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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!

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!