Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.
We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.
What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.
The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.
So we are in for years of debt deflation. That means that people have to pay so much debt service for mortgages, credit cards, student loans, bank loans and other obligations that they have less to spend on goods and services. So markets shrink. New investment and employment fall off, and the economy is falls into a downward spiral.
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [. . . ] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.
I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now. ' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over. '
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.