Money is just a method for counting.

No, it is not. Your ignorance serves you poorly.

Learn something. You may dislike what I posted, but facts are facts whether you approve of them or not.

For the last two and one half centuries wealth and power have been concentrating in the hands of fewer and fewer men and women. This wealth is now being used to construct and maintain the World Empire that is in the last stages of development. The World Empire is partly visible and partly invisible today.

The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers ... this dominance of investment bankers was based on their control over the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countries and throughout the world ... they could dominate governments ...

This group is responsible for the death and suffering of over 180 million men, women and children. They were responsible for World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam, etc. They have created periods of inflation and deflation in order to confiscate and consolidate the wealth of the world. They were responsible for the enslavement of over two billion people in all communist nations—Russia, China, Eastern Europe, etc., inasmuch as they were directly responsible for the creation of communism in these nations. They built up and sustain these evil totalitarian systems for private gain. They brought Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Roosevelt to power and guided their governments from behind the scenes to achieve a state of plunder unparalleled in world history.

... I conducted over 1000 interviews with influential world leaders, government officials, military generals, intelligence officers, scholars and businessmen, including corporate CEOs and prominent international bankers and investment bankers. I went through over 25,000 books and over 50,000 documents. I learned for myself that the professor was telling the truth ...

Michael L. Chadwick

Introduction to Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. New York: The Macmillan Company (1966)

http://www.alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org/lp/Hancock/CD-ROMS/GlobalFederation%5CWorld%20Trade%20Federation%20-%2098%20-%20Tragedy%20and%20Hope.html

I have no time for fools. That would be you.

If you concentrate on money you will never understand economics.

Conversely, if you concentrate on economics you will never understand money. The concept of money is an abstraction only partly described by economics, and is only properly understood through finance.

History, for that matter, for the last two hundred years at least, is only properly understood in the context of finance. Carroll Quigley has clearly shown that history since the early 19th century has increasingly been dominated by it's most powerful financiers, so that now they very much run the whole show in any way that is important, for their benefit and to your detriment.

Heaven help you.

That's an inconvenience, not a punishment.

It's just a cost of doing business. That's why they do it.

They'll make it up on other drugs because they can charge whatever they want. Drug companies don't call them "drugs", anyway, because the word has negative connotations, re: the War on Drugs. Drug companies like to call them "medicines" to associate themselves with practitioners of medicine, which is say, doctors. Doctors get loads of free, highly positive publicity. Doctors are all superhuman selfless heroes, you know.

With drug-pusher drug companies, like most corporations, it's all about money. The baloney about "serving the public" is just a pretence. If it wasn't, drugs would be affordable. People are just objects from which to extract revenues and profits.

Many people have died as a result of the profit-maximizing activities of these drug pushers, and corporate officers knew full well that would happen. But you won't see any corporate officers going to prison for murder or manslaughter. That's how you can tell the government isn't serious. Money rules in DC, and drug pusher drug companies have plenty of money.

It's a good thing oil is such a small part of our energy portfolio.

Stupid post of the day.

Let me add to my previous post, a prediction of the future does not constitute a fact.

Absurd.

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, I predict you will eventually hit the ground. That's a fact.

I can also predict that you will be older in the future. That's not an opinion either.

Facts are really very easy to predict. The peak oil theory is a fact, in the same way it is a fact that a loaf of bread will eventually be gone if you keep eating it.

You're way too easy. Thanks for playing.