What I see looks like infllation, at least to the extent that my cash buys less than it bought a while back. The result being that then folks do not have the ability to pay for the services that I provide. So that reduces my wealth a great deal. Should I be happy about that??
"Excluding food and energy" is certainly a way to make the inflationnlook less real. Those are the non-disgression parts of our basic cost of living. Eating is habit forming and most folks simply can not kick the habit. And energy for lighting and heat just seems so very basic a need these days.
AND those prices jumped and kept growing, and still keep growing. And cars seem to be getting more expensive every day, also. Now there is some argument about the cause, but does the massive amounts the fed is handing out have any effect, do you suppose? SPREADING MORE MONEY AROUND DOES LEAD TO THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING BEING BID TO HIGHER LEVELS. Why is that so hard for some to understand??
Ifone wonders how far those chnges inChina will go, look back at Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, and all the college students sent to work on farms. WE really don't hear much about how that played out, do we???
So there is no valid guess as to how far it can go.
Probably the cutback in steel and other poerations in China is due to a shortage of coal that will be needed for heating in the winter cold season. There has already been a push to make life a bit easier there for those not rich.
Copper is certainly becoming expensive, possibly more that some shortage of supply is involved.
Certainly the weather will affect the demand for natural gas as a heating fuel, and certainly that demand will be seasonal. In addition, though, natural gas as a fuel for electrical power generation has an even larger demand much of the time, and that demand is much less seasonal, except in California. The primary detractors are those who want to stop all use of gas in any combustion heating scheme, to reduce global climate change. That lobby seems to have a much less noble hidden agenda that is very disturbing, which is to fundamentally alter the amount of freedom that the rest of us posess. Well hidden but discernable.
Interesting, I suppose, but how can folks trade something that is worth that little per unit volume? And what seller would want to even offer it for sale? So the whole thing is very strange.
Producing hydrogen gas by electrolysis is a negative sum operation, meaning it takes more power to produce a packaged pound of hydrogen than can ever be generated from it, even at 100% efficiency. Heat loss and the energy to compres the gas are the culprits there. So they might sell the electrolysis systems, but where will the power to run them come from, especially when folks are allrecharging their electric vehicles. And even if the generating capacity would exist, the grid is not equipped to transport that much electrical power. And grid capacity is a bit like railroad capacity: Expensive and slow to build. So the future is receding at a fair pace.
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Inflation Or Deflation - End Result Is Still Depression
What I see looks like infllation, at least to the extent that my cash buys less than it bought a while back. The result being that then folks do not have the ability to pay for the services that I provide. So that reduces my wealth a great deal. Should I be happy about that??
The Perils Of Forecasting Inflation
"Excluding food and energy" is certainly a way to make the inflationnlook less real. Those are the non-disgression parts of our basic cost of living. Eating is habit forming and most folks simply can not kick the habit. And energy for lighting and heat just seems so very basic a need these days.
AND those prices jumped and kept growing, and still keep growing. And cars seem to be getting more expensive every day, also. Now there is some argument about the cause, but does the massive amounts the fed is handing out have any effect, do you suppose? SPREADING MORE MONEY AROUND DOES LEAD TO THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING BEING BID TO HIGHER LEVELS. Why is that so hard for some to understand??
Is China A Buy After A Year Of Troubles?
Ifone wonders how far those chnges inChina will go, look back at Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, and all the college students sent to work on farms. WE really don't hear much about how that played out, do we???
So there is no valid guess as to how far it can go.
Zinc Supply Woes
Probably the cutback in steel and other poerations in China is due to a shortage of coal that will be needed for heating in the winter cold season. There has already been a push to make life a bit easier there for those not rich.
Copper is certainly becoming expensive, possibly more that some shortage of supply is involved.
Has "Weather Trading" Arrived In The Natural Gas Market?
Certainly the weather will affect the demand for natural gas as a heating fuel, and certainly that demand will be seasonal. In addition, though, natural gas as a fuel for electrical power generation has an even larger demand much of the time, and that demand is much less seasonal, except in California. The primary detractors are those who want to stop all use of gas in any combustion heating scheme, to reduce global climate change. That lobby seems to have a much less noble hidden agenda that is very disturbing, which is to fundamentally alter the amount of freedom that the rest of us posess. Well hidden but discernable.
Palantir Is A Buy: Why This Stock Could Go A Lot Higher
Quite a detailed analysis, and certainly some interesting projectins.
Thanks for the article!
Will Shiba Inu Coin Reach 50 Cents?
Interesting, I suppose, but how can folks trade something that is worth that little per unit volume? And what seller would want to even offer it for sale? So the whole thing is very strange.
Look Beyond Big Tech Investments
A very good article. Thanks for sharing it with us.
GameStop Nears The End Of A Large Pennant: What's Next?
Rather interesting. It may be fun to watch,as well.
More Chinese Trouble
Producing hydrogen gas by electrolysis is a negative sum operation, meaning it takes more power to produce a packaged pound of hydrogen than can ever be generated from it, even at 100% efficiency. Heat loss and the energy to compres the gas are the culprits there. So they might sell the electrolysis systems, but where will the power to run them come from, especially when folks are allrecharging their electric vehicles. And even if the generating capacity would exist, the grid is not equipped to transport that much electrical power. And grid capacity is a bit like railroad capacity: Expensive and slow to build. So the future is receding at a fair pace.