"Senryū (川柳?, literally 'river willow') is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer "on" (not syllables) in total. However, senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are more serious."
The administration of President Barack Obama plans to use tens of billions of dollars from its Troubled Asset Relief Program to “accelerate dramatically modification of mortgages” to limit foreclosures, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said during an interview on CNN.
“We will have a comprehensive, aggressive plan to limit foreclosures announced in coming weeks,” the Housing and Urban Development secretary said on CNN.
Another example of American stupidity. And they want to be rescued from their stupidity. What is the right thing to do? Bail them out or let them freeze?
CNN) -- One person died Saturday in connection with the rescue of hundreds of people cast adrift on an ice floe in Lake Erie, a Coast Guard official involved in the effort said.
People were stuck when an 8-mile-long chunk of Lake Erie ice broke away near Toledo, Ohio. Chief Petty Officer Robert Lanier confirmed that one person had died. No other details were available. He said the rescue operation was still under way.
A snowmobiler was injured when he fell into the ice while attempting to cross it, CNN affiliate WTOL reported, citing the sheriff's office. He reportedly was being taken to a hospital. The ice floe, 8 miles long, was created when a piece of ice broke off from land near Locust Point, Ohio, east of Toledo, Lanier said. At least 100 and as many as 500 people were stranded, authorities said.
A good bank haiku
All assets are triple-A
Ignore the next lines
This haiku, like the bank it describes, fails to meet formal requirements once all of the SIVs, conduits, CDSs, CDOs, CDOs-squared, and miscellaneous tier III assets are taken into account.
WASHINGTON The Senate agreement on a roughly $827 billion economic stimulus bill sets up tough negotiations with the House primarily over tens of billions of dollars in aid to states and local governments, tax provisions, and education, health and renewable energy programs.
Billions here more mistakes
Eat the cake and have it too
Terminal now
There once was a great blog called cr
Where haiku ranked up there so near- art.
We all wrote haiku
Who coulda have knew?
That finances could be so poetry- ear'd smart.
There once was a blog called CR
If you read it, you sure will go far
You'll learn to be thrifty
Your portfolio - so nifty!
Your cash buried out back in a jar.
.
There once was a guy named CR
who saw all this from afar,
said, "markets are tanking"
and then: "so is banking,"
and last: "they can't sell a car."
.
Here's to me, and here's to you,
And here's to love and laughter-
I'll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
there was a central banker from nantucket
who liked to hand out money in buckets
but the ceo's, they lied
and the ponies, they died
so he climbed in his 'copter and said "f**k it"
Liquidity! Calamity! Quantitative Easing! Deflationistas, bottom callers! Economic engine seizing! All these words obscure the fact the buck will take a squeezing and preserve a kind of nasty tact re: the foreclosed-upon and freezing.
There once was a gal so productive
till she found the CR blog seductive
Now she spends all her time
On CR making rhyme
Instead of doing something constructive
The most significant development in my view is this:
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year, according to new International Monetary Fund figures that expose the staggering depth of the global financial crisis. ...
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
But the same article says: "The advanced countries are expected to produce 2 per cent less this year than last year, with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." - How does that correlate?
Now is a great time
to listen to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_lxJdV-2Kk&feature=PlayList&p=0AD1B01D508D1069&index=25&playnext=12&playnext_from=PL'> thread music.
I hope you enjoy
But the same article says: "The advanced countries are expected to produce 2 per cent less this year than last year, with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." - How does that correlate? bobn | Homepage | 02.07.09 - 8:41 pm | #
Why would you expect them to correlate? There's no fixed relationship between foreign trade and GDP.
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
OK, guess I quoted too much: "with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." Now how does that work? All the drop already happened? Volume vs.Dollars? What?
David Sirota at Salon gives a concise, brutal assessment of Obama's economic team and its priorities.
We've now had two bait and switch Presidents in succession. Bush promised "compassionate conservatism" and dragged the country far to the right, enriching those at the top of the food chain and leaving everyone else with the empty promise of "trickle down economics." Obama promised change, but his economic team is slavishly loyal to the interests of the financial elite who steered the financial system onto the shoals and now expect all of us to patch the hull and somehow get it back into navigable water. Yes, we have some gestures to appease the downtrodden, like restrictions on private jets and largely meaningless promises of salary caps (Lucien Bebchuk, a Harvard Law professor and expert on corporate governance, described how they do little to restrict total comp). Summers and Geithner are proteges of Robert Rubin, former Goldman co-CEO, and they are proving true to form, promoting even more borrowing in a doomed-to-fail-or-be-counterproductive effort to achieve status quo ante, the very conditions that lead to this shipwreck. Paul Volcker, who is enough of an old-fashioned banker that he might have been able to exert a moderating influence, appears to have been marginalized.
Obama's team of zombies
Even under the new president, Washington is the same one-party town it always has been -- controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, but by thieves.
By David Sirota
Feb. 7, 2009 | Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes men running the government, we were getting a president who would follow Abraham Lincolns lead, fill his administration with varying viewpoints, and glean empirically sound policy from the clash of ideas. Little did we know that "team of rivals" was what George Orwell calls "newspeak": an empty slogan "claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts."
Obama's national security team, for instance, includes not a single Iraq war opponent. The president has not only retained George W. Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, but also 150 other Bush Pentagon appointees. The only "rivalry" is between those who back increasing the already bloated defense budget by an absurd amount and those who aim to boost it by a ludicrous amount.
Of course, that lockstep uniformity pales in comparison to the White House's economic team -- a squad of corporate lackeys disguised as public servants.
Obama's team of zombies
Even under the new president, Washington is the same one-party town it always has been -- controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, but by thieves.
By David Sirota
Feb. 7, 2009 | Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes men running the government, we were getting a president who would follow Abraham Lincolns lead, fill his administration with varying viewpoints, and glean empirically sound policy from the clash of ideas. Little did we know that "team of rivals" was what George Orwell calls "newspeak": an empty slogan "claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts."
Obama's national security team, for instance, includes not a single Iraq war opponent. The president has not only retained George W. Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, but also 150 other Bush Pentagon appointees. The only "rivalry" is between those who back increasing the already bloated defense budget by an absurd amount and those who aim to boost it by a ludicrous amount.
Of course, that lockstep uniformity pales in comparison to the White House's economic team -- a squad of corporate lackeys disguised as public servants.
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year, according to new International Monetary Fund figures that expose the staggering depth of the global financial crisis. ...
RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
Damm did Conjure get an early peak at this data or something, bucause it sure confirms the global depression clock. Holy SHIT, thats bad. I dont know how good the Austrailian is as a news source, anyone from down under fill us in on that. I hope it is a down under version of the Onion or something. This is very serious and CR if you are on, worthy of a new thread.
Apparently Paul Volcker and Larry Summers are already not seeing eye-to-eye on economic issues in the Obama administration. Given the choice between the two, I'd take Volcker, so this is not good news. After all, given enough provocation the blunt and impatient 81-year-old Volcker is likely to call it quits and go fly-fishing.
"WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year..."
As Conjure said, "The coming revolution won't be catered, so bring your own food, tumbrels and pitchforks." mp | 02.07.09 - 9:17 pm | #
We're on it! Got onions sprouting on the kitchen table now. 2 beef steers and a laying flock, neighbors with wheat and guns, and plenty of pitchforks too.
If I Post Here Now
Will I Get First Post Today
Only CR Knows
NeeeeeMoooooe!
Haikus for the dead
Banks falling on all sides
But it still goes on.
How about some haiku when/if the bond market tanks?
When the vault is empty
Does the combination matter?
Leave it open
[17 syllables]
DC whores for money and votes
We haiku
The pols say Fukku
Will they write one when the Federal Reserve fails?
Why rush to the end?
Eventually we will get there
Just enjoy the ride.
"Senryū (川柳?, literally 'river willow') is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer "on" (not syllables) in total. However, senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are more serious."
-- wikipedia
ightfall, seven eight nine
zero, follows one, is change
roll the digit
Nostrovia,
HUD’s Donovan Says U.S. to ‘Accelerate’ Mortgage Modification
HUD’s Donovan Says U.S. to ‘Accelerate’ Mortgage Modification - Bloomberg.com
The administration of President Barack Obama plans to use tens of billions of dollars from its Troubled Asset Relief Program to “accelerate dramatically modification of mortgages” to limit foreclosures, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said during an interview on CNN.
“We will have a comprehensive, aggressive plan to limit foreclosures announced in coming weeks,” the Housing and Urban Development secretary said on CNN.
Man! What's hattnin'
You know Rubin and Summers
Had too much Kool Aid!!!!!!!!!
fiat currency
fractal reserve leverage
inevitable
I never really
got the point of these Haiku.
I can haz bailout?
Banks weak as old trees
Winters breeze blows them over
Rotten roots don't help
PS...I see you all counting with your fingers.
aluminum hat
resists corrosion from rain
better than tin foil
"PS...I see you all counting with your fingers."
Money, credit,
Slips of paper, peanuts -
You gotta count with something.
[17 syllables]
Sheila Bair descends
must feed infernal machine
Soylent Green is banks
count, count! Count, count! Count man!
atoms, pressure, entropy
dust doth care nought
Nostrovia,
Big Bad Bank
Cant value toxic assets
very bad idea
thieving banker scum
make political donations
the taxpayers bleed
Another example of American stupidity. And they want to be rescued from their stupidity. What is the right thing to do? Bail them out or let them freeze?
