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Ironic that the Parthenon reflects what Greece is
a ruin propped up by a temporary scaffold.
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The following excerpts are loosely quoted from here _
http://seekingalpha.com/article/376361-greek-default-and-dev...
" The total value of Greek goods and services in the commerce of the EU amounts
to less than 1% of annual EU GDP. Simply writing off 100% of the Greek sovereign
and private debt held by European public and private institutions would cost about
3% of total European Union (EU) GDP. These sorts of impacts on the wealth and
productive capacity of the EU represent a mere rounding error from a global
economic point of view." So what is the problem ?
" European banks are even more highly leveraged than US banks. If Greece enters
into a hard default and European banks were forced to write down the value of the
Greek sovereign debt that they hold in their portfolios, some of these institutions
might become insolvent. Because of the close and interlocking relationships amongst
financial institutions the insolvency of a few banks could jeopardize the integrity
of the entire European and even global financial system."
" Considering the interlocking credit and funding relationships amongst all financial
institutions, the insolvency of a few banks threatens the solvency of many others
and the liquidity of all. At the same time, given the central role that credit and
financial institutions play in the modern economic system the illiquidity and insolvency
of systemically important financial institutions threatens the stability of the entire
financial and economic system."
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The following excerpts are loosely quoted from here _
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ecb-has-opened-pandora%E2%80%9...
"When Greece proceeds with circumventing bond holder contract law , the spread
between the two credit lines for every country, not just the PIIGS with their 2.1
trillion €uro debt , but every other one as well which offers creditors the option of
dumping all weak protection bonds and jumping to the "strong" ones , will surge ,
as the realization that a very distinct class of sovereign debt has now been
subordinated and that a senior and junior class of sovereign debt has emerged."
" As Greece succeeds with its own exchange offer the natural next step will be
for the other PIIGS to proceed with just such an exercise in order to cut their
own debt load."
" Institutions not coerced or forced into buying European sovereign debt will be
leaving the playing field en mass as the realization dawns upon investors of
just what has taken place."
Those who buy or hold the distressed European debt , now become saddled with
revocation of guaranteed repayment priority so the money never actually has
to be repaid and the de-rated bonds take a loss as their worth is effectively
diminished. Those left holding the bag are the ones who are going to get stuck.
The hope and expectation is that this is the solution to financial meltdown. The
remaining issue is available liquidity sufficient to cover CDC (Credit Default Swaps)
that guarantee the unpaid creditors, and do the underwriters remain solvent
themselves.
The play Soros contemplates is realizable only when the bonds are traded to
others, until then it will only be paper profit.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/322818-george-soros-bet-on-i...
Iceland saved itself from pointless hardship
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-20/icelandic-anger-bri...
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Hey did you see that market crash we had a minute ago ?
No ?
Want to see it again.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/high-speed-trading
http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1448
It should be obvious that such price volatility should be triggering
stop-loss conditional sell orders - but they are not !
Which baits the question at least for me , what is the order and
priority of execution when things do dive , and who gets out first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aehzwwD2II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWi_6s10nw
The strategy is to sell the S&P500 (SPY) index when Google searches
for " debt " increase , then buy back the S&P500 (SPY) index in the
week following. The return was 300 % in simulated trading over six years.
It is note worthy that in areas formerly the exclusive domain of human endeavor
such as Chess and Jeopardy computers are now dominant.
Previous related post _
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17281&...
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The latest technology is attempting to use quantum interference phenomena over fiber optic networks to send instantaneous messages (faster than the
speed of light), and quantum computers to instantly process the information and place orders. In the fast-pace automated world of stock market
high-volume trade algorithms, even a few seconds can give a competitive advantage and large profits. The commercial fiber optic devices necessary for
quantum entanglement are rapidly developing.
http://www.mendeley.com/research/quantum-mechanics-and-faste...
http://www.ejtp.com/articles/ejtpv5i18p105.pdf
Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University in Japan has even proposed that energy, in addition to information, can be teleported through quantum
entanglement.
Basically, it would work something like this:
Points A, B, and C
A laser beam is passed through a beam splitter at point B. Normally there would be an equal chance of going in either direction to points A and C.
