top 10... or 3... or whatever hidden tiger traps

The ECONOMY and YOU!!!!!!

1. Oil Dependency keeps us in the crosshairs. Fluctuations in the price of oil are a constant threat to a recovery path. Some say the past decade would have been better spent weaning ourselves off oil than spending those several trillion dollars in  waging war  nation building.

2. INSOLVENCY - in millions of mortgages and in various banks, except they are refusing to refi and hiding those mortgages from their official books to appear solvent as their Execs rape their institutions with record salaries and bonuses. SOUND FAMILIAR? Christopher Whalen harps on the subject non-stop, no one is listening.

3. GOP / Tea  Bagger  Party obstructionist Congress douchebags causing harm protecting Plutocrats while pretending to protect "real" Americans. What sane person would threaten sovereign default and then call the head of the Fed Treasonous when he uses his limited powers to mitigate the damage? An evil Texas Tea-Bagger Governor would, that's who.
That is like chopping some dudes arm off with a machete, throwing the arm in the river and then when a medic comes to wrap a bandage around the bloody stump, yelling at the medic, "hey, why are you hurting this dude?"
Ladie and Gentlemen, meet Rick Perry.
annnnnd RICK PERRY

Warren Buffett

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

Why has Warren Buffett thrown this enormous gift of spin to Barack Obama?

That's like a Hail Mary pass straight to the November 2012 elections.

To me this means only one thing: Warren Buffett is horribly afraid of the GOP running the Executive Branch for four years.

And since he is all about America and Business and Strength, that means Warren Buffett (the 3rd richest man on earth) believes that the GOP is a threat to America and American Business.

At least that's my take on it.

who's on first?

Can we all just stop pretending and start calling China the #1 economy already?

The "D" Word

http://blogs.reuters.com/lawrencesummers/2011/08/02/a-debt-deal-that-solves-the-wrong-problem/

Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression

The "R" Word

Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution

Oil-pocalypse Now!

97 dollars a barrel

Gas will crest 4 bucks soon

bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That'll sink a potential recovery in nothing flat.

where in the f*ck are we all going?

Sick man walking

The hollowing of America's manufacturing capacity and other super horribleness

Is America the sick man of the globe?

a trillion here, a trillion there...

and pretty soon you're talking serious money.

Senate passes Obama's $858 billion tax-cut plan

oy. this does not bode well.

healthy wealthy world

if you peel the Band-Aid too slowly...

it only hurts MORE.

the ever-falling sky

John Taylor says "The U.S. economy is headed for a new recession"

but doesn't that statement assume we already EXITED the current one?

it doesn't end

up down up down up down

freakin yo yo

Click your heels together and chant "there's no place like home there's no place like home there's no place like home"

My 5 stupidest predictions / moves during The Economic Apocalype

1. "A CD at 4% is too low a rate. Let's not lock it in for more than 6 months."

2. "New York City real estate is overvalued. Surely it must drop an additional 15 to 20 percent."

3. "Pull out of Apple. No one's gonna buy expensive niche electronics in the middle of a deep recession."

4. "Gold is topped out at $1050. We're in Recovery mode already."

5. Failure to take advantage of every goddamn stock rally from October 09 til now.

American Nightmare

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/09/24/obama-and-the-american-dream-in-reverse/

Less is more.

Learn to live with "more".