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So long as jobs are paying well and these people manage their debt responsibly, it isn't that big of an issue. It's when inflation goes too high too fast and people can't keep up with their payments that debt starts becoming an issue I would think. The economy in the US is still very shaky, we're getting a mixed bag of adding more jobs to the economy (not necessarily good paying ones mind you) and seeing unemployment creeping back up again. Economy Adds Another 157,000 Jobs; Rate Up to 7.9% http://www.cnbc.com/id/100426559 Gas prices moving back up again will only aggravate the situation. Gas Prices Heading Up Again http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/02/...ding-up-again/ Only time will tell if the policies of the Fed are going to work. With the amount of GDP being consumed by the debt, I have my doubts. US debt headed toward 200 percent of GDP even after 'fiscal cliff' deal Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mone...#ixzz2JfIfFhGz Quote:
Now those are some serious fireworks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In other news: Newtown Calls for Armed School Officers http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/l...320221.html?dr Russian rocket carrying U.S. satellite plunges into Pacific Ocean 40 seconds after launch http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ly-launch.html Washington Post Co. explores the sale of its downtown headquarters http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z3
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2013-02-01, 11:27 | Link #26123 | |
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2013-02-01, 11:37 | Link #26125 | |
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So while Mr. Cross' metaphor of a 'SuperNova' isn't a literal detonation of the international money system it will be enough of a shake up to cause some serious havoc? I hope I read him correctly, because that was the gist I got from his article. His predictions and recommendations for investors on what to do during this 'explosion' are pretty darn scary before we get to whatever this economic situation will evolve into. (1) Position for eventual inflation: the end stage of a supernova credit explosion is likely to produce more inflation than growth, and more chances of inflation as opposed to deflation. In bonds, buy inflation protection via TIPS; shorten maturities and durations; don’t fight central banks – anticipate them by buying what they buy first; look as well for offshore sovereign bonds with positive real interest rates (Mexico, Italy, Brazil, for example). (2) Get used to slower real growth: QEs and zero-based interest rates have negative consequences. Move money to currencies and asset markets in countries with less debt and less hyperbolic credit systems. Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Canada are candidates. (3) Invest in global equities with stable cash flows that should provide historically lower but relatively attractive returns. (4) Transition from financial to real assets if possible at the margin: buy something you can sink your teeth into – gold, other commodities, anything that can’t be reproduced as fast as credit. Think of PIMCO in this transition. We hope to be “Your Global Investment Authority.” We have a product menu to assist. (5) Be cognizant of property rights and confiscatory policies in all governments. (6) Appreciate the supernova characterization of our current credit system. At some point it will transition to something else. That looks more like an investor's survival guide than a means to increase wealth.
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2013-02-01, 11:53 | Link #26126 |
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^ FYI, Bill Gross is one of the co-founders of PIMCO, one of the largest fixed-income investment funds in the entire world. He personally manages PIMCO's "Total Return Fund" the world's largest mutual fund. His words move markets and governments ..
Risk Assets: We can see right now that the low (read: zero real) interest rate environment has propped up the prices of risk assets. So we are right now seeing that risk assets are generating returns close to the bounds of sanity. For example: HYG - this is an index of U.S. high yield bonds is yielding 6.5%. (see: record-low high yield rates -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/splevera...cord-low-6-11/) Japan Comparison / Stagnant Growth Conclusions: A major concern is that so many liquidity (read: cash, money) is being injected into the system to continue to prevent deflation, that you have dollars chasing investment opportunities. Each additional dollar is getting put into decreasingly profit ventures, this is an issue that has been raised about non-competitive industries, which results in decreasing "real growth" per dollar invested (as well as the continuing survival and expansion of non-competitive industries and businesses) (also see: China's government owned banks vis-a-vis historical Japanese lending standards) I'm in restructuring, so in this environment, we call it "Extend and Pretend" (play on Amend & Extend) .. Right now, the ominous headwinds portend to the worst case scenarios being people will either stop believing (Boom!) or continuing dragging it along (Stagflation!) (Personal OP that is obviously groundless and uninformed)
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2013-02-01, 12:34 | Link #26127 |
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actually No, some of the islanders are descendents of Colonist Argentina sent when they claim the island. The only people the British kick over when they too over (again) were the military people. Majority of the Colonist elected to stay and switch allegiance to the British.
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2013-02-01, 12:45 | Link #26128 | |
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Here we go: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/...historyid=ac51 THE FRENCH SHOULD ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS! (maybe specifically only the East Falklands)
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2013-02-01, 13:19 | Link #26129 | |
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25 killed in blast at Mexican state oil company headquarters
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2013-02-01, 18:31 | Link #26130 | |
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Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey
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2013-02-02, 05:17 | Link #26135 |
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Because you know, UK, Canada, much of Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, to name a few, all with violent video games and some with violent cartoons and films have degenerated into cesspool of crime and high homicide rates.
OH WAIT. THEY DIDN'T. In fact the homicide rates in these countries are like 1/10 of USA per capita. Gee, video games must have different effect on Americans. Maybe they're suggesting US isn't inhabited by the same homosapiens. /sarcasm ... Or you know, maybe, just maybe, the problemn lies elsewhere. IMAGINE THAT!
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2013-02-02, 09:17 | Link #26137 |
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Twitter hacked with 250,000 accounts affected
Those who use twitter better check your e-mails in case your one of the quarter million affected users (I haven't gotten anything through, but there was an attempt to access my gmail account (which is the e-mail address registered to my twitter account) from Turkey around six hours ago which might be unrelated but there isn't any way to make sure). |
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Also, if you haven't already, consider using a password manager to generate random large passwords and store them securely for you (1password, lastpass or keepass are some usual choices).
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2013-02-02, 12:12 | Link #26139 | |
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2013-02-02, 13:15 | Link #26140 |
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If you're using only numbers in your iteration that would still be pretty trivial to crack. The issue isn't one of "guessing" passwords, it's when lists of hashed passwords are compromised and are reversed using brute force. It takes a while but computing power is becoming very very cheap (GPUs are surprisingly cheap for their ability to deal with the sort of calculations needed to reverse hashed passwords).
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