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Financial Crises Are Not That Rare

Oh for goodness sake. Debt is exponential.

These are exponential functions we're basing our monetary systems and entire economies on.

You are surprised that it's unstable... It can't possibly be stable.

As above. Get rid of the debt... Full Reserve Banking. Boring, but it works.

It's Time to Break the Bubble Cycle

You'd have to replace Fractional Reserve Banking with Full Reserve Banking to remove the bubbles, the "business cycle" is just another name for a bubble. It hasn't happened over the last 300 years and it's not going to happen because the people with the controls are making too much money at it.

Gold Will Rise, If It's Money

Gold isn't an investment. It doesn't grow in value, what a gold coin could buy you in 200AD, a similar gold coin can pretty much buy you today. Gold is a store of value, not an investment.

That said, most of what are considered "investments" today are not investments either, they only appear to increase in value because the currency is devaluing at 10%+ per year.

What Should an Investor Do in Times of Panic?

What should an investor do?

Well that is obvious. Sell all our stocks, shares, gold and put the money safe in a bank account.

Course, there's that nagging problem that the banks won't lend money to each other... Gotta wonder what they know that I don't.

This Is Not "the Big One"

The FED has an essentially infinite supply of paper. You will all be trillionaires before there is another "Big One".

How Precious Is Silver?

I'm surprised there's even a question...

1 Pound of Sterling silver.

Even the United States Dollar comes from the silver Thaler.

A Flight to Safety, But What's Safe Now?

Hey...

Ask any Zimbabwean what it's like to be a trillionaire.

US Government: No Surprises Left

marine41.

I think you'll find that the people advocating small government are not in fact the same people running the banks and multinationals. They are perfectly aware that big government means easy money.

JasonC

They can be replaced by a set of printing presses. With better results too.

Inflation Concerns? That's So Yesterday

Um... Central banks exist to prop up normal banks that's what's meant by "stability". If you simply remember that, then it's clearly inevitable that the central bank will pump cash into an emasculated financial system.

Lehman Is Just the Thin Edge of the Wedge

Who exactly do you think the government works for?

The people?

OPEC: The Saudis Have Left the Building

Well, the Saudis have to keep the Republicans in power, what would you expect?

TIPS Tipoffs on Inflation

CPI? You must be joking.

Stagflation or Deflation?

I'll just point out that the USA has defaulted on it's debts twice. The second time being August 15th 1971, fighting the Viet Cong. Since then, the dollar has largely been backed by oil... The Saudi royal family have been propping up the US dollar since then. This sheds a little more light on the makeup of the 9/11 bombers, with 15 of the 19 being Saudi...

Adventures in Tech Support, LSE Edition

Isn't it Microsoft .Net based?

2 Top Energy Sector Bets

Hmm, came to similar conclusions...

Interestingly, nuclear tends to be left out of energy sector mutual funds and out of alternative energy funds. It's like a pariah. Course it suffers the same problem as oil, and coal. Uranium is an exhaustible resource, and reprocessing fuel from breeder reactors is... politically sensitive.

So... How many people are killed falling off roofs installing solar panels?