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inthebrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 03:33 PM
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Get ready for it....Here it comes....The end of capitalism is here..
Edited on Sat Feb-06-10 04:20 PM by inthebrain
This bankrupt system that pushes the wealth to the top is at end. It's done, toast, KAPUT!!!!


Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
By Barry Grey
6 February 2010
Stock markets in Europe and Asia fell sharply Friday in the second day of a near-panic selloff fueled by fears that the debt crisis facing weaker European economies will throw the world economy into a “double-dip” recession.


Commodity prices—oil and gold, in particular—also fell sharply.


In the US, triple-digit losses on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were recouped in the final hour, resulting in small gains for the Dow and the other major indexes in volatile trading, following a sharp selloff on Thursday.


The Dow ended the day with a 10-point gain, following a 268-point plunge on Thursday. The index, which was below the 10,000 mark for most of the day, has lost 6.5 percent over the past two weeks.


All of the major European indexes closed down, with France’s CAC-40 falling the most—3.4 percent, its biggest one-day drop since November 26. The Pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index was off 2.2 percent, its lowest close since November 3.


Japan’s Nikkei fell 2.89 percent and the Shanghai Composite was off by 1.87 percent.


Stocks were down for the second day in Greece, Portugal and Spain, three heavily indebted eurozone countries whose ability to redeem bondholders—including major European and US banks—is increasingly in doubt. Prices of government bonds of all three countries continued to fall and interest rates rose further, as global investors increased pressure on the three governments to impose draconian austerity measures on their respective populations.


The cost of credit default swap (CDS) contracts on the debt of the three countries rose even more dramatically. Credit default swaps—now a multi-trillion-dollar market—are a form of unregulated derivatives in which CDS sellers guarantee the value of bonds held by CDS buyers. Rising CDS prices reflect eroding confidence in corporate or government bonds insured by the sellers of the CDS contracts.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/mark-f06.shtml
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 03:46 PM
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1. The game of Monopoly ends when one player accumulates so much wealth
that the other players go bankrupt.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:09 PM
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2. Post doesn't support title. That's five seconds I'll never get back.
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:16 PM
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3. Capitalism is reliant on free enterprise and fair competition
Both of which died a long time ago.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:44 PM
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6. No it isn't. Those are feel good talking points. Its reliant on one man profiting from others labor
And profiting infinitely, with the ability to pass that right unto their children's children forever.

And until people find a viable alternative economic structure, capitalism is here to stay.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:19 PM
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4. Geez, did ANYTHING maintain or increase its value?
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:32 PM
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5. I Have Proof That We're About To Have A Double-Dip Recession
Geithner said just yesterday that it was virtually impossible.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:49 PM
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7. Well the way they have been playing with government reports
I expect us to be at 5% unemployment at election day with 30% GDP growth.

Oh, and I expect nothing to really have changed in anywhere in the country outside of a small section of D.C. and Manhattan.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 04:50 PM
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8. The end of the Euro maybe
The end of capitalism, fat chance, there is a lot of good money to be made when a country defaults on their debt!
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