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The US leads the world in hours of television watched: http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&story_id=9527126 and as a result of television telling Americans for most of their waking hours to buy, buy, buy, they're leading the world in most...

Patriotism might lead one to believe that the United States will come out on top of the competition with China but the facts and figures tell me that the opposite is happening.

The Americans would never be crazy enough to engage in a direct war with China, that would be suicidal for both sides. They might try to have an indirect war with China such as with North Korea but where would they borrow the money for such a war? Would they borrow the money for that war from...

I believe iPods are made in China. China also has it's own computer operating system: http://tech.commongate.com/post/Chinese_operating_system_approved/

The US might be the largest economy on earth but it is mostly a consumer based economy right now which is false and can't be sustained forever. China is predicted to become the world's largest manufacturer in 2009...

Mutual survival? What does China need the US for? They have one billion consumers waiting at home to take the place of the Americans who have spent everything they can borrow. China has been in an economic war with the US for years. I don't think it was intentional or planned but undeniably...

In Canada we've had a consumption tax for a long time. Food and rent are exempt, so the poor don't end up paying much and they get a rebate on their income tax. A consumption tax discourages people from spending their money on imported junk and such. Our Prime Minister recently reduced it...

People can't make it on $55,000?? What will they do when the depression comes in full force?

Just a reminder to anyone here, this is starting right now...at least in my time zone

I was thinking of buying the disk for 1 min futures data from here: http://pitrading.com/intraday_ascii_data_market_edition.htm I'm always trying to minimize costs, does anyone by chance want to sell an old dvd that they don't need anymore?

Your eyes will likely get ruined from being focused in too close all day. The human eye has evolved (designed if you're Sarah Palin or George Bush) to look at a distance. It is only meant to look close up for short periods. I found my eyes were aching from long days at the computer and...

In 2006 you could see that this was going to happen: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66070&highlight=china

The price of American stocks are still too high yet. China's own stocks are much cheaper in comparison right now. If the Chinese are smart, they'll wait a few years till American stocks have bottomed out. For years the United States has spent billions on the military to prevent a foreign...

Do you have any evidence that GMO, Bridgewater or Hoisington have better investment advice other than they use a lot of big words when they write something? Maybe they do have better advice, but I'd be interested to see an actual track record or such before I came to that conclusion...

My American Uncle had chest pains, he went to the doctor, the doctor diagnosed his heart problems, he was in surgery the next day and survived for about a decade after that. My Canadian father had similar problems. He went to his doctor, he was tested, they couldn't find anything, he was sent...

Why would any terrorist bother doing something like that? To destroy America? Hasn't Cheney started that already? With all due respect to the victims, Osama and his buddies cost the United States only about five billion dollars for a couple of old buildings. The exaggerated response by Cheney...

My daughter told me about an ice cream story that happened to her in real life. Her math teacher said that the class had performed well and on the last day they would have a little party. The class decided to vote for the King or Queen of math. They came down to a few candidates. Each of those...

I've always thought that in any democracy there should be a way of qualifying the voters just like you have to pass a test to get a driver's licence. The test should be fairly simple so that almost anyone could pass it. A booklet or such would be available for people to read so they could...

You'd be much better off to take your $1000 and use it towards expenses required to find a new job. In these tough economic times you have to treat getting a job like a job in itself. That is, you have to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at it. Spend your day writing resumes, checking want ads...

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