Dubyah and his sidekick Ben just facilitated a US taxpayer funded bail out of dozens of Australian investors including our esteemed local councils with their BBB (thin tranche) CDOs.

YOUR OWN super fund was probably looking down the barrel of significant securitised debt failures but no more!

Dubyah and the US Cavalry have saved the day (and probably the next 6 months as well). Just enough to ensure the Democrats (and Labor) score all the blame and get just one term in office

So there is. George has given you the breathing space you need to put your investments into safe havens before payback time arrives at the "Its Always OK Bull Corral".

Stop whinging!

Belittling those who are trying to stand against the machine responsible for all the excesses which potentially undermine our entire economic system is mean spirited, hypocritical and unfounded- unless this site believes that the world leaders are there to find ways to bring greater prosperity and health to the citizens of the world, and they are going to be sitting down for 4 days coming up with better ways to share the resources amongst the people?

Having said that I have just re-read this paragraph "Once you give yourself the right to damage or destroy other people’s property, don’t be surprised when people have no respect for your opinions, or your property"

Yes, I see now, this was a clear reference to those who believe they are anointed to rule us, who have been systematically damaging and destroy other people’s property, as well as stealing it.

You need to read up on Australian history, can I refer you to one guy in particular, Ned Kelly.

Yet you choose to diminish those prospective protestors as 'morons' who are about to 'impose their point of view on the rest of us'...isn't this what APEC is also about to do?

Haven't they every right to protest (peacefully, of course) against what they may perceive as the jackboot of an authoritarian political system?
And have they actually done anything yet? Before slipping the noose around their necks, shouldn't we at least wait until the crime is committed? Isn't it the Sydney Fence that's a moronic interruption of people's lives & livelihoods, just to ensure 'their' view is imposed on the rest of us, without dissent?

Just a thought.