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Our trades are up before open but US10yy is down to 1.033, dxy stable @90.2. How does that fit ?!

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Thanks Greg, I bought your book. Only on chapter 2 of it. Very interesting so far. Long time follower.

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PERFECTLY SAID. I'M NOT QUITE SURE AS TO THE INABILITY OF CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS

AND CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS TO STREAMLINE GOVERNMENT POLICIES SO THAT WE

REDUCE DUPLICITOUS PROGRAMS WHILE PROVIDING AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THE US

CITIZENS SOME RELIEF CHECKS AND PROGRAMS FOR FOOD, ETC. I'M NOT SURE WHY EVEN

PROGRESSIVES NOR LIBERALS WOULD HAVE AN ISSUE WITH STREAMLINING WHILE NOT

DENUDING RELEVANT RELIEF PROGRAMS TO THE LOWER INCOME AND POOR INCLUSIVE

OF THE HOMELESS. ARE WE ALL SADDENED BY THE HOMELESS AND THE HUNGRY OR THE

PEOPLE LIVING UNDER BRIDGES OR RIGHT ON A SIDE WALK IN HOLLYWOOD UNTIL THE

POLICE PICK HE OR SHE UP OR HOW ABOUT THE TENT CITIES. HOW DOES ANYONE CONSIDER

THIS CONDUSCIVE TO A FLOURISHING US OR TO OUR ESSENTIAL CONTRACT WITH THOSE

SAME DISENFRANCHISED AMERICAN CITIZENS. WOULD CONSERVATIVES OR LIBERALS

BE AGAINST FEEDING THESE FOLKS, PROVIDING CLOTHING, HAIR CUTS, HEALTH CARE,

AND WOOD FRAME HOUSING UNITS FOR THESE FOLKS DURING THIS CRITICAL TIME?

YOU KNOW WE HAD A GREAT DEPRESSION BACK IN 1929 TO I BELIEVE IN 1933 AND THERE

WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE HUNGRY AND WITHOUT JOBS AND THE US GOVERNMENT DIDN'T

JUST SIT ON IT'S ASS WAITING FOR SOME MAGIC WAND TO PROVIDE THINGS FOR THESE

UNEMPLOYED AND TRANSIENT PEOPLE. NO, THEY SET UP WORK PROGRAM, INFRASTRUCTURE

PROGRAMS, TRAINING PROGRAMS AS WELL AS HOUSING YES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE IN WHICH THEY BUILT TOILETS AND BASIC FACILITIES AND CABINS FOR THESE

FOLKS UNTIL THEY COULD FIND A JOB AND THEN PAY BACK THE MINIMAL COST FOR THE

STAY THERE. BUT IT PROVIDED AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH SHELTER, WATER AND SOME

NECESSARY FOOD AT A TIME WHEN THE PRIVATE SECTOR JUST COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH

THE COLLAPSE SO THE US GOVERNMENT STEPPED IN. I DON'T THINK THIS AN INCREASE

IN SPENDING OVER THE LONG TERM BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY EXPENDITURES IN THE

SHORT TERM SO THAT WE NUMBER ONE "MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN" BUT IN THE MOST

IMPORTANT WAY. MAKING SURE THAT THOSE WHO ARE DOWN AND OUT HAVE A PLACE

TO STAY, TRAIN, FOOD AND SO REBOUND BACK, JOBS EVEN IF SHORT TERM TILL THE ECONOMIC WINTER BREAKS IT'S "FEVER" AND YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE THESE SAME FOLKS

OF THE HARDEST LUCK IN THE WORLD SLOWLY DISSIPATE AS NORMAL OPPORTUNITIES

COME BACK AND THEY ACTUALLY ARE READY AND ABLE AS WELL AS HEALTHY TO BE PRODUCTIVE WORKERS AND YES SOME ENTREPENEURS AS JUST BECAUSE YOU ONCE WERE

POOR DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN YOU WILL BE THAT WAY FOREVER.

WE CAN ALSO TRAVERSE THE WHOLE ISSUE OF THE US MILITARY SPENDING AS WELL BLOATED

AS IT IS WITH LITTLE OR NOR AUDITING OVER DECADES YET WE KEEP PUMPING THE AMOUNT

OF DOLLARS INTO THE DEFENSE CONTRACTS. THIS DOENS'T NECESSARILY MEAN WE DRASTICALLY CUT THE US MILITARY BUDGET BUT WE CAN NEVER ACCESS IT'S EFFICIENCIES

OR INEFFICIENCIES. I'M NOT QUITE SURE IF YOU ARE BUSINESS AND YOU WOULD NEVER

HAVE TO ASSESS YOUR PRODUCTIVITY/EARNINGS/ AND EXPENSES "BUT" BE PAID MORE AND

MORE EACH YEAR WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE ASSESSMENTS?

THESE THINGS ARE NATURALLY TERRIBLY ROUGH FOR CONSERVATIVES, LIBERALS AND

PROGRESSIVES TO AGREE ON IN EACH OF THESE ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES "BUT" IF WE

"NEVER" DISCUSS THESE ISSUES IN DETAIL NOR EVER APPLY ANY REASONED POLICIES

TO DEAL WITH OUR PREVAILING MAJOR NATIONAL ISSUES THEN HOW DO WE MOVE

FORWARD TOGETHER?

