Stacy Summary: A toast to all the commenters on the site. Old and new. Thank you so much for visiting the site with your conversation, headlines, links and debates. I am especially grateful for the wide diversity of opinion we have here as too many sites end up with groupthink where there is little challenge or debate. So here’s to the most frequent contributors and commenters – @Youri Carma, @frances snoot, @Danny, @Mother Earth, @Mike/Liverpool, @Bonn, @Mep, @Phil/Germany, @david, @Ptah, @Mongo, @ronron, @Dedo, @buddhabob, @ Mini US, @Fibon11235, @aleix1979, @Joe, @SG, @Richard@lattitude30N, @Crumpet Muncher, @California Doctor, @Veritas, @The Man from Glad, @Apocalypto, @harry_w, @turbulence, @marietta, @Breasal, @advocate001, @Schralper, @Vega Man, @Rastaman, @Daniel S, @The Underfundedmentalist, @TJ, @William of the North, @Giusseppe Bagodonutti, @maxkeiser, @naomi, @Speirsy, @ES, @mike, @Gordo, @HookedonKoolaid, @norcalkid, @FranSix, @Mr Unemployed, @Mr. Holipsism, @warburg sidney, @Ah.Nix, @OP, @Fred’s Family, @jon, @Blink, @Marc Authier, @Chalcedonite, @Boinky, @Max Power, @13BlackCats, @T, @Michael Le Couteur MSCD, ret’d, @paganrongs, @zmoore, @Frank Hope, @Teresa Ortega, @WL, @Palantíri, @BondiBhoy, @Photoception, @henk, @AM, @Jim ODonnell, @Will, @Omega, @Hullaballoo, @Rian Orr, @ItalicBold, @gb, @Catfish Rushdie, @Bill Stewart, @epha, @dan valley, @Supergeek, @Scott from Oregon, @Tofu Charlie and to all those who I forgot to list (sorry!), are new or less frequent contributors, a toast to another year of the Great Depression 2 down, may there be only a few more to go . . .
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Please give us real peace for 2010.
Everyone have a safe and healthy new year and keep eyes and ears wide open.
Happy New Year Everyone !
Vega Man
Well at least we know 2010 wont be boring
Have a safe one everyone!
Cheers to you, Stacy and Max!
May 2010 be better than we think it will.
Max and Stacy thanks so much for your hard work. You guys put the “Great” in Great Depression 2.
We must try to have a get together, just few of us…….NO SINGING!
Mike
Yippee. same to y’all.
Stacy , I think I actually love you ( and Max ).
epha
Cheers! I soo wasn’t in that list
lol
My favorite things here were your dancing in the “Buy Gold” video, and the scenes with Max calling Goldman Sachs Scum, throwing money at the camera telling them to take it, and wearing a pimp hat “I be pimpin”.
Thanks Stacy and Max
Can someone do something about the cold here? Every time I wanna go buy some gold it’s like MINUS 25?!? Are you KIDDING me?!? I’m not goin out in that. Minus 19 is my limit.
Yes yes yes, what a great site you (Stacy) & Max have cobbled together, and what a swell bunch of commentators.
To all, may yis have a content and peaceful new year.
Three cheers for everyone (me included) hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray.
Atleast M&S don’t have to worry about employment the business to accurately comment on finance, markets and scandals (in special) seems to only grow. Almost as good as debt collection/repo but nothing as profitable as investment banking/fraudulent trading etc. The only reason we are in a “depression” is because the government handed out bail out money and the banks thought up a story involving bets insurance and some nice terms. Shouldn’t we toast with beer instead of champagne? Or could take a pic of some cheap bad export (rothschild) wine from france/US. (mondovino fine recommendation by whom ever posted it) Anyways can always make empty promises, or hope for improvement the only change can come from the people themselves. Something AJ is right about in my opinion; you want solutions, look in the mirror. Or we could look at the pretty fireworks, say happy new year/merry christmas/peace on earth because the planet finished another rotation around the sun or some other insane reason and continue on the same route. But not to be a total buzzkill; happy new year y’all ;-p @m&s keep up the excellent work!
Cheerio, Salut – http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Miscellaneous/30-Worlds-Strangest-Inventions-fati.jpg
Thank you!
Max and Stacy, it is inspiring to see your journalism challenege the corproganda. Like underground currents, rising to the surface, creating rip tides in the main stream, your relentless irreverence has been a life preserver for many left in the doldrums of disinformation.
A Happy New Year to all!
Now, ‘Tell The People!’
Have a great 2010 guys, party like it’s 1999.
