lamont
About
- Username
- lamont
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- Roles
- Members
Comments
-
siddha99 wrote: Thanks for responding, but your argument is not convincing for me. Show me a better source of accurate market data with technical analysis, that's not fudged by the government (and this is a sincere request -- please provide your s…
-
Robroy wrote: Unfortunately for liberal eggheads, Palin is the closest thing to a real person to ever grace a major party Presidential ticket, at least in my lifetime. Most of the rest of us real people will find that to be a very compelling quali…
-
Robroy wrote: biliruben wrote: "Compare their records." She has no record. She voted for the bridge to nowhere before she voted against it, then kept the money. So because of that she's a "reformer". That's the meatiest thing I see out t…
-
jon wrote: I could point to the graphs that show Seattle CSI has been flat for four months to say that the housing market here has stabilized. But who are you going to believe? A diverse group of people betting real money overwhelmingly on Seattle…
-
rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Very interesting charts lamont. But who are you going to believe? A diverse group of people betting real money overwhelmingly on Obama, or Robroy who has staked all of his SeattleBubble credibility on a landslide McCa…
-
Robroy wrote: I think just the next week is gonna be fascinating!!! I'm pickin' up a large box of popcorn. We're gonna need it as we watch BOTH sides of this thing continue to get vetted. So far most of the "vetting" in this thread is k…
-
From http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/misc/charts/ :
-
The total? If you wanted to cover the unfunded liability of all three programs today, you would be stuck with an $85.6 trillion bill. But we don't need to pay it off today, so what does it actually look like. And it smells bad that they're t…
-
Markor wrote: Agreed. Can't wait until the debates. Then it'll really look like Clinton-Dole! It should. There's a possibility that Obama could stumble somehow during the debates. Without some kind of gaff, though, he should pretty much d…
-
First of all, we're so far into this downturn that nobody is going to blame it on the next president. Clinton didn't get blamed for the recession that he inherited from GHWB's term (although he got the credit for pulling out of a recession that arg…
-
Looking at month by month fluctuations in seasonally adjusted statistics is kind of worthless. The seasonal multiplier just adds more uncertainty to the already uncertain measurement, amplified by month-to-month noise in the statistics. And flat…
-
Working class has nothing to do directly with lower/middle/upper class. Working class is defined in opposition to Capitalist class. If you own things (businesses, investments, etc) which passively make you money then you are not working class. …
-
WestSideBilly wrote: Most people define their status by their peers, not society as a whole. So for a single child-free lawyer in Seattle, $80k feels pretty low when compared to other lawyers who are making $100k (single) or $180k (DINKs). Any…
-
rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Matthew wrote: Lamont, Do you believe we have reached peak or or not? I'll go on record for this. Keep in mind, I'm not Lamont and I'm not an expert. Here's a few qualifiers to start with. There are man…
-
leaveseattle wrote: Actually I cave dive for a living- how do you manage to do that in seattle?
-
Matthew wrote: People were saying the exact same thing in July of 2007. We have reached peak oil, oil is only going to go higher from here, welcome to a new paradigm. Guess what happened? Oil prices plummeted nearly 50 percent. Peak oil …
-
Robroy wrote: I actually agree that it hasn't gotten bad enough, but I think I have a different take on it than you. I liken it to the joke about the guy that falls off a 20 story building and as he passes the 15th floor, someone asks him "how's i…
-
when rainier pops and the pyroclastic flows take out orting it'll give a new meaning to "death of the burbs".
-
Based on the USD index, oil, gold and the CRB index it does kinda look like cash is king right now. The dollar is strengthening and everything else (commodities, cars, houses, stock market) is falling. http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=%24USD …
-
the birth certificate has a watermark behind it and has been scanned and compressed. with that garbage as input you can probably read the tea leaves to claim it originally said anything that you want to. with the dan rather letter you didn't hav…
-
Some guy called "Techdude" claiming he has done analysis on a scanned copy of the birth certificate is evidence? Wake me up when you've got an independent expert working on an original copy... And if its true that means that his sister who was…
-
I had a $100 increase on a 2-year lease to a little over $1000/mo. I did a bit of due diligence and found that for what I get I couldn't really find anyplace much cheaper around the area.
-
try it with a log graph: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/fredgraph?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=BORROW&s[1][transformation]=log and if you map -5 to a 0 on the richter scale and 5 to a 10 on the richter scale, it looks like 1987 was a…
-
Notabull wrote: Imagine, for example, that carbon sequestration actually works out well, and we find safe and responsible ways to store CO2 somewhere. If that occurs, then we can go ahead and burn as much coal as we like, and that's how we'll mak…
-
jon wrote: rose-colored-coolaid wrote: ou're right, that would be better than what we have now. But still less good than EVs. Go flame elsewhere. The less sarcastic way of stating my point would be to note that gasoline is an approxi…
-
Robroy wrote: I'm not one of those "most people. All we have to do is drill more, use the shale, sands, etc., and continue to slowly use other power sources as they become more and more economically feasable as technology makes them available. …
-
tomtom wrote: Another reason roads are safer than sidewalks is when crossing cross streets. When a car turns right, they check over their shoulder to the sidewalk for folks moving at pedestrian speeds. Faster moving cyclists on the sidewalk head…
-
WestSideBilly wrote: Amazon is not a tech company. They're a giant retailer. A massive slow down in consumer spending, especially non-essential items like books and movies, will hit them hard. Burying the shipping costs will bite back if shippi…
-
Big Mike 34 wrote: The bull crap is thinking that climate models can predict the amount of warming out 100 years and using that to bankrupt our economy in an effort to literally challenge the SUN.... Energy conservation is GDP-positive, not…
-
mukoh wrote: Google is opening up in Kirkland. Nothing bad about that. Google opened up in Kirkland a long time ago. Half the people I worked with at Amazon left for Google... Seattle is positioned well for this downturn so far. The te…