Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!!!   If Ben would shut his mouth and just shut off the presses, quietly - who would notice and when or if ever? If Fed and the Treasury just started pulling $1 out of $5 of the replacement money without saying they are doing so, would we miss it? Only if we were told.   I remember ...more

Not many years ago (okay 30 is not many) you only saw black men driving garbage trucks; as soon as wages were brought into line with reality white folk found handling garbage more to their liking. Picking crops all day every day takes talent and a desire to work. there also has to be money. the immigrant worker deserve...more

Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!! (everbody do the robot wave)

My grandmother grew up outside of Maryville Mo. She told the story that the spring in 1930 during lambing and pigging a storm came in and buried the area after a long winter. Enough snow that it was melted on the stove to toss on the snow walls dug to reach the barn to bring in lambs and piglets. They also had to dig a...more

The best thing that could happen to our country is someone needs to hack into the Federal Reserve and have the printing machines blow a circuit, print upside down backwards or just die.   None of us are old enough to remember the depression of the 1890's where the thought of let it heal itself played out. The "grea...more

Listening to morning new today - jobless claims dropped by 16k this week - a bright spot. IF the hiring continues at least into to June - then I might begin to look at the glass as half full. But I think our economic "world" is as stable as it is going to get for the rest of the year. I would say 99% of us don't have t...more

What is scary folks is that pre-school sounds like it is a good thing don't it?? So while getting kids doing math and reading by 4 and ready to do 1st grade work in Kindergartens - what else are they (and have been) "teaching"??. I figured that this one was coming as it is built into the Obama Care Act that we smokers ...more

The Real issue is thus... false paystubs and tax records (we've all known that one) banks looking at 6 % to 8% interest for 30 years on 200k property (greed and profit) and the colapse of the housing market at the same time of the economic down turn (thank you greedy CEO's). The ones here that have been hurt are the av...more

Di88_ I agree with you - but the real problem is you have doc's that are scared to tell you the truth and "loved ones" scared to here it.