Best of the Blogs: IMF’s Bailout Facility, Run on Gold Bank & Public Records [UPDATED]

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119 Responses to Best of the Blogs: IMF’s Bailout Facility, Run on Gold Bank & Public Records [UPDATED]

  1. @snoot – that’s fantastic! and probably rather brave of Crist as no doubt this will be his political death, at least in terms of the Republican party . . . or am I wrong on that?

  2. frances snoot

    @Stacy:
    It makes no sense. Maybe Crist is human?! But he is now the official hero of Florida public education!!!

    YIPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Go Unions! Go Broward/Miami Dade county! Power to the PEOPLE!

    This is a huge blow to the Republicans Lye-dipped Good Ole Boys! Hahaha~ha!

  3. frances snoot

    Stacy:
    Crist was never ‘one of them’.

  4. Barbasol Ben needs a shave.
    ‘Never trust a man with a beard.’
    what a smug sob

    http://www.dailypaul.com/

  5. frances snoot

    Stacy:
    Dare we hope that the Republican party is dead instead of Crist?

  6. Another Top Fed Official Calls For U.S. To Break Up Megabanks http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/another-top-fed-official_n_537934.html

  7. @snoot – yes, we should dare to hope; that would be one party down, one to go . . .

  8. frances snoot

    “As the pre-decision drama mounted, thousands of calls and letters swamped Crist, including a voice mail left Monday by none other than Jeb Bush.
    “He encouraged me to sign the bill,” Crist said. “Shocking. God bless him.”"

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icLvMVmJjRZjHSIa1pkahcWUvc5wD9F3JOEO0

  9. Foreclosure Rates Surge: Banks Catch Up To Backlog, US On Pace To Hit 1 Million Repossessions In 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/foreclosure-rates-surge-b_n_538372.html

  10. BUBBLE COMING? Chinese Economy Grows Nearly 12% In First Quarter http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abLaAgDXG8x0

  11. David Lowman Gets Mobbed after telling borrowers to “Come to Me” Vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtG4UOYW_5Q

    See Also: JPMorgan Executive Mobbed By Borrowers After Inviting Them To Bring Him Their Complaints http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/jpmorgan-executive-mobbed_n_537508.html

  12. @ Stacy didja get me E-mail I tink we require a month or so
    Fast and furious tecnology

  13. Of ta ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
    Laters y’all

  14. Steve Doak: Ohio Man Tries To Destroy Home With SUV After Foreclosure http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/steve-doak-ohio-man-tries_n_539175.html

    Oki Doak ahaha!

    btw: There was another guy before him who succeeded destroying his home

  15. @Bonn

    Wait!

    Look for the Docu’s: Secret Mysteries Of America’s Beginnings – Vol. I + II +III

    American Cities build according to Masons Plans – All on one line!

  16. Godamn! The news is hot today on Huff!

    Mitch McConnell’s Homestate Paper Thrashes Him For ‘Unabashedly Courting Wall Street Bankers For Political Money’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/mitch-mcconnells-homestat_n_538906.html

  17. Ex-Car Czar Steve Rattner Engaged In ‘Unethical’ Conduct, Cuomo’s Pension Probe Finds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/ex-car-czar-steve-rattner_n_539065.html

  18. Actor Alan Cumming Moves His Money Out Of Goldman Sachs http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/alan-cumming-moves-his-mo_n_537545.html

  19. 75% Of Homeowners In Obama’s Loan Modification Plan Still Owe More Than Their Homes Are Worth http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/obamas-home-loan-modifica_n_536801.html

  20. Mike/Liverpool

    Stacy
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a30KHZKX1WJo&pos=10

    They can only keep juggle-ing the balls for so long!
    Mike

  21. Who also thinks there are 1,6 trillion dollars around and it is backed by gold 1 to 5?

  22. Does anybody take the US GDP seriously? Why is this Jim Rickards comparing the Chinese with the US GSP?

  23. @Mother – good point; but I think comparing US and China GDP could be an apples to apples comparison in terms of degree of distortion . . . they must surely each be lying as much as the other?

