Stacy Summary: Loose money and cheap credit for the US, tighter policy for Europe? Trichet should watch the Tuesday’s Keiser Report and he would know that the Greeks would say to him, “if you take away my bread, I will take you down.”
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Rick Ackerman-
- Karl Denninger – Market Ticker
- The Big Picture
- Mish
- David Morgan
- King World News
- SmartKnowledge
- GoldCore
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- A Lightning War for Liberty
They haven’t a clue on either end. The Titanic and Hidenburg captains unite….whopeeee!
Bernanke, Trichet Economic Paths May Diverge at Jackson Hole….diverge?????
This is a classic DP of jacksons hole if ever there was.
I seriously am amazed why folk still listen to these clowns,…..
Hypnotism and gullible both come to mind !
Hindenburg:)
so everyone’s last name is Jackson now?
They are meeting at Jacksons hole?
Been doing that for quite some time.
US Debt explained in simple pictures …
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/USA-Debt-WallStCheatSheet.png
@Dedo
I’ve been trying to convince my friend’s that have money to buy gold and silver. to little avail. American’s pleasure window(tv) provides powerful sleight’s of mind.
Which can be easily washed away by a delightful……
La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2wE5xvhMJo
Claude DeBussy
….though I prefer brunettes
Talcott,..I love that piece of music,..here’s another !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUql7E7S-k&feature=fvst
Tornados and rain storms cause chaos in Germany
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,714046,00.html
Just BTW !
Excellent arrangement and performance of that piece, Dedo, Grazie mille!
“The Fed has an employment issue, and Trichet does not,” said Diane Swonk,
Hahahaha! Yes, us Irish with 14% and them Spanish with 20% unemployment are not an issue. Does my health insurance cover physio for my back pain when I’m bending down, picking that cotton?
ONE MORE TIME!!!!
Listen again for the first time…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCuaPUVFbzg
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offense
You silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd
Doesn’t matter what you see?
Or into it what you read?
You can do it your own way
If it’s done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside to each his own
Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smokescreen I see through the selfish lie
Dosn’t matter what you see?
Or into it what you read?
You can do it your own way
If it’s done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
Your silence just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence lengthen freedom’s ring
Dosn’t matter what you see?
Or into it what you read?
You can do it your own way
If it’s done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you
Doesn’t matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it’s done just how I say
Volume of “my” SPAM Emails has dropped significantly…
Anyone else notice the same ?
Is the Econ. really “that” bad ?
Ron Paul: Dollar Would Be Stronger Without the Fed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Ai-xocl04&feature=player_embedded
@MirrorMirror whats your email…ill send you some junk. …..:)
10am: Bernanke is “going to need a miracle.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38872170
@dan valley ….whats your email…ill send you some junk. …
No … my question was … why did you take me off your list ?
Bancor (Rancor) FTW….BTW bancor was a World Currency Unit of clearing that was proposed by John Maynard Keynes
@Mirror,…….nope,.still get the same old crap in my “normal” box,….
My “special” box’s are kept clutter free,……tum de dum,.
BTW,..It’s called compartmentalization (big word, I know)
@Mirror mirror ….yeah sorry bout that I got lotsa junk
Jim Willie QE2 -
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/jim-willie/cancer-and-desperation-qe2
And what do we have in the UK – Mr Polly Peck returns – a distraction none story from the past that the mainstream media saw fit to put on the front page.
I’m beginning to liken this financial situation in the US to the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. A financial apartheid
Think about it…
We’d should be throwing rocks, what else do we have left?
@Dan you beat me to it
Though I would have said Audit the Gold
and used this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwFa3_wv1Y
Voulez-vous Tricher avec moi ce soir?
Ron Paul’s What If ? Remastered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_MTh7oMcY
Jackson Hole will turn out to be the Bankers’ “Glory Hole”.
Everyone know that Jackson Hole is on the edge of the Grand Tetons, right?
@flicks there’s celebrity big brother too if asil nadir isn’t distracting enough
nite all….im gonna grill up some ribs and watch the jackson hole hoe down on the squak box with that becky quick….she sure got pretty hair….its like a 70s porn hairdo.
Paul Sells, But Who’s Buyin’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8EDCRLre4M&feature=watch_response
UK economy shows fastest growth in over nine years
The Office for National Statistics’ second estimate for growth showed GDP rose a quarterly 1.2% between April and June, up from its initial estimate of 1.1% released a month ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/27/uk-economy-fastest-growth-in-nine-years
Hey Mike ..what are you complaining about?
..Everything is Great !
chundernuts -
We live in big brother now – shaft thy neighbour while ‘we’ the ruling class
keep you in debt servitude. This is the Cameron line of governance.
Financial stuff is so brilliantly mangled up in nob-head GOBBLEDYGOOK that its totally alienating to the person in the street. And no one is going to educate them in a way that they understand en mass until the bread is taken from them – too late.
“Jackson Hole will turn out to be the Bankers’ “Glory Hole”.”
Bel-Ami – that needs to be a headline !
The Master Jeff Beck
Loose Cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8j8h3vwe0U
Old Man Jeff Beck
Angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCGdL3R0n0
Keeping the Masses passive …
Video TheRealNEws : THE LIMITS OF STIMULUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pg_woqmUTE
Dedicated to the group at Jackson Hole
Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxnjBqz_kY&feature=related
Scatterbrain
Brian Auger and Trinity and Julie Driscoll 1969
Save me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aw-i7BzqH4
Eric Burdon . Animals 1967 Monterey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLo8GJJLUhE&feature=related
Bernake-”it is a your turn to pay for runch trichet you cheap bastard.” Trichet-” embassez mon derriere you money printing pig. you know I bought the royals with cheese the last time we screwed the people over.”
Stock markets face a ‘bloodbath’, warns SocGen
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/7966529/Stock-markets-face-a-bloodbath-warns-SocGen-strategist-Albert-Edwards.html
A single piece of media often does not have a lasting effect on the human psyche. Mass media, however, by its omnipresent nature, creates a living environment we evolve in on a daily basis. It defines the norm and excludes the undesirable. The same way carriage horses wear blinders so they can only see what is right in front of them, the masses can only see where they are supposed to go.
Led Zep 1969
Dazed and Confused
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12wRBAhcTY
Be mindful of your discussions and manipulations,..they are usually quite well hidden if full view,….
Predictive programming is often found in the science fiction genre. It presents a specific image of the future – the one that is desired by the elite – and ultimately becomes in the minds of men an inevitability. A decade ago, the public was being desensitized to war against the Arab world. Today, the population is gradually being exposed to the existence of mind control, of transhumanism and of an Illuminati elite. Emerging from the shadows, those concepts are now everywhere in popular culture. This is what Alice Bailey describes as the “externalization of the hierarchy”: the hidden rulers slowly revealing themselves.
Dedo – too true
In the UK its the BBC . You have to look hard on their website to find THE
story today. The mainstream media – up to their neck in the filthy fraud as well. Why wouldn’t they be after all they have to protect their massive front of camera extortion of the UK public. To keep them isolated on Island Oxbridge lovie land. While the trash and dirty commercial business sharks cut up and con the vulnerable.
All good stuff for them to ‘report on’
Egypt announces site of first nuclear power plant
Global Oil Standard:
Dutch Disease caused by US Virus!
http://x.vu/PirateMyFilm
Why would the paths converge, haven’t they been openly at war for the last four years?
“So, mister Bernanke, what are your expectations for Jackson Hole?”
“Sorry ma’am, could you hold this chair and help me tie this rope to the chandelier ?”
@flicks,..As you’re quite aware, most artists see through “their” own eyes,..not through the eyes that are presented for them.
In the land of the blind the one eyed “person” is king,…(Beware the man who promises to set you free)
The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes for disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.
Welcome to CDO World! .. nice cartoon explains :
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/welcome-to-cdo-world/
Egypt could exploit solar power on a vast scale and its almost simple – mirrors; pipes; water; turbines and generators. Same for Iran and much of the middle east.
GLOBAL OIL STANDARD:
Dutch Disease meets US Virus!
http://x.vu/PirateMyFilm
“productivity”:
stolen resource-capital slavery/second
http://Kyoto.rotocol.org
Here’s an example of how opinions/beliefs are introduced into public consciousness via the dialectic process. Think of eugenics,…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tgf14
http://buildingwhat.org/video.html
Animal rights and environmental activist Rod Coronado finds himself in federal prison for becoming a “friend” with part-time Missoula resident and Earth First! co-founder Mike Roselle on Facebook.
“Guilt by association, that’s not really part of our legal system,” Roselle says. “This is a flagrant constitutional violation, if you ask me. And then it really brings up the question, What is an ‘association’?”
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2010/08/24/facebook-friending-lands-activist-rod-coronado-in-prison
Economy in U.S. Grew 1.6% in Second Quarter, Revised From 2.4% http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-27/economy-in-u-s-grew-1-6-in-second-quarter-revised-from-2-4-.html
The U.S. economy grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter, less than previously calculated as companies reined in inventories and the trade deficit widened.
