Acantha

Took you 6 six years to pay her back, huh?

I think expecting them to act like idiots is one thing, expecting them to trample and kill people is another. Look, I'm not disagreeing with the idea of putting things in place to make things more orderly, and if it had been a point of this crowd breakind down the door and causing damage to the store, then this Wal-Mart got what they deserved. I'm disagreeing with WalMart having blame in that crowd killing someone. And no, I don't consider this some accidental death. These people not only didn't care that they were hurting someone, they didn't care after the fact either. The crowd takes the blame.

No, you just didn't read enough. It was the combination of Kiffin/Orgeron that I thought would be tough. Kiffin/Kiffin doesn't worry me as much.

That does appear to be the case, and so far today I haven't seen anything on Orgeron. Honestly, I feel better about this scenario. Defense was never Tenn. problem, and Monte won't do anything big for recruiting, especially since I doubt he'd be there that long. Overall, bad decision by UT imo.

I didn't misread, I disagreed. Finding other people to blame, even if it's to share the blame, is still bull. Those people are responsible for their actions, period. Can't speak for you, but I don't need extra rules set up so that I don't act like an animal and kill people. But hey, guess we're not all so self sufficient.

Big screen TV's don't kill people...people kill people. I'm sorry, but a bunch of pathetic !@#$s breaking down a door and stampeding into a store has nothing to do with the store. There's no way Wal-Mart should have to set up extra rules so that shoppers don't KILL during their shopping. It's disgusting, and blaming anyone other than those that actually did it is just as disgusting.

Just got back a couple weeks ago, Penn and Teller was the highlight, they were great! Vegas is feeling the crunch just like everyone else. It was slow compared to other times I've been. There were a bunch of bars that were closing early a few days a week because of lack of business. Talking to one of the dealers, she said casinos all over Vegas were having layoffs. Check out Diablos on a weekend night if you're looking for something to do (they were one of the places closing early during the week). New restaurant/bar that opened in front of the Monte Carlo. Mexican restaurant with a different kind of feel to it. They serve good mixed drinks by the pitcher, and had some great music playing at the bar upstairs.

Why?

It's like watching a great tennis match. This is a hell of a serve, we'll see if Pac Man can return.

Neither one bothers me by themselves, but together they should do alright. Whatever the Tenn fan thinks, Orgeron recruited very well at Miss. And he had that job for a reason, he isn't a bad coordinator. With the talent he alone can bring in, and that fact that he can show Kiffin (who is a big name for recruits to look at and has experience working with some of the best offenses in college) the ropes of the SEC, I think they will be formidable. I do agree with you that there are better head coaching candidates, but I do believe that Kiffin/Orgeron can bring Tenn out of the rut they are in.

How so?

Kiffin by himself doesn't bother me much, but rumor has it he is bringing Orgeron with him. The coaching/recruiting skills the combination of those two bring would bring the Vols back up to prominence in the SEC. Like we really need another fuggin well coached recruiting giant in the area.

Again, he goes overboard telling his investers that his current investment strategy is based on long term results. It's based on a global economy change, and that takes time. If that's not what your looking for, it's obviously not what you should be investing in. Personally, I'm moving everything out of my long term investments (except for real estate) into his plan (and just like every other investment option out there, it's a gamble). I still have short term investments outside of this. And to reiterate, I'm not suggesting this to anyone else at all.

As I've read a little more, there's one more thing I want to add. Everyone there seems to think PS was wrong because the business cycle is currently under way and inflation has stopped (I haven't seen those exact words, but that's the jist). What they don't understand is that inflation hasn't stopped. I've said this before, but inflation is NOT the rise in costs. Rise in costs are the RESULT of inflation. Inflation is an increase in the money supply without an increase in production. Inflation is spending trillions of dollars that we do not have on bailouts. The fact that the inflation of the dollar is not currently coming from credit and loans to business and individuals means nothing in the long term. Short term, it means that the effects of the inflation are pushed off till a later time, when all the great thinkers who are doing this can look around and say, "must be the oil companies." And to straighten something out, Shiff, along with all the other Austrians, are at the front of the line screaming that if contraction and deflation were aloud to take place (like the market is desperately trying to do), then we could come out of this in a year or two in pretty decent shape. Yes it would be hard, but we wouldn't crash. The fact is, the government is not allowing that to happen. They are still trying to inflate and hold rates (prices, salaries, etc...) up. THAT is what is going cause the big fall. PS is only betting on that the government will continue on it's present path instead of letting the market work. If at any time Congress sits down and shuts up, all of PS warnings will be obsolete.

