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    May 2010 entries:


    Memorial Day Book List
    (May 31, 2010)

    1950s London: Human-Powered Pushcarts
    (May 29, 2010)

    The Problem with "Tax The Rich": It Won't Work
    (May 28, 2010)

    The Root of the Housing Bubble Remains Unchanged
    (May 27, 2010)

    Stocks Due for a Bounce, But Long Term...
    (May 26, 2010)

    Going Long, Going Deep, Going Broke: ZIRP and the Imploding Speculative Economy
    (May 25, 2010)

    How the Fed Pushed the Nation's Pension Plans--and Local Government--into Insolvency
    (May 24, 2010)

    "Two Scoop Special": Double-Dip Recession Guaranteed
    (May 21, 2010)

    How Would You Spend Your Daily 100 watts?
    (May 20, 2010)

    Suppressing the Cognitive Dissonance of a Bogus Recovery
    (May 19, 2010)

    If China Stocks Lead U.S. Market, Look Out Below
    (May 18, 2010)

    Demographics and the End of the Savior State
    (May 17, 2010)

    Unhinged: When Concrete Reality No Longer Matters to the Market (and What to Do About It)
    (May 15, 2010)

    Could the Stock Market Crash in 2010?
    (May 14, 2010)

    Updating the Oil "Head-Fake" Scenario
    (May 13, 2010)

    Everywhere I Look, I See Cheap Oil
    (May 12, 2010)

    Scrape Away the Noise and Hype, and What Remains?
    (May 11, 2010)

    Why the Eurozone Is Doomed
    (May 10, 2010)

    Book Recommendations from Readers
    (May 8, 2010)

    The Generation Gap and "Old" Austin, Texas
    (May 7, 2010)

    The Happiness-Wealth Correlation
    (May 6, 2010)

    $8 per Gallon Gasoline Is Already Here (for some of us)
    (May 5, 2010)

    Taking Down the "Too Big To Fail" Banks Ourselves
    (May 4, 2010)

    Exponential Growth and Depletion: Chart of the Century?
    (May 3, 2010)

    The Burden of Knowing
    (May 1, 2010)


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    Extra-Special Bonus Aphorisms:

    "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." (Douglas MacArthur)

    "Success: To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson, submitted by J.P. Bahner)

    "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
    (Theodore Roosevelt, submitted by Kenneth R.)

    "Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend, and step off before it is discredited." (George Soros)

    "To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?
    (William Makepeace Thackeray, recommended by U.Doran)

    "Daydreams of a fair world which would treat him according to his real worth are the refuge of all those plagued by a lack of self-knowledge." (Ludwig von Mises)

    "The way of the Tao is reversal." (Lao Tzu)

    "Chance favours the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)

    "It is neither necessary to hope to undertake, nor to succeed to persevere." (William of Orange)

    "You must have a willingness to do something when everyone else is petrified. You must learn the lesson of following logic over emotion." (Warren Buffett)

    "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill)

    "Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasures." (Rumi)

    "May a fair road always be open to you." (CHS, April 2, 2006)

    "A healthy homecooked family meal and a home garden are revolutionary acts." (CHS, May 2008)

    "You don't miss what you no longer want." (CHS, August 2008)

    "Food is wealth, health is wealth, energy is wealth; all else is illusion." (CHS, December 15, 2008)

    "Meaningful work and meaningful skills make a meaningful life, even if the work is unpaid." (CHS, March 6, 2009)

    "If you like eating, begin liking dirt." (CHS, April 6, 2009)

    "Either we restrict the foods we eat when we have a choice, or our diet will eventually be restricted by chronic diseases." (CHS, May 9, 2009)

    "Greed is a wonderful motivator but fear works much faster." (Riley T., Sept. 2008)

    "Democracy can be likened to two wolves and one lamb voting on what to have for lunch." (unknown source, submitted by Tim B.)

    "Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life energy." (Nikola Tesla, sunmitted by Kenneth R.)

    "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer, submitted by Angry Saver)

    "In times of change, learners will inherit the earth." (Eric Fromm, submitted by Tom P.)

    "Do the thing and you shall have the power." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

    "Radical self-reliance begins with rock-solid personal integrity and a willingness to ask cui bono-- to whose benefit?--of every arrangement."
    (CHS, October 30, 2009)

    "Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

                                                                           




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