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You said this "You know as well as I do that this is unsustainable. The only way out for us is war. Constant continual never ending war." Hence my response

The idea that war is the 'only' solution is not logical. If that is the only valid solution, nothing prevents the government from creating a war against sea fish, with lots of money printing, military spending for bombs being thrown at the ocean and people being paid to fight with harpoons, no...

You should read up on Soros reflexitivy. Once things starts collapsing they just keep going, that is until the government stops the collapse. Bernanke has a 20+ sample study on the great depression showing that countries that abandoned the gold standard(a decision from the sovereign) had better...

There is no restraint in a gold standard due the fact that the gold standard can be changed at any time by a decision of the government, it happened many times particularly during war. Furthermore it wouldn't be just about inflation, during the 19th century debt levels were much lower than...

Fiat money is backed by the fact that you can use it to pay taxes and avoid going to jail. Furthermore as a long people trust the system, it works, yes people can lose confidence tomorrow and dollars would be worthless but that is a hindsight thinking, fact is, today people trust dollars in...

Of course you can, the government is ALWAYS in control of what happens with the money supply. Many times during a gold standard they would jump out of it to print money(wars) or devalue to fool people with inflation. Its simply a matter of how you want the government to control the money supply...

Markets rallying due better than expect new home sales, yet Jun 2010 wass the weakest number except for May 2010 in a long-time(ever?) http://barrons.econoday.com/showimage.asp?imageid=19477

Apparently its an online course http://hedgefundcertification.com/ I'm not sure it has much credibility. Does anyone in the industry thinks this is worth anything in terms of helping someone land a hedge fund job one day?

I suspect the study is flawled. The people sitting the most probably ate the worst foods, it would not be sitting problem but a diet problem

It remains to be seen if the EU joke tests will create the same result as in the US, where lies kept the self-fulfilling confidence rally going

I like Tylerdurden description of EU greek bonds on the banks being 'hold to bankruptcy'

I'm reasonably confident that I was going to die without the Heimlich maneuver because the supplement was large, it blocked my throat good, and it opened up, it was going straight to my lungs. My sis told me my face was red when she saw me. Maybe I should buy some OTM options, its my lucky day

Apparently one can survive choking while alone http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/survivechoking_ttbi.htm This is some useful info

1430 GMT [Dow Jones] Growth in the ECRI weekly leading index weakened past the -10% mark that some economists say always signals a U.S. recession. The growth rate for the week of July 16 slowed to -10.5% from -9.8% in the previous week, although the index itself was unchanged at 120.7. Growth in...

EU Stress Tests Only Consider Trading Book Bond Loss http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJGL0mvJhZ_Q&pos=1 It appears that this was the only way they could apply reasonable haircuts. If they included the entire government debt holdings at those haircuts, I assume too many...

Stress test criteria http://www.cnbc.com/id/38376100 "adverse scenario and adverse scenario plus sovereign risk", you got to love the sense of humor of the guy who created the adverse scenario less sovereign risk

Crazy, I almost died an hour ago choking on a supplement. My sister saved my life

The difference was those JGBs were quite longer in terms of duration. I'm not sure which month you are shorting but the debate as outlined by Bernanke appears to be when to throw more stimulus and what type of stimulus should the Fed do. So the largest 'fundamental'(the fomc) setting the price...

Amazing, ZQ from Jul 2010 to Jan 2011 are all virtually trading in the same level. First time I've even seen something like this

I believe these are GSE mortgages