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SteveD,the interest that the US paid on its debt in the year 2004 was about $350 billion,thats a lot of money,it should have been used elsewhere. politicians in this country have found a new way for the US to prosper - the "debtonomics",sadly the FED plays along. --- in my opinion in 2-3...

which of America's goods will become more competetive...? like US made cars/trucks for example...?...haha...or electronics...lol...or some other...which one exactly? services...yea sure the whole world just does nothing and waits for the great american companies to come and "service" it...haha...

ive always thought that NASA should be privatizied. anyone sees downside to it?

when the company makes money the managers/executives should be congratulated and be awarded bonuses,free shares,lifelong memberships in the CountryClub etc...when the company is losing money like GM for example the greedy unions and outrageous healthcare plans are to blame.:D

i dont see no 1,000,000 fuel cell vehicles being sold by GM...oh sorry,stupid me:eek: ...its happening in the future...lol...good for you that you see that far in the future,i cant. :( care to tell me where AMAT will be in 4 years? btw,i know a retired teacher in the neighborhood who drvives...

...GM and technology(developments&research)...hahaha:D :D :D they showed some prototypes,thats true,but that doesnt mean jack,BMW has shown a hydro car thats doing around 200m/h..so what ? its just demo stuff. what really matters is that the models GM is selling right now and the 2006 line...

its not all about Greenspan and the easy money making circles from one bubble to another,i think that RE was "prepared" to be what it is right now...and easy money just follows--->>> In 1997, Congress allowed homeowners to exclude up to US$500,000 in gains when homes they occupy are...

my guess would be : RE in the big coastal cities,generally the same savings picture as in S Korea and Japan. Seems east asians like to put money aside,guess it lies in their social/family culture. Ive got the impression that chinese in NYC like gold/jewelry too...no idea if its the same in...

i wonder why some people are still calling chinese (mainland china that is,guess the 1 party system confuses them)unlike the US where you have an alternative to the ruling party...LOL...haha) communists...:confused: ...btw HK,Taiwan,Singapore(partly) are also chinese. cheers:):p

For all or part of these changes to be seriously considered you need some honest politician(s),independently thinking,UNinvolved with the different interests groups benefiting from all those programs...people ready to to confront eventual voter "backlash" and interest groups("lobby groups")...

...yea,you heard it,prolly on TV,newspapers,Fortune,Forbes etc...every country on this planet can easily create inflation if it wants to,there are bulletproof methods ever since the old romans. It still amuses me to see how most people here on ET think that the world begins and ends with the...

drsteph,couple of questions : how comes that the USA has 350m people population according to you,why is NZ of any importance(worth mentioning at all),what do you mean by "russian outdated army" - do you mean nuclear warheads are no longer relevant ?

...Japan with the so called "bullet trains",France with TGV,Germany has ICE which manages up to km/h 330,the germans(ICE,Siemens) are also building high speed trains in China(Shanghai&east coast big cities) ...the USA doesnt have any kind of "bullet train" for a reason(s)...as you mentioned...

well,as they say old love never dies so i still trade some of the semis even tho the semis are not much of movers as of late, im still sticking with some of them like BRCM;PMCS;XLNX;ALTR and the 3 amigos(AMAT&KLAC&NVLS). RIMM is a stock that gets every now and then nice moves in both...

LOL --->>> quote......"SPIEGEL: Would you ever have thought that the superpower USA would allow itself to depend on China - only because the Chinese hold trillions of dollars? Mr. Rubin: No, during my time as Treasury Secretary, I wouldn't have been able to imagine that we would have the...

...SPIEGEL: Whilst we all talk about globalisation, there is a global trend towards more protectionism. Mr. Rubin: These trends do exist, also in the US. The surveys show that people are anxious about the economy. And whenever that is the case, people traditionally call for the policymakers...

Here is an interview with former US Treasury Secretary ROBERT RUBIN,in the first part he is talking about the EU, the 2nd part is about the current US troubles&briefly China/India. SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT RUBIN The chief architect of America's boom years under Bill Clinton gives...

...the way that Detroit used to take "care" of the competition obviously doesnt work with japanese and euro carmakers so they are getting killed by the competition that is showing the Detroit wise guys that cars can still be made,partly designed and sold for a profit in the US...but yea,stupid...

--- coudnt resist to register just to answer this "post"... well,lets see : 1. "it used to be 12 states now 25" - yea,used to be...sometimes ago the US also used to be so and so much states,i used to drive GM made cars only but now i drive a japanese and the EU started with 6...