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We're Living Through the Best of Times

"The real advantage in life is having the gumption to get on with it; no one knows where that comes from."

I think it comes from God and is available to everyone who chooses...

Deflation Is the Threat, Not Inflation

The other giant sucking sound comes from a parasitic federal bureaucracy, piling onto the crushing tax load shouldered by productive Americans.

How Low Can the Dollar Go?

What a single payer system for health insurance will get you is long and often very painful waiting times for essential healthcare, not to mention outrageous levels of personal taxation.

The businesses you cite may be successful -- but that is in spite of a single payer health insurance system, not because of it.


On Sep 13 10:39 AM Sunnsea wrote:

> you forgot Blackberries, small jet liners, Bombardier transit cars....and
> now the relocation of a Toyota plant from California to BC. See
> what a single payer national health insurance system will get you?
> Instead of paying extortion money to private health insurance you
> can take the savings and put it to useful manufacturing.
>
> On Sep 12 04:43 PM Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

Inflation Expectations and the Price of Gold

"...gold could, and likely will, benefit long before any sign of a broad-based rise in inflation expectations appears in the interest-rate differential between ordinary Treasury securities and TIPS, the so-called TIPS spread."

The TIPS spread has steadily increased since it bottomed in February 2009. I leave you to your own conclusions...

Why I'm Starting to Build Gold Now

Beware of Volatility decay with these 2x- and 3x- ETFs. IMHO they should only be used for as a hedge for a couple of days at most.
If held long enough, they will all eventually be worth $0!

RNC / DNC: Crisis? What Crisis?

Mr. Kedrosky:

Context is everthing!

An Open Letter to the Plunge Protection Team

"Good news is everything will be cheap at the end of this process -- bad news is everyone will be poor."

Thanks for this golden nugget on the process of deflation.

It says it all in less than 25 words!

Calling a Bottom Here

Thanks for the heads-up Al.

I also denounce Mr. Davis for his gratuitous posting of the despicalbe 'Haditha' cartoon-smear of the USMC.

Good men and women fight and die to defend our freedoms and lesser men like Mr. Davis and the fatuous Haditha smear-cartoonist demonstrate themselves to be unworthy of their sacrifices.

In case Mr. Davis or anyone else is interested on the facts surrounding the phony "Haditha massacre" media frenzy, they can find them here:

warchronicle.com/TheyA...

How We Got Into This Pension Mess

I'm 62 and crowdofcheerleads has a right to be angry. However, if they think euthanasia is a solution, they're actually part of the problem too. Euthanasia is the flip-side of abortion. Since 1973 abortion has killed at least 48 million future Americans. These citizens would have been contributing to social security, making it far less onerous on crowd and everyone else.

Backroom Bear Stearns Deal Exposed

Deacon:
"because Israel's supporters control what's fit to be
said or printed about why the West wars with Islamic
Arabism."

So I guess Israel's supporter run 'Al Jazeera' as well?

When the Economy Hands You Lemons, Consider Dividend ETFs

Personally, I find all these comments especially helpful.