I see an economic diasater coming...

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Any cuts to SS is bad news for us retired folk.Looks like a two month extension to the payroll tax cut was voted in afterall. http://gma.yahoo.com/house-republicans-cave-payroll-tax-cuts-extension-140256639.html  triffid

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Hey Nick Z that video on cuba is fantastic!Cuba may lead the way afterall to surviving peak oil.Which peaked in the 1980s worldwide.I have often wanted to visit cuba.Back in the 1950s people visited all the time from the USA.People will change when they have to!triffid

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Brent I do not know Global Data myself but this info is from the link you provided.If they have been around 50 years they must know what they are doing?
GlobalData is a leading provider of global business intelligence including market, competitor, product and customer information. It provides in-depth research, analysis, data and forecasts through a range of interactive online databases, reports and management briefings. GlobalData has a large team of experienced research and analysis, consulting, and marketing experts. It has a global presence, including key offices in the US, Europe and Asia. The group has over 50 years of experience of delivering market intelligence data and analysis and a highly experienced senior management team.

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Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Jamie Dimon, the highest-paid chief executive officer among the heads of the six biggest U.S. banks, turned a question at an investors’ conference in New York this month into an occasion to defend wealth.[/color][/font]
“Acting like everyone who’s been successful is bad and because you’re rich you’re bad, I don’t understand it,” the JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO told an audience member who asked about hostility toward bankers. “Sometimes there’s a bad apple, yet we denigrate the whole.”[/color][/font]
Dimon, 55, whose 2010 compensation was $23 million, joined billionaires including hedge-fund manager John Paulson and Home Depot Inc. co-founder Bernard Marcus in using speeches, open letters and television appearances to defend themselves and the richest 1 percent of the population targeted by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.[/color][/font]
If successful businesspeople don’t go public to share their stories and talk about their troubles, “they deserve what they’re going to get,” said Marcus, 82, a founding member of Job Creators Alliance, a Dallas-based nonprofit that develops talking points and op-ed pieces aimed at “shaping the national agenda,” according to the group’s website. He said he isn’t worried that speaking out might make him a target of protesters.[/color][/font]

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I am 100% for being rich.I have nothing against it!But if you crushed another human being to get it,If you poured dangerous chemicals onto the land,air,and water to do it?Then I am against you getting rich!triffid