tom007

What the Conflict in Gaza Means for Financial Markets

"It's about time that someone started killing the families of the terrorists and the people who allow the terrorists to launch missiles from their neighborhoods. This will help cut down future terrorist attacks. If most everyone is dead or hungry and wounded they won't have time to terrorize. "

Your words work very well with respect to the Israel terrorists, only they do not launch home made fireworks from their neighborhoods, but use Hell Fire missiles, and the like, launched from Apaches and Fighter Bombers.

And Yes, its well past time for this to occur, and I hope the worlds Great Powers deal Israel a crippling blow in the future. It is a debt past due.

James Grant Wants to Know: Who Will Buy Our Greenbacks?

"For all of the elegance and simplicity inherent in a hard currency, it is also a straight jacket. There is much to be said for the modern method. If the people who we choose to administer that system showed more wisdom and harked back to the Roots and others who spoke a great deal of truth then, we might not find ourselves in the sort of predicament we now face."

There is the truth of the matter and the difficulty of it as well.

The central bank needs to have almost superhuman men and women running it, free, or at least constrained, from common human weaknesses, like greed and pride.