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Woe to americans who Are All Prisoners Now  All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too corrupt, timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running roughshod over the Constitution, by a bought-and-paid-for media that serves as propagandists for a regime of war criminals, and by a gutless, ignorant public who have forsaken their self-respect.

Benazir Assassinated

CHEER: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Bank Crisis may make '29 look 'walk in park'...

Alexander Tytler: "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years JonesReport.com | 12-4-07
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two
hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from
bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from
courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to
selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to
apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into
bondage."-- Alexander Tytler

FDR: "They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a New Order. It is not new and it is not order."

Andrew Jackson: "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

Congressman McFadden (1934) on the Fed: "This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government."

AP: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES '07...

Former CIA Interrogator: We Carried Out Torture Because The White House Told Us To

Fire out at building next to White House

Kucinich's brother found dead

FBI agent threatened to arrest CIA interrogators in 2002.

Countdown: Bushed! Countdown's list of the top three Bush scandals you may have forgotten about because of all of the new Bush scandals. This week's scandals: Habeas Corpus-Gate, Air-Gate and NIE-Gate.

Bush administration: Back off says war criminal and strategist dumbya bush on CIA tape probe CNN

HUCKABEE SLAMS 'ARROGANT' BUSH WHITE HOUSE

Romney Proves to All He is Not as Smart as he appears to be by Hitting Huckabee for Appropriately Criticizing War Criminal Dumbya bush for the debacle in Iraq (, etc.,) Which Is the Greatest Foreign Policy Blunder in america’s short-lived history (while concomitantly destroying the republican party, etc.) - tush tush, bush bush Washington Post

Bill Clinton Says He Wasn’t Ready for White House When He Squandered the Cold War Victory and Consequent Peace Dividend and that by resisting the bushit team Obama isn't Ready For White House which is ridiculous based upon the substantial damage the bush-clinton-bush corrupt regimes have caused the nation and the world...

Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton : Two Families, Three Decades In The White House, The Very Best Of Times For Them and the Worst of Times and Decline For america are (and this should be the wake-up call)  best Friends

WYOMING DEM CHIEF: CLINTON WOULD HURT PARTY...

LA's gangland culture spreading chaos, violence into America's heartland...

AT&T engineer says Bush Administration sought to implement domestic spying within two weeks of taking office

Dodd ready to mount filibuster to block telecom immunity

The End of America

Naomi Wolf - "There hasen't been a real investigation of 9/11."

Lee Hamilton Says the CIA Obstructed the 9/11 Commission

CIA Failed To Fully Inform Congress About Destroyed Tapes CBS News

More Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in 9/11 Investigation

Neocons Revise WMD Entry on Wikipedia Propaganda Portal

Pelosi and Harman Aided and Abetted 9/11 Cover Up

The White House and Congress Knew about the CIA Interrogation Videotapes

USATODAYGALLUP POLL: Approval of Congress sinks to new low...

9/11 Victims' Lawyers Blast Ground Zero Toxic Air Lies In Court

Bush Authorizes Full Access to U.S. Roads for Even More Mexico-Based NAFTA Trucks

What is the CFR?: The Bush Clinton Bush Clinton Administration

Olbermann: Bush is a BOLD faced LIAR about NIE/Iran

Russia's well-founded and rational deep suspicion of (particularly criminal america) the West

Hillary Campaign Tactic Backfires as Top Aide Quits

REPORT: FBI Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal...

Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

Greenspan sees early signs of U.S. stagflation

Poland does not need U.S. missile defense base - ex-PM

Iran Is No Threat and That’s Official “They stole our threat” goes a headline in the Israeli daily Haaretz. The author is, of course, referring to the recently published US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) composed by 16 American intelligence.....

Gov't official: No 'smoking gun' on Iran

Egypt Govt Accuses Israel of Meddling in Its Ties With US

Paul: Israel Demanding U.S. Further Its Self-destructive Pro-israel Mode and Invade Iran

Russia warns of US missile shield retaliation

PA Economy Worst Affected by Israeli Restrictions: WB

Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza Kill 7

NASA 'on target for return to the moon for the first time by 2020'…..riiiiight!..... UFOetry: We Never Went To The Moon - The Award-Winning Documentary/Music/Video by John Lee
'The Mother of All Frauds'

History Channel Admits WTC Tower Fell At Freefall Speed

FBI Now Admits Evidence Used to Connect Oswald to Kennedy Assasination Was Bogus

Food prices rising at highest rate for 14 years

Taj Mahal Won't Accept bushit american Dollars as India Laments Lost Value

THE HILL: Dems Cave On Spending...

China's Yuan at new high vs dollar...

YEAR-ENDER: Home Sales Plunge, Feed Recession Fears...

To Understand Business/Economics for the Coming Year The New Year Starts Here (scroll down for current date)

(1-7-08) With sloth-like reflexes and speed the lazy, fallible frauds on wall street now recognize, yes we’re already in a recession. Forget Bulls/Bears. Their new mascot:
The Prehistoric Sloth. Sloths all, the lunatic/frauds on wall street are slothish on america.

Recession in the US 'has arrived': Merrill Lynch

Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert   Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Tuesday December 11, 2007 Morgan Stanley has issued a full recession alert for the US economy, warning of a sharp slowdown in business investment and a "perfect storm" for consumers as the housing slump spreads. In a report "Recession Coming" released today, the bank's US team said the credit crunch had started to inflict serious damage on US companies…..

Reuters House prices seen falling 30 pct 12- 6-07 By Julie Haviv NEW YORK (Reuters) - Housing markets from Punta Gorda, Florida, to Stockton, California, will crash and suffer price drops of more than 30 percent before the housing crisis is over, a report from Moody's Economy.com said on Thursday. On a national level, the housing market recession will continue through early 2009, said the report, co-authored by Mark Zandi, chief economist, and Celia Chen, director of housing economics. The report paints a worsening picture of the hard-hit housing sector, which is in the midst of its worst downturn since World War II. While activity will stabilize in 2009, it will not be until 2010 before a measurable improvement in sales, construction and pricing will emerge, the report said…..

Earnings Recession Has Arrived U.S. corporate profits are in a recession, and the entire economy can not be far behind. Slower sales and higher energy and labor costs are forcing companies from Bear Stearns Cos. to Pitney Bowes Inc. to reduce spending and hiring. Their efforts to keep earnings from eroding even further raise the risk that the economy, already weakened by the steepest housing slide since 1991, may shrink sometime next year. ‘The earnings recession has already arrived, says David Rosenberg, North America economist for Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York. We are going to see an economic recession in '08.…..’

BANK OF AMERICA Sees Bigger Writedowns (12-12-07).....

MORGAN STANLEY first loss ever; taps China for $5 Billion...

PAPER: Housing foreclosures largest since Great Depression...

Home Prices Fall for 10th Straight Month

Oil price spikes close to $97...

CITIGROUP and MERRILL face bigger writeoffs/dividend cuts, etc.....

CHEER: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Bank Crisis may make '29 look 'walk in park'... As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues things are rapidly spiralling out of their control Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlantic banking system, so far with meagre or fleeting effects. "Liquidity doesn't do anything in this situation," says Anna Schwartz, the doyenne of US monetarism and life-time student (with Milton Friedman) of the Great Depression."It cannot deal with ….. that lots of firms are going bankrupt. The banks and the hedge funds have not fully acknowledged who is in trouble. That is the critical issue," she adds…..

NEWS FLASH: Direct from Lost Angeles Learning Annex – Presenting mobster t_rump of new yoke, new joyzey, and now caleefornia mob fame with his continuing message for the past several years: buy real estate (and watch the values go down…..riiiiight!).
Bank sues Trump over Chicago tower loan...
Trump casino to miss interest payment...

trump’s fired

 

U.S.National Debt (real time)

(5-18-12)  Dow  12,369  -73  Nasdaq  2,779  -35  S&P 500  1,295  -10 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $91.79 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (**The BTU-adjusted price of E-85 is the nationwide average price of E-85 adjusted to reflect the lower energy content as expressed in British Thermal Units - and hence miles per gallon - available in a gallon of E-85 as compared to the same volume of conventional gasoline…’ so adjusted=$4.00 – higher real than quoted price for respective states including CA, infra – another manipulation for the ‘feel good’ effect despite the inflationary over-printing of weimar dollars/currencies)(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,592 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.72 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,453 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 78 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.72%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  [  The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed! Train Reading: The Stock Market Is (Criminally) Insane The Wall Street Journal  , Fraud, b***s***, desperation, the previous ultimate short squeeze/short-covering irrationally exuberant rally, this is still  an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much, much worse to come! Only a fool believes what they say!

 ( US Economic Data Reporting Now Officially A Farce: Every Economic Data Point Prints 4+ Std Devs Above Consensus Zero Hedge | It appears that central bank intervention was not the only thing in full force today.) Watch for more fake reports / data / and spin in their infinite political desperation both here and across the sea, and suckers’ rallies to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in! [ The USAGOLD/PG View is Correct. This is a great interview/video (10 minutes); watch it here: ‘The Currency Wars’ http://www.albertpeia.com/rickardsgrantboltoninterviewvideo.htm  ,  David Rosenberg On The Depression, The ECB, MF Global As A Canary In The Coalmine... All With A Surprise Ending,  This is No Cyclical Recession… It is a Secular DE-pression MF GLOBAL EXPLAINED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLt05sN7vK0&feature=player_embedded  [This brief (pithily succinct) video explains causal links between OTC derivatives, the financial crisis of 2008, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Jon Corzine and MF Global. (10 minutes-well worth it) , ‘Quantitative Easing Explained’  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k  (6 minutes-well worth it). ,   Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm   50% unemployment & 90% Dow crash also predicted. Newsmax   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm    ,  Economic / Financial Collapse Imminent – Stansberry  Investment Advisory http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv    Harry Dent, Jr. Economy will be in a Depression by 2011 Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012 Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the latest. U.S. Dollar will Decline Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between 2010 and 2012). , Goldman Turns Bearish: Squid Releases Top Trades For 2012... And It's Not PrettyThe much anticipated Goldman Sachs list of "Top Trades Recommendations for 2012" is out... And the squid is bearish. Which is bad news , Market Rally Won't Last Long  Forbes  Halah Touryalai, Forbes Staff  ‘There’s no doubt Wednesday’s market rally was the result of the move by Central banks’ but don’t expect the sentiment to last very long. ,   HUGE RALLY CUT IN HALF AFTER EUROZONE RATINGS BOMBSHELL: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Sam Ro’ Europe's hell week begins with new EU treaty proposals and reports of an S&P ratings action bombshell…U.S. economic data was largely overlooked during this morning's rally.  The ISM services number unexpectedly fell to 52.0, missing the expectation of an increase to 53.9.  This also compares to last month's number of 52.9.  October factory orders fell 0.4%, which was slightly worse than the 0.3% decline expected.  September factory orders were revised sharply lower…’ ,  Confirmed: Not Just AAA Nations, but *All 17* Euro Nations to Be Put on Notice for Downgrade The Wall Street Journal , Standard & Poor’s Puts Ratings On Eurozone Sovereigns On CreditWatch With Negative Implications Dec 5th, 2011 (Standard & Poor’s) , Graham Summers’  Weekly Market Forecast (Fade the Fed? Edition) December 5th, 2011  ‘Equities got giddy last week when the world’s central banks, lead by the US Federal Reserve, lowered the global cost of borrowing Dollars. Regardless of the market’s reaction, the whole thing smells of desperation and quite frankly, everyone should be questioning the Fed’s move…The IMF, Bank of England, and others have warned of a systemic collapse… do you think they’re doing this for fun?Many investors will have their portfolios wiped out in the coming carnage. It could be next week, or it could take place next year… but we ARE heading into a Crisis that will be worse than 2008…’ , Gallup Finds Recent Job Boost Due To "Temp And Part-Time" Hiring; Underemployment Greater Than Prior Year  While the BLS unemployment number, fudged strategically to lower the denominator, or the total labor force, may have come well better than expected (as somehow miraculously ever more people find the shadow economy a more hospitable place where to make their money and drop off the BLS roll forever) we once again go to that trusty fallback, the monthly Gallup poll of underemployment. What we find here is rather different from what the BLS, and the administration would like us to believe, namely that "underemployment, a measure that combines the percentage of workers who are unemployed with the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work, is 18.1% in November, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment. That is up from 17.8% a month ago and 17.2% a year ago." Said simply, "many employers appear to have chosen to hire part-time rather than full-time employees for this holiday season." , Solyndra Schadenfreude As Goldman Sachs Played Key RoleWhile we are not completely shy of saying we-told-you-so, in the case of the players in Solyndra's fantastic rise and fall, we are more than happy to. Back in September we highlighted Goldman Sachs' key role in the financing rounds of the now bankrupt solar company and this evening MarketWatch (and DowJones VentureWire) delves deeper and highlights how the squid has largely stayed out of the headlines (what's the opposite of lime-light?) in this case despite its seemingly critical assistance and support from inception to pre-destruction. Goldman's involvement in Solyndra, and its lofty valuation projections, lent credibility to the company and helped rouse investor interest and it was this private interest that was cited by DoE officials as a considerable factor in its loan guarantee program. As we said before, anywhere you look, Goldman has been there and left its mark...’ , The Black Friday Shopping Hangover Is Coming: David Rosenberg Explains Here Comes The S&P Downgrade Barrage - Full Statement, In Which S&P Says France May Get Two Notch DowngradeJeremy Grantham Releases The Scariest Market Forecast YetMUST SEE – Bernanke’s Stealth Bailout For Wall Street Kept Secret From Congress Daily Bail | Bernanke runs his own private dictatorship. , How The U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 2) Hera Research | The United States is quickly coming to resemble a post industrial neo-3rd-world country.,  SPX Update: Topping Again? Minyanville Jason Haver Dec 02, 2011 ‘The market is giving several signals that a top may be near… In conclusion, I remain medium and long term bearish.’ , Lies, Damned Lies, and (Unemployment) Statistics Mac Slavo | The actual unemployment rate in the United States is in excess of 22%.  , Europe in worst hour since WW2: Merkel [Duh! Ya think?] , Congress Trading Stocks on Inside Information!?Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Bob Chapman: Surviving The Banker Sociopaths The Alex Jones Channel | Alex talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster.SPX Update: Crash Wave Ready; Confirmation Still Pending   Jason Haver 11-11-11 Do Valuation Metrics Still Apply or Has The Market Become Untradable? Simon Maierhofer Etf Guide [ Short answers: No and yes the market has become ‘untradable’ for investors. I would add that the ‘debased dollar policies’ (ie., QE’s, overprinting of paper currencies / dollars, etc.) enable sales / revenues to be booked with ‘more’ of the inflated dollars relative to costs booked at the ‘fewer / greater value’ dollars which spikes earnings but leads to the inevitable margin erosion when the reported costs ‘catch up’ in terms of inflated ‘Weimar’ dollars. Hence, even the averages when deflated for real inflation (see Faisal infra) show a far less sanguine picture (than say, hard assets, ie., gold, etc.). Even more important is the effect of the HFT programmed trades , http://albertpeia.com/wallstreetcrapshoot.jpg  ,  Bernanke Knows He’s Powerless This Time AroundThe Aftermath of the Risk-Free Sovereign Debt Illusion Minyanville (Fri, Nov 11 ]   Divergences Point To Stock Market Crash  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-divergences-point-risk-stock-market-crash 11/10/2011  James A. Kostohryz , EU Warns Of ‘Deep, Prolonged Recession’ Dow Jones Newswires | The European Union Thursday slashed its growth forecast for the 27-nation bloc in the coming year. ,  Dave’sDaily: http://www.etfdigest.com [WELL FOUNDED] FEAR REMAINS.. November 10, 2011 ‘Rapidly changing news cycle, combined with HFT algos …As has been routine, previous data was revised higher from 397K to 400K, and given this pattern, you should expect current data revised higher next week…’ What First Time Unemployment Claims Data Is Saying About the Economy   Lee Adler Nov 10, 2011 ‘…Purely by accident, the real number this week wasn't too far off at 398,753, but that was an increase from last week's 369,647, not a decline as shown in the cartoon numbers. Furthermore, it was about 70,000 more than at the seasonal low reached the last week of September…’  Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm    ,     These 4 things happen right before a heart attack. newsmax  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/silent-heart-attack-symptoms/2011/09/23/id/412086     ,  50% unemployment & 90% Dow crash also predicted. Newsmax   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm      ,    http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock is ticking!   Analyst Sees 3% More Downside On Dow As Cyclicals Lose Momentum Barrons.com (Wed, Nov 9) [ Is that all? Sounds like a fraudulent wall street wet dream! Far more reliable analysts predict much lower, infra.  ]  , There Is No Solution for Europe”: Stocks Tumble as Italian Yields SurgeThe Daily Ticker (Wed, Nov 9) ,  PERVASIVELY CORRUPT, DEFACTO BANKRUPT AMERICA IS A TOTAL FRAUD IN THE INDUCEMENT AND FACTUM. #9. (see infra) World’s Largest Drug Dealer: The American empire is the largest drug dealer in the world!  Say it isn’t so. Well, in addition to forcing legal drugs and genetically modified organisms on nations, usually under the cover of foreign aid, America also leads in the illegal drug trade.  In fact, many researchers reveal that the war on drugs is only utilized to control and monopolize the illicit drug trade.  The US government has been caught multiple times shipping in cocaine [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQvbdiWgwsA   ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQNSoOX-dcw&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1Id2qpSOE&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIEUhpxeuP4&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyM43Sw2OVc&feature=related  ] , colluding with certain cartels [ http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/does_mexican_drug_cartel_have_deal_with_us_government.html   ] to control the industry, and now openly protects and transports opium from Afghanistan  [  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElEciFI0Pew  ] .  In fact, Global Research points out that in 2001, “according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.”  This month, the U.N. announced that Afghanistan now provides 93% of the world’s opium production [  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/asia/un-reports-sharp-rise-in-opium-production-in-afghanistan.html?_r=2&ref=world  ]  ; up 61% compared to 2010 to a whopping 5800 tons.  Although the empire tries to keep it secret, they can’t hide the hypocrisy forever. [ website archived links http://albertpeia.com/uscocainedistributionfiles.htm  ]    ,  HFT TRADING RULES MONDAY  Dave’s Daily:  http://www.etfdigest.com  11-7-11 ,  Italy: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Save? Nov 7th, 2011 (CNBC) , Italian Debt Crisis Has Global Markets on Edge. Here’s Why It Matters to You JK Comment: The Daily Ticker guys offer some interesting insight on the evolving situation in Europe, and how “contagion” may not be limited to the shore’s of Europe.’ , Presenting The Latest Eurodebt Exposure Masking Scam Courtesy Of Morgan Stanley: Level 1 To Level 2 Transfers Here Is Today's 3pm Rumor... In true save-the-market style, as 3pm ET comes around we have another rumor from Europe. This time it purports to be the creation of an investment fund, as a subsidiary of the EFSF, which will 'attract' external capital sources, via tranching of returns, to enable the purchase of sovereign debt in primary and secondary markets. Headlines, via Bloomberg, for now suggest this is yet another strawman…’ ,  No smoking gun: IAEA Iranian nuclear report falls flat on its face Patrick Henningsen | The IAEA report has come up short, but the Axis powers are still desperate to hit Iran  ,  10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History   http://www.prisonplanet.com/10-reasons-america-will-be-judged-as-the-most-brutal-empire-in-history.html Activist Post | Good and evil doesn’t have a grey zone.. America and her Western cohorts will likely be viewed as the most brutal empire in history.. Although this empire is infinitely more powerful than Rome was, it will suffer the same fate.  For every negative action the empire commits, there’s an equal and opposite good reaction. And the goodness of humanity will always defeat tyranny when it goes too far.  However, an empire with so much to lose will go down swinging and slinging every weapon in its arsenal, thus putting the final stamp on their status as most brutal empire in history.’  ,  Greek Debt Crisis: Mark II of the Plan for a Greatest Depression Kurt Nimmo | HSBC, a prized bankster asset connected to the City of London, warns of a global depression. , Hit With Big Withdrawals, Fed Sells Assets, Borrows Cash  ilene 11/06/2011 ,  Fed Underestimated Economy's Weakness: Kohn TheStreet [ Another ‘duh!’ moment from the fraudulent fed! ] , Tempted by Europe? Don’t Be -  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/markets-blog/tempted-by-europe-dont-be/article2228163    ,   Europe. Is. Finished.  Phoenix Capital... 11/05/2011 ‘Europe is finished. The region’s entire banking system is insolvent (with few exceptions).’ ,  Earnings Warning Ratio Highest In a Decade The Wall Street Journal ‘…In other words, even as the market has rallied, the outlook for earnings has gotten worse.’ , Minyanville's T3 Weekly Recap: Market Breaks Streak of Weekly Gains, Focus Shifts to Italy  Minyanville ,  The Chart That's Forecasted Every Major Move Correctly Since March 2011  Simon Maierhofer 11-4-11 ‘…major indices may just be chopping around for another week or two before heading south for the winter…’ , SPX and NDX Update: Top May Be In as Retracement Rally Hits Targets  Jason Haver , Handicapping a Global Market Meltdown  Minyanville  ,  Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels – 19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You The Economic Collapse ,  Insider selling surges — CBS MoneyWatch , Greenspan Suggested Cutting Taxes on the Wealthy to Increase Debt so the Fed Wouldn't "Lose Control of Monetary Policy"  Posted by: George Washington , First Time Unemployment Claims Increase But Less Than Usual Posted by : ilene Post date: 11/03/2011 - There's just one minor problem.   http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/first-time-unemployment-claims-increase-less-usual   Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner "Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up," trumpeted the AP, in a news item picked up by news organizations across the US and the world. There's just one minor problem. First time claims actually increased by 9,361. The AP, and everybody else, reports a fictitious number, the seasonally smoothed fantasy. They do that because they figure that readers are too stupid to compare this week's performance with the same week in previous years to see if the economy is doing better or worse. I hold no such preconceived notion. If you are smart enough to be reading this report, then you are smart enough to be able to compare actual numbers, as opposed to the fake pablum spoon fed to you by the economics punditocracy…’ , Unique Historic Precedents Suggest Lower Prices    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unique-Historic-Precedents-etfguide-1382828970.html?x=0&.v=1  ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, November 3, 2011  , Europe is doomed — Felix Salmon  http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/03/europes-doomed-fate    This is beginning to feel like 2008..’ , Because Central Banks Just Aren't Enough: G-20 Will Ask IMF To Print Reserve CurrencyFour months ago we predicted that in response to the latest round of global economic deterioration, every central bank would very soon join the toner party., Today's Joke Du Jour Comes From Italy's Biggest Bank, UniCredit , SEC Opens Investigation Into MF Global Insider Trading, Ignores Glaring Evidence Of Client Capital Commingling, Hugh Hendry Channels Irony And Paradox In His Latest Financial Outlook  ‘..So what’s next? A crash, of course..’, As Repeatedly Warned, Quarter End Window Dressing Key Factor In MF Global's Demise Citi: "The Bear Market Rally Is Behind Us; We Anticipate A Move To 1,000-1,015"Fed lowers GDP forecast, raises unemployment projections, mulls more inflation producing, failed, futile, wall street fraud-friendly action to the detriment of all others which rallies those ever more worthless as with dollars ‘pieces of paper’ (actually not even, just ‘over-counted/supplied computerized ‘ledger’ entries) for the ubiquitous as in the last financial fraud debacle) for the continuing High-Frequency-Trade churn-and-earn (Reuters) , Market Recap: Banks Rally Back, Fed Outlook Worsens [jersey based, former lautenberg adp data’s as worthless as that from the scandal-scarred commerce dept. et als, ie., factory numbers; then, the labor dept.’s fake report, estimates, numbers, including the b.s. service sector, etc..) Wall St. Cheat Sheet  , Fed foresees far weaker growth than it had earlier , MF Global Client Theft Estimate Doubled To $1.5 Billion?Game Over Berlusconi? Italian Anti-Crisis Bill FailsEgan Jones Downgrades Jefferies On Concerns About Sovereign Exposure Amounting To 77% Of EquityGuest Post: MF Global Shines A Light On Monetarism's Incapacity To Enhance The Real Economy , Will Spiking Vol Drag Global Growth Down? [Short answer: YES! The HFT churn and earn is parasitic, benefits the frauds on wall street only, and ultimately must ‘come from some real place’ (ie., main street, taxpayers, etc.)]    The Greco-Franco Bank Run Has Skipped the Pond, Landed in NY/Chicago and Nobody Noticed, Exactly As I Predicted! Reggie Middleton 11/01/2011 ‘We just experienced a bank run in the US that I have been warning of for months on end. A bank run that resulted in this country's 8th largest bankruptcy,,, ever - and nobody even noticed.’ ,  How US Banks Are Lying About Their European Exposure; Or How Bilateral Netting Ends With A Bang, Not A WhimperKeeping Up With The Korzines In The Kooler: FBI To Investigate MF Global's Theft Of Client Money , US construction spending +0.2% in Sep, below market expectations of +0.3%, vs 1.6% Aug. Nov 1st, 2011  ,   US ISM fell to 50.8 in Oct, below market expectations of 52.0, vs 51.6 in Sep. Nov 1st, 2011   Guest Post: Fed Trapped By InflationKeeping Up With The Korzines In The Kooler: FBI To Investigate MF Global's Theft Of Client Money , US Food Stamp Usage Hits New RecordThe Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System The Economic Collapse , The REAL $200 TRILLION Problem Bernanke’s Worried About  Phoenix Capital... ‘US Commercial banks have $200 TRILLION in interest rate based derivatives sitting on their balance sheets. And guess which banks have the greatest exposure…’ ; and, finally the coup de gras ,  America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion’,  Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1  ,   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR   Mf global, plus mob infested jersey former governor, plus fraudulent wall street, plus mob strong new york, plus rich mob history Chicago, equals fraudulent scheme / theft / scam in the making and then reality! Someone Is Going To Jail For This: MF Global Caught Stealing Hundreds Of Millions From Customers? Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Wake Up Call Edition)  Phoenix Capital... 10/31/2011 The markets flew into this deal based on rumors and short-covering and are now waking up to the plain obvious facts that you cannot solve a debt problem with more debt. ,  Panic Behind The MF Scenes As Company Refuses To Disclose Information To Regulators Even In DeathAre Investors Buying on False Hope? Minyanville  ,  Markets Remain in Cyclical Bear Market  Kevin Tuttle  [ Actually this is a secular bear market with much worse to come! ] ,  U.S. and Europe … “Self-Induced Stagnation,” says Economist Editor The Daily Ticker , Why Last Week's Euro Fix Won't Do the Trick ETFguide Maierhofer , Corzine's MF Global collapses under euro zone bets , Are Ratings Agencies Taking Bribes?Wall St. Cheat Sheet [ One way or another, from all 3 branches of u.s. government to u.s. businesses coast to coast, wall street to main street, they’re all getting / taking bribes! ] , SPX and NDX Update: A Disturbing Look at Fundamentals, and the Rally Explained  Jason Haver Oct 31, 2011 ,  China Says Not So Fast On Rescue   http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/11292710/buy-and-hold-is-dead-buy-and-hedge-instead.html?cm_ven=YAHOOV&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA&s=1#1250281566001   , MF Global Caught in Death Spiral , Sell H-P! Against the Grain 10/31/11   ,   Europe Will Make Lehman Look Like a Joke   http://gainspainscapital.com/?p=1010  Summers 10-28-11 ,  Be Honest – The European Debt Deal Was Really A Greek Debt Default Posted by : ilene Post date: 10/28/2011 - 2012 looks like it is going to be an extremely painful year. [ Yes! Very painful! I believe Dave was the first ‘to get this’ in passing yesterday; and, thinking on it more, I believe this charade cheered particularly by the frauds on wall street (and surprisingly germany) was for the purpose of ‘voluntary’ to avoid the Credit Default Swap trigger. Yet, the real bad news is that, even worse than as with the last financial debacle, owing to the greed-driven, commission/fee generating churn and earn of innumerable, bogus, worthless, levered, negatively valued on event financial instruments at computerized lightning speed, the commission-generating paper is beyond the frauds’ abilities to account for; and not just the CDS’s ( ETFs have potential to become the next toxic scandal Sep 19th, 2011 News (The Telegraph) Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international super-regulator, wrote a prescient if less than catchily-titled paper “Potential financial stability issues arising from recent trends in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)”..warning – ETFs are not the cheap and transparent vehicles the marketers would have us believe ..no one who read the FSB report was surprised to see the words ETF and rogue trader in the same sentence… half of the ETFs in Europe today do not match the index they are designed to track by holding all of its constituent shares.. Derivative trades add a second layer of uncertainty .. the counterparty risk that the organisation on the other side of the contract might go bust. Even worse, the provider of the ETF might sometimes be a part of the same organisation as the derivatives desk carrying out the swap…For reasons which I’m not sure I could explain even if I had the space, it is possible for the number of shares sold short in an ETF to massively exceed the actual number of shares available.’).  Not only is it that The Greek Deal Accomplishes Nothing… Systemic Risk is Coming   http://gainspainscapital.com October 27th, 2011   (Yes! It’s happened again. No … not just the (Weimar) funny money and rally as in the great depression followed by the inevitable bust /crash Parallels to The Great Depression Suggest Higher Prices Followed by a Bust ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, October 25, 2011), but  The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System The Economic Collapse , The REAL $200 TRILLION Problem Bernanke’s Worried About  Phoenix Capital... ‘US Commercial banks have $200 TRILLION in interest rate based derivatives sitting on their balance sheets. And guess which banks have the greatest exposure…’ ; and, finally the coup de gras ,  America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion’,  Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1  ,   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR , Dave’s Daily http://www.etfdigest.com/davesdaily  ‘The only thing wrong with the image above is that it’s from March 2010, or on one of many previous plans agreed upon. But, markets don’t care about this and just thirst for any deal even if memories remain short.. HFT algos are programmed to pounce on these presumed fixes and have been active in driving stock prices higher this past week. Let’s face it; this is the time of year bulls can make their year with good fees and bonuses on the line…’ , Dave’s Daily:  http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘The above image displays quotes per second coming from HFT (High Frequency Trading) systems http://www.etfdigest.com/images/stories/davesdaily/1866/image002.jpg    http://www.etfdigest.com/images/stories/davesdaily/1866/image002.jpg    . The two graphs display action towards the close of trading Friday. The upper graph shows action of “algos” per second while the bottom the number of HFT quotes per second over a three minute time period with colors for each exchange. The lower graph displayed nearly 300 quotes per second—got that? Perhaps only a small fraction of these are real trades with the others being just bids and offers designed to stimulate program trading algorithms. This is posted because nearly 70% of all volume and trades on the NYSE for example are program trades with HFTs now dominant.   Then there’s the reality / folly that the mental case with the funny / odd little mustache has been displaced by another ubiquitous fraud of collectively the ‘multiple mental cases modern day equivalent variety’; viz., the bourse, bourses, ‘boursers’, stock exchanges, ‘market fraudsters’(wall street particularly), and their lightning fast, high frequency trading computers(‘ programs). After all, the already undercapitalized banks are now 50% more undercapitalized (those Yule Brynner hair cuts are a b**ch); there’s good money after bad; and square pegs are, for the nonce, ‘fitting’ into round holes. Nothing’s been solved and there’s much worse to come! Take this as the ‘gift’ (to stock markets everywhere, ultimately paid for by main streets and taxpayers everywhere) [Market Now Overbought: Birinyi The Wall Street Journal ] it was meant to be and sell, take profits, since this ‘microcosm of the crisis’ was never the real reason for lower markets but merely at best a symptom of [ at worst a scapegoat for ] these great depression-era times, the worst of which will be seen. It’s coming! Funny money will just exacerbate the inevitable! This may sound like a platitude; but, fundamentals and reality still count!     STOCKS TANK BEFORE EU MEETING THAT EVERYONE EXPECTS TO FAIL: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider [ No …this is not quite correct … the point being there’s nothing they can do to make it (other than the meeting in and of  itself as ‘a much ballyhooed  meeting’)  succeed!   Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Stocks Are Last to Get It Edition)  ‘…So if you have not already taken steps to prepare for systemic failure, you NEED to do so NOW. We're literally at most a few months, and very likely just a few weeks from Europe's banks imploding …’,  America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion    ,  Four Facts that PROVE the EFSF Doesn’t Matter… At All  Phoenix Capital 10/20/2011Four Facts that PROVE the EFSF Doesn’t Matter… At All  -  ‘.. And those investors who get suckered into betting this mess will work out well are very likely going to lose everything. The impact of the fallout from this will make 2008 look like a joke. The EU is the largest economy in the world. So if its banking system collapses (and it will) we’re facing a full-scale Global financial meltdown (the IMF has even warned of this)…’ ,  The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System The Economic Collapse , The REAL $200 TRILLION Problem Bernanke’s Worried About  Phoenix Capital... ‘US Commercial banks have $200 TRILLION in interest rate based derivatives sitting on their balance sheets. And guess which banks have the greatest exposure…’ ,  Parallels to The Great Depression Suggest Higher Prices Followed by a Bust ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, October 25, 2011  Investors' Number One Worry: Europe Posed to Bring Down Global Economy  Minyanville [ Riiiiight! Europe following the ‘american way’ of  ‘insurmountable debt, funny money and wall street fraud, and throw in a destructive, wasteful war or two or three’  is ‘ the one’ … to reiterate: America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion   ], Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: The Anatomy of a Market Reversal  T3Live.com Oct 24, 2011 ‘Now may be a good time to take some profits after a strong October run in the market…’, 10 Reasons The Consumer Will Sink This Rally http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=13626   Bret Jensen , United States tipped to lose another AAA credit rating Reuters | Either from Moody’s or Fitch , Can The Hope Rally Continue? [ Short answer: NO! ] , Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1  ,   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR

   “The Prevailing Debate Among Economists and Historians is Whether the World Economy Faces the ‘Great’ Depression of the 1930s or the ‘Long’ Depression of the 1870s” Washington’s Blog | Economists Agree: We’re In a Depression.  Fitch cuts Italy, Spain ratings; outlook negative , Wall Street vs Reality: A Hopeless Tug-of-War?  http://symmetrycapital.net/index.php/blog/2011/10/wall-street-vs-reality-a-hopeless-tug-of-war  Are Wall Street strategists living in a bubble? [ The short answer is, ‘YES’! The long answer is your work is quite (closer to) correct (and worse when dollar debasement is factored in).]  According to our work, credit market, demographic, and leading economic  indicators are all pointing to a level of between 800 and 1,000 for the S&P 500 between now and 2012-2013.   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR  ,  Hold Your Enthusiasm ... This Is Still A Bear Market Rally    http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-hold-your-enthusiasm-still-bear-market-rally, 10/06/2011 ,  Yield Spread Confirming Recession Call http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-yield-spread-confirming-recession-call ,  U.S. stocks' massive "melt-up" fans investor fears Reuters October 5, 2011, By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) - In less than one hour on Tuesday, the U.S. stock market surged by 4 percent -- for no apparent reason ,  Play It Again Sam: Dave's Daily ‘ ... The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job. One of these actions was featured courtesy of our friends at Zero Hedge and depicted below as it occurred Thursday afternoon. The first chart features the quotes per second (NOTE: one instance exceeding 800 quotes per second). The next chart shows the market's simultaneous reaction.  http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/daves/082511/image002.jpg  Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1     ,  ( Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ )( ,  6 Reasons a Global Recession is Unavoidable  Ron DeLegge, October 5, 2011, Dem.lautenberg’s jersey based ADP helps the desperate dem’s cause with 100% better than expected (false) private sector jobs report (Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rise 212% From Year Ago Bloomberg) , Gabriel Wisdom to Frank Motek of 1070amBus.Rept. says this is a bear market and we’ll see market lows in 2012. [video] Nervously Eyeing 50% RetracementTheStreet.com Mark Newton , Moody's Downgrades Italy By Three Notches The Wall Street Journal ,  Greek Bailout May Include Larger Writedowns for Private InvestorsWall St. Cheat Sheet . Enormous, last hour 370+ point upside suckers’ rally into the close based on b***s***, rumour (more ‘good money after bad’ bailout goin’ greek in the eu zone), nothing at all (pushed a button, ran a buy program?) to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in based upon as previously questionable if not outright fake, ‘upward-revised’ (based on inflation-spiked price increases at best) data also, ‘the data don’t distinguish between Americans who stop receiving benefits because they find jobs and those who fall off the unemployment rolls because their benefits expire- WSCS (  Soros: US Is Already in Double-Dip Recession CNBC.com  ,  Signs The Perfect Economic Storm Is Coming | www.bullfax.com/Snyder  ,   America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s Sep 21st, 2011 News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks. Social Security can no longer afford to send us our annual benefit statements. The House can no longer afford its congressional pages. The Pentagon can no longer afford the pension and health care benefits of retired service members. NASA is no longer planning a manned mission to Mars. We’re broke for a reason. We’ve spent six decades accumulating a huge official debt (U.S. Treasury bills and bonds) and vastly larger unofficial debts to pay for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits to today’s and tomorrow’s 100 million-plus retirees. The government’s total indebtedness — its fiscal gap — now stands at $211 trillion, by my arithmetic. [source]’  ,  $16 muffins, $8 coffee served in Justice audit , Market Recap: FOMC Announces Operation Twist, Banks Tumble, Investors Flee Sovereign Debt Wall St. Cheat Sheet September 21, 2011, Wall Street sinks 3 percent after Fed cites economic "risks"  NEW YORK (Reuters)  ,   Moody's downgrades big banks on changed policy  ,  Italy downgraded, IMF says Europe behind the curve  Reuters  ,  IMF downgrades outlook for US and Europe economies [Sep 20, 2011] ... Fund has sharply downgraded its outlook for the U.S. economy through 2012 ...  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IMF-downgrades-outlook-for-US-apf-1240337037.html?x=0 much worse than expected:  Market Recap: S&P Downgrades Italy, Housing Starts Tumble, Markets Wait on funny-money no-recession ben bernanke   Wall St Cheat Sheet ,   IMF Downgrades Global Economic Outlook  ,  Drudgereport: IMF WARNS: INTO THE DANGER ZONE... ...warns of USA 'lost decade'  ,  New High: 37% Say Their Home Is Worth Less Than Remaining Mortgage Payments Rasmussen  ,  30 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is About To Go Into The Toilet The Economic Collapse  ,  A Fed IOER Cut Could Backfire on Banks, Warns Pimco  ,   3 Reasons Markets Were Up As Central Banks Stepped in to Boost Dollar Liquidity in European Banks Wall St. Cheat Sheet Today the Department of Labor announced that consumer prices had climbed twice what economists had predicted in August, while initial jobless claims jumped last week to their highest level since June. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s report on manufacturing in the region contracted more than expected in September, while its general economic index dropped to its weakest reading since November 2010, indicating that companies in the region covered by the New York Fed’s manufacturing index are cutting back. The consumer-price report also showed that hourly earnings fell in August in their biggest one-month decline since July 2008, while the cost of energy, food, healthcare, and shelter all rose.‘ ,   David Rosenberg: “It’s Time To Start Calling This For What It Is: A Modern Day Depression” Zero Hedge ,  Geithner: Economy In “An Early Stage” Of Crisis  ,  Flat retail sales keeps U.S. on recession watch ) fraud  ( ETFs have potential to become the next toxic scandal Sep 19th, 2011 News (The Telegraph) Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international super-regulator, wrote a prescient if less than catchily-titled paper “Potential financial stability issues arising from recent trends in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)”..warning – ETFs are not the cheap and transparent vehicles the marketers would have us believe ..no one who read the FSB report was surprised to see the words ETF and rogue trader in the same sentence… half of the ETFs in Europe today do not match the index they are designed to track by holding all of its constituent shares.. Derivative trades add a second layer of uncertainty .. the counterparty risk that the organisation on the other side of the contract might go bust. Even worse, the provider of the ETF might sometimes be a part of the same organisation as the derivatives desk carrying out the swap…For reasons which I’m not sure I could explain even if I had the space, it is possible for the number of shares sold short in an ETF to massively exceed the actual number of shares available.’) / manipulated programmed hft (high frequency trades – see, ie.,  What to Expect Next From the Markets , Dave’s Daily, infra ) and b***s*** alone! [ Stock Market Secret Word of the Day Is 'Delusion' WSJ  ,  watch for fake data / reports out of their sheer desperation  ,  ‘american technology is horrendous and vastly overrated!’ I really mean it; and that’s reality, which speaks volumes about the pathetic state of the world , Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Market Squeeze Continues, But Was it a Trap?  By T3Live.com ‘Today's action … another clever ploy to suck in longs while relieving some of the oversold condition of the market’  ,  Don't Trust Wall Street and this Market  ETFguide ,  Congress budget agency warns panel of economic ills  ,  Nearly 1 in 6 Americans in poverty, Census says  ,  Cisco cuts long-term sales growth forecast  ,  International alarm over euro zone crisis grows  ,  Why Can't Wall Street Be Honest With The Public? Forbes  ,  Venture capital veteran Perkins sees danger ahead  , These Wall Street Firms are About to Start Firing People Like Crazy  ,   Same Alan Greenspan Who Warned Against Budget Surplus Now Warns About Deficit  ,  ETF Redemptions Highest Since 2008: Report ETF Trends , 20 Signs Of Imminent Financial Collapse In Europe The Economic Collapse ,  The 2nd Edge Of Modern Financial Repression: Manipulating Inflation Indexes To Steal From Retirees & Public Workers Gold Seek  Lawless America: 20 Examples Of Desperate People Doing Desperate Things The American Dream  ,  Poverty In America: A Special Report The Economic Collapse | America is getting poorer.  How Greece Is Mocking the Rest of the World  [ Well, let’s get real here! There’s plenty to mock in this world, and Greece is hardly the nation to be doing the mocking. I think it’s the markets that are mocking the rest of the world’s stupidity for buying into this false reality / obfuscation / fraud, particularly by way of the now pervasive worldwide acceptance of the american strategy of currency debasement which really is a fraud facilitator because it masks to all but the intelligent few the underlying economic weakness and decline. A simplistic example, though not perfect, is apropos here: a company sells a product for 1 dollar which costs 1 dollar to make (assuming arguendo to cover fixed expenses - no profit). The fed over-printing / creating dollars like mad to the point where it now takes 2 dollars to render the same purchasing power of  1 dollar when the goods were produced. The company sells the products for 2 dollars (the previous equivalent of 1 dollar before debasement). The company is now showing earnings 1 dollar per unit sold, yet in real terms, they’ve gotten no more than the equivalent of that 1 dollar per unit. (If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, particularly the last 1-2 months, I’ve found meats, etc., to be up 50-100%, etc.). The same obfuscating manipulations are applicable to assets generally, and to those pieces of paper called stocks which are even ‘worse for the wear’ since churn-and-earn commissions at lightning computerized speed are being subtracted from this illusory ‘enhanced value’ which in reality doesn’t exist at all. ( Such manipulations from currency translation also provide ‘arbitrage opportunities’ though similarly largely ultimately subtracted from no real value being created. ) This is why fraudulent wall street loves the fed’s QE’s and dollar debasement / over-printing / creating and also why it’s been a dismal failure and a net negative in real economic terms as seen on main street and in the decimation of the middle class and growing ranks of the poor. In the analysis of securities, this would be considered ‘the quality of earnings factor’ that goes into the assignment of a p/e multiple to the projected earnings. Sufficeth to say, this is no longer done on wall street in any real or legitimate fashion, if at all. Indeed, it’s a fair statement to say that security analysis is no longer a ‘practice’ as same was considered, once upon a time, by value investors / analysts. As set forth by Dave and Cooper, infra, computerized programmed manipulation at lightning speed has been expedient in the short run for the wall street frauds but ultimately leads to the inevitable crash since as I often reiterate: Remember, there is no modern day alchemy that spins worthless paper into gold except fraudulently for the frauds on wall street who’ve literally oftimes done exactly that; ‘cashing out’ for hard currency and gold, precious metals, at everyone else’s expense including main street. They’re just not that important and represent, like termites eating away at the nation’s foundation, a drag on the economy, the nation as one would expect from parasites such as they are’. What to Expect Next From the Markets Minyanville  Jeffrey Cooper ‘Conclusion: It looks like a program was run using the least amount of dollars to goose the indices by focusing on some big cap names like Apple, Amazon, Baidu, IBM, and Caterpillar { Apple Hits New High (Update1) [ 9-19-11 This manipulated programmed trade to froth markets is a crash in the making – sell at these ridiculous levels / take profits! },  Dave’s Daily:’.. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job..’] Simon Maierhofer,September 16, 2011, ‘Webster's dictionary defines gullible as naive and easily duped or cheated'…’       (2-16-10) Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Economic Doomsday is Here    Market rallies on weak worthless Weimar dollar, higher oil prices, and news from ny fed, the one with $4 trillion missing/unaccounted for, that NY is now a global hub of manufacturing activity with stimulus-generated inventory increase (even if believed), that former obfuscating source of cyclic up must come down as said inventories are unsold or unloaded…riiiiight!…Total bull s**t!…      Shadowstats’ John Williams: Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression     Roubini: 'The worst is yet to come'...    Top Eurobank prepares for 'global economic collapse'...      CHINA: ‘The world does not have Money to buy more US Treasuries’    We Have Reached the Top of the Stock Market (Charts/Analysis/Article 1-19-10)   Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010             THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION   1-28-10 Maierhofer            MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10               Economic Black Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover      1-7-10 Crash is coming!             (01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking        Marketwatch: U.S. stocks held their gains following the release of the home builders' sentiment index, which declined in January as industry leaders remained concerned about the poor job market and the continuation of home foreclosures.   6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied  3-9-10 [archived website file]     Risks Lurk for ETF Investors            The Week Ahead: Risk Is Off the Cliff; Unwind Has Begun Jan 31, 2010     01-13-10 Forecast for 2010 from Seeking Alpha Contributor        Current Economic / Fiscal Charts         Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009                   Read more about the sentiment survey.      MUST READ: JEREMY GRANTHAM’S QUARTERLY UPDATE 25 January 2010 (850 on the S&P) by TPC       It’s Time to Sell the Market…(1-19-10 Why wait till too late?) … This means closing out some longs for a profit, or at least taking some money off the table. This also means considering what one would do if stocks were to stage a significant reversal. The fact that corporate insiders are selling their stakes in record numbers and that fewer and fewer investors are participating in this rally makes a massive reversal probable rather than possible this year!...   Peter Shiff: Economic collapse in near future / 2010, coming decade worse than past decade   S&P sells on a price-to-earnings multiple of 88 after the recent financial results. That is a horrendous overvaluation. A reasonable p/e would be around 18-25…’ Economist Wachtel says practices that caused crisis in play, toxic assets still there, and economically sound lending not viable  El-Erian who oversees nearly $1 trillion in assets, more than the gross domestic product of most countries, says stocks will drop 10 percent in the space of three or four weeks, bringing the Standard & Poor's 500 index below 1,000 soon  Breaking Point 2010: Top Trends with Gerald Celente …DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE IN 2010 FOR THE UNITED STATES TO END UP AS BADLY AS ARGENTINA A DECADE AGO? “Worse! Worse than Argentina because our debt problems are worse. This is classic empire decline. Argentina was not even an empire. We’re fighting wars in foreign countries as we are depleting the Treasury .…That’s why we are calling it:    Breaking Point 2010!”      The History of the Future: Trends 2012  Autumn 2012, the “Greatest Depression” has spread worldwide  …      THE NUMBER: DEC. -85,000 JOBS... 10%...     'WORSE THAN EXPECTED'...    rallies stocks anyway  (they probably just didn’t bother resetting the computerized churn-and-earn trade programs)  /  the new carry-trade borrow low then buy bubble   trade deficit up /  US Will Hit 94% Debt to GDP Ratio Next Year, Surpassing the Level Where Debt Starts Reducing Economic Growth        Shrinking US Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate From Rising … Negative data spurs market rally … riiiiight!  New jobless claims rise 'more than expected'...     Retail sales drop in December; Sales for all of '09 plunge by record amount...     Record year for foreclosures...   Worthless Weimar dollar, inflation, unsustainable debt, higher interest rates, and fake numbers rally stocks    Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says Bloomberg Last decade was the worst ever in the stock market  Jay Bookman | In nearly 200 years of recorded stock-market history, no calendar decade has seen such a dismal performance as the 2000s.    Foreclosure / distressed sales up again and a lunatics’ santa claus rally as in bubble-crashes past  WITH NEW BUBBLE IN THIS PREPOSTEROUS AND FRAUDULENT ENVIRONMENT WITH CONTINUED SUCKERS’ COMPUTER PROGRAMMED /SHORT-COVERING /BEAR MARKET RALLY (ON TRADE DEFICIT UNEXPECTEDLY UP MORE, CONSUMER CONFIDENCE UNEXPECTEDLY DOWN MORE, DYING DOLLAR, MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED 10.2% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, EVEN MORE FAKE GOVERNMENT REPORTS, NEW RECORD DEFICIT 1.42 TRILLION, HIGHER OIL PRICES, EVER MORE WORTHLESS DOLLAR, CRASH IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, INCOME/CONFIDENCE DOWN, B.S. SERVICE SECTOR MEANINGLESS REPORT, LOTS OF FORECLOSURE SALES) BASED ON FAKE DATA [WATCH FOR CORRUPT GOV’T, IE., COMMERCE DEPT (GDP +3.5% BEATS ESTIMATES-HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY DISCOUNTED MANY TIMES OVER), ETC., FALSE REPORTS TO FROTH MARKET], BAD DATA (JOB LOSSES UP, BANKRUPTCIES UP 41%,  CAR SALES / MANUFACTURING DOWN, ETC.), BULL S**T (IE., MERGER MANTRA-LIKE CHURN AND EARN COMMISSIONS GREAT FOR WALL STREET FEES BUT BAD FOR EVERYONE ELSE ESPECIALLY SINCE LEADING INDICATORS WITH B.S. STOCK COMPONENT THE ULTIMATE BOOTSTRAP, MORE WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLAR, ETC.), BETTER THAN EXPECTATIONS MANTRA  (Paul B. Farrell: America's soul is lost and collapse is inevitable    Recession Will Be ‘Full-Blown Depression’:(10-17-09) Strategist/Analyst      5 DISTURBING FACTS FOR BULLS     David Weidner's Writing on the Wall: Taking the inside path to new bubble and fraudulent gains wall street frauds as before they tout multinational currency translation for window dressing but quality of earnings and prospective growth and stability in doubt and already discounted and substantially overvalued   s     Another Financial Bubble Comes Into View    Oil price hits new high for 2009      Gold at $2,000 Becomes Inflation-Adjusted Bullseye for ‘80 High  ) [We Are in Deep Trouble: We are Going to See New Lows in The Markets    The Recession Is Far from Over     Portfolio Manager Says Dow Will Fall To 6,300 By Year End    Classic Market Bubble       October ‘Crash’ Still on the Way: CEO   Max Keiser On JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs Et Al’s Fraud       Goldman Sachs Operative Hired as SEC Unit COO              October: High Risk for Bulls  …The big, smart traders will use any buying from the public to sell into. After all, the stock market has rallied on fumes, hopes and expectations. It will be the typical case of "selling on the news."…    U.S. Stock Markets Disconnected from Reality     U.S. Foreclosure Filings Jump 23% to Record in Third Quarter      1929 And Today - Sobering Parallels Abound         Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro         Dollar drops to 14-month low; commodities rise    Rothschild Biographer: Dollar Will Suffer Long, Protracted Death       Major U.S. banks and securities firms on route to award record pay in '09, despite the damage they caused from their yet unprosecuted fraud and the change back to old FASB fraud facilitator ‘mark to anything they want’ accounting: report      Jim Rogers “Quite Sure” Gold Will Hit $2000, Dollar Will Lose Reserve Status       Goldman Sachs 2009 bonuses to double 2008’s; $23 billion could send 460,000 to Harvard, buy insurance for 1.7 million families       A second Great Depression is still probable Financial Times      Gold Jumps to Record as Inflation/Worthless Dollar Outlook Fuels Investor Demand     Robert Fisk on the Gulf ‘Ditching the Dollar’ AlJazeera | Report suggests a move to the Japanese Yen, Chinese Yuan, and the Euro.    The 'Buy Anything' Market  It's the "buy anything market" brought to you courtesy of the destruction of your currency…      Defaults on Credit Cards Climbed to Record 11.49%...          It Is Going To Be A Rocky Road Chuck Baldwin | America is on the verge of total financial collapse.   The Economy is a Lie, too Paul Craig Roberts | The worst part of the decline is yet to come.   BULLISH STANCE IS WEARING THIN         WAY TOO MUCH RISK IN THE EQUITY MARKET        Mark Hulbert (9-22-09): Corporate insiders selling at faster pace      The stock market rally is just another bubble — and it’s set to pop      Marc Faber Says U.S. Government Will Fail in 5 to 10 Years     Push For New Global Currency At G20        HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy      US To Face ‘Armageddon’: China, Japan Can’t Keep Buying Worthless Debt             Senator Sanders: “Don’t Believe Anybody Who’s Telling You ‘The Recession is Over’ ”             FDIC May Tap Fed Treasury Funds     State Unemployment Keeps Rising; Three Hit Record Highs     John Browne…And the markets just don't get it. Technically, S&P profits are down some 90 percent, but the Index has risen to push P/E ratios to levels not seen since 1929.    Bernanke Says Recession Over. Should You Believe Him?  Barry Ritholtz | Based on his track record as a forecaster and his acumen in identifying economic problems before they exploded, his views on starts and finishes of recessions are, to be blunt, irrelevant.  Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The economic crisis is anything but over, the “solutions” have been akin to putting a band-aid on an amputated arm.     Roubini Sees Stock Declines as Soros Warns on Economy      Expect Economic Stagnancy, If Not Worse, for Years to Come  Obama referred to Friday's jobs data, a loss of 263,000 jobs (roughly 100,000 more than economists expected) as sobering. Well, I agree, but to say it was unexpected is to buy into those that thinks we are in recovery phase. To me we are in the lull before the storm. By the way, of over 80 economists surveyed, none, not one, predicted the number to be as high as 263,000. That reality is sobering. But if you really want something sobering, I suggest the following link. As the author points out, if you are expecting consumers to start spending more money for an economic rebound then you are sadly mistaken. They are already spending at very high (record) levels in terms of a percentage of personal income and as a percentage of GDP. And even that is not really lifting us out of this recession absent government support. Even though consumers are pretty much spending as much as they can, the economy is still struggling. So I don't expect things to improve from here. And as this piece points out, we are in for a world of hurt due to the size of the private debt that has built up.          Charts Predict Downside for the Markets       Shorting the Double Dip   The double dip has begun…  The reported unemployment number is 9.8%; real unemployment is 20% if you include those who have stopped looking and part time workers wanting to work full time. And the labor force participation rate is at a 23 year low...      The Recovery That Isn’t  Peter Schiff | Americans are once again taking the government’s bait by spending money they don’t have to buy things they can’t afford.     Dangers, Failures, Diversions and Shortfalls  Bob Chapman | Yes, too big to fail is still in vogue, just as it was in the 1930s.       The Real Reason the Giant, Insolvent Banks Aren’t Being Broken Up       US Lost Credibility by Saying Banks Were Healthy, Audit Says      World Bank and IMF join global attack on the dollar Larry Edelson | Washington has no choice but to devalue the dollar — and how global leaders and even the United Nations have joined the attack on the greenback by demanding it be replaced as the world’s reserve currency.     US economic decline forges new world order Agence France-Presse | “The American engine is not as strong as it was before,” IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a speech.      Expert on Structured Finance and Derivatives Gives the Big Picture  Wall Street disguised these toxic “investments” with new value-destroying securitizations and derivatives. Meanwhile, collapsing mortgage lenders paid high dividends to shareholders (old investors) and interest on credit lines to Wall Street (old investors) with money raised from new investors in doomed securities. New money allowed Wall Street to temporarily hide losses and pay enormous bonuses. This is a classic Ponzi scheme…         300 Members of The House Support Audit the Fed       Roubini: Stocks, Commodities Have Risen 'Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast'...       TARP Boss Plays Soft Ball with the Banksters Kurt Nimmo | The “gigantic train of crime” is rolling again and it will be far worse than it was in 1929 and the 1930s.       Study: Bernanke, Paulson misled public on bailouts      Euro Banks May Have to Raise $78 Billion: JP Morgan     U.S. Suffering Permanent Destruction of Jobs        HSBC Chief Warns of Second Downturn: Report        Unemployment to Rise Through Most of 2010: Roubini  Key Reversals on September 23 Started the Return of the Bear        Central Banks Continue to Reduce Their Share of Dollar Reserves        IMF Growth Forecast: Cause for Concern, Not Optimism  In a climate where economic planners and market participants are desperate       Market Rally Exaggerates Reality     Plunging Pensions: Taxpayers Below        Some Scary Implications of US Debt          Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman       “Everything the US has done since the crisis is wrong” – economist     US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting reality of double-dip recession        Ron Paul: Federal government ‘one giant toxic asset’         Bankster Bailout Did Nothing to Solve Problem, Crisis Now Worse          16 Reasons for Equities Markets to Fall Soon      WHY THE BULLS ARE SKATING ON THIN ICE      Treasury: Millions more foreclosures coming        Forbes Reports the Dollar Has Collapsed       PAPER: AMERICA 'FACES ARGENTINA-STYLE FALL'...       Forbes Reports the Dollar Has Collapsed     Predicting Worse Ahead from America’s Economic Crisis     3 more bank failures bring 2009 total to 92      WHITE HOUSE ECON ADVISER: HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT FOR YEARS TO COME...      The Coming Consequences of Banking Fraud           Job losses slow if you believe their fake numbers (they revealed prior better than expected numbers which previously rallied stocks, were indeed not better than expected in fact, and then rallied them again); jobless rate at 26-year high     We are reminded of Japan where rates were microscopic for years and the Nikkei certainly did enjoy no fewer than four 50% rallies and over 420,000 rally points in a market that is still more than 70% lower today than it was two decades agoThe market is basically discounting an earnings stream that even the consensus does not see for another two to three years  ], EVER MORE WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLAR, INCREASED FORECLOSURE SALES AND BEN (HE STILL HAS A JOB - AS AMERICANS LOSE THEIRS) BERNANKE BULL S**T (REMEMBER HIS NO RECESSION TALKS, MANY OF THEM, TO FROTH THE MARKET THEN AS NOW AND HOW MANY SUCKERS’ POINTS TO THE UPSIDE THEREFROM – WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T, WHAT FRAUDS!) EVEN AS ECONOMIST KELLNER JOINS THE RATIONAL CROWD SAYING ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT IN 2010 AND CONTINUED BAD NEWS [ INSIDERS ARE DUMPING STOCK   Insiders Selling Stocks at Highest Level Since May 2008 (8-31-09)         INSIDERS CONTINUE TO SELL, SELL, SELL (AT SEEKING ALPHA 8/13/09)      PAPER: FRESH ALERT ON GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS...    The Great Depression and Today - Sobering Parallels Abound         Roubini: “When Governments Reach the Point Where They Are Borrowing to Pay the Interest on Their Borrowing They Are … Running a Ponzi Scheme”      Economic Collapse: Bank Runs, China, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Max Keiser   Oldest Swiss Bank Wisely Tells Clients to Sell U.S. Assets or Leave   Looming Global Debt Crisis    Congressman Grayson: Fed Secretly “Stuffed” $500 Billion into “Foreign Private Pockets” and Gave $230 Billion to Citi “As a Secret Bailout”       Ron Paul: End the Fed, Save the Dollar       Gerald Celente: There is No Recovery     Madoff Files: A Chronicle of SEC Failure       US jobless soars as companies squeeze workers   US jobless soars as companies squeeze workers        Food stamp list soars past 35 million...  and New record; up 22% from '08...      Fairy Tales of Recovery, Reality of More Failures         Goldman Sachs Wrong on Economic Recovery, Macro Hedge Funds Say       The Coming Deposit Insurance Bailout   Five banks closed by U.S. regulators with 89 total closures         Russian Professor: Collapse Of America Could Begin In Two Months       The $531 Trillion Dollar Derivatives Time Bomb       Dollar Is Funny Money in Push for World Currency: Kevin Hassett    Commercial Real Estate Next Mortgage Crisis     Federal Reserve made $14 billion on turmoil loans           Banks' struggles have worsened...       Lehman claims could reach $100 billion: PwC       [$$] Raft of Deals for Failed Banks Puts U.S. on Hook for Billions (at The Wall Street Journal Online)         Three more banks fail; 2009 total hits 84             Goldman "Trading Huddles" Expose Fiction of Level Playing Field      1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years           AP sources: $2 trillion higher deficit projected (AP)   Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions      Zero Hedge Claims that the Federal Reserve ITSELF Traded Over a Trillion Dollars Worth of Derivatives in March Alone           Geithner: Auditing the Fed is a “line that we don’t want to cross”     The Federal Reserve Must Die      “True Deleveraging Has Not Begun Yet Because Losses of Financial Institutions Have Been Socialized”        Obama Predicts Unemployment, Deficits Far Worse Than Previously Stated...     Grim...     "Artificially Sweetened" Market Could Face "Seismic Readjustment," Harrison Says      Official: Real unemployment rate at 16%...      WSJ: Dollar Steadily Losing Influence...    Senator warns of hyperinflation...     Failed banks mount; Ga, Ala, and large Texas banks shut    Learn to Love the Depression       US jobless claims in surprise jump for second week      WHY DO EQUITY MARKETS DISAGREE WITH THE DATA?      Brookings “Experts” Admit Stimulus a Bust         Analyst warns of 150-200 more U.S. bank failures       Government Revises Deficit Estimates Again: We Will Exceed Expectations        Manufacturing Jobs Drop To Lowest Level Since 1941      What rebound? Foreclosures rise as jobs and income drop    Fed to Steal State Pension Funds          IMF Says You’ll Have to Pay More Taxes      The risk of continuing depression rising             CALPERS IS UNSUSTAINABLE        What rebound? Foreclosures rise...         Grab Your Shorts, The Correction Has Begun          THE SECOND WAVE OF THE DEPRESSION: HYPERINFLATION IS LIKELY      THE FDIC IS BROKE. NOW WHAT? (PART II)     DOLLAR TO DECLINE AMID CONCERN AS IT 'LOSES RESERVE STATUS'...      JOBLESS SPIKE COMPOUNDS FORECLOSURE CRISIS            STOCKS SLIDE ON ECONOMY CONCERN    WORLD STOCKS, OIL TUMBLE ON U.S. FRAUD EXPOSURE AND CONSUMER WORRIES     Connecticut Not Learning the Right Lessons from California       Weekly Market Outlook: Commercial Real Estate Continues to Deteriorate         Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise (Reuters)     US Home Foreclosures Set Another Record in July    Colonial BancGroup shut down by federal officials (largest bank failure this year) (AP)       Economist: Claim that Economy Has Recovered “Is Like Somebody Borrowing Money from Their Uncle and Then Celebrating that Their Income Has Gone Up”    ]  PERSONAL & BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES UP, WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLAR DOWN, FORECLOSURES UP (32% YOY AND 7% MOM AT NEW RECORD, 50% HOMES UNDERWATER, COMMERCIAL TO FOLLOW), CONFIDENCE REALISTICALLY DOWN, $100+ OIL AROUND CORNER (2010-HOGAN); HILLARY KRAMER-10% CORRECTION, CELENTE-DEPRESSION NOW UNDERWAY  Bob Prechter Quite Sure Next Wave Down Will Be Bigger and March Lows Will Break    Gerald Celente 2.5 Million Jobs Lost Since Obama’s Presidency   PAPER: Fresh alert on global stock markets...  TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [     Insiders Continue to Sell, Sell, Sell (at Seeking Alpha – 8/13/09)          (7-29-09) Insiders Selling at Alarming Levels        Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [Tarp banks award billions in bonuses...     Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)   Cody Willard: Goldman Sachs Is A Ponzi Scheme, Should Be Punished Accordingly  Max Keiser: Prosecute the Bankster Crime Syndicate   The Market's Horoscope: Downside Correction   ! [  Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008.     Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit      U.S. regulators close 3 banks, total now 72     US deficit climbs to 1.3 trillion dollars    This Depression is just beginning        The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Back in the Great Depression of 1929 through the 1930’s, we saw a similar Zig-zag pattern. There was a crash in 1929, followed by a nice rally, but then the most devastating part of the market collapse followed into the 1930’s.      Feds Hit With Biggest Tax Revenue Drop Since 1932...       The Great Depression Two Continues There is no coincident data which is demonstrating this recession is over. Some may be at the bottom, others have a way to go…    An Artifical Recovery       [$$] Why I Went Fully Into Cash     Bob Prechter "Quite Sure" Next Wave Down Will Be Bigger and March Lows Will Break         A REALITY CHECK ON U.S. 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY'  Jeff Nielson - U.S. equities are rallying again today, and (as usual) it is a rally with no basis in reality.  Most of the enthusiasm comes from another string of corporate quarterly results which “beat expectations”. I had hoped that the sheep were starting to clue-in to this silly game, however it appears there is a still a large pack of Pavlov's Dogs out there – who respond to their propaganda cues without a moment of actual thought. The truth is that all of the companies “beating expectations” are still reporting steadily worse results year-over-year – and in many cases, much worse results. Among the few exceptions are U.S. financial corporations. However, since accounting-fraud was legalized in the United States (see “FASB strong-armed into mark-to-fantasy accounting”), their bottom-lines have had absolutely no connection to their business operations… The Real Economy Versus the Make-Believe World of the Government and Financial Giants  In the real economy, unemployment is at Depression-era levels.     Top firms' pension funds plummet    Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%    Nine Of Ten Sectors Overbought      This Depression is just beginning   US companies axe 371,000 jobs in July       Half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011...     Recovery ‘not in sight’ says BMW    ] CONTINUED FRAUD WITH PROGRAMMED SUCKERS’ RALLY DESPITE NEW RECORD FOR CONTINUING UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS AT 6.3 MILLION AND AS I WARNED, WATCH FOR FAKE REPORTS IN DESPERATION – AND LABOR DEPT. CAME THROUGH WITH FAKE REPORT AND NEW LIE BASED UPON PEOPLE STOPPED LOOKING FOR JOBS SO THEIR RATE 9.4 BUT OBAMA SAYS 10% - REALITY IS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS WELL OVER 10%, THEN AIG SOARS ON “PROFIT” WITH $87 BILLION IN TAXPAYER FUNDS TO PLAY WITH  [  Max Keiser: Prosecute the Bankster Crime Syndicate   Insiders Continue to Sell, Sell, Sell (at Seeking Alpha)      PAPER: Fresh alert on global stock markets...    Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise (Reuters)     US Home Foreclosures Set Another Record in July      (7-29-09) Insiders Selling at Alarming Levels …Although the level of insider selling is certainly alarming it's important to note that the very low levels of buying are particularly alarming. Insiders sell stock for many reasons, but they generally only buy stock for one reason: they believe the stock is going up. Despite the fact the media is reporting an end to the recession, a bottom in housing and a trough in earnings we are seeing a vote of zero confidence from the people who know these companies better than anyone else…  Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008.     Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit      U.S. regulators close 3 banks, total now 72     US deficit climbs to 1.3 trillion dollars    Causes of This Depression Yet To Be Addressed   Further impoverishment is on the way. More and more will be laid off and they’ll be no new jobs available. Savings will be exhausted and most homes that have been financed will be under water.   Some banks paid bonuses bigger than income: o     This Depression is just beginning    You read that right! Only $400 billion of that fantastic 6 month “green shoots” stock market rally came from money market accounts. The rest ($2.3 trillion) was laundered through the banks and other financial institutions to create the appearance of recovery and to raise equity for underwater banks rather than forcing them into receivership (which is where they belong) Bernanke probably knew that congress wouldn’t approve another TARP-type bailout for dodgy mortgage-backed assets, so he settled on this shifty plan instead. The only problem is, the banks are still broke, business investment is at historic lows, consumers are on the ropes, the unemployment lines are swelling, the homeless shelters are bulging, the pawn shops are bustling, tent cities are sprouting up everywhere, and according to MarketWatch, Corporate insiders have recently been selling their companies’ shares at a greater pace than at any time since the top of the bull market in the fall of 2007.” Face it; the economy is in the crapper and Bernanke’s trickery hasn’t done a lick of good.    The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Back in the Great Depression of 1929 through the 1930’s, we saw a similar Zig-zag pattern. There was a crash in 1929, followed by a nice rally, but then the most devastating part of the market collapse followed into the 1930’s.  Bob Prechter "Quite Sure" Next Wave Down Will Be Bigger and March Lows Will Break          The Real Economy Versus the Make-Believe World of the Government and Financial Giants  In the real economy, unemployment is at Depression-era levels.     Top firms' pension funds plummet     Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%       Nine Of Ten Sectors Overbought      This Depression is just beginning            Feds Hit With Biggest Tax Revenue Drop Since 1932...       The Great Depression Two Continues There is no coincident data which is demonstrating this recession is over. Some may be at the bottom, others have a way to go…    An Artifical Recovery       [$$] Why I Went Fully Into Cash      US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time      The Banks Own the Fed, and the Central Banks Own BIS         AIG breakup nets Wall Street $1 billion bonanza: report      ‘Underwater’ Mortgages to Hit 48%, Deutsche Bank Says     Oil price hits $76, highest since October...    US companies axe 371,000 jobs in July       Half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011...     Recovery ‘not in sight’ says BMW      Recession Worse Than Prior Estimates, Revisions Show  Bloomberg | The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY SUCKERS’ RALLY POINTS WERE ADDED BY THE FAKE NUMBERS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS NEW COMMISSIONING BUBBLE!     REVISED: ECONOMY 2X WORSE...  The government plans big revisions to historical economic data... Developing...   Regulators shut banks in Fla., NJ, Ohio, Okla... WASHINGTON (7-31-09) (AP) -- Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois, boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.    PhD Economist: Fed has Caused Soaring Unemployment, Millions of Foreclosures, Millions Losing Life Savings and More than $6 Trillion in Lost Output      DOLLAR DROPS TO '09 LOW...  Unemployment spreads distress in U.S. home loans       Weak Treasury Auctions Raise Worries About Debt Burden...     [$$] Senate Probes Banks for Meltdown Fraud (at The Wall Street Journal Online)     Even Bernanke Admits this Could be Worse than the Great Depression      Senate probes Goldman, Deutsche: report (Reuters)      The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High       2009 Looking More Like 1929         Dollar Falls to 2009 Low...    U.S. Markets Decline After Weaker Than Expected Data    A REALITY CHECK ON U.S. 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY'  Jeff Nielson - U.S. equities are rallying again today, and (as usual) it is a rally with no basis in reality.   ] AND NOTHING REAL OR POSITIVE AT ALL (IE., STILL NO PROSECUTIONS OF THE FRAUDS ON WALL STREET SO JUST ANOTHER BUILT-IN COST BY CHURN-AND-EARN COMMISSIONS TO, DEFACTO TAX ON NON-PERFORMING / DECLINING ECONOMY, DURABLE GOODS DOWN/FORECLOSURES UP, CONFIDENCE REALISTICALLY DOWN, CORRUPT COMMERCE DEPARTMENT CHIMES IN WITH FAKE NUMBERS, USED HOME SALES UP WITH DEFAULTS/ SHORT SALES, JOB LOSSES UP, BETTER THAN EXPECTED MANTRA, GUIDANCE THAT DEFIES REALITY BY A LONG SHOT AS IN LAST COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE BUST, JOB/COST CUTS TO BONE, ETC.) (  Max Keiser: Prosecute the Bankster Crime Syndicate     Max Keiser: Goldman Sachs Are “Scum,” “Financial Terrorists”     Bank profits not as impressive as they seem when you take into account TARP funding, changed accounting rules to fudge books, new stock issues, etc… um   Cost Of Bailout Hits A Whopping $24 Trillion Dollars    Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008.     Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit      U.S. regulators close 3 banks, total now 72     US deficit climbs to 1.3 trillion dollars      Stearns Crucifies Paulson On Bailout Bait And Switch     Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons     Foreign Embassies Urged to Stockpile Local Currencies     Bailout Overseer Says Banks Misused TARP Funds     Regulators shut banks in Calif., Ga. and SD  ) TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [   (7-29-09) Insiders Selling at Alarming Levels        Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    Bob Prechter "Quite Sure" Next Wave Down Will Be Bigger and March Lows Will Break       ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [Tarp banks award billions in bonuses...     Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)   Cody Willard: Goldman Sachs Is A Ponzi Scheme, Should Be Punished Accordingly  Max Keiser: Prosecute the Bankster Crime Syndicate       Corporate Media Spotlights Distortion of Market by High Frequency Trading     [$$] Big Pay Packages Return to Wall Street as new fraud gains steam (at The Wall Street Journal Online)   Max Keiser: Goldman Sachs gang are ’scum’ who have co-opted U.S. gov’t    Max Keiser: Goldman Sachs Are “Scum,” “Financial Terrorists”  Max Keiser goes on the offensive during an appearance on France 24 as he slams Goldman Sachs as “scum” and “financial terrorists” who should be thrown in jail.   ‘Printing money will lead to serious problems down the road,’ says Jim Rogers      Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’    2009 Looking More Like 1929    AIG breakup nets Wall Street $1 billion bonanza: report      ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...    Scams And Bailouts The Cause of World Depression    Insiders Continue to Sell, Sell, Sell (at Seeking Alpha 8/13/09)      PAPER: Fresh alert on global stock markets...    Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise (Reuters)     US Home Foreclosures Set Another Record in July       (7-29-09) Insiders Selling at Alarming Levels   Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008.   The Market's Horoscope: Downside Correction        Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit      U.S. regulators close 3 banks, total now 72     US deficit climbs to 1.3 trillion dollars   Causes of Depression Yet To Be Addressed   Further impoverishment is on the way. More and more will be laid off and they’ll be no new jobs available. Savings will be exhausted and most homes that have been financed will be under water.   Some banks paid bonuses bigger than income: o     This Depression is just beginning    You read that right! Only $400 billion of that fantastic 6 month “green shoots” stock market rally came from money market accounts. The rest ($2.3 trillion) was laundered through the banks and other financial institutions to create the appearance of recovery and to raise equity for underwater banks rather than forcing them into receivership (which is where they belong) Bernanke probably knew that congress wouldn’t approve another TARP-type bailout for dodgy mortgage-backed assets, so he settled on this shifty plan instead. The only problem is, the banks are still broke, business investment is at historic lows, consumers are on the ropes, the unemployment lines are swelling, the homeless shelters are bulging, the pawn shops are bustling, tent cities are sprouting up everywhere, and according to MarketWatch, Corporate insiders have recently been selling their companies’ shares at a greater pace than at any time since the top of the bull market in the fall of 2007.” Face it; the economy is in the crapper and Bernanke’s trickery hasn’t done a lick of good.    The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Back in the Great Depression of 1929 through the 1930’s, we saw a similar Zig-zag pattern. There was a crash in 1929, followed by a nice rally, but then the most devastating part of the market collapse followed into the 1930’s.      Feds Hit With Biggest Tax Revenue Drop Since 1932...       The Great Depression Two Continues There is no coincident data which is demonstrating this recession is over. Some may be at the bottom, others have a way to go…    An Artifical Recovery       [$$] Why I Went Fully Into Cash     Bob Prechter "Quite Sure" Next Wave Down Will Be Bigger and March Lows Will Break         The Real Economy Versus the Make-Believe World of the Government and Financial Giants  In the real economy, unemployment is at Depression-era levels.    US companies axe 371,000 jobs in July       Half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011...     Recovery ‘not in sight’ says BMW          Top firms' pension funds plummet    Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%    Nine Of Ten Sectors Overbought      This Depression is just beginning        US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time      The Banks Own the Fed, and the Central Banks Own BIS         AIG breakup nets Wall Street $1 billion bonanza: report      ‘Underwater’ Mortgages to Hit 48%, Deutsche Bank Says     Oil price hits $76, highest since October...    US companies axe 371,000 jobs in July       Unemployment spreads distress in U.S. home loans   Cities in the U.S. Sun Belt states of California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona dominated the record foreclosure spree in the first half of the year, but distress in other regions emerged as joblessness spread, RealtyTrac said on Thursday.   Recession Worse Than Prior Estimates, Revisions Show  Bloomberg | The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed. Do you realize how many suckers’ rally points were added by the fake numbers contributing to this new commissioning bubble!     REVISED: ECONOMY 2X WORSE...  The government plans big revisions to historical economic data... Developing...   Regulators shut banks in Fla., NJ, Ohio, Okla... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois, boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.    PhD Economist: Fed has Caused Soaring Unemployment, Millions of Foreclosures, Millions Losing Life Savings and More than $6 Trillion in Lost Output      DOLLAR DROPS TO '09 LOW...    75% Favor Auditing The Fed      Tarp banks award billions in bonuses...    The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High       2009 Looking More Like 1929         Dollar Falls to 2009 Low...        Six Georgia banks fail, bringing year tally to 64....    Rally may cool on earnings reality check    Dollar Falls to Near 2009 Low as Economy Pares Refuge Demand         Ben Bernanke Was Wrong        Wall Street’s Love Affair with Ben Bernanke Mike Whitney | bernanke knows that the country is in a Depression Scams And Bailouts The Cause of World Depression     New US weekly jobless claims jump      Its Official: U.S. Trapped in an Extended Depressionary Cycle       MICROSOFT Profit Drops 29% as PC Slowdown Weighs on Revenue… they haven’t availed themselves of the fake assets/books legislation recently passed...      AMAZON.COM Profit Drops 10%...         Bernanke: “I Don’t Know” Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion   Paul Joseph Watson Grayson grills Fed chairman on destination of credit swaps.         Fed: unemployment will top 10 percent this year...         Foreclosures (those increased home sales that has been fueling suckers’ rally)  rise 15 percent in first half of 2009    (7-17) Three more banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to more than double all of 2008 at a total thus far of 57    Lower Markets on the Horizon      Cody Willard: Goldman Sachs Is A Ponzi Scheme, Should Be Punished Accordingly     The Ultimate Insider Trading Scheme    Max Keiser: Goldman Sachs gang are ’scum’ who have co-opted U.S. gov’t       Cost Of Bailout Hits A Whopping $24 Trillion Dollars     Stearns Crucifies Paulson On Bailout Bait And Switch     Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons     Foreign Embassies Urged to Stockpile Local Currencies     Bailout Overseer Says Banks Misused TARP Funds     TARP watchdog says Treasury lacking bank data     Goldman Sachs  caused  the problems in the first place… Who can deny that?             Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for first time (AP)      CIT Watch: Analysts Says Debt Load Isn't the Only Problem       Geithner Refuses to Rule Out Continuing Using American Taxpayer as Piggy Bank for Derivatives Losses    WHITE HOUSE ECON ADVISER CLAIMS SUCCESS: FEWER PEOPLE SEARCHING 'ECONOMIC DEPRESSION' ON GOOGLE BECAUSE EXPERIENCING IT FIRST-HAND THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT ECONOMIC DEPRESSION IS...      What Economy? There’s Nothing Left to Recover  There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical “New Economy “ ; less bad, not as bad as expected…riiiiight!, tarp money for the commission frauds on wall street in new manufactured bubble as actual/real manufacturing down again; consumer confidence down, commercial loans begin default phase of downturn, 6.9 million continuing unemployment claims for new record; retail sales down sharply A REALITY CHECK ON U.S. 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY'  Jeff Nielson - U.S. equities are rallying again today, and (as usual) it is a rally with no basis in reality.   Economist: FDIC gearing up for bank closures     Goldman Sachs Admits Its Software Can “Manipulate Markets in Unfair Ways and fraudulently generate commissions /trade volume”     Max Keiser: Goldman Sachs gang are ’scum’ who have co-opted U.S. gov’t You Tube | Goldman Sachs are scum– that’s the bottom line. They have co-opted the government, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve’s functionality. They’ve co-opted the Obama administration & Barack Obama dances to Goldman Sachs’ tune.         True unemployment rate already at 20%    This Depression Will Last For Years       Wyoming sees first bank failure since 1991     China criticizes dollar          AIG Preparing to Pay New Round of Bonuses...     While Talking About Keynesian Stimulus, Feds Are Really Just Giving Money to the Big Frauds            FDIC Insurance Fund: It Doesn’t Actually Exist      Replacing the dollar as reserve currency         US loses 467,000 jobs, unemployment at 9.5%       'We're in the Middle of a Crash': Black Swan...    Economic Expectations – Unemployment Rate Will Reach 15%    David Tice: We are going into a depression-15% unemployment or more on horizon.   U.S. consumers fall behind on loans at record pace       FBI: Mortgage fraud 'rampant' and growing...       Celente and Schiff Predict Food Panic This Year. Watch clips HERE. Fema Camps Built.      Wall Street hits 10-week low amid talk of new stimulus      (7-2)Seven more banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to more than double all of 2008 at a total thus far of 52; Private sector sheds another 473,000 jobs in June...    US lurching towards ‘debt explosion’ with long-term interest rates on course to double         Jim Rogers Sells Dollars, Plans to Short Treasuries               ‘Sucker’s Rally Beginning To Unwind’ daaaah…?    Calls grow to supplant dollar as global currency     China officials call for displacing dollar, in time       Tracking Two Depressions, 1929 and now this            Mortgage applications fall to 7-month low...         Private sector sheds another 473,000 jobs in June...        'Layoffs may be worsening'...      AIG shares drop after 1-for-20 reverse-stock split (AP)     Manhattan apartment prices skid 13 to 19 percent          Job losses / job concerns realistically weigh on confidence, real estate values/prices continue downward trend as per Case / Shiller Index (-18.1%, -21% in california)    Consumer confidence suffers steep fall...     Home prices post 18% annual drop...    Worldwide Depression: Review of Global Markets       . Four banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to 19 more than all of 2008 at a total thus far of 44       Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency      Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...    A REALITY CHECK ON U.S. 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY'  Jeff Nielson - U.S. equities are rallying again today, and (as usual) it is a rally with no basis in reality.       , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009   A REALITY CHECK ON U.S. 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY'  Jeff Nielson - U.S. equities are rallying again today, and (as usual) it is a rally with no basis in reality.     Markets See a Breakdown in Technical Support Levels             Roubini: USA sees double-dip recession...    Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q      Bernanke faces GOP-led (who are they kidding-bushies/paulsen went so far as threaten martial law- prosecute now! They continue to allow the wall street fraud and political theater doesn’t change their complicity) heat on BofA-Merrill deal    Fed Tried to Cover-up Its Involvement in Bank of America-Merrill Deal       U.S. Economy: Jobless Claims Rise in Sign Labor Market Stagnant            Dollar drops on reserve currency doubts      China sells US bonds to ’show concern’      BRICs May Buy Each Other’s Bonds in Shift From Dollar            China’s holding of US bonds drops first time in 11 months        Russia to Raise Reserve Currency Issue at BRIC              International Demand for Worthless U.S. Assets Slowed in April        IMF says worst not over        Senator cashed out during big stock collapse -- after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs!    America's AAA downgrade danger...        Treasury faces pressure on price of TARP exit      A depression so deep even teen shoppers scrimp      US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive         1st quarter wiped out $1.3 trillion for Americans     Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates       Oil prices near $73 as energy rally continues      Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited        Fed says economy weak, but sees signs the slide increasing     Mounting deficits spark jitters about U.S. economy     Wall Street falls as realities dent recovery hopes     Bonds fall on worries about government's debt load (AP)      Oil prices strike new high for 2009 (AP)    The depression quietly deepens     CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT...          Oil hits 7-month high over $70... Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?      Here we go again! Barney Frank asks FANNIE and FREDDIE to relax Mortgage lending rules...       Fed Tried to Cover-up Its Involvement in Bank of America-Merrill Deal     Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency       Citigroup Ordered to Suspend Some Operations in Japan         Bernanke Grilling May Weaken Case for Fed as Risk Regulator            Citi boosting salaries to offset lower bonuses, allegedly to retain the clowns who helped make them taxpayer dependant and cause the current debacle; how ‘bout firing them instead and offering opportunity to the new, particularly non-ivy league vegetable garden grads            [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy     U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       [$$] Red Roof Inn Defaults on Mortgage Debt (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       MySpace to cut two-thirds of global workforce    GM to cut 4,000 more white-collar jobs by year end       Oracle tops forecasts despite sales, profit dip; stated another way, bad news will be shilled as good news (AP)    California Collapsing        Bankster “Holiday” Planned for September?      Recession Sparking Global Unrest       Is Your Portfolio Ready for the Next Leg Down?           S&P turns negative for year in broad sell-off (Reuters)       Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)       Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase          Top Insiders Playing You For A Sucker?       The death of the dollar. Who could deny it?    Stanford indicted in massive U.S. fraud case which is small potatoes compared to ubiquitously massive wall street securities fraud which caused the ongoing financial debacle        Venture Capital Bubble Set to Burst, Kedrosky Says     Obama Plans to Cut Bank Regulators, Allow Fed to Supervise Financial Holding Companies – The old fox guarding the henhouse tricks     Federal Reserve unwisely to gain power under plan      Federal Reserve Foolishly To Be Given Sweeping New Powers        Yen Strengthens Most in Month as Asian Stocks Drop, Gold Gains        RUSSIA CHALLENGES WORTHLESS DOLLAR...    AIG says former top exec plundered retirement plan     [video] The Too-Big-to-Fail Problem [6.8 min] (at MarketWatch)     [$$] Too Big to Solve? (at The Wall Street Journal Online)          Buy and Hold Is Dead. Long Live Buy and Hold!     Financial Bailout Plan Keeps Zombie Banks Alive       Bernanke then as now in denial about looming crisis 2005-2007              Retail sales, drop in jobless claims to a very high even if believed 601,000 yielding record continuing claims of 6.8 million fuel hope…if you’re a dope     Lawmakers blast Fed, Treasury for BofA "threats"       Oil climbs over $73 on hopes for rising demand     U.S. Household Worth Fell by $1.3 Trillion in First Quarter       Predictions of $250 a barrel on oil        ECB Fears Reality of Banking Crisis in 2010: Report        Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates      Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 209 Co-Sponsors        Russia May Swap Some U.S. Treasuries for IMF Debt        Fed report shows losses on Bear Stearns, AIG holdings      Congress subpoenas the Fed ... Finally! (AP)        Brazil in recession, recovery unlikely this year       What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys       Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead      America’s Fed Addiction        “87 Percent of [Chinese] Respondents Believe China’s u.s. Dollar-Assets are Unsafe”       Fed Said to Retreat From Seeking Power to Sell Its Own Debt/Bills       WIRE: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead...  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

ANALYST FORECASTS: BULLS AND BEARS    By Richard Shaw    [there were 3 bull forecasts which are bull s**t and not included in the following excerpt to preclude fraud and conserve space; even the neutrals are a stretch]
…..BEAR - May 30: Morgan Stanley equity analyst Jason Todd says sell this S&P 500 rally. He says Morgan Stanley does not see large upside above 825-850. He said, “In the rush to buy a cyclical recovery, it seems earnings or valuation no longer matters. We would be comfortable with this view if the earnings trough was closer, but it is not.”

BEAR - MAY 28: Berkshire Hathaway possible successor to Warren Buffet, David Sokol, says they see no evidence of the green shoots that been a stimulus to the stock market. He sees the most significant headwinds to the electric utility industry in his 30 years, and see continuing housing industry problems.

BEAR?/BULL? - May 28: PIMCO co-CEO Bill Gross (manager of world’s largest bond fund) portrays “new normal” including accelerating inflation toward the latter part of a three- to five-year cycle, and the need to reexamine accepted notions about investing. He said stocks have not and will not always outperform bonds, and having 60% to 80% of portfolio assets in stocks may not always make sense. He believes the dollar will lose its status as the reserve currency; Brazil, India and China (forget Russia) will offer the best growth. The U.S. government will be selling trillions in Treasuries; the US savings rate may rise significantly, and the consumer economy may be shrinking long term due to the aging of the population.

BULL?/BEAR? - May 28: GMO CEO Jeremy Grantham predicts higher US savings and lower consumption with many postponed retirements. He sees some reasonable values within the stock market now and sees the third year of the presidential cycle (2011) as the most promising. He is not certain that a robust rally will continune. Like John Bogle, he believes in the principle of having your age as the percentage of bonds in your portfolio. He expects a bubble in emerging market stocks to develop.

BEAR - MAY 26: Comstock Partners portfolio managers Charlie Minter and Marty Weiner, say P/E’s on “as reported earnings” are too high in consideration of the long-term trend in earnings (now in down phase). “Over the past 75 years, most market peaks topped at around 20 times reported earnings, and the troughs occurred at around 10 times earnings. The financial mania of the late 1990s pushed P/Es to over 40 times reported earnings, and the following bust never brought P/Es below 18 times reported earnings. … Going back to 1950, every instance where actual earnings rose above trend-line earnings was followed by a period where actual earnings went well below trend-line earnings. Comstock Partners believes that we have entered such a period now, and that the market is trading at such a high multiple of trend-line earnings that it will be difficult to make money.”

BEAR - May 19: Gluskin Sheff analyst David Rosenberg (formerly of Merill Lynch) says this rally is a sucker’s rally based on short covering. “The FTSE All-World market P/E ratio on forward earnings estimates is now around 15x, well above pre-Lehman collapse levels and nearly double the lows for the cycle … this was a rally built largely on short covering, pension fund rebalancing and the emergence of hope wrapped up in ‘green shoot’ data points. … On average, the S&P 500 undergoes a correction of more than 20% … at a minimum, take profits”

NEUTRAL (BEAR?) - May 11: Baring Asset Management portfolio manager Hayes Miller says “Estimates suggest there isn’t that much further to run because equities are fairly valued … Earnings growth for 2009 and 2010 can’t support prices too much higher than where we are today.”

BEAR - May 11: HSBC Global Asset Management chief investment officer Leon Goldfeld, chief investment officer at HSBC Global Asset Management said it’s “hard to see” enough profit growth to justify higher stock prices. The firm’s strategy will be to reduce its holdings of equities and move into bonds and cash, he said.Bloomberg TV on June 1, said HSBC forecasts 900 as the year-end price for the S&P 500 index.

NEUTRAL - May 11: Bloomberg compilation of analyst forecasts of 2009 earnings for the S&P 500 is at $57.17 (not stated whether “as reported” or “operating”). As of June 1, that puts the S&P at about 16.5 times forecasted earnings. Yale economist Robert Schiller said the historic average is a multiple of about 16.3. [we note that we are not in an average situation or stage of a market, however].

BEAR - May 11: Bank of America CIO for private wealth management expects a 10% correction. He said, “We’re going to be in a very volatile, chop-and-grind type of market. We’ve been shown that there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, it’s dim but getting brighter, and that’s why stock prices have come this far this fast. Now, it’s all about ‘show me.’”

BEAR?/ BULL? - May Letter: PIMCO co-CEO Bill Gross wrote: “Do not be deceived by the euphoric sightings of “green shoots” and the claims for new bull markets in a multitude of asset classes. Stable and secure income is still the order of the day. Shaking hands with the new government is still the prescribed strategy, although it should be done at a senior level of the balance sheet. If the government indeed becomes your investment partner, you should keep the big Uncle in clear sight and without back turned. Risk will not likely be rewarded until the global economy stabilizes and the Obama rules of order are more clearly defined.”

BEAR - April 17: Barclay’s analyst Barry Knapp forecasts S&P 500 at 757 by year-end 2009. He said, “The equity market has priced this recovery and then some. It looks pretty expensive to us.”

(7-1) SELL / TAKE ANY PROFITS IN THIS SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY PROGRAMMED TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)     [$$] Big Pay Packages Return to Wall Street as new fraud gains steam (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...    Job losses / job concerns realistically weigh on confidence, real estate values/prices continue downward trend as per Case / Shiller Index (-18.1%, -21% in california)    Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(6-30) SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY TO END WELL OFF SESSION LOWS  TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED Job losses / job concerns realistically weigh on confidence, real estate values/prices continue downward trend as per Case / Shiller Index (-18.1%, -21% in california)    Consumer confidence suffers steep fall...     Home prices post 18% annual drop...    Worldwide Depression: Review of Global Markets       . Four banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to 19 more than all of 2008 at a total thus far of 44       Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency      Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009     ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?      foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...       Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner  Paul Craig Roberts | The red ink that Washington is generating is a far greater threat to Americans than any foreign “enemies.”               

(6-3) ONLY MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY WITH PROGRAMMED SHORT-COVERING/SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

(6-2) SUCKERS’ RALLY CONTINUES TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS The Big Collapse Is Very Near       U.S. auto sales drop, but rays of stability seen      Economic crisis boosts distrust of business: watchdog    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM       Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls    Home foreclosure sales up, no profit discount car sales better than expected  

Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues    YAHOO…To that point, Moody's stated that it expects U.S. rated banks will incur some $470 billion pretax loan losses and write-downs in 2009 and 2010, and also expects many banks will be unprofitable this year. Moody's is keeping a negative outlook on the banking industry rating and the industry's credit outlook. …Semiconductor stocks (-3.3%) showed weakness for the entire session. Their downturn came after Applied Materials (AMAT 11.61, -0.44) chief executive Mike Splinter stated that there will be more failures in the semiconductor equipment sector amid declining customers, according to Reuters...  Sacrifices are needed to save GM, Obama tells Americans Guardian | “Difficult times lie ahead,” said Obama. “More jobs will be lost, more plants will close. More dealerships will shut their doors and so will many parts suppliers.” The Big Collapse Is Very Near Robert Wenzel | The end of the current financial system, as we know it, is imminent.   Today we’re all prisoners in the USA    Ted Rall | Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street so if true, then It’s increasingly evident that Obama should resign     Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM Greg Palast | Stevie the Rat’s plan is nothing less than Grand Theft Auto Pension.     (6-1)  MORE CAN’T BE SAID, SO PREPOSTEROUS WAS THIS TYPICALLY FAKE BETTER THAN EXPECTED (RIIIIIGHT!) COMMERCE DEPARTMENT DATA SUCKERS’ RALLY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS AND BULL S**T ALONE  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Most U.S. retailers likely saw sales fall in May     GM files for bankruptcy, urges quick action    GM: A Mighty Icon Files for Bankruptcy      Dow gets shake-up as GM, Citi kicked out of average       GM removed from S&P 500 index (AP)      Stocks Will Fall 37% and Gold Will Rally %       Even in Crisis, Banks Dig In for Fight Against Rules New York Times | The nine biggest participants in the derivatives market — including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America — created a lobbying organization, the CDS Dealers Consortium, a month after five of its members accepted federal bailout money.     Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment Bloomberg | World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned policy makers that fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy”        (5-29) PROGRAMMED TRADES/SUCKERS’ HIGH OIL/LOW DOLLAR (RIIIIIGHT!) RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON BAD NEWS ( ie.,  GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,   Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!    (5-28) Sowell: Government’s Current Role in Business the ‘Route’ to Fascism         Foreclosure woes mount for those with good credit         Fed Finds a Way to Use Stress Tests to Screw Bank Shareholders One More Time (at Seeking Alpha)      Time Warner to spin off AOL, ending ill-fated deal      [$$] Listen, But Don't Get Suckered      Faber: Inflation to 'Approach Zimbabwe Level'...    U.S. Weighs Single Agency to Regulate Banking Industry Yet Ignores Existing Laws, Prosecution, and Disgorgement in this Huge Fraud…Why   (5-27)  Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?              Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B (AP)     Regulators seize 34th bank failure of year Florida's BankUnited FSB (AP)     Treasury Selloff Spiking Interest Rates      GM bankruptcy seen near          GM all but certain to file for Chapter 11    US Government to Take Up 70% Stake in GM          FDIC Fund Running Dry  Yahoo Finance | As the FDIC has had to step in to take over more and more insolvent banks, the fund has dwindled to dangerously low levels. At the same time, the number of problem banks continues to grow at a rapid pace.     IRS tax revenue falls along with taxpayers’ income USA Today | Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981.    (5-26)  fake consumer confidence reading 30+% better than private estimate sucker-rallies stocks ,   Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)   ,  The Sleepwalkers' Rally         ,  Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally” , don’t forget that the suckers rally stock prices accounted for the very modest but ephemeral uptick in leading indicators        Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars    )  , (5-22) Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Bill to Audit Fed Wisely Gains Serious Momentum       U.S. to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy       Gold tops $960 for first time in two months as dollar weakens      South Afica gold coin demand hits all time high     Peter Schiff called “Extremist” by Time Magazine      Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern…riiiiight!…con     Gold Poised for Third Weekly Gain as Dollar Slumps Against Euro      “The Odds on the Dollar, Treasury Bonds and the U.S. Government’s AAA Grade All Heading for the Dumpster are Shortening”       (5-21) Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?       GMAC receives $7.5 billion in new Treasury aid (AP)     Dollar hits '09 low on rating fears; stocks dip (Reuters)     U.K. to Lose AAA Rating at S&P as Finances Weaken      U.S. Stocks Decline on Jobless Claims, greenspan, who helped create the debacle and should thereby know, Warning      Gold May Test $1,200      (5-20)  The Weimar Hyperinflation is Happening Again! With fed printing/creating like mad, what did they expect?     Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally”      Green Shoots: Too Small, Too Far Apart       The Sleepwalkers' Rally       Former head of pension agency takes the Fifth (AP)      Global stocks slip, dollar tumbles after downbeat Fed     Depression hits already defacto bankrupt Social Security hard     Gold purchases up 36% as investors look to preserve wealth      China Gold Reserves May Back Yuan Internationalization-Report     22 reasons why OBAMA will raise your taxes Federal debt is now $11.5 trillion. Add $1.4 trillion this year. That’s almost 100% of GDP.            (5-19)   Deficit surges at agency that insures pensions (AP)       China and Brazil Plan to Dump Dollar          HP's profit drops, more layoffs looming        Japan logs record GDP drop      Senator: More oversight needed at insolvent pension agency (AP)     Inflating Our Way Out of This Mess? Why This Won't Work        Japan's economy in record plunge      Jim Rogers: Obama will Devastate the Economy        This Economy Ain't Healed Yet (at Seeking Alpha)         (5-18) Suckers’ rally (The Suckers Rally, Japan Style   …high oil price rally…riiiiight! )  Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)            Meanwhile: The Bilderbergers are advancing in Norway  [ I realize that jones (who parenthetically it should be noted, hypocritically censored my comments) et als really overdoes this group’s (among others) effect on the u.s. , state of the world, etc.; truth be told, this group like most of the interest/pressure groups including the masses, in the u.s., etc., are no more than a just a bunch of f**k-ups/vegetables who like the aforementioned multitudes have really ‘mucked things up’ (for lack of a more precise yet concise term) on this planet, probably irrevocably, and like the many home-grown f**k-ups/vegetables, and in america particularly criminals, jones refuses to acknowledge as culpable for the many reasons he refuses to see, are but rather typically incompetent players contributing in there own very special eccentric, neurotic, sick, venal, corrupt, etc., way to this collective and cumulative result being this ever deflating (declining) ball of chaos /confusion /criminality called earth (there are exceptions to the foregoing, but in america, the same would be 5% or less) ].       Economy limiting services of local police        Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors yet still not even one prosecution of the perpetrators of the largest scam/fraud in history foisted off on/funded by taxpayers        Rep. Paul’s bill to audit Federal Reserve nets 165 co-sponsors is the first of what should be many necessary wise moves     American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper    The Shrinking American Consumer       The Suckers Rally, Japan Style        Gold likely to test $950 level this week      Blue collar males lose more ground; unemployment rate surges past national average...         (5-15)Highest credit card default rates in 26 years at 10+%, the real economy in terms of unemployment, income, and debt far worse than their rosy ‘green shoots’ scenario to help froth the market. Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers   “The Worst Is Yet to Come”  Yahoo Finance | “If the consumer isn’t petrified, he or she is a damn fool.”       (5-14)All news worse than expected, ie., weekly job losses higher than expected 637,000, wholesale inflation rate .3%,   BEAR ALARM      US ’sham’ bank bail-outs enrich speculators  ,  The Secrets of the Federal Reserve  Bob Chapman | A manmade disaster created by the Federal Reserve, banking and Wall Street, and these are the same corrupt group who our government has chosen to rectify the problem.  The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable    etc.,  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.    U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall for Second Month    GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers: sources (Reuters)       U.S. Foreclosure Filings Hit Record for Second Straight Month        Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?             Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc..  America is broke. How broke?   NSN Money | Government obligations for Social Security and Medicare may soon exceed the combined net worth of every household and nonprofit organization in the country.  Everyone is familiar with the old saying, "what goes up must come down." Certainly the stock market has mounted a serious challenge to this old saying since bouncing off its lows in March and continues to defy gravity…In the face of unrelenting bad news, the market has been climbing because the news is "less bad," Gentle Ben and his Merry Band of Feds see "green shoots" and the financial press continues an unrelenting mantra of "recovery lies just ahead." It seems like the markets will never stop climbing, but they will, because contrary to what you hear on CNBC and read in the financial press, the laws of gravity have not been repealed and it's still true that "what goes up, must come down."

…When measured in ounces of Gold, the DOW has been in a secular bear market since peaking in late 1999. (Click charts, courtesy of stockcharts.com, for full size image). The markets, measured by the S&P500 (S&P500 Charts) and DIJA (DJIA Charts), may have recovered to new highs in 2007, but the DOW:Gold ratio told a different, truer story of just how unhealthy the US economy was…

BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  ‘…Most recently, the S&P 500 soared 24 per cent over seven weeks ending in early January, only to plunge to a new low. It was a fairly typical sucker’s rally and bear markets often need more than one to create sufficient disillusionment for a definitive bottom.  The 2000–2002 bear market had three, with average gains of 21 per cent in the Dow Jones Industrials over 45 days. The granddaddy of all bear markets, 1929 –1932, had six false alarms with an average gain of 47 per cent. And Japan’s ongoing bear saw the Nikkei rise by at least a third four times in its first four years with 10 more false dawns since then. Bear markets typically end with a whimper rather than a bang, casting doubt on the latest recovery according to Hussman Econometrics, which analysed numerous US market bottoms and bear market rallies. With the exception of the 1987 crash, the month before the lowest point of a downturn saw a gradual descent. By contrast, bear market rallies were preceded by steeper declines and had sharper rebounds. Another characteristic of bear market rallies has been modest volume on the rebound compared to the decline. The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough. Analysts at Bespoke Investment Group noted that there have been only seven other periods in the past 110 years with rallies of similar magnitude for the Dow. Three preceded the Great Depression, three came during the Depression and one in 1982…’
  New record for continuing unemployment claims and as with all government data, adp data, etc., is fudged to whatever way necessary to help froth the market. Short-covering explaining part of what remains of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally and as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through  Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers      SEC lawyers probed for insider trading      GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010      The Financial Storm      Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’       “The Worst Is Yet to Come”          China’s yuan ’set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency       Former Treasury Official who Devised Formula for Rate-Setting Based on Outlook for Inflation and Growth Warns that Inflation Looms, Slams Fed Policy    Dr. Doom: Capitalism Could Fail Like Communism         New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

Corporate CFR Members Get Most of the Bailout Money New American | Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner served as a staff member of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations before being hired in 2003 to head the New York City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank.Watch out for the fake government stress tests (they lie about everything!). Note the delay in the rollout. Bank analyst Cassidy says bank plan a failure. Business week business analyst /reporter says (tongue in cheek) the optimism (irrational exuberance) must be the advent of spring and the birds chirping (in the heads of the wall street lunatic/frauds…cukoos). Analysts/Economists comments include: slow release of stress test results, details and accuracy of data crucial for stress tests (good luck!), things have not bottomed out but pace of decline has slowed somewhat, bleak outlook for GM, Chrysler and bankruptcy probably necessary because of legacy costs, and public pension funds with ridiculously rich benefits the next shoe to drop. Oxdown Gazette sums up the crucial story | ‘The 12 trillion that is being floated to insolvent US banks is essentially being looted in the paper economy’ (ie., churn and earn by wall street fraudsters who must be prosecuted and forced disgorgement/forfeiture in the massive securities fraud that still goes unmentioned though the source of this economic debacle, etc.).  Four more banks closed by regulators, this years closures exceeding all of 2008 as depression continues John Letzing, MarketWatch April 24, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Four banks in Georgia, Michigan, California and Idaho were closed by regulators Friday, costing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s deposit insurance fund nearly $700 million as the effects of the credit crisis continued rippling throughout the U.S. economy.  Kennesaw, Ga.-based American Southern Bank marked the 26th bank failure of the year and the fifth in the state of Georgia, the FDIC said. Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Michigan Heritage Bank then became the 27th failure of 2009, followed by the closure of Calabasas, Ca.-based First Bank of Beverly Hills. Alpharetta, Ga.-based Bank of North Georgia has agreed to assume American Southern Bank's deposits, the FDIC said in a statement…

All reasons for previous reality plunge have been previously covered and warned of here in real time; ie., new meaningless FASB accounting standards which wall street frauds rallied on now have sold off on, worse to come in credit defaults/losses, leading indicators down again, etc.. April 17 (Bloomberg) -- David Tice, the chief portfolio strategist for bear markets at Federated Investors Inc., said the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will probably plunge about 62 percent. He spoke during a Bloomberg Television interview today. The Federated Prudent Bear Fund that he founded returned 6.7 percent last year as the S&P 500 plunged 38 percent, the most since 1937. Tice said the benchmark index for U.S. stocks may slump to about 325. It closed today at 865.30. The measure has surged 28 percent since March 9, the most in five weeks since the 1930s. SUCKER'S RALLY APPROACHING AN END by Peter Cooper: Whatever the technical reason for the 25 percent rise in the S&P over the past five weeks, or a more modest eight percent bounce in GCC regional stock prices, the absurdness of this sucker’s rally ought to be obvious to all. Unemployment is still rising, house prices are still falling, and the fundamentals of bank balance sheets are still deteriorating with total bad debts unknown except that we know they must be getting worse. Global trade fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. Even Mercedes car sales to the oil rich of the GCC fell 23 per cent. The collapse of the world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been unprecedented.
Bad news coming … The stock market pattern in 2008-9 has so far been a mirror image of the crash of 1929-30 with a halving of prices from the autumn followed by a 25 per cent rally from March lows. In April 1930 stocks moved sideways and then they crashed another 50 per cent into the summer… New record continuing unemployment claims in excess of 6 million, -11% for new home sales (unexpected but stocks and even homebuilders rallied), Bloomberg reports $13 trillion (much unaccounted for) taxpayer/bailout funds spent/lent/stolen by who knows what/where/how (ie.,replace stolen funds?, etc.), second largest mall co. to bankruptcy with more to come along with more commercial real estate foreclosures. ‘…initial claims for the week ending April 11 totaled 610,000, which is down more than expected from the prior week, but continuing claims climbed more than expected to a new record of 6.02 million. Separately, housing starts disappointed investors hoping to find signs of a recovery in home building. Housing starts for March totaled 510,000, which was below the 540,000 starts that were expected and down from the prior month. Meanwhile, building permits in March totaled 513,000, which is below the 549,000 permits that were expected, down from February…’

SUCKER'S RALLY APPROACHING AN END by Peter Cooper: Whatever the technical reason for the 25 percent rise in the S&P over the past five weeks, or a more modest eight percent bounce in GCC regional stock prices, the absurdness of this sucker’s rally ought to be obvious to all. Unemployment is still rising, house prices are still falling, and the fundamentals of bank balance sheets are still deteriorating with total bad debts unknown except that we know they must be getting worse. Global trade fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. Even Mercedes car sales to the oil rich of the GCC fell 23 per cent. The collapse of the world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been unprecedented.
Bad news coming
… The stock market pattern in 2008-9 has so far been a mirror image of the crash of 1929-30 with a halving of prices from the autumn followed by a 25 per cent rally from March lows. In April 1930 stocks moved sideways and then they crashed another 50 per cent into the summer. What possible reason is there for optimism to believe that history will not repeat itself? Government stimulus packages have more than likely been too small and too late to prevent another down leg in stocks, and will take time to revive the real economy, if indeed they can do so. They might just stop the worst possible scenario but are they going to prevent the plunge downwards? Governments have not managed it so far.
Consumers and unemployment
…It will take more than weasel words from US bankers and ‘green shoots’ in the waffle of President Obama to put things right. Eventually global stock markets will reach a bottom but they are not close to having visited it just yet. Wall Street and its friends are playing investors as suckers but they are in danger of overdoing it. For once these guys are impoverished where will the next bunch of fools come from? Goldman Sachs' (GS) results this week might well mark the top of the rally, beyond that the only way is down.

Industrial production down –13%, most since WW2. The wall street frauds celebrate increase real estate sales…on increased foreclosures…riiiiight! U.S. foreclosure filings jump as moratoriums end     US foreclosures up 24 percent in 1st quarter      Jim Rogers Says Investors Should Expect More Bottoms  Still not one prosecution as new churn and earn fraud/bubble begins with taxpayer bailout funds (old reliable foggy/sell the sizzle tech sector now the wall street frauds’ refuge-remember the dot com bust, etc.).  BULL S**T STORIES FOISTED AS B.S. TALKING POINTS FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR CHURN AND EARN COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVED $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT- GOLDMAN RECEIVED $10 BILLION PLUS UNDISCLOSED FED/ ULTIMATELY TAXPAYER MONEY AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1.8 BILLION PROFIT  -   MORGAN CHASE RECEIVED $25 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $2+ BILLION PROFIT – CITI RECEIVED $25 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1 BILLION LOSS -  BANK OF AMERICA RECEIVED $45 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $3+ BILLION PROFIT AND SETS ASIDE $13 BILLION FOR LOAN LOSS RESERVES – MORGAN STANLEY RECEIVED $10 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1 BILLION LOSS - DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT FOR THEM TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS! The Great Geithner Coverup      WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!  …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].   U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      New unemployment claims at high 654,000 praised as positive number… riiiiight! …as continuing unemployment claims at record 5.84 million (real numbers even worse). Economy so bad that consumers can’t buy goods so trade deficit shrank but this is a structural defect in u.s. economy so not good news and consistent with bad news of still plunging retail sector. Najarian points out that wall street always a circus, consolidation, robbing peter to pay paul, take profits; while economist cite Reich that we’re in depression and government as in land of fruits and nuts out of control. Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail).  Madman Cramer – the ultimate contrarian indicator - CRAMER'S CALL: ANOTHER RALLY TOP INDICATOR Greg Feirman   Wow, the bulls are really feeling good. “Wells Fargo Carries The Day” and the S&P and Dow closed at 2 months high and the Nasdaq is near its highs for the year. On Mad Money this evening, Cramer went so far as to call “a turn in the economy”, saying “the facts have changed”, “the situation has clearly improved” and “things are getting better”. This isn’t the first time Cramer has called a bottom and he’s been wrong before (For example, see “Cramer Declares The End Of The Bear Market” , Top Gun FP, July 31, 2008). The market topped out a couple weeks later. On Monday October 6, Cramer went on the today show and told people to sell any stock money they might need in the next five years. The market bottomed that Friday. It could run another couple weeks but this rally is running thin. Methinks me smells a top…..   Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…

THE FOLLOWING AT LEAST TO PREVIOUS (7-6-09) IS MUST READ:

SELLER

 

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- David Tice, the chief portfolio strategist for bear markets at Federated Investors Inc., said the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will probably plunge about 62 percent. He spoke during a Bloomberg Television interview today. The Federated Prudent Bear Fund that he founded returned 6.7 percent last year as the S&P 500 plunged 38 percent, the most since 1937. Tice said the benchmark index for U.S. stocks may slump to about 325. It closed today at 865.30. The measure has surged 28 percent since March 9, the most in five weeks since the 1930s.

SUCKER'S RALLY APPROACHING AN END by Peter Cooper: Whatever the technical reason for the 25 percent rise in the S&P over the past five weeks, or a more modest eight percent bounce in GCC regional stock prices, the absurdness of this sucker’s rally ought to be obvious to all. Unemployment is still rising, house prices are still falling, and the fundamentals of bank balance sheets are still deteriorating with total bad debts unknown except that we know they must be getting worse. Global trade fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. Even Mercedes car sales to the oil rich of the GCC fell 23 per cent. The collapse of the world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been unprecedented.
Bad news coming
… The stock market pattern in 2008-9 has so far been a mirror image of the crash of 1929-30 with a halving of prices from the autumn followed by a 25 per cent rally from March lows. In April 1930 stocks moved sideways and then they crashed another 50 per cent into the summer. What possible reason is there for optimism to believe that history will not repeat itself? Government stimulus packages have more than likely been too small and too late to prevent another down leg in stocks, and will take time to revive the real economy, if indeed they can do so. They might just stop the worst possible scenario but are they going to prevent the plunge downwards? Governments have not managed it so far.
Consumers and unemployment
…It will take more than weasel words from US bankers and ‘green shoots’ in the waffle of President Obama to put things right. Eventually global stock markets will reach a bottom but they are not close to having visited it just yet. Wall Street and its friends are playing investors as suckers but they are in danger of overdoing it. For once these guys are impoverished where will the next bunch of fools come from? Goldman Sachs' (GS) results this week might well mark the top of the rally, beyond that the only way is down.

Madman Cramer – the ultimate contrarian indicator - CRAMER'S CALL: ANOTHER RALLY TOP INDICATOR Greg Feirman   Wow, the bulls are really feeling good. “Wells Fargo Carries The Day” and the S&P and Dow closed at 2 months high and the Nasdaq is near its highs for the year. On Mad Money this evening, Cramer went so far as to call “a turn in the economy”, saying “the facts have changed”, “the situation has clearly improved” and “things are getting better”. This isn’t the first time Cramer has called a bottom and he’s been wrong before (For example, see “Cramer Declares The End Of The Bear Market” , Top Gun FP, July 31, 2008). The market topped out a couple weeks later. On Monday October 6, Cramer went on the today show and told people to sell any stock money they might need in the next five years. The market bottomed that Friday. It could run another couple weeks but this rally is running thin. Methinks me smells a top…..

Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…’

Art Hogan recently summed up choosing stocks in this environment thusly: ‘pick the best-looking horse at the glue factory’…..I think he was as a courtesy to his industry overly generous. The administration pitches hardballs to the auto industry while continuing to pitch powder puffs to the wall street frauds who have perpetrated the largest (securities) fraud in recorded history, turning a cyclical downturn into what is now unavoidably depression, putting beleagered taxpayers in the unfathomable position of funders/guarantors of the scam/fraud in bailing out the perpetrators of the crimes (bush’s infamous base) who have financially benefited enormously (fees, commissions, spreads, points, salaries, expenses, bonuses, etc.) from their fraud/crimes. Still not even one prosecution from this administration even though disgorgement, the legal remedy among other criminal penalties, would aid the defacto bankrupt u.s. treasury!
ON WHETHER BEN BERNANKE HAS REDEEMED HIMSELF AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR STOCKS:

I do not think so. On the contrary, I think what the government is doing and its economic "dream team" under Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Geithner and Mr. Summers are going to be, from a longer term point of view, rather negative.
But, you understand, we can all sit here and say it will all end in disaster. That I'm sure. But, in the meantime, we can have big moves in markets.

On the new bad assets purchase plan:

I think he's doing the politically expedient thing from a very short term perspective. If you have cracks in your walls and just put paint on it, it will hide them and then you sell your house. But it won't solve the problems of the cracks - it's the next owner and these are the children of the current taxpayer who will pay for it.  Marc Faber: 'It Will All End in Disaster'    

China calls for new global currency (AP)    Why Goldman Sachs Should Return Its TARP Money (at Seeking Alpha)    Marc Faber: 'It Will All End in Disaster'    Congresswoman presses Geithner on connections to Goldman Sachs    Gerald Celente Predicts Economic Armageddon by 2012     Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz

It bears repeating, so preposterous was 3-23-09 Pavlov dogs rally [conditioning to associate what’s good for fraudulent wall street, viz., privatizing profits – still not one prosecution for what now is the largest fraud/scam/swindle in the history of this planet – and socializing the losses, is somehow positive for america/the economy by the magnitude of this suckers’ bear market rally and prior market manipulations] when the same created the instant crisis in the first instance (don’t worry about the frauds on wall street, they’ll get their commissions again on the way down as they did in creating this financial debacle/fraud as they clamor for more taxpayer/treasury money).  They’re still printing/creating those worthless Weimar dollars like mad, China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar ,don’t know what they’re doing, are clueless, and disingenuously seek to divert attention from the missing/stolen/bilked $14 trillion of taxpayer money with the subterfuge of outrage over the relatively miniscule though not unimportant million dollar bonuses (AIG, etc.), so-called fixes/plans, etc., so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  What the Pros Say: US Is Now ‘Bankrupt’   US is Already Bankrupt: Analyst   U.S. Budget Office offers darker economic and deficit outlook      The Geithner-Summers-Bernanke Plan to Prop Up Asset Prices Has Failed    U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar     

Fierman: How quickly things change…..
Some stats from today’s rally:
S&P: +54 (7.1%) to 823
Dow: +497 (+6.8%) to 7776
NYSE Up Volume: 1,866,836,012
NYSE Down Volume: 44,683,760
NYSE Total Volume: 1,914,836,622
It was just 2 weeks ago (March 9th) that the S&P closed at 12-year lows and the stock market felt like it was forecasting the end of the world. We’ve now rallied 22% in 2 weeks! But if we look at the catalysts for this rally, they really don’t seem to justify such an explosive move. Citi said they were profitable in the first two months of the year and JP Morgan (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) said they were too. The Fed initiated some serious quantitative easing. And now Geithner’s toxic asset plan this morning. I agree with the Capital Spectator when he wrote this morning:

We’re skeptical largely because the rally this month has drawn power primarily from a new round of hope that Washington’s various experiments to right the economy will finally hit pay dirt. Perhaps, but it’s not the stuff that powers sustainable rallies, much less secular bull markets. We’re Sellers of This Rally!

Lawrence York

‘Treasury Secretary Geithner has released his plan to mop-up the toxic assets held by banks that threaten their solvency and the global financial system. Accordingly, the plan purposes that private equity firms partner with the Fed to purchase bank assets at some discount set by the private firms at auction. Then the Fed will leverage the purchase six-fold to buy more bank assets and assume all the risk of leverage. In other words, private firms will set the price and then put up half the initial purchase price. The Fed will then put up non-recourse loans to purchase six times more debt at the same price to be owned by the joint venture partners. If the deal works private equity splits the booty equally. If the deal fails, the government loses upwards to six times taxpayer's money and private equity loses only its original equity match equal to 1/6 the total loss.

Flabergasted? Don't be. How often can you cut a deal where you get to set the price and your partner puts in six times your money and you split the profit. IF THESE DEAL TERMS DON'T UNDERSCORE WHY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT HANDLE YOUR MONEY AND WHY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD STAY OUT OF BUSINESS, WHAT DOES? Other deal terms are that the Fed will designate the private equity players, at least initially. Could it be that the Fed is creating another pass-through mechanism to simultaneously bail out or reward its friends? If so, look for Goldman Sachs (GS), Merrill, Blackstone (BX), Carlye Group, Texas Pacific Group, and perhaps Bear Stearns to be players. Look also for the typical MOS of some Structured Investment Vehicle, not much different from the Maiden Lane III SIV, to backstop or divert money where it needs to be--by gratuitous selection that is. Oh, and never mind that Private Equity may be joined by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA and Private Equity article by Financial Times) as Private Equity at present is having a bit of a liquidity crunch with their own deflated, illiquid assets. In short, the Geithner Toxic Asset Plan is just another bank bailout and footnote to this era of 'Dark Capitalism" where profits are reaped and losses socialized in an ever transparent way.’

Trevisani: ’…The beginning of quantitative easing calls all three ideas in question; it increases the supply of dollars effectively lowering US interest rates well below Europe’s; the need for such an unprecedented step undermines the hope for a US recovery; and a devaluing dollar cannot be a safe haven. Add the projected Federal deficits and the dollar begins to look very vulnerable. If the Europeans go down the same quantitative road then the dollar’s disabilities may be matched by the euro’s. But if they are not, then the Bernanke dollar call may not be an option to buy but a call to sell…’ China and most of the financial world outside the u.s. agrees with the latter. China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar              Kremlin to Pitch New Currency...   

 

EMBRACE THE BEAR By Rev Shark There is an old saying that in a bear market, we slide down the slope of hope. Unfortunately, we have seen plenty of good examples of how that works over the past year. We have had dozens of new initiatives to try to bolster the economy that create hope for a few days. The market will get excited and we'll have some big point gains, but then doubts begin to surface about how easily it will be to turn this economic supertanker that is going over a waterfall. The buying stalls out, a few dip-buying attempts are made, but eventually we break support levels and more downside ensues. That is classic bear market action but the standard Wall Street reaction is to not accept it…[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion] INVESTORS …..FOOLED (at least today) By Rev Shark …..realization that economic stimulus isn't going to be nearly as simple or easy (or effective) as it sounds. We aren't going to spend our way out of this economic spiral …We'd probably be better off if the government did less rather than more. The great likelihood is that the unintended consequences we suffer will prolong the whole cycle. We have to let some bad businesses and financial institutions fail…

 


HERE’S THE REAL DEAL:
    SUMMARY/RECAP OF LORIMER WILSON 3-17-09 ANALYSES/REVIEW
Harry Dent, Jr.
Economy will be in a Depression by 2011
The worst of this next depression is likely to hit between mid-2010 and mid-2013, especially around early 2011, but if the banking system continues to implode a deep downturn or depression could begin sometime in 2009 instead of 2010.
Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012
Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the latest.
Inflation will Increase until mid- 2010 and then turn to Deflation
Interest Rates will Increase
U.S. Dollar will Decline
Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels
Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between 2010 and 2012

Russell Napier is the author of the book “Anatomy of the Bear”, a professor at the Edinburgh Business School and a consultant to CLSA Ltd. which is one of the top research houses in Asia. Napier’s research indicates (and I paraphrase) that:
The S&P 500 will Decline to 400 by 2014 (the Dow 30 to 3800)
The S&P 500 will then undergo a major crash that will see U.S. equity prices bottom at almost 50% below current levels (i.e. to 400 or less; the Dow 30 to 3800 or less) sometime around 2014 as Tobin’s “q” drops to 0.3 signaling the end of the bear market, as it has done at the end of the four largest U.S. market declines in 1921, 1932, 1949 and 1982.
U.S. Treasury Sales Could Collapse Leading to End of U.S. Dollar as Reserve Currency

Robert R. Prechter Jr. is author of a number of newsletters and books including “Elliott Wave Principle” (1978) in which he predicted the super bull market of the 1980s; “At the Crest of the Tidal Wave – A Forecast of the Great Bear Market” (1995) in which he predicted a slow motion economic earthquake, brought about by a great asset mania, that would register 11 on the financial Richter scale causing a collapse of historic proportions; and “Conquer the Crash: You can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression” (2002) in which he described the economic cataclysm that we are just beginning to experience and advised how to position one’s self financially during that period of time.
Depression is Imminent
The Dow Jones Industrial Average will go down to at least 1000, most likely to below 777 which was the starting point of its mania back in August 1982, and quite likely drop below 400 at one or more times during the bear market.

   Regulator: Before Banks Collapsed, They Pleaded With Feds To Let Them Fudge Their Books Ryan Grim | Before financial institutions collapsed, they went to the Financial Accounting Standards Board, pleading for a change in mark-to-market accounting rules so that they can continue to appear to be solvent on their balance sheets and hence, continue to defraud the public as they are now once again trying to do. This says it all!  Will FASB remain viable by resisting fudge/fraud  factor.  Suckers’ bear market rally   ( Citigroup Inspired Bear Market Suckers’ Rally  ) to keep the suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing to the frauds on wall street

 

Why we think this is a (suckers’) bear market rally:

Citing 13 reasons that the bear will continue in spite of this rally seems appropriate.

1. Current P/E: the current 20+ P/E on trailing “as reported earnings” is too high for this set of negative sales, earnings and dividends growth conditions.

2. Forward P/E: the projected 2010 S&P 500 earnings by Standard and Poor’s at about $40 would only support 800 at best (20 P/E), and more likely would support 600 (15 P/E), assuming there was a general recovery under way — before that time, the current market should sell for less than 800, and perhaps less than 600.

3. Earnings: profits are still declining in the aggregate

4. Dividend Yield: banks and other companies continue to cut dividends, reducing stock appeal and putting total return in question until dividends stabilize and begin to grow (historically dividends generated about 1/3 of total return for the S&P 500)

5. Revenue: overall sales are down — declining sales, earnings and dividends are not reasons for bullish markets.

6. World GDP Growth: credible parties (Goldman Sachs, IMF, and noteworthy individuals, such as Nouriel Roubini, predict worsening global economies) — until forecasts for improvements within 12 months or less for the US or world economies become prevalent, the market is unlikely to “anticipate” with a sustainable trend reversal to a bull

7. Government Intervention: the US and global economies are currently highly government policy dependent, and while policies are becoming more clear, they are not all revealed, and there are suggestions more may be needed — the resulting uncertainty warrants low valuation until government policies to “save” and “stimulate” economies are no longer the centerpiece of investor hopes and earnings prospects

8. Real Estate: the US and global real estate asset deflation continues with waves of negative impact on household and institutional wealth — until property prices stabilize, or are believed to be about to stabilize, a new bull market will have difficulty gaining traction.

9. Other Bank Shoes to Drop: the major banks have not yet experienced likely future write-downs associated with non-mortgage asset types, such as credit cards and auto loans.

10. Auto Industry: the fate of GM, Chrysler and the entire supply chain is uncertain with unknown government involvement.

11. LBOs: private equity firms built on leverage may not be able to continue to service and rollover the debt they used to make recent optimistic acquisitions — those debts could be a further burden on the financial sector.

12. Retirees and Pre-Retirees: the 55 and over crowd who control the largest portion of US private assets are not as likely to risk their life accumulations in stocks relative to bonds as they were in the boom times of the last couple of decades — that will delay the onset of a bull and subdue the extent of a bull when it occurs

13. Credit Availability: the credit and leverage availability that helped the US stock market recover from the 2002-2003 bottom is not available at this time to increase household expenditures and corporate capital investment — even the US government may be put on credit rationing by China, which today said it is “worried” about the credit quality of their US Treasury holdings, which has implications about their willingness to support the borrowing our “stimulus” programs require and assume to be available.     By Richard Shaw

 

 

Analyst Andre Egleshion points to continuing effect of credit default swaps and pegs the amount of the worthless, fraudulent (previously sold, commissioned, repackaged, resold, re-commissioned, etc.) securities at $600-$675 TRILLION, their continued effect on money pit AIG, that fed’s received $11.7 trillion since 2008 yet refuses transparency as to where funds spent, who received same, etc., agrees with comment that shockingly no prosecutions yet,  economy re-tooling, need for stiffer regulation, points to historical fact that fiat currencies and private central banks have consistently failed, sees hyperinflation with dollar weakness (printed/created like mad) and higher oil. Hopes for funny assets [in addition to funny money, other fraud, relaxation of rules/laws/enforcement (real asset values) (remember the exemption from RICO garnered by fraudulent wall street-those campaign contributions really pay off, etc.) ], spur suckers’ bear market short-covering rally  to keep the suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing to the frauds on wall street so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  NOW LISTEN HERE, FOR THIS IS TRUTH!: There is not enough money in the entire world to cover the fraudulent securities foisted/commissioned/ distributed/sold by the wall street frauds/perpetrators which if assumed/guaranteed by the u.s. government (don’t forget that social security/medicare are already technically insolvent/bankrupt - all monies/reserves going into the general account and already and continually spent) will only guaranty the insolvency of / worthlessness of the currency of the u.s. treasury. Cost to buy protection against U.S. government default surges   Frank just said that he wants to prosecute those who’ve caused this crisis…waxman was supposedly doing just that in part  (fog of war fraud-360 tons of $100 dollar bills stolen), etc…. If they don’t do this as said, among others, they should be forced resign as complicit. THERE IS NO MYSTERY HERE; HENCE, NONE SHOULD BE AFRAID TO LOOK, PROSECUTE, AND FORCE DISGORGEMENT!    Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression”  …‘… Watch for fake reports and continued jawboning/spin/b.s. regarding bailout/stimulus as they are desperate yet remain protective of the criminals who caused the crisis with their fraud in staggering amounts far beyond the substantial scam by madoff ($50 billion) who now audaciously from his $7 million NYC penthouse seeks ownership of same along with $62 million (only in systemically fraudulent america). Why are they not seeking disgorgement from the criminals who benefited from the huge multi-trillion dollar fraud they perpetrated? No one yet has asked tiny tim geithner where the missing $4 trillion at the fed is…Why? Then there’s the $2 trillion in taxpayer money, the destination of which the fed refuses disclosure of…Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money  …Why? How? This is criminal activity of monumental proportion, yet protected by the bureaucratic complicit frauds (I’ve experienced this directly in my RICO case), damaging lives here and abroad.  Then there’s also the illegal wars, war-profiteering, war crimes, etc., that have bankrupted this nation, killed many innocents, etc., [remember, ie., the 360 tons of hundred dollar bills flown into Iraq that democrats/land of fruits and nuts henry waxman (doesn’t he look like a hedgehog or some other rodent) the lying fraud talked endlessly about while republicans were at the helm, yet nothing…no prosecutions…the frauds who stole that money should put same in the failed ‘stimulus fraud pot’…at the least, etc.].   An analyst previously said 2011-2014 earliest for bottoming at best. Another analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted and forced disgorgement. …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.]. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to realityNot Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America  In case you believe that there are only “a couple of bad apples” in the United States, here is an off-the-top-of-his-head (I could give many, many more including my RICO case) list of corruption by leading pillars of american society. 

HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ]

PREVIOUS 7-6,2-09, PREPOSTEROUS WAS THIS SURGE IN THE LAST 20 MINUTES INTO THE CLOSE FOR SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY PROGRAMMED TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)     [$$] Big Pay Packages Return to Wall Street as new fraud gains steam (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...    America’s Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?     US loses 467,000 jobs, unemployment at 9.5%       'We're in the Middle of a Crash': Black Swan...    (7-2)Seven more banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to more than double all of 2008 at a total thus far of 52; Private sector sheds another 473,000 jobs in June...    US lurching towards ‘debt explosion’ with long-term interest rates on course to double         Jim Rogers Sells Dollars, Plans to Short Treasuries               ‘Sucker’s Rally Beginning To Unwind’ daaaah…?    Calls grow to supplant dollar as global currency     China officials call for displacing dollar, in time       Tracking Two Depressions, 1929 and now this            HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 7-1-09, SELL / TAKE ANY PROFITS IN THIS SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY PROGRAMMED TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)     [$$] Big Pay Packages Return to Wall Street as new fraud gains steam (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...    Job losses / job concerns realistically weigh on confidence, real estate values/prices continue downward trend as per Case / Shiller Index (-18.1%, -21% in california)    Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 7-1-09, 6-30-09,  SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY TO END WELL OFF SESSION LOWS  TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED Job losses / job concerns realistically weigh on confidence, real estate values/prices continue downward trend as per Case / Shiller Index (-18.1%, -21% in california)    Consumer confidence suffers steep fall...     Home prices post 18% annual drop...    Worldwide Depression: Review of Global Markets       . Four banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to 19 more than all of 2008 at a total thus far of 44       Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency      Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009     ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?      foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-29-09, Worthless dollar/High oil price stock rally…riiiiight!...Then there’s the madoff propaganda event Fraudster Madoff gets 150 years, with prosecutors patting themselves on the back when the reality is that there has been not even one prosecution in the massive securities fraud which benefited the wall street frauds greatly and make madoff look like a piker. Four banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to 19 more than all of 2008 at a total thus far of 44       Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency      Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009     ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?    , foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-26-09, Worthless dollar/High oil price stock rally…riiiiight!...Then there’s the madoff propaganda event Fraudster Madoff gets 150 years, with prosecutors patting themselves on the back when the reality is that there has been not even one prosecution in the massive securities fraud which benefited the wall street frauds greatly and make madoff look like a piker. Four banks fail, bringing 2009 tally to 19 more than all of 2008 at a total thus far of 44       Dollar Falls Most in Month as China Urges New Reserve Currency      Gerald Celente speaks on Cap and Trade and other handicaps to the US economy       HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009     ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?    , foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-26-09, SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS’ RALLY TO END MIXED. HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... , personal income up modest .2% and spending down, China calls for new reserve currency to supplant worthless dollar  Dollar And Stocks Drop As China Calls For New Global Currency   , continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?      foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-25-09, HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] TYPICAL END OF QUARTER FRAUD/WINDOW DRESSING TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... ,    continuing unemployment claims at or near record 627,000, weekly unemployment claims up 15,000, and GDP contraction –5.5%, all worse than expected (lennar wider than expected quarterly loss rallies stock…riiiiight!) Jobless claims rise; GDP dips in 1Q  ; soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-24-09, SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS RALLY CONTINUES FOR MIXED CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY... ,       soothing words/b.s. from fed which previously predicted no recession that economy still contracting but that the contraction is somewhat slowing…what b**l s**t!…, analysts- buffet/economy in shambles, Hogan/negative GDP growth and inflation owing to debasement of the dollar as well as deficit spending/pump-priming in the trillions, joker stein/economy a mess and continued job losses, new home sales down .6%;   foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009    ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...   ,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years    BUFFET: ECONOMY IN 'SHAMBLES'; NO SIGNS OF RECOVERY...       The Next Bubble Is Here. Have You Bought In?      foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-23-09, SECULAR BEAR MARKET SUCKERS RALLY INTACT TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED [ Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years  ] AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)  ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., U.S. Home Prices Drop 6.8 Percent in April as Foreclosures Rise       foreclosure sales up 2.4%, prices down 17% year over year,    [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,  world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets , foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-22-09, ONLY MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY IN THIS SECULAR BEAR MARKET TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING [  Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report (Reuters)   ] BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years          [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         Stocks tumble on bleak outlook for world economy           U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better, market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., world economy to shrink by worse than previously predicted 2.9% and big difference between not getting worse and getting better,  leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets  Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years          [$$] Market Suffers Some Technical Damage         -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-19-09, SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY  INTO THE CLOSE AS STOCKS END MIXED STILL IN DEFIANCE OF REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,   U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets, foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-18-09, SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY  INTO THE CLOSE AS STOCKS END MIXED STILL IN DEFIANCE OF REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,   U.S. regulators close their 40th bank of the year  ,   Next Major Move In Stock Market Will Be Down     market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. , foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-18-09,  MORE TALK OF NEW REGULATORY SCHEME WHEN PROSECUTION AND DISGORGEMENT WOULD REALLY BLUNT INCENTIVE FOR WALL STREET FRAUDS PROSPECTIVELY, SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY  ON LEADING INDICATORS UP FAR MORE THAN EXPECTED … BULL S**T …BASED IN LARGE PART ON INFLATED STOCK PRICE COMPONENT … MORE BULL S**T … AS STOCKS END MIXED STILL IN DEFIANCE OF REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., market got ahead of itself, stalled out, still depression/more job losses, higher oil-gas prices / higher interest rates / heavy debt to pare down is 1-3 year drag on economy, even if believed (I don’t) the labor dept. far better than expected job numbers by increased debt (spending) to produce same is not economically sound or sustainable, viz., record spending with record low revenues, rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., leading indicators up far more than expected … bull s**t …based in large part on inflated stock price component … more bull s**t … new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets     foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-17-09,  SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE AS STOCKS END MIXED IN DEFIANCE OF REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., rating cuts for bank sector, analysts concur in significant 5-15% (reality says 15-25%) pullback/correction for stocks , institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009      Markets See a Breakdown in Technical Support Levels             Roubini: USA sees double-dip recession...     Dollar drops on reserve currency doubts      China sells US bonds to ’show concern’      BRICs May Buy Each Other’s Bonds in Shift From Dollar            China’s holding of US bonds drops first time in 11 months        Russia to Raise Reserve Currency Issue at BRIC              International Demand for Worthless U.S. Assets Slowed in April        IMF says worst not over        Senator cashed out during big stock collapse -- after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs!    America's AAA downgrade danger...        Treasury faces pressure on price of TARP exit      A depression so deep even teen shoppers scrimp      US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive         1st quarter wiped out $1.3 trillion for Americans     Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates       Oil prices near $73 as energy rally continues      Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited        Fed says economy weak, but sees signs the slide increasing     Mounting deficits spark jitters about U.S. economy     Wall Street falls as realities dent recovery hopes     Bonds fall on worries about government's debt load (AP)      Oil prices strike new high for 2009 (AP)    The depression quietly deepens     CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT...          Oil hits 7-month high over $70... Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., new reform with same old frauds say increased capital requirements and oversight of the overseers/rating agencies (riiiiight!…same old,same old - already have but no will to enforce existing laws, etc.), analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Venture Capital Bubble Set to Burst, Kedrosky Says     Obama Plans to Cut Bank Regulators, Allow Fed to Supervise Financial Holding Companies – The old fox guarding the henhouse tricks     Federal Reserve unwisely to gain power under plan      Federal Reserve Foolishly To Be Given Sweeping New Powers        Yen Strengthens Most in Month as Asian Stocks Drop, Gold Gains        RUSSIA CHALLENGES WORTHLESS DOLLAR...    AIG says former top exec plundered retirement plan     [video] The Too-Big-to-Fail Problem [6.8 min] (at MarketWatch)     [$$] Too Big to Solve? (at The Wall Street Journal Online)          Buy and Hold Is Dead. Long Live Buy and Hold!     Financial Bailout Plan Keeps Zombie Banks Alive       Bernanke then as now in denial about looming crisis 2005-2007              Retail sales, drop in jobless claims to a very high even if believed 601,000 yielding record continuing claims of 6.8 million fuel hope…if you’re a dope     Lawmakers blast Fed, Treasury for BofA "threats"       Oil climbs over $73 on hopes for rising demand     U.S. Household Worth Fell by $1.3 Trillion in First Quarter       Predictions of $250 a barrel on oil        ECB Fears Reality of Banking Crisis in 2010: Report        Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates      Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 209 Co-Sponsors        Russia May Swap Some U.S. Treasuries for IMF Debt        Fed report shows losses on Bear Stearns, AIG holdings      Congress subpoenas the Fed ... Finally! (AP)        Brazil in recession, recovery unlikely this year       What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys       Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead      America’s Fed Addiction        “87 Percent of [Chinese] Respondents Believe China’s u.s. Dollar-Assets are Unsafe”       Fed Said to Retreat From Seeking Power to Sell Its Own Debt/Bills       WIRE: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead...  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-16-09,  SECULAR BEAR MARKET AND ONLY MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., analysts concur in significant 5-15% pullback/correction for stocks, institutional selling,  industrial production/construction down 1.1%, housing starts allegedly up but if believed will only increase the plethora of unsold inventories, empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-15-09,  SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO FINISH WELL OFF THE LOWS WITH MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., empire manufacturing index suffers unexpectedly severe decline…daaaah!, credit dard defaults at record high, analysts concur that fundamentals don’t support stock rally and that pac money(defacto bribes) might derail any meaningful reform/regulation which is of concern to the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted, record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s.,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS 6-11,12-09,  HOW MANY TIMES CAN THE WALL STREET FRAUDS, WITH CYCLICAL REGULARITY, DO THE SAME OR SIMILAR FRAUD WITH IMPUNITY (STILL NOT ONE PROSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT  MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD, BUT PLENTY OF OBFUSCATION EMANATING FROM THE PERPETRATORS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTING /PURSUING THEM) NOW REFLATING THE STOCK MARKET BUBBLE BASED UPON NOTHING AT ALL (BAD NEWS,FRAUD AND BULL S**T), CHANGING ACCOUNTING RULES TO FACILITATE THE COMMISSIONABLE BUBBLE FROM WHICH THE SOURCE OF FUNDS TO EVEN PAY BACK LOANS TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR NEW FRAUD IS GENERATED [SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE, DOT.COM SELL THE SIZZLE BUST /DEBACLE, RECYCLED /REPACKAGED /RESOLD /RECOMMISSIONED WORTHLESS COLLATERALIZED SECURITIES /PAPER (IN THE TRILLIONS YET STILL NOT ADDRESSED), ETC., THE FRAUDS ARE GETTING LARGER, HENCE THE RIDICULOUS TOO BIG TO FAIL MANTRA … HOW PATHETIC! … THAT MONEY HAS TO COME FROM SOMEPLACE, IE., PRINTING, CREATING, YOUR POCKETS, … NOT OUT OF THIN AIR! ] ,  300 - 1,000+ % SWING TO THE UPSIDE INTO THE CLOSE IN THIS SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., record loss of wealth, higher gas prices, job losses, higher interest rates / yields, higher commodity prices, higher deficits, hyperinflation, record continuing unemployment claims at 6.8 million, worthless Weimar dollar crashing,  money supply exploding with hyperinflation/higher interest rates coming, budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009     Treasury faces pressure on price of TARP exit      A depression so deep even teen shoppers scrimp      US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive         1st quarter wiped out $1.3 trillion for Americans     Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates       Oil prices near $73 as energy rally continues      Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited        Fed says economy weak, but sees signs the slide increasing     Mounting deficits spark jitters about U.S. economy     Wall Street falls as realities dent recovery hopes     Bonds fall on worries about government's debt load (AP)      Oil prices strike new high for 2009 (AP)    The depression quietly deepens     CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT...          Oil hits 7-month high over $70... Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Venture Capital Bubble Set to Burst, Kedrosky Says       Buy and Hold Is Dead. Long Live Buy and Hold!     Financial Bailout Plan Keeps Zombie Banks Alive       Bernanke then as now in denial about looming crisis 2005-2007              Retail sales, drop in jobless claims to a very high even if believed 601,000 yielding record continuing claims of 6.8 million fuel hope…if you’re a dope     Lawmakers blast Fed, Treasury for BofA "threats"       Oil climbs over $73 on hopes for rising demand     U.S. Household Worth Fell by $1.3 Trillion in First Quarter       Predictions of $250 a barrel on oil        ECB Fears Reality of Banking Crisis in 2010: Report        Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates      Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 209 Co-Sponsors        Russia May Swap Some U.S. Treasuries for IMF Debt        Fed report shows losses on Bear Stearns, AIG holdings      Congress subpoenas the Fed ... Finally! (AP)        Brazil in recession, recovery unlikely this year       What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys       Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead      America’s Fed Addiction        “87 Percent of [Chinese] Respondents Believe China’s u.s. Dollar-Assets are Unsafe”       Fed Said to Retreat From Seeking Power to Sell Its Own Debt/Bills       WIRE: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead...  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS 6-10-09,  MODEST LOSSES WITH SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,  budget deficit at new highs and trade deficit worse than expected, analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Jim Rogers: “The Worst is Not Over” 6/9/2009      Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited        Fed says economy weak, but sees signs the slide increasing     Mounting deficits spark jitters about U.S. economy     Wall Street falls as realities dent recovery hopes     Bonds fall on worries about government's debt load (AP)      Oil prices strike new high for 2009 (AP)    The depression quietly deepens     CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT...          Oil hits 7-month high over $70... Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates      Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 209 Co-Sponsors        Russia May Swap Some U.S. Treasuries for IMF Debt        Fed report shows losses on Bear Stearns, AIG holdings      Congress subpoenas the Fed ... Finally! (AP)        Brazil in recession, recovery unlikely this year       What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys       Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead      America’s Fed Addiction        “87 Percent of [Chinese] Respondents Believe China’s u.s. Dollar-Assets are Unsafe”       Fed Said to Retreat From Seeking Power to Sell Its Own Debt/Bills       WIRE: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead...  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS 6-8,9-09,  INFLATIONARY DEPRESSION IS THE CALL EVEN AS SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY CONTINUES TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED AND COMMISSION DOLLARS FLOWING BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,  Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets The depression quietly deepens     CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT...          Oil hits 7-month high over $70... Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Analyst who called crash says inflationary depression, banks passed stress tests only with the help of fraudulent change in accounting rules, banks still insolvent, toxic assets even more toxic, dollar falling and a lot lower to go, $100 + oil by end of year, Obama/bernanke continuing failed policies of bush greenspan, recommends getting out of Dodge and u.s. assets   Congress subpoenas the Fed ... Finally! (AP)        Brazil in recession, recovery unlikely this year       What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys       Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead      America’s Fed Addiction        “87 Percent of [Chinese] Respondents Believe China’s u.s. Dollar-Assets are Unsafe”       Fed Said to Retreat From Seeking Power to Sell Its Own Debt/Bills       WIRE: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead...  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS 6-5-09,  SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., Yes, We’re STILL In a Depression      China Bank Wants U.S. Bonds Issued in Yuan       Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,  Long-Term Economic Memory Loss    Obama’s economic model versus reality     Reality bites Internet as 1Q ad sales fall 5 pct (AP)      CHINA AIRS FEARS ON DOLLAR, DEBT        government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS 6-5-09,  FAKE GOVERNMENT JOBS REPORT FUELS SECULAR BEAR MARKET PROGRAMMED SUCKERS RALLY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., Fake government job loss report near 40% better than private forecasts…I don’t think so!…9.4% unemployment rate…try well over 10% and with stopped looking included over 20% , Jim Rogers CNBC - Jun 4th, 2009 - Currency Crisis Ahead   U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now            China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds       US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., government reports better than private estimates…riiiiight!  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Warns of Oligarchy        U.S. unemployment hits record but job losses slow if you foolishly believe fake government reports near 40% better than private estimates - I don’t think so! …now         Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-4-09,  SHORT-COVERING/SUCKERS RALLY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., US retailers report May sales declines    Tiny Tim says dollar assets safe...    Laughter from audience...      Why The Chinese Laughed At Geithner     ----- mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., government reports slightly better than private estimates…riiiiight!  Benefit spending soars to new high    $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-3-09,  ONLY MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY WITH PROGRAMMED SHORT-COVERING/SUCKERS RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie., mortgage apps. down, service sector job losses/factory orders worse than expected, new record continuing unemployment claims, bernanke spend more money you don’t have but cut debilitating deficit…riiiiight…sounds like a plan with more job losses to come, etc., Economic data disappoint, indicate slow recovery     Worse-than-expected economic data thwarts rally      Jobless rates in U.S. cities zoom higher in April      Sector Snap: Homebuilders tumble (AP)       As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff …    Bernanke warns on deficits as Treasury rates rise   -----        GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         The Big Collapse Is Very Near    Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternative     Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., $100 Billion Bailout For IMF Tagged On To War Funding Bill        Economic recovery is wishful thinking          Gold, Silver Climb as Dollar Falls      OPEC: OIL COULD REACH $90...        -----     Existing home foreclosure sales up, and no profit discount car sales better than expected     Diluting like crazy through new stock bubble issues       Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 


PREVIOUS 6-1-09,  MORE CAN’T BE SAID, SO PREPOSTEROUS WAS THIS TYPICALLY FAKE BETTER THAN EXPECTED (RIIIIIGHT!) COMMERCE DEPARTMENT DATA SUCKERS’ RALLY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON CONTINUED BAD NEWS ( ie.,  GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,   Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Most U.S. retailers likely saw sales fall in May     GM files for bankruptcy, urges quick action    GM: A Mighty Icon Files for Bankruptcy      Dow gets shake-up as GM, Citi kicked out of average       GM removed from S&P 500 index (AP)      Stocks Will Fall 37% and Gold Will Rally %       Even in Crisis, Banks Dig In for Fight Against Rules New York Times | The nine biggest participants in the derivatives market — including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America — created a lobbying organization, the CDS Dealers Consortium, a month after five of its members accepted federal bailout money.     Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment Bloomberg | World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned policy makers that fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy”         

 

ANALYST FORECASTS: BULLS AND BEARS    By Richard Shaw    [there were 3 bull forecasts which are bull s**t and not included in the following excerpt to preclude fraud and conserve space; even the neutrals are a stretch]
…..BEAR - May 30: Morgan Stanley equity analyst Jason Todd says sell this S&P 500 rally. He says Morgan Stanley does not see large upside above 825-850. He said, “In the rush to buy a cyclical recovery, it seems earnings or valuation no longer matters. We would be comfortable with this view if the earnings trough was closer, but it is not.”

BEAR - MAY 28: Berkshire Hathaway possible successor to Warren Buffet, David Sokol, says they see no evidence of the green shoots that been a stimulus to the stock market. He sees the most significant headwinds to the electric utility industry in his 30 years, and see continuing housing industry problems.

BEAR?/BULL? - May 28: PIMCO co-CEO Bill Gross (manager of world’s largest bond fund) portrays “new normal” including accelerating inflation toward the latter part of a three- to five-year cycle, and the need to reexamine accepted notions about investing. He said stocks have not and will not always outperform bonds, and having 60% to 80% of portfolio assets in stocks may not always make sense. He believes the dollar will lose its status as the reserve currency; Brazil, India and China (forget Russia) will offer the best growth. The U.S. government will be selling trillions in Treasuries; the US savings rate may rise significantly, and the consumer economy may be shrinking long term due to the aging of the population.

BULL?/BEAR? - May 28: GMO CEO Jeremy Grantham predicts higher US savings and lower consumption with many postponed retirements. He sees some reasonable values within the stock market now and sees the third year of the presidential cycle (2011) as the most promising. He is not certain that a robust rally will continune. Like John Bogle, he believes in the principle of having your age as the percentage of bonds in your portfolio. He expects a bubble in emerging market stocks to develop.

BEAR - MAY 26: Comstock Partners portfolio managers Charlie Minter and Marty Weiner, say P/E’s on “as reported earnings” are too high in consideration of the long-term trend in earnings (now in down phase). “Over the past 75 years, most market peaks topped at around 20 times reported earnings, and the troughs occurred at around 10 times earnings. The financial mania of the late 1990s pushed P/Es to over 40 times reported earnings, and the following bust never brought P/Es below 18 times reported earnings. … Going back to 1950, every instance where actual earnings rose above trend-line earnings was followed by a period where actual earnings went well below trend-line earnings. Comstock Partners believes that we have entered such a period now, and that the market is trading at such a high multiple of trend-line earnings that it will be difficult to make money.”

BEAR - May 19: Gluskin Sheff analyst David Rosenberg (formerly of Merill Lynch) says this rally is a sucker’s rally based on short covering. “The FTSE All-World market P/E ratio on forward earnings estimates is now around 15x, well above pre-Lehman collapse levels and nearly double the lows for the cycle … this was a rally built largely on short covering, pension fund rebalancing and the emergence of hope wrapped up in ‘green shoot’ data points. … On average, the S&P 500 undergoes a correction of more than 20% … at a minimum, take profits”

NEUTRAL (BEAR?) - May 11: Baring Asset Management portfolio manager Hayes Miller says “Estimates suggest there isn’t that much further to run because equities are fairly valued … Earnings growth for 2009 and 2010 can’t support prices too much higher than where we are today.”

BEAR - May 11: HSBC Global Asset Management chief investment officer Leon Goldfeld, chief investment officer at HSBC Global Asset Management said it’s “hard to see” enough profit growth to justify higher stock prices. The firm’s strategy will be to reduce its holdings of equities and move into bonds and cash, he said.Bloomberg TV on June 1, said HSBC forecasts 900 as the year-end price for the S&P 500 index.

NEUTRAL - May 11: Bloomberg compilation of analyst forecasts of 2009 earnings for the S&P 500 is at $57.17 (not stated whether “as reported” or “operating”). As of June 1, that puts the S&P at about 16.5 times forecasted earnings. Yale economist Robert Schiller said the historic average is a multiple of about 16.3. [we note that we are not in an average situation or stage of a market, however].

BEAR - May 11: Bank of America CIO for private wealth management expects a 10% correction. He said, “We’re going to be in a very volatile, chop-and-grind type of market. We’ve been shown that there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, it’s dim but getting brighter, and that’s why stock prices have come this far this fast. Now, it’s all about ‘show me.’”

BEAR?/ BULL? - May Letter: PIMCO co-CEO Bill Gross wrote: “Do not be deceived by the euphoric sightings of “green shoots” and the claims for new bull markets in a multitude of asset classes. Stable and secure income is still the order of the day. Shaking hands with the new government is still the prescribed strategy, although it should be done at a senior level of the balance sheet. If the government indeed becomes your investment partner, you should keep the big Uncle in clear sight and without back turned. Risk will not likely be rewarded until the global economy stabilizes and the Obama rules of order are more clearly defined.”

BEAR - April 17: Barclay’s analyst Barry Knapp forecasts S&P 500 at 757 by year-end 2009. He said, “The equity market has priced this recovery and then some. It looks pretty expensive to us.”

PROGRAMMED TRADES/SUCKERS’ HIGH OIL/LOW DOLLAR (RIIIIIGHT!) RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON BAD NEWS ( ie.,  GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,   Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!   

PREVIOUS 5-29-09, PROGRAMMED TRADES/SUCKERS’ HIGH OIL/LOW DOLLAR (RIIIIIGHT!) RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON BAD NEWS ( ie.,  GOV'T OWES RECORD $63.8 TRILLION...         Dollar Falls Most In A Month Since 1985    Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink        Gold jumps above $970/oz as dollar weakens          Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie.,   Market Manipulation/Fraud: How Financial Markets Really Work         Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!   

PREVIOUS 5-28-09, SUCKERS’ RALLY INTO THE CLOSE TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON BAD NEWS ( ie., Double-Dip Depression  , New Record Continuing Unemployment Claims,    Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off      Obama continuing Bush’s assault on the middle class       Government will now own 72.5% of 'New GM'...         Roubini: U.S. economy to  dip again next year...         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down  ,  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Foreclosure woes mount for those with good credit      Fed Finds a Way to Use Stress Tests to Screw Bank Shareholders One More Time (at Seeking Alpha)      Time Warner to spin off AOL, ending ill-fated deal      [$$] Listen, But Don't Get Suckered      Faber: Inflation to 'Approach Zimbabwe Level'...    U.S. Weighs Single Agency to Regulate Banking Industry Yet Ignores Existing Laws, Prosecution, and Disgorgement in this Huge Fraud…Why   

PREVIOUS 5-27-09, MODEST LOSSES RELATIVE TO REALITY TO KEEP SUCKERS SUCKERED BASED ON BAD NEWS ( ie., Double-Dip Depression      Marc Faber: “I Am 100% Sure that the U.S. Will Go Into Hyperinflation”         Why We'll  See Another Serious Equities Sell-Off         Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,    $80+ oil coming this year    Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?              Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B (AP)     Regulators seize 34th bank failure of year Florida's BankUnited FSB (AP)      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) AND BULL S**T ALONE (ie., Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation     The $4 trillion housing headache (at Fortune)  foreclosure sales up, prices down    Treasury Selloff Spiking Interest Rates      GM bankruptcy seen near          GM all but certain to file for Chapter 11    US Government to Take Up 70% Stake in GM          FDIC Fund Running Dry  Yahoo Finance | As the FDIC has had to step in to take over more and more insolvent banks, the fund has dwindled to dangerously low levels. At the same time, the number of problem banks continues to grow at a rapid pace.     IRS tax revenue falls along with taxpayers’ income USA Today | Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981. ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through  Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers      SEC lawyers probed for insider trading      GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010      The Financial Storm      Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’       “The Worst Is Yet to Come”          China’s yuan ’set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency       Former Treasury Official who Devised Formula for Rate-Setting Based on Outlook for Inflation and Growth Warns that Inflation Looms, Slams Fed Policy    Dr. Doom: Capitalism Could Fail Like Communism         New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-26-09, suckers’ rally to keep suckers suckered based on bad news ( ie.,   Case-Shillers index shows new record decline in real estate prices,        Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars          Waterboard the Fed      Obama: We Are Broke. Well, Duh!            Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?              Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B (AP)     Regulators seize 34th bank failure of year Florida's BankUnited FSB (AP)      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) and bull s**t alone (ie.,  fake consumer confidence reading 30+% better than private estimate sucker-rallies stocks ,   Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)   ,  The Sleepwalkers' Rally         ,  Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally” , don’t forget that the suckers rally stock prices accounted for the very modest but ephemeral uptick in leading indicators        Dallas Federal Reserve: Unfunded Pension and Health-Care Liabilities Exceeds $99 Trillion Dollars    )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-22-09, only very modest losses relative to reality based on bad news ( ie.,  Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro   Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?              Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B (AP)     Regulators seize 34th bank failure of year Florida's BankUnited FSB (AP)      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) and bull s**t alone (Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)   ,  The Sleepwalkers' Rally         ,  Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally” , don’t forget that the suckers rally stock prices accounted for the very modest but ephemeral uptick in leading indicators   )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Regulators shut 2 more, 35 and 36, failed banks this year in Illinois (AP)     GM borrows $4 billion more, prepares for bankruptcy    Job losses up in 44 states as recession drags on        Bill to Audit Fed Wisely Gains Serious Momentum       U.S. to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy       Gold tops $960 for first time in two months as dollar weakens      South Afica gold coin demand hits all time high     Peter Schiff called “Extremist” by Time Magazine      Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern…riiiiight!…con     Gold Poised for Third Weekly Gain as Dollar Slumps Against Euro      SEC lawyers probed for insider trading      GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010      The Financial Storm      Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’       “The Worst Is Yet to Come”          China’s yuan ’set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency       Former Treasury Official who Devised Formula for Rate-Setting Based on Outlook for Inflation and Growth Warns that Inflation Looms, Slams Fed Policy    Dr. Doom: Capitalism Could Fail Like Communism         New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-21-09, only modest losses relative to reality as rally into the close keeps suckers suckered based on bad news ( ie.,  Russia Rationally Dumps Dollar as Reserve Currency - Adopts Euro     Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B (AP)     Regulators seize 34th bank failure of year Florida's BankUnited FSB (AP)      ,    new record for continuing unemployment claims, fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) and bull s**t alone (Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)   ,  The Sleepwalkers' Rally         ,  Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally” , don’t forget that the suckers rally stock prices accounted for the very modest but ephemeral uptick in leading indicators   )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Britain's Debt Outlook Gets Bleaker: Same Implications for the U.S…how could anyone be surprised about that?       GMAC receives $7.5 billion in new Treasury aid (AP)     Dollar hits '09 low on rating fears; stocks dip (Reuters)     U.K. to Lose AAA Rating at S&P as Finances Weaken      U.S. Stocks Decline on Jobless Claims, greenspan, who helped create the debacle and should thereby know, Warning      Gold May Test $1,200      (5-20)  The Weimar Hyperinflation is Happening Again! With fed printing/creating like mad, what did they expect?     Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally”      Green Shoots: Too Small, Too Far Apart       The Sleepwalkers' Rally       Former head of pension agency takes the Fifth (AP)      Global stocks slip, dollar tumbles after downbeat Fed     Depression hits already defacto bankrupt Social Security hard     Gold purchases up 36% as investors look to preserve wealth      China Gold Reserves May Back Yuan Internationalization-Report     22 reasons why OBAMA will raise your taxes Federal debt is now $11.5 trillion. Add $1.4 trillion this year. That’s almost 100% of GDP.            (5-19)   Deficit surges at agency that insures pensions (AP)       China and Brazil Plan to Dump Dollar          HP's profit drops, more layoffs looming        Japan logs record GDP drop      Senator: More oversight needed at insolvent pension agency (AP)     Inflating Our Way Out of This Mess? Why This Won't Work        Japan's economy in record plunge      Jim Rogers: Obama will Devastate the Economy        This Economy Ain't Healed Yet (at Seeking Alpha)         (5-18) Suckers’ rally (The Suckers Rally, Japan Style   …high oil price rally…riiiiight! )  Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)            Meanwhile: The Bilderbergers are advancing in Norway  [ I realize that jones (who parenthetically it should be noted, hypocritically censored my comments) et als really overdoes this group’s (among others) effect on the u.s. , state of the world, etc.; truth be told, this group like most of the interest/pressure groups including the masses, in the u.s., etc., are no more than a just a bunch of f**k-ups/vegetables who like the aforementioned multitudes have really ‘mucked things up’ (for lack of a more precise yet concise term) on this planet, probably irrevocably, and like the many home-grown f**k-ups/vegetables, and in america particularly criminals, jones refuses to acknowledge as culpable for the many reasons he refuses to see, are but rather typically incompetent players contributing in there own very special eccentric, neurotic, sick, venal, corrupt, etc., way to this collective and cumulative result being this ever deflating (declining) ball of chaos /confusion /criminality called earth (there are exceptions to the foregoing, but in america, the same would be 5% or less) ].       Economy limiting services of local police        Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors yet still not even one prosecution of the perpetrators of the largest scam/fraud in history foisted off on/funded by taxpayers        Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-20-09, only modest losses relative to reality based on bad news ( ie., fed downgrades outlook that previously provided b.s. for suckers’ rally, record low for new housing starts, etc.) and bull s**t alone (Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)   ,  The Sleepwalkers' Rally         ,  Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally”    )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!   The Weimar Hyperinflation is Happening Again! With fed printing/creating like mad, what did they expect?     Rogers Echoes Warning Of “Sucker’s Rally”      Green Shoots: Too Small, Too Far Apart       The Sleepwalkers' Rally       Former head of pension agency takes the Fifth (AP)      Global stocks slip, dollar tumbles after downbeat Fed     Depression hits already defacto bankrupt Social Security hard     Gold purchases up 36% as investors look to preserve wealth      China Gold Reserves May Back Yuan Internationalization-Report     22 reasons why OBAMA will raise your taxes Federal debt is now $11.5 trillion. Add $1.4 trillion this year. That’s almost 100% of GDP.            (5-19)   Deficit surges at agency that insures pensions (AP)       China and Brazil Plan to Dump Dollar          HP's profit drops, more layoffs looming        Japan logs record GDP drop      Senator: More oversight needed at insolvent pension agency (AP)     Inflating Our Way Out of This Mess? Why This Won't Work        Japan's economy in record plunge      Jim Rogers: Obama will Devastate the Economy        This Economy Ain't Healed Yet (at Seeking Alpha)         (5-18) Suckers’ rally (The Suckers Rally, Japan Style   …high oil price rally…riiiiight! )  Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)            Meanwhile: The Bilderbergers are advancing in Norway  [ I realize that jones (who parenthetically it should be noted, hypocritically censored my comments) et als really overdoes this group’s (among others) effect on the u.s. , state of the world, etc.; truth be told, this group like most of the interest/pressure groups including the masses, in the u.s., etc., are no more than a just a bunch of f**k-ups/vegetables who like the aforementioned multitudes have really ‘mucked things up’ (for lack of a more precise yet concise term) on this planet, probably irrevocably, and like the many home-grown f**k-ups/vegetables, and in america particularly criminals, jones refuses to acknowledge as culpable for the many reasons he refuses to see, are but rather typically incompetent players contributing in there own very special eccentric, neurotic, sick, venal, corrupt, etc., way to this collective and cumulative result being this ever deflating (declining) ball of chaos /confusion /criminality called earth (there are exceptions to the foregoing, but in america, the same would be 5% or less) ].       Economy limiting services of local police        Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors yet still not even one prosecution of the perpetrators of the largest scam/fraud in history foisted off on/funded by taxpayers        Rep. Paul’s bill to audit Federal Reserve nets 165 co-sponsors is the first of what should be many necessary wise moves     American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper    The Shrinking American Consumer       The Suckers Rally, Japan Style        Gold likely to test $950 level this week      Blue collar males lose more ground; unemployment rate surges past national average...         

PREVIOUS 5-19-09, only modest losses relative to reality based on bad news ( ie., record low for new housing starts, etc.) and bull s**t alone (Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market   ,  Another Bottom for Stocks Coming: Rogers (at CNBC)       )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Deficit surges at agency that insures pensions (AP)       China and Brazil Plan to Dump Dollar          HP's profit drops, more layoffs looming        Japan logs record GDP drop      Senator: More oversight needed at insolvent pension agency (AP)     Inflating Our Way Out of This Mess? Why This Won't Work        Japan's economy in record plunge      Jim Rogers: Obama will Devastate the Economy        This Economy Ain't Healed Yet (at Seeking Alpha)         (5-18) Suckers’ rally (The Suckers Rally, Japan Style   …high oil price rally…riiiiight! )  Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)            Meanwhile: The Bilderbergers are advancing in Norway  [ I realize that jones (who parenthetically it should be noted, hypocritically censored my comments) et als really overdoes this group’s (among others) effect on the u.s. , state of the world, etc.; truth be told, this group like most of the interest/pressure groups including the masses, in the u.s., etc., are no more than a just a bunch of f**k-ups/vegetables who like the aforementioned multitudes have really ‘mucked things up’ (for lack of a more precise yet concise term) on this planet, probably irrevocably, and like the many home-grown f**k-ups/vegetables, and in america particularly criminals, jones refuses to acknowledge as culpable for the many reasons he refuses to see, are but rather typically incompetent players contributing in there own very special eccentric, neurotic, sick, venal, corrupt, etc., way to this collective and cumulative result being this ever deflating (declining) ball of chaos /confusion /criminality called earth (there are exceptions to the foregoing, but in america, the same would be 5% or less) ].       Economy limiting services of local police        Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors yet still not even one prosecution of the perpetrators of the largest scam/fraud in history foisted off on/funded by taxpayers        Rep. Paul’s bill to audit Federal Reserve nets 165 co-sponsors is the first of what should be many necessary wise moves     American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper    The Shrinking American Consumer       The Suckers Rally, Japan Style        Gold likely to test $950 level this week      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-18-09, suckers’ rally (The Suckers Rally, Japan Style   …high oil price rally…riiiiight! )  accelerates into the close based on bad news and bull s**t alone (Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market  )  , ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper    The Shrinking American Consumer       The Suckers Rally, Japan Style        Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)            Meanwhile: The Bilderbergers are advancing in Norway  [ I realize that jones (who parenthetically it should be noted, hypocritically censored my comments) et als really overdoes this group’s (among others) effect on the u.s. , state of the world, etc.; truth be told, this group like most of the interest/pressure groups including the masses, in the u.s., etc., are no more than a just a bunch of f**k-ups/vegetables who like the aforementioned multitudes have really ‘mucked things up’ (for lack of a more precise yet concise term) on this planet, probably irrevocably, and like the many home-grown f**k-ups/vegetables, and in america particularly criminals, jones refuses to acknowledge as culpable for the many reasons he refuses to see, are but rather typically incompetent players contributing in there own very special eccentric, neurotic, sick, venal, corrupt, etc., way to this collective and cumulative result being this ever deflating (declining) ball of chaos /confusion /criminality called earth (there are exceptions to the foregoing, but in america, the same would be 5% or less) ].       Economy limiting services of local police        Madoff Investors Probed by U.S. Prosecutors yet still not even one prosecution of the perpetrators of the largest scam/fraud in history foisted off on/funded by taxpayers      Rep. Paul’s bill to audit Federal Reserve nets 165 co-sponsors is the first of what should be many necessary wise moves        Gold likely to test $950 level this week      Blue collar males lose more ground; unemployment rate surges past national average...         (5-15)Highest credit card default rates in 26 years at 10+%, the real economy in terms of unemployment, income, and debt far worse than their rosy ‘green shoots’ scenario to help froth the market. Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers   “The Worst Is Yet to Come”  Yahoo Finance | “If the consumer isn’t petrified, he or she is a damn fool.”       (5-14)All news worse than expected, ie., weekly job losses higher than expected 637,000, wholesale inflation rate .3%,   BEAR ALARM      US ’sham’ bank bail-outs enrich speculators  ,  The Secrets of the Federal Reserve  Bob Chapman | A manmade disaster created by the Federal Reserve, banking and Wall Street, and these are the same corrupt group who our government has chosen to rectify the problem.  The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable    etc.,  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.      Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers      SEC lawyers probed for insider trading      GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010      The Financial Storm      Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’       “The Worst Is Yet to Come”          China’s yuan ’set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency       Former Treasury Official who Devised Formula for Rate-Setting Based on Outlook for Inflation and Growth Warns that Inflation Looms, Slams Fed Policy    Dr. Doom: Capitalism Could Fail Like Communism         New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-15-09,  only modest losses relative to reality as this suckers’ rally has been based on bad news and bull s**t alone, ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Highest credit card default rates in 26 years at 10+%, the real economy in terms of unemployment, income, and debt far worse than their rosy ‘green shoots’ scenario to help froth the market. Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers   “The Worst Is Yet to Come”  Yahoo Finance | “If the consumer isn’t petrified, he or she is a damn fool.”       (5-14)All news worse than expected, ie., weekly job losses higher than expected 637,000, wholesale inflation rate .3%,   BEAR ALARM      US ’sham’ bank bail-outs enrich speculators  ,  The Secrets of the Federal Reserve  Bob Chapman | A manmade disaster created by the Federal Reserve, banking and Wall Street, and these are the same corrupt group who our government has chosen to rectify the problem.  The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable    etc.,  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.    U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall for Second Month    GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers: sources (Reuters)       U.S. Foreclosure Filings Hit Record for Second Straight Month        Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?             Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc..  America is broke. How broke?   NSN Money | Government obligations for Social Security and Medicare may soon exceed the combined net worth of every household and nonprofit organization in the country. "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through  Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers      SEC lawyers probed for insider trading      GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010      The Financial Storm      Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’       “The Worst Is Yet to Come”          China’s yuan ’set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency       Former Treasury Official who Devised Formula for Rate-Setting Based on Outlook for Inflation and Growth Warns that Inflation Looms, Slams Fed Policy    Dr. Doom: Capitalism Could Fail Like Communism         New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-14-09,  suckers’ rally has been based on bad news and bull s**t alone, ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Highest credit card default rates in 26 years at 10+%, the real economy in terms of unemployment, income, and debt far worse than their rosy ‘green shoots’ scenario to help froth the market. Wall Street sags on oil; S&P ends worst week in 2 months     Following Chrysler, GM slashing U.S. dealers   “The Worst Is Yet to Come”  Yahoo Finance | “If the consumer isn’t petrified, he or she is a damn fool.”  (5-14)All news worse than expected, ie., weekly job losses higher than expected 637,000, wholesale inflation rate .3%,   BEAR ALARM      US ’sham’ bank bail-outs enrich speculators  ,  The Secrets of the Federal Reserve  Bob Chapman | A manmade disaster created by the Federal Reserve, banking and Wall Street, and these are the same corrupt group who our government has chosen to rectify the problem.  The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable    etc.,  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.    U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall for Second Month    GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers: sources (Reuters)       U.S. Foreclosure Filings Hit Record for Second Straight Month        Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?             Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc..  America is broke. How broke?   NSN Money | Government obligations for Social Security and Medicare may soon exceed the combined net worth of every household and nonprofit organization in the country Oil jumps above $60 on weak US currency       U.S. Trade Deficit Widens First Time in Eight Months        U.S. Federal Deficit to Worsen due to Dismal Economic Projections       Median home prices fall in 88 percent of cities      Freddie Mac seeks $6.1B in US aid after 1Q loss       Higher Taxes Coming, Just Like Obama Promised           New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-13-09,  modest losses relative to reality, ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’, so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.    U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall for Second Month    GM, Chrysler to cut up to 3,000 dealers: sources (Reuters)       U.S. Foreclosure Filings Hit Record for Second Straight Month        Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?             Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc..  America is broke. How broke?   NSN Money | Government obligations for Social Security and Medicare may soon exceed the combined net worth of every household and nonprofit organization in the country.  Everyone is familiar with the old saying, "what goes up must come down." Certainly the stock market has mounted a serious challenge to this old saying since bouncing off its lows in March and continues to defy gravity…In the face of unrelenting bad news, the market has been climbing because the news is "less bad," Gentle Ben and his Merry Band of Feds see "green shoots" and the financial press continues an unrelenting mantra of "recovery lies just ahead." It seems like the markets will never stop climbing, but they will, because contrary to what you hear on CNBC and read in the financial press, the laws of gravity have not been repealed and it's still true that "what goes up, must come down."

…When measured in ounces of Gold, the DOW has been in a secular bear market since peaking in late 1999. (Click charts, courtesy of stockcharts.com, for full size image). The markets, measured by the S&P500 (S&P500 Charts) and DIJA (DJIA Charts), may have recovered to new highs in 2007, but the DOW:Gold ratio told a different, truer story of just how unhealthy the US economy was…

Oil jumps above $60 on weak US currency       U.S. Trade Deficit Widens First Time in Eight Months        U.S. Federal Deficit to Worsen due to Dismal Economic Projections       Median home prices fall in 88 percent of cities      Freddie Mac seeks $6.1B in US aid after 1Q loss       Higher Taxes Coming, Just Like Obama Promised           New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-12-09,  It’s worth noting in a Wall Street Journal editorial hedge fund manager Andy Kessler said in no uncertain terms, “this sure smells to me a suckers rally,” largely because “there aren't sustainable, fundamental reasons for the market's continued rise.”     I’m skeptical about this rally, reveals analyst Guy Adami.  ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’ so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc.. Everyone is familiar with the old saying, "what goes up must come down." Certainly the stock market has mounted a serious challenge to this old saying since bouncing off its lows in March and continues to defy gravity…In the face of unrelenting bad news, the market has been climbing because the news is "less bad," Gentle Ben and his Merry Band of Feds see "green shoots" and the financial press continues an unrelenting mantra of "recovery lies just ahead." It seems like the markets will never stop climbing, but they will, because contrary to what you hear on CNBC and read in the financial press, the laws of gravity have not been repealed and it's still true that "what goes up, must come down."

…When measured in ounces of Gold, the DOW has been in a secular bear market since peaking in late 1999. (Click charts, courtesy of stockcharts.com, for full size image). The markets, measured by the S&P500 (S&P500 Charts) and DIJA (DJIA Charts), may have recovered to new highs in 2007, but the DOW:Gold ratio told a different, truer story of just how unhealthy the US economy was…

BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  ‘…Most recently, the S&P 500 soared 24 per cent over seven weeks ending in early January, only to plunge to a new low. It was a fairly typical sucker’s rally and bear markets often need more than one to create sufficient disillusionment for a definitive bottom.  The 2000–2002 bear market had three, with average gains of 21 per cent in the Dow Jones Industrials over 45 days. The granddaddy of all bear markets, 1929 –1932, had six false alarms with an average gain of 47 per cent. And Japan’s ongoing bear saw the Nikkei rise by at least a third four times in its first four years with 10 more false dawns since then. Bear markets typically end with a whimper rather than a bang, casting doubt on the latest recovery according to Hussman Econometrics, which analysed numerous US market bottoms and bear market rallies. With the exception of the 1987 crash, the month before the lowest point of a downturn saw a gradual descent. By contrast, bear market rallies were preceded by steeper declines and had sharper rebounds. Another characteristic of bear market rallies has been modest volume on the rebound compared to the decline. The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough. Analysts at Bespoke Investment Group noted that there have been only seven other periods in the past 110 years with rallies of similar magnitude for the Dow. Three preceded the Great Depression, three came during the Depression and one in 1982…’
  New record for continuing unemployment claims and as with all government data, adp data, etc., is fudged to whatever way necessary to help froth the market. Short-covering explaining part of what remains of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally and as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through  Oil jumps above $60 on weak US currency       U.S. Trade Deficit Widens First Time in Eight Months        U.S. Federal Deficit to Worsen due to Dismal Economic Projections       Median home prices fall in 88 percent of cities      Freddie Mac seeks $6.1B in US aid after 1Q loss       Higher Taxes Coming, Just Like Obama Promised           New York Fed: Most Powerful Financial Institution You’ve Never Heard Of along with the missing $4 trillion you’ve never heard of          Home Prices Drop Most on Record...       Federal Hiring Frenzy......average pay $75,419       A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-11-09, only modest losses relative to reality, ‘SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY’ so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Unemployment up to 8.9%, The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc.. Everyone is familiar with the old saying, "what goes up must come down." Certainly the stock market has mounted a serious challenge to this old saying since bouncing off its lows in March and continues to defy gravity…In the face of unrelenting bad news, the market has been climbing because the news is "less bad," Gentle Ben and his Merry Band of Feds see "green shoots" and the financial press continues an unrelenting mantra of "recovery lies just ahead." It seems like the markets will never stop climbing, but they will, because contrary to what you hear on CNBC and read in the financial press, the laws of gravity have not been repealed and it's still true that "what goes up, must come down."

…When measured in ounces of Gold, the DOW has been in a secular bear market since peaking in late 1999. (Click charts, courtesy of stockcharts.com, for full size image). The markets, measured by the S&P500 (S&P500 Charts) and DIJA (DJIA Charts), may have recovered to new highs in 2007, but the DOW:Gold ratio told a different, truer story of just how unhealthy the US economy was…

BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  ‘…Most recently, the S&P 500 soared 24 per cent over seven weeks ending in early January, only to plunge to a new low. It was a fairly typical sucker’s rally and bear markets often need more than one to create sufficient disillusionment for a definitive bottom.  The 2000–2002 bear market had three, with average gains of 21 per cent in the Dow Jones Industrials over 45 days. The granddaddy of all bear markets, 1929 –1932, had six false alarms with an average gain of 47 per cent. And Japan’s ongoing bear saw the Nikkei rise by at least a third four times in its first four years with 10 more false dawns since then. Bear markets typically end with a whimper rather than a bang, casting doubt on the latest recovery according to Hussman Econometrics, which analysed numerous US market bottoms and bear market rallies. With the exception of the 1987 crash, the month before the lowest point of a downturn saw a gradual descent. By contrast, bear market rallies were preceded by steeper declines and had sharper rebounds. Another characteristic of bear market rallies has been modest volume on the rebound compared to the decline. The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough. Analysts at Bespoke Investment Group noted that there have been only seven other periods in the past 110 years with rallies of similar magnitude for the Dow. Three preceded the Great Depression, three came during the Depression and one in 1982…’
  New record for continuing unemployment claims and as with all government data, adp data, etc., is fudged to whatever way necessary to help froth the market. Short-covering explaining part of what remains of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally and as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through    A Coming Flood of Equity Issuance, aka The Dilution Solution      Fed cut banks' deficits after negotiations: sounds like a plan…riiiiight!…report          Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Are stocks a loser's bet?YES!     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...    America is broke. How broke?    White House forecasts higher budget deficit       US red ink rising even higher, to $1.8T     Deficits soar even with rosy assumptions in new Obama budget...     STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest; Auditors can't track transportation funds...      Gas price jumps to 6-month high...        Six GM executives sell more than 200,000 shares       John Hussman: Post Crash Bubbles   …Unfortunately, “fear” lows are only evident in hindsight, because as we saw in 2008, a deeply oversold market can become spectacularly more oversold before recovering, and the “fast, furious” spikes off of those lows are often followed by steep failures....     Fed Inspector General Claims She Does Not Know Where Trillions Went  Rep. Alan Grayson | Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.    Recovery? What Recovery?   Newsweek | Don’t tell me that the economy is getting better, or has even hit rock bottom.     Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold      Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally  Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems.      New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-8-09, the flaming full moon and effect on lunatic wall street frauds and bull s**t alone (false data, not as bad as expected…riiiiight!…, etc.) irrationally exuberantly rally stocks so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Unemployment up to 8.9%, US unemployment hits 25-year high       China fears bond crisis as it slams quantitative easing   The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable , etc..  BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  ‘…Most recently, the S&P 500 soared 24 per cent over seven weeks ending in early January, only to plunge to a new low. It was a fairly typical sucker’s rally and bear markets often need more than one to create sufficient disillusionment for a definitive bottom.  The 2000–2002 bear market had three, with average gains of 21 per cent in the Dow Jones Industrials over 45 days. The granddaddy of all bear markets, 1929 –1932, had six false alarms with an average gain of 47 per cent. And Japan’s ongoing bear saw the Nikkei rise by at least a third four times in its first four years with 10 more false dawns since then. Bear markets typically end with a whimper rather than a bang, casting doubt on the latest recovery according to Hussman Econometrics, which analysed numerous US market bottoms and bear market rallies. With the exception of the 1987 crash, the month before the lowest point of a downturn saw a gradual descent. By contrast, bear market rallies were preceded by steeper declines and had sharper rebounds. Another characteristic of bear market rallies has been modest volume on the rebound compared to the decline. The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough. Analysts at Bespoke Investment Group noted that there have been only seven other periods in the past 110 years with rallies of similar magnitude for the Dow. Three preceded the Great Depression, three came during the Depression and one in 1982…’
  New record for continuing unemployment claims and as with all government data, adp data, etc., is fudged to whatever way necessary to help froth the market. Short-covering explaining part of what remains of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally and as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through    [$$] Banks Won Concessions on Tests (at The Wall Street Journal Online)      [$$] Hit by Mortgage Defaults, Fannie Needs $19 Billion (at The Wall Street Journal Online)     [$$] Bank Shares Range-Bound Near Term (at Barron's Online)       AP Sources: Obama wants Fed to be finance supercop which is one of the dumber things I’ve ever heard (very bushy) since the fed is the super criminal, capo, godfather, etc., in the criminal enterprise called american finance/scam the taxpayer/etc., in this fraud of monumental proportion …  the bubble will again pop        Fannie Mae seeks $19B in US aid after 1Q loss     Buffett's Berkshire has first loss since 2001       Fed Sees Up to $599 Billion in Bank Losses       Is Rupert Murdoch losing it? Already past tense; he’s lost it…so…..?      EU Calls for Internet G12 for Global Internet Governance     US unemployment hits 25-year high       China fears bond crisis as it slams quantitative easing   The Economy Will Not Recover Until The Perpetrators Of Our Crises Are Held Accountable     New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns      BEWARE OF THE SUCKER'S RALLY?  Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-7-09, yes, there is a flaming full moon which explains in large part only modest losses relative to reality by the lunatic frauds on wall street so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  New record for continuing unemployment claims and as with all government data, adp data, etc., is fudged to whatever way necessary to help froth the market. Short-covering explaining part of what remains of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally and as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through    U.S. banks race to fill $74.6 billion stress test hole        NY Fed chair resigns amid stock purchase questions and while they’re at it ask him and tiny tim geithner about the missing $4 trillion at the N.Y. fed bank among other things        BofA needs $33.9 billion, eyes stock and asset sales      Cyberbullying Bill Not About Protecting Kids, It is About Shutting Down the Opposition      Rupert Murdoch: “Internet Will Soon Be Over – in his wet dreams along with presidents hillary, rudy, and mccain – must be ancestral flashbacks to the penal colony days in australia”       Taking on the banking cabal       Looking Back on the Greatest Depression       401(k)s Hit by Withdrawal Freezes      Taleb: Global Crisis “Vastly Worse” Than 1930s, Buy Gold and Copper      Dollar Hovering at Cliff’s Edge      Group names 25 lenders responsible for economic meltdown       $58: Oil prices jump to new six-month high...     GM posts $6 billion loss for first quarter...     Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-6-09, Yes, there is a full moon which explains inlarge part this ridiculous up move on bad news and bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Some short-covering explaining part of this continuing suckers’ bear market rally, the other as admonished by analyst at Farr Miller is a bull trap. How about plain old bull crap!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through    BofA, Citi, Wells need capital under stress tests        NEED BILLIONS AND BILLIONS MORE       Bank stress tests show some banks need more funds       Almost a Quarter of U.S. Homeowners Are Underwater       Banks Need Billions More       Globalizing the Internet       Hedge Fund Leader Blasts Obama for “Bullying” and “Abuse of Power”        About that “loan”: Obama team writes off $7 billion taxpayers loaned Chrysler    $56: Oil prices jump to new high for year...       US wants Israel, India, Iran to sign NPT     Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-5-09, So small were the losses relative to reality that to try and make sense of same (americans among other investors must love getting burned by the frauds on wall street who are commissioning the new bubble like mad and don’t worry since in america today they socialize their losses and privatize their gains) is but a fool’s errand so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  One analyst (Craig Brown) points out that we’re not at the bottom yet: excerpt-‘ I hate repeating myself, but I do not see the economy at bottom just yet, so in some respects I will keep repeating myself until either other people wake up to this reality or something changes to wake me up. The markets were down a bit yesterday and, according to Bloomberg, they were down due to fears of the stress test results. I don't fear them; I fear what they hide. I fear that a reported 10 out of 19 banks failed when the tests were not at all stringent enough. I fear that the government will soft-pedal the results to make them bad enough to have a tad of credibility but not so bad that people run for the exits. Don't buy my word for it, others are saying the same, including Nouriel Roubini. Nouriel has been complaining for weeks on how the worst case scenario in the stress tests is already rosier than reality.’  Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie.,Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through    Bank of America to need $34 billion in capital: source       Yen rises, stocks slip on Bank of America needs      Moody's downgrades NYSE Euronext debt (AP)     Auditors see SEC deficiencies      Stress Test Results Seem to Be Changing Daily (at Seeking Alpha)     We Haven't Reached the Bottom Yet       About that “loan”: Obama team writes off $7 billion taxpayers loaned Chrysler    US Fed rejects request to help credit card holders         Fed Stress Tests to Show About 10 Banks Need Capital       Gold Climbs to One-Week High as Dollar Declines; Platinum Gains     Editorial: Bleak forecast for EU economies     Michigan residents mine bodies for cash; Sellers offer hair, blood...  GM plans 1-for-100 reverse stock split...         The Economic Pain Ain't Over Yet      Economic downturn ‘twice as bad as feared’       NEEDS MORE: House Dems seek $94.2 billion in 'emergency funds'...          Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-4-09, so preposterous was the day’s suckers’ rally that I cannot dignify same with my own commentary other than to say SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Some perspective from Sajal… Excerpts – ie., …Mark Hulbert: That bullish bandwagon. Commentary: Some sentiment measures showing too much optimism   Art Cashin: "This rally is still somewhat suspect.   Albert Edwards : "Despite one of the biggest economics and profit collapses in history, US stocks have failed to get cheap in the same way that they have in Europe or Japan. My concern is that the US equity bear market has not yet fully played out. "The current pop in the market is not dissimilar to the many bear market rallies between 1929-1933, where signs of economic stabilisation were met with 25% plus rallies... This optimism was subsequently crushed."  Charles Allmon … He still thinks the stock market could decline to 3,200-4,200 on the Dow by 2011-2012 -- and that it could cross the price of gold.   Jim Bianco: "I don't think we are getting out of this for a long while. This has been a lousy stock rally.  …   …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline      "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming    Georgia, N.J. and Utah banks fail     The Economic Pain Ain't Over Yet      Obama says financial sector to shrink (Reuters)      Buffett dispenses gloom at Berkshire fest…daaaah!       Warren Buffett warns inflation is on the horizon …daaah!(at Fortune)     SHOCK CLAIM: WHITE HOUSE BULLY THREAT OVER AUTO BANKRUPTCY...     China 'cutting down purchases of US Treasury bonds'...       Obama: Wall Street will play less dominant role...      ...financial sector to shrink      European economy 'will shrink 4%'       About 10 U.S. stress test banks to need more capital         UBS remains cautious after confirming first-quarter loss      AIG to post first-quarter loss, no new bailout: source     Prepare for Another Round of U.S. 'Stimulus' Propaganda      Swine Flu A Hoax, But Martial Law All Too Real      U.S. families rely on handouts in world’s richest country      Attack on the Chrysler Capitalists      Obama Pushes ‘Crackdown’ on Legal Tax ‘Havens’      Economic downturn ‘twice as bad as feared’       NEEDS MORE: House Dems seek $94.2 billion in 'emergency funds'...          Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 5-1-09, suckers’ rally into the close to keep suckers sucked in based on very bad news [U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years  ,  Georgia, N.J. banks fail, bringing '09 total to 31    ,    Auto sales plunge to near 30-year lows     ,    Chrysler to close 5 more plants; court case begins     ,   ‘China cancels America’s credit card’    ,     Mark Hulbert who tracks investment consensus says bear market rally and new lows before new highs ,   continuing claims for unemployment at new record 6.3 million, new claims at 631,000 for prior week, worse than expected are consumer spending -.2% and personal income -.3%, Chrysler receives additional $8 billion in taxpayer funds and files for bankruptcy,  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline  ,  leading economic indicators ( a forward looking guage of economic activity/growth) declined a much worse than expected –6.1% which one analyst commented was negative and getting worse, pandemic level raised to 5, banks need another trillion, new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures to 27 for 2009 thus far, GM borrows $2 billion more/close dealers/many more layoffs, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ] and bull s**t ( fed says pace of decline slowing…riiiiight!, dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, Consumer confidence soars past forecasts (on fake conference board report) in April – riiiiight! Come on! Even americans are not that shortsighted /blind /dumb!…  l , etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! ‘…economic conditions remain dour. Factory orders for March declined 0.9%, which is worse than the 0.6% decline that was widely expected, and February orders were revised lower to reflect an increase of 0.7%. Meanwhile, the ISM Manufacturing Index for April showed continued contraction. It came in at 40.1. However, that was better than the 38.4 that was expected, and was also up from 36.3 in March. With economic conditions continuing to challenge businesses and consumers, Ford (F 5.69, -0.29) announced April auto sales fell 31.6%, while General Motors (GM 1.81, -0.11) said its US sales fell 34% in April…’  …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline        Dollar falls on euro, up on yen on GDP hopes…riiiiight!        "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming throughSocial Security: Bankrupt System Will Impact Markets Sooner Than Expected       Georgia, N.J. banks fail, bringing '09 total to 31     U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years      Auto sales plunge to near 30-year lows     [$$] The Overvalued Market Needs a Healthy Pullback         Major wholesale bank shuttered …Silverton, Ga…and then Ridgewood, n.j. for 31st  bank failure this year (at CNNMoney.com)       Manufacturing declines at slower rate in April … riiiiight!…(AP)      Chrysler to close 5 more plants; court case begins      Results delayed again on banks stress tests …the fudge factor!…(at bizjournals.com)   Regulators close two more banks      U.S. families rely on handouts in world’s formerly richest country        Elliot Wave Theorists Claim Pandemics Always Happen In a Bear Market      CITI Said to Need Up to $10 Billion; Bank Disputes 'Stress Test' Result...       ‘China cancels America’s credit card’ China, wary of the troubled US economy, has ‘canceled America’s credit card’ by cutting down purchases of debt, a US congressman says.     Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress        Stress-Test Results Are Delayed by Fed as Examiners, Banks Debate Findings...      Economy shrinks at worse-than-expected pace...          Metro Unemployment Skyrockets; Some Cities See Rates Comparable To Great Depression...        STRESS: Fed Finds at Least 6 of 19 Biggest Banks Need to Raise More Capital...       CITI scrambles...          MSNBC's Washington HQ Can't Make Rent: Looking to Share Space with Local U...     Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-30-09, very modest losses relative to reality to keep suckers sucked in based on very bad news [Continuing claims for unemployment at new record 6.3 million, new claims at 631,000 for prior week, worse than expected are consumer spending -.2% and personal income -.3%, Chrysler receives additional $8 billion in taxpayer funds and files for bankruptcy,  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline  ,  leading economic indicators ( a forward looking guage of economic activity/growth) declined a much worse than expected –6.1% which one analyst commented was negative and getting worse, pandemic level raised to 5, banks need another trillion, new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures to 27 for 2009 thus far, GM borrows $2 billion more/close dealers/many more layoffs, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ] and bull s**t ( fed says pace of decline slowing…riiiiight!, dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, Consumer confidence soars past forecasts (on fake conference board report) in April – riiiiight! Come on! Even americans are not that shortsighted /blind /dumb!…  l , etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline        Dollar falls on euro, up on yen on GDP hopes…riiiiight!        "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…”   Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy       Motorola loss widens; analysts see worrisome signs      Dow Chemical 1Q profit tumbles 97 percent      With earnings bar low, April fraudulently strong for stocks        Will the Swine Flu Get the Same Response as the Financial Crisis - Protect the Status Quo without Really Changing Anything?      U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks in Worst Slump in 50 Years         Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress        Stress-Test Results Are Delayed by Fed as Examiners, Banks Debate Findings...      Economy shrinks at worse-than-expected pace...          Metro Unemployment Skyrockets; Some Cities See Rates Comparable To Great Depression...        STRESS: Fed Finds at Least 6 of 19 Biggest Banks Need to Raise More Capital...       CITI scrambles...          MSNBC's Washington HQ Can't Make Rent: Looking to Share Space with Local U...     Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-29-09, flagrant suckers’ rally to keep suckers sucked in based on very bad news [ U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline   leading economic indicators ( a forward looking guage of economic activity/growth) declined a much worse than expected –6.1% which one analyst commented was negative and getting worse, pandemic level raised to 5, banks need another trillion, new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures to 27 for 2009 thus far, GM borrows $2 billion more/close dealers/many more layoffs, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ] and bull s**t ( fed says pace of decline slowing…riiiiight!, dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, Consumer confidence soars past forecasts (on fake conference board report) in April – riiiiight! Come on! Even americans are not that shortsighted /blind /dumb!…  l , etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says. Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…” …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].  U.S. Economy in 2nd Straight Quarter of Steep Decline        Dollar falls on euro, up on yen on GDP hopes…riiiiight!        "You have to balance hope with reality," says Doug Sandler, chief equity officer at Riverfront Investment Group. Sandler tells Andrew O'Day "this is a good example of a year where you probably have a lot of hope early, then the reality coming through…”      Economy shrinks at worse-than-expected pace...          Metro Unemployment Skyrockets; Some Cities See Rates Comparable To Great Depression...        STRESS: Fed Finds at Least 6 of 19 Biggest Banks Need to Raise More Capital...       CITI scrambles...          MSNBC's Washington HQ Can't Make Rent: Looking to Share Space with Local U...     Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-28-09, very modest losses relative to reality to keep suckers sucked in based on bad news (banks need another trillion, new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures, GM borrows $2 billion more, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ) and bull s**t ( dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, Consumer confidence soars past forecasts (on fake conference board report) in April – riiiiight! Come on! Even americans are not that shortsighted /blind /dumb!…  l    etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Sun's loss widens on restructuring, slumping sales      Citi, BofA may need more capital after stress tests (Reuters)     GM to force more than 1,000 dealers to close     Douglas, Stone head back to `Wall Street' (AP)      E-Trade Financial 1st-qtr loss widens, shares fall (AP)      Textron's 1st-quarter profit falls 63 pct (AP)  …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says.Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government            FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-27-09, only modest losses relative to reality to keep suckers sucked in based on bad news (banks need another trillion, new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures, GM borrows $2 billion more, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ) and bull s**t ( dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! …traders living in a fool's paradise if they continue to drive the markets higher by buying stocks based on earnings that are down, say, 50 percent from this time last year, only because they're not down 75 percent… Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco...In an interview on Tech Ticker, Garnick says that companies are beating earnings expectations in the first quarter by Draconian cost-cutting, an unsustainable strategy for long-term growth. More importantly, although companies are beating profit estimates, thanks to the cost-cutting, they are missing expectations for revenue, she says.Further, cost-cutting via layoffs hurts the economy as a whole, Garnick argues, because the unemployed spend less money… Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government        GM OFFERS ITSELF UP FOR NATIONALIZATION...       FLASH: Treasury Borrows Record $361 Billion for 2nd Quarter...      GM goes for broke       Corporate CFR Members Get Most of the Bailout Money       Flu fears dampen talk of tentative world recovery       Raised pandemic risk, bank capital report fuels fresh fears     US newspaper circulation sees biggest decline yet (AP)       WSJ: Regulators urge BofA, Citi to boost capital     

GM goes for broke   CNNMoney | General Motors announced plans Monday to cut 23,000 U.S. jobs by 2011, drop its storied Pontiac brand and slash 40% of its dealer network in its latest bid to stay out of bankruptcy.

U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week

Gore Denies that Ken Lay, Goldman Sachs CEOs Helped Develop C02 Trading ‘Scheme’: VIDEO

PREVIOUS 4-24-09, suckers’ bear market rally to keep suckers sucked in based on bad news ( new home sales down, durable goods sales down, 4 more bank failures, GM borrows $2 billion more, Ford loses almost $2 billion, Microsoft reports first decline in revenue ever,  U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ) and bull s**t ( dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Watch out for the fake government stress tests (they lie about everything!). Note the delay in the rollout. Bank analyst Cassidy says bank plan a failure. Business week business analyst /reporter says (tongue in cheek) the optimism (irrational exuberance) must be the advent of spring and the birds chirping (in the heads of the wall street lunatic/frauds…cukoos). Analysts/Economists comments include: slow release of stress test results, details and accuracy of data crucial for stress tests (good luck!), things have not bottomed out but pace of decline has slowed somewhat, bleak outlook for GM, Chrysler and bankruptcy probably necessary because of legacy costs, and public pension funds with ridiculously rich benefits the next shoe to drop. Oxdown Gazette sums up the crucial story | ‘The 12 trillion that is being floated to insolvent US banks is essentially being looted in the paper economy’ (ie., churn and earn by wall street fraudsters who must be prosecuted and forced disgorgement/forfeiture in the massive securities fraud that still goes unmentioned though the source of this economic debacle, etc.).
Four more banks shuttered as credit crunch shakes out    Why Housing Is Not Coming Back       Obama Talks Credit Cards, Summers Nods Off          This Volatility Is Off the Charts!     Banks May Struggle After 'Stress Tests'; Bad Assets Triple...    

R.I.P.: GM to pull the plug on Pontiac...

 

Four more banks closed by regulators, this years closures exceeding all of 2008 as depression continues John Letzing, MarketWatch April 24, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Four banks in Georgia, Michigan, California and Idaho were closed by regulators Friday, costing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s deposit insurance fund nearly $700 million as the effects of the credit crisis continued rippling throughout the U.S. economy.  Kennesaw, Ga.-based American Southern Bank marked the 26th bank failure of the year and the fifth in the state of Georgia, the FDIC said. Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Michigan Heritage Bank then became the 27th failure of 2009, followed by the closure of Calabasas, Ca.-based First Bank of Beverly Hills. Alpharetta, Ga.-based Bank of North Georgia has agreed to assume American Southern Bank's deposits, the FDIC said in a statement…
Germany’s slump risks ‘explosive’ mood as second banking crisis looms       China Increases Gold Reserves 76% to Fifth-Largest        

PREVIOUS 4-23-09, suckers’ rally in last 30 minutes to keep suckers sucked in based on bad news ( U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k, etc. , home sales down 3%, prices down 12%, etc. ) and bull s**t ( dilutive stock issues, not as bad as expected, etc. ) alone to keep fraudulent wall street’s churn and earn commissionable bubble ( Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble  ) fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Watch out for the fake government stress tests (they lie about everything!). Oxdown Gazette sums up the crucial story | ‘The 12 trillion that is being floated to insolvent US banks is essentially being looted in the paper economy’ (ie., churn and earn by wall street fraudsters who must be prosecuted and forced disgorgement/forfeiture in the massive securities fraud that still goes unmentioned though the source of this economic debacle, etc.). U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 640,000 Last Week as Continuing Claims Exceed 6.1 million for new record …k       Russia’s economy shrank a staggering 9.5% in first quarter      Truth About TARP       Reports: GM to Shut Down Plants for the Summer      President's financial adviser falls asleep while Obama talks!      ON THE BRINK: Feds preparing bankruptcy filing for CHRYSLER...       AMEX Profit Drops 58% as Defaults Rise, Consumers Cut Spending...      Microsoft's sales show fallout of recession       Normura posts record $7.3 billion annual loss      Interview with Peter Schiff: Reflating the Bubble

 Soaring U.S. Budget Deficit Will Mean Billions in Bond Sales     Housing bubble smackdown: Huge “shadow inventory” portends a bigger crash ahead      AP Sources:GM to shut many US plants up to 9 weeksGeneral Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, three people bri…    [$$] Morgan Stanley Still at Loss (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       [$$] Gauging Stress: More Losses Likely (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       No quick cybersecurity fix seen        Banks still in distress, Geithner tells overseers…DAAAAAH! How ‘bout insolvent!…(AP)                  David Tice: S&P 500 To Plunge to 325     Housing Starts Fall Sharply...         Wall Street loses 3,100 jobs in March … Should lose another 90% OF THEIR CHURN AND EARN JOBS (Reuters)     Treasury Stress Test Won't Add Clarity or Transparency - Just Inconsistency … and lack of meaningful FASB standard (ie., mark to market abolition, etc.) means more fraud (at Seeking Alpha)   Questions linger over Tarp funding...      MAJOR MALL OPERATOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY...        JPMorgan and Goldman trading profits unlikely to last Reuters      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-22-09,  modest losses relative to reality in mixed market close so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Oxdown Gazette sums up the crucial story | ‘The 12 trillion that is being floated to insolvent US banks is essentially being looted in the paper economy’(ie., churn and earn by wall street fraudsters who must be prosecuted and forced disgorgement/forfeiture in the massive securities fraud that still goes unmentioned though the source of this economic debacle, etc.). ‘For the second session in a row, stocks opened lower but buyers moved in to bid the major indices higher (based on nothing at all). However, upward momentum stalled as the S&P 500 approached the 850 level in the final hour of trading, which prompted sellers to re-enter the fold and hand stocks a sizeable loss. The late selling effort focused on financial stocks, which closed with a loss of 3.8%, worse than any other sector in the S&P 500. Shares of Morgan Stanley (MS 22.44, -2.21) weighed heavily on the financial sector after the company reported a larger-than-expected first quarter loss and a dividend cut.’

 Gold Heading Above $2,000 by End of 2010: Strategist     Soaring U.S. Budget Deficit Will Mean Billions in Bond Sales     Housing bubble smackdown: Huge “shadow inventory” portends a bigger crash ahead      AP Sources:GM to shut many US plants up to 9 weeksGeneral Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, three people bri... Falling bank stocks unravel rally; Dow loses 83Nagging worries about banks upended a stock market rally Wednesday.     [$$] Morgan Stanley Still at Loss (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       Talks on mortgage relief plan hit a snag (AP)Negotiations between the banking industry and Senate Democrats on a mortgage relief plan hit a snag Wednesday after a trade association representing credit unions said it could not endorse the proposa...        [$$] Gauging Stress: More Losses Likely (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       No quick cybersecurity fix seen        Banks still in distress, Geithner tells overseers…DAAAAAH! How ‘bout insolvent!…(AP)                  David Tice: S&P 500 To Plunge to 325     Housing Starts Fall Sharply...         Wall Street loses 3,100 jobs in March … Should lose another 90% OF THEIR CHURN AND EARN JOBS (Reuters)     Treasury Stress Test Won't Add Clarity or Transparency - Just Inconsistency … and lack of meaningful FASB standard (ie., mark to market abolition, etc.) means more fraud (at Seeking Alpha)   Questions linger over Tarp funding...      MAJOR MALL OPERATOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY...        JPMorgan and Goldman trading profits unlikely to last Reuters      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

PREVIOUS 4-21-09, Tiny Tim talks the talk in testimony tit for tat talking the talk, or stated another way, how much talk could tiny tim talk if a tiny tim could talk talk, said three times fast and you have the inspiration for a rally on fraudulent wall street based on bull s**t alone as bad news and bull s**t alone has kept the churn and earn commissionable bubble fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Even main stream business radio reporter Laura Gregory references the ‘rally based on nothing at all’, which of course is true. One analyst said all bank problems remain and reality would not limit the remaining problems to banks.  IMF says $2.7 trillion in losses ahead for (u.s.) banks.  judd greg says u.s. couldn’t meet the economic criteria for admission to EU. WOW! Given the economic state of the EU, that’s worse than bad!     Seeking Alpha Analyst sums it up ‘…The six-week-long rally is over. It was huge. The Dow Jones is up almost 1500 points. But the party is over. The Dow Jones fell under its 13 day moving average, the same thing happened to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite. I had some hope that the Naz could stay above its 13 day MA, but no such luck. Now what? According to the 1932 scenario, we might have a 2-3 months long slump, followed by another bull market. Or the market can go down big time, cross down its 50 day MA and test the March lows…’ - The latter is the scenario consonant with reality. - He assumes best case scenario as he concludes that ‘…means that either the March low holds or a new low will not be much lower. – Reality disagrees with that overly rosy scenario based upon his stated overly rosy assumption! Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases — for starters      AIG eats another $30 billion-ish      Housing Bubble Smackdown: Bigger Crash Ahead     U.S. Stocks To Fall at Least 6%: Doug Kass       Key Points About the Coming Hyperinflation     Wall St gains as banks lifted by tiny tim’s b.s      NYT losses worsen as ad sales plunge 27%...     Yahoo to cut 5 percent of jobs       Wall St gains as banks lifted by tiny tim’s b.s.       AMD posts deeper loss, shares fall (AP)         [$$] Connecticut Treasurer Joins Critics of BofA CEO (at The Wall Street Journal Online)       [$$] Citi Investors Vent About Losses (at The Wall Street Journal Online)      Banks still in distress, Geithner tells overseers…DAAAAAH! How ‘bout insolvent!…(AP)                  David Tice: S&P 500 To Plunge to 325     Housing Starts Fall Sharply...         Wall Street loses 3,100 jobs in March … Should lose another 90% OF THEIR CHURN AND EARN JOBS (Reuters)     Treasury Stress Test Won't Add Clarity or Transparency - Just Inconsistency … and lack of meaningful FASB standard (ie., mark to market abolition, etc.) means more fraud (at Seeking Alpha)   Questions linger over Tarp funding...      MAJOR MALL OPERATOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY...        JPMorgan and Goldman trading profits unlikely to last Reuters      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     

 

PREVIOUS 4-20-09, Modest losses relative to reality as bad news and bull s**t alone has kept the churn and earn commissionable bubble fraud rolling (on the way up and on the way down) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  All reasons for today’s reality plunge have been previously covered and warned of here in real time; ie., new meaningless FASB accounting standards which wall street frauds rallied on now have sold off on, worse to come in credit defaults/losses, leading indicators down again, etc.. David Tice: S&P 500 To Plunge to 325     Housing Starts Fall Sharply...         Sony Ericsson posts Q1 loss, plans more cost cuts    Wall Street loses 3,100 jobs in March … Should lose another 90% OF THEIR CHURN AND EARN JOBS (Reuters)     Treasury Stress Test Won't Add Clarity or Transparency - Just Inconsistency … and lack of meaningful FASB standard (ie., mark to market abolition, etc.) means more fraud (at Seeking Alpha)   Questions linger over Tarp funding...      MAJOR MALL OPERATOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY...        JPMorgan and Goldman trading profits unlikely to last Reuters      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further     A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short   Ron Paul: Reckless Spending And Taxation Prolonged Great Depression       Goldman Sachs: Wall St Largest Crooks  

Citigroup: The Beginning and End of the Current Rally (at Seeking Alpha)          Why BAC Will Beat: Understanding a New Bull Market Is Not Underway (at Seeking Alpha)       Government's Handling of Economic Crisis - Einstein Would Call It Insane (at Seeking Alpha)    Bank of America net up, shares sink on bad loans    GM cutting 1,600 U.S. salaried positions     IBM sales fall more than expected, but b.s. up     Wall Street sinks on banks' woes     Wall Street tumbles as investors dump financials (AP)      IBM shares slip as 1Q sales fall short (AP)      New embrace of reality about bank health grip Wall Street    Backdoor Path To Bank Nationalization (at CNBC)     Zions Bancorp Swings To 1Q Loss; Moody's Cuts Ratings     Economic Downturn Negatively Affecting Credit Markets in Varied Industries      Celente: “America lives in a fascist state”      Backdoor Nationalization? U.S. May Convert Banks’ Bailouts to Equity Share      Why a 50% Drop in Housing Is Not the Bottom          

PREVIOUS 4-17-09 (4-14,15,16,-09), Suckers’ rally into the close to keep the suckers’ suckered on bad news and bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- David Tice, the chief portfolio strategist for bear markets at Federated Investors Inc., said the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will probably plunge about 62 percent. He spoke during a Bloomberg Television interview today. The Federated Prudent Bear Fund that he founded returned 6.7 percent last year as the S&P 500 plunged 38 percent, the most since 1937. Tice said the benchmark index for U.S. stocks may slump to about 325. It closed today at 865.30. The measure has surged 28 percent since March 9, the most in five weeks since the 1930s. SUCKER'S RALLY APPROACHING AN END by Peter Cooper: Whatever the technical reason for the 25 percent rise in the S&P over the past five weeks, or a more modest eight percent bounce in GCC regional stock prices, the absurdness of this sucker’s rally ought to be obvious to all. Unemployment is still rising, house prices are still falling, and the fundamentals of bank balance sheets are still deteriorating with total bad debts unknown except that we know they must be getting worse. Global trade fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. Even Mercedes car sales to the oil rich of the GCC fell 23 per cent. The collapse of the world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been unprecedented.
Bad news coming … The stock market pattern in 2008-9 has so far been a mirror image of the crash of 1929-30 with a halving of prices from the autumn followed by a 25 per cent rally from March lows. In April 1930 stocks moved sideways and then they crashed another 50 per cent into the summer… New record continuing unemployment claims in excess of 6 million, -11% for new home sales (unexpected but stocks and even homebuilders rallied), Bloomberg reports $13 trillion (much unaccounted for) taxpayer/bailout funds spent/lent/stolen by who knows what/where/how (ie.,replace stolen funds?, etc.), second largest mall co. to bankruptcy with more to come along with more commercial real estate foreclosures. ‘…initial claims for the week ending April 11 totaled 610,000, which is down more than expected from the prior week, but continuing claims climbed more than expected to a new record of 6.02 million. Separately, housing starts disappointed investors hoping to find signs of a recovery in home building. Housing starts for March totaled 510,000, which was below the 540,000 starts that were expected and down from the prior month. Meanwhile, building permits in March totaled 513,000, which is below the 549,000 permits that were expected, down from February…’

SUCKER'S RALLY APPROACHING AN END by Peter Cooper: Whatever the technical reason for the 25 percent rise in the S&P over the past five weeks, or a more modest eight percent bounce in GCC regional stock prices, the absurdness of this sucker’s rally ought to be obvious to all. Unemployment is still rising, house prices are still falling, and the fundamentals of bank balance sheets are still deteriorating with total bad debts unknown except that we know they must be getting worse. Global trade fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. Even Mercedes car sales to the oil rich of the GCC fell 23 per cent. The collapse of the world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been unprecedented.
Bad news coming
… The stock market pattern in 2008-9 has so far been a mirror image of the crash of 1929-30 with a halving of prices from the autumn followed by a 25 per cent rally from March lows. In April 1930 stocks moved sideways and then they crashed another 50 per cent into the summer. What possible reason is there for optimism to believe that history will not repeat itself? Government stimulus packages have more than likely been too small and too late to prevent another down leg in stocks, and will take time to revive the real economy, if indeed they can do so. They might just stop the worst possible scenario but are they going to prevent the plunge downwards? Governments have not managed it so far.
Consumers and unemployment
…It will take more than weasel words from US bankers and ‘green shoots’ in the waffle of President Obama to put things right. Eventually global stock markets will reach a bottom but they are not close to having visited it just yet. Wall Street and its friends are playing investors as suckers but they are in danger of overdoing it. For once these guys are impoverished where will the next bunch of fools come from? Goldman Sachs' (GS) results this week might well mark the top of the rally, beyond that the only way is down.

Industrial production down –13%, most since WW2. The wall street frauds celebrate increase real estate sales…on increased foreclosures…riiiiight! U.S. foreclosure filings jump as moratoriums end     US foreclosures up 24 percent in 1st quarter      Jim Rogers Says Investors Should Expect More Bottoms  Still not one prosecution as new churn and earn fraud/bubble begins with taxpayer bailout funds (old reliable foggy/sell the sizzle tech sector now the wall street frauds’ refuge-remember the dot com bust, etc.).  BULL S**T STORIES FOISTED AS B.S. TALKING POINTS FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR CHURN AND EARN COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVED $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT- GOLDMAN RECEIVED $10 BILLION PLUS UNDISCLOSED FED/ ULTIMATELY TAXPAYER MONEY AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1.8 BILLION PROFIT  -   MORGAN CHASE RECEIVED $25 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $2+ BILLION PROFIT – CITI RECEIVED $25 BILLION AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $__ BILLION PROFIT -  DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT FOR THEM TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS! The Great Geithner Coverup      WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!  …[The upshot is that the fraud continues in churn-and-earn fashion with investors, taxpayer, etc., getting burned for the sake of wall street greed/fraud. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc. - Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.].   U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      New unemployment claims at high 654,000 praised as positive number… riiiiight! …as continuing unemployment claims at record 5.84 million (real numbers even worse). Economy so bad that consumers can’t buy goods so trade deficit shrank but this is a structural defect in u.s. economy so not good news and consistent with bad news of still plunging retail sector. Najarian points out that wall street always a circus, consolidation, robbing peter to pay paul, take profits; while economist cite Reich that we’re in depression and government as in land of fruits and nuts out of control. Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail).  Madman Cramer – the ultimate contrarian indicator - CRAMER'S CALL: ANOTHER RALLY TOP INDICATOR Greg Feirman   Wow, the bulls are really feeling good. “Wells Fargo Carries The Day” and the S&P and Dow closed at 2 months high and the Nasdaq is near its highs for the year. On Mad Money this evening, Cramer went so far as to call “a turn in the economy”, saying “the facts have changed”, “the situation has clearly improved” and “things are getting better”. This isn’t the first time Cramer has called a bottom and he’s been wrong before (For example, see “Cramer Declares The End Of The Bear Market” , Top Gun FP, July 31, 2008). The market topped out a couple weeks later. On Monday October 6, Cramer went on the today show and told people to sell any stock money they might need in the next five years. The market bottomed that Friday. It could run another couple weeks but this rally is running thin. Methinks me smells a top…..   Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…David Tice: S&P 500 To Plunge to 325     Housing Starts Fall Sharply...         Sony Ericsson posts Q1 loss, plans more cost cuts    Wall Street loses 3,100 jobs in March … Should lose another 90% OF THEIR CHURN AND EARN JOBS (Reuters)     Toshiba expects bigger loss, contract job cuts     Sony Ericsson posts loss, to cut 2,000 jobs     Treasury Stress Test Won't Add Clarity or Transparency - Just Inconsistency … and lack of meaningful FASB standard (ie., mark to market abolition, etc.) means more fraud (at Seeking Alpha)   Questions linger over Tarp funding...      MAJOR MALL OPERATOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY...        JPMorgan and Goldman trading profits unlikely to last Reuters      The Great Geithner Coverup    Obama Maintains His Perfect Batting Average for Appointing  Failed Insiders to Key Economic Posts    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further     A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short   Ron Paul: Reckless Spending And Taxation Prolonged Great Depression       Goldman Sachs: Wall St Largest Crooks  

Citigroup: The Beginning and End of the Current Rally (at Seeking Alpha)          Why BAC Will Beat: Understanding a New Bull Market Is Not Underway (at Seeking Alpha)       Government's Handling of Economic Crisis - Einstein Would Call It Insane (at Seeking Alpha)    Bank of America net up, shares sink on bad loans    GM cutting 1,600 U.S. salaried positions     IBM sales fall more than expected, but b.s. up     Wall Street sinks on banks' woes     Wall Street tumbles as investors dump financials (AP)      IBM shares slip as 1Q sales fall short (AP)      New embrace of reality about bank health grip Wall Street    Backdoor Path To Bank Nationalization (at CNBC)     Zions Bancorp Swings To 1Q Loss; Moody's Cuts Ratings     Economic Downturn Negatively Affecting Credit Markets in Varied Industries      Celente: “America lives in a fascist state”      Backdoor Nationalization? U.S. May Convert Banks’ Bailouts to Equity Share      Why a 50% Drop in Housing Is Not the Bottom          

PREVIOUS (4-14-09), Suckers’ rally into the close to keep the suckers’ suckered on bad news and bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Retail sales down –1.1%. ‘…The downward push came as financial stocks fell out of favor and disappointing retail sales data led some to second guess the prospects of retailers. Financial stocks weighed on the broader market for the entire session and finished with a 7.7% loss. The sector's weakness was widespread, but investment banks and brokerages (-10.7%) suffered some of the steepest declines after Goldman Sachs (GS 115.92, -14.23) announced a $5 billion common equity offering that was discounted from the prior session's closing price. The offering will also prove dilutive to existing shareholders…’  Jim Rogers Says Investors Should Expect More Bottoms    BULL S**T STORIES FOISTED AS B.S. TALKING POINT FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR CHURN AND EARN COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVES $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT- GOLDMAN RECEIVED $10 BILLION PLUS UNDISCLOSED FED/ ULTIMATELY TAXPAYER MONEY AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1.8 BILLION PROFIT  - DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT FOR THEM TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS! The Great Geithner Coverup      WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!    U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      New unemployment claims at high 654,000 praised as positive number…riiiiight!…as continuing unemployment claims at record 5.84 million (real numbers even worse). Economy so bad that consumers can’t buy goods so trade deficit shrank but this is a structural defect in u.s. economy so not good news and consistent with bad news of still plunging retail sector. Najarian points out that wall street always a circus, consolidation, robbing peter to pay paul, take profits; while economist cite Reich that we’re in depression and government as in land of fruits and nuts out of control. Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail).  Madman Cramer – the ultimate contrarian indicator - CRAMER'S CALL: ANOTHER RALLY TOP INDICATOR Greg Feirman   Wow, the bulls are really feeling good. “Wells Fargo Carries The Day” and the S&P and Dow closed at 2 months high and the Nasdaq is near its highs for the year. On Mad Money this evening, Cramer went so far as to call “a turn in the economy”, saying “the facts have changed”, “the situation has clearly improved” and “things are getting better”. This isn’t the first time Cramer has called a bottom and he’s been wrong before (For example, see “Cramer Declares The End Of The Bear Market” , Top Gun FP, July 31, 2008). The market topped out a couple weeks later. On Monday October 6, Cramer went on the today show and told people to sell any stock money they might need in the next five years. The market bottomed that Friday. It could run another couple weeks but this rally is running thin. Methinks me smells a top…..   Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…’ The Great Geithner Coverup      Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further     A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short    Goldman Sachs Q1: Pay Up, People Down     Dealbreaker Afterdark: Fannie Mae CEO To Head Bailout Nation       UBS cuts 8,700 more jobs     Let's Keep Big Banks from Ruining America Forever (at Seeking Alpha)     China's ICBC now world's largest bank by deposits (at MarketWatch)      UBS faces $1.8 billion loss, will cut almost 9,000 more jobs          World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930     The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than Thought       Author who predicted crisis sees hyperinflation ahead

PREVIOUS (4-13-09),   Jim Rogers Says Investors Should Expect More Bottoms    BULL S**T STORIES FOISTED AS B.S. TALKING POINT FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR CHURN AND EARN COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVES $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT- GOLDMAN RECEIVED $10 BILLION PLUS UNDISCLOSED FED/ ULTIMATELY TAXPAYER MONEY AND REPORTS QUARTERLY  $1.8 BILLION PROFIT  - DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT FOR THEM TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS! The Great Geithner Coverup      WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!    U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      New unemployment claims at high 654,000 praised as positive number…riiiiight!…as continuing unemployment claims at record 5.84 million (real numbers even worse). Economy so bad that consumers can’t buy goods so trade deficit shrank but this is a structural defect in u.s. economy so not good news and consistent with bad news of still plunging retail sector. Najarian points out that wall street always a circus, consolidation, robbing peter to pay paul, take profits; while economist cite Reich that we’re in depression and government as in land of fruits and nuts out of control. Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail).  Madman Cramer – the ultimate contrarian indicator - CRAMER'S CALL: ANOTHER RALLY TOP INDICATOR Greg Feirman   Wow, the bulls are really feeling good. “Wells Fargo Carries The Day” and the S&P and Dow closed at 2 months high and the Nasdaq is near its highs for the year. On Mad Money this evening, Cramer went so far as to call “a turn in the economy”, saying “the facts have changed”, “the situation has clearly improved” and “things are getting better”. This isn’t the first time Cramer has called a bottom and he’s been wrong before (For example, see “Cramer Declares The End Of The Bear Market” , Top Gun FP, July 31, 2008). The market topped out a couple weeks later. On Monday October 6, Cramer went on the today show and told people to sell any stock money they might need in the next five years. The market bottomed that Friday. It could run another couple weeks but this rally is running thin. Methinks me smells a top…..   Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…’ The Great Geithner Coverup      China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds      Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger’s site for pointing to truth about the fraud firm e      Singapore economy shrinks sharply more than expected    WELLS FARGO 'May Need $50 Billion to Pay Feds, Cover Loan Losses'...     Reporters threatened with arrest for filming private Federal Reserve building       SURGE IN DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS; WASHINGTON VOWS SYMPATHY     Warren Buffett's electric car venture; CEO drinks 'battery fluid'...    Goldman Sachs mulls dilutive worthless stock sale to repay TARP money with other TARP money: now you know where the fed trillions in part are going: report     GOLDMAN SACHS announces $5B public stock offering, reports $1.8B quarterly profit...         Bailed-Out Banks Face Probe over Fees: Report      You Know Things Are Bad When Even Newsweek Is Slamming the Obama Administration for Caving in to the Financial Status Quo      Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further    A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short    World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930     The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than Thought       Author who predicted crisis sees hyperinflation ahead

PREVIOUS (4-9-09), suckers’ bear market rally into the close on bad news and bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! LATE-BREAKING BULL S**T STORY FOISTED AS B.S. TALKING POINT FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVES $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT - DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT FOR THEM TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS!  WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!    U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      New unemployment claims at high 654,000 praised as positive number…riiiiight!…as continuing unemployment claims at record 5.84 million (real numbers even worse). Economy so bad that consumers can’t buy goods so trade deficit shrank but this is a structural defect in u.s. economy so not good news and consistent with bad news of still plunging retail sector. Najarian points out that wall street always a circus, consolidation, robbing peter to pay paul, take profits; while economist cite Reich that we’re in depression and government as in land of fruits and nuts out of control. Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail). Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…’  Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further    A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short    World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930     The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than Thought        Market bear Roubini sticks to dour forecasts     U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests      Boeing warns on Q1 profit, to cut plane output     Wall Street sets 5th weekly gain on banks, Boeing off late     U.S. Squeezes Auto Creditors (at The Wall Street Journal Online)      Nikkei comes off 9,000, as banks hit by SMFG news     Obama seeks $83.4 billion more in 2009 war funds     Bank of Japan likely to cut economic outlook in next report    Author who predicted crisis sees hyperinflation ahead

PREVIOUS (4-8-09), suckers’ bear market rally into the close on worse than expected bad news and bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! LATE-BREAKING BULL S**T STORY FOR B.S. TALKING POINT FOR CONTINUING FRAUD/SPIKE IN STOCK PRICES FOR COMMISSIONING: WELLS FARGO RECEIVES $25 BILLION TAXPAYER MONEY/BAILOUT FUNDS AND SHOWS (RECORD FOR THEM?) $3 BILLION QUARTERLY PROFIT - DO THE MATH (FIRST GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS COULD DO AS WELL, AND FOR FAR LESS PAY) - AT THAT RATE, TAXPAYERS WILL SOON HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO TAX! WHAT FRAUDS!  WHAT TOTAL BULL S**T!  Earnings revised downward for first quarter –36.5%, more weakness, more unemployment, inflation to come on fast says Hogan, and insurance companies now que up at corporate welfare/taxpayer bailout lines. In positing (suckers’) bear market rally and advocating hold cash/sell stocks Hillary Kramer points to the preposterous on wall street where bad news greated as good vis-à-vis stocks (they call what wall street does ‘fraud’…in a rational world where they would already be in jail). Rational View Courtesy of ETF.COM: ‘…Due to our expectations of continued weakness in the financial sector, the looming deterioration of commercial real estate, the credit markets tepid backing of the equity rally, and the still very shaky and highly volatile global economy, it's our view at ETFdesk.com the recent run-up in stocks is unwarranted and presents an overly optimistic view of the months ahead. We believe investors should consider taking short term profits or use the recent run to reduce equity exposure they are weary of. We also believe investment grade debt (NYSEArca: LQD - News) represents an opportunity for investors seeking beaten down prices without the downside volatility of equities…’  Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression     Fed sees economy sliding further    A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short    World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930      [$$] Little Optimism From FOMC    Fed sees no economic recovery until next year and then next year and year after that and next year           Moody's strips Berkshire Hathaway of top rating    Danger lurks behind banks' results    Reality of worsening depression drove Fed action     [$$] Morgan Stanley to Post a Loss From Volatile, Complex Bonds (at The Wall Street Journal Online)     Bank Earnings Will Be Hit by Consumer Woes (at TheStreet.com)   Financial Crisis ‘Far From Over,’ Panel Says       A Bear in Bull's Clothing: Why This Rally Will Fall Short    The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than Thought   SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!    

