Stacy Summary: Yikes, hopefully this one will post properly. Can’t post Huffington Post stuff anymore as they install code that messes up all the other code on the site! Their code is an invitation for you to visit their site, when I am linking to them anyway! Anyway, your thoughts on this headline? Corporatism? Fascism? Insider trading? Feudalism? What do you call it?
They are a small cadre of businessmen who have known and worked with Geithner for years, whose multibillion-dollar companies all survived the economic crisis with help from U.S. taxpayers.
When they call, Geithner answers. He has spoken with them immediately after hanging up with President Barack Obama and before heading up to Capitol Hill, between phone calls with senators and after talking with the Federal Reserve chairman, according to a review by The Associated Press of seven months of his appointment calendars.
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I think you got this backwards.. lets turn things right… ok?
http://tinyurl.com/yz9mws2
First!
My take:
The simple trick that creates the spectrum of wealth in society is cooperation. Hunting in teams. That is what bankers do and that the downtrodden bums would never dare to do for fear of being branded terrorist of criminals. Core method is coordination though communication.
Can we expect Goldman-Sachs to be opening offices on moon in a couple of years?..
btw, what happened to the landstrips on the moon that were sold in the 90s.. isn’t US invading peoples properties on the moon?
This is a surprise? Of course he talks to them. I mentioned this in a previous post but I will reiterate–the new Vanity Fair piece (http://tinyurl.com/yez23zo) on the sequence of events leading up to TARP is unbelievable on so many levels. You should take a look.
this links to huffpo
Geithner Frequently Talks To Select Group Of Bankers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/geithner-talks-to-select-_n_313612.html
Stacy I loathe Huffington, they carefully censure posters and when I mentioned how comically obvious the demoliton of WTC 7 was on the ‘anniversary’ a month ago, they threw me off the site. Bull shit neo liberal hopers and political junkies in my opinion. Have Max mention the WTC demolition in one his blurbs on there and see what happens.
Geithner is Wall Street’s manchurian candidate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiV0nId9sHU&feature=sub
Hmm, just saw this video from late last month (apologies if repeat):
http://remixxworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/omnis-jim-rickards-discusses-end-of-us.html
Jim Rickards, who was general counsel of LTCM, runs Omnis financial consultancy in Virginia… this is him on CNBC last month, talking about: USD as center of national security… interest rates… gold… transition to SDRs… etc
Anyone know anything about Rickards or Omnis?
This massive looting WILL end, otherwise 50% of Americans will be living in tent cities.
Before that happens, they will pick up the pitchforks; you can only push people so far.
Listen to Celente again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18t2_XvZRA
Maybe this can be an inspiration http://sites.google.com/site/livingwithoutmoney/
WhatMassiveCampaignContributionsGetsYou-ism
Given Obama’s approach (reviving the economy via Goldman & friends – which he laid out during the election) it’s really what one would expect.
I just did a quick search and it appears there’s nothing on huffpo about Code Pink’s newfound support for the occupation in Afghanistan. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
@klaos
Code pink and moveon.org are all Soros
Wayne Madson thought me that
“Asian central banks have intervened in the currency markets in an attempt to slow the slide of the US dollar. Asian countries are worried about their export industries, which would be hurt by a weaker dollar. Central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand have been buying the US currency, traders said.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8298037.stm
Some might call it simple cronyism, but I like, kick-back driven command consumerism, sounds better than just corruptionism.
Geithner knows which side of his bread is buttered.
I would say Geithner is a “membre” of a gang,..and his integrity to it, is infallible.
There are many perspectives to seeing the world around you.
He’s only doing what’s best for him and his “gang”
Question is,..would you do the same for yours?
(just fillin’ up my glass of “hic” whine)
Wow great post Stacey! “The three big banks have the power not to just move markets but move entire economies” great quote. I think this is vastly understated though. Obviously Geithner is Obama’s front man for any economic advice. Obama isnt an economist so he trust this guy. It is obvious that Geithner serves as Goldmans , JP Morgans, and Citi’s butt buddy.
It wouldnt surprise me at all that little to no regulation comes out of any financial reform deadline (which has been put off for way too long) Chris Dodd & Barney Frank arent saviors for the system too. All summed up to seeing just more redistribution of wealth to the top 1% and the death of the eroding middle class. Its hard to be a American (a senior college student at that) and see this destruction of our country. The cronies & special interest groups along with huge military contractors run the agenda.
Goodbye Republic, goodbye any type of citizen serving government, goodbye “leader of the free world”, goodbye United States of America. Welcome Corporate States of America (even that might be wrong because there would be shareholders in a corporation who have some sort of say)
jobs tuning around Only 10000 apply for 90 GE jobs paying 27,000/yr making washing machines
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/910080326/GE++10+000+applications+for+90+factory+jobs
Blodget & “Bang/Zoom” MSM : Gold: Even At $1,055, Still A Lousy Investment
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/350756/Gold-Even-At-1055-Still-A-Lousy-Investment;_ylt=AjI9bU0UkI7.U2NlvPH98GO7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyajJvdmkzBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN0ZWNoVGlja2VyBHNsawNwbGF5dmlkZW8-?tickers=gfi,gld,hmy,gdx,fcx,pcu
#1 …”for 20 yrs. Gold bugs have been wrong”…
#2 …” before we start to trash it on the inflation side ” …
#3 …” Gold is only at 1050 because of that ‘Independant article “…
#4 …” copper is better because it has industrial uses ” …
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On #1 : Gold has beaten the Dow every year since 2000
On #2 : Well, that says everything of course !
On #3 : I agree on this weeks price , but longer term no.
On #4 : Well, he would have been better to chose Silver ( also industrial ), because Cu is at a 52 wk. high right now (IIRC)
A new articel on Martin Armstrong .. good read if you don’t know him already ( as I’m sure Fibon11235 does ):
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/cycles/
There was a Geometry of Time itself
… This conspiracy, in Armstrong’s telling, widened to include the soon-to-be-killed financier Edmond Safra and the Russian Mob. Armstrong believes that he is in prison because he knows too much about the inner workings of “the Club,” as he calls the major banks and their enablers in government; he maintains that he is a political prisoner, not unlike Kondratiev. …
… The S.E.C.’s Armstrong case file was lost when the September 11th terrorist attack obliterated its offices, in 7 World Trade Center. In 2001, Republic admitted that a number of its employees had committed fraud, and the Japanese investors were paid roughly six hundred million dollars. Nobody from Republic went to jail. Still, Armstrong’s contempt ruling held. …
As soon as Obama appointed Geithner to be TreasSec I knew that Goldman Sachs would continue to be in control of the Treasury Department after the reign of ex Goldman CEO Paulson.
And don’t forget that Geithner’s Chief of Staff is Mark Patterson, former Goldman lobbyist. Could the criminal network be any more blatant?
Here’s a quote from an article I wrote back in March 2009.
http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-civil-war-in-reverse-fight-new.html
He [Geithner] has been working for their cause as President of the New York Fed for years. He never challenged them or spilled the beans on their dubious investment schemes. He participated in planning the Paulson bailout, particularly with regards to the shady dealings involving AIG. He’s part of the clan. His hands are dirty. If they go down, he knows that he’ll go down with them. In a word, Geithner has been “initiated”.
I call it a servant reporting to his masters and getting his work orders.
Actually this is quite the appropriate thread to challenge certain ideologies,…..
Some say geithner is a servant,..aren’t we all?
Some say he’s an occultist,…aren’t we all?
I would say he and many like him are integral to a system that relies on loyalty and honour.
In the times I’ve spent communicating on the internet,…I’m afraid that none of the above is prevalent amongst most folk whom I’ve encountered….hmmm I do wonder!!,…
Turbo Tim at it again
I’d call it corporatism/corporate fascism. Insider trading is definitely going on, but that phrase seems to be an understatement . And it almost seems like too “nice” of a phrase to use.
Thinking back to Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, the banksters appear to be using the exact same strategy that the MIC used to loot the treasury in Iraq and Afghanistan: they’ve found EVERY WAY to profit on the upside and every way to profit on the downside. With the invasions/occupations, the invasion downside was the “reconstruction.” With the banksters, it’s credit card rate hikes, zero interest rates, underwriting fees of all kinds, collecting on bets, fed “recapitalization” programs, etc. etc. etc.–all in the name of “recovery.”
It’s really hard to get away from the concept of corporate fascism when you consider the scale of fraud and theft, and look around to see who was held responsible for it. No criminal action has been taken against any corporation or official for the waste, fraud, torture, and abuse overseas. We have some kids in jail who were told to torture. And then, of course, we still have the detainees. With the banks . . . who’s in jail? Bernie Madoff and a couple of other little turds whose names we already forgot.
I don’t see the rule of law being applied anywhere where it is necessary. (A recent interview that Sibel Edmonds did reminded me that we never even got to the bottom of what sure sounds like treason in the highest levels of US government surrounding 9/11.) Nobody is being punished for anything except ordinary people. Meanwhile, corporate America, Washington, and Wall Street have the majority of the people of the world by the balls.
Bernanke: Tighter rates will come when outlook improves
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-tighter-rates-coming-on-improved-outlook-2009-10-08
THEY TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB, BUT I SAYS NO NO NO!
@Mep,….I afraid to “inform” you,……your response is something I’d expect from a computer,……..input/output,…
have you ever wondered,……..you know,..just!
@presence,……..no offence,….(I should have bin a poet)
when I read comments like yours,……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E
What is stunning to me is that despite Obama announcing his intentions to appoint Geitner on November 24, 2008, people still held onto their Obama fantasies. Appointing this banker’s banker was practically the first thing Obama did as president. Geitner assumed his new position just 6 days after Obama was sworn in.
To me it is simple. Measure people by their priorities as evidenced in their actions, their money, and the results. Which is to say, Obama is what he does and the effects of what he does, not what he says.
Among Obama’s biggest campaign contributors were the same banks that his pre-inauguration appointee was serving as president of the FED, and is serving now. That means Obama serves those same banks.
Of Obama’s top 10 campaign contributors.
#2 Goldman Sachs $994,795
#6 Citigroup Inc $701,290
#7 JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
These are the exact SAME banks referred to as having special priority in the phone calls of Geitner in the article.
Duh!
Its the fascist corporate state as described by Webster Tarpley, he’s been talking about it for about 2 years now. Same thing they did in Italy.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6867083.ece
BOE JUST CAN’T Stop
Mike
Stacey,
My posts on Huffintonpost are not shown anymore on any subject because I dared to criticise Israel.
It’s a very weird cite in some ways. Seems liberal,but Arianna is big buds with Soros.
@buddabob,
Yes, I’m not surprised you were thrown off. Soros/Arianna don’t like 911 truthers or people who are intelligent enought to know a controlled demolition when they see one.
You can’t criticise Israel there either, no, no!
>Post stuff anymore as they install code that messes up all the >other code on the site!
Copy and paste the required content into something like Microsoft NotePad. It then becomes plan old ascii
Neo-Libs are the same as Nazi’s………….
Mike
@Mike/Liverpool,…..apparently ,..the folk at the time adored Nazism,…don’t quote me,…….
but there’s none stranger than folk,…tum de dum
global corporate feudalism. global banana republics. global corporate company stores.
Help me out here….ben bernanke is on tv now…and he says that 75% of the feds assets are in foreign treasuries…..so does this mean that if the dollar goes up they would lose????and if so doesnt this make for a conflict of interest????
YOu do know that Arianna huffington used to be a conservative and defended repubs before switching sides.
All I can say is: “That’s How Crony Capitalism Looks Like”
Story of Huff’s conversion to liberalism:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/032200-105.htm
The Flood of Foreclosures Shows No Sign of Ebbing – 6,600 home foreclosure filings per day! http://bit.ly/Q5vH2
Bank of America Ups Its Foreclosure Prevention Efforts http://bit.ly/Lcr5x
Damn It Feels Good to be Banker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlDmux7Tk4
FRAUD
CRONYISM
BANKSTER MAFIA
(i don’t know what to call it anymore…it’s all just bullshit, i guess)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3zo7zjYk2E
AUDIT THE FED
END THE FED
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT
The only politician that makes any sense at all!!!!!!!
Geithner doesn’t support a audit of the fed he is shit
@ Dedo – You’re an interesting cat.
@ Naomi – That’s weird. I’ve been able to post dozens of comments critical of Israel recently over there, and many others have been doing the same. (I even snuck one in there about Arianna’s recent trip to Israel.) I did see one person’s comment scrubbed last night, though. The comment was in response to one of mine, and the person mentioned how the HuffPost hyped up the “fake coup” in Iran, but neglected to cover the very real Honduran coup at any length. That comment didn’t stand for more than a minute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8RnlQ6dbZI WARNING: ol’ cess is back ,more about DSB Bank , heroic effort by cess as he struggles to keep camera in focus and us informed as he delvers another sobering assessment on the latest in DSB fiasco unfolding , as far as DSB Bank goes ? wheres msn media with all of this ? thankyou cess !
hello….anyone…..Help me out here….ben bernanke is on tv now…and he says that 75% of the feds assets are in foreign treasuries…..so does this mean that if the dollar goes up they would lose????and if so doesnt this make for a conflict of interest????
any thoughts??
US film company applies to launch ‘movie derivatives’ http://tinyurl.com/ygft5xe
In a sign that more banks are under great pressure from the recession, 34 financial institutions did not pay their quarterly dividends.
From: 34 banks don’t pay their quarterly TARP dividends http://tinyurl.com/ydft5b6
Lawmakers show worry over U.S. dollar’s dwindling worldwide status
“Bernanke told lawmakers that he had checked with finance ministers of other G-20 countries and promised there is “no cabal” to replace the dollar, according to a senator who attended the meeting. The source also said that Bernanke acknowledged that the dollar could face a threat in the future.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/62155-lawmakers-worry-over-dollars-dwindling-status
Help me out here….ben bernanke is on tv now…and he says that 75% of the feds assets are in foreign treasuries…..so does this mean that if the dollar goes up they would lose????and if so doesnt this make for a conflict of interest????
With regard to the strong dollar policy
Asian countries step in to support dollar: Asian central banks have intervened heavily in the currency markets .. http://bit.ly/fkqBC
ZH ,Fed balance sheet, Maybe Foreign holdings includes the Cayman islands and other US$ pegged environs. Its all BS anyway
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/Fed%20Balance%20Sheet%2010.8.jpg
@Youri
So when does gold finally unhinge and move against all fiat?
I guess that would make gold the defacto global reserve.
Its just a big game of chicken.
Naomi, Huffington is a climber and she is addicted to her own celebrity just as most in the political talk boutique business are. They all love hobnobbing with one another, making fees for speaking appearances and basking in the sickness of celebritism. There is no way you can discuss the truth of 911 on her site, it is the biggest no-no. The reason is simple. Her fear of being instantly marginalized and losing her bookings for appearances on all the shows she is constantly jabbering on. If it ever came down to real civil disobedience and a real peoples’ movement in this country she would disappear quickly stage right. And forget about taking any kind of serious stand against Israel on her site. Sure you can criticize but you can’t go Sibel Edmonds on that site, it is to dangerous to her own welfare and celebrity.
@phil ,..thanks for the link to martin armstrong , any thing to do with cycles and knowledge of the esoteric is almost far more interesting than the idea of investing in anything itself . my idea of cycles is that they are more spiral shaped than just simply circular [as described by properties square of number 9 etc] , waves being multi -dimensional too . [wish i had paid more attention in my maths classes as i know little about these things but like most people find it fascinating], martin is lucky to be with us as apparently he was hit over the head with his own typewriter whilst still in prison . i guess he’s a bit like nelson mandela , FREE MARTIN ARMSTRONG NOW !
@WL
It already does : /
@buddhabob
Talking about celebritism
Celebrity Male plastic surgery FReak Show http://tinyurl.com/67v2ve
@Mike/Liverpool
This may make you happy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-676WA_Lg&feature=player_embedded#
Autumn 09′s Inflation Time-Bomb http://safehaven.com/article-14668.htm
buddhabob,
Spot on. I find Huffington deeply odious, irrespective of whether I agree or disagree with any particular view she has about the world. She is emblematic of the celebrity/spin/soundbite bullshit that passes for political debate in the West nowadays.
I don’t like her website either.
Youri:
Re: Asian CBs supporting the dollar this morning.
It is a pathetic sight to behold. 100 pips on Singies or Yen, ooh Mr Market is terrified…
More than likely just using their government treasuries to give their cronies a better entry point on the DGDF trade…
Military Drill Video: Fight off civilians rioting over Vaccine/Food shortage http://tinyurl.com/ykx4uyo
@Adam Gibson
It’s only to ease the slide of the US$ not to prevent it.
I call it betrayal.
Yes Youri, which is another way of saying, “Here Mr FX trader, take my money”… It’s unconscionably stupid if so.
Not only that but, as the article says, it shows that everyone is trying to restart the preexisting bubble in Asia vendor financing the US. China is chronically overinvested in crap that nobody wants any more.
It’s all a bit tragic because the world has the resources to move forwards, but because of the rampant cronyism we can’t.
I don’t approve of the Wog run Huffington Post’s back and front end web scripting policies.
A website should not be invasive, or should be as least invasive as possible.
It is bad enough that websites exist with hyperboated HTML (with no compression enabled).
The Huffington Post’s site should be graylisted for its bad behavior via the standard web anti-spam / malware / etc … tracking agencies.
Hotel Occupancy: Two Year Slump http://tinyurl.com/yfhxlk6
Hear, hear Max Power.
Another “green shoot”: F.H.A. may need a federal bailout:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/business/09fha.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
@Adam Gibson
Well mainly things are in the hands of the American sheople who just look at the cat to come out of the tree. Same with Europe. And the cat doesn’t wonna come out of the tree so somebody has to get it out.
Chinese are very patient and play along to some extend for not being accused of bringing the world economy down. Besides they have enough domestic problems as the situation is right now. They have to act more quickly to get their economy going but are very slow as usual. Lot of slow corrupted bureacrats as always but finaly they will get there maybe with the help of other growing economies in Asia and India.
The Flood of Foreclosures Shows No Sign of Ebbing – More than 6,600 per day! http://bit.ly/Q5vH2
cat=General wants 40,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/ylrjysf
China Gov’t to raise oil reserve enough to last 90 days
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-09/26/content_8740140.htm
@ Max …..Help me out here….ben bernanke is on tv now…and he says that 75% of the feds assets are in foreign treasuries…..so does this mean that if the dollar goes up they would lose????and if so doesnt this make for a conflict of interest????
Like Max said, the complete stimulus has been pumped into the Military/Wallstreet complex which ius the cat in the tree. Nobody want’s to get it out so in fact the USA is heading for WOIII this way since they refuse to cut their spending.
Cynical enough China is financing this but they hope that the military strength will weaken before they realy can start pulling the plug cause if they do the US might start WOIII tomorrow. American sheople are so dumbed down that you can do anything with them which they are doing anyways. There is no work beside the militairy so that’s why you have this “growing” into WOIII with the Hitler Jugend and all and more and more militairy personal asking in Afghanistan just as excersize for the new battle ground in the Middle east and against China.
@phil
@larry wrote
‘,..thanks for the link to martin armstrong , any thing to do with cycles and knowledge of the esoteric is almost far more interesting than the idea of investing in anything itself’ .DITTO.
@mep
‘Dedo–You’re an interesting cat.’…meeoow, ouch!!!
don’t be like that he’s just a kitten!!!
http://tinyurl.com/d8kwr
Tim seems like a nice guy…
/SARFUCKINGCASM
@y’all
I don’t totally understand the crticism. of ‘huff’.
I don’t visit the site much… unless someone links to what looks like a good story… but surely if they printed all the stuff people wish they printed, wouldn’t they undermine their celeb position… in which case they wouldn’t be so mainstream, at least they are able to get something of a message across to a crowd that are maybe more in need of just the basics…that they may use later to go and research stuff in more depth. From reading the various comments it sounds like a little bit of jealousy, in that your favourite sites will always be a little to wacky to cross over to the mainstream and be taken seriously… which lets face it is more often than not a kiss of death!!!
United States to attack Iran on October 30, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yklqz2o
@y’all
sorry I can’t remember… or have time to check back who left the clip of Tony Benn on the BBC yesterday, but it was totally awesome dude!!!
@stacy,.. what do i call it ? . just .business as usual
On TimmyG, specifically, I call it reason to push through the audit the Fed bill, and reason to begin a full-scale criminal investigation. While Tim was talking to his buds and presumably asking them how to move $ around in a way that worked to their benefit, Elizabeth Warren and the people tasked with keeping track of TARP were completely blown off. None of us really has any idea of where the money went, how decisions were made in the allocation of that $, how much red ink was papered over, etc. Congress doesn’t know either. And they certainly don’t know how the Obama White House is using Goldman and JPMorgan to prop up markets. The “bloodless coup” already happened. First it was the neocon foreign policy coup, and then the banking coup. We need congress to reassert itself and begin investigations.
@ Max – Bernacke says he’s in “no hurry” to raise interest rates:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/bernanke-in-no-rush-to-ra_n_314763.html
damn youz guyz anybody understand where im going with this??????
orangutan PLAN CONFIRMED BY RUSSIANS AND ABC NEWS
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2009/10/iran-attack-plan-confirmed-by-russians.html
Live coverage of LCROSS Centaur separation has ended.
The impact event (7:31:19 a.m. EDT) will be covered LIVE on NASATV starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 a.m. PDT).
Stay connected on LCROSS mission page, Twitter and Facebook.
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You guys, the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but try looking into things a little bit. “Operation Halloween” is complete BS. It took all of 2 minutes to find the SAME “war plan” elsewhere online . . . only the old version had a different holiday (Good Friday), different year (2007), and a different tome (4am-4pm instead of 3am-3pm).
Look: http://www.rense.com/general75/bite.htm
China has detected deadly nerve gas at its border with North Korea http://tinyurl.com/yfvgp3l
thats what im saying mep
Sorry Dan, I didn’t follow. I’ve been awake, I think, for 24 hrs. I’ve got a little brain lag going on. Were you calling Rush an orangutan?
@Mep
Well could be cointelpro that they will attack this time for real or just to keep the pressure cooking on before the talks indeed like they did last time.
Clinton to talk Iran, Afghanistan on Russia trip: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran and Afghanistan will dominate tal.. http://tinyurl.com/yk3rvdh
The webbot project still didn’t rule out an attack while my idea about it was that they wouldn’t attack. They are crazy enough to do it so at this point everything could happen.
@ Stacy – Bill Moyers caught this story about Geithner and interviewed both Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson about it. It will be on tonight:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/a-moment-of-truth-with-bi_b_314797.html
@ mep…just that its utter nonsense
Strictly jabber but….
Re Huffo -
Her old room mate from their Cambridge days tells me she had appalling personal hygeine (keep your distance).
if the fed own foreign treasuries as collateral this is more important and deserves more attention with respect to fed policy of a strong dollar….hangem out to dry.
@ Dan – Yep. Sorry, I saw Youri post it and as I was looking into it, I saw that you did, too. My bad.
@dan valley
What does the FED mean by “foreign treasuries”? German gold?
Havn’t heard this foreign treasuries story before, very strange.
@ Dan – Was Bernacke referring to the central bank liquidity swaps?
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_liquidityswaps.htm
@ Youri german bonds and the like….bernake was just on speaking to economists and in his speach he said the fed holds as 75% of its assets foreign treasuries.
they are playing the dollar carry trade out…..so if the dollar goes up they lose right???
so the incentive is to devalue the dollar and thus goes against its mandate of a strong dollar policy
if max is serious about caring for the environment and for preventing the unfair abuse of otherwise innocent people trying to go about their daily activities then he will devote at least some time to the survival international group in consideration of what recently happened – he goes on about the bankers, he goes on about copyright law, he goes on about the whales and the Greenpeace pirates but, more than any of these issues, one issue that is more fundamental to humanity and representative of the maladies of our modern world is the mistreatment of indigenous people, for we criticize with righteous indignation what was done to them in the past whilst both benefiting from those actions and continuing on with our actions unabated
or is he just posing?
Company destroying uncontacted tribe’s land is condemned
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/3851
Millionaire Michael Moore, Capitalism Did Nothing for me.
cnsnews.com — Millionaire documentary film director Michael Moore told CNSNews.com at the D.C. premiere of his new film that capitalism did nothing for him. What a jackass.