I only read the first post (I will try to get to the thread at some point), and I can tell you that that poster has very little understanding of what Schiff is saying. That's not to say that he is dead wrong (I believe that he is, but there are of course varying opinions on the matter), just that his arguments against what PS is saying are extremely naive of the points that are being made. Honestly, there is just too much to go into in order to explain it all, but will say two things (neither of which will probably be much help): 1. When Schiff says that the rest of the world will be fine when they let America go because they will find other consumers, he is not implying that it everything will be sunshine and roses right away. If the dollar is dropped as the reserve currency and all those bad things happen, the rest of the world is going to tank...for a while. The difference between them and us, they are PRODUCING. They will continue to produce, and while everything is going to be crap for a while, they are in position to build themselves back up. And once they stop paying to ship their own goods to us (they buy our debt, and we use that money to buy their goods), they will be able to start selling that merchandise to their own people. Again, it's all a lot more complicated than I'm making it sound, which leads me to my next point. 2. If you are really interested in this stuff, I highly recommend reading Crash Proof...but this recommendation comes with a warning. Peter Schiff is obviously a business man, and this book is meant to draw business to his company. The last 3 chapters in the book are all about what kind of investments EuroPac can help you to get, etc... BUT, in order to get you to that point, the first 7 chapters are one of the most clearly written, concise, and accurate description of what exactly is going on in today's world economy, and how we have gotten to this point. I could give you a list of thick economics books with confusing jargon that if read together could give you all the same information without the commercial, but if you can ignore the points to EuroPac, Crash Proof is the best book I can recommend for a quick understanding. Again, HIGHLY recommended. And, once again, not everyone believes what Schiff does. But if you read that book, you will at least understand why HE believes what he does (and you'll be able to read that guys post and understand why he has no idea what he's talking about). Everyone has to make up their own minds about what's down the road, and I'm the last person in the world to give financial advice. I like economics... policies, sound money ideas...etc. But I really don't know much about stocks/investing. My economics reasoning is telling me that the world is about to get way more complicated, so I'm now letting someone else handle the stuff I'm stupid about.

Yes, though because we share a favor of Austrian Economics, I've known about him and his ideas for some time. As far as his investments, they are all long term. He goes quite overboard trying to make it very clear that he is not trying to make his clients the quick buck, so if that's what they are looking for they should turn elsewhere. The reason I'm moving in his direction now as opposed to earlier is that I agree with him that the time is near that the world takes itself off the dollar standard. Once the rest of the world stops holding our dollars, our economy will literally crash, far worse than anything we have seen before (including the Great Depression). It may not be for another few years, or more, but I do think it's coming so I want to be ready now. If it doesn't happen, his long term investment strategy is still sound, and would be no worse than investing in an IRA (maybe a little less given a 20 year timeframe). The only real down side is that I"m paying him to manage my investments, instead of doing it myself and saving a the money. But at this point, the peace of mind it offers is well worth it for me. I can't really comment on what you read, since I'm not sure what it spoke of. I'm sure he was talked down due to not putting his clients into the bubble areas and making the lots of money at the time. But then again, his clients didn't lose either. Either way you look at it, he is constantly talked down to by other "economists", to the point of absurdity. I don't know if you've seen this, but if not, it's a great video. Listen to how the others on this panel talk to him and even LAUGH at him as he tries to explain what's going on. Then listen to the stock advice they give. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

Me too. Can't stand regular soda. I only eat fast food maybe twice a year, but when I do I'm one of those that orders the diet along with all the crap.

Different things. I'm really just starting as I've been slowly working on getting my money out of other things so that Im losing what I have. I'm going with Euro Pac to invest in foreign markets, and also investing in metals when the prices are right.

Getting everything out of the dollar.

As for pure beauty, Beckinsale TOPS my list as far as hollywood/famous people go. She is perfect. That said, I really like Winslett too....for some reason. It's odd, cause I can tell she's kind of weird lookin, but I'm totally attracted to her.

Maybe they don't like regular?

They got me excited early last year too. I'll be tempering my enthusiasm a bit this time around....but things are looking good.

It's on a larger scales now. It's not meant to be a way for some customers to get a pre-cooked meal. It's meant to let everyone do so, and in high traffic markets. Again, as I understand it.

And you don't see this as an obvious problem??? How can no one see that there is no end to this, and that sooner or later the sh-- has to hit the fan? You can NOT spend your way out of a depression. It just doesn't work! And if you had a 100k and invested in Citi after this, you'd have earned the mess you were putting yourself in.

Don't get me started on FDIC. And let me ask you this, do you really think bailout money, especially after how most of the public feels about it now, is going to increase confidence in the company?