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Oil has to go rise dramatically in price because: 1) Oil consumption has risen 3% per year, and the price of crude oil has failed to keep pace, only doubling per barrel in the last year, and rising 12 fold in the last decade. 2) This may be an active hurricane season, according to the very...

I was really hoping to have a serious (maybe the first one?) discussion on the issues raised in the Financial Times article I posted. Maybe my expectations are too high, and if so, that is highly unfortunate.

Jesus, I am a deist, for complex and unconventional reasons that I won't elaborate on at this time. But I do have a question for you. Who or what created god (or God), whether he's your literal or figurative father?

Really? I'm not commenting on your ratboy reference (without passing judgment on ratboy), but I assume you are insinuating that the article fails to raise even one legitimate question or issue that has yet to be adequately answered by official explanations? Am I correct in that assumption?

The problem with a lot of these athletes is that they're vastly ill-equipped to handle their own finances, and so they surround themselves with 'experts' to do the heavy lifting for them. But those parasitic 'experts' are only, and obviously (at least in retrospect), interested in enriching...

I am not trying to predict anything but my actions based on my perceptions of what's happening. Someone on ET once told me to react, and not try to predict. I am reacting to the latest data, and what I believe is likely to be the coming data, while admitting I have no way of knowing what...

I am anything BUT a conspiracy theorist. Nor am I one to dismiss legitimate questions that warrant rational answers about any event having historically important political and economic effects, either. Some see the world in black and white. For others, until there is full and complete...

I'd argue Lebanon is the most pro-western mid-east country. It's a mixed Christian/Muslim nation, with both religions sharing certain aspects of government, but the Christians have typically wielded the real power. The fact that Hezbollah is gaining support is a real cause for concern...

I used to strongly disagree with you on this issue, but I'm not as confident in my own opinion any more. If a few of the 'too big to fail' institutions did, it could spell Armageddon.

Posted in another thread, but it's worth posting again, IMO: "This is disturbing... One of the writers here at The Sovereign Society forwarded this graph from the St. Louis Fed earlier this week. It shows how much banks have borrowed from the Federal Reserve going back to 1910. As...

Some of you probably get the newsletter that this comes from, but for those who don't, this should blow your mind. It's a chart showing the rate bank borrowing in the U.S. since 1910 - pay attention to the last year, in their own words, This is disturbing... One of the writers here...

Indeed. I could not agree with you more. When Greenspan did it, I do believe we got the beginning of the spectacular residential real estate bubble. Bernanke, to be fair, inherited a lot of that baggage, but instead of dispensing some strong medicine, seemed to follow the Greenspan...

Extremely wise words, mak man. I've tried to eliminate the background noise on this latest 'feeling.' It does seem this time, to me, that there's more of substance behind the noise than usual.

Downgrade to XP. That's what I did. On a new Penryn Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 system (Lenovo). If you got Windows Vista Business ot Ultimate version, you can get an XP 'downgrade' for free.

I was bullish just a month ago, so that was the ultimate in bad calls, if I'm right now.

This is why I swore on my ancestors that I'd never trade currencies or commodities. Too much.

Coincidence or not, this was one of the most timely and accurate threads I've ever encountered.

Jefferson County, Alabama is next in line.

Mvic, you summed up nearly precisely the factors that are snowballing. It's way too much for the markets to digest and provide any clarity at all. It's one thing after another, nonstop, and unbelievable. Housing, energy, financials, turmoil in the mideast, spiking unemployment, some...

Breaking below 1370 on the spooz did serious technical damage today, HG. And oil is spelling FUBAR with its funky price action.