Business Insider Exclusive Interview with Jim Chanos: Greece is a Prelude

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108 Responses to Business Insider Exclusive Interview with Jim Chanos: Greece is a Prelude

  1. chanos is a hedge fund short seller and should be hanging from a rope by now…along with his buddy george soros

  2. frances snoot

    Snoot found an ancient SDR hieroglyph at Baalbek so thats the freaky shite going on

    I haven’t met your mother-in-law, GGees. Does she have a tattoo?

  3. frances snoot

    @GGeez:
    Just watch out if you see this guy wandering about:

    http://instapunk.com/images/Tut_02.jpg

    Talk about zombis!!!

    @Bonn:
    I ton’t bewief wat I weed. knot to wurry. history is dusty but storwees: i like.

  4. * Chated correction

  5. @ Youri
    tanks fer tat Google translator link
    I am speakin to me Swedish girl in swedish
    lololololol
    Hic ;-)
    http://www.google.com/language_tools
    fer anyone who missed the link
    I cated wit her mum as wel in SWEDISH
    lolololol
    ROFL

  6. Cap'n Spunk'n

    NO NO NOOOO Jimmy. Credit Default Swaps were created to reduce reserve requirements.

  7. I just hope tey dont blow us upto smithereens with the Hadron collider again
    I better start writing on Leaves again Just in case, Like ta Vedas
    lololololol
    ROFL
    Hic ;-)

  8. @ y’all
    Govt’s have clearly lied in the last 9 years
    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Bonn
    Before 2001 tee Govt’s never Lied tey always spoke the Gospel Truth
    Seeee Bonn see tis History book It says Colombus discovered the Americas
    The Antikythera Device,The Piri Reis Map and The Baghdad Battery
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1pYR_dyL1A
    lolololololol
    Hic ;-)

  9. @ Bonn

    Snoot found an ancient SDR hieroglyph at Baalbek so thats the freaky shite going on

  10. @ Ggees
    I suspect tats what tey doing wit tat Halderon Collider
    Now does ta murky picture of ta world get clearer ????
    Peeps tote I was smokin up when I first came heres
    lolololololololol
    ROFL
    :-)
    He who Laughs the last got the Joke way before anyone Else

  11. @ Snoot
    The problem was before the Internet we had to travel to these places to verify its authenticity nows we can do it wit a click of a button Also @Ggees yas can look up Adams Calender
    heres a start
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1wgwe6udo#

  12. Oops weird

  13. lolol @ mammoth with weirs telescopic helmet—but then again I wear my special aluminum foil skull cap every night

  14. @ Ggees
    Tey supposedly used mammoths ; mammoths I say tey were … err emmmmm errrr 45 feet tall and tey … tey … knew astrology cause tee mammoths had a telescope helmet when tey placed tees stones so precisely wit orientation to constellations I say
    lololololololol
    ROFL
    Hic ;-)
    http://www.paleobiology.com/mammoths.jpg
    Tee helmet wit ta telescope is missin toe

  15. @ Bonn

    This mysterious quote was found in ancient Sumerian stone carvings!!

    When the gold nuclei, traveling at 99.999% of the speed of light, smashed together, the plasma that resulted was so energetic that a tiny cube of it with sides measuring about a quarter of the width of a human hair would contain enough energy to power the entire United States for a year.

    Those darn Annunaki where smart dudes

  16. @ Bonn

    I always thought my mother in law looked liked the Baalbek ruins, it seems impossible that such a huge edifice could be built using ancient technology lolol but yep I seen that monstrous stone someone carted there lol

  17. @ Ggees
    Have ya seen ta Baalbek ruins ???
    http://tinyurl.com/BaalbecKRuins

  18. @ GGees
    They want gold because its able to warp time and space!!
    Any Specific links ??????????Cause i don’t wanna go through the whole stuff again
    Bonn

  19. @ marietta
    Its a SCAM and its in me spam part of mail; I found it funny because it was from
    Gen Ban KiMoon
    Secretary General (UNITED NATIONS)

    The president of the World and NWO nonsence
    lololololololol
    ROFL
    Hic ;-)
    Scam artists are upto speed on world events too tats what i found funny

  20. Hey Annunaki scum bags I just bot 20 ozs gold —-its mine dudes!

  21. Bonn!!! I now know all about the Annunaki!! They want gold because its able to warp time and space!! Those little alien bastages want all out gold and TUNGSTEN will not do—we in the Shite mate

  22. Estate agents said house sellers are returning to the market in a way not seen since May 2007, just before the property market crashed.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/houseprices/7581656/Sellers-return-to-housing-market.html

  23. It looks like the defaults are going to happen, but in a controlled, orderly manner. Until someone hits the panic button.

