The World’s Moola Redux
17/May/2010 08:10 Filed in: Oikos Thoughts | Web News
It was only a week ago when we woke up to understand that with a little encouragement from President Obama, European countries had come up with a trillion dollar plan to save the Euro and everything would soon be back to change we can believe in. One week later, we are wondering compared to the dollar how far the Euro will fall, or even if the currency will continue to exist.
Then there is all that dirty air over there, caused by that pesky volcano in Iceland. How in the world are we supposed to fly around from here to there, showing everybody how wonderful all the stuff we have created is doing, when we are thwarted by our efforts by some tiny airborne particles of abrasive rocks?
Here in the good old USA the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill continues, with no apparent understanding of how well the funny pipe thing fix installed yesterday is going to work. So in the absence of any news on that front, concern has shifted to what is happening to all the oil that is now floating around. Should we use dispersants that may cause more ecological problems than the oil itself? How far will the oil go, how fast? Can BP even continue to exist as a company in light of all the expenses and legal claims? One thing I did learn is that deep sea water is about 3 degrees Celsius, (35 Fahrenheit), and at those depths and pressures that is really a different place than what we naturally can understand, so perhaps we should cut those engineers a little slack.
Less we forget, there is no real news on what caused the near 1000 point fall in the Dow a week ago last Thursday. There was some discussion of a big trade(s) made by somebody about that time, but whoever they were, denied that they had anything to do with it. So the search goes on, but with markets being controlled by computers using models based upon past histories and triggered by various algorithms of risk, we should really have nothing to worry about. That is especially true if we are big and sophisticated enough to buy some credit default swaps, to insure our leverage, so that the white holes in the universe that spew out money will remain our back stop.
Let’s see what else caught our attention? Out of Washington, if Elena Kagan becomes the next Supreme Court Justice, this Washington state’s governor, Kristine Gregoire is favored to be the next Solicitor General. That would be a real blessing out here, for after her life as both a mediocre state Attorney General and Governor, the best we could ever hope to do is shuffle her off to that other Washington and get her out of the state, hopefully for good.
Then again maybe she could replace Eric Holder as the national Attorney General, she is wise enough to understand before you go spouting off about the Arizona Immigration Law, she would have read the 16 or 10 pages of the Arizona bill, before and after amendments.
For one who has been writing about a world of stupendous changes coming for a number of years, this still is beginning to cause some questioning stresses in my worldview. Changes are happening so fast that it is difficult to process it all, but one fact seems to be emerging. That reality seems to be that human collective governance is not doing the job it claimed it was created to solve. In short things are now too complicated for all the great minds of the intellectual and political classes to process, and this is definitely a hindrance to true reality that is now more rapidly unfolding.
I have been watching my news friend, Glenn Beck for the last couple of weeks, as he is developing his concept of “Crime Inc.” He has pictures of a dozen or so people, mounted on magnetic boards that he uses to show that these people are trying to collapse our current system of governance.
It seems to me that the system is doing a pretty good job of falling apart on its own, and if this band of intellectual and political elitists are working diligently to speed it along, all the better, for until things bottom out, you cannot truly rebuild on a new foundation, on the ashes, or as I am beginning to promote a true Redux of western culture.
So in America this band of merry socialists and communists is going to try to pull off on these shores, what the rest of the world is now trying to get themselves extricated. Lots of luck fellows. While the global community really is not based upon free markets, it still is a market based economy in which over time prices adjust and in the process a larger and larger class of speculators get a cut. But through it all we are beginning to see that a world in which money, especially in the form of monetary leverage, can only get so far removed from reality, before worthless liquidity, begins to look like worthless liquidity.
If money is no longer money, to adapt the line from the movie, “Show me the moola!” Give me some Deep Woods Moola I can see, touch, and most importantly, I know will be worth about the same next week and next year, and I can redux a life, and by extension a community, a nation, and a world.
However real moola in itself is not enough, we need an intellectual framework for which the new moola will provide the liquidity. Let’s see if collectivism doesn’t work perhaps one based upon natural law might do the job? That after all was the miraculous model that allowed the United States to function successfully for a couple of hundred years. The real problem with all that natural law stuff to function, it sort of needs a “Nature’s God” to give us the proper context. Those old fashioned American Founders understood that.
Probably today’s enlightened elite are not going to embrace that reality when they have all their resources invested in the old dinosaurs. But natural selection is a cruel teacher. The first step in bringing change back into the realm of change we can believe in and embrace, is that we need to see a redux in the world’s system of money, again giving the financial system the reality of moola we can believe in. This natural law solution begins with people who begin live their lives in a moola universe and not to the whims of elitists out of touch with our real world.
