I went to a trade school instead.best decison I ever made.I am busier than ever

Thing is many think the gov't is just giving the money away and that is not whats happening.The govt is buying foreclosed houses,developments,commercial malls,bridges(municipal bonds)school revovation projects,ski resorts,machinery power plants,etc...on the value of any loan(or bonds that hold the value of that loan) t...more

Yes hedonist you are correct,it IS devaluing our currency,but the Fed is hedging a bet that this devaluation is temporary once the economy starts rolling again.FDR's administration kind of did something similar to this to get out of the Great Depression.FDR ordered banks to close for a week to get their heads togethera...more

So basically whats happening is that the Fed is trading one asset for another more liquid asset(cash).But whats crazy about all this to me anyways is that it seems  the Fed will end up (eventually) owning basically every municipal building or renovating project that required municipal bonds to fund them,bridges local r...more

Yes,those bonds are what the issue is about.See the Treasury Department realizes that to keep the economy from freezing up as it did from 2008 to a couple of years ago,it had to make it's currency as liquid as possible.See for a long time before all this happened treasury bonds,municipal bonds and other types of bonds ...more

I do not understand also why more people dont complain about getting less product for the same price.I read an article on the Great Depression,and this scenario was one of the indicators that something was very very wrong with the economy in the 20's.The terms are different,the schemes presented by private industry a b...more

What I find ironic is that the only real complainers of all this are upstart rapidly expanding companies that have yet to feel burned by anything.What I say to this story is "So What?'To lose one store's worht of profits to pay for healthcare for the rest of their employees?Dude,whats you issue?So because you can't pro...more

Oh I wish that were the case spooker but it's not.It takes over 3 times the energy to make a barrel of gasoline from tar sands as it does straight crude.Fracking has been breaking out more natural gas than oil lately.We'd be smarter to drain the La Brea Tar Pits and use that for making gasoline than we would tar sands....more

Nahh..thye know where boats are,you can see in the video the dolphins following the boat..they usually  go for handouts..very smart creatures.Maybe we'll get smart enough ourselves to be able to talk with them..