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After Obama everything will be different. They're even going to restart the year numbering, this is the year 1 B.O. (Before Obama). :)

This can be solved via a reverse split.

No, that's why they created the SFP. I'm pretty sure almost all buying is done by the FED. This is the 2007 treasury ownership chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Estimated_ownership_of_US_Treasury_securities_by_category.gif You can pretty much guess how the december...

What these guys are missing is that the FED obviously got to this idea in an attempt to avoid hyperinflation: They've printed a shitload of money, shipped it to the banks who in their turn dit NOT pump it into the private sector. Just yet ! If they start lending again, inflation is going to be...

Unwinding of the YEN/USD carry trade. People borrowed the YEN (which had low interest) and sold it to buy USD (higher yields, back then). Now, unwinding that, they need to sell those USD's and buy YEN's back. Furthermore, the USD is now increasingly becoming popular as the basis for a new...

FED has increased the money flow to the banks. The banks are not lending it to the private sector for obvious reasons. Instead, the banks park in treasuries. And, more importantly, the FED is buying treasuries, which effectively means of course printing money and supplying it to treasure at 0%...

09:41 Ladenburg discusses idea of Fed debt issue Ladenburg Thalmann notes that the WSJ reported that the Federal Reserve is considering issuing debt. Firm says this is no good and comes from a feeling of desperation. They note the Federal Reserve can print money whenever it chooses and this...

Of course. But the TS said that if somebody flashed forwared from 1930 to 2008, applying 1000% inflation, he'd not be depressed because now he could buy a nice car and nice cell phone. So the point is of course, if inflation is (way) higher than the interest rates, you're going to get screwed.

LOL :) I hope you realise that politicians figured this out a long time ago ? That's what's been happening for quite some time man.

Tell that to the guy who had $100,000 on his bank account in 1930. Pretty pointless thread.

I disagree. In 'normal circumstances' his theories cause more steady, solid growth: it 'fades' the up and down spikes. However, his theory was never meant to be applied to an 'un natural' boosted, sick economy.

So it doesn't mean a thing either to oil prices how much inventories there are ? :) Or if a corn harvest goes bad that doesn't influence the corn futures ? Of course it matters man, that's what it's all about. If some physical commodity gets more scarce or more available, that DIRECTLY...

IMF has been planning to sell 12.5 % of their 3,200,000 kg gold (so about 400,000 kg) , since last year. Consensus is that they need to sell even way more (IMF chief economicst said they're out of money and there are still countries knocking on their door te be rescued). I guess that would be...

Don't know where you got your chart from, but it's not official data. Official data: current debt = 10.6 trillion: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np *EDIT* ah, most probably you're referring to the debt plus future obligations like unfunded Medicaid, Social...

Now, that would be a very good argument, in a FREE market ! But remember, this is exactly what Obama has said he doesn't want, he says capitalism has shown NOT to work and he wants stimilus packages and low interest, to increase lending and spending, because he thinks that's what we need to get...

Very interesting read, thanks for posting !

7 years full time (about 1600 hours/year), so roughly 11,000 hours. No wonder last year was such a success, LOL ;)

Exactly. Argentina went bankrupt in 2002 and what happened ? Life went on. Of course standards of living dropped, but there was no 'war zone' where you had to defend your own food with riot guns :) Yep, also agreed. That's pretty much the best hedge against the worst 'doom and gloom' scenario.

I like to compare all this to the dotcom hype. I remember how everybody said that we had some kind of new economy, how the old economic rules didn't apply anymore and why it was justifiable to pay $1000 for some dotcom stock from a company which was only making losses. At one point, everybody...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&rlz=1I7GPEA_nl&q=%22gerald+celente%22&meta= Argentina went bankrupt in 2002. It was not anything like you just described. So even if the most extreme 'doom & gloom' scenario is going to play out, I don't think it will be anywhere near what you just described...