US to Enter New Dark Age: When Giants Fall?


	US to Enter New Dark Age: When Giants Fall?

rmowery

8-2-2009 11:34 PM

47 views

tags:

economy, global economics, silver lining, world

rmowery says:

Don't know about this. On one hand I think the USA was in worst situations before and managed to rise again, albeit a bit bumped, battered, and bruised, but definitely not Knocked out. Let's see there was waaay back when we had to fight for independence, there was WW1, WW2, etc....

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from August 2, 2009

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b0e17c27-71ce-42b7-8f4a-5d116f33c641/E0EE6AC0-7C32-41E4-A451-73E599AE4E94/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html"><STRONG>The future made simple</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html"><DIV>
																	I was reading Michael J Panzner's book <I>When Giants Fall</I>, a 
																	scary-yet-scholarly look at how the hell we got into this mess, and I was 
																	impressed with how the title so perfectly describes America (the heretofore 
																	ravenous, gluttonous engine of global economics based on the <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="green"><SPAN class="kLink">fraud</SPAN></FONT></A> of an 
																	expanding fiat <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="green"><SPAN class="kLink">currency</SPAN></FONT></A>) falling on its fat, stupid face.
																	</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html"><DIV>
																	And falling on its face, dead to the world, is what America so richly deserves, 
																	as it was built upon the idiocy of ignoring the Constitution ("Money shall be 
																	only of silver and gold"!), and then committing the folly of a fiat currency 
																	("create as much paper </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KH01Dj01.html"><DIV>
																	money as the Federal Reserve wants!") and insane degrees of fractional reserve 
																	banking ("we can <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink2"><FONT color="green"><SPAN class="kLink">loan</SPAN></FONT></A> as much as we want without limit!") so that socialists 
																	and commie-think morons in Congress can deficit-spend us ("free lunches for 
																	everybody!") into ruination.
																	</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0EE6AC0-7C32-41E4-A451-73E599AE4E94/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips