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Bernie Sanders

GoldenThunder

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13. That all of the economic fundamentals that led to the near disaster in 2008...

Reply to Name removed (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 16, 2016, 01:25 PM

Mar 2016

....are far, far worse today. Indeed, it's probably a mistake to have used the word "Crash" in the title because from this perspective, a total and horrifying collapse is far more likely. The mad derivative market alone had exploded to $1.2 quadrillion dollars. When that goes belly up, how in the blue fuck are we going to answer a margin call that is over twenty times the entire GDP of Earth.

God forgive us all.

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I am not sure they are even in the same party Kalidurga Mar 2016 #3

Hillary may know her way around the block... GoldenThunder Mar 2016 #5

You do know this sounds a little like what Alex Jones says, dont you? Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #2

Does that make it untrue? winter is coming Mar 2016 #4

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You speak the truth... GoldenThunder Mar 2016 #10

Yes, anything Alex Jones says is untrue, lies, bullshit and nonsense. Unless he looks at Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #14

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Read Thom Hartmann's "The Crash of 2016" GoldenThunder Mar 2016 #7

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Murica! Fuck yeah! We're number 1! Just not in anything good. white_wolf Mar 2016 #12