CNN) -- One person died Saturday in connection with the rescue of hundreds of people cast adrift on an ice floe in Lake Erie, a Coast Guard official involved in the effort said.
People were stuck when an 8-mile-long chunk of Lake Erie ice broke away near Toledo, Ohio. Chief Petty Officer Robert Lanier confirmed that one person had died. No other details were available. He said the rescue operation was still under way.
A snowmobiler was injured when he fell into the ice while attempting to cross it, CNN affiliate WTOL reported, citing the sheriff's office. He reportedly was being taken to a hospital. The ice floe, 8 miles long, was created when a piece of ice broke off from land near Locust Point, Ohio, east of Toledo, Lanier said. At least 100 and as many as 500 people were stranded, authorities said.
Do unto others...
to hauki I must
immortality via tubes
the gauntlet laid dow
weekly bank closings
almost as disturbing as
broward's leather pants
National American
deposits, mortgages
belong to us all
Trust Larry Summers
He one smart mother----er
Brings his own Kool Aid
When you must destroy
Economy overnight
Call Larry Summers
Another bank fails
It happens every Friday
Georgia on my mind.
Larry Summers and
Barro and old uncle Milt
Kool Aid to the hilt!!!!!
Georgia on my mind,
Zimbabwe in my sight...
que sera sera
what ever will be will be
the future is black
Uncle Miltie say
"we don't need regulation"
He destroy natio
the oil moonshoot
was foretold
forewarned the end
.
Banking, Media and Academia,
FED Mishpuka
betimes the coup de grâce
.
I like the post CR & Soylent....
Good stuff....
..........
Geithner gambling
Attacking the wrong problem
Bankruptcy awaits
Dying banks, big lies
Cry, the beloved country
Leaders much too dumb!
.
Leaders dumb,
yet good-willed?
Neither nor
.
slowest thread ever
is it just saturday, or
no love for haiku?
Banksters indeed for some
America been dumb
Harakiri now
Born and bred dopes don't know how to create haiku's
born and bread
dopes amongst us
dopes all around
For the love of God
Please, and I mean pretty please
Save me from this thread.
A good bank haiku
All assets are triple-A
Ignore the next lines
This haiku, like the bank it describes, fails to meet formal requirements once all of the SIVs, conduits, CDSs, CDOs, CDOs-squared, and miscellaneous tier III assets are taken into account.
economy in shambles
barack to the rescue
politico says nay
jas jain, an abrasive scold
crooks and dopes! he screams
but our ears are shut
Geithner on Monday
Will save us from implosion?
Another pipe dream
he hectors C R
with bilious invective
stfu jas
From the haikus here
It is obvious that some
Can't count syllables
tehachapi snow
high mountain peak frames peak debt
treasury puts wi
Tough choices ahead
Stimulus an easy dodge
Volker on the bench
eye scries, ash so phoenix
life, moisture, waves the mirage
lies wind swept bones
Nostrovia,
To make a haiku
Remember the formula
It's Five Seven Five
Okay, I give up. You all crack me up. Literary day on CR.
Spin poetry from money?
Poor Rumplestilskin
would be scandalized.
Help vested interests
Failure is not an option
Taxpayer revolt
Congress Is Divided Over Competing Stimulus Bills
COMPETING BILLS ON THE STIMULUS DIVIDE CONGRESS - NY Times
WASHINGTON The Senate agreement on a roughly $827 billion economic stimulus bill sets up tough negotiations with the House primarily over tens of billions of dollars in aid to states and local governments, tax provisions, and education, health and renewable energy programs.
Billions here more mistakes
Eat the cake and have it too
Terminal now
Listen on Monday -
You will be so astonished
Nothing will be the same
load tubes three and four.
torpedo in the water.
down goes frazier
Stimpack cash solves nothing!
winter of our discontent,
empty pocket spring.
Monday comes and goes
New boss same as the old one
Zombie government
rhythmic meter? not now
measure broken, rule is short
now count me down
Nostrovia,
debt the destroyer
his come to collect his due
wolf at ev'ry door
O, Floridians!
you elected two Bushes
now reap the whirlwind
Florida's Crossroads of Foreclosure and Despair - NY Times
.
CR looks to past
Finds: "no future, no future!"
permabear foresight.
.
Leather pants which give
Calculated Risk a fit
They cling warm and soft
CR veterans
Lamenting worthless comments
An excess of noobs
Fed and Treasury persist
Futile to resist
Dumb and dumber lead
.
Winter sunlight dims--
as future prospects fail, we
hoard guns and ammo.
.
bad haiku makes for
highly entertaining thread?
lobotomize me
.
Stupid Congressfolk!
all bad money must wash out
as Spring heals Winter.
.
Lordy be, I do love cr.
alternatively:
bad haiku and yet
I am highly entertained?
lobotomy now.
lobotomize me
he writes with feigned annoyance
the rest of us drink
Oh well, I guess
At least we're not all drunk
and driving around.
once upon a time
a poster named lawyerliz
threatened to spank me
Haiku based on "on"
No Romanization here
Outsider w'kis not
I did not.
Did I?
.
Carping does no good.
If we are all doomed, why hate?
At least be civil.
.
Just like the old days
Saturday poem blogging
On topic for once
othing b. mcghee
shiny new fallow vacant
bandos must be free
(for you O
)
Nostrovia,
drunk driving is bad
much worse while typing haiku
on your blackberry!
Billions more to give
America is so rich
Why are people poor
long ago liz, long ago. (you did!)
see you guys in a couple of weeks.
Stairway to Freebird?
It seems so very cold now
The hook up my ass.
bank with me you fool
i will multiply your money
tenfold till it vanishes
Haiku on CR
Draw lurkers from the ether
Alas, I am one.
.
Frozen real estate
Can find no bottom this year--
we are all bears now.
.
Misean--bones poem very t. s. elliot.
The stimulus will fail
Good money thrown after bad
We all fall dow
government back off!
we'll drown you in a bathtub!
full of dollar debt!
.
Five syllables, then
Seven syllables more; end
with five syllables.
.
I can't write haiku
About the bad bank bailouts
Without lots of laughs.
floggin my bloggin
anonymous handle I
Korean jail cell
.
Haiku instructor
Sets himself up as target
Old timers: "STFU!"
.
Dollars pass between
Bankers hands repeatedly
Until they are gone
boil a kettle
dollar soup is delicious
high fiber content
.
Haiku form flows
like money from Congresscritters!
(We change the rules, fuck you.)
.
Everyone is broke
The old system has collapsed.
We are so screwed.
Idiots created mess
Same idiots are delegated to clean
You see the problem?
haloscan comment
87328 plus one
a soylent drumbeat
.
I've read your comments
Scone, many times before, so
Eat a bag of dicks !
.
.
Bankers plead to us
for our tax money, greedy
pigs to the trough, die!
.
There once was a great blog called cr
Where haiku ranked up there so near- art.
We all wrote haiku
Who coulda have knew?
That finances could be so poetry- ear'd smart.
.
Do you recall when
Daily Bail used to post spam?
CR Companion.
.
.
haiku instructor
collects dicks? Obviously
has none of his own.
.
it can be contained
mere recession of the mind
buy a bigger head
what rough beast, it's hour
come round at at last, slouches
to its D.C. birth
(Apologies to W.B. Yeats- is hour 1 syllable or 2?)
Difficult to remain
calm and non-partisan
when your ox is gored
2, but who is counting.
Now insulting in haiku form--that's really cool.
There once was a blog called CR
If you read it, you sure will go far
You'll learn to be thrifty
Your portfolio - so nifty!
Your cash buried out back in a jar.
USD is good
Has very many uses
Two ply feels nice now
I am in New York
Drinking Beekman Hotel top
26th Floor
Cap and checked scarf
Aroma of cloves perforce
Until midnight, plot.
C
metaphor weapon
bankers' toxic assets spilled
talk of containment
haloscan testing
drives our posting all crazy
when will it be fix'd?
what rough beast, it's hour
come round at at last, slouches
to its D.C. birth
bobn | Homepage | 02.07.09 - 7:13 pm | #
Yechh - plagiarism AND can't count!
.
Stagflation, maybe
Or, staggering depression?
Pundits have no clue.
.
New York crew monsters
Come have an ale or cocktail
Someone tell Setser.
c
Evil banks implode
After gorging on bad debt
CR crowd goes wild
Wall street slimeballs give
New economic models
We are all so skewed
All bubbles bursting
Fruits of labor can't be stored
But still we can laugh
our future's so bright
second half recovery
right around the bend
Banksters preach responsibility
But they don't practise their preachings
Banksters are hypocrites
what the hell
is this a CR thread?
blog does shrivel
quantitative crap
garbage in and garbage out
so much for the schooled
system is insolvent
Nobody has any credibility left
What is the next move?
.
There once was a guy named CR
who saw all this from afar,
said, "markets are tanking"
and then: "so is banking,"
and last: "they can't sell a car."
.
A horse walks into
a bar and the bartender
says, Why the long face?
writing CR Haiku
very small consolation
we should all get stewed.
CRBOT
Killing threads since the Greater Depression.
Reading to much Yeats
Behold "The Second Coming"
Rough Beasts ev'rywhere
World crashes down
Despite our dire warnings
Have another Scotch
Masters of universe
Now beg for public bailout
Irony meter is broke
It appears to me
I picked the wrong century
to quit huffing glue
ponzi schemes multiply
with the best of intentions
to get rich immediate
quant's rainbow glistens
bathed in sunlights golden hue
end ends in morrow
Nostrovia,
With so much bad debt
we shot ourselves in the foot.
