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Realistically we would be pretty much the same except he would probably be willing to scrap or radically change Obamacare which is a drag on the hiring of full time employees. I am no fan of Obama and I certainly think it couldn't possibly be any worse under Romney but I doubt it would be...

Yes, it's a little pathetic that the only support you provided for your view point was directing others to wikipedia.

You aren't seriously pointing to evidence of a gold monetary system by linking an article from silverdoctors.com are you?

LOL

Please point to examples of where/when Keynesian economics actually worked and was operated as intended.

I don't know. Probably a lot of things. I think that was a pretty unique time period where the US emerged as the epicenter for manufacturing after WWII. Probably demographics played a big role. I think Europe and much of the rest of the developed word's manufacturing base was decimated...

Globalization.... Capitalism is fairly brutal when not viewed through the lens of the US circa 1945-2007. Unfortunately those days are gone

You are too close to the situation to see it, but everyone on here knows that the odds of you staying in a long term relationship with a young, hot, model/dancer in LA have to be less than 5%. Now that's not to say that you shouldn't move because it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to...

China will be a spectacular bubble burst when it happens. It's likely starting, IMO.

I haven't followed this thing closely, but have we ever heard a differentiation between how much of her fund came from trading performance versus new money? They seemed to always be very vague about that point when I listened to her youtube

Corruption is a horrible negative influence on economies. Big government breeds more and more corruption until it is accepted as a routine part of life. I would say the US government is becoming more and more corrupt with each passing year. Our politicians serve themselves first and...

Obviously the Dow consistently leading the S&P would be arbed out. Pay no attention to the local village idiot Jack Hershey.

If we have a 90% correction, "Katie bar the door".

Ya pretty much. That and the fact that we're pretty much back to NINJA loans again.

And it will have to continue. They cannot let rates rise. Higher rates will crumble the housing market, and cause stocks to head back towards 700 on the S&P.

How's this for wish-washy?.... This one could easily go either way. My model tells me that I'm still long, but I could easily see this thing going down hard. It's been 5 years since our last recession, so we're due for one in the next couple of years. They have only hinted at tapering...

Correct. In fact stocks and treasuries have both been rising since 2009 for the most part.

Gold and real assets- DOWN Stocks- DOWN Bonds- DOWN I hope we're not in for a period where everything gets killed except the dollar.

Do most bond spreaders use mean reversion or trend trading when spreading bonds? What is the rationale behind your choice?

Yes, I guess you could say we're lucky that Japan is providing a test run for us. If they blow up, then we're going to feel a lot of pain too. Maybe not as much as them because our demographics are more favorable, but it won't be pretty. If they're still muddling along 5 years from now...