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    • 25 Ways to Tell a Banking System Is Unsound [view article]
      Don’t worry so much boys. The International Bankers have a plan if they crash the dollar into the eternal abyss—merge it with another currency to haul it out of the depths, such as the Mexican Peso or the Ethiopian Birr. That will cure every ill south of the border and/or on the Dark Continent, and will transfer trillions of greedy America’s wealth to a needy cause. Jul 24 04:38 PM
    • Seven High-Yielding ETFs [view article]
      Income is fine. But has the market priced in the possibility of an Obamba presidency, where dividends would be taxed much higher than they are today?

      If not would any strictly dividend play not be a risky play over the next couple of months, at least until we find out which bum will have Air Force One for the next four years?       Jul 24 12:23 PM
    • Buying Dow for a Better Deal than Warren Buffett Got [view article]
      Not speaking of Todd Sullivan, whose article made some good points, but regarding some of the commentators: no wonder so many people go broke listening to stock touts, if this is the type of education they have.

      God help us!       Jul 13 11:07 PM
    • The Effects of Oil Speculation [view article]
      Dear Paulk8756:

      With all due respect to what you wrote: "maybe you [the Dodger] are giving them all a little too much credit for their ability to pull this mutli-hundred trillion dollar conspiracy off right in front of everybody"

      I did not say there was a conspiracy. A conspiracy is far different from a consensus. In a conspiracy there must be a union of willing participants who converse and decide on a plan to deceive or cheat. In a consensus varied groups must only tacitly agree on an ultimate goal(s) and they need not converse or have a specific plan that they all agree on carrying out to deceive or cheat to get to that goal. It's simply that they all work toward the same end: in this case, to slow America's economic growth; to transfer our wealth to Third World nations; to change the leadership of this nation from light to dark, from a neo-capitalist society to a purely socialist one.

      Have you noticed that nightly news broadcasts from the major networks oftentimes lead with the same story. Well, they’ve not conversed with one another; they simply have a consensus mind to filter the same stories to the people to get their agenda across. And surely if you're to the right of Charlie Wrangle you know they have an agenda. They even use the same words in their stories.

      A consensus along these lines is even more dangerous than a conspiracy, because it's harder to figure out what's going on, who's behind it, and how it's coming about.

      That's all I'm saying, to clarify my points.

      Thanks for your comment.

      The best to you: Dodger       Jul 13 10:55 PM
    • The Effects of Oil Speculation [view article]
      Dear Dark Age:

      Thanks for the comment and question. No, the "Greens" don't really have that much power over our government. It's that many of our officials and elected leaders agree with what they're doing: shutting down America's economy and helping to transfer wealth to other nations.

      Forget for a second about "green power" in Congress.

      What we have in Congress on the Dumborat side are a huge amount of revolutionary Marxists. Even so-called moderate Devilrats are hard-line statists—they believe that every problem from hang nails to constipation the government should have a program to solve. Many Republicrats are also statists. This, of course, includes McCrazy and to Baby Boy Bush to a slightly lesser degree.

      Take the "Black Caucus," for example. Most of them attend churches where "Black Liberation Theology" is taught. If they don't attend, they fully understand it, and agree with it. Most of them have never read any of Marx's many articles, much less "Das Kapital" or the "Communist Manifesto," but they're Marxists anyway.

      Black Liberation Theology is essentially revolutionary Marxism—Catholic priests in South America deserted Christianity, but kept their frocks and took up cultural and economic Marxism about sixty years ago. Their doctrines spread across South America, the Islands, Mexco, and then on to the US where perhaps 90% of all Black preachers have taken hold of that philosophy.

      This is the root of Black Liberation Theology—there is no real religion in their teaching, only cultural and economic revolution, where Darks take over where Lights once ruled, where capitalism once ruled, socialistic wealth and property transfers take over via government taxation and bureaucratic regulation.

      This is what Michelle and Barack Hussein Obamba listened to in their "church" for over twenty years, yet claim to know nothing about! What else?

      And Marxism is at the root of all the vengeful things they've written and said in the past, but are now trying to hide so they can deceive the American public this fall and take over the government.

      That said about the Congress (and there are other groups with similar views and goals), what you have in the environmental movement are two groups: the deceived and the deceivers.

      The deceivers don't care about the environment (of course, they don't want to destroy it, as no one does); they are one-world socialists and their main agenda is to hold the US down economically and build other nations up. They're using phony enviromental issues, such as the "global warming" hoax for that purpose.

      They do this because they know that the American people will never agree to currency or political mergers with Third World nations (or even Europe) as long as America has a $15 trillion economy and they have a $1 trillion one or as long as America has a strong currency. (You don't see Congress worried about the crashing dollar, do you?)

