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21 February 2009 | 75 replies
Housing is in collapse, but so is the job market, retail, commercial real estate, manufacturing, etc.
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22 February 2009 | 24 replies
How does a world economy "collapse"?
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4 March 2009 | 36 replies
Historically, the collapse of a fiat currency has not failed.
12 April 2009 | 18 replies
But it would be funny if they backed it by gold, and it somehow ended up becoming a safe haven against the collapse of the U.S dollar.
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12 August 2012 | 9 replies
At this point, I believe that a collapse of the US economy is an absolute certainty.
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10 April 2009 | 2 replies
It is just ONE of the many reasons that this country is broke and the entire economy is going to COLLAPSE!
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28 May 2009 | 15 replies
It saved us from a collapse but pushed the problem out to 2008.
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8 June 2009 | 33 replies
When the big 'O' took office it was already forecast to be 1.2 trillion deficit with an 800 million stimulus package included.But Bush repealed the up-tick rule, allowed the banks to expand leverage and never attempted to reign then in, he also never came close to a balanced budget and left the world at the brink of collapse, in two wars, and within the worst recession since the depression.Watching the mis-management of Tarp and the Car companies, both Bush and Obama, brings no joy either.
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4 June 2009 | 29 replies
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.