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but, according to you (and GD), it can't work!...maybe they are trying to postpone the crash until they are better positioned to take advanagte of it?....they are not stupid, but....

why is China buying risky European debt?...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... lenews_wsj

I don''t get it...

I think you are basically correct, at least about humans... humans = apes apes are about power, sex, and violence therefore...it is natural that a common thread of human history is the development of better and better weapons...and their subsequent use...and this also explains the persistence and ex...

no, I'm not talking about DEVO, but this latest advance is just amazing....and I heard it on NPR! (see John, NPR is good for something!)...a company called Zenph Sound has developed software and hardware to simulate EXACTLY a recorded musical performance through a robotic piano...they played a segme...

this is kinda scary...the Fed is bailing out Europe???

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-0 ... s-aid.html

good article, more on xenophobia, this time in Germany...here are 2 snippets, then the link... "Nowhere in Europe is the gap between public opinion and published opinion as wide as in Germany. And nowhere has public policy been more influenced by a 1960s generation, post-national, society-is-to-blam...

John (and others, please), if bonds are due for a crash, including US Treasuries, where should we go?...if you say "cash," that means money market funds for us investors using Fidelity, etc....and those can be losers too...Fidelity puts you into a municipal bond fund in their brokerage accounts, and...

with yesterday's FED decision, I decided to go WAY SHORT, and now John says, "What he does say is that stocks will go up, and that may well be the principal effect of quantitative easing."....HELP!....did I make a mistake?...Higginbotham, help me out here!

thanks, John, I was only kidding, of course....I definitely appreciate the work you do, it helps me understand the events in world just a little better.

geez, John, I know you're busy, but I need you to be more punctual with these news updates! I'm lying in bed at 5:45AM, waiting to get up, and playing with my iPhone, and I usually have fun reading your news update. But lately, you have been tardy, so I am forced to go to Google News, or someplace e...