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Could you calculate the percentage from the day you started the poll?

This is why the real "change" will only occur when the next generation comes into power. The current generation of CEO's, politicians, public sector chieftains are on board with the currency devaluation, deficit spending bullshit because they KNOW this is the only way to maintain these lofty...

Not unless there is an increased demand for those remaining homes. Last I checked everybody and their brother had already bought homes by the time this thing blew up.

Small problem, THEY didn't take the loss, WE either currently or eventually will take the loss. As the OP said, this is the kind of surreal bullshit that occurs when an artificial market that cannot properly assess risk is allowed to flourish.

Sarcasm, I sincerely hope.

I swear that if the trend continues, the world will end on a Sunday night just prior to Globex opening. It's farcical how every single bit of market moving news has to be released on a Sunday night.

More to the point, we need to do everything possible to move AWAY from an asset economy and back towards something a bit more sane. The fact that goosing the stock market is a policy tool to incite consumer confidence says it all.

You really are dense. The "trapped" side of the trade all week were longs. If you care to remember, the consensus was that the debt deal was going to be a non event for days and weeks leading up to it. Even your own poll is something like 75 to 13 with regards to the percentage move up vs...

Exactly..just more bullshit for the peons to debate. Republicans turn into Democrats; Democrats turn into Republicans, etc, etc...It makes no difference as both parties are bought and paid for, which is why all of the rabid followers are left scratching their heads when one party "gasp" strays...

I would seriously challenge that supposition. I'd argue that a very small number of guys came out of that madness with record years. I look at this site as one indicator of how many guys still play the market and the amount of participation is way, way below what it was 4-5 years ago...

I agree. Even though the seeds were set earlier, the decision to create another asset bubble on the back of commercial and residential real estate set the stage for this madness. Notice how each bubble and bust seem to move along in shorter, more extreme cycles with ever more "fuel"...

I vote for C. All of the above. To me, it's not a question of "who's worse?"; the citizens still get sold the river. Every four years, the choices are progressively worse and the outcomes of each administration set us back further behind the eight ball.

They plug one hole and another leak springs up elsewhere in the sinking ship. Soaring gas prices just means the money has to come out of some other sector of the economy. More jobs lost, more economic malaise, more contraction elsewhere. So far we've seen that even with record low...

Incredibly dumb. The Tea Party exists largely because of 8 years of Bush. Hell, even a Canadian liberal douchebag should be able to figure that out. Bush fractured the Republican party with his complete abandonment of fiscal conservatism. Hence, the Tea Party filled that void.

Yep, you continue to cement your reputation as a complete "fag hag" always one to value STYLE over SUBSTANCE. Your constant nitpicking of typo's is simply pathetic. Go find a bath house to get your thrills.

Yes, that's what they are doing but our highbrow blowhards (many of whom grace these forums) would never admit to such a thing.

I speak for many when I say, I could give two shits about what some whiny Canadian fruitcake has to say about our countries current crisis. Now go start another thread in the feedback section bitching about how "unfairly" you are being treated.

The proponents could care less as they are simply caught up in the day to day survival of their precious "rackets". It's also no suprise that the one's most panicked by the possible austerity are those whose livelihood depends on near constant asset inflation. It's one of the main reasons...

An article a few weeks back titled "QE3 will just keep the lights on" is very apropos to this discussion. The efficacy of these policies will continue to deteriorate as time goes on. We've already reached the sort of upper boundaries as far as political pressure is concerned (in a quasi...

Completely agree. If anything, the spin on his lack of experience was heralded as his "cult of personality". Heck, just four years prior to that, it was seen as a semi-WTF moment when he won in the US senate race. So, there is no possible way that anybody could say that he "worked hard" to be...