After all, 2012 is just around the corner.
Nice one Max + Stacy
Happy New Year everyone
Feliz ano nuevo….from the UK
New Year’s gift for you all…
Philosopher Roger Scruton slams Damien Hirst in “Why Beauty Matters”:
http://xhgc18.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-beauty-matters.html
@all Thanks!
@AM – @Youri left a link earlier regarding steep discounts on champagne, so I think it may be cheaper than beer . . .
@epha – I love you too!
@Daniel S – sorrrrrry! I have updated list now . . . where is it minus 25??? That is cold . . .
cheers!
Ill light a few doobies for those who prefer it.
Love seeing this site grow and grow and M&S keep the show and boat rockin!
peace
@stacey and Max
Thank you both for being a clarion call for truth…ice cold reality in a tumbledry madness of lies…..
Thank you also to other contributors who have also enlightened, encouraged and knocked my socks off (still knocked out at Snoot’s beast/hydra comment)….
Love and kisses to all and even if next year is not profitable may it nonetheless be full of joy
http://www.nucular.co.uk
Believe it or Not!
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!!
much love and thanks to max&stacy & all!!!
a communal hug in the hope of getting through this depression
& sly and the family stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkP5roFukKY
Cheers and Happy New Year to you, Stacy, Max, et al.
Do a little New Year’s dance with me.
@am
‘Shouldn’t we toast with beer instead of champagne?’
Why not some new world drinks for a new world disorder?
some international suggestions
a Black Iraqi
an Angry Afghan
a Pakistani Popper
a Naked Nigerian
a Somalian Swashbuckler
and some domestic choices
a Goldman’s Sack
a Blankfien’s Bluff
a Tiny Tim
a Bernake Bailout
a Hank Paulson Punch
or my old stand by
an Obama’s Promise, make it a double!
I think I had the most number of 1sts on the comment board this year!!!!
Russia Today has now green lit the “Keiser Report” for 2 X’s a week to air Tuesdays and Thursdays.
more fun to come in 2010
next time we’re in London we’ll have to host major meetup
2010 should see the breakdown of all political labels; conservative, liberal, neo-lib, etc. and we’ll see a good old fashioned class war
the song of the year for the fifth year in a row
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nDs60iwwew
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you both, and all the readers, viewers and listeners.
Bonne année, to all our froggy friends from Catfish. See you on the bayou!
@Catfish Rushdie – thanks! we will definitely see you in the bayou . . . whenever we make it down that way; are there any crocs there?
Stacy, I’m in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It’s been unusually cold this winter here (no comment on global warming intended). I have to wear 2 t-shirts and 3 sweaters under my coat. It barely fits after wards! It’s beautiful here though. Lots of snow, and it’s unusually fluffy looking because it was so cold when the first of it fell.
YES!!!
NO MORE BULLSHIT LABELS!!!!!
cheers, to all on this platform.
Guten Rutsch from Germany
a prayer for the new year
MONETIZE DISSENT
Champagne sales down 50%-90% since peak credit and peak ponzi schemes? http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=119909 D’oh.
@ Max – Hilarious pasty song. Would’ve made me hungry if I hadn’t just had a bagel.
i’m playing that pastie song on RT this week for sure while singing about Goldman Sachs.
also, the bit on France24 where I throw the money and say ‘here GS take all of it’ comes from a Lenny Bruce routine he does about his divorce lawyers. it’s in the excellent movie ‘lenny’ starring dustin hoffman.
To all;
Have a safe and happy New Year celebration.
See you in 2010. V is for vigilant.
@Max and @ Sherbert: Many Happy returns….so please return in the New Year….every new disciple to the cause of sound money and away from the mainstream babble is one for the gipper…I mean rising prices in the strategic metals…BTW…the AOCS now has a 1/2 Troy ounce medallion that has on the obverse: LEGALIIZE IT!!! with a marijuana leaf…and a peculiar Latin expression translated: abuse is not the end of use…we are on a roll…also BTW were the confiscated $134.5 billion and the other $100 billion, in US treasury bonds legit or counterfeit???Either way the entire paper chase is a scam from top to bottom….Putting Bernanke on the cover of TIME is just the right criminal to expose…and glorify…Have some cheer tonight and throughout the year..
Sandwiched between Apocalypto & turbulence.
That was my year.
Youri Carma ahead of frances snoot! Well, well.
@ Max – Is RT considered mainstream media in Russia? I honestly don’t know. I see that RT has an advertising campaign in the UK that has pissed off the US: http://rt.com/ads At any rate, I’m sure that everyone will love your singing. And congrats to you both on the extra weekly Keiser Report.
Pasty song’s “sexy lady” lyric + Image of obese woman in spandex + Drinking milk = Milk up my nose and another reason not to drink Coca Cola.
What the hell @ Berlin? How could a giant Coke bottle be allowed to stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate?! Don’t anarchists attend New Year’s celebrations?
Happy New Year!
Cheers to y’all and those you love!
Got the slow cooker going. Gonna have some fall off the bone, melt in you mouth BBQ ribs with some close friends.
Cant wait!
New Year’s resolutions:
1 Regular exercise. Got to prepare to ride my bike a lot more when and if gas prices soar.
2 Start my vegetable garden in the spring.
3 Learn how to can goods.
My grandmother used to make her own gardiniera with olives, onion, green tomatoes. I have to ask my aunt if she has the recipe.
@Everyone
I would like to wish everyone on this website, all your family members and friends the best of health and success in 2010. In times that are dark, it is good to see groups of people challenging the shortsighted politicians, and debating ideas of how to bring about a brighter future. Have a Happy New Year, may all your endeavors in 2010 be the best and most successful. In the words of Gerald Celente, “Rock easy and relax yourself.”
One more thing, I would like to give a big THANK YOU to Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert for inspiring me to do research in economics and finance.
bonne année aux Parisiens, malgré tout….
Alright, marietta, good for you! Here is a page for you to file away on canning. I’m gonna start learning, too. I had tons of roma tomatoes in the summer from just 5 plants and didn’t have any canning equipment, so I ended up giving a lot away and then making sauces and salsa w/ the rest. My parents weren’t able to pass along much knowledge to me about how to live in the world or much of anything else, but my mother does know how to can, so I’m gonna ask her to teach me–everybody loves feeling useful and teaching other people stuff, after all.
benches and stools ….mon !
Youri Carma ahead of frances snoot! Well, well.
Age before beauty.
One more food comment before I head to the liquor store–yesterday I overheard a new Campbell’s soup ad on TV in which the narrator was talking about “who grew your soup?” I only caught the tail end of it visually, and they showed a bunch of happy local farmer actors posing with their veggies. So make no mistake, peeps, the corporations are paying attention to what’s going on and very nervous about the whole buy locally grown, organic movement. They know it’s catching on as is the desire amongst people to actually know and have something of a relationship with the actual farmers who grew the actual food. Can’t locate the ad that was on TV; however, Campbell’s now has an entire section of a Website devoted to who grew your soup? Their soup, they want us to believe, is good for farmers and the planet! (Nevermind that whole part about the tasteless soup and all of its unhealthy additives traveling thousands of miles before it gets to the grocery store.)
New labels for the class war? http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/smith.html
This time it wil be the Highs vs. the Drys,
how better to divide
those left high and dry.
Party on you crazy diamonds!
@ mep
Everyday is New Year’s, and/or eve, for anarchists!
@ all
got any good 2010 slogans?
like, 2010! Let’s do it again!
@Max og Stacy @all – Takk for året som gikk og ønsker dere ett riktig godt nyttår.
Move Your Money!
Arianna Huffington and Larry Kudlow get into a heated discussion about the new call to move your money out of the big failed banks and put them into community banks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AmfNft0Eow&feature=sub
Arianna says to Kudlow : “I don’t knowwhy anybody listens to you ; you said the DJIA will go to 50,000 !”
LOL !
Great cat fight here !
@frances – EXACTLY; age has to go before beauty imo . . .
@ Underfundedmentalist – How about DOW bottoming out at 2010 in 2010?
Weeell, well, Lookie here, Ma!
What’ya doin’ messin with Steller’s laptop, Pa? That don’t seem right no how.
I ain’t a’messin; I’m a’lookin. And she’s airy gone an writ’ us up here fur sure, dang-nab her. She’s got Cleetus and Buster and Pastor Bud like’s to meet all them Yankees and Limeys as well. And I think theyz mostly furin.
Well, she sure done learn’t her fiddlin’ ways at that airy college. Likes to set her down a notch and get her head from outter them clouds. What’z she done writ?
Lordy. Ma I ain’t gonny tellz ya, ya’d think she’z a damn-Yankee already. She’s made fun of Pastor Bud and even the Lord’s annointed: Ron Paul! She a’sayin gold ain’t lasty, and I think she’z even gone and sassed O’Reilly!
Well, take care Pa she don’t find out we’z been messin’ with her prized possession. Why she has to peg away fur hours tippy-typin’ that-a-way take a fool-ta-guess. I’m wonderin’ if’n we don’t need to set her out to workin’ for them new folksies done moved here from Miamee. They’z got a nice’nuff house to keep clean, and Steller’s just the girl ta do it!
Yes’sum. That’s the ideedee, Ma. We ain’t a gonna let this next DECADE in the door with them lies she’s a spoonin! I’m losin’ my tol-er-a-shun fur no-sence!
MA! PA!
…….
Ya both quiet nuff now, but I done heared ya yammerin’ loud nuff to wake up Bounteeful frum her afternoon beauty sleep! I ain’t a cleanin’ fur pay and I ain’t a’gonna stop writin’ not fur ya’ll nor no-body! And ya so dang-burn sure’o yurselves ain’t never stepped outside yur own skin fur less than ten minutes to shimmy over to other folk’sies wayz of knowing. I declare: It’s a Happy New Year if’n we can all learn to LISTEN to each other’n not slam the book shut fur the words is even put to paper!
Stella, now don’t ya go red on yur Ma and Me. We means well. Let’s light-off them fiar-crackees over’to BillyBob’s! And say Happy New Year’s to them furiners ya been messin’ with in yur free-from-paid-work time!
Well, Happy New Year, Ya’ll.
@snoot – it’s only because beauty has it so much easier than age . . .
@mep
How ’bout
‘Throw Ben in the pen in 2010′
The Major Change in 2010 (2012)
wepollock
31. Dezember 2009
We are constantly talking about the USD getting weaker in an index comprised of mostly Euro and Yen. These currencies move every second. What we don’t talk about with currencies are those trading partners that are pegged in some way. The two major world players with a PEG are Saudi Arabia and China. We should expect a major change to occur between 2010 and 2012. If the USD would get weaker it would be against those two currencies, not the floating currencies. This will prove out to be the next major area of world instability. This also plays into the Fannie and Freddie bailouts; to keep the status quo of the China Peg Stable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmcSZxmF4fQ&feature=sub
Stacey I keep thinking you look like you could do with a decent dose of sunshine and fresh air. Get Max to pay for a care free 3 week holiday somewhere with white sand and palm trees. You deserve it after all for all your hard work and lets face it handling someone as dynamic as Max must be a major stressor.
Really enjoy the videos you guys make.
anyone know where i can find the current price for a kg of silver in GBP ?
Cheers
@ frances,
Indeed, but before both comes language.
A Return to Language + Beauty & Ideas – A Bit of Fry of Laurie (S1:E2 & S2:E6). (The funniest sketches of the C20th imho)
Rien comme un bon Veuve Clicquot ou un Pommeroy, A lot of golden and silver bubbles for 2010. Bubbles increase the alcool punch. 2010 will the year of the END of the FED. Might as well do a little of Nostradamus for the end of the year. Super blue moon on december 31st 2009. Don’t know what it means.
Bonne année grand nez. Toi aussi grandes dents.
@stacy, max and all
Cheers! and Happy New Year!
btw, ^ that’s partly a parody and partly an exposition of this: John Searle & Bryan Magee on The Philosophy of Language, & Wittgenstein.
FRANKLYHOPING: YOU HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR, Mr. Frank, Hope.
I think beauty is truth, right? Stacey: if so then it is inherently beautiful and negligent of care or desire or age.
HarryW:
Happy New Year to the thinker.
Mep: Nice ideas of canning! I’m going to make guava jam this year.
Phil/Germany: Give Lilly an extra catnip toast for me!
Happy New Year to Stacy and Max from the West.
If I drank alcoholic beverages, I would be lifting a glass of locally produced (Lake County, California) wine or “champagne.”
Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year’s Gift, Dismisses All Charges In Iraq Massacre
Cowboy justice!
On canning and other survival skills… I guess I am lucky that my grandparents raised me (I am around Max’s age). They lived through the Great Depression #1 and taught me all sorts of useful skills: gardening, canning, use of shop tools and firearms, and the ethic of repairing rather than replacing.
Hey Folks.
Happy New Year
It is 1/1/2010 already here and all went well.
I hope you all have a great 2010 and keep in touch on this fantastic site. Thanks to Max and Stacy for their great work and all you folk commenting and adding to the fun.
Cheers.
Happy New Year everyone!!!!
Happy new year Max and the Team
Happy New Year to ALL !
Hope to see all you great posters and characters posting again through the whole of next year.
And a special thanks to Max for the great work.
( finally 1:00 am in Germany , not too cold and large snow flakes falling, quite beautiful )
Happy Holidays dimwits,..oops I mean most honorable intellectuals,…..hmmm! : )
HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL!!!
Max & Stacey,
Thank you for your commentary and adding humor to complex information, which allows us to ingest it and assimilate most of it.
It sure beats all those COPROPHOGIST’S out there.(This should be the word of the year!)
Happy New Years Everyone!!
Hey S&M,
Happy New Year
Great work on the site this year !!!!
And thanks for providing a place to kill time before the other shoe drops…
Happy New Year everyone!!
I think 2010 going to be very interesting.
Unfortunately in a bad way.
@all – especially @Max and @Stacy –
Happy New Year…
may the new year bring peace, tidings, and prosperity.
Good sign. Nostradamus is real bullish for 2010. Must be le champagne ?
http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2009/12/astrologers-agree-with-wall-street-strategists-things-are-looking-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+financialarmageddon+%28Financial+Armageddon%29
Jupiter in real good position for a nice fantastic year. 2009 was a superb year for the mafia at Goldman Sachs.
At least, for the new year’s celebration with or without economic problems, everybody deserves good music and dance.
Boney M’s Brown girl in the ring. enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1So7q6IfJ4&feature=related
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I think I had the most number of 1sts on the comment board this year!!!!
Russia Today has now green lit the “Keiser Report” for 2 X’s a week to air Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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When it comes to the number of active transmitters, frequencies and programming hours — Radio Moscow was never displaced from its place of supremacy over the airwaves.
– Note that the Ministry of Communications had control over all of the USSRs external broadcasting assets from 1939-Present.
– The USSR did not have the kind of fuel crisis that made the West totally redo its broadcasting into the USSR after the 1st OPEC shock.
Some aspects of this tradition seem to have carried over to the wussier and prisser satliite television technology era.
It is a shame an audio only version of your program is not running on “The Voice of Russia”…
Well, it’s now New Year in Bongcouver…
As I type this, Many Large Explosives are being set off for fun…
Unless there’s someone in Alaska or Hawaii, I’m probably the last one to write this…
Have an un-sad Fuckin 2010…
I wonder if Marmite is flammable?
Wishing you both a very happy and prosperous new year. Fireworks were fantastic… even when we lit one upside down.
Real potent stuff. Don’t drink too much. You will need to stay sober for the rest of the year. These mega bears are always short on solutions. Happy new year but don’t celebrate too long and live one day at a time.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1793-Where-We-Are,-Where-Were-Heading-2010.html
This in thought to Max and Stacey’s concern about the planet’s state: is this a crisis of economics or nature? Are we being reigned in for a new paradigm or a new planet?
Keep Silence
Passing
Sawdust strewn to muffle
As a scarf mutes sound
Issues forth a sign
Less a sigh
Breathed heavily
Let it pass
Held tightly, infantile grasp
Herald of dawn
Lithe step-song of morning
Life to relinquish
Time’s softening impulse
Passing now
Clouds envelope
Contain the gaze
Of a marble countenance
Cold and light at once
Upon the earth
Shadow of the moon
Harbinger of life’s loss
Darkness and light
Held by heaven and hell
As time holds
The soft rain-dew
Upon the grass
@BLINK NOW asking “… anyone know where i can find the current price for a kg of silver in GBP ?…” One way is to go from here
http://www.cash.ch/boerse/kursinfo/fullquote/Silber-Fixings/274706/176/1
to here
http://www.cash.ch/boerse/jsp/boerse/devisen_zinsen/devisenrechner/devisenrechner.jsf
the average price of 1 kg of Silver at the average cross rate was 336 and a few pips UK £ at the close on 31 Dec 09. Just in case: during trading hours the quotes “Geld” = bid, buy and “Brief” = ask, sell. The rest is self explanatory, I assume. se&o
Silver lining to you for y ten past eight
@all – Happy New Year
I wish for everyone here that 2010 may be their best year yet, and that it may foster hope and joy in all of our hearts and minds, for a sustainable future, for ourselves and our children!
Thanks to Stacy and Max for being such cheerful and amusing luminaries, and for dedicating themselves to a difficult and risky endeavor.
Cheers! …et merde à la puissance treize!
@Stacey&Max
Thank you guys for being so creative and pleasant with your coverage! It’s great to see you getting picked up by RT now as well. Who knows – when this bear market hits its next wave down, you and Max might get a show on, dare I say, main stream news?? You certainly deserve it!
Have a great new year.
D
A champagne-y cheers to you all!
@Max, Stacy, and Team, Cheers! This year could see the last of the bubbles.