      The deceived are the many foot soldiers that the deceivers (phony environmentalists who're really one-world socialists) have convinced that oil, coal, gas, nuclear and all else are evil; and if the usage of them is not stopped, the world will soon roast to smithereens. These are the eco-maniacs, who're much more fanatical than even the deceivers are.

      Now, most government officials don't fall into the latter category, but many of them (as stated) are Marxists and socialists, and have what I call the disease of one-world merger mania.

      So, there's a consensus among the groups because their their ultimate goals are the same: do anything to slow America's economy down; do anything to transfer as much of America's wealth as possible to poorer and mostly darker nations; do anything to get more of the same-thinking-type elected to and appointed to office.

      Their consensus world-view makes the government seem as if it's doing the bidding of the eco-maniacs, when in fact they're simply going along with them because they like the methods they're using to halt America's progress. And their ultimate goals are the same: one-world socialism and state mergers.

      Does that satisfy you, sir?

      Artful Dodger       Jul 13 05:00 PM
    • The Effects of Oil Speculation [view article]
      There are many reasons that oil is spiking upward. Some are mentioned above.

      Another is that as soon as the Dumborats won the mid-term elections to take over both the Congress and the Senate, lawyers working pro bono for the eco-maniacs began suing refiners every time they asked for permits to increase production. They knew that then the government was on their side, so they went to work trying to get the price of oil higher. This is something they've wanted for years --- to conserve and save the planet, you know.

      Most of these suits are still hung up in the courts.

      Also, the Economist, the WSt. Journal, et al. have stated that the US has more oil in reserve than the entire Middle East; but it's not doing us any good because the eco-maniacs, the Dumborats, and leftist Republicrats won't allow us to use it.

      These things as well as the NYMex showing more long contracts than there really are then cancelling a large percentage of them just before they're due, along with the Israelis threatening Iran every time oil starts to go down, are all reasons besides speculators that oil is high.

      Some of these things cause a supply/demand problem, but not all. Certainly you'd have to be ignorant of the current world to claim that supply and demand is the only reason oil is high.
      Jul 13 01:02 PM
    • Buying Dow for a Better Deal than Warren Buffett Got [view article]
      Thanks for the article on DOW. However, I'm not sure anything is much worth buying right now except for gold, until the Israeli/Iran craziness is solved.

      Moreover, regarding some of the comments, I simply could not take a stock recommendation seriously from someone who doesn't know a past participle from a fried egg.

      I value literacy. But that's just me. Perhaps someone who can't write a complete sentence can indeed pick stocks. Who knows?       Jul 13 12:42 PM
    • You Don't Own Real Estate - It Owns You [view article]
      Well said, er written. Very good points. Thank you for the article.

      But you're not likely to convince real estate fanatics no matter what you tell them.

      Their old grandpappy told them "Son, they ain't making no more land, so you better buy you some."

      They're stuck in that frame of mind; no way to get them out.

      However, I will say that out of the other baby boomers my age, the ones in my home town that have made the most money have done it in real estate, i.e., commercial developing --- not residential.

      These fellows own very little property, however, and treat real estate only as something to sell and trade.

      Most folks I know have not done very well trying to make money in real estate, because they fall in love with the idea of owning something tangible.

      Many, many residential real estate developers have had to declare bankruptcy over the years.

      It's much like trading futures; about 98% of all who try it lose.       Jul 13 12:26 PM
    • Betting on a Banker's Bank [view article]
      Great coverage here! We need more well written and reseached articles such as this one!!

      Thank you for your work.       Jul 12 10:26 PM
    • Fear of Higher Taxes a Cause of Sell-off [view article]
      Good points Anton:

      We need more articles pointing these worries out.

      Surely everyone knows that a healthy percentage of the fears and worries out there today are over an OSamba presidency.

      Many people in business that I know are really worried about OSamba and aren't very enthusiastic about McCrazy either. It's not a great choice, but the latter is clearly the only choice for businesses and investments.

      Dumborats are control freaks, Controlrats if you will, with deformed frontal lobes. They are cynical and believe that government must control every inch and ounce of society.

      You can't change their minds. No truth, evidence, or reason will move them. Their Marxist ideals are set forever in the way they want to control others.

      Black Liberation Theology is essentially revolutionary Marxism—Catholic priests in South America deserted Christianity, but kept their frocks and took up cultural and economic Marxism about sixty years ago.

      This is the root of Black Liberation Theology—there is no real religion in their teaching, only cultural and economic revolution, where Darks take over where Lights once ruled, where capitalism once ruled, socialistic wealth and property transfers take over via government taxation and bureaucratic regulation.