PREVIOUS (4-7-09), Economics Professors: Global Crash Worse Than During First Year of Great Depression     TRENDSRESEARCH.COM     GERALD CELENTE  points out that trillion dollar foreign banks got billions of taxpayer bailout funds and Goldman Sachs ceo’s, former ceo’s, board members were among the only few limited government personnel privy to the bailout cramdown/scheme/fraud and further, that new ‘regulation’ now permits valuation of bank assets at whatever they so choose…disaster and 25% unemployment and hyperinflation around the corner, DEPRESSION-level economic conditions already extent, already in depression. Bernanke’s Failed Financial Rescue Plan  Fed chief Ben Bernanke has embarked on a radical and ruinous financial rescue plan. According to Bloomberg News, the Fed has already lent or committed $12.8 trillion trying to stabilize the financial system after the the bursting of Wall Street’s speculative mega-bubble, so still great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Cat found alive after 5 weeks under rubble       Fed's Fisher says U.S. economy grim      AIG aircraft unit seeks $5 billion Fed credit line: report    Sustainable Bull Market Unlikely     More Correction on the Way in This Bear Market      US Bancorp's Loan Losses Loom (at TheStreet.com)    Asia Markets: Asian miners lead regional stock tumble     Alex Jones interviewed by RT: U.S. is a puppet of private bankers    TARP panel: Financial Crisis 'Far From Over,' Govt. May Spend More than $4 Trillion...      Cities Collapsing throughout the USA      Hundreds of Thousands of Unemployed Run Out of Benefits     Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street’s ownership of government      Estimated U.S. taxpayer cost for bailout jumps     Bernanke’s Failed Financial Rescue Plan    The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency      Soros: Dollar WIll Be Replaced By World Currency     

PREVIOUS (4-6-09), suckers’ bear market rally into the close to finish off lows on bad news and bull s**t alone (ie., real bad numbers though favorably fudged greeted with reiteration ‘better than expected’, etc…riiiiight!), so still great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Respected banking analyst Mayo brought the lunatic frauds on wall street back to earth predicting bank loan losses will exceed those of the Great Depression. Mayo Says Loan Losses Will Exceed Depression Levels...Despite the absence of positive catalysts in afternoon trading, stocks were able to pare their losses. The stock market had been down as much as 2.3%, but was able to more than cut that loss in half.    Financial Stocks Have Run Up Too Hard, Too Fast (at Seeking Alpha)    Slow down: We're Not at the Bottom Yet     U.S. deficit nearly $1 trillion in first half of FY2009      Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment as Unemployment Surges     SOROS SEES END OF DOLLAR AS WORLD CURRENCY...     GM Speeds Up Bankruptcy Preparations...   Bernanke ‘Green Shoots’ Signals False Spring Amid Job Losses      Bush and Obama Administrations Both Broke Law By Refusing to Close Insolvent Banks     Murdoch: Long-Term Economic Situation ‘Dangerous’; Recovery 2-3 Years Away      Massive Checkpoint Operation in Tennessee Violated Posse Comitatus, Fourth Amendment     Hundreds of Thousands of Unemployed Run Out of Benefits     Larry Summers, Tiny Tim Geithner and Wall Street’s ownership of government    ‘  Mayo Says Loan Losses Will Exceed Depression Levels...    Obama Economic Advisors Linked to Bankers   

PREVIOUS (4-3-09), suckers’ bear market rally continues on bad news and bull s**t alone (ie., real bad numbers though favorably fudged greeted with reiteration ‘better than expected’, etc…riiiiight!), so still great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  5.1 million jobs lost, -663,000 in past month, unemployment rate jumps to 8.5% and 15% for underemployed/part time (I’m sure these data understate the far worse reality according to some who say 15% and 20+% respectively), credit card problems/defaults to worsen according to analyst, even service sector down, and providing insult to injury/damage Goldman, et als using taxpayer funds for toxic assets (the real boondoggle is the complicit multi-trillion dollar fraud concerning taxpayer funds to bailout/coverup massive securities law violations/crimes for which prosecution/disgorgement of gains should have already begun). Outrageous and preposterous!   U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high    Lawmaker sees Fannie, Freddie bonus "insult"      NYC protesters ask US to 'bail out the people' (AP)    Soros: Global Depression Ahead      Buchanan: We Should Kill the Fed    One in 10 Americans gets help to buy food     Ex-AIG chief: Bailout will not succeed      Unemployment in U.S. Climbed in March to 25-Year High      G-20 Shapes New World Order With Wisely Lesser Role for u.s., u.s. Markets    -663,000: Unemployment Rate Reaches 25-Year High of 8.5%...     1 in every 10 Americans receive food stamps...

Buchanan: We Should Kill the Fed    Patrick J. Buchanan | Hoover did what Obama is doing.

Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details.(I think it’s obvious they’re covering up the substantial securities fraud, using taxpayer money to do so, as yet there’s not even one prosecution which makes the government complicit, after the fact, in consummating the fraud) ...       

PREVIOUS (4-2-09), suckers’ bear market rally based upon decisively bad news (26 Year High as New US jobless claims hit 669,000 in week , except for fake government reports by corrupt scandal-scarred commerce department on manufacturing/index up 1.8% though almost all private forecasts saw decline, etc.), in addition to funny money the frauds on wall street applauded the funny assets courtesy of f.a.s.b. (there are no accounting standards in the u.s.), which makes for wall street style securities fraud as now and in the past (fed also pumped in another $23 billion in last 3 days to fuel same, despite earnings going down and stock prices soaring with stratospherically high p/e ratios). Analyst/fund manager Najarian ‘taking a lot off the table’ (selling), while Analyst/fund manager Farr/Miller who called this bear market rally see’s test of the lows, so if you don’t celebrate All Fools’ Day (you’re not a fool) you’ll continue to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  New US jobless claims hit 669,000 in week     WASHPOST: Before Crisis, Geithner Fell Short; He regulated banks...   Outstanding Credit Default Swaps Down to “Only” About Twice America’s GDP     Layoffs rise despite hope recession is easing (AP)        G-20 to give $1 trillion to IMF, World Bank      UN chief says crisis could result in failed states      Tax dodgers multiply as underground economy cushions job cuts   The Wall Street Journal Criticizes Capitol Hill Bonuses (and don’t forget the raises) (at Seeking Alpha)    Inflationary Depression  Dr. Marc Faber runs his own business, Marc Faber Limited, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. He publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletters The Gloom Boom & Doom report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including Tomorrow’s Gold – Asia’s Age of Discovery which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world.  

PREVIOUS (4-1-09), suckers’ bear market rally into the close with 250 point swing to the upside based on decisively bad news and bull s**t alone, viz., better than dismal expectations…I don’t think so! …That dog don’t hunt no more…remember the last market burn and that similar refrain among others, and the ever indecipherable to most, that infamous tech sector will save us (bust)…riiiiight!  Oh wait, I get it. April Fools Day, as in ‘fool you once, shame on them, fool you twice, thrice, etc., …shame on you’. How ‘bout all fools day.  U.S. private sector axes 742,000 jobs in March    March auto sales plunge...    U.S. seen facing danger of 2nd recession next year or stated another more realistic way, the depression though flush with ever more worthless weimar dollars providing ephemeral b.s. talking points of happy days are here again will be exacerbated thereby and continue with a vengeance   r    So, SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!      

AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg     U.S. Spending 100% of GDP on Bailouts and Related Programs     Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details.(I think it’s obvious they’re covering up the substantial securities fraud, using taxpayer money to do so, as yet there’s not even one prosecution which makes the government complicit, after the fact, in consummating the fraud) ...       U.S. private sector axes 742,000 jobs in March    March auto sales plunge...    U.S. seen facing danger of 2nd recession next year or stated another more realistic way, the depression though flush with ever more worthless weimar dollars providing ephemeral b.s. talking points of happy days are here again will be exacerbated thereby and continue with a vengeance   r       Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion      U.S. auto sales plunge, but bottom not yet near    "Hurt, Frightened and Very Angry:" Risk of Social Unrest Rising, Says FT's Martin Wolf       [$$] Accounting Rules Should Avoid Impairment (at The Wall Street Journal Online)      Nightmare on Wall Street   Destination Collapse     Foreclosure Crisis Hits Warp Speed: 6 Million Families Face Losing Their Homes in the Next Three Years

PREVIOUS (3-31-09), suckers’ bear market rally continues to keep suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing by window-dressing this past month (and quarter) with gains based on bad news and hence bull s**t alone so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Global Meltdown, Part III    $$] It's Only Window-Dressing     Why This Is Just Another Bear Market Rally   All news decisively negative with prospectively negative implications as the jawboners/frauds talk up that ever elusive bottom for stocks/real estate despite reality indicating otherwise [have you noticed the wide divergence of private reports (though somewhat skewed to the upside because of flawed/fake data they must rely upon from the government) as opposed to false government reports]. Confidence near historically record lows and Case/Shiller index showing declining real estate values (-19.4%)  Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fell by a Record 19%    with declines at highest rate on record   Global Meltdown, Part III        $$] It's Only Window-Dressing     Why This Is Just Another Bear Market Rally      An Autopsy of the Glass-Steagall Act     U.S. Spending 100% of GDP on Bailouts and Related Programs     TARP Watchdog: “We Do Not Seem To Be A Priority For The Treasury Department”     NEWS BROKE: SUN-TIMES Files For Bankruptcy, Both Major Chicago Dailies Now In Chapter 11...     Ontario, CA, Tent City Residents Required to Wear Wristbands       Government website now offers ’suicide warning signs’ for victims of recession  .

PREVIOUS (3-30-09), Art Hogan recently summed up choosing stocks in this environment thusly: ‘pick the best-looking horse at the glue factory’…..I think he was as a courtesy to his industry overly generous. The administration pitches hardballs to the auto industry while continuing to pitch powder puffs to the wall street frauds who have perpetrated the largest (securities) fraud in recorded history, turning a cyclical downturn into what is now unavoidably depression, putting beleagered taxpayers in the unfathomable position of funders/guarantors of the scam/fraud in bailing out the perpetrators of the crimes (bush’s infamous base) who have financially benefited enormously (fees, commissions, spreads, points, salaries, expenses, bonuses, etc.) from their fraud/crimes. Still not even one prosecution from this administration even though disgorgement, the legal remedy among other criminal penalties, would aid the defacto bankrupt u.s. treasury!     Obama's tough auto stance may include bankruptcy     Wall Street hits the brakes on autos, bank woes     Workers say Obama treated autos worse than Wall St (AP)     UBS shares fall as writedowns, job cuts expected (AP)    Obama puts GM, Chrysler on short leash     Stocks fall as automaker plans are rejected    Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis    Looting by U.S. Government at All-Time Highs    White House to let Chrysler fail    US Banks Operate Without Reserve Requirements     GM, Peugeot CEOs forced out as auto woes deepen    Geithner won't say if more bailout money needed   AIG delays funds to some real-estate ventures: report     Asian stocks tumble on auto, bank concerns (AP)    UBS shares fall as more writedowns, job cuts seen (Reuters)     GM, Chrysler have no 'viable' plans: US task force      Pension insurer shifted to stocks to froth the fraudulent market Boston Globe | Just months before the start of last year’s stock market collapse, the federal agency that insures the retirement funds of 44 million Americans departed from its conservative investment strategy and decided to put much of its $64 billion insurance fund into stocks to froth the frudulent market at behest of frauds on wall street.   

PREVIOUS (3-27-09), very modest losses relative to reality so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Sugar coated though still bad numbers, usual suspects/concerns cited, ie., bankruptcies on rise, omni 22nd bank to fail this year, printing hyperinflationary funny money like mad, etc. (don’t forget, as now, in 2008 they predicted improvement in second half and no recession though we now know we were already in recession and now depression).   Nobel Laureate Dr. Joseph Stiglitz Says “The Geithner Plan Amounts To Robbery Of The American People”   Ninth Georgia bank collapses (at Atlanta Journal Constitution - 22nd this year)      Economy shrinks most in 25 years; Unemployment continues climb  Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop, Government Will Nationalize More Banks...    Ron Paul Predicts 15-year Depression    The Credit Bust Is Not Almost Over (at Seeking Alpha)   Top bank regulator placed on leave pending review (AP)   PAPER: Rahm Emanuel's Short FREDDIE MAC stay made him $320,000+...         On PPIP and Geithner's Latest Power Grab (Linkfest) (at Seeking Alpha)   Will SDRs Become World’s Reserve Currency?     UN PANEL TOUTS NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY...      Rep. to Geithner: Your Plan Is 'Radical'...     The Bubble That Must Burst     

PREVIOUS (3-26-09), all news decisively bad, viz., continuing unemployment claims at new record high 5.56 million, new unemployment claims at very bad 653,000, economic contraction a worse than previously reported –6.3%, corporate profits down and at worst levels in decades, J.D. Power and Associates reports auto sales decline of a whopping –40%, Economy shrinks most in 25 years; Unemployment continues climb  Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop, Government Will Nationalize More Banks...    Ron Paul Predicts 15-year Depression  , yet suckers’ bear market rally to keep those suckers suckered so take this folly as a great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  The Credit Bust Is Not Almost Over (at Seeking Alpha)   Top bank regulator placed on leave pending review (AP)   PAPER: Rahm Emanuel's Short FREDDIE MAC stay made him $320,000+...         On PPIP and Geithner's Latest Power Grab (Linkfest) (at Seeking Alpha)   Will SDRs Become World’s Reserve Currency?     UN PANEL TOUTS NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY...      Rep. to Geithner: Your Plan Is 'Radical'...     The Bubble That Must Burst     

PREVIOUS (3-25-09), The corrupt, scandal-scarred commerce department notorious for institutionalized lying comes out with numbers  three times/300% better than private forecasts for now into the third week in a row for such very forecastable data as used home sales, new home sales, and durable goods (mostly government/military with funny at that) in an attempt to froth that font of fraud called the american stock market/wall street which is how this financial/economic crisis came to be, with the parasitic churn-and-earn commisioning on the way up (and then down) based on bull s**t alone. Still not one prosecution of that huge collateralized securities fraud for which disgorgement would constitute substantial contribution to treasury as opposed to the just announced diversion to small potatoes (like madoff, which should be pursued but not a priority to the multi-trillion dollar collateralized securities fraud, etc.), viz., the sub-prime mortgage origination fraud (encouraged by actions of fed and government), etc.. With 80% debt-to-GDP ratio, the u.s. is now the leader of banana republic nations.   Nobel Laureate Dr. Joseph Stiglitz Says “The Geithner Plan Amounts To Robbery Of The American People”     IBM to cut 5,000 jobs in U.S.      Wall St. rallies late as data offsets bond sale gloom    [$$] Government-Debt Auctions Disappoint as Demand Subsides (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    Asian Shares Mostly Lower, Mkts Overcooked; Nikkei Down 0.7%    CDS ‘Godfather’ Says Blow ‘Em All Up’     Obama Denounces Global Currency While Creating The Very Means For Its Introduction      Code Pink and Barney’s Bailout Circus   One Small Problem With Geithner’s Plan: It Will Bankrupt The Banks        White House to Hunt for New Tax Revenues     Bank Of England warns Gordon Brown to stop the spending         U.K. Bond Auction Fails for First Time Since 2002          Obama’s Economic Plan a “Road to Hell”  Associated Press | The president of the European Union on Wednesday slammed U.S. plans to spend its way out of recession as “a road to hell.”    

PREVIOUS (3-24-09): Modest losses relative to an increasingly grim reality so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  
 

 ETF Death Watch: Why Are Funds Closing? The financial crisis isn’t just shrinking portfolios and profits. It’s also putting exchange-traded funds and notes out of business. According to State Street, 58 exchange-traded products closed last year and another 30 or so from companies like SPA, Credit Suisse and Northern Trust have stopped trading the last three months. With more on the way, the liquidation process is shaping up to be a prominent trend for investors to watch in 2009.       
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.
Geithner Grilled on Goldman Sachs Connections
David Edwards | Geithner told Waters that Goldman Sachs could help manage the new program to help banks remove toxic assets from their books. Haven’t goldman and goldman people done enough damage?  Their abilities and competence are vastly overrated and overstated.   Be Gentle with the Bankers? No, Indict Them for Fraud/High Treason

U.S. woos investors to buy toxic assets   Falling Japan land prices stir deflation worries    China Telecom's annual profit plunges 96% on write-down     Japan automakers' sales tumble in February      China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar     The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble     China Voices Support For New Global Currency To Replace Dollar    

US unveils public-private plan for toxic assets     

Donating for dollars? Many bailed-out banks still contributing to campaign funds The federal bank bailouts may be giving new meaning to the term “kickback.”   JPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hangar   YouTube Caught Censoring Obama Deception Video    The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble

What the Pros Say: US Is Now ‘Bankrupt’  US Federal Reserve announces massive increase in government debt     U.S. Budget Office offers darker economic and deficit outlook    [$$] Market Overbought and Overbelieved      Auditors project deeper deficits for Obama budget    Rothschild: Economic crisis will leave governments with “enormous public debt”     The Fed Did It, and Greenspan Should Admit It      

Launching Lifeboats Before the Ship Sinks Paul Craig Roberts | If the US government is forced to print money to cover the high costs of its wars and bailouts, things could fall apart very quickly.

US Federal Reserve announces massive increase in government debt Barry Grey | The essence of all of the measures taken in response to the crisis is an effort to rescue the system and protect the wealth and power of the financial elite at the expense of the broad masses of the population.

Tax Time Covert Ops Catherine Austin Fitts | Hate. Divide and conquer. It’s a business. The media is pushing it. The people directing it are the same people who brought you the AIG bonuses.

PREVIOUS (3-23-09): So preposterous was today’s Pavlov dogs rally [conditioning to associate what’s good for fraudulent wall street, viz., privatizing profits – still not one prosecution for what now is the largest fraud/scam/swindle in the history of this planet – and socializing the losses, is somehow positive for america/the economy by the magnitude of this suckers’ bear market rally and prior market manipulations] when the same created the instant crisis in the first instance (don’t worry about the frauds on wall street, they’ll get their commissions again on the way down as they did in creating this financial debacle/fraud as they clamor for more taxpayer/treasury money).  They’re still printing/creating those worthless Weimar dollars like mad, China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar ,don’t know what they’re doing, are clueless, and disingenuously seek to divert attention from the missing/stolen/bilked $14 trillion of taxpayer money with the subterfuge of outrage over the relatively miniscule though not unimportant million dollar bonuses (AIG, etc.), so-called fixes/plans, etc., so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  What the Pros Say: US Is Now ‘Bankrupt’   US is Already Bankrupt: Analyst   U.S. Budget Office offers darker economic and deficit outlook      The Geithner-Summers-Bernanke Plan to Prop Up Asset Prices Has Failed    U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar     

Fierman: How quickly things change…..
Some stats from today’s rally:
S&P: +54 (7.1%) to 823
Dow: +497 (+6.8%) to 7776
NYSE Up Volume: 1,866,836,012
NYSE Down Volume: 44,683,760
NYSE Total Volume: 1,914,836,622
It was just 2 weeks ago (March 9th) that the S&P closed at 12-year lows and the stock market felt like it was forecasting the end of the world. We’ve now rallied 22% in 2 weeks! But if we look at the catalysts for this rally, they really don’t seem to justify such an explosive move. Citi said they were profitable in the first two months of the year and JP Morgan (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) said they were too. The Fed initiated some serious quantitative easing. And now Geithner’s toxic asset plan this morning. I agree with the Capital Spectator when he wrote this morning:

We’re skeptical largely because the rally this month has drawn power primarily from a new round of hope that Washington’s various experiments to right the economy will finally hit pay dirt. Perhaps, but it’s not the stuff that powers sustainable rallies, much less secular bull markets.

I’M A SELLER OF THIS RALLY AT THIS POINT…..


PREVIOUS (3-20-09),
Modest losses relative to reality and their printing those worthless Weimar dollars like mad, don’t know what they’re doing, are clueless, and disingenuously seek to divert attention from the missing/stolen/bilked $14 trillion of taxpayer money with the subterfuge of outrage over the relatively miniscule though not unimportant million dollar bonuses (AIG, etc.) so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  What the Pros Say: US Is Now ‘Bankrupt’   US is Already Bankrupt: Analyst   U.S. Budget Office offers darker economic and deficit outlook      The Geithner-Summers-Bernanke Plan to Prop Up Asset Prices Has Failed    U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar     

 

PREVIOUS (3-19-09), ‘…Economic news remains uninspiring. Weekly initial claims dipped 12,000 to 646,000, which was better than the consensus estimate of 655,000. Continuing claims hit another record high, though, jumping to 5.47 million from 5.29 million. Leading indicators for February showed a 0.4% decline, which wasn't as bad as the 0.6% decline that was expected… Energy stocks (+1.4%) and materials stocks (+1.4%) were helped by stronger commodity prices. The CRB Commodity Index climbed more than 5% in this year's largest single-session advance by percent. Crude oil futures prices gained 6.5% to close pit trading at $51.25 per barrel, while gold prices advanced 7.8% to close at $958.50 per ounce. Underpinning the strength in commodity prices was a considerably weaker U.S. dollar. According to the Dollar Index, the greenback sank 1.7% this session, and more than 4% during the last two sessions. The dollar's weakness follows the Fed's latest policy directive…’

 

 

US is Already Bankrupt: Analyst   The Geithner-Summers-Bernanke Plan to Prop Up Asset Prices Has Failed    U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar     Corporate Media Disses Gold     Citigroup May Spend $10 Million for Executive Suite       It’s Not Just AIG: Fannie Plans Exec Bonuses      Gold Re-Couples with Euro, “Dollar Getting Destroyed”     House passes tax to recoup most of AIG bonuses ($200 million); what about the $14 trillion in fraudulent bailouts and the missing $4 trillion at the New York fed… s     Bank of America involved in Merrill Q4 writedowns: report     Put/Call Ratio Indicates Overbought Market Condition      SUPER PUMP: $1 TRILLION CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR...   Oil Nears $52; Hits high for 2009...      

 

PREVIOUS (3-18-09), absolute desperation by the fed as fed in panic mode buys bonds with even more fake money (ultimately you pay). Shot in the dark, they unequivocally do not know what they’re doing; don’t have even the slightest clue. Some well deserved guilt as greenspan, bernanke, paulson, geithner, etc., are authors of this debacle with compliant politics as usual facilitating same (wall street/hedge fund gamblers shouldn’t be bailed out, etc.), but the divergence of so-called opinion from stagflation to applauding same in light of fraudulent stock market up-tick (isn’t that how we got here, to this financial/economic disaster).
 

Depression Unrest Turmoil Instability Riots all coming and SOON   As depression deepens, more americans go fishing (Reuters)    It’s Not Just AIG: Fannie Plans Exec Bonuses      Stimulus plan: Spend now, details later (promise)      Dollar Plunges After Fed Announcement     Senate quietly stripped measure restricting bonuses from bailout legislation    Hedge funds could reap billions from AIG which should not reward soured bets/gambles with taxpayer funds as now slated.   Citi, Morgan Stanley Looking to Issue More Diluting Shares for Bonus Payments (at Seeking Alpha)    Editorials: Rewards instead of punishments

PREVIOUS (3-17-09), all private forecasts of the very forecastable housing starts defied the false report of the corrupt, scandal-scarred commerce department (remember the fake reports that spurred recent ralleys which ultimately burned the buyers) spurred suckers’ bear market ralley so great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

Dent, Napier, and Prechter - Wise to Heed Their Predictions    Is Mistrust in Wall Street Pointing to New Lows?    RECORD: NATIONAL DEBT HITS $11 TRILLION...    The Size of Derivatives Bubble = $190K Per Person on Planet      Washington knew AIG was preparing to pay bonuses (AP)     U.S. to claw back AIG bonuses, lawmakers eye tax     House committee scrutinizes Merrill bonuses        Bad year or good, fraud or just preparing for fraud with wall street,  AIG employees got big bonuses (AP)  Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money     World Bank cuts China GDP estimate again, to 6.5%      Obama Confronts “Populist Anger” Over Bankster Giveaways     IMF poised to print billions of dollars       Jim Rogers Expects Civil Unrest in the US and all around the World

PREVIOUS 3-16-09,
Very modest losses relative to reality so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! ‘…February industrial production declined 1.4%, which is essentially in-line with the consensus 1.3% decline. Capacity utilization dipped to 70.9% from 71.9%, as generally expected. The February report continues to reflect a weak demand environment that will ultimately drag on GDP...’’… The nation's industrial output fell for the fourth straight month in February, with factories operating at their lowest level in six decades of record keeping. Analysts forecast more production cuts to come as companies are battered by recessions at home and abroad. The Federal Reserve reported Monday that industrial output dropped by 1.4 percent last month, slightly larger than the 1.2 percent decline economists had expected. The weakness included a 0.7 percent fall in manufacturing output, which pushed the operating rate at the nation's factories down to 67.4 percent of capacity last month, the lowest level on records that go back to 1948…’

Treasury to rework AIG aid to recoup bonuses    AIG massive payments to banks stoke bailout rage      Hearst prints final Seattle PI   Hearst hopes Web-only Seattle P-I will turn profit       AIG Bonuses Add to Reality of Public Revolt against Wall Street, Federal Reserve      Bracing for a Bailout Backlash     Dollar Crisis In The Making     Think recession’s bad? Try a cataclysm!       Insurance giant AIG to pay $165 million in bonuses (AP) AP - American International Group is giving its executives tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses even though it received a taxpayer bailout of more than $170 billion dollars.   AIG plans to disclose CDS counterparties: source     Chrysler faces July cash crunch even with more aid    Accounting Rule Changes Creating False Rally in Financials (at Seeking Alpha)     Cash-hungry U.S. states turn to Web to auction goods     Bernanke: recession could end in '09 and if his grandmother had wheels she could be a trolley car and as he previously said we could avoid recession though we were already in one which is now a depression with worse yet to come and most assuredly will not end in 2009 except in the b.s. talking points in their dreams (AP)     Millions in AIG bonuses draw chorus of outrage (AP)    AIG payments to banks stoke bailout rage     White House says economy is sound despite 'mess’ or stated another way, a sound mess…..riiiiight!'     

AIG Bonuses Add to Reality of Public Revolt against Wall Street, Federal Reserve  Mike Adams | People will be marching in the streets, demanding the arrest of all the rich executives and corrupt bureaucrats who took part in this massive financial theft.

PREVIOUS 3-13-09, Suckers’ bear market rally   ( Citigroup Inspired Bear Market Suckers’ Rally  ) to keep the suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing to the frauds on wall street Regulator: Before Banks Collapsed, They Pleaded With Feds To Let Them Fudge Their Books Ryan Grim | Before financial institutions collapsed, they went to the Financial Accounting Standards Board, pleading for a change in mark-to-market accounting rules so that they can continue to appear to be solvent on their balance sheets and hence, continue to defraud the public as they are now once again trying to do.   Unemployment in 7 States Has Exceeded 20% in February     China Debates If It Should Continue to Foolish Buy Evermore Worthless U.S. Treasuries      America faces new Depression misery as financial crisis worsens       Tent Cities, Unemployment, Homelessness Growing         Dmitry Orlov: “America will collapse”       Warren Buffett's BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY stripped of its 'AAA' credit rating...  THE INFLUENCE/BRIBE/PROTECTION RACKET: New record for number of PACs

 

PREVIOUS (3-12-09), the waning full moon still compounding the frivolity of the criminally insane; particularly the lunatic frauds on wall street, and truth be told, the lunatics who follow in lock-step behind them. Suckers’ bear market rally    ( Citigroup Inspired Bear Market Suckers’ Rally  ) to keep the suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing to the frauds on wall street so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  There are no bulls or bears on fraudulent wall street, just ostriches. One senile land of fruits and nuts analyst/ broker / master planner of the lost angeles failed paradigm quips with glee: it’s impressive to see the market ignore so much bad news and rally…riiiiight!  Ron Paul, A Rare Voice of Reason on Capital Hill: Culprits Of Financial Collapse Should Be Arrested, Prosecuted, and Disgorgement Of Fraudulent Gains Would Inure to the Benefit of the Technically/Defacto Insolvent/Bankrupt u.s. Treasury in the Multi-Trillions as Recovered (Their greed and fraud has further bankrupted this country and damaged other nations and recoupment of their fraudulent gains must be required as the law already provides since taxpayers are bearing the brunt of government inaction. What they did is not ok. They must pay. This is not difficult to grasp and must be done or there is no hope prospectively for america since all will know of this government fostered/complicit fraud). ‘…Better-than-expected (but typically fake as per scandal scarred commerce department) retail sales data suggested consumers haven't completely rolled over. February retail sales declined just 0.1%, which is better than the 0.5% decline that was expected. Excluding autos, retail sales increased 0.7%. A decline of 0.1% was expected. Meanwhile, January total sales and sales less autos were revised to show an even larger increase. The upbeat retail sales data comes in the face of ongoing consumer headwinds, such as mounting job losses. Weekly initial claims climbed 9,000 to 654,000, which was worse than expected. Continuing claims jumped nearly 200,000 to 5.32 million, which was also worse than expected (new record). In other economic news, February business inventories declined 1.1%, which is essentially in-line with the consensus estimate...’
’…This week's rally got an extra dose of adrenaline after an accounting board told Congress Thursday it may recommend (more fraud as we’re currently experiencing by way of ) a let-up in financial reporting rules for troubled banks in three weeks… Fed reports record fall in household net worth WASHINGTON (AP) -- The net worth of American households fell by the largest amount in more than a half-century of record keeping during the fourth quarter of last year…The Federal Reserve said Thursday that household net worth dropped by a record 9 percent from the level in the third quarter. The decline was the sixth straight quarterly drop in net worth and underscored the battering that U.S. families are undergoing in the midst of a steep recession with unemployment surging and the value of their homes and investments plunging. Net worth represents total assets such as homes and checking accounts minus liabilities like mortgages and credit card debt. Jobless claims rise as retail sales slip WASHINGTON (AP) -- With layoffs spreading, the number of initial claims for jobless benefits rose last week, while the total number of people continuing to receive benefits set a record high, the government said Thursday. The Labor Department reported that first-time requests for unemployment insurance rose to 654,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised figure of 645,000, above analysts' expectations. The number of people receiving benefits for more than a week increased by 193,000 to 5.3 million, the most on records dating back to 1967. That's the sixth time in the past seven weeks that the jobless claims rolls have set a record high…’

 

Ron Paul, A Rare Voice of Reason on Capital Hill: Culprits Of Financial Collapse Should Be Arrested, Prosecuted, and Forced Disgorgement Of Fraudulent Gains Would Inure to the Benefit of the Technically/Defacto Insolvent/Bankrupt u.s. Treasury in the Multi-Trillions as Recovered -  Compared to them, madoff was a mere piker    Citigroup Inspired Bear Market Suckers’ Rally     Unemployment in 7 States May Have Exceeded 20% in February     45 percent of world’s wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO      Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to $50-65 billion fraud and telling court: ‘I am deeply sorry and ashamed of my crimes’      Newmont CEO sees gold in range of $1,200      House prices to drop another 55% and leave Britain bankrupt      Madoff sent to jail as furious victims applaud (AP)     Madoff pleads guilty, is jailed for $65 billion fraud     Don't Sweat Hypernflation Just Yet: Deflation/Depression "In the Cards" for 2009 and Beyond, Shilling Says       More on Roubini and Shiller's Dour Outlook      Pelosi dodges chance to end automatic pay raises       Ron Paul: Culprits Of Financial Collapse Should Be Arrested      SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

PREVIOUS (3-11-09), Analyst chatter: Not through the worst of it, the worst (of depression) still ahead, investing in this market is like trying to catch a falling knife. Foreclosures up and spreading as unemployment also rises and will continue to rise. Freddy lost another $50 billion and wants another $31 billion, while Fanny lost another $60 billion and wants another $15 billion. Hillary Kramer says trading only, in-and-out, so if you can’t, don’t jump into market to try and catch the falling knife. Dividend cuts for 2009 have already surpassed that for all of 2008 at $46.8 billion.

53% of Americans (and Senator Specter) Think the U.S. Depression is Like the 1930’s    This is a Depression! For Markets, What they call it does Not Matter       Billionaire Stanford to take the 5th in fraud case (AP)    Madoff mysteries remain as he nears guilty plea     Merrill misled Congress on bonuses o       Freddie Mac seeks $30.8B in US aid after 4Q loss    Earnings Growth Estimates: The Bad, the Bad and the Ugly      Japan's economy shrinks an annualized 12.1% in the fourth quarter       Dell Cuts Staff Worldwide     Last year REITs lost 38% - that's a bit worse than the S&P 500    Credit card delinquencies hit index record   Thousands Line Up at Indiana Mall for Food Handouts      The Fed Has Destroyed Your Retirement SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS (3-10-09), yes, indeed, a rally with power of a speeding locomotive based on….. b.s. talk point with early release of  CITI showing a profit [not counting more writedowns, bad/worthless assets(loans)/securities, expenses, etc.] of $8 billion with receipt of $45 billion (plus loans/guarantees/investments in excess of $100 billion) taxpayer bailout … WOW!…at this rate the treasury will deplete even faster than originally projected. But the math is so simple that elementary school kids with a handle on third grade arithmetic can accomplish the same and hence, can and should replace top management at a much lower price and without delay.   ‘…bernanke says regulatory overhaul needed…WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's financial rule book must be rewritten to prevent a repeat of the global economic crisis now gripping the United States and other countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday…Bernanke offered new details on how to bolster mutual funds and a program that insures bank deposits. He also stressed the need for regulators to make sure financial companies have a sufficient capital cushion against potential losses…The Fed chief's remarks come as the Obama administration and Congress are crafting their overhaul strategies. For the administration, critical work will be carried out among global finance officials this weekend in London ahead of next month's meeting of leaders from the world's 20 major economic powers…Madoff's lawyer says client will plead guilty …NEW YORK (AP) -- In a courtroom surprise, it was revealed Tuesday that Bernard Madoff will plead guilty Thursday to securities fraud, perjury and other crimes, knowing that he could face up to 150 years in prison for one of the largest frauds in history…’ ‘…All three major indices registered fresh multiyear closing lows in the prior session, but came rallying back this session to log their best single-session performance by percent in months. The rebound came after Citigroup issued an encouraging update and reports indicated the uptick rule may be reinstated… Rep. Frank stated mark-to-market accounting rules must be improved, but Senator Shelby says any mark-to-market accounting changes should be made by the SEC. The SEC stated it will not seek to suspend such rules (since such would make valuations a fraud)... The stock market's advance was further helped by short-covering. Still, trading volume on the NYSE climbed above 2 billion shares…’   

Cost to buy protection against U.S. government default surges   Good News! Economist Sees GDP Down 7% in Q1 and 9.25% Unemployment in 2010      Madoff faces life in prison on 11 criminal charges     Citi's fake profit view, uptick talk drive big rally    Roubini: Depression Could Last beyond 36 Months; Dow at 5000...      United Tech to cut 11,600 jobs     Why Commodities Prices May Rise, Even In Deflation    IMF warns of Great Depression, All Nations at risk     Oil at $50 Looms as OPEC Plans Cut, Keeps to Quota     53% Say It’s Likely the U.S. Will Enter a Depression Similar to 1930’s even though we’re already in one worse than the 1930’s     Washington plans for big bank failure     SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

PREVIOUS (3-9-09),
…‘Despite a rebound by financial stocks and a batch of merger news, the stock market was unable to put together a sustainable advance. Stocks finished with a broad-based loss, a bit above session lows. Uncertainty in foreign indices fueled early losses in the headline indices. Financials were the focal point of the weakness, falling to a loss of 2.2%. The drop was short-lived, though. Financials rallied to a gain of 5.3%, but finished with a gain of 2.5%’… …’ Wall Street fell more than 1 percent Monday as uneasiness about the economy eclipsed a bounce in troubled financial stocks and news of a big drug company merger. Stocks rose in the early going but turned lower in a now familiar pattern where short-lived bursts of optimism give way to concerns about the country's economic woes’ (in the real world they call that mental illness, lunacy –note the full moon, manic depression/bipolar disorder, etc., or just plain fraudulent wall street )’
World Bank offers dire forecast for world economy       
Depression Dynamic Ensues as Markets Revisit 1930s   Global Financial Assets Lost $50 Trillion Last Year    SEC says money manager invented big accounts     Who got AIG's bailout billions?  
 
‘The collapse of America is unavoidable’ Regulators seize seventh bank in Georgia...    Kerry: 'Animal House' Party Days Are Over for u.s. government...      Bank stocks rally despite their insolvency (AP)    Too big to fail? 5 biggest banks are 'dead men walking' (McClatchy Newspapers)     [video] Next Dead Dividend (at TheStreet.com)      Oil at $50 Looms as OPEC Plans Cut, Keeps to Quota     Too Big Has Failed: KC Fed Prez Says We Need Temporary Nationalization (at Seeking Alpha)     World Bank says global economy will shrink in 2009 (AP)      Recession on track to be longest in postwar period (AP)      Cash In A Mattress? No, Gold In The Closet    Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money    


PREVIOUS (3-6-09),
fudged in a manner most favorable to the frauds (we past these unemployment percentages quite some time ago and they were much worse then and still worse now, etc.), the news remains bleak and reality says even bleaker. Any economist who in discussing this depression mindlessly compares this Greatest Depression to any other contraction without pointing out crucial negative distinguishing characteristics; viz., insurmountable debt, increasingly worthless (Weimar) currency, irrevocable and unrelenting trade/budget deficits, global antipathy (stemming from illegal wars, war crimes, massive securities fraud, etc.), lack of significant manufacturing base, pervasive corruption/theft /plundering/incompetence, etc., cannot be considered a serious economist (just a joker who probably missed the call on recession/depression, etc.). …’Huge layoffs push joblessness toward double digits WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tolling grimly higher, the recession snatched more than 650,000 Americans' jobs for a record third straight month in February as unemployment climbed to a quarter-century peak of 8.1 percent and surged toward even more wrenching double digits.The human carnage from the recession, well into its second year, now stands at 4.4 million lost jobs. Some 12.5 million people are searching for work -- more than the population of the entire state of Pennsylvania. No one seems immune: The jobless rate for college graduates has hit its highest point on record, just like the rate for people lacking high school diplomas… GM shares reach 75-year low amid bankruptcy talk…’ The broader market turned in a modest gain, thanks to a late rally effort that overcame steep losses. Initial gains were broad-based as participants began buying in the wake of the February jobs report, which indicated nonfarm payrolls fell 651,000, in-line with expectations, and unemployment climbed more than expected to a 25-year high of 8.1%. Stocks were up as much as 2.4% in what resembled past trends that saw stocks sell off leading up to the monthly jobs report, but then rally in its wake as traders "bought the bad news."

Madoff expected to plead guilty to fraud charges      How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts (Time.com)    U.S. jobless rate hits 25-year high    Goldman, others get AIG payouts: report      US Bancorp CEO got pay package valued at $6.8M (AP)    Huge layoffs push joblessness toward double digits   AP source: Madoff guilty plea expected next week    Stocks facing uphill battle; budget, retail sales loom    $11 Trillion Wipeout: Wall Street's Year-and-a-Half of Dangerous Living     Economy in 'Free-Fall': Unemployment Rate Surges to 8.1%, Highest in 25 Years    GM shares reach 75-year low amid bankruptcy talk (AP)   Fox Admits To Planting Political Brainwashing In Popular TV Shows    Pelosi Backs Senate Facist Amendment to Censor Talk Radio    Senate to Give FDIC up to $500 Billion    Senator Bernie Sanders Slams Fed Boss Ben Bernanke     Bailout Money - Instead of Being Used to Stabilize the Economy or Even the Bailed-Out Companies - is Just Going to Line the Pockets of the Wealthy    Taxpayers Furious With Budget Cuts Take Frustration To Streets Of NYC     AIG “Was Going to Bring Down Europe”: Lawmaker  

  PREVIOUS (3-5-09), Analyst/Economist Chatter: funny money (they’re printing worthless Weimar dollars like mad) and now they’re thinking funny assets (suspending reality based mark-to-market in favor of the failed fraudulent whatever they want so they can foist/spin/defraud which got us to this debacle); more bank takeovers; GM burning cash, bankruptcy probable; Merrill bonuses for jobs poorly done (my direct experience with Merril Lynch brokers was their total incompetence); higher taxes, higher inflation, $3 trillion new u.s. debt, dollar devaluation; more bank takeovers and far worse unemployment.   “Few economists expect a turnaround in the battered labor market anytime soon with companies laying off thousands of workers weekly…Still, initial requests for unemployment benefits fell to 639,000 from the previous week's figure of 670,000, the Labor Department (fake number) said Thursday. Analysts expected a smaller drop to 650,000…Retailers report sales declines in February…GM concedes in the report filed Thursday that it's on the edge of bankruptcy and won't be able to avoid it unless it gets more government money and successfully executes a huge restructuring plan…Mortgage woes break records again in 4Q. NEW YORK (AP) -- A stunning 48 percent of the nation's homeowners who have a subprime, adjustable-rate mortgage are behind on their payments or in foreclosure, and the rate for homeowners with all mortgage types hit a new record, new data Thursday showed…” “The stock market logged new multiyear lows during the session, and closed at its worst level since the fourth quarter of 1996. Roughly 95% of the companies in the S&P 500 finished with a loss...Though losses were broad-based, financials were dealt the worst blow. The sector fell 9.9% with particular weakness among diversified banks (-16.5%) and other diversified financial services companies (-13.2%). Moody's announced it is reviewing the credit ratings of Bank of America (BAC 3.17, -0.42) and Wells Fargo (WFC 8.12, -1.54) for possible downgrade. Moody's lowered its outlook for JPMorgan Chase (JPM 16.60, -2.70) to negative from stable. Sellers pushed both WFC and JPM shares to new multiyear lows…Fourth quarter nonfarm productivity declined 0.4%, though it was expected to increase 1.2% after the prior reading showed a 3.2% increase. The lower reading was a result of lower economic output in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, fourth quarter unit labor costs increased 5.7%. Economists expected a 3.8% increase. Factory orders for January fell 1.9% (fake number), which is a less severe drop than the 3.5% decline that was widely expected. The drop in factory orders reflects the retrenchment by businesses in the wake of softer spending…” Now As The Much Greater Depression Progresses    Dow and S&P hit 12-year lows    Bernanke Arrogantly Refuses To Disclose Which Banks Took Money   Treasury secretary's choice for deputy withdraws (only little people pay taxes so take this job and shove it says tiny tim deputy designate) (AP)   22 Georgia legislators fail to pay income taxes...    GM auditors raise doubt on viability     One in 8 U.S. homeowners late paying or in foreclosure     Citigroup stock falls below $1 a share (AP)     $$] SVG Swings to a Loss on Markdowns Hits (at The Wall Street Journal Online)     Why the Fed's TALF Is Bad for America     Mortgage woes break records again in 4Q (AP)    Stocks Fall Below 7,000 Again    Fed Refuses to Release Bank Data, Insists on Secrecy     


  PREVIOUS (3-4-09), all news decisively worse than expected, fed beige book outlook grim, economist outlook for recovery bleak. Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression” The spin: china bailout (the frauds on wall street spinning/foolishly banking on china buying more worthless u.s. paper – their domestic needs are substantial and they’re increasing military spending by 15% as well) and high oil price suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally to again keep suckers sucked in for their commissions sake. The great red hope! How preposterous! Who would have thunk it!  ‘…strong gains overseas provided an excuse for buyers to enter the fold and short-sellers to cover their positions. Foreign indices upended their own losing streak after China announced it will add approximately $586 billion to the fiscal spending plan it announced late last year… According to the Fed's Beige Book, the Fed does not expect a significant economic recovery until late 2009 or early 2010 at best (remember, they also said no recession and now we’re in a depression). Meanwhile, the ISM Services Index for February dipped to 41.6% from 42.9%, indicating continued contraction for the services sector. The consensus estimate was pegged at 41.0%. Investors and economists got a glimpse of what may be lurking in the government's February nonfarm payroll report, which is due at the end of the week. According to the latest ADP Employment Report, 697,000 jobs were lost in February. The consensus estimate called for 630,000 job losses…’ ‘…fed survey: economy deteriorated in Jan., Feb. . After a dismal start to 2009, business people see more pain ahead, expecting no improvement in economic conditions till late this year at the earliest. Their pessimism was evident in the Federal Reserve's latest snapshot of business activity nationwide. It showed sharp cutbacks affecting both blue-collar jobs that once churned out construction equipment and white-collar professionals like business consultants and accountants. From factories in Cleveland to high-tech firms in Texas and California, the Fed's beige book reported widespread production declines. Services sector shrank in Feb., 5th straight month…’ U.S. private sector cuts 697,000 jobs in February    FDIC’s Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year     The Never-Ending Bailout     They Done Us Wrong: Spending Our Way Into Greater Depression     Credit concerns pound GE shares in volatile trade    China hopes, oil's jump, both negatives, end Wall St 5-day rout     Warren Buffett's 'Fundamental Weakness'      ETFs Suffer Outflows In February      Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression”   The D-word: The depression has become something worse (AP)   Obama Must Fire Geithner and Summers    Gold Industry Officials Warn Of Depression     Jim Rogers: Bailouts are destroying the US Economy     Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money    PREVIOUS (3-3-09), modest losses relative to reality as bad and worse than expected news just keeps on coming along with suckers bear market/short-covering rallies as here into the close to keep the suckers suckered. Defaults/delinquencies up, home/car sales down… Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression” Helicopter ben ‘bernanke indicated the near-term outlook for the economy remains weak. Economists at Goldman Sachs concur; they expect the U.S. economy will fall 7.0% in the first quarter, according to Dow Jones.  Despite housing stimulus provisions, pending home sales in January declined 7.7%. The consensus estimate called for a 3.5% decline. The data reflect the effects of ongoing job losses, lost wealth, and weak consumer confidence.  Similar forces continue weighing heavily on auto sales. Ford Motor (F 1.81, -0.07) reported February sales in North America fell roughly 48%, which is steeper than the 42% drop that was expected. General Motors (GM 1.99, -0.02) reported February sales sank nearly 53%, exceeding the 45% fall that was widely forecast. Separate reports indicated GM's chief operating officer said that without government funds the company's European unit would run out of cash in the second quarter. Chrysler down 44%’…
               ART HOGAN SAY’S ”IT’S A TOUGH ONE”… THAT’S A TRUE STATEMENT!

Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression”   The D-word: The depression has become something worse (AP)   Obama Must Fire Geithner and Summers    Gold Industry Officials Warn Of Depression     Jim Rogers: Bailouts are destroying the US Economy    Gold has longest losing streak since October   U.S. auto sales fall as depression deepens   Blockbuster seeks debt overhaul, shares halted     MGM Mirage casino co. says it may default on debt (AP)    A Banana Republic By 2012? Change for the Worse     Obama Calls Bush On Troop Withdrawal Plan    Geithner Says U.S. Financial Rescue ‘Might Cost More’ (maybe he can locate the $4 trillion missing at the fed and use that)    Pension (substantial funding shortfalls) bombs going off     Pennsylvania Rep. Rohrer Introduces Tenth Amendment Resolution       Previous (3-2-09), analyst chatter: one analyst said investors just can’t take (the wall street fraud/bull sh_) it anymore and sees 5,000 on the DOW (too optimistic); another says worst levels not yet seen, but markets functioning…riiiiight…, more bad economic news, dividend cuts; another says the so-called plan changinging everyday, not stimulus but at best stabilization (doomed to fail), unrealistic expectations (that’s realistic), talks funny assets/accounting (that’s what helped get us here-the fraud), a world of hurt, hope for short-covering rallies…sounds like a plan…riiiiight; another who called the crash says worst bear market in history, if priced in gold market has fallen 80% and more decline to come, says stimulus/stabilization good money after bad and recipients with worst management (fraud, etc.) should rather be allowed to fail, treasury bond/dollar bubble, u.s. stocks still overvalued so sell, precious (money) metals and overseas markets better; and finally, mainstream analyst says gold/bonds but no stocks. Dow industrials fall below 7,000; lowest since ‘97    Buffett says economy in shambles losses on derivatives contracts tied to the stock market.   Banks and economy to keep bears' grip on stocks   Berkshire reports a 96 percent drop in 4Q profit    Chart of the Week: GDP Worse than Expected (at Seeking Alpha)   Time to Bury the Markets    NYSE Suspends $1 Stock Price Minimum   Economics of this Depression    [$$] BofA Executive Got Housing Perks (at The Wall Street Journal Online)   Madoff seeks to keep NYC penthouse, $62M in assets – Typical kike/jews      Dow finishes below 7,000 for first time since '97 (AP)    The D-word: The depression has become something worse (AP)  [$$] At Merrill, Thinning Herd of Carrion (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    AIG Will Receive More Aid, Bigger Loss...    NYSE Euronext chief gets 2008 pay valued at $9.2M (AP)    Asian stock markets tumble on worsening US slump    Sources: AIG to get up to $30B more in Fed aid  Moody's lowers ratings on Citi's Japan operations (at MarketWatch)   Oil falls below $44 on bleak US GDP, AIG news   States' budget woes will outlast the depression    israeli media denounced for insulting the Prophet    Israeli minister calls for assassination of top arab leader justifying action to eliminate/exterminate nazionist israel/israelis for the sake of world peace and justice as   8 more civilians die in US drone raid         Buffett Says Economy Will Be 'Shambles' in 2009, Likely 'Well Beyond'...  BERKSHIRE has worst year...     Iran says USA planning 'long-term stay' in Iraq...  Kudlow: Obama Declares War on Investors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, And More...    Bankers: Stop trashing us...    Wall Street slides after CITI-government deal...   Sets Single-Day Trading Volume...   STRUGGLING STATES LOOK TO UNORTHODOX TAXES...    Iran says USA planning 'long-term stay' in Iraq...   Warren Buffett Speaks: His Worst Year Ever – If you listened to him recently (I warned you not to) you’re down another 20-30% since his government shill/propaganda talk (did he really give away his fortune – maybe he just decided to lose it and bring everyone with him – senile, I say yes) r   A Banana Republic By 2012? Change for the Worse  Previous (2-27-09), modest losses relative to reality including news much worse than expected: ‘The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into depression. The report released Friday showed the economy sinking much faster than the 3.8 percent annualized drop for the October-December quarter first estimated last month which rallied stocks significantly to keep suckers suckered and commission dollars flowing. It also was considerably weaker than the 5.4 percent annualized decline economists expected’. ‘Economic data remains gloomy. Fourth quarter GDP was revised lower to reflect an annual rate of -6.2% versus a previously estimated -3.8%. The decrease in fourth quarter activity primarily reflected negative contributions from exports, personal consumption expenditures, equipment and software, and residential fixed investment’. US economy suffers sharp nosedive  Economy moving in reverse faster than predicted    Moody’s predicts default rate will exceed peaks hit in Great Depression    Shares tumble across globe as figures reveal U.S. economy shrank 6% in last quarter - the fastest rate in 25 years    Regulators close banks in Illinois, Nevada  FDIC Approves ‘Emergency’ Fee on Banks to Bolster Reserves      Banks and economy to keep bears' grip on stocks     FDIC raising fees on banks, adds emergency fee (AP)     AIG talks weigh securitizing life policies…..riiiiight!…: source    BofA carries loans $44 billion above market value     Citi, U.S. Reach Accord on a Third Bailout (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    Tax hikes are coming -- but you already knew that    Investors await Buffett letter as Berkshire hits 5-1/2 year lows   Five reasons buying a home in 2009 is a bad idea     Three Top Economists Agree 2009 Worst Financial Crisis/Depression Since Great Depression; Risks Increase if Right Steps are Not Taken (Business Wire)  WORST MONTH SINCE 1933     Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage  CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money    We Watch Now As Funds Get Vaporized Bob Chapman | Business will go on as usual in Washington and on Wall Street — as corrupt as ever. Moody’s predicts default rate will exceed peaks hit in Great Depression A bigger proportion of non-investment grade companies will go bust in the US and overseas in the coming years than during the Great Depression, according to Moody’s, one of the world’s foremost experts on credit. US economy suffers sharp nosedive BBC | The US economy shrank by 6.2% in the last three months of 2008, official figures have shown, a far sharper fall than had previously been reported. FDIC Approves ‘Emergency’ Fee on Banks to Bolster Reserves Bloomberg | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will charge U.S. banks a one-time assessment and increase other fees to replenish its insurance fund, adding $27 billion in costs to an industry already hobbled by the financial crisis. Citigroup Shares Down 36% | The Treasury, which has provided a total of $45 billion to Citigroup, left the door open for the bank to seek additional government funding.  Previous (2-26-09), Banks lost $26.2 billion last quarter, GM lost $10 billion past month, FDIC problem bank list grows to 252, u.s. broke but $3.5 trillion spending plan and $1.75 trillion budget deficit, etc., ‘FDIC reported that at the end of the fourth quarter its list of troubled institutions grew to 252 from 171 at the end of the third quarter. The latest data indicated January durable goods orders fell a more-than-expected 5.2%. Excluding transportation, durable goods fell 2.5%, which was also steeper than expected. January new home sales fell more than expected to an annualized rate of 309,000 units, which is a record low. Jobless claims continue to rise beyond expectations. Initial claims climbed 36,000 to 667,000 from the prior week. Continuing claims came in just below 5.03 million, up from nearly 5.00 million in the prior reading’.  Americans receiving unemployment top 5 million   Fannie Mae seeks $15.2B in US aid after 4Q loss    $1.75T Deficit, Higher Taxes, "Bogus" Stimulus     Obama’s Stimulus Bill is a Banker Contrived Debt Scam    Obama’s War Machine Needs $800 Billion For 2009    A $1.75 TRILLION DEFICIT...    Small Businesses To Suffer From Obama’s Tax Hike    Obama’s Budget: Almost $1 Trillion in New Taxes Over Next 10 yrs, Starting 2011  ETF Advisers: Sell Into Market's Rally    Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage  CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money    US banks post first quarterly loss since 1990...   Record Government Note Auction; Unprecedented amount of debt...   More Fraud on Wall Street New York Times | WG Trading Company and Westridge Capital misappropriated funds from state and city pension funds, including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.     Previous (2-25-09), suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally based on bull s**t/jawboning alone and bad news much worse than expected into the close to finish well off more realistic lows, to keep the suckers suckered so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Economic/trends/demographics forecaster/analyst Harry S. Dent says this Great Depression will bottom out (with no cognizable uptick till) early 2020’s, unemployment 14%-17%, 50%-60% decline in real estate values, dollar (and market) crash, etc. (close but no cigar), is realistic and starkly dismal in light of the convergance of major bubbles which are deflating. New b.s. talking point the convertible preferreds (all real analysts know to treat as converted said securities to account for dilution - and quite possibly nationalization), and then the so-called ‘stress-tests’ for banks…riiiiight!…read those flat lines.  Money managers accused of $550 million fraud (Reuters) TARP Said to Be Ripe for Fraud   Existing U.S. home sales, prices drop in January   Gannett slashes dividend 90 pct, saving $325M    ETF Advisers: Sell Into Market's Rally    Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage   Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money   U.S. Consumer Confidence Collapsed to Record Low   The Market Is Not Your Friend   Bernanke says depression to linger   Housing Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fall a Record 18.5%  U.S. Economy: Consumer Confidence In Record Slump   Ron Paul Grills Bernanke: “You Can’t Reinflate The Bubble”    Stocks drop as Obama speech and housing data weigh  Gold investors make 120pc return in four months    Bailout Bank Blows Millions Partying in L.A.      How Credit Default Swaps Brought Down the World Economy    ‘Black Swan’ Author Sees Trouble Exceeding 1930s   Majority Of U.S. States Join Sovereignty Movement, Assert 10th Amendment Rights  New World Liberty | With the economy collapsing, it is a very real and immediate danger that the federal government can turn into a completely criminal and fascist government.  Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Pay Taxes, So Why Should You?  Kurt Nimmo | Don’t expect Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Evan Bayh, and other minions of the elite to pay their “fair share.” After all, taxes are for the little people.  Previous (2-24-09), suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally based on bull s**t/jawboning alone and bad news much worse than expected, to keep the suckers suckered so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Helicopter ben, the guy who said no recession even as now we know we were already in one (actually depression) told by handlers to be upbeat (how ‘bout just beat, burnt out, etc.) delivers still dire but sugar-coated for spin/consumption testimony/b.s.. Severe contraction…as in depression; recession/depression could end by end of year/beginning of 2010 if…and if his grandmother had wheels, she’d be a trolley car. Ridiculous bull s**t that got everyone here in the first place. Analyst chatter: talk about franchise value of banks ruined if nationalized, confidence at all-time low, end of 2010 before any recovery (if at all), orderly process of deleveraging, on defense till trends more believable; another-not there yet as contrarian indicators say otherwise and bearish industry view (newsletters); another- news bad as expected but confidence reading far worse than expected, downward momentum accelerated with occasional relief rallies at best;  Housing Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fall a Record 18.5%  U.S. Economy: Consumer Confidence In Record Slump  U.S. consumer confidence collapsed this month and home values plunged in December, the latest evidence of a deepening economic slump that will last well into 2010 and beyond.  Analysts: New Era Of Chaos Has Taken Hold A wave of economists, investors and other financial experts issued a series of dire warnings concerning the global financial crisis over the weekend, stating that a new era of chaos has taken hold all over the globe.  Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage   Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money   U.S. Consumer Confidence Collapsed to Record Low   The Market Is Not Your Friend   Bernanke says depression to linger  Get Ready for Mass Retail Closings    Microsoft says no new cost cuts, shares hit 11-year low  Stanford a cog in the U.S. intelligence dirty money laundering machine     How the Economy was Lost      Unemployment (already past 9% in reality) Will Pass 9% This Year: NABE   SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Previous (2-23-09), even the frauds on wall street who should be prosecuted are not buying the rhetoric/b.s. which is very, very, etc., short on detail, ie., spending money the broke u.s. doesn’t have for bailouts, while cutting the deficit in half in 4 years, etc.,…..riiiiiight! What economists / analysts are saying: Zandi - rapidly eroding economy; analyst – ugly…lots of bull s**t, no specifics/details, not pretty picture, equity holders of financials wiped out prospectively; Financial Times Editor – markets at new lows, nationalize or not (defacto they’re already nationalized), AIG trading at 50 cents has received $80 billion in bailout funds and just records loss of $60 billion, dire; bank analyst – downward pressure on financials particularly as dilution taken into account, write-offs, more capital needed, securitization market down, down, down and more capital necessary for writedowns; analyst – vicious bear, no faith in government plan, dismal! . One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted and forced disgorgement. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to realityNot Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America  In case you believe that there are only “a couple of bad apples” in the United States, here is an off-the-top-of-his-head (I could give many, many more including my RICO case) list of corruption by leading pillars of american society.  Wall Street slides to 12-year low   New U.S. stake in Citigroup will not calm realities/doubts   AIG in talks with U.S. government, sees $60 billion loss: source     Pinnacle West shares fall on earnings, outlook (AP)    LaSalle Hotel shares fall on analyst outlook (AP)   Harley-Davidson shares fall on sales worries / realities (AP)   Major stock market indexes fall to 1997 levels and much further down to go given realities    Micron Tech to cut up to 2,000 more jobs in Idaho    Asian shares slump after Dow hits 1997 low (at MarketWatch)    The S&P 500's Incredibly Shrinking Market Cap The more they do, the worse it gets  Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money   The Great “Global Crisis of Maturity” and the New World Order     World Financial System In A State Of Insolvency      Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage    Britain faces summer of rage    Get Ready for Mass Retail Closings     Yahoo Finance | About 220,000 stores will close this year in America.    Editorials: Rewriting rules of global finance   GLOBAL MARKETS-US stocks slide as bear grips harder, oil falls    BACK TO 1997...    State sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000...     Obama pledges to slash deficit - after increase...    Rosy assumptions...    Philadelphia newspapers' owner files for bankruptcy...    AIG Seeks More US Funds As Record Loss Looms...    Advisers readying bankruptcy financing for automakers...     BANK MESS: HSBC CONSIDERS $20B CASH CALL FROM INVESTORS...   Sentiment Overview: Pessimists Increase by 18%   Stocks: Horrible Start to 2008, Worse in 2009     Ex-Senate aide charged in Abramoff scandal   THE FAILED INFLUENCE GAME: Stimulus still aiding K Street   Swiss party wants to punish USA for UBS bank probe... Developing...   Japan stocks fall after lender seeks bankruptcy (AP)   Gov't reportedly mulls dilution, more obfuscation, and more money down the rabbit hole by taking larger stake in Citi (AP)   RBS prepares to unveil global downsizing plan  Richard Russell: Bear Market Remains in Force    Summary of Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2009    The New Depression - The Lessons of the 1930s    Markets May be Said to be Oversold (Again), But Decisive Rally Won’t Be Forthcoming as Much Worse and Much More Selling to Come   Philly newspaper owner files for Chapter 11 (AP)  

 Previous (2-20-09), stocks tumbled around the world, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest weekly drop since November, on concern the deepening recession will force banks to seek more government aid. Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index slid to a six-year low, and Japan’s Topix Index declined to the worst level since 1984.  Analysts saying impossible to predict bottom in this dismal scenario, nationalization concerns, not bottomed yet, new bear market lows. Art Hogan says greater than 50% is defacto nationalization anyway and nothing left for shareholders, pricing mechanism for toxic assets problematic along with negative capitalization ratios, new lows in offing, gold for capital preservation along with treasuries and money markets. Nader says depression. There’s no end/bottom in sight. One says 2011-2014 earliest for bottoming at best and that nationalization means politization. One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted and forced disgorgement. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to realityNot Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America  In case you believe that there are only “a couple of bad apples” in the United States, here is an off-the-top-of-his-head (I could give many, many more including my RICO case) list of corruption by leading pillars of american society. SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!    Major indexes fall more than 6 percent for week   The Great Depression has Arrived- Collapsing American Dreams    Defacto if not dejure nationalization realities hit Citi, BofA   Soros sees no bottom for world financial "collapse"  Trustee: Some Madoff stock trades were fiction   Morgan Stanley offers $3 billion broker bonuses, Wells none (Reuters)   Gold Hits $1,000   Ron Paul: Stimulus “Waste of Money”     The Inconveninent Debt    Gold Tops $1,000, First Time Since March as Depression Deepens    Stocks Drop Around the World; Stoxx 600 Falls to 6-Year Low    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money “…The United States was in much better shape, economically, going into the Great Depression than it is now. Prosperity is not coming back to the U.S. as we know it. We are in a lot of trouble…”More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression   Previous (2-18-09), all news much worse than expected as new home starts plunge 17% (-56% year over year), fed/bernanke downgrades economic forecast (rallied stocks when he made same which was bull s**t then as pointed out here) predicting reality of contraction which he says will be protracted, prolonged and increased unemployment (9%) though reality is much worse than they’re once again (falsely) predicting (we’re already significantly past 9% unemployment) and as one economist points out, in an economic freefall. bernanke’s outlook realistically dismal which sentiment is shared by analysts/economists who envision no bottoming until well into 2010 at best because…..this is a DEPRESSION!  Previous (2-19-09), ‘Initial jobless claims totaled 627,000, topping the 620,000 claims that were expected. Initial claims were unchanged week-over-week, while the four-week moving average moved up to 619,000 from 608,500. Continuing claims reached record highs of 4.99 million. Economists forecast 4.81 million continuing claims. The four-week moving average for continuing claims stands at 4.84 million, up from 4.75 million. Jobless claims were a drag on the January index of leading economic indicators, which increased 0.4%, exceeding the consensus forecast of a 0.1% increase. An increase in the money supply proved to be the main driver lifting the index, but the increased money supply contributes to inflationary concerns. Producer prices, which measure inflation, increased more than expected in January. The January PPI and core PPI were up 0.8% and 0.4%, respectively.’ Philly fed manufacturing index at 18 year low. The easiest to forecast leading economic indicator was fudged to the upside, though still marginal,  with said fake number substantially exceeding all private forecasts (stock prices, auto, housing, employment, etc., all down sharply in subject month…..hence, I don’t think so and fake report). Analysts saying stimulus plan not stimulative, specter of bank nationalization (banks insolvent), loss of pricing power across most all industries, and then the plethora of very bad economic/financial data with breakthrough technical bottoms, looking for violent sell-off/capitulation to provide minimal/short-lived bear market rallies, with some ephemeral opportunities among defensive stock plays, ie., whole foods (pricing power), auto parts (refurbishing old cars). One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted and forced disgorgement. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to realityNot Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America  In case you believe that there are only “a couple of bad apples” in the United States, here is an off-the-top-of-his-head (I could give many, many more including my RICO case) list of corruption by leading pillars of american society. SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Jobless Claims Hit Record High; Inflation Jumps    Dow falls to 6-year low as banks slide  Wholesale inflation takes biggest jump in 6 months   Dow Closes at New Bear-Market Low  Dow Theorists spot a bear   Rising debt will overwhelm Obama’s effort to rescue the economy    Bank debt trades at distressed levels (at FT.com)  5 million Americans drawing jobless benefits  AP IMPACT: Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits (AP)   FBI tracks down Texas financier in fraud case (AP)    FBI finds Allen Stanford in Virginia   Stanford curried influence in DC: watchdog group   PC makers' shares fall on worsening demand     BofA and Citi shares fall on defacto or dejure nationalization near     GE shares dip to lowest since 1995    Feb. could be worst month yet for jobless claims    Fitch downgrades Marriott on lodging softness (AP)  Fed downgrades economic forecast for this year  “…The United States was in much better shape, economically, going into the Great Depression than it is now. Prosperity is not coming back to the U.S. as we know it. We are in a lot of trouble…”More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression   Previous (2-18-09), all news much worse than expected as new home starts plunge 17% (-56% year over year), fed/bernanke downgrades economic forecast (rallied stocks when he made same which was bull s**t then as pointed out here) predicting reality of contraction which he says will be protracted, prolonged and increased unemployment (9%) though reality is much worse than they’re once again (falsely) predicting (we’re already significantly past 9% unemployment) and as one economist points out, in an economic freefall. bernanke’s outlook realistically dismal which sentiment is shared by analysts/economists who envision no bottoming until well into 2010 at best because…..this is a DEPRESSION!

