Born in poverty as a fatherless boy,life has taught me much about how fundamental religion is often used as a compensation by the "have not."

I have learned that for many suffering and lack are mistakenly identified as righteousness when in fact bad times are part of life's experience for all and the only difference is how people choose to process random events common among mankind.

It is with this backdrop that I come to learn the truth that our world is a far better place than ever before. The evidences are too many to document here.

Of course there will always be the rich and the poor. Yet whatever the lot has cast, whatever the purse contains ... be it precious jewels or worthless stones ... my message would be to polish them well.

My passion is ...

Understnding cultures

I know too much about ...

Myself

My parents always told me ...

You're not listening! (I wasn't)

My childhood ambition ...

To be a meteorologist

My favorite memory ...

Vacationing with friends in North carolina

Why I write ...

Therapy

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

World News

My first job ...

Cleaning goat stalls!

My best moment ...

Yet to come

My inspiration ...

Anyone with the courage to make it one more day.

Personal Finance > Stock Market Is the stage set for a stock crash in 2008?

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Stock markets amount to games of Monopoly played by the wealthy few who are being bankrolled by the many who have been led to believe they too can attain similar financial gain. Understanding this principle tells us that periodic price rises and falls are a mandatory stimulus needed to keep the illusion alive.

History establishes that since the early 1900s the US stock market has experienced no less than ten major crashes of declines above 37% or more of the total value with the most dramatic occurring in 1932 with an 86% drop within a two year period. These have been followed by rallies...

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