Stacy Summary: We look at the scandals of naked short selling, supplementary liquidity providers and the conspiracy of banks. And we also mention the financial terrorist playing cards. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Jim Rickards about naked short selling and overwhelming the specialist system, Wall Street banks undermining Greece and Goldman Sachs as an undeclared national enemy. (**UPDATE** – Below is a jibber jabber thread for the latest market carnage).
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FTSE below 5000
Shall we just wind up the derivatives markets once and for all.
Silver is way down.
Ouch
How come?
“BURN GOLDMAN SACHS”
Declares the foxes!!!
“THEY MUST BURN FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO HUMANITY”
This site never was big on who was behind Goldman Sachs
Futures before the open:
http://quotes.ino.com/analysis/extremes/futures
Very strong emphasis on short term treasuries here.
Gold should be firm today, but the eventual follow up should be a strong rally.
Apparently this dude is going to fix the leakin the Gulf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufscYVbYLQQ
That was about as clearly stated and anyone could imagine.
Jump into the USD/T Bonds. The Life Boat full of holes.
Now I know why Max wasn’t invited to those Financial Terrorism talks.
He sent his lawyer friend Jim
Gold options expiry Tuesday remember.
Will there be a bounce?
a goldman apologist. fuck.
@ ronron
Dude! Rickards named GS as a nonstate threat to society. He called them terrorists whose destructive, destabilizing acts were the equivalent of what it would have taken to start a world war if committed in the physical arena.
Maybe if the thread had been tagged “Goldman Sachs, a Bunch of Racists Investment Bankers” instead of “Goldman Sachs, Undeclared Enemy of the State” the negative connotation would have been better absorbed.
@ Sherri
I agree. Certainly not the most scintillating guest, but definitely presented a worthwhile perspective on a few issues and perspectives. (The point of interviewing other thinkers on TV; no?)
Governments stand up to banks? No, G20 banks stand up to banks!
We are seeing the joists, but one side is supported by our labour (tax) and currency (trade profit). One side has a vested interest in ‘cutting off the fat tail’ to consolidate profit/control within the context of privileged liquidity.
This is the beginning of apartheid.
that would be jousts
Oh, the Terrors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
@ Stacy
I think you should get John Pilger to be the film maker for the PMF ‘Jubilee’ project which I mentioned earlier. This article is the best thing I’ve read on Greece.
Also watch his film The Takeover of South America to see what a great film maker he is.
@ Majestic, thanks.
@ Y’all
Has anyone been keeping up with Greek collateral that may be at risk? Anything strategic? The ports and fleet and control of shipping lanes have been mentioned in various sources. How about pipelines?
Could some of you better minds please flip though these slides and let us know what you think? This presentation came up on a google search on “greece pipeline”. There is a lot to chew on here.
Link to the slide presentation.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/infrastructure/events/doc/2010/2010_03_22_ten_e_infoday.pdf
Free markets under the ‘rule of law’. Where did I hear that before? Rule of Law?
“This is an historic moment. We have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict and cold war. We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order — a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful — and we will be — we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.’s founders.”
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/bush-war.htm
Oh. That was around the first time they decided to pillar ‘al-qaeda’ as state enemy. The rule of law!
hahahaha
US Senate Rubber-Stamps the Dictatorship of the Big Banks
http://www.parenting-healthy-children.com/Parenting.xml
Increase the cost of credit for whom again ? It’s already quite high and prohibitive for ordinaty people you know. How about for controlling greed, capital punishment for a capital sin ? The best way to give these crooks an ethical code of conduct is the threat of removing life. What will it be Lloyd ? Your bonus or your life ? We need clear laws.
This pages says it all, gold and silver are the new primary currency..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/commodities/default.stm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7787
Al-Qaeda and the CIA.
Is Merkel merely forwarding the Bushie project?
“We need clear laws.”
We have clear laws. We need clean justice that applies to all banks: including the Bretton Woods institutions.
Stockmarket’s @ 2,000 oh wait it’s now 12,000, oops wait it’s at 200 oh, now it’s at 18,000 oops too much PPT nope now at 100 no TOO LITTLE damn those front runners okay let’s close the market @ 9911. Hmmm too obvious?