  24. guest suggestion:
    Nomi Prins – again
    she is SHARP

  25. test.

  26. weird.

  27. Jim Rickards makes no sense.

    Why does the US have less gold now? Because after WOII Europe got the gold from the US to allow them to buy stuff from the US. Then the gold should have ended up back into the US. He makes no sense.

  28. the measure of a country’s economic health should be the TRUE unemployment rate, not ‘GDP growth’.

    this assumes that income taxes are collected across the board, and that the country maintains fiscal responsibility.

  29. @Stacy

    I never heard china’s GDP was distorted progressively to mean less and less in terms of real economical value (for real people)..If the US puts foreign production in its GDP that would skew the numbers even more..

    I find this Rickards hard to listen to, he’s not adding much and I think he faisl to make sense on occasion..Or it is to much sunshine and varnish vapours damaging my myelin shafts..

  30. FiatMentalist

    For some reason this is getting pushed onto the consiousness,in varying forms by the peps the CTers listen to :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwMdZOlPo8

  31. Somewhat related our news is that Rotterdam exports grew 14% in 2010 (because of consolidation of shipping lines due to contraction) the bullies in the harbour now want to stop paying the city 43 Million divident (with the recognizable argument that 43 million could, after being leveraged 20 times, mean 2 billion of investments, I smell a banker!). But most ironically perhaps: Our pundits simply say “You see, there is recovery in Europe and in the US and in Japan!” while of course it’s not recovery, it is fluff and rearrangements..

    You start with two man nearly drowning, and then one climbs on top of the other drowning him to use him as a raft to then say “See! I’m staying afloat!”

  32. @Stacy/Max,

    Bottle up the champagne and celebrate yet another prediction soon to come true!

    “Morgan Stanley Warns Germany May Decide To Secede From EMU”

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/morgan-stanley-warns-germany-may-decide-secede-emu

  33. STACY’S LINKS FROM THE KEISER REPORT (15 APRIL 2010) & MORE: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=166900.msg992200#msg992200

  34. @stacyherbert @Mother

    The American GDP is totally bogus made up (Leveraged Money Shuffling) while the Chinese GDP still holds some true value in it (Producing) .

    That’s what Rickards said last time.

  35. Brandon Sanks

    There is a poll out that shows this.
    Obama 42%
    Ron Paul 41%
    Ron Paul nearly won the GOP strawpoll he lost by one vote. Romney was able to buy it. We know that the banksters would own him too. I’m an independent.

  36. @ frances – Most excellent news. I hope Obama and his “merit-based pay” education advisers pay attention. Despite the fact that the right has relentlessly demonized public education and teachers’ unions, the people still believe in the value of public education and don’t think that teachers ought to be treated or compensated like furniture salesmen.

  37. just got more gold bullion and loaded up big on silver–scew these a-holes and their fiat BS

  38. @Y’All
    Tom Waits – ‘Til The Money Runs Out.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3elbKuH_Tc
    http://tinyurl.com/y5ebud5 (mp3)

  39. @Y’All
    anti-piracy scum defend net hunt!!!
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8619407.stm

  40. Life, Health Insurers Invest in Fast Food Stocks
    http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/15/health-life-insurance-fast-food.html

    hedging their bets ?

  41. Forget about gold and silver. I’m buying Nintendo stocks! LOL

    http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/videogames/2010/04/14/13582661.html

  42. Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS AG banker serving a 40-month prison term, today asked President Obama to reduce his sentence, saying he was a “courageous ” whistleblower who exposed the bank’s tax-evasion schemes.

