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The Economy Won't Be Ignored

free money's a patch... however available credit is our economy's lifeline...

pretty grim, slim.

What is Hank Paulson Thinking?

it still has to clear the Senate, Prez, and Congress as a whole potentially...

tough row to hoe. more inflation won't improve our standard of living without pay raises which aren't probably going to happen.

look out for back doors. The comment regarding the FDIC...i saw somewhere how the FDIC was terribly under capitalized, and less than 1/10th or so (if i'm remembering correctly) of current deposits under 100k were even really insurable.

The Fed could give the FDIC cash and then the FDIC pass it to companies without a bill or a vote....The Fed has given money directly to Mexico without a Congressional vote...

I'm hesitant to believe that something good could actually come out of this "democracy" (really republic) at the federal level... If the bill is defeated...stay vigilant for backdoor attempts to disperse that money...

I hope i'm wrong

Preparing for the Fall

philc, right.

nobody knows shit. including me.

There is some, I believe, TRUE info in the article and in the written responses...as in "true" from that omniscient all correct perspective.

a bunch of squirrels posting ideas about how to get 100 nuts in a forest with 5.

shorts....seriously. as long as there is a market, it will go either up or down.

Ok.. once you get that idea, try to watch the thing and see how high or low it goes... try to watch its movements like you are stalking prey... watch the parameters... jesus, i barely have time to explain this.

Expert? no. but i understand a little.

Preparing for the Fall

hey, leave morality out of this

Preparing for the Fall

And also, ha, i came across a book Understanding the Stock Market by Cragg from 1927! Just before the Great Depression; he writes of how depressions like the panic of 1907 are gone for good because of the wonderful Fed...well... hahaha.
Anyhow, what got me was a description of a cycle that was known in the markets even back then ~ depression, revival, prosperity, over-extension of credit, then back to depression... sound like the housing bubble? its an old story...although i believe what Cragg called depression we call recession.

What is different now is PETROLEUM. If we are running into a production ceiling...expect wars...famine....major problems globally.

That'll potentially destabilize markets to say the least. I say, on US exchanges, go with commodities, top defense contractors, and oil futures...see where that takes you over the next three years.

Preparing for the Fall

Ok, so use ultrashorts and shorts on indexes (and the dollar if its falling that day). Still makes money in downturns - DXD, QID, UDN

Rate Cuts and Inflation: Linkage Overblown?

C'MON. Inflation is being caused because there are too many US dollars printed.

Period. Commodities are going up because 1) the USD has weaker purchasing power, and 2) investors purchase commoditities as a hedge, ride the upsurge, etc.

What can the Fed do? Resign. Would be the best option, in the long haul. Other than that, they could contract the money supply, which would mean smaller budgets across the board. FACT. We need to consider that GROWTH has reached its limits under a fiat money system.