When I am calculating depreciation rates, is my starting basis what I originally paid for it (minus land value), or is it the value of the home when it went into circulation as a rental.  

I have spare sets of agitator dogs, refridgerator circulation fans, gas valves for hot water heaters, etc. 

Since every dollar on deposit MAY ultimately result in an increase of $10 in the money supply, it has the potential for explosion, but not until the banks start loosening up the purse-strings and getting the money in circulation.

Lots of mining companies... http://www.miningnerds.com/gold-mining-report-all-countriesThe newest currency that I know of is BitCoin which theoretically has a fixed circulation.

There have been some great materials circulated on the new FilePlace.

But the defaulting homeowner should not be rewarded - the asset should be put back into circulation and into the hands of someones that can handle the asset properly.

A Brazilian I was just reading yesterday that it took 200 years to get 800 Billion Dollars into circulation, and over the last 6 months we've more than doubled that amount.

In the context of the manufacturer having production costs of 100.00, selling a product now worth 50.00, the 100.00 production costs were probably inflated (manipulated) as a result of too much credit, and too much printed fiat money in circulation.

They would pick up that smell and circulate it every time your unit runs.

I speculate there are a lot of politicians with a vested interested in seeing the fed (access to pre circulating/inflating, freshly printed money) stay in place.