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That same conclusion was reached 2,500 years ago in Athens. Their experiments in Democracy were always temporary.

It depends where you live. You think the Amish will notice much if there is a collapse? What about those folks that live in Appalachia. They can give a *&%^.

BR - your rants are getting old. Everyone in the middle east is fucked up. EVERYONE. You know why? Because at the treaty of versailles, instead of letting the area mature independently as Europe eventually did into separate peaceful countries, and then a union, the middle east was...

The OP article brings up a lot of points, and I agree with a lot of what he said as well. I'm just showing that everyone is fucked up to a degree, incuding the OP.

I once had a discussion with a white 50 something. The type that complains about blacks and welfare. He also said that he used to make a lot of money selling to the defense industry in the eighties. You know - 600 dollar toilet seats, 200 dollar screwdrivers. He made a lot of money. So...

LOL... yea, I went off the deep end. And I don't wish the death panel on anyone - including the writer in the OP. But those well over 40 better take heed. Gen X and Y will soon come to the conclusion that the party is over, that the Baby Boomers plundered everything, and Gen X and Y will be...

The age gap between my parents is pretty wide. Though I am a gen Xer - my father was born in 1931. My mother is a baby boomer. But the stories I hear from my father are different. He was a kid in a European village growing up. He nearly was shot by a German fighter once. Two of his cousins...

Listen you old crotchety kook: Most of the money you made was during one of history's greatest credit bubbles. You benefitted from the massive government deficit spending that began from LBJ to today. If you are 63 years old - that means you were about 23 back then and had just started...

In the last 40 years, many legitimate and successful small businesses have been killed by Wall Street backed overleveraged conglomerates and subsidized/lopsided global trade. Well guess what? Wall street can't fund these monoliths like it used to. And global trade is collapsing - as soon as...

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You always seem to be a freakin genius/expert when you post here, and everyone else is beneath you. The "mindless ET banter" schtick is getting old. So how are your oil wells doing? Personally, I think you're all hat no cattle.

By 2012 the effects of peak oil will hit and it will be a very different world. Many transnationals will go bankrupt. Jobs will come back home because shipping goods globally will be prohibitively expensive. The government will be the largest purchaser of oil, and the military and agriculture...

Fascinating story/tell all from a Bush speech writer. One of many interesting points regarding Palin: ________ I was about to be engulfed by a tidal wave of Palin euphoria when someone—someone I didn’t expect—planted my feet back on the ground. After Palin’s selection was announced...

And eventually, you either become a consuming nation drowning in debt with few willing lenders, or a manufacturing nation drowning in surplus goods with few willing buyers. Globalization reached an usustainable peak and is going through a decades long correction. When oil becomes more...

Found it... interesting read: http://www.kursusinfo.life.ku.dk/Kurser/290006/presentation/~/media/Kurser/FOI/290006/Litterature_and_Discussion_Papers/Let%20them%20eat%20pollution.ashx

I'd say there are many reasons. One reason in particular involves the environment. A long time ago, Larry Summers wrote a paper advocating moving industries that also produce high levels of pollution to third world/emerging countries. This would accomplish two goals - we don't have to...

Take what you want from the chart. I believe that speculation ran up oil prices in '08. However, it is apparent during that time period that demand also significantly overshot supply. Both conditions - excess speculation and a drop in supply could have co-existed.

LOL... that's true in a current times sense. But ultimately... Our trading days are numbered. What we are witnessing is not just an economic correction - but a global lifestyle correction because we have peaked in many aspects of society. I know there are people out there that will scoff...

Conclusions, although debatable, nonetheless require sound facts. Bad facts = irrelevant conclusion. If I were you I'd ask a mod to delete this thread. Calling it amateurish would be a compliment. It's that bad. We *real* doomers are much more thoughtful and exacting. If you want...