An article from a liberal magazine to make the heart of a true conservative mining man happy?  There is one I read today.  Here is the link to the HARPER’S MAGAZINE  article The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash. 

From flickr at this link.

The article is long and the part that makes the conservative happy is near the end.  The mining man has to read through to the end to decide how to make money on this predicted, next bubble—now that the housing one has burst.  And the investor has to read to work out how to avoid getting hurt—if they learnt anything from the dot.com and housing bubbles.  Enjoy.

Mining is the answer to Afghanistan’s political problems.  If you believe that, I also have a nice bridge for sale that will speed your morning commute.  I did not make up the idea that mining could save Afghanistan from itself and, more significantly, the Taliban and poppy growers.  In the first part of a restricted article at the Economist’s website I found this–the text that follows, not the photo which I copy from flickr :

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