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First let me give you my background. I am a 25 year old protestant conservative in Los Angeles (whatever, my vote won't count anyway). UCLA graduate in Economics, currently in Finance. I am very passionate about economics, and am very involved in the financial markets. I would like to think I am good at making financial predictions. It is believed that the US economy will head in to a recession (if not already). I believe that there is a high probability that we are headed to a complete meltdown in the financial markets and neither the government nor the Fed...

There's an old Groucho Marx riff in which he launches a new career as a stick-up artist -- while worrying that his native cowardice may not induce the requisite fear among his victims. Sure enough, after a little time in a dark alley he springs out to confront his first victim, points his gun to his own head and says, "Take one step closer and I'll kill myself." Such is the posture today among pundits on the far right of the Republican Party as Sen. John McCain moves closer to receiving his party's nomination. Consider the destructive implications of their...