Not Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America    Fed downgrades economic forecast for this year  Fed says US economy will get worse in 2009   Bernanke cuts growth view, considers inflation target  Hundreds seek their money as Stanford fallout spreads   HP cuts full year outlook (Reuters)   UBS to pay $780M, open secret Swiss bank records    Billionaire's bank customers denied their deposits    HP profit slumps 13 pct on weak PC and ink sales   [$$] Dow ends little-changed amid slew of grim news (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    The Bull's Case for Buying Gold     ...starts, permits plunge to new record lows SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

  Previous (2-17-09), modest losses relative to reality so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Analysts say not very encouraging, market saying stimulus will not work, lots of toxic assets still out their, nothing safe in bear market, oil to $80, gold appropriate hedge against deflation and inflation and deserves spot in portfolios, no turnaround anytime soon, and tough-sledding ahead. “…The United States was in much better shape, economically, going into the Great Depression than it is now. Prosperity is not coming back to the U.S. as we know it. We are in a lot of trouble…”More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression Joint Chiefs chairman calls fiscal calamity a bigger threat than any war   GM seeks up to $30B in aid, to cut 47,000 jobs (AP)   GM and Chrysler seek nearly $22 billion more in aid   Stocks sink to November lows on depression fears    U.S. charges Allen Stanford with "massive" fraud    Reality about expensive, flawed, failed stimulus drag stocks down sharply (AP)    It’s Getting Ugly: Economist Says Hoard Gold & Scotch Paul Joseph Watson | Williams predicts hyperinflationary depression will mean a $100 dollar bill is worth less than toilet paper.  65 Trillion - U.S. Financial Obligations Exceed The Entire World’s GDP   A “Monetary Stalingrad” is on its way to Europe   Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll    Europe’s economic slump deeper than expected  Total desperation by frauds on wall street. One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to reality. Indeed, the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., so SELL /SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  GM seeks up to $30B in aid, to cut 47,000 jobs (AP)   America's Insolvent Banks (at Seeking Alpha)  Gold Jumps to 7-Month High as Investors Seek to Preserve Wealth    Stocks sink to 3-month lows    GM and Chrysler seek nearly $22 billion more in aid   Stocks sink to November lows on depression fears    U.S. charges Allen Stanford with "massive" fraud    Reality about expensive, flawed, failed stimulus drag stocks down sharply (AP)   It’s Getting Ugly: Economist Says Hoard Gold & Scotch Paul Joseph Watson | Williams predicts hyperinflationary depression will mean a $100 dollar bill is worth less than toilet paper.  65 Trillion - U.S. Financial Obligations Exceed The Entire World’s GDP   A “Monetary Stalingrad” is on its way to Europe   Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll    Europe’s economic slump deeper than expected    WORLD TO STAY IN SLUMP   Previous(2-13-09), modest losses relative to reality inasmuch as outlook remains bleak with data (though sugar-coated, inflated, false to provide more favorable b.s. talk points) dismal as consumer confidence down sharply ((56.2 vs. 61.2 previous, job losses continue as do earnings declines/losses, bankruptcies, defaults, etc., so SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Analysts negative regarding level of uncertainty, skepticism regarding more stimulus/bailout money down the rabbit hole, longer-term considerations of deflation/hyperinflation, and particularly the valuation of assets in any of the bailouts, etc.. Oil inventories high but production cuts will weigh heavily later. [$$] Long-Term Dow Chart Suggests More Downside   Large U.S. banks on edge of insolvency, experts say   Regulators close banks in Neb., Fla., Ill., Ore.  GOLD Separating from the US DOLLAR-Banks insolvent     Another $3T of U.S. Debt: Don't Count on Foreigners to Pay for Our Bailouts      U.S. auto suppliers seek $18.5 billion in government aid   How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis    Stocks fall as investors can't shake economic woes   Huge stimulus bill only the beginning of the end, substantial investment in Weimar dollar printing presses/operators envisioned: Obama   Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no     This is 1930 all over again and far worse  Federal obligations exceed world GDP...   Euro Zone Sees Biggest Contraction on Record    Previous (2-12-09), suckers’ bear market rally with 200+ point upswing into the close based on b**l s**t alone on continuing bad news including  increasingly high job loss/unemployment numbers (though vastly understated), unexpected (euphemistic for false) +1% January retail, and leak of yet the new latest, greatest, economic “stimulus”/subsidy, etc., so especially great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 23% decrease in wealth in u.s. and much further to go. Fed printing worthless Weimar dollars like mad (ultimately, inevitably hyperinflationary)  while treasury securities bubble gets bigger (stay away from treasuries – TIPS/treasury inflation protected securities only). Total desperation by frauds on wall street. One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted. Analyst Frank Cochrane looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to reality. Indeed, the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.. Obama’s Stimulus Not Enough to Avert Biggest GDP Drop Since 1946  Bloomberg | Obama’s stimulus plan will be insufficient to avert the biggest U.S. economic decline since 1946 as consumer spending posts its longest slide on record.      Marc Faber: U S will default on debt or enter hyperinflation  YouTube | Mr. Faber predicts the Zimbabwe model for the United States. Home Prices Slide 12%, Most on Record, as Foreclosures Drain Value...   Deluge of Financial Calamities Looming by Mid-March   Retail sales rebound, jobless claims stay high   ABCNEWS: CATERPILLAR CEO contradicts Obama: 'We're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again'...  Retail sales rise unexpectedly (false report) in January       Wells Fargo charge boosts fourth quarter loss (Reuters)    Oh yet another new mortgage plan news is bs purported reason for spurring late suckers bear market stock rally   The Market and geithner's Empty Suit No Plan     SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Previous (2-11-09), suckers bear market rally into the close based upon the bailout/stimulus fairy tale. Reality speaks for itself so the following latest news links (job loss/cut anouncements too numerous for inclusion and real numbers/data worse than false/gov’t/shill reports) plus previous 2-10-09 assessment which follows. ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’  In 2009 were going to see the worst economic collapse ever, the Greatest Depression, says Gerald Celente, U.S. trend forecaster. He believes its going to be very violent in the U.S., including there being a tax revolt.    This DEPRESSION will last 23-26 YEARS! Government is POWERLESS!  We are facing a Depression that will last 23-26 years. The response of government is going to seal our fate because they cannot learn from the past and will make the same mistakes that every politician has made before them.     Economic Rescue Plan: More Debt, More Dollar Devaluation And More Government     Larry Summers: Fox Guarding The Henhouse    COMEX Crash To Send Gold To $3,000    Gold jumps 3 pct to 6-1/2 mth high on risk aversion    Highest Unemployment in Three Decades    Economic Rescue Plan: More Debt, More Dollar Devaluation And More Government    PAPER: European banks sitting on $24 trillion of toxic assets... The Day After: Stocks Struggle to Overcome Geithner's Stumble, RIM's Warning     Why Americans Should Care More About the $2-$5T Bailout vs. the $789B Stimulus   Ireland to take control of banks...   Popular Rage Grows as Global Crisis Worsens  Previously (2-10-09) only modest drop relative to reality as pointed out by analyst Frank Cochrane who looks ahead to 4,000 to 6,000 on the DOW, 700 to 900 on the NASDAQ, and 425 to 625 on the S&P, and says spending/stimulus programs will not work, a point on which he is correct and the low end of his ranges closer to reality. There seems near unanimity by astute people in the know that timothy (only the little people pay taxes) geithner is just not up to the job. Indeed, his apparent Freudian slip “arrest it” must have been a manifestation of his guilt for purposely evading taxes [he still after audit and before confirmation has not paid the taxes he asserted as time-barred for collection (should have been arrested)], and then there’s the $4 trillion missing at the New York fed (and hence his prospective arrest), and now even more obfuscation with regard to taxpayer funds (possible future arrest?). A career bureaucrat, one economist/analyst points out that tiny tim geithner is not an economist and his so-called plan is without a plan yet we’re now talking in trillions. Helicopter ben bernanke paints realistically bleak outlook [though rosier than reality The Economist, a Widely Respected and Authoritative Financial/Economic Publication: U.S. In Depression, Not Recession      Video: Crash Will be Worse than Great Depression   Great Recession/Depression of 2008, et seq., Worse Than All Others  IMF warns of Great Depression   Stocks Could Drop 20%, No Safe Haven: Dr. Reality    Celente Correctly Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012  Former chief economist: U.S. in a depression   Merrill Lynch’s Chief Economist: We’re Already In a Depression  Ray Dalio: A Long and Painful Depression - Barron's Interview        Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009  , job losses like mad, and don’t believe the understated unemployment rates] seems flustered, impotent but really should allow alan greenspan his due for the current debacle. How about charging, arresting, and prosecuting the perpetrators of the massive fraud instead of using taxpayer funds to bail them out (especially since they’re now buying the fraudulent, worthless securities as well as talking funny books – they already have the funny money being printed like mad). Especially great opportunity to SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  UBS cuts jobs after fourth-quarter loss (Reuters)      UBS to slash more jobs after reporting $7 billion loss   Blue Chip poll cuts forecast for second half 2009 (Reuters)  GM cuts 10000 salaried jobs, trims employees' pay    Sirius preparing possible bankruptcy filing: report    Stocks sink over 4 percent on bank plan apprehension       U.S. offers $2 trillion bank plan but stocks slump     GE transport unit to cut or furlough 1,550 workers    Asia stocks fall amid skepticism over US bank plan (AP)    $3 trillion! — Senate, Fed, Treasury attack crisis   [$$] Foreclosure 'Tsunami' Hits Mortgage-Servicing Firms (at The Wall Street Journal Online)  Senate Passes $819 Billion Economic Stimulus Bill     Bernanke Begins ‘Thorough Review’ of Fed Disclosure     Stocks Tumble as Bailout Plan Is Unveiled   Previous (2-9-09), suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally into the close to end mixed based on continuing bad news including  new job cuts/losses including 20,000 from Nissan, etc., so still great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! Barron’s: Economist/analyst says depression has long way to go and lot’s of prospective pain Ray Dalio: A Long and Painful Depression - Barron's Interview  . Analysts talk up adage, ‘buy on rumor, sell on news’ regarding ie., bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, with money they don’t have as total now approaches $9.7 trillion (printing those worthless Weimar dollars like mad, ultimately/inevitably hyperinflationary), buy gold on dips; short-covering rally via irrational exuberance induced bailout news, downside volatility, dilution (stock issued will dilute EPS), stimulus won’t work, lottery stocks (financials) based on short-term blips based on b.s./bailout news alone.  Ray Dalio: A Long and Painful Depression - Barron's Interview     Financial plan won't include "bad bank": TV      One in eight lenders may fail, RBC says    One Scary Unemployment Chart     Bring back the guillotine… for bankers   Geithner says G7 should act ‘promptly’ on economy   We’re moving close to ‘a bailout-based economy’    Protectionism, unemployment and riots as the global slump deepens    Obama’s Change: Expanding the Power of the NSC and Shadow Government       Fitch cuts BofA ratings (at bizjournals.com)   House Appropriations Chairman on Stimulus Waste: 'So What'...    CBO: Stimulus harmful over long haul...    LG Elec to cut $2.2 billion costs as recession bites (Reuters)   Previous (2-6-09), suckers’ bear market rally based on especially bad news, viz., ‘depression-battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, bringing unemployment rate to 7.6 percent, the grim figures being further proof that the nation's job climate is deteriorating at an alarming clip with no end in sight.’  Economy so weak oil demand and price down but oil stocks rallied in the alice-in-wonderland fraudulent world of wall street. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so especially great opportunity to SELL/TAKE PROFITS SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!      Real Unemployment Figures Double Those Reported By Labor Department Paul Joseph Watson | 7.6% is actually over 15% - just 9% shy of figure at height of great depression.   Financial Coup d’Etat      Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in “Electronic Run On the Banks”  U.S. job losses accelerate    Fed's Yellen sees dynamics similar to Depression    Regulators close 3 more U.S. banks    Consumer credit falls more than expected in Dec.   Peter Schiff: Stimulus Bill Will Lead to “Unmitigated Disaster”    Nearly 600K jobs lost in Jan.; more pain ahead    Peter Schiff: Why I'm Right About the Substantial Further Decline and My Critics Are All Wrong    There is a high chance a majority of the States within the United States of America could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. There are currently 46 states with high budget deficits, Arizona being one of them. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so great opportunity to SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!   Previous day’s (2-5-09) news as bad, ie., record level monthly unemployment numbers much worse than expected 626,000, factory orders down, IMF says no breakthrough in stabilizing financial sector, etc., but irrational exuberance on bailout talk and prospect of not only funny money but now funny assets with proposed new accounting rules to hide financial reality (dismal) so great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/ TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  U.S. jobless claims surge in latest week to 626,000     Parallels With the Great Depression    Obama Warns of ‘Catastrophe:’ What Happened to ‘Hope’ and ‘Change?’     NEWS CORP loses $6.4 billion...  ...writedowns     GE chief warns on USA depression threat...      Watchdog: Treasury overpaid for bank stocks...    USA Must Spend Trillions they don’t have to prevent a long-lasting  Depression'...     GERMAN BANK FIRST LOSS SINCE WWII OWING TO AMERICAN SECURITIES FRAUD DEBACLE; REJECTS STATE AID...    MCCLATCHY reports loss on newspapers' decline, plans deep cost cuts...    Treasury in plans for record debt sale...    Accounting rule change for more cook the books fraud and bailout hopes spur Wall St. rally    New jobless claims surge to 26-year high    Auto suppliers seek rescue as crisis deepens   Art Hogan refers to the prevalence of bailout rhetoric, financials (among others) under pressure because there have been twice as many downside surprises on the earnings front with either no guidance or bad outlook, and cites new trading range for oil at $40 - $50.  Kraft, bank worries knock Wall St; Cisco hit late   Cisco outlook misses expectations    The Bad Bank Assets Proposal: Even Worse Than You Imagined    TIMEWARNER the troubled, horribly managed media company swings to 4Q loss on hefty writedown...   UBS Boosts ‘09 Gold Forecast to $1,000  One analyst previously pointed out there has been not one prosecution thus far and the frauds on wall street should be prosecuted. Indeed, the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc..   Another Prominent Economist Forecasts Depression, Says Gold To Hit $2000   Auto sales hit 27-year low    US auto sales plunge 37 percent to 26-year low    Motorola's woes pile up in $3.6B quarterly loss    Disney 1Q profits drop 32 percent; shares slide    Wells Fargo defends, then cancels Vegas junket     Electronic Arts posts wider loss, huge layoffs announced, hurt by charges   Fed Secretly Lends $2 Trillion to Banksters without Oversight    JAPAN: “There has never been data this bad for any major economy - even in the great Depression”; “We are literally looking at the unimaginable”     Obama predicts more bank failures   California goes broke, halts $3.5 billion in payments  Previous, consumer spending down (-1%), manufacturing activity down, construction spending down 5.1% and much worse than expected. Problems ahead for bonds (currency risk, low yield, etc.) including treasuries (bubble), interest rates prospectively higher, bad real estate market into 2010 as banks play catch up on foreclosed properties, with top end getting hit and weaker rental market to boot.  “…The United States was in much better shape, economically, going into the Great Depression than it is now. Prosperity is not coming back to the U.S. as we know it. We are in a lot of trouble…”.  Personal bankruptcies soar 33%    More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression  Steve Watson | Ominous headlines have prominent analysts spelling out disaster. Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, slashes dividend  Factory decline, consumer spending drops   Morgan Stanley plans up to 4 percent in job cuts   Joint Chiefs chairman calls fiscal calamity a bigger threat than any war   WALL ST ALREADY DOWN 10% FOR YEAR...  Folding dealers shock car buyers with unpaid liens (AP)    GlaxoSmithkline to cut 6,000 jobs: report   The New Economic Reality …do not think we should be incurring trillions in debt for an ill-conceived or even a properly conceived plan. We cannot spend that much. OUR PROBLEM WAS SPENDING MORE THAN WE MADE SO THE ANSWER CANNOT BE THE GOVERNMENT ALLOWING US TO SPEND MORE THAN WE MAKE. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, can tell you better than me, and he thinks we are asking for major problems.   Florida, Maryland, Utah Banks Seized Amid Deepening Financial Crisis...   Worse than the Great Depression     Charts Predict: Oil May Whip Back up to $100    Previous session, 31st u.s. bank to fail, 6th this year, Economy's new plunge is worst in quarter-century (AP) as GDP falls 3.8% defying much worse/higher private/real forecasts/estimates; bad economy, bad economic data, bad real estate market; defensive non-equity investing recommended, ie., short-term bonds, single short ETF hedge funds, etc.. One analyst points out there has been not one prosecution thus far and they should be prosecuted. Indeed, the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.. GDP sees biggest drop in 27 years  The Ugly Truth: The American Economy is Not Coming Back     Economy, bank woes drag market to worst January ever  Economy's new plunge is worst in quarter-century    Stocks' January drop isn't welcome sign for 2009   [$$] January Was Dow's Worst In 113 Years (at The Wall Street Journal Online)  Economy's new plunge is worst in quarter-century (AP)  Worst January ever for Dow, S&P 500   US Stocks Drop, Capping Market’s Worst January, on Economy Bloomberg   US Stocks Off; Financials, Industrials Lead DJIA Under 8000 MarketWatch   US Economy Will Keep Sliding After Shrinking Most Since 1982   U.S. Eyes Two-Part Bailout for Banks     46 Of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy In 2009-2010  Economic crisis has put the world “on the road to serious social instability”  Gold rallies 2 pct on haven buying, hits euro high   Worst January on Record for Stocks... Previous session, at least Obama referred to the outrageousness of the wall street perps/frauds who created the crisis, got wealthier in so doing at other peoples expense/damage, received taxpayer bailout funds because of what crimes they did, and now reportedly took huge bonuses ($18 billion) for failed and fraudulent performance; but if he thinks shaming them into better behavior is effective, then he is a fool. One analyst points out there has been not one prosecution thus far and they should be prosecuted. Indeed, the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.. All bad news: all-time record continuing unemployment claims, durable goods orders down more than expected, new home sales down record levels (-37%), banking system insolvent, long-term treasuy bubble about to burst, DEPRESSION, etc.; December durable goods orders declined 2.6%, marking the fifth straight monthly decline. Excluding transportation, orders were down 3.6%. The drop in both readings was also steeper than expected. In other economic news, December new home sales declined more than expected, falling almost 15% from the prior month. The supply of new homes is at an all-time high of nearly 13 months, based on the pace of current sales. Demand for new homes remains weak as weak labor markets limit buyers. Initial jobless claims for the week ended Jan. 24 increased modestly to 588,000, which exceeded the 575,000 claims expected. Continuing claims climbed to 4.78 million, which is the highest level for continuing claims in 40 years. More Economists Say Crisis Is Worse Than Great Depression  Steve Watson | Ominous headlines have prominent analysts spelling out disaster. Jobless Sheep    Fed Reserve Fails to Reflate the US Banking System Signs of deepening economic woes slam Wall St.  Americans receiving jobless benefits hits record...    [$$] Ex-Merrill Executives Got Burned by Madoff (at The Wall Street Journal Online)    Disney plans 5 pct job cuts at ABC group  US new jobless claims up,continued claims a record Workers receiving unemployment at 25-year high    Obama calls $18B in Wall Street bonuses 'shameful’ – Is that it? Is that all there is? What about illegal as the perpetrators of the massive fraud receive taxpayer bailout funds …for their bonuses.'     Japanese output falls at record pace     Ford posts $14.6B 2008 loss, near $6 billion loss for quarter, still won't seek aid    Merrill Lynch’s Chief Economist: We’re Already In a Depression    Stocks Could Drop 20%, No Safe Haven: Dr. Reality    MURDOCH: Crisis Worsening, 'Drastic Action' Needed...   Stiffed: Why are bailed-out banks helping Pfizer buy Wyeth? Previous, suckers’ bear market ralley based on b**l s**t alone, viz., the now fabled big bad wolf bank to eat all the so-called toxic debt at taxpayer expense (for the economy- what a fairy tale),  etc., so especially great opportunity to SELL/SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! All bad news continues: Boeing to cut 10,000 jobs, AOL 700, Starbucks 6,700 , and on and on, the list is long, continues, and is growing, Warning over collapse in capital flows Telegraph | The world economy will shrink this year for the first time since the Second World War, warns the gloomiest forecast yet delivered by a major international institutional.   MERRILL LYNCH’S CHIEF ECONOMIST: WE’RE ALREADY IN A DEPRESSION     Stocks Could Drop 20%, No Safe Haven: Dr. Reality    World growth ‘worst for 60 years’   Mass layoffs surge in 2008, continue at rapid pace (AP)   'American consumer can no longer act as motor of global economy'...     Analyst Ciovacco sums it up thusly: …We have seen many of these bailout inspired "feel good" days during the bear market. The market cheered the bailout out of Bear Sterns, only to retrace all the gains while moving to lower lows. When Fannie and Freddie were bailed out by you and me (taxpayers), the market "felt good" only to move on to lower lows and more losses. When AIG was bailout out by - you guessed it, you and me, it was seen as a positive. Stocks went on to make new lows. TARP was hailed by the markets as the answer to all our problems - stocks moved higher in anticipation, then made new lows. When the formerly "big" three were given government loans, the market breathed a sigh of relief - then, you guessed it, moved lower.Here we go again. The “bad bank” is this morning’s feel good story. The futures are higher on “speculation” the government will set up a bad bank. The problem is a familiar one for money managers - we do not know what the rules are and how the "bad bank" will be set up. Will it be good for shareholders in banks? Will it be bad for shareholders in banks? We are not sure because we have no details on the latest bailout, only speculation and a few sound bites. The basic goal of the bad bank according to this morning’s news reports is to "get lending going again". In an overleveraged world, is more credit really the answer? I thought too much credit was the problem…Previous, what are they drinking, smoking, snorting on wall street with suckers’ bear market rally on decisively bad news; viz., consumer confidence at lowest level ever recorded (37.7) Consumer Confidence Slides to Record Low in January , 18% plunge in home prices as per highly regarded Case/Shiller Index, Retail Federation gives bad retail outlook, layoffs du jour galore, etc., and even as oil plunged on the bad economic data, oil stocks rallied…riiiiight! What, they worry…hell no…they work for wallstreet/government. They’ll still get their commissions on the way down and maybe stick you with their over-priced dogs as well. Same modus operandi as in January et seq, 2008 when they sucked in the suckers who this time (fool you twice, shame on you) will deserve to be burned for wall street commissions/ compensation/ bonuses’ sake as in the year just passed.  The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.- Analyst Andre Egleshion puts the amount at $600+trillion) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so great opportunity to SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  Bank bailout could cost $4 trillion CEO confidence plunges around the globe    Consumer mood at record lows, house prices sag  Corning slashes up to 4,900 jobs to cut costs   Moody's says could cut GE's triple-A credit rating  Target eliminates positions amid weak sales  Nation's economic mood darkens as more jobs vanish  S&P index shows plunge in November home prices   Yahoo posts higher profit but outlook weak  Yahoo suffers 4Q loss, but tops analyst views   IBM quietly cuts thousands of jobs  Economy in free fall in fourth quarter Companies in U.S. to Slash More Jobs, Business Economists Say    military spending is crippling america   Previously, wall street frauds’ nirvana (commissioning a large incline then decline then suckers’ bear market rally into the close incline) at just a program loop, button push, mouse click away based on bull s**t alone and ‘Little Shop of Horrors’  viz., wall street vegetables clamoring ‘feed me, feed me’ with hopes for taxpayer bailout funds and short-covering bear market rally.. Motek’s experts: One land of fruits and nuts politician too many for a business hour; there will be no further comments relative to Frank Motek’s knx1070am caleefornia business hour inasmuch as the show has become a bit too parochial and limited in scope. 68,000 new job cuts this day alone.  Existing home sales on foreclosures up 6.5% so new home sellers rally…riiiight!...Preposterous!...Leading indicators allegedly up .3%  on increase in money supply (hyperinflationary)…Riiiiight! NY financier arrested in purported $400 million scam Reuters Job-killing depression racks up more layoff victims   Economy in free fall in fourth quarter   FANNIE to Seek Up to $16 Billion in Emergency Treasury Aid to Stay Afloat...   Gloom deepens as 75,000 global jobs go...   Gold pushes above $900 in buying spree; Yellow metal posts all-time highs in euro and sterling...  Economy in free fall in fourth quarter Previous, mixed finish on relatively light volume defies reality with another near 200 point swing to the upside on suckers’ bear market rally into the close to keep suckers suckered on decisively bad news so sell into rallies/strength/take profits/sell while you still can since much, much worse to come. Motek experts: Art Hogan points to volatility, lots of headwinds for market, magnitude of the worse than expected results, doubling underestimated earnings to downside and no guidance indicative of lack of belief in efficacy of stimulus, and lag effect concerning stimulus which will help but not soon enough. Investment analyst says P/E ratios for stocks much too pricey, cite S&P single digits in milder recessions past hence way over-valued at 15 P/E now.  GE profit down 44 percent   Earnings and depression batter world stocks    Britain officially slips into recession    Schlumberger 4Q tumbles; sees rough year ahead    Harley to cut 1,100 jobs as 4Q profit falls    Xerox 4Q profit plunges, misses Wall Street view (AP)       2009 Heralds “A New Age Of Rebellion”    Geithner's failure to pay taxes completely intentional        Misguided Spending Will Only Take Us Deeper Into Depression     Poor earnings, opaque forecasts weigh on stocks (AP)   Freddie Mac to ask for billions more in funds    Freddie Mac to ask government for another $30-$35 billion    Brower Piven Encourages Investors Who Have Losses in Excess of $500,000 From Investment in Bank of America Corporation to Inquire About the Lead Plaintiff Position in Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Before the March 23, 2009 (Marketwire)    Capital One results suggest gloomy 2009 for credit card industry      Wall Street's culture of entitlement hard to shake     “The stock market has been bluffing investors for decades. The market's indiscernible jolts have been particularly pronounced and painful in recent months.” Simon Maierhofer“Unprecedented” Job Cuts in Works at World’s Largest Automaker    [video] Gold Surges   VIDEO: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS - Montreal Lecture: The Great Depression of the 21st Century    Motek experts: Discuss new unemployment claims at 589,000 match 26 year high, 4.6 million continuing u.e. claims,  wall street strategist (actually just another wall street fraud) thain at last minutes before BofA bailout/takeover does compensation/bonuses/expenditures and gets axed, all-time low for housing starts with downsides well into 2010, job losses trend to accelerate well into second half 2009. Analyst says near term increased uncertainty, gamble, financials undercapitalized, recommends risk adjusted/barely below investment grade junk bund funds (high ror) and gold mining etf’s while warning long-term treasuries to take a hit. Reporter discusses negative I.T./pc market, spending and job cuts and absence of forward-looking guidance. Worsening signs for Apple with slowdown in pc sales and reliance on retail/pricing. Currency expert says problems serious, gov’t needs to raise $2 trillion, crowd out private sector, increase cost of money, fanny/freddy, government replacing private mortgage lending with negative implications. Frank congratulates Paul Kangus on Nightly Business Report 30 year anniversary where he began his business reporting career.  Just The Early Stages of Economic and Financial Collapse  Jobless claims surge, housing starts tumble  Back In Reds After Economic Data...   Bank results plummet...   Angry customer rammed bank with pickup...    GOOGLE PROFIT SLIPS FOR FIRST TIME...   MICROSOFT stuns with profit miss, job cuts...  Roubini: Banking System is “Bankrupt”, “Effectively Insolvent”  Previous, wall street frauds’ nirvana (commissioning a huge decline then a huge incline) at just a program loop, button push, mouse click away based on bull s**t alone and ‘Little (wall street) Shop of Horrors’  viz., wall street vegetables clamoring ‘feed me, feed me’ with high (what are they smoking, drinking, snorting) hopes for taxpayer bailout funds and short-covering bear market rally. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so great opportunity to SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. Motek’s experts: Analyst/options/speculator talks roller coaster ride on wall street regardless of results, banks still in trouble with dilution via government takeovers, talks lessons…please, give us a break…, then risky strategies, ie., risky bonds into riskier equities as if that isn’t that how we got into the continuing mess. Only-the-little-people-pay-taxes geithner, a co-architect of the current mess said food lines long and getting longer even as he dodges taxes (purposefully…after audit and as currently pending appointment, paid back taxes but scofflawed time-barred taxes owed), while economist says geithner a scofflaw and stimulus just more pork. Geithner was “involved in just about every flawed bailout” of the Bush era (On capital hill they were afraid to ask the question as to where is that missing $4 trillion at he ny federal reserve bank which is defacto complicity) Financial Times editor says dramatic prospective action will be very unpleasant for shareholders. S&P 500 Q408 Earnings Now Expected to Fall 28.2% Royal Bank of Scotland to Record $41 Billion loss, State Street profits down 71%, Bad news across the board as Worst Inauguration Day Drop in Dow Industrial History...  Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion    Prominent Economist: Crisis Caused By Government Interventions  Motek’s experts: Land of fruits and nuts actor/entertainer/speculator/sometimes economist Ben Stein [who previously took a page out of GM’s playbook by lambasting Fortune Magazine (you might recall some two decades ago that Fortune warned of GM managerial ineptitude to which GM responded with outrage and withdrew all advertising and revenue to Fortune thereby in retaliation - if only they had listened) for saying caleefornia is number 1, numero uno ….. as prospectively worse real estate market in the nation, the same Ben Stein who poo-pooed Peter Shiff’s correct prediction of market crash, but did correctly state fed policies hyperinflationary, and also just criticized Shiff’s recent prognostication ( he previously had to apologize to Shiff having done wrongly so before-  his criticism of Peter Shiff for warning of this debacle years ago). He throws out a couple of economic terms (demand pull/cost push inflationary terms) to buttress his criticism of Shiff but he’s just out to lunch in citing the absence of demand as militating against Shiff’s inflationary argument since history (and even currently, i.e., zimbabwee) is replete with examples of low demand and or impoverished nations that have over-printed their currencies with hyperinflationary results as will occur in u.s.). Stein should be on the Strip doing stand-up (comedy). He is a joke!] while commenting on the inaugural address (who cares…what do you expect them to say…all talk is cheap in fraudulent america particularly) says in need of specifics, says because he can’t do taxes geithner doesn’t have to, talks gov’t guarantees on loans except for fraud, bad banks/financials, no bottom. Analyst says things getting worse not better, bad equity ratios, banks not sufficiently capitalized, unemployment/job losses yet to hit so worst to come.  Economist says recession/depression with 500,000 job losses per month, housing/stock declines, bad bank bailouts with taxpayer money bad idea/bad deal, hopes on stimulus. Peter Shiff says they buy on rumor and sell on fact/reality, TARP/government spending the problem, new lows for financials, eventual dollar collapse, bailing out/subsidizing incompetent high paid executives, get out of any assets connected to u.s., buy gold.   Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion Bloomberg | U.S. financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion, suggesting the banking system is effectively insolvent. Prominent Economist: Crisis Caused By Government Interventions Steve Watson | People who created the problem are now in charge. Previously, a big suckers’ depression era rally of near 200 points into the close to keep suckers sucked in while churning and earning those commission dollars on decisively bad news (ie., circuit city liquidates/sheds 30,000 jobs, more job cut announcements, manufacturing down 2%, cpi down .7% on lower gas/oil prices but watch for inevitable hyperinflationary effect of worthless Weimar dollars they’re printing like mad, Citigroup -- after suffering a loss of $8.29 billion, its fifth straight quarterly deficit -- is reorganizing into Citicorp and Citi Holdings—what a joke; first will focus on traditional banking around the world, while the second will hold the company's riskier assets and tougher-to-manage ventures; Bank of America slides to 4Q loss; gets more ‘down the rabbit hole’ taxpayer money; how pathetic, unemployment claims at 54,000 for week, 524,000 for prior month, 4.5 million collecting unemployment/64% increase, foreclosures for December up 17%/2nd worst on record and high for ordinarily slow December, etc.), U.S. foreclosure filings in 2008 rose 81% from 2007  , the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. Retail sales much worse than expected -2.7% and double (100% worse) expected decline with financial sector usual suspects providing other dose of bad news, along with beige book which cites weakness in all districts. Job cuts, job cuts, job cuts, and Jobs cut work schedule with medical leave till June, 2009. Oil inventories up however since economy is so bad demand has substantially weakened. What usually either way would have derailed prospective nominees in past, viz., illegal nannies, failure to pay taxes, etc., has rallied defense of geithner  TAX MESS: Panel delays hearing on Obama's Treasury choice... ,  the new york fed man ( Fed Mob Boss Geithner’s Confirmation Sidelined  - too n.y. jewish to fail or be held accountable, in fairness there’s also trump and alito, and bush and clinton, etc., all of whom seem impervious to the laws and rules of civilized governance; owe, oh! how the mighty have fallen, including meaningfully lawless america). Given the state of the nation, who can rationally defend those experienced with having caused the crisis in the first instance (there is the matter of course of campaign finance bribery). HOW ABOUT ASKING GEITHNER ABOUT THE MISSING $4 TRILLION AT N.Y. FED BANK, WHO STOLE IT, ETC., AS A PRE-CONDITION TO HIM EVEN BEING CONSIDERED! THROW THEM, THE FED, WALL STREET FRAUDS, ETC., IN GITMO; THEY’RE CERTAINLY ECONOMIC TERRORISTS, FRAUDS, THIEVES WHO’VE DONE FAR GREATER DAMAGE TO AMERICA THAN ALL AMERICA’S ENEMIES COMBINED. Typical wall street jew madoff will just have to suffer his bail days in his $7.5 million n.y. penthouse apartment.  $700-Billion Bailout Lacks Transparency, Accountability, Congressional Panel Says  Motek’s (Frank still out but returns on Monday, but will his program still be there after decimating week) experts: Senile Wedbush from the land of fruits and nuts to his credit refers to the extent financial scenario by the “D” for Depression word (he very well may have been around to have experienced the first Great Depression) and borrows refrain from old Springfield song of ‘ Wishin’ and Hopin’ ’…riiiight…Start your own company, ie., apple stands (candy, caramel, or plain); land of fruits and nuts better stick with a taco or tamale stand; hot dog stands…riiiiight! (Previous) Hugh Johnson says earnings recession and lots of going out of business signs. Retail analyst says lots of bankruptcy filings and store closures particularly in select regional/female apparel/jewelry. Hugh Johnson, analyst, says Alcoa much worse than expected a wake up call, earnings below expectations, widespread downturn but much more difficult to forecast than ever (welcomed obfuscation so they can talk the talk and sucker you), oil speculators still in play, bailouts old news but enormous deficits/problems therefrom. Investors Business Daily editor, spend and cut taxes, TARP money not enough, $485.2 record deficit, deficits will continue to grow, will catch up to u.s.,  long term better…riiiiight…how ‘bout in long term as per keynes we’ll all be dead…if you’d have listened to equities oriented IBD you’d probably be broke by now even if you were as they seem to presume a trader.  Analyst Gabriel Isdumb says eventually things will be better…yeah…riiiiight!…right after the depression has run it’s course. Autonation expert says the worst conditions he’s ever seen which he further describes as appalling. All news bad and worse than expected (ie., Alcoa, Citi which received $45 billion in bailout funds and lost $20 billion, etc.). Former chief economist: U.S. in a depression    The U.S. Economy is being Marched to the Gallows  Andrew Hughes | Predictions of hyperinflation, dollar decline and civil unrest. No Brainer: Bankster Bailout is Unconstitutional  Kurt Nimmo | A world system of financial control in private hands will begin the process of delivering feudalism to the American people. The Economy Is in a Depression  The economy contracted at about a 5% annual rate in the fourth quarter. Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion  International Herald Tribune | The second lifeline brings the government’s total stake in Bank of America to $45 billion and makes it the bank’s largest shareholder, with a stake of about 6 percent. Counterfeiting? Bank of England able to print money without having legally to declare it  Bank of America to Get Billions More From Treasury  Washington Post | The Treasury Department plans to invest billions of dollars in Bank of America to help the company absorb troubled investment bank Merrill Lynch. Citigroup -- after suffering a loss of $8.29 billion, its fifth straight quarterly deficit -- is reorganizing into Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The first will focus on traditional banking around the world, while the second will hold the company's riskier assets and tougher-to-manage ventures. Bank of America slides to 4Q loss; gets more ‘down the rabbit hole’ taxpayer money.   Bernanke: U.S. Financial Crisis Worse than Japan’s Lost Decade, but We’ll Still Copy the Japanese Playbook, Even Though It Didn’t Work   Nortel files for bankruptcy, shares plunge , (Reuters)    $700-Billion Bailout Lacks Transparency, Accountability, Congressional Panel Says U.S. Retail Sales Decline for a Sixth Month    Dismal holidays over, but retail outlook still dim  , CITIGROUP Stock Falls Below Critical $5 Level...   'Long-term transformation'...     'Swift decline in America's influence'...     Stocks tumble as worries grow about banks...    JPMorgan CEO predicts bleak year: report (Reuters) JPMorgan's chief executive predicts that the financial crisis will worsen this year, in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper published on Thursday.  Sen Dorgan: Federal Reserve Refuses To Identify Recipients Of 2 Trillion In Emergency Loans Throw them, the fed, in gitmo; they’re certainly economic terrorists, frauds, thieves who’ve done far greater damage to america than all america’s enemies combined.   Our Collapsing Economy According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payroll employment declined by 3,445,000 from December 2007 through December 2008. Marc Faber: “I Think it Might Be Far Worse [Than the Great Depression] Precisely Because of the Interventions” by the Government The latest edition of Marc Faber’s latest newsletter fell off two separate trucks in my ‘hood, and I thought the most useful bits were Faber’s observations (honed from many years of seeing the world from Asia) that just because a market has gone down a ton doesn’t mean it can’t go down a great deal further. U.S. Economy May Shrink 1.5% in 2009 as Depression Stymies Fed Economists slashed forecasts for U.S. growth in 2009 and projected Federal Reserve policy makers won’t be able to start raising interest rates until 2010, according to a monthly Bloomberg News survey  Treasury: Deficit hits new record in just 3 months... TREASURY PICK FAILED TO PAY TAXES   Bond Bubble Looms  ‘The key here is to stay the course and not to be sucked into the hype; don’t let your eyes deceive you. Printing money non-stop for a year (or longer, I don’t see him stopping any time soon) will have consequences (meaning hyperinflation/worthless dollar, etc.).’ Those commerce department job numbers in prior months revised upwards (I warned of the falsity of same even as wall street frauds rallied on the false data).  2.6 million jobs lost in 2008, worst since 1945. Motek’s experts: Financial analyst says treasuries at 0%, money markets near 0%, so seek companies with pristine balance sheets and dividends, negative doldrums as market (irrationally) shrugs off bad news, no magic wand from new president, cross your fingers and hope…..riiiiight! Economist discusses jobs report, says lagging indicator and rough time, savings up but spending down, weakness through at least first quarter of 2010, lots of pain ahead, real estate prices continue decline through coming year,  -20% to –25% with land of fruits and nuts in worst case scenario. Another economist also discusses continued declines for real estate with land of fruits and nuts in worst case camp, foreclosures a lot higher with peak at 20%, and cites (probable) decade long stagnation as Japan in ‘90’s.   US Debt is really 53 Trillion. Can you say Dollar Collapse then Massive Hyperinflation Coming?    Roubini Joins Faber and Rogers in Saying Bubble in Treasuries Will Likely Burst  Now the U.S. porn industry seeks $5billion bailout   Citi, Morgan Stanley in brokerage talks; Rubin quits   $$] Rubin Departs Citi on a Low Note (at The Wall Street Journal Online)  Agency warns on automakers' pension funds: report   Jobless rate at 16-year high as payrolls plunge    Job losses hit 2.6 million as layoff pain deepens  Wall Street falls on job woes, Citi    Stocks slide after rise in unemployment rate (AP)   Manufacturing slumps at fastest pace since 1981   More people collecting unemployment benefits    Depression more severe than thought: Fed’s Rosengren      Horrible data and again worse than expected but suckers’ bear market rally into the close based on bull s**t and bailouts (with money they don’t have) provides excuse for irrational exuberance and mixed close. Weak retail and unemployment at 26 year high.Motek’s experts: Analyst points to dire warnings across the board while real estate/housing/building analyst says 2009 will be bad year with 20% declines in real estate values as unemployment goes higher while another real estate analyst says not a good time to buy a home. U.S. companies face $409 billion pension deficit: study   U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China   LET'S PRINT MORE WORTHLESS MONEY!    Obama Bets Big on Big Government...  Dems Raise Doubts on Plan...  A worse-than-expected ADP employment report indicated 693,000 jobs were lost in December far above the expected 493,000 and a warning from Intel (INTC 14.44, -0.93) underpinned early weakness with typical suckers’ rally into the close to finish off lows. Motek’s experts: Analyst says first 5 days of trading in January, 2009 historically a bad sign, gloomy employment scenario with 693,000 jobs lost in December, economic contraction in major way coupled with poor earnings, 1.2 trillion budget deficit at 6.8% of GDP or worse so tough to make bull case, defensive position, low allocation to equities with high capitalization/consumer staples. Oil analyst points to weak economy/jobs data, absence of leveraged money chasing oil and says $60 oil soon. Economist, part of the corrupt fed team discusses job losses. Final expert discusses demographic trends behind and causative of cycles as 1929, 1968, and now, baby boomers, bleak outlook, economically shot their wad in terms of ability to avoid depression.  Analyst Predicts 40% Unemployment, No Recovery until 2015     Bear rally over, the great dying begins in corporate America Wall Street falls sharply on employment realities, realistically bleak corporate outlooks  Budget deficit to hit $1.2 trillion in fiscal 2009  Intel warns second time on quarter  U.S. says Madoff sent diamonds in violation of bail   Profit warnings, poor job outlook weigh on stocks (AP)  Yes, fed now using the ‘D’ for depression word which means we’re in a depression (after all, they were saying no recession when we were already in one). What are they still drinking, smoking, snorting on wall street with suckers’ bear market rally into the close. They’ll still get their commissions on the way down and maybe stick you with their over-priced dogs as well. Same modus operandi as in January et seq, 2008 when they sucked in the suckers who this time (fool you twice, shame on you) will deserve to be burned for wall street commissions/compensation/ bonuses’ sake as in the year just passed. Service sector (90% of american economy, viz., bull s**t), factory orders, pending home sales down (worst on record) and much worse than expected.  Some reality: After a short modest rally in the stock markets, lasting at best if at all, 1 to 4 months after Obama is inaugurated as President, people will realize that Obama’s stimulus plan isn’t going to work. Specifically, it will become obvious that we’re in a Great Depression, and that nothing that Bushco or Obamaco did can get us out of it (it may take a while longer for people to realize that what both administrations did actually made the financial crisis much worse).  At that point, the stock market will crash like a waterfall. Mish thinks the crash will leave the S&P at 600. Robert McHugh thinks the crash will drive the S&P to 500 or lower (in McHugh’s worst-case scenario, the S&P could end up at 50). At around the time of the crash, the bubble in long-term treasuries will burst. Retirees and other people who have socked away their money in treasuries will get hit hard. The government itself will start massively buying its own long-term treasuries. Motek’s experts: Art Hogan in straight-shootin’ mode (as opposed to wall street shill mode) focuses (but only briefly) on fed’s depression/deflation words, says quite correctly that the focus has been on the cure (ie., bailouts) rather than the illness, lots of badnews, dismal earnings, etc., only slightly better at best in second half (I don’t think so), stay away from consumer discretionary cos., metals higher, market may be higher at year end (not likely), but rocky road till then (and beyond). Financial times editor says shocked by fed’s 0% move, very scary scenario, the specter of depression/deflation looms large, much too much optimism over Obama prospective stimulus plan.  Economy in grip of recession/depression, reports show    Stocks end higher on hopes for economic rebound    Alcoa to cut 13 pct of global work force     The Secular Bear Market Continues      Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse      Bank Of England Policymaker Predicts Unprecedented Dollar Collapse     Car sales plunge heralding bleak 2009 but car stocks rally; construction numbers down but building stocks rally. Will We Have a Good 2009? Not If History Is Any Guide   Stocks slip on telecom and financials; Apple jumps on ‘jobs alive’ news…riiiiightObama plunges into econ talks, borrows a page from bush economic strategy of spending money you don’t have and cutting taxes, and predicts approval    Consumer bankruptcies jumped 33% in 2008 and much worse expected in 2009 including commercial bankruptcies far greater and larger than in 2008   [$$] Don't Get Too Happy About the New Year   Check This Graph-Proof we are going into a Great Depression. Notice MASSIVE job losses. Is there really any doubt any longer?  The Economist, a Widely Respected and Authoritative Financial/Economic Publication: U.S. In Depression, Not Recession   Don’t forget their 2008 talk as now for 2009. The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so great opportunity to SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. More dismal news for lunatics on wall street to fraud on: ISM factory utilization index fell to the lowest level in over 28 years. Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years  They’re printing worthless Weimar dollars like mad for the celebrated bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, and stimulus so stimulating. Motek’s experts: First expert talks up superstition, the so called ‘january effect’ saying if positive this month then the worst case scenario is –5% for DOW/S&P for the year, so the frauds on wall street are really shootin’ for the moon (lunatics) for the effect, still in recession but bear market rallies not bad but not for buy and hold crowd, dump non-performers, favors medical devices/health care related, disfavors autos/financials. Another expert who scans/digests newsletters says market/newsletter euphoria contra-indicated, new lows are coming, the best funds in 2008 were short or cash. News typically bad: Difficulty tracking and monitoring bailout money…Daaaaah! Understated unemployment numbers still at recession/depression levels (4.65 million); retail correction-bankruptcies, closings, fewer stores. Motek’s experts: Peter Shiff says it’s not the disease but the government cure that will kill us, dire forecast for 2009 and beyond-inflation, companies going out of business, commodity prices higher, world’s largest debtor america is bankrupt, more borrowing/spending their failed prescription, bleak picture for dollar the value of which will be halved and high probability that the decline will be 70-90%, gold higher and $2000 gold in not so distant future, oil much higher and $200 oil in next couple of years, stocks will continue to decline, on the long side he favors quality EU, Asia securities and precious metals particularly monetary metals gold, silver. Oil analyst says oil too cheap, geopolitical factors, (israel war mongering, war crimes, etc.; Russia/Ukraine dispute-cut gas supplies affecting Europe), oil to $60-70 rather quickly, gasoline demand anemic but oil price the factor. It’s time for ben stein to resign himself to just a land of fruits and nuts actor/entertainer/speculator as he lambasts Shiff’s prognostication ( he previously had to apologize to Shiff having done wrongly so before-  his criticism of Peter Shiff for warning of this debacle years ago). He throws out a couple of economic terms (demand pull/cost push inflationary terms) to buttress his criticism of Shiff but he’s just out to lunch in citing the absence of demand as militating against Shiff’s inflationary argument since history (and even currently, i.e., zimbabwee) is replete with examples of low demand and or impoverished nations that have over-printed their currencies with hyperinflationary results as will occur in u.s.). Stein should be on the Strip doing stand-up (comedy). He is a joke! Suckers' bear market rally into the close to keep the suckers suckered on NEWS MUCH WORSE THAN ALREADY DISMAL EXPECTATIONS ACROSS THE BOARD: S&P/Case-Shiller Composite Index, October home prices were down 18% year-over-year, the largest drop on record. According to the U.S. Conference Board, consumer confidence dropped more than expected to an all-time low in December AT 38%. Record number of bankruptcies and particulary hard hit commercial sector in coming year, ie., malls, retail, etc.. Worse stock market declines for the year since 1931 (Great Depression) and worse to come in 2009 despite suckers’ bear market rallies to keep you sucked in. Put these wall street frauds in jail and force disgorgement of their fraudulent gains. There are loads of able new grads and job seekers who can take the place of the wall street frauds who caused the crisis owing to their own avarice and continue the coverup to get taxpayer bailout funds. The markets should be efficient and predicated on rational valuation which is totally absent in america’s fraudulent, manipulated markets. Absent prosecution and disgorgement in these ongoing multi-trillion dollar fraud schemes (new ponzi scheme uncovered in addition to madoff, which are just tips of the iceberg of multi-trillion dollar frauds), america will not be worth the paper the worthless Weimar dollars and worthless securities denominated in same are printed on.  Non-Motek expert: markets to fall into 2010 or worse case, later. Motek experts: They discuss dismal news, for year DOW-35%, NASDAQ-42%, S&P-40%, $7-10 trillion in wealth destroyed, second-half inflation from printing worthless Weimar dollars/stagflation; another expert, consumer has collapsed, 2009 will be very tough year for autos; a real estate analyst says 2009 will be a very tough year and hopefully we’ll get through this…..riiiiight!…I don’t think so…Almost one in 10 Floridians are on food stamps   Online holiday sales fall 3 percent    Madoff liquidation trustee receives $28M for costs (AP)   Charlotte, NC, home values post record decline (AP)    Wrong Great Depression Lessons Will Haunt Equities in 2009    73,000 retailers to close in first half of 2009, Stocks Rally  Bloomberg | U.S. retailers face a wave of store closings, bankruptcies and takeovers starting next month as holiday sales are shaping up to be the worst in 40 years   There’s No Pain-Free Cure for Recession/Depression    Schiff: Government Interference Only Makes The Problem Worse Paul Joseph Watson | Establishment talking heads still pushing useless and destructive bailout.   A Ponzi Scheme Within A Ponzi Scheme Bob Chapman | Dwarfing the Madoff Ponzi scheme is the Social Security Ponzi scheme that has been looted (the iou’s) and is hopelessly insolvent. This on top of previous suckers' bear market rally into the close with 100+ point swing to the upside to keep the suckers suckered. Time for prosecutions of and disgorgement of ill-gotten multi-trillion dollar gains from the frauds on wall street; madoff is just the tip of the iceberg; all news decisively bad and worse than even dismal expectations except that the frauds on wall street continue their familiar suckers cheer for bailouts, bailouts, bailouts so SELL INTO STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL! Motek experts: At best, bear market rally, his accounts 20-25% cash, can make bearish argument since still looking at writeoffs, government still must sell bonds to help finance bailouts, municipal bonds troublesome as iou’s might extend maturities, don’t try to catch falling knife in this market but some high quality bonds may offer value, dollar to take hit (they’re printing worthless weimar dollars like mad-hyper-inflationary); Oil expert says overshot to downside and will see turn-around in oil; U.N. Security Council condemns massacre by zionist israel. Pros Say: Employment Collapse is Coming    Holiday Sales Slump to Force U.S. Store Closings, Bankruptcies  Manufacturing, Home Prices Sank: U.S. Economy Preview  Holiday Sales Tumble as US Consumers Reduce Luxury Purchases  Bleak economic picture emerges from new data Retail Sales Plummet  Holiday Sales Tumble as US Consumers Reduce Luxury Purchases Bleak economic picture emerges from new data The frauds on wall street say they are entitled to the obligatory santa claus rally and attempt to keep you suckered in for their commissions sake with small gains on bull s**t/fraud alone in holiday shortened light trading, but reality says every day the market’s above 2,000-5,000 on the DOW, 1,000-1,300 on the NASDAQ, and 500-600 on the S&P is a ‘santa clause rally, so SELL INTO STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL as all news decisively bad and worse than even dismal expectations except that the frauds on wall street continue their familiar suckers cheer for bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, with ephemeral short-covering to lock in year-end gains for window dressing and much, much worse to come. Unemployment up more than expected at 26 year high and consumer spending down for fifth month in a row. In their typically corrupt way, scandal-scarred commerce department provides fake data for b.s. talking points far better than private economist estimates but still decline of 1% in durable goods new orders. Oil's slide came in the face of a surprise inventory draw, which suggests stronger-than-expected demand for the commodity as Department of Energy reported that oil inventories for the week ending Dec. 19 decreased by 3.10 million barrels. Analyst: One Third Of Banks To Collapse In 2009   U.S. Economy: Home Prices Fall At Depression Pace   Recession/depression deepens, countries boost spending  Previously, just modest losses relative to reality so SELL INTO STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL as all news decisively bad and worse than even dismal expectations except that the frauds on wall street continue their familiar suckers cheer for bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, with much, much worse to come. Existing home sales plunged to a rate of 4.49 million last month, down 8.6 percent from October, and worse than economists predicted. Total sales, not calculated as an annual rate, fell 17 percent in November from a year earlier to 322,000, sales of newly built homes fell 2.9 percent from October to a pace of 407,000 units, the slowest rate in nearly 18 years. Madoff investor found dead of suicide. Standard & Poor's lowered the unsecured debt rating of General Motors (GM 3.01, -0.51) to C from CC, even though the government plans to provide GM with financing and Moody's lowered Ford's (F 2.19, -0.40) credit rating to Caa3. Final third quarter GDP data showed economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.5%, unchanged from the prior reading though personal consumption component was down 3.8%.  Motek’s experts:  actor/speculator/entertainer/sometimes economist Ben Stein takes a page out of GM’s playbook by lambasting Fortune Magazine (you might recall some two decades ago that Fortune warned of GM managerial ineptitude to which GM responded with outrage and withdrew all advertising and revenue to Fortune thereby in retaliation - if only they had listened) for saying caleefornia is number 1, numero uno ….. as prospectively worse real estate market in the nation, the same Ben Stein who poo-pooed Peter Shiff’s correct prediction of market crash, but does correctly state fed policies hyperinflationary; LA economist jumps on the Ben Stein out-to-lunch bandwagon and says only 10%, not  25% (as consensus predicts), decline for caleefornia…..riiiiight…..take that to the bank; broad donates to MOCA; show biz expert- strike fear; and Shreve of IBD flips yet again-if only we were all traders…but if you had followed his every whim, only the frauds on wall street would have made out with substantial commissions in the ups/downs. IMF warns of Great Depression   100% chance of depression in US   Depression Hits Detroit: Average home price $18,513 - Unemployment rate 21%   U.S. Home Resales Fall; Prices Drop by Record 13.2%   Congressman: “If We’re Not Very Lucky Or If We Don’t Do Everything Right, We Could Easily Have A Ten- Or Fifteen-Year Depression”   World faces “total” financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief  Previous suckers bear market rally into the close with 150 point swing to the upside based on bull s**t and fraud in the inducement alone to keep the suckers sucked in and commission dollars flowing for modest losses relative to reality so SELL INTO STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL as all news decisively bad and worse than even dismal expectations except that the frauds on wall street do their familiar suckers cheer for bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, with much, much worse to come.  