      This is what Michelle and Barack Hussein Obamba listened to in their "church" for twenty years, yet claim to know nothing about it! What else?

      Marxism is at the root of all the vengeful things they've written and said in the past, but are now trying to hide so they can deceive the American public this fall and take over the government.

      Higher taxation won't even be the worst of what they'll do with a Liarcrat Congress and Senate.

      Don't expect the media to expose them, either, because practically every outlet is pro-Marxist and thus pro-OSamba.

      Most everything happening negatively in the world today has been brought about by the Dumborats' and leftist Republicrats' statism.

      There is no sign of that getting any better, because leftist propagada has convinced most of the world that government has an answer for and must do something about everything from their hang nails to their constipation.

      Those are serious things to be concerned about if you love freedom, as I do!       Jul 12 06:06 PM
    • Who's to Blame for IndyMac's Failure? [view article]
      Schumer is a typical, if not more than normally fanatical, Controlrat (or Dumborat if you'd rather), in that he thinks he ought to be able to control everyone everywhere, from the Middle East to the tiniest town in America.

      Also, everything from the sub-prime blowup, whose root is in the Skinflinton Ad's Justice Dept. suing banks and lending institutions across the nation for not lending enough to minorities and forcing them through the courts to do so, to their own constipation, they blame on the man who is obviously, to hear them tell it, the most evil person ever to live: Bush.

      The whole financial mess simply shows the true results of our statist society; and it's not going to get any better.

      The solution is to run the economy (and all else) through the freedom ideals of Austrian Economics, rather than Marxist Control and Command Ideals.

      But that is not even in the sights of a high-powered telescope. And so, things will continue to get worse with more government creating more government which will require more rules and regulations and taxation and control of a formerly free nation.       Jul 12 04:57 PM
    • Stagflation Haunts Global Stock Markets, Buoys Gold [view article]
      Sivere:

      You're right. Eventually the federal reserve note as we know it must go, because it's a pyramid, a real bubble that must explode some time. And may be that's happening right now.

      I thought for a while we might make it through the recent debacle --- and then one more economic bust out a few years out would be the end of the fed note.

      But the plan the International Bankers have when the fed note turns to pure trash is to merge some type of new currency with the Euro. Americans will take a brutal beating when that happens, but they'll make it so we won't have any other choice. And they'll also brainwash the people into believing it is their fault.

      The Dumborats are always blaming the people for the government's boondoggles. It works.

      We do need to dump the Fed, but there's about as much chance for the bankers to give that power up as it is for us to win a first class ticket to heaven in a lottery.

      Too bad, though, we once had a great nation that foreign wars, fiat currency, illegal immigration, and socialism have buried.       Jul 12 12:10 AM
    • Stagflation Haunts Global Stock Markets, Buoys Gold [view article]
      Far too much for my little brain to consume.

      What is the conclusion? Was there one?

      I think we've had crashing markets around the world, stagflation, too much money supply, more stagflation, and high commodity prices.

      Israel and Iran hate each other and may make war, and gold is near its all-time high. I think?

      But what the hell I am supposed to do about all this?

      Anybody, help!       Jul 11 01:27 PM
    • Getting Out of Today's Bear Market [view article]
      It is a very foolish thing to compare the tech stocks of the late 90s, most of which had no earnings at all, to oil stocks today, most of which have had huge boosts in earnings right along with the surge in oil price futures.

      Besides, as a rule, PEs don't show value; they show popularity. The dotbomb blowout was indeed a true bubble, because there were no assets or earnings; but the oil companies have both assets and earnings. But their earnings have ballooned recently to unusual highs, and before long those earnings must revert to the mean.

      Right now the main thing holding oil up is fear of an Israeli invasion of Iran.

      At first I thought it was a wolf ticket, because they've never telegraphed an attack in the past; but after reading the article below yesterday, I've changed my mind: either the Israelis will force the US to bomb Iran, as they did Iraq, or they'll do it themselves.

      Oil and gold stay high until that mess is settled, and stocks must stay in the doldrums.

      See this article, "Will Israel Strike Iran" here:
      www.humanevents.com/ar...       Jul 11 12:41 PM
    • Commercial RE Trends: Mall Foreclosures [Housing Tracker] [view article]
      As noted before, as soon as oil crashes, and it will, we can look for our first and possibly deepest depression since the 1930s.

      If you have cash, you'll do well, because prices everywhere in everything must fall.

      Right now we're in the midst of stagflation, the toughest of all arenas to invest in.

      Thanks Judy for the info in both your articles. Confirmed my conclusions re how bad things are becoming.       Jul 05 09:29 PM
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