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I heard that crap on the news to about we are being more aggressive than Japan was but I'm not going to be too confident of a Fed that helped create a housing bubble under Greenspan and missed the 40:1 leveraging that fueled it to the point of collapse. If throwing all this money at the problem...

We should have more than enough money from savings from the war to stimulate a work program at home; I'm not too worried about that. The problem is the difficulty of ending that damn war. That is no easy task. Even if we confiscated all the guns, they'd end up throwing shoes at each other. (I...

If you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it.... but how about when you're a historian like Bernwankie? It seems to me that when you put someone in charge who is an authority on the Great Depression, he attracts to himself what he knows best. I wish we had an authority on the...

I don't think as a senator in the McCain administration that Obama will have any affect on the stock market. :) An interesting thing did happen today, however with Hillary Clinton changing her mind. My guess is she hinted at pulling out to pressure Obama into putting her on the ticket as VP...

Thanks for the laugh, dude but be careful, Brazilian growth is also causing a technology explosion in blowgun manufacturing. In 7 more years, they might be able to hit you where you live! Housing needs to be adjusted down. Where I live, the average 3-bedroom house hit 1.4 million. That's...

Dow 9,000 to Dow 13000 in 10 years... Yeah, that's bull alright. Adjust it out for inflation and it's a very poor market showing. A 5% 10-year CD over that same time period would beat the Dow. And you could get 6% and 7% ones back then, I know, I had a few. It's been a great traders market...

You've got that right Gnome. I sold my house towards the top and now I'm just waiting for the bottom to buy again. Thanks Mr. Greenspan! I knew there would be a bubble coming ut of the Fed cuts but I didn't think it would happen so fast. Now Bernakne has a chance to corret that mistake but...

As I speculated in my previous post, I think oil is heading for a bubble burst soon. Now I'm wondering that if the high oil prices can avoid breaking down in the next 30-days, might the US Fed step in and adjust rates up 25 to 50 basis points and break oil? I think that would be a good move and...

I think the Clinton administration failed us in the Dot Com Bubble but even worse, GWB who is only playing CIC totally ignored the ramifications of the U.S. Housing bubble. Now the Fed in the foolish response to lower rates, which killed the dollar, gives us in part this oil bubble. Companies...

That's an excellent point, RhinoGG. I had my first car back in the days of the gas lines. Late 1970's if I recall correctly. What a crock that was.. they kept telling us that the planet was running out of oil. I recall paying $1.50 a gallon back then and I think before that scam was created...

I want to say fool us, but most of what I'm about to write is opinion based, so I don't want to drag anyone else into it. I would appreciate, however, to hear some like and differing opinions form others. OK, here's what I have a gut feeling is going to happen to stocks and oil in the next few...

It was several years ago when information was coming out about surgeries and Alzheimer's. Open heart surgery is now believed to be a risk for Alzheimer's but mostly from the heart-lung bypass machine use. Something about the interruption of normal blood flow, blood pressure changes, etc. while...

Yes, but a senator or a congressman cannot cause global thermal nuclear war. Bush can... he just can't pronounce it correctly. Pete

You know you reminded me that Rudy was diagnosed with prostate cancer back in 2000, He had the hormonal and radiation therapy and "beat" the disease. Probably better than surgery, as I very much believe that tiny blood clots from such surgeries eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease. Maybe...

My hunch has always been Rudy Guilianna but I haven’t heard any "leak" of who the McCain VP choice might really be. I say he should find an undertaker. That would help balance the budget, because when his time is up before his term is up, the VP can do both jobs. OK, really bad joke but does...

Too much consumer confidence is chained to the Dow these day; at least in my opinion. It seems in the last couple of years that consumer confidence reports rise after the Dow rises and falls after the Dow falls. Now that the market has demonstrated at least a phase of stability, the next...

Hey, thanks for the link, marketsurfer! I heard that ABC report last week but forgot the URL. Couldn't seem to dig it up and tried Itrade, I-Trader, etc. with no luck. Hard to Google the subject matter, too. I recall someone on CNBC predicting that Hillary woukd run as an Independent. How...

LOL. Why no one qualified wants the job as U.S. President is something I've wondered about for the quite some time. The Democrats have terrible Karma for shooting themselves in the feet when it comes to the election process. I see McCain winning by default... the way that Bush pretty much...

No, but he is predicting that the President of the Doom and Gloom Club will die soon from depression so he can replace him. Pete

Well every dog has his day.. or so the saying goes. It must be a tough life as a doom-sayer. I recall an acquaintance for the 1980's? who put all his assets in gold when it was $800+ per ounce because he saw a great depression coming. Well, the bottom dropped out of the gold market but if he...