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Interestingly... I've noticed that during the past few weeks the price of oil has dropped sharply (90/barrel at the moment) AND as the World markets tank, the strength of the dollar has shot up finally. Apparently America isn't such a bad place to hedge your bets, despite what guys like Putin think. Hell if we can keep this global panic going just a bit longer we might get to parity with the Euro and cut our debt to China in half.

Some financial talking head on MSNBC just joked that Americ'as new motto could be "America: We Suck Less (than the rest of the world)"

As for all these global conspiracies.. At this point I'm willing to chalk most of this crap up to simple greed, ignorance, and general incompetance. Each nation, and all the major power players within those nations has their own competing agenda and at certain times those agendas may or may not overlap. As for some sort of secret shadow world government pulling all the strings, I just don't buy it.

PS: I just listened to this week's show and actually enjoyed it. I was planning to have to put my fist through the monitor, figuratively speaking, as I usually do when David starts ranting on politics. But actually this time I found myself wanting to hear more.. now THAT is surely a sign that the end times are near. I agree with David that the Paulsen-China link is a WTF situation. It's no coincidence that Goldman Sachs was not allowed to fail under his watch.

<blockquote data-quote="DamnDirtyApe" data-source="post: 38747" data-attributes="member: 527">Interestingly... I&#039;ve noticed that during the past few weeks the price of oil has dropped sharply (90/barrel at the moment) AND as the World markets tank, the strength of the dollar has shot up finally. Apparently America isn&#039;t such a bad place to hedge your bets, despite what guys like Putin think. Hell if we can keep this global panic going just a bit longer we might get to parity with the Euro and cut our debt to China in half.&nbsp;Some financial talking head on MSNBC just joked that Americ&#039;as new motto could be &quot;America: We Suck Less (than the rest of the world)&quot;&nbsp;As for all these global conspiracies.. At this point I&#039;m willing to chalk most of this crap up to simple greed, ignorance, and general incompetance. Each nation, and all the major power players within those nations has their own competing agenda and at certain times those agendas may or may not overlap. As for some sort of secret shadow world government pulling all the strings, I just don&#039;t buy it.&nbsp;PS: I just listened to this week&#039;s show and actually enjoyed it. I was planning to have to put my fist through the monitor, figuratively speaking, as I usually do when David starts ranting on politics. But actually this time I found myself wanting to hear more.. now THAT is surely a sign that the end times are near. I agree with David that the Paulsen-China link is a WTF situation. It&#039;s no coincidence that Goldman Sachs was not allowed to fail under his watch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DamnDirtyApe, post: 38747, member: 527"] Interestingly... I've noticed that during the past few weeks the price of oil has dropped sharply (90/barrel at the moment) AND as the World markets tank, the strength of the dollar has shot up finally. Apparently America isn't such a bad place to hedge your bets, despite what guys like Putin think. Hell if we can keep this global panic going just a bit longer we might get to parity with the Euro and cut our debt to China in half. Some financial talking head on MSNBC just joked that Americ'as new motto could be "America: We Suck Less (than the rest of the world)" As for all these global conspiracies.. At this point I'm willing to chalk most of this crap up to simple greed, ignorance, and general incompetance. Each nation, and all the major power players within those nations has their own competing agenda and at certain times those agendas may or may not overlap. As for some sort of secret shadow world government pulling all the strings, I just don't buy it. PS: I just listened to this week's show and actually enjoyed it. I was planning to have to put my fist through the monitor, figuratively speaking, as I usually do when David starts ranting on politics. But actually this time I found myself wanting to hear more.. now THAT is surely a sign that the end times are near. I agree with David that the Paulsen-China link is a WTF situation. It's no coincidence that Goldman Sachs was not allowed to fail under his watch. [/QUOTE]

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