NEW areaS of Growth

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I have been saying for a while that Oil and NG, along with food production are going to be areas of growth for NA. Here are a couple of examples of how that is going to happen. Don't give up yet. In 1991 Japan was supposed to be a bigger economy than the US by 2010. How did that work out?? With all of the social/economic problems that I have pointed out over the last year that have just started to poke through in China, don't expect the USA to go down any time soon!

(I really like this post from the thread and I'm going to lift it here. I hope you don't mind kman)

kman49
Message #3
10/17/10 06:38 PM

Good evening Ahamburger, neoh!!
I love this thread. What does the future hold and to what extent! We only need to look at the past. I'll be fifty this year. I want you to think of the oldest person you knew growing up. For me It was people born in the 1880s...no cars, radio electricity..etc..for my parents..the oldest people they knew were from the early 1800s.

From the time I was a teenager, I was buying Thomas Edison technology to listen to music. It went from vinyl, to 8 track, to cassette...cd ...and now with mp3...not a single moving part!!

Technology is moving faster than my own kids can keep up with. I predict light switches, electrical outlets are history in the near future

My Grandmother lived past 100. She went from horse and buggy to the digital age. Had she lived in this Country , she would have known Civil war figures

All those UFOs are actually tour buses from the future and yes..everything is still controlled by some omnipotent bankers that any day now, there going to show themselves and take over the world



I'll start with the new headlines soon

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

-Growth in Windpower

Cascade Co. issues permit for wind power facility:
www.abcmontana.com/news/state/112099584.html

-Growth in Natural Gas and Innovation

FPL turbines ahead in Cape Canaveral:
articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-12-19/business/os-cfb-cover-fpl-canaveral-plant-20101219_1_fpl-s-cape-canaveral-three-turbines-natural-gas

-More of that Love Stuff

Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines Partner With Non-Profits to Deliver Needed Medical Supplies:
www.pddnet.com/news-ap-boeing-and-ethiopian-airlines-partner-with-non-pro-121710/

-More Innovation

Euro Hawk® unmanned aircraft shows stamina with 30-Hour flight:
www.aerotechnews.com/local/business/Euro-Hawk--unmanned-aircraft-shows-stamina-with-30-Hour-flight

Boeing, Fujitsu form strategic alliance in airline information maintenance services:
www.aerotechnews.com/local/business/Boeing--Fujitsu-form-strategic-alliance-in-airline-information-maintenance-services

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Man I just love to see the things that I have been talking about happen.(Free enterprise, Love not war, ect).

Since these people are really digging the whole free enterprise thing..

What Is the Chinese Dream?
blogs.forbes.com/helenwang/2010/12/17/what-is-the-chinese-dream/
(As a Chinese magazine editor told me bluntly, “The Chinese Dream is a copy of the American Dream.”)

....the North Korean's have really decided to back off, eh??

Since some people live like this in China...

China’s ‘City Jade Men’ Indulge in Mud Masks, L’Oreal Creams:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-12/china-s-city-jade-men-indulge-in-mud-masks-l-oreal-creams.html

...and some people live like this in China..

Chinese endure power shortages as coal runs short:
finance.yahoo.com/news/Chinese-endure-power-apf-1387415184.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=

It makes sense when you think about it. China is North Koreas only friend. China has a lot of problems with use on their own, let along having NK refugees streaming in. The biggest part in the situation though. Is that China doesn’t want to risk giving up their economy. SO guess what? No war. Just more of this….

China's labor market: Valuable asset or economic albatross?
money.cnn.com/2010/12/17/news/international/china_labor_shortage.fortune/index.htm

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just think about how much news has been coming out of China about YUM, then consider this..

All Japan Wants for Christmas is Kentucky Fried Chicken:
www.cnbc.com/id/40759547/

Through one of the most successful advertising campaigns, which started in 1974, KFC Japan has made eating its chicken meals at Christmas a national custom. This happens on December 23, 24 and 25, but particularly Christmas eve. Sales for the three days are equal to half normal monthly sales, the company says.