  24. @Bonn
    Sounds like a phishing scam. Did they ask for money or bank account numbers to help “facilitate” the transfer?

  25. Bernanke says we all need to become financially literate:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63C5IT20100414

  26. lololololololllololololol
    Check out tis mail I got dunno if its true or false ROFL
    — On Sat, 4/10/10, UNITED NATIONS wrote:

    From: UNITED NATIONS
    Subject: Compensation To You
    To:
    Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:58 PM

    The UNITED NATIONS which plays a leading role in coordinating
    emergency relief efforts across the globe has agreed to compensate
    all the people that had an unfinished transaction or international
    Fund transfer that failed due to
    Government problem or those that have been Frauded in the past by
    dubious Individuals.The sum of US$350,000 was issued to each of you .We
    found your name in our list as one of the beneficiary and that is why we
    are contacting you through this medium. This has been agreed upon and have
    been signed.
    You are advised now to contact Dr Alabi Lai Overall Director of
    Intercontinental Bank Plc via his Email Address;[email protected],as
    he is our representative who is in charge of disposing the bank draft
    to you.
    You are to Send the information below to Dr Alabi Lai via his email
    address for the immediate delivery of your Compensation bank Draft to you.

    Full Names (Surname First)…..
    Current Address…………….
    Country……………………
    Telephone #………………..
    Age……………………….
    Contact him immediately with the requested information above for your
    International Bank Draft of US $350,000.00 USD.
    Please note that late response is not accepted, misconduct and boycott to
    instructions leads to fund termination
    Have a blissful day and Hope you invest this Money Wisely and profitably

    Best Regards,
    Gen Ban KiMoon
    Secretary General (UNITED NATIONS)

  27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7578623/Five-million-should-flee-Tehran-over-earthquake-fears-Ahmadinejad.html
    Five million should flee Tehran over earthquake fears: Ahmadinejad

    Plz don’t tell me HAARP is real

  28. I made a little website 2 days ago about the absurdity of the Vancouver real estate market. Its a game to test if you can tell the difference between a crack shack and a million dollar property. (the prices are real)

    http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

    Its going viral in Canada. (20,000 hits on day 2)

  29. Woooaaaa Anotter fight took place bitween whom ?
    Was playing Poker last night
    Do Peeps get it tat its @ least a 5000 year movement poking and pointing fingers aint gonna help 60 generations before us did it ; it did’nt werk;well one generation managed to remove ta shackles ; Hint his name is Ghandi;
    NON-COMPLIANCE
    @ Snoot
    Tell me now do belive ta History thats been taught ta ya ?????????????
    loololololollolol
    ROFL
    Hic ;-)

  30. I like Maupin shes cute ;-)

  31. Isn’t this one of the crooks that brought down Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers that got us into this whole mess?

  32. hey as long as tungstene is on par with gold in price everything is fine.

  33. Tungsten gold : Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum

  34. Player 1 million

    Love George carlin sadly missed at least he got old, for me bill hicks’ early death is a tradgedy only lenny Bruce was as outspoken and contraversial and FUCKING funny both had so much potential comedians like that wouldn’t get airtime now.

  35. frances snoot

    Dedo: Frank’s the sensitive one. He cries for nothing! I keep a box of kleenex about for his rainstorm moments.

  36. Off topic but it’s always bugged me how the western so-called liberal press gave Cheney a pass for years when it comes to his involvement in supplying the Iranians with nuclear technologies via Halliburton in the first place (mid 1990s) and how even recently (2007) Halliburton continues this same behavior and the press & Washington continues to turn a blind eye?

    http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-halliburton-charged-with-selling-nuclear-technologies-to-iran/

  37. The trial by association thang,…..(some folk are sooo senthitiff)
    Ain’t that right Frances,. : )

  38. I think it was because Stacy implied Phil was a Nazi,…

  39. frances snoot

    I’LL STAY ON TOPIC!!!

