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Come on, you and I both know that if the aforementioned regulations were to be put in place, the already stressed banks would immediately be in peril. Even with the suspension of the MTM accounting from early 2009, we've got some problems, such as the one that started this thread. If all the...

A shill for the Euro "zone", not the currency per se. And yes I stand by that. I've read his thread titles on here for months, whereby he dismisses just about anything deemed "negative" and cut and paste's all of these manufactured press releases regarding some form of stabilization.

Way too late at this stage of the game.

Seems that way. After the ass pounding, that uber-douche Michael21 took earlier in the thread, can't say I blame the turd for changing his screen name.

The OP is a first rate Euro shill. Every other day, the guy does a cut and paste job to try and pretend things are "progressing".

Since a growing number of the people are on food stamps, they have no real concern about the rising food prices. The race to convert everyone into "wards of the state" solves all these inconvenient outcomes.

This is the inevitable outcome of a broken system. Politicians make promises that are impossible to keep and the working class falls complacent to a system that makes absolutely no economic sense. Jobs for life, pensions that can never be met, etc, etc... Fingers can be pointed in all...

You are stuck in reverse. It's already been established that both sides of the aisle are "owned" by special interest groups. Cain would have never gotten the time of day had he not been "bought and paid for" by one of the protected rackets. The witch hunt is a non-starter. If they are...

Ah, the irony. The Dems with the big checkbooks are Boomer aged and have long forgotten their rebellious "change the world" mantra from the late 60's. Now, they desperately need more of the "status quo" that the OWS is fighting tooth and nail to destroy. As is typical with this...

I'm of the strong opinion that we just finished the "corrective wave" (2009-2011) of this ongoing depression. I noticed a string of smaller retail like businesses opening within the past six months. Commercial storefronts that basically went vacant from late 2007-08 until recently. I view it...

It's the very definition of crony capitalism.

These past two weeks have been a carbon copy of the empty rhetoric we heard back in the fall of 2008. Managing the market with empty promises as I'd like to call it. As you've probably noticed, one talking head in the Eurozone implies a multi trillion dollar bailout entity and after the market...

The few people who did speak out on this matter were still dealing in the "abstract" or so the critics said some 10, 15, 20 years ago. The "growth at all costs" mentality that fuels this sort of spending and growth in the public sector can appear completely sustainable given the backdrop of a...

That's just "nifty". The problem is that there is no honor amongst thieves. Just because someone has the means to write CDS's with another counter-party, doesn't mean that when TSHTF, they will honor their commitment. As you alluded to earlier in this thread, the actual at risk of the 154...

But you are missing the bigger picture. The cuts in services and personnel are largely the result of legacy costs. They've essentially grandfathered in the golden parachutes for those already retired or near retirement and the municipalities can't afford to pay for current services as a...

We've confused "talent" with inside information for years now.

The bigger danger with "e-readers" is the loss of the physical product in the reader's possession. What's to say that one day, somebody in a position of authority deems a certain book against the interests of the "state" and outlaws it. Erased from history. Ray Bradbury may have been a...

The difference, as I see it, is a transition but not the outright obsolescence of "bricks and mortar" business as a whole. Of course, there will still be retail, but only companies that are big enough to drive that traffic to their own stores. It's been happening gradually for years now, it...

Still got that "dark guy" in your office that's "almost" black?

Once these guys start with it's a human right, I ask where does it end? If healthcare is a basic human right, then so is food and shelter right? Hell, the right to communication must be a human right as well. Before you know it, all of these "human rights" include housing, food stamps, cell...