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

To: Casaubon who wrote (70530)	4/17/2005 10:54:26 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

I agree, totally. That's why gold and commodities are falling. They will fall even more. We had our bailout attempt, and it has not worked. They say "peak oil" is upon us. But there is plenty of coal, for hundreds of years ahead, most of it in the US of A.

To: Casaubon who wrote (70530)	4/18/2005 3:04:47 AM
From: unrealistic_thoughts	Respond to of 94695

Every depression-class bubble has been fixed by a de-facto hyper inflation. it took 10 years but the 1929 depression was finally remedied by WWII inflation and post-war hyper-inflation to erase the value of the war bonds used to pay for the war. Therefore, I do not believe your theory that "the majority will be made to pay for this economic mess, via stagflation (essentially this is what you are implying)". First of all, the majority is no longer just the american people, it is also a bunch of foreigners and they will also be made to pay. And second, another equally valid way to make the majority pay for the economic mess is through debt abdication, i.e., a hyper (or at least very large) inflation, as was done after 1929, and after 1973. When you have run out of string to push on, this is about the only playable card left in your hand ...