Remember “Cash for Clunkers”? The program, unconstitutionally passed by the Congress as HR 2346, and signed into law by the President, offered dealerships rebates of $3500 or $4500 for destroying a functioning car with 18 mpg or less, and selling a new car with a 5+ mpg increase over the destroyed one.
CARS spent two […]
Today was exciting. Between the hours of 10 am and 12 pm, several Citizens stood up and spoke in favor of the Constitutional Tender Act (full text). The first was Representative Bobby Franklin, then Dr. Bill Greene, Aaron Krowne, me, Sean Mangieri, and Franklin Sanders. Hopefully the video will go up soon […]
The bullion value calculator I created using Google App Engine now allows you to login with your Google Account. If you sign in and enter some values, it will store them. The next time you visit, the values you entered will be populated. If you enter new values, those will be the ones […]
Listen to the optimists arguments and listen to Schiff’s arguments. This is a good battle from July of last year about the state of the economy and what is going to happen.
Apparently there’s a memcache problem with Google App Engine. Renaming my memcache key caused my app to work.
This is all in reference to my post a few days ago where I mentioned my Google App Engine Bullion Value Calculator.
Update 2008-06-17: The problems came back, so I surrounded the problem spots with try/except blocks and […]
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Python meetup and went through some of the Google App Engine tutorial. It wasn’t long before I started making a tool that I’ve looked for but haven’t found. The tool probably exists somewhere, but I took the opportunity to make the simple tool and […]
The dollar started the week at 7.85 millibarrels and even climbed up above 8.17 millibarrels. But today alone it has fallen over a half millibarrel. Source of today and source of earlier.
Someone pointed me to cnn money the other day but I found Benn Steil’s testimony more interesting. And now today I found another article by Steil from last year. While I don’t agree with him on everything, he appears to have a handle on history and the current situation. Plus he […]