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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Current Events</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/197.aspx</link><description>Politics, disasters, war and peace.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Re: What is a Precipice?</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/53666.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:01:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:53666</guid><dc:creator>duffmann808</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/53666.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=197&amp;PostID=53666</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/Themes/mises2008/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;mmartillo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have seen this term used in financial&amp;nbsp;discourse recently. What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;From Wiktionary...&amp;quot;The brink of a dangerous situation&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I think you can see where they were headed when it was mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>What is a Precipice?</title><link>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/53660.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:53660</guid><dc:creator>mmartillo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/53660.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=197&amp;PostID=53660</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I have seen this term used in financial&amp;nbsp;discourse recently. What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>