[ReverseEngineer]

So how long do people just wallow in the anti-depressant fueled malaise here? It seems to me at some point there will be a backlash. I suppose after the anti-depressants run out? Have we reached Peak Anti-Depressants yet?

If you assume that a backlash is inevitable, in what form will it come? Will we have Monks setting themselves on Fire as in Vietnam and Tibet? Imagine the fire of some 900lb McBurger Addict on the White House lawn! Talk about fuel to burn for days! LOL. Maybe 500 Stockbrokers will join in a mass suicide pact and jump off the Empire State Building? Or will 10,000 GunToting Texas Rednecks led by Chuck Norris make a Suicide Run on the local IRS office screaming "Remember the Alamo!" LOL

Where and when will the TENSION be broken? What will be the Match to Light the Fire under the complacent assholes of America?

Reverse Engineer

[bencole]

A very good article, thanks.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'W')here and when will the TENSION be broken? What will be the Match to Light the Fire under the complacent assholes of America?

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cbxer55', 'M')eh, could be doc!
Myself, I do not watch much tv.
We are switching from cable to digital tv box next month anyhow.
So we will lose all of the "extra" channels.
And I do not drink "bud"!
Whiskey for me, doc! 100 proof, or nothing.
Got some in front of me right now.

[ReverseEngineer]

I'm off the booze, but I have a bottle of 18YO Glenlivet Single Malt ready for the day the Big Show comes to a Theater Near me Whether I have to go stand up in front of the Mob to speak the TRUTH or whether I have to go give myself up to the Bear, I think I'll need it. Its waiting for me.

Reverse Engineer

[Sixstrings]

When Peggy Noonan has gone Doomer, then the end is nigh.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ive weeks ago, when I asked a Wall Street titan what one should do to be safe in the future, he took me aback with the concreteness of his advice, and its bottom-line nature. Everyone should try to own a house, he said, no matter how big or small, but it has to have some land, on which you should learn how to grow things. He also recommended gold coins, such as American Eagles.

I went to the U.S. Mint Web site the next day, but there was a six-week wait due to high demand. (I just went on the Web site again: Production of gold Eagle coins "has been temporarily suspended because of unprecedented demand" for bullion.)

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hen Peggy Noonan has gone Doomer, then the end is nigh.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hen Peggy Noonan has gone Doomer, then the end is nigh.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'S')o how long do people just wallow in the anti-depressant fueled malaise here? It seems to me at some point there will be a backlash.

[simplelife]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hen Peggy Noonan has gone Doomer, then the end is nigh.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('simplelife', '
')Salvation is not about our choices, it is about God's choice.

[jbrovont]

This reminded me of an interesting article I read in Science a few years back about the statistics of duration. Basically if you define the "beginning" and "end" of an event as the 2.5% tail at either end of its timeline, then at any random point, there's a 95% chance that you're neither at the beginning or the end of it. There was a lot more to it, especially regarding selecting a good estimate of just how long the "beginning" and "end" should be, but it was pretty interesting. The thesis of the article was that if you select the length of the "beginning" of an event's timeline well, you can fairly accurately predict how long it will last in a surprisingly large variety of situations.

[eastbay]

Interesting article.

Attendance at my temple has been up quite a bit lately. Today was more crowded than I've ever seen.

[simplelife]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'O')f course. However, God only chooses those who choose right

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('simplelife', 'B')y works shall no man be justified. It is by grace though faith in Christ we are saved. It is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

[simplelife]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') man is measured by the content of his character and the strength of his will. It is only through his devotion to his fellow man that he can find Grace in God.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('simplelife', '
')To kinda stay on topic did you notice the OP link basicly said let the free markets work and we will self correct?

[simplelife]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'T')here is no such thing as a Free Market. Its never existed since Isaac Newton and the Bank Of England instituted a fiat money system 300 years ago. In case you haven't noticed, this crash is precisely what happens to "free market" systems that become top heavy. The system repeatedly crashes. The main difference with this one is its worldwide, and we are fresh out of resources for the "free market" to plunder.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('simplelife', ' ')But you havent noticed that the markets that get the closest, like US have managed to spread wealth more effectivley (by far)

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('simplelife', '
')Agree there are no true free markets (it''s a shame too). But you havent noticed that the markets that get the closest, like US have managed to spread wealth more effectivley (by far) that the most centralized economies like Russia? Even when USSR was flying high, there was no "middle class", pretty much everyone was poor except a few elite.