gerald wrote:John - question -- is this topic " financial topics" getting a little off the deep end? Is this a reflection of the general economic situation? -- or are we just nuts? -- comments?
We're all a bit nuts, and aedens and Higgenbotham have always gone off the deep end.
John, you drew me back out of my cave.
I just have to say that aedens and I are perfectly sane, the rest of you guys who post here are not nuts enough, and the remaining ~7 billion are crazy as bat shit.
First post of the New Year! This is the year we collapse for good and the New Dark Age (which we are at least 6 years into) gets officially recognized!
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Like people saying that all the doomsayers and naysayers have been wrong for decades. What?
The Soviet Union didn't collapse? Lifespans in the former Soviet Union haven't gone down? Population hasn't gone down? Stalin didn't obliterate 80 million people before the whole mess collapsed into oblivion? Putin can save it? No way he can.
Japan hasn't been nearly obliterated in the past 25 years and isn't on its way out? It surely is.
Europe is a basket case. The strongest country in Europe, Germany, won't exist in 50 years given current population trends. That comes from official sources, not the crazies here.
And the real shit hasn't even hit the fan yet.
Anybody care to walk the streets of Detroit tonight and tell me the US isn't on its way down too? If you get out alive to tell your story?
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Now I live in Texas but here's the deal the way I see it.
Texas is the only state in the US that still has a solvent economy, that could stand on its own two feet without the current debt orgy.
But there's a problem with all that. Texas is being supported by white refugees who are fleeing other states with their money and bringing it to Texas. States like Michigan. Only the people who have any money left can get out and there are 100 people per day moving to Austin. They don't get here without money. And Mexican and Central American refugees who are willing to work for low wages and keep costs down so more white refugees can be drawn to Texas.
Call me crazy but that's what I see and I see it every day.
That's what a Dark Age looks like. Even the areas that prosper do it at the expense of someone else as the pie gets smaller (or stays the same size as the population expands is more accurate at this time).
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Bernanke was blowing his horn again this week about how he saved the world economy. This is more complete lunacy. The world wasn't saved by counterfeiting money any more than Putin can save Russia or counterfeiting money can save Japan.
Granted, I underestimated the extent that people would get mesmerized by the counterfeit money when all the info to know better is right at one's fingertips nowadays. That kind of ignorance will make the collapse even worse.
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While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
Believe me, Higgie, you're preaching to the choir. It's almost
impossible to believe what's going on. I used to think that
Washington and Wall Street were simply corrupt crooks. They're still
corrupt crooks, but now I fully realize that they don't even realize
that they're crooks. The glib euphoria that I see on tv is not
pretense. They actually believe that things will continue as they are
for years.
Why would someone with money move to Austin? Can't someone with money
live perfectly happily in some other state, even if it doesn't have a
solvent economy?
John wrote:
Why would someone with money move to Austin?
Many reasons.
For just one, go to the Newsweek list of top high schools in the country. Go to the column that says AP Scores and click on that column.
The school that will rise to the top is Westwood High School in Austin Texas. The kids who go there have the highest average AP scores in the US. People from all over the country move to that school district so their kids can go to high school there.
My sister has an Internet business that does about 15,000 orders per year all over the world. She has close interaction with customers. Most of her day is spent interacting with customers.
So my question to her this Christmas was - What are the best states and the best countries in the world? And what are the worst states in terms of having customers who are unpleasant to deal with?
Best states: Texas, Georgia
Worst states: Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin
Best countries: Italy, Spain, France
She and her husband want to move to Texas.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.