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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  12/19/2008 09:45 PM,EarthNSky wrote:


> bobf wrote:
> > I just ran across this from a lecture for The Navy.  The most
> > interesting , to me, is " The Alternate-Dollar Nightmare "
> <snip>
> > Thursday, December 18, 2008
> >
> > The Navy Discussing Economic Doomsday
> >
> > The Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy
> > sponsored a policy discussion yesterday focusing on the national
> > security implications of the financial crisis. The featured speaker
> > was James Rickards, the Senior Managing Director for Market
> > Intelligence at Omnis, an applied research organization. As reported
> > in Politico, the four doomsday scenarios Mr. Rickards is focusing on
> > are:
>
> This Rickards guy is just a bundle of sunshine, isn't he.
> I do wonder what chess game he is playing, and how his job politics
> might play into all of this fear...
>
> B

It was a 'what if' game and when he started using government 
unemployment numbers I had to step back. I have a general lack of 
trust in the government unemployment numbers.



Rob
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