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You've watch to many youtube videos...

I defined it as a plurality and >50%. Pretty sure that is not semantics. You can disagree on the merits of those defining characteristics, but trying to triangulate it to an "English idiomatic expression" is semanticy...

Cordless power tools make a lot of sense... But the example does not extend into transportation though...

I was defining what a sea change is...and yeah...over >50% of the people having mobile phones is the definition of a sea change.

How do you know the sales figures in 2021 when 2021 is not over yet. Those usually come out in February. Sea change usually means a plurality so...>50%.

How is that relatable to a battery based infrastructure?

EV sales account for 2% of total vehicle sales... You have a weird way of clamming a sea change...

I will say it again, electric cars don't make sense right now. Ditch the concept all together. Turn the focus to residential and commercial solar capture with battery storage. Scale to the load as needed. Alleviate the stress to the grid, then you don't have to build it out in the future...

No, I want to see this tire at 75 hours.

Can you tell them to hurry up...they haven't made a lot of progress.

No, larry...that is wrong.

Semantics is about the only play for many to come and play in the sand box, I agree.

Very interesting. I wonder how scalable it is. This however is devastating. "EVs accounted for less than 5% of new car sales globally in 2020 and 2% in the US. According to University of California Davis research, one in five electric car owners switched back to a gas-powered car because of...

Building roads would become cost prohibited for cities. Then what happens when a pot hole shuts down 5 o'clock rush hour with everyone stranded with dead batteries? If building a grid above ground is challenging, imagine putting it in a road.

When does the battery revolution start?

So lets get back to the topic. Battery power in EV makes no sense because of grid capacity issues. Battery power in homes that use solar to charge batteries during the day to use at night during high peak demand makes a lot of sense.

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Oh gale...I like to come in here every once in a while to crack the echo chamber.

BDH get's it.

You're sticking to wires = grid. It's a little more nuanced that that.

JFC...read it. Learn it. There is 24.6 GWH of storage in the Grid. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/09/f18/Grid%20Energy%20Storage%20December%202013.pdf I did post this a page ago, so there is no excuse for ignorance.

I wouldn't test, but act like you have it. Limit your exposure to others. However... Everyone is going to get omicron. It's too transmissible... In two weeks it's gotten hundreds of thousands of people. From a virology standpoint...this is good. It needs to work through a population to...

I think a picture is worth a 1,000 words here...

It surely can store energy...I will give you an example. I was the economist on the board for our electric company when Amazon and Microsoft wanted to open a series of server farms here. These require so much energy to operate and chose Wyoming for it's cheap power (coal) and access to fiber...

I actually think the concept of modular batteries is workable. Decouple the ownership of the car and battery. But again details. Imagine the size stations would have to be to store, charge, and swap batteries. Would all manufacturers produce a modular platform. Is there enough profit for...

I still get the excuse of, we're backordered because of the freeze in Texas. Texas should have come to Wyoming in February for a show and tell on the physics of windmills in the cold.

Just teaching...

I feel this an about-face post...you had to admit the grid has storage capacity while at the same time not admitting it.

I want a job where I try and predict stuff 30 years into the future...

you guys need a physics lesson...but this might suffice for a quick lesson... https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/09/f18/Grid%20Energy%20Storage%20December%202013.pdf The second paragraph... "At present, the U.S. has about 24.6GW (approx. 2.3% of total electric production capacity)...

Wires pre date battery tech... ;)

The fact there are unused electrons on a wire waiting to be used is the definition of storage. Look at all those lines with holding capacity...

Demand does not care about energy generation. When demand hits, the energy needs to be there. Do you think the call comes in at 5 each night to the utility to fire up another hydro plant to meet demand. By the time energy was supplied to the end user, the demand period would be over. Then...

Its too expensive to be cheap.

If the grid is not storage capacity for times of high demand, where is the storage capacity?

That means you drove straight to work and home monday through friday. No weekend driving and no driving for the multitude of other things one needs to do to function in society. Make the examples at least a little more real like and not to the extreme of reality to make a point.

I thought I was the one being polite.

Your retired. Not a good example of usage.

Let us know when you understand it.

The grid is our storage capacity in this nation. The grid needs to be addressed long before we focus on generation.

What is the cost post subsidy?

Which is too bad...I need a good session on "bad econ takes" to refresh the soul.

