The 1930's script says that we have a Republican minority and a conservative Supreme court that block the many attempts of an incoming Democratic president to help the general public survive a devastating economic downturn, after a decade of seriously greasing the elites' monetary skids, pushing us to the brink of domestic insurrection, until it takes a world war to pull us out.
Wow! Im delighted to read your accounting of the proper preparation of stock. I google searched how to make chicken stock because I want to make my own in anticipation of a winter of a lot of cooking, so this information is rich and valuable. Thank you, too, for schooling us on the chicken feet - I never woulda thunk it!
How do you feel about relocating to the DC metro area?
That depends. Is this one of those cushy government hole digging jobs where I can't be fired? Cuz I'm lazy and incompetent and don't want to be discriminated against because of it.
Saw this a few days ago...better second time around. Thanks CR.
Question: AIG has rec'd billions was it to:
A) Shore up all those 401ks they manage?
B) Insure deposits in various investments?
C) Clean up a few counterparty risks which put GS and C and BAC (and et al) at risk?
D) Put in into a hole?
Rules of war - take what ever means necessary to save your kind.
Alien VS Predator=Govt is the Alien and Wall Street is the Predator. Switch etiher for the other and net result is the same....were screwed, gutted, decapitated, and disemboweled...William Wallace style. His last word in the film.....FREEDOM! Guess history is repeating, now at a much faster cycle. Komrad Kaput...out.
my family goes back to the smallpox blankets, and yes, we still have the 40 acres in Oklahoma with natgas coutesy of the relocation of the 5 civilized tribes.
There's a separate issue here. The hole, build by the WPA in the
30's, is no longer big enough and is starting to fill. A new hole,
identified as required by a RAND corporation study in the early 70's,
has been suffering from NIMBY environmental challenges since
conception.
In the meantime, the government has been forced to stockpile money in
shallow pits that were never designed for long-term storage. These
pits are not secure, and there have been rumors of some of the money
being diverted to downpayments on homes in Southern California,
Florida, Nevada, and Arizona.
The half-life of money that is spent in this way is approximately 18
months, as it spontaneously degrades into several unstable intermediate states such
as Escalades and plasma TVs.
Did Mark Cuban, the Internet entrepreneur turned owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and would-be buyer of the Chicago Cubs, violate insider trading laws in a particularly egregious fashion?
Or is he the victim of a political hit job because he helped finance a movie that was scathingly critical of President Bush?
"What this crisis reveals is a broken financial system like no other in my lifetime," he told a conference at Lombard Street Research in London.
"Normal monetary policy is not able to get money flowing. The trouble is that, even with all this [government] protection, the market is not moving again."
I have a simple proposal to improve our Government.Every congresscritter should be given a $50k per month credit that can only be used for booze,hookers and blow for their personal consumption.Double it for senators.They would cause much less harm...
Re: Dead can Dance
there was a club i one frequented that would close every nite with Cantara
all the cute goth chicks would come out and do the shadow dancing ...mmmm
In the latest fashion statement out of Italy, soccer players are dropping their shorts to score goals.
Catania, a team in the countrys top division, unveiled the new look while taking a free kick. The players lined up in a wall and dropped their shorts in an effort to block the goalkeepers vision.
The Sicilian team carried out the maneuver to perfection Sunday. Three players dropped their shorts practically to their knees so Torino goalie Matteo Sereni couldnt see the kick by Giuseppe Mascara, who scored during Catanias 3-2 victory. ...
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People of modest means hitched hopes on Little Lake Street
"Few streets in the county have witnessed as dramatic a turnaround as Little Lake. Nestled in the heart of the sprawling Otay Ranch development in eastern Chula Vista, the new homes generated so much interest that people spent months on waiting lists, just for the option to buy."
Its a trick that should not be tolerated anymore by the referees, he said.
Lo Monaco replied: A trick? I wouldnt say so. Its up to the referee to decide if it should be penalized, otherwise I dont see where the problem is. Good taste is relative.
Fed has done as much as it can: Fed's Hoenig
| Reuters
(RUT ROH)
Fed has done "as much as it can": Fed's Hoenig
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig said on Monday the U.S. central bank has done what it can to buffer the economy through a downturn, and a painful process of readjustment is likely ahead.
"The Fed has done about as much as it can do," he said in an interview on PBS's Nightly Business Report. Interest rates are already extremely low, he noted, according to a transcript of the program...."
"Wealthy Mexicans have long hired bodyguards, but experts say the numbers of those seeking protection have jumped since President Felipe Calderón challenged the drug cartels, bringing unprecedented levels of related violence which had been mainly confined to the areas bordering the United States into the major cities."
I just had to slash JPMs div by 50%, but I wanted to go 70% and a downgrade, so now, just a downgrade, and reduced price by $3.00, or $6.00 if they don't cut the yield. I hate doing this before Thanksgiving, but WTF.
... Henry Paulson and his minions abetted the strong performance of the 10 year note as participants report that the Treasury was observed buying mortgage backed securities today. Others report that the central bank bid for agency paper remains light and the central banks are still channeling money into the Treasury market. ...
Nice. Fortunately, we're the exception. Four years of revenue in cash reserves, no debt, our only assets are in emergency easements and all our operations are contracted from the adjacent City. We planned ahead. But now we have to sacrifice for those who didn't, and watch our taxpaying property owners put in harms way - literally.
Re: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the panel, has been tapped by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to draft an aid package for Detroit. The auto companies are seeking $25 billion for emergency loans.
I also have to downgrade Ford for lack of any earnings visibility for 2009 -- how can I rate a company that has zero earnings and stupid products and retarded management, who's only plan is to wait for $8 Billion to fall on top of them (hopefully all at once). Anyone know how much $8 Billion weighs?
I'm not sure if it is needed or wanted, but the short term firestorm is interesting, guess it fits with the money hole video tonight.
For some reason, this hits me too: On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without warseeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
It's getting to the point where just about everything I know about the USA comes from haloscan at CR.
Me, too. And I live here. Yeah, you could do worse. So far as I see, you can trust most of the comments on behavior, and not so many on the motivations driving the behavior.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
mp, I went to youtube and found a good middle of the road shadow dancing video that you would see on a monitor at a nightclub, but it would be a 30 minute version and run in loops until replaced with something else:
The live version (with a screen and backlighting) is obviously a little different and not that common (unless you're in Vegas or Miami or some such location).
As for the chicks (Goth or otherwise) shadow dancing to the last song, they just want to be free. Don't we all.
I just realized that due to banking system the YLSP inheritance fund will be stuck in cash for another 11 days.
T+3 for settlement and then my nonlocal large deposit certified check will get an 11 day hold. This type of policy is what I call bullshit... the check will clear same day!
Anak, I don't think the clip is from the sixties. That's what's going around now in longer version DVDs for clubs, but obviously I can't say when the dances were done or who the dancers are.
Unfortunately, I got off track from mp's original question to unhappyCakeEater who was talking about Goth chicks shadow dancing to Cantara at closing time.
That form of shadow dancing would not be like the video, but rather like the three dancers at the end of the youtube link posted by
Comrade Counterpointer | 11.18.08 - 12:22 am | #
In any event I'm not sure either form of dancing says too much about America other than it has nightclubs.
I don't know... they have never been easy to deal with. I'm sure it would be just as expedient to wait out whatever hold my bank puts on the check... 11 days is a max, right?
sdtfs, sure they are. They have their own get-togethers, so to speak, when a certain type of group is performing. They turn out in droves and everyone else stays away.
We even call it Goth Night. They really are no trouble at all (even though they may look hideous). Ordinary club night crowds can be much worse. Yes, I would know.
Sweet, I don't know how many of you can appreciate it, but I just fixed an HP 32SII RPN calculator (21 years old) that was given to me (it wasn't working).
sportsfan-Yes, I've associated with a few Goths, generally nice kids, but it seemed like it would be a short lived fad. (Thought it might be a conglomeration of causes: sun exposure warnings and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and Anne Rice. Pale skin also makes a nice background for tattoos 'cause they show more contrast and the colors are more clear.
Weather Helm - that is sweet. I've been around long enough to appreciate that. I can't for the life of me find a "decent" calculator today, not like the old HPs. They are more powerful now, but they are pieces of junk.
We have had quite the little swarm of earthquakes here in So Cal today. Had a very small one pop about 10 miles from where I live. And my cat has been going nuts the last couple of days ... walking all over me and meowing his head off. Hope we don't have another disaster on the heels of the big fire. That's about the last thing CA needs.
As I recall, the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 had a fair amount to do with the U.S. financial collapse in 1907.
"Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in controversial environmental decisions -- into senior civil service posts.
The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs.
Similar efforts are taking place at other agencies. Two political hires at the Labor Department have already secured career posts there, and one at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to make the switch."
Zero: apparently the connection between the keypad assembly and another circuit board (one you can see easily when you crack the case open, has a fine grid of dots on it) was weak. It wouldn't turn on, but I found out if I applied pressure in the right place the buttons would become responsive again.
I jammed a flattened roll of electrical tape between the housing and said circuit board, and it applies enough pressure to keep the connection. I adjusted the tape roll thickness to apply some pressure there while not distorting the case too much.
I opened it up by coring out the tops of the melted plastic in the heat-rivet doodads behind the battery cover. (Didn't need to totally open the case so the other heat rivets are untouched.) I applied some silicone adhesive where the top heat rivets were to keep it a little bit secure for here on out.
The thing works great. All buttons, etc. (I had a couple of these in college.) All said, better than spending $100+ on one from Ebay, or buying one of the newer $60 jobbers from HP.
Asia. Yes, in HK HSBC announced staff cuts and added "no positions are secure."
Other banks are reported to have fired people in dribs and drabs so as to avoid reporting large one off cuts.
Also in the news was the fact that the members of "Task Force on Economic Challenges" appointed by the gov't (and largely made up of local tycoons and CEO's) were among the leading axe wielders in the increasingly dismal job market here.
YSLP I don't know exactly why they're so expensive, except that they are considered some of the best built calculators ever made. HP for a while abandoned that line and only recently started making them again, though many people complain the newer ones aren't as good.
I personally always loved these HP models. The RPN notation is something you love for life, once you've bitten the fruit...
It's rather funny that the HPs I bought in college are worth more now (in nominal dollars) than when I bought them. Too bad I kept losing them. And they're worth more than the new HP calculators.
OK, for the record, the place I applied pressure to get it to work was right between the x^2 (root(x)) button and the LCD. On this calc, that appears to be the place where there was separation between the keypad assembly and the other circuit board. (This was also the position in which I placed the roll of electrical tape.)
If you take apart the calculator, use a small drill bit (ballpark 3/32 inch) and turn it with your hand on the four exposed hot plastic rivet points you see when you take the battery cover off. Just take out some material, about 1-1.5mm worth, and the plastic back will come right out. Don't use a power drill. Also, you may not need to take the entire cover off, just operate with the halves held apart if you can. That's all I needed to do.
Good luck. Oh, and don't blame me if you destroy something.
Shadow dancing and Penrose's version of the cyclical universe: got to get out more often too!
HP Calculators: Helm, can you explain to me why hp12c is still being sold with what seems like the original processor, and for ridiculous money? I had to get one about 15 years ago, and they were all about $120 in the shops. Now I see them online for between $70 and $180. When you ask it to do anything more than add or multiply, it takes up to a minute to spit out the answer!
Whoa, what happened at both Hang Seng and Shanghai? Did the Chinese government announce seizure of private property or something?
Asun | 11.18.08 - 2:46 am | #
........Asian markets reflect yesterdays dow and nasdaq.....and the futures slide too.....same thing happens everyday.....
UB, I don't know much about the 12C's. But I did hold one at Office Depot the other day, and it didn't have the same feel as the older ones. I'm a little surprised HP is still charging so much for them.
I dunno. HP calculators from the 80s to about 10-15 years ago developed a real following. A big part of it is the Reverse Polish notation. (I don't know of any other modern calc manufacturer that does RPN.) The calculators were made in a very solid fashion, and a great number of them have survived more than 20 years. The keypresses tend to be unambiguous and solid.
But there's nothing that says "geek" more than an HP calc hanging out of your shirt pocket, next to your pocket protector of course.
A few years ago, this dusty frontier town was little more than a junction of dirt tracks in the jungle, with a handful of wooden buildings and beat-up old cars. Then global crop prices shot up, and Banlung became a boomtown.
