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You're in real estate?
It's been solid in the years before 2007.
Many people advise TIPs (Treasury Inflation Protected).
Essentially, short term Treasuries can be as good as cash at this time.
There's real concern over the risk of inflation.
Perhaps you don't fully understand the people who get a free lunch.
They might just be those who have invested in the $650 Billion in corporate bonds in the past 3 years.
And the Trillions in ten, twenty and thirty year Treasury bonds.
If inflation gathers speed to 2.5% (Bernanke's stop),
Any intervention by the Federal Reserve will take months (6 at least) to correct.
I'm not one to encourage bureaucracy and add more weight to school budgets but.................
What if we assigned a teacher who had 20 years in the profession to monitor, instruct and critique new and existing educators.
After four/five years in collage a teacher is thrown into the snake pit of a classroom.
Could an apprenticeship be an answer?
Certainly there are teachers who have reached a level and an age that would be qualified to act as mentors for other teachers.
These welfare and food stamp participants..........
They may just be intelligent enough to understand diminishing returns.
If the biggest employer in America, WalMart, pays wages below the poverty level for a family of four,
What opportunities are there for the majority of unskilled workers?
Loans for education are available but there's that pesky diminishing returns problem:
If one does beg a loan and no job is available that loan follows with interest and no bankruptcy will stop the interest until one dies.
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The idea that welfare is something to attain is simply ridiculous.
No matter how someone might scam the system-----
Cell phone, housing, work under the table, etc.
They'll never be able to live the dream.
They survive.
Reminds me of the French Revolution.
"Let them eat cake" was the response to the population who were subjected to spoiled produce.
Holy Crap, Arizona!
Great post on the American Persona.
From looking at your documentation, I'd say that entertainment was the driving force.
Just like our National School system;
If Education is like water,
We have a lack of sponges.
We want to tune into the things that affirm our personal philosophy.
Security is a blanket that warms but it needs constant defense from new thought.
Politics has always been a struggle for power.
Money has changed the political Theater.
And Obama won re-election in spite of Adele Anderson's millions.
As the Republican's suggest; the deficit can't be relinquished by taxing the rich.
Of course not!
The Republicans are right!
Capital gains and dividends should be taxed as earnings.
I don't like taxes but if the 1% want to reduces their percentage of contribution to the Federal revenue then everyone else has to earn more.
The talk of a fiscal cliff is just a distraction.
The real financial and economical problem is in the National Debt in February.
You've been insulted by the posts on this board and yet you've continued to post here?
Please let me end your conflicting impulses.
I'll ban you.
I'm surprised you decided to post here.
Please reconsider.
There's a political stratagem to postpone the fiscal cliff:
Allow the President to 'win' a percentage rise for the wealthiest.....
Maybe to 38% as the top tax. And hold currant the rates for everyone else.
That may delay the cliff and bring the battle to February when the National Debt must be negotiated.
Of course, any delay or even a question about payment of debt will negatively effect the US credit rating.
This is the most obvious flaw in Treasuries.
Derivatives would cascade in risk.
Systemic failure.
Now don't be so quick to forgive human population and the development of natural disasters........
America had such an event in the 1933 Dust Storms.
Farming of the grassy plains in the mid west reduced the natural defense of the plains to drought.
Great PBS documentary-----------
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/
Hummmmmmm.... forming a collective to ensure survival?
Big Government? Or is it the individual?
No time to question rhetoric when there's a flood!
Humans have always needed one another.
Underdeveloped at birth, we rely on mother's milk and father's gather/hunter skills.
Father hunted with the neighbors and shared the bounty.
Mom helped other moms when their time to bear life was at hand.
Life was unforgiving and survival was in question.
It's really not unlike today's questions for some humans and their survival.
For others the question amounts to that person they see in the mirror.
Until the flood reaches their feet!
My speculative IRA account is in gold. IRA's don't allow puts.
My retirment IRA account is really wimpy, basicly cash.
But thanks for the great advice.
You are one lucky SOB! Hahahahahahaha
Forrest Gump was a great movie at a great time (not to compair you with Forrest)
So many fantastic events revolved around those times.
You, my friend, are a part of a history!
The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
But this is where politicians get their money for election campaigns.
They can't bite the hand that feeds them! LOL
In one sentence you've simplified my posts!
Yea, that's the truth of it.
I think we haven't hit bottom (% return) just yet.
Perhaps it's under 1% return on the ten yr treas?
Any thoughts?
Ben is doing his job.......buying up mortgage bonds to support the major banks and, in turn, this is suppose to free up capital for loans.
It's bull.
Banks should be negotiating bad mortgages and revive housing at their loss.
I'm venting.............
But the derivative market has no transparency and, just like 2008,
banks and financial players will distrust each other.
Systemic failure all over again.
They seek to monopolize the price of gold to protect their assets
but gold is only slightly under priced,
$1850 is my guess.
Thanks for posting the article!
There's so much money in bonds and more coming in.
