Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Today, January 20th, the United States inaugurates the first black man to be elected president. This is an historic day, though I don’t feel that it is as historic as some in the media seem to. To me, it’s not a big deal that Obama’s skin is not the same color as mine. There are […]
If you have been reading this blog and some other greats, you are probably aware that although the press would like you to think “the worst is behind us”, we are only looking at the end of the first phase of the collapse. 2008 saw the beginning of the massive deflationary cycle that kicked off […]
As has been reported elsewhere in the press, reclusive actor Patrick McGoohan died earlier today. The 17 episode series of “The Prisoner” was transformational in many ways for television. In an age of episodic television, where everything was resolved in 30 minutes and at the end nothing ever changes, McGoohan’s show was one enormous story […]
From an excellent article in reason.com: “Investing in socially responsible stocks just because they are socially responsible is not—underline not—a valid investment thesis,” says Steven Pines, a senior investment consultant for Northern Trust. “This crisis highlights the limitations of social research methods,” says Dirk Matten, who holds the Hewlett-Packard chair in corporate social responsibility at […]
Something to keep an eye on… Seems that there has been a stream of small quakes underneath the lake at Yellowstone. Quakes under Yellowstone are nothing new. Yellowstone is the shell of a super-volcano, a caldera as it is called. It has erupted massively in the past and will do so again at some future […]
I would like to say thank you to everyone who reads what Bruce Webster and I post here, and wish every one of you a Merry Christmas. Even though times are a bit rough and likely headed rougher, it’s important to keep in mind that for christians like myself, we celebrate the birth of our […]
Thanks to long time friend Sean Church for this great story about a corrupt executive at Fry’s electronics. For those of you who may not know, Fry’s is the ultimate store for nerds, geeks, gadget heads and everyone who loves computers and electronics. Their motto, “Your best buys are always at Fry’s!”. Now this story […]
For those of you who missed it, in this downward spiral we are now enduring, the amount of leverage (read, debt) is directly related to how fast your bank is going to go under. Now from a blog named Infectious Greed, comes this chart extracted from a Bank of Canada report: So according to the […]
This news came as a bit of a surprise to me as I was scanning headlines tonight. First off, Ebola is a very dangerous hemorrhagic fever that is typically found in Africa. The two things that stand out about this story are that the infection is in pigs, and it’s in the Philippines. From the […]
This Had Better Be A Trial Balloon
A headline on the Fox News website reads like this: Obama to End Military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy I hope beyond hope that this is some nasty trial balloon to judge how huge the backlash against this is going to be. Let me short cut the process for you, you are about to gut […]
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