Now, however, the future of the expansion in Banlung and elsewhere is in doubt as grain prices have plummeted because of the global economic slowdown. With investors pulling money out of commodities and growth slowing across the world, corn prices are down about 50% since the end of June, while wheat is down about 30%. Falling Crop Prices Threaten Boom in Small Farms - WSJ.com
I' put a bid in on Boudreaux's Bail Bonds and Payday Loans. With a vital state chartered institution like that, one which serves the least represented constituency and props up the local beer joints and BBQ operations throughout our city I feel that the TARP people can't say no. After that is secured, you can call me what you want, but call me at home.
CalculatedRisk, you make me feel so unloved EvilHenryPaulson writes:
CalculatedRisk,
US National Money Hole for a future video of the day
EvilHenryPaulson | 11.17.08 - 7:16 pm | #
Buying mortgages sounds like a path to a blackhole. The details that we don't know are what really matters on a headline like this. I'm pretty sure he's getting a deal that is not widely available...just a hunch.
FT Alphaville article re Fed mothballing its supplementary financing program with the end result being the dollar will be devalued as the final fight against deflation. Comments? Too early to short the dollar or buy some long term puts? Fundamentally I think the dollar is toast long term but I can't get a feel for when the current strength might unwind... FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » If all else fails, devalue the dollar
Did CR stomp on him, or is it just the silence of the crcompanion-enabled?
A combination of crcompanion + somebody reposting all of his "American born" crap with "Indian" substituted. Hilariously, he whined like a little girl about leaving his ethnicity out of it.
By the end of the day, most folks had installed crcompanion and added him to the kill file, I think.
A combination of crcompanion + somebody reposting all of his "American born" crap with "Indian" substituted. Hilariously, he whined like a little girl about leaving his ethnicity out of it.
The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs. Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees
JPM signed a 999 year lease at Canary Wharf (£237mn).
Am I the only one who thinks such a contract length is goofy. The difference between the lease's value and ownership value will still be negligible by the time JPM, Docklands, and even the British government cease to exist under the current legal system.
Like lemmings to the sea, the American consumer will crash through Wallie World doors all across the nation, rush to the advertised teasers in electronics, trampling along the way. They will spend the rest of their day meandering through the local mall.
The old timers at Sears will exchange concerned looks on Saturday 11/29. They shake their collective gray heads and wonder if their Sears stock will ever see 100 again. Or if they will ever be able to quit. News of layoffs prior to year end drift through jewelry, hardware, appliances....
From: Norris, Jeffrey B. [mailto:NorrisJ@SEC.GOV]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 2:27 PM
To: Mark Cuban
Cc: Cox, Christopher
Subject: RE: Lose Change
...
If someone else is the victim of an absurd conspiracy theory, you defend your right to participate in smearing the good name of a patriot like President Bush. But, when you are the subject of a parody of the attack you have endorsed, you suddenly issue threats.
I think I will e-mail this to Chairman Cox myself. I think he will enjoy it. Im sure he is also a Laker fan.
Who cares why Cuban was investigated, or how stupid the movie might have been. The only relevant question is wether or not he is guilty of insider trading. And the facts look very bad for him on that issue.
There's another piece of this puzzle that is also borderline illegal, which is that in addition to the $700 billion that we are discussing, the $700 billion bailout, there's another $2 trillion that's been handed out by the Federal Reserve in emergency loans to financial institutions, to banks, that actually we don't really know who they're handing the money out to, because, apparently, it's a secret.
Never!
Whose hole?
Sublime humor.
Not just yes. Hell yes!
Dopes like dumping money down the black hole. For more on dopes, visit:
My goal is to expose born-and-bred American dopes - shortText.com
It's a hole for the future.
Oh come on now, the government taking your money and burning it is just Uncle Sam's way of saying "I love you".
Stop being so judgmental.
Is that the Strategic Cashola Reserve?
Dopes like dumping money down the black hole. For more on dopes, visit:
My goal is to expose born-and-bred American dopes - shortText.com
ztexas
I dunno.
I think I prefer "Jas" over "ztexas".
The money hole is so 1990's. Time for the ShamWOW to suck up all that money just like a vacuum.
BTW everybody I know in favor of closing the money hole is either a fascist or an repentant misanthrope.
My father worked two jobs so he would have money to put in the money hole, and he never complained!
That was effing hilarious
Is there a CR Companion for IE?
This is beautiful. Absolutely lovely. Love it. Thank you CR!
It's funny cuz it's true.
BTW, anyone know how I get one of these jobs digging the hole?
As Bart Simpson observed the hole has only one natural enemy, the pile.
BTW, anyone know how I get one of these jobs digging the hole?
How do you feel about relocating to the DC metro area?
The 1930's script says that we have a Republican minority and a conservative Supreme court that block the many attempts of an incoming Democratic president to help the general public survive a devastating economic downturn, after a decade of seriously greasing the elites' monetary skids, pushing us to the brink of domestic insurrection, until it takes a world war to pull us out.
Wow, déjà vu!
Jesse's Café Américain
----ive said too much already.
ac:
been there, done that.
Why do you think that I'm here?
Beautiful. I wish I could get paid to sit around, smoke dope, drink beer and think that stuff up.
Comrade V,
A follow up on the previous thread you should read.
All,
"We're gonna need a bigger hole."
anybody got a stock tip?
ok, I'll start.
A sustainable rally will require the participation of XLF, XHB, and XLY. (VIX and More)
Cracker writes:
anybody got a stock tip?
Crane Paper Company. If you have to google it you aren't laughing yet.
We're broke. It's other people's money we're dumping down that hole. They're just too stupid to realize it, so far.
dont make fun of the Zimbabwe paper.
its not paper, its cotton.
Cracker here is an excellent stock tip:
Tigers & Strawberries » Making Stock: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I have never tried it with squirel but pigeon works well.
I think we should call our current economy the Sir Mix A Lot economy- everybody is begging for a piece of that bubble.
YouTube -
Is CR going Austrian?
Wow! Im delighted to read your accounting of the proper preparation of stock. I google searched how to make chicken stock because I want to make my own in anticipation of a winter of a lot of cooking, so this information is rich and valuable. Thank you, too, for schooling us on the chicken feet - I never woulda thunk it!
Comment by phlegmfatale October 26, 2008
its a long meal.
Cracker, from prev thread:
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How do you do?
CC
How do you feel about relocating to the DC metro area?
That depends. Is this one of those cushy government hole digging jobs where I can't be fired? Cuz I'm lazy and incompetent and don't want to be discriminated against because of it.
