Dean Cain

It's ironic that the Chinese are now "importing" their babies. What's next dogs & cats?

Read this from San Fran Federal Reserve Bank. http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/2005/0508.html Cliff notes: As previously mentioned, national saving is comprised of two subparts: public (government) and private saving. Government saving is the difference between government receipts and government expenditures. Private saving is the difference between income and outlays of the private sector. Private saving can be further disaggregated into saving by individuals (personal saving) and saving by firms (retained corporate earnings). Since IRA and 401(k) contributions are not part of personal outlays (and, therefore, must be included in the difference between personal income and personal outlays), these contributions are included in national saving computations.

WTF! Fitzmagic all over again. No more retreads!

When govt bonds & corporate bond prices are high you see people run into these investments. Right now the Fed has artificially kept rates lower to help the Wall Street banks wind down their toxic assets. The net effect is more money is being invested in the stock market and borrowed to invest. Margin debt is 70% meaning a new bubble has been created in the stock market. Expect a hard decline within the next 24 months.

Actually I'd make the argument it's private sector debt deleveraging as households pay off debt or default. But largely our country baby boomers in general strayed from their parents fiscal conservatism adopted during the Great Recession. If tomorrow will always be bigger, greater why save?

I f'ing love me some Taleb from a standpoint that he adhere's to a core ideology & doesn't stray.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/PSAVERT.txt Further proof Americans are dumber than we give them credit.

One thing I've heard and perhaps Doc can confirm is that there is a serious shortage of GPs, and DRs in general. Now adding 50 million more people plus the 20 million illegals that already flood out emergency rooms is somehow not going to put a greater strain on the limited # of Docs? Medical school for most means taking on record debt and the health care field as a whole is so regulated its impossible to project how adding these 50 million won't have a negative effect of the other 250 million that do. To me this is just another tax shift on the middle class. Just like how Governors run around saying they cut taxes, when in reality they increased user fees and other sources of revenue. The ACA is a beaurcratic nightmare 10,000 pages long. The big winner is not the health care industry but the private insurers.

What would be your policy prescription Doc?

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Donte Stallworth

You can solve the suite problem by charging a PSL for every seat. A good starting price would be $2,500 to $5,000 per 10 years. 65,000 seats * $3,750 average PSL 10 year PSL equates to $243,750,000 over 10 years or under $25 million per season. The Buffalo luxury suites coupled with the Toronto series could then be used to finance the long-term debt servicing on the stadium.

The beauty thing in this business is the lack of upfront capital needed to achieve this leverage. And with banks essentially handing out money at low interest to these rent seekers there is no way they can't make an ROI given their cost inputs. I'm surprised that there would be a difference on bonds vs mortgage's. Being that both instruments allow you to lock in to today's rates. The 13.5% ROI is likely to force these REITs into mortgages. There is little risk if this business fails.

Remember who actually wrote the ACA. The ACA is a give away to the large private health insurance lobby, thought up by the same Ivy Leagurers that brought us too big to fail Wall Street banks in the form of their genius algorithm's for derivatives, mbs's, & cdo's. ACA is another rent seeking consification of our wealth. As a small business owner I am wondering how much this is going to screw me.

I don't like Barkley. Maybe Stevie can go chill with Geno & get him to pull an Eli.

Buffet is worth 53 times the value of the Bills, wish he'd bought the Bills when he bought the News in 1977.

For Nix it all comes down to the QB.

Barkley's ceiling is Chad Pennington IMO.

This thread is hilarious. As someone said on here the purity standards one must go through to gain acceptance by the GOP base is what destroys our chances in a national election. As Romney's top adviser said "etch-a-sketch", as in Romney would out-right-flank the GOP in the primary. Romney should have been running on "reforming" Romneycare, amnesty for illegals, pro-gay marriae, and a massive overhaul of education, infrastructure & the military. A bold strategic vision versus simply being the "anti-Obama". With this behind him, Romney could have pivoted to the economy where he could have beat Obama by having a clear tax-code revision, that would have remained progressive enough so as to avoid the media assault of him being out of touch with the majority of Americans.

It is my understanding that only foreign depositors are being taxed.

Momma Pecoraro endorses Carubba.

Eisenhower republican guilty as charged. Go on bashing me for breaking rank. But Jeb Bush is with me: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/15/jeb-bush-on-gops-mullet-problem/

This is why we will never win a majority of the black vote. http://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-tea-party-event-racism--2013-3

Love it when a douche gets his clock cleaned.

If tax was based upon property vs labor we'd see a marked improvement in our economy. The bottom 80% share of total net worth has dropped from 18.7% in 1983 to 11.1% in 2010. http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html As Marco Rubio said today at CPAC these people go to work everyday, they pay their mortgage, and other bills. I believe Rubio is on to something with his rhetoric but is holding back. The Neoliberals in charge of the Democratic & Republican Party policies are both to blame.