Comments on: Making money from junkies

By: brian

brian — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:17:28 +0000

OK, I’ll bite. PIIGS I know, but the other acronyms escape me, and nothing comes up on Google save a link to this article. Who are they?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:40:56 +0000

Simon,
I like your thoughts on the overly indebted Greece and Italy and how it effects the Euro, but I think you fail to consider the Greece (California) and the Italy (Illinois) in the US. The soon-too-arrive necessary bailing out by the FED printing presses will also effect the US dollar too.
There may be just a delay in the loss of confidence of the US dollar, but it’s coming, and the Yen belongs to a nation that has maintained zero interests rates and quanitive easing for some time, and is losing it’s job force to old age and market shares to China.
I think China could surprise the Financial markets with a ……… Not really sure, but it will involve their currency and their new bond market.
You have some thought on this I’m sure, and would love to hear them. Joe

By: JT

JT — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:19:56 +0000

Not really related to the post, though I’m a citizen of one of the EU junkies… but I watched a flick that reminded me of you man – Tailor of Panama…

By: REX

REX — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:37:13 +0000

Hi simon, a few articles ago you ahd mentioned about the intrusive body scanners at the airports!?! I haev a friend who works at an airport that currently has one of these intrusive amchines and he told me the following. If you want to avoid going through it, tell the security people that you suffered a rotator cuff injury and because you have no insurance, you cannot get it taken care of. For those of you who do not know what a rotator cuff injury is, this injury prohibits a person from raising your arm(s) all the way up. depending on how bad the injury is, some can only raise it up half way and to go through the x-ray machines (that infuses bubbles in between your DNA, (no joke) which we are not sure what the potential harmful side effects are going to be) a person has to raise both arms above their head. BEWARE! Make sure to not raise or lift anything with this arm of your choosing because you will want to make sure that your story is true.

I am sure many of you know that the airports (in the U.S.) have many undercover government personel watching, as they appear to be travelers, and if you use this ruse then make sure you do not use this arm in assisting your overhead luggage placement too. If one of these thugs is observing your situation and they follow you into the plane and see you raising that same arm above your head for whatever reason then you may be getting some unwanted attention if you know what I mean.

As I always tell my cat, “There is more than one way to skin a dog!”