Breakfastburrito, your posts are articulate and well researched. Pretty much all of what you share with others is fact and already out there, no personal conspiracy theories are evident in any of your comments.
Instead of wasting time responding to people like Captain Gidday, keep posting your informative work instead. Some people either refuse to see the truth or simply enjoy arguing over fruitless points for no discernable reason.
As for Libya, if it wasn't so obvious it would be funny -- Central banks are a license to print money, control economies, load your own pockets (or those of a select few) !!! It works in Europe and the USA, why not Libya ??
The grey economic clouds are getting darker. I have said this before, look at what the worlds take was on global economies and finance when this thread commenced ??? Minimal talk on Greece defaulting or even the USA defaulting for that matter, yet here we are a few months later and the ball of string has well and truly unravelled with countries scrambling for solutions, riots, job losses, inflation and bankrupcy, and all the while some posters on here have been throwing around their comments about some of us being "conspiracy theorists, professors or other weido's" ? Unbelievable.
And anybody who thinks Australia is positioned to withstand the coming financial storm also needs to stop living in fantasy land. We are currently in a deeper state of debt than ever before. It all hangs on a knife edge because China is our lifeline and that gravy train has to run out of steam, and it will turn soon. China's inflation is becoming a problem, and remember, the USA WILL default on their loans which includes the 2.3 trillion they owe China, and Greece will also default on its loans (and no, Germany will not play 100% mother to Greece as Germany would risk ending up in the same sh#tpile), this in turn will contribute to the world wide economic disaster that is rapidly approaching. As soon as China and its thirst for resources slows we will be well and truly up sh#tcreek. It is a matter of when not if.
As for Swanny being the 'World's Best Treasurer' ? Ha, what a laugh. He has the best current economical standing, ironically by default. It is not his doing that we have weathered the storm better than other nations, it is by sheer luck that China has such a big resource appetite and we have the resources to feed it, simple as that. The current and previous Australian governments can take no credit for that, mother Australia and what lies beneath the ground get all the glory.