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Born in Hong Kong. Early years spent in Malaya and the US. Moved to the UK and settled. Went to University, then army in UK. Worked in both Europe and America in hardware simulation and then switched to financial software working as a contractor. Now retired(early) living happily in San Fernando on Luzon within the Philippines. Hobbies: Tai Chi, Qigung, reading and writing.

Bonus Thought for the Day

The Fed’s Real Foreign Strategy

China invites South Africa to join BRICs

American Capitalism: Profits Matter, Jobs Don’t

QE2 risks Currency Wars and the end of Dollar Hegemony

Fed’s QE2 may mean 20% dollar drop

On QE, Currency Wars, Trade Wars and Reason

China’s not the villain

Gold is the final refuge vs. World Fiat currencies

Health Care law kicks in today

Do Not Pity the Democrats

Krugman eviscerates straw arguments

Dollar Endgame Approaches….Countdown to 2013

Kotlikoff: US is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It

Without a Revolution, Americans are History

Harsh Realities when East meets West

Chinese rating agency strips Western Nations of AAA status

The Fed: ‘Monster’ QE Expected

US Recovery: Just 25 Questions

Bill Black’s Lehman Rant at the FinServ Hearing

China continues to Cut US Debt Holdings

America Huffing and Puffing on China’s Yuan

Will the US Govt. Devalue the Dollar ?

Where’s the Gold, Ben ?

A Supreme Victory for Special Interests

Stiglitz, Sarkozy: A Dollar Reserve System No Longer Makes Sense

McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t

Short-Term Debt and the Greenspan-Guidotti Rule

Swine Flu Myths and Tales

New and deadlier Swine Flu mutation reaches the US

Tiny Mauritius Tells US To Shove Its Dollar, Buys Gold Instead

Lies, Fake Gold and a Rogue Nation

In Defense of Goldman

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- If I owe $100 to Tom but Harry owes me $100, the situation is the same as if Harry owed ...
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- Again, if you don't mind, a short follow-up Mr. Snark. Please forgive me for being so circumlocutory in my response. ...
  proletarian | 28Jan12 | More
- Hey Snark, good to hear from you. I have a confession to tell. Whether I agree or disagree with your ...
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- Joel and Mike: Gentlemen, you're getting hung up on the wrong issue. The issue is NOT the validity or ...
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- Oh, my, my, my, Mr. Snark -- always a pleasure to read you. As usual you have been very eloquent ...
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- Joel - your habit of portraying criticisms of scientists' work as ad hominems is getting ridiculous. All of the data used ...
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- Mike: You claim BEST used the same data as previous studies. This is disingenuous and borders on a lie. ...
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- Thank you Mike, On the third try you finally answered the question, sort of. "yes and no". Just to be clear: ...
  Joel | 12Dec11 | More
- Joel - Everything that I have said concerning Michael Mann directly or indirectly has been about the science and the ...
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- Chief: You requested: "Show me the science that is not so easily debatable, rather than debate the very debatable with esoteric ...
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- Mike, We're making some progress. You now say, "their numbers are correctly derived from their data using their stated methodology". ...
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- Joel - You have very conveniently ignored all the pertinent points from my last comment(s). A lot of what was ...
  Mike Jonas | 11Dec11 | More
- Mike, You are misrepresenting the study again, and you're intelligent enough to know it. From an article quoted on Watts's climate "skeptic" ...
  Joel | 11Dec11 | More
- Joel - You ask "Is the science they did right?". They didn't do much science. The figures they ended up ...
  Mike Jonas | 10Dec11 | More
- Mike, In my experience with the HIV-AIDS "skeptics" (yes they like being called skeptics too), their arguments typically diverge quickly from ...
  Joel | 10Dec11 | More
- Joel - that was a long and passionate comment, but you aren't seeing the whole story. Anthony Watts was very optimistic ...
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- "Make the science unassailable with out needing to have majority political support." Herein is the challenge. People make a very ...
  Joel | 9Dec11 | More
- Joel, I thank you for all things that you voluntarily do and for the sincerity with which I trust you ...
  Chief Hypocrite | 9Dec11 | More
- Hi Chief, You pointed out that even the "science is settled crowd" is unwilling to make significant personal sacrifices to reduce ...
  Joel | 9Dec11 | More
- Ellen, wow, that was harsh. You posed a question, but provided only a partial recollection of the data, which in ...
  Joel | 8Dec11 | More
- Mike, I find your argument tempting on the face of it, but it just doesn't stand up to inspection. First, given that ...
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- @Joel Sorry I was away and could not respond to your posting. If I recall the glacier photographs (daguerreotypes) were ...
  elleno | 7Dec11 | More
- Joel - it's mainly a matter of language. "Global warming" doesn't mean "global warming" any more. It means "man-made [CO2] global ...
  Mike Jonas | 7Dec11 | More
- Mike, The explanation for why the ocean warming cannot explain the time-scale of the observed trend is somewhat more detailed than ...
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- Thank you from me and mine!
  Chief Hypocrite | 26Nov11 | More
- Joel - apologies, somehow I missed your comments on 24 October. Briefly: The sun's effect on global temperature over timescales longer ...
  Mike Jonas | 24Nov11 | More
- Some good questions: "What is the ideal temperature for earth and when have we had it?" As humans we notice ...
  Chief Hypocrite | 24Nov11 | More
- I love all the scientific garbledeegook. You're so much smarter than everyone else. I use to be a ...
  Max17 | 22Nov11 | More
- Recently Gavin Polone, a manager and producer of Hollywood films wrote this in the Hollywood Reporter about Occupy Wall Street ...
  Chief Hypocrite | 6Nov11 | More
- Chief, at lest your point comes across much more perspicuous this time. Although I may not agree with all of ...
  proletarian | 5Nov11 | More
- Alan Greenspan once said something like, "if you understood what I said, I must have misspoken." He mistakenly thought he ...
  Chief Hypocrite | 5Nov11 | More
- Telling them not to do drugs and then toking on a doobie at a party is also hypocitical. Hypocrisy is ...
  proletarian | 4Nov11 | More
- Chief, I've read your article twice and find it more confusing the second time. It seems to be a little ...
  proletarian | 4Nov11 | More
- Not a scientist just a 68 year old with some questions: 11 thousand years ago glacier national park was covered ...
  john grove | 3Nov11 | More
- Lt., although I agree with your premise I believe what you are refering to is simply a by-product of what ...
  proletarian | 3Nov11 | More
- The problem is not Capitalist.. The problem is not Socialists.. The problem is the constant 24/7 365 day a year bombardment ...
  Lt.Borgen | 3Nov11 | More
- Hi Ellen, Can you tell us when the second photo in any of these sequences was taken? If the first ...
  Joel | 25Oct11 | More
- Here is a conundrum for all the tub thumpers that believe in AGW as opposed to GW. 1. Around the world ...
  Ellen O'Day | 25Oct11 | More
- Here's an interesting thought experiment. The Koch brothers have a strong financial interest in arguing that people are not ...
  Joel | 24Oct11 | More
- Mike: I want to separately handle your repeated argument about solar activity. You claim that the fact that solar energy ...
  Joel | 24Oct11 | More
- Hi Mike, I'm sorry, but I find the accusations you're making to be just not credible. You are accusing a scientist ...
  Joel | 24Oct11 | More
- Joel - Your last comment has only just appeared in my inbox, yet shows before mine in the blog. Not ...
  Mike Jonas | 23Oct11 | More
- Joel - >>>"I trust you’re offended at the person who made the initial claims way up at the top of this ...
  Mike Jonas | 22Oct11 | More
- By the way: when an oil company funds a skeptic researcher to investigate global warming, they don't expect this answer, ...
  Joel | 22Oct11 | More
- So I'm going to respond to a few of the points made above. Mike: I'm glad you acknowledge that ...
  Joel | 22Oct11 | More
- Chief, everyone has the right to express their opinions, and as long as it does not endanger anyone else that ...
  proletarian | 13Oct11 | More
- Pro - The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims that capitalism has run it's course and is at a dead end. In ...
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- Thank you Vort for pointing that out to me, however, I already knew that. Maybe you didn't quite get my ...
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- 1990, Bush was president, a republican.
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- Mike Hooray! Reason for hope. I'd more or less given up. Trust you had a successful fishing trip. ...
  John Theophilus | 6Oct11 | More
- John T - all fair comment, except for "If global warming isn’t anthropogenic we are also stuffed". If global warming ...
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- I think that the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming is less than totally conclusive and that there is at ...
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