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most people are too bearish since the naz is still down 50% from March 2000, those scars are wide and deep...... and the CNBC on-air pimps always tout "a new all time high in the Dow" but they never give the Dow divisor correction analysis or back out inflation (the real kind) or back out...

this is the kind of crap that happens just before the bottom drops out.... recall that Hitler was attending tea dances as the boom of allied bombs could be heard in the distance.... the "foiled" (if you can call it that), Saudi terror plot gives a glimpse of the edge we're on the idiot...

since the world is ending, you want to short planet Earth and go long Mars and Jupiter and a couple of it's moons..... and use a home equity loan to finance the hedge trade .....easy.....no paperwork

the last paragraph is a killer.....please dont sell this is a Florida story............ Because of a rising number of mortgage delinquencies more homes are being dumped onto an already glutted market. RealtyTrac reported that foreclosures surged by 47 percent in March compared to a year...

the gold part of the video was OK.... and fractional gold reserves by the Central Bankers was recently revisited by Greenspan himself........... Greenspan waved off the necessity for the CFTC to regulate gold derivatives, telling Congress to fear not, that the “central banks stand ready...

you are correct, but my neighbor who took out a no money down loan and has a home equity loan to buy his new $30K boat keeps bragging to me about how low his monthly payments are.....even though housing prices are dropping and he's upside down on everything, he thinks he's well off....I just...

sounds like a CYA statement given that the financial press doesn't like to provide the obvious analysis. It seems rather late in the game to start talking about bad monetary policy

no wonder why Greenspan decided to call it quits..... there's not enough dirt to shovel in this hole we're in.........

sorry guys, call me what you want, but I retain the notion that recessions are meant to correct excesses and flush bad credits out of the system..... Greenspan uttered the word recession and was nearly run out of town..... now Freddy and Fannie are buying subprime junk to try to...

not pessimistic, just realistic.... CPI,PPI measures are way understated which causes the y/y GDP to not be deflated to the correct amount.... the Fed. knows this and the GDP is positive as reported by applying incorrect deflation math... to top it off, you're getting butchered by a...

0.1% of the average guy on the street realizes what is happening or if he does, he feels powerless to stop it....and he's right... with a $12 trillion money supply and $40-60 trillion debt and SS/ Medicare benefit liability ahead..... the choices are few and none are good...... the real...

BTW, here's where your purchasing power vs. the world is headed the USD index...behold

sorry DAAL GDP is negative and has been for awhile..... since you need a reliable deflator to compare y/y data...the BLS and the Fed. understand that GDP can be calculated any way you want...... so the Gov. under counts inflation and magically GDP rises.... throw in devaluation, and...

this is a more meaningful look at things...imho who knows what "value" means in the above chart

GDP is directly dependant on a proper inflation rate.....since the i. rate doesn't include housing prices, only equivalent rent rates...GDP is vastly overstated..... as for M3, it can be calculated via other Fed. data

TIPS a good deal?? based on who's inflation calculation?

what happens when the counterfeiters start printing his notes by the truckload? whose gonna go after them?????

bailout will only slow the inevitable bust to come........... since real wages are flat, living standards are being financed with debt which is subsidized by China and Japan....... they say that they're our friends for now

interesting read about UK gold http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/04/17/cngold17.xml

you must understand that we are spending beyond our ability to produce because interest rates and lending standards are at rock bottom..... foreign CENTRAL banks buy our treasury paper at any price since central banks dont have to show profit/loss on the stuff... debt paper is being used...