We should not stop dumping money into the hole. It's the fastest way to get the money to China.
I do:
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I prefer mao.in southern china.punk
Almost everyone I read predicts either a big bear rally or major tankage is imminent.
Would the contrarian view then be that the stock market goes sideways with decreasing volatility for awhile?
clownbucks.bubble.fart
laugh yer ass off.
Saw this a few days ago...better second time around. Thanks CR.
Question: AIG has rec'd billions was it to:
A) Shore up all those 401ks they manage?
B) Insure deposits in various investments?
C) Clean up a few counterparty risks which put GS and C and BAC (and et al) at risk?
D) Put in into a hole?
Rules of war - take what ever means necessary to save your kind.
An opinion:
YouTube - Outer Space - The 3ds
CC
Alien VS Predator=Govt is the Alien and Wall Street is the Predator. Switch etiher for the other and net result is the same....were screwed, gutted, decapitated, and disemboweled...William Wallace style. His last word in the film.....FREEDOM! Guess history is repeating, now at a much faster cycle. Komrad Kaput...out.
Pavel Chichikov:
from the previous thread.
my family goes back to the smallpox blankets, and yes, we still have the 40 acres in Oklahoma with natgas coutesy of the relocation of the 5 civilized tribes.
been a long time comin home.
SHUN CRACKER !!! muther fucker.
We've got the hole world in our hands?
There's a separate issue here. The hole, build by the WPA in the
30's, is no longer big enough and is starting to fill. A new hole,
identified as required by a RAND corporation study in the early 70's,
has been suffering from NIMBY environmental challenges since
conception.
In the meantime, the government has been forced to stockpile money in
shallow pits that were never designed for long-term storage. These
pits are not secure, and there have been rumors of some of the money
being diverted to downpayments on homes in Southern California,
Florida, Nevada, and Arizona.
The half-life of money that is spent in this way is approximately 18
months, as it spontaneously degrades into several unstable intermediate states such
as Escalades and plasma TVs.
Trying to figure out which is the biggest money hole:
1) Government
2) Stocks
3) Bonds
4) Houses and condos
Hmm... Some mighty big money holes there.
More to fail, sorry folks:
YouTube -
Weeping for the republic is ok.
CC
Did Mark Cuban, the Internet entrepreneur turned owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and would-be buyer of the Chicago Cubs, violate insider trading laws in a particularly egregious fashion?
Or is he the victim of a political hit job because he helped finance a movie that was scathingly critical of President Bush?
Business - Floyd Norris Blog - NYTimes.com
I enjoy Mark Cuban's blog. I was wondering what the back story was on this SEC charge.
Bunch of bogarts
YouTube -
CC
your range is astounding. Neubaten. DCD. WAR. that Lightnin Hopkins vid was beauty. nice work
"Volcker issues dire warning on slump"
"What this crisis reveals is a broken financial system like no other in my lifetime," he told a conference at Lombard Street Research in London.
"Normal monetary policy is not able to get money flowing. The trouble is that, even with all this [government] protection, the market is not moving again."
Volcker issues dire warning on slump - Telegraph
Take note of "the market is not moving." Got your pencils and tin cups ready?
the seeds of the future live in a black box.
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Cake-eater - try thiz:
YouTube -
CC
By the way, the above item came via Jesse.
Credit where credit is due.
I have a simple proposal to improve our Government.Every congresscritter should be given a $50k per month credit that can only be used for booze,hookers and blow for their personal consumption.Double it for senators.They would cause much less harm...
CC
wow
Take note of "the market is not moving." Got your pencils and tin cups ready?
Isn't that a good thing? The most likely motion is down.
when it begins,
it will be global inflation. When it starts will become a trade of lore.
The world as a whole is in outright, deflation. the nightmare from jeckyl island.
thus the return of volker, thus mp holding gold....
might take a year maybe two... in order to take hold.
till then, eat, work, love, and protect the ones close to you.
you will have to make the jump from bonds to hard assets....a trick reserved for the faint of heart.
Cake-eater - try thiz:
aye- also beauty. TY
I think JPM will burn money in the hole and drop 10% after using too much lighter fluid!
Re: Dead can Dance
there was a club i one frequented that would close every nite with Cantara
all the cute goth chicks would come out and do the shadow dancing ...mmmm
What is:
Cantara
Shadow dancing
Thanks in advance.
In the interest of fair play and to lighten the mood:
Italian soccer strategy gets a racy look
Yahoo! Sports - Sports News, Scores, Rumors, Fantasy Games, and more
In the latest fashion statement out of Italy, soccer players are dropping their shorts to score goals.
Catania, a team in the countrys top division, unveiled the new look while taking a free kick. The players lined up in a wall and dropped their shorts in an effort to block the goalkeepers vision.
The Sicilian team carried out the maneuver to perfection Sunday. Three players dropped their shorts practically to their knees so Torino goalie Matteo Sereni couldnt see the kick by Giuseppe Mascara, who scored during Catanias 3-2 victory. ...
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People of modest means hitched hopes on Little Lake Street
"Few streets in the county have witnessed as dramatic a turnaround as Little Lake. Nestled in the heart of the sprawling Otay Ranch development in eastern Chula Vista, the new homes generated so much interest that people spent months on waiting lists, just for the option to buy."
mp:
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FFDIC | 11.18.08 - 12:42 am |
Saw that - the individual profiles in the story are good too - the guy who bought fancy jewlery with his cash out, moved back in with his mom
things I now love about Europe
Its a trick that should not be tolerated anymore by the referees, he said.
Lo Monaco replied: A trick? I wouldnt say so. Its up to the referee to decide if it should be penalized, otherwise I dont see where the problem is. Good taste is relative.
MORE WHINE !!!!
And I, I don't believe, only fools rush in, only fools rush in...
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Ladies n gentlemen we are floating in macroeconomic space.
CC
@max
Thanks for the link, Max. I guess.
What's "shadow dancing?"
Anybody?
I get the "goth" part. That's for "gothic." Black eyeliner, dog collars, etc.
Fed has done as much as it can: Fed's Hoenig
| Reuters
(RUT ROH)
Fed has done "as much as it can": Fed's Hoenig
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig said on Monday the U.S. central bank has done what it can to buffer the economy through a downturn, and a painful process of readjustment is likely ahead.
