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Commodities Should Profit from the Bailout Plan

Likely a most realistic, non-cheerleader evaluation of the current situation.
Having Bush and the Fed try to fix the mess is like having a vampire managing the Red Cross blood supply. Unfortunately, legislators are largely ignorant of economic principles and easily led by lobbyists.

Start paying legislators the mean average income of their electorate and send all lobbyists to Gitmo!

What the Russian-Georgian War Means for the Euro

Russia wouldn't last a week? Afganistan and Iran lasted much longer without nukes. VietNam lasted years. The US has not proven capable of finishing a war with super-lightweights or of providing a level economic environment stateside, do you actually think our government could engage a heavyweight to our benefit?
Maybe the Dalai Lama will lend us some of the $15,000 a month he has gotten from the CIA for the last 40+ years.
Maybe the US will free Hawaii. Maybe the war with Russia would last only a week without dealing a crippling blow to the world economy.
Horsefeathers!