    Birkenfeld, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy, helped the Justice Department unravel how UBS helped U.S. clients hide billions of dollars from U.S. tax authorities. UBS avoided prosecution by agreement last year to pay $780 million, disclosing data on clients and admitting it aided tax evasion. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601108&sid=a979qDzPrhxw

  43. @ ingrid
    re: Vancouver, Bring Cash (BC)

    check this post from PetrP 4.14.10 5:45am
    http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

    i have trouble believing these prices, but even at half the price would be nuts
    perhaps our intrepid correspondent in Van, Giuseppe, could confirm

    http://maxkeiser.com/2010/04/13/business-insider-exclusive-interview-with-jim-chanos-greece-is-a-prelude/comment-page-2/#comments

  44. @R Cain
    Wow! I knew it was expensive in Vancouver, but that is nuts. Looks like if we go there we’ll be sharing beds at the Salvation Army!

  45. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s role in the Galleon hedge fund insider-trading probe is great headline fodder, but the takeaways from the case shed light on an industry-wide issue. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/goldman-ties-to-insider-case-reveal-wall-street-2010-04-15

  46. He is HAIKU poet:

    Like a fallen leaf
    floats down stream
    a dead grasshopper
    =========================
    Did he meant EU?

  47. last post was abut van Rompuy

  48. The IMF is essentially the back stop for maintaining world stability and the SDR is the vehicle of choice. This seems to be the picture of confidence painted by the men behind the curtain. Hmmmmm … nice fairy tale. Bogus, sham, lie. It’s like the IMF is at the center of the universe. Take the keyboard “numbers” off their keyboards and they would sink like the Titanic. Print$$, and print$$, and print$$ … Shit, if we people could print money and manipulate the world currencies, we could control the world also.

  49. Huge Fireball Likely Large Meteor That May Have Left Debris

    http://standeyo.com/NEWS/10_Space/100416.huge.fireball.html

  50. @Happy. too much. there nuts. :-)

  51. Foreclosures up in 1st quarter; real-estate owned at record http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-foreclosure-filings-up-in-first-quarter-2010-04-15

  52. ron, ron u r a funny guy … LOL

  53. METEORITES – SPACE ROCKS

    Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified 10 June 2009, By Leonard David (SPACE.com’s Space Insider Columnist) http://www.space.com/news/090610-military-fireballs.html

    Russian Scientist: UFO collided with Tunguska Meteorite to save Earth 26 May 2009, (Macedonia Online.eu) http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6868/56/1/3/

  54. White House: Obamas earn $5.5 million in 2009

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5imelpDWC98Ie_2pfcfrR5WMxPVWgD9F3K5GG0

    Hmm, think some big corps and banks lined his Cayman account?

  55. @Happy. i prefer to laugh than cry. ;-)

  56. @Happy, that was fucking funny. hehe.

  57. Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering aka Chemtrails

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOrLLxPm4oA&feature=player_embedded

    Is somebody spraying the planet?? Why??

  58. Kong Fu fighting, tis for ya ron ron
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemXgP-2xyg

  59. @Happy Dick

    Some Ideas:

    - Spray contains metals which comes down on us and causes cancer – to make us sick.

    - The MTFs actually believe the earth is warming and think they can create enough clouds to actually do somtin about that (Which it won’t )

    - Dr. Strangelove experiment

  60. @Youri

    Yup, some one has lots of money and power to spray the skies with absolutely no regard for us folks breathing that shit into our lungs, and being absorbed into the food chain. They are lunatics if ya ask me.

  61. @R. Cain

    Those prices are correct…
    That’s why I keep railing on about the stupidity out here…
    GRANTED, those houses are in Vancouver proper…
    but even 120km OUTSIDE of downtown Vancouver, houses are still getting sold for $400k…
    It is insane… and it will fall apart…
    The problem with Real Estate is that the price is mostly for the LAND… it has little to do with the crack-shacks built upon it…
    I was told that the provincial government assessors determine the land value…
    and why do they jack it so high?
    1) There are plenty of stupid or adequately wealthy people buying them (even if it’s just brokers and foreign money-hiders)…
    2) TAXES!!!!!!!!!! Jack the price with your captured assessors, and voila, instant tax revenues…

    it’s a fucking joke…
    This site charts the situation across Canada pretty well
    http://www.chpc.biz/

  62. No peeps were hurt in the making of this video.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCNDx5FiLk
    Good Night, Y’all!