The trade gap in the second quarter widened to $445 billion, compared with an initial estimate of $425.9 billion, subtracting 3.37 percentage points from growth, the biggest reduction since record-keeping began in 1947, today’s report showed. Imports grew at a 32.4 percent pace, the most since 1984.
@Dedo
Your ability to wed truisms with paranoia is enchanting!
What “dialectic” are you referring too? Eristic? Agonistic? Have you read Aristotle or are you just flogging Hegel and his bottom’s up baby Marx?
The people of the former Soviet Union could read Pravda’s propaganda and see what’s really going on behind the Potemkinized facade.
Most of the folks I know ignore or laugh at the MSM. And I do not inhabit rarefied circles.
Conspiracy Mongering strengthens the Anomie our Global Illuminati desires.(diabolical laughter)
Dedo google jaded_jean – a far right eugenics lover that the BBC allowed to post in vast quantity on their blogs. And remember the BBC is Oxbridge and the govt puppet. It stepped out of line over Dr Kelly – he died and heads rolled at the beeb.
Ed Sturton – Oxbridge
Pass the puke bag
Dedo google jaded_jean – a far right eugenics lover that the BBC allowed to post in vast quantity on their blogs. And remember the BBC is Oxbridge and the govt puppet. It stepped out of line over Dr Kelly – he died and heads rolled at the beeb.
Ed Stourton – Oxbridge
Pass the puke bag
Almost nobody took the stinking flu shots and guess what?
Flu Kills 23,607 in U.S. Yearly, ONE-THIRD Fewer than Previously Estimated http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-26/flu-kills-23-607-in-u-s-yearly-one-third-fewer-than-previously-estimated.html
Bel-Ami – same – goggle jaded_jean and read some of his posts then ask yourself why the beeb allowed it ?
THe Netherlands second highest debt in the world
http://financialedge.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0810/Top-6-Most-Indebted-Countries-And-Why.aspx
The problem is that Tricheur is already dead. Wow can you take down someone that is a zombie. Same thing with Bernanke.
The Website is VERY SLOW today, almost dead .
Anyone else noticing .. or is it just me ?
It’s ALIVE, IT’S ALIVE!!!!
Website down for hours for me….
It is slow
@chunder @Geek – it was the Koch-bots; real nice sort of guys the skeptics align themselves with; ideologues and demagogues don’t matter that all their funding comes from the $35 Billion Dollar Koch Brothers that indoctrinate their cult to chant “Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore” over and over; hint for those wondering if they are a Koch-bot . . . if you wake up passed out on the floor and your loved ones say you bombarded them with Al Gore text messages or if you find yourself maniacally writing “Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore” online all day:
Step away from the Koch brothers because I will come at you with a verbal baseball bat if I have to.
No One Left to Sell CDOs To? Sell to Yourself!
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/no-one-left-to-sell-cdos-to-sell-to-yourself/
Click on the second chart !
Step away from the Koch brothers because I will come at you with a verbal baseball bat if I have to. Stacy
My source for climate skepticism is Anthony Watts “What’s up with that” (http://wattsupwiththat.com/) Is he affiliated with the Koch brothers?
Yes your server was very slow earlier today. I thought you or Max had put me in timeout. I was tres distressed.
Gates Foundation Invests In Monsanto
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/2010/08/for-immediate-release-gates-foundation-invests-in-monsanto/
Sunscreen …. good advice for life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgzHrI61CuM
Bernanke: Fed ‘will strongly resist’ deflation http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-talks-tough-on-deflation-2010-08-27
He spoke at length about the tools left in his toolkit to fight deflation and promised to use them if the outlook deteriorated significantly.
“The Federal Open Market Committee will strongly resist deviations from price stability in the downward direction” (=Deflation) …
The Fed would be “vigilant and proactive” if inflation falls by a significant amount, (=Disinflation) …
At the top of his list of options — more purchases of Treasurys by the Fed. Bernanke said these purchases would ease financial market conditions.
He didn’t mention buying private assets like credit-card receivables or corporate debt, as some economists, including Blinder, suggest.
Gates Foundation Invests In Monsanto
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/2010/08/for-immediate-release-gates-foundation-invests-in-monsanto/
Amen to the Imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTm9t2_npOs&feature=player_embedded
Amen to the Imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTm9t2_npOs&feature=player_embedded
But, but, but, Yahoo! News says:
# Bernanke: Fed will act if economy falters. Growth slows.
You can’t make this shit up.
No kidding, “If” the economy falters…what does it have to do, lay down in front of one of Buffett;s choo-choo trains to get attention paid to the fact IT HAS SUNK????
“Growth” slows….are they talking about the Debt or Deficit growth???
