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You think the CPI must be wrong, therefore it is? Any evidence?

Are you for anything, or just against everything? You implied that we export nothing, my point was merely that we do. I didn't deny that we have a trade deficit, nor did I deny that it was a problem. In fact, I said more than once that it is a problem. But this is a problem that we can't...

I'm not saying he was perfect, but the military interventions under Clinton were mostly to stop killing that was already taking place. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ You seem to be pulling numbers out of your ass. The deaths in Sudan as well.

On average, gold has been worth roughly the same over the long term, but it's fluctuated like crazy over the short term. If you wanted to buy an ounce of gold this past October 7th, you would have paid $918 for it. If you wanted to buy the exact same ounce of gold two and a half weeks later...

I'm sure the 100,000 or so Iraqis the US has killed since 2003 far outnumber any casualties under Clinton.

I'm not expecting much, 10 billion if he's lucky. The discretionary budget is only about 20% of the total budget. I'd like it if he cut some of the more expensive military projects, but I'm not sure he can.

I think this is a very good article on how this crisis happened, I'm putting it up top so it doesn't get buried in my post: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/opinion/26friedman.html?em “Long Beach Financial,” wrote Lewis, “was moving money out the door as fast as it could...

I figure he has to bring people in from all sides. I recently heard some liberal pundit complaining that his appointments are all "center-right", and he was wondering why he ever supported Obama, so I guess he's got critics on all sides. Bush cut corporate and capital gains taxes, but it...

Yeah, I lost about a quarter of my savings. But I still had enough money left to invest some of it. I don't think the rich are benefiting though, investment bankers are getting canned right and left. My brother works for Citigroup so he fills me in on a fair bit of financial information, and...

Most of this stuff has already been grown, delivered or manufactured using expensive gas/diesel. After all, gas has only dropped this low in the last month. For instance, milk prices are still high because farmers had to harvest their hay or silage with expensive gas/diesel. Gas prices might...

It also has a lot to do with commodities futures trading. There wasn't a lot that was worth investing in in the US, so a bunch of investors were investing in commodities, ie, corn, beef, and of course, oil. The price went up astronomically, and then there was a bubble. Now that bubble burst...

lol, you think you have it bad, the Federal Government needs like 10 trillion dollars to pay off all its debt! The difference between you and the banks is that the infrastructure of the US economy will fall apart if the banks go under. Of course, something tells me if the average American is...

I think everyone here is involved in illegal activities to some extent, and I'm no exception. :bigjoint: That's called "life". We all have to contribute to keep all the gears of society moving. At least until we can make robots do all our work. :p Lots of things are complicated, generally...

Yeah, if you look at it closely, the picture is definitely faked. His mouth is closed and the cigarette is blurry and lit by a flash to a greater extent than his face. That must be an older picture though; he looks young.

Gold and platinum, that's what I'm invested in. Of course, they're not all that stable, which underscores my point that a gold-based currency would be a bad idea, but they do keep their values remarkably well in a weak economy. The last few years, interest rates in savings accounts have been...

Bush lied therefore Obama is lying? By your side, I'm assuming you mean the "side" represented by your avatar there. :p I have to admit, I'm curious how much of that picture was photoshopped.

Obviously because I don't know very much about the German economy. :p I know they have universal health care, and that their pollution laws are stricter. Their corporate taxes and their version of the capital gains tax are lower, but they also have a value-added tax that we don't have. They...

You? Paranoid? Wow, that doesn't sound like you at all! I mean, how can someone with an avatar like yours be paranoid about anything? ;) Heheh, yeah I was surprised myself. Apparently I was "insulting the mods" by criticizing their policies or something. I just thought it was funny though...

The Federal Government is financed by treasury bonds, the Federal Reserve doesn't need financing; it's the one that does the financing. The Fed also acts as a "bank for banks" in that it provides financial services to banks. The member banks get those financial services in exchange for...

You can't log in using your regular user name? I was banned temporarily at cannabis.com after posting how much better rollitup.org is. :D You can't even talk about seed banks or other drugs there.