V_L, I've seen your postings. Your chicken little posts make me believe you are likely posting from a nuclear fallout bunker wearing a tin foil hat with a couple years worth of rations stockpiled.  Have you been on that doomsday prep show I've seen clips of the last handful of months?    You are one negative dude....more

Actually Neonguy, rising interest rates and ending QE works against inflation - there is a reason they have supposedly been watching inflation concerns while flooding the market with QE.  What has been hidden is inflation has been going on while it is ignored by Core CPI measures which let the Fed keep printing.  Infla...more

If you want laws to keep people from increasing risk of harm or death to themselves (and you already do with seatbelt laws-which I consider BS) then lets not stop with your proposed laws.  Lets make it illegal for any use of tobacco, alcohol or any operation of  motorcycles&ATVs.    If people choose to live on the...more

Well said Good Bargains.  It won't happen overnight but the U.S. will slowly be forced to alternatives as places like China and India petro demands increase.  Electric cars will become the mainstream as battery technology is released.  People would be amazed if they researched patent apps in battery tech from the like ...more

Keep in mind oil is priced around the world in dollars.  QE comes to an end and rates rise will have a similar effect as Volker jacking rates in the 80's  Commodities generally move in correlation to strength of the dollar.  What have energy and grain prices done since interest rates were put in the cellar and QE initi...more

LOL 70's was a period of dead money for the market while oil and ag kicked @$$.  Reversed course with all commodities in the 80's when interest rates went double digit.  Notice the equities market took off finally in the 80's whent this occurred and oil/ag went to the absolute tank?  Commodity costs (food and energy) g...more

Floating the housing industry out of the dumps because of stupid lax regulation and the derivatives markets.   Eventually housing and employment will both be within solid benchmarks but the inflation figure they have been ignoring.  The most expensive variable costs to consumer wallets - Food and energy.  Those are inf...more

Mr. Brown, you are sadly uninformed of the habitat maintenance and restoration projects paid for by hunters.  Many of the predators were killed off so they wouldn't be killing the livestock/poultry that will be served on dinner tables across the world.  Much of the predator eradication wasn't driven by overhunting but ...more

You apparently don't realize the U.S. enjoys a super low cost of food to income ratio which is envy of many hungry, third world nations.  Nice to see you wish the ag sector ill will when they provide the food on your table.  Sorry, but there is a reason you have 12 thumbs down at this point and about to get another.  F...more