Yes great guest, good show, seems to have both reasonable and balanced outlook. The sort of sanity he speaks would benefit these financial centres. Government should take the advice given.
Rule of law? Where did I see that before?
“We will promote these values above all by living them — through our fidelity to the rule of law and our Constitution, even when it’s hard; and through our commitment to forever pursue a more perfect union,” he said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052201586.html
Rule of law AND the Constitution?
Where does ‘rule of law’ derive authority? Why does Obama declare it before the Constitution?
If the rule of law is in conflict with the constitution, which supercedes?
“”The international order we seek is one that can resolve the challenges of our times,” he said in prepared remarks. “Countering violent extremism and insurgency; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and securing nuclear materials; combating a changing climate and sustaining global growth; helping countries feed themselves and care for their sick; preventing conflict and healing its wounds.”"
(Guess the constitution gets chucked for international treaties and trade codes…shucks)
I get the feeling the rich will all move to Dubai, the place being purposely build to keep them out of harms way. So that would mean all the gold moves there as well..
Max and Stephanie are the Jack Van Impe & Roxela of the Financial Ends Times. Love your work. Keep shining your light!!!!
The rule of law means the sovereign-protection of banking rule over individual rights precluding all rights inherent within the Constitution as delineated by EU/UN treaties/trade codes and appointed global suprasovereign governing agency.
BUT THEY HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO
(Rickards know this)
Look out for the bogies now: real and imagined.
My mate keeps telling me that everyone down the south of England appears to have put a house on the market, signs up all over, he says its ridiculous?
I wonder if its the buy to let landlords in a spin?
Has not happened up north yet.
Look out , crash wallop bang …
Rickards is excellent. He just provides the facts with little or no bias. A wealth of knowledge and the guy can talk for 10 min straight without taking a breath.
Awesome show!
“The country must always pursue what he called the “universal rights” rooted in the Constitution.”
Obama’s looking at the wrong document for those ‘universal rights’:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/v2/5/
“the rule of law is a product of culture”
Ready to trade in your inalienable rights for mob rule? Not to worry: we will be told what culture IS and ISN’T by the Wise Men of Europe.
Good old Bretton Woods. The foundation of Sarkozy’s Davos Speech.
@Fibon11235 – in my experience, every street in the UK in every month of every year is littered with for sale and for rent signs; they are property ‘market’ addicts par excellence
@Charles – I like him, too; I thought he was good at delivering some facts
@Frank – first time I’ve been called Stephanie in a long time . . . bizarrely, I was often mistakenly called Stephanie when I was at university . . . so you’ve now given me flashbacks to far too much caffeine, pasta and pretzels
@Johanraft – thanks for the link
@Perkest – thanks!
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51344
Text: Sarkozy at Davos
@ Sherri Young
Greece is practically floating on petroleum, only THEY (PTB) don’t want anyone to know just yet. The day of reckoning for all politicians won’t be pretty but I’m guessing the Greek reply will be the one to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPHIHTewxNo
Better Idea: Govt’s should tax every single Derivative by 2% (they wouldn’t exist)! Demand Payment from Goldman’s NOW! Greece should expect a check of 2 billion and no debt. Lower taxes….WRONG!
@ Max
You are correct!
All these debts are bastard born as they are conceived via illegitimate counterfeit derivatives a complete fiction. Its complete hogwash they have no grounding in the real world.
Its like watching a headless chicken run around it looks alive but really its
dead..No wonder all these aliens don’t show themselves. lol
Time is on our side..
Max,
I’m so tired of lawyer think. These are the people running Washington, lawyers. At a time when technology drives the world. Who do we have in the driver seat? Lawyers. How many engineers and scientist do you see crafting legislation in Washington. Counterfeiting money is not the only use of the word to counterfeit. This guy is to busy playing politics in his media exposure to be completely credible.
@Snoot
‘Clear laws’.. I would say there is a need for a wholesale public review of laws created after 1960, all laws affecting commerce, all laws written by people other than the lawmakers, especially those proposed by republicans..
Oh, and of course Basel Basel Basel..
“The only alternative is to stress the growing interconnectedness of the world and to acknowledge that an internal agenda cannot be achieved in isolation. It needs to be supported by an international movement of convergence in the same directions. And we all know what direction we
have to go: to face the common global challenges. In other words, achieving the Millennium Development Goals is the strategy that all global actors should set for themselves.”
http://www.cris.unu.edu/fileadmin/user_upload/Egmont_paper_36_by_Luk_Van_Langenhove.pdf
We all know what direction we have to go: wherever THEY tell us to.
