...Going to Pot is a Sign of the High Times.

Thanks Dick! A melencoly Blast from the Past!!! Wish I stopped "Ambien-Doping" & woke up sooner...wouldahh, couldahh, shouldahh made hay-BAILS while our legendary King Richard was tilling & farming this Golden Field & the Sun was still shining brilliantly..Could have filled my retirement-barn to the rafters...damn winter hibernation....So we live & learn...Perhaps U'll share "Off-Topic" where UR now fishin for late Spring Golden/Rainbow trout. Not sure what's worse: Wakin up to see someone used up all the coffee...or took my last beer in the fridge!!!

Seems as if our Patience wasn't a virtue & angry frustration's an unpaletable a bitter tasting Poison Pill!

So disappointed...wondering how I missed the Party & moving on too late & many dollars short :-(

Milsey, my bad-oversight...Thanks for the correction.

Hear, Here...Well said WW! I too would like to know the truth of this Loosie-Golden-Goosie-Egg!!

(Note to Agoracom: any technical reason why my previous "Reply" post was twice "Refreshed" while typing this response. This error required me to submit three posts instead of one? Just wondering)

(Cont.)...China may significantly reduce U$D Tresury Bond/Debt financing, US consumer spending is unsustainable @ about 70% of GD Sales/Spending w/ much of it assigned to credit card, home equity loan & other borrowed IOU funny-money in risk of default! Furthermore, ther was Detroit's Big 3 Jetting arrogantly into Wash.D.C. like fat-cat robber-barrons. I'm not sure if Mr. Soprano, Tenor & Alto looked more like Alphonso Capone Wiseguys, or Darth Vadar wannabees in shinny black-silk power suits. Machiavellian payback is a painful _ itch & I hope these Goombas aren't making deals w/ the Obama-nation politicians who may be able to refuse their requests.

Pathetically, Putz-Paulson finaly said NO to someone looking for a bailout (ref: Laura Ingram show 11/21) He tapped danced around this issue, but put his polished loafer down & boldly said NO bailout $$$ for a group of "Joe Shmo" plumbers who applied for money under the Tresury Plan.

Lastly, I hope the (probable) new Tresury Secretary, Timmy Geithner, isn't afaid of a little blood-sport & knows how to butcher his game because we need a Grizzly Bear hunter with enough personal willpower & political firepower to grab this man-eating Beast by its entrails, slay it, skin it & proudly display this trophy ki

A short term I think a deflation cycle has begun, followed by Stagflation in '09 & excessive inflation by '11.

Regarding my disjointed & delayed post: Thank you fellow NORONT Agoracomers for patiently indulging me...now as promised, time to hibernate.

(sorry-bout-that...continued from interupted previous post)

The Bailout #s keep going up & China, as you pointed out, has BEEN THE BIGGESTS BUYER OF US DEBT/TRESURIES in recent years! If most of the U$D have been repatriated, China is significantly recucing U$D Tresury