Posts by Bradley Hayes6

Andrew Barrett4 said:it's probably no surprise ☕

the USA rating is just weirder

/or maybe it’s just what someone else pointed out earlier: the fact that the European Union is in much worse shape overall./

Greece, Portugal, and even Ireland all have junk ratings, yet nobody's letting them default.

The USA sits there with an Aaa rating while Ben Bernanke is out here sweating over the possibility of Congress triggering a massive default today.

We’re living in a total comedy of errors. 😂

Moody's decided to slash the credit rating for Irish bonds down to junk status yesterday.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking54.html

Yeah.

George Booth58 said:A buddy of mine studying over at the Colorado School of Mines mentioned that there are massive oil reserves here in the States—enough that we could probably be completely self-sufficient and still have plenty left to export for at least 50 years. 🤷

Sure, they exist. It’s just that you can’t actually get them out of the ground.

Forum user Hrexpat:

"...the groundwork across the entire northern US is hot, whereas underneath the Gulf Coast it's freezing... that's basically why oil is pulled from there instead of the central or southern regions—those areas were already picked clean back in the 70s, which is exactly what they found— cold as ice and hard as hell... and that's the whole reason those stories about regional oil are total nonsense... it's all part of the same basin. And look, that professor who got famous knows his stuff... well, assuming he had to charm some college girl to get his popularity up..."