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Old 01-05-2012, 04:05 PM
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It's going to be interesting indeed. I'm hoping that I play the markets a bit better than I have in 2011. 2011 was the first year I've ever managed my own money in stocks, and it wasn't a good year to start Crazy volatility caused by all this debt stuff as well as the political unrest all over the place.

I'd guess that the Euro will survive, but Greece may be out. Not sure what to think about Italy.

I'm interested to see what happens in Canada as well. Household and government debt levels are so high. Everyone seems ok with taking on debt. Where is all this debt coming from? Seems like everyone owes, so if everything was balanced out would the result be negative? Eg. money would have to be printed to cancel out all the debts? or is someone actually lending all this money out there? I'm not educated well enough on the matter to know.