These guys are whacko.
Snoot Snoot Snoot says they don’t care what we think think think.
They merely lie to buy themselves the time necessary to complete their “millenium goals”.
There is a synapse between desire and choice, most rationally. But these men are not rational, mother.
Pontificating Pontiffs of Plato’s Priesthood
May the outcome of their goals be enumerated justly within their own decidely rank bodies.
Remember that Rompuy set aside his Plato and his beloved Haiku to set forth with fervour and truth the principal laurels of Europe.
I still want to do a PIRATE MY FILM, “When Maxy Met Stacy”.
Lawyers don’t lie nor do they misspeak themselves: it’s a trained rhetorical agent, a lawyer.
Internet was down in my neighborhood this morning. That meant no access to my sites, no new info. It is what a lobotomy must feel like (or it was the wine yesterday,not sure). It seems evident one way to crash the economy is to somehow stop the internet from working. It has been done by attacking the name servers, but a simple wirecutter might be all it takes to throw the world back into the dark ages…With IP numbers and bandwith running out quickly one might want to think of contingency plans..
Can you short sell companies that pay dividends?
Can you short sell Government bonds for the countries that does not print money?
Yes you can!
But you will lose money!
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You can say da headache is not good. But it is good if you drink 20 beers a day. So, short selling is OK, what is not OK? What government is doing?
Drinking to mach beers: printing money.
Why Merkel dont stop printing EURO and make those speculator loose money? “Naked short sell”? It is the same. Expose them (naked) and send to jail!
Here is another undeclared emergency
Rep Alan Grayson babbles on War Is Making You Poor Act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_TtYQEDTo&feature=player_embedded
US prepares for largest war in Afghanistan
http://abcnews.go.com/International/Afghanistan/battle-kandahar-heart-taliban-country/story?id=10729732
Teachers ask fro 23b lifeline
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/24/teachers-seek-23b-lifeline-or-bailout/
Last night I read an article where congress wants a new tax per barrel of oil to help pay for the cleanup.
They are all mad, simply mad, them fuckers! But wait … gee whiz, I forgot. Must be the mercury in the tuna I ate yesterday. “They have the printing press!”
@ME Internet was down in my neighborhood this morning.
Hope that a massive solar flair occurs. Tink “stone age”. I bot a special hand pump for my well, will siphon water up to 35 meters. (one never knows)
Sheit if a flair were to occur, that would be it. Most would be in dire straights.
somebody wasn’t listening. oh well, you were taught well.
Nice short presentation about (C) and fashion: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
Gee! They are making money without (C) protection!?
Something i wonder about naked positions.
What happens with naked short stocks on dividend day?
@Happy Dick
Yes, just so long you can make coffee.
I used help set up robust IT for harbours, and one of the contingenscies was ‘Pearl Harbour’ scenario, with a shadow IT room set up 100 miles away..I always wondered who would care about IT if a bomb had devestated the facility..
Mind you glassfiber becomes opague under nuclear radiation..
Why doesn’t anyone pull the plug on Goldman Sachs IT. That should be so easy..
VIX Geiger counter going skywards:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2010/05/global_financial_risk_1x_jpeg.html
Stacy you are HOT!!
Here’s the exhaustive future:
http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
note:
#9
To strengthen respect for the rule of law in international as in national affairs and, in particular, to ensure compliance by Member States with the decisions of the International Court of Justice, in compliance with the Charter of the United Nations, in cases to which they are parties…
To ensure the implementation, by States Parties, of treaties in areas such as arms control and disarmament and of international humanitarian law and human rights law, and call upon all States to consider signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
#IV
We reaffirm our support for the principles of sustainable development, including those set out in Agenda 21, agreed upon at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
#VIII
• To strengthen the International Court of Justice, in order to ensure justice and the rule of law in international affairs…
To ensure greater policy coherence and better cooperation between the United Nations, its agencies, the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Trade Organization, as well as other multilateral bodies, with a view to achieving a fully coordinated approach to the problems of peace and development.
How to ensure success?
