What hate, and dinna spare the whip! What be ye talkin' about?

omfg he won't enable addicts with more o' what's ruinin' their lives?!  SO MEAN!  Everyone knows enablin' destructive behavior is love!

Dirty Iluvatar, it's not government's role to impoverish people paying for garbage before the technology is there. You're saying that the poor should pay more today to pay for expensive and inefficient fuels because oil may run out in coming centuries. Great foresight.

Government doesn't invest as well as free people in free markets. Look it up. Literally every example on earth verifies this claim. The notion that government needs to tax the crap out of fuel and decrease anyone's standard of living for the sake of government-run investment is absolutely idiotic and harmful to every part of society--especially the poor.

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It's inept and embarrassing, regardless. And this guy is supposedly intelligent *snicker*, so it's remarkable even if it's been done before by lesser intellects and their organizations.

People should stop electing such incompetent trash, which is the source of all these idiot appointees and employees.

Einstein,

The academics you referred to did not study long-term health effects of organic vs hormone-pumped livestock or man-forumulated-pesticide-treated crops. They simply measured pesticides on non-organic foods to be within their lax standards of "safe enough" and pretended that this is as safe as lower levels. They didn't examine long-term health costs of bioaccumulation of these chemicals nor the long-term health effects of the massive artificial hormones in our meats.

If you'd read the study, you'd realize that its significantly limited methodology limits its findings substantially. They did a very limited measure, made large assumptions and did not examine them further, and found what they wanted to find: No significant conclusions because they chose only to examine very limited data.

Russian studies found sterility in 2nd and 3rd generations of small mammals.

You obviously trust big government and its big business/agriculture owners. But some of us don't mind eating food that wasn't genetically engineered in a lab, and labels to identify it are useful. You object to... labels? You object to... more information?

lol [TI] ARFeh zee Frenchie. Yup.

It's not a secret. It's not really a point of contention. Our elite are enriching themselves at a cost to our currency and everyone who has it.

Business owners don't hire based on gimmicks. That's why the stimulus accomplished nothing but devaluation of our currency: Besides the payoffs to public sector unions whose localities couldn't afford their pensions, it was handouts for all kinds of nonsense. Nobody smart enough to build a business is dumb enough to hire based on a one-time bonus of revenue.

lol @ shorting petroleum. Oh man. If only I had the time, I'd love to learn to day-trade oil.

I want to share with you a wise quote from the first seminar I ever attended on stocks/markets/trading/etc: "I love shorting. I make more money from shorting. People don't panic and buy; people panic and sell."

I just manage a few grand (;)) worth of stocks, occaaasionally some options, while I maintain my normal day job. I get significantly better returns than I'd get with a 401k, mutual fund(s), or otherwise letting someone else manage my money.

It's true that certain computerized systems can cause problems for people/organizations. As someone who only uses stop-loss orders, I really don't care. That's their freedom, their choice.

Nobody forces anyone to invest, nor to use any particular software. Regardless of errors and glitches, free markets correct for these things better than any authority ever cold. Free markets are still a huuuuuuge net gain for all. If errors are made by market employees, there's always lawsuits to rectify the situation.

Paininside, you are factually incorrect in pretty much everything you said regarding the stock market. The notion that the stock market is even remotely an indicator of the health of an entire economy is laughable. Essentially you're saying that, as long as those investing have significant capital invested, everybody is inherently doing peachy!

Yet investment of the stock market is independent of employment rates and wages. It says nothing of the average person, many of whom aren't invested at all but would like to have the money to be. It's a good thing when the markets are up, but it's certainly not an indicator of the health of an entire economy--_especially_ when government printing presses are inflating currency.

People often invest in these times to protect their wealth from the inflation of the dollar, not because they have tons of faith in the market or wealth to spare investing in it. Sometimes rises in the stock market are an indication of negative factors in the economy driving people to protect their wealth from their currency's devaluation.

The Yell is pretty much correct, but there are natural market levels, measures of valuation, market trends, local and world events, and innovation. If a stock is undervalued, it's bound to rise as people realize it's got a lot more profit (sometimes dividend) potential than it's currently priced for. A key to investing in stocks is doing your research and identifying companies positioned to rise significantly.

I don't mean to be rude, but it doesn't sound like you've ever traded on any market. I'm confused as to what you're basing all of these weird statements on.

They inflate our currency either way, The Yell. It's not literally printing money, but it's printing money by any "they're creating dollars" definition. They just do it and get it to the banks with dozens of nonsensical steps, resulting in your confused explanation above.

As Einstein said, the problem is inflation. The stock market rose a little in the short term...

But the stock market is not the economy. By inflating the money supply while there's a fixed amount of assets, prices on assets go up. That's why commodities continue to rise in price. That's why oil has more than doubled in price under Obama and continued to rise today. That's why food is skyrocketing.

Bernanke is doing everything he can to save his own job and cover his bosses' asses through the election. He knows the immediate benefits of his move, and he knows the massive cost in inflation will be delayed well beyond the election.

I'm not suggesting Romney will combat the sources of the crisis. While he might be slightly better at not stifling the recovery with higher taxes, he would address none of the underlying causes. I will not be voting for him either. I was not suggesting he's much better than Obama or Democrats/Republicans on the issue.

I was not suggesting Democrats are wrong and Republicans are right on the issue. While Democrats championed the horrible mortgages which primarily caused the crises, Republicans not only failed to corrupt the problem, but they don't even talk about it. Both parties are rubbish for ignorant sheep, in my humble opinion, and I will support neither.

Yeah, Einstein doesn't like to actually respond to what you say if you disagree.

We shouldn't be propping up any dictators. At least, if we only shot people who step on our lawn, our hands would be clean when we respond to haters. But since we wage war for corporate interests (and, now, NWO), we're not exactly faultless.