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If you want to know more - you can PM me. I know a LOT about trust modelling and everything Internet-biz related. I used to do a lot of business analysis together with financial analysts and investor firms. I guess you already know of www.techcrunch.com ?

Combine Greenspan super-sizing consumption, the Internet emergence and the Cold War demise peace dividend and you got the "formula". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotcom_bubble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend But it IS VERY TRUE that the fanatical elitist Neocons supported...

Not totally true - she is smart and slightly VPILF hot.

Jayford, I know - but it usually converges on a common sense view of what is "factual". But like I have been pointing out - there are "degrees of truth". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_truth Philosophically, that is also why you can show anything you want with statistics.

nickdes, I agree - I saw the signs roughly 1.5 - 2 months after I bailed out late 1999. I sold because I had been working an average monthly 400 billed hours in 1998 - and I wasn't liking it. I worked 600 hours in may 2008 though - gotta stay away from being a workaholic.

The "dot-com bubble" (or sometimes the "I.T. bubble") was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotcom_bust I started using the Internet in 1990 and founded 5 companies in the period 1996-1999. :D I sold all except one in late 1999.

Bingo! And that is why a guy like Ron Paul sounds like a superstar genius compared to the rest of the stooges. As controversial as Charles Murray's theories are - he fails when using Occam's razor and tries to predict, or rather influence by saying what we should do - get rid of welfare...

Hehe, you want one? :) It's something we all "know". Systems science, logic and philosophy is different - people don't know shit in general...

Greenspan fuelled the castles-in-the-sky super-sized consumption in the US. It was booming under Clinton. It fell apart with the aggressive Neocons meddling abroad and the world reacting to the interventions. The frenzied and fanatical Neocons acting on behalf of elitist old-money, polarized...

I think it has more to do with the international financial system than the domestic one - things are a' changin' ... ... and we are seeing the effects of this. Internationally and domestically this economic Darwinism of US super-sized consumption was not sustainable. The implications of this...

The Neocon ideology centers around their "right" (they call it "responsibility") to claim and do things without asking for consent - how they need to take "leadership". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory

Actually, the trend in some of the emerging markets is to try and isolate themselves from effects from the US economy. E.g ridding themselves from debt, transforming debt from USD to local currency etc. Also by opening new trading relationships - see gas-rich Bolivia receiving $4.5 bn in Russian...

I see you are a newly created username ... Hehe - oldtimer acting out? You won't last long here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_out

The economy has gotten to be such an issue that the Democrats are winning now... People in the US are not THAT crazy that they would vote for the same. Knock on wood ... I said the same for the 2004 election too... Social control and psychology works in mysterious ways - see RAND Corporation...

I think that the "old money" elite in the US allowed and supported the even more elitist-thinking Neocons in an aggressive move to "reshape" things abroad... See http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm and www.anglospherechallenge.com

I know - it's only the world's tenth largest economy (depends on how and what you measure by) or something...

Blaming GWB for this would be folly - but he IS associated with it. As a period - his presidency is the one that started with the bust and went out with a meltdown. In between there were some wars, terrorism and lots of other complex thing. Bush is part of it - there's no denying that...

Well, there are a number of homeless people in the US, and there are quite a lot of trailer parks and extremely poor rural areas. It's not like the US doesn't have extreme poverty anywhere...

Well, I've been to Anaheim, LA, SF, San Jose, Denver, Vale, Dillon, Keystone and Atlanta. Professional and leisure. Of course the US is not a third world country, although it has some really poor places. I've also visited around 170 other cities in roughly 30 countries around the world. I...

fearless9, yes, actually the ability to "think" - as in general problem solving - is what is most important, otherwise you are just like Rainman. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence also...