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Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

hey!!!
hey.
buy stocks in companies listed in US exchanges. trade when you think you see a better deal. cash is for your children on black friday

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

we got it so good that we can't tell how good we got it.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

I DISAGREE!!
respectfully.

but if you truly believe what you have posted. do something good for your country. cry out loud for higher taxes, now. open some sort of cash account, continuously put in 10% or more of your income and let the money sit there, buy government bonds.

"ask not what your country can do for you."
"ask what you can do for your country."


On Nov 25 07:24 PM Alphameister wrote:

> It was a heavy slog getting through this lengthy article and comment
> thread, but it was worth the effort to have happened on one of the
> best comments I've encountered on SA. 1Mania4U gets to the basics
> of why this country is facing such a dismal future in a truly brilliant
> essay that deserves to be a featured article, an Editor's Choice.
> The American public trust is in the process of being destroyed.
> I despise the devious government that has so much power over my life.
> I despise the socialist policies gaining an accelerating ascendancy
> in America. I believe the public schools, thanks largely to a collectivist
> NEA largely insulated from the purgative discipline of competition,
> is miseducating the children of this county while promoting and protecting
> mediocrity of teacher performance. I see a public increasingly angry
> and distrustful of the nation's politicians and banks, increasingly
> inclined to revolt against the politically favored banks by repudiating
> their debts to those banks. The slim reed to which I cling, in my
> audacity of hope, is the rising popularity of Glenn Beck, the nearest
> approximation to John Galt I can find in this philosophically barren
> landscape.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

when gold prices decline will people who are now proclaim gold as a store of value stick with gold?

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

US has a great industrial base.
my understanding is the US is the worlds largest manufacturer.
generally we are ahead of other nations in globalization and the change to the new way of doing things. as the US metamorphs it may seem lost, but other nations may face similar issues later. i sometimes wonder what will happen to china if / when numerous small workshop factories with few employees pop-up in the US and start turning out cheap consumer goods. that walmartinization or googlization of producing everyday consumer goods in the US would change the trade imbalance very quickly. so much of the angst really comes down to the imbalanced capital flows and debt. those problems could be solved in a decade. i don't know why gold bugs feel there is some inherent goodness to gold or the gold standard.


> One thing that Japan has that we no longer have is a great industrial
> base from which to operate. That is why our "recovery" will not last.
> Two mistakes that Japan made: 1) not letting the big banks fail and
> 2) putting more money into infrastructure in a country which already
> had an excellent physical infrastructure, so it came down to make-work
> projects (kind of like our "defense" budgets) such as bridges to
> no where, high speed rail lines in thinly populated parts of northern
> Japan, etc.. Many Japanese I speak to feel that in retrospect the
> social and health infrastructure should have been upgraded instead
> and there would have been much more benefit and money circulating
> in the real economy.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

when it looked like the US was going to pay off the debt and even have a surplus the right wingers all said we shouldn't do that, the money belongs to the people. now we have those same people preaching doom and gloom and talking about fiat currency.
go figure.
the US should simply raise revenue and pay our bills. the dems had it right in the nineties.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

what to do with precious metals? can't eat it or let your daughter make her room in it. all you can do is sell it for dollars. when you do sell its not so precious. you get the dollars that the buyer pays and that amount drops fast. individuals are caught up in the economy of their land. so we need to strengthen the economy and use money, not barter. pay our way, save, invest.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

how about lets all be patriots. lets be stewards of this great USA, one nation indivisible.
we have our country. we have all the stuff that makes the USA the USA. the problems are not great in my opinion. they are just problems that need to be solved.
it is all very simple.
we need to do three things.
save more of all income and pay the bills and follow the laws. that is all.
for a time this may mean more taxes( or some thing to increase revenue) so that the bills can be paid. for a time the government may need to cut services so that they can cut spending. it may mean that the average joe puts 10% or more of after tax money in deposit accounts, but also US citizens buying up more municipal, state and federal bonds. it may mean exotic, but profitable schemes are avoided because the legality is questionable. if we don't want to pay and save and not break the spirit of the law we must accept what happens to our nation. rather than shunning these easy and obvious solutions, why don't more americans do what is needed? i will start by declaring i love my country and i'm willing to pay higher taxes for deficit and debt reduction.

there, do i get a noble prize?

J&J vs. 10-Year T-Bonds: The Power of Rising Dividends

how do you guys know a company that will continue to increase the dividend on its stock? for instance the board of jnj just might find better things to do with its revenue. this uncertainty is why some miss the concept of rising dividends

Mercury General - 6% Dividend Deal or Total Wreck?

great work, thank you.

Jim Rogers on the Next 10 Years

I've listen to Jim Rogers comments and read his pieces over the years. There is something that started to jump out at me and stop me from buying into what he says. He has a pulpit because he is rich so his voice and ideas can travel. However, Jim Rogers seems to hate and even fear diversity. The US is so powerful today because of its diversity and freedom and Mr. Rogers hates the US because of it. China will fail to be anything other than what it is today because of its internal hegemony. They are a factory for more developed countries. They have money because they have nothing else to do with it. Also, large national reserves don't mean diddly. Reserves are not the wealth of nations. If reserves were important the US would keep more. Also, China has plenty of debt. Do not let them fool you. I don't believe the Chinese powers that be will be wise enough to embrace societal changes like the US has during the last one hundred years. They will plateau and not have a clue why. The US national debt has paid for our great society( The US financed a great war and saved China from extinction) How will it be possible for the Chinese to gain so much without walking a similar path? The small group of people in the inner circle of the Chinese communist party will have to invent the free lunch, good luck.
As the US a free and diverse country evolves, why do people mistake that for decline?

Four Stocks Rewarding Investors with Dividend Raises

rpm is not a food company. is that a typo or a different error?

Flee 'Safety', Embrace 'Risk': The Case for Muni Bond Funds

awesome information in a very well written article, A+ !

thank you

Life Insurance Companies' Tobacco Investments: Profits over Health

it is time for us to stop being down on legal tobacco. these are companies.
if are sincere, ready, set, go! stop investing in all wine and spirits and beer. stop investing in gaming and entertainment. let us have total prohibition or none!

12 Indications That a New Bull Market Is Upon Us

hopefully the markets and the economy are connected.