I wudda never thunk otherwise. / : |

Carl Nemo **==

You are correct. I must have suffered a major brain-fart on that one.

Should read:

“Evidently Geithner doesn’t understand all the government does is spend/waste money and produce nothing of value for the most part as opposed to the private sector.”

Thanks tzx4 for the heads up. : )

Carl Nemo **==

Keep your Congress critters feet to the fire – given enough “flow” their brains may thaw sometime soon.

If Bernanke~Geithner had any genuinely grounded economic savvy they’d quit printing money, dry up the supply and start raising short rates so private citizens and pension funds could depend on a decent return of their investment capital in government debt instruments, instead they are holding rates at an artificially low level to allow banksters and investment firms access to cheap money via the U.S. government in order create more pseudo-inflationary bubbles in order to make obscene profits in the commodities markets which are no showing inflationary trends. Per Bernanke, inflation is flat to non-existent. The man is an outright, blatant “LIAR” and a running dog for the shadowy bankers that own the Fed…! Yep, they have a plan for the us, and it ain’t good. : |

So in addition to trashing the economy they’ve even robbed the common people of a decent return on their deposits forcing the foolish to risk their money in the stock market for another current repeat bubble that could fall flat on its face at any time with people taking a massive haircut again to their investment and retirement portfolios. We’ve been hijacked by slick talking banking and investment thieves in high places and seemingly there’s no way to flush them out as long as our elected ‘dear leaders’ surround themselves with some of the worst examples of such from academia and the business sector as their so-called advisers.

Carl Nemo **==

You and all your financial wizards have created this mess, and we’re supposed to believe you can lead us out of it with more wizardry, more spending, more gambling with house money, and more monetary inflation?