Ok, this is interesting.
Poisonous milk-powder.... have those women on TV considered using their mammaries(aka boobs) instead of formula milk powder? That stuff is considered clean compared to that milk powder. Why buy when you could make your own?
Of course, you could argue that breast milk is contaminated. But the fact is, a child is exposed to all sorts of pollution THE MOMENT THEY ARE BORN. If you use formula, then there's the polluted water that you'll need to use. On the other hand, the milk glands make fluids that are pretty much sterile and osmosis-filtered water. Unless, of course, you have some disease.
Convenience.... not a problem. Use those pumps.
There are only a few things that humans ever make. Milk, semen, saliva, mucus, blood and other humans. These are pretty much free on their own. I think we have forgotten about this.
The artificialization of human life from the moment a baby is born starting to create some disadvantages, which can be fixed.
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Lehman Brothers. AIG.
Very interesting. I think soon, other big companies may start to shrink, because consumers are consistently spending less and are worried about the economy. Also, investors are getting a little touchy and sensitive to every little scrap of trend. It is weak and could fail quite dramatically as a result of little sparks.
I would really prefer if the Federal Reserve Bank would stop pumping out cash. I think more waves of inflation would hit as a result of massive money supply increases. It's only going to torture the economy and its occupants for longer. Why can't we just let those die on their own? Hell, the economy and investors and everyone else involved would eventually see it logical and reasonable to dump stocks.
Of course, you could say that this is irrational. And yes, market rumors aren't good in a touchy time when everyone is on survival instincts. But people who say this have always had something to lose, or are those government interference people. My advice to them is simply that while such situations are clearly bad for the economy as a whole, it is eventually the people in it that matter. They are in it for themselves and they do have a right to pursue happiness. They don't have a responsibility to prop up the market for you. If they did, it would be a free-market anymore.
Investor confidence is probably not robust anymore, and people are looking more and more short-term - surviving the week. The US dollar is only getting propped up by the Federal Reserve bailing out foreign investment and keeping confidence high enough for a stable dollar. However, the debt will take its toll eventually on the value of the dollar. Maybe it won't be too bad after all, but nothing is completely predictable.
Who would have expected AIG and others to fall like that so fast?
