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The Next Crisis Is on the Horizon
The USA will declare bankruptcy (default on sovereign debt) before this is finished. This little panic has been the last nail in the coffin for the dollar. And those who have prepared correctly will be punished the same way as "hoarders" in all hyper-inflationary collapses. We will be forced by law to trade hard goods for the worthless scrip.
On Nov 03 01:33 PM bbzz24 wrote:
> to whom should banks lend to? the deadbeats on the line after the
> ones that comprise the sub-prime sector? should we all them sub-sub-prime?
> or maybe soon-to-be-sub-prime?
>
Bubble Logic
Most middle class peoples' productive work is hardly touched by income tax after the various exemptions and deductions are applied. Those people pay mostly payroll taxes. And those payroll taxes are necessary to preserve the fig leaf that social security and medicare are "retirement" systems rather than welfare programs.
Bubble Logic
His piece is arguing, correctly, that median home value is an irrelevant and misleading measure.
My Plan to Repair Housing in America
John Hussman: Depression Fear Mongering 'Ridiculous'
I think you're confusing your populist demagogues. It was Wilson and WWI :)
Time to End Government Dickering Before It's Too Late
Your program amounts to fixing the rules of the game, massive government spending "stimulus", confiscatory taxes, restrictions on speech, and more government agencies. News flash: none of those ideas are new.
The Market Cannot Fix the Financial Crisis By Itself
You say ideology, I say principle. As others have stated, we are going to have a severe recession or depression; the butcher's bill will be paid. The question now is what will we have when we emerge on the other side? Corporatism/national socialism, or some chance at maintaining our freedom?
Nixing 'Mark to Market' Won't Solve the Problem
New Game, New Rules
Oh, yes, by all means. We're Americans, we like our rape and pillage at the hands of duly elected officials.
Armageddon Postponed
Tricky, I am betting on repudiation followed by hyperinflation.
Banning 'Terrorism'
Those "5 sigma" blasts are a disruption to the market's balance. You remove the weight on one side of a balanced scales and the same thing happens. They can change the reality for a few days, but no longer.
I am selling into this make believe rally and I will buy it all back for 20% less in a week or two when these wacked out regulations are lifted.
As a sop to the whiners they should bring back the short-uptick rule, and counterbalance that with a buy-downtick rule.
And go back and re-read your Shakespeare. Everyone uses the "protest too much" quote in the incorrect sense.
Banning 'Terrorism'
I bet all of the people whining about "massive leverage" (which does not exist in the first place, see: collateral) have no problem with investors buying on margin. Hypocrites one and all.
Armageddon Postponed
Who Killed Frannie?
Keep believing that this has been going on only the last 8 years. And it will all be better with a different "current occupant". Right.
Wake up. They have been lying to you for 80 years, not 8. And the current turmoil is the work of decades. We will not get out of this without war, because we will either fight our creditors, or be reduced to seizing resources by force that we are no longer able to pay for legitimately.
The Fed - A True Haven for Capitalism?
I'm anxiously waiting for follow up postings from all of the SA "contrarians"... who were long the GSEs due to their "strong earnings potential". Oops! That's gonna leave a mark.