... probably both.  They are synonymous,.

The numbers you just cited would be REAL, and not manipulated.  Unemploymnt would be headed down, fake disabiliy filings would be down, food stamos would not be at record levels,and we would be on a much sounder fiscal footing,  Next question.

It would almost be worth it to see the welfare worthless standng in soup kitchens.

" market is driven now by a smaller and much wealthier group of people "  BECAUSE they were in the market in 1987 throughout the dot,com bubble burst in 1999.  There is nothing nefarious, greedy or mysterious about it.  Investments were garnering double digit growth and those in the market benefitted - big time.

"The best hedge is in goods we need and use everyday and will continue to."  Better known as "inelastic demand" products in economic textbooks.  You have to have:  Energy (electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, etc), food (and what  produces it - fertilizers, etc), and pharmaceuticals.  The remainder of consumable...more

"I even see some politicians and bankers being hung from lamp posts" This might be acceptible IF it led to the starving out6 and thinning the ranks of the welfare useless.

"The rich and powerful crash the economic system because of their GREED"  It is noit the "The rich and powerful"  who are crash[ing]  the economic system.  It is the GREEDY welfare worthless who are sucking thre life's blood out of the economy without contributing anything to it - except breeding more welfare slugs to ...more

Tokyo:  the difference between the present and the past is that we have now learned, in spades, that winnng wars does NOT guarantee they stayed "won"   Example - the left bank in Israel, the North in the Koreas, the mexican-American war.  Lives were sacrificed for a cause ... yet the losers crawl back decades (centurie...more

VL:  I figured your question out months ago.  "Mr, Fat Cat" is an unemployed union employee who vents his spleen on the business sites by posting ad hominem attacks in terms he believes (since he has never known a successful businessman)  a successful businessman would use against the "downtrodden."  E.g. he is the per...more