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Why do you think they announced a buyout by JPMorgan of WaMu on a Thursday instead of waiting until their typical Friday? It's to push a resolution. I wouldn't be surprised if stocks tank on the after-hour news that's come out. Futures indicate it, and Asia is supporting the drop. How it...

Nuclear isn't bad, but it may be peaking soon too. Not all fuel is created equal, and standard reactors are only so efficient. Plus, it takes a lot of time, and MASSIVE amounts of energy to create one. Breeder reactors would work far better, but they produce weapons grade fuel as a byproduct...

Yes, this is true. Unfortunately the problems we face are far more complicated than "corporate welfare". We have an entrenched system in place which is difficult to address. That's how Leviathan persists, not because most people like it, but because inertia carries it onward, and a force...

After reading this thread, I agree: corporations are collective in nature. Many things are, though, so I think this point should be obvious to all, but apparently it isn't... It is in the nature of a corporation to have profits privatized and losses socialized. Large CEO payouts during a good...

A Corporation is a legal entity, which means they are created under the sanction of government by definition.

I just thought of something: We should all leave a book or two somewhere public with a handwritten note in the front... "You'll likely have one of three reactions to reading this book. 1. You'll love it. 2. You'll hate it. 3. You won't really care either way. If you hate it, please leave it...

Life should never be taken lightly... only taken upon threat of force. THREAT of force CONSTITUTES real force. It's the legal definition. They are legally equivalent (at least here in TX). That's why if you point your gun at someone, you'd better already be justified in shooting them dead...

Not a company, but Vallejo California just decided to declare it today

The same thing happened to me back in college. They were lucky they didn't wake me up, since I sleep with a gun handy. :eek:

Of course they won't work. That's the problem. We'll be stuck with the difficulties. You could be limited in investments overseas to avoid expatriation of capital. You could be limited in the amount of money you can physically take with you overseas (assuming air travel is still affordable...

The article is talking about places / cities with "China Towns". There's a lot more rice consumption there than where I live in Texas for instance.

What the video is talking about would be an act of counterfeiting... Someone could melt the gold down, alloy it with lead, then recast the coins, while retaining the gold that they replaced with lead, and then exchanging the leaded coins at the bank for fresh ones, until a stockpile of gold is...

Bottom line: they don't have the cash to cover such sums of money for more than just a few people. They have to wait for armored shipments from the central bank cash reserves. The banks are bankrupt and no one even knows it! But we do, and that means we have an advantage.

Excellent idea! I will do the same. We should all send 2 to the troops! Wouldn't that be an amazing thing? Educate the troops (who aren't already) while they're OCONUS. They can return ready to join in our efforts.

The video is calling for an enforcement of the age old law: no usury. I think he may have a point. His best point is on the nature of the exponential growth of debt and exploitation of resources to service the debt. This is true, and why the downward spiral of a credit crunch that we're...