Jason Rines (iThinkBig)

Are We More Like 1932 - or 1923?

Great article and you are dead on. Along with Gold, make sure you home has adequate home security.

Dollar and Oil Are Manipulated by ECB and Fed

America is becoming protectionist and will rebuild the hard way. I don't worry all that much about the Iranian puppet proxy. If war is a concern, look at China discontinuing subsidies to North Korea for the next major flashpoint that could turn into your WWIII scenerio.

The youthful partyers of the Roaring Twenties became our responsible national leaders by 1946. History does and will repeat itself. I don't need a econometric model to tell me, 10,000 years of written human history tells me we are at the last stages of global consensus and to reach it, one last big one will occur (think warring villages, then city-states, then nations, then several blocs of nations warring, now down to 3 basic blocs jockying for hedemony).

A lot of perceived wealth was vaporware, with those in the know skimming off it and purchasing hard assets of long-term value (commodities). Now this will deflate soon along with the rest of the current U.S. asset classes. Again, history tells me so. Nothing new under the sun for mankind's behavior.

Ass-backwards government will continue to ignore fiscal reality and play games for the next four years making it worse, until new, unbribed leadership make it into office around 2012.

By then, we will have brought enough alternatives such as plug-in/nuclear and still have enough domestic oil supply to rebuild manufacturing and be somewhat prepared for global warfare scenerios (if such occur).

Coincidentally, man knew our destiny thousands of years ago (and some of us current) in what many call prophecy (statistical probability).

Man's destiny is an evolution where our genetics were tampered with a long-time ago. Our evolution is to become energy and lift the restraints of gravity, time and space which are stifling and creating the boredom and game playing throughout our history.

Restoration of that destiny is assured and is indeed occuring as we speak. This is occuring through science and technology, but certainly not as many apocalyptic religions preach. But if you choose Christianity as a model for learning then read the entire bible on your own to see the plan and realities surrounding mankind.

Rest easy friends, we have some heavy lifting to do but we'll make it through the next decade of turbulent times and those who don't have there hands over there eyes and ears as part of this group as the responsible investors we are will not only survive it, we shall make the rules and prosper greatly for our service afterwards.

From an investment perspective, this is starting to become a good playground to buy assets for pennies on the dollar for those whom held cash and paid attention. There is a silver lining in every cloud :)