I think with recent events the shares in the Fed are more expensive than shares in Berkshine Hathaway. I read the MSNBC story about who owns...
Because Japan's bubble was of epic proportions. And also because the economy hasn't grown for the last 20 years. Take a look for example at dot...
The funny thing is that I heard the exact opposite, that Barclays wanted to acquire Lehman Brothers and that wasn't allowed to happen, Lehman was...
This week has been crazy, the dollar is first page news. It wasnt before! Asia steps in to support gold dollar, until they develop their own...
"This time it's different" because we are at the end of a credit bubble! It means that at best we can hope for 0% growth for 5-10 years until a...
Are you trying to audition for the position of a town idiot gastropod? Wild generalizations are likely to be wrong and stupid 100% of the time,...
Look how quick they were on the case when a SMALL FRY did insider trading.
Greyson is funny, and you have to like his courage. Why aren't all public officials like that?
In Canada it's the government for most loans. I think a few like med school are given to banks. You have to remember that Wall Street makes...
That doesn't make any sense, why build it in Japan, who has a strong currency now? Ya maybe protectionism..
Ohh, you have a BS in Financial Economics! While a good degree, I'm working on an MA in Economics, how's that for the e-peen. You can't deny...
In the meantime they are getting more power than ever. Power to lend more, power to regulate. Just recently the Fed was given oversight for bank...
Ah yes, the "sweat shops are great, they provide jobs to communities" argument. Forget about the fact these people could have their wages...
The US won't have 1 active worker for 3 retirees, that's Japan... The US will be a relatively young country with all the immigration going on.
Good stuff, here's an easy math calculation I did. In 1969 you had $6T of real GDP and $2T of real debt. By 2008 you had $14T of real GDP and...
That isn't protectionism. The chinese for example buy the commodity, or build a building and then use chinese labor for it too! That's 100%...
Click on the second link, go to the chart and right under it, it says who it's from and even the name of the person who did it! You could contact...
That's possible, I haven't seen the data. A lot of high paying jobs were created in finance though.. how's that one going. I guess the...
I heard it in a few places that Lehman was allowed to fail to make the bailout pass and the other extreme legislation like Fed getting more power....
Well real incomes went up during the 70s, and before. I guess I'll have to pull the charts to make the point, aw man ;) Thing is, that real...
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