Ron Paul Attends Premiere of Vince Vaughn’s New Movie “Couples Retreat”
This Monday night, Ron Paul and his wife Carol attended the premiere of Vince Vaughn’s new movie “Couples Retreat“. Ron was the special guest of Vaughn, a fellow opponent of the Federal Reserve, who had endorsed Ron Paul’s book End the Fed with the following words: “Everyone must read this book–Congressmen and college students, Democrats and Republicans–all Americans.”
@ alister – If Max doesn’t spend some of his time talking about or doing something about a cause that’s important to me, then it proves that he’s nothing but a heartless poser? In what world is that even fair?!
at mep
-never said heartless
-proportionally an exponentially higher self-utility value
-consciously recognizes this
-has, essentially, cult that follows him
-closely associated to what he says cares about
– i.e. ecology magazine (eg. deforestation)
– pernicious side of unbalanced development
-highly pertinent – events unfolding as we speak
@ alister – I got tripped up on the “if –> then”.
If he cares, then he’ll _______. Implies that if he doesn’t _________ then he doesn’t care. And he’s also a poser. Would “hypocrite” be a better substitution for “heartless”? Still doesn’t come across as being fair–regardless of what he cares about.
meh, playing semantics distracts from the point
Bulldozers destroy uncontacted tribe’s land 8 October
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4979
even if he were to ridicule and be rude about me bringing up the issue for, say, a total of 10 seconds as an aside on this radion program, this would probably still lead to more people viisting the site/ donating/caring about an issue indicative of many broader problems. also , problem being pushed by one of indias richest billionaires – who better to hold account, the emerging places or devolving places?
Matt Taibbi on Capitalism: A Love Story
http://tinyurl.com/ybutuet
Ben to save the Dollar!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acNuc.JYYnnU
Mike
Who cares about the rules of the game in the US if you can play fairer ones abroad. Can’t we conclude the US cow has been milked, chopped up, its hide sold as well as the merchandizing rights?
@alister
I agree with your points about the importance of helping indigenous people etc.. but the comments you make about Max, just end up sounding personal like… you are jealous… of summin’ arent you grateful that maybe Max has left some room for you to cut out a career of your own after your book is finished… oh and as for semantics… I don’t mind admitting I have no idea what point you were trying to make in your first reply to Mep… obviously when you are rattled you go into some kind of semantic overdrive yourself… honestly if you have use such complicated language to express a simple point maybe you need to try thinking more!!!
PS. I hope your book is a lot easier to understand, otherwise you may need to stop being jealous of people who are ABLE to get their message across and out there.
@Super,…….Is that a bad hair day happening? : )
(subtle scary,.subtle)
@Mike liverpool
Stating that the fed is ready to tighten liquidity when the time is right is the new strong dollar policy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feC81vZ9pBc COMMERCIAL BREAK ! from some of the sponsors who helped bring us all the war in Afghanistan ,not even here are people safe from this kind of crap ,dispiriting , no name brand of commercial crap complete with voiceover that glosses over the takeover ,god help these poor people ,lets hope brits and americans don’t come to liberate us ….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ3jlx7vGc4
Gold will hit $2,000 an ounce within decade, says Jim Rogers
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jim-rogers-says-gold-will-top-2000-in-decade-2009-10-08
Warren Buffett on Investing in Gold
http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/buffett-investing-gold/2119
By the way, special mention goes to @Telecrap Urinal for his new PMF listing. The title says it all:
Geithner’s Halfway House
http://beta.piratemyfilm.com/projects/75
@Super,..BTW,..I think mep is a chick,..
Jim Rogers: Gold to zoom $2000, crude $150-200
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Jim-Rogers-Gold-to-zoom-$2000-crude-$150-200-21843-3-1.html
@d3do
deed don’t let it get to ya!!!
http://tinyurl.com/9qrawo
Hey Stacy, have you tried to let the link pop up in new window? The code to do that is this one:
Maybe itll work.
gr,
deed
oh sorry forgot to close it with didnt think of code would work within comment
oh man i cant put in any codes !!!!!!! k, well if you want some html suggestions let me know ill just mail em ok?
bye,
deed
@ super geek
hmmm, hard to say if im jealous or not, definitely impressed, but…yeah, not sure about being jealous – probably more wealth than me and yea who doesnt want more wealth, but that didnt really figure in my msgs to be hoenst………..????
@alister
yuh right..to be hoenst it was a cheap shot!!!
Fascism.