Why did we do that?
.
Counterpointer, drink!
A virtual round for us,
commiserating.
.
advice: have more scotch
broke open the piggy bank
just to buy Night Trai
broke open the piggy bank
just to buy Night Train
non-TARP haiku | 02.07.09 - 7:36 pm | #
Oh, the horror!
main street did us in
unparalleled mortgage fraud
they said, buy! good stuff!
Here's to me, and here's to you,
And here's to love and laughter-
I'll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Lordy be, I do love cr.
lawyerliz | 02.07.09 - 6:37 pm | #
lawyerliz avers
"God help me, I love it so"
The George Patton quote
Georgia on my mind,
Zimbabwe in my sight...
Broker
That made me blow chunks!!
Privatize the gains
Socialize the loss, everytime
Why are people mad?
There once was a man named Prince
Who seemed completely convinced
that he could keep dancing
swaying and prancing
Until liquidity flinched.
I've only got toasts and dirty limericks to contribute, the twin pinnacles of poetry
there was a central banker from nantucket
who liked to hand out money in buckets
but the ceo's, they lied
and the ponies, they died
so he climbed in his 'copter and said "f**k it"
please stop and rethink
only bANK fAIULRE says DRINK !!
I read it all day.
.
Bankers have no cash
Congress rushes in to help--
children must pay back?
.
Our kids yell at us.
I hate it when that happens.
What are we to do?
I promise I'll only do the one, to keep things respectable
There once was a hooker named Sue,
Who filled her vagina with glue.
When they paid to get in,
She said with a grin,
You must pay to get out of it too!
Somehow it feels like a good metaphor for too big to fail banks
Ben won't repeat mistakes
He will make new ones this time
We are so f**ked
American Dopes
American Crooks Love Them
Match Made In Hell
thunder whirls horizen
chase the sun heaven's faster
rain and mud and blood
Nostrovia,
Commonsense abates,
The doomsters and gloomsters wait
birds home in '08
Banking haikus? Silly.
Seems a juvenile pastime.
Distracts us from fear.
.
Like Whitney Houston,
I'm saving all my love for
Conjure and mp.
.
It must be the time
For a Cohiba's warm smoke
Smooth belly fire scotch
@EvilHenryPaulson | 02.07.09 - 7:40 pm
toasts and limericks
wan conceits of the sober
open a bottle
.
Real estate always
goes up, invest now, they said--
banksters lied to us.
.
There once was an old man named Hank
Whose financial ability stank
He went to the Hill
He went for the kill
And laughed all the way to the bank.
Some Call A Bottom
Others Say No More Bottom
None Of It Matters
Mandate of Heaven
Lost to bankers' perfidy
Watch sh!t and blood fly
Comrade Misean
Are you not in Great Apple?
Step out, in, imbibe.
C
.
Scotch, wine, Night Train, beer
wash out all the bad money
or let us forget!
.
O/T
Madoff Client: Mrs Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman
Here is a pic of Wendy's house ( click thru to see the pdf):
"Mrs Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman" - Google Search
Latest Bloomberg News
Says the vote 'early next week'
They don't have the votes
.
I took a cheap shot
At scone; regret it was not
Morocco Bama
.
comisserating
"we got to get proles' pensions"
the only way out
.
Ultrarich die too,
Vanderbilt money's no good
Reaper can't be bribed.
.
Concentrate the mind.
Be the change you want to see.
Let nothing stop you.
Ah, no my friend, C
the apple's at the other sea
enjoy one for me
Nostrovia,
Hear that in D.C.
the non-stop frantic wanking
our kleptocracy
Stimulus they say?
Depression laughs in their face!
Stock essentials now.
Shelia Byars, 47, a hearing officer at the DMV office in Van Nuys, said she would lose $200 in pay on Friday and about $400 a month. She was among about a dozen union members who protested under drizzling skies outside the downtown Los Angeles DMV office.
"It feels like we're being punished because we chose a career in state government," she said.
Byars said it didn't make sense to close DMV offices because they collect revenue for the state through licenses and registration fees.
re: CRE
Just wait for all the strong businesses that happen to sublease to a tenant whose business is closing.
Much faster feedback
.
Evil Henry, please
enlighten me, O master
I can haz ponies?
.
Falling Revenue
Deficit Stimulating
Long term Plan, Madoff
Obama Nation
Change we can believe in, now
looking for loose change
Fun for the children
recycling hits apogee
Soylent Putty is Bankers!
Stimulate this!, you
kleptocrat politicians
please go home and die.
laymenz resourceful
decoupling myth of stone
all yer home are uz.
.
