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funeralcrasher ([personal profile] funeralcrasher) wrote2008-12-16 08:14 pm

Anyone else just a teeny bit worried

about the Federal Reserve's move to lower interest rates to 0 - 1/4%?

2009 may go down in history as one of America's worst.

[identity profile] johnbutler.livejournal.com 2008-12-17 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, everyone is worried about everything. It may well indeed be one of the worst. I think our federal deficit will balloon to the worst on record. We'll raise tax rates in the hope of raising revenues, and the opposite effect will happen.

Years ago I visited the former East Germany. I saw a lot of old decaying burned-out buildings, the legacy of another government that got too big. That's where we're headed. We're about to accelerate too.

[identity profile] pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com 2008-12-17 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
Russia overextended itself with military spending in the eighties. Russia is decaying.

We have done the same thing with the wars in the middle east we've been involved in over the past two decades.