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  1. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    What happened to all that stuff you bought with the money we gave you? Can we see it? Sorry, no. It all got blown up/captured, we need cash for a bunch more.
  2. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    They literally forced out the Greats and Silents and then pulled up the ladders set there for them. Fuck the Boomers.
  3. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    I did live amongst the British for 14 years.
  4. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    https://news.sky.com/story/energy-crisis-plan-for-three-hour-power-blackouts-to-prioritise-heating-in-event-of-gas-shortages-12713253 "National Grid's Electricity System Operator (ESO) warned that planned three-hour power blackouts could be imposed in some areas, in the "unlikely" event...
  5. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Going to be a third El Nina year running so a cold winter too for Europe (dry here in southern California AGAIN, what? no rain in the desert??) Again, I recommend if you have a fireplace but it's not functional get it working again or fit a wood stove/fireplace if you live in Germany.
  6. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Sounds like a good choice for a mini nuclear reactor. Aluminum needs electricity for production, it was once a very expensive material.
  7. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    The Halifax is really Lloyds Banking Group after Halifax Bank of Scotland got forcibly merged into Lloyds by Gordon Brown and operations in England have been largely rolled into Lloyds, at least that was the case when I left their employment in 2014 (used to work for the Bank of Scotland, joined...
  8. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Sooo let's just leave this here: The Oil Drum | List of Foods by Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency These figures indicate that differing amounts of energy are needed to produce a pound of food and that a pound of food has different caloric values depending on what you are trying to...
  9. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    I also consider "doubling down" to be the hallmark of our current generation. People are less and less likely to offer a polite apology and seek understanding or redress but instead will double down and go harder than before and justify themselves with some reasoning (no matter how flawed of...
  10. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Couldn't someone pay some Somali pirates to board a tanker and set it on fire? I appreciate using US arms to destroy a tanker would be especially ironic, but really tanker crews are few but generally aren't targeted as they don't have cargo the pirates want and the arab "navies" care about that...
  11. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Seriously, the money would be better spent in the US than on destroying Russian material and troops by proxy through the Ukraine. Or, better yet, not spent and not increasing our debt and worsening inflation because I have no confidence the money would be spent on anything that would see a...
  12. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Rate increases and a tightening of the money supply make for a bear day and a downward outlook. More to come.
  13. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Oh, I know, I grew up in Illinois and we love us some corn there (though nowadays its soybeans that is the top crop). Ethanol is a fine way of giving money to commercial farming outfits and looking like you are doing something green all the while making it actually worse as that corn is grown...
  14. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    There is a economic cost to Ethanol beyond will it damage engines and that is you can't eat what you turned into fuel. Corn grown for ethanol competes directly with food grown for human and livestock production as it grows on the same land. We're already looking at higher food prices so of...
  15. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    It'd be nice. It's not like they lack the capability to build nuclear plants or even to use the coal they already mine and export (though I'd personally rather they NOT do that instead). They are a first rank capability technological society, they can build and tech out of Russian gas but it...
  16. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    It's nothing new; they don't like a result normally they just keep polling until they get what they want, like Ireland adopting the Euro.
  17. Robovski

    Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

    Rising fuel and food costs push US inflation to 7.9% https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60696125 "Energy prices in the US jumped 3.5% in February, driven by a 6.6% leap in gasoline prices, according to the Labor Department's monthly report on consumer prices. Over the past 12 months, the energy...
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