-More news from the energy world

Suncor Energy and Total E&P Canada join forces in oilsands:
www.dcnonl.com/article/id42157

Enbridge expanding oilsands Athabasca pipeline
www.dcnonl.com/article/id42152

-Ah yes, of course there is innovation

Boeing awarded $1B contract to build satellite system:
www.associatedcontent.com/video/771018/boeing_awarded_1b_contract_to_build.html?cat=3

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Emerging economies need more of everything..

South Korea Intends to Triple Overseas Crude Oil, Gas Production by 2019:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-22/south-korea-intends-to-triple-overseas-crude-oil-gas-production-by-2019.html

India Seeks African Coal Mines to Plug Local Shortfall:
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-22/india-seeks-african-coal-mines-to-plug-local-shortfall.html

[vl]

I appreciate your optimism but we haven't hit bottom yet. New growth areas will be subject to the same bottleneck dynamics all others will. I've been working hard to make a footing in a dynamic that can survive the tumult. The New Year affords me ALL of my inventory in one location and some significant alterations to my Business Plan. For the record... average ROI was 16:1.

Most big box retailers did NOT introduce new goods for the holiday season. Several did NOT have aisles of clearance racks (suggesting a desperate shot at reducing stagnant inventory without liquidation pricing) and did NOT have sufficient personnel (met by a lack of shoppers).
Have you noted any recovery in light industry with local distribution? It has to happen to have recovery.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Hey V_L!! Great to see you made it! I like hearing about your business, keep us updated!

Bottom it might be; growth was up for the summer from earlier reports.
Bottlenecks create more jobs, more innovation.
As far as light and local; that would be like what kman is up to. Custom showers, with parts from local suppliers, that are expanding. I also read things like this....

Staffing Industry Hiring Revenue Surges as Jobs Remain Scarce:
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-22/staffing-industry-hiring-revenue-surges-as-jobs-remain-scarce.html

....and this.

Auto parts supplier add 115 jobs in Columbus
www.indystar.com/article/20101221/BUSINESS/12210387/1003/BUSINESS

Then when I think of how manufacturing has expanded for 16 straight months; it gives me good thoughts for 2011.

Dude you produce so much volume of positive work product that your head will explode!!!

How can't you when you read stuff like this.

Mass. utility launches 3 solar plants
www.hartfordbusiness.com/news16112.html

South African energy group eyes Alberta sites
www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/blogs/South+African+energy+group+eyes+Alberta+sites/4010307/story.html

20% of Americans Will Own Tablets by 2014
www.mainstreet.com/article/smart-spending/technology/20-americans-will-own-tablets-2014?puc=msibs&cm_ven=msIBS

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

-Can't forget maintainence-

Taking Care of Tanks
www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/awk_taking-care-of-tanks-1383840.html

[vl]

Your avatar is what it's all about. In Michigan, if we got rid of hemp prohibition, the stuff could grow in every area of the state including the UP, vitalizing the soil with each new crop. Hemp grows 20' in a year so acres could generate enough fiber to weave into textile and thus into fashion. It uses less water and no insecticides, growing in everything from bogs to old gravel pits. Hemp isn't "weed" you smoke and George Washington farmed it for rope and sails. I could see a major clothing revival starting up here as opposed to other areas. Hemp clothing is cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter and fully bio-degradable. Use beet-based dyes and truly, every stitch sewn is Michigan-made.
BTW... the remaining plant shreds make excellent bio-fuel material.

That's 250,000+ new jobs and enterprises plus revitalization of small communities across the state, creating not just new tax revenues but creating fundamental support for more types of business and localized industries.