#III
“We are committed to an open, equitable, rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory multilateral trading and financial system.”
Our ‘governments’ that Rickards insists are being harrassed into non-existence by banks signed this manifesto delivering their sovereign agency into the hands of the World Bank and the Bretton Woods web of regional development banks and international banking institutions, central banks/ECB/EU.
We’ve been sold on the block already.
http://www.un-ngls.org/orf/MDG/countryregionalaction.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals
http://www.undp.org/mdg/
Look for the Vatican to use this European crisis to reassert themselves back into the affairs of nations like Italy, Spain and Portugal. Remember the church helped oust the Prodi Government in Italy a few years back. The Vatican may be down but they been around for nearly 2,000 years.
Nice interview, completley loaded language.
Seems like they are cherry picking their bad boy derivative of the week in CDS. Still waiting for someone to explain to me how these are shorted?
Part of the conversation seemed to go like this
MAX: Its counterfeiting
RICKARDS : one way to look at it
MAX: explains counterfeiting
RICKARDS : im a lawyer, oh and by the way GS dont care about shit
state-actors non-state-actors, language used in such a way that excludes any government agency of involvement, must have been a fun state meeting he went to, protect the centre thinking.
Max added “increasing the cost of credit”. nah MAX federal reserve is neither a state or a non-state actor Lets blame GS for years of artificially low interest rates!! or end the Fed!!
Well, mother. I’ve haven’t said Basel once today.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/what.htm#box10
goldman is driven by greed not politics. naked shorting should be limited. we just need a few changes at goldman. never mentions prosecutions. yep he’s a wonderful guy and full of shit.
The gold options close around 2PM, right? So I guess we’ll be back over $1200 by 3:00.
Fiat Mentalist:
Federal Reserve is now a designate STATE player:
http://www.g20.org/147.aspx
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
@Brandon – Cajasur just went under . . . it was a bank in Spain owned by the Catholic Church . . . they just lost ground.
@JOHN – step away from the crack pipe . . .
oh and stacy, it was good. good i learned about this creep.
@Max
Hey, you said an ounce of gold, now it’s only 28 grams. What gives?
@Tony. acapulco gold i think he meant. 28 grams.
Oh. well that’s cool then
@Snoot. i haven’t.
haven’t what, ronron
@Snoot. you said i’ve haven’t. english for librarians. what will the children think?
@Snoot. why al the accolades for rickard?
@JOHN
Errrrr Emmmm tears already a queue
lolololololol
ROFL
Hic
all
@Bonn. if your not a member of nato rickards is ok with going naked in your country. nice.
So Rickards is a lawyer eh?
I wonder how he would handle being named FIDUCIARY in a court case with a $3Bn bond attached to him?
Did’nt like ta last 2 minutes When are ya guys gonna openly speak about 9/11 Freakin Interview me I’ll haul all tear arse’s in
lololololololol
ROFL
Hic
Well of ta Zynga Poker Haven ……heven …. Haven wtf ?????
yah… 28 grams is an ounce of WEED…
a TROY ounce of gold is 31.1 grams
What kind of gold are you offering mAx?
The children will think it’s time for recess, ronron.
Stacy,
Yes they lose ground for now. They hate the current Government in Spain and now the government trails in the Polls. They supported Franco until his last years. I’m a Catholic-Christian but I believe in the American idea of seperation of church and state. Why do Germans still have to pay a Church tax? There should no government funding for any religion at all.
@Snoot. did you see through rickards?
@Snoot. tell me if i’m wrong on rickards.
@ronron
I’m tellin ya rickards is a Phoney
He is too diplomatic /beuracratic nonsense
And he knows Sh!t but acts asif he dunno anything I can read through tees jokers
Hic
me gittin angry. tat pss me uff.
velly velly interestin times we live in
-Bonn
@Bonn velly deedydoodee.
fuck this. i’m going out to play on the swings. can’t get no respect around here.
BELINDA CARLISLE-CIRCLE IN THE SAND-EXTENDED VIDEO REMIX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWsIVwud8gw
Should DJ Bonn carry on ????
Anyway tee werld has gone Craaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzy
Hic
Leave them boots by the door, Cleetus. They’s more mud than hide.
Yessum, Ma. What’s fur lunch?