IN THAT ALL THE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ARE DEEPLY INTEGRATED AS WELL AS THE PRODUCTION

AND SUPPLY CHAINS, THEN WE SHOULD BE SPEAKING CANDIDLY WITH OTHER NATIONS TO

SEE IF WE HAVE VENERABLE WAYS TO DE-CONCENTRATE PRODUCTION CENTERS AND RATHER

DEFUSE THEM TO ALL REGIONS OF THE WORLD AS WELL AS INCORPORATE MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SUPPLY CHAIN REPETIVE LOOPS SO THAT WHEN ONE MAY GO DOWN ANOTHER CAN COME ON LINE FOR THAT PARTICULAR INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY(IES). CURRENTLY,

OUR INTEGRATION IS A PROBLEM YET IT CAN BE DEALT WITH HONESTLY OVER TIME AS WELL

AS CURRENCY AND COMMODITY ISSUES ACROSS THE BOARD. BUT THIS WILL "TAKE TIME"

AND A HELL OF A LOT OF EFFORTS FROM ALL NATIONS DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

TO PROVIDE SATISFACTORY INTEGRATION WHILE REGIONALIZING PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY

AND REPETATIVE ONES IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EMERGENCIES THAT ARE TRULY

DIRE.

NOW, BUSINESSES CONVENIENTLY ENJOY WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED FULL OR MOST FULL

DEREGULATION, HOWEVER, THESE SAME BUSINESSES APPARENTLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND

THAT REGULATIONS "PROTECT" THE BUSINESSES IN TERMS OF LIABILITY WHETHER PRODUCT,

WORKERS COMPENSATION, ENVIRONMENTAL, FINANCIAL, ETC. SO, SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE THEN BECOMES A BUSINESS PROBLEM CHILD ON A LIABILITY BASIS, THE REGULATORY

BASIS THEY ARE UNDER PROVIDES THEM LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND LIMITS OF LIABILITY VERSUS YOU HAVE LITTLE OR NO REGULATIONS AND SUDDENLY THERE IS A CATASTROPHE

AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU HABVE NO REGULATORY BASIS TO USE AS A DEFENSE OF ONES

POLICIES OR ACTIONS AND SO THERE WOULD BE LITTLE OR NO REGULATORY SAFETY NET

FOR THOSE BUSINESSES NOR JUDICIARY THAT COULD DEFEND PROTECTING THE DE REGULATED BUSINESS FULLY. THIS IN BUSINESS IS KNOW AS BEST PRACTICES AND WHEN

THEY ARE INSTILLED THROUGH REGULATION YOU KNOW AS A BUSINESS OWNER YOU HAVE

LIABILITY "FLOOR" UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE OF THE REGULATORY PROCESS

YOU ABIDE BY AND CONFER WHILE CONDUCTING BUSINESS. IN THE 2007-2008 REALTY BUBBLE

WE HAD ALAN GREENSPAN STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT HE WAS SHOCKED THAT WALL STREET COULDN'T SELF REGULATE!! HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE LOSSED BY

AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THAT DEBACLES IN STOCK LOSSES, BOND LOSSES OF TRADITIONAL

HOUSING CDO'S MADE OF AAA CHOCOLATE COVERINGS WITH BB AND CC OR WORSE IN

THE INSIDE OF THOSE HELLISH VEHICLES TO DESTRUCTION NOT JUST IN THE US BUT ALL

OVER THE WORLD. SO REGULATION WHILE THE BIG CATS UP THERE DON'T LIKE THEY DAM

WELL KNOW IT KEEPS THEM FROM RUNNING INTO A HUGE ICEBERG AND GOING UNDER NEXT

TIME BECAUSE THE NEXT TIME MAYBE THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WILL JUST SAY SCREW IT,

YOU PROVIDED BAD INVESTMENTS, UNGODLY BETTING DERIVATIVES BEING SOLD AS

SAFE AND THE RATING AGENCIES SAYING YEAH THEY WERE TRULY SAFE ALL THE WHILE

KNOWING THEY WERE SH__ STACK SANDWICHES NOT FOR THE BANKERS THAT DID THE

CON BUT FOR THE REST OF THE LEGITIMATE PEOPLE ON WALL STREET, THE INVESTORS,

THE BANKS THAT ATE A LOT OF THAT SH__ AND THE ENDLESS STREAM OF AMERICANS THAT

LOST THEIR JOBS, SAVINGS, HOMES ONLY TO END UP WHAT? SOME OF THE HOMELESS NOW

LIVING IN THE STREETS, UNDER BRIDGES AND IN DELAPIDATED CARS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN EVERY CITY OUT THERE.

WE NEED TO CARE ABOUT OUR FUTURES, WE CAN AND WILL SUCCEED BECAUSE WE HAVE

TO FOR OUR "OWN SAKE" AS WE ARE ALL INTERELATED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AS CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT NATION SO WHEN YOU HAVE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE IN

POVERTY AND DESPAIR AND NOT JUST IN A SHORT TERM PERIOD BUT IN A LONGER DEEPER

ECONOMIC DEBACLE WE MUST CARE TO INSURE THAT WE ARE THE BEST, BRIGHTEST AND

MOST CARING PEOPLE FOR AND OF OUR OWN AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH NO RESERVATIONS

OR DELAYS. WE CAN DO IT!

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People who feel the need to write IN ALL CAPS are insane. Also, you are on the wrong website. Fox News is next door.

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He also writes things that are way too long.

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run on sentences. can't stand them

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I don’t have 30 minutes to read this

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