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The derivative holdings of the TBTF have grown 40% since the crash.
There are more than a few fuses burning out there...
Calls for icons:
Comrade Troyski wrote:
Ain't your country, missy.
The parties ARE us. We democratically elect everyone one of these mofos.
I think the Dems are largely OK. Center-right, but hey.
The Republicans are just crazy weird. Believing in talking snake weird, the whole 9 yards.
Now, I voted for Tom Campbell in 2000. He's an OK Republican I guess, but his kind don't exist any more.
Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary - NBC Politics
merchants of fear wrote:
I called him an asshole for rudely demeaning a 14 year-old girl. If you think that's "abuse", or some form of "jumping on" by "self-righteous" police", say so (again).
merchants of fear wrote:
That's abusive and evasive.
merchants of fear wrote:
Huh? I don't seek any validation. If you want to weasel out, be my guest.
This latest trend against rents, so I should be able to jump in your car, and then jump your wife without penalty?
Why should someone be able to take what they think they deserve just because they think the deserve it?
As we have been reminded owning land, developing it, maintaining it and paying taxes on it has risk. Some times you loose and historically sometimes you win often.
Outside of "kill my landlord" is this outside of your reality.
Who would want a gang of thug's moving in with Grandma just because they deserve it? Heck, even I got along with my Grandmother's enough to not want that, you all be some twisted people.
It was. Things were pretty good when I came back, in mid-2000.
Now, the Clintons had put us on some bad paths -- rising trade imbalance with China, the NAFTA stuff, complacency about the $20/bbl oil supply, failure to move the chains on health care reform.
Bush came in and doubled down on all of that, plus tons more insanity.
Graph: Total Credit Market Debt Owed by Domestic Nonfinancial Sectors (TCMDODNS)/Gross Domestic Product, 1 Decimal (GDP) - FRED - St. Louis Fed
is my favorite FRED chart. It shows something bad happening -- twice -- the what and when but not the why.
Comrade Troyski wrote:
ROFLMAO.
Why are you beating that straw man so hard?
So does robbing a bank.
Not a personal attack here, but I don't think any of the bastards are OK any more. I don't pretend that any party is representing my best interest because they have proven they are not.
I just can't pretend any more, and I'm sorry if I have to stop people and shout it out. I have been screwed blue too often to pretend I trust anyone running for office and moving their lips. Sorry.
Any every 14 year old girl I have met is always an angle?
Sorry. Not buying what your selling.
You certainly live in a paradise called New York.
Democrats/Progressives have done tons of great things over the past 100 years, plus a few screwups.
Republicans/Conservatives have done tons of shitty things over the past 100 years, plus a few good things (can't think of any, really but give me some time and I can come up with something).
Our present is the sum total of our past triumphs and cock-ups.
Our future can be changed, but it's going to take people understanding the reality of things.
I don't see us reaching that level. I think things are going to get worse as we avoid making the changes we need to make.
Kauai_Kahuna wrote:
That's irrelevant. And Dawg hadn't met the girl (that we know of).
So a mugger on the street is a straw man?
It bug's the heck out of me when TV ad's, etc say you "deserve it", ect.
When was the last time a bum on the street holding a baseball bat demanded some money from you?
Now that is an extreme risk that now day's also demands the threat of violence. Even if you own the bank your robbing, your ace card is destabilization of the system, the ultimate act of violence in a civil society.
I think I'm just missing your point, and for that I'm ignorant.
Comrade Troyski wrote:
Keep up the good fight, Comrade.
No
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Mirroring. Projection. I offered to delay discussing this.
I chose to focus on the controversial article that elicits comments.
Is HuffPost considered a Left new source?
Kauai_Kahuna wrote:
Rob Dawg replied:
You buying or selling?
I believe landlords should be able to get return for their investment in new wealth.
I don't think buying existing wealth and renting it out is a moral economic order.
Rather, it is naked parasitism.
People paying rent are largely paying for a place to live in a community, and not the actual fixed improvement.
This can be seen by comparing the depreciation suffered by the housing good itself during a one year tenancy compared to the rent paid.
Landlordism is presently transferring hundreds of billions of dollars -- maybe well over $1T, actually -- from working Americans to wealthy Americans.
It is a primary systemic imbalance we face, clearly larger than our $600B/yr trade deficit.
It is, largely, not really capitalism.
O.C. apartment rents up 4.6% in year - Lansner on Real Estate : The Orange County Register
Now that I will have a
to, and then try and get some sleep.
Hate to shoot and run, but it's been a long week, and I'm still a little touchy from Nova's passing.
merchants of fear wrote:
I don't know. Apparently you read it.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I was surprised at dawg's remarks. He was taken to task. Dawg's remarks were not appropriate in any way.
Do you still want me to call him an 'asshole'.
Let's analyze the so-called Left. That's what I want to do.
merchants of fear wrote:
No, a joke. But if you must "mirror and project" go for it.
merchants of fear wrote:
You are a free man.
merchants of fear wrote:
Now you say that. It took a while, didn't it. What happened to you last thread?
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Not that often. Must have signed up for news links in the past.
I want to prove that the Left for the most part is phoney as hell and has been captured. And so-called Lefty's can't stand any criticism usually. It's an election year. It's a worthwhile endeavor.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I decided not to jump his ass. I posted the link. Not to get dawg in trouble. That came unexpectedly.
But I got to thinking about the article after I went back and looked at it again.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I want to look into Huff Post closer and some other major media news sources... I regret posting that article...
Comrade Troyski wrote:
Let's look at media coverage and campaign finance.
What the fuck is "the Left"? Who is a "Lefty? Are you aware of what the upper case denotes in English? Maybe you should try some politicking, since you stand criticism so well.
Here in Hawaii we have a huge, I mean "really HUGE" off books homeless population, living in tents in a friends backyard, couch surfing, on the beach, etc.
At the same time, my brother is still paying $200 a month to rent a room in a "common house", a friend is paying $400 for a studio.
These prices the "shadow homeless" would kill for. There is no rent control control, they just have good landlords. Any change and my brother would be living with me, and my friend would be living next to a stream and a former homeless person would be in his studio. So you pick the winners and losers. Does the market? Or some all knowing state agency?
What is the difference between them and you and I?
Luck, good fortune, hard work, or just being stubborn?
I really don't pretend to have answers, but I do know I spent many years of my life busting my butt to be where I am, while they where smoking and joking catching the waves.
But you attacked those who called him out.
Neither, you have made your case, I'm just asking for that and no F.... bombs.
And I have noticed a massive shift in your position, take it for it's worth but I thank you for that, really I am starting to read more of what you writ.
I'll be disappointed if this doesn't get a red hat.
Sherman's Lagoon Comic Strip -- 7/2/12
You too are a free man.
US 10y 1.58
Spanish 10y 6.83. Looks to be testing the limits of tolerance.
Not yet, I don't think I will ever be able to escape the system.
I am blessed to be able to have my own mind, and attempt some form of free thinking but I don't think I will ever be there unless I'm a "cast-a-way" for many years.
I am under no illusions that it would be a good life; so I remain captured in a cage that was built for me, and I stay in becuase the real life is really bad.
I have been there and don't want to go back.
It’s Official: AOL Now Owns The Huffington Post; Announces New Hires — paidContent
Oprah Winfrey Gets OWN Section of Huffington Post | The Wrap Media
New York, NY and Los Angeles, Calif. - The Huffington Post Media Group, a leading source of news, opinion, entertainment, community and digital information and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today the launch of an Oprah Winfrey section on Huffingtonpost.com coming August 2012. The announcement was made by Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, and Erik Logan and Sheri Salata, presidents, OWN.
The Huffington Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celebrities are allowed to post blogs on the site, and a number have opted to do so over the years. In many cases, such as that of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, content is cross-posted among multiple sites.[35]
On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for US$315 million. As part of the deal Arianna Huffington became president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, including The Huffington Post and existing AOL properties Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater, AOL Music, AOL Latino (now HuffPost Voces), AutoBlog, Patch, and StyleList.[11]
Labor disputes
In February 2011, Visual Art Source, which had previously been cross-posting material from its website, went on strike against The Huffington Post.[48]
Since March 2011, the strike and the call to boycott The Huffington Post was joined and endorsed by the Huffington Post Union of Bloggers and Writers (HPUB), the National Writers Union (NWU) and the Newspaper Guild (TNG)[49]
In April 2011, The Huffington Post was targeted with a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in United States District Court in New York by Jonathan Tasini on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers.[50] The suit was dismissed with prejudice on March 30, 2012 by the court, holding that the bloggers had volunteered their services, their compensation being publication.[51]
This is news to you? Maybe that's the problem.
