Max Keiser / Huffington Post – More on ‘naked credit default swaps’

Posted on July 24, 2009 by stacyherbert| 48 Comments

Stacy Summary: As I am in London I didn’t realize that Max was also posting this to Huffington Post so here it is. You will find his Huffpost piece comes with additional Maxisms.

Max Keiser: There is no such thing as a ‘naked credit default swap‘

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48 Responses to Max Keiser / Huffington Post – More on ‘naked credit default swaps’

Fibon11235 | July 25, 2009 at 8:24 am |

@ Mr Supergeek and Sharon.

Yep, I do have a tendency to comment when intoxicated. I can see that it shows sometimes, never take me seriously, just like those that still believe in JM Keynes, Keynesian economics?

I do not know a great deal about Mr Keynes, and should read more but I always prefered hard science, anything Physics, Chem, Biol and later mathematics and computing. Help me I am In a muddle trying separating propaganda on the TV from Keynes I cant tell if they’re serious with all this double dip and green shoot stuff or just taking the piss.

I some time think Im in a parallel universe, I come here for sanity.

I cant even talk to anyone about this stuff we talk about on here. Its as if you farted at the dinning room table the reaction I get.

It wont improve you know, im stubborn. When all the shit hits the fan, ill be saying told you so, told you so. Its amazing I have friends. Another glass of Red and its a lovely day.. All the best this weekend to you all !!

Im not really a piss head, honest !
Jim | July 25, 2009 at 7:35 am |

So who is gonna arrest Paulson, Bernanke, ect. the capitol police? Citizens arrest? Where is the outrage? I protest at End the Fed protests but there are so few who do. Unbelievable.
Mr Supergeek | July 24, 2009 at 4:21 pm |

@fib
And on that note we cue the music….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMG20rBfkM8
Dedo | July 24, 2009 at 3:44 pm |

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Dedo | July 24, 2009 at 3:42 pm |

Here’s one of my fav’s :

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” From the film Gladiator.
kitty | July 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm |

Many a mickle makes a muckle.
Dedo | July 24, 2009 at 3:36 pm |

Great quotes Y’all!!,……first prize goes to anyone who can come up with an original,……..
My bets are on Frances, she seems the better word smith. Although it’s a fine line, you’re all pretty clued up.
Fibon11235 | July 24, 2009 at 3:26 pm |

@ Sharon and Mr Geek
I this a compotition , iv found some good money ones .. I was looking for

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – ZERO”

Voltaire 1729
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But here are some others, its late, its along post. I think this one is fun?

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~Gloria Steinem

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn

Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown

Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ~George Savile, Complete Works, 1912

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are no pockets in a shroud. ~Author Unknown

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. ~Michael Leboeuf

There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~Coco Chanel

Money is a headache, and money is the cure. ~Everett Mámor

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams

Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, “Life and Human Nature,” Afterthoughts, 1931

Mammon, n.: The god of the world’s leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. ~George Horace Lorimer

“Your money, or your life.” We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ~Bob Hope

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
~Lord Byron

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. ~Author Unknown

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Louis

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire

A bank book makes good reading – better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder

Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram

There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown

Money often costs too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a fellow says it hain’t the money but the principle o’ the thing, it’s th’ money. ~Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ~Kahlil Gibran

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~Henry Fielding

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi

A man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. ~Robert Benchley

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband. ~H.L. Mencken

…existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul – kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg

I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~Oscar Wilde

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. ~Zig Ziglar

The little money I have – that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us,
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the devil’s booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;
For a cap and bells our lives we pay.
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul’s tasking,
‘Tis heaven alone that is given away,
‘Tis only God may be had for the asking,
No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money – or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. ~Amory Lovins

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943

I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
~Hilaire Belloc, “Fatigued,” Sonnets and Verse, 1923

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. ~Author Unknown

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~Henrik Ibsen

How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry.
~William Shakespeare

[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897

Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown

I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that’s put to use more gold begets.
~William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1593

Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~George Bernard Shaw

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Money doesn’t talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw

If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown

That money talks
I’ll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, “Goodbye.”
~Richard Armour

Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. ~The Quote Garden

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver’s glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to change the legend on our money from “In God We Trust” to “In Money We Trust.” Because, as a nation, we’ve got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891
Mini US | July 24, 2009 at 3:24 pm |

Australian PM starts admitting that things are gonna get bleak once the Stimuli wears off……
(Letter from PM, its long-ish)

http://www.smh.com.au/national/pain-on-the-road-to-recovery-20090724-dw6q.html?page=-1
Mr Supergeek | July 24, 2009 at 3:22 pm |

@All Y’all
Cool cheers Gee’….oops by quoting that quote means I’m a Fool…damn outsmarted myself that time…I bet you know this classic.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at each other; until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Richard M. Nixon,
gonzomarx | July 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm |

@Mr Supergeek
i like….and the Samuel Palmer 1 is a dozzy
frances snoot | July 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm |

“To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
Brezinzki: the grand chessboard…
http://www.oilempire.us/zbig.html

Here’s to my fellow tin-foiled barbarian bloggers!!!
Mr Supergeek | July 24, 2009 at 3:02 pm |

@All Y’all…
Right where is my penguin book of Quotations…dedo…have you got it?….oh you borrowed it to sharon…and now gonzo’s got it, damn!
Thank god for the internet….

A witty saying proves nothing.
– Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.
– Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
– Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

To generalize is to be an idiot.
– William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, Unknown , born October 25, 1800

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
– Samuel Palmer, Unknown , 1805-1880
gonzomarx | July 24, 2009 at 2:23 pm |

@sharon i like the quote meme…

The people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” Hermann Goering

“To announce that there is to be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American people.” Teddy Roosevelt

Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible
will make violent revolutions inevitable.- JFK

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis

It takes less effort to condemn than to think. – Emma Goldman

“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.” -Abraham Lincoln

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. – George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. – George Orwell

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Goethe

i’ll stop for now!! (i love quotes)
Mike/Liverpool | July 24, 2009 at 1:09 pm |

Max/Stacy
Your thoughts on a large “one off” event EG devaluation of the US $ & UK £?
Mike
harry_w | July 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm |

Re: previous posts on Honduras:
Search Results

Honduran president, ousted by coup, returns to Honduras at the border with Nicaragua.

Al Jazeera English – Live Streams
frances snoot | July 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm |

@Max Keiser
“’Im trying to get on Bill Maher’s show.”
Why don’t we write Mr. Mahers and DEMAND Max? I’m in.
Phil | July 24, 2009 at 12:23 pm |

@sharon … famous quotes :

Thx for the post … much appreciated !
Youri Carma | July 24, 2009 at 12:18 pm |

Indeed the dead cat:

UK economy shrinks much more than expected http://tinyurl.com/lt6htv

US consumer confidence dropped in July in spite of a stock market rally http://bit.ly/pa3NA
Phil | July 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm |

Crisis- Hit Italy Hits Crisis Over Anti-Crisis Gold Tax

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/ash/2009/0723.html

Remember that Link I posted last week about Gold Tax in Italy ? …. seems to be causing some fuss !
Youri Carma | July 24, 2009 at 11:58 am |

” “The problem is people have been running all stocks up, there’s hasn’t been any kind of differentiation at all,” said Dan Niles, co-Chief Investment Officer of Alpha One Capital Partners.”

“Investors have overlooked negative news from companies like Dell Inc, which sells its wares directly to customers and which warned last week of profit margin contraction and weak demand from corporate buyers of PCs.

Microsoft was a “reality check” said Niles.”

FROM: Microsoft Reported Its First Annual Decline in Sales EVER of the Windows OS http://tinyurl.com/mw26fo
kitty | July 24, 2009 at 11:50 am |

re @maxkeiser …Nicolas M. sent me this…

What’s in the Bag?

I expected them to pull out a DEAD CAT.
Youri Carma | July 24, 2009 at 11:40 am |

Swine flu big deal, CDC STOPS swine flu death count at 300? http://link.reuters.com/qas39c
Mike | July 24, 2009 at 11:20 am |

at the huffpo site!
Mike | July 24, 2009 at 11:19 am |

@stacy

I think it’d be a good idea to add an encouragment to your stacy Summary above, written in capital letters, to all readers, to write comments on the huffpo piece
xxx
Rasta | July 24, 2009 at 10:57 am |

@Stacy ….thanks….and next time café au lait is on you too. lol
Ugh_Just_Ugh | July 24, 2009 at 10:51 am |

Submitted it to digg… if you can give it votes, maybe we can get that video message to even more folks who need to see it!

http://digg.com/d3yTQp
stacyherbert | July 24, 2009 at 10:48 am |

@Danny – yes, good article; you aren’t dipping into your stash of whiskey are you? that will be more valuable than gold soon . . .
Danny | July 24, 2009 at 10:45 am |

This is the best summery of where we were, where we are, and where we’re going I’ve come across. I’m getting absolutely hammered tonight and buying another load of gold tomorrow after reading this.
…..and another thing….its been emotional

http://matterhornassetmanagement.com/newsletter/?newsletter=20?321
stacyherbert | July 24, 2009 at 10:33 am |

@maxkeiser – oh honey
max keiser | July 24, 2009 at 10:32 am |

I wanna sneak peak! I wanna sneak peak!!!
stacyherbert | July 24, 2009 at 10:25 am |

@rasta – that was a good one; I will send you an early private sneak preview of tonight’s On the Edge for that
Rasta | July 24, 2009 at 10:20 am |

Ravi Batra on Thom Hartmann’s show right now

http://www.thomhartmann.com
max keiser | July 24, 2009 at 10:17 am |

Nicolas M. sent me this..
really good

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28159725/vp/32124060%2332124060#32124060
Rasta | July 24, 2009 at 10:06 am |

@Stacy……yes that first comment is mine

Max Keiser = God

you’re welcome.
Mongo | July 24, 2009 at 9:59 am |

Great show on Press TV. It’s spot on regarding the denial. This denial is what is almost worse than the crime that preceded its causes. Why is it so hard to believe whats going on?…
sharon | July 24, 2009 at 9:28 am |

Re-posted: Here are some quotes that are apt to the times we find ourselves in (I’ve missed out the obvious Wahington/Jefferson ones):-

” Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain

” What luck for rulers that men do not think”
- Adolf Hitler

“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger

“All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
–John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson

“Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
~ Albert Einstein

“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
ALEXANDER TYLER

“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.” (George Washington)

“War is the terrorism of the rich… Terrorism is the war of the poor”.
Peter Ustinov
max keiser | July 24, 2009 at 9:22 am |

the huffpost site has a wait period – if i remember correctly – before newbies can post.. a drag, I know…

plus their policy re: moderation is a bit strict IMO, but hey, it’s their site so it’s their rules… i know that the story placement on the various most-visible pages are algorithm driven based on comments and views…
Goldman Sachs Automated Gimp System | July 24, 2009 at 9:20 am |

Life without cash:

http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817&
stacyherbert | July 24, 2009 at 9:18 am |

yes we need a maxim bomb

while y’all do that i am going to record On the Edge

the more max love bombs on huffpo the sooner i will post on the edge here for you . . .
max keiser | July 24, 2009 at 9:15 am |

we need to bomb huffpost with comments so it rises up their chart.. I’m trying to get on Bill Maher’s show.. and his staff reads HuffPost i know…
Goldman Sachs Automated Gimp System | July 24, 2009 at 9:11 am |

Maxim…
Scott from Oregon | July 24, 2009 at 9:10 am |

…because Keiser Rolls!
Scott from Oregon | July 24, 2009 at 9:09 am |

I say Maximum Sums
Dedo | July 24, 2009 at 8:56 am |

Maxim !!!
stacyherbert | July 24, 2009 at 8:51 am |

@Danny – good question; Votes everyone . . . the first option to get 4 votes wins and I change to Maxims if that wins . . . .
M | July 24, 2009 at 8:46 am |

Good vid: the yes men fix the world.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/23/yes_men
Danny | July 24, 2009 at 8:44 am |

@Stacy

Is it Maxisms or Maxims? I’m in the Maxims camp – love the double meaning!