That generates enough broad income to recover us from these doldrums to our former level of prosperity in just TWO YEARS. If we did it, we could use the new energy to collapse older areas severely damaged by this SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION, redo our infrastructure and become the only state in America with energy-efficient rail taking us anywhere we want to go including hot vacation destinations that have never grown to due-prominence because of the rural distance to get to them (like Paradise Beach in the UP or Covert on Lake Michigan).

I've never heard squat from Rick Snyder's new job website. If he'd look beyond the standard hands sticking out in Lansing, he'd discover that We the People are his best asset.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I hear you V_L!!!!!! I am well aware of the Hemp industry and of course Harry Jacob Anslinger.

Here is Saskatchewan we have had the opportunity to grow hemp for agriculture since '98. Check this out..

www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=e60e706d-c852-4206-9959-e4b134782175

I wish more people would do it here. It's something I would like to try and pursue in the future that's for sure. Grow, harvest, process here; ship raw material to Mich to be made into all things hemp related?? When the market grows put pressure on the state to let you grow it there! Continue expansion, and save some forests!

I got to go back to work. I'm going to be late.

[kman]

I'm flattered Brother. Did you catch the exchange with me and O&G.

He personally knew family members that were born in 1824! You got to love it. Makes history ...not so far removed. Ahamburger is the man ;D

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I'm flattered Brother. Did you catch the exchange with me and O&G.

I missed it. Where is it at?

WE WIN bro!

[kman]

Old board Tsunami. O&G will be 100 in a few months. We have been having a nice conversation. We share the same favorite philosopher....Eric Hoffer

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Nice, we should all hope to be half the person that Old and Great is! I will check out some Hoffer!

[kman]

Longshoreman philosopher, Eric Hoffer is a great one! I think you of all would get something out of his writing.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Thanks!! You haven't steered me wrong yet bro!

[kman]

Never steer you wrong. Against my principals. how's the little guy?

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

He's doing great! Started smiling yesterday! Gonna try and get a pic. I'll send them.

Here's some more stuff that I know you'll like!!

-Jobs

Delaware jobs: Refinery to hire 'significant numbers' next month
www.delawareonline.com/article/20101223/BUSINESS/12230360/1003/rss01

-Green Power

Keenan II wind farm in Oklahoma begins commercial operation
wind.energy-business-review.com/news/keenan-ii-wind-farm-in-oklahoma-begins-commercial-operation-231210

-Innovation and more jobs

Monroe power plant will reduce emissions
detnews.com/article/20101223/METRO/12230366/1409/rss36

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

If things go good at the start of the year here. We could see some real job growth(150+) by fall 2011, maybe even summer. The temp layoffs are going to weigh things down at the start of the year. Things in Spain look like they could have been worse over this last week. Who knows we may get a whole bunch of this next year..

[vl]

Would be nice to start seeing a 100k per month...200k per month...300k per month then were rolling!

Read more: notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=moneytalk&action=display&thread=126#ixzz199MQpODp

Fire banksters, hire LENDERS. We'll see that increase sooner.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

What if someone started a venture capital fund that was more like a bank? Hire good lenders and lend to existing businesses. Sure bus. would have to pay a bit more in interest to make up for the fact that the fund has to raise capital and pay back investors. However, you could find business across the country in good locations to lend to. Having a selective conservative approach would give the fund another edge over the banks! Not to mention that you would actually be lending.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is what I have been saying! It's not going to be long before there's a lot more home based businesses!

Search:Beijing city to raise minimum wage 21%

Beijing city is to raise its minimum wage 21 per cent next year, the second such rise in barely six months, amid rising inflationary pressure and growing concern over China’s widening wealth gap


The government is worried about the disproportionate burden of rising food costs on low-income households, which spend a larger share of their income on basic necessities. It also fears that persistent price rises could stoke social unrest, as they often have in the past

"While China’s living standards have dramatically risen over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has sharply widened,” Yu Yongding, an influential former adviser to China’s central bank, wrote in a newspaper article last week. “With the contrast between the opulent lifestyles of the rich and the slow improvement of basic living conditions for the poor fomenting social tension, a serious backlash is brewing"

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

More lending V_L!

Loans Make Comeback as New Issuance Doubles: Credit Markets:
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-29/loans-make-comeback-as-new-issuance-doubles-credit-markets.html

-More innovation!

Hyundai Motor Company: Hyundai Completes Development Of Tucson ix Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicle:
www.financialpost.com/markets/news_releases/Hyundai+Motor+Company+Hyundai+Completes+Development+Tucson+Hydrogen/4011306/story.html#ixzz19YkrDI9X

-Growth In energy and Maintenance

Other shale gas developments possible in Pa.:
www.timesleader.com/news/Other_shale_gas_developments_possible_in_Pa__12-24-2010.html

Tech Talk: pipelines, a help that can be costly:
www.theoildrum.com/node/7270?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theoildrum+%28The+Oil+Drum%29

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Russia's biggest food company is American!

PepsiCo is Russia's biggest foods firm with Wimm-Bill-Dann deal
www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_p/Pepsico/20101229_beverage.html

Something to think about..

US Muslims: a new consumer niche
m.santamariatimes.com/news/national/article_2737e110-eb74-58ef-8b6a-8f8107834d9d.html

-Food
Clean Power Concepts Signs Long-Term Letter of Intent to Supply Chongqing Grain Group With Crude Canola Oil
www.grainnet.com/articles/Clean_Power_Concepts_Signs_Long_Term_Letter_of_Intent_to_Supply_Chongqing_Grain_Group_With_Crude_Canola_Oil-103097.html

-Energy

Oil industry plans record spending
www.dailyfinance.com/rtn/press/oil-industry-plans-record-spending-in-2011/rfid399990320/?channel=pf

-CE
Sony to spend $1.2 bln to double image sensor output
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE6BQ04420101227

-Problems for people who think that our Democratic way is weird.

The smoggiest of all capitals
www.economist.com/node/17804554?story_id=17804554&fsrc=rss

Hitting the brakes
www.economist.com/node/17803629?story_id=17803629&fsrc=rss

[Small Biz Owner]

New area of growth is the same old area of growth. Oil is not going away anytime soon.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

That's true, however, the fact the the US might be able to stop import oil from OPEC nations is new thought.

Plus there is the fact that the US has the possibility of becoming an exporter of LNG. This is also new.

We have carbon capture, wind, bio-everything, solar, and current energy on the way.

Everything old is new again. With it brings new life, and most importantly revenue for thing like SS, EI, ect,ect.

Plus there are those added perks like I pointed out above, bio-everything, and other things like sending civilians into space.

[kman]

civilians into space.


We have some already out there...only, they don't know it!

[tyfighter3]

SPACE, invest in New Growth that you will be able to see in your lifetime, the rest is of no importance to you. JMO

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Ty, 65 is 2047 for me!! It's going to be very interesting to see what is going on then!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

You were talking about this kman..

-Bank of America Sued Over Home Loan Modifications
www.dailyfinance.com/story/real-estate/bank-of-america-sued-over-home-loan-modifications/19780258/

Some really amazing things. What people around the world are doing to get things. To have more. The bonus for us, is that there is only so much space on the earth; and they are running out of cheap labour. Shipping is really getting them too.

-Saudi in deal to build cars for Gulf, North Africa
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101226/wl_mideast_afp/saudiskoreaindustryauto_20101226185904

-UN concerned about China's food safety activists
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40789060/ns/health/

-China's online population hits 450 million
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEytEZv4o45qSKd-gkWhRbK9P5DQ?docId=be252b4db8da44529d3f14666757b19f

-China May Need More Affordable Homes Than Targeted, ISI Says
www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-29/china-may-need-more-affordable-homes-than-target-of-10-million-isi-says.html

-African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power
www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/science/earth/25fossil.html

Some interesting news in innovation!!

-The ubiquitous microchips
www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/27/883236/the-ubiquitous-microchips.html