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American politicians know business and/or are involved in business - sometimes just come from business families. Isn't that reassuring? Politicians with strong ties to the industry of making money... and interested in making money. :)

mcshey, how is a total disappearance of US demand going to be happening? Will the North American continent be teletransported into some giant flying UFO? As I said - offset, and it doesn't happen overnight, does it?

mschey, actually - Asia and emerging markets are offsetting drop in US demand and consumption. Must be some kind of magic... :)

42 or 420... same shit :D

peilthetraveler, I like your way of thinking on this - one word: gutsy! Balls the size of melons, brain the size of... something. :)

WOW! FRE and FNM cooked the books and there are guaranteed criminal charges... On CNN AC360 - even members of congress will with certainty go to jail for receiving payments from the GSEs, and then the congress members were protecting them so that no one could touch FRE and FNM. This has...

Wouldn't you be more compelled to act if you could kill two birds with one stone? Of course you can apply Occam's razor ... but that doesn't mean there only has to be one single contributing factor. :)

I hope you see Chechnya with the same consistency in reasoning. Other interesting implications are redemption measures for native populations and other "issues" back in time... American native nations, Jewish property confiscations, nationalizations... damages due to history of systemic bias...

Evolution is part of reality - an evolutionary THEORY is a limited model or systems view. To be a logic - see model theory and "soundness". And just because you can't find any flaw - and regress like I explained a few posts ago ... it doesn't exactly make you look like a genius. Remember...

I guess we found the limits of where the "intellectual worth" of your Ph.D can get you... I'm here - you are not. :p ...and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_man_syndrome I have no trouble with ladies, thank you. Thanks for worrying...

Who said evolution was a logic model? "that which persists, persists"... hehe, so if you are overweight? Evolution is the transient nature - recurrent everywhere.

Ok, remember me talking about hypocrisy and scales ... degree of truth ... If you hold one dimension of evolution and on that scale you get full Darwinism on one end and on the other end you have complete order, peace and non-Darwinism as in "generational evolution". I already said the two...

"Friends stand by friends in dire times..." Allies, network of friends, support... defending their positions at the top. Old-money... elite-money. Reaping the profits and gratitude of his favor later... :)

poyayan, I agree 100%. :) Susannah, commodities are the best hedge against the USD and US economy woes. You could also look at strong fiscal owners of commodity resources, or very strong manufacturers of goods - but I think being conservative is getting as close to the commodities as...

Thank you, Ferdinand. An intelligent reply and question deserves another intelligent answer. Evolution is a system - just like many other self-similar systems in nature. But this system is not absolute - a rock does not evolve in the same way as humans or society ... etc...

Another little "secret" about Internet debating and valid here on ET as well... Just like ScottD is refusing to engage in any intellectual retort or debate with me, others end up in the same psychological regression of "acting out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_out What happens is...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133565 Enjoy - but reply in that thread. It's already confusing enough in this thread trying to talk Russian economy. See the dates on the posts - and you will see they were pretty on target...

Thanks, but no thanks! I'm not that kind of "guy" - you can find other Brazilians to play with though... there are thousands of them here. I am not into any kind of "tough loving", and you won't be able to sneak up on me. I'm from Europe and not Brazilian. Also, I speak, read and write 8...

I just gotta laugh out loud at you social, economic and historical Darwinists thinking you are going to be winners. Evolution is in nature and your genes, you whiners - try fighting that. :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanaticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalism That's what you pigheaded Bluepill munchers are ... You wouldn't know reality even if it fell on your heads like a ton of bricks - perpetuating you into...