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[aedens]

water wheat weather http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-1 ... nt-1-chart

It means nothing and every thing. May this bitter cup pass us.

h less than 5 percent short as noted on ratio comment.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-1 ... cord-highs

Holding my July 28th as we noted on moorings h http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=VXX&ty=c&ta=0&p=w after july 28th 2% max
maybe to cover into november.

(sometimes singular) something that provides security or stability

kids are dipping into xiv bucket to buy some vxx on todays 10 handle on vix or single digit envisioned.
Impossible to measure that probability for me. Like noted will see after the late July #s

Sheep pens are not for skinning, ask the 400 ms butchers.

As d notes, Let me see if I get this straight, just looking at current events from today : Russian Nat Gas pipeline, one of their largest, in Ukraine suddenly spontaneously combusts. That whole situation growing worse by the day. Iraqi prime minister goes full regard, spews hate towards everyone, while another bunch of angry Muslims closes in on Bagdad, putting even more oil production in jeopardy. Argentina gets it up the ass from the US Supreme Court, putting yet another country into an economic tailspin. Hedge funds win, everyone in Argentina loses. Chinese still searching port warehouses looking for invisible supplies of copper and iron ore as more safety nets installed around more Chinese bank buildings. All of this shit, none of which is trivial in nature happening around the globe and the US Markets finish higher on the day ? If this doesn't tell you the fed is the only game in town right now I don't know what the fuck will.

Dear senator X, never get in a Asian Land war ask the Limeys also.
Signed, dead empires and idiots who spent three trillion as forty percent of our
kids live in poverty. Pagan pricks and zealots never learn the Lords hand will heal the
sick and afflict the arrogated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2D7J_FL_U

[Higgenbotham]

Triple Whammy Shocker: Goldman Shutting Down Sigma X?
By Tyler Durden
Created 04/08/2014 - 20:47

That this is a momentous development, if true, needs no explanation. Because while Sigma X may or may not be the top dark pool in the industry - a claim that Credit Suisse can possibly make alongside Goldman- Sigma X, which we have written about extensively over the past five years, certainly provides Goldman with not only extensive daily revenue but also gives the firm an inside look into what happens in the institutional marketplace, since the bulk of hedge funds and most mutual funds transact almost exclusively on dark pools now in an attempt to avoid precisely the parasitic HFT algos that have been the topic of so much discussion in recent days.

And if Goldman is willing to exit not only HFT, not only legacy lit markets entirely, but also its dark pool, then something truly big and transformational is coming to not only the existing market structure, but something that will be so disruptive, that for once we can't wait to find out just what Goldman has up its sleeves, sleeves which also happen to house the key lawmakers in the Beltway.

Why is Goldman doing this now? We don't know. It is worth noting however that on page 234 of Flash Boys, Michael Lewis cites Ron Morgan and Brian Levine, Goldman Partners and co-heads of Goldman's global stock markets, who said that "Unless there are some changes, there's going to be a massive crash, a flash crash times ten."

http://www.zerohedge.com/print/487075

[aedens]

Indeed h

ty t http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-1 ... -vix-today

[Higgenbotham]

Bottom Line

The current 7% of Americans who place confidence in Congress is the lowest of the 17 institutions Gallup measured this year, and is the lowest Gallup has ever found for any of these institutions. The dearth of public confidence in their elected leaders on Capitol Hill is yet another sign of the challenges that could face incumbents in 2014's midterm elections -- as well as more broadly a challenge to the broad underpinnings of the nation's representative democratic system.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/171710/publi ... c-low.aspx

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[vincecate]

The S&P 500 low was 666. I have to wonder what high would be a fun number. It is only about 8 away from 1971, the year the US dollar was no longer redeamable for gold. Another number is 666*3 or 1998. I guess 2,000 and 2008 would also be fun. Target rich environment.

[aedens]

The S&P 500 low was 666. I have to wonder what high would be a fun number. It is only about 8 away from 1971, the year the US dollar was no longer redeamable for gold. Another number is 666*3 or 1998. I guess 2,000 and 2008 would also be fun. Target rich environment.

http://www.cubastandard.com/2014/05/24/ ... greements/

getting closer to home vin

[aedens]

Note to idiots: revisionism is not "denial", simply an attempt to set the record straight and get a fuller appreciation of the complexities of history.

David Cole had gone into hiding after death threats only to be eventually 'outed'. His story is in his new book Republican Party Animal.

ht igg

The branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that setup shop in the UK knew damn well that the "empire on which the sun never set on" (aka global reserve currency) would not only be threatened by an alliance that stretched from the North Sea uninterrupted to the Pacific Ocean, but that even within Europe they would wind up playing second fiddle at the old-world inbred conclaves if that particular Alliance were seriously resurrected.

All the Monarchs on Earth could not avert WW1 for it had been meticulously planned by central bankers for decades. US AgriSec HHoover organized food to be loaded onto specially marked ships controlled by NavSec FDR. This takes long term planning, especially since everything was on paperwork long before the first shot was fired. The IRS and Fed scams were conveniently set up before the war so the money kept pouring in. All wars are central banker wars.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bk1/bk2/wall-s ... hitler.pdf

George V, another cousin, denied Nicholas and his family exile in England, partly over concern for Nicholas' German wife and also to appease the left in England who supported the Russian Revolution. We know how that turned out.

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-2 ... ous-circle

There Is No Market.

[Higgenbotham]

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The last 10 years of the second graph:

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1. It took 1 quarter for adjusted corporate profits to drop as much as they did in several quarters of 2006-7.

2. People expect "topping action" in the stock market. If corporate profits keep dropping at this pace, there may not be any "topping action", rather straight down like 1937.

[Higgenbotham]

US money slump flashes warnings as economy contracts

The US seems caught in a Japan-style trap, endlessly masking the effect by stealing a little extra growth from the future with artificial stimulus

Data from the Centre for Financial Stability in New York show that growth of the “Divisia M4” money supply slowed abruptly to 1.6pc in April, down from 6pc in early 2013.

Divisia M4 is a dynamic measure that aims to capture shifting uses of money. It is has been one of the best weather vanes over recent years, signalling economic health a few months ahead.

Professor William Barnett, a former Fed official now at the University of Kansas, said the weak M4 figures are a sign that the US is not recovering properly, leaving the Fed with a grim choice as it tries to wean the economy off emergency policies that are themselves causing havoc. “The Fed faces a 'Catch 22' decision. I am glad I am no longer on the Board's staff,” he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/econ ... racts.html