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December 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM #491586December 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM #490721
scaredyclassic
ParticipantARRAYA WROTE
Fear is why you look both ways before crossing the road. Which is not considered irrational.
What you are doing is crossing the road when you know very well it’s not safe to cross because you see, what you consider, the promise land on the other side. With lots of people telling you to cross for their own reasons.
MY CLASSIC NEW JOKE…
So, uh, why did the rooster cross the road?
his wife told him to…
December 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM #490887scaredyclassic
ParticipantARRAYA WROTE
Fear is why you look both ways before crossing the road. Which is not considered irrational.
What you are doing is crossing the road when you know very well it’s not safe to cross because you see, what you consider, the promise land on the other side. With lots of people telling you to cross for their own reasons.
MY CLASSIC NEW JOKE…
So, uh, why did the rooster cross the road?
his wife told him to…
December 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM #491269scaredyclassic
ParticipantARRAYA WROTE
Fear is why you look both ways before crossing the road. Which is not considered irrational.
What you are doing is crossing the road when you know very well it’s not safe to cross because you see, what you consider, the promise land on the other side. With lots of people telling you to cross for their own reasons.
MY CLASSIC NEW JOKE…
So, uh, why did the rooster cross the road?
his wife told him to…
December 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM #491358scaredyclassic
ParticipantARRAYA WROTE
Fear is why you look both ways before crossing the road. Which is not considered irrational.
What you are doing is crossing the road when you know very well it’s not safe to cross because you see, what you consider, the promise land on the other side. With lots of people telling you to cross for their own reasons.
MY CLASSIC NEW JOKE…
So, uh, why did the rooster cross the road?
his wife told him to…
December 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM #491591scaredyclassic
ParticipantARRAYA WROTE
Fear is why you look both ways before crossing the road. Which is not considered irrational.
What you are doing is crossing the road when you know very well it’s not safe to cross because you see, what you consider, the promise land on the other side. With lots of people telling you to cross for their own reasons.
MY CLASSIC NEW JOKE…
So, uh, why did the rooster cross the road?
his wife told him to…
December 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM #490731SD Realtor
ParticipantCongrats SC –
My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.
Wouldnt it?
December 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM #490897SD Realtor
ParticipantCongrats SC –
My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.
Wouldnt it?
December 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM #491279SD Realtor
ParticipantCongrats SC –
My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.
Wouldnt it?
December 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM #491368SD Realtor
ParticipantCongrats SC –
My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.
Wouldnt it?
December 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM #491601SD Realtor
ParticipantCongrats SC –
My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.
Wouldnt it?
December 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM #490746scaredyclassic
Participantmaybe. it’s not a bad bet. I think my expectations are so conservative — please god, just let me stay flat or close thereto over 10 years…that i won’t be crushed.
the temporary suspension of the short sale rules in the middle of the financial meltdown? that’s probably just a taste of what would happen if TSHTF. i don’t think confiscation would occur with gold; it wouldn’t have to ; much easier to just tax gold gains at 85% on all brokerage accounts holding gold.
December 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM #490912scaredyclassic
Participantmaybe. it’s not a bad bet. I think my expectations are so conservative — please god, just let me stay flat or close thereto over 10 years…that i won’t be crushed.
the temporary suspension of the short sale rules in the middle of the financial meltdown? that’s probably just a taste of what would happen if TSHTF. i don’t think confiscation would occur with gold; it wouldn’t have to ; much easier to just tax gold gains at 85% on all brokerage accounts holding gold.
December 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM #491294scaredyclassic
Participantmaybe. it’s not a bad bet. I think my expectations are so conservative — please god, just let me stay flat or close thereto over 10 years…that i won’t be crushed.
the temporary suspension of the short sale rules in the middle of the financial meltdown? that’s probably just a taste of what would happen if TSHTF. i don’t think confiscation would occur with gold; it wouldn’t have to ; much easier to just tax gold gains at 85% on all brokerage accounts holding gold.
December 6, 2009 at 9:30 AM #491383scaredyclassic
Participantmaybe. it’s not a bad bet. I think my expectations are so conservative — please god, just let me stay flat or close thereto over 10 years…that i won’t be crushed.
the temporary suspension of the short sale rules in the middle of the financial meltdown? that’s probably just a taste of what would happen if TSHTF. i don’t think confiscation would occur with gold; it wouldn’t have to ; much easier to just tax gold gains at 85% on all brokerage accounts holding gold.
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