"The Fed has done about as much as it can do," he said in an interview on PBS's Nightly Business Report. Interest rates are already extremely low, he noted, according to a transcript of the program...."
mp
shadow dancing.
"when you are dancing with other peoples money and insolvent at the same time."
much like, posing for the youngsters.
who have very little future.
Fed has done "as much as it can"
Fiscal policy to the rescue. I'll have to file early this year. My stimulus check is going towards an extra case of cigars.
@cracker
Thanks. I've got some catching up to do. I guess.
"Wealthy Mexicans have long hired bodyguards, but experts say the numbers of those seeking protection have jumped since President Felipe Calderón challenged the drug cartels, bringing unprecedented levels of related violence which had been mainly confined to the areas bordering the United States into the major cities."
- NY Times
Not very hard to see this in the near term for wealthy Americans.
Lesson is to not destroy the middle class.
and with that, Im done till tomorrow.
hollla bitches !!!!
craker is worse than irritating, he's worthy of shun , if not outright cracker deflation.
Cracker, ignore.
thxkabai/
I just had to slash JPMs div by 50%, but I wanted to go 70% and a downgrade, so now, just a downgrade, and reduced price by $3.00, or $6.00 if they don't cut the yield. I hate doing this before Thanksgiving, but WTF.
crakcer hearts mp/
ok
seriously, Im done.
Cracker, have a good evening.
I don't know if this was posted:
Across the Curve » Blog Archive » Closing Comments November 17 2008
... Henry Paulson and his minions abetted the strong performance of the 10 year note as participants report that the Treasury was observed buying mortgage backed securities today. Others report that the central bank bid for agency paper remains light and the central banks are still channeling money into the Treasury market. ...
Rob Dawg @ 11:46
Nice. Fortunately, we're the exception. Four years of revenue in cash reserves, no debt, our only assets are in emergency easements and all our operations are contracted from the adjacent City. We planned ahead. But now we have to sacrifice for those who didn't, and watch our taxpaying property owners put in harms way - literally.
Uncle Billy- if you're out there lurking, many happy returns of the day.
Re: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the panel, has been tapped by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to draft an aid package for Detroit. The auto companies are seeking $25 billion for emergency loans.
Tap this, bitch...
Three Stooges dig hole and break into US Treasury--(and freed by FDR)--starts about 12:30 into short.
Cash and Carry - Three Stooges
Best Quote
Moe "We got to Dig a Hole to put that dirt in."
I also have to downgrade Ford for lack of any earnings visibility for 2009 -- how can I rate a company that has zero earnings and stupid products and retarded management, who's only plan is to wait for $8 Billion to fall on top of them (hopefully all at once). Anyone know how much $8 Billion weighs?
A dollar bill weighs one gram as does any denomination of American paper money
mp, the rest is up to you, you have 30 seconds
kona, kudos on your recent multiple posts regarding the 13 week treasuries and analysis. i've been out of town and catching up.
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mp, shadow dancing is dancing in silhouette, using obscuring the dancer, who appears in black against a brightly colored background.
It's very common in nightclubs with monitors. Okay it's generally erotic, too.
Clearly only some of the dancers are clothed and those minimally.
There are lots of DVDs available for the entertainment crowd.
Goth chicks shadow dance as a form of self-expression.
Anyone get 8830 tons?
While I'm ignoring the 13-week Treasury issues and long bond invert I'm hearing this: Midnight Blues, 1936:
YouTube - Buddy Clark - Midnight Blue, 1936
CC
"Goth chicks shadow dance as a form of self-expression."
It's getting to the point where just about everything I know about the USA comes from haloscan at CR.
Cheaper than an airticket, and could do worse I guess.
serf Alan Greenspend,
I'm not sure if it is needed or wanted, but the short term firestorm is interesting, guess it fits with the money hole video tonight.
For some reason, this hits me too: On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without warseeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
It's getting to the point where just about everything I know about the USA comes from haloscan at CR.
Me, too. And I live here. Yeah, you could do worse. So far as I see, you can trust most of the comments on behavior, and not so many on the motivations driving the behavior.
Yah gots to love that man:
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
i thought 'shadow dancing' was an andy gibb hit. what a talented family, the bee gees made some great singles in the 70s.
"So far as I see, you can trust most of the comments on behavior, and not so many on the motivations driving the behavior."
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point, or something like that.
What's effective is the agreeable disagreement that usually prevails here.
mp, I went to youtube and found a good middle of the road shadow dancing video that you would see on a monitor at a nightclub, but it would be a 30 minute version and run in loops until replaced with something else:
YouTube - Nightlife Go-Go Girls
The live version (with a screen and backlighting) is obviously a little different and not that common (unless you're in Vegas or Miami or some such location).
As for the chicks (Goth or otherwise) shadow dancing to the last song, they just want to be free. Don't we all.
ot sure if this was posted, for the geek data gang -
Treasury Releases Capital Purchase Program Term Sheet for Privately Held Financial Institutions
hp1277: Treasury Releases Capital Purchase Program Term Sheet for Privately Held Financial Institutions
have yet to peruse this new regulatory overview, my hopes are low...
sportsfan, that really takes me back.
Don't know where Youtube uploaders come up with these great clips from the sixties, but it makes me wanna cut class and score some gage.
I just realized that due to banking system the YLSP inheritance fund will be stuck in cash for another 11 days.
T+3 for settlement and then my nonlocal large deposit certified check will get an 11 day hold. This type of policy is what I call bullshit... the check will clear same day!
YLSP, your ongoing saga almost makes me glad that I come from a family of churchmice.
I get 818.5 tons, if you are still up Kona
YLSP, sorry, but looting is reserved for those that own banks.
if not, as volker the viking said once, "rub some dirt on it."
Being in cash not so bad right now due to deflationary spiral... just wanted to be in QID for the next leg down....
Anak, I don't think the clip is from the sixties. That's what's going around now in longer version DVDs for clubs, but obviously I can't say when the dances were done or who the dancers are.
Unfortunately, I got off track from mp's original question to unhappyCakeEater who was talking about Goth chicks shadow dancing to Cantara at closing time.
That form of shadow dancing would not be like the video, but rather like the three dancers at the end of the youtube link posted by
Comrade Counterpointer | 11.18.08 - 12:22 am | #
In any event I'm not sure either form of dancing says too much about America other than it has nightclubs.
