[U.S. manufacturing]

But, but our service sector will take up the slack......fail

 

But, but out brain power and innervation will create new jobs.......fail in the classroom.

[NY Times (really!) discusses]

You didn't say "is credible", you said "does well". Megyn Kelly's high-gloss lips and low-cut blouses don't make me take Fox seriously...but they sure do get me to tune in every afternoon.

 

Its just a matter of time before the Fox Fem-bots take your mind too (insert evil laugh here).

[Did we just double dip when I wasn't looking?]

I think you guys a pretty spot on. As far as the "New Normal" and the market goes, yes I believe the days of the 10% a year buy and hold investor are over and we can expect to see 6% returns at best for the future.

 

I can live with stable low return market but not the ripsaw markets we are experiencing now. Ripsaw markets erode consumer confidence which makes doing business very hard for me.

 

As far as Obama's economy team goes he had everything going for him, well regarded bright people with experience and the blessing from the oracle of Omaha. I though we would have gotten a better bang for our buck by now. Things must be in a lot worse shape than they are letting on.

[Did we just double dip when I wasn't looking?]

...when TARP passes...

...when Stimulus passes...

...when Health Care passes...

 

Coming soon:

...when Cap & Tax passes...because...of course it will create more shovel ready jobs...Remember those? Anybody been using a shovel lately? Anyone?....Bueller?

...when Card Check passes....because....more unionized government employees is a great idea...since...they have nothing to do with the current economic crisis...both here and in Greece...nothing at all

 

And, the star of the show:

...when the VAT passes...

I'll be the first to say I was wrong about Obama's economic team. They really have no clue or are in the pockets of big business, because they have done nothing to solve the "too big to fail" problems.

 

This economy has really got me spooked. I work in the service sector and felt a turn around last July. This year is a different story, people are pulling back and a bunker mentality has set in. The demand for services is there but they believe they can get it at a discount. In fact it's an expectation now. I don't see things getting better until we see around 6% Unemployment again.

[Did N. Korea just start war with S Korea??]

I this point let the south fight their own war. Why do we alway have to be dragged in.

[Check out this video and tell me what you think...]

For the record, I am ULTRA Bullish on Gold. Having said that, Dow Theorist Richard Russell, whom I respect, came out with an interesting article yesterday.

 

For anyone who has money in the markets, you may or may not want to read this.

Looks like the smart money is getting into and staying with small and mid cap stocks

 

http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/streetoo...boveBelow=above

[Did we just double dip when I wasn't looking?]

With the labor news today and world market turmoil did the economy bounce back into recession? It sure feels like 2008 again.

[Check out this video and tell me what you think...]

Good stuff fellas! LOL! I didn't post it because of the gold/silver advocacy, but mainly because of the facts the video contains and it paints a bleak future that is hard to counter. I posted it in the hope that some of the financial gurus who post here would be able to counter some of the main arguments and explain to me how, contrary to the video makers assertion, we're not fukked.

 

But the responses were entertaining...I've got to give you that.

 

I don't think it's a stretch to say that our debt is and has been Americas biggest crises. Bigger than health care, immigration, nuke war, terrorism, human rights, jobs, world markets, cap and trade, peak oil, global warming all put together. If you do not have a stable US you do not have the ability to solve these problems, third world country comes to mind.

[Check out this video and tell me what you think...]

I thought this was well done and full of facts that need to be checked.

[Another Republican affair]

Yeah, but he did say that Eric Massa has a nice ass

[California students sent home for wearing inappropriate shirts]

Did the article mention how embarrassing it is to dress in the Mexican flag? can we stop calling mexico a country already and call it what it is, a collection of villages, towns, and cities run by drug cartels.

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

Hmm valid point, still it seems counterproductive.

Whats the payoff? Besides local hotels, starbucks, and delis cashing in for a week or so. I don't see the statewide economic splash.

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

it's now 13 trillion and what are we doing....funding movies like this

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

It's a free country . . .

No this country is in the hole for about 11 trillion. Nothing is free

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

Oh look yet another troll.

LOL

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

So you're done with the human race because of a film you've never even seen, yet somehow can still describe perfectly enough to be offended by. And the site you got your "information" from is currently carrying articles such as:

 

IEM - Let's Build an Enslaved Planet

 

Kagan Involved In 9/11 Cover Up

 

Trilateral Commission Wants War With Iran

Ireland: Action To Arrest Wanted War Criminal Kissinger

 

Kagan: ‘Disappear’ Free Speech

 

 

Niiiiiiice.......

Oh look a cherry picker LOL! I could not find one of those stories among the many others.

where??

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

Have you not seen every terrorist-based movie bad guy in the last 20 years?

Yeah, you just said it "terrorist-based", not ethnic cleansing based like this film. In fact those terrorist-based movies always have a Muslim American fighting the terrorists in some capacity side by side with whites, blacks, browns ect.. Hollywood has you covered dude.

 

This film demonizes all "white skin" (no ideology here just skin color) and then goes about slaughtering them.

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

Did you know that there's a "New Survival Seed Bank" which lets you plant a "Full Acre Crisis Garden"?!

 

Thanks for the link!

 

Yes, but in the 1940's they called them victory gardens. To the day my grandmother died she would not touch anything but real butter. Margarine turned her stomach. During the war, butter was not available and she remembers mix this butter substitute out of lard and yellow colorant. Yuck.

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

You do realize this is hype right?

If it is hype I fell for it.

 

Still, something is wrong with a movie a glorifies one ethnic group butchering another especially when the tension is high between the groups in real life.

 

What would be the outrage if Americas went around disemboweling Muslins in a movie?

[I'm f'in done with the human race we have gone insane]

WTF

 

Can you believe that Robert De Niro proudly acts in this film.

[Ah, The Bay Area]

You did crush him, Lennie. You did.

 

Tomorrow we'll tell you about the rabbits.

 

You win, thats some funny ****

[''I think the Catholic Church stinks'']

Converting to Catholicism to teach (work) is far better than converting to Catholicism for the usual reasons.

 

Imagine being an Irish alter boy in the past 50 years.

 

Yeah but those alter boys had it coming to them with all their flirty ways and tight robes!

[''I think the Catholic Church stinks'']

or need a handout

[How are you planing for retirement?]

Anyone using 200 day EMA investing? If so how's it working out?

[Mosque coming to Ground Zero]

What an appropriate user name.

LOL, hey thats funny.