Financial topics

[Higgenbotham]

Time to think a few patterns out...

I'm looking for a high on February 11. Pop and drop on excitement over Yellen's testimony.

If we get that it would go back to setting a 10 month cycle on the 11th of the month which started on April 11, 2013.

The first series was October 11, 2007 (all time high at the time) to August 11, 2008 (multi week high before the Lehman collapse) to June 11, 2009 (multi month high before the washout into July 2009).

The other aspect of a February 11 high would be that it lines up with the 1929 pattern I posted yesterday. And it might line up with the geometry of the pattern too if the SPX pops to about 1815 and comes down.

Another thing I can't help but think. If I were Yellen, why not utter a little gaffe to send the stock market down? That way she can deflect the blame for the bursting of the bubble to Ben more easily than to have it burst deep into her term when she might take the full brunt of the blame after Ben is long forgotten and completely out of the picture.

[aedens]

We are between level three and level four now on many matters. As the chart indicated in lagging clarity on the three data points
no accidents are exceptable to consider. The five pillars and the seven sisters updated had a nominal effect to refocus intent.
Automation is the arbitrage as we know for this half wave kuznet cycle mentioned. I may forward that previous note for reclarification.
As we note in a basically relevent notation that every million in automation is basically ~4 jobs with the files I left linked to the 2004 cloud acount.
Planning and predictive tools of best practice and selected capex always is always the percieved game changer. Meanwhile the ivory tower paper tigers
must smell the citys burning in zones. The others have done the unspeakable as water and soil damages and somehow they consider other zones a refuge?
I find this already written in the sixty six books of travail and hope. The stress appears to me to be beyond words to convey and beyond normal resolve.
As we mentioned before a bridge to far since we know the results of human action and the proper definition of the word economy.
No man is beyond the providence of times.

Level III - neurotic defences (i.e. intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, repression)
Level IV - mature defences (i.e. humour, sublimation, suppression, altruism, anticipation)

[Higgenbotham]

At this time in history, a Corporation can destroy an ecosystem, pollute a river and impoverish an indigenous culture, but if it makes a monetary profit, if it costs less to destroy part of the world than the earnings such destruction engenders, the corporation is deemed profitable — and the investors realize a comfortable return on their investments.

That is not a real profit! That is not a profitable corporation but a subsidized one that operates at a substantial loss. By who is it subsidized? By the countries that house it, by the ecosystem of the globe, by you and I, and by every person that walks or will walk the earth.

http://drjeffeisen.com/2011/10/18/the-omnius-manifesto/

The more immediate result is a pack of corporations can also bankrupt a country, destroy its bond market and currency, and impoverish its people. When it gets to that point and there is nothing left to feed on, then they are done too. I think the US is getting close to that. That's the way the whole ship goes down all at once. "Tragedy of the financial commons" might be a way to phrase the idea.

The tragedy of the financial commons is a good description of what the TBTF banks have done to the financial system and our currencies.

http://www.maxkeiser.com/2010/04/traged ... qBiIjHg.99

I would agree with her statement.

[Higgenbotham]

The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?

But if your priority is prosecuting the company, a different scenario takes place. Early in the investigation, you invite in counsel to the company and explain to him or her why you suspect fraud. He or she responds by assuring you that the company wants to cooperate and do the right thing, and to that end the company has hired a former assistant US attorney, now a partner at a respected law firm, to do an internal investigation. The company’s counsel asks you to defer your investigation until the company’s own internal investigation is completed, on the condition that the company will share its results with you. In order to save time and resources, you agree.

Six months later the company’s counsel returns, with a detailed report showing that mistakes were made but that the company is now intent on correcting them. You and the company then agree that the company will enter into a deferred prosecution agreement that couples some immediate fines with the imposition of expensive but internal prophylactic measures. For all practical purposes the case is now over. You are happy because you believe that you have helped prevent future crimes; the company is happy because it has avoided a devastating indictment; and perhaps the happiest of all are the executives, or former executives, who actually committed the underlying misconduct, for they are left untouched.

