STUFF

In '80's, for every $2.20 borrowed, US produced $1 of additional goods/services. In '90's, it was $2.70. In '00's, $4.20.

Swiss National Bank doubled its monetary base last month.

5772 in Jewish calendar. The year they came out of Egypt?

Title 31 of US code requires annual audit of Ft. Knox gold. But Treasury has refused audit for >50 years. That's JFK years. So says a website and free book.

ARPA-E announced $156M of research projects to accelerate clean tech, rare earth alternatives, biofuel breakthroughs, thermal storage, grid controls and solar power electronics. 11 projects secured >$200M more in private capital. Half led by universities, 23% by small biz, 13% by national labs, 12% by large corps. Prior to this, ARPA-E  has awarded $365.7M to 120 projects in 7 program areas. Now its 80 projects, 12 program areas and $521.7M. Plants engineered to replace oil got $36M. Rare earth alternatives in critical techs got $31.6M. High-energy advanced thermal storage got $37.3M. Green electricity network integration got $36.4M. Solar agile delivery of electrical power tech got $14.7M. Ah, always the one left behind.

Mexico City inaugurated electric-taxi program.

And that, pards, is the come and go as seen so far.