$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '[')i]Peak oil anyone?
It's where people dig for oil, and then there is no more to dig. The shovel isn't long enough or they can't drag the shovel up the hill. Something like that?
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Re: Potential to Go Off the Rails 2017 and Beyond
by jupiters_release » Sun 25 Dec 2016, 12:20:10
What month do you think the oil glut will end?
I don't do dates. It was never an oil glut for those permanently priced out of the oil market. It's was a demand dearth. How do you measure necrosis and death? Cells keep functioning long after consciousness is gone. The fingernails keep growing. It's a lot like these holidays
Jesus you sound like the McPherson of oil doom.
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Re: Potential to Go Off the Rails 2017 and Beyond
by onlooker » Sun 25 Dec 2016, 12:34:12
Yeah, reality is tough jupiter. We have international trade slowing to a halt. Caterpillar revenue declining. The job market stagnant. The Oil Industry borrowing to the hilt to stay afloat. Ponzi schemes and bubbles within Ponzi schemes and bubbles within. Negative interest rates uh. Countries hemorrhaging money in the quagmire of the Middle east. Over debt saturation of countries down to households. Yes, reality is tough. But Happy New Year anyway.
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Re: Potential to Go Off the Rails 2017 and Beyond
by jupiters_release » Sun 25 Dec 2016, 13:10:24
Right now I'm pissed at seeing endless storefronts all over NYC for lease because the owners are too fucking stupid to see a hair salon can't afford $50k month in rent.
For example I walked 20+ blocks last night trying to find a deli, a goddamn deli, in the village last night to buy a simple bottle of water on my way to the movie theater and I must've walked by at least 40 empty storefronts.
For example I walked 20+ blocks last night trying to find a deli, a goddamn deli, in the village last night to buy a simple bottle of water on my way to the movie theater and I must've walked by at least 40 empty storefronts.
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Re: Potential to Go Off the Rails 2017 and Beyond
by onlooker » Sun 25 Dec 2016, 14:33:40
Pstarr, nice portrait of NY. I would add it never was anything but the bastion and hub of the super wealthy and the low blue collar hard working class made up of primarily immigrants. What a contrast uh. Well the bourgeois have done their darnest to increase the wealth disparity and make it as tough as possible for the working class. The wealth of NY was always the wealth of the elites nothing more, nothing less. Maybe that is why Juniper you cannot find your bottle of water. I know first hand as I still go there fairly regularly.
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Re: Potential to Go Off the Rails 2017 and Beyond
by evilgenius » Wed 28 Dec 2016, 13:32:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'R')ight now I'm pissed at seeing endless storefronts all over NYC for lease because the owners are too fucking stupid to see a hair salon can't afford $50k month in rent.
For example I walked 20+ blocks last night trying to find a deli, a goddamn deli, in the village last night to buy a simple bottle of water on my way to the movie theater and I must've walked by at least 40 empty storefronts.
For example I walked 20+ blocks last night trying to find a deli, a goddamn deli, in the village last night to buy a simple bottle of water on my way to the movie theater and I must've walked by at least 40 empty storefronts.
Last time I was in NY it seemed like the shops only sold suit cases, and those seemingly from the back of a missing tractor trailer. I too couldn't find a deli. Oh, everybody talked about delis. They made it sound like NY was made of them. The way they talked I felt like I must have simply walked the wrong direction. I did find a burger joint, where the burgers were about $20. Thank God for Staten Island or I would not have had corned beef at all.
Which is to say, deflation has not ended as an economic threat. Rising rates under the Fed will only exacerbate the threat because of the difficulty of finding high enough paying returns on branded marketing strategies that rely upon something other than price to differentiate them. You need easy money to compete with systems, such as branded strategies, that have efficiencies where you don't. It's a recipe for NY getting stuffed full of KFC's, Wendy's and McDonald's because of those efficiencies over a one off or small NY only chain approach. More and more you won't be able to find that one market or store somebody told you about. Mediocrity is coming. As for the rest of the country, it's been here a long time.
I don't take it seriously when I hear people talking about 'making America great again.' I don't believe in most people's vision of greatness. I think most people just want to make money. They don't want to be great at all. I believe, if you get right down to it, that making America great again is mostly about tax levels and doesn't have anything to do with rising above mediocrity.
If I was honest I'd have to say that the Left in America is largely responsible for the mediocrity we now enjoy. Yes, by God, the Left. It sounds out of place to blame them, but they have been responsible for choosing quality over quantity when those choices were appropriate, and have chosen on the side of democracy instead. They don't have a scheme for rationing quality except for building toll roads (uninventive), which agrees with the Right, so to speak. They've played right into the hands of those who think it's all about money. They haven't been creative, and they haven't chosen public quality when it should have been obvious that it was more important than some group's feelings. When it comes to going off the rails it's this kind of under investment that will lead the way. It's about soul. If you don't have it you are plenty happy going over to McDonald's for lunch. Even if you have the money you won't demand better. You can't rely on the Right for it, they are just cold and sterile. CostCo and Sam's Club, and any other 'membership warehouse' are all venues of the Right. They only know about money, getting the cheapest price. Soul has always come from the Left.
It's funny, people think the Left teeters between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but those two options are just versions of cheapest price under different disguises. Bernie is all populist outright Left Wing cheapest price and Hillary is corruption leading to corporate profit taking cheapest price. Where is the natural Left Wing opposition to corporate information gathering and privacy invasion? Where is the soul that stands up and says to a company like Target, or TJ Maxx, or Home Depot, or Yahoo that they never had any business spying on their customers anyway and that, therefore, getting hacked, never mind the poor security, shouldn't have meant the blow it did to the lives of their customers whose information was stolen? Where is the Left in the tech world that is running on empty morally and is getting swallowed up in faux news and echo chamber imbroglios? The way I see it their only answer there is once again democracy over the complex morality that the Left has always been about developing. I get that youth worship is a kind of Achilles heel for the Left. The complex man, however, that the left has spent so much effort developing over centuries has never been so easily distracted by it as now. And now is not the time. Do any of us really want those Ten Commandments people coming in an regulating tech into cement and signalized intersections every few hundred yards so that you can more easily get into the stores? That's what you'll wind up with if you don't wake up.
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