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That's it in a nutshell. The only thing I would add is that while many debts will be repaid ("fire sales to meet liquidity needs will abound"), there are also going to be a lot of defaults. In the USA and elsewhere. Somewhat ironically, if Japan would simply let the inevitable bankruptcies...

Did I say public debt? No, I said total debt. And you are right the total debt is not $52 trillion. The first NDR chart only goes out to 2011, so sorry. According to the chart from the Fed, it appears to be about $58 trillion. Be sure to load up on stocks and real estate Buck. The Fed has got...

Founding of the country and the civil war? Considering the primitive weapons systems employed at those times, I doubt the debts incurred were anything to worry too terribly about. More importantly, there was no reason to believe that economic growth would falter. As for WWII, see the chart...

As previously stated, "the total debt to GDP ratio is at historically unprecedented levels: there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that this is sustainable." The chart you posted has nothing whatsoever to do with the total debt to GDP ratio. The annual deficits with which you are concerned are...

Forced to work in "this perverted industry"? They are the forces that created the industry. Think a nurse practitioner feels bad about collecting $125k or more a year? How much would these people earn under a 100% government controlled system? (a good question, their earnings may climb, at...

Never, but I assume a real war will be nuclear resulting in a significant reduction of oil consumers. However, in light of the fact that oil production could well be impaired by such an event, a drop in the oil price (real, not nominal) would likely be a post-war outcome.

As for the sustainability of state health care in the industrialized world, that is unlikely. How has it been "sustained" thus far? By the creation of debt, that's how. The first world has enjoyed a 30 year bull market and by taking advantage of the general euphoria, they have stuffed tons of...

The chart you have posted appears to be referencing the rate of change of annual public deficits. Note how it dips below the zero line sometime in the 90s. That's all anybody needs to know about that chart. The ratio I am referring to is total credit market debt, public and private. It is well...

Bull markets end on good news, bear markets end on bad news. Furthermore, there is technical evidence to suggest that the stock market has topped and that the mini-echo housing bubble has also topped. Unemployment figures can change rapidly when markets roll over. As for deficits, the total debt...

It is you who is suffering from confirmation bias. Please reference the link I posted above regarding the work of collective gardener, a commercial grower who works with other commercial growers to determine those methods by which maximum yield and best product may be obtained from commercial...

I've had great results with Maxibloom in hydro without any other additives. In fact, I find additives are a waste of time and money; no additive makes up for crappy genetics and they can quickly damage the plant if misused, something that is not difficult to do. At the moment, I am running...

Don't put all your outdoor eggs in one basket and DO NOT reuse this spot or anything nearby. Weed pirates are diligent searchers.

Individual pots, you need to move the plants around to maximize canopy efficiency. That applies to both soil AND hydro. Square pots make the best use of the available space in SOG.

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/407048-20-000-watt-medical-grow-33.html#post6148395 This is the cross before the vampire of the anti-defoliation coalition. ;-)

Ridiculous. T5 would work fine but there is no way you are going to match HID HPS for yield. Also, you will not gain anything by switching from the T5 "blue" to the "red" bulbs. Stick with the blue all the way through as the intensity is the same. The reason growers switch to HPS for flowering...

This is a common idea and it is wrong for a very simple reason. Say the Fed sends you $10,000. You spend it. Those factories still here go on overtime for a couple of weeks. What happens after that? You have $10,000 worth of crap that you probably didn't need in the first place and now it is...

This is a cyclical bull market in a secular bear. All the news is "good" and the bull is now running on fumes, with the bear ready to resume. When the Fed floated its news trial balloon about "tapering", the market had an immediate convulsion. THAT is why the tapering idea got shitcanned. Fact...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_ice_age "The ice sheets themselves, by raising the albedo, effect a major feedback on climate cooling." I see no reason to doubt the above Wikipedia sourced statement as it is consistent with basic theoretical physics. To what extent does this factor...

How about we charge a "sea ice" tax to anybody that wants to get married or have an abortion? It would make as much sense as all of the other political bullshit our species has invented. In any case, the Earth is currently in the interglacial period of an ice age. Typically, these are followed...

The dude is putting her on and she knows it. Pretty goddamned obvious. Everybody wants that 15 minutes of fame, even if they have to pull dumbass stunts like this to get it.