Quote from tim888:
The only hope of permabears to ever make money shorting US equities is to elect someone who advocates the gold standard and wants to abolish the FED. It is clear that the FED actions have done a lot of damage to permabears and they want it abolished.
Quote from FrostBead:
They can be free of political baggage, but are they free of motives of personal gain. ;D
Quote from member:
There are two camps:
First camp: the deflation camp : against government spending, beside higher unemployment and falling asset prices â falling stock market, they are invested in us government debt or sitting on cash. They are the benefactors of a recession or a depression.
Second camp: the inflation camp: beside reviving the economic growth and put people back to work. obviously government debt and USD cash holders will loose out due to inflation when debt is inflated away Government spending encourages economic growth and putting American people back to work. At this point there is a tug of war.
Ron Paul supports camp 1. But anyway ; I support one if his idea of individuals having the option to opt out of the system and not paying anymore taxes. They should be free to go anywhere after all their wealth is confiscated which they gained in our society and they will never have to pay any taxes ever againâ¦
Summing it up: Ron Paul is a clueless idiot, he has no idea what created peoples wealth and that there is a trade off after binge drinkingâ¦
Quote from piezoe:
It's hard to dislike Ron Paul, though I think he is somewhat out of touch with reality. He doesn't have a chance to win the election, but I may send him a few bucks again, as I did last time around, though I had no choice but to vote for Obama. Couldn't take a chance on a senile President with Palin only a heartbeat away! Obama, though unpopular in the face of an endless recession, has been ineffective because of an uncooperative, dysfunctional congress. Nevertheless, Obama is in my mind several orders of magnitude less harmful, so far, than G. W. Bush was. Bush, as it turns out, was the only person to graduate from Yale with a third grade education. Bush might have done less damage had Cheney not been there. But Cheney was there, and the damage these two together did is incalculable and perhaps irreversible.
I'm an independent and have voted for both Republicans and Democrats over the years -- not always with a satisfactory outcome. Incidentally, I thought, and still do think, that Kerry was the best prepared, and most promising candidate for President in my lifetime. Had he been elected I'm quite sure we would not be in nearly as bad a mess as we find ourselves in today.