[MichaelCorleone]

Thanks for your input. I’ve come to lean on your insights on the weekly thread to check on what I’m doing and/or thinking. And I’ll bet I’m not the only one either.

It’s scary to think of the possibility that some or all of the money you’ve worked and sacrificed for can so easily be taken away from you for no other reason than they ‘just need it’.

Thanks again.

[expat_panama]

Whoa, we're really looking at a fight from stocks to metals now!  Yesterday's metals gains now have futures traders charging in while yesterday's modest stock come back in light volume (AKA "dead cat bounce") now sees futures traders fleeing.   Also for today's festivities are scheduled Initial + Continuing Claims along with Wholesale + Gas Inventories.

Reuters  Global markets still shaky despite Fed assurance  Faith in a rally in share prices dating back almost three years has more shaky over the past month than for some time, as the Fed nears what looks like a definitive end to its program of new money-printing. The minutes from the U.S. central bank's last meeting, published after European markets had closed on Wednesday, offered no sign it was any closer to following that with a swift rise in official interest rates to cool the economy.

China says it's up to US to drive global economy BEIJING (AP) — China's finance minister said Wednesday that the country is not planning any new stimulus measures and it is up to the United States to drive the global economy. Associated Press

'Gridlock' Is What's Reviving the U.S. Economy - Merrill Matthews, Forbes

[expat_panama]

insights on the weekly thread to check

Seems contradictory but the fact that nobody knows what's going on is a very good reason to keep in touch with others' thinking, reality being somewhere in between us all.   I know I'm constantly helped out here; my take is the same as yours that we're watching to fronts, how to make more money and how to keep what we got.

[BipolarBob]

all of the money you’ve worked and sacrificed for can so easily be taken away from you for no other reason than they ‘just need it’.

History proves large tyrannical governments do just that. Do you really think Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Barrack Hussein Obama care that you worked and sacrificed to get that money?

[1010RD]

You’re not the only one.