Author: Jay | Date: October 8, 2009 | Please Comment!

War Stuff:

Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000
Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran? - This provoked a thought for me.  If our government thinks that war will get us out of the recession (actually depression) like we are all taught that WWII got us out of the Great Depression.  Then it seems more likely the government might [...]

Author: Jay | Date: October 6, 2009 | Please Comment!

The Problem:
The demise of the dollar - This article requires a little bit of a discussion.  From the article.
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including [...]