Rob,

The “elephant in the room” is permanent tax rates.

Kennedy-Reagan-Bush permanent tax rate cuts worked exceedingly well. They increased Government revenues.

The liquidity crisis is over. What we are seeing today is a tremendous drag as tax rates are zooming through the roof. Businesses are hunkering down in order to survive.

Have fun.

John Walter Russell

Popping bubbles causes a lot of damage.

I believe that the proper way to pop a bubble is to stop it from growing in the first place.

So long as middle-class investors are permitted to discuss the realities of stock investing amongst themselves, markets are self-correcting and bubbles are a logical impossibility. I believe that the key is opening up the internet to honest posting on investing topics. Honest posting provides a foil to the marketing campaigns of The Stock-Selling Industry.

Rob

We had a breakdown of information from official sources.

Yes. The great power of the internet is that it gives all of us a way of running our ideas past others and finding weaknesses in them. But we negate that power when we ban honest posting. Allowing honest posting is key, in my assessment.

They just did not know.

There’s no question but that there was a time when they just did not know. There is also no question but that for some time now they have known something was wrong with their ideas but have not wanted to learn the details.

We need to move on at this point. We have seen too much damage to the economy and too much human misery. I believe that we all need to work together to persuade the “experts” to learn how to pronounce the three magic words. It is my strongly held belief that even the “experts” are going to feel a lot better about the future after they do so.

It’s a win/win/win/win/win with no potential downside that I am able to imagine.

Rob