I wanted to write about this earlier but my thoughts on this subject were subtle and eluded me - I was distracted by a lot of other stuff going on today and didn’t find the time - till now - and then, I had a problem capturing the right phases, so I could bring the idea into my mind and examine it.

My point really is - we need a influx of money to  rebuild this country - but what could we now invest in since we can’t really do it with real estate anymore - where can we generate a lot more money coming into the United States?

Just a thought - and again, I haven’t expressed this very well - I just thought … hey, what if someone could take out an option on someone else’s future performance, it would be speculation - but not much different than the futures market now - just an investment in ourselves, intangible, in a way.

Anyone have a better way to express what I’m trying to say?  if we can bet on the future of the stock market, of any market, what about betting on the future of what someone else does?  (I can imagine the object of what is being bet on can’t about the details or it would alter the results - maybe that’s why it’s OK to do options trading on oil, and not on how someone will perform in the future).

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that such a bet was possible - that would be a way to generate the kind of money that used to be put into real estate before the bubble burst last year.

This is a hard idea for me to express - I’m not even sure I’m using the right termonology.