initial context http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/05/2 ... ire-video/
Press TV is the mouthpiece of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei, who is
providing weapons and troops to Bashar al-Assad to inflict industrial
strength torture, mutilation, rape and extermination on innocent
Syrians. Almost everything that appears on the PressTv web site is
"hate America and the West" ideology. Also, Iran is Persian, not
Arab.
Frontline had a very good report. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... he-rebels/
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/borrowers ... 00464.html
should sound familiar
When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a crackpot. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
The more bullish people are, the more they have to move the price down. That is what I learned from the Barclay's post mortem.
They will shed customer assets and take trading losses to stop their derivatives from hemorrhaging. It is a gift to the rest of us.
Stack some per month
should sound familiar
When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a crackpot. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
The more bullish people are, the more they have to move the price down. That is what I learned from the Barclay's post mortem.
They will shed customer assets and take trading losses to stop their derivatives from hemorrhaging. It is a gift to the rest of us.
Stack some per month
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It's a matter of perception. What you're probably saying is that the US hasn't collapsed.shoshin wrote:dear doom-sayers and perma-bears...there's a point where being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong...
The US collapsed 3-5 years ago. Without China and Russia (and the rest of the world) holding the US together with energy, cheap goods, and bond purchases, the US would have already fallen. China and Russia are holding us up so that they can push us over at their convenience, when it works best for them.
If you're getting ready to fell a giant redwood, you want to position yourself as best you can before you tip it over.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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Legend Says Markets Pushed Higher To Conceal “Grave Danger”
Today a legendary trader and investor warned King World News that markets are being pushed higher in order to conceal a “grave danger” that central planners are hiding from the public. Victor Sperandeo has been in the business 45 years, and has worked with famous individuals such as Leon Cooperman and George Soros. Another legend, hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, said, “Victor Sperandeo is gifted with one of the finest minds I know. No wonder he’s compiled such an amazing record of success as a money manager.”
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/ ... anger.htmlVictor Sperandeo wrote:Again, stocks should be going down but there is this ‘Fed put’ or manipulation underneath the market. Now this is the important point, Eric: The U.S. economy must be in grave danger, and I want to emphasize that again, grave danger of the system completely collapsing. This is why the Fed does not dare allow the stock market to sell off.
There is no way we after five years that we should still be at zero interest rates, and allowing markets to do what they are doing with continued Fed manipulation, unless things are very, very dire. I want to be clear about this, Eric, what I am saying is that things must be very alarming behind the scenes because the Fed won’t allow any kind of selloff to occur in stocks.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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Ah, ---- but the question is -- What is a valid concern? Between the hype, illusions, "truth", lies, those that push an agenda, natural cycles, etc. That, is the question. And what then is the right thing to do?aedens wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... n-problem/gerald wrote:Very true! and in more ways then one. example -- The Times newspaper predicted... “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.” ---shoshin wrote:dear doom-sayers and perma-bears...there's a point where being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong...
‘Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894" http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi ... s-of-1894/
"Even today, in the face of a problem with no apparent solution, people often quote 'The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894', urging people not to despair, something will turn up!"
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People can ignore my comments on the graphs if they want to, but these 2 graphs in my opinion are the factual basis for beginning to think about how "this time really is different".
Counterfeiting money and jawboning for short term manipulations will not change the ultimate path toward zero except to make the collapse on the back end more devastating.
Counterfeiting money and jawboning for short term manipulations will not change the ultimate path toward zero except to make the collapse on the back end more devastating.
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While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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Ah, ---- but the question is -- What is a valid concern? Between the hype, illusions, "truth", lies, those that push an agenda, natural cycles, etc. That, is the question. And what then is the right thing to do?
