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Expecting a Sell-Off: 35 Ways to Protect for Less

I've had similar problems also and thought my system was being attacked by the worm as I use a local library internet service.
FYI.

2009 Economic Forecasts Ignore Demographic Shift

You know, it seems to me the problem is one of government fraud. This article is just another smoke screen of what's really going on. Hans Sennholz in his book, "Age of Inflation," talks about the dollar being worth, I believe, something like 8 cents. But guess what.... that was in 1979!!
What do you think it's really worth today?
It's like the media asking, when referring to the auto bailout, "Is X number of dollars enough?
Wrong question. What we should be asking is, " Which of these politicians should we hang FIRST?
We don't know whether to spend, save or just burn our money because we don't know what the incompetants are going to do next. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm telling you, we may be headed for a serious revolution when people figure out how they've been, and are, being duped.

Deflation Is Just Around the Corner

All good things come in their own time. My gauge is the 'sequence',
deflation, re-flation, and then....HYPER-INFLATIO...

A Long and Painful Consumer Slowdown - Barron's Interview

For all the comments about joe-six pack, maybe he's the electrician, plumber or framer who at least worked to produce something concrete versus the MBA's from Harvard/Wharton et al who produced....??... in financials!
signed...Six-packs brother.

Are Investors Waiting for a Crash-Like Decline?

I cannot believe the nonsense being espoused here. The job of the bankers and the investment houses is to transfer money from my pocket, and yours, to theirs. They have succeeded.
And, in the success of their greed, they have taken enough rope to hang themselves. And guess what... they've hung us too!
All of these crooks need to be rounded up, thrown in prison and the keyes flung far off the shores of Alcatraz where they'll never be found.
Alas, the hard working peasants employed by these bums, will suffer regardless. Oh for the glory of our hallowed university halls and their educational system that continues to produce and encourage these morons. Only in America! Incredible!

The U.S. on the Precipice

Life is like a teeter-totter....alway... has been....always will be! And that includes you and ME!