The ten year Treasury ended the day at 1.59%.
By all accounts, that's about the inflation rate.
There's every indication that the rate of return will go much lower.
I suspect this will be the trigger.
And derivatives would be the likely culprit for systemic failure.........
But it would be good news and the flight from bonds that will trigger derivative failure not the fiscal cliff..........my guess.
It's your illusion.
The liar loans that led up to the housing bubble made billions for banks, millions in bonuses.
This isn't about selling to some poor family.
It's about speculation and greed.
It's about the selling faulty mortgage bonds to the entire free world.
It's about systemic failure originated with cash default obligations.
AIG's failure was CDO's.
How many mortgages did they sell to po' folks?
Destruction of the consumer base is destructive to the economy.
Essentially, this practice is self destructive to any company.
Calling Dr. Phill....
Calling Dr. Phill....
lol
It's called 'psychosis'.
Dave Brubeck pasted just a day before his 92ent birthday.
Famous for "Take Five", here's something of his sensitivity;
"For All We Know"
This is a real board.
It's posters are real humans with all our diversities, qualities and flaws.
Perhaps Politics and Money needs a love.......
Let's all take a brief respite and sing along.
Banning someone is the last thing we can do to educate them.
But his post just pushed me over the edge!
Years ago (in a land far away Lol) we recognized the influence of Government to advance the human condition.
There are needs of the population that the government addresses;
Trash pick-up,
Water and waste,
Utilities.............
Scales and enforcement, and here's were it becomes complex......
Coins and monetary exchange.
We've drawn the conclusion that some merit from Government supervision more than others.
We've chosen a progressive tax to support the necessary government expenditures that they require.
Just reviewing and responding from yesterday's posts------
And once again you seem to merit my attention.
I'm completely pissed by your post:
Here's the definition of 'progressive tax':
http://www.investorwords.com/3892/progressive_tax.html
"A tax system in which those who earn higher incomes pay a higher percentage of their income than those with lower incomes. A graduated tax is one example."
In answer to your question:
You can 'tilt against windmills' all you like.
Progressive taxation is 100 years old.
The inception of American tax code.
What ever your opinion is can be construed as radical.
I'd love to embrace any radical thoughts but you have to produce an alternative that can be accepted.
It's because Democrats are now conservative.
Republicans have become radical.
Left wing socialists are non existent.
Think about it;
Social security is called an entitlement because we've payed into it for 80 years.
But it's proceeds are used as revenue and the I.O.U.'s written on my insurance policy has accumulated to $16 Trillion!
Now Republicans want to cut Social Security benefits to reduce the Federal deficit?
Let's get one thing straight here------
It's called an 'entitlement' because we/I are entitled to it!
We payed into Social Security and Medicare with every paycheck.
That's true for Europe. Especially Greece.
The 'simple math' is debt to bond holders.
Eliminate bonds and there would be no debt.
Sovereign debt would disappear.
Retirement funds....vanish, Poof!
The only help for the people who live off capital gains would be food stamps!
Tell that to Geithner!
We've guaranteed their solvency.
Blame Bush, Blame Obama....no matter.
If (or when) the bond market goes bust let's hope that Dodd-Frank
protects us.
Your post is the reason for Inheritance Tax!
It's the circle of life.
The social order that you assume and the mechanics that support your position, in your residence, is directly related to the people who added to your existence.
Dude, this board is as free as I can make it.
America is only as free as we are willing to pay for it!
Money is bull........
There is no price we can place on the emotional investment!
But that's only Human.
We make commitments,
We Fuck and create a family,
We become attached to the little rug rats and
We want the best for the subsidies we fathered.
As a Country, we all assume responsibility for the little subsidies.
The good you are doing as a tax payer is beyond anyone's expression of gratitude!
What is important is the election.
A democratically elected official assumes the opinion of the people.
The opinion of the people is that Tax rates should be progressive.
The right thing for the country is to tax unearned compensation.
Capital Gains, Dividends and Social Security/Medicare for people who die with the riches they can't/won't distribute.
Thank you for that reasonable suggestion for tax reform!
I'd like to say that if corporations have an 'entity' (as courts described)
They should be taxed as an entity. Such as myself.
Consumption Tax on a retail level is simply unjust.
It should be universal as entities consume.
Transaction tax is my solution.
And you know why I invest in Gold Mining companies.
This is a world-wide problem.
Most major banks reduced their exposure to Sovereign European debt but the bond market (Corporate bonds) is rising noticeably.
Wake up, Dick.
That's what's happening NOW.
Not ten days from now.
Idle money is searching for a hiding place.
It's been going on for at least 12 years.
How 'bout an honest day's pay for an honest day's work?
Do you want to subsidize Walmart workers?
WalMart is the biggest employer in the US and workers need food stamps to bring them up to poverty levels.
I pay those taxes!
In my home town.
Let Walmart pay enough to bring their workers above poverty.
What the ... are you talking about "pay 100% in taxes"?
You must be a Jewish Lawyer! LOL!