:wink: Just keep an eye out for those black helicopters :lol:

., owned by Leon Black's Apollo Management LP, has at least $875 million of debt that has an 89 percent chance of defaulting within five years, credit-default swaps tracked by London-based CMA DataVision indicate.

I'm afraid "Black Sunday" escaped 99% of all Americans.Wasn't it like two weeks ago that Bernanke said Fannie and Freddie were "well capitalized", or something to that effect?

For example, my father rarely had milk or cream in his bottle as a baby - he had black coffee.

Black Monday marked the start of the Great Depression when the market tanked.

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But even with hard work, you have to have a lot of pieces you don't control fall into place.A couple of very interesting books related to this topic are "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell and "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

He walked to the tub and said THIS was BLACK.

He's dangerously ignorant, and unpredictable as a result-- take bombing Pakistan for instance, or flip flopping on the status of Jerusalem, or whether or not Iran is a serious threat-- because he flat doesn't know what he's doing.Add to that his terrorist / marxist / black liberation theology mentors and you've really got a volatile mix that will make Jimmy Carter appear stable, and competent.McCain isn't my personal choice, and I live in a "blue" State anyway (Obama will run away with the People's Republic of Illinois by 20 points) but if I lived in a "swing" state-- I'd have to vote for McCain against Obama.

Hey I tell you what, I bought in Bulgaria on the Black Sea Coast in a town called Aheloy - thier is a website for it -[REMOVED] Now the economy in Bulgaria is still growing even in the credit crunch.