Without upgrading the grid in major cities, where is the electrical capacity going to come from. I think that is going to be a hidden tax in the EV push. Cities will need huge inflows of capital investment to upgrade the grid. The BBB bill hid those subsidies in the form of charging stations...

Steve... Are you still alive?

The games that have been crated to get around CAFE standards are the best. For every gas guzzling high volume SUV produced there is a small low volume car that only exists to offset and skew the overall average. I see a lot more small cars that don't sell being created as a hedge...

If this thread is indicative of the ratio of EV users to the general population...EV's are going to have a real tough time gaining market share in non urban areas. The batteries are just not able to store the type of power needed to make ICE non existent for rural and cold areas of the country.

Thanks for the update. That turnaround time was quick. I am shocked they do the molded and glued soles, but glad they do. I have a pair of old Scarpas that need the same treatment. Hope they work for you again for another 10 years.

He's PM'd you as well huh...did it go like this...

Lets hear them, post up the suggestions that have be PM'd to you.

Buy the $6k ecu, or bypass... /Thread.

I would offer some tips, but the OP has me on ignore. So...

There is a lot of money floating around. When a government increases the money supply by $1...That dollar can be spent up to 7 additional times before it ends up in an asset. Velocity of money.

I'm <40, so should skew the number lower, but I only know one person. The numbers hold up. Math is a hard thing to shake and we have a big enough sample that if everyone on TBN answered, the average would still hover around 2.

It does, it confirms the <1% death rate for covid. Which means the average person will know 2-3 people. Trying to put other qualifiers in will pollute the data.

The survivors of: The black plague The Spanish flu... etc.. All agree.

Well, what did you learn? Again, this thread confirms the death rate were seeing.

He has a dump truck and a 40K trailer. That handles 95% of the equipment. I really don't see a need to go bigger. How many land owner jobs require that new 944 or D7?

My 2019 is under the bed. I think 7K is reasonable.

That diamond plate on the roof dosen't look factory. I'm still trying to understand how you roll at 5mph? Even if a tire fell of a ledge and he over corrected, there isn't enough momentum to roll it. This comming from a seasoned ATV roll over artist in my younger years. Tires are nice.

We should start a new thread without comment of... How many people do you know are vaccinated and still got COVID?

A covid patient in an ICU bed makes the hospital about an extra 2,000 - 3,000 per day. I will leave it at that.

you lost me at open crumb...

Put that into an equation so we keep it math...

Did you mean to say...Math or interpretation of statistics. Because if you did, you would seem a whole lot smarter.

That's unfortunate and I'm glad you survived, but math is apolitical.

I do math without the emotional part.

As of today, there have been 790,000 deaths due to COVID There are around 340,000,000 people in the US The death rate is still less than 1%...

That dosen't matter.

To add a bit of context, this article estimates that an average person knows 600 people. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/the-average-american-knows-how-many-people.html#:~:text=The%20average%20American%20knows%20about%20600%20people. We can all do math...

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Either way, he's amassing quite a collection of old equipment. He has probably raised the value on used equipment in his area.

I was commenting on this comment from daugen.

This must be awkward for the treehuggers... https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/rise-of-electric-cars-endangers-last-frontier-philippines/index.html?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

He already showed his new dozer.

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The only way inflation will subside is when the fed shrinks the money supply. The fed increased the money supple by over 20% in one year, which means prices will settle around 20% higher indefinitely. That is just simple economics. The problem I'm seeing is, prices are over shooting that 20%...

I don't think common rail exists without direct injection. I searched everywhere.

Is it possible to have a common rail and Indirect injection. I can't think of one engine in that category, but I'm curious if there is.

Yes, I know who you were talking about. It's still silly to stereotype and reveal a bias. I wear a suit and tie everyday and have thousands of rounds, not because I am going to challenge the military, but because when you really need something, it's hard to get. The past year has proven that.

Have you read about Austria and Australia over the past few months? I bet those people are regretting giving up their toy guns.

Coming? Try it's already here and has been here, where have you been?

It's marketing...not because anything is special.

Just use a sealed battery... It appears there are a few leaks, the front upper part of the head has some white stuff growing.

Can you put 50kwh into the car each night from solar? If you have 1000 watts or 1 kw of solar, it would take 6.25 days of solar to charge a tesla battery. I don't think there is enough roof space to charge a tesla each night. It would require 20, thousand watt arrays to charge a tesla in a 8...