I suggest that this is not the best way to proceed.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archive ... insrc=hpma


Fukushima, a Global Conspiracy of Denial

Japanese authorities may be the worst current offenders against the truth, as well as the health and safety of their people. Now the Japanese government has passed a harsh state secrets law that threatens to reduce or eliminate reliable information about Fukushima. The U.S. government officially applauded this heightened secrecy, while continuing its own tight control on nuclear information.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2 ... -of-denial


The U.S. population grew by just 0.72 percent in the year ended July 1, 2013, the Census Bureau reported Monday. That’s the slowest growth rate since 1937.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/3 ... 20485.html


The exposure of the techniques and capabilities of the NSA creates another problem for the agency, in that it provides those hard-to-get-at organizations the TAO was created to go after with an idea of how the NSA has targeted and will target them. It also creates a problem for companies like Cisco and Juniper, who now face the same sort of scrutiny the US and others put Huawei under for its connections to the Chinese military. Even if Dell, HP, Cisco, and Juniper had no hand in creating the backdoors for their products, the documents will undoubtedly be used against them the next time they try to sell hardware to a foreign government.

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... nce-magic/


For years, Takeshi hid from the world, playing video games all night and sleeping all day, eating from a tray his mother left outside his room. He was a hikikomori, one of an estimated 1 million Japanese teens and young men who have become shut-ins, with virtually no human contact beyond their parents.

http://theweek.com/article/index/254923 ... ion-crisis


Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”

This is a total corruption of the justice system not only in our country but around the world. The source of the info is at the bottom of each slide. This is a totalitarian process – means we are now in a police state.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/ ... state.html


There is a near consensus among public health experts that the bulk antibiotics produced by AHI’s member companies are accelerating the approach of a post-antibiotics nightmare scenario, in which superbugs routinely emerge from our farms and wreak havoc on a human population living among the ruins of modern medicine.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/big_ags ... tibiotics/


Top German Prosecutor Considers NSA Investigation
By SPIEGEL Staff

Germany and the US appear to be edging closer to political confrontation. The Federal Prosecutor says there is sufficient evidence to open a politically explosive investigation into NSA spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... druck.html


Which leads to a Fed policy that has become overly concerned with the markets reaction to well, everything. Fed policy, FOMC member speeches, even FOMC minutes are obsessively considered in light of how markets will react to them. This is a terrible and unique Fed error. It makes for bad policy and worse governance in a democracy.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-0 ... fect-.html


This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentionally blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.

In contrast, this was treated as a major political event in both print and broadcast media, in Germany, and across much of the world.

http://benswann.com/media-blacks-out-ne ... ou-to-see/

[aedens]

Impossible to explain normalcy bias now. As we found out 94 percent of all professors rate there work above average also.
I read the last internal insurance risk survey report yeears ago to the Edmund Fitzgerald that my Father in law had.
My wifes family are from over the MAC and some where http://lakespilots.com/
For clarification it is a list of work orders and compiled vessel survey reports.
Fascinating people. I am thankful to live that history impossible for folks to understand.
It took two decades not be considered what lives below the Mac.

http://www.uscg.mil/HISTORY/WEBSHIPWREC ... Report.pdf

Being so many years indeed what struck me was it will be taken out service no costed repair warranted. One last load...

Same state we are in, beyond repair and only a grain colony. We do not need reports to what and why anymore
since they know everything, just ask them....
What I mean is the work is like this. When you start at the bow you go to the stern, and then start to the bow.
No one actually know what is between unless you are that person Higg.

No one even cares to understand. We are spending millions. The culture wars have been over.
Impossible, ok move then.
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2 ... rease.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqAhdVNNHEs

[Higgenbotham]

A few snippets of the interview with Snowden on German television.

Mr Snowden did you sleep well the last couple of nights because I was reading that you asked for a kind of police protection. Are there any threats?

There are significant threats but I sleep very well. There was an article that came out in an online outlet called Buzz Feed where they interviewed officials from the Pentagon, from the National Security Agency and they gave them anonymity to be able to say what they want and what they told the reporter was that they wanted to murder me. These individuals - and these are acting government officials. They said they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store and have me die in the shower.