My congratulations to Ms. Huffington, Never read the site but she made something that greater fools were willing to pay big bucks for.
So I wonder what was the Duke's handle in the celebrity gossip section.
Vegg time,
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I explained why I get trigger happy sometimes. The self righteous label I can now see will really anger those who hate organized religion (and even spirituality) especially christian religions here which are attacked repeatedly especially Catholicism it seems... and folks here don't want to be labeled religious nuts or the 'self-righteous'... as they, the self-righteous', are considered especially despicable by some religion haters here who agree with Karl Marx and would probably support a ban on religion.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I don't think there's such a thing as one problem. But guess you didn't know either as you don't follow Huff I thought.
merchants of fear wrote:
Now you're babbling again. I don't hate organized religion and Marx wouldn't support a ban on it that I'm aware of. That's not why I object to your label: "self-righteous blog police". Try again.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I thought there were threats to our Constitutional rights?
merchants of fear wrote:
You guess wrong. Go look it up if you doubt it. It was discussed at length on this forum. It was a widely-reported piece of news given the number, and the perceived influence of the blog.
There are, and always will be.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I wasn't just speaking about you. This is bigger than you or me. Some might hate the label self righteous because they hate the self righteous religious hypocrites. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of all these f-bombs and strong feelings about many comments made here. It's a so-called partisan battle and it's seems like religious prejudice or profiling also at work here continually day after day, year after year... more than I have seen on other 'finance' blogs...
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Haven't seen discussion about Huff lately... the business is growing...
"Self-righteous" is ordinarily used in the pejorative. It certainly appeared so above. Did you mean "police" literally? Because the real police take real police action. Your comment was reminiscent of the bogus right-wing overreaction to "political correctness", which was a bugaboo.
Goldman Sachs Faces $387 Million Lawsuit, Telegraph Says - Bloomberg
That used to sound like real money.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Policing was not meant literally with squad cars and all... maybe regulate and keep order which would be propriety or appropriateness... This may be the more interesting thing to look at from that article...
PIP breast implants pose no long-term health threat, say experts | World news | guardian.co.uk
Substandard silicone gel will not damage cells or cause genetic mutation, medical team concludes after implant tests...
Last month, a separate review led by the health minister Lord Howe said the UK regulator the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority needed to improve in order to better identify problems early and communicate with the public. He put the blame for the health scare on the "deliberate fraud" of the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothèse. Its owner is in prison awaiting trial.
FDA approves 3rd silicone breast implant - Health - Women's health - msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new silicone-gel breast implant from Sientra, making it the third company to market the controversial products in the U.S.
Women's Health Advocates Question FDA about Missing Saftey Data on Breast Implants in SILICONE/SALINE IMPLANT LIBRARY Forum
WASHINGTON — Consumer safety advocates are questioning the Food and Drug Administration about seemingly incomplete and erroneous data used to affirm the safety of silicone breast implants last year.
The FDA concluded last summer that the silicone-gel implants are basically safe as long as women understand they come with complications. More than one in five women who get implants for breast enhancement will need to have them replaced within five years, the agency’s report concluded.
merchants of fear wrote:
Yeah, I know. That was my point. You used it sarcastically or ironically which leads the reader to believe "self-righteous" is pejorative. You need to pay attention to who has the power to do what.
Ok.
So as one of the articles about breast augmentation point out:
Breast implants are known to rupture and break down over time.
So what are the health risks to women with breast implants?
Then this question:
National Research Center for Women and Families says the FDA did not present information that showed women reported lower emotional, mental and physical well-being after implantation. Additionally, the group questions why figures presented by the FDA appear to show implant complications declining over time. The implants are known to fail over time.
Should we talk about this or talk about dawg?
From the FDA approves 3rd silicone-gel breast implant article, 3/9/2012...