And people dis farang for attempting to discredit these cretins…
Fed stands by to boost US growth – Bernanke promises ‘unconventional’ stimulus steps (FT.com) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e8f868e-b1e4-11df-ad4d-00144feabdc0.html
The Fed chairman said that the US central bank was surprised by the “sharp deterioration” in the US trade balance, but discounted it as the result of temporary and special factors.
The Fed chairman defended the central bank’s surprise decision earlier this month to keep the size of its balance sheet constant and said the Fed was prepared to take “unconventional” measures to stimulate the economy if the outlook darkens.
Outlining other ammunition the Fed could use, Mr Bernanke pointed to additional purchases of long-term securities, changing the language of the Fed’s statements and reducing interest paid on excess reserves … –>though he stressed that the effect in isolation would likely be relatively small. (Last part added from MarketWatch Article above)
Yeah very slow Ive given up quite a few times to get it to load today. But then its to be expected, Max is gonna be got at this way.
flicks: “Egypt could exploit solar power on a vast scale and its almost simple – mirrors; pipes; water; turbines and generators. Same for Iran and much of the middle east.”
So could Israel, let’s disarm them of their stolen nuclear technology ….yesterday.
El-Erian: Alarming Data US Economy Slowing, Why another fiscal stimulus won’t do http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082605262.html
Zuckerman Loses It: “The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History” http://www.zerohedge.com/article/zuckerman-loses-it-releases-most-scathing-criticism-obama-yet-most-fiscally-irresponsible-go
@Youri ……Fed was prepared to take “unconventional” measures to stimulate the economy if the outlook darkens….
Oooohhh …. they’´re going to resign then ?
@ server speed….
glad to see others were experiencing this problem…thought my back door at work had been sniffed out by my corporate overlords
More Are Waking Up To HFT Terrorism http://www.zerohedge.com/article/more-are-waking-hft-terrorism-iridian-asset-managements-latest-investor-letter-blasts-high-f
Yesterday we Just Experienced Another Mini Flash Crash! An HFT Algo Gone Apeshit http://www.zerohedge.com/article/demonstrating-hft-algo-gone-apeshit
Look for Huckabee or Palin to beat Obama in 2012 and oppose Neoliberalism to win. The Social right will win in 2012 not the elites like Romney. Huckabee backs the fair tax for example but is very anti abortion, anti immigration, anti gay rights, pro gun, pro school prayer and so on. He will also like 2008 neoliberal trade polices. I’m not endorsing these views but I could see it winning the country in 2012.
@MirrorMirror
Yeah, as If. “unconventional” measures –> “changing the language of the Fed’s statements” LOL Meaning: More of blatant FED lying!
Palin preacher is one scary dube he said the Jews deserved what Hitler gave them because they didn’t accept Christ. He called it god’s punishment on the Jews.
we’re doooooomed anyway
asteroids discovered over the last 30 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw
Guess how many homes prices above $750k managed to sell in July? http://tinyurl.com/29jye5k
National Bank of Greece profit falls 68% http://www.marketwatch.com/story/national-bank-of-greece-profit-falls-68-2010-08-27
If you take away my bread I’ll eat more Potatoes
If you take away my Potatoes I’ll eat more gruel.
If you take away my gruel I’ll starve
The Great Deleveraging Lie http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-great-deleveraging-lie
Another Lie: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks http://www.alternet.org/action/147955
Britain’s economy grew the fastest in 9 years I just read in the last quarter. Britain grew by 1.2 percent in the last quarter.
farang – yeah its all about a power game and the ability to be a threat in order to manipulate. There is no other realistic reason for the middle east to use nuclear. Its ideal for solar – they have vast deserts that could be used on a massive scale. Directional sunlight easily heats water to steam.
@chundernuts …. Asteroids – we’re doooooomed anyway
It’s just that our (technology) eyes have gotten better over the last 30 yrs. of course .
They were always out there.
OTOH, I admit that as our Solar system makes the Galactic axis crossing in 2012, we’ll see many more of them.
‘Britain’s economy grew the fastest in 9 years I just read in the last quarter. Britain grew by 1.2 percent in the last quarter.’
take away the derivatives addiction and lets see what we have. The main stream will print what ever their masters wish.
Interesting:
Germany GDP real growth rate: GDP growth on an annual basis adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percent. http://www.indexmundi.com/germany/gdp_real_growth_rate.html
United Kingdom GDP – real growth rate http://www.indexmundi.com/united_kingdom/gdp_real_growth_rate.html
Overview: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=gm&v=66
@flicks
GB had huge inflation: UK Inflation since 1948 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/09/inflation-economics
GB Inflation: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=19
Business Insider: “Bernanke Just Paved The Way For QE II http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-bernanke-qeii-2010-8
What is Business Insider talking about? The fed IS ALREADY QEing!
