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The US was only as strong as its property prices. Same with Canada, if they fall then same mess as in the US, but not so bad as nobody does it bigger than America.

Common sense tells me that would have been the case because there are few times in history when central government planners get it right unless you're in the old Soviet Union where the next 5 year Plan was deemed a massive success before it had even started :) Believe me, when the history...

There's only 1 bit of regulation banks need and that will sort out 90% of the problems - ALL securities/derivatives should be traded on an exchange and ALL should be marked to market. Do that and there's still plenty of money to be made although not as much because stealing and/or...

There would have been A LOT of pain and I mean A LOT. But believe me, things would have sorted themselves out and the economy would be in far better shape right now. The alternative is what we're going to get between now and 2015 - FAR MORE PAIN THAN ANYONE CAN IMAGINE. The Fed creates...

+ No, because you post on thread after thread on this board how the world is running out of natural resources and how wrong we all are for using so much energy so we should all do something about it, ie cut our energy use by half. But then you tell us you drive a Merc and if super rich...

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, nothing more.

Maybe it does but that's still a lot of gas to burn for just one family. So again, everyone should use less energy, apart from you and your family.............

Beatrice You're such a hypocrite. You're here all the time saying we should use less energy and the like but you then show your true spots, ie everyone else should use less, but not you hence the Merc and your own massive gas-guzzling jet.

YOu are funny. Only 100-200 out of 250 million or so that made me laugh :)

I wonder what crappy slogan He's going to come up with this year and also wonder if he'll be pushed on what the last election's slogan actually meant and the new slogan. I think the word 'change' is out of the question this time :)

But let's say they do. Then what happens? Well, speculators either find an avenue closed to them, or they look elsewhere. How about this - Dubai sets up a CFD/Swaps commodity exchange where no physical can be traded, just the numbers. For example, Corn is priced at 700, you go long, I...

There's a big secret out there that not many Americans know, or are being told about as it's well, un-American. Look at the percentage increase of Americans renouncing their citizenship over the last 5 years, it's starting to go off the chart.............

Great comment, glad you've seen the light.

Maybe he thinks being a CEO of a major corporation isn't worth it. Far more to life than money and power........

A) It makes a great story, hence good TV ratings B) It serves those in power to scare the population, most of who are complete morons and will believe anything they're fed (example - West Coast was 'maybe' doomed because of Japanese radiation problem) C) It serves to help keep the budgets...

You make a valid point but at the same time what a pathetic world we live in now when a politician's election chances are threatened by rates of just 1%. It sums up the current economic malaise perfectly.

As the other 2 posters have said, it's not ending, the fools are in too deep to stop now.

I've been saying this for a long time now, technology seems to be stuck. The only place where technology to me seems to be advancing at a great rate is in medical science. Look at the machines we've got in hospitals now versus 20 years ago as a good example. But in the non-medical world...

Materialistic people are never happy, nor will they ever be because enough is never enough and somebody will always have something bigger/better/more expensive than them - and that really pisses them off. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people :)

People say countries like Nigeria are the most corrupt in the world but at least they don't try to hide behind a smokescreen of respectability. Folks, the most corrupt country is the world is easily Switzerland. They'll take the dirtiest blood stained money off the worst people in the world...