Most of us realize that to end the corruption at this late date would take us all down with as we are dependent on the financial streams the runoff this corrupt government produces. Regardless, we will still go down, but more and more people I speak to would rather get it over with now, even if it precipitates a confrontation with government. It should have failed long ago and many who prescribe to a more conservative or frugal economic principle could have survived it, but instead it has been pretend and extend bleeding us dry. We are seeing a continuing failure of small and mid size businesses because of this poor economy. Big business, that has access to capital through lending, stocks and crony contracts are instead buying up their competition. A relative is a manager in a large grocery chain that was recently bought out by another larger but less profitable competitor. They plan on shutting down most of the stores effectively eliminating their competition. Access to capital but no profits. The must sell most of the acquired real estate to pay down the debt from the acquisition. Hell of a thing. Borrow the money to buy your competition and then sell them off piecemeal to pay down the loan. Not exactly winning for the consumer, nor winning as an economic indicator. But this is what we see now. You can't profit from competition so you simply buy market share using borrowed money, creating less competition and ever greater, too big to fail, monopolies. ow
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... tes#p23680
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 040#p24222
According to the consensus forecasts, growth will probably average about 3.3% for the final three quarters of 2014 and 3% in 2015, compared with a 2.2% average since the recession ended.
Wrightson ICAP, also among the most accurate forecasters in the Reuters poll, expects 3.0-3.5 percent growth.
On the lower end, 2.7-3.0 percent, were Barclays, RBC, UBS, Wells Fargo and First Trust Advisors.
Morgan Stanley, Scotiabank, Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank are at the higher end, expecting 3.8-4.2 percent.
If Q2 GDP growth comes within this narrower range, the U.S. recovery story remains intact and won’t likely sway the Federal Reserve off its current policy path, which is to carry on reducing its monthly bond purchases to nil but leave interest rates unchanged well into next year.
When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson, 1975
http://thirdparadigm.org/doc/45060880-W ... y-Dies.pdf Free .pdf copy The book ends with these haunting lines...
"In hyperinflation, a kilo of potatoes was worth, to some, more than the family silver; a side of pork more than the grand piano. A prostitute in the family was better than an infant corpse; theft was preferable to starvation; warmth was finer than honour, clothing more essential than democracy, food more needed than freedom."
Most of us realize that to end the corruption at this late date would take us all down with as we are dependent on the financial streams the runoff this corrupt government produces. Regardless, we will still go down, but more and more people I speak to would rather get it over with now, even if it precipitates a confrontation with government. It should have failed long ago and many who prescribe to a more conservative or frugal economic principle could have survived it, but instead it has been pretend and extend bleeding us dry. We are seeing a continuing failure of small and mid size businesses because of this poor economy. Big business, that has access to capital through lending, stocks and crony contracts are instead buying up their competition. A relative is a manager in a large grocery chain that was recently bought out by another larger but less profitable competitor. They plan on shutting down most of the stores effectively eliminating their competition. Access to capital but no profits. The must sell most of the acquired real estate to pay down the debt from the acquisition. Hell of a thing. Borrow the money to buy your competition and then sell them off piecemeal to pay down the loan. Not exactly winning for the consumer, nor winning as an economic indicator. But this is what we see now. You can't profit from competition so you simply buy market share using borrowed money, creating less competition and ever greater, too big to fail, monopolies. ow
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... tes#p23680
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 040#p24222
According to the consensus forecasts, growth will probably average about 3.3% for the final three quarters of 2014 and 3% in 2015, compared with a 2.2% average since the recession ended.
Wrightson ICAP, also among the most accurate forecasters in the Reuters poll, expects 3.0-3.5 percent growth.
On the lower end, 2.7-3.0 percent, were Barclays, RBC, UBS, Wells Fargo and First Trust Advisors.
Morgan Stanley, Scotiabank, Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank are at the higher end, expecting 3.8-4.2 percent.
If Q2 GDP growth comes within this narrower range, the U.S. recovery story remains intact and won’t likely sway the Federal Reserve off its current policy path, which is to carry on reducing its monthly bond purchases to nil but leave interest rates unchanged well into next year.
When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson, 1975
http://thirdparadigm.org/doc/45060880-W ... y-Dies.pdf Free .pdf copy The book ends with these haunting lines...
"In hyperinflation, a kilo of potatoes was worth, to some, more than the family silver; a side of pork more than the grand piano. A prostitute in the family was better than an infant corpse; theft was preferable to starvation; warmth was finer than honour, clothing more essential than democracy, food more needed than freedom."
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