However, if the beam will eventually undergo destructive interference at point C, then the beam (or in practice, a greater portion of the beam) will
all be directed at towards point A instead. Destructive interfence at a distant point in a future time shifts the probability at the beam splitter,
because the law of conservation of energy must be conserved (there are indeed other ways the energy could potentially be dissipitated but these have
negligible probabilities). So depending on the observations at point A, an observer could theoretically determine the setup at the distant point C,
whether or not the beam would be undergoing destructive interference. This destructive interference could be achieved, for example, by simply passing
the incoming beam through another beam splitter, then redirecting the split beams towards eachother out of phase. Energy is not destroyed, rather
probabilities are shifted.
The law of conservation of energy, and the phenomena of interference, together combined, imply forbiden possibilities on uncertainty, with respect to
the future. This phenomena would seem to go against convential conceptions of the one-way linear "cause" and "effect". It may well be that there is
merely a relationship between the present and future, that the present is in a way actually determined by the future.
Obviously point C would be designed so that the incoming beam would have a neglibible probability of being reflected back (perhaps using
non-reflective optics), and so that the optics could be switched for phase alignment. The idea being that the observer at point A instantly knows what
the optional alignment is at point C.
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Previously posted here _
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17281&...
the link has lapsed , the updated links are below.
Barrons round table discussion and forecast of 2012
Part I
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB500014240527487035359045...
Part II
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB500014240527487038797045...
Part III
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB500014240527487035120045...
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The world is in a bidding war to the bottom with each major currency
relentlessly expanding it's own money supply , which in part explains
the price hike of stocks. European Central Bank will be expanding the
Euro by another trillion or so at the end of February , Weeeee.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46477139
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ecb-preparing-close-liquidity-...
The other reason is favorable foreign exchange
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-what-happens-when-p...
You are traveling through another dimension , not only of sight and
sound , but of mind , the sign post up ahead , 4 σ .
# " The stock market as measured by the S&P 500 (SPY) has been up
in nearly 70% of the trading days since mid-December { better than
two to one } which is a daily win percentage that is + 4 standard
deviations above normal " !
Four Sigma marks the 99.994 th percentile , at odds of one in 16,000
of occuring , the current run up is what could be expected to happen
once in 2,700 years of Stock market trading. Is everyone feeling lucky ?
# http://seekingalpha.com/article/377721-beware-the-honey-badg...
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[rquote]http://www.mendeley.com/research/quantum-mechanics-and-fasterthanlight-communication-methodological-considerations/
http://www.ejtp.com/articles/ejtpv5i18p105.pdf
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I have attached the first referenced paper for convenience
and the original optical setup diagram from the pdf
Whilst i am in no position _whatsoever_ to offer an educated critique on any aspect of theoretical quantum mechanics I can only make the following
practical observations from messing about with similar optical setups.
The energy that goes 'missing' during destructive interferance in the 'transmiter' interfarometer dosnt really go missing it can be found nearby,
litteraly! if your detector is a single point detector and you have matched your path lengths absolutly perfectly and managed to get your detector to
a near zero reading the detector is now sitting in the dark spot of a 2d fringe patern the energy that is missing is sitting in a bright spot out of
the detectors feild of view. evan in single mode fiber sytems there is still a spacial energy distribution within the beam as it hits the detector.
or the space next to the detector.
The other efect that can been seen in a setup like this is that the energy can be spectraly redistributed. like you see spatially in light/dark fringe
paterns in space, Energy from one wavelength can be 'lost' and seemingly redistributed to a different wavelength. (how exactly this happens on a
single photon level i have _NO _ idea at all) the resulting spectrum looks like a modulated carrier wave.