Batteries are still not energy dense enough to be a viable long term solution. Right now, it's filling a need to tickle the sensibilities of an "enlightened" class of buyer. They know the concept is not anywhere near scalable or economical on a large scale. Batteries just hold energy, just...

Carhart is good stuff, but their sizing sucks. I mean absolutely sucks. I have so many dress slacks and collard shirts that really don't have a purpose after their done with office duty. So I wear them around the ranch sometimes. Out doing work with old slacks, white collard shirt, and...

That is a good price...let us know how it goes and definitely post some before and after pictures so we can see the quality.

Did not know there was someone who did that. Let us know the price and if they do good work. I have a few boots that could use a new molded sole.

direct vent propane stoves are very popular these days with the off grid craze going on now. So many versions out there. Get a good one though, one where you can get replacement parts. It seems they're are a lot of cheap ones that when they break, it's hard to source parts. The good ones...

Repairable boots need a welt. Boots that have a glue on sole with a molded sole are consumable boots. Once their done, they're done. Boots with full grain leather and a welt are more expensive, but the cost is spread over a much longer period if they are resoled. I have never worn out a...

I'm sure there are some that thinks this is reckless. They will be along shortly to let us all know.

The app is called social media and it has turned a lot of people into professional beggars. It's seems people can hide behind a $1,000 phone screen and have no shame to beg others for a hand out.

lol You win the post of the day.

I think your injection pump is suspect. It may be as simple as the injection pump timing is off. There was a guy on here that rebuilt injection pumps that was super knowledgeable about their timing. I just can't think of his username. Hopefully someone will remember and tag him to chime in.

How have you confirmed your injection pump is good?

I was in town getting a hair cut last night when I saw a little dog running around when I walked out of the shop. I got my dog to see if he would come to it. He just kept going and came to a busy street. I knew it was not good. He had no fear of cars and just walk right out. Needless to say...

No business expenses here. I'm not a rancher, just live on one that has been in the family for years and is too valuable to sell. My neighbor runs his cattle on the meadows and keeps the fences up, ditches cleared and hay cut. He's the rancher. He keeps my meadows from becoming weed...

Bucket teeth make a world of difference digging. I do like to take them off for grading though... It looks like you can get some work done now. Making flat ground was the best thing I ever did, lots of diesel and time...but worth it.

meh

If he made safe and by the book videos, would we even be talking about him now? Of course not. It appears there is a lot of people that have no idea how youtube works.

I just had 3 propane tanks filled at the ranch, 500 gallons each. $3.85 a gallon delivered Had 500 gallons of diesel delivered 3.42 a gallon delivered Had 500 gallons of 91 gasoline delivered. 4.15 a gallon delivered A quick way to spend a little less than 10K. I am in my prime money making...

I agree it's nuts right now. I can't figure out why people are paying these prices, but they are. In economics we have a saying...The best medicine for high prices, is high prices. Unfortunately there is a lot of pain in getting back to normal prices.

Is that a yep you agree or a yep I am missing something?

I come from an economic background so I am intrigued and curious. That's it so far. The thing that bugs me with crypto is you're not buying assets or debt value, your buying system value (the blockchain). Which is a huge departure from our concept of worth. Most forms of currency don't have...

Bitcoin is the Keynesian neurotoxin. It's not just supply chains causing this, the fed increased the money supply by 20% in one year. What do they think is going to happen. I'm not totally sold on crypto, but seeing how it's preforming during rapid inflation is very interesting. Gold and...

I have a polaris rzr turbo for the ranch/cabin and my dad has a ranger. He also put a topper on it for the dogs, as he takes his everywhere. I break up the road in the spring with the rzr, its the only thing with enough power to make it most of the way before getting stuck. We both have old...

Always go back to physics. A diesel motor's variables are air and fuel, if the engine architecture is the same. I know on the massey (Iseki) engines, they use the same engine in the 25 and 23 horsepower versions. The 25 hp spins faster, 3k rpm, to make the rated power, but there is more...

They finally saw the light...

That out of pocket is high, especially if you have some part b and part d cost in addition to the deductible. I just went through this with my mom. I got her a true Medicare supplement and plan G. Her out of pocket is $200 per year. Her premium on that plan is $170 per month. She has to...

The delineation line today is speed. The Polaris/can-am/Yamaha use belt driven chassis. The Kubota uses HST transmissions. The Kubota can do more work, but is painfully slow. Any hills you have basically neuter's the machine. The others can go much faster and are more nimble, but may...

