Posted on 09/05/2009 1:53:41 PM PDT by tired1
"To all; are you ready? Never in the history of financial markets have there been so many landmines in place, each one wired directly to a nuclear bomb that sits atop the ENTIRE global financial system. The 'masters of the financial universe' have postponed the coming day of reckoning for so long and in so many different ways that they have backed themselves into a corner where almost any movement at all will trip one of these numerous landmines."
Me too. I’m not totally convinced it will all evaporate. But one this is certain...it’s closer to happening right now than it ever has been before.
As long as I can get in on it AFTER I’ve moved to Korea, I’ll be fine.
We’ll put it this way: I’m willing to buy 2 oz. of Gold and a couple oz. of silver to start. I just have to start work over there before I do anything.
Japan’s”Democratic Party” won last week’s election, and last May its finance chief advised that Japan should stop buying U.S. Treasury bonds unless those bonds were denominated in yen (not in dollars.)
A whole flock of Taleb’s “Black Swans” are heading our way and we have the monumental misfortune to have BO in charge of our country.
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