  40. frances snoot

    PHIL PHIL

    I’LL LINK NICE THINGS ABOUT GOLD

  41. frances snoot

    Ronron:
    WL often leaves and returns: he’s like the circular door at the bank.

  42. frances snoot

    @ronron:
    I think that Stacy and Phil had a verbal squabble, but I do hope he didn’t leave. I was wondering where he’d gotten to.

    PHIL, COME BACK. COME BACK. I WON’T MENTION SDR FOR A WEEK.

    SNOOT OVER

  43. MAX, you indeed are one of a kind personality.

  44. Dan11: What is PTB?

    cheers…

  45. Phil/G has left? Really? Say it aint true.

  46. Phil/Germany has been ignored by the PTB of this site. He picked up his marbles and went home.

    WL is plotting revenge.

    Dan II reads, contemplates and makes inane statements. Carry on . . .

  47. @Snoot. i am very worry”d about WL and Phil/Germany. where the fuck are they snoot?

  48. well you can’t win them all max. http://ow.ly/1xZUK

  49. Dear Stacy and Max,

    I just read this tweet from Wikileaks:

    (fix) WikiLeaks editor available in NYC for interviews until 15th at USA: +1 (202) 422 1511

    If I may I suggest or ask….could you interview him?

    Also could you invent a new economic model with Birgitta Jonsdottir for Iceland so that banksters or speculators can’t bankrupt the country anymore? Don’t have any clue how it can be done but I thought I should ask…I think I read somewhere that the current economic model that we use (US, UK) was invented by a British economist after WWII when people were broke and battered from war in the then devastated UK. Is this correct?

    Cheers!

  50. Investigation Begins Into Ersnt &Young’s Role In Connection With Lehman’s Repo 105 Scam
    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/investigation-begins-eys-role-connection-lehmans-repo-105-scam

    …..and Ersnt & Young have recently been appointed to….

    DRUM ROLL PLEASE…

    NAMA!!!! Huuurrrraaaayyy!

    ..not a peep about this in the Irish press. Disgusting.

  51. @Happy Dick

    Seems that the Chinese also reckon an ice-free part cause they had talks with the Icelanders bout new shipping routs up ice-free north.

    We’ll see …

  52. @ GGees
    Sun
    very good!

  53. gordon lightfoot
    early morning rain
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_MDIYhPH0

  54. Player the SUN readers could easily mix up the word BANKER with WANKER which would leave them in a position to wipe each other out

  55. Cap'n Spunk'n

    What we need is a man with with spunk in his bones to take charge of the situation and toss out these bankers. Alan Greenspan believes in the gold standard ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5MVsm2cpc0 ), but this spunkless bureaucrat presided over the biggest explosion of money supply in history, leaving us with a mess that is going to be extremely difficult to clean up.

  56. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.” Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A H

  57. The report of the criminal activity of the Icelandic banksters via City of London is out from yesterday. There is a revolution going on in Iceland. Revolution on the intellectual stage of the individuals. Iceland have become a laboratory of social evolution. There was The Swedish model and now the Icelandic model is in the making. The only problem is the monetary system of the world is a one giant SCAM a la Ponzy.

  58. Player 1 million

    A few years ago a “newspaper” in the uk called the scum er sorry the sun ran a month long campaign with photos and adresses of a bunch of pedophiles pretty much insinuating that they should be hunted down. A few typical sun readers ( the less clever amongst our race) got a bit mixed up and battered a pediatrition( true) they really aren’t a clever bunch. Now why can’t a morally upstanding paper ha ha with their morally upstanding proprieter one r Murdoch ( even bigger HAHA) tell us the names and addresses of all guilty greedypig bankers even sun readers shouldn’t get mixed up what word could u possibley get mixed up with banker agreed they r slighty less repugnant than pediatritions sorry pedophiles but wouldn’t it be fun watching both types of filth swinging from a tree.

