Originally Posted by John Daubert
Side "note": Gold and Silver could be traded in the open market, which could help the overall economy and the strength of the dollar. ??? Is that right?


Gold and silver are already traded in the open market. The value of gold, silver and oil are exploding because the value of the dollar has gone down. Why: The FED is printing money like it is going out of style (INFLATION). Plus our trade deficit is killing us. Remember when Wal*Mart used to advertise "Made in America" -- that really wasn't that long ago.

Originally Posted by Brian
You know, where you have to take a wheel barrel of money to the store to buy bread. Search history.. it's happened before.
Might happen here if we don't save our food production capabilities and we don't somehow rebuild our manufacturing capabilities. I am for open trade, but our trade deficit will destroy us -- it is time for import controls and tariffs.

Originally Posted by Brian
It seems, as I suspected, that there's an element of fatalism out there that suggests that there's simply nothing we can do. That's never true.
"The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining" The main problem is we need to fix the roof, but a huricane is raging outside. We have let it get to the state where "massive pain" is required in ANY solution.

Kevin

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