[central_va]

Sorry, the gov’t can do something no other entity can, that is this: PRINT MORE MONEY.

[stylin_geek]

bookmarked.

[rllngrk33]

Like a decapitated chicken running mindlessly down the road, it just hasn't stopped moving yet.

Sounds like what our congress is doing right now with the "stimulus package".

[qam1]

Interesting but 3 things

1) The Government can print more money

2) Liberals are insane - via Einstien's doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. No matter what happens, it will be because we just didn't spend enough

3) His Roman History is way off

[MARTIAL MONK]

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[bamahead]

A bubble is a form of a Ponzi scheme and all the Ponzi schemes are now collapsing. These range from our huge Social Security pyramid to smaller Madoff type scams ...
Like any bubble, the disillusioned people are left with broken promises and worthless empty symbols of what might have been ...



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[FreedomPoster]

Ping; worth a read.

TM, the chart I believe you have posted of gov’t debt going exponential is one indication that gov’t is a bubble that has to pop soon.

[Dr.Deth]

Bumpty Dumpty.

[Starfleet Command]

Brilliant article. And points out one fundamental truth: You can’t fool Mother Nature. You can call a bunch of psychopathic individuals a “government”, and imbue it with all sort of mythical attributes and powers, but reality says otherwise: A motley collection of miscreants and dead-ends destined for destruction.

[Tolik]

Interesting!

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[George Smiley]

I’ve got the Grace Commission report on my shelf. Gonna pull it down and re-read it based on this post.

[Billthedrill]

An interesting thesis, and thanks for posting. It will be interesting to see just how long the international game can be played with toy money - quite a bit longer than one might think is my guess, but the end is likely to be the same.

One quibble - if Rome fell due to the extravagancies of Claudius, Nero, and Caligula - I don't think it did - it took four more centuries for it to do so. I don't think we have four centuries the way we're going but I'd be happy to be around to be called wrong.