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Saturday, October 20, 2007

War as an Investment

There is a phenomenal amount of money globally. The `credit crunch` we`ve been hearing about is actually the consumer drowning in debt. This is not just in the US but affecting EU countries and even Canada with the $40b bailout required by Asset Backed Commercial Paper.

For two decades economic globalism moved along at a reasonably steady pace. The tech boom of the nineties created more capacity to many developing countries while cheaper imports gave developed countries even more purchasing power. The next big event was commodity prices refueling global expansion with a lot of surplus cash, Along with other commodities oil went from $17 barrel to $60 in a couple of years, it`s now over $90. All the surplus cash was put into consumer hands with deep interest rate cuts. Today as the credit crunch has brought to light consumers are broke.

The amount of surplus cash is still on the rise and the name of the game is profit. The options are limited, reduce interest rates to put an already over spent consumer further under, not even much of a short term solution. Massive personal tax reductions which probably can only be just enough to keep most consumers heads above water, not a long term solution.


There has been quite a flight to cash, in the trillions with tens of trillions of global investment money at risk. The obvious and very probable viable investment vehicle as used countless times in history is war. Armaments, lots of profit in war but no one will win the next big one, no solution at all but it seems many would like to challenge history.

Global individual transportation system, short term positive effect and the long term solution. All the boxes have check marks.

War can be avoided by creating a better investment, it is possible. The following threads will tie it together.

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