Good job UAW...you told them.

It's too expensive to be cheap. Stay away from advantage plans. Go with medicare supplement plans.

huh?

I thought it was a UAW strike? I don't believe Deere is striking...

We know who they are...

Believe it or not, many people think their super healthy or they won't have any medical issues and will willfully forgo health insurance. The 20 somethings are this way. No matter how much you incentive them, they would rather spend the money on a new Iphone than health insurance. It's not...

Nobody ever said stock shareholders were guaranteed to made whole, but they never got wiped out. Maybe your confusing the difference between debt and equity shareholders. Debt shareholders get wiped out when a company goes bankrupt, unless they hold convertible bonds. Equity shareholders may...

nah...they were bailed out by the tax payers...

There should be no budget and or care for science.

UAW is doing to deere what they did to GM. Deers's out will be bankruptcy, but it can reorganize in bankruptcy and come out stronger without the labor stranglehold. Employees have no out. There is a limit on how much labor costs a company can afford.

GM had to go through bankruptcy to shed their unstainable union contracts... UAW took it on the shorts on that one.

Most self insure. Most will pay a company like BCBS to administer the claims and get their network discounts. Then they transfer the large claim risk away in two ways, individual and group risk to reinsurance companies in exchange for a premium. The problem now is reinsurance companies have...

Then why are you equating that to a Tier 4 tractor. They are completely different animals.

I watched them rebuild a airport runway here a few years back. The concrete was 15 inches thick with standing rebar. They used a combination of dumb trucks and belly dumps. They just dumped in front of the slip form machine. The aggregate pile feeding the concrete plant was huge. They...

Only two loaders Damn. Amazing how much more versatile a modern loader makes and why so many tractors sell today. I would have no use for a 3 point only machine. Good to show the old ways though...

Bad policy 101 Most truckers are freelance owner-operators, which CA outlawed by banning independent contracting. Truckers sued CA - if they lose, they’ll be decimated in the midst of a supply chain crisis. Progressive policies created this crisis and they will make it worse.

I don't think you know how this works...

There are plenty of google hits when you enter that part number. Nowhere near 1200, more like 150.

If it's super cold, I break out my mountaineering boots...You don't get cold at that point. They give you both a bootie or over boot, then a lace up inner boot, then a over boot. LaSportiva olympus boots

When I was highschool and worked at the golf course, we would go at dusk once the golfers were gone, and throw a 100 round pack of black cats into the hole. The concussion and sound would drive them to the surface where we would wack them with a shovel. It was great, then one day a lady...

I get it, Polaris wheel bearings seem to suck. There is an aftermarket tool to grease them, which seem to make them last forever if done regularly. I had a 2003 sportsman 500 and it was a good machine. They made them good back them, but time marches on. I have a 2019 Ranger and a 2020...

An upgrade would be to the Stihl 362. Anything else would be a lateral move. The 362 can handle a 20 inch bar with no issues.

I love my 3.5 TT ecoboost. Not one issue I also loved my 6.0 diesel. I did proactively fix some known issues with updated Ford parts, but it's been a solid truck. It is such a smooth running machine, plus it's the best sounding diesel made. I guess I love to take the bad, do common sense...

I just ordered a new Pro HVLP from eastwood, ordered it on a Thursday and was on my front porch Monday. Free shipping. My faith in supply chains are temporally resorted.

One Saturday I stopped in my local Polaris dealership, prior to COVID when they had inventory, and ended up buying a Ranger. I didn't feel like going through their financing BS, so I just paid with my CC and would transfer money on Monday to pay for it. I knew I would get 3% cash back, which...

Man you don't hear about that failure in those motors. It must be an unlucky fluke. This is the one downside to pushrod motors, the valvetrain can take out a motor when a valve drops.

I have a masters in Economics, I have studied all the economic systems...there is not a perfect system. Either you have a dictator in control of every economic decision, or you have a representative government with a federal reserve. I will take the latter. The problem with our system is it...

I have an Echo Bearcat 9 inch chipper with hydraulic feed. There is a safety bar around the entire outside of the chute that can stop or reverse the hydraulic feed. The end of the chute is only a foot square, meaning unless something can be compress into something less than a foot square, it's...

5030, is that you?