Breaking finance news,
Graph pron, bank failure Fridays:
You read it here first
TARPs, Pigs, TED spread and
LIBOR ; these are a few of
my favorite things
Do you remember
Reading the Times? Me either.
Calculated Risk
.
First Federal Bank
you better have my money
when I come collect
Comrade Mise, not know
Your differential timng
Always seem up, cool.
C
posts come so quickly
by the time I read, you move on
don't you guys have jobs?
through smoke pericles
raise the mirror at the gaze
glare stone medussa
Nostrovia,
.
A-Rod on steroids?
I am outraged! Damn Yankees!
(Whoops. Wrong comment board.)
.
haiku overdose
brain is going to leak bad
nothing to lose
California state
employees must sacrifice
for the good of all?
Waiting for data
many lonely terabytes
all out on the wire.
archaeologists
dig us out and speculate
what happened to them?
duel in the thread
haiku and some limericks
versus prose comments
Ok, off to bar
Checking around 9-ish, cos
of fundamentals.
C
Treasury retreads
Federal Reserve printing
Lead us to BK
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from all feeds the one.
unemcumbered total sum.
the one feeds the all.
Our mothers warned
If we haiku'd all night
we'd never undo our slight
.
What has happened to
my hedge fund money? It seems
he Madoff with it.
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We need a new thread
CR please rescue me now
Haiku I can not
I don't understand
Most of the haikus said here
I think you're all drunk
Congress has no brain
Fucking bankers have no heart
We are so screwed
.
Manufacturers
send their workers home, no cash!
IOUs, instead.
.
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"I bailed out the TARP
for you, and all I got was
This lousy tee-shirt."
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I agree with liz
Nerdz dancing before our doom
CR is the best
Liquidity! Calamity! Quantitative Easing! Deflationistas, bottom callers! Economic engine seizing! All these words obscure the fact the buck will take a squeezing and preserve a kind of nasty tact re: the foreclosed-upon and freezing.
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need not the choice words
a speaking mind needed cure.
shamwow cash-4-gold.
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Three weeks of the Dems,
So much for the afterglow:
Don't I get a kiss?
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BK seppuku!
"All one, exceptions none!" Hey--
hand me the bottle...
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whisk the risk oh wisp
wager chicane with guile
mired in the muck
Nostrovia,
.
Saturday haiku
Addictive as drink, CR!
New thread, I beg you!
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Bottom, bottom..
Wherefor art thou, market bottom.
The depths beckon.
Some say, "Tax and spend."
Others say, "Borrow and spend."
What's the difference?
Hear Hear friend scone
A poetess I am not
Where is CR Bot?
.
If not for CR,
whither glod, Car Czars, ham poops
or hoocoodanode?
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The market's alright
you bear's need a life
Fisher said lever up
Many a bottom
were called unjustly high
misery again, new low
George Washington says,
"This note is legal tender."
Signed, Henry Paulson.
eighty two the few
listening angilry Joo?
smoke dope and relax.
haiku thread immortal
joins the gods in holy praise
but Obama not hear
stick this in your haiku and smoke it
How Bad Is It? - Swampland - TIME.com
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Comrade Kristina,
Good luck with your re-fi, hope
your wishes come true!
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There once was a gal so productive
till she found the CR blog seductive
Now she spends all her time
On CR making rhyme
Instead of doing something constructive
in shadows they hide
game over man! game over
nuke 'em from orbit
Nostrovia,
Much talk of bottoms
I've never seen anywhere else
this blog is anal?
Hey there Tennis_8!
Good to hear from you again.
You are still so wrong.
Who knew eco-junkies
Held poet hearts in their souls
lnspired by SG?
Soylent Green is People
Clever mind, clever fingers
Thanks for your haiku.
McConnell and Boehner
Luvs them some Herbert Hoover
Starving children good
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"Now is a great time
to buy, sell, rent, or burn down
A home" - NAR
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Seventy-seven
Visitors online, I see
Fans here hate haiku?
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Rebubs play Nero
Obstructionism rides again
The economy burns
The most significant development in my view is this:
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year, according to new International Monetary Fund figures that expose the staggering depth of the global financial crisis. ...
"Now is a great time
to buy, sell, rent, or burn down
A home" - NAR
The broken window
Wont benefit GDP
So why not arson?
misean knows
alter-alter multiple ego
team is not team-me
..........
beers, amigos await
still i stopped in
thanks beary much
..........
Spend only a thin dime,
or spend a trillion dollars.
Economy still burns.
The difference is...
The first option is akin
to gas on the fire.
.
International
demand destruction. Pundits
agree, SHTF.
is the I M F
global bailout banking czar
lender last resort
...Whereas the second
is fuel-air explosive
with unknown timing.
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year
RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
But the same article says: "The advanced countries are expected to produce 2 per cent less this year than last year, with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." - How does that correlate?
Gary won the thread
If I see Browards leather
Must claw eyeballs out
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Thoughts worth a penny,
TARP needs many trillion
thoughts to get paid back.
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Gold standard, come back!
Stabilizing influence,
inflation fighter!
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Now is a great time
to listen to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_lxJdV-2Kk&feature=PlayList&p=0AD1B01D508D1069&index=25&playnext=12&playnext_from=PL'> thread music.
I hope you enjoy
RE,
That is synchronized decoupling and not in a good way. Closed loop is much better than open loop
Qué sera, sera
Cali State Worker
We Are Here For A Good Time
And Not A Long Time
How does that correlate?
bobn | Homepage | 02.07.09 - 8:41 pm | #
Apparently that river "denial" runs wide and deep.
But the same article says: "The advanced countries are expected to produce 2 per cent less this year than last year, with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." - How does that correlate?
bobn | Homepage | 02.07.09 - 8:41 pm | #
Why would you expect them to correlate? There's no fixed relationship between foreign trade and GDP.
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Haiku 2.0
We need a Limerick Czar!
What rhymes with bucket?
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bobn
Growing govt size
We can't import a reliable one yet
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Workers of the world,
unite! Communism's call
seems so antique now.
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The Latest from Mish:
Website Allows Job Seekers To Bid On Low Pay
Time to change my rating there, ac.
arnold says play
three day weekends in vogue
cali is frazier
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year
RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
OK, guess I quoted too much: "with world trade volumes to drop by 2.8 per cent." Now how does that work? All the drop already happened? Volume vs.Dollars? What?
Wall Street 1(may be more), Obama 0
Obama's team of zombies
Now thats wage deflation!
and if I know so
smoke wreathed and darkness lingers
hidden yet exposed
Nostrovia,
California
Are they using IOUs
Or is that over
Given the current quandrary
Republican are so contrary
tax-breaks for the rich
ain't life a bitch
Makes me so incendiary
.
Crisis upon us!
no Mad Max scenarios--
they disturb the noobs.
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Well, I've been writing haiku a lot longer than most people here.
cross canadian
bang my head against the wall.
I dont really care.
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daba girls hunt for
bankster "Mr. Right"... oh no!
breast implants repo'd!
.
our cellar is full
federales have no clue
spam, ammo and fuel
breast implants repo'd!
scone | 02.07.09 - 8:56 pm | #
LOL! That's gotta hurt!
David Sirota at Salon gives a concise, brutal assessment of Obama's economic team and its priorities.
We've now had two bait and switch Presidents in succession. Bush promised "compassionate conservatism" and dragged the country far to the right, enriching those at the top of the food chain and leaving everyone else with the empty promise of "trickle down economics." Obama promised change, but his economic team is slavishly loyal to the interests of the financial elite who steered the financial system onto the shoals and now expect all of us to patch the hull and somehow get it back into navigable water. Yes, we have some gestures to appease the downtrodden, like restrictions on private jets and largely meaningless promises of salary caps (Lucien Bebchuk, a Harvard Law professor and expert on corporate governance, described how they do little to restrict total comp). Summers and Geithner are proteges of Robert Rubin, former Goldman co-CEO, and they are proving true to form, promoting even more borrowing in a doomed-to-fail-or-be-counterproductive effort to achieve status quo ante, the very conditions that lead to this shipwreck. Paul Volcker, who is enough of an old-fashioned banker that he might have been able to exert a moderating influence, appears to have been marginalized.
David Sirota: "Obama’s Team of Zombies" (Updated: Frank Rich on Geithner) « naked capitalism
Obama's team of zombies
Even under the new president, Washington is the same one-party town it always has been -- controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, but by thieves.
By David Sirota
Feb. 7, 2009 | Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes men running the government, we were getting a president who would follow Abraham Lincolns lead, fill his administration with varying viewpoints, and glean empirically sound policy from the clash of ideas. Little did we know that "team of rivals" was what George Orwell calls "newspeak": an empty slogan "claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts."
Obama's national security team, for instance, includes not a single Iraq war opponent. The president has not only retained George W. Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, but also 150 other Bush Pentagon appointees. The only "rivalry" is between those who back increasing the already bloated defense budget by an absurd amount and those who aim to boost it by a ludicrous amount.
Of course, that lockstep uniformity pales in comparison to the White House's economic team -- a squad of corporate lackeys disguised as public servants.
://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/07/sirota/index.html
Obama's team of zombies
Even under the new president, Washington is the same one-party town it always has been -- controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, but by thieves.
By David Sirota
Feb. 7, 2009 | Only weeks ago, the political world was buzzing about a "team of rivals." America was told that finally, after years of yes men running the government, we were getting a president who would follow Abraham Lincolns lead, fill his administration with varying viewpoints, and glean empirically sound policy from the clash of ideas. Little did we know that "team of rivals" was what George Orwell calls "newspeak": an empty slogan "claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts."
