J’accuse! Paulson says Darling ‘grin-f*****’ the US

Stacy Summary:  Bankers do come up with the most colorful verbs.

Mr Paulson told bankers that the Chancellor had “grin-f******” the US after London refused to waive legislation that would have allowed Barclays to save the Wall Street bank.

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100 Responses to J’accuse! Paulson says Darling ‘grin-f*****’ the US

  1. FIRST Oh Lord when will Americans wake up

  2. and second :-)

  3. Nice little story :

    And now a reading from the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Karzai..

    “The Three Big Piggies and the Big Bad NYT.”

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-28/the-karzai-brothers-fight-back?cmpid=p_yahoo

    Search down in the comments !
    Cute and true !

  4. @stacey

    FYI: The link points to another story, also quite mindblowing, that the Suadis drop the Brent Crude oil price benchmark..

  5. @Mother Earth – yes, I’m looking into that story; I have contacts on that

  6. ROFL PMSL BBC is now saying Cannabis is alright as Usual first try it out in UK then US then the world Looks Like Afghanistan might just become a first world country in short span of time

  7. @Bonn – what’s up with the “ROFL PMSL” in every comment?

  8. It seems to be an abbreviation for Rolling Over The Floor Pissing Myself Laughing.

    Thankfully my bladder is still working and does not show up in any comments I make =)

  9. @ Stacey
    I am Laughing Stacey Cause man the world has gone or going Bannanas nobody in Any NEWS Channel has the Guts to Inerview a Rothchild or a Rockerfeller . Man till 2 years ago i had’nt even known that such familys existed . Thank god for the Internet. From my searching and understanding Those guys are the problem unless we deal with em nothings gonna change.
    ROFL – roll on the floor Laughing
    PMSL Piss myself Laughing.
    Well i play this game a lot on Facebook
    Texas Holdem Poker n we really got to use accronyms over there . So just caught on :-)

  10. Gold to hit 6,300 SDR’s and two scenarios I see for the future. VisionVictoryManifesto.com

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk46Tov1vNE

    6 mins.

  11. @ stacey
    these dummasses have been at it for over 300 years what makes u think they would want to stop a movement right dead in its track now
    BTW have u Read Edward Griffins Novel”the creature from Jekyl Island”

  12. @Bonn

    Benjamin Fulford has interviewed Rockefeller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCKBLpU16I

  13. @ Bonn, Welcome to the truth. Nial Ferguson interviewed Jakob Rothschild on the BBc to promote his book. Its worth a watch, although the book isnt worth the read. They have probably been at it for much longer than 300 years. After all they changed there name in Hannover to RedShield.

  14. @ Youri Carma
    But its never mainstream Media
    And ask em the real Questions crap put em in Jail for JFK i am sure they are involved

  15. @Bonn

    Well that’s true but the MSM is in the pocket of the Rockefellows, so no use…

    Fulford worked 7 years as Asian Bureau chief at Forbes though …wrote Japanese bestsellers…

  16. @Youri Carma

    ROFL PMSL i think the only guy who might just do it would be Jon Stweart onthedailyshow
    the world fate rests on a Comedian ROFL

  17. the recent posts on Ben Fulfords blog have been crazy…i am now not sure what to believe and what not to..

    he has predicted major changes starting Oct 27th….( if it happens i will believe the remaining stuff in there could be true)

  18. One hot False Flag operation comming up or a JFK on Obama

  19. Richard@lattitude30N

    @Phil: ?????
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk46Tov1vNE

    Where did you find this guy???oh yeh…YT…
    Come on Phil…and I just defended you here ( david )…
    as being worth listening to…sure it’s in vogue to speculate on the dollar devaluation…and the pre-eminence of gold/silver…but really the entire market structure is still in place..hell they only now advertise Chinese ETF market funds…All those institutional investors are going to be in with the proposed annual GDP of China @ 6-7%…while the US is headed into negative growth…in the 60′s when growth of 2% meant the economy was flat today that is considerable growth…since they no longer quantify the stats the same way….and of course that’s a lie..as are most of the government statistics…and when will the average citizen be able to purchase SDR’s????? They change all the rules at whim…the equal playing field when I guy like your YT expert can be accurate is long gone…”I’m making short term predictions”…”so they are not accurate”..WTF….does he have a crystal ball??? Maybe he needs to talk with Fulford??HA!!!

