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    The US Becoming Socialist By Default ? What to Do....

    Gnome, Unfortunately Jim Rogers is correct again....if you have wealth....the only way to keep it is to make the world yours....and not theirs..... Which....some already have......
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    The US Becoming Socialist By Default ? What to Do....

    Ian MacQuade Wrote...... Libertad, I like what you say, and agree with all of it. However, the voting thang ain't gonna fly. Lawsuits will tho, cuz the ignorant poor will claim discrimination. They'll be totally left out of the loop. No bus, no free chicken dinner, and no one to tell them...
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    The US Becoming Socialist By Default ? What to Do....

    US Banks are a lot like mining stocks. You know that the business is in mining, but you really have no idea what the mine contains. Third tier assets and so called legal accounting rules are supporting the larger banks and even the likes of Goldman Sachs. So the old saying goes.... What...
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    The Darkest Storm is About to Descend - You Can't Imagine the Carnage

    Notice Bush will moving back to Texas...the oil state.... ................................................................... Usually, when oil does well....as goes Texas..... And when oil is very low.......there is no sympathy from the non oil US states.... Texas should join OPEC...
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    Interesting times: Who do you trust first? Your government, or OPEC?

    Let's look at it this way..... What would the price of oil be if there was nothing but a cash contract market with a $1,000,000 per contract minimum, no margin? What would the price of oil be if there was no interest by the US in Iraq/Iran oil....No Iraq war.....? What would be the...
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    What's wrong with falling home prices ?

    Just as an aside.... This is why spreading the wealth through stock ownership is so important....people would be conditioned to prices.... What is a house ? A house is a $100 stock that could go from $50 to $200 while you own it..... Problem is ....margin...... If one levers the...
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    Disconnecting the United States and South America

    Excellent Commentary....As Usual ............................................................................................... SouthAmerica wrote.... What Americans can’t grasp is that their political system is the one that is completely obsolete and broke...
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    Wells Fargo Fudged Their Numbers

    Excellent Commentary ................................................................ Obviously the WFC earnings were last week, however perhaps the desparateness to look good, in that such a stellar firm would stoop to financial trickery.....just goes to confirm that there must be more...
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    Wells Fargo Fudged Their Numbers

    http://www.rgemonitor.com/ - reader's comment: Wells Fargo changed its write-off policy on April 2008: only loans 180 days past due would be written off instead of loans 120 days past due as before--> Wells Fargo earnings would have been $265m lower and results would have come in below...
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    Analysis of Goldman Sachs, Their Usage of Vagueries

    http://boombustblog.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=449&Itemid=34
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    Is the United States 'Too Big To Fail?'

    http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/253053/the_coming_systemic_bust_of_the_us_banking_system_dead_stocks_rallying Before the tax payers start paying up.....it is only fair that the managers start paying in some of their previously paid funny money bonuses.... This will exhibit true...
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    Is the United States 'Too Big To Fail?'

    Excellent Commentary ............................................................................... This is not rocket science.... The US financial policy is a failed program when it has to resort to the printing press to "shore up confidence"...... The FNM, FRE companies would simply...
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    Wall Street Outsourcing To Exotic Locations Throughout the World

    http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/bats-ecn-plans-2008-launch-in-europe/ BATS Europe.... Has done a stellar job in enterring the US market.... Will be interesting to see how BATS enters the European Market..... I am certain that BATS will locate their computerbanks wherever financial...
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    Wall Street Outsourcing To Exotic Locations Throughout the World

    http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208700366 Who cares where the computer banks are.... The government with the least legal largesse and taxes will easily win the housing of exchanges.... Watch it happen....already happening....
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    Hypothetical economic system Opinions wanted

    Excellent Commentary Mercor ......................................................................................... Mercor wrote.... Debt is the key. Capital exist only to help allocate resources. If debt was not allowed the capital requirments for projects would be too large...
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    Us Fed..... Stock Speculation Matters.....Commodity Speculation Does Not Matter

    Prices do not know their name. It has been recommended by both Paulson-GS and Bernanke-(pro socializing WS losses) that... 1) Excessive speculation is detrimental to stock prices 2) Excessive speculation is not detrimental to oil contract prices Therefore it is speculation that is...
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    Hypothetical economic system Opinions wanted

    Excellent Commentary, Slider123456 Slider123456 wrote....... There is one big difference though all forms of Marxism that I am aware of have been socialist. The state owned everything not the people. What I am saying is that the people own everything which is less socialistic than the...
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    Hypothetical economic system Opinions wanted

    Excellent Commentary, the sharpone ..................................................................................... Of course, assembly instructions are rarely followed to the T, even when there are only two parts. However, when a system is fatally flawed, you do not have to go...
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    Hypothetical economic system Opinions wanted

    Excellent Commentary ........................................................................................ It is only natural that the actual innovators are sifted from the many. When a fish spawns, how many eggs does it take to result in one adult? Most of the eggs served the food...
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    Hypothetical economic system Opinions wanted

    Excellent Commentary All ......................................................................... Well now.....the method does have to be elegantly simple.....so that all can move from point a to pòint b. Obviously we are talking about a revolution.....but in a peaceful manner...
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