Fried pork jowls messed with beans an’ unyuns, corn dawgers and some sweet tators.
Shoot. Why you messin’ with them jowls? We ain’t got nothin’ better?
LAND SAKES. Pa! You throw that air book of Steller’s at Cleetus. Aim low.
ziiiiiiing-smack
OWWWWIE! WHAT’S THAT FUR?
It’s fur ya’ll not bein’ grateful, Cleetus. Reckoned it might outta knock some sense into ya.
Yep.
Well I’m not par-tick-u-lair to that air piece of them hawgs. Reminds me of a turkey’s crop, or a lawyer waggle like that air Jeminy Swigbelly. He’s awlways a puttin’ wurds round deeds that stink worsen Bounteeful’s mounds of glory.
Shoot, Cleetus. When you start to take notice of thangs?
Sincet I been a’readin’ on that air internetz site with the purty lady and the grouchy man that’z a’throwin’ little plastic hawgs on the telly.
Well, no wonder! You sit downs to the table and leave all that air nonsence to Stella. She sure do go on and on enuff fur the whole of ‘em Otiz’s. And that’s a heap.
Yep.
Pa, ain’t ya’ll got nothin’ to add but yep?
Nope.
Well, let’s set to eat. Pa, y’all say grace.
Red haired Green Eyed Ooooooph matiz Belinda Islands
loloolololol
Hic
http://z.about.com/d/culinaryarts/1/0/e/H/-/-/jowl.jpg
Dickhard is a politician, he knows what the “public” wants to hear !
Here’s a simplification of the strategy,.. 1. Promulgate specific news items 2. Glean public “reaction” 3. Ponder to reaction, gradually,..and repeat !
Refer to my previous posts on mind control : )
Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee RawnRawn I got ta real hidden Snoots out of ta closet
lololololololol
ROFL
Hic
Hey Max & Stacy: Here’s a film to plug & possible future guests, “The Coca-Cola Case.” U.S. lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth filed several Fed. cases against Coco-Cola for murder, abduction and torture committed in Colomibia and Guatemala.
http://films.nfb.ca/the-coca-cola-case/film.php
@snoots
This book was made fer ya’z…
it be da tale of Jirjohn Cobb
bys Harry Stephen Keeler…
wit kerazee ha falootin suddern dialect…
http://www.ramblehouse.com/jirjohncobbchapter.htm
Michael jackson-moonwalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFXuMZHa40&feature=related
Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQwUZqEYwQ&feature=related
Hic
Oh Gawd aaaaaaaaaaaaaverrrrrrrry won got ta Bonn bug
lololololololol
Hic
@ Max / Stacy
Tey smooth Criminals Wall St
Bring back MJ fer a while maybe ????
Hic
@ TJ
That video was quite interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Did you get a chance to skim through those slides? Unless I’m misinterpreting things in my haste, I’m left with a suggestion (among several) that funding for infrastructure projects would be on a cost-sharing basis, then actual toxic waste paper would be bought up and repackaged by EU banks with Aaa credit ratings. That presentation was from a few months ago.
Where is John Perkins when we need him?
Thanks, Guiseppi! How are you doing mowing through The Book (General Theory)?
http://www.shallownation.com/2009/02/09/2009-grammy-awards-winners-grammy-performances-video-photos/
@ Sherri Young
That presentation was interesting in a Chinese sort of way. It may be months old but the wishful thinking still percolates. Apparatchiks in Brussells don’t want the game to end
@Snoots
I’m still on Minsky… I don’t want to get into Keynes until I read his interpretation (also, I have Friedman going at the same time)
So… I have no direct opinion on Keynes YET… but from what Minsky has been telling me, the Neo-Classical Keynesian hybrids have REALLY gone astray…
They cherry-picked his theory, assuming they could “stabilize” the markets in equilibrium, not realizing that Keynes never presumed the markets to be manageable in THAT regard…
As for Friedman… hmmm… He sets his theory into contradiction almost from the get go… On the one hand, he states that a free market does not of course eliminate the need for a government… as a forum for determining the “rules of the game” and as an umpire to …enforce the rules, but then he goes on to imply that the “free-market” can manage society…
Although, I’m early on in that one, too…
Perhaps his stance will be clarified later…
Good show. So informative.