The other problem i have (at least with the proposed setup in the pdf document) is that in my own very limited first hand experience when optical
systems are setup with a source split into two beem paths and one path sent to a interfraometer and another sent off somewhere else (as in this
diagram and this allso happens by chance to quite closely match a system that ive been working on today)using run of the mill detection teqneuqes
(power, spectrum, polorisation etc) no observable effects can be found on the second beam labeled 'receiver' in this diagram No matter what you do to
the interfarometer that is running off the first beam. so much so that you can put a photodetector on the 2nd beam and use it to mesure noise from
the source so you can then subtract that noise from the interfarometer signal
Whilst im certainly not saying that FDL communications is impossible im unconvinced that the methods presented in that paper are the way to achieve
it.
There are comercal quantum encryption systems that transmit shared keys using entangled photons. But as far as i know the actual encrypted
information is still sent traditionally
allso I wouldn't worry about people using FDL coms for trading. it makes much more sense just to put your compuer system in the same building as the
exchange. and I believe this is exactly what happens http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/04/stock...
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The energy will be shifted away from where it would destructively interfere towards all other possible alternatives. So, for example, in the "double
slit" experiment, the white bands will become more bright because the light has been shifted away from the dark bands, where it would have
destructively interfered.
The interesting phenemona is what happens when the destructive inteference occurrs at a very distant point, or even in the future! The energy
distribution shift must occurr at the beam splitter if there is not any alternative options available near the distant point (or at least if the
options available have neglible probabilities).
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http://www.bloomberg.com/video/87093648
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/24/news/economy/double_dip_rece...
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A couple comments posted in the above zerohedge article:
""The ECB expects governments to take responsibility for banks that prove too weak to help with extra liquidity and believes states should step in
if, in three years when the funding term comes to an end, they are incapable of repaying the credit."
oh, he really is a sonofabitch, but he is smart, our sonofabitch Draghi. I am starting to like him...
so the ECB is not the lender of last resort, it's only the provisional lender of last resort and all the european parties can just start to put their
thinking caps on about what to do with the banks (obvious: nationalize) after the next election rounds.."
" The Sovietunion of Europe, planned and managed out of Brussels steps closer to realization every day!"
It does sort of look like that is the direction it could go, but after more thought I am just left in awe that the most efficient method of wholesale
invasion of the government by bankers and corporations could so easily be justified as "nationalizing." Is that not one of the easiest ways of
transferring an entire industry from unofficially part of the gov't to officially part of the gov't?
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I think a big problem with socialism is that by raising the standards of living for poor people, it actually lowers the standards of living for middle
class and rich people. In other words, if everyone is rich, no one is rich.
So I think here are some better quotes:
"Socialism is great until the rich realize they are not so rich."
"Socialism is great until everybody realizes their money is not worth as much."
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Here is a thought: If everyone else in the world was a stunningly beautiful young female, would you care about the rest of the world more? Would you
be more willing to be taxed to ensure the welfare of everyone else?
I believe the answer is yes, without a doubt.
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Now children , play nice
http://blogs.wsj.com/eurocrisis/2012/02/23/qa-ecb-president-...
Selected comments read at zerohedge today
The world is now running out of ideas how to even kick the can down the road.
The G20 at their summit in Mexico was its normal complete waste of time and
airfares. The group agreed to do nothing about anything, but did offer up some
nice platitudes about how well the world economy seemed to be doing.
{ That's like commenting how healthy the maggots look on a dead corpse }
Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the Greek Parliament that a significant
number of lawmakers have moved sums in excess of 100,000 euros out of the
country. Venizelos told fellow ministers that there are several Greek public figures
who transferred a total of 16 billion euros abroad over the last two years. An MP
had transferred 1 million euros out of the country in May as authorities were
struggling to appease Greek citizens’ fears of the repercussions of a possible
default on their savings. { Well that should build confidence }
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From the wikipedia biography
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. knew the rampant stock speculation of the late 1920s
would lead to a crash. It is said that he knew it was time to get out of the market
when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy. Kennedy survived the crash
" because he possessed a passion for facts, a complete lack of sentiment and a
marvelous sense of timing ". During the Great Depression Kennedy vastly increased
his financial fortune by investing most of it in real estate. In 1929, Kennedy's fortune
was estimated to be $4 million ( equivalent to $54.1 million today ). By 1935, his
wealth had increased to $180 million ( equivalent to $3.05 billion today )
- In just five years it multiplied over 40 times
Regardless what the pimps and shills in the financial media insist on telling you.
- THERE IS NO RECOVERY !
Annual new home sales / sold data, which came in at meaningless 321K in
January on expectations of 315K, and a meaningless drop from an upward
revised 324K, all this shows is that 3 years after the " recovery ", there is
still zero improvement in housing.
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If you believe this is a sound basis for bidding up the price of stocks
you deserve to get taken.
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Quote: Originally posted by AndersHoveland  | | Here is a thought: If everyone else in the world was a stunningly beautiful young female, would you care about the rest of the world more? Would you
be more willing to be taxed to ensure the welfare of everyone else? |
Whether the rest of the world are
beautiful young women or newborn babies doesn't matter. Neocon creeps will still use economic terrorism to enslave them, and false flag attacks to
invade the ones that don't bow down. And if you pay taxes to the US gov. you would still be supporting it.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/46552130
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| Quote: Originally posted by Polverone | | Quote: Originally posted by franklyn | @ Polverone , I would say they put their money to work ten times harder.
There is no proportional correlation between personal erudition or intellect , and
earning. It has nothing to do with merit and everything to do with ability to prosper
by ones wits. Labor being a commodity is subordinate to market demand and
changing fortune. Entrepreneurship and enterprise as modest as street vending
and peddling are routes available to better yourself in the less developed countries.
The self made man or woman is literally that , prosperity is never an entitlement.
Mediocre individuals seek to serve , successful people seek to be served by them.
Political leaders are that embodiment.
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Is there a non-tautological definition of these prosperity-bringing wits that explains such huge income gaps between the 50th and 99th percentiles,
after "hours worked," "intensity of work," and "investment in skills and education" have all been tested and found wanting?
As a description of the way things are, I basically agree with you. People with money make their money work harder; "them as has, gits." I disagree
that such an arrangement is desirable. As money itself does not actually pave roads, harvest crops, manufacture cars, discover medicines, or fill any
other job, the well-off getting their money to work harder really means getting everyone else to work harder to the benefit of the well-off.
If living at the 99th percentile of income has nothing to do with merit then merit also has nothing to do with living at the 50th percentile. If there
is no merit to great success or its absence, workers stuck at the 50th percentile are not dregs, merely people running on a tilted playing field. If
middle income workers politically support changing the rules of the game, it's simple turnabout : pitting their wits against the wits of the 1%.
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You realize all of this is just childs play? Graphs and new vocab, all used to make it seem so complicated.
The underlying idea of economics and all this shit is simple, and it is easy to see it is unsustainable.
Money from nothing, creating debt from nothing, no representation. Money is just an idea now, and increasingly more abstract as we lose even the paper
currency and go electronic.
Whos to say this shit can't be completely opaque by then?
Group finds 150 companies rule the world;
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed-...
I believe the only way out of this shit is to remove compound interest; making it completely illegal. Interest itself, such as savings & debt on
credit should also be removed. Interest in investments and other "real"-based interest is logical, the prior are simply asking for a collapse.
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| Quote: Originally posted by GreenD |
I believe the only way out of this shit is to remove compound interest; making it completely illegal. Interest itself, such as savings & debt on
credit should also be removed. Interest in investments and other "real"-based interest is logical, the prior are simply asking for a collapse.
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It is not that simple.
I believe that one of the most important solutions is a land value and natural resource based tax, which should be applied based not just on
"ownership", but by equity. If the banks have made so many loans that they control half the equity of the residential/commercial properties,
they should be paying half the land value tax. Because if an individual "owns" property, but still has to make mortgage payments on that property, he
does not truely own it.
And the real owners are not really the banks themselves, but the stockholders of and investors in these banks. By the mere act of putting money into a
bank, one is in fact becoming an indirect owner of everything the bank has invested in or holds a mortgage on.
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I think it is easy to lose the forest through the trees when talking about banks & economics.
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Just because you're big doesn't mean a thing
Actual radio conversation released by
the Chief of Naval Operations, 10-10-95:
#1: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
- #2: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision.
#1: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
- #2: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
#1. THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY.
. . . . DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW !
- #2. This is a U.S Coastguard lighthouse. Your call.
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Damn the iceburgs full speed ahead !
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-year-living-dangerously
http://seekingalpha.com/article/398291-central-banks-bet-the...
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More News ( commentary ) of the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9113175/E...
" Across Europe hundreds of banks open their doors every day only because
of Mr Draghi’s intervention. These lenders may look like banks, call themselves
banks, and, to their customers, feel like banks, but they are in reality wards of
the ECB, going through the motions of banking. These banks can make little
impact on the real economy, and their main purpose in life is merely to survive
and maintain the status-quo. They cannot afford to make loans and be the
agents of Europe’s economic recovery as they remain too bloated with
uncollectable debt and are, to all intents and purposes, insolvent. Be under no
doubts, the European banking system remains broken at its core. The Long Term
Refinancing Operation is merely a full body plaster cast hiding the cadaver inside."
- Is somebody yanking our chain ?
Apple which was worth just $400 billion last month topped $500 billion today Feb 29
which means it's now worth more than the five largest U.S. banks combined. It's got
a ways to go to better Microsoft which at the top 12 years ago , was worth as much
as the combined current worth of gold in the New York Federal Reserve ( $380 billion )
and the U.S. Treasury's Fort Knox ( $250 billion ) . Are you still feeling lucky ?
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1002/gallery.big...
More ' big ' winners
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1002/gallery.big...
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Some very insightful analysis of what 2012 may bring.
If you read nothing else read this ! or listen to it see below
The meat and potatos starts about a quarter of the way in after
the initial pleasantries. Read the transcript here _
http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/transcript-erik-townsend
or listen to the dialog here ~ 52 min long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqcPe-ZBQdk
A selection of abridged excerpts
Erik Townsend:
I think something that I have seen that nobody seems to be talking about is, I think China has quite a bit of pull here. In that as QE happens—and I
am convinced it is going to happen sometime this year, I do not know when—it is going to export so much inflation to China that it is going to be
almost intolerable for them. And I think that we are forgetting that if China says, “Okay, guys, we have had enough of this. If you do any more QE-ing
we are going to dump the US Treasury bonds that we are holding and we are going to use the money to save our own economy.” If we see that kind of
reaction from China, it really could put a monkey wrench into the plans of the central banks to inflate this all away. I think that whether it is that
mechanism or another one, at some point we are going to get to a hard wall here where you cannot just print money forever without the unintended
consequences coming back and biting you. I just described one mechanism that might cause the unintended consequence to create a feedback loop that
comes back and bites the central banks so they have to stop what they are doing, changing everything. Now that might not happen, but there are a dozen
others that you can think of in terms of mechanisms that might cause a sudden stop in quantitative easing. And if that happens, we are really going to
see a roller coaster ride in the economy.
Chris Martenson:
The Russell 2000, just a percent or two away from all-time highs—it is up 38 percent this year—it is up like this huge amount over the past year—and
would you know it, money flows from retail investors have been negative every single month through that entire run. What is going on? Because normally
the retail investors are piling in or they have been piling in or they are providing some of that fuel. Not only have they not been providing fuel,
they have been subtracting fuel from that. Who is buying the rusty [13:15]? We have all these people selling, who are the retail investors. It means
the market is no longer really made up, I guess, or is sensitive to the retail investors. And, and how do you, how do you interpret that information ?
Erik Townsend:
You know, I do not pretend to understand how it all works. I think the agenda here is all about propping up markets and general sentiment in the
country in advance of the election. And I think the big thing that they seem to be wrestling with, if you cannot quite please all the people all the
time, there is no good way to prop up the markets by printing money and just putting – printing government money to put a bid under everything.
Because if you do that, you blow oil prices through the roof and that is going to cripple the economy. Okay. We need a scapegoat for the oil prices.
Let us get ready to do something. We are going to get ready to rumble with Iran here. We are going to make them the bad guy somehow for the fact that
oil prices are going up.
I see an overall agenda that is about propping up markets, however it is that they do it. But I think that the strategy of whoever is pulling the
strings on these puppets, is if we can get to a new all-time high on the Dow, which is only about 9 percent away from where it is right now today. We
will be able to lure retail back into the stock market and we can maybe get another bump from there. It will all come crashing down at some point when
the macro kicks in and people get in touch with reality again. But if we can somehow prop things up just a little further, we can get retail suckers
back into the market.
At some point, though, I think that Europe comes back and finally blows up on us. Maybe that will not be until next year. As much as I am absolutely
resolute that there is no solution to any real problem and can be no solution, there are plenty of ways that you can paper this over and do a Band-Aid
fix that lasts a few more months. And I think they will probably continue doing that through most of 2012.
Iran is another story and my gut on Iran is that it, at this point is a strategic tool. They know they are going to fight with Iran at some point.
They know that Obama is not going to win the election in November with hundred and fifty dollar oil prices and seven dollar gasoline if it comes to
that unless there is a good scapegoat. So everybody can feel like the President is doing the right thing—in order to fix this problem, that people
that do not look like us, created it. It must be all Iran’s fault!
What if the purpose of the new debt was to rearrange who has the debt, who is holding the debt, and what form it is being held in so that we can have
a major unprecedented round of changing the rules to re – essentially to redistribute wealth in a way that would have been previously unheard-of.
Well, look at as an example what happened to civil rights in the United States since 9-11 with – between the Patriot Act and FISA and the HIRE Act,
now in NDAA where you have the government giving the essentially unlimited authority to lock people up, throw away the key without ever pressing
charges. Your right to trial by jury and speedy trial and confrontation of your accuser. All that stuff is out the window. Forget the Constitution. We
are making new rules because we have got to fight terrorism. Well, look at the magnitude of the macro-event, the major global economic dislocations
that you and I both see on the horizon. If 9-11, which was two buildings, and a few thousand people losing their lives, could allow us to throw out
our Constitution. Then I think a mini- or macro- a major global economic dislocation could easily allow us to throw out the rule of contract law and
simply say, governments are in charge of redefining who has all the wealth, who has the assets. This whole thing is going to get reset and we are
going to go to a global currency while we do that. If your agenda was to cause that big picture outcome over the next few years, wouldn’t you want to
be redefining the debt and put more of the debt off of the private books and onto the public books where the government has more direct control over
what the terms and conditions of those instruments are?
Chris Martenson:
if the Fed is holding a trillion Europe bonds and the Europeans are holding a trillion US bonds and they both just wink at each other and cancel them
off their books, what just happened ? My point is that once a central bank takes an asset onto its books, it – there is really nothing, that says it
has to then get it back off its books by selling it into the open market. It can just let it expire there, if it wants to. And what just happened?
Nothing. The money stays out in the economy and the bad debt or, even if it is not a bad debt, whatever debt it was, just went away. It is entirely
possible to have these bad assets go into central bank vaults, if you will, onto their balance sheet and just evaporate there and disappear. What
happened to the Bear Sterns books that the Fed took on ? And the Maiden Lane ? They have just been winding that stuff down. I do not know what is
happening to it. But it has just sort of been evaporating off of the – like sublimating off of the Federal Reserve balance sheet.
Erik Townsend:
that is exactly where I see this all going, is the, the cronyism is going to continue. The people who are best connected are going to have their
interests protected through fairly complex and unobvious mechanisms that allow the government to take the debt out of the private sector, the bad debt
that should stay there where people should be punished for having made those bad loans in the first place. They are going to come off scot-free and
ultimately it is the middle class and the taxpayer that are going to eat the cost of this. And it will happen in very complex and unobvious ways so
that most people cannot figure out what happened to them.
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The treasury department establishing the norm of negative interest rates ,
prompted this remark from a skeptic.
" we wonder, when will Apple, start charging its shareholders for the privilege
of owning its stock ? "
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/409401-coming-week-market-mo...
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/03/02/russell-2000...
Deja vu
From now on things will get interesting. This week may stir the markets some
but do not expect cataclysm, yet. The G20 have likely shored up the weakest
links so that a cascade of dominoes will not occur, this time. The week following
this week may well see things pick up again as before. All the vicissitudes remain.
