Recent content by barbarus

Make that "until governments and central bankers aren't all dishonest" and equities will start to rise.

Tutoring?

Greenspan, with his artificially low rates, was a major cause of our present economic disaster. As others, including myself, have said, future generations will curse him in his grave. The world would have been much better off if Allen had stuck to his saxophone.

Ever notice those women in WalMart, working checkout, who must be in their 70's if not 80's in a few cases? Bored heiresses? People who are actually twenty, but partied too hard in high school? Most of us in another decade?

I scan the news on the Internet and read a few blogs that actually tell the truth about the economy. It's so depressing that I try not to go to much beyond a level that keeps me informed but not inundated with misery. A delicate balance.

Tastes like chicken, I hear.

I DO blame the government/bureaucracy for this NW. Because Greenspan tried to fight the natural business cycle and kept interest rates artificially low early in the decade to try to keep the dot-com bubble going, the economy overheated and we are much worse off.

Some of us were urging that the train never be allowed to go up to such a ruinous velocity in the first place. A little pain spread over, say, the last decade, would have been vastly preferable to the disaster we're facing now. I'm going to miss Circuit City and probably Sears too. Any of...

Tex, weren't you involved in some sort of police work, or am I mistaken? I'm a great fan of the American Constitution. Not many policemen are. This activity is a disgrace to the values the USA was founded on. More to the point. The reason this was presented as an ERF topic is that I have a...

Is her real estate still sell-able now that the housing bubble has popped? She may find, depending on location, that she's not doing so well in this endeavor either. http://www.minyanville.com/articles/GS-C-jpm-Fed-fre-fnm/index/a/20558

Ladies and gentlemen.............your government in action. YouTube - How Safe Is Your Safty Deposit Box? (HQ)

I'm rather sure I'll have more money by then too. I'm also positive each dollar will be worth less. Better off than many will be I guess.

Perhaps he should share a cell with the judge who granted him bond.

Here is a guy that thinks we may rise briefly from the sewer long enough to gain a breath of fresh false confidence, then be sucked back down even further into the sewage. Minyanville - Market Commentary, Investing Ideas, Global Finance, The Economy I agree with him on the probability of...

How could anyone have known things would get this bad.