You started this debate, Edward Snowden is in the meantime a household name for the whistleblower in the age of the internet. You were working until last summer for the NSA and during this time you secretly collected thousands of confidential documents. What was the decisive moment or was there a long period of time or something happening, why did you do this?

I would say sort of the breaking point is seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. There’s no saving an intelligence community that believes it can lie to the public and the legislators who need to be able to trust it and regulate its actions. Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back. Beyond that, it was the creeping realisation that no one else was going to do this.

How narrow is the co-operation of the German Secret Service BND with the NSA and with the Five Eyes?

I would describe it as intimate. As a matter of fact the first way I described it in our written interview was that the German Services and the US Services are in bed together.

Does the NSA spy on Siemens, on Mercedes, on other successful German companies for example, to prevail, to have the advantage of knowing what is going on in a scientific and economic world.

I don’t want to pre-empt the editorial decisions of journalists but what I will say is there’s no question that the US is engaged in economic spying.

If there’s information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they’ll go after that information and they’ll take it.

How does a young man from Elizabeth City in North Carolina, 30 years old, get in such a position in such a sensitive area?

That’s a very difficult question to answer. In general, I would say it highlights the dangers of privatising government functions. I worked previously as an actual staff officer, a government employee for the Central Intelligence Agency but I’ve also served much more frequently as a contractor in a private capacity. What that means is you have private for profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, compromising foreign systems and anyone who has the skills who can convince a private company that they have the qualifications to do so will be empowered by the government to do that and there’s very little oversight, there’s very little review.

One reaction to the NSA snooping is in the very moment that countries like Germany are thinking to create national internets an attempt to force internet companies to keep their data in their own country. Does this work?

It’s not gonna stop the NSA. Let’s put it that way.


http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/sno ... age-1.html

[John]

If someone were to take out Snowden and Glenn Greenwald then I
wouldn't grieve for a second. These two smug a--holes have done a
catastrophic amount of damage to America, and are too stupid to even
realize it. They deserve to burn in hell.

[aedens]

Servants do not lie to Congress either so score another smug whatever to the list.
I believe in defense and we understand Trumans thesis on evil.
It ends with mass graves. Same as it ever was. Red meat for amusement.

Westpoint clearly states the code.

will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do

And you wonder why actual taxpayers can be nuetral on Snowdon?

Washington need to be fired........

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Think what you will.
If you search the forums and they are guilty, I said point blank "black spot"

MIC has been run over by experts, not Honor.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... b_drought/

Why I am planting more this spring on this cycle.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/p ... rchill.php

and http://www.thetrader.se/2012/11/30/chin ... he-bottom/

Automation is a excuse "need" to raise capital to buy ES on the cheap.
Back in 1993 dollars a 6.5 billion global imploded on paper which would be worth 10.48 billion in todays dollars.
Same as the Andropov plan did. Scope and scale to manage. Taxpayers have no idea what is and ought actually means anyways.

Also to be clear Christians and Muslims do not kill each other.
The culture comes from the top as in misanthropists of psychopathic tendencies also.

totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion
moderates understand confusion shelters corruption
just that simple all over

"The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason." - David Hume

shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

[jcsok]

If someone were to take out Snowden and Glenn Greenwald then I
wouldn't grieve for a second. These two smug a--holes have done a
catastrophic amount of damage to America, and are too stupid to even
realize it. They deserve to burn in hell.

It is amazing the sharp divide between people who consider Snowden to be a traitor or a patriot. I agree that Snowden damaged America, but consider him to be a great patriot. Neither the US citizens nor even Congress realize the extent of the spying on the once free society. There is no difference between the lies of FED, the TBTF banks, and the lies of the NSA. At what point should the government not have access to individual's communications? If this nation was founded on freedom of thought and freedom of speech, have we not lost most of it? It is quite apparent that there is a segment that is untouchable and "is more equal than others".

[aedens]

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot. ... oints.html

drool buckets and liberals ability to produce just that

So many segements pulling it down who can hold it up anymore. Two sides of the same political roman coin.

Should we make it manditory to have all students read "white girl bleed alot" for multicultral exploration training?

Point is nothing is factual but both crayon colors missing a honest backbone. We all make mistakes but the line is lost now.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise."