Why civil unrest is not out of the question in the United States...

[ASusilovic]

Quote from ASusilovic:

Simple answer from my side :

when pain has reached a peak, it´s time to get back into markets. Not calling for a bottom. People have now realized that they have to adapt to the situation. And the first signs are not be overseen :

1) With disposable incomes rising faster than spending, the personal savings rate rose to 5%, the highest since March 1995. At an annual rate, personal savings rose to a record $545.5 billion.

2) U.S. Jan. consumer credit up $1.76 billion

U.S. Jan. consumer credit up at 0.8% rate

U.S. Jan consumer credit up after 3 months of sharp declines

3) ECB´s Stark said there are signs of improvement in money markets, noting that banks are borrowing less money from the ECB in its refinancing operations and that fewer institutions are participating in them.

4) Read this investor letter from a "frightened" hedge fund manager :

BEST BUYING SIGNAL EVER !

Absolute suicide watch

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/03/05/53238/absolute-suicide-watch/

I love to see PANIC in hedgefund manager´s eyes ! LOL !!!!

Best buying signal EVER....



Absolute suicide watch
Posted by Paul Murphy on Mar 05 10:10.

We’re thinking of placing certain members of the alternative investment community under special supervision.

Take Niels C Jensen, one of eight leading lights at Absolute Return Partners. He introduces the latest monthly Absolute Return Letter thus:


http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/03/05/53238/absolute-suicide-watch/

 

[achilles28]

Quote from Port1385:

I just came back from the Mercedes dealership where a lady was hopping and screaming about having to pay $40 more then they should have...what happens when people are unemployed too long, their houses foreclosed upon and they have run out of money? After seeing what I have seen in life of people going nuts over small bills, what will they do when it gets real bad and they lose all their money?

You're crazy. Nothing like that will ever happen in America. This is AMERICA!!!

 

[Debaser82]

If you are really scared of civil unrest in the US...

Move to europe!


But ditch the white sneakers.

Europeans frown upon white sneakers.

 

[Ivanovich]

Quote from Debaser82:

If you are really scared of civil unrest in the US...

Move to europe!


But ditch the white sneakers.

Europeans frown upon white sneakers.

You're right. No one ever riots in places like...say France.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from lpchad:

"... The rich value $40 as much as any other sum. No sum is too small to piss away.

Wife is living proof.

 

[GCSICLRBC]

Quote from LEAPup:

Civil unrest is very possible.

On a widespread problem such as banks going down, ATM's not working, there aren't enough Police, Military in the US to put a dent in it.

This is why I own guns, and will protect my family with them. I bet odumba wishes he could disarm the US right now, so he can control us completely.

EVERY PATRIOTIC AMERICAN SHOULD OWN AT LEAST ONE FIREARM & AMMUNITION.

A citizen without a firearm is a SUBJECT.

Buy 'em!


P.S., I'm a registered DEMOCRAT saying this. The dems are DEAD WRONG on gun control. 1/3 American homes owns a firearm; that ratio will only go up!

 

[niceneasy]

america is too lazy for civil unrest. we would outsource our unrest to china for $1 an hour. unionize our remaining unemployed and disenfranchised so our homeless people and civil anarchists enjoy a higher standard of living then professional white collar workers.

protests would be staged at 5 star hotels and protestors would get ample breaks, libations, paid sick days, job banks, health and dental benefits, and $150 000 a year.