I'm not so sure about this slideshare site, good God, they put a lot of tracking code and their site tried to change my registry!

So, while I know how to embed flash without using other sites presented embedded code, normally most are ok. These slide share guys had a lot of extraneous stuff that probably shouldn't be posted.

FYI, just email me if you want to do multimedia presentations on here and how to implement it.

Chris.

Chris has an interesting slide presentation about the credit crisis. Let's go vote it up.

Chris has been one of the voices out there who's been very clear about what's been going in. Banks have outsourced their risk, and that corporations in general have taken the "limited liability" insurance that the government gives them. With the new bankruptcy law, you and I lose everything if the economy puts us in a bind. But when a corporation goes bankrupt, their liability is limited to capital invested. But the big boys can walk away with millions of dollars so log at they have their money invested someplace else than their firm.

And you and I pick up the tab for this insurance, because corporations refuse to pay their "insurance premiums", i.e. their taxes.

Again, thanks Chris.

I'm mulling some of these ideas, assuredly out of the box!

Is you want a global P2P based "market 3.0" network the immediate concern I have is security but very interesting concept change from a centralized system. I have to think about all of this, and am also wondering how game theory would predict a response. It is in the best interest to form clusters of some and thus centralize the decentralized? Just thinking out loud.

I think you can remove the IM framework for P2P is a server architecture in so many words, any medium/communication "payload" can be utilized, not just IM in P2P. (just my immediate geek thoughts).

(those who are not geeks, P2P is a network architecture, peer-to-peer) which things like torrents and distributed downloads/uploads are based.

Here is Chris Cooke's website, note the use of the mobius strip, this is high level systems architecture for lack of a better term, or concept paradigm shift level of ideas. (I think).

I talk to friend whom is in a bind to say the least, they are in a dark hole when comes understanding what and where their 401 k is.
Their spouse needs to get money from the FDA they work for of course as it goes it really whether they have the funds and how long they paid in to that 401 k, is questionable .
Trying to even to make clear sense that they may not pay now will not work, as they think its a fix, in reality its game of chance, and I try tell her that 401 k is investment not like the banks like a IRA.....
I am sure I was at a lost cause, reality is if gov is going broke so are you and really should grab up what funds are there and buried the money in fruit jar in their back yard sounds saner, people do not even know as you stated that 401 k are investing, but not for them , but for our big timers, its rip off! tail spinner Gob Bless the little who do not know they going to be in hell soon, thanks to big money and gov, wall street ect,.........................

Yes, the actual bullion seems unobtainum at the spot price, which is really weird.

Not sure why, but this is the third instance I've run into of an article claiming that actual gold and silver bullion is not available at the price quoted.

The BIS number reported here earlier was my source for World.

I wonder if there's some too small to fit in that chart that would account for BIS being different than that chart?

At any rate, what bugs me about this is that our debt seems to completely dwarf that... by more than 10:1.

Funny, I just read the opposite in a really good article defining derivatives- way down at the end in "where we are today" is an admitedly anecdotal story that gold and silver simply are not available at the stated wholesale price *at all*.

That link makes me wish I had an abandoned gold mine- the dust would be well worth it.

And what's to say the indicaters aren't just predicting a respite like they did in the spring?

certainly methane capture from these sources is an option. As are similar systems to capture gas from municipal wastewater systems. And while this appears to close the loop, the issue is basically that you can't get something for nothing.

You aren't going to get 100% efficiency, which means that you are still going to need outside inputs.

I'd suggest that now is the time to start limiting the use of natural gas for heating, and switch over to electric systems. This includes not only baseboard systems but electric forced air systems that are virtually identical to GFA furnaces that most of us are used to.

This would significantly limit natural gas use, and preserve what's left in the US for use as chemical feedstock. This of course requiring a system to limit natgas exports.

And I think that in the end it's long past time for the US to set up an office to deal with issues of economic continuity in the face of resource shortages. An office that would identify problems for the President and Congress, and suggest solutions that are in the national interest.