Remember the past if you do not wish to repeat it.
Deja vu
Bold talk from street pushers on Tuesday 9, September 2008
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=849887544
Three weeks later it became a Olympic ski jump event.
http://tinyurl.com/6vdzsek
It's a long way down , in 2008 it took two months to reach a low
Oh boy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iifs-doomsday-memorandum-revea...
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the great paper money fiat currency scam
Forty years ago an automobile cost 10% what is the cost for an equivalent vehicle today.......10% ....one tenth.....
and a similar story applies to many other tangible goods having real value, while currency value manipulation by government and banks has continued
along its merry way, with the general trend being of course currency devaluation. It is something like athropogenic queer paper proliferation or AQPP
accomplished by government mints pee peeing fiat currency in whatever quantity yellow river of pee pee money is deemed to meet their government needs
while pissing on every savings account holder on earth who are every one them "taxed" by the robbery accomplished by currency devaluation.....which is
a de facto breached contract with "the people".
The suggestion which I have made and reiterate is that not only the U.S. dollar, but all currency worldwide should have a fixed value assigned to it
as a bearer bond redeemable in a certain amount of energy which is fixed by law as the valuation for that "e-bill" or energy bearer bond. This would
stop the crooked and rigged monopoly game which has been played for centuries by governments and banks using fiat currency as the "coin of the realm"
which really is no coin at all on planet earth. We all understand the relationship of energy consumption to the lives of people who live in an
industrialized world. Like billions of energy hungry vampires we require energy for sustaining our lives.
Energy is the lifeblood of industrialized society..... and that is a fact. Therefore, energy is consequently the de facto medium of
basic barter and exchange, the fundamental and essential thing, the commodity and consumable which makes everything go and makes everything work. Is
there anything else more fundamental conceivable as an essential commodity basis for mercantile exchange, useful for trade for other goods and
services....than bearer bonds for energy having fixed valuation and face value correlated to X amount of kilowatt hours, or X gallons of Octane, or X
BTU's, ect. ? Wouldn't it put a swift end to the currency devaluation and at the same time put the financial reality of an honest "new world order"
squarely upon the issuers of "currency" at the same time identifying them as the de facto producers of energy which they already are.......behind the
present facade of private corporations. Such private corporations as have been for so long so regulated and so intertwined financially with
government have long been de facto cartel partnerships which are neither distinctly private enterprise nor government enterprise but are in fact both.
Why not declare such enterprise what it is and stop scamming the population of the world about the reality of what exists?
To reaffirm the appropriate quote and name drop an endorsement for the late Andrew Breitbart who was very possibly murdered to silence his own
expressions of similar perspicacity ......
"Righteous Indignation: Excuse me while I save the world."
An audio clip from an audio version of the book is linked here
http://www.audiobooksdownload.com/Books/BK_HACH_000606.htm
http://samples.audible.com/bk/hach/000606/bk_hach_000606_sam...
And here
http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-Wor...
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Who said industrialized society is the way to go?
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Certainly not stoners on bicycles but then they are just a few fries short of having a full happy meal
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Just sayin man. Industrialization brings some nice creature comforts, but of course it has its draw backs, psychologically and physically. Not
everything is so black and white.
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The general situation I described absolutely is precisely so black and white. Do everyone a favor in this thread and don't troll this thread with
your drivel about what you view as some Marxist utopian wet dream of a world you conceived through the aid of an LSD experience hobbling your mind of
a vegetarian bicyclist ....as you did in the Say Goodbye to GW thread. Your variety of surreal philosophy and ideology is absolutely not realistic or
sane by any honest standard of scrutiny. It is only some subversive and perverse countercultural garbage which is inconsistent with realities of life
in a world you think you can wish to become your own idea of heaven on earth, which would not be any heaven on earth to most people, though it would
suit just fine your own idea as some materialization of your fantasy or hallucination.
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Damn rosco - you been reading the dictionary? Your vocab has expanded considerably in the past week.
My point is: stop playing god and telling everyone that industrialization is the promised land.
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