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This isn't that complicated. Anytime you have a banking system that is allowed to create something (whether a credit or deficit, depending on whether you're the loan maker or borrower) out of nothing, you are using leverage in a way that will always exacerbate trends. The trend to the...

The argument about Democrat versus Republican is semantical. Both answer to the same people, as all of politics is merely a theater, and those in control will control the theater and ensure that they own both. Both support the notion of a central bank, large debts (Reagan economists went...

“Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the law.” - Mayer Amschel Rothschild (formerly Bauer) “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.” - Voltaire (1694-1778)

“I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the...

Fractional Reserve Banking lay at the very core of that which is wrong with this nation. It leads to boom and bust economic cycles, not true and sustainable economic growth, and an inevitable collapse. There is a reason why patriotic Americans have warned us and pleaded with us, throughout...

If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and...

I have breaking news. It's going to be ass hurt bad just about everywhere. Only the insulated narcissists behind Roman Pillars will be insulated from any real effect, and that assumes that the Visigoths don't sack Rome and put the heads of the Potentates on pikes... ...that would be ugly.

"G_d damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great...

Everything is going to plan. It's just like marketing 101. The 'stimulus package' siphoning up the money dumb enough to go long a voyage in such tumultuous seas....

That's all fair. Really. I'd take that 33% all day long. Do I get odds, too? So, you're saying that GE is not about to get downgraded, right? I just want to make sure. It's not as if I'll bump this thread when they do, I'm just curious as to whether you think you know something the...

Hi, Mr. Pollyanna. Meet Mr. Reality.

short&naked, here you go buddy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/04/japans_homeless/html/1.stm

I completely agree. I really think my statement that "all the bad decisions made by government officials to stave off deleveraging after the Japanese property bubble burst" is consistent with this. In other words, had the Japanese officials allowed the free market pain machine to crush...

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Agreed. They actually have 'tent cities' in Japan right now, with homeless people living in public parks. The BBC had an excellent 5 part series about it that aired on PRI, and it was remarkable. This would have been unthinkable in Japanese culture just a decade ago, and yet it's just...

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We will see a market crash this month, with a 10% or greater down day on all indexes, stimulus bill or not, irregardless of how bad, dreadful, or horrid the employment numbers are. In the game of life, confidence is everything, and the last grain of confidence is about to slip down the rabbit...

By the way, the brilliant strategy of going to war in Iraq will cost us 2-3 trllion USD, conservatively, and maybe much more. Great Investment, Dumbya! Good job, neocons! Modern day Neros, they are.

CONTINUED FROM ABOVE After years of heavy spending in the first half of the 1990s, economists say, Japan’s leaders grew concerned about growing budget deficits and cut back too soon, snuffing out the recovery in its infancy, much as Roosevelt did to the American economy in 1936. Growth...