Your absolutely right, past decades are very instructive - specifically 1929. The great depression was caused by a boom in stocks, real estate and...
I can understand that perspective, maybe globalization is more important to some; however, just keep in mind that free markets must be fair - you...
Yes tommo, but what I was hinting at is that if safety is your concern - then you don't want free markets or globalization and foreign investment....
Well it seems that our entire system became corrupted around the 70's, we stopped exporting oil, free trade agreements were signed soon after and...
Absolutely and you made great points in that paragraph I quoted; I just wanted to talk about that more as so many of us on the last few pages seem...
You can't have it both ways though, free markets mean economies will be intertwined and vulnerable to worldwide contagion during a financial...
Deflation and Inflation don't have to be mutually exclusive though; what we have had since the crisis is really best described as credit deflation...
This really was a brilliant idea the OP had… too bad his last post five years ago was asking for advice on how to deal with debt collectors.
Very good points, though I would say ZIRP is the symptom of the problem, that being a debt supercycle; without ZIRP the whole house of cards implodes.
We have a world debt supercycle acting like a black hole demanding constant QE and ZIRP just to stave off deflationary collapse into depression....
Let me explain more clearly America's real relationship with China. The Chinese want to export to the United States for their peoples employment;...
A pandemic virus is just a matter of time, every single virologist says we are way overdue. The 1918 Spanish Flu killed around 40 million, with...
Nine_Ender, Canada never got its house in order in the 80's, debt was run up significantly into the late 90's. What really happened was a...
An American living in New York City has a higher tax burden than a Canadian in Ontario. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I found this info-graphic on strategies, pretty interesting; as far as what levels they buy at that would be nice to know! What I've noticed with...
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