Motek’s experts:Economist says economy in full-out recession, aggregate demand down across the board, abusers are not lubrication for economy so should not get bailout, another 25% down for real estate prices as foreclosures also will continue but lower prices will eventually stimulate demand, fed focused now on long-rates, cites housing/finance/consumer debacles and no recovery till at least into 2010 at best (I don’t think so); oil expert says contract now February delivery on expiration of January contract and flood of selling on expiring contract temporarily depressed prices, oil more expensive in future, discusses boom/bust cycle (we’re in the bust part); another cites high redefault rate on modified mortgages and more foreclosures; auto analyst points to Toyota showing first loss since 1941 inception, global downturn with no nation spared, reckoning for 15-20 years of bad decision-making, 2009 very grim, 2010 at best for even minimal improvement (I don’t think so); Online e-commerce expert cites first flat to down year of online retail sales growth; downgrades GM, american Express, Ford, etc.. World faces “total” financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief  Housing crisis worsens as economy weakens    Japan recession deepens, China cuts rates    Great Recession/Depression of 2008, et seq., Worse Than All Others  AP Impact: Wall Street still flying corporate jets; indeed, with all the bashing of auto rank and file employee pay, the reality is that american executives, among the least able, least talented in the world, along with fraudulent wall street are grossly overpaid and far exceeding that of their far more able foreign counterparts (AP)   Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret (AP)   Housing crisis worsens as economy weakens   Ratings Agencies Play Reality With Multiple Downgrades in Banking Sector (at Seeking Alpha) Previous mixed to modest losses relative to reality so sell into strength/take profits/sell as all news decisively bad and worse than even dismal expectations except that the frauds on wall street do their familiar suckers cheer for bailouts, bailouts, bailouts. Motek’s analyst/options expert predicts controlled bankruptcy for at least GM (maybe more), cites Fitch downgrade of GM’s credit/default rating and says GM within weeks of default. Oil analyst cites recession, week demand, over-supply also stating storage facilities full and resorting to offshore tankers to store excess oil. Media analyst says economic model for newspaper/media business broken. Rogers: The Incompetent Senile and Vegetables Have Turned A Recession Into A Depression  He Saw the Crash Coming: What Gary Shilling Sees for 2009   Yes, Shilling’s using  the d for depression word so If video unavailable, here for avi rendering  SCROOGE BIDEN: ECONOMY IS 'ABSOLUTELY TANKING'   Previously, recession/depression level 554,000 new unemployment claims (I’m sure in reality, far worse but still bad) pre-Christmas so wait till the post-Christmas numbers are out – nowhere to hide those but they’ll try. Motek scraping bottom of barrel for second day in a row and comes up with another land-of-fruits-and-nuts man, the senile wedbush who discusses his comrade madeoff with other peoples money, poo-poos the purported amount, says market not doing badly considering the dismal news (at least he is lucid enough to realize dismal - market should be between 2,000 to 5,000 on the DOW, 500-600 on S&P, 1,100 to 1,300 on NASDAQ based upon the dismal but real and probably far worse than reported data) and points to auto scenario, oil plunge, and madoff fraud for doldrums. Oil analyst says pressure on commodities generally, liquidation on expiration of January (2009) oil contracts and liquidation of positions, but February (2009) contracts back to $40+ rather quickly, and points to decreased current and prospective refinery capacity on thin to low margins.  A Most Desperate Move by the Fed    Dollar’s Slump Erases Months Of Solid Gains   “The Biggest Bubble Of All . . . U.S. Government Debt”  Video: Crash Will be Worse than Great Depression   Editorial: What ails global financial system ‘The $50 billion investment fraud to which the respected New York financier and former NASDAQ Chairman Bernard L. Madoff has allegedly confessed, may prove to be the paradigm for all that has gone wrong with the international financial system. It points up the greed, incompetence and woeful wishful thinking that have all combined to produce economic meltdown and plunge the world into recession. Most staggering is the stupidity of both regulators (and government corruption/venality vis-à-vis wall street) and professional investors in failing to spot that for at least a decade, at the heart of his hedge fund operations, Madoff was running a pyramid scheme. This relied on new investment funds to pay out market-beating returns to existing investors…..’ THIS IS WALL STREET EVERY DAY WITH THEIR EATING AWAY AT OTHER PEOPLES MONEY TO THE TUNE OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A DAY (BILLIONS A YEAR AND NOW BILLIONS IN TAXPAYER BAILOUT FUNDS FOR THEIR FRAUD) BASED ON NOTHING BUT BULL S**T AND FRAUD! U.S. Records Huge Current Account Deficit    Fed unleashes greatest bubble of all    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes a depression is COMING   Peter Schiff new VIDEO on the Coming Collapse Dec 16    Swiss gold bullion in huge demand as trust in banks dives   Goldmine Sachs: Bank’s bonuses cut to a ‘mere’ £142,000 EACH Investment bank /taxpayer bailout funds recipient Goldman Sachs is to pay £4.3billion in bonuses to its City workers.  Dollar Falls Most Against Euro Since 1999 Debut on Fed’s Rate  Dollar Declines to 13-Year Low Against Yen After Fed Rate Cut    Federal spending soars 25% -- even before bailout...    Previous, building permits declining 15.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 616,000 (below the consensus of 700,000), housing starts data for November declined 18.9% from the prior month to an annualized rate of 625,000 units, which was below the consensus of 736,000 and are 47% below the year-ago level, fed desperation (they don’t know what they’re doing – remember their pronouncement -no recession- when we were already in one), Weimar dollar down sharply, Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation , etc., so sell into these suckers bear market rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Economist Brusca “the economy is sinking fast”, FOMC states that “data indicate deteriorating labor conditions and declining consumer spending, business investment, and industrial production, and the outlook for economic activity has weakened further”,  F. William Engdahl “The US economy is in a depression free-fall of a scale not seen since the 1930’s”, Kellner cites ‘helicopter ben’ (bernanke), BILLIONS VANISH IN EPIC HEDGE FUND FRAUD Downturn Spurs “Survival Panic” for Some in the U.S. Motek Experts: Art Hogan more realistically candid than usual cites all bad news, very difficult times, near term lows but no recovery for economy, hope is that second half of 2009 is better than first half (NOT!), cites lost decade in Japan with 0% interest rates, negative growth through fourth quarter 2009, longest recession (depression) in modern times, market hopefully better in second half of 2009 anticipating better 2010 (NOT!), bottoming of energy/commodities, worth looking at consumer goods/staples focused on what you need versus what you want; economist points to bankruptcies up, housing starts down; Zandi of Moody’s says not getting better but worse, most credit card holders will not benefit from rate cut; currency expert says interest rate cuts increasingly irrelevant, fed buying bonds driving asset prices higher and displacing private sector with prospectively negative results; and finally, Peter Shiff cites fed action as irresponsible, destroying value of money, bear market, money not worth anything, negates any rise in paper dollar-denominated securities (SELL), says buy gold because of u.s. hyperinflation. Previous, news worse than bad and to get much worse but full moon manifest on lunatic asylum for the criminally insane wall street. More banks reveal Madoff exposure The ‘while you can’ part of sell/take profits manifests and will worsen Citadel suspends redemptions from two hedge funds Stupidity not limited to u.s. where fraud is rampant Geneva banks lost more than $4 billon to Madoff: report This modest retreat and previous suckers bearmarket rally on bull s**t alone with familiar mantra still ringing today; viz., everything but the facts:  forget the layoffs Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report  , forget the foreclosures Foreclosure Storm Will Hit US in 2009 as Loan Changes Fail Bloomberg , forget declining retail sales Retail sales post big drop in November  ,  forget the $1 trillion record budget deficit , trade deficits, worthless fraudulent securities, lower earnings/guidance/outlook, the topic (b.s. talking point) de jour for the lunatic (yes, full moon) frauds on wall street is bailouts, bailouts, bailouts (not to mention there’s no real money to pay for same – print/create more worthless Weimar dollars – hyperinflationary Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation  – even now despite fake reports and worse to come), and from well respected wall street fraud madoff, "it's all just one big lie" and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme," which is fraudulent wall street in a nutshell. Madoff fraud case raises questions about SEC (AP) and even bigger questions about fraudulent wall street and their washingtonian/federal/state facilitators. Builders sentiment reading at 9 (anything less than 50 is negative/pessimistic). Motek’s legal expert correctly points to funds problems with meeting redemptions and paraphrases J.P. Morgan’s immortal words concerning investing by saying as is particularly relevant now, It’s not return on investment, but return of investment (that really counts). Banks hit worldwide by US 'fraud'  . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? Prosecute and throw them in jail and make them cough up their stolen multi-billion spoils. Not just super rich caught up in $50B Madoff case . The previous suckers bear market rally was/is based on bull s**t alone; namely, now it’s the prospective bailouts/spending programs with money that does not really exist (print/create more, borrow more, etc.). 1) Keynesian economics (government stimulus) does not work when a defacto bankrupt nation becomes more bankrupt to bailout frauds/perpetrators/creators of the problem and to create make-shift purported infrastructure jobs to enhance consumption 2) Inherent structural problems, i.e., trade/budget deficits will continue unabated and in the case of the latter, substantially increase – deeper hole 3) While spending on infrastructure is warranted, there is no productive enhancement in economic terms as in less modern times when, i.e., national highway system, etc., enhanced GDP growth and productivity.  US Depression Likely -The Truth Is Here Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report   ,  America Has No Means to Recover from a Depression  FARRELL’S 15 GHOSTS OF WALLSTREET/ECONOMIC PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE Home values to lose well over $2 trillion during 2008: Zillow Homes in the United States have lost trillions of dollars in value during 2008, with nearly 11.7 million American households now owing more on their mortgage than their homes are worth, real estate website Zillow.com said on Monday. (Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which MUST be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only AN EXTREMELY Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital via, ie., ipo’S), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades).  Moreover, the ballooning taxpayer bailout funds for the perpetrators of the massive securities fraud are actually going toward multibillion dollar bonus/compensation packages. . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 879)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   BILLIONS VANISH IN EPIC HEDGE FUND FRAUD All news worse than bad and to get much worse but full moon manifest on lunatic asylum for the criminally insane wall street. More banks reveal Madoff exposure The ‘while you can’ part of sell/take profits manifests and will worsen Citadel suspends redemptions from two hedge funds Stupidity not limited to u.s. where fraud is rampant Geneva banks lost more than $4 billon to Madoff: report This modest retreat and previous suckers bearmarket rally on bull s**t alone with familiar mantra still ringing today; viz., everything but the facts:  forget the layoffs Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report  , forget the foreclosures Foreclosure Storm Will Hit US in 2009 as Loan Changes Fail Bloomberg , forget declining retail sales Retail sales post big drop in November  ,  forget the $1 trillion record budget deficit , trade deficits, worthless fraudulent securities, lower earnings/guidance/outlook, the topic (b.s. talking point) de jour for the lunatic (yes, full moon) frauds on wall street is bailouts, bailouts, bailouts (not to mention there’s no real money to pay for same – print/create more worthless Weimar dollars – hyperinflationary – even now despite fake reports and worse to come), and from well respected wall street fraud madoff, "it's all just one big lie" and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme," which is fraudulent wall street in a nutshell. Madoff fraud case raises questions about SEC (AP) and even bigger questions about fraudulent wall street and their washingtonian/federal/state facilitators. Builders sentiment reading at 9 (anything less than 50 is negative/pessimistic). Motek’s legal expert correctly points to funds problems with meeting redemptions and paraphrases J.P. Morgan’s immortal words concerning investing by saying as is particularly relevant now, It’s not return on investment, but return of investment (that really counts). Banks hit worldwide by US 'fraud'  . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? Prosecute and throw them in jail and make them cough up their stolen multi-billion spoils. Not just super rich caught up in $50B Madoff case . The previous suckers bear market rally was/is based on bull s**t alone; namely, now it’s the prospective bailouts/spending programs with money that does not really exist (print/create more, borrow more, etc.). 1) Keynesian economics (government stimulus) does not work when a defacto bankrupt nation becomes more bankrupt to bailout frauds/perpetrators/creators of the problem and to create make-shift purported infrastructure jobs to enhance consumption 2) Inherent structural problems, i.e., trade/budget deficits will continue unabated and in the case of the latter, substantially increase – deeper hole 3) While spending on infrastructure is warranted, there is no productive enhancement in economic terms as in less modern times when, i.e., national highway system, etc., enhanced GDP growth and productivity.  US Depression Likely -The Truth Is Here Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report   ,  America Has No Means to Recover from a Depression  FARRELL’S 15 GHOSTS OF WALLSTREET/ECONOMIC PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE Home values to lose well over $2 trillion during 2008: Zillow Homes in the United States have lost trillions of dollars in value during 2008, with nearly 11.7 million American households now owing more on their mortgage than their homes are worth, real estate website Zillow.com said on Monday. (Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which MUST be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only AN EXTREMELY Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital via, ie., ipo’S), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades).  Moreover, the ballooning taxpayer bailout funds for the perpetrators of the massive securities fraud are actually going toward multibillion dollar bonus/compensation packages. . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 879)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   Previous session, modest decline relative to reality so still great opportunity to sell/take profits since much, much worse to come! All news decisively bad and much worse than expected with trade deficit up 1.1%, dollar down, unemployment claims up 573,000 a 26 year high, 28% increase in foreclosures, bailout recipient BofA to cut 35,000 jobs, many other prospective job cuts announced, economic group changes previous forecast to worse/long recessionBernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud Madoff told senior employees of his firm on Wednesday that "it's all just one big lie" and that it was basically, a giant Ponzi scheme (the fraudulent wall street story in a nutshell) , BANK OF AMERICA to cut 35,000 jobs......final could be higher Shocking but true claim: Most big banks 'bankrupt'...New unemployment claims surge unexpectedly   ,  Ron Paul: Printing Money Only Prolongs The Pain Amidst the hand-wringing of the automaker bailout debate, Ron Paul took the opportunity on the House floor yesterday to remind Congress that the real culprit behind the financial crisis is the Federal Reserve, and that allowing the Fed to continue to print money without audit will only prolong the pain.  US budget deficit to reach USD 1 trillion  ,  Jim Rogers calls most big U.S. banks “bankrupt”  Jim Rogers, one of the world’s most prominent international investors, on Thursday called most of the largest U.S. banks “totally bankrupt,” and said government efforts to fix the sector are wrongheaded. CORRECTED - CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-UPDATE - Wells Fargo to take $40 bln Q4 chargeGerman FM criticises Britain’s ‘crass Keynesian’ policies: report   and read again previous session, forget the layoffs Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report  , forget the foreclosures Foreclosure Storm Will Hit US in 2009 as Loan Changes Fail Bloomberg , forget declining retail sales Retail sales post big drop in November  ,  forget the $1 trillion record budget deficit , trade deficits, worthless fraudulent securities, lower earnings/guidance/outlook, the topic (b.s. talking point) de jour for the lunatic (yes, full moon) frauds on wall street is bailouts, bailouts, bailouts (not to mention there’s no real money to pay for same – print/create more worthless Weimar dollars – hyperinflationary – even now despite fake reports and worse to come) ,  suckers bear market ralley to keep the suckers sucked in so great opportunity to sell/take profits since much, much worse to come!  This  suckers bear market rally is based on bull s**t alone; namely, now the prospective bailouts/spending programs with money that does not really exist (print/create more, borrow more, etc.). 1) Keynesian economics (government stimulus) does not work when a defacto bankrupt nation becomes more bankrupt to bailout frauds/perpetrators/creators of the problem and to create make-shift purported infrastructure jobs to enhance consumption 2) Inherent structural problems, i.e., trade/budget deficits will continue unabated and in the case of the latter, substantially increase – deeper hole 3) While spending on infrastructure is warranted, there is no productive enhancement in economic terms as in less modern times when, i.e., national highway system, etc., enhanced GDP growth and productivity.  US Depression Likely -The Truth Is Here Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report   ,  America Has No Means to Recover from a Depression   (Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which MUST be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only AN EXTREMELY Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital via, ie., ipo’S), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades).  Moreover, the ballooning taxpayer bailout funds for the perpetrators of the massive securities fraud are actually going toward multibillion dollar bonus/compensation packages. . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU STILL CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 848)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   Previous, modest decline relative to reality so still great time to sell/take profits since much, much worse to come.  Wall Street stung by risk-aversion and realistically bleak outlooks  , Point of no return: Interest on T-bills hits zero  ,  Tightening Budgets Mean a Rough Ride for IT  ,  FIRST TIME: Treasury Bills Trade at Negative Rates...  .  Previous,  suckers bear market rally based on bull s**t alone; namely, now the prospective bailouts/spending programs with money that does not really exist (print/create more, borrow more, etc.). 1) Keynesian economics (government stimulus) does not work when a defacto bankrupt nation becomes more bankrupt to bailout frauds/perpetrators/creators of the problem and to create make-shift purported infrastructure jobs to enhance consumption 2) Inherent structural problems, i.e., trade/budget deficits will continue unabated and in the case of the latter, substantially increase – deeper hole 3) While spending on infrastructure is warranted, there is no productive enhancement in economic terms as in less modern times when, i.e., national highway system, etc., enhanced GDP growth and productivity.  US Depression Likely -The Truth Is Here Coming soon to U.S., 1 million jobs lost every month: Report   ,  America Has No Means to Recover from a Depression   (Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which MUST be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only AN EXTREMELY Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital via, ie., ipo’S), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades).  Moreover, the ballooning taxpayer bailout funds for the perpetrators of the massive securities fraud are actually going toward multibillion dollar bonus/compensation packages. . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 848)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   Previous suckers’ bear market rally on far worse than expected and particularly significant bad news provides great opportunity to sell/take profits, especially considering fraudulent wall street’s previous modus operandi to keep suckers sucked into this market and their commission dollars flowing, suckers’ rallies into the close, reassuring rallies prior to weekends as this despite unexpectedly bad news as today, etc., which frauds perpetrated the yet unprosecuted crimes that have created this current financial debacle. Record 1.33 homes in foreclosure,15 year high for unemployment at 6.7% even as many no longer looking with things so depressed and worse to come in ’09, record level deficits both trade and particularly budget with money not there being spent with abandon (worthless Weimar dollars being printed created like mad which is and will continue to be hyperinflationary regardless of the current fake reports). Motek has actor/speculator/entertainer/sometimes economist Ben Stein points to loans in foreclosure hitting new records, paulson misconduct, lack of oversight/accontability in bailout funds, and the seriousness of the crisis, but his pointed barbs seem fleeting and is most memorable by his somewhat blind adherence to policy as indicated by his criticism of Peter Shiff for warning of this debacle years ago. Motek’s oil analyst says economy so bad that oil demand down, significant recession in 2009, and hedge funds liquidating positions putting pressure on oil prices. Finally, Motek elicits from Peter Shiff that jobs created are being destroyed as fast, phony jobs, bear market and government making worse by digging deeper hole, phony (worthless Weimar) dollar rally provides opportunity to get out with hyperinflation to come. GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL INTO THIS SUCKERS’ BEAR MARKET RALLY/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  3 Tell Tale Signs Of This Sucker Rally  , Half-million jobs vanish as economy deteriorates (AP)  , Job losses worst since 1974  Employers cut 533K jobs in Nov., most in 34 years   ,  Late mortgage payments and foreclosures hit record  ,  1 in 10 homeowners behind on mortgage payments, or in foreclosure...   ,  Wall St financiers party like there's no tomorrow -- literally  WHERE ARE THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS AND DISGORGEMENT? It’s been wall street frauds’ nirvana (commissioning a huge decline then a huge incline) at just a program loop, button push, mouse click away. Previous session, modest declines relative to reality SO STILL GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL INTO SUCKERS’ BEAR MARKET RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. CELENTE OF trendsresearch.com, having predicted the Panic of 2008 now preparing current prognostications for 2009 which will bear the consequential follow-up title to the Panic of 2008; namely, The Collapse of 2009, further stating there’s nothing they’ve done or prospectively can do to avoid the complete economic/financial collapse in the u.s., the seeds for which have already been sown, good money after bad notwithstanding, the die having been cast. All business/financial/economic news decisively bad; 26 year high for jobless rolls, orders to factories down sharply, job cuts current and prospective up sharply. Motek expert comments on auto bailout saying no new concesions with UAW cuts merely cosmetic, just down payment on failed business model/scenario, bankruptcy necessary as costs too high, and on economy says nation to go deeper into recession owing to intactable structural problems; i.e., deficits, etc.. Another Motek expert says very negative economic environment, sees deepening of more prolonged recession, discusses risk tolerance in such an environment recommending highest quality debt instruments but does note risk premium in lesser quality instruments. Food stamp use up 17% to 1 in 10 citizens, bankruptcies soaring, and re-default rates on mortgages rising. Employers shedding jobs as recession deepens , AP IMPACT: Some bailout holdings down $9 billion , Governments brace for long crisis ahead , High inventory is killing home builders; industry asks for help , It's Not a Great Time to Get Into Stocks  , Long Term Investors Should Avoid Leveraged ETFs  , Fixing the Enron Economy  , US FEDERAL RESERVE to buy US DEBT? WITH WHAT?Prepare For Depression Level Unemployment  ,  Record number of Americans using food stamps: report  ,  Whether We End Up Paying For It Through Taxes Or Hyperinflation, It Will Still Come Out Of Our Pockets  ,   Corporate Debt Protection Costs Climb Amid Depression Concern  ,  Shoppers ready to call it quits MarketWatch | More than one-third of consumers chose not to shop at all last month, except on Black Friday, according to Britt Beemer of America’s Research Group. Lawsuit claims Citigroup was running a “quasi-Ponzi scheme”  Bloomberg | Citigroup Inc., the second-biggest U.S. bank by assets, was accused in a lawsuit of repackaging unmarketable collateralized debt obligations it held and re-selling them to itself in order to hide its exposure to the securities. WHERE ARE THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS AND DISGORGEMENT? Previously, suckers’ bear market rally into the close on bad news with wall street frauds’ nirvana (commissioning a huge decline then a huge incline) at just a program loop, button push, mouse click away. Indeed, all news still realistically and decisively (and some deceptively otherwise spun to keep suckers suckered) bad:  A Bleak Outlook: Nov. Job Loss at  250,000, Economic Weakness   ,  US, China currency clash over worthless american currency...61% oppose auto bailout   , Meredith Whitney Sees Plenty of Pain Ahead for Consumers (at BusinessWeek)  ,  Desperate Times, Desperate Policies ) . One non-Motek expert says these suckers’ bear market rallies on bad news are at best wishful thinking and not sustainable along with realistically dire outlook. Motek expert says market for speculators/traders and points to volatility index while failing to point out that there are very, very few successful traders. [Close inspection of the data in past times far better than now (now we see insurmountable trade/budget deficits, lack of manufacturing base, global antipathy, etc.) disavows such heavily promoted failed strategies as dollar-cost averaging where stocks prices remain artificially (now fraudulently) high for far longer periods of time than lower prices (MBA Thesis, Albert L. Peia, NYU GBA, 1977), limited exceptions being ie., dollar-cost averaging in declining markets, but only when analysis indicates under-valuation in prospective terms which is certainly isn’t the case now of rampant over-valuation/fraud]. (Remember: more contrived wasteful commissions to the wall street frauds, the level and percentage of which MUST be examined in light of computerization and decreased costs attendant to same especially since only AN EXTREMELY Small Fraction Of What wall street Does Is A Net Positive For The Economy (New Investment Capital via, ie., ipo’S), The Rest Is Tantamount To A (Economically) "Wasteful Tax" (On The Economy) via 'churn and earn' computerized programmed trades).  Moreover, the ballooning taxpayer bailout funds for the perpetrators of the massive securities fraud are actually going toward multibillion dollar bonus/compensation packages. . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 848)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000  , Auditors Fault Oversight of Bailout Funds... Previous suckers’ bear market rally in the last minutes of the close on bad news with wall street frauds’ nirvana (commissioning a huge decline then a huge incline) at just a program loop, button push, mouse click away. Indeed, all news still realistically and decisively (and some deceptively otherwise spun to keep suckers suckered) bad: GE lowers guidance but maintains dividend ,  November US auto sales drop to 26-year low  , Data signal deep global downturn  Financial Times , US manufacturing hits 26-year low: ISM . How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.,  so SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 848)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000  , Auditors Fault Oversight of Bailout Funds... , Governors to Seek Up to $100B in Social Aid...  ,
Feds to expand rescue; reviewing applications from 'hundreds of banks'...
FDIC head: Gov't plan needs 'exit strategy'...  ,  Metal prices fall further than during Great Depression...  , they’re printing and spending worthless Weimar dollars and taxpayer funds like mad because they are mad as in crazy, incompetent, etc.. Previous session sees modest drop relative to reality [SO SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME], particularly when you factor in the reality that the prior 5 day rally of 1,300 points into the last trading week of the month (much like the end of the prior month) based on bull s**t alone was a typical fraudulent wall street programmed trade fraud to window dress the monthly numbers and keep suckers sucked in (and besides, they’ll get their commissions again on the way down). Upon the formal announcement that we’ve been in recession since DECEMBER, 2007 I was waiting for Amy Poehler of SNL Weekend Update to say, “REALLY!” [this site has reported/predicted this (these) debacle (s) for far longer and in advance of same, including this recession/depression]. The protracted reluctance (election year expedience) for some to use the R(ecession) word, spun in the most positive way is to say it is because this scenario is far worse than even would befit the D(epression) word in light of the fact that the u.s. like never before in its relatively short history is broke in every way. If you’ve been suckered, it’s not all your fault inasmuch as the enablers (politicians, economists, financial experts, news/media, etc., in receipt of substantial largesse from and) of these vegetable garden (poison ivy league schools, these “elite” clubs/frats, etc.) products (vegetables who not only have never done anything requiring skills or measurable results, but merely are master bull s**t artists and as in the case of wall street, criminal frauds) are similarly incompetent, corrupt/venal. After all, how are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, especially since none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved; and hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc.. Motek’s expert cites retail liquidation prices (none to minimal profits, at best), inevitable GM bankruptcy, fed programs done with money out the door to little or no effect and now talking new programs…riiiiight…or, with rate at 1%, more rate cuts…riiiiight, big shake-out to come, credit-card co’s to pull back $2 trillion to survive what’s coming, retailers with big real estate exposure bust, and market will test lows then break through said lows to the downside. There was in addition to the ‘recession’ announcement more dismal news with construction down 1.2% and the supply/management manufacturing index at 26 year lows. I derive no pleasure in being a harbinger of bad but true news but reiterate SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN AS THESE ARE STILL GREAT OPPORTUNITIES TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , IT’S A DEPRESSION   , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 816)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   Dow plunges on news recession began in Dec. 2007 (AP)  , Down we go again: Fourth-worst drop ever for Dow  , Recession declared; Wall Street tanks  , Fourth-worst drop ever for Dow AP… as wall street snapped out of its daydream of a rally and once again faced the harsh reality…  Report Concludes Recession Began A Year Ago | But the White House and the corporate media consistently continued to state otherwise. Previous session, this suckers’ bear market ralley remains an especially great opportunity to sell/take profits while you still can since much, much worse to come (sell into purported strength which is just more bull s**t for prospective churn and earn fraud – they’ll get those commissions again on the way down) IMF economist says worst of crisis to come: paper  'Crisis Only Just Beginning': Crisis/Video  Right About the Crash, Peter Schiff Sees Much More Pain Ahead   and this suckers’ bear market rally was based upon nothing related factually to finance/economics/business. How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved and hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., SO SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN AS THIS IS AS GREAT AN OPPORTUNITY TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS AS YOU WILL SEE SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Indeed, all news still realistically and decisively (and some deceptively otherwise spun to keep suckers suckered) bad:  SO SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN AS THIS IS AS GREAT AN OPPORTUNITY TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS AS YOU WILL SEE SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. IMF economist says worst of crisis to come: paper . Indeed, all news still realistically and decisively (and some deceptively otherwise spun to keep suckers suckered) bad:  Biggest runnup in stock prices since 1932 and most know what happened to stock prices for over a decade thereafter (and america was not broke in every way as now), Ghost malls cropping up with retail closures/bankruptcies, as predicted by trendsresearch.com [CELENTE CORRECTLY PREDICTS REVOLUTION, FOOD RIOTS, TAX REBELLIONS BY 2012 Paul Joseph Watson | Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be “worse than the great depression.”] , Motek expert from the land of fruits and nuts, the senile wedbush (if you had listened to his prior prognostications/recommendations several months ago said suckers might be wiped out by this day) lauds the bailouts (money u.s. doesn’t really have and taxpayer money the frauds shouldn’t get) and the b.s. talking points thereby but says workout much longer, while retail expert points to liquidation prices (but fails to even mention lack of profits thereby), and poverty now spreading to suburbs. Financial Disaster Will Lead to Civil Disorder in 2009 or 2010, Says Secret Citibank Memo An internal memo from a top Citibank analyst reveals what the banks really think about the global financial situation, and the outlook is grim. Citigroup Should Be Held Accountable Bloomberg Food Prices Will Rise, Causing Export Bans, Riots Bloomberg Rubin Clones and Other Fakers: The Obama “Dream Team”  Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels US debt triggered global crisis ‘Encouraged by a wicked wizard, Greenspan, Bernanke toils at his Weimar dollar printing press’ . Consumer spending down (-1%), consumer sentiment down, durable goods orders down (-6%), home sales/prices down to new lows and high supplies, yet suckers’ bear market market rally of 400+ points into the close nostalgically based (which got investors burned in the past) on bull s**t alone (i.e., more bureaucrats on more painels as per President-elect, etc.) and the so-called thanksgiving holiday rally. $600 billion plan to support housing lending ultimately hyperinflationary. New unemployment claims at recession level 529,000 for the week ended Nov. 22 yet unbelievably lower than private economist estimates. October durable goods orders plunged by a larger-than-expected amount, Chicago manufacturing in November contracted the most since 1982 according to a regional survey, and consumer confidence dropped to a 28 year low in November, according to the University of Michigan. One Motek expert in a nearly senile market moment cites pleasant market surprise (reality dictates otherwise) but in a lucid moment concedes lengthy period to work out (substantial) problems, while another expert (currencies) cautions the unintended consequences of  creating/printing/flooding the markets with worthless (Weimar) dollars (a policy choice of inflation over fear of deflation) and the dollar devaluation and ultimately hyperinflationary effects thereof. FDIC Troubled Bank List Grows to 46% - Is Your Bank Safe? (at Seeking Alpha)  ,  Consumers cut spending , Stocks on win streak amid more bad economic news Cisco plans 4-day shutdown to cut costs  , October home sales fall sharply (Reuters) . The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved and hence, virtually all problems remain, will continue to remain, and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., SO GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME.  Federal deficit could hit $1 trillion this year  ,   FDIC's list of 'problem' banks swells to 171 (AP) , Dollar falls on realistically discouraging u.s. economic data (AP)  , Third quarter real GDP was revised to a 0.5% annual rate of decline from a previously reported 0.3% rate which had rallied stocks and, only in the fraudulent world of wall street, rallied stocks again though worse than expected Economy shrinks at fastest pace in seven years, Third quarter personal consumption expenditures were revised to a worse than expected -3.7% from -3.1%, which rallied stocks ….. riiiiight! ,  Consumer confidence remains at an extremely depressed state despite fake numbers ,The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index of 20 US cities fell 17.4% year over year — most on record.      'Crisis Only Just Beginning': Crisis/Video  Right About the Crash, Peter Schiff Sees More Pain Ahead    Crisis Only Just Beginning': Right About the Crash, Peter Schiff Sees Much More Pain Ahead   VIDEO   Previously, from the outset the wall street frauds were again determined to keep the suckers suckered with a near 500 point rally into the close. Existing home sales down 3.1% and much worse than expected. Motek’s expert Peter Shiff correctly points out that the so-called policy-makers, economists, etc., don’t know what they’re doing, that they can’t borrow (or print worthless Weimar dollars) and spend (money they don’t have) their way out of this debacle, that the bailout funds are merely providing undue bonuses/compensation for failed (and fraudulent) performance, that crisis will be exascerbated with (unavoidable) hyperinflation (inevitable thereby owing to crashing/worthless Weimar dollar) and ultimately even deeper/worse/more protracted economic decline, that auto industry is over-paid (especially relative to competition, legacy/pension costs, etc.), and importantly, the government has no money so they either have to borrow or print same which will make the economy much worse. Cost of Bankster Bait and Switch Now $7.4 Trillion  Another expert says quick bankruptcies would have been the preferred course for optimal results, while another emphasizes quite correctly that the so-called experts/team now cheered (wall street frauds’ b.s. talking/rallying point) are those whose experience is having created the very problems they are now called upon to solve (hence, cover-ups, etc., but ineffectual). [Good management dictates that a clean sweep was warranted]. Realize that the products of the vegetable gardens (the poison ivy league schools producing these vegetables) are vegetables who not only have never done anything requiring skills or measurable results, but merely are master bull s**t artists and in the case of wall street, criminal frauds enabled thereby.   Downey Savings taken over by regulators [ Colossal Financial Collapse: The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank “Nationalization” ] over the weekend. Obama’s Economic Foxes To Guard Financial Henhouse Today President elect Obama officially introduces his economic team to the world. What many may fail to recognize however is the fact that those tasked with rescuing the economy are the very people who helped create the financial crisis in the first instance. CELENTE CORRECTLY PREDICTS REVOLUTION, FOOD RIOTS, TAX REBELLIONS BY 2012 Paul Joseph Watson | Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be “worse than the great depression.” Budget deficit hits record; jobless claims surge Foreclosure rates up 25 percent year-over-year Banking crisis claims more u.s. victims How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved and hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., SO SELL INTO RALLIES/STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN AS THIS IS AS GREAT AN OPPORTUNITY TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS AS YOU WILL SEE SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME. IMF economist says worst of crisis to come: paper . Previous, suckers’ bear market rally was based upon nothing whatsoever relevant to finance/economics/business , yet again the wall street frauds were determined to keep the suckers suckered through the weekend with a near 600 point rally into the close. All news was decisively bad Federal regulators shut 2 California thrifts and though looking for a reason to rally, they found none because there are none HU: World economic situation 'grim'... , based on valuation and prospective substantial deterioration in economic conditions exascerbated by their massive fraud; but the invented reason for the suckers’ rally was the appointment of Geithner, a quintessential bureaucrat ultimately dependant upon other bureaucrats who are dependant upon the very corrupt monied interests/frauds (and their lobbyists) who created (through their crimes) the current financial crisis. Moreover, as head of the N.Y. Fed he is no stranger to cover-ups/bailouts in light of the missing/unaccounted for $4+ TRILLION at the N.Y. Fed $4 trillion plus is missing through U.S. federal agency accounts managed by the NY Fed. Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 852)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000  The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved and hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., so great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Leading economic indicators fall again a more than expected .8%, new claims for unemployment a high more than expected 542,000 while continuing claims at 4,000,000 a 16 year high and more than expected, Philly Fed Index down to a worse than expected –39. Jobless Claims Hit 16-Year High, Above Forecast   Congress extends jobless benefits; stocks fall 400  World stocks down amid reality of deep recession (AP) CELENTE CORRECTLY PREDICTS REVOLUTION, FOOD RIOTS, TAX REBELLIONS BY 2012 Paul Joseph Watson | Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be “worse than the great depression.” Budget deficit hits record; jobless claims surge Foreclosure rates up 25 percent year-over-year Banking crisis claims more u.s. victims How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come.  Previous session, modest losses relative to reality to keep the suckers’ suckered especially in light of grim economic/business/financial news so still great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Housing starts down a record 38%, building permits down 14.5%, and outlook grim. Motek’s expert discusses 30 reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011 citing completion of first wave of the meltdown-dot.com bust, second wave-sub-prime debacle, and the on-going climactic financial/economic meltdown pointing to the 42,000 lobbyists, autos, etc., saying they just don’t get it, while another expert analyst says new lows across the board having broken through support levels. Motek’s p.r. expert says auto execs flying to d.c. in private jets to beg for taxpayer money bespeaks their stupidity, and his travel expert discusses the newly value-conscious consumer. Fed sharply lowers forecasts, hints of rate cut which ploy previously sparked b.s. suckers’ bear market rallies based upon nothing at all but reality says with only a point to zero and much worse to come is just plain b**l s**t . Deflation: Here, Now I’ve been warning of deflation for some time. Specifically, I predicted 1 1/2 to 2 years of deflation, followed by hyperinflation. Well, deflation is here.“Slush fund” … “Banana Republic” … “Keystone Kops.” Technical Economic Indicators Worsening Again Deflation: Here, Now I’ve been warning of deflation for some time. Specifically, I predicted 1 1/2 to 2 years of deflation, followed by hyperinflation  Previous suckers’ bear market rally into the close with 300+ point swing to the upside [wall street frauds’ nirvana commissioning a huge decline then a huge incline just a program loop, button push, mouse click away] into the close to keep the suckers suckered as the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved and hence, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., so great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Homebuilder reality-based sentiment index plunges to record low  Economy so bad commodity prices plunge along with PPI.  Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 859)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. , Forecasters: U.S. in at least, unrealistically optimistically, minimum 14 month recession  The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy   “The Dollar Standard Is Coming To An End”  Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions...   Busted in Washington  Housing starts expected to hit half-century low   Washington is Powerless to Stop the Coming Economic Depression    Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression   Dollar’s Days Numbered, Buy Commodities: Jim Rogers    America’s economic crisis is beyond the reach of traditional solutions   U.S. Retail Sales Drop in October by Most on Record . (Banker Bailout Costs $5 Trillion So Far ), (Analysts Predict Hyper-Inflation To Push Gold To $2000, Oil to $300 Within Months ), (Soros says deep recession inevitable, depression likely ), CELENTE CORRECTLY PREDICTS REVOLUTION, FOOD RIOTS, TAX REBELLIONS BY 2012 Paul Joseph Watson | Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be “worse than the great depression.” Budget deficit hits record; jobless claims surge Foreclosure rates up 25 percent year-over-year Banking crisis claims more u.s. victims How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. 53,000 layoffs from Citigroup, and many more announced and may more to come from a multitude of companies to yield predicted 8-10% unemployment (conservative-some higher). Motek in a somewhat philosophical mood cites blue chips as cow chips (cow pies, manure, etc.), while his expert joins the metaphysical fray quoting ‘to save man from his folly is to people the world with fools’ and goes on to say everything looking bad, things are not good, how long the deep recession-don’t know, not there yet; while another expert says things have gone from bad to worse.  Indeed, one expert says US To Lose Its ‘AAA’ Rating/face default/bankruptcy,  while Motek’s expert says market poised to test new lows, points to uncertainty regarding bailout equivocation/changes and talks up, in a somewhat borderline senile fashion, some beaten down stocks on theory government will bail them out…riiiiight! Another Motek expert, actor/speculator/economist Ben Stein says hanky panky Paulsen perjured himself before congress and should be prosecuted, points to incompetence regarding bailout saying couldn’t have been handled worse and not mentally up to it.   One Aspect of the Massive (Securities) Fraud/Fraudulent Wealth Transfer is Aptly Described/Illustrated in this Comment, [how are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved], Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  , Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 852)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ,   Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000   The immortal words of J.P.Morgan remain apposite as ’ it is not so much the return on the money as it is the return of the money’ ,  so sell/take profits while you can and preserve capital. Previously modest losses relative to reality with rally/programmed trades to the upside into the close to finish off substantially lower lows to keep the suckers’ suckered despite grim economic/business/financial news so still great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. America is now a nation of bank holding companies (to take advantage of involuntary taxpayer bailouts), paper hanging wall street frauds (it’s the worthless multiplicity of securitized and heavily commissioned worthless paper that is the problem), and brazened ponzi’s (sic) (more, more, and more funds to keep their commission ball rolling) on wall street; and of course, their marks. Banking crisis claims more u.s. victims How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (hundreds of trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come.   Previous suckers’ bear market rally/programmed trades to the upside into the close to keep the suckers’ suckered so still great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come, as stocks finish only modestly lower relative to reality on grim economic/business news across the board, viz., b.s. talking point gives way to reality that China stimulus plan lessens availability of funds for the purchase of worthless u.s./dollar denominated securities/assets and may even require sale/redemption of same, GM shares hit 62 year low at $3.36 as analyst says said shares will go to - 0- (nil, with Ford’s shares at $1.93), Motek expert points to employment contraction for 15 months in a row and Conference Board Report regarding said job losses; while another emphasizes the futility of the bailouts which are get worse/larger in reference to what he terms slush funds, the bank tax windfall initiated in the dark of night, things will get progressively worse in the upcoming administration, u.s. spending far beyond means, and rapidly depreciating u.s. dollars and assets; DHL ending u.s. ground ops and 9,500 jobs, Security Pacific the 19th u.s. bank failure, etc., Fed's bailout for AIG swells to more than $150B , Fannie posts $29B 3Q loss, $100B may not be enough , Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression” , bankruptcies, defaults, foreclosures, hyperinflation around corner on worthless Weimar dollars, etc.. Previous session, sell into these suckers’ bear market rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much, much worse to come. Much worse than expected jobs (240,000 lost, unemployment to 6.5%) and auto news (operating earnings losses of $4 billion for GM and $3 billion for Ford for 3rd quarter) rallies stocks (riiiiight!), in a largely forgettable Motek business hour even his oftimes wall street shill expert admitted to his credit that their was absolutely nothing to account for the rise in stock prices this day especially in light of the substantially bad and worse than expected news, says GM has enough cash to last to spring while Ford till summer, and says volatility for rest of the year. Economist says worse to come as very severe recession at least through 2009 and into 2010, and also there’s allusion to yet another taxpayer bailout of auto pension funds and auto co. bankruptcies. The wall street frauds must be prosecuted and disgorgement required. Jobless rate at 14-year high as above expectation losses continue    GM, Ford losses worse than expected, burning cash     Jobless ranks hit 10 million, most in 25 years   Ford announces $129M 3Q loss, burns $7.7B in cash   Jobless rate bolts to 14-year high of 6.5 percent Previous, another modest drop relative to reality [Grantham (who called the bubble) posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's frothy 904)  There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500. ], downbeat economic data, first-time claims for unemployment at 25 year high and worse to come, abysmal retail sales worst in 3 decades, unit labor costs rose at a higher than expected 3.6% annual rate as the ultimately hyperinflationary effects of printing/creating like mad those worthless Weimar dollars, and weak business prospects, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., so still great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come.  Previous session sees modest drop relative to reality though record post-election plunge so still great opportunity to sell/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. All news so bad (reality even worse) that even shill co. ADP can’t hide at least 157,000 lost private sector jobs where deep cuts are necessary, Challenger et als say layoffs will abound with cuts broad and deep, Motek expert says dismal market for at least next several weeks but cautious citing some oil, engineering, utilities, healthcare opportunities with caveat along with some emerging markets, service sector much weaker than expected and planned layoffs highest in three decades. Treasury wants to borrow record $550B... US-led strike kills 36 Afghan civilians U.S. as slowing economy/runaway spending balloons the budget deficit to a record level to Sell $55 Billion in Long-Term Debt Next Week  Previous session, all news decisively bad with dollar down, oil up, factory orders declining 2.5% month-over-month after dropping 4.3% in August, much worse than the 0.8% decline that was expected, virtually all problems remain and there is but an infinitesimally small fraction of the capital and resources necessary to solve them thanks to fraud, incompetence, lack of knowledge/ability, greed, etc., so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Previous, ( Worst is yet to come for economy ) as economic/financial news so bad [ ISM index shows biggest downturn in economic activity since 1982, corrupt, scandal-scarred commerce department comes in with 40% better than expected false construction numbers though still down a hefty .3%, 90% of private economists say we’re in a recession and we’ll see much more lagging effect to the downside, realization that bad economic conditions going forward not frozen credit affecting lending despite their lies/fraud to buttress their fleecing of the treasury, Motek expert says another washout coming and we’ve not heard the last of those, ie., banks, companies, brokerages, etc., under the waves] , that lunatic frauds on wall street develop new b.s. talking point to keep suckers sucked in to this market so the wall street frauds can keep eating away at suckers’ money by commissioning same, the new talking point being ‘the election’. What total b**l s**t! They’re just a bunch of criminally insane vegetables who can’t do anything that they’re supposed to do well, ie, economics, finance, accounting, etc., and are hoping to escape accountability for their crimes. They must be prosecuted and disgorgement required because 1) It’s the law and to create a deterrent prospectively 2) Restore credibility and confidence in prosecutorial, regulatory, government/governmental bodies as opposed to their being accomplices, and the markets (which are just that; marketplaces, like fish markets, commodity markets, flea markets, etc., no big deal, particularly as the frauds operate them)  3) It’s the right thing to do because of the magnitude of the fraud (in the hundreds of trillions by some educated assessments) in the many trillions and the fraud on taxpayers (who have been damaged by their fraud and) by bailouts that are finding their way into compensation/bonus packages for the perpetrators   . Previous session, suckers’ bear market rally for window dressing for dismal month and quarter to keep the suckers suckered in this secular bear market. Are you a sucker? One in five homeowners owe more than homes are worth, more unemployment to come, many more defaults personal/commercial, many trillions of previously commissioned worthless paper still carried/not written down, etc.. One of Motek’s experts, to his credit, points to reality in saying retreat to cash (take profits) in rallies as these (rallies on bad news), record declines in spending, economy has lots of negatives, insurance companies have lots of negatives, hedge funds liquidating, and importantly, 60% of trades computerized so great for generating commissions but bad for real value (as this week) and very volatile; while another expert echoes bear case as spending down across the board; while another empahasizes bad month on top of bad month for autos;  while another says 2008 behind only 1929 and 1987 for bad; and another says no more room for rate cuts, more regulation, mortgage rates up; and finally, political and economic uncertainty cited. In sum, u.s. stocks over-priced and dollar will drop like a stone (excessive printing/creating/debt), Stocks: A Bear Case   so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much, much worse to come. Don’t forget, THEY NEED YOUR MONEY TO COMMISSION and the lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution . Despite another big advance on Friday, paper losses in the U.S. stock market came to $2.5 trillion for the month, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which represents nearly all stocks traded in the United States. The 17.7 percent decline was the worst since the 23 percent drop in October 1987 and 1929. Previous day, suckers’ bear market rally on bad news. U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks (even with fake better than expected GDP numbers from corrupt commerce department) at Fastest Pace Since 2001 The government falsely reported Thursday that the economy shrank only 0.3 percent in the July-September period, still a significant slowdown after growth of 2.8 percent in the prior quarter in the summer, sending the strongest signal yet that a deep recession has already begun. Consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy, dropped by the largest amount in 28 years in the third quarter. One expert says multiple levels of things going wrong in u.s. recession, ie., consumer spending down and declining, housing recession, fraudulently worthless investments, worthless Weimar dollars that are being printed/created like mad, etc.. Another expert says fake GDP number in 3rd quarter does not capture slowdown which will be reflected in 4th quarter with minimum 2-4% decline. How are these frauds not being prosecuted and forced disgorgement and preposterously getting taxpayer dollars? The lunatic wall street frauds’ desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, none of the real problems (trillions of fraudulent/worthless securities, etc.) have been addressed much less solved so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come. Previous session, government (fake) numbers on durables (130% better than private estimates…I don’t think so!) and prospectively dollar-crushing 50 basis point rate cut  (discounted b.s. talking point many times over by market in prior sucker session), 2.7% drop in the dollar, fed heads said the pace of economic activity has "markedly" slowed as consumer expenditures declined, while inflation pressures are expected (despite worthlessness of the Weimar dollar) to (temporarily) moderate due to the (temporary election year) drop in commodity prices and weaker economic prospects, so still great opportunity to sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you still can (like now) since much, much worse to come as all problems remain. Previous session, all news decisively bad with consumer sentiment far below expected 52% but realistically at 38%, personal bankruptcies/business bankruptcies up sharply (Euler Hermes ACI: Substantial Increase In Business Bankruptcies and worse in 2009 ... , Personal Bankruptcies Increase and 2009 expected to be worse ), Office Vacancy Rates Nationwide Keep Climbing; 2009 will be worse ... , US consumer debt reaches record levels , U.S. budget deficit swells to record $455 billion | Reuters , White House projects record deficit for 2009 - CNN.com , dollar down and dying, record trade deficits, (Lost growth is cumulative. Thanks to the record trade deficits accumulated over the last 10 years, the U.S. economy is about $1.5 trillion smaller.  This comes to about $10000 per worker. The damage grows larger each month, as the Bush Administration and Democratic Congress dally and ignore the corrosive consequences of the trade deficit), war crimes/profiteering and global disdain for america and all things american and preposterously based on b.s. alone ie., dollar negative talking point of interest rate decrease (hyperinflationary as will be seen post-election), etc., suckers’ bear market rally on decidedly bad news, none of the real problems including many trillions of worthless paper, deficits budget/trade, hyperinflationary/worthless Weimar dollars being printed like mad, have even been addressed much less solved (election-year expedience), lunatic wall street frauds desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution,  so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come.

