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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'A')nd they gave the Peace Prize to Kissenger.

[heroineworshipper]

Uba Acka Ack Back Bama. Where's my nobel prize?

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evgeny', 'I') recall that at one time was a few Western specialists economists,
who won the Nobel Prize for mathematical proof of what happens
on the stock exchange crisis will never happen.
Nobel Prize - this is a travesty of social well-deserved award.

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I stuck it in babel fish and got this:

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[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('heroineworshipper', 'U')ba Acka Ack Back Bama. Where's my nobel prize?

[kmann]

now there's a man with a political ax to grind. nobel ain't what she used to be. i'd take the 1.4 million though.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

[kjmclark]

Starting the very next paragraph:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')udging by Mr. Greenspan's remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman's crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.
...
But wishful thinking aside, I just don't understand the grounds for optimism. Who, exactly, is about to start spending a lot more? At this point it's a lot easier to tell a story about how the recovery will stall than about how it will speed up. And while I like movies with happy endings as much as the next guy, a movie isn't realistic unless the story line makes sense.

[TreeFarmer]

A quick comment here and nothing against kjm's comments.

How can 'bubbles' ever really work? It seems like they wreck more havoc after they pop than they ever did good while they were building. The only people who can gain from a bubble are a select few who are either in on the ground floor or are politicians and political hacks who need to keep a job just a bit longer. A bubble economy is no way to run an economy. To paraphrase Monty Python because I don't remember the exact text, a lady in a lake handing out swords is no basis for a system of government.

TF

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TreeFarmer', 'A') quick comment here and nothing against kjm's comments.

How can 'bubbles' ever really work? It seems like they wreck more havoc after they pop than they ever did good while they were building. The only people who can gain from a bubble are a select few who are either in on the ground floor or are politicians and political hacks who need to keep a job just a bit longer. A bubble economy is no way to run an economy. To paraphrase Monty Python because I don't remember the exact text, a lady in a lake handing out swords is no basis for a system of government.

TF

[stonecypher]

"Microsoft's chairman is among the inventors listed on a new batch of patent applications that propose using large fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes through various methods of mixing warm water from the surface of the ocean with colder water at greater depths. The idea is to decrease the surface temperature, reducing or eliminating the heat-driven condensation that fuels the giant storms."

http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/One_ ... 85622.html

Ummm, science classes weren't my forte in college, so is this even feasible?

[Plantagenet]

Sure its feasible.

A lot of data shows that hurricane intensity is proportional to the temperature of the water below the hurricane. Cool the ocean surface and the hurricane intensity should theoretically descrease.

Thats why "Katrina" grew in stength and got so intense just before it hit New Orleans....the Gulf was really warm that year.

In fact, Bill Gates could cool the entire planet if he pumps enough cold water out of the deep ocean.

[dorlomin]

So instead of a hurricane transferring oceanic heat from the tropics to the mid lattitudes, this would transfer heat from the ocean surface to the deeper ocean. And what will be the consaquencies in terms of rainfall in reducing the heat of the GOM how would this impacts on the amount of moisture that it evaporates?

When hurricanes make landfall and lose their windspeed dont they often bring huge amounts of rain to inland areas of the US.....

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'S')o instead of a hurricane transferring oceanic heat from the tropics to the mid lattitudes, this would transfer heat from the ocean surface to the deeper ocean. And what will be the consaquencies in terms of rainfall in reducing the heat of the GOM how would this impacts on the amount of moisture that it evaporates?

When hurricanes make landfall and lose their windspeed dont they often bring huge amounts of rain to inland areas of the US.....

[gt1370a]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')n fact, Bill Gates could cool the entire planet if he pumps enough cold water out of the deep ocean.

[Tyler_JC]

Plant's right. This is likely nothing more than a publicity stunt.

Why doesn't he spend is billions trying to seed the ocean with iron dust to grow algae and pull CO2 out of the air?

Or maybe buy a billion dollars worth of television advertisements to affect peoples' behavior?

Those would be better uses of the money, IMHO.

[jasonraymondson]

If you are going to waste money bill, give it to me.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'W')hen hurricanes make landfall and lose their windspeed dont they often bring huge amounts of rain to inland areas of the US.....

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'W')hen hurricanes make landfall and lose their windspeed dont they often bring huge amounts of rain to inland areas of the US.....