Lets Brainstorm Whats The Next Bubble?

[I D Shukhov]

Yeah, this video is where I first saw the frightening statistic that these countries with huge populations have more high-IQ people than we have people.  It's just because the area under their bell curves is greater than ours.    A reason to favor on-site, or *very* high-value-added stuff.

[The Gorn]

G0ddard,  
 
  You can relax. Human fundamental needs haven't changed in centuries: love, something meaningful to do, and enough decent food to keep from being hungry.  
 
  You can create your own "Amish order" in your own home. Just believe what you choose to believe, and value what you choose to value.  
 
  The world of 1960 was amazingly different from the world of 1000 AD. But we had fun just the same.

You're right. Maybe that world of 1960 is the answer.

I've been watching "Mad Men" lately. I think the answer is getting back to tubes and black and white instead of transistors. And, danish modern.

[John Masterson]

... I think the answer is getting back to tubes and black and white instead of transistors. And, danish modern.

Nothing says 1960s like Danish modern furniture. I still kind of like it.  Our bathroom is still 1960s: a little harvest gold paint and burlap fabric-style dark-tan wallpaper.

I like it!

Feels "homelike" to me.

I never did care for square white-wall house interiors.

[Aussie]

" Our bathroom is still 1960s: a little harvest gold paint and burlap fabric-style dark-tan wallpaper. "

Beats the 1970s:  burnt orange and purple and green.  Generally together.

[David Randolph]

Actually, we are in another bubble, just that we haven't acknowledged it yet. The bubble is that of big business. Thus, the government is bailing out big businesses but not the small ones. We had a similar bubble of big business in the 1950's - where people bought the idea that working for a big business meant that your life was secure. Right now, the stock prices of these big businesses is a bubble propped up by insanely low interest rates.

 

We may also be in the bubble of big government with the resulting bubble in lawyers.

[Aussie]

'We had a similar bubble of big business in the 1950's - where people bought the idea that working for a big business meant that your life was secure."

No one buys this anymore.  Everyone know big business robs ya blind these days.  THeir press is more consitent with the 1930s than the 1950s.

[The Gorn]

No one buys this anymore. Everyone know big business robs ya blind these days. THeir press is more consitent with the 1930s than the 1950s.

True enough for the view on the ground. But I think that David Randolph's observation is spot-on. All of the money, bail outs and attention have been going to huge, monolithic corporations that in many case are dinosaurs and have run their historic course. But so the policy goes, they "must" not be allowed to fail.

The small businesses, just f*ck 'em, they fail and we lose nothing - an entirely different story, so the policy decisions go.

So this drains capital from the most potentially productive parts of the economy - small business - in favor of the bloated, failed institutions.

[Origisaurus]

But so the policy goes, they "must" not be allowed to fail.

I think this is due to the statist thinking that government is a plus factor in profit-intentioned enterprise.  Failure can be disguised as "restructuring".

And of course the same "thinkers" dassn't touch the third rail of small business, because if they fail, they just disappear, and the "thinkers" know they can't lie their way out of that.