THE DOW JUMPS 900 POINTS. SO WHAT? BY MORGAN HOUSE

October 28, 2008  Only in today's market can the Dow have one of its biggest gains ever, on a day when consumer confidence logged its worst readings since it's been followed. After the Dow's nearly 900-point rally today, on what seemed like nothing but loads of bad news, you're right to stand back and wonder what in the world to make of this absurd volatility -- and more importantly, how to invest around it.The short, easy, and honest answer is that this volatility is spectacularly unreasonable, and you're foolhardy to try such an approach. Think about it: Only a few weeks ago, the Dow soared an equally impressive amount -- 936 points -- sending a wave of euphoria over markets, as if our troubles were behind us. Within days ... poof! The gains were gone. There's little reason to jump for joy over today's gain, either. Call me a party pooper, but the bad news in the economy hasn't disappeared, my friends…

 Reality from Farrell: Bottom line: You've been scammed: This is total incompetence, … unethical and criminal. If you put your hard-earned $12,000 under the mattress for the last decade, it would have been worth more than the $11,671 accumulated in a mutual fund. But actually it's far, far worse! Now if you also deduct the fund's 5.75% load (and/or commissions) and inflation of more than 30% the past decade, you see the stock market's a real loser. In short, after 10 years of blindly trusting the Wall Street's advice about stocks, it turns out that investing in the stock market is not a money-making machine, but a big fat greedy black hole that gobbles up your money.   ECONOMICS GURU: WORST IS YET TO COME; MARKETS WILL CLOSE FOR UP TO WEEK FROM PANIC...  More from Grantham: S&P to 585. He called the bubble, how could anyone doubt his valuation (although even lower is more realistic)?  Jeremy Grantham … (some) benefits to the crisis, including increasing personal savings, an end to the hedge fund era, a reminder that government officials are not to be trusted, …among others…Grantham posits… 585 on the S&P 500 (versus today's 877). Frank Motek (back from vacation to save his business hour … none too soon since his program suffered mightily in his absence) experts say: lack of liquidity, new homes and home prices downward trend to continue, expect revisions; another says other nations loaned to u.s. and getting burned, spending in Europe more difficult to ramp up, $2 TRILLION more debt, fed buying u.s. debt which is hyperinflationary, consumer maxed out, grim outlook; another, a wall street shill points to better than expected new home sales [from scandal scarred/corrupt commerce department…riiiiight …(Home sales rise according to discredited commerce department relative to revised downward prior months sales (riiiiiight…that’s the way to work the statistics…at least the prior months fake stats can still be good for something) but prices sharply fall)] but to his credit does say there are a pile of concerns including liquidation of positions, ‘n carry trades’ (sic), yen/dollar disparity; r.e. analyst says median price for homes still heading down and another says new home sales this month not sustainable, foreclosures high even with freeze; oil analyst says oil demand in China down, impacting price; finally, another analyst says temporary dollar spike because of unwinding of leveraged trades (in dollars), commodities/assets/metals decline as investors/traders/holders sell off assets (cover margin calls, redemptions, etc.), u.s. stocks still over-priced and dollar will drop like a stone (excessive printing/creating/debt), Stocks: A Bear Case   so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much, much worse to come. Previous session: you know the worst is yet to come when the so-called wizards of fraudulent wall street laud the day’s 5-9% decline as a pyrrhic victory (coulda been worse…..riiiiight!) that is neither victory nor the end of the downward adjustment to reality and the scope of their fraud, indeed one expert now points to the realization that america  has become the exporter of economic weakness/fraud as hedge funds, etc., continue to liquidate positions/assets (margin calls, redemptions, etc.) , sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much worse to come.  Markets Nosedive on Grim Economic News , World markets sink as recession realities spread , 79th anniversary of 1929 Wall Street Crash...  ,  previous day suckers’ bear market rally/400 point swing/programmed trades to the upside into the close on decidedly bad news …I don’t think so!… sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come  Economist Roubini Predicts Hedge Fund Failures, Panic, Closed Markets  ,   Job losses accelerating, and the worst is ahead  , Banks borrow record amount from Fed...  , on top of previous day’s near 200 point swing to the upside into the close to keep the suckers suckered as ‘experts’ say: earnings 11% below expectations, business bad and getting worse, recession, substantial job cuts, big problems in Europe including writedowns of u.s. originated worthless fraudulent paper / another says realization source of the now global problems is u.s., fed throwing money at problems (wall street frauds) but not making it to the economy, not enough money to cover the negative (fraud) and need for flush out and adjustment of inflatede/bubble/illusory values, and another says reality implies 25% decline which is worst since 1937, sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come  Recession Will Last At Least Two Years: Roubini   ,  Recession Now: It's Deep and It's Going to Last a Long Time, Sonders Says    ; previous day modest losses relative to reality as only 15% of americans believe the nation is going in the right direction (what dummies!) which is slightly more than congress’ approval rate and just slightly less than bushes’ approval rate, More banks may fail, IMF warns  ,  Weak profit picture and weak/declining economy worries and fear of being held criminally accountable for their fraud hurt Wall Street  , sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can since much, much worse to come , previous day’s suckers’ bear market rally on bad or false news as ie., leading economic indicators up though all economists expected down since major components thereof (stock prices, manufacturing/industrial indices, employment, etc.) all down, economy so bad they’re going to print more worthless hyperinflationary Weimar dollars (that they don’t really have), gave another $12 billion to AIG on top of the other billions of taxpayer funds, yet none of the real problems including many trillions of worthless paper, deficits budget/trade, hyperinflationary/worthless Weimar dollars being printed like mad, have even been addressed much less solved (election-year expedience) so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much worse to come , The Crumbling U.S. Economy, Worse is Yet to Come  ,  Worst slump since Great Depression   ,   Rapid Downward Revisions in Expected Economic Growth  , and all this b.s. despite reality on top of previous session suckers’ 500 point swing/programmed trades to the upside into the close to close modestly lower on much worse than expected news on top of previous suckers’ bear market rally/800 point swing/programmed trades to the upside into the close on decidedly bad news …I don’t think so!

The average investment-grade industrial company bond is yielding 4.95 percentage points over Treasuries with comparable maturities, Moody's says. That's about the long-term average for much riskier junk bonds. "It's the widest level since 1932-1933," says John Lonski, Moody's chief economist. That was during the, ahem, Great Depression.

There is more hurt in store for the U.S. equity markets. If you are still thinking of riding this one out, consider Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 is our window into the future. From its 1990 high of 40,000 it fell as low as 7,800, an 80% drop. A similar correction in the U.S. would translate into Dow 2,500.

Searching for Mr. Goodlow  [ While you certainly want to buy low (and sell high), in light of the crushing debt, deficits both budgetary/trade, global antipathy because of war crimes/profiteering, transfer of manufacturing base, and greedy frauds on wall street, corruption at all levels, etc., this time is like no other for america in the most negative sense, particularly since the average multiples for S&P for the past 5 years were based upon a huge fraud bubble and hardly a benchmark/guideline. The saying/axiom of J.P.Morgan remains apposite as ’ it is not so much the return on the money as it is the return of the money’. ]

Building starts/permits and new home sales down 8.3% and 6.3% to worst levels in 17 years, drop in consumer sentiment highest ever recorded so great opportunity to sell/take profits while you still can since smart money (and reality) say trend is much lower Billion-Dollar Fund Manager, Dow To Sink To 5,000  ,  Roubini: Dow 7,000 Likely 'Sometime Next Year'   , Dow Jones Bloodbath Mirroring 1929 Rout  Bottom should be around 27 per cent below “bailout bounce” according to analyst , since none of the real problems including many trillions of worthless paper, deficits budget/trade, hyperinflationary/worthless Weimar dollars being printed like mad, have even been addressed much less solved (election-year expedience) so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much worse to come, (they’re so desperate for b.s./fraudulent talking points/sizzle to sell that the rumor (Microsoft to buy/destroy Yahoo) sparks rally though denied by both companies, spin lower prices as positive when reality is that economic conditions/prospects so bad that demand has precipitously fallen, Philly fed Index down sharply indicating contraction, Real Estate/Builders’ Index lowest/Worst reading since inception, lunatic wall street frauds desperation linked to their substantial crimes and booty which must be disgorged through prosecution, volatility index at new record, previous session reality trumps the new fraud as markets can’t hide from the plethora of bad economic news albeit sugar-coated for election year purposes as retail sales down 1.2% for month and as well, year-over-year and in all regions, beige book says economic activity down in all regions  Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000    sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much worse to come and remember, fool you once, shame on the wall street frauds who should be in prison, fool you twice, shame on you and you’re screwed, one expert described the bailout as money down a black hole  Total Bailout Cost Heads Towards $5 TRILLION   , shreve of investors’ (shouldn’t that be traders’) business daily said became negative on market in August and all cash in September [but previously, 6-3-08, SHREVE OF INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY NOW NEGATIVE ON MARKET (YA THINK), WAS BULLISH JUST RECENTLY ENOUGH FOR BULL TRAP (OR JUST PLAIN BULL CRAP) AND CITES HEDGE FUND SPECULATORS, SUPPLY/DAMAND FACTORS (OIL RISE, ETC), LEADERSHIP TURNED NEGATIVE WHICH FED MINUTES CONFIRMED, implying that somewhere in between he was positive ] but to his credit states we’re in a recession…some quarters of negative growth/contraction ahead…takes considerable time for fed steps/missteps to take effect…and 7-8% unemployment, while fed governor janet yellen says we’re in a recession…daaah!, while another cites consensus that the financial crisis won’t be over anytime soon   US confronts reality of long, deep recession/depression  ,
  
The global economy is going through a "profound shift" as it deals with the unwinding of debt leverage, which Todd Harrison, CEO of Minyanville.com calls "the mother of all bubbles."
As with the tech bubble before them, bubbles in housing, commodities and hedge funds were all made bigger because of the unfettered use of leverage. The unwinding process is going to result in a "prolonged period of socioeconomic malaise," he says, predicting unemployment will rise will into double-digits before the cycle turns.
 
The most recent batch of economic data certain support a grim outlook:

·         ·         Industrial production plunged 2.8% in September, the biggest drop since September 1974.

·         ·         The Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing index slumped to its lowest level since October 1990.

·         ·         The National Association of Home Builders' housing market index hit a record low.

·         ·         The Fed's October Beige Book showed across-the-board weakening of activity in all 12 reporting districts.

·         ·         September retail sales fell 1.2%, the biggest drop since Aug. 2005.

previous session saw modest losses relative to reality with near 300 point upswing into the close on bad news (to keep the suckers in … were you a sucker?…the frauds on wall street are counting on it as today’s session proves) including record budget deficit at $454 billion and much worse next year, they’re treating symptoms not the problems so good money after bad, substantial unwinding of derivatives and market manipulation by programmed stock purchases, u.s. gov’t selling treasuries to finance debacle pushing interest rates higher so sell/take profits, The Wall Street Coup and the Bailout Scam Bailout $700 billion yet national debt increased by over $1 trillion,They socialize their losses and privatize their gains ….. How is this happening?  Paulson Doles Out $125 Billion to Wall Street Elite  What a total fraud/scam!   A Trillion Dollar Bait and Switch: The Bailout and the Smell Test     This is a secular bear market – check out the cycles.   Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally’s End   , previously Motek’s expert Art Hogan says crisis not over, daaaaah!, buuuttt and for the first time sounds like a typical wall street shill and loses all credibility thereby, while another non-Motek expert says will retest lows which is euphemistically correct while pointing to comparable spike/decline in 1929 et seq. Great Depression scenario , Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000 ,  b.s. talking points and all based upon other nations, Europe and Asia like lemmings again following america into the abyss (Iraq, etc.) since none of the real problems including many trillions of worthless paper, deficits budget/trade, hyperinflationary/worthless Weimar dollars being printed like mad, have even been addressed much less solved (election-year expedience) so sell into rallies/strength/take profits while you can as much worse to come and remember, fool you once, shame on the wall street frauds who should be in prison, fool you twice, shame on you and you’re screwed, as this and previous session’s programmed buy trades to keep the suckers sucked in and commission dollars flowing (the shameless wall street frauds made hundreds of millions last week and today on high then moderate volume as government/banks closed for holiday), thousand point swings to the upside- I don’t think so, as yet again those needful things on wall street get even MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE for the poor (not really, in light of the mega billions in fraudulently derived commissions, bonuses, compensation, which should and must be disgorged through prosecution) frauds on wall street, retail down, unemployment at recession levels, modest losses relative to reality so sell into strength/take profits, get your money out while you can and don’t forget that the worthless hyperinflationary Weimar dollars they’re printing like mad will, like the current fraud unraveling, come home to roost  [Rogers: Global Bankers Have Unleashed Hyperinflationary Holocaust ] making, assuming arguendo there are,  any wild-eyed purported gains to come illusory/non-existent at best and further, national (and consumer) debt and lack of industrial/manufacturing base/trade deficits make previous recovery comparisons preposterous, Motek’s expert says on-going bear market since 2000 (market down 75% as measured in gold) with continued massive liquidations to pay off debt and that attempts to reflate with bailouts will fail culminating in hyperinflationary depression, while another expert says stocks could slug around at bottom for extended period, while Financial Times Editor says most volatile day ever, not at tradable bottom, and this was a market crash at –40% from top. GM shares on credit watch with negative implications by S&P tumble 31 percent to 58-year low , Roubini: Rate Cuts Temporarily and Minimally Reduce Crash Risk, But Dow 7,000 Likely 'Sometime Next Year' , dollar down, oil up, Motek’s expert Bogel of Vanguard fame points to speculative measure for wall street in 1929 as 280 which is even below and not as bad as the current measure of 320 in year 2008 indicative of the ridiculousness of the wall street debacle, It's Not You, It's the Market - Now Officially the Worst S&P Decline in History  ,on top of previous sessions needful things on wall street saying MORE, taxpayer money to bail them out for their consummate fraud, etc., MORE now EU/Asian/fed/taxpayers’ cooperation/contribution for their past, present and future frauds, etc., to keep their ponzi-like scheme of worthless paper moving; how about prosecution, prison, fines,  and disgorgement for these mega billion dollar frauds, as 500 point swing to the upside into the close (get your money out while you can-sell into strength/rallies/take profits) on yet another b.s. talking point (I don’t think so and neither does Cramer says Get Out Of The Market ) as Motek’s expert apparently shell-shocked talks in terms of washout levels while another says bailout will take about 4 weeks to implement and not sure if same will work [WON’T! There are trillions (some say in the hundreds of trillions) of the fraudulent worthless paper out there] and points to negative economic fundamentals and says reduce exposure to equities in favor of ie., money market treasuries, previous day buy on rumor, sell on news (of fraud bailout) obtains, fundamentals horrendous as economy loses more than expected 159,000 jobs, Motek’s economist/expert/trader says serious economic issues remain and cites ’73 to ’74 when market fell 45% top to bottom while securities expert says now focus is on fundamentals and not a pretty picture and cautions about dilution, get your money out while you can-sell into strength/rallies/take profits-that’s what they did , previously hopes for fraudulent $4 trillion plus is missing through U.S. federal agency accounts managed by the NY Fed misguided Not One Dime!  wall street fraud/criminal bailout “Grand Larceny” on a Monumental Scale: Does the Bailout Bill Mark the End of America as We Know It?  can’t change reality as unemployment numbers highest in 7 years, factory orders decline to lowest level in 2 years, food prices with largest increase since 1990, previous 200 point swing to the upside on top of 485 point  previous day gain with all seriously negative news including sales drops of 16% at GM and 35% at Ford so sell into these rallies/strength/take profits whil you can, economist Brusca points to grim economic/financial data and outlook even with bailout, Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000  , U.S. Sept. ISM manufacturing index plunges to 43.5% (worst since 1955), Bailout Would Only Prolong Crisis: Jim Rogers  ,except for scandal-scarred corrupt commerce department which reported unexpected rise in consumer sentiment (riiiiight…things are so hunky-dory), all news decidedly negative with home prices falling an unexpected record  16.3 %, etc. Bailout marks Karl Marx’s comeback  This is not brain surgery and the fraud, bonuses/compensation (mortgages, subprime and otherwise, are only a relatively small portion of the fraud/scam providing “cover/collateral” for the worthless but heavily commissioned paper over and over again in a multiplicity of different forms of worthless paper) in the mega-billions should first be disgorged before taxpayers are forced to pony up and pay the frauds again for their fraud which caused the problem in the first instance, must be prosecuted. It should also be noted that despite the rhetoric, the wall street bailout will NOT solve the crisis or eliminate the economic pain except to make permanent the fraudulent wealth transfer to the most well healed heals/frauds/criminals in the nation who caused the so-called crisis by their greed/corruption/fraud.   All news decisively negative as WaMu becomes biggest bank to fail in US history (AP), GDP revised downward to 2.8% in second quarter (the market previously rallied on the false news and rallies again on the true bad news), only 30% at most support the taxpayer bailout of the wall street frauds so count on tax revolts as predicted by experts if the same passes , Sell into any rallies/take profits as all problems remain and will be exacerbated by the fact that the vast majority of taxpayers rationally and correctly opposed the bailout of the wall street criminals who benefited from the fraud. Reaction has been fast and furious 9-28-08[2:38 am]; take a look at some initial comments. Sell into any strength/take profits because with bank failures and raids on taxpayer funds and reckless printing like mad of worthless Weimar dollars and fake data/reports and lies this is worse than recession/bear market,  New Home Sales Plunged 11.5% to 17-Year Low and home inventories up, jobless claims up and durable goods orders down far more than expected, home prices drop by record 9.5%, existing home sales down 2.2% as they continue to foist the wall street criminal/fraud bailout on taxpayers which Bloomberg now pegs at a cost of $5 trillion while other economists/experts say hundreds of trillions [which means $700 billion down the tubes into the pockets of the wall street criminals (make them pay) who created the mess through their greed/fraud/scams and who’ve already reaped huge financial sums in the many billions through compensation/bonuses (mortgages, subprime and otherwise, are only a relatively small portion of the fraud/scam providing “cover/collateral” for the worthless but heavily commissioned paper over and over again in a multiplicity of different forms of worthless paper]; Motek’s financial expert, Financial Times Business Editor cites thoroughly gloomy economic picture globally and u.s. particularly, record levels of borrowing from fed, even with passage of bailout dire economic/financial scenario will remain, and axiomatic ‘buy on the rumor, sell on the news’ picture for stocks while his expert/economist/investor/entertainer (Ben Stein) says outrageous to bail out wall street criminals who should be in prison [and who should pay back/disgorge the hundreds of billions they’ve been scamming by repackaging/recollateralizing commissioning and reselling of which fraud/bubble I’ve been warning for over 5 years on this site-indeed they even have been exempted by congress for RICO liability and meaningfully lawless application of other laws as I reiterate in my RICO Summary under penalty of perjury to the FBI at their request including RICO violations by Sam Alito, former u.s. attorney (District of new jersey) who parlayed obstruction of justice (I’ve sworn to this regarding drug-money laundering) into judicial appointments to the 3rd circuit court of appeals with maryanne trump (Barry) and now the so-called supreme court (he should have gone to jail) justice; how could anyone even listen to bush (WMD’s in Iraq-I also warned against that debacle/fraud/war crimes/profiteering) ] and he further says let the ceo’s go and some of the failed institutions fail condemning the outrageousness of the lack of oversight in this huge fraud/wealth transfer; and hanky panky paulson the wall street shill whose $50 million in blind trust and $20 million in vanguard benefits from this bailout by the taxpayers, The Fed is Making a Killing on Banking Crisis , so  great opportunity to sell/take profits while you still can. One democrat said that with 3 months remaining in war criminal (remember the lies) bush’s lamentable failed presidency the grab based on fear that bailout of the criminals who caused the problem and made huge sums from their heavily commissioned fraud will avoid what already is can only be deemed another fraudulent wealth transfer akin to the war crimes in Iraq, which budget-busting conflict is also part of america’s problem, is preposterous on it’s face.A republican said that the so-called over-sight provision utilizes a standard of judicial review that would render impossible any purported review/abrogation (and after the fact at that) of paulson’s largesse to his bro’s on wall street and bush buddies.  Mike Stathis The Market Oracle September 22, 2008… As far as I’m concerned, anyone who doesn’t conduct a full investigation of this charade leading to several CEOs and other executives in prison with all of their assets being shuttled into America’s bailout fund doesn’t have what it takes to lead America anywhere except on its current course – downward. But it doesn’t really matter at this point anyway. Washington and the greedy bankers have ensured the end of what was once a great and proud nation filled with hope and opportunity. … , Dollar Weakens Most Against Euro Since 2001 on U.S. Deficit  ,  Financial terrorism: US taxpayers bail out Wall Street criminals , A Bailout to Nowhere   ,…Cramer had said the astonishing 779-point rally over the past two days can only mean one thing: sell. , in this election year obfuscation/desperation to cover-up since all real news remains decisively negative as leading indicators fall, unemployment claims rise, but  suckers’ bear market rally b**l s**t talking points without realistic, legitimate, sound foundation previously rallied stocks in nearly 600 point swing to the upside as wall street shill/fraud/pointman/incompetent paulson floats new fraudulent wealth transfer paid for by taxpayers (yet another bailout – tax revolts as predicted by trendsresearch.com are a coming – McCain is quite right that land of fruits and nuts man cox should be fired from the SEC; A New Resolution Trust Corp. for the Bankers? Kurt Nimmo | Congress critters, former Fed mob bosses want a public boondoggle along the line of the Resolution Trust Corp. to bailout the banksters) and insurmountably increasing the defacto bankrupt government’s debt  in favor of the very well-healed perpetrators of the fraud who should be prosecuted and forced to disgorge their ill-gotten gains (bonuses, etc., in the multi-billions) before even broaching the ill-advised united soviet socialist states of america plan to have taxpayers pay for the wall street fraud, and then there was the ridiculous spike from fed’s announced printing/creating more worthless Weimar dollars ($180 billion - All Roads Lead To Hyperinflation ) which even coupled with foreign contributions does not even register a blip of difference in light of the magnitude of the amount of debt, $14 trillion private/$15 trillion public, much of which must be written down/off/non-performing . Don’t be wall street’s (churn and earn) fool; time for them to pay up; time for you to sell/take profits/cut losses! Housing construction plunges 6.2 pct. in August  ,  Worst is yet to come, investment strategist warns (at MarketWatch)  , more gov’t bailout taxpayer money with ever more worthless Weimar dollars (fed printing/creating them like mad) proves the only lunatics (yes, the full moon) are not limited to those lunatic fraudulent wall street needful things who should be prosecuted and forced to disgorge their ill-gotten gains, as united soviet socialist states of america (who built up communist china so who could have expected less)  takes 80% stake in AIG, spreads widening as piles of worthless debt/securities/collateral unwind so sell into these suckers’ bear market rallies as all problems remain US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling From Direct Hits  , Federal bank insurance fund dwindling , More Socialism for the Bankers: Fed to “Loan” AIG $85 Billion , economy so bad oil demand own, so cut your losses/take whatever gains/get your money out while you still can as industrial output down much greater than expected 1.1% (for the prior month) , Meltdown in US finance system pummels stock market , Rogers: Dollar To Lose World Reserve Status , AIG downgraded as financial meltdown spreads , Wall Street mauled by Lehman bankruptcy, AIG fears ,  highest year over year foreclosures on record, retail down .3% while inventories up, as bad news spurs over 150 point swing to the upside into the close which shows irrationally fraudulent markets trying to keep suckers sucked in for their commissioning pleasure, Bullish Sentiment Drops 30%  , CBOE Put-Call Ratio Indicates Negative Outlook , Get Ready For the S&P 500 to Break Below 1200 , WaMu cut to "junk," sees $4.5 billion loss reserve (Reuters) , U.S. Trade Deficit Surges; Boosts Likelihood of Recession, Job Losses , August foreclosures hit another record high , federal/trade deficits among other bad news worse than expected which previously rallied stocks (riiiiight!) on over 300 point swing to the upside (I don’t think so)  so sell into these ephemeral rallies/"strength”, Lehman shows wider than expected $3.9 billiion loss, Another bull joins the bears Peter Eliades now says Dow should drop below 9,000, election-year sugar/fake reports as Pending home sales fall more than expected 3.2% , Fannie/Freddie fail, federal takeover, taxpayer bailout (which the frauds on wall street cheer since they believe their fraudulent gains, many billions worth, might not be touched - they should be disgorged through prosecution) as defacto bankrupt government to commit  $100 billion each to insolvent fannie/freddie ($200 billion they really don’t have to start with), very ridiculous so sell into ephemeral rallies/"strength" since the same and all is very bad news Top Investor: Fannie/Freddie Bailout Serves "Bunch Of Crooks And Incompetents"  (more to follow this update on 9-7-08) suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally into the close on 200 point swing to the upside (riiiiight) on very bad news,  nonfarm payrolls fell by 84,000 during August, bringing the unemployment rate to 6.1%,  THE LATEST FRIDAY FAILURE FOR THE U.S. BANKING INDUSTRY: US to take control of mortgage giants: reports ,  Home foreclosures reach record high , and keep in mind frauds/scams like wall street today invariably unravel as reality bites with all news bad (except for fake news) and worse than expected with new unemployment claims up more than 15,000 on top of terrible back-to-school shopping/retail numbers, though still sugar-coated for election year as sales at GM down 20% Ford down 26%, bankruptcies up, credit union taken over by feds, August ISM Index down below 50 indicating contraction, construction spending fell a larger-than-expected 0.6%, and spending down to lowest level in 3 years with income declining .7% in contrast to previous day’s suckers’ bear market rally on light volume so great time to sell/take profits while you can since all problems remain] Election-year feel good typically false/embellished at best temporary report on GDP 58% better than private forecasts along with that bastion of american credibility, the scandal scarred prevaricating commerce department comes through with fraudulent talking point for the wall street frauds with durable goods numbers exceeding private economist estimates by 400% (I don’t think so!), as one of Motek’s experts says GDP number from government, at best temporary blip from rebate stimulous (those election-year monies/printed Weimar dollars debt-ridden u.s. doesn’t really have) and multi-national exports on weak dollar, seventh staight monthly decline in payrolls in this real recession, and continued problems in financial sector/real estate/defaults/writedowns; while another  seasoned expert says doesn’t look good particularly for third and fourth quarters. Motek’s expert says FDIC might have to borrow from treasury [ FDIC may borrow money from Treasury ], second largest quarterly loss on record from thrifts at $5.4 billion, Fannie/Freddie fail the performance test, and precipitous fall in leading economic indicators indicative of deeper/longer recession that we’re already in so high allocation to cash/low allocation to stocks. The Real Rate of Inflation is 13% No way to credibly spin the record real estate price declines on high volume of  foreclosure sales/high unsold inventories, high inflation as other than the economic debacle it is, Motek’s expert reiterates reality of this bear market, that stocks will resume slide, good time to sell since pricey/frothy at avg. 24 P/E, that Freddie/Fannie bailout/gov’t. takeover inevitable, more troubled banks [ FDIC's Problem Banks List Balloons (at TheStreet.com) ] as loan defaults extend losses in sub-prime, to now prime, commercial, student loans, credit cards, even as inflation up, and outlook very bleak. Previously, another bank failure, but they say existing home sales up greater than expected 3.1%…but from auction/foreclosure sales (40%), prices down 7% (-22% in land of fruits and nuts) and inventories of for sale/unsold homes at new record high since tracking began in 1968 and worse to come, Chicago index of manufacturing down indicating further economic weakness and Motek’s expert says ‘put’ activity indicates at least 10-15% more downside from here/government bailout ot fannie/freddie inevitable and f/f stock worthless as all news decisively bad beyond expectations though fudged to upside for election year and yet bernanke who is printing worthless hyperinflationary Weimar dollars like mad soothed (gives them fraudulent talking point) the frauds on wall street saying essentially the economy is so bad inflation less of a problem (and no interest rate hike-old news because of economic weakness and bad for dollar) sparking suckers bear market rally on light volume, Buffett: We're still in a recession, leading indicators down .7%, unemployment near record levels,Oil jumps $5 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar , hence great opportunity to sell/take profits since all problems remain and dollar mini-spike short-lived though some fluctuations to upside on speculation other economies will tank.   Wholesale prices: Highest annual rate in 27 years . The Strong Dollar Illusion . Housing starts and building permits posted steep declines. That hub of global manufacturing buzzing (riiiiight!) as empire state index as measured by private economists expected to fall -4.2% but is reported up +2.8% (almost 300% better-I don’t think so, and don’t buy the Brooklyn bridge, watches, swamp land in jersey, etc.), inflation news double expectations Bracing for Inflation August 15, 2008 (BusinessWeek  Growing evidence suggests American consumers, businesspeople, and political leaders should all be bracing for double-digit inflation, probably as early as 2009), real estate falling, U.S. Foreclosures Rise 55%, Bank Seizures Reach High , unemployment at recession levels, etc.,. Note the rotation into the obscure world of so-called tech which provides, as in prior such ploys (ie., dot-com bust, more recent bust, etc.) the world street frauds with the ability to sell the sizzle since investors and americans generally don’t understand it (ie., iphones are a joke where the so-called “computer” is merely a restrictor of usual computer functions now tied into apple products and government shill co att, and anyone who pays the premium for apple products is a fool), and all news bad albeit fudged to the upside in this election year.  Fake trade figures, more writedowns/bad debt, still great opportunity to sell/take profits. Just another frothy day in the rabidly fraudulent lunatic world of wall street and great opportunity to sell/take profits since all problems remain and dollar mini-spike short-lived. Fog of war ( U.S. Attacks Russia Through Client State Georgia – don’t believe american lies/propaganda to the contrary) is frauds friend, repeat three times to understand fraudulent wall street euphoria over diversion (Georgia conflict) from their massive fraud which brought much greater than expected losses at fannie (U.S. Headed Toward Bankruptcy, Says Top Budget Committee Republican ) and triple-digit decline to triple digit upswing so especially great opportunity to sell/take profits as glass-half-full kind of frauds point to increase in (foreclosure/auction/forced) home sales (riiiiight!) while they can no longer  hide substantially increased unemployment, etc., economy so bad oil demand declining which is shill point for next stage of (new) wall street fraud/commissioned churn and earn scam which the taxpayers just underwrote/paid for with complicit government, executive/legislative/judicial branches/fed. Great opportunity to sell/take profits since all problems remain as real numbers indicate previous decline in GDP though falsely reported as gain, greater unemployment (watch for fake numbers from government) and much more downside to come as stocks previously rallied on sharp increase in oil prices and ADP, A JERSEY BASED COMPANY NOT UNFAMILIAR TO THE FRAUD/CRIME OF PLACING FAKE/NON-EXISTENT EMPLOYEES ON PAYROLLS TO FACILITATE (ILLEGAL/DRUG) MONEY LAUNDERING PLAYING BALL (I’M SURE FOR A PRICE/FAVOR) WITH THE FRAUDS ON WALL STREET/ADMIN. WITH ALLEGED, UNEXPECTED INCREASE IN PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS, and short-covering. The Dow Priced in Ounces of Gold: Secular Bear Market Since '99 by Lindstrom from Seeking Alpha  AP Business Highlights A private research group says that Americans remain the most pessimistic about the economy since the tail end of the last prolonged recession 16 years ago. But economists warn that the slight uptick, which reverses a six-month slide since January, is likely to be only temporary and doesn't signal the beginning of a rally…Yahoo… the survey only has weak correlation with actual spending, so Briefing.com does not put too much stock in the report.] Quantifying Inflation by Zigler from Seeking Alpha, Housing report bruises frauds on wall street with reality but false report from corrupt, scandal-scarred, criminal commerce department (contrary to all expectations and contrary to all regional fed manufacturing indices which declined) provides fake report and fraudulent lift . Great Opportunity to Sell/Take Profits as Reality trumps bull s**t! Sell dollar denominated assets as all problems remain. El-Erian: Buy more foreign stocksEven in this century's darkest days of recession and war, U.S. households kept on spending. But one of the smartest investors on the planet says the American consumer is finally out of steam. Even if, and it is not, oil were the only problem, the same is just a disruption away from a spike. Suckers’ bear market/short-covering rally based on bull s**t alone, this time by wall street shill paulson whose bailout rhetoric brings ‘irrational exuberance’ since wall street frauds should be prosecuted, required to disgorge ill-gotten gains, and jailed since they’re the ones who benefited and are escaping accountability by the bailout. Except for multi-nationals and corporate welfare recipients (ie., Lockheed, etc.), greater than expected losses in not millions but billions rallied the stocks. Remember, these are huge financial institutions unlike the tiny S&Ls of the last banking fraud/wealth transfer (to frauds at expense of taxpayers). Leading indicators revised down (after ‘election year keep the incumbents’ fake report). What do you expect the wall street frauds/criminals who should be held accountable and the failed (and illegal- constitution would have to be amended to enable Fed to print those worthless Weimar dollars with now even failed Fannie and Freddie getting some with taxpayer bailout) Fed to say; admit they royally f**ked up, etc.,  better than expected very bad news, ie., Citibank loses only $2.5 billion, hyperinflation, over 200%  more (suuuuure!) than expected oil inventories, GM cuts dividend, Intel monopoly eliminates AMD, economy so bad less oil use/demand, riiiiight! What total bull s**t! SELL INTO STRENGTH, TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN!] Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying  [In just the month of June, the Dow dropped 10.19%; the S&P fell 8.60%, and the Nasdaq lost 9.10%. For the quarter, the Dow fell 7.44%; the S&P lost 3.23%, while the Nasdaq had an anemic 0.61% gain. For the first half, the Dow is down 14.44%; the S&P lost 12.83%; and the Nasdaq has fallen 13.55%. Since their high point last October, the Dow gave up 19.87%; the S&P dropped 18.22%; and the Nasdaq is down 19.80%. A 20% drop from a market peak is considered the start of a bear market — although many analysts say Wall Street already has a bear market mentality (because the bear market already is. Some chart data/numbers on bear markets: first chart second chart).] FAKE GOV’T/ETC. ELECTION YEAR REPORTS THAT EXCEED ECONOMISTS/ANALYSTS FORECAST/EXPECTATIONS, EARNINGS NOT AS BAD AS EXPECTATIONS  (SUUUUURE-SAME OLD FRAUD). GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL (TAKE PROFITS) WHILE YOU CAN, ESPECIALLY WITH SUCKERS’ BEAR MARKET RALLIES ON NEGATIVE NEWS (PARTICULARLY SNEAKING INTO THE CLOSE). NOTHING HAS CHANGED REGARDING TRADE AND BUDGET DEFICITS, WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLAR AND THE HYPERINFLATION/STAGFLATION THEREBY, AND ELECTION YEAR (THIS IS AN EPHEMERAL GOOD AS IT GETS SCENARIO) ATTEMPTS TO REINFLATE THE BUBBLE, ETC., THAT HAS HELPED TO CREATE THIS FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC DEBACLE. THE FED/WALL STREET  FOCUS/DEFLECTION ON CORE INFLATION IS A SHAM/FRAUD AND TANTAMOUNT TO SAYING IF YOUR MOTHER HAD WHEELS SHE’D BE A TROLLEY CAR.  [eND OF FIRST QUARTER DOW –8%, nASDAQ-14%, AND S&P-10%. WALL STREET IS A JOKE THAT IS NOT FUNNY]. USA 2008: The Great Depression.  High Likelihood of a Market Crash Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying  I WARNED AGAINST THE DEBACLE IN IRAQ, I WARNED AGAINST GIVING DUMBYA BUSH WAR POWERS, I WARNED OF THE BUBBLES IN REAL ESTATE AND STOCKS, AND NOW I WARN AGAINST INVESTING IN DOLLAR DENOMINATED SECURITIES OR HOLDING SAME (SELL INTO STRENGTH/TAKE PROFITS/SELL). SUCKERS’ BEAR MARKET/SHORT COVERING RALLY/NEW BUBBLE MODE (ALONG WITH MODEST DROPS RELATIVE TO REALITY) SO SELL (TAKE PROFITS) AS THE WALL STREET SCAM IS UNEARTHED BY REVELATION THAT OF 9 INVESTMENT VEHICLES S&P (MAJORITY OF 401K HOLDINGS, ETC.) WAS WORST PERFORMER (1% OR LESS AND IF YOU FACTOR IN DECLINING DOLLAR, NEGATIVE RELATIVE TO NON-DOLLAR DENOMINATED ALTERNATIVES OVER DECADE). JAWBONER BERNANKE SAYS THIS DOWNTURN IS DIFFERENT FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND HE IS RIGHT INASMUCH AS AMERICA UNLIKE AFTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION WILL EMERGE FROM THIS DOWNTURN AS SOMETHING SIGNIFICANTLY AND SUBSTANTIALLY LESS FROM WHICH THERE WILL BE NO RETRACEMENT TO THE UPSIDE FINANCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY, GEOPOLITICALLY. Bank issues global stock and credit crash alert... Write Offs to Top $1.3 Trillion.Who didn’t see this coming? The Next Crisis: 'Credit Default Swaps'-- Subprime is a Just a 'Vorspeise' . 5 REASONS WHY THE FED HAS FAILED. GREENSPAN: NO REGRETS; U.S. IN SEVERE RECESSION. UK, US, AND WORLD FACING THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL SHOCK SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION, SAYS IMF. VIX TO VXV RATIO IS GIVING A STRONG BEARISH SIGNAL  YAHOO FINANCE SUMMARIZES THE ESSENCE OF THE TRADING DAY: [BEFORE THE YAHOO MAINSTREAM FLUFF, IT IS NOTEWORTHY THAT ALL THE PROBLEMS REMAIN FROM DEFICITS TO WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLAR TO FRAUD TO FAKE GOV’T REPORTS, suckers’ bear market rally into the close, Analysts say more U.S. banks will fail  Jim Rogers: Dollar Doomed, Oil Will Go Over $200 per Barrel Soon Fannie Plan a `Disaster' to Rogers; Goldman Says Sell  , why would anyone hold/invest in dollars (deficits, trade and budget substantial, economic growth declining) so sell/take profits, if you’re smart, as higher oil prices (7-10-08) sparks rally (riiiiight!) and investors were encouraged by the possibility of more contributions to their fraud, and Paulson says things are not as bad as the reports in this election year; he’s right; they’re much worse! Remember greenspan’s perpetual envy of all the world speeches; now Bernanke printing hyperinflationary Weimar dollars like mad; they’re dreaming. Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying  U.S. stocks post sharp weekly losses; bear market that already is now said nears , Stocks tumble as more bad economic news piles up, Wave of bad news sends Dow down nearly 360, Sales of new homes tumbled for the sixth time in seven months in May while median prices kept plunging, American Express sees worsening credit conditions, but fake government report of higher than expected oil inventories (riiiiight!) rallies stocks, Home prices fall in April at record rate, Consumer confidence sinks to 16-year-plus low , BlackRock sees global slowdown worsening in 2009 , DOWNGRADES OF BANKING/FINANCIAL SECTOR AND IN AUTO SECTOR ALONG WITH BOND INSURERS AMBAC, MBIA, AMERICA’S BLIND SUPPORT OF ISRAEL/ISRAELI AGGRESSION DEPRESSION CONTINUES ON COURSE, PHILADELPHIA FED INDEX REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY POSTED A BAD READING OF -17.1 FOR JUNE WITH JOBLESS CLAIMS MORE THAN EXPECTED AND ANALYST SAYS RAISING CHINA'S GASOLINE AND DIESEL PRICES BY 46 CENTS A GALLON NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE MUCH IMPACT ON EXISTING DEMAND, INFLATION UP AND PRODUCTION DOWN EQUALS STAGFLATION (EVEN WORSE WHEN REAL NUMBERS HIT HOME), NEW YORK MANUFACTURING INDEX DOWN AGAIN, REAL ESTATE  PLUNGING, HOME BUILDERS’ CONFIDENCE AT/NEAR RECORD LOWS, BAD NEWS BULLS SCENARIO AS ALL NEWS BAD BUT STOCKS RALLIED (AT BEST GIVING THEM BENEFIT OF DOUBT, A SHORT-COVERING RALLY) AS CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AT LOWEST POINT IN 28 YEARS FOR GOOD REASONS, FORECLOSURES UP 50% TO RECORD HIGH LEVELS, COMMODITIES (IE., CORN, ETC.) UP SHARPLY OWING TO MIDWEST FLOODS WHICH WILL ALSO IMPACT OIL TO THE UPSIDE  GOING FORWARD AS LESS ETHANOL SUPPLIES/HIGHER PRICES, ONE RADIO REPORTER INTERVIEWS ECONOMIST WHO INDICATES SCEPTICISM REGARDING (IE., INFLATION, ETC.) NUMBERS WHICH HE BELIEVES ARE WORSE THAN REPORTED (HE’S RIGHT) BUT STILL MORE THAN EXPECTED UP .6% AND UP MOST IN 6 MONTHS (INFLATION NUMBERS FUDGED FOR FED), ALL-TIME HIGH REPOSSESSIONS UP 158%, JOBLESS CLAIMS UP MORE THAN EXPECTED AT HEFTY 384,000, RETAIL SALES UP MORE THAN EXPECTED 1.4% (EXCLUDING AUTOS-SMART MOVE FOR NUMBERS SAKE AND WALL STREET FRAUD), BUT INVENTORIES OF GOODS ROSE (THERE’S A LITTLE COST-ACCOUNTING TRICK WHICH FRAUDS ON WALL STREET WOULD CELEBRATE/ENCOURAGE SINCE QUALITY OF EARNINGS IS APPARENTLY NO LONGER SOMETHING THEY VALUE-SELL THE SIZZLE/B**L S**T/AND WHAT IS LEAST UNDERSTOOD IS THERE MODUS POERANDI/MANTRA, VIZ., OVER-PRODUCE GOODS FOR SALE (THE HIGHER INVENTORIES JUST REPORTED) AND ATTRIBUTE FIXED COSTS TO GREATER NUMBER OF GOODS WHICH WOULD INCREASE PAPER PROFITS FOR THOSE GOODS SOLD IN THE QUARTER (BE ESPECIALLY WARY SINCE COMPUTERIZATION HAS MADE SUCH INVENTORY SURPLUSES AND THE CYCLICAL DOWNTURNS THEREBY RELATIVELY RARE/MINISCULE) AND THEIR RETAIL SALES INCLUDES THOSE HIGH OIL PRICES,   BERNANKE JAWBONES DOLLAR UP, RIIIIIGHT, SOME REALITY CATCHES UP AS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS TO 5.5% WHILE INTERNATIONAL LAW SCOFFLAW ISRAEL SAYS ATTACKING IRAN INEVITABLE AS OIL ANALYST SAYS $300 OIL IF UN RESOLUTION VIOLATOR/WAR CRIMINAL ISRAEL DOES, BELYING THE FALSE DATA,  IE., 6-5-08 UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS DOWN UNEXPECTEDLY 18,000 TO STILL HIGH 357,000, ETC., REMAINING PROBLEMS INCLUDING  HOME EQUITY AT LOWEST LEVELS SINCE WW2,  DOWNGRADES ON FINANCIALS INCLUDING AMBAC AND MBIA, ADP, A JERSEY BASED COMPANY NOT UNFAMILIAR TO THE FRAUD/CRIME OF PLACING FAKE/NON-EXISTENT EMPLOYEES ON PAYROLLS TO FACILITATE (ILLEGAL/DRUG) MONEY LAUNDERING PLAYING BALL (I’M SURE FOR A PRICE/FAVOR) WITH THE FRAUDS ON WALL STREET/ADMIN. WITH ALLEGED, UNEXPECTED INCREASE IN PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS, NET WORTH/WEALTH IN U.S. DOWN 11% ACROSS THE BOARD, DOLLAR DOWN AS EUROPE RATIONALLY CONFRONTS INFLATION AND HINTS AT RATE INCREASES, OIL UP SHARPLY, BIG DISCOUNTERS’ GAINS HARDLY MAKE FOR A POSITIVE RETAIL CLIMATE WITH SHOPPING LEVELS DOWN 12-16%, MANUFACTURING INDEX STILL BELOW 50 INDICATING CONTRACTION, CONSTRUCTION DOWN, INFLATION UP (THAT EQUALS STAGFLATION), AIRLINES EXPECTING $2.3 BILLION LOSS INSTEAD OF PREVIOUSLY PROJECTED PROFIT, LARGEST PRICE DECLINES FOR REAL ESTATE OF RECORD  –14.4% (-22% IN THE LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS) ACCORDING TO CASE-SHILLER INDEX, CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AT LOWEST LEVEL IN 16 YEARS, BUT BAD NEWS BULLS RALLY STOCKS ON THE BETTER THAN EXPECTED FAKE DATA ALONG WITH PLAIN BAD NEWS AS CONSUMER CONFIDENCE READING AT 28 YEAR LOW, CONSUMER SPENDING FLAT ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, INFLATION EXPECTATIONS AT RECORD HIGHS WHILE 55% BELIEVE GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICY IS POOR (I’M SURPRISED AT THE LOW PERCENTAGE RELATIVE TO REALITY), DROP IN OIL INVENTORIES (OIL DROPS) AND FAKE GOV’T REPORT REVISING FIRST QUARTER GROWTH TO .9%  (SUUUUURE… YOU THINK THE ‘WHAT HAPPENED’ REVELATIONS, SUBSTANTIVELY REPORTED ON THIS WEBSITE LONG AGO (PRE-WAR), HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FUDGING ), AND THINGS ARE NOT AS BAD AS THEY REALLY ARE … GREAT … RIIIIIGHT. ANALYST EMPASIZES TREASURY YIELDS AT HIGHEST POINT THIS YEAR, WEAK CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (WHICH TRANSLATES INTO WEAK SPENDING), FINANCIAL MELT-DOWN FAR FROM OVER AS REGIONAL BANKS BEGIN TO TAKE HITS WHILE OIL ANALYST CITES UPWARD PRESSURE ON PRICES AND TOUGH ENVIRONMENT FOR REFINERS.  DON’T FORGET: THIS ELECTION YEAR PRINT AND SPEND WORTHLESS WEIMAR DOLLARS, SPIKE IN GOVERNMENT PAYROLLS, FAKE/FUDGE DATA/REPORTS, ETC., CAN’T CONTINUE IN LIGHT OF SUBSTANTIAL DEFICITS AND THE FANTASY BUBBLE WILL BURST POST ELECTION. Bank issues global stock and credit crash alert... Write Offs to Top $1.3 Trillion.Who didn’t see this coming?  The Next Crisis: 'Credit Default Swaps'-- Subprime is a Just a 'Vorspeise' U.S. faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch  More doom for global economy  Visualizing Dow 6,000   ]   U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come , U.S. Bank Failures Loom ,   New reports give bleak outlook on housing, economy, Foreclosures hit a record high — and more comingFord readies white-collar layoffs as sales tumble While GM Shutters 4 North american Factories/Lays off Workers (Reuters),  April insured mortgage defaults rise (Reuters))  

 

 

(5-17-12)  Dow  12,442  -156  Nasdaq  2,815  -60  S&P 500  1,304  -20 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $92.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,574 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.03 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,443 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 78 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.70%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-16-12)  Dow  12,598  -33  Nasdaq  2,874  -19  S&P 500  1,325  -6 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $93.20 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,538 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $27.26 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,430 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 80 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.76%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-15-12)  Dow  12,632  -63  Nasdaq  2,893  -9  S&P 500  1,330  -8 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $93.97 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,557 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.03 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,430 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 80 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.76%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-14-12)  Dow  12,695  -125  Nasdaq  2,902  -31  S&P 500  1,338  -15 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $94.63 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,558 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.20 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,435 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.78%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-11-12)  Dow  12,820 -34  Nasdaq  2,933  -0-   S&P 500  1,353  -5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $96.49 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,579 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.91 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,459 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.84%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-10-12)  Dow  12,855 +19 Nasdaq  2,931  -3   S&P 500  1,358  +3 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $96.25 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,590(+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.95 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,481 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.89%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-9-12)  Dow  12,835 -97  Nasdaq  2,934  -11   S&P 500  1,354  -9 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $96.79 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,593 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.29 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,498 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.87%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-8-12)  Dow  12,932 -76  Nasdaq  2,946  -11   S&P 500  1,363  -6 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $97.33 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,605 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.45 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,507 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= 79 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.88%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-7-12)  Dow  13008 -30  Nasdaq  2,956  +1   S&P 500  1,369  -0- http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $98.07 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,639 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.09 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,526 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-4-12)  Dow  13038 -168  Nasdaq  2,956  -68   S&P 500  1,369  -22 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $102.58 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,645 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.42 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,522 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.91%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(5-3-12)  Dow  13,206 -62  Nasdaq  3,024  -36   S&P 500  1,391  -11 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $102.58 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,634 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.05 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,533 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-2-12)  Dow  13,268 -11  Nasdaq  3,059  +9   S&P 500  1,402  -4 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.40 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,653 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.59 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,559 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(5-1-12)  Dow  13,279 +65  Nasdaq  3,050  +4   S&P 500  1,405  +7 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.86 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,662 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.97 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,567 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-30-12)  Dow  13,213 -15  Nasdaq  3,046  -23   S&P 500  1,397  -5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.01 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,567 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.95%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-27-12)  Dow  13,228 +23  Nasdaq  3,069  +18   S&P 500  1,403  +3 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,660 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.25 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,569 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-26-12)  Dow  13,205 +113  Nasdaq  3,050  +20   S&P 500  1,399  +9 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.39 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,656 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.13 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,564 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-25-12)  Dow  13,090 +89  Nasdaq  3,030  +68   S&P 500  1,390  +18 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.07 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,646 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.68 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,551 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-24-12)  Dow  13,001 +74  Nasdaq  2,961  -10   S&P 500  1,372  +5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,643 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.86 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,545 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-23-12)  Dow  12,927 -102  Nasdaq  2,970  -30   S&P 500  1,366  -12 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.09 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,636 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.76 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,552 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-20-12)  Dow  13,029 +65  Nasdaq  3,000  -7   S&P 500  1,378  +1.61 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.05 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,643 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.65 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,575 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   

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(4-19-12)  Dow  12,964 -69  Nasdaq  3,007  -25   S&P 500  1,376  -8 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.31 (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,643 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.76 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,574 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International    ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-18-12)  Dow  13,033 -83  Nasdaq  3,031  -11   S&P 500  1,385  -6 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,645 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.69 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,588 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International              ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(4-17-12)  Dow  13,115 +194  Nasdaq  3,042  +54   S&P 500  1,390  +21 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.69 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,651 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.65 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,578 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-16-12)  Dow  12,921  +71  Nasdaq  2,988  -24   S&P 500  1,369  -1 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,658 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.48 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,583 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International             ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

 

(4-13-12)  Dow  12,849  -137  Nasdaq  3,011  -44   S&P 500  1,370  -17 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,658 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.48 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,583 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…     T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-12-12)  Dow  12,986  +181  Nasdaq  3,055  +39  S&P 500  1,388  +18 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,674 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.53 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,590 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-11-12)  Dow  12,805  +89  Nasdaq  3,016  +25  S&P 500  1,368  +10 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.04 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,659 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.65 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,589 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield    10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.05%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-10-12)  Dow  12,715  -214  Nasdaq  2,991 -56  S&P 500  1,358  -24 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $101.27 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,657 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.62 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,591 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-09-12)  Dow  12,929  -131  Nasdaq  3,047  -33  S&P 500  1,382  -16 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $102.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,653 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.82 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,622 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.06%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-05-12)   Dow  13,060  -15  Nasdaq  3,080  +12  S&P 500  1,398  -1 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.31 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,629 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.71(+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,601 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.19%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope        ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-04-12)   Dow  13,074  -125  Nasdaq  3,068  -45  S&P 500  1,398  -15 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $102.25 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,625 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.53(+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,599 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.25%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

 

(4-03-12)   Dow  13,199  -65  Nasdaq  3,113  -7  S&P 500  1,413  -6 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.58 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,645 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.58(+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,634 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 74 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.30%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(4-02-12)   Dow  13,265  +52  Nasdaq  3,119  +28  S&P 500  1,419  +10 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.02 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,679 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.13(+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,645 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 74 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.22%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…          T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International     ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-30-12)   Dow  13,212  +66  Nasdaq  3,093  -4  S&P 500  1,408  +5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.02 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,661 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.22(+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,635 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 74 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International              ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-28-12)   Dow  13,126  -72  Nasdaq  3,105  -15  S&P 500  1,405  -7 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.55 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.13 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,634 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.21%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-27-12)   Dow  13,197  -44  Nasdaq  3,120  -2  S&P 500  1,413  -4 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.92 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,680 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.58 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,641 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.20%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-26-12)   Dow  13,241  +161  Nasdaq  3,122  +54  S&P 500  1,416  +19 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.13 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,690 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.79 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,645 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.26%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International          ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-23-12)   Dow  13,080  +34  Nasdaq  3,067  +4  S&P 500  1,397  +4 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.87 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,661 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.18 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,622 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.25%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-22-12)   Dow  13,046  -78  Nasdaq  3,063  -12  S&P 500  1,392  -10 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,646 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.55 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,618 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.29%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-21-12)   Dow  13,125  -46  Nasdaq  3,077  +3  S&P 500  1,402  -3 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.35 REG./ $4.45 MID-GRADE/$4.55 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,647 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.23 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,629(+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.31%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International    ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(3-19-12)   Dow  13,239  +6  Nasdaq  3,078  +23  S&P 500  1,409  +5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $108.76 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,663 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.86 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,675 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 75 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.39%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International          ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-16-12)   Dow  13,233  -20  Nasdaq  3,054  -2  S&P 500  1,404  +1 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.58 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,659 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.51 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,669 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.31%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International    ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-15-12)   Dow  13,253  +58  Nasdaq  3,056  +16  S&P 500  1,402  +8 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.03 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,658 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.45 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,682 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.29%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-14-12)   Dow  13,194  +16  Nasdaq  3,040  -0-  S&P 500  1,395  -2 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,642 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.15 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,663 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .83 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.29%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

(3-13-12)   Dow  13,177  +217  Nasdaq  3,039  +56  S&P 500  1,395  +24 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,676 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.35 (+47% for year 2009) / PLATINUM $1,686 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.14%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-12-12)   Dow  12,959  +38  Nasdaq  2,983  -5  S&P 500  1,371  -0- http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,699(+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.59 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,691 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-9-12)   Dow  12,922  +14  Nasdaq  2,988  +17  S&P 500  1,371  +5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.87 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,713(+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,682 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .82 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-8-12)   Dow  12,907  +70  Nasdaq  2,970  +34  S&P 500  1,365  +13 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.63 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,698 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,665 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-7-12)   Dow  12,837  +78  Nasdaq  2,935  +25 S&P 500  1,353  +9 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.39 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,688 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.49 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,637 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(3-6-12)   Dow  12,759  -204  Nasdaq  2,910  -40  S&P 500  1,343  -21 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $104.96 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,675 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.86 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,613 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(3-5-12)   Dow  12,962  -15  Nasdaq  2,950  -26  S&P 500  1,364  -5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.16 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,706 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.09 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,658 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-2-12)   Dow  12,977  -3  Nasdaq  2,976  -12  S&P 500  1,369  -4 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.63 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,709 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.38 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,695 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(3-1-12)   Dow  12,980  +28  Nasdaq  2,989  +22  S&P 500  1,374  +8 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $108.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,722 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.38 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,704 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 75 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(2-29-12)   Dow  12,952  -53   Nasdaq  2,966  -20  S&P 500  1,365  -7 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.16 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,713 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.94 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,688 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .81 EURO, 74 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-28-12)   Dow  13,005  +23   Nasdaq  2,986  +20  S&P 500  1,369  +4 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $106.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,786 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $36.87 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,717 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 74 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.94%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-27-12)   Dow  12,981 -2   Nasdaq  2,966  +2  S&P 500  1,365  +1 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $107.97 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,772 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,708 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 74 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(2-24-12)   Dow  12,983  -2   Nasdaq  2,963  +6   S&P 500  1,365  +2 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $109.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.25 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.42  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,772 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,708 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 74 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(2-23-12)   Dow  12,985  +46   Nasdaq  2,956  +23   S&P 500  1,363  +5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $108.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,780 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.45 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,724 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .80 EURO, 74 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-22-12)   Dow  12,938  -27   Nasdaq  2,933  -15  S&P 500  1,357  -5 http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm [CLOSE- OIL $105.78 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,773 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.30 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,716 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

(2-21-12)   Dow  12,965  +15   Nasdaq  2,948  -3  S&P 500  1,362  +1 http://albertpeia.com/todaysummarybuslinks22112.htm  [CLOSE- OIL $105.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,755 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.20 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,695 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.05%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(2-17-12)   Dow  12,949  +45   Nasdaq  2,952  -8  S&P 500  1,361  +3 http://albertpeia.com/todaysummarybuslinks21712.htm [CLOSE- OIL $103.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,723 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.25 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,629 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International        This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

(2-16-12)   Dow  12,904  +123   Nasdaq  2,959  +44  S&P 500  1,358  +14 http://albertpeia.com/todaysummarybuslinks21612.htm  [CLOSE- OIL $101.97 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,733 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.52 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,631 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .79 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-15-12)   Dow  12,781  -97   Nasdaq  2,915  -16  S&P 500  1,343  -7   [CLOSE- OIL $101.97 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48 (**The BTU-adjusted price of E-85 is the nationwide average price of E-85 adjusted to reflect the lower energy content as expressed in British Thermal Units - and hence miles per gallon - available in a gallon of E-85 as compared to the same volume of conventional gasoline…’ so adjusted=$4.00 – higher real than quoted price for respective states including CA, infra – another manipulation for the ‘feel good’ effect despite the inflationary over-printing of weimar dollars/currencies)  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,722 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,618 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .78 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-14-12)   Dow  12,878  +4   Nasdaq  2,931  -0-  S&P 500  1,350  -1[CLOSE- OIL $100.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,718 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.53 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,626 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .78 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-13-12)   Dow  12,874  +72   Nasdaq  2,931  +27  S&P 500  1,351  +9  [CLOSE- OIL $100.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,722 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.68 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,645 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-10-12)   Dow  12,801  -89   Nasdaq  2,903  -11  S&P 500  1,342  -9  [CLOSE- OIL $102.18 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,721 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.54 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,654 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-9-12)   Dow  12,890  +6   Nasdaq  2,915  +11  S&P 500  1,351  +2  [CLOSE- OIL $99.23 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,741 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.01 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,647 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-8-12)   Dow  12,883  +5   Nasdaq  2,915  +11  S&P 500  1,349  +3  [CLOSE- OIL $98.79 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48 (**The BTU-adjusted price of E-85 is the nationwide average price of E-85 adjusted to reflect the lower energy content as expressed in British Thermal Units - and hence miles per gallon - available in a gallon of E-85 as compared to the same volume of conventional gasoline…’ so adjusted=$4.00 – higher real than