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    History Lesson In the Printing Press and Hyper-Inflation

    100 quintillion whatevers Hungarian Note - 1946
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    Will the U.S. Get LBOed?

    Canada's system is just a method to ration health care.... the rich just come to the US to get instant care... I suppose a dog with a broken leg would get treated quicker than someone with some chronic ailment
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    Will the U.S. Get LBOed?

    free health care and you have to wait 4 months for an MRI ??? what a deal......
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    When is it time to really PANIC about the US $

    when Benny B. makes a prediction that inflation will be 2% for the next 3 years....
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    Enron, Worldcomm, who is the next big name?

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/55176-fannie-freddies-insolvency-and-golds-immediate-outlook
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    History Lesson In the Printing Press and Hyper-Inflation

    the lesson learned from WWI was dont sit on Germany economically again, so after WWII, the Marshall plan was used to get the place going again, we then sat on Germany militarily....
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    Crude priced in Eurodollars? - Discuss

    what i said is reasonable which means it will never show up on ABC news
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    Crude priced in Eurodollars? - Discuss

    I too believed in the Iraq-Euro-Oil connection but no more.... If you look at the entire landscape....Iran is on the way to getting the bomb supported by Russia/China, like it or not the US needed a ruse to get between Iran and Israel before each had the ability to start lobbing nukes...
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    Greenspan `Made a Mess' and U.S. Risks Recession, Stiglitz Says

    well look... we need about 4 - 5 trillion of bailout money so you do the math.... the dollar index goes to 30 give or take, gasoline is 7 a gallon... interest rates go to 12% if you're anywhere near qualified, whatever that means..... so a hot dog costs $15...stop bitching...
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    Crude priced in Eurodollars? - Discuss

    cant see what the big deal is... conversion is a mouse click away from dollars to euros..... bfd.....
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    $ Silver $

    I'm long silver... not caring about the up dollar down dollar moves.... looking for $25 an oz to offset my crappy US dollar holdings...
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    New Wave of Mortgage Failures Could Create a Nightmare Economic Scenario

    I have a hunch that the Fed. will have to pound short rates lower to allow banks to refi some of this stuff and still stay solvent.... 10 year treasuries at 4% with $100 oil doesn't pass the smell test... the great monetization is underway....
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    Credit Crunch: What me Worry?

    M3 is smokin' .... 10 year treasuries yielding 4%, I mean who's buying that other than scared critters from the mortgage market... the 10 year is a warehouse for the "dont know what to do" crowd an opinion of course and I could be wrong...
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    Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

    I don't know...Benny B. made a most recent fascinating prediction that inflation will stay around 2% fir the next 3 years.... this is ridiculous... I think Benny scored some bad acid from "strong dollar Paulson" If I'm a foreign banker, I read this as a green light for further devaluation...
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    Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

    damn it, I just checked, no Lek futures or options, it's a conspiracy I say...
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    Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

    to get a handle on how much trouble the US dollar is in..... The mighty Albanian Lek currency was at 120 to the dollar 4 years ago... now you only get 83 Lek to the dollar...... Albania, mighty and great, is gaining on the US..... It's OK to cry.....
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    Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

    Trump was only bankrupt because he lost everybody's else's money, not his.... That takes some skill....
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    Credit Crunch: What me Worry?

    credit seems to be locking up in the capitalist "free" economies... where are Chindia and the middle east buyers for the Euro mortgage debt?? sure helped the gold market today...on what was supposed to be a nothing session...
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    Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

    imho, this entire mess started when wall street figured out a way to bundle debt into CDOs a pawn them off with AAA ratings to the rest of the world.... no wonder banks could lend to anybody since they knew there was a sucker waiting to buy CDO's CMO's and the rest of the alphabet soup and...
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