Not bad not bad, the only flaw in this is that a hypoglycemic probably would know about his/her condition and would have a reasonable explanation to the candy and probably a doctor's note as well.
and then maybe the Obama's plan is to hire tens or hundreds of thousands of people just to flood the Internet with their presence and to DDOS somehow various channels where the information just maybe is capable of sipping through, who knows who is the moderator today.
I wonder how powerful a laser needs to be to 'vaporize' cold pieces of metal, plastic, glass, paper, insulation, rubber etc. that is floating up there? What does it mean 'vaporize' in this context, isn't it simply going to make more smaller debris or are you talking about converting matter into pretty much pure light energy by laser? That doesn't seem right.
I think having some sort of a container with mushy innards that can swallow small and medium size debris flying and doing that for a while and then jettisoning that container into the Moon is a more doable approach at this point in time.
"What Jefferson recognized... that in the long run, their improbable experiment -- called America -- wouldn't work if its citizens were uninformed, if its citizens were apathetic, if its citizens checked out, and left democracy to those who didn't have the best interests of all the people at heart.
"It could only work if each of us stayed informed and engaged, if we held our government accountable, if we fulfilled the obligations of citizenship."
- blah blah blah, I do great speeches, blah blah blah, need to throw some FUD in, will set the expectation that the current situation is not sustainable for our Government's status-quo, blah blah blah.
US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.
- translation: it used to be that you got your 'news' from the government approved controlled sources such as news papers, TV, radio and such. What is happening now is that the Government cannot realistically control all of the ways people communicate anymore and it is a problem, since the diversion of the fake news is no longer the only source of 'information' that is overpowering all other sources.
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.
- translation: there are too many difference dissenting voices that those in Power do not like you to hear and do not want you to listen to.
"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.
- translation: with all this technology, which I as a lawyer see as obstacles standing on the way of having total control of information and think needs to be regulated into oblivion but I still didn't figure a way to do so, it is hard to keep your attention on the only sources of 'information' that I approve of. Obviously it is not right that some believe that in today's America, the only reliable news-sources are satire channels where the actual truth is reported in such condescending yet pleasurable way that it attracts both, the serious people hungry for information and the more numerous general public just looking for some entertainment.
"some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,"
- translation: I am going to equate everyone who I do not approve of, so the crazy people who say I am an African born Muslim are seen in the same light, as those who say I am a corporate whore.
"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
- translation: Goddamnit! I can't take it anymore that people actually are aware of what the Government and specifically the White House is doing on actual issues, I can't have it, it's preposterously difficult to do one thing and pretend to do the other because you just know it, the audience can get the actual story behind the 'news'.
"We can't stop these changes... but we can adapt to them," Obama said, adding that US workers were in a battle with well-educated foreign workers.
- translation: but don't you worry, we'll get right on this problem, we'll come up with something to stop the alternative news from coming out, from information being spread in non-approved manner.
By the way, it's not really a steel funnel, it has a spruce frame and most of the structure is concrete, not that it changes the problem much.
Also apparently we can't even fix a problem that is only 5000 foot away with it and it's a simpler thing to attempt, it only has to be lowered and in oil/water it weighs less.
But using a 100 ton funnel to cap satellites, hmmm, maybe really what we need to collect the space debris is a 100 ton funnel that is filled with some foamy substance, it collects enough debris and then fires rockets to move all of that to the moon.
He didn't say he was going to prison, just that he was hired! If he follows your advice though, he'll have to use it once more in a short order, but this time it just may a bit harder, I hear the guys in prison like young programmers.
I SAID IT earlier, this is High Frequency Trading that drained the market out of all liquidity in seconds, that's what it does.
Don't need a congressional hearing on this, it's simple: HFT computers caused this, not any fat fingers, it's a systematic problem with the US market and it will happen again, just hope next time it happens it doesn't suck ALL money from all speculators and investors who do not have access to these systems.
It's a perfect storm and it is about to hit. You know the Terminator movies? They were right to be scared, only they were scared of the wrong thing. SkyNet is here, and it is trading our money for us, it's going to kill the markets.
Using quantum interference - the vibrations of the atoms themselves - the team was able to run the complete discrete Fourier transform extremely quickly by encoding the inputs into an optically tailored vibrational wave packet which is then run through an excited iodine molecule whose atomic elements are oscillating at known intervals and picked up by a receiver on the other side. The entire process takes just a few tens of femtoseconds (that's a quadrillionth of a second).
- vibrations, atoms, excited, femtoseconds.... that sounds like it describes my sex life, can I too, calculate a Fourier transform a few thousand times faster than my desktop? I want 'it' to be useful for once!
Good luck with that theory that your people will accept the sacrifice of paying some debt to foreigners during the tough times by cutting spending and raising taxes.
Good luck with that theory that even some of your government officials are not in it completely for themselves (I exclude Ron Paul and possibly Alan Grayson, from this list, that's it.)
Good luck with all of that. It is not going to happen and you will need that luck. Get rid of US dollars by the way, that's just a friendly advice.
Going to sleep in a moment, it is past 1am, I always stay too late and my head hurts, but no worries, lets look at this step by step.
You'll have to define what you claim to be a pyramid scheme, then. From what I've heard for definitions, SS doesn't fit (nor the government as a whole).
A pyramid scheme is a way to organize an enterprise, which relies on attracting more and more participation into itself, where participation means giving something, giving money for example to the enterprise, which then allows the earlier entrants to take out more of what they gave and relies on the later entrants to finance the earlier ones. If there was an infinite number of entrants, this enterprise could in theory continue indefinitely, paying out more than what was supplied to the people in the ever thickening chain. The progression is algorithmic, it could be geometric or cubic, but is is certainly more than linear. It is not possible to have a real pyramid if the number of entrants on the bottom is equal to the number of those who exit at the top, otherwise it would be a pipe and it would not be possible to give out much more than was given in to any of the participants. What is not important here is how exactly the people are convinced to enter the enterprise and to provide the money while they are at the bottom.
Social Security is a pyramid and any Government that regulates money supply is a pyramid.
SS is a pyramid because when it was originally set up, most people who had to pay into it only had to pay for a very short amount of time but they were guaranteed a very nice outcome. This is easy to observe, the first person to get a monthly check from that system, Ida May Fuller paid around 24 dollars into it. She paid the payroll taxes for 3 years to pay that 24 dollars. She got about 23 THOUSAND dollars out of it before she died. Corrected for inflation over the years, the payments made to the recipients have decreased but the payments that were required to be made into the SS were always raised, never decreased while the age of retirement has consistently moved higher up (there are tricks there, if you were born between such and such date, your retirement age starts at 62, for other dates it's 65, 67 and then at 70).
Most important thing to understand is that the earliest of the entrants got the biggest gain, with each subsequent generation paying more into the system and getting less and less out of it and in money that is much more inflated.
The entire Government runs like a pyramid when it prints bonds and t-bills and then prints more to finance paying out the interest payments needed to cover the cost of the earlier sold bonds and t-bills. Same principles apply as to the clients of Bernie Madoff, he could easily take the place of Bernanke, Greenspan or Geithner, no reason for the guy to rot in jail, he was, after all, doing what the Governments are doing. But of-course, just like with printing money itself, like with a powerful military and taxes, governments do not want citizens to have the right to do any of the thing it does everyday.
The bonds and t-bills work the same way as the mortgage financing. There are people with capital (be it countries, banks, independent brokers and even private retail customers) who want a stable, guaranteed return, even though it is only supposed to cover cost of inflation really. What actually happens is that the Government does not increase taxes enough to cover its rising costs. Governments don't shrink, remember, they only grow, so the costs rise.
Governments do not want to be honest, so they do not raise the taxes to the levels that are really needed to cover the costs of their spending, so they print money (inflation) and print and sell papers instead (credit bubble). As long as the economy is strong, this can continue, because the people in this pyramid really believe that this can go on as long as the country stands, and who will believe that US can fall as an Economic empire?
I have no idea what you have just said, but it sure sounds like you deserve that million of dollars or more even just for understanding that and more importantly for caring to understand it.
I see these kinds of 'blips' almost on a weekly basis, only I know these patterns normally from bank stocks and they don't go to cents from dollars, they go a few percent down and up, lower than where they started.
This is not a mistake. What you are looking at is severe manipulation by market makers, someone is taking the cash out of the stocks on a global scale, this is very interesting.
Generally house prices don't go down, right? Generally many things are true, except right now there is a bubble in bonds and treasuries, this advice of moving money to those today is a really bad one, you do not want to give it to other people, they may listen.
To the rest: do not take financial advice from people on/. majority of people do not understand what money is, and/. is not an exception. Bonds are in a bubble right now, waiting to burst and be destroyed.
Auditing the Fed means finding out who is getting the secret bailouts, what are the foreign banks that received half a trillion dollars in the 98, you see, these little, irrelevant details that the Fed is really hiding from everyone, including the Congress just to protect American way of life, obviously.
A price drop is not deflation. In this case what you will be observing is a panic selling triggered by a bursting credit bubble. This time around it is not about internet or housing credit bubbles, it's worse. This time it is about the US bonds and Treasuries. When this bubble bursts, expect the US Government to print dollars to buy back all of those papers and expect a gigantic sell off of those papers and of all other papers just as a side effect and expect gold prices to go to something totally new and not seen before.
There is no deflation, there are all of the debts that cannot be paid for, all of the government debts.
Except that the entire government operates like a giant pyramid scheme. They put Madoff to prison but they really should have made him the secretary of treasury because he showed very good ability to keep the pyramid going, he is a natural.
Not only the unemployment insurance a pyramid scheme, the entire government bond/treasury printing and selling to finance the interest payments on the bonds/treasuries that are already sold long ago is a pyramid scheme.
Yes, the Government is printing and selling the treasuries and bonds to be able to pay the obligations on the already existing treasuries and bonds. As long as someone is still buying they will keep doing this.
This is exactly what a credit bubble is, this is the same stuff that made the internet bubble burst, same stuff that made the housing bubble burst. This one, when it bursts, will be the burst of all bursts, this bubble bursting will end up taking down the US currency, because obviously, the Fed will turn on the printing press to buy back the bonds from all the sellers.
The Government is one giant pyramid scheme, it is a burden on economy, but it can be tolerated while the times are good. Unfortunately it does not understand that it cannot be tolerated during the bad times. Instead of stopping the spending and shrinking down, it prints Dollars and long term money: bods/treasuries to 'finance' itself as long as there are suckers out there and it keeps the interest low to propagate this illusion of an economy going (remember, this is Keynes consumer fueled economy nonsense, not a producer fueled economy).
In any case, I expect the USD to collapse following the bursting of the bonds/treasuries market, which is the bubble that is the biggest this world has ever seen. I am looking at it and seeing exactly the same conditions that I saw during the housing bubble and during the internet bubble: buying frenzy, more and more garbage being put into the system and not a sane politician around who is not a Keynesian to stop this at the government level. People believed that the house prices will never go down, that they can only go up. People are believing right now that the US bonds/treasuries will really yield profits and they cannot go bad. These people, who are buying these bonds/treasuries deserve to have a huge knock on the head by losing their money on this and they will.
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Let me shake your hand, sir, you are one really tough mofo, but I would go one further: waterboard the kid, let's see if there are any accomplices.
This is Texas. Open gunplay is what is needed.
- truer words have never been spoken. I think pretty much anything can be solved with some gunplay and not only in Texas.
Kid brings back a bad grade from a test? Some gunplay would be in order.
Kid is smoking pot on the schoolyard and is being harassed by a teacher? Gunplay, gunplay right there.
A store is out of stock on an item? Take that place down.
A red light while driving to a meeting in a hurry? Grenade launcher will do the trick.
A cop following too close on an interstate? A nice long discharge from an M60 in his general direction would take care of that little nuisance.
A cop trying to pull you over for a speeding or any other traffic violation? Pffft. Flame thrower.
IRS wants cash? I have an idea about that, takes a plane though.
Not bad not bad, the only flaw in this is that a hypoglycemic probably would know about his/her condition and would have a reasonable explanation to the candy and probably a doctor's note as well.
I don't remember much of what I did in the third grade, must have been all that weed, corrupted the memory.
and then maybe the Obama's plan is to hire tens or hundreds of thousands of people just to flood the Internet with their presence and to DDOS somehow various channels where the information just maybe is capable of sipping through, who knows who is the moderator today.
I wonder how powerful a laser needs to be to 'vaporize' cold pieces of metal, plastic, glass, paper, insulation, rubber etc. that is floating up there? What does it mean 'vaporize' in this context, isn't it simply going to make more smaller debris or are you talking about converting matter into pretty much pure light energy by laser? That doesn't seem right.
I think having some sort of a container with mushy innards that can swallow small and medium size debris flying and doing that for a while and then jettisoning that container into the Moon is a more doable approach at this point in time.
continued:
"A black woman, in 1929, refusing to be denied her dream of a college education," Obama said, reprising Height's life story.
"Refusing to be denied her rights, refusing to be denied her dignity, refusing to be denied... her piece of America's promise."
- translation: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
"What Jefferson recognized... that in the long run, their improbable experiment -- called America -- wouldn't work if its citizens were uninformed, if its citizens were apathetic, if its citizens checked out, and left democracy to those who didn't have the best interests of all the people at heart.
"It could only work if each of us stayed informed and engaged, if we held our government accountable, if we fulfilled the obligations of citizenship."
- blah blah blah, I do great speeches, blah blah blah, need to throw some FUD in, will set the expectation that the current situation is not sustainable for our Government's status-quo, blah blah blah.
US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.
- translation: it used to be that you got your 'news' from the government approved controlled sources such as news papers, TV, radio and such. What is happening now is that the Government cannot realistically control all of the ways people communicate anymore and it is a problem, since the diversion of the fake news is no longer the only source of 'information' that is overpowering all other sources.
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.
- translation: there are too many difference dissenting voices that those in Power do not like you to hear and do not want you to listen to.
"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.
- translation: with all this technology, which I as a lawyer see as obstacles standing on the way of having total control of information and think needs to be regulated into oblivion but I still didn't figure a way to do so, it is hard to keep your attention on the only sources of 'information' that I approve of. Obviously it is not right that some believe that in today's America, the only reliable news-sources are satire channels where the actual truth is reported in such condescending yet pleasurable way that it attracts both, the serious people hungry for information and the more numerous general public just looking for some entertainment.
"some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,"
- translation: I am going to equate everyone who I do not approve of, so the crazy people who say I am an African born Muslim are seen in the same light, as those who say I am a corporate whore.
"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
- translation: Goddamnit! I can't take it anymore that people actually are aware of what the Government and specifically the White House is doing on actual issues, I can't have it, it's preposterously difficult to do one thing and pretend to do the other because you just know it, the audience can get the actual story behind the 'news'.
"We can't stop these changes... but we can adapt to them," Obama said, adding that US workers were in a battle with well-educated foreign workers.
- translation: but don't you worry, we'll get right on this problem, we'll come up with something to stop the alternative news from coming out, from information being spread in non-approved manner.
By the way, it's not really a steel funnel, it has a spruce frame and most of the structure is concrete, not that it changes the problem much.
Also apparently we can't even fix a problem that is only 5000 foot away with it and it's a simpler thing to attempt, it only has to be lowered and in oil/water it weighs less.
But using a 100 ton funnel to cap satellites, hmmm, maybe really what we need to collect the space debris is a 100 ton funnel that is filled with some foamy substance, it collects enough debris and then fires rockets to move all of that to the moon.
I suppose for those who willingly enter prisons it is the same thing.
He didn't say he was going to prison, just that he was hired! If he follows your advice though, he'll have to use it once more in a short order, but this time it just may a bit harder, I hear the guys in prison like young programmers.
You fucking know it all! That's what the GP was warning about
I SAID IT earlier, this is High Frequency Trading that drained the market out of all liquidity in seconds, that's what it does.
Don't need a congressional hearing on this, it's simple: HFT computers caused this, not any fat fingers, it's a systematic problem with the US market and it will happen again, just hope next time it happens it doesn't suck ALL money from all speculators and investors who do not have access to these systems.
It's a perfect storm and it is about to hit. You know the Terminator movies? They were right to be scared, only they were scared of the wrong thing. SkyNet is here, and it is trading our money for us, it's going to kill the markets.
Kill it before it kills our money.
Using quantum interference - the vibrations of the atoms themselves - the team was able to run the complete discrete Fourier transform extremely quickly by encoding the inputs into an optically tailored vibrational wave packet which is then run through an excited iodine molecule whose atomic elements are oscillating at known intervals and picked up by a receiver on the other side. The entire process takes just a few tens of femtoseconds (that's a quadrillionth of a second).
- vibrations, atoms, excited, femtoseconds.... that sounds like it describes my sex life, can I too, calculate a Fourier transform a few thousand times faster than my desktop? I want 'it' to be useful for once!
Good luck with that theory that your people will accept the sacrifice of paying some debt to foreigners during the tough times by cutting spending and raising taxes.
Good luck with that theory that even some of your government officials are not in it completely for themselves (I exclude Ron Paul and possibly Alan Grayson, from this list, that's it.)
Good luck with all of that. It is not going to happen and you will need that luck. Get rid of US dollars by the way, that's just a friendly advice.
Going to sleep in a moment, it is past 1am, I always stay too late and my head hurts, but no worries, lets look at this step by step.
You'll have to define what you claim to be a pyramid scheme, then. From what I've heard for definitions, SS doesn't fit (nor the government as a whole).
A pyramid scheme is a way to organize an enterprise, which relies on attracting more and more participation into itself, where participation means giving something, giving money for example to the enterprise, which then allows the earlier entrants to take out more of what they gave and relies on the later entrants to finance the earlier ones. If there was an infinite number of entrants, this enterprise could in theory continue indefinitely, paying out more than what was supplied to the people in the ever thickening chain. The progression is algorithmic, it could be geometric or cubic, but is is certainly more than linear. It is not possible to have a real pyramid if the number of entrants on the bottom is equal to the number of those who exit at the top, otherwise it would be a pipe and it would not be possible to give out much more than was given in to any of the participants. What is not important here is how exactly the people are convinced to enter the enterprise and to provide the money while they are at the bottom.
Social Security is a pyramid and any Government that regulates money supply is a pyramid.
SS is a pyramid because when it was originally set up, most people who had to pay into it only had to pay for a very short amount of time but they were guaranteed a very nice outcome. This is easy to observe, the first person to get a monthly check from that system, Ida May Fuller paid around 24 dollars into it. She paid the payroll taxes for 3 years to pay that 24 dollars. She got about 23 THOUSAND dollars out of it before she died. Corrected for inflation over the years, the payments made to the recipients have decreased but the payments that were required to be made into the SS were always raised, never decreased while the age of retirement has consistently moved higher up (there are tricks there, if you were born between such and such date, your retirement age starts at 62, for other dates it's 65, 67 and then at 70).
Most important thing to understand is that the earliest of the entrants got the biggest gain, with each subsequent generation paying more into the system and getting less and less out of it and in money that is much more inflated.
The entire Government runs like a pyramid when it prints bonds and t-bills and then prints more to finance paying out the interest payments needed to cover the cost of the earlier sold bonds and t-bills. Same principles apply as to the clients of Bernie Madoff, he could easily take the place of Bernanke, Greenspan or Geithner, no reason for the guy to rot in jail, he was, after all, doing what the Governments are doing. But of-course, just like with printing money itself, like with a powerful military and taxes, governments do not want citizens to have the right to do any of the thing it does everyday.
The bonds and t-bills work the same way as the mortgage financing. There are people with capital (be it countries, banks, independent brokers and even private retail customers) who want a stable, guaranteed return, even though it is only supposed to cover cost of inflation really. What actually happens is that the Government does not increase taxes enough to cover its rising costs. Governments don't shrink, remember, they only grow, so the costs rise.
