The clift notes version is that Bernanke creates turmoil in the credit markets, while Bush plays the Address the Nation card to scare Joe 401k Saver...
Why is nobody questioning the "emergency interest rate cut" tool being put into play by the Fed? The real crisis right now is the frozen short term...
It's possible to be self-serving, while also being environmentally responsible. Anybody who owns a house would be doing himself a favor to install a...
The sarcasm made that the most confusing post I've ever read, Tiassa. But I've read it three times, and now it seems to make sense. Damn those Iraqis...
Very astute. I take it you're implying there's something wrong with that, though. But the "problem" we're talking about here is people, and last I...
I think you're essentially chasing performance, BillyT. A 5-year trend does not a permament setback make. At the start of 2002, when the USD had gone...
First let me point out, in case anybody wasn't aware, that no logical argument can be considered sound unless it both begins and ends with "lol."...
Why, thank you :)
Wow. Next, people will be held accountable for anything that happens in the air space above them. We can have criminal trials determining whose house...
You always ask the right questions, don't you?
Video games give me mental exercise of a quality that simply can't be found in real life. They also increase the breadth of my imagination,...
Stock index funds. In exchange for long term volatility, which you seem prepared to endure, you get excellent long term returns. With index funds,...
Maddox puts it much better than I ever could: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=suicide
The problems leading to the great depression were the exact opposite. A finite supply of money meant that there was no such thing as inflation - in...
Fleckenstein was apparently writing about how perilous these times are for the economy and the stock market, back when the Dow hit 12,000 in October....
The point of being rich is that you can spend tons of money and not have to worry about having enough money! Duh!!! Of course, what people...
Economically speaking, not everyone can even hope to have a sustainable retirement. When people leave the work force, there are fewer goods and...
You're saying that we're leaping from life to life? ..... striving to put right what once went wrong? :p How is it, then, that "I" inhabit just one...
I'd say that if I can do something a thousand times without getting bored, I can probably do it a million times and not get bored. It's just a matter...
I make it a point to take everything Jim Jubak writes with a grain of salt. I don't know when or why I started doing that, but I've never regretted...
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