Dow 5,000. Jeff Miller, David Hefty and David Tice say it could happen. Remember we had huge rallies in the 30′s before the market ended up going down 90% from the all time high at that time. Today that would be Dow 1,400. We could by 2015 she the default of the US, UK, Italy, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and maybe even France and Belgium. Except for Spain every nation above with have a debt to GDP of over 100% within 5 years. Belgium will be at 100% exactly and France at nearly 100% by 2015.
Literary menage a trois, Guiseppi?
Because I assume you’re an active participant in the reading.
Who cares what those guys thought?
The modern system is outside their domain of reasoning.
http://vedabase.net/bg/16/6/en
Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance—these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Prtha (Krishna speaking to Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, where 15 million warriors were soon to become victims of the first Nuclear War. India starts it’s calendar from the detonation of this nuclear ordnance…check it out!)
Srtla Prabhupada writes of Gita Ch 16 verse 9, :- “Indirectly, this verse anticipates the invention of nuclear weapons, of which the whole world is today very proud. At any moment war may take place, and these atomic weapons may create havoc. Such things are created solely for the destruction of the world, and this is indicated here. Due to godlessness, such weapons are invented in human society; they are not meant for the peace and prosperity of the world.” Actually we now know they deployed nuclear weapons at that terrible battle. The Vedas describe the blinging flash, the great mushroom cloud, the screaming elephants, the sickening fallout, a cloud of ash that descended and made peoples hair drop off in clumps….They even name one of the pilots who dropped the bomb. ‘Gurkha’ was his name. Check it out!
Bhagavad Gita is contained within the Epic Poem “Mahabharata” This is what it says:-
Ancient Nuclear War? There is evidence that the Rama empire (now India) was devastated by nuclear war. The Indus valley is now the Thar desert, and the site of the radioactive ash found west of Jodhpur is around there. Consider these verses from the ancient (6500 BC at the latest) Mahabharata: …a single projectile Charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand suns Rose in all its splendour… a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds… …the cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed into expanding round circles like the opening of giant parasols… ..it was an unknown weapon, An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic messenger of death, Which reduced to ashes The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. …The corpses were so burned As to be unrecognisable. The hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, And the birds turned white. After a few hours All foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this fire The soldiers threw themselves in streams To wash themselves and their equipment.
Is MEP back?
Is she ok?
@Snoot
They may be out of the system, but they are where the system came from…
Economists like Ricardo, Malthus, Hicks, Sraffa et al. may be LONG dead, but their ideas are still shoveled down the throats of students today (especially for MBAs… poor bastards)
I suppose Paul Samuelson is one of the biggest influences, though (who died at 94 back in December), but he wasn’t technically a Neo-Classicist, I don’t think…
However, HE was definitely a big part in the SYNTHESIS of Keynes and Neo-Classical theories…
So, I guess what I’m trying to do is figure out the “trend” of economic thought, since that may give some clue as to where it is heading…
Hence the Keynes-Minsky-Keen line…
The Friedman is just out of curiosity, since I keep seeing people bitching about him, but I have no real idea of where he’s coming from …
They’re trending authoritarian and they’z totin’.
http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0711/tbilisi_police.jpg
http://vodpod.com/watch/2874468-g-20-protest-police-brutality-protect-new-world-order
thanks Max and Stacy!
vote people!
http://financialterrorists.wordpress.com
help me help you
It is not JUST greed. It is willful destruction.
“We Jews, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing the Gentiles do will meet our needs, our demands.
We need a World of our own.”
Maurice Samuel who wrote a book called “The Gentiles.”
Anybody who really wants to understand what is happening to our World – OUR World – needs to read “The Controversy of Zion.” by Douglas Reed. It is available on line and it is the information and knowledge about how we come to be in this situation – and the only possibility for peace and stability ever again. The Jews must rejoin the World of Humanity.
Also read “The Babylonian Woe.” by David Astle. It is about usury and how usury began. He says that if it is not stopped soon it will destroy the World – literally.
the irony is the reported radicalization of Islam vs saligia which is what Wall Street banks embrace and has trickled down, arguably, into the whole of American culture.
and sticking with the religious theme… Wall Street reestablishing a standard of ethics would be its only redemption.
Does DC have the courage to administer this tough love?
Any bets?