  59. Leaked U.S. Document Calls For “Global Regime” To Tackle Climate Change http://www.infowars.com/leaked-u-s-document-calls-for-global-regime-to-tackle-climate-change/

    Global Warming Turns Bizarre as Antarctic Icecaps Grow in Size http://www.medindia.net/news/Global-Warming-Turns-Bizarre-as-Antarctic-Icecaps-Grow-in-Size-41771-1.htm

    Report: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html

  60. Jim Chanos said:

    The whole CDS market criticism to me is a little bit specious in that CDSes were specifically to hedge off or speculate, to be fair, non-marketable financial exposure to companies or governments.

    So before we throw the baby out with the bathwater, and talk about naked CDSes or whatever, we ought to start thinking about what exactly CDSes were set up to do. Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There’s nothing evil about how they’re traded, how they’re accounted for, and how they’re financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

    Now hang on a second here… I appreciate his simple explanation, but what about the underlying results?
    If you put your capital into a business and it fails, this results in the capital being transferred in the debt…
    But when you use CDSes, is the capital not being augmented by failure?

    e.g. $1 goes into the company… and then a $1 CDS is placed…
    the company goes under and that original $1 goes to the debt… but WHERE does the $1 pay-out from the CDS come from?
    This seems to me to be the cause of Exponential Inflation in the Money supply…
    or am I wrong here?

  61. gold mania

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    ‘This snippet has to rank somewhere along with Gordon Gecko’s Greed is good speech. A very interesting speech full of human psychology and people’s reaction to greed.’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQyqvFVe4Y4

  62. The downside risk is real, we all know this. It has been magically altered by the men behind the curtain like some potion which has made the world temporarily blind to it. Sweetened nectar of too big to fail. “Bailout” is the island of safe haven. Hurricanes destroy islands though, it is only a matter of time.

  63. Rumbles From America

    Oklahoma conservatives, lawmakers plot anti-federal militia
    http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/
    State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, a Republican candidate for governor who has appealed for tea party support, said supporters of a state militia have talked to him, and that he believes the citizen unit would be authorized under the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Another lawmaker, state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City, said he believes there’s a good chance of introducing legislation for a state-authorized militia next year.

    A radio report said the plan was to create between 20 and 24 states militias
    to force the federal government to back down.
    Mike Rivero is a liberal. his plan to non-violently overthrow the government is to have the states refuse to pay taxes to the federal government. Rivero is a Sephardic Jew and anti-Zionist. He has an Internet radio show and website here:
    http://whatreallyhappened.com/

  64. @ Gordo – also the origination of wealth tends to be net negative, which begs the question. What reason would there be for having a place in the future for so many slaves whose net negative “productivity” is plunder-based and thus reliant on finite natural limits of the world to continue? That’s my favorite part of all this. The slaves drooling and growling in glee over their next Walmart purchase that brings them a step closer to their own extermination.

  65. Icon Jim Tucker Reveals New Location for Bilderberg 2010 Meeting on The Alex Jones Show 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48qXNPbKgdA

    Icon Jim Tucker Reveals New Location for Bilderberg 2010 Meeting on The Alex Jones Show 2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ahLcuaYbQ

  66. “So that’s exactly why the CDS market was invented. Not just to hedge sovereign debt instruments, because you can simply sell those instruments if you’re bearish! It’s actually to hedge off non-marketable instrument risk.”

    Do they are designed to cover risks that can’t be covered? Basically damage non liability clauses?

    My question: Where has the downside risk gone? Where would the financial market be without suckers?

  67. Greece Won’t Beat Debt Hydra With Rescue Packages
    Matthew Lynn

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a1_6FZCWaVd4

  68. Inflation is a few years away: Pimco 12 April 2010 (MarketWatch) http://tinyurl.com/y4v9gyh

    Deflation is a rising risk for developed economies: Pimco 13 April 2010 (Telegraph.UK) http://tinyurl.com/y5s6xx7

  69. frances snoot

    Dedo:
    If men were of value, women wouldn’t need to be. Then everything would be aisey.

  70. @Frances,…What about a woman? : )

  71. frances snoot

    @Dedo:
    There is nothing of more value than a man who cannot be bought nor sold.

  72. Whenever you hear and see the same stories being promulgated, always remember this little phrase:

    The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

    It might help to see things from a different perspective,..ah hum,..: )

  73. Daniel /Istanbul

    @ME
    “The system is built to be gamed”

    So maybe we should start thinking of those post-crises bonuses, not as bonuses, but as bribes. The insiders know too much, so keep ‘em close.