  20. LOL i met this Guy i a shady Bar his friend was Working in Wall mart handling Billion Dollar deals and his Pay was 500 , 000 per annumDollars Our Charlie took out a loan on a 2 million dollar house over a period of 35 years or 25 dont remembe that was in 2007 and now he cant even get a Job for 20,000 dollars per annum job LMAO 2 million dollars homes are for business men or industrialists not for the average Joe . An industrialist can rotate money even if the Economy is slow

  21. Big banks making money on murder.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/29/banks-fund-cluster-bomb-trade

    ufck off banks. I will clusterfuk you.

    epha

  22. @Richard@ … WTF….does he have a crystal ball???

    Well, he normally NEVER talks about gold … so I thought I’d post it ( hadn’t finished watching ).

    BTW .. the other guy posted here ( Australian IIRC ) who specializes on Gold and Silver … I don’t rate much. His videos normally conclude with “It could go up , but of course it could go down ”

    I didn’t realize we had to “pass an entertainment rating” to post here BTW !
    ;-)

  23. @Bonn, Check out Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, the first such account.

  24. frances snoot

    This is what Fulford was going on about:

    http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-08-28/110230655.html

  25. The gov’t. selectively takes out Goldman Sachs’ competition. Talk about merger of powers.

  26. The $50 Lesson

    I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked her, “If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?” She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.” Her parents beamed.

    “Wow…what a worthy goal,” I told her. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.”

    She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”

    I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”

  27. It’s all a matter of perspective.

    Hanky Panky’s idea of the US getting “grin-f******” is that the Wall Street Gang took one in the gonads by one of their own. Hanky Panky didn’t seem to mind when the rest of us in good ol’ USA were getting “grin-f*******” for years by his entourage of thieving banksters.

  28. @ The Man from Glad
    I know how the Fed Works Also i dunno if Congress will pass the bill to Audit it highly unlikely cause they have to indicte 80 % of Congress on criminal charges.
    And Strictly speaking I have no Clue why Gold or Silver has any Value For Crying out loud it is used as a decorative item on a chick. I dont need Gold or Silver in my life i dunno how to use it that it can help me in anyway in the normal functioning of life thats why i only belive in Roti Kapda makan meaning Food Clothing and real estate well I have heavyly invested in Real estate

  29. Fulford says he’s a spokesman for Chinese secret societies, and Japanese organized crime. Or something like that. Ninjas vs.. Illuminati would make for a good computer game, if nothing else. Hope he’s right about there being a contract out on David Rockefeller.

  30. Well, the Shit just keeps flowing doesn’t it?

  31. Richard@lattitude30N

    @Phil; “entertainment rating..” well no, sorry for the jab…It’s like playing that US redneck with the bat YT smacking away at his TV…all good fun…but things are excellerating at a fast pace as the year winds down…as more and more average retailers see the stock on their shelves still nearly full comes 12/26…well the picture might not be that happy happy joy joy…even in properous times I never fell for the pre Xmas hype..and was attuned to the January sales…which if my memory doesn’t fail me began pre-Xmas last year in a major way…I remember heading into a Mall the day after 10/27/1987( after the DOW fell 500 points in a day)…and the place was a ghost town…IMO so many major financial events are still to surface in the next 6-12 months that one has to hold onto his/her hat just to grasp a meager subsistence…for my mind yes prognostication is a fantasy…trends may play out and yes the numbers don’t lie until they change the rules…in law you can’t retroactively change a law to change the result..but in financial circles..well that’s a different matter…look at all the fraud that regulators/DOJ and others are ignoring…systemic failure is not what I look forward to…but remember recession is when you neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose it….

  32. @Stacy, Max, If I want to buy into the Gulag Wealth Fund here in sweden. How do I do that? It’s not traded anywhere here to my knowledge?

  33. I think Gold and Silver is a Scam game . I would rather but 1000 $ wotrth of steel shares cause i know the Steels gonna be used On that Front I belive in warren Buffet but i have a feeling hes into Insider trading as well

  34. frances snoot

    I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”

    @DanValley:

    You forgot to add 50 dollars to the total for the lobbyist cuts on work they performed passing a lawn mowing legislation ‘package’ to protect the spotted nymph-toad and introduce regulation on lawn mower blades. The fifty dollars will be used to take a Republican named Fuster Fatbottoms out for grits/ham/eggs/and chicory coffee. Lawn mower legislation will pass in favor of John Deere who knew about the plan and laid up the necessary blades in advance, cornering the market on lawn riding vehicles and raising their prices by 25%. The fifty you might have in your pocket is now added to the price of the vehicle you need to mow your grass.

    Why don’t you just buy a donkey, er jackass, to eat the grass?

  35. What gets masisve coverage in the States? Arnie in CA. telling some “political enemy” to f**k himself.

    Sad to say. But how many people in the States know who Darling is? How many people still don’t know who Brown is? And, how many of these idiots even know where the U.K. is?

  36. @Bonn, Ron Paul says his long-standing effort to get this audit has recently taken off only because of pressure on Congress from constituents. So the public is waking up. I doubt they’ll get something like Silver Certificate notes back in time to save the USD as internat’l. reserve, though.

    The value of gold and silver is at least a persistent illusion. They’ve maintained value over 6,000 yrs. The gov’t. can’t flood the economy with enough to cause hyperinflation. And they don’t rust or spoil. Neither does real estate, but precious metals was the only market to appreciate over the past year.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXngi6tUma0

  37. @The Man from Glad

    But What i am asking everyone is think out of the Box Why is Gold so Precious name me one product u use that has gold or Silver in it you say 6000 years it has held value i am saying so what ?that was before we had Carbon fiber to make products and plastics .
    PEOPLE FORGET TO USE THIER 6TH SENSE THATS COMMON SENSE . Ask yourself this question for 2 weeks “Why is Gold so precious ?” “Do i use it ? other than for decorative purpose”
    Another Place its used is (Gold) in in the 1 million dollar Mc Laren Car as a heat decipater thats its only good use it absorbs heat far better than any other metal But to use it to Back a Currency of a Country in this day and Age is Lunacy

  38. And i am not at all saying i have the answere

  39. Edmunds:Cash For Clunkers Cost Taxpayers $24K Per Vehicle Sold

    http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091028-715225.html

  40. Obama burned in effigy in Kabul http://tinyurl.com/yhgyqbs police opens fire

  41. And my Common Sense says Gold and Silver is a Scam its Similar to trading Carbon Credits ROFLPMSLCarbon credits a non existant product and Gold and Silver is a 6000 year scam in my opnion

  42. The Federal Reserve’s seven-month $300 billion treasury purchase program ends today http://tinyurl.com/ygq2dtd

  43. @Bonn …. Gold and Silver 6000 year scam

    Exactly ! …. NOT .
    You’ve got things upside down .
    BTW…. do you work for the Government ?
    ;-)

  44. LOL nope i live in India in bangalore i use to work in Dell i lost my Job Last year So i’ve decided to Just Watch whats happening in the world and make good of my real estate investments next yeari invested quite a bit in 2004 waiting for just the right time and timing this last buble with my investments

  45. i would ‘nt dare associate myself with the Goverment those guys have all gone nuts

  46. @Bonn .. India .. lucky guy.

    Dell ? … in Ireland ?

    BTW…

    Oil and Gold have both risen sharply, but the US$ hasn’t changed much versus other Fiats .

    http://www.finanslinker.net/dukascopy/light.html

    http://www.finanslinker.net/dukascopy/gold.html

  47. No Dell In Bangalore over the Last 10 years around i gather 10 billion dollars has been invested in this City All your IT companies are here Bangalore,its populations is 8,000,000

  48. Richard@lattitude30N

    @Man from Glad: thanx…the Iranian oil bourse is this week..as teh Sunnis and Shiite are famed combatants…one wonders if the GCC will unify…the sale has been “avoiding” the USD…and within the year all indications( and plans ) the USD will be “sized down” in the Middle East ( OPEC included )…just walking away from the TMI..is a strong indication that the alternative Argus(?) will become a focus of future wholesale marketing…the changes are incremental, but the direction is definitely away from the “strong” USD…the banana republic might be all of the Republic any of us will be fighting for in the near future…America up for sale is next!!!!!! of course the military will still patrol the drug supply routes on the Continent and elsewhere…

  49. @Bonn, Letting gov’ts. draw in as much money as they need on their ledgers is lunacy. A precious metals backed currency is merely boring, by comparison. Precious metals are attractive as a basis for currency in large part because of their durability. You could back a currency with other commodities, though. As Ron Paul has pointed out, the USD has been effectively backed by oil since it went off the gold standard in ’71.

  50. @Freemarkets – I disagree, Niall Ferguson’s book the ascent of money that I am reading at this very moment is a good history book. I learn new things as I read, how bonds, stocks, paper money, FRB, lending, bank, corporation and so on came to be, it is good information to take with me. And as a plus, the book is easy reading, perfect for a newbie wanting to learn. (don’t drag the rothschild conspiracy to far now…)

    @Bonn – gold is a store of value, paper money/digital money is not. That is why people like gold.

    @Phil – Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/business/global/29copy.html?_r=3&ref=technology
    that could be the death to sites like maxkeiser.com or am I misreading it?

  51. Austrian Mint cuts gold coin production. Gold Coin Output to Drop by 32% on Demand, Austrian Mint Says http://tinyurl.com/ylyonzc

  52. @Bonn – IMO gold is cheap as long as you can still buy it. Historically, the gold lesson is learned not in times when everything is good but rather when the fear is palpable and the store shelves are empty. Food, clothing and real estate are (of course) necessary, but gold is a good way to preserve and transport capital. You don’t need tons of gold, just “some” as an insurance policy.

    Let’s hope we don’t have to learn the lesson!

  53. This is standard British policy; begger my neighbour. My understanding is that Britain declared an interest in Lehman on ‘that’ day so everyone there was expecting the British to come in. i then they blind sighted Lehman and the US. Its everyman for himself in this world baby!!

  54. @Palantíri

    No way they shoot themselves in the foot cause advertisers pay on click ons. If they make it less reachable less clicks so less views so less advertising money for them more for Keiser.

  55. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a_bD4gJ8o4wc
    U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home building.

    The world’s largest economy expanded at a 3.5 percent pace from July through September, exceeding the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, after shrinking the previous four quarters, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Household purchases climbed 3.4 percent, the most in more than two years. ” end quote

    some msm is even saying; end of recession. guess they are closing the black hole debt for now and hide it between space and time. Yet how much do you have to cut, paste, forget shortly said manipulate to fabricate these numbers? only growth is due to the decline in the dollar, purchases up with higher unemployment and foreclosures? one obvious measurement mistake is taking numbers of 2 years ago.

  56. i am sure if u got a couple of good people we could come up with a better system . And u telling me that Backing a Currency with Precious metals is Good ? I’ll Asku one thing does the average Joe have any means to actually physically go and see the stored precious metals ANSWERE is No So now u just got to trust that in their Paper release they have say 4000 tons of gold How sure can we be that that press release is True ?
    what if they only got 2000 tons actually . The whole System is faulty . So u guys can carry on buying Gold and Silver i care a rats arse for it i would rather buy into Real estate

  57. @Richard@lattitude30N, After OPEC decouples oil from USD, only the Fed will buy T-bills. The US might be able to afford bases on 13 countries, as before WWII. Not 130. Even US black ops involvement in the drug trade will suffer.

  58. @Bonn, Real estate sounds very sensible, especially compared to USD.

  59. @Palantíri … Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism

    Doesn’t surprise me … the German Govt. are already experts in “fees” for their friends , family and corporations.

    GEZ, VG-Wort & GEMA are well known debt collectors !
    I say debt, because people hate paying and pay late !

    There have been many TV reports about GEZ using all sorts of dirty tricks ( spying on people ) to collect fees. e.g. writing down names on door bells and letter boxes.

    In on case, they tried to collect fees from a family dog … who had his own door bell ! … the GEZ went to court on this .
    I am NOT kidding !
    The German masses still haven’t learned from the old days , i.e. they obey like willing slaves.

    There was a German TV report some years abouta street in Duesseldorf ( Graf-Recker-Strasse IIRC ), where the Old AGe Pensioners had actually printed their own Parking-Offense-Letter-Heading and would walk the streets writing down number plates.

  60. Speaking of profanity and candid observation, Florida Rep. Alan Grayson has deen quite direct in his criticism of ex-Enron shill Linda Robertson:
    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/grayson-calls-lobbyist-k-street-whore.php?ref=fpblg
    … his Democratic colleagues have responded by missing the point and saying that he’s somehow “inappropriate and unfair”.

  61. @ Will IMO gold is cheap as long as you can still buy it. Historically, the gold lesson is

    Ans: Have u heard of Barter System of trade People would more than happy accept that and benifits involved No TAX

  62. @Bonn, Not sure if the real estate market has really bottomed out yet though. It’s tied in with Fed policies other people here probably know more about.

  63. @Bonn re:Barter system

    The barter system is alive and well – I have even seen people using it internationally. Check out

    http://www.google.com/search?q=barter+exchange+online

    but even on Craigslist or other selling sites there are people who barter.

    Whether we’re talking governments or individuals, it’s hard for us to really internalize the need for a gold-backed currency until we’ve all been grin-f***ed some more by our trusted leaders. At some point, everyone will be sore enough that it will make sense. Until then, it’s just another commodity.

  64. @The Man from Glad

    Don’t think so there are to many houses on the market right now and demand is sluggish so the ol head economical rule of supply and demand….

    Roubini: Real Estate Prices to Fall Another 7-10% http://bit.ly/2i04Uv

    Goldman Sees ‘False Bottom,’ in U.S. home prices Merrill Sees ‘Treat’ http://tinyurl.com/yg2jchy

  65. LMAO PMSL Armish Way of living seems appealing now this rat race just leads u to a heart attack by 56 ROFL

  66. Me? : Good riddance Apple iPhone & Co. !

    Google Nav System Shakes up GPS

    …Google’s map play could be bad news for the Apple iPhone, too, particularly if it convinces folks to buy one of the new Android 2.0 handsets that support the nav system. Why? Because Google Maps Navigation is free….

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/174623/google_nav_system_shakes_up_gps.html

  67. Richard@lattitude30N

    @Bonn: “barter system’ Yes I even became a currency officer for AOCS here in US…it is a silver backed barter system as opposed to mere paper exchange…

    @Man from Glad: “even the drug trade…” that’s a scary thought…those guys don’t play..they expect ever increasing returns…Notice how quickly and quietly the $680 b Defense spending ( authorization ) bill passed…barely a whimper..and we all know the trillions as “undocumentable entries” ( aka missing )…that have gone astray…So at what point do the bond rating agencies step in and declare the US or any state treasury bonds below AAA grade???

  68. Gold goes up when GDP figures from US show good figures.. explanation is.. gravity is opposite in presence of banks

  69. Skynet is real and the Terminator is developed right now by Raytheon – Sarcos Exoskeleton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhj3Z9o6t0g

  70. ROFL
    On the campaign trail with Obama
    As US President Barack Obama prepares to mark the first anniversary of his historic election, a new documentary reveals what was happening behind the scenes on the campaign trail.

    By The People: The Election of Barack Obama began filming almost a year before the candidate announced he was running, with the crew given unprecedented access to his campaign staff and the Obama family.

    The film, produced by Hollywood actor Edward Norton, airs on America’s HBO channel on Tuesday.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8331231.stm
    YES WE CAN CONTINUS PMSL

  71. Man Google and MS Word have killed my spelling ability continues*

  72. @Phil
    Looks like you may have been right about those Gold Options the central bank was holding?

  73. I love this video though its from 2008 too funny
    CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED
    ROFLPMSL
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfXuk6aWJc&feature=related

  74. @Fibon11235 .. the day isn’t over yet.

    Actually I was expecting a US$ move at earliest on Fri/Mon.

    Watching banks … seems when they go up, the US$ goes down !
    ;-)

  75. Re: Saudis abandon US oil pricing benchmark

    Translation: this is a polite way of asking the US government to bomb them back to the stoneage. As Catherine Fitts says, “90% of the value of the U.S. dollar comes from the U.S. military.”

    http://solari.com/blog/?p=1323

  76. No Truth About Markets NZ this week?

  77. Get your ‘Angry Mob Platinum Diamond Card’ now!

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  78. @Bonn … that Video was the best “CLASSIFIED” Video of Congress I’ve seen for a while !

    I wonder of the Audit of the “CLASSIFIED” FED will be like that ?
    ;-)

  79. Mike2liverpool

    Phil
    do you have a you tube channel?
    Mike

  80. Seems like london will be around, being the Argus base..Does that mean a return to the pound as the global reserve currency?

  81. @Phil
    Just for you, talking about anti gravity devices lol.. I think Goldman got one that applies to markets. Super Financial Fluid Device lol Zero Inflation, infinite liquidity. lol It keeps going faster as there is not inflation taking us to infinite wealth lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0CiHaXTLA

  82. @ Bonn

    A system based on gold will not in my opinion make the people running the system any more honest or ethical than they are now. So gold really in that sense is a scam as you say.

    The only way to make the system honest is to prosecute the fraud in the FIRE economy. Not just a few scapegoats but all of them.

  83. @ Phil
    And i think the Last Classified was Global Government ROFL i bet i can if i want to waste my time find out all the Classifed words using my 6th sense ie common sense .ROFL dummasses Lunatics

  84. And now Lets Vote on it ROFL

  85. @Gordo

    The only way to make the system honest is to prosecute the fraud in the FIRE economy. Not just a few scapegoats but all of them.

    I TOTALLY AGREE

  86. This all fits in with Webster Tarpley’s analysis. The Lehman failure was British financial warfare on the US, Tarpley also accuses Robert Fisk of being a British intelligence officer who planted the story of the US dollar being replaced for a basket of currencies by opec in 2018.

    I don’t agree with Tarpely on everything, such as islamic terrorism, while much of islamic terrorism has been exaggerated, USED and channeled for British-American interests it still does exist and can be lethal as history tells us.

    http://www.tarpley.net/29crash.htm

  87. Interesting AIDS debate and big Pharma again

    http://www.naturalnews.com/027355_AIDS_HIV_disease.html

  88. @Fibon11235 .. Thx

    @Mike .. Channel ?

    As such No , but here are “some” of the people I’ve tagged to watch :

    AlienScientist BreakTheMatrix bvongrabe DanHannanMEP DebTruth1 DreamsOfEmpathy eurogoldexchange FeverIAm fknnewz flaskofcoffee FraudDiscovery GeraldCelenteChannel InformedCitizenNews IWantDemocracyNow jberni1 jberni2 kdenninger keiseredge KGuy4U2Hugg MaxKeiserTV NYInvestingMeetup periodicvideos PeterSchiffChannel rattansifan RichardMaybury SolitonPL TheModernMystic ThePracticalInvestor TheRealNews TruthFN URInTheVillage vlogolution wepollock

    If I was to do videos, it would be about Maths or the idiocy of IT managers. i.e. boring !

    FWIW

  89. testing testing

  90. @Gordo – Prosecute ‘em.

    No one has time or energy enough to care.

    DeTocqueville in Democracy in America:
    “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all. It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold…These people think they are following the principle of self-interest, but the idea they entertain of that principle is a very crude one; and the better to look after what they call their own business, they neglect their chief business, which is to remain their own masters. “

  91. @Bonn

    Ever consider dialysis?

  92. @ Illya Kuryakin
    Did’nt get u Huh?

  93. Um, dialysis = artificial kidney…you wouldn’t have to PMSL so much…

  94. @Richard@lattitude30N

    Britain no longer a AAA nation? It could happen, S&P warns

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2009/05/britain-was-put-on-notice-today-that-it-could-lose-its-aaa-credit-rating-because-of-massive-government-borrowing-a-warning-t.html

    For the US, everything depends on keeping OPEC’s oil-for-USD policy in place.

  95. Richard@lattitude30N

    @The Man from Glad: “AAA”….well that becomes the problem…the bond agencies ( Fitch, S & P, Moodys, and AMBIC ) were saved even though it was clear and apparent that they were committing fraud when they gave AAA ratings to all the sub-prime mortgage CDOs, MBSs, and other SUVs that they rated..so my guess is that they remain the pawns of their masters and will refuse to accurately rate anything for a very long time…remember it took awhile before JPMorgan stepped in and bailed Cali…even though it was very evident that they were bust( issuing IOUs???)…Each time a similar government institution faces a similar downgrading it is my opinion that an “angel investor” will surface…that’s the reason so much of the $23.7 trillion lies in wait….to facilitate an infusion when needed..thus the long drawn out demise of the dollar, the US government, the British government, and any other government on the brink of default…Iceland and Latvia and Ireland and any number of small scale countries may go first as they are manageable BUT when the big boys are about to sink…then the IMF, and BIS and will step in and initiate a new currency as they are progressing to now…in the meantime we low level peasants will suffer in a world of hurt…..As long as the PTB remain at the helm, this long drawn out rearrangement of the financial world will persist…the devaluing of the dollar and the pound and the euro and the yen are in sinct…the rising Oil price will give the OPEC nations their needed surplus capital to join in with a GCC( currency ) within a year..the Big Pharma & Big Insurance Cos. are being taken care of now with the New Obama Health Care legislation; and the Military Industrial Congressional/Security Complex has just been refunded once again..and Big AgriBusiness is still receiving all their subsidies.regardless of food quality…and on top is the banking Industry who will be back at the stimulus table comes Feb or March…also don’t forget the breathing tax…I mean the Cap and Trade legislation to limit CO2 emissions….a component of the growth cycle necessary for organic survival!!!!!!!! that is still to surface as another necessary drain on common folk…

  96. @Youri Carma, Thanx. Until the other shoe drops, precious metals do seem the clearest path forward.

  97. There can only be a free lunch for so long, eventually we’ll have to pay the piper for these decisions. And I feel that until the govt addresses the basic structural problems in our financial system of too much debt, we will not have a sustainable recovery. So while the stock market can stay irrational in the shorter term, in the long run I believe it will go back to reflecting the fundamentals of our boom and bust economy. And that’s why I continue to feel that for long term investors a better portfolio allocation is in cash and gold. I think the gold price will continue to rise due to a lack of faith in central banks’ policies and in fiat currencies. I recently read some very interesting articles on these topics at http://www.goldalert.com/, which discuss the relationship between the dollar, the gold price, and gold mining companies given the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies. I thought the article titled “What Gold Bubble? Setting the Record Straight?” was especially helpful for investors to read to get a better sense of the relationship between these asset classes in these uncertain economic times.