I think we have left the bumpy plateau and are entering the spiky plateau. Volitility on every front will get wilder and wilder.

All they have done is put another band-aid on top of all the other bloody band-aids, the infected boil is still there, and it will have to be lanced eventually. Hopefully they use this borrowed time to try to minimize the pain and bleeding when they do finally drain the pus. Regardless, this is going to leave the mother of all scars when it's all said and done.

If "it's bunker time" why the fark do you care about the price of gold? You evolved some enzyme that lets you digest the stuff?

Don't freak out if you go to your bank on Monday and it is closed. It's Columbus Day.

Not everyone can head for the hills. For one thing there simply aren't enough hills to go around. Peak Hills??

Peak Oil may turn out to be like Hotel California.

"You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"

I'm facing a lot of hard work to be sure, but what is tougher-carving a sustainable farm out of the wilderness or trying to pay your bills on what Wal-Mart is going to pay? I'm willing to change my lifestyle, my home, and my patterns of behavior, and I am doing it intentionally rather than waiting for societal paradigms to collapse around me, forcing me onto the streets or worse, into the camps.

Failure to take action is to invite disaster.

Doesn't matter. Globalism is dead. The financial unraveling around the globe spells the end of debt financing, or Ponzi Finance. Iceland wants to borrow money from Britain so they can pay back Brits who have money in their dead banks. Says it all, doesn't it? Now it's spreading all over the place. Soon the US will not be able to afford a military stretched around the world. Soon there will be no tankers bringing us oil. The Nations will look inward with fear and trepidation at their own social order and pull in all their assets from abroad. These assets will be useless in crumbling economies. It's already started and it's escalating. Al Qaeda can bluster all they like and say they caused it, but that's a load of crap. The War on Terror's price is dwarfed by the cost of this financial crisis which was bound to happen anyway. Al Qaeda or no Al Qaeda.

It's funny that everyone was worried that the physicist at the LHC might create a black hole that would destroy the planet. They should have been worried about the physicists who left the scientific field to go work on wall street. They actual did manage to create a financial black hole by messing around with derivatives and now it's sucking in everything around it.

Zardoz is no Zellpuz. Palin was a brilliant pick. Nany could have been better. Added zest to the bomb in making. McCain was and is unelectable. Old fart. Stupid. Boring. Who wood 'av bin bettor? Who? Some old white Guy? So that's the ticket brother? Two old white guys? McCain losing is no evidence with regard to Palin.
Admit it weezes.
Admit it.
You 1st Zardooze. You first.
Than Youz, Ludes. You second.
Then the rest - like Prof and MaryAnn - you third.
Each of you whooze claim this bunk, have los cajones to admitter that you dislike her.
It's the source of your lie, at least tell zez truth about it.
You are too insecurez to admits your issue - so instead of just gritting your teeth and pounding your thin fists and pouting, you trial to blame her for McCane's BOMB. Sad.

Maybe I should learn to read tea leaves and chicken guts to figure out oil price/stock markets trends. It would be as effective as black scholes theory and all the rest which are getting us nowhere fast in a black swan future.