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Prices are high there because everyone wants to live in Normal Heights.

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Prices are high there because everyone wants to live in Normal Heights.

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However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

However, I want a democratic president in the white house becuause unlike Republicans, they care for the common, working-class man.

Man I wish that were still true. Maybe in the days of FDR and JFK but I don’t think so anymore. President Bubba gave China permanent favored-nation trading status to keep his Arkansas Wal-Mart buddies happy, so now we don’t make anything here anymore and instead buy all of our goods from a communist hellhole that uses slave labor to keep costs down. And good old President Bubba dropped the NAFTA atomic bomb on Mexican agribusiness, forcing tens of millions of poor farmworkers north in search of food. As an added bonus to make them even more miserable he extended the border fence 700 miles inland to make their trek northward horrifically dangerous. These two acts damaged America (and Mexico) as much as anything Bush has done to our economy while simultaneously strengthening China. Most of us in the middle class thought everything was great during the Clinton years because our tech stock portfolios looked fantastic, but in actuality it just took a few years before the real damage from his policies would be felt.

In Bubba’s defense I will say that his wars were smaller and killed fewer people, but only by a little. His nonstop 8-year bombing of Iraq and the continuation of Gulf War sanctions killed hundreds of thousands.

We are so screwed. I don’t care who we vote for, there is going to be more war, more debt, more bailouts for rich bankers, and more misery for the common American. Obama might be the only one that would do anything different but who knows. God help us.

[blahblahblah]

The Copes are just two of many in Orange County, formerly the center of the nation’s subprime lending industry, now trying to move on. Nearly 9,000 jobs have been lost there in the past year, with more than 4,000 alone in Irvine, where New Century was based.

Remember when everyone used to say that housing could never fall here like it did in the 90s because we wouldn’t have the massive layoffs like they did in the defense industry then? Perhaps they spoke too soon…

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The Copes are just two of many in Orange County, formerly the center of the nation’s subprime lending industry, now trying to move on. Nearly 9,000 jobs have been lost there in the past year, with more than 4,000 alone in Irvine, where New Century was based.

Remember when everyone used to say that housing could never fall here like it did in the 90s because we wouldn’t have the massive layoffs like they did in the defense industry then? Perhaps they spoke too soon…

[blahblahblah]

The Copes are just two of many in Orange County, formerly the center of the nation’s subprime lending industry, now trying to move on. Nearly 9,000 jobs have been lost there in the past year, with more than 4,000 alone in Irvine, where New Century was based.

Remember when everyone used to say that housing could never fall here like it did in the 90s because we wouldn’t have the massive layoffs like they did in the defense industry then? Perhaps they spoke too soon…

[blahblahblah]

The Copes are just two of many in Orange County, formerly the center of the nation’s subprime lending industry, now trying to move on. Nearly 9,000 jobs have been lost there in the past year, with more than 4,000 alone in Irvine, where New Century was based.

Remember when everyone used to say that housing could never fall here like it did in the 90s because we wouldn’t have the massive layoffs like they did in the defense industry then? Perhaps they spoke too soon…

[blahblahblah]

The Copes are just two of many in Orange County, formerly the center of the nation’s subprime lending industry, now trying to move on. Nearly 9,000 jobs have been lost there in the past year, with more than 4,000 alone in Irvine, where New Century was based.

Remember when everyone used to say that housing could never fall here like it did in the 90s because we wouldn’t have the massive layoffs like they did in the defense industry then? Perhaps they spoke too soon…

[blahblahblah]

The gold and silver markets are very subject to manipulation but in this case I think that it was the result of profit-taking. After the bailout of Bear Stearns the big institutional investors that had gotten into gold defensively last year took their profit and put it back into stocks, cash, etc… The thinking is probably that the fed will bail out anything that’s big so that limits their investment risk. Just guessing.

Who knows what gold will do? I do know that when we see things in the news, the Maja Playaz know that we’re reading them and that we will get scared/confident/etc… and they use this to fleece unsophisticated investors (like yours truly!) You can watch “Wall Street Warriors” to see this in action. One of the guys on that show is a 25-year-old who runs a hedge fund out of his apartment. His whole strategy is this:

* Look for bad news about a company in papers/on the web
* Assume that lots of people will short the stock
* Buy big quantities of the stock to drive up the price
* Squeeze those little shorters until they scream

He makes tons of money doing this and he can get away with it because he has an enormous amount of money to invest. There are probably thousands of guys like him, all of them making millions a year by moving the market in ways that are not expected. Gold and silver are manipulated in the same way, and with the addition of the ETFs for these the manipulation will probably get more extreme.

One thing to remember is that manipulation like this is generally short-term. If you truly believe that the price of something will go up in the long term and you have the stomach to handle the volatility, then the investment might be a good idea. Shorting and trading on margin are of course very dangerous here because time comes into play, but a conventional long position might still work out in your favor.

It’s all so confusing. I miss the Beanie Baby market where all I had to do was buy 10 Larry the Lobsters, wait a couple of months and sell them for a big profit 🙁

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