The most recent data from Allergan and J&J confirm that the devices are prone to rupture and often need to be replaced.
More than one in five women who get implants for breast enhancement will need to have them replaced within five years, accord to an FDA analysis of company data released last summer. Despite that relatively high failure rate, FDA regulators concluded that the silicone-gel implants are basically safe as long as women understand they come with complications. Similar problems are connected with saline-filled versions of breast implants, which are less popular.
Guarantees repeat business...
Why would I engage you in discussion if you hit and run?
Kauai_Kahuna wrote:
KK, my memory's not perfect on the subject by any means, but I think you have to include Paul Rubin and Phil Gramm in most any account. I, at least, have no recollection of the Gramm-Leach-Billey act as having been proposed or introduced or lobbied by Clinton or his administration.
It's become an article of faith for many here that it's his. I just don't understand how he gets it solo.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
I'm still here... maybe Huff runs stories about the dangers of breast implants...
So are you and dawg still enemies... is it the partisanship divide?
Dr. Nalini Chilkov: 25 Reasons Not to Get Breast Implants
Last week the FDA reported that breast implants put women's lives in danger. The big news last week was that a small number of women can get a very rare type of cancer (ALCL: anaplastic large cell lymphoma). It confirmed that death is a possible side effect of breast implants.
But what no one is talking about are all the other more frequent, more common and very real dangers and problems that go along with breast implants. Does the FDA really believe that if we don't kill too many women it's acceptable to disfigure them and compromise women's health in other less lethal ways?
HuffPost article.
Good comment too right under the article from a reader:
It is an unnecessary risk for teenagers and those simply wanting to look like they think they should look according to the media.
More comments from a doctor below that... that the info in the article is fear mongering and inflammatory.
burnside wrote:
He signed it, after having been lobbied extensively. He was a centrist who bought into the deregulation hogwash, because it sounded good at the time.
merchants of fear wrote:
Who cares? Stick to substance. Anyone who made the above comment would have gotten the same response from me.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Do you think young girls should get breast augmentation with breast implants and with the encouragement from their mothers? Did you look at the photo of the young girl in the Huff piece?
Kate Middleton Baby Bump Pictures? Duchess Sure To Set Off Rumors In Scotland (PHOTOS)
Just this month, In Touch claimed to have spotted a pregnancy indication on Kate's frame...
Check out the pics below! Not that we're ones to hunch over photos with a magnifying glass. But still.
HuffingtonPost, 07/05/2012
Let's check the comments out and see if anything inappropriate is said.
No. Yes, I clicked dawg's link. The article appears to be fluff. Whether they should be allowed on minors is a different question.
merchants of fear wrote:
Have a blast. Is she 14?
Here's the original trashy UK article the HuffPost piece was based on...
Britney Marshall: Meet the 14-year-old who unlike her mother and sisters is refusing to have breast implants | Mail Online
Looks like 406 comments here... should we check them out...
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
No she's some kind of duchess. Just clicked the link. This kind of 'journalism' is huge.
This finance stuff can't compete.
merchants of fear wrote:
Yeah that's not mutually exclusive. By the way, NatGeo and the History Channel also appear to be garbage now that News Corp owns them.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Figures. The history channel has hypnotic sounding narration. I have a (non-blood) relative who has this crap on 24 hours a day.
This HuffPost crap and the UK trash article just locked up my computer and I had a hell of a time deleting this crap...
Finland's Finance minister now says Finland may exit the Euro rather than pay the debts of fellow members...
Debt crisis: Finland warns of euro exit - Telegraph
fried wrote:
Stage Left Heavens to Murgatroyd
China heads for a hard landing – Telegraph Blogs
German Industrial Production Increased More Than Forecast in May - Bloomberg
German industrial output rebounded more than economists forecast in May as construction buttressed Europe’s largest economy against the sovereign debt crisis.
Production rose 1.6 percent from April, when it dropped 2.1 percent, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said today. Economists forecast an increase of 0.2 percent, the median of 36 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey shows. Production was unchanged from a year earlier when adjusted for working days.
Morning
Yield on Spain 10-year bond spikes near 7% - MarketWatch
Is yogi still drunk?
Eric
yogi still drunk
NYC is a 24/7 kinda place
The City that never sleeps. Insomniac.
