the global warming issue. It’s a growing trend within the developed world -- although certainly not within the developing world. This is a critical distinction. Just remember that in our world when you control carbon, you also control people. Ultimately, carbon control is people control. By controlling carbon, you control behavior in a way that George Orwell’s Big Brother never imagined (or maybe he did).
“When you control carbon, you are constraining life and mobility to a so-called ‘renewable’ level of technology. Yet renewable energy technology is neither fully developed, nor built out to supply more than 3% (at most) of current world energy demand. A world of carbon control is a world that will limit your options in many respects -- maybe in every respect. It’s certainly not all sunshine (literally) and happiness.
“Let’s put it in perspective. If the next U.S. administration controls too much carbon -- with carbon taxes, cap-and-trade regulations, sequestration efforts and the like -- the U.S. economy could soon suffer the same kinds of brownouts and blackouts that I experienced in South Africa.
“Sure, we can build a lot of windmills and solar installations. More geothermal would be great, too. But the U.S. and world industrial base is limited in what it can turn out, and at what rates. There are constraints in manufacturing, in materials, in systems integration, in the grid, in the labor force and in the regulatory system. And we are going to overcome this in 10 years? By comparison, putting Neil Armstrong on the moon in the 1960s was a piece of cake.
“So will the U.S. -- let alone the world -- abandon carbon sources of energy in the next 10 years? You just gotta be kidding me. That ain’t going to happen. If it does happen, your world will turn upside-down. Count on it.”