Then there is all that dirty air over there, caused by that pesky volcano in Iceland. How in the world are we supposed to fly around from here to there, showing everybody how wonderful all the stuff we have created is doing, when we are thwarted by our efforts by some tiny airborne particles of abrasive rocks?
Here in the good old USA the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill continues, with no apparent understanding of how well the funny pipe thing fix installed yesterday is going to work. So in the absence of any news on that front, concern has shifted to what is happening to all the oil that is now floating around. Should we use dispersants that may cause more ecological problems than the oil itself? How far will the oil go, how fast? Can BP even continue to exist as a company in light of all the expenses and legal claims? One thing I did learn is that deep sea water is about 3 degrees Celsius, (35 Fahrenheit), and at those depths and pressures that is really a different place than what we naturally can understand, so perhaps we should cut those engineers a little slack.
Less we forget, there is no real news on what caused the near 1000 point fall in the Dow a week ago last Thursday. There was some discussion of a big trade(s) made by somebody about that time, but whoever they were, denied that they had anything to do with it. So the search goes on, but with markets being controlled by computers using models based upon past histories and triggered by various algorithms of risk, we should really have nothing to worry about. That is especially true if we are big and sophisticated enough to buy some credit default swaps, to insure our leverage, so that the white holes in the universe that spew out money will remain our back stop.
Let’s see what else caught our attention? Out of Washington, if Elena Kagan becomes the next Supreme Court Justice, this Washington state’s governor, Kristine Gregoire is favored to be the next Solicitor General. That would be a real blessing out here, for after her life as both a mediocre state Attorney General and Governor, the best we could ever hope to do is shuffle her off to that other Washington and get her out of the state, hopefully for good.
Then again maybe she could replace Eric Holder as the national Attorney General, she is wise enough to understand before you go spouting off about the Arizona Immigration Law, she would have read the 16 or 10 pages of the Arizona bill, before and after amendments.
For one who has been writing about a world of stupendous changes coming for a number of years, this still is beginning to cause some questioning stresses in my worldview. Changes are happening so fast that it is difficult to process it all, but one fact seems to be emerging. That reality seems to be that human collective governance is not doing the job it claimed it was created to solve. In short things are now too complicated for all the great minds of the intellectual and political classes to process, and this is definitely a hindrance to true reality that is now more rapidly unfolding.
I have been watching my news friend, Glenn Beck for the last couple of weeks, as he is developing his concept of “Crime Inc.” He has pictures of a dozen or so people, mounted on magnetic boards that he uses to show that these people are trying to collapse our current system of governance.
It seems to me that the system is doing a pretty good job of falling apart on its own, and if this band of intellectual and political elitists are working diligently to speed it along, all the better, for until things bottom out, you cannot truly rebuild on a new foundation, on the ashes, or as I am beginning to promote a true Redux of western culture.
So in America this band of merry socialists and communists is going to try to pull off on these shores, what the rest of the world is now trying to get themselves extricated. Lots of luck fellows. While the global community really is not based upon free markets, it still is a market based economy in which over time prices adjust and in the process a larger and larger class of speculators get a cut. But through it all we are beginning to see that a world in which money, especially in the form of monetary leverage, can only get so far removed from reality, before worthless liquidity, begins to look like worthless liquidity.
If money is no longer money, to adapt the line from the movie, “Show me the moola!” Give me some Deep Woods Moola I can see, touch, and most importantly, I know will be worth about the same next week and next year, and I can redux a life, and by extension a community, a nation, and a world.
However real moola in itself is not enough, we need an intellectual framework for which the new moola will provide the liquidity. Let’s see if collectivism doesn’t work perhaps one based upon natural law might do the job? That after all was the miraculous model that allowed the United States to function successfully for a couple of hundred years. The real problem with all that natural law stuff to function, it sort of needs a “Nature’s God” to give us the proper context. Those old fashioned American Founders understood that.
Probably today’s enlightened elite are not going to embrace that reality when they have all their resources invested in the old dinosaurs. But natural selection is a cruel teacher. The first step in bringing change back into the realm of change we can believe in and embrace, is that we need to see a redux in the world’s system of money, again giving the financial system the reality of moola we can believe in. This natural law solution begins with people who begin live their lives in a moola universe and not to the whims of elitists out of touch with our real world.