  63. @Happy. thanks.

  64. I really rate Jim Rickards’ opinion on such matters as he seems to do a hell of a lot of research, almost as much as Stacy Herbert ;)

    I just spoke to a friend in Melbourne, Australia and he is trying to get a housing loan. It seems that the banks are tightening lending here as of two weeks ago.

    All little warning signs of when the fan is going to be splattered with that brown stuff they call doo doo.

    :)

  65. Essentially the IMF doesn’t really exist.

    It is a made up entity of more of those strange grey men that are usually born in Belgium or Luxemberg.

    It is another fictitious entity just made up and not overseen by anyone, just like the Fed. Just a mirage for people to believe in. Some would say, a little like God.
    That is why ‘Lord Bankingfein’ says he is doing Gods work.

    Sorry to get unholy on you folk, just a metaphor for what the sheeple will believe in if they allow themselves to.

    We all want a saviour to ride in over the prarie and save us from ourselves.
    Rubbish.
    Take responsibility for your actions, pay your freakin debts and grow up you snivelling little grey men of the financial world.

  66. For WL and Meow Tse Tongue:

    http://www.rattraders.com/

    Austrian artist Michael Marcovici trains rats to trade financial markets…

  67. thanks to Creative Destruction for Bernard Lietaer presentation link.

  68. Paul Craig Roberts on The Alex Jones Show Thu April 15th, 2010 (TV)

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-08
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXss1xeax6M

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-09
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4bVwx5MZxg

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-10
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptXASzpZR2E

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-11
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBiBwlZV8I

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-12
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXlY7KlZIMc

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-13
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnt0DNfmX5A

    The Alex Jones Show Thu 04.15.2010 (TV) part-14
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFca-McEhA0

  69. @Youri — Can you post the links for parts 1 to 7 please… :-)

  70. Traded my Gold ETFs for Consolidated Fujiyama California Smog Bags.

  71. @Tofu Charlie

    Nop!

    Long Time No see btw. Welcome back.

    Just Subscribe on this one and you’ll find them all together http://www.youtube.com/user/fairinfowar

  72. frances snoot

    I’m confused. Why is shit considered a bad word, but doo doo is not? How come we can say consensual sex but not fucking. Didn’t Paul C. Roberts retire? If the IMF guys are greylings, why aren’t they short? Why are certain journalists free to continue to make rampant and ridiculous errors in their presentations and yet forever linked with fond favour? Why do the dots just need to be presented on the page but not necessary to indicate a coherent picture?

    Is the news now a fashion item to be worn and not understood? Are we all dressing ourselves in designer items sewn from sacks?

    And are we supposed to pay off the debt or not pay off the debt? Do we bury the gold or count it like Silas Marner did: nightly?

    Carry on. It will remain ever so.

  73. UFO Encounters (1/12) Timothy Good on Coast To Coast AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0dkVhIB-E

    Suscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHaunebub

  74. @frances snoot

    Why the Americans get hysterical with a piece of nakety nature on the tellie but is it OK to show humans sadistically getting murdered raped and tortured?

  75. Howard Beale

    It would be helpful if Jesse would mention that English is not his first language; it isn’t, is it? For if it is, Max & Stacy are diminished in stature by the inclusion of/reference to a self-proclaimed expert who doesn’t understand basic grammer…

  76. frances snoot

    @Youri:
    It seems the term “Americans” is about to come up for review. Please tune in next week for a more reliable nomer.

    And the press is the least reliable at painting a picture which resembles any form in nature.

  77. The gold suppression seems suddenly has become more subtle …

  78. Wake up everybody, its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life!

    Can I complain about Mitch McConnell. He should be arrested for spoiling peoples appetite! I can have a nice breakfast and coffee watching On The Edge or the Keiser Report, but browsing Huffington Post I never know whether I get to see some disgusting portrait of one of these seemingly dug up half decomposed ‘carted in like Hannibal f*cking Lector’ zombie corrupt bloodsuckers..Either little prepayed bags to mail my vomit to the person responsible for it or a clear warning “Rated D for disgusting, please change your browser settings to see..”.

