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		<title>By: Pat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is just not enough money to go around to support the US and Japan--the end game is near.....Once again the wealthy elite has lost control just as in the 30&#039;s--it is not an accident that Volker wants another Glass-Steagall like policy--they just cant call it that cause they will not take responsibility for their rape of the middle and working classes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is just not enough money to go around to support the US and Japan&#8211;the end game is near&#8230;..Once again the wealthy elite has lost control just as in the 30&#8242;s&#8211;it is not an accident that Volker wants another Glass-Steagall like policy&#8211;they just cant call it that cause they will not take responsibility for their rape of the middle and working classes.</p>
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		<title>By: Watch Japan &#8211; Have I said that recently? &#171; Icliks Incoming</title>
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		<dc:creator>Watch Japan &#8211; Have I said that recently? &#171; Icliks Incoming</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Gold Freak</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gold Freak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jen,
   We&#039;re concerned about the rest of the world because we need to keep the $ Ponzi Scheme alive if the Empire is going to stand. We need the rest of the world to use the $ or everything comes tumbling down..We&#039;re a Nation that is backed by a print press, that is backed by Oil, which is maintained via the barrel of a gun.

If China or Japan stops accumulating $&#039;s or decides they&#039;re going to use a substantial amount of $&#039;s we see high inflation and possible Hyper. If they stop buying our treasuries the Fed must step up and we will see Severe Inflation and more than likely hyper-inflation. If our treasuries are not purchased and we can no longer maintain our Military presence Oil will begin to be traded and purchased in different currencies and commodities. Once we lose the Oil backing we lose our Empire.

This is when we can get back on track. We can cut out the social spending and we can grow our manufacturing base. Recovery is not possible without the collapse of the $..it would be Political suicide.

The Military is at war to keep the $ on top..no need to thank the troops. Demand that the Politicians bring them home! That would do much more good. I spent over two years out there. It&#039;s time everyone else left.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jen,<br />
   We&#8217;re concerned about the rest of the world because we need to keep the $ Ponzi Scheme alive if the Empire is going to stand. We need the rest of the world to use the $ or everything comes tumbling down..We&#8217;re a Nation that is backed by a print press, that is backed by Oil, which is maintained via the barrel of a gun.</p>
<p>If China or Japan stops accumulating $&#8217;s or decides they&#8217;re going to use a substantial amount of $&#8217;s we see high inflation and possible Hyper. If they stop buying our treasuries the Fed must step up and we will see Severe Inflation and more than likely hyper-inflation. If our treasuries are not purchased and we can no longer maintain our Military presence Oil will begin to be traded and purchased in different currencies and commodities. Once we lose the Oil backing we lose our Empire.</p>
<p>This is when we can get back on track. We can cut out the social spending and we can grow our manufacturing base. Recovery is not possible without the collapse of the $..it would be Political suicide.</p>
<p>The Military is at war to keep the $ on top..no need to thank the troops. Demand that the Politicians bring them home! That would do much more good. I spent over two years out there. It&#8217;s time everyone else left.</p>
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		<title>By: John Rubino</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Rubino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>systemBuilder, the linked articles have some really good charts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>systemBuilder, the linked articles have some really good charts.</p>
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		<title>By: systemBuilder</title>
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		<dc:creator>systemBuilder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some charts would really make this into a very compelling article.  What about japan&#039;s Debt:GDP, and Japan&#039;s borrowing rates, overlaid atop each other?  Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some charts would really make this into a very compelling article.  What about japan&#8217;s Debt:GDP, and Japan&#8217;s borrowing rates, overlaid atop each other?  Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frankly...Why are we (United States) so concerned about other countries financial problems. Lets worry about how poor other countries are, how much debt they are in, what crisis they&#039;ll be in the next 5-10 years...Ha! What about our own country. Our goverment is so busy sticking thier noses in other countries business that leave out the most important thing &quot;The Unites States Crisis, potentially the next depression&quot;. I am 25 years old, and loosing confidence in our government way of governing. We need to take more focus into our own Financial pitfalls. Look at it from my point of view:

1. Take away the High dependicies on manufacturers and imports from Foreign countries (ie;China). Though it might sound harsh, considering the almost slavish job ethics. This would be a chance for the United States to be more self reliant and endure less debt. This in turn would create more jobs, which decrease the roughly 43,000,000 Million Unemplyed in the US (http://www.usdebtclock.org/). Who knows coming from me, mi-nute, this could increase the almighty value of the U.S dollar. Seriously it is rediculous.

2. There is one article a coworker shared with me I find interesting (http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com), I agree with this person, &quot;The only thing that can possibly work is the writeoff of bad debts, something both the administration and the Fed are reluctant to do. We can either do this now, or drag it out for two decades like Japan, only to end up deeper in debt.&quot; Mike Shedlock.

The Partial Spending freeze that will be discussed on Pres. Obama&#039;s State of Union speech tommorrow, is going to be preposterous, anyone heard of what happened 1937. Hmm...lessons not learned....I have just enough life experience to know at such a young age that it seriously impossible &quot;To spend&#039;s one&#039;s way out of a debt crisis.

More to come on my opinion, I have to get back to work, I am immesly greatful to still have a job....at least for now....