I'm surprised that Goths are still around; just pale imitations of vampires.
Also, Treasury auction failures making me nervous...
YLSP, have the broker wire the funds. What can it cost? $25?
I don't know... they have never been easy to deal with. I'm sure it would be just as expedient to wait out whatever hold my bank puts on the check... 11 days is a max, right?
sdtfs, sure they are. They have their own get-togethers, so to speak, when a certain type of group is performing. They turn out in droves and everyone else stays away.
We even call it Goth Night. They really are no trouble at all (even though they may look hideous). Ordinary club night crowds can be much worse. Yes, I would know.
sportsfan, whatever it is, it's bookmarked, thanks.
Now if they could only do it with vampires....
Sweet, I don't know how many of you can appreciate it, but I just fixed an HP 32SII RPN calculator (21 years old) that was given to me (it wasn't working).
(pats himself on the back)
sportsfan-Yes, I've associated with a few Goths, generally nice kids, but it seemed like it would be a short lived fad. (Thought it might be a conglomeration of causes: sun exposure warnings and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and Anne Rice. Pale skin also makes a nice background for tattoos 'cause they show more contrast and the colors are more clear.
Anak, vampires? Well, I think they do do it with each other, but then they do come in both genders. I don't partake.
But I do have a day job or what's left of it, so I'm outta here. Later.
Goodonya lad. Those are not easy to work on. What was the issue/what'd you fix?
RPN: Reverse Polish Notation?
sdtfs, you got it. Goths morphed into tatoos and the heavy ink crowd joined them and so on. To each his own. G'night.
Weather Helm - that is sweet. I've been around long enough to appreciate that. I can't for the life of me find a "decent" calculator today, not like the old HPs. They are more powerful now, but they are pieces of junk.
We have had quite the little swarm of earthquakes here in So Cal today. Had a very small one pop about 10 miles from where I live. And my cat has been going nuts the last couple of days ... walking all over me and meowing his head off. Hope we don't have another disaster on the heels of the big fire. That's about the last thing CA needs.
As I recall, the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 had a fair amount to do with the U.S. financial collapse in 1907.
Asia
Weather Helm,
Any reason that is such an expensive model? I mean, its not even as powerful as a TI-8X... at least it doesn't look as impressive...
I say flip it on e-bay!
"Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in controversial environmental decisions -- into senior civil service posts.
The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs.
Similar efforts are taking place at other agencies. Two political hires at the Labor Department have already secured career posts there, and one at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to make the switch."
Administration moves to protect appointees - Washington Post- msnbc.com
When does this bullshit end?
Zero: apparently the connection between the keypad assembly and another circuit board (one you can see easily when you crack the case open, has a fine grid of dots on it) was weak. It wouldn't turn on, but I found out if I applied pressure in the right place the buttons would become responsive again.
I jammed a flattened roll of electrical tape between the housing and said circuit board, and it applies enough pressure to keep the connection. I adjusted the tape roll thickness to apply some pressure there while not distorting the case too much.
I opened it up by coring out the tops of the melted plastic in the heat-rivet doodads behind the battery cover. (Didn't need to totally open the case so the other heat rivets are untouched.) I applied some silicone adhesive where the top heat rivets were to keep it a little bit secure for here on out.
The thing works great. All buttons, etc. (I had a couple of these in college.) All said, better than spending $100+ on one from Ebay, or buying one of the newer $60 jobbers from HP.
Asia. Yes, in HK HSBC announced staff cuts and added "no positions are secure."
Other banks are reported to have fired people in dribs and drabs so as to avoid reporting large one off cuts.
Also in the news was the fact that the members of "Task Force on Economic Challenges" appointed by the gov't (and largely made up of local tycoons and CEO's) were among the leading axe wielders in the increasingly dismal job market here.
An ominous photo with this <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FINANCIAL_MELTDOWN?SITE=TXHAR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>story...
We'll be testing those lows again...
YSLP I don't know exactly why they're so expensive, except that they are considered some of the best built calculators ever made. HP for a while abandoned that line and only recently started making them again, though many people complain the newer ones aren't as good.
I personally always loved these HP models. The RPN notation is something you love for life, once you've bitten the fruit...
It's rather funny that the HPs I bought in college are worth more now (in nominal dollars) than when I bought them. Too bad I kept losing them.
And they're worth more than the new HP calculators.
YSLP - you ominous photo - that's what I'd call shit-eating grins (on Paulson and Bernanke).
Traviss voice gets intense. Theyre coming, man, and nothing can stop them. Its the American Dream!
Nice slice of RRE phantasmagoria:
The American Conservative -- Unreal Estate
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Whoa, what happened at both Hang Seng and Shanghai? Did the Chinese government announce seizure of private property or something?
Govi risks falling into the hole if it doesn't limit its exposure!
Beyond The Black Hole:
Roger Penrose - Cyclic Universe Model
YouTube - Roger Penrose - Cyclic Universe Model
Wow, check out this video of foreclosures in the Detroit area listed in the paper. Woof
YouTube - Wayne County Foreclosures Nov2008
"Japan warns of long slump"
Yahoo! 404 - Page Not Found
Say wha? What exactly is a "long slump" when your economy has already been slumping for 18 years?
Re: ""long slump""
That was a term used in the porno industry during the summer of 1969
Bob Dylan Live 1975 - 1-06 Mr. Tambourine Man
YouTube -
Weather Helm wrote:
It wouldn't turn on, but I found out if I applied pressure in the right place the buttons would become responsive again
Cool! I'm going to try that on mine. Thanks for the tip.
OK, for the record, the place I applied pressure to get it to work was right between the x^2 (root(x)) button and the LCD. On this calc, that appears to be the place where there was separation between the keypad assembly and the other circuit board. (This was also the position in which I placed the roll of electrical tape.)
If you take apart the calculator, use a small drill bit (ballpark 3/32 inch) and turn it with your hand on the four exposed hot plastic rivet points you see when you take the battery cover off. Just take out some material, about 1-1.5mm worth, and the plastic back will come right out. Don't use a power drill. Also, you may not need to take the entire cover off, just operate with the halves held apart if you can. That's all I needed to do.
Good luck. Oh, and don't blame me if you destroy something.
sd: thanks man. Good to be alive
Shadow dancing and Penrose's version of the cyclical universe: got to get out more often too!
