the final horseman

How Much Inflation Will We Have to Endure?

or a mental enema

The Fed's Coming Rate Hikes

political and responsibility sounds oxymoronic...like military and intelligence

deathanol is a prime example...we dont need biofuels for 600 yrs in this country alone (not counting the reserves in our neighbors to the north)...just need to convert engines to natural gas aka propane...duh..we've been doing this for the past two decades...give or take

Who's Wrong About Inflation?

oh please....let me give one SIMPLE example:

a bottle of (off-brand) bleach used to be one gallon for $.79...then it went to 3 quarts for $.79...then it went to 3 quarts for $.99...then it went to 3 quarts for $1.29. i havent checked it lately.

this doesnt include the quality reduction.

and you believe the government?

Tax Assessor's Nightmare

i dont know about the rest of the folks but i will fight like hell against a rate increase in this corrupt state.

Is Bernanke our Napoleon?

my vote never counts...but i vote to stick bernanke on an island and let him rot. i wouldnt even put big al on the same island. god only knows what plan for re-invasion they would come up with.

just toss them a couple of bags of seed corn, a book of instructions and bid them a not-so-fond farewell. FOREVER AND EVER AMEN

Hillary, Greenspan and Volcker

god i would love to see big al slow-roasted alive...not given the prestige of blue ribbon-ness.

yes hillary should follow a similar fate....i wish we could go at least 4 years without a president. maybe THEN all the mess would end.

silly thinking...of course...but who is there??????????? great set of possiblities...a war monger, a nazi, and a guy who relies on a campaign song.

the soap has green crystals AS WELL AS blue crystals....WOW!!!

if t. jefferson were alive, i would vote for him as many times as possible, with ben franklin as vp.

Attitudes Lead, the CPI Lags

i intend to use my 'economic stimulus' to pay income taxes. this farcical, vote-getting pimp-legislation has no other tangible use.

Government Bailout Necessary to Prevent Furthur Deterioration

here are a few interesting questions, siresage: exactly how do we KNOW the FDIC will do its job?

we taxpayers dont even need to be involved in this. Actually, we Americans are a nuisance to the system as a whole. the Treasury/FED complex can issue t-bills to the IRS, who then distributes the money to whatever federal agencies need money.

Theoretically, the IRS doesnt need to exist...but why eliminate a perfectly useless agency and start a precedent?

how do KNOW the local banks are not involved in toxic waste? just because they say so?

they speak, therefore what they speak is true? since when?

Anatomy of a Bailout

book value is one thing...what is bsc REALLY worth and will we ever know?

if jpm is really buying out bsc for two bucks, then why is bsc stock still selling higher?


i wonder if the sec should take a look at insider information...and does their authority extend to the FED and the Treasury? what kind of silliness is this?

if this turns out to be smoke and mirrors, does bennie get to spend hard time in a place where many investors eagerly await his premiere performance?

Warning Signs of a Modern Depression: See 1990 Japan

Great article. Finally we have someone with brains and common sense: a rare combo among most publish or perishers here.

I do not profess to know ‘jack’ about finance.
I do have some common sense answers.
a. Sub prime…forget those fools. Caveat Emptor is the name of the game. They screwed themselves. Let them pay the price.
b. Everyone claims price controls didn’t work. Nonsense. Big corporations love to chant this. Their prices go up by ‘harmlessly’ passing on everything. They thrive on this country. Let them help pay the bills around here.
c. The FED is unconstitutional. Either kill it or make it stick to its alleged job: control inflation. Period.
d. Let the moronically greedy banks fail. New ones will gobble them up and be stronger yet.
e. Greed must eventually pay. Let it do so now…at its own expense, without government intervention.
f. It’s too bad we cannot put a halt to the present administration. As for the future wannabes, this bunch of misfits and mental cripples will do more damage then what we have now. Jefferson was right. He is the only one I would vote for as president.
g. Lawyers may make good lawyers. They make disgusting administrators. Scrap all fiduciary laws and write reasonable ones.
h. Stop the madness: vote all politicians and judges out of office.
i. Add one amendment to the constitution for voting: NO CANDIDATE. This forces the dictatorial parties to rethink who they will present as candidate. In the interim, utilize the president pro-tem of the senate with a panel of all parties to ensure nothing will pass except absolute necessities.
j. Bring all and I mean ALL troops home within 90 days. Cost savings alone will invalidate the need for additional taxes.
k. Force the Treasury, BLS, the FED, et al to tell the truth. Reinstate realistic and truthful reports.
l. Worry about the infrastructural mess among government agencies later.

The Bernanke Fed's Next Interest Rate Cut Will Be Its Last

Here is another *wait a second*.

If the FED will start to RAISE rates to drive inflation back down, what was the point of LOWERING rates to save Wall Street in the first place?

Are foreign investors this stupid? Are we?

American giants are poised...or should i say circling...to raise prices. Prices go up...and having gone up...tend never to go down.

Altho my sinuses are clogged, do i smell conspiracy theory here? If a falling dollar was designed to generate foreign investment in the US and stimulate foreign trade...exactly what will a rising dollar do?

Who benefits? Who loses?

CPI: Respite or Reversal?

why bother with bernanke's bullshit cpi? our beloved government is lying through its teeth. any conversation involving cpi is useless garbage...so why does anyone even bother to comment on it?

try going to a store

Latest Insane Idea: Enticing People to Buy

ben franklin had the right idea...a revolution every 75 years or so to clean out the rot.

now the rot turned to slime.

takes more taxpayer dollars.

and a brand new government agency FSSA federal slime-sloppers agency

The Rally is Coming: Always Buy Too Soon

good advice column for the brain dead. 100 years from now, everything will be fine.

Requiem for a Departing Economic System

bravo holmes...now all we need to do is draw our pistols and hold the professor at bay!!!!!!!!!!

28 days? 28 months? 28 years? has anyone determined exactly how long all this debt will take to pay back?

i still think the treasury should issue t-bills to the various and nefarious government agencies in lieu of electronic money for accounts payable. this way, we use up fewer electronic dots because the numbers are larger.

the agencies can then issue payments in t-bills and...the receivers of said faux cash can now say that, like the us savings bond...they invested in the past of america. (notice--i said past...not future.)

to invest in our future this way, the fed would need to issue counterfeit chinese t-bills. this doesnt matter, because the Fed cannot be taken to international court.

bingo....i should be sitting in the catbird seat...full of the previous owner's catbird droppings.

mail me a t-bill. i can use it to buy a soft drink and a burger...or...burritos... at least i can use the paper to wipe parts of my anatomy afterwards. i wish i had invested in zimbabwe t-bills.

then i could sell them to the fed for 28 days. just think of the money i could lose for them if the exchange rate were fixed at day one of the transfer.

extend this over the real amount of time these t-bills will stay in banker hands...and i could move to another unmentioned country and tata my way down roads soon to be fixed.

and they tell me creative accounting is a no no....perhaps ben should issue t-bills to the irs to pay our taxes. then we might be able to provide our own economic stimulus. after all, the purpose of the irs is to increase government revenue. if the fed sends the irs t-bills, they have just eliminated the need for us citizenry, the government can run on perfect autopilot...and....we can all become reverse wetbacks to mexico as long as we provide our own body armor and fully automatic weapons.