Obama's national security team, for instance, includes not a single Iraq war opponent. The president has not only retained George W. Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, but also 150 other Bush Pentagon appointees. The only "rivalry" is between those who back increasing the already bloated defense budget by an absurd amount and those who aim to boost it by a ludicrous amount.
Of course, that lockstep uniformity pales in comparison to the White House's economic team -- a squad of corporate lackeys disguised as public servants.
Salon News - Salon.com sirota/index.html
dying for yer sins.
no more washington DC
make me understand?
Correct link-
Obama's team of zombies
The (R)'s have one card
in the hand they have been dealt-
Obstructionism!
Monday Geithner speaks
His words will leave our money
Doomed to worthlessness
--Samdog-sa
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Later, boys and girls,
It's my turn to cook: lamb chops!
life can still be good.
.
I gag as I read
Haiku, it is so foreign
No country music
WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year, according to new International Monetary Fund figures that expose the staggering depth of the global financial crisis. ...
RE | 02.07.09 - 8:35 pm | #
Damm did Conjure get an early peak at this data or something, bucause it sure confirms the global depression clock. Holy SHIT, thats bad. I dont know how good the Austrailian is as a news source, anyone from down under fill us in on that. I hope it is a down under version of the Onion or something. This is very serious and CR if you are on, worthy of a new thread.
Reps should not obstruct;
If Dems want to hang themselves,
Let them have their rope.
country blugrass
sweet blackberry wine is fine
pontretrai
Our pony laughs
As I explain 15 thousand
Bad pony, I'm sad.
The poor little lambs
they've been bred for the slaughter
not unlike sheeple
Volcker Thinking of Going Fly-Fishing?
Apparently Paul Volcker and Larry Summers are already not seeing eye-to-eye on economic issues in the Obama administration. Given the choice between the two, I'd take Volcker, so this is not good news. After all, given enough provocation the blunt and impatient 81-year-old Volcker is likely to call it quits and go fly-fishing.
Paul Kedrosky: Volcker Thinking of Going Fly-Fishing?
Will Werner write now?
Or Jas sing a happy song?
Doubtful, they're asses
Global trade crashes bad
We all must watch our HD TV
Nothing on, so sad.
my my hey hey
rockin roll is here to stay.
outa the blue.
into the black
never go back....
oputs the BLUE AND INTO THE BLACK!!!!!
"WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year..."
As Conjure said, "The coming revolution won't be catered, so bring your own food, tumbrels and pitchforks."
World trade contracted 60 percent between 1929 and 1932
HAI ... KU
Gesundheit !
_
naked banksters shiver
covered by flimsy TARPS
arms akimbo
World trade contracted 60 percent between 1929 and 1932
biomass 5 | 02.07.09 - 9:17 pm | #
Looks like we've got at least another 15 percent to go, then.
Ill make you a 200 dollar CD for 400 bucks.
cash4 gold.
"WORLD trade collapsed by nearly 45 per cent in annual terms in the final three months of last year..."
As Conjure said, "The coming revolution won't be catered, so bring your own food, tumbrels and pitchforks."
mp | 02.07.09 - 9:17 pm | #
We're on it!
Got onions sprouting on the kitchen table now. 2 beef steers and a laying flock, neighbors with wheat and guns, and plenty of pitchforks too.
OK, where is my CR companion Haiku filter...
trade on promises
promised fleeting vanity
broken broken lost
Nostrovia,
Any Conjre Haikus?
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I much better now
mp taking it to hard
me nobody else
ova writes:
I gag as I read
Haiku, it is so foreign
No country music
nova | 02.07.09 - 9:03 pm | #
Lol, that makes two of us. I prefer the word hi-ya-ku (means hurry up in Japanese) to the next thread.
No where to run now
Get shotgun canned food and tarp
Have government job?
misean gets me just like toles who had the cartoon of the bonghit wearing the gold medals......
financial advice is a trade, I wont accept money for it.
depression Iron Chef
just in time economy
empty-shelf cuisine
.
mp and Conjure
meditate on higher things--
Come back! We miss you!
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the NY FED is cooking another free lunch
U.S. Weighs Fed Program to Loosen Lending - WSJ.com
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MacTarnahan's beer
is Portland's best, eh vah!
Beats Moose Drool any day.
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MacTarnahan's beer
is Portland's best, eh vah!
Beats Moose Drool any day.
scone | 02.07.09 - 9:29 pm | #
Scone!
Someday we'll do an Amtrak pub crawl to Portland. Are you close?
The worst thread ever
Bar none, it sucks being here
new thread soon puh-leeze
very painful thread indeed