19 August 2010, New York (Reuters) The Fed this week reinstated its program of purchasing Treasuries in a bid to lower long-term interest rates and support the economic recovery, which has shown signs of weakening.
Earlier Thursday, the Fed bought $3.61 billion in Treasuries after it purchased $2.55 billion two days ago.
Fed Completes Monetization Of $1.415 Trillion In Treasurys http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-monetizes-1415-trillion-treasurys-morgan-stanleys-prediction-issue-play-spot-again
YouriCarma,
Could it be that the cracker boxes are worth $20,000, not three quarters of a million?
Youri Carma – I remember the winter of discontent 73/74 at school I organised a strike and got caned for it.
Youri Carma – I remember the winter of discontent 73/74 at school
we went on strike
Bloomberg Businessweek
Gold’s Evangelist
With gold a fashionable hedge against turbulent times, one billionaire is doing everything he can to get his hands on the actual stuff
…
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_36/b4193058839907.htm
Such articles always make me suspicious of what’s coming next !
@indeed – “Could it be that the cracker boxes are worth $20,000, not three quarters of a million?”
Meaning? You lost me there.
What only comes in mind is Bernanke on one end of the cracker box (embodying the U.S. economy) and Obama on the other end pulling and cracking it blowing up the U.S. economy and laughing about it.
So, you think you know gold. You think you know myth.
When myth is really legend, you have this gold:
http://getty.edu/art/exhibitions/vani/
Click on the slideshow “The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani.”
Look closely at the handiwork of those ancient crude people, “Horsemen and the Birds” and ask yourself: who today, in this modern, so advanced world, makes ANYTHING to compare with this artistry?
Where?
Wanna talk gold? Let’s talk.
Retired Pakistan Army general and the former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence Pakistani intelligence agency, Hamid Gul on AJS RIGHT NOW! http://www.infowars.com/
we’re doooooomed anyway
asteroids discovered over the last 30 years chundernuts
An asteroid came at us
but what could we do?
We’d spent all our money
to reduce CO2.
@Bel-Ami ,.. “Most of the folks I know ignore or laugh at the MSM. And I do not inhabit rarefied circles”.
As hard as it is for you to comprehend, my comment was never directed at one particular segment of society,…but I appreciate your concern !
and,…
“Conspiracy Mongering strengthens the Anomie our Global Illuminati desires.”
No shit Sherlock !! LOL : )
@Illinois Brandon:
Palin preacher is one scary dube he said the Jews deserved what Hitler gave them because they didn’t accept Christ. He called it god’s punishment on the Jews.
Thanks for posting yet another example of a right wing evangelical christian politician having close ties with an openly Anti-Semitic preacher. Some commenters were shocked that I dared mention the Anti-Semitic trappings of Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism in the US. They “had never heard nor read of it……”etc. ad absurdum
Good digestion of Bernankes speech by Business Insider:
Ben Bernanke’s Critical Speech In 11 Words:
“Yes, The Economy’s Weak, But There’s Not Much More I Can Do” http://www.businessinsider.com/bernankes-speech-in-11-words-yes-the-economys-weak-but-theres-not-much-more-i-can-do-2010-8
- The Fed could change the language used in its “communications” with the public–i.e., promise Wall Street explicitly that the Fed would keep interest rates near zero for years.
- The Fed could stop paying banks interest on the money they don’t lend.
- The Fed could raise the Fed’s stated inflation target from 2%-3% to 4%-5%–thus scaring savers into spending money now before its value gets destroyed.
So that left the one option that Ben says the Fed might actually consider using that might actually do something: Increasing the size of the Fed’s balance sheet.
And we have seen no evidence yet that further increasing the balance sheet would actually “prop up” the economy.
@Dedo
Thanks for the clarification.
To me you will ever be
an enigma rapt in a battle
armed with truisms
vanquishing the dialectic
via typographic mysteries.
The bad infinity of news cycles
buries minds in triviality and time
stamped quantums of concern.
Oh, the gold of ancient Vani? That is from Colchis. The place where Jason and the Argonauts grabbed a certain Fleece of Gold….of course, all mythical…..isn’t it?
Or did someone sail around the world 5-6,000 years ago from a cave in southeastern UK, left maps carved on the walls, sailed using the stars, and placed stone megaliths world-wide to show it: I WAS HERE!!!!
