What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I'll say this, I was pretty right about how long it would take Obummer and the Democrats to get labeled failures. Ahahaha...

Yes, you and yours tried to pin that label on them before they even took office.

Pity it's not really sticking and the Obama administration is accomplishing a lot of what they said they would. You know, those pesky campaign promises that got them elected.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Seems to be a bit contagious as well.

Whatever it takes to keep the facade tacked into place...



Some people really believe we are a Left-Center country.
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RAMESH PONNURU

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Who said it would be down to $800 by the end of the year? What recovery? There's still 15 million out of work.

*laugh*
Keep cheering for failure Vette. It's your only hope.

As for gold prices.. Try This article.

You sold your gold and reinvested in the market right?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Thank you for the proof...

Now, about that pesky Alinsky question.

What did you read into his book?

Unlike some, I don't need someone else to dictate my beliefs to me Cap'n Randian.

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Unlike some, I don't need someone else to dictate my beliefs to me Cap'n Randian.

Well, then you were wrong yesterday in bashing me for having read from your side of the aisle in order to be better educated...




Obviously, in your world, well-read means being "dictated" to...

It must be nice to be so smart that you don't need to be educated outside of your own political purview.
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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Not yet, I still have some gold and looking at the past two weeks and the DOW futures this morning, I may have on one hand stayed too long and on the other gotten back in too soon. I've lost some money but I'm holding my own.

I'd hold on to that gold...

Obama purchased Euros.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Please keep in mind that it was not too long ago that Obama was reminding us that the stock market was a meaningless economic indicator...




To take great stock in it is the mark of a fool.




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Saul David Alinsky
Rules for Radicals

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Have fun...






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Madison, Federalist 62.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

BTW, that Euro might collapse before too long.

That was the pop in my kernel...

 

[firespin]

Cambodia... Garments account for an astonishing 80 percent of this impoverished Southeast Asian nation's exports, and the World Bank estimates that the industry, which was worth $2.5 billion last year, helps support – directly or indirectly – about 1 in 5 Cambodians, according to government estimates.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0905/p07s02-woap.html

A look in my closet revealed two GAP polo shirts made in Cambodia.

Gap has factories there. Gap used to utilize the American labor force, but no longer. They once produced their clothing entirely in San Francisco. Now they only produce in China, Cambodia, India, and tiny Saipan. As the economy recovers and they start hiring, do you think they're going to hire in San Fran or Cambodia?

Oh c'mon. The US textile and in particular apparel manufacturing business hasn't been competitive in twenty years; it's been losing jobs here for decades. Try to keep up here. http://www.bls.gov/OPUB/MLR/1997/08/art3full.pdf

As for Cambodia, ever heard of textile import quotas? That's the reason you see tags from lots of different countries. But the law has changed, and all that production is eventually going to china.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/quota011905.cfm

 

[firespin]

I needed a good laugh this morning. You displaying your utter clueless and unbridled arrogant nature always does it for me.

I owe you a big thank you with a hearty guffaw at your expense.

A non-substantive insult post? Oh, wait, it's from UD...I could have guessed at the content from that alone.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

A non-substantive insult post? Oh, wait, it's from UD...I could have guessed at the content from that alone.

You reap what you sow Firetroll.

 

[koalabear]

The Gulf Coast fishing industry is really booming.

 

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[Wrong Element]

Market closes 364 down, wiping out all of this years gains. Unemployment up, foreclosures up...the market is voting on the UD/Obama recovery.

What a weird thing to be happy about.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

What a weird thing to be happy about.

Not for him. He's probably cleaning his prematurely ejaculated watery load off his monitor right now from all the furious stroking to bad news.

When the market's up, they start bitching, "Wall Street means nothing, where's the JOBS???"

When the market's down, all of a sudden Wall Street matters and it's Obama's fault all over again.

Nothing but a bunch of fake-assed, knee-jerk reacting, whining, crybaby loser pussies, to the end.

 

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[mercury14]

Vette still hasn't learned that up AND down movement in the market creates wealth, not just up.

 

[firespin]

Vette still hasn't learned that up AND down movement in the market creates wealth, not just up.

So the market trading in a narrow range over time is preferable to it doubling?

Good luck with that.

 

[mercury14]

So the market trading in a narrow range over time is preferable to it doubling?

Good luck with that.

If you're putting words into my mouth that's exactly what I said.

I just put 30k into a pair of highly rated value funds. Perfect opportunity here.

 

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[mercury14]

I was profiting from dollar cost averaging when you were still pooping your diapers.

Then what's the problem?