[I_Like_Plants]

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3311/81/

Dollar down to 10 to one Euro?

I'd better work on my French and see about getting a boat ticket....

[Heineken]

Well, the financial markets seem to be holding together, for now---even rallying somewhat. We'll just have to see how long the thing can last. No one knows. No one can know. I've read a zillion of these articles and the Big One never seems to happen; the system just keeps patching itself up and rising to new levels of craziness and excess. I have to say I'm impressed by the system's resilience, especially in the midst of the housing implosion. I know that it can't last forever, but speculation as to just when and how it will collapse seems absolutely futile.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'W')ell, the financial markets seem to be holding together, for now---even rallying somewhat. We'll just have to see how long the thing can last. No one knows. No one can know. I've read a zillion of these articles and the Big One never seems to happen; the system just keeps patching itself up and rising to new levels of craziness and excess. I have to say I'm impressed by the system's resilience, especially in the midst of the housing implosion. I know that it can't last forever, but speculation as to just when and how it will collapse seems absolutely futile.

[Heineken]

Good weird post, Cur.

As for the day getting too long and the time for bed drawing nigh, I second that emotion!

Also the sense of being nothing. God am I nothing. The whole damn ball is nothing. Remember the end of the movie "Men in Black"?

[drgoodword]

There are a number of factors (besides shadowy and hard-to-prove ones like the PPT) struggling to keep the market alive.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, "The Mutual Fund Factor" will be the cause of a number of mini-rallies on the big slide down, and might even continue to operate after a full-blown crash, until a sufficient number of people cancel their automatic monthly investment withdrawals/deductions.

People also seem to be forgetting that we have only started the bad economic news cycle that will drive the market down this year. Up till last July, the housing and subprime crises were widely considered to be "contained." The key factor affecting the severity of the upcoming economic downturn, consumer spending, only took its first real hit in December. And employment numbers went down only this past month (January).

I believe that only after a number of successive months of bad news--particularly with regards to consumer spending, employment and retail sales--will the market capitulate in a full-blown crash.

I'm still looking to April/May for the big crash, but it could be as late as October of this year.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '.')..I've read a zillion of these articles and the Big One never seems to happen; the system just keeps patching itself up and rising to new levels of craziness and excess.

[Heineken]

Zardoz, the GAME could go on forever, of course, as long as there are living, willing, and able players. But the REALITY will assert itself regardless.

Perfect example is 1920s Germany. Everybody was playing the game, which involved printing billions of marks to pay for a loaf of bread. Went on amazingly long.

Reality ultimately asserted itself, though, and his name was Adolf Hitler.

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '
')Also the sense of being nothing. God am I nothing. The whole damn ball is nothing. Remember the end of the movie "Men in Black"?

[jboogy]

Tommy Lee blasted his way out of the roach's guts, he got memory-thingied, morgue girl joined MIB and her and W. Smith drove off. I'm not getting the connection.

I saw something for the first time ever tonight, I'm in line at winn dixie and the young couple in front, checking out, couldn't get the manager to accept their check, I didn't hear what was said but they walked out of the store leaving their groceries.

Also have seen 3 cars on the side of the main road between albany and leesburg, one of them has been there for 3 days and the other 2 for two days, all three have their gas flaps open letting the police know they've run out of gas, but how long does it take to get gas? It's like they ran out and then abandoned their cars. Probably doesn't mean shit, it's just weird, that's all I'm saying.

[BigTex]

We're in a bear market. The stock market will drift lower for months or years, just like it drifted upward for months or years. Hard times may be on the way, but the stock market is behaving about the way one would expect in a bear market.

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'W')ell, the financial markets seem to be holding together, for now---even rallying somewhat.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'T')ommy Lee blasted his way out of the roach's guts, he got memory-thingied, morgue girl joined MIB and her and W. Smith drove off. I'm not getting the connection.

[Rabbit]

At the end of the movie, the camera pulls back, way back and you see the earth. Then you see the earth is just a pool ball on a pool table among other balls. Then you see that aliens are shooting pool and the earth is just a small part of a much larger game.

[Heineken]

Right, that's it, Rabbit. (My apologies for scrambling up some of the details of this.) It was an incredible scene---more impressive than the rest of the movie, which is itself pretty good. A fine symbolic representation of how trivial we are in the broader scheme.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rabbit', 'A')t the end of the movie, the camera pulls back, way back and you see the earth. Then you see the earth is just a pool ball on a pool table among other balls. Then you see that aliens are shooting pool and the earth is just a small part of a much larger game.

[oowolf]

Like Monty Python's "Galaxy Song";
"So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth"

[Rabbit]

Sorry, it was marbles. I think I am loosing mine in my old age.

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'L')ike Monty Python's "Galaxy Song";
"So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth"