>Ah, good to see you here.
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>I know the title Conservative means you're not amenable to change. So they keep harping on the state of the economy, how it's just a typical cycle.

Actually, I think it's the same cyclical structure that was the norm until the great depression, which was then decommissioned by regulation. Now the deregulation has run full circle, to the extent where the government has to rent office space from private entrepreneurs, and only keeps there the overseers of outsourced remainders of the work it needs done. The brakes are pulled out, and the cycles will just go faster - the housing/loan bubble has run its course in less than four years, and some have become very rich in the process, while many are anywhere between a tad and a lot poorer than before. Next bubble will run faster - as you say, software can do that.

> Same like Global Warming. The earth normally heats up/cools down periodically.

And if hundreds of scientists from EPA have any numbers to prove that wrong, we'll just find hired guns to calculate something else, create dissenting reports and sow confusion -- and if that's not enough, these EPA guys are just public servants, they have to serve the elected representatives of the people, science schmience.

>Military might says the US is the only superpower in the world. But the massive debt of our nation owed to foreign companies says it can collapse in a day.

Won't, as long as dollar is widely accepted.