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Post by glennkoks on May 18, 2023 20:03:09 GMT
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio has an interesting video describing the cyclic rise and fall of the biggest economic dynasties over the last 500 years. It's well worth the time to watch it and I think much of it is spot on. History and economic cycles do seem to repeat themselves.
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Post by missouriboy on May 23, 2023 15:46:27 GMT
And the near-repetition of physical-climatological events. Same area ... same position on the solar cycle (of a similar magnitude). No doubt a coincidence.
Bonaccini expressed the region’s condolences to the victims of the extreme weather and their families and compared the disaster to the 2012 earthquakes that claimed 27 lives and caused massive devastation there.
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Post by ratty on Jul 5, 2023 0:17:46 GMT
Seen on an Aussie forum. (Ignore the sweeping generalizations and don't shoot the messenger.)
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Post by glennkoks on Jul 5, 2023 20:05:41 GMT
Seen on an Aussie forum. (Ignore the sweeping generalizations and don't shoot the messenger.) I think the entire blowback from the Bud Light advertising fiasco is cause for hope here in America. Normal people are tired of getting the woke nonsense shoved down their throats. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 5, 2023 21:02:45 GMT
Seen on an Aussie forum. (Ignore the sweeping generalizations and don't shoot the messenger.) I think the entire blowback from the Bud Light advertising fiasco is cause for hope here in America. Normal people are tired of getting the woke nonsense shoved down their throats. And that's only one company. There are many more that thought it was cool, if not totally sane. There are multiple companies taking a hit from what thankfully is a mouthy bunch of buyers. the stockholders are getting unhappy too? If so, then Woke may really be Broke. The proverbial fart at what the newly cool thought was profitable. I think there is a good chance "they" will get their asses handed to them come election time. Call me forever hopeful. |
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 17, 2023 7:21:04 GMT
Climate cycles, economic cycles, socio-political cycles, others .... all seem to be changing ... very quickly. Generationaly held beliefs are morphing into something new? Or back to something we haven't seen for a while. Note that the 1950s to the 2030s include 4 generations and coincide with perhaps 4 Hale Cycles ... and longer term (60 yr- 80 yr) in major indices. Coincidence ? Concepts of turnings in human history/affairs. Not rigidly, but tides that repeat similarly under similar circumstances.
Here, we are used to calling physical cycles. Do we see the same things in politics and economics?
We have just seen political reversals in Australia and New Zealand. Now Germany and France. Maybe the US soon? Others? Good time for testing theories.
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Post by ratty on Oct 17, 2023 9:43:48 GMT
Climate cycles, economic cycles, socio-political cycles, others .... all seem to be changing ... very quickly. Generationaly held beliefs are morphing into something new? Or back to something we haven't seen for a while. Note that the 1950s to the 2030s include 4 generations and coincide with perhaps 4 Hale Cycles ... and longer term (60 yr- 80 yr) in major indices. Coincidence ? Concepts of turnings in human history/affairs. Not rigidly, but tides that repeat similarly under similar circumstances.
Here, we are used to calling physical cycles. Do we see the same things in politics and economics? We have just seen political reversals in Australia and New Zealand. Now Germany and France. Maybe the US soon? Others? Good time for testing theories.
A shift to the right was bound to happen (I think). However, the new right may not be far enough for some like me whose politics are further right than Genghis Khan.  PS: I will not enter into a debate about his politics; it's just something I have said about myself for many, many years. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 8, 2023 23:17:55 GMT
From seven years ago, I've put it here for the history buffs to comment ... Eight years later and the clock is clicking away. Ever closer.
It will be interesting to see how gold and silver purchased in the late 90s and early 10s inflate ... as the dollar deflates. We don't have enough gold to go back on a gold standard without gold going on a rip.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 9, 2023 1:59:05 GMT
Me thinks I spy some truth here. We should get about it.
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Post by gridley on Dec 9, 2023 15:00:08 GMT
Me thinks I spy some truth here. We should get about it.
Where would we send them? Can't think of a country that would want them. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 9, 2023 15:23:24 GMT
Me thinks I spy some truth here. We should get about it.
Where would we send them? Can't think of a country that would want them. Perhaps a penal brigade in the Russian army? Or Hamas? Some place where their true talents will be appreciated ... although I doubt that they have the backbone for it. |
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Post by acidohm on Dec 9, 2023 19:49:29 GMT
Seen on an Aussie forum. (Ignore the sweeping generalizations and don't shoot the messenger.) I read somewhere that the biggest problem with the Internet is that every village/town has its idiot, and everyone would laugh at them. Now they can communicate en-mass, and there's many villages/towns in the world. |
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Post by ratty on Dec 10, 2023 5:25:31 GMT
Seen on an Aussie forum. (Ignore the sweeping generalizations and don't shoot the messenger.) I read somewhere that the biggest problem with the Internet is that every village/town has its idiot, and everyone would laugh at them. Now they can communicate en-mass, and there's many villages/towns in the world. No longer does any village need to feel deprived of its idiot. That's DEI at work.  |
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Post by Sigurdur on Dec 14, 2023 18:24:19 GMT
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497Modelling cosmic radiation events in the tree-ring radiocarbon record Qingyuan Zhang, Utkarsh Sharma, Jordan A. Dennis, Andrea Scifo, Margot Kuitems, Ulf Büntgen, Mathew J. Owens, Michael W. Dee and Benjamin J. S. Pope Published:26 October 2022https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497 Abstract Annually resolved measurements of the radiocarbon content in tree-rings
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 15, 2023 6:12:34 GMT
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497Modelling cosmic radiation events in the tree-ring radiocarbon record Qingyuan Zhang, Utkarsh Sharma, Jordan A. Dennis, Andrea Scifo, Margot Kuitems, Ulf Büntgen, Mathew J. Owens, Michael W. Dee and Benjamin J. S. Pope Published:26 October 2022https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497 Abstract Annually resolved measurements of the radiocarbon content in tree-rings Excellent. |
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