Looking to get aggressively short over the next few weeks
#11
Posted 10 June 2008 - 09:29 PM
#12
Posted 10 June 2008 - 11:15 PM
#13
Posted 10 June 2008 - 11:25 PM
It's going to be a long hot summer. I recommend to everyone to take precautions. Make sure you have that emergency cache of water, food, firearms or whatever you might need prepared...
We must be about to rally when the water, food, and guns talk starts.
IT
#14
Posted 11 June 2008 - 03:24 AM
The future is 90% present and 10% vision.
#15
Posted 11 June 2008 - 03:25 AM
at least he posted an opinion. which many here dont, rather they contribute little and mock others for what they post.It's going to be a long hot summer. I recommend to everyone to take precautions. Make sure you have that emergency cache of water, food, firearms or whatever you might need prepared...
We must be about to rally when the water, food, and guns talk starts.
IT
The future is 90% present and 10% vision.
#16
Posted 11 June 2008 - 04:31 AM
We must be about to rally when the water, food, and guns talk starts.
IT
Don't forget the duct tape
#17
Posted 11 June 2008 - 09:43 PM
people might be more inclined to the gun thing if gas prices go much higher. an awlful lot of folks are getting gas stolen from their tanks.
people drillingholes, siphoning, you name it. Its increasing a lot. This is almost getting as bad as the copper stripping from homes and buildings and yards etc.
the commodity inflation is causing a lot of strange stuff to happen.
prices of gasoline going hgher here, as the already are in europe, say approaching the $6 to $9 mark willhave a HUGE detrimental effect. Europe has been used to higher prices for years. Their infrastructure supports higher prices. People their have more transportation choices, live closer to their jobs, and aren't spread far and wide in poorly planned suburbia.
Here, we need low priced fuel. We are doomed without it. Folks can't handle it. Many are stretched thin now at $4. 5 or 6 will put people over the edge. Massive quantities of folks will revolt. Our gubmint will have to step in somehow. Their stoopid "probes" don't mean squat and average joe six pack is gonna reach the breaking point, and start teeing off big time on our gubmint. In what form that takes, who the heck knows ? marches on DC, local riots, demonstrations, raids on city/state gubmint buildings, work stoppages in key industries like trucking, food transport, ---- the list is endless of how people could revolt.
we are nearing these types of stages though. too many items are goign way up, and as food is now really getting hit with inflation, that hits home hard for a lot of folks.
so who knows. semi may be on to something. people responding to this thread don't appear to be the typical doom and gloomers.
though the board does have a distinctly gloomy gus tone far different than even 6 months ago.
one major thing is airline travel has gotten really really bad. the impatience of travelers is non-existent. i mean none. nada. the blow at the first sign of trouble. some nice old lady started teeing off on me, because our plane had to de-board ,before everyone was even on. had to re-plane, and wait for a whole new crew. no reason cited. just happened. lady was pissed bc they said folks who had already begun boarding and had tickets taken would go first. she was one of them. she tried butting in front of me, and i told her to hold her horses, as we all will get their at the same time. there were only 6 people in front of me. why did she need to get closer ? so she could sit on a plane forever while it boards.
she tells me "i'm such a world traveler" after i told her, i wouldn't be upfront in line if i wasnt supposed to. i said i can spot infrequent travelers like her. they are the most impatient. she took offense. chill lady. the way she looked iwas afraid she'd pull a knife out or a gun. what a nutjob.
so people are on edge about a ton of stuff:
high food prices
high oil prices
continued terrible bad air traffic
subprime
major home depreciation
foreclosures
homes not selling easily
unemployment increasing
Iraq debacle ongoing endlessly
market looking pretty shaky
banks having trouble
major hedge funds imploding
china scarfing up resources
the dollar still crumbling
its a lot to swallow.
then throw on more war with Iran
a coming prez election unknown
soicial security insolvency risks
medicaid problems
massively rising health care costs
federal debt in the trillions
conitiued terrorism threats
and you have a pretty good brew of disaster scenarios easily floating to mind, coupled with daily nightly hourly news negativity from internet tv, podcasts, everywhere, and it makes you wonder how it is we haven't simply imploded yet.
good news about anything is the scarcest of all the commodities these days at least in this country.
Edited by nimblebear, 11 June 2008 - 09:46 PM.