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Dividends, capiche? Honest question; how is it that you've not managed to win a Darwin Award yet?

That's not a solid buy & hold strategy. That's a buy and pray they don't cut the dividend and the government doesn't raise taxes on dividends strategy. Look no further than GM, F and C, among others.

No, you said that the anti-federalists opposed ratification of the first draft of the Constitution because of the Bill of Rights. The reality is that they opposed ratification of the final version of the Constitution because they were opposed to what it proposed; a stronger central...

Prove how you could have succeeded at buying & holding anything that drops below your purchase price and never recovers.

The argument for buy & hold is that you can't time the market. But, as this chart shows, buying at the top can suck really bad if you hold it. The answer? Cut you're losses, don't buy and hold a loser. Sounds like market timing to me...

Okay prove it. Where's the evidence that the government has monetized debt directly into a foreign currency.

There's two types of inflation. One is price inflation, which is a result of supply and demand. This is the kind of inflation the Fed tries to control via influence of the broad money supply. The other is monetary inflation, which refers to the narrow money supply. As the government...

There are two separate parts to the money supply. There's the narrow, which is tied to the national debt and impacts the value of the dollar. And, there's the broad, which is what commercial banks use via fractional banking to make loans. The Fed only has absolute control over the narrow...

Let me guess, you also believe in Intelligent Design, right?

That's never going to happen. Unfortunately, every country is in this together and if the IMF hopes to keep the world financial system in one piece they're going to figure a way of getting past this problem -- together. The Federal Reserve Act does not bar the Treasury from printing...

Now you're saying there's "nothing to stop further debt creation?" Right after you got done saying that all the Fed had to do was simply "print" money to pay off the national debt.? Can you please pick a side and stick with it? As for the problem with your latest scenario. The Fed does...

I agree, it's not possible for any country using a fiat monetary system to default. They could hyperinflate, but they won't. In the event of a U.S. monetary collapse it's a good bet that every member country of the IMF is in the same shape. At that point, barter takes over. You...

It's pretty damned easy to be competitive internationally when you're using government-subsidized labor. That German labor would be a hell of lot higher, and their industry much less competitive, if it was fully-burdened by the private sector as it is here in the States. "Health" is...

I rather doubt it was the likes of Harvard or Princeton, most likely, some inner-city community college. Of course, you're going tell us he went to Auburn and played football against his American cousin every year, the winner got a box of chocolates, is that it?

Excuse me, Mr. Adept at Missing the Point, the "race" is for cheap(er) labor. Once that commodity runs out, then what?

I'm sure there's just as many stories of Toyota's, Honda's and even Benz' autos that were complete lemons. None of them are representative of the overall statistics though.

M1 and M2 include a host of broad money supply factors. But, the national debt is relative to the currency alone, which is the narrow money supply; M0.

If you're referring to the broad money supply, which is only available to commercial banks via reserves, yes, the Fed is quantitatively easing at tremendous amounts. But, scriabinop23 was referring to the national debt, which relates to the narrow money supply; currency. Totally different...

I agree it's almost, but not quite over. But, it wasn't a game, it was a race. It was the unions that got gamed.

They can't simply print money. Seriously, you need to go to the Fed's web site and read up on how the process works.