Let me leave you on this last note:
Know this, if we do hit the great depression, what is going to happen to the U.S? The Citizens? Families (Unemployed)? Future Generations (Hell, we are going to have less educated in our future generations because everyone/states/governments thinks a good place to start trimming the costs is by laying off teacher/professors) Not Smart....I think we should start by cutting some Salaries in the Hundred Thousands/Millions/Billion salaries these higher officials are making, and or bonusing themselves? Wouldn&#039;t you agree :)

What recovered us from the last depression, WWII, thats not my idea of a recovery, heck, we are at war now and all its doing is creating more debt! (God bless all those who are fighting over there for us, and Thank you). Come on... I think I have a realistic perspective for resolve of our crisis...and what you read here is just a small percentage of what should be done.....more to come in future blogs!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly&#8230;Why are we (United States) so concerned about other countries financial problems. Lets worry about how poor other countries are, how much debt they are in, what crisis they&#8217;ll be in the next 5-10 years&#8230;Ha! What about our own country. Our goverment is so busy sticking thier noses in other countries business that leave out the most important thing &#8220;The Unites States Crisis, potentially the next depression&#8221;. I am 25 years old, and loosing confidence in our government way of governing. We need to take more focus into our own Financial pitfalls. Look at it from my point of view:</p>
<p>1. Take away the High dependicies on manufacturers and imports from Foreign countries (ie;China). Though it might sound harsh, considering the almost slavish job ethics. This would be a chance for the United States to be more self reliant and endure less debt. This in turn would create more jobs, which decrease the roughly 43,000,000 Million Unemplyed in the US (<a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usdebtclock.org/</a>). Who knows coming from me, mi-nute, this could increase the almighty value of the U.S dollar. Seriously it is rediculous.</p>
<p>2. There is one article a coworker shared with me I find interesting (<a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com</a>), I agree with this person, &#8220;The only thing that can possibly work is the writeoff of bad debts, something both the administration and the Fed are reluctant to do. We can either do this now, or drag it out for two decades like Japan, only to end up deeper in debt.&#8221; Mike Shedlock.</p>
<p>The Partial Spending freeze that will be discussed on Pres. Obama&#8217;s State of Union speech tommorrow, is going to be preposterous, anyone heard of what happened 1937. Hmm&#8230;lessons not learned&#8230;.I have just enough life experience to know at such a young age that it seriously impossible &#8220;To spend&#8217;s one&#8217;s way out of a debt crisis.</p>
<p>More to come on my opinion, I have to get back to work, I am immesly greatful to still have a job&#8230;.at least for now&#8230;.</p>
<p>Let me leave you on this last note:<br />
Know this, if we do hit the great depression, what is going to happen to the U.S? The Citizens? Families (Unemployed)? Future Generations (Hell, we are going to have less educated in our future generations because everyone/states/governments thinks a good place to start trimming the costs is by laying off teacher/professors) Not Smart&#8230;.I think we should start by cutting some Salaries in the Hundred Thousands/Millions/Billion salaries these higher officials are making, and or bonusing themselves? Wouldn&#8217;t you agree <img src='http://dollarcollapse.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What recovered us from the last depression, WWII, thats not my idea of a recovery, heck, we are at war now and all its doing is creating more debt! (God bless all those who are fighting over there for us, and Thank you). Come on&#8230; I think I have a realistic perspective for resolve of our crisis&#8230;and what you read here is just a small percentage of what should be done&#8230;..more to come in future blogs!</p>
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		<title>By: hanky panky</title>
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		<dc:creator>hanky panky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe the Mayan calender was right about civilization as we know it ending in December, 2012.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe the Mayan calender was right about civilization as we know it ending in December, 2012.</p>
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		<title>By: 2010: The year we realized that the modern economy is nothing but a giant Ponzi Scheme</title>
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		<dc:creator>2010: The year we realized that the modern economy is nothing but a giant Ponzi Scheme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: henry1coulter</title>
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		<dc:creator>henry1coulter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Soon I&#039;ll probably be able to afford that Lexus LS460. Can&#039;t wait.</description>
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		<title>By: Bruce C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bruce C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First of all, I doubt the &quot;debt trap&quot; scenario will play out as described. Besides the dynamics changing in unpredictable ways right at the get go, I doubt foreign investors will even start to lend money to Japan via bond purchases. Would you? If Japan&#039;s solvency has gone from bad to worse in the last 20 years how could it improve by taking on more debt?  After all that has gone down recently, if foreign investors are still so greedy and pragmatic to essentially sell more drugs to an addict then they deserve what they (don&#039;t) get.
      Another thought: Since Japan&#039;s debt to GDP ratio is now about 167% and it&#039;s still standing - in fact we&#039;re all talking about lending Japan even more money - maybe the US actually has a long way to go before having any problems, having a debt ratio of only about 70%.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, I doubt the &#8220;debt trap&#8221; scenario will play out as described. Besides the dynamics changing in unpredictable ways right at the get go, I doubt foreign investors will even start to lend money to Japan via bond purchases. Would you? If Japan&#8217;s solvency has gone from bad to worse in the last 20 years how could it improve by taking on more debt?  After all that has gone down recently, if foreign investors are still so greedy and pragmatic to essentially sell more drugs to an addict then they deserve what they (don&#8217;t) get.<br />
      Another thought: Since Japan&#8217;s debt to GDP ratio is now about 167% and it&#8217;s still standing &#8211; in fact we&#8217;re all talking about lending Japan even more money &#8211; maybe the US actually has a long way to go before having any problems, having a debt ratio of only about 70%.</p>
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