  79. Was bis
    Ich war letzte Nacht Poker
    Ich war der Gewinn Grrrrrrrrrr

  80. There’s Now A 10% Chance Germany Leaves The Euro Thanks To A Few German Professors http://www.businessinsider.com/theres-now-a-10-chance-germany-leaves-the-euro-thanks-to-a-few-german-professors-2010-4

  81. Its all well and good tat y’all loaded up on Gold & silver
    But are ya in ta line of fire of WW3
    lololololololol
    Hic ;-)
    Tees lunatics gonna go ahead 100% sure

  82. @ Youri
    What was the freemason link yer were gonna give ???

  83. oks I’ll find it ZZZZZZZZZ time again
    lolololololol
    Hic ;-)

  84. Foreclosure rates surge, biggest jump in 5 years – ‘On pace to see more than 1 million bank repossessions this year’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36547572/

  85. @ Youri
    I seriously believe now Nibiru is on its way
    lololololol
    Hic ;-)

  86. Slow-motion economical slapstick, really not that funny..

    I dreamt the Illuminati where a secretive group of people hunting down ‘evildoers’ and ‘suiciders’ to drive large mercury vapour or halide lamps up into their sulfurous gorges..

  87. Ray in Vancouver

    @ R Cain.

    They spent like crazy here on the Olympics, the bills are coming in, $534,000,000 just for City Hall. That figure does not include the cost to build the Olympic Village, that was private money, till the private part ran away, leaving the city on the hook.

    Nearly a billion to rebuild the highway to Whistler (they shut down half of it for security during the games) ;-) A billion for security and an operational budget that will probably surpass 1.3 billion. They have warehouses full of stuff they trying to sell.

    All the money pumped into the economy has to go somewhere so a lot is going into inflated housing. The condos here do not do well over time, with a really wet climate there is a fair percentage under tarps being re-built.

    We should get the final tally on the Olympics this summer. Supposedly 10 billion came in, in “benefits”. My bet those who benefited won’t be paying for it.

    All this in a province of less that 4 million people. The elites’ egos here are unbelievable.

  88. Unemployment confuses recovery expectations http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36547595/

  89. @Bonn

    Mmm …. I am not convinced about that Niburu story.

  90. The Earnings Scam – Our economy Is worsening Vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LycLKDtDqG0

  91. rayin vancouver@, but aren’t you happy as heck that the elites took off with all the money and left you canadians with the bills. Thats how the elites roll. They did the same thing in china. Its all a scam.

  92. IMF, World Bank has ‘legitimacy deficits’ http://tinyurl.com/yyvk8lt

  93. Foreclosure Filings Rise 16% as Bank Seizures Set Record Vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8K2nSnFJk

  94. max and stacy….when ya gonna git Ron Paul on duh show?

  95. Why NASA Is Sending a Robot to Space That Looks Like You http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/robonaut-rides-the-shuttle/

  96. Ebbing sunspot activity makes Europe freeze – 350 years of data link low solar activity to cold winters. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100414/full/news.2010.184.html

  97. @Stacy

    Guess you have to get used to it or move south

    New studies suggest that low solar activity will cause more frequent cold winters in the United Kingdom and the continental Europe in future. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123424&sectionid=3510212

  98. The more explaining the bankers do the less I sympathize with their existence. Its “I’ll pretend I’m smart and you’ll pretend you are a sucker” which turned into “I’ll keep you euforic about some future gain while I suck your life blood to enjoy real luxury right now!”. They are a predator breed in need of severe humiliation.

  99. Celente attacks Elliot Spitzer saying he made a fortune from his downfall, AJ does not respond in any way, they are both shills..

  100. The United States Isn’t a Country
    — It’s a Corporation!

    http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm

  101. Please Dan Valley

    Vote Paul.