Governments do not want to be honest, so they do not raise the taxes to the levels that are really needed to cover the costs of their spending, so they print money (inflation) and print and sell papers instead (credit bubble). As long as the economy is strong, this can continue, because the people in this pyramid really believe that this can go on as long as the country stands, and who will believe that US can fall as an Economic empire?
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I have no idea what you have just said, but it sure sounds like you deserve that million of dollars or more even just for understanding that and more importantly for caring to understand it.
He'd rather use an Apple than a Flash,
Yes he would, if he could, he surely would
You are one of the proud owners of the Red Roof Inn - how would you find out about things like that if you can't audit the Fed? You own the Red Roof Inn, congrats.
I see these kinds of 'blips' almost on a weekly basis, only I know these patterns normally from bank stocks and they don't go to cents from dollars, they go a few percent down and up, lower than where they started.
This is not a mistake. What you are looking at is severe manipulation by market makers, someone is taking the cash out of the stocks on a global scale, this is very interesting.
What are you talking about, America will NEVER admit that it is bankrupt. It will make damn sure that everyone knows only through hyper-inflation.
Generally house prices don't go down, right? Generally many things are true, except right now there is a bubble in bonds and treasuries, this advice of moving money to those today is a really bad one, you do not want to give it to other people, they may listen.
To the rest: do not take financial advice from people on /. majority of people do not understand what money is, and /. is not an exception. Bonds are in a bubble right now, waiting to burst and be destroyed.
Auditing the Fed means finding out who is getting the secret bailouts, what are the foreign banks that received half a trillion dollars in the 98, you see, these little, irrelevant details that the Fed is really hiding from everyone, including the Congress just to protect American way of life, obviously.
Deflation? :) Funny.
A price drop is not deflation. In this case what you will be observing is a panic selling triggered by a bursting credit bubble. This time around it is not about internet or housing credit bubbles, it's worse. This time it is about the US bonds and Treasuries. When this bubble bursts, expect the US Government to print dollars to buy back all of those papers and expect a gigantic sell off of those papers and of all other papers just as a side effect and expect gold prices to go to something totally new and not seen before.
There is no deflation, there are all of the debts that cannot be paid for, all of the government debts.
Sorry to disappoint.
Except that the entire government operates like a giant pyramid scheme. They put Madoff to prison but they really should have made him the secretary of treasury because he showed very good ability to keep the pyramid going, he is a natural.
Not only the unemployment insurance a pyramid scheme, the entire government bond/treasury printing and selling to finance the interest payments on the bonds/treasuries that are already sold long ago is a pyramid scheme.
Yes, the Government is printing and selling the treasuries and bonds to be able to pay the obligations on the already existing treasuries and bonds. As long as someone is still buying they will keep doing this.
This is exactly what a credit bubble is, this is the same stuff that made the internet bubble burst, same stuff that made the housing bubble burst. This one, when it bursts, will be the burst of all bursts, this bubble bursting will end up taking down the US currency, because obviously, the Fed will turn on the printing press to buy back the bonds from all the sellers.
The Government is one giant pyramid scheme, it is a burden on economy, but it can be tolerated while the times are good. Unfortunately it does not understand that it cannot be tolerated during the bad times. Instead of stopping the spending and shrinking down, it prints Dollars and long term money: bods/treasuries to 'finance' itself as long as there are suckers out there and it keeps the interest low to propagate this illusion of an economy going (remember, this is Keynes consumer fueled economy nonsense, not a producer fueled economy).
In any case, I expect the USD to collapse following the bursting of the bonds/treasuries market, which is the bubble that is the biggest this world has ever seen. I am looking at it and seeing exactly the same conditions that I saw during the housing bubble and during the internet bubble: buying frenzy, more and more garbage being put into the system and not a sane politician around who is not a Keynesian to stop this at the government level. People believed that the house prices will never go down, that they can only go up. People are believing right now that the US bonds/treasuries will really yield profits and they cannot go bad. These people, who are buying these bonds/treasuries deserve to have a huge knock on the head by losing their money on this and they will.