In post-bust era, renting in vogue - San Antonio Express-News
Andrea Harrell tried homeownership. She is so over it.
After buying a home in 2005 and selling it in 2010 at no profit, Harrell loves the lifestyle that renting affords.
maybe the delay in German cooperation has something to do with Angela Merkel, for the first time in her life is being courted. She is the object of all those old white men's affections. They kept her up all night here:
German Economists Protest Summit Deal - WSJ.com
In all-night negotiations, Ms. Merkel, under pressure from Italy and other southern European countries, agreed to create a European banking union, and make it easier for countries to tap the euro-zone bailout funds to prop up weak banks...
so, did they have her out of her bra, flushed with anticipation when she 'caved'? Who amongst us can resist an Italian suitor?
volker the viking wrote:
CANNOT UNSEE
Oil @ 85.
Is it safe to post yet? Geez, what an overnight that was.
pretty graphic, huh?
well, she didn't cave, as we all know now, plus her popularity is rising as we speak
gwynne get innerestinger
San Diego fireworks malfunction in big, fast flash - San Antonio Express-News
But instead of 20 minutes of fireworks, the crowd in San Diego got about 20 seconds of giant, deafening booms after a computer mishap sent multiple bulb-shaped explosions over the bay.
The show's producer blamed a "technical glitch" Thursday, saying an error in its computer system caused tens of thousands of fireworks on four barges to go off simultaneously with a single command.
:flashcrash:
Yogi and merchant should just make an appointment for a date, it seems like the perfect match.
Spain Rescue Seen Worse Than Cure as Hospitals Make Cuts - Bloomberg
.....Never happen here. Nope. Never. And I mean it. Hopefully...
So will the jobs report be good enough to make the market soar? Or will the jobs report be bad enough to make the market soar?
Drought hits 56 percent of continental US; 'significant toll' on crops - U.S. News
Why Me wrote:
Well, if they get Joe Sixpack all-in, I'd vote "super
"
It will be better than expected.
13K would be
It's been HOT and DRY here in South Carolina.
The 8-12" layer of cow manure/ hay that I laid down last fall is helping tremendously to store water in the soil.
Plus the wheat straw mulch helps too.
Eric wrote:
Serious question for you: (In your opinion) With the Danes' CB going NIRP, do you think it will start a trend across other CBs or are the Nords being rather Nordic again?
Nice war between the Metals factions ( my former group of money losing dopes ) its nice to be a free thinker, and a money making free thinker at that. These two Metal bug groups seem to be more into drama these days..hmm HCN? we shall see. Anyway very entertaining to read for sure, just don't get trapped into the STACK! mantra...
Screwtape Files
yagij wrote:
It's not really all that different than the U.S. already, we've got a negative real rate.
8 minutes to Wopner. 2 minutes to midnight.
I guess I should put out my estimate. I hedged in the poll going stuperlow, but I'm going to have to go with something more realistic. So, how about lets say maybe 94k.
Well at least they are honest...
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Revealed: why Gordon Brown sold Britain's gold at a knock-down price – Telegraph Blogs
Calling 90k
everyone got your bets down (no positions here).
Under on 100k.
C
futs doing a little swan dive here...... -30 going in....
Eric wrote:
bring it
and..... futs say.....
-60....
80k
U.S. adds 80,000 jobs in June; jobless rate 8.2% - MarketWatch
thank you thank you, my third month in a row of being stuperclose
curious wrote:
QE3 QE3
BREAKING
April job gains revised down to 68,000 from 77,000
8:30a
8.2%? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Err... U6 14.9 on the rise.
I would love to get the hidden microphone tapes from Mitten's campaign lair.
"Yessssss!!!!"
Argh! Avg 75k for Q2. Wow. Stinking on ice.
The new math :
75k / Q2 = Q3 + QE3
Good Morning
Can't sweep it under the carpet for very long.
GDD9000 wrote:
pay and hours worked are up, so there is some good news. EMRATIO SA is flat.
On the plus side, we've got four monthly reports to turn it around, and with QE3 on tap soon, we're sure to end up in falling UE rate territory by November. If we can hit that magic 7.x on the UE rate, all will be well in the garden.