My wife is a health care consultant for large corps and unions on their health insurance design and rating. The one group she hates to work with is the teachers union. They want every benefit under the sun, but when she provides the rating for those benefits, they whine and play the broke...

It was confirmation bias for you...

Unions collective barging to cater to the lowest common denominator in a given workforce. They raise the bottom up and lower the top produces to make an average workforce. -An Economics Professor in Grad school. I think he was ahead of his time.

for you or him?

I was up at my cabin this weekend cutting up some old slash and burning it since there was 10 inches of fresh snow on the ground, I thought about that claim of 3% loss with each 1000 feet of elevation gain, since I was at 10k. I was using my stihl 361 and it was tuned for slight 4 stroking out...

Physics? But the opposite happens. Have you ever leaned out a carb, and what happens? It runs faster, not slower...but there is a point where there is not enough fuel (oil is in the fuel) and the motor is starved of lubrication and siezes.

You have to run more RPM at altitude for the same power...

I guess I am relying upon those physics class I took in college. It's all in my head...

I never said there was no loss, I said it's less than you claim due to oil in the fuel and being able to lean a motor out to compensate for the lest dense air. That article was weird, it was more of a summary than actual evidence with actual numbers. It seemed more about making a case for FI...

It's funny, my sister had a wedding in estes park two weeks ago. She had it at this fancy resort right next to rocky mountain national park. During the ceremony, there were two big bull elk behind the venue bugling. What timing, it was pretty cool.

In other words, at sea level you need more fuel for the greater o2 in the air. At altitute, you lean out an engine for the less o2 density. But like I said, carbs don't care, they just want flow and you adjust flow.

If you lean out an engine, the fuel air ratio goes up, If you richen an engine, the air fuel ratio goes down...all while the air remains a constant. You can compensate for less air by changing the fuel. It's a ratio and one side of the equation is independent upon the other side. You can...

No, that is for a 4 stroke engine. I knew you would pull out the 3% figure. Two stoke also have oil in the fuel that adds to a lower air fuel ratio, therfore they don't need as much air because the ratio is much different than a four stroke. But again, carbs don't care about o2 density, they...

From a business person's perspective, this is the absolute worst time to strike, during a supply chain crises? It's too easy for the media to latch on and start blaming the low hanging fruit of disruption for this crises. Deere will take a brand hit. Like warren buffet famously says...you...

I get the physics of the loss of o2 at altitude, but the carb is not an o2 dependent item, it's a flow and mixing thing. Air flow does not decrease at altitude and therefore you should be able to tune a carb, independent of altitude to run correctly. Besides, the % your loosing on a 35cc...

I run a 35CC, 60, 78 and 90cc saw at 10k Feet. I would post a picture of all the trees I deal with, but I guess my phone pictures are too large for this server to handle

I have never seen or heard of a twin cylinder chainsaw. I wonder why it never caught on, it looks like she's a runner...

The timing to do a strike could not be worse. Perception is 9/10 of reality. What a time to be alive...

Yes that is true, there is no throttle plate in a diesel. However, throttle is a function of rpm on a diesel and rpm has a air component.

Which was smart of you...

I guess I'm not a residential user. I have cabin with 60 acres of forest. I would need 20 batteries to get through one day of work. That's nonsense... As it is, I use one saw for felling, one saw for limbing, one saw for bucking up the big end of the log. A very fast and quick revving saw...

You're best post and confirmation you understand it. Battery will never have the chain speed to efficiently cut wood. Managing an air pump with some fuel is far superior to managing elections...

I had to go to a board meeting in Jackson this summer and the running joke was seeing all the tesla's from California with gas generators charging them... Common sense is good to have, but self awareness is even better.

When do I get my bottle of Brigs and Stratton 2 stroke cologne to make sure my man card is not revoked?

This is so awesome, I think I will go buy a new battery chainsaw, cut up some small branches, and put it on the charger and wait 6 hours...then go do all over again.

I use diesels at 10K feet in wyoming. There is no special injectors for this elevation, just give it some more air (throttle).

The term Global warming has become a catch all phrase for anything we don't like about weather phenomenon's. It almost useless a phrase anymore. We need to understand that their is climate and their is pollution, and both are mutually exclusive. If they would be honest and say we have a...

It only moves the pollution, it dosen't eliminate the pollution. Where is the common sense in California...

This is what is wrong with the state...blinded by their own moral superiority. Hehe...

