Wow...quite the tanking of the global stock markets eh?
Sometimes you gotta wonder...where does allllll the money go?
It doesn't just disappear ...
or evaporate...
or get flushed down some kinda money toilet....
it is essentially just changing hands...
but who exactly "is" picking up all that coin... being lost by so many?
It certainly isn't Warren Buffet picking up the pennies...
since it appears he is one of those fortunate few...
who lost some of his pocket change....
if you call a 1.7 billion dollar loss... pocket change that is....
gotta have a pretty big change purse to lose 1.7 billion....

Well, it doesn't "go" anywhere since it really never ever "existed" in reality. Capitalism works by sleight-of-hand, think of it like matter and antimatter; when cash is created somewhere, an equal amount of debt is created someplace else. Now the opposite forces are just canceling each other.

It used to be so that finances were conected to real material world, but that connection was broken by creative bankers a long ago, creating a separate universe of virtual cashflow that really can fluctuate in and out of existance outside physical domain.

It's essentially magical by nature

Awww...juice...
you make it sound so bootiful

wasnt the fake Money world made by the internet. Blame internet. IT was created in and around area 51 and sold to US goverment in the early 60s.
That is that the government&other aliens can pull the plug at any time an reset all assets. Would be fun, doomsday.

Me out hiking in my new hiking boots and thinking about the economic system will implode. Ey! So long.

Ah,
Aren't a good pair of hiking boots the best Dave?
Right gear and you feel like you could survive anything.
Speaking of surviving anything...
I thought my friends from out of country would like this...
there is a new reality show [I know I know...eeech...so what...but...]
this show is called "Alone" on the history channel.
It is a bunch of people who "think" or "say" they are professional wilderness survivors....they are dropped off alone in a specific geographical area..with no contact with anything or anyone or each other...there is a prize for the last man standing who doesn't drop out...they all do not know if the others are still in the running or if there is anyone left in the contest other than themselves even.
And guess where they are dropped off...
The north end of Vancouver Island....here...where I live.
It is hilarious watching these guys...mainly americans and city-dwellers who think they know how to survive and deal with solitude or the terrain or the climate or the wildlife.
The weather on the island here isn't consistent ...the mainland-facing side of Van. Isle is drier [california-esque almost due to the island mountains catching most of the rain before it gets to us] and most of the population lives on the mainland- facing side of the island. The rest of the island is wilderness with a few small communities and is very much a rainforest.
So the show doesn't depict the "whole" of the island in respect...but rather 3/4 to perhaps 7/8ths of the island's climate and wildlife.
I think you guys would like the show...
I hate to say it but it is a good primer ...
for understanding how to be prepared for our off-road country..
and have a healthy respect for it...
and get a laugh watching some Ego-steak turn to Humble-pie right quick.

I don't understand all this interest in wilderness survival stuff when you can get everything you need at Costco at a reasonable price...

hahahahaahaha

When the **** hits the fan and Aliens launching the first attacks against the populated area. No Costco can save you then...then you know its time to set up shop in the wild and hit them rocks when they finally invade the surface.

Dave ...
absolutely right.
And not just aliens.
Global market meltdown even.
I spent more than 1/2 my life living on the family farm, or off grid,
spent a few years living in the cities to reintroduce myself back into humanity ...it has a few pluses ...but more minuses ...
1 thing I did learn is... the average civilized person [regardless of country or ethnicity] nowadays is absolutely lost on how to grow their own food, even gardening, few actually "cook" or "bake" anymore [[here anyway...for example...here is a shocker for you all...it's been a few years past now.. five I think...the very last Canadian fruit and vegetable canning plant closed...meaning we as a nation do not grow, produce, can, ship and sell our own fruit and vegetables [to our own population even] ..meaning the writing is on the wall for us here. Also if distribution collapses due to economic, political, natural resource, or natural calamity collapse. The entire continent has at it's disposal only 3 days of food supplies in every warehouse, distribution center, and store. It won't be mayhem, it won't be chaos, we will simply be f**ked. It will mean the disintegration of law and order and the rule of governance and civil human behaviour...full stop.]]
So whether it is aliens...or the "big one" hitting my coast, or the 2nd civil war in the states, or the fact very quickly the entirety of the U.S. is turning into a dustbowl from climate change which will spur mass migrations, or a terrorist "dirty bomb" or whatever....that will probably be the end of civilization as we know it now ... here on the continent.

The upswing to all this is...
the corporations have done an absolutely fabulous job at making people sooo dependent on what they produce...that they provide ready to eat food....the populace doesn't know how to grow, raise, kill, prepare, preserve, or even cook or bake their own food anymore.
This is double edged.
Bad point of the sword #1- for the 1st bit ...people will be desperate and kill and steal for food.
Bad point of the sword #2- when the food easily taken starts to run out...foraging and stealing and killing farmers who are a little more removed but still accessible to get to.
Good point of the sword #1- Alot of very stupid, very ignorant and very bad people will starve in very short order after they kill and steal the golden geese [farmers] .
Bestest point of the sword EVER #2- City dwellers, "civilized" people here...are terrified of the dark [ and when I mean dark ...I mean no roads, no streetlights..etc] ...which I always tell my friends...get in trouble with sketchy people ...don't run into lit places...run for the trees...run for the bush...city people won't follow...especially at night. So many of my friends are absolutely terrified of the woods...or the woods in the dark.
I just keep trying to reinforce to them...
"whatever is in the woods... will behave logically like whatever it is... should."
Don't fear that.
Momma bears with cubs during only 1 time period of the year are really a threat. Not to mention...you WILL smell the bear almost a mile off before you see it.
Big cats only stalk people if they are starving, which is pretty rare, and even then making yourself look big by putting your walking stick on top of your head will scare them off.
Don't run.
Don't turn your back to them.
They will jump on you instinctively ...both bear and cat are faster than you.
They will bear you to the ground and now your hands are pinned under you by their weight. They understand "paws have claws" and so incapacitate yours.
They will then go for your head and throat while you are [trying to scream] not to shut you up of course...but because for these hunters...the head has teeth. They will just bite your face off to render your teeth harmless...as far as they believe.
Animal logic is predictable.
Human beast is not.
Go in the wild here...make sure you have a walking stick and a "claw" or too as well for your own good.
Don't need a gun ..odds are you won't hit these boys when they rush you anyway.
Pepper spray is good at really pissing off an animal IF it stands still in front of you long enough to let you try to find it , pull it out , point and spray.
I don't suggest it.
Good walking stick.
Hickory is good...thorn too..
alot of tough woods for walking sticks.
A good Arkansas Toothpick is best.
I have a couple..always go with me.

Matching set, ambidextrous grip for either hand,
carved elk antler grip,
double edged damascus,
course I made em
Their both huge.
Nastier than bear or cat claws.
Forget the tiny over-rated Bowie.
Animal logic is predictable.
Human beast is not.
Fear the random illogic and irrationality of modern man instead..and take to the hills.

Well, one of the advantages of shopping at Costco is that you generally have to buy in bulk which is good thing as you can easily stock up for Armageddon. Unfortunately, that means you are limited in selection of individual items for purchase. So, endsormeans, the Arkansas toothpick you would like to brandish can only, most likely, be bought in packs of 24. Guess you can't have enough of them!