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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 582390, member: 13650&quot;]Yes, I&#039;ve studied up quite a bit on the federal reserve this past year.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found a lot of other people have too, both that I have met online and in person.&nbsp; &nbsp; Which is great.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the age of the internet, I&#039;m hoping the light bulb will come on for more people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Cloudsweeper is right.&nbsp; There&#039;s usually much more to a story if you are willing to dig.&nbsp; Most people aren&#039;t willing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some are just lazy.&nbsp; Some don&#039;t know that they need to dig and some just plain don&#039;t want to know.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I can believe that there are people pulling the strings that do control very important aspects that stear our society.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t doubt it a bit.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe they want what we have right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; An example of something (housing market, credit crisis) that got away from them that they lost control of.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Economy in the tank, unemployment up and a generally unhappy society.&nbsp; Even if unemployment is only 8.5%, I think it drags down everyone who is employed and makes the whole atmosphere pretty gloomy for everyone.&nbsp;&nbsp; People want to feel needed and important.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there are bosses telling people every day that if somebody doesn&#039;t like something, they&#039;ll find someone else.&nbsp;&nbsp; People feel expendable.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In general, I don&#039;t think the powers that be want unrest and a bad economy.&nbsp; At this point in time at least.&nbsp; &nbsp; This makes people restless, irritated, and more aware.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s much easier to control things (people) when times are good, when everyone&#039;s fat, happy, lethargic and care free about everything.&nbsp; Then nobody&#039;s looking to point fingers or shed light into the shadows where these criminals reside.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then all people care about is sports and what their favorite hollywood celebs are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; What&#039;s interesting is that the only possible fix to our credit system is to make more credit available.&nbsp; This is a debt based system that relies on a perpetual growth of debt forever.&nbsp; Not actual GDP growth.&nbsp; Simply debt growth.&nbsp; And some people have to lose because not everyone will be able to win.&nbsp;&nbsp; It reminds me of a ponzi scheme almost.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s like who can get in early enough?&nbsp; Who can take advantage of people or a situation the most, and long enough, to make a living, retire and get out before the house of cards comes crashing down? </p><p>&nbsp; There&#039;s enough crooks between the govt. and private sector that I&#039;m sure there&#039;s enough CYA going on and throwing blame like hot potatoes that they don&#039;t enjoy what we&#039;re going through either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I don&#039;t know that we&#039;re really talking conspiracy theories here.&nbsp; Look at all of the things that are common knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think a lot of stuff is almost &quot; hidden in plain sight&quot; because not enough people care.&nbsp; &nbsp; Take spp.gov for example.&nbsp; &nbsp; Most will say, there&#039;s no conspiracy!&nbsp; See, they even have a website.&nbsp; But it&#039;s not promoted and up until a few years ago, the whole thing was a big secret.&nbsp;&nbsp; Until they finally had to come clean.&nbsp; That&#039;s a big issue but not much media attention.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;There was illegal gun confiscation from law abiding citizens during Katrina while criminals romed the streets.&nbsp; Watched video of it for myself.&nbsp; That happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; Common theme though.&nbsp; Nobody cares!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The bildeberg group was a conspiracy theory for years.&nbsp;&nbsp; Until everybody started getting video cameras and taping the people coming and going.&nbsp; The news wasn&#039;t allowed to cover it at all.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now it&#039;s somewhat common knowledge but not many people care.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;To get back on topic though, I&#039;m buying this year like there&#039;s no tomorrow.&nbsp; Regardless of what precious metals do.&nbsp; I hope they go down.&nbsp; But I&#039;m not counting on it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve got my eye on some coins I want to find and I don&#039;t know how many more years it will be before they&#039;re not even remotely affordable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not just gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Example: Coins that might have been worth a day&#039;s pay in the 50&#039;s may cost a week&#039;s or a month&#039;s pay now.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s a steep curve to chase, IMO.&nbsp;&nbsp; I lost 14 years of non-collecting.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a lot of catching up to do and it always seems like we&#039;re waiting for the next shoe to drop that will send the markets into chaos one way or the other.&nbsp; &nbsp; How much stuff now, might be really cheap compared to what future generations are faced with?&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The way things are going, this generation could be the last hurah as far as the number of people who can remotely afford a lot of the nicer stuff out there.&nbsp; &nbsp; Something big is coming down the pike for our currency.&nbsp; I&#039;m counting on it and I dont believe it will help you buy more PMs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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