  74. @MotherEarth LOLLLLLLL!!

  75. frances snoot

    “The Bank (world bank) is working with governments to help them improve the policies and legal, tax, and judicial systems that are crucial for encouraging investment. We have strengthened our outreach to corporations, helping them to assess and implement projects in our client countries. We have also heard one of the messages coming through loud and clear at these Meetings: to strengthen our guarantee program. I am pleased to report that there are 43 confirmed and probable projects in our IBRD guarantee pipeline – most awaiting government action or investor decisions for the next step. And we are actively looking at how we can expand this program even further.”

    http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/EXTPRESIDENT2007/EXTPASTPRESIDENTS/PRESIDENTEXTERNAL/0,,contentMDK:20025269~menuPK:232083~pagePK:159837~piPK:159808~theSitePK:227585,00.html

    EXPANSION!

  76. Al-doomandbloom

    Kneale: The Only Thing We Have to Fear..?…

    Is fear itself. Fear may be the single biggest obstacle holding back this stock market from the rise it truly deserves.

    buy buy buy

  77. The Dork of Cork

    Ireland needs to reflate the property bubble and expand our property empire .

    Yeah right pigs will fly……
    vodpod.com/…/312676-pink-floyd-pigs-on-the-wing-part-1-and-2-video

  78. frances snoot

    There is no such thing as ‘moral capitalism’.

  79. frances snoot

    What exactly are Americans getting for their money?

    Why do you assume tax is used to benefit the citizenry when the currency is issued by private parties, Paganrongs?

    If Europeans liked, they could withdraw from those industrial actions called wars fought by the coalition of the willing. They like siphoning off the productivity of the financial ‘terrorists’ and then claiming they hate it. They throw the covers off and then seek warmth.

    Truly supported by the world press are the criminals.

  80. @Mother,……Can’t watch your link,.it’s blocked in the UK (copyright),…

  81. The Dork of Cork

    The conservatives had a press conference / spin fest at Battersea power station.

    NAMA owns that iconic site.
    Quite appropriate really

    I say to those Tory Boys

    Get off me land.

  82. Hey R. Cain…Nice to back. Work has been crazy busy, which is good thing these days :)

  83. What I dont understand about US tax is the people pay so much and get so damned little for it. At least in the UK we get police who wont taser you for arguing over a speeding ticket, fire officers who wont charge you for dousing your house and hospitals who will do their damndest to get you back on your feet again no matter how poor you are. What exactly are Americans getting for their money?

  84. @ Ingrid
    nice to see you back
    (formerly x)

  85. Question: Is the VAT that the US is thinking about implementing similiar to Canada’s GST (Goods and Services Tax)?

  86. yep, its a setup and racket. Plain and simple. The elite banksters put in thier people to run countrys and then set up deals that will put the people of that country in debt and elites reap the profits and enslave the peoples.

    Not a difficult thing to do. They’ve been doing it for years.

  87. re: defence of CDSes

    the only problem is that TAXPAYERS are stuck paying off these unfunded ‘insurance policies’ that cover the gambling losses of Wall St
    e.g. AIG x billions of dollars

    Citizen Debt Sucker (CDS)
    = great device to transfer wealth

    Never give a sucker an even break.
    W.C. Fields

  88. @henk

    We are not a debt slaves because of Greece, we are debt slaves because everyone bought into the notion that the Anglo-American economic system was superior after the collapse of the “socialist” USSR. It is the continued ram-roding of the neo-liberal globalization / homogenization of all economies that dictates to all economies the way that they should be run.

    The falsies of globalization are immense, every dimwad on every business network and newspaper in every country thinks the solution is to increase productivity and through exports. That is not possible. If someone exports someone else has to import. So do the importing countries have to accept lower living standards just because someone else needs to raise theirs? I do not think so.

    Noe-liberal globalization is worse than a zero sum game because the oligarchs take their ever increasing cut. This has to stop.

  89. Marc Authier

    Next Ireland.

  90. and I am so pissed now. We now are being debt slaves for Greece and we have to work till we are 67 years …. And who is next…Italt etc. And then think about t that the parlement said no to this deal in advance!

  91. Chanos? Chanos, isn’t he that crook guy?

  92. i second that.

  93. Mike/Liverpool

    Agreed!
    Mike