Interesting article... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/03/second-global-financial-crisis

Someone needs to save the world from made up numbers and financial traders, speculators, property investors.

>A little too much conspiracy theory here.

Not much. If you look at my post date.
After this look at the statistics released in August. Especially consider changes in previous data.

A little too much conspiracy theory here. The difference between the right and left is not tweedle dee and tweedle dum. Elections do matter and the best financed politician doesn't always win. Yes, there's manipulation by outfits like the Koch Brothers but there's still a lot of randomness, unpredictability and uncertainty out there to keep things interesting.

One day my coworker got pissed off that he didn't get any bailout package cuz he's not that poor. I told him, "Your monthly salary is a part of each bailout package."

I was watching Thomas and Friends video with my kids. The show loves saying,
"You are a really useful engine."
"Great I will work harder to become more useful."

I look around... so many useless jobs around my town and my workplace... all supported by the bailout money. Many people talk about rise of China, every details of their medical symptoms, every TV shows they watched, every fancy vacations they took, every political issues, everything their pets do. Just talk talk talk. It's getting harder to find those who actually do something interesting.

The rot goes far beyond the left-right dichotomy. Politicians and platforms are about as much to blame as the manager of your local fast food chain for the same crappy food being served everywhere the eye can see. Obama is just as complicit, if not more so, than idiots like Bush. In fact, if you believe that Obama is actually smarter than Bush, then his corruption is actually the greater sin. One gets the feeling Bush didn't know any better. One also gets the feeling Obama does, but doesn't particularly care. Which is the greater indictment?

You don't become a national "leader" unless and until you've sold your allegiance to the entities who control wealth globally -- and I don't mean management, I mean gigantic corporate interest or the stratospherically rich. They actually call the shots. Everyone else is an employee, if not servant, to those interests, whether they realize it or not.

When we debate certain policies, Flavor A may taste a little different than Flavor B, but neither flavor gets on the menu without the owner of the restaurant making the decision to serve that dish in the first place. The choices available to most people are actually quite circumscribed. The difference between the right, even the far right, and the left (or center) these days is ultimately meaningless in the long-term. I agree that we need to get out of these wars. But war is a business, a profitable one to the crony insiders, and that's primarily why they keep happening. Democrats as well as Republicans are complicit in this.

Economic downturns, too, have a hidden narrative. Even during depressions, someone makes out like bandits (literally).

As for diminishing returns there are more recent data here along with the 2005 chart posted.
http://alanmccrindle.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/new-treasury-data-suggests-that-the-usa-collapse-has-started/

As you may see the point of no return was 2009. Since then creating new debt only devours economy. In layman terms it means that US economy considered as an aggregate business of smaller enterprises it consists of is insolvent. There will be still profitable enterprises but the number of bankruptcies will grow inevitably. US will undergo very hard times in the next few years. Along with the whole world. There is no nation that will benefit on a large scale from collapse of the dollar, they're all in the same sinking boat.

Since 1962, debt ceiling has been increased 72 times -- most recently by GW Bush. Interesting how the right wing never had a problem with it until we got ourselves a Black President.

Crazy world- to think that the us Debt Crisis has lowered the price of the Scarlet to that... unbelievable!
Now- if only it was 45k and 700 fps- then I would buy 2!

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled is convincing people that he didn't exist."
You have a Scarlet?! Awesome!

@brianluce

How about more effective at getting out products! Where the $%%$@**! is the Scarlet!
:-(
And what about the roadmap - you know the one with the 25k sensor... (or was it more?)

@sdbest

It is real, 98% are still in denial. Thats the sad part. But the sooner you realize it is, then you can start preparing yourself and family.

@EOSHD: There's a difference between a nutcase and a right-wing extremist. That guy wasn't right-wing; he was a mentally-ill man with a gun. Likewise, the Obama-created chart at the top of the page deliberately skews the spending towards his predecessor, so as to hide the fact that President Obama has spent more. The current economy has more to do with poor-decision making (e.g. forcing Fannie Mae and banks to give housing loans to people who couldn't afford them) than political ideology. Ideology is just an easy way to hide years of bad decisions by both parties, inside deals, and sweetheart programs for big companies and unions. The solution isn't breaking things into smaller pieces; the solution is holding people accountable for their actions, not their ideology, easier now through the Internet. Never before in history has so much information been so easily available to so many people.

Quite a touching human moment in amongst the deal-making http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14367754

A reminder that right wing extremists can shoot a politician in the head, and try to ruin the economy, but they will both bounce back eventually.