When your favorite hammer is cummins, every debate looks like a ford. -Haydude

Good job. The little things take time. Hopefully you will get it going before the snow flies.

woodepox is the best, but you already know that... My mom has a modern wood cabin that had few logs where bees and wasps made a home. Woodepox fixed that problem. It dries so hard they couldn't chew through it. I wish I could see their teeth get ground down when they tried again.

Good studies segregate out factors that only serve to skew the data...This is no different.

We study genetics a lot in my line of work... Look back two generations on your family tree and you will see your future.

Your doctor is a smart man...

Can you find the study where it says the body needs salt to survive?

The correlation between salt and high blood pressure, independent of other factors, is pretty low. If you have heart issues, you have heart issues.

I come from a long line of salt eaters. If the food dosen't look like powdered sugar was put on top, it needs more salt. My grandfather was never on heart meds. My father (70) has never had a heart med Me, (40) has never had a heat med. Genetics...

They did work good though. Notice how you never see a late model burban with a saggy rear end. Then GM goes to a IRS and coils. We'll see how that works out.

Those only came on burbans... Trucks never saw them...

This is why it's risky to buy Chinese stuff. They make things to be consumable, not repairable. It's probably easier to just buy a new saw...

It's too expensive to be cheap... I can't support the Chinese copying US engineering and then making it cheap enough to hit a price point only. They make them to be consumable, not repairable.

I tried to sell mine once, as I thought I finally chipped all I needed at the cabin...then I bought more land. I had it on all the major selling sites locally, as you have to tow it away. I paid close to 20k and had it for sale for 12 and then 10K. Nobody had the money to buy it, but they...

I initially went with a chipper shredder that claimed 3 inch branches. LOL. It was painful to use as you had to literally stuff stuff in, then it would clog...nightmare. I bit the bullet and went with with a towable Chipper shredder from Echo/Bearcat. Hydraulic feed is a must to be...

I tend to mix it more on the oil side of the ratio. The diesel is just there to thin it down enough to get it through your applicator. I use a 2 gallon garden sprayer.

On the ranch, we have been doing this for at least as long as I've been alive. It works really really well. Some trailers have never needed a new deck, some only needed a new deck because the equipement eventually tears up the wood. If a deck needs replaced, it's never with pressure treated...

I have never seen a grease related failure. What does a grease failure look like, other than the obvious of having no grease. I mean, if there is grease in the joint or bearing, and it fails because of the grease, how can a person tell?

I'm an actuary and did the math for my mom who retired at 57 with a full pension and 401k, but was unsure what to do about claiming SS. She would have to live to 83, at that point the benefit of waiting past 62 was better. So there is a 21 year break even point. Then it works out to around 8%...

Universal basic income to a population that does not pay taxes, funded by a middle class, avoided by upper class tax shields...is a sure fire way for the US to shoot itself in the face. Needing to eat has been the best motivating factor for a civilization to flourish and keep progressing...

I just use zip ties. If I hit something the zip ties break, the light stayes fine. Make sure to use the cheapest zip ties you can find...

threads like this give me less faith in humanity...

Beat me too it...

You're trying to make all things relevant to each other by some inflation metric. There is a reason relativity is not a topic in economics...

Yep. Time and time again investing in low cost index fund with dollar cost averaging with a buy and hold strategy is the best way to make the best returns. Don't. Try. To. Beat. The. Market. Be. The. Market.

The US really can't afford to have 5% interest or yield on a 10 year t bill. Interest on this 3.5 trillion new bill at 5% is 175 billion per year. LOL The market will crater.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here, other than relativity. I get it, you're trying to justify todays prices to those of 40 years ago. Cool. However it misses how those prices rise and fall over time and the mechanism that drive those inflections. That is what a person...

Are you saying maintenance has a direct effect on the reliability of any engine? Profound...

Trying to calculate nominal value at points in time is missing the point of interest rate movement and prices. Don't try and outthink economic principles.

@Steppenwolfe What was the professor's screen name, I forgot it.

Oh I told him...then he would hit me with some graph on theory. Bless his heart.

08 was an anomaly to the system and housing specifically as the financial world was mixing bad loans with good loans and pushing them off a Grade AAA investments. One can argue fraud, but because the credit rating agencies were backing the grading, it was hard to pin on anyone. You can't count...

Bond values and interest rates work in opposite directions. If interest rates go up, bond values will go down. In today's world, there is no better place to put money than a low cost index fund.