When I was a kid growing up and my father was the sole supporter for our family of four we had one car, one black and white TV, did not have air conditioning in our home and lived in a house that was approximately 1000 sq ft with and unfinished basement.  We also wore hand me down clothes, took one driving vacation per...more

The case for gold is the archaic belief that it is still money.  It hasn't been money for a very long time and is has almost no industrial uses.  The fairy tale that all the middle class people in China and India are going to rush to by gold instead to investing in modern financial instruments that pay interest and div...more

What happened to America?  The rest of the world caught up while we were enjoying the good life.  Between automation and foreign competition there are a lot of well paying jobs that have disappeared and are not going to reappear simply because you go to college and get a degree in communications.  There are plenty of o...more

It is the shame and embarrassment of a modern technological society that we are unable to implement safe nuclear energy.  There are reactor designs that totally eliminate the risk of a meltdowns but unfortunately they do not make millions of dollars for Westinghouse.    Nuclear energy is the only sane modern answe...more

Einstein was not a school drop out as has been claimed in this thread, he was a graduate of ETH Zurich one of the worlds leading universities.  Hopefully this young man will some day do something that will actually justify comparing him to Einstein.  IQ scores don't win Nobel Prizes in science and medicine. Hard work a...more

That is a myth.  Einstein was a graduate of ETH Zurich currently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world.  He was not a school drop out. There are a lot of myths floating around regarding Einstein.

This character gets funnier every time I read him.  Half the U.S. economy depends on government contracts, but they call themselves private businesses, lol.  As government spending declines, and it will, all those businesses are going to suffer and in come cases collapse.  Jobs will be lost and to compete for new marke...more

Living in an overly aseptic environment is not good for normal immune function.  Get rid of the Lysol, open the windows or better yet get outside and stop using hand sanitizers.  There is a big difference between prudently avoiding pathogens and avoiding exposure to the natural world of which we are a part.

The problem is that these investors are not buying homes with the intent on owning them long term. They are hoping to sell them at a profit and in the process they are driving up prices bidding against each other.  That is not the pathway to a healthy housing market that will be a driver of solid growth in the general ...more