HP Calculators: Helm, can you explain to me why hp12c is still being sold with what seems like the original processor, and for ridiculous money? I had to get one about 15 years ago, and they were all about $120 in the shops. Now I see them online for between $70 and $180. When you ask it to do anything more than add or multiply, it takes up to a minute to spit out the answer!
There are so many holes, which one do you mean?
Whoa, what happened at both Hang Seng and Shanghai? Did the Chinese government announce seizure of private property or something?
Asun | 11.18.08 - 2:46 am | #
........Asian markets reflect yesterdays dow and nasdaq.....and the futures slide too.....same thing happens everyday.....
UB, I don't know much about the 12C's. But I did hold one at Office Depot the other day, and it didn't have the same feel as the older ones. I'm a little surprised HP is still charging so much for them.
I dunno. HP calculators from the 80s to about 10-15 years ago developed a real following. A big part of it is the Reverse Polish notation. (I don't know of any other modern calc manufacturer that does RPN.) The calculators were made in a very solid fashion, and a great number of them have survived more than 20 years. The keypresses tend to be unambiguous and solid.
But there's nothing that says "geek" more than an HP calc hanging out of your shirt pocket, next to your pocket protector of course.
Jay D. Not correct. Asia is correcting to its own problems today.
Ok, with this we're all one move behind. Grandmasters, how do we get 10 moves ahead?
Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
Three visitors on line? I'm buying the Big Three at daybreak. Hard.
Two visitors?? One more and I'm all-bull.
I am short since April. Isn't this a sign of complacency? And further downside?
Being in cash not so bad right now due to deflationary spiral... just wanted to be in QID for the next leg down....
YLSP | 11.18.08 - 2:03 am | #
It won't take you long to lose what's left of that money, huh?
mp: What's "shadow dancing?"
Chuck Prince at the end of the Citi Christmas party?
He's a super siv, super siv
He's super-sivvy, yow
Super siv, Super siv,
It's a very special asset
BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded asset manager in the U.S., is cutting jobs for the first time in its 20-year history as slumping financial markets force the mutual-fund industry to shrink.
BlackRock to Cut Jobs for First Time as Funds Shrink (Update4) - Bloomberg.com
Dutch insurer Aegon has applied for more than $1 billion in U.S. government support and may buy a small U.S. thrift company to be eligible for the funds, it said on Tuesday.
Dutch Insurer May Buy Thrift to Get US Bailout Funds - Financials * Europe * News * Story - CNBC.com
Note the order: Apply, then acquire elegibility.
A few years ago, this dusty frontier town was little more than a junction of dirt tracks in the jungle, with a handful of wooden buildings and beat-up old cars. Then global crop prices shot up, and Banlung became a boomtown.
Now, however, the future of the expansion in Banlung and elsewhere is in doubt as grain prices have plummeted because of the global economic slowdown. With investors pulling money out of commodities and growth slowing across the world, corn prices are down about 50% since the end of June, while wheat is down about 30%.
Falling Crop Prices Threaten Boom in Small Farms - WSJ.com
I' put a bid in on Boudreaux's Bail Bonds and Payday Loans. With a vital state chartered institution like that, one which serves the least represented constituency and props up the local beer joints and BBQ operations throughout our city I feel that the TARP people can't say no. After that is secured, you can call me what you want, but call me at home.
YLSP: ominous?
http://thumbsnap.com/v/s0Rrw2Dw.jpg
Paulson and Bernanke to testify on TARP sometime after 9:30.
In related news, the NWS is predicting a 85% chance of falling knives in lower Manahattan.
this clip was really a good laugh
Deflation, depression, default, devaluation, denigration.
Federal debt growth has slowed significantly.
10/31/2008\t6,302,793,747,598.97\t4,271,300,715,369.26\t10,574,094,462,968.23
11/03/2008\t6,302,176,307,108.20\t4,254,001,440,937.01\t10,556,177,748,045.21
11/04/2008\t6,302,535,948,012.36\t4,263,610,248,478.22\t10,566,146,196,490.58
11/05/2008\t6,302,458,417,616.34\t4,264,412,219,647.01\t10,566,870,637,263.35
11/06/2008\t6,358,998,910,837.97\t4,265,731,316,960.28\t10,624,730,227,798.25
11/07/2008\t6,358,869,286,267.95\t4,263,297,655,363.73\t10,622,166,941,631.68
11/10/2008\t6,358,690,409,750.62\t4,263,532,788,931.92\t10,622,223,198,682.54
11/12/2008\t6,358,806,971,888.52\t4,259,701,660,695.98\t10,618,508,632,584.50
11/13/2008\t6,320,976,663,656.70\t4,257,662,488,034.43\t10,578,639,151,691.13
11/14/2008\t6,360,691,569,969.19\t4,257,115,014,666.08\t10,617,806,584,635.27
Ruh roh.
Looks like Obama owns the recession in the public's mind.
Google Trends: obama recession, bush recession
CalculatedRisk, you make me feel so unloved
EvilHenryPaulson writes:
CalculatedRisk,
US National Money Hole for a future video of the day
EvilHenryPaulson | 11.17.08 - 7:16 pm | #
Never have I seen a group of people waste more money than ever.
Meme infection complete.
Now, to work.
CC
Buying mortgages sounds like a path to a blackhole. The details that we don't know are what really matters on a headline like this. I'm pretty sure he's getting a deal that is not widely available...just a hunch.
John Paulson buys mortgage securities.
Y! Finance
Time to Re-Leverage
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The "government" consists of gangs, political and economic gangs. Why would gangs stop when Dopeland, on whom they prey, is powerless?
There is no reason in the world to be optimistic about America's future.
Jas
You can still get it back whilst it is circling the drain.
Once it pops down the hole, it's a loss.
Nostrovia,
PPI number out early? They're jammin 'em
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Dopes love holes!
A good place to hide from gangs!!
Bigger the hole more room dopes would have to be comfortable and avoid kiling each other rather than taking on the gangs. Remember, dopes are cowards.
Jas
PPI number out early? They're jammin 'em
Not that I can see. And the banks are far from jammin at the moment.
Misean, you are right, but grabbing it on the way down can be messy
Not that I can see.
Yeah, I checked MW, CNBC and Bloomberg, no data yet.
And the banks are far from jammin at the moment.
Ahh... banks.... I wish I hadn't covered all my XLF short at 17. (sniff).
