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by Higgenbotham
Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:31 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

Hig, thanks for the expansion of what i was trying to say. I suspect that the relative cost of health and education have a lot to do with this factor. Of course, there might come a time when people stay married and this stuff moves back to the home. Funny that people build these fancy homes then do...
by Higgenbotham
Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:13 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Defensive Interpretation on GD?
Replies: 55
Views: 40441

Re: Definition of Currency

http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin/ Currency Federal Reserve notes comprise more than 99 percent of all U.S. currency in circulation; the remainder includes United States notes, national bank notes, and silver certificates, all of which remain legal tender. These definitions are basi...
by Higgenbotham
Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:14 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: What can families do now to protect themselves?
Replies: 19
Views: 17682

Re: What can families do now to protect themselves?

Hi everyone, I want to open a discussion of what families (and individuals) can do NOW to protect themselves from what is going to happen in the next few years. Lets not condemn anyone for the decisions they made to get themselves into the situations they are in- that is irrelevant for the discussi...
by Higgenbotham
Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:06 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

McDonalds only replaces what people were already doing for themselves. This is an interesting subject by itself because we know that in a boom people tend to hire out services instead of perfoming the services themselves, and that has happened to a greater extent during this boom than ever before. ...
by Higgenbotham
Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:11 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

John, Please respond to recent Schiff article...your recent post regarding GD being a trend forecaster over longer time lines.. not an effecient predictor of short to intermediate events... can one look at 'Schiff's ' position as one which is based in Global economics and reflects the potential eff...
by Higgenbotham
Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

On the subject of technology and the development of complex societies in general, we could look back to the heyday of the Roman empire and I believe that from a technological standpoint the Romans had the beginnings of a basic industrial society coming into form. As I understand it, the Romans had b...
by Higgenbotham
Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:16 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Defensive Interpretation on GD?
Replies: 55
Views: 40441

Definition of Currency

http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin/ Currency Federal Reserve notes comprise more than 99 percent of all U.S. currency in circulation; the remainder includes United States notes, national bank notes, and silver certificates, all of which remain legal tender. These definitions are basic...
by Higgenbotham
Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:40 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Defensive Interpretation on GD?
Replies: 55
Views: 40441

Re: Defensive Interpretation on GD?

Still, you never answer or discuss this main abnormality of the today system: ... It is simply impossible for a pure deflation to take place because of one notable anomaly that perverted all standard Keynesian economic theory: namely the fact that the worlds largest debtor nation controls the inter...
by Higgenbotham
Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:35 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Defensive Interpretation on GD?
Replies: 55
Views: 40441

Re: Defensive Interpretation on GD?

... This is an extremely complex issue, certainly not as simple as those who are sure it will be this way or that way make it out to be. We are already agreed in previous discussion that this is point where things are not so clearly. BUT, I understand that you supporting your deflation theory. And ...
by Higgenbotham
Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:02 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Defensive Interpretation on GD?
Replies: 55
Views: 40441

Re: Defensive Interpretation on GD?

Thank you Higgenbotham. This can be called - a discussion! So I try to roll it further: ... This guy has thrown so much garbage at the wall that it would take me days to go through it all, but let's start with just this bit quoted here. ... Not necessary. You already put clearly your stand points a...