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I didnt read the whole thread, but I'll chime in... I would suggest you trade the Qs, every day... or the SPY or whatever index ETF, but I suggest the Qs.. The Qs have ample volume, penny bid/ask spread & you don't have individual stock risk... Maybe just watch it for awhile on different...

MArket Ticker has a video posted with her - Q & A with Brian Lamb... Its starts out slow, but she does call some folks out by name.

wealth tax is coming. maybe start at 1/2% of asset base. that way even if you dont spend or earn, they still take a bit outta your ass.... that wanker from harvard is proposing a tax on money as well, which is essentially a simple wealth tax. BamBam is radical mofo.

Some busineses are getting tougher to compete without some "scale." So, you are forced to ramp-up & take on employees or independent contractors, and have office & staff overhead. Some professions have extensive liability, so you have to be very careful about new hires & even that is no...

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Maybe. Look at the BEARX chart. Visualize $1MM retirement fund at the start in BEARX and near the bottom you would have been afraid to open the account statement, not even accounting for inflation/loss in purchasing power and also doesn't account for fees (need to check that). So IF some guy...

not adjusting for lost purchasing power. and before this dump, you would have felt like setting your hair on fire. They were getting K-I-L-L-E-D.

That's the kind of quote that can come back & haunt you:eek:

hyper-inflation is de facto default.

Thanks - checkout the declines of exports of goods & services on Page VI of that report. in 4Qtr 2008. -24% -32% oofa!

Money velocity is key - the govt loves it b/c they are are in the middle of transactions taking their bite as fees or taxes & it promotes increased economic activity (self-perpetuating loop). The problem, however, is I think you may be looking at a secular change in 'Merikans attitudes...

you should do some reading on Martin Armstrong. Look at the guy's time projections and history of unbelievably timely projections & cycle overlaps. seriously, do some research - guy is an original thinker

you have 6.5B people worldwide with only 1B living in the industrialized countries. They are not going to drink shitty water, ride bicycles & live by candle-light. Improving their living standards is going to entail R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E-S. but ST, IT or even longer term, I agree. Its rare that I...

Lets see what CRE losses look like at YE. They are already underwater on Billions that they are marking-to-myth. The accounting change not only makes them look profitable, it makes them look solvent, which is much more important. If they simply reorganized the five main problems banks, we could...

Greenspan over-reacted to Y2K, the internut bust, 9/11 - with negative real interest rates you were forced to try and maintain or increase the purchasing power of your wealth/income. this produced mal-investment & over-leverage. The US FED is seen as the leader - it did start here. The IBs ran...

Don't forget the RTC portion of the cycle. In the last depression, people buying RTC assets on the cheap had clear competitive advantage and could offer space at like 50% of in-place lease rates. they could steal good tenants & offer lots of concessions, including build-to-suit suites. One...

good deals always attracts money.

those monitors are way too spread out. I have the same duct tape issues with the chair banging the "desk". I'm going to buy 2 more monitors that match (4 + laptop) and put them in a rack. I dont want to have to move my head to see something & yes I'm bothered by monitors that do not match.

There is the rub. You can get the macro right & totally blow it on the port side. schiff has been "right", but lost his ass. roubini's calls have been spot on, but i didnt know he was long the market, which makes no sense whatsoever. do as he says, not was he does? I listen alot to the...

ditto:p