# Ah the good old days # 5 Decisions, decisions # 7 No saying that crap # 9 Damn # 11 There's no might involved # 17 Been there done that threw away the tee-shirt JD
When I worked at the Oriental in '77, Dickey's mine, it was $380. It was close to that price for several years. I was making $5 an hour, which was pretty good money at the time.
Seems like it was $32/oz forever. Brother came back from Nam in '69, we used to go look around, found a hell of a lot of very fine stuff on the islands in the Snake River. Needed a big sluice and some power. Had a couple fun summers.
#12 Sadly it is both. Inflation is going up AND the dollar is getting devalued relative to other currencies. A devalued dollar may have some benefits for exporters but it is not good for consumers.
I always look at the Value of Gold for what it can buy. In 1900 1 ounce of Gold could get you a very good men's suit and today that same once of Gold will still get you a very good suit. That's the true definition for value.
The value of a suit. The cost of a standard 2 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon or sausage, 2 pieces of toast breakfast at a diner. The cost of a bog-standard #2 pencil. The cost of a day's rent in a cheap hotel room like used for itinerant workers or cheap travelers. All of these basically 'cost' the same over the last 100 years.
What don't they use to figure out what inflation is? Cost of a good suit, normal diner breakfast, cost of a #2 pencil and cheap motel rooms.
DDT has no bad effect upon humans or birds or other creatures not insectiod. The whole "Silent Summer" book bullshit has been debunked so many times it's ridiculous. Removing DDT has actually brought back localized plagues and diseases in bad areas of the world. Curiously, the same areas where HQC and Ivermectin are over-the-counter drugs... that fight the plagues and diseases easily.
The only 'fact' that's been proven false that nears the DDT bullshit is 'Richard III killed the two princes.' Yeah, somehow killed them 5-10 years after he died. Right.
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# 9 I think she needs a touch more blush.
ReplyDelete# 13 What the hell is that?
# 13 Xena, the Warrior Prince.
Delete# Ah the good old days
ReplyDelete# 5 Decisions, decisions
# 7 No saying that crap
# 9 Damn
# 11 There's no might involved
# 17 Been there done that threw away the tee-shirt
JD
#1- Then there was the active ingredient in Coca-Cola 100 years ago. And I do mean 'active'.
ReplyDeleteAh, the good ol' days.
DeleteThe pause that refreshes
DeleteJD
#20 for the win.
ReplyDelete#4: Odyssey means "A long voyage characterized by many reversals of fortune". Which makes it a weird name for a minivan.
ReplyDeleteIt's Japanese, they thought they were naming it Oddity.
DeleteNot if you have to work on one. There will be many reversals of fortune.
DeleteThat gold chart is partly correct. Gold is at all time highs, trust me I know.
ReplyDeleteTodd near Denver
$3573.27 at the time of this posting. When I was prospecting back in the 1980s, it was 1/10th of that.
DeleteWhen I worked at the Oriental in '77, Dickey's mine, it was $380. It was close to that price for several years.
DeleteI was making $5 an hour, which was pretty good money at the time.
Seems like it was $32/oz forever. Brother came back from Nam in '69, we used to go look around, found a hell of a lot of very fine stuff on the islands in the Snake River. Needed a big sluice and some power. Had a couple fun summers.
Delete#12 Sadly it is both. Inflation is going up AND the dollar is getting devalued relative to other currencies. A devalued dollar may have some benefits for exporters but it is not good for consumers.
ReplyDeleteI always look at the Value of Gold for what it can buy. In 1900 1 ounce of Gold could get you a very good men's suit and today that same once of Gold will still get you a very good suit. That's the true definition for value.
DeleteThe value of a suit. The cost of a standard 2 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon or sausage, 2 pieces of toast breakfast at a diner. The cost of a bog-standard #2 pencil. The cost of a day's rent in a cheap hotel room like used for itinerant workers or cheap travelers. All of these basically 'cost' the same over the last 100 years.
DeleteWhat don't they use to figure out what inflation is? Cost of a good suit, normal diner breakfast, cost of a #2 pencil and cheap motel rooms.
"What don't they use to figure out what inflation is? Cost of a good suit, normal diner breakfast, cost of a #2 pencil and cheap motel rooms."
DeleteBecause they want you to believe their bankster bullshit, the economy is great...just look at the ponzi stockmarket.
#1 is only halfway effective. DDT was a boon, and what else do you do after sex? Have a popsicle?
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
I read somewhere that something like a quarter of the population of Southern Appalachia had malaria pre-World War II. DDT changed all that.
DeleteDDT has no bad effect upon humans or birds or other creatures not insectiod. The whole "Silent Summer" book bullshit has been debunked so many times it's ridiculous. Removing DDT has actually brought back localized plagues and diseases in bad areas of the world. Curiously, the same areas where HQC and Ivermectin are over-the-counter drugs... that fight the plagues and diseases easily.
DeleteThe only 'fact' that's been proven false that nears the DDT bullshit is 'Richard III killed the two princes.' Yeah, somehow killed them 5-10 years after he died. Right.
Yup. Get some big deal Irish singer to organize an AIDS concert while kids under 5 are dying from malaria at 10 times the rate.
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