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Utter nonsense. Do you honestly believe the demand outlook has increased with the major economies of Europe and the USA on their collective asses? Let's go with your theory and assume that China, India, Australia and some emerging markets in Asia have picked up some slack, I still see that as...

I can walk down the street and get a gallon of milk for $1.99 to $2.39 (it's usually discounted every other week). And no I don't live in a rural nowhere place, it's a major urban city. Have to wonder where on earth you are paying $6 a gallon. I'd argue that sometimes the anecdotal food...

Considering the fact that he was easily the most prolific poster on this site, it certainly looks like something took him away for better than six months. I doubt anybody actually believed the guy could go cold turkey and just shut it down.

That sums it up. But do you guys see how all of this, once again, plays handsomely into the public sector's lechery? There was a study (granted not that comprehensive, mostly anecdotal) that property taxes are, in fact, holding steady to moderately increasing on a national basis while...

It always cracks me up that otherwise intelligent people fall into this "conspiracy theory" trap..i.e. the notion that anything that falls outside of the mainstream contrived version of events is a "conspiracy theory". In reality, it's the ultimate form of thought control, an Orwellian-ism...

Starve the beast. At some point, not so far off in the future either, people will literally just get the hell out of dodge and the trend will be towards states without bought and paid for union politicians. This will leave a place like Cook County with state, county, government employees and...

It transformed into another type of ponzi as soon as lending standards were flushed down the toilet and housing prices went parabolic. It very well might be the lifetime savings of some people, but for just about anyone who purchased their house more than 10 years ago they are certainly not...

I'd like to address this post first, although intradaybill wrote an intelligent reply as well. Your post is way off the mark I'm afraid as it has based most of its analysis on faulty economic statistics. "The recession has ended", at this point in 2010, we've gone so far off the deep end of...

This is all academic theory at this point. Honestly, where to even begin with the over simplified jingoistic scenarios that you've outlined. In a free market (without a constantly intervening Federal Reserve) I'd be inclined to agree, but none of the scenarios you've outlined even remotely...

Why should debtors be relieved at the expense of savers? Taken to its illogical extreme (which we've lived thru in the US), reckless borrowing and leveraging ensue under this sort of ideology.

That will prove to be the ultimate irony as many of these assholes who secretly believe they are entitled to their bubble driven profits from mostly dumb luck will now be trapped in these money pits. As utility costs climb each year, as property taxes increase (even though the property loses...

I know. It's pretty much hopeless to argue with these idiots. A textbook case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Your superficial response ignores the fact that for the vast majority of the population, it ALREADY feels that way. Unless you are employed in a crony F.I.R.E. sector job, you're out on your own to fend with the realities of a post-credit bubble implosion. Sure, they are trying to quash the...

The reality is that post-tech collapse in 2000-02, TPTB engineered a housing bubble to pick up the slack in the economy with the "side benefit" of creating an entire daisy chain workforce surrounding new construction and development. The lax lending standards and credit bubble also spurred...

It's become a binary event. The leveraging up and concentration of risk in a handful of TBTF's has basically forced us into a situation where an ever increasing amount of subsidy is required for us not to enter a period of mass defaults and counter party contagion. Instead of unwinding the...

It's a generational bailout. The policymakers place the debt burden upon future generations so as not to realize losses in housing value, stock portfolios, etc, etc. Truly a despicable act of sheer desperation. Meanwhile, the younger generations awake to housing prices double or triple...

At the very least, they are still standing 20 years later. You think the U.S. has a snowball's chance of hell of remaining a unified semi-productive country with 20+ years of Quantitative Easing, prolonged unemployment and sky high medical costs, housing costs and commodity inflation. Or are...

It seems to be a daily occurrence around here with these inflationistas. I still fail to see the logic of how a mean reversion in asset prices following the biggest credit orgy in history is the end of the world. Someone still has to explain to me, straight faced, how housing prices could...

Lots of small businesses float a trial balloon at the beginning of a new calendar year to see if they can actually get away with jacking up prices and retaining clients. Something as expendable as dog grooming probably doesn't have alot of pricing power unless they are in Beverly Hills grooming...

How much longer is it going to take you retards to figure out the OP has pulled a fast one on you. He purposely created a thread with a negative tone so as to attract more viewers since he knows the amount of hate for mechanical systems.