Recent content by Troy McClure

The fed's 'end game'? Maybe it's a rubble bubble.

It's strange how a president who takes a more diplomatic approach can be called an America hater, socialist, facist, etc by a few wingnuts with a microphone. From the sublime to the ridiculous. Like it or not we don't rule the world, and trying to act like some tin-horn dictator won't get us...

I grew up in South Bend. Studebaker and Bendix left, then we left. Rust belt town, little 1950s ranch homes. Steel mills in Gary used to help out too. Still got Notre Dame though. This seems wierd. There must be some value there. Maybe they could donate the properties to Habitat for...

Bernanke and fuzznuts Timmy might wish they could inflate out of this mess. You're right, consumer debt and rising unemployment can't help that cause- and inflation has a way of showing up in things people actually need, like health care and food and energy. So inflation might work if you...

But the big boy capitalists are also globalists. So they will become protectionists WHEN MARS ATTACKS! :eek:

This is a good question and I haven't heard anyone in charge answer it well, maybe someone has. "Too big to fail" is the usual answer, but why? Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said "A bank that is too big to fail is a bank that is too big". Amen. Perhaps it is all money down the rathole either...

wtf. Well, I doubt there is much crime in hedge funds, but they might be taking advantage of the tax laws. The hedge trimmers, OTOH, are what's demoralizing blue collar work in this country. Competition from outsourcing and illegal immigration; war, bank bailouts, etc, etc, aren't...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afWw27XA56jM "The World Economic Forum in October ranked Canada’s financial system the soundest in the world." "Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada is now the third- biggest bank in North America by market value, almost three times...

No, we like the French. We liberate them anywhere we find them. :D

Now, repeat this entire thread in french. We (USA) should just annex Canada and liberate Quebec. Shame on me I got loyalist roots.

I'll run this up the flagpole- Trade negotiation is simple. You target a trade deficit of $x. If it goes above that then you impose incrementally higher tariffs on imports across the board to bring it back in line. The idea is everyone can see the numbers, no surprises, no trade wars...

I think this is just a delay tactic. Someone somewhere must have the paperwork, and they might go looking for it when their notes aren't paid.

"We're creating... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property." - President George W. Bush, October 2004

Gold doesn't have eyeballs on it like my dollar bills though, FWIW.:)