Decide for yourself:
“Stones, Stars and Megaliths” by Andis Kaulins.
Bel Ami: Exactly what is “anti-semitic” to you?
ANY criticism of the Zionist nation? The Chosen people can not be criticized?
Oh and this howler:
“Some commenters were shocked that I dared mention the Anti-Semitic trappings of Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism in the US.”
Bwahahahaha, oh yeah, “shocked.” How “dare” you!…lie through your fucking teeth.
http://www.rickross.com/reference/fundamentalists/fund186.html
Hagee looks cute in his skull cap while wrapped in an Israeli flag, don’t you agree, Bel Ami?
Hint: lightweight liars should bring heavier ammo to the fight.
Bel-Ami:
“The bad infinity of news cycles
buries minds in triviality and time
stamped quantums of concern.”
Only for those nitwits consuming the poisoned fare offered by the usual suspects of msm.
The “bad infinity?”
@Bel-Ami,….From your comments/opinions of others,..I would suggest you might be a tad insular in your perspectives,…..
Try getting out a bit more,….: )
BTW: I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about,..but I do appreciate feedback!
A large part of Q2 GDP performance, +0.39% compared to the 1.6% total GDP growth for the U.S., was thanks to wars and general defense. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-gdp-defense-driver-2010-8
I just posted this on the yesterday’s thread, but it’s dying so I’ll repost here:
I think it’s not generally recognized that the reason Christian nations are involved in a lot of wars has a lot to do with the structure of the Bible.
In the New Testament, Jesus lays out a program that reaches out to all peoples of the earth, as potentially God’s children. This immediately obsoletes the Hebrew tendency to feel as a chosen people they had first dibs on any land near their current holdings.
It obsoletes the superiority of the Jewish people, levels the playing field. It’s not chosen people against unchosen(?) anymore.
Then Paul spends his career spreading this program. This is part 2 of the NT.
Because Paul scurried around in the shadows of the vast imperial Pagan Roman world, as did Jesus, we have no examples of a country where Christians are other than a fragile new movement. No example of a Christian world that has “arrived” and is dominant.
Therefore Part 3 of the NT is unfortunately missing. This would be a history of a Christian nation, which would employ Christian values in foreign relations.
It would use war as a last resort, for self-defense. And it would treat defeated enemies graciously. No gratuitous slaughter, or holocausts.
Because part 3 is missing, Christian get their nation to nation relationships (foreign policy) from the Old Testament by default, which in places, is as violent a document as you can find anywhere on Planet earth.
Too show what I mean,consider Douglas MacArthur, second world war, here you can find a man who employed Christian principles in administering the occupation of Japan, and he did an extraordinary job.
Had some political hack had the job, the Japanese occupation might have turned into something difficult. Maybe not as bad as Iraq, but not good. He insisted on his soldiers treating the Japanese and their women respectfully. Many Japanese feared the American Invasion because they knew what their own soldiers would have done had they conquered America.
It is recorded in Japanese newspapers of the day, that the Japanese were humbled by the high road the Americans had taken every bit as much as the military defeat itself…
The actions of MacArthur were the actions of one enlightened man.
The U.S. is therefore schizophrenic, with some Christian values expressed imperfectly inwardly, and OT Hebrew militarism expressed outwardly.
MacArthur kept the Emperor of Japan safe, and wisely employed his help to stabilize the Japanese nation, unlike in Iraq today where American soldiers are taught to disparage all of Iraq religion and culture.
Vast difference in wisdom and outcomes…
farang – great link on the getty ! Art now is part if the power play of the power people – they dont like what they would term ‘craft’
The U.S. Is Starting To Look Like Japan Whether It Wants To Or Not http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-starting-to-look-like-japan-whether-it-wants-to-or-not-2010-8
(my apologies for the length be prepared to scroll y’all)
@Bel Ami
Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism=Palin’s Preacher and their Pals
As a thread of thought continuing from the previous thread.
I postulate these people are neither Evangelical nor understand the Fundamentals of their faith. If they ascribe these names to themselves,
they have abrogated any real connection to the idea’s espoused in the historical definition of said terms(evangelical, fundamental).
These people should rightly be called, imo, imposters, faux, misled(ing), illiterate, deceived, frauds etc. etc..
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/e25.html
Of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Gospel, particularly as presented in the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John).
