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To: onepath who wrote (71839)	9/28/2011 2:44:09 PM
From: UPTICK	Respond to of 78417

"""People will not invest thier money in a place that acts like a devil on speed """"" So true... ROTFLMAO....

To: onepath who wrote (71839)	9/28/2011 4:56:40 PM
From: koan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78417

This could be the beginning of a huge monster depression. Only way out for the US and Euro is a massive stimulus and in Europe printing money to rescue the banks, which would mean risking inflation. So we either risk inflation or fall into a monster deflationary depression, IMO. Most western political leaders and many people seem to be opting for the depression, or think it will not happen if we just leave everything to the market. I am one of a few who thinks not doing anything is a big mistake. But my view is in a minority.

To: onepath who wrote (71839)	9/28/2011 7:53:35 PM
From: koan	2 Recommendations Respond to of 78417

Excerpts and reviews from a couple of new biographies. Click on the URL and read the whole thing. Very revealing. http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/ Ayn Rand Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is "evil" and selfishness is "the only virtue," she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black