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- Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:26 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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Mr. 1953, I agree with you that we will not see classic Leninism here in the U.S., but that was not the point that Mr. Churchill was trying to make, nor the one I was trying to convey by quoting him. I have placed you at a disadvantage because you don't have the entire essay on George Bernard Shaw o...
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:43 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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A bit of advice on Tuesdays Choice from the Democracy of the Dead http://tylerdoughurst.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/democracy-of-the-dead/ On a visit by the Fabian George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor to the Kremlin, as relayed by Sir Winston Churchill in “Great Contemporaries” copyright 1937: It must ha...
- Wed May 30, 2012 10:34 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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depression.jpg feast.jpg Picture # 1 was taken approximately 18 years before picture # 2. It must have seemed like a lifetime of strife and struggle. Just birth to high school graduation though when you think about it. 18 years. Our job, I think, is going to be to get our Millennials and their chil...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 5:03 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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"The transmission as in terminal velosity is only checked by the size of the conduit irregardless of the inital pool." Aadens The mother of all conduits in regards to making good on derivative bets would be the FDIC. The FDIC has three tasks: insure our deposits, examine the health of our banks, and...
- Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:01 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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“… In the earlier work of Marx, however, the idea of creative destruction or annihilation (German: Vernichtung) implies not only that capitalism destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders, but also that it must ceaselessly devalue existing wealth (whether through war, dereliction, or regular...
- Sat May 22, 2010 6:39 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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“…there is a lot of bad debt out there waiting to be written off still. That's deflationary pressure, by definition.” Old1953 John has espoused and explained the Deflation scenario many times (thank you for your patient repetition John), yet I still can’t get it to tally with what I’m observing. Wha...
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:01 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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“…We are not a fiduciary” Lloyd Blankfein CEO, Chairman Goldman Sachs January 2010 Consider that quaint word: Fiduciary That word worked well and proudly in the old paradigm of financial entities politely dipping their commission cup in the quiet asset pools of yesteryear, but the word isn’t at all ...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:20 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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"...Men and Women of character ... are pressing questions in integrity. Until this wave washes away the problems I cannot see change of integrity plagueing this nation since inside is change and all politics are local." Aedens I remember someone else writing something similar a couple hundred years ...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:55 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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A long video presentation of their talk at the end of the article but perhaps worth your time.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100209/N ... 79/0/MONEY
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100209/N ... 79/0/MONEY
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:45 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
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Ladies and Gentlemen: For months now the financial situation in general has reminded me of the scene in the first Alien movie where the captain is crouched inside the intersection of the ships air vents, the alien is fast approaching, and he’s receiving conflicting, rapid-fire, and panicked guidance...