PPI comes from Producer Price Index (PPI)
Ahh... banks.... I wish I hadn't covered all my XLF short at 17. (sniff).
You're preachin' to the choir. I sold my SKF way too early. Last week...
PPI comes from http://www.bls.gov/PPI/
Right.... I was wondering if it had leaked.
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Good bye for a while, folks. Be back in 12 days. I want no mischief in Dopeland while I am gone. Mischief in Gangistan would continue as usual.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Jas
Jas: hoopajoops
Must be the HPQ news, for lack of any other reason to rally.
Eric,
I know you were wondering if it had leaked, but if it had I doubt you would find the reports of that on any of the news outlets you mentioned.
I posted that link to make it simple for everyone when it does come out at 8:30
Can you say 4.2 T spent on bailout to date?
Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions and Counting - CNBC
I knew that you could. (PS: That's larger than the inflation adjusted national debt for WWII).
" Harry Cheddar writes:
Can you say 4.2 T spent on bailout to date?
Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions and Counting - CNBC
I knew that you could. (PS: That's larger than the inflation adjusted national debt for WWII).
Harry Cheddar | 11.18.08 - 8:32 am | # "
That's a whole lot of free rent that people are getting.
ot sure if anyone posted this yet,
but our favorite retailer Steve and Barry's is going out of business.
Steve & Barry's faces closure - WSJ
| Reuters
FT Alphaville article re Fed mothballing its supplementary financing program with the end result being the dollar will be devalued as the final fight against deflation. Comments? Too early to short the dollar or buy some long term puts? Fundamentally I think the dollar is toast long term but I can't get a feel for when the current strength might unwind...
FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » If all else fails, devalue the dollar
Good bye for a while, folks. Be back in 12 days.
Best news all week.
Guy on CNBC stating PPT is legit!! LOL!
Guy on CNBC stating PPT is legit!! LOL!
Book, comma, talking.
Best news all week.
I notice that the comments here are much better since he had his ass handed to him over the weekend.
Big drop in the PPI, although ex food and energy it looks about in line with the rest of '08.
Producer Price Index News Release text
I smell a 500 point up day.
I notice that the comments here are much better since he had his ass handed to him over the weekend.
Did CR stomp on him, or is it just the silence of the crcompanion-enabled?
Santelli is awesome:
"If there's a plunge protection team, I don't know about protection, but they're adding to the plunge".
Guy on CNBC stating PPT is legit!! LOL!
The reason that there's so much opposition on MSM, seems to point towards such an intervention having happened and will happen more frequently.
Did CR stomp on him, or is it just the silence of the crcompanion-enabled?
A combination of crcompanion + somebody reposting all of his "American born" crap with "Indian" substituted. Hilariously, he whined like a little girl about leaving his ethnicity out of it.
By the end of the day, most folks had installed crcompanion and added him to the kill file, I think.
It's so cool that retailers are going out of business at this time.
Anyone think 11/28 is going to be busy?
Nostrovia,
A combination of crcompanion + somebody reposting all of his "American born" crap with "Indian" substituted. Hilariously, he whined like a little girl about leaving his ethnicity out of it.
Ah, I did see some of that.
Anyone think 11/28 is going to be busy?
Nostrovia,
Comrade Misean is Dope | Homepage | 11.18.08 - 8:48 am
Compared to what?
The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs.
Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees
I think MS may get his +500 day today.
(At least during the 9:30 -> 3:45 premarket session).
Is Anonymouse around,
I want to get his opinion of Dec 21, 2012 and what it means for the stock markets out of playful curiosity
VtV,
"## Compared to what?"
The restroom on the state beach at 11 PM.
Nostrovia,
PCA, hasn't been around since the bear market rally call last Thursday. As far as I know.
Nostrovia,
PCA, hasn't been around since the bear market rally call last Thursday. As far as I know.
And I'm sure he'll be around to tell us how he stopped out at just the right time to make yet another profit. He must be the richest guy on the board.
JPM signed a 999 year lease at Canary Wharf (£237mn).
Am I the only one who thinks such a contract length is goofy. The difference between the lease's value and ownership value will still be negligible by the time JPM, Docklands, and even the British government cease to exist under the current legal system.
Like lemmings to the sea, the American consumer will crash through Wallie World doors all across the nation, rush to the advertised teasers in electronics, trampling along the way. They will spend the rest of their day meandering through the local mall.
The old timers at Sears will exchange concerned looks on Saturday 11/29. They shake their collective gray heads and wonder if their Sears stock will ever see 100 again. Or if they will ever be able to quit. News of layoffs prior to year end drift through jewelry, hardware, appliances....
HP earnings ahead of expectations. That is why futures are up.
HP earnings ahead of expectations. That is why futures are up.
Have no idea how they can project better earnings going forward. I guess it must be down to either rivals closing or more cheap labor overseas.
Nouveau fil.
Wow, forget the PPT -- this is real entertainment.
A person close to Mr. Cuban provided me with a copy of an e-mail message said to have been sent by Jeffrey Norris, an S.E.C. lawyer in the Fort Worth regional office (and no known relation to me.) This e-mail message seems to have been sent after an exchange in which Mr. Norris complained that Mr. Cuban had financed a movie called Loose Change that discusses the presidents actions relating to Sept. 11.
From: Norris, Jeffrey B. [mailto:NorrisJ@SEC.GOV]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 2:27 PM
To: Mark Cuban
Cc: Cox, Christopher
Subject: RE: Lose Change
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If someone else is the victim of an absurd conspiracy theory, you defend your right to participate in smearing the good name of a patriot like President Bush. But, when you are the subject of a parody of the attack you have endorsed, you suddenly issue threats.
I think I will e-mail this to Chairman Cox myself. I think he will enjoy it. Im sure he is also a Laker fan.
...
Who cares why Cuban was investigated, or how stupid the movie might have been. The only relevant question is wether or not he is guilty of insider trading. And the facts look very bad for him on that issue.
There's another piece of this puzzle that is also borderline illegal, which is that in addition to the $700 billion that we are discussing, the $700 billion bailout, there's another $2 trillion that's been handed out by the Federal Reserve in emergency loans to financial institutions, to banks, that actually we don't really know who they're handing the money out to, because, apparently, it's a secret.
Didn't view the whole vodeo.
What kind of TRASH-panel was that ?
Is this what J6P is being feed ?
( I really start to understand Jas )