Probably so. When you are cooking the books, you can make all kinds of dishes.

There is no question the fed money printing has gone on unchecked for the last 8 years. It shows up in things like higher end restaurants. But the effects of low wage Far East labor and competition has acted to hide inflation in manufactured items. I can tell you that pretty similar casino steak house dinner in 2000 cost under $20. Now it costs $50. If it weren't for China, manufactured in USA items would have cost that much more too.

Ouch x10! That must have been a real ground breaking experience.

I remember on a tourism trip above Cairns, Australia, the native aboriginal guide showed us a plant you do not want to touch. For "effect" he pointed out one plant on our carefully controlled walkabout tour that was deadly to the touch. Skin contact caused an horrendous burning skin eruption that took as long as two years to recover from. The first white settlers discovered this the hard way while using the nice soft leaves to clean the backside. Supposedly.

Nope, in that case paper was already gone. Got recompensed for services in vodka. Another consumable. A little "taste" in the meaning of precious metals as just "another commodity".

I do not agree. It seems that they took advantage of it, and now, after 3 years of manipulation, they may have had the profit machine broken by the huge increases that the medical gangsters have imposed and the Obamanation gang have approved, with no market influence at all involved. So, of course, government healthcare is doomed, as is any government run project or service, that is inherent in the word "government". However, they made a good run of it, which was part of the plan, get them to support it, and apply their money interests to approving it, and then cut their legs out with regulations and rules and "fee schedules". They can't raise their rates high enough, fast enough. If inflation in the US was accurately measured, medical alone would add 15% of so to it. But they lie, like they lie about everything. I gave up going to the damn doctor, when they went to 250.00 (after insurance cut their demand for 350.00) just for an office visit. Bull shit.:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/sur...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/21/inves...

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/...

http://www.newsmax.com/ScottRasmussen...

https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/...

On the other side:

http://www.businessinsider.com/united...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2...

I am sure of it, Batista was just the better known example, there have been several in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and I believe they even danced with Peron before he got wised up to it.

I do not believe he would even consider it, just as he did not consider helping Thompson. He knew the system was broke and had to go.

Money will be able to be used to wipe, but TP is more valuable as you can wipe and also blow your nose with it. Ever blown your nose in a 20?

And then just like in Russia after the collapse, toilet paper will become money.

I suspect if John Galt came to life and actually was presented with the presidency, he wouldnt want it. Things are so screwed up with entitlements that he would never be elected without supporting socialism, and if elected anyway he would be probably assassinated for cutting back on it.

insurance companies havent failed YET. But, when they have to compete with taxpayer supported medicare and medicaid, I predict they will have to drop out.

I think the US government supported financially the dictators in many cases. Most of them DID get tossed out, like Batista. Then real socialism took over.

Yep, we were there, but Browns daddy did his best o set it all up, and Regan just ran into the brick wall...

I still am not aware of any overt pressure hat stopped people from tossing out their oppressors, same as here. They just practice the extreme form of politics, their right is way over right, and their left is avidly communist, so there is rarely any moderates. Must be in the water...

It's hard to tell. I have not seen any companies failing because of it. If anything, the state run exchanges have mostly failed, because the "savings" that they lied about and were revealed by their creator, never could, or did, materialize. Another bill of goods sold to the sheeple by the state controllers.

I think Obama got their support for obamacare by promising them riches, knowing that costs would go thru the roo and sew the seeds for Medicare to come in with lower premiums (and back door taxpayer support, hidden of course) and blow them out of the water. I think it was a diabolical plan and the insurance companies were stupid

It's the Catholic Church that makes sheep of men that's powerful there. And then there's the USA support for dictators so us companies could go and rape those countries I am not surprised socialism took over

He outspent Russia and bankrupted them. But his history of expanding government size and spending is terrible. He is the one who put in sales tax in California. As governor

It is hard to find one good one in the last crop since 1900. All have tried to ram their agenda down everyone. I actually think Reagan may have been the best of a poor bunch, I cannot recall any real damage he did, and he had the right idea for dealing with a dying Russia.

South America seems to have been the prototyping platform for every crazy socialist idea. They seem to love the idea of a few really powerful, rich, corrupt socialists living high on the hog, and millions of poor peasants. Just the way the Democraps want us...

I am not sure of that term. From what I see, the Obamacare turned into a boondoogle for insurance companies, they opened up a lot more ways to screw us all, and with government backing.

The problem is that the looters want to draw first, and it's hard to know when they will take their action. For example, obamacare really took over medical care. The insurance companies are pretty much dead already. Medicare will just take them over now under the guise of controlling health care costs. This means the value of those companies will drop quite a bit- looters win on that one!

Businesses with large investments will be very vulnerable targets and hard to protect. Best to build them up with loans rather than investment when socialism is on the rise

Interesting. South America seems to more of a mess than I realized!

Actually you are right. Bush was no prize, nor was Reagan. Nixon was a disaster with his money devaluation and taking us off the gold standard. Obama was the worst of all and hildebeast has promised to continue his legacy