The first person to employ the word evangelical to denote a specific doctrinal tradition was Martin Luther, who used it to define those Christians who stressed justification “by faith alone” and who used the Bible as the final authority in contrast to the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical system, which allowed a place for tradition and good works along with faith
Source: Burgess and McGee, editors, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic MovementsOff-site Link Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. p.96
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http://www.forananswer.org/Top_General/WhatEvangelicalsBelieve.htm
The word evangelical is used in a variety of ways:
1. Usually capitalized, as an adjective to refer to something associated with the Gospels found in the New Testament.
2. Also usually capitalized, as a synonym for Lutheran. This usage derives historically from the use of Evangelische in German to refer to the Reformation movement associated with Martin Luther.
3. Sometimes capitalized, more properly not capitalized, as a noun or adjective referring to that segment of Protestant Christianity that affirms a conservative theology based on the Bible as infallible or inerrant revelation. Note that not all Lutherans are “evangelical” in this sense.
4.Never capitalized, to describe a religious group as fervently committed to propagating its beliefs.
There are variations and permutations of these uses, but the above four are by far the most common uses of the word in English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian theological stream which began in Great Britain in the 1730s.[1] Its key theological beliefs are:
* A belief in the need for personal conversion (or being “born again”)
* Actively expressing and sharing the gospel
* A high regard for biblical authority, especially Biblical inerrancy
* An emphasis on teachings that proclaim the death and resurrection of Jesus.[2]
David Bebbington has termed these four distinctive aspects conversionism, activism, biblicism, and crucicentrism, noting, “Together they form a quadrilateral of priorities that is the basis of Evangelicalism.”[3]
Israel has done some awfull things to the arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. The world should oppose them strongly. The Arabs deserve their own state however there are people who use Arab suffering in the West Bank and Gaza to drive hatred of Jews in general. Many so called Christians in US will back Israel no matter what and then attack Jews without mercy. They think because they support Israel it’s okay but it’s still very dangerous.
Much of American foreign policy resembles the Book of Joshua.
The battle of Jericho is the original ‘Shock and Awe’ as visualized, and the slaughters that came later are extraordinary. It is said these entire other cultures were evil, they slaughtered their own children. etc.
But all we have is the Hebrews word for this, and the operation was self serving.
Our (u.S.) behaviour often mimics this…
Japan Plunges Even Deeper Into Deflation http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-plunges-even-deeper-into-deflation-2010-8
One last post on this subject these people hate Catholics and Mormons too, never mind the fact that they have the same savior. I’m a pretty conservative Catholic and I’ve had these people call me a follower of the antichrist. They are very dangerous people period. They hate the US Constitution which mandates a secular state and no state religion. I will attend my first Latin Mass ever this sunday. The great thing about America is we have to believe in what we want. These people would abolish that. PS the Earth isn’t 6,000 years but a few billion years old. Where they got this from I will understand.
Chinese Ministry Warns Of A Decade-Long Food Shortag http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ministry-warns-of-decade-long-food-shorage-2010-8
Correction we in the US have freedom of religion under the First amendment but this movement hates that. We can be secular, Christian, Jewish or whatever. Where they got the idea that the planet is only 6,000 old I will never understand. It is lousy science and even worse theology. They would seek to impose this in the nations classrooms!
Russell 2000 is up over 2% today. Looks like the double bottom I saw on the charts did materialize. Armageddon is postponed again…
WTF! MAX KEISER ON AJS JUST COMING UP! http://www.infowars.com/
There is nothing in the program but AJ just said it.
Paul Krugman uses his latest op-ed to remind you that the Fed Chair is likely to engage in one major fib: that the economy is still recovering. http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-this-is-not-a-recovery-2010-8
Paul Krugman, August 26, 2010 (The New York Times): “This Is Not a Recovery” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
They’re just gonna kick back and watch some Scrooge McDuck Cartoons. It’s all a hoax. The games up and they know it.
Scrooge McDuck monetary policy 101:
http://tinyurl.com/2vkoaon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBIBM5oUcME
‘EU a disaster, failure, illegal state built on false principles’
oh yes, and from your favorite source of news max, Financial Times, ‘Gold a 6,000 year old bubble’
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/11/gold-a-six-thousand-year-old-bubble/
Re: The Bernanke Trichet disagreement.
Important point:
“Trichet’s optimism and Bernanke’s caution could strengthen the euro against the dollar, said Julian Callow, chief European economist at Barclays Capital in London. The dollar slid 0.5 percent yesterday in New York to $1.2719 per euro.”
The dollar is already falling, and as the price of goods imported to the U.S. starts to climb, during a jobs depression, there’s going to be political fireworks coming.
Robert Shiller Says Double Dip Imminent Vid http://online.wsj.com/video/the-big-interview-with-robert-shiller/228DD2D8-A65D-466A-AECF-5C95AA88533F.html
GOLDMAN’S TOP ECONOMIST MAKES IT OFFICIAL: HERE COMES THE SECOND HALF SLOWDOWN http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-here-are-the-economic-problems-that-may-lead-to-a-second-half-slowdown-2010-7#fiscal-policy-is-becoming-more-restrictive-to-growth-1
Generaly have nothing up with these Hedge fund hyana’s but there’s one exception: Hugh Hendry
Gotto love him for being vocal and speaking his mind intelligently. And he seems to have the best performing Macro Strategy Hedge Fund In The World http://www.businessinsider.com/congratulations-hugh-hendry-you-have-the-best-performing-macro-fund-in-the-world-2010-8
@Max &Stacy HUGH HENDRY would make a GREAT GUEST!
Farang—”bad infinity”–Hegelian concept–an endless series advancing from one thing to another. Linearity with no depth.
Anti-Semitism espoused by Christian Fundamentalists in the US–one is an overt Islamophobia(not all Arabs are Muslim-nor are all Muslims Arab–but the Fundies simplify)–Arabs are Semitic–the dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims allowed for the lies and propaganda to be more palatable for a pre-emptive bombing and invasion of Iraq.
The backing of Israel right or wrong is merely a front for an Anti-Semitic eschatological yearning for the Jews to all go back to the “Holy Land” and jump start Armageddon and destroy 2/3 of the Jews and leave 1/3 remaining–Of that 1/3 a small fraction can be saved if they convert to Christianity–the rest are damned in the Last Judgement along with the previous 2/3…..
@Farang encore–>I believe the present expansionist policy of the Israeli state is Anti-Semitism–it is set on cleansing the Palestinians from the West bank–It also creates an open air prison in Gaza—Zionism is Anti-Semitic–ask any Hasidic Jew. Arabs are Semites too—Victor Klemperer,a German Jew who survived as a labor slave in Nazi Germany, felt the Zionists held to the same soil and blood purity theories which were so endearing to the Nazis. Hagee wrapping himself in the flag if Israel is the height of hypocrisy when you read his end times sermons–Also Illinois Brandon pulled a nice quote from him praising Hitler for trying to transport all the Jews of Europe back to The Holy Land….
@Dedo—-I have a bit of fun and you call me insular? “I need to get out more” That’s beneath you. I am surprised you even go outside with the myriad of dangers all individuals encounter from HARP, the Dialectic and Carbon Tax Loving One World Government Elites
Maybe you contain “levels” and “multitudes” I cannot fathom.
@Talcott
Your comments are appreciated and I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment they bastardize Christian Doctrine. But the Catholics did the same–as did the Protestants under Lutheran—It took Cromwell to welcome the Jews back to Great Britain.
One can’t deny that the admittedly warped brand of Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism in the US is anti-Semitic(in two ways–one must mention the Palestinians) –even as they preach pro-Israeli policies. They are very popular. George W. Bush would never have become President without their votes.
@Bel-Ami
You’ve done a good job under fire. I wonder why people would think anti-semitism in Christians would be such a rare species when Christian vs Christian warfare has gone on for centuries. I look at how long it took to settle the Catholic vs Protestant row in Ireland. They even have virtually the same ethnicity. Common sense would indicate to the degree that a Christian would do physical harm to another Christian over doctrine, how much greater is the gap between a Christian and Jew? Surely the same principals of intolerance would exit here as well and perhaps more so because of the greater differences.
The people will marry “up” to the new state, and will find at last a new dignity. After our collective laying low, we will adorn our heinous bodies with this glorious shroud of glory. Not all, but enough. In the Hitlerian prelude the new blood was offered, but a choice had to be made, so will it be in the main event. “And so in the end a giant column…a nation united…will replace the once strife-torn people.” Adolf Hitler. Replace nation with world.
@Bel-Ami,……”Maybe you contain “levels” and “multitudes” I cannot fathom”.
I’ve heard/read, there’s nothing new under the sun,. but I like to render eternal optimism of self, and it’s kaleidescope of uncertainty.. : /
It always amazes me how certain most folk are, in their beliefs,…
@Bel Ami
“George W. Bush would never have become President without their votes.”
I thought it was the Catholic vote that got him in
joke in reference to Gore v Bush
Oh where oh where is Stacy?
Oh where can that lovely be?
Since its 12:23 in ole Parie
I hope she’s sound asleep.
Oops! I can’t add.
@Dedo
I am certain of nothing.
De omnibus dubitandum.
It does not stop me from having beliefs I think are reasonable.
It always amazes me how certain most folk are, in their beliefs,… dedo
In my case it took a lot of effort and time.
@ Mirror Mirror
Thanks for the cartoon. That’s brilliant!