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if China doesn't chip in to buy treasuries, US rates rise and chokes off consumption.... something China can't handle is a slowing of exports...... China understands very well that econonmic stress leads to political upheaval and the distress of 1989 can't be repeated...... it is a...

for someone in the debt hole, devaluation is their only hope since it becomes easier to earn devalued dollars as inflation will bail them out in nominal terms. that's what the US is counting on, and hoping the general public is too stupid to figure it out...and ftom what I've seen from the...

look...China knows they have already won.....on labor....they can't be touched....they have 300 million unemployed.....militarily....they can field an army of 300 million....they just need tech. for which the US will give away for money....... China just needs time to field a blue water navy...

China is not going to let these 2 chumps stand in the way of their gold mine export biz with the US......

Martha was a "celeb" and they went for the best odds to convict her. Had it been JoeSixPack, they would have thrown the book at him..... btw, some lunchbox on the DJ BOD has a tie in with the Wongs thru europe, and that's how the deal was done,....he's denying it all, what a laugh.......

the Wong's had never traded options in their account and even a straddle would have looked bad even though they could argue they knew something was up but didnt know which way....... had they bought only 10K shares, they likely could have skated by.....who knows

Martha's lawyers let her be interviewed by the SEC and FBI before they scrubbed her brain..... should have never happened.... bad strategy.......

daal the summary of your link discusses debt more than equity....and the compounded debt numbers are significant. net worth and net wealth are different in my way of looking at it... whenever you see "seasonal adjustment" in a gov. document..beware household debt is a measure of how...

Fed is still printing them..... the black line at the tip is the data filled in after the Fed. stopped "officially" reporting the M3 number.....

even though the data are cooked, rate policy is based on labor and housing..... both are tanking.....

ahhhh the sweet smell of being correct...... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=93795

the consensus for job creation was around 90,000 give or take and the BLS adjustment magically got it there........... Isn't magic fun?

maybe somebody has been reading my posts on BLS adjustments perhaps????

look on the brite side....the poor guy with the $14K income could be making half that if he was a Forex trader

ever heard of www.pricewatch.com

so far, people take for granted the soundness of the counterparties to all these derivative trades, something I dont..... the Fed. (and their surrogates: JP CITI etc.) may not have the resources or time to handle an elephant that suddenly dies....LTCM was a mouse compared to the money running...

the net effect will be lenders building the cost of deferal laws into future loans which will make the cost of the loan even more expensive.... or the lenders may pull out totally....

look - when crunch time hits....benefits will get cut in the name of some nefarious patriotic theme.... I mean the dollar can't sustain the stress since future outlays are 5 times the monetary base...it is really simple math and there is no GDP projection that can rescue this show...

assuming boomers own their houses, the reverse motgage biz might pick up since boomers will likely get squeezed as benefits get cut, taxes rise and the dollar devalues........... false teeth and joint replacement companies deserve a look, if you can find your glasses

boomers need to face the fact that they'll be asked to pick up the tab for their own healthcare and SS which will have to be means tested... gen X and Y are not likely to pony up the cash needed to retain our socialist approach to old age just pray that China, Japan and Asia keep lending...