Category Archives: Money

Make Mine a Shingle

Posted on April 5, 2017 by ayecapitalist

Two announcements regarding Tesla have caught my attention since I wrote my earlier blog about Tesla being a 25-bagger about a month ago. Solar Shingles – Now Ready to Order The journey to MEGA (Make Earth Green Again) took another giant step … Continue reading →

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Oil – Looking Down the Barrel?

Posted on March 29, 2017 by ayecapitalist

Creative Destruction I remember the opening line of the book “The Third Wave” by Alvin Tofler, the futurist: A new civilization is emerging in our lives and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. He wrote the book many … Continue reading →

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Tesla – The 25-bagger!

Posted on March 8, 2017 by ayecapitalist

  Tesla looks so overpriced by all the usual metrics. It made a loss in the 4th quarter of 2016. Its revenues in the last year were about 7 billion and it is selling at a market cap of $40 billion. The … Continue reading →

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The Cure for Deficits

Posted on November 11, 2012 by ayecapitalist

Our Federal Deficit is in the headlines again. It’s a bi-i-i-g deal! (That’s why I’m capitalizing the F and the D). There’s talk everywhere of the fiscal cliff and debt ceilings and who should pay and what to cut … … Continue reading →

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The Witches’ Brew – A Halloween Incantation

Posted on November 2, 2012 by ayecapitalist

It’s Halloween night! In the gathering gloom the streets of our little town are filling up with trick-or-treaters. Cute youngsters dressed up as ghouls and monsters and gnarly witches are spooking up the neighborhood and the houses are draped with … Continue reading →

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“I Think We Found It”

Posted on October 20, 2012 by ayecapitalist

On July 4 of this year an historic announcement was made to the world: “I think we have it!” The “it” was the elusive Higgs boson, something for which the physics community has been searching for decades to complete the … Continue reading →

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The Job Creators?

Posted on October 12, 2012 by ayecapitalist

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is a wonderful Berkeley organization dedicated to the advancement and celebration of Mathematics and its beauty and its application in every day affairs. For example on October 26th (two weeks from today) they are convening … Continue reading →

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Message to Fellow 1 Percenters

Posted on September 26, 2012 by ayecapitalist

Wanna scare your Tea Party friends? Just yell “Big Government!“ The effect will be like throwing a slab of pork in a Taliban gathering. Or mailing a Dutch cartoon to an Egyptian lynch mob. Is the government too big? Are … Continue reading →

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Are You Better Off … ?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by ayecapitalist

Remember Gabrielle Giffords, a.k.a “Gabby” Giffords? The highly personable, intelligent and likable  “Blue Dog Democrat” and a U.S. congresswoman from Arizona? She was, of course, the victim of a January 2011 shooting – an assassination attempt that critically wounded her … Continue reading →

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The GRIN Revolution – Cheap, Personalized Healthcare for the Billions

Posted on April 24, 2012 by ayecapitalist

Some people don’t like Science. They think it dehumanizes us, mechanizes us and devalues our spirit, our aesthetics and our passions. It is heading our planet in the direction of ecological disaster, devastating wars, nuclear catastrophes, urban decay and continued … Continue reading →

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