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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (66699)	10/13/2003 3:12:02 PM
From: Trumptown	Respond to of 94695

>>a very low probability of happening, but because it is now “not zero”<< oh, kinda like getting hit by an asteroid, or an airplane wing I suppose... -g

To: mishedlo who wrote (66699)	10/13/2003 5:56:00 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Oh, this happened before, in communist Soviet Union, only the "green" rouble used to be called the "gold" rouble. You could exchange your dollars for it, then buy stuff at special stores. You could convert it back into dollars. Of course, you could not convert "pink" roubles in dollars at the "official" rate, or anywhere, for that matter - owning dollars was a crime. In 1990 1 dollar was officially worth 6 roubles (the "green", or "gold" rouble bought that), but you could buy it for 36 pink roubles on the black market. We all know what happened then -- $1 is now worth 300,000 roubles, taking added zeroes into account -g- I think the final outcome of this mess might be quite ironic - a move in America towards socialism, of Western European type. Higher taxes and more social programs. So, the cold war is won, but who won it, if America becomes more "socialist", and Eastern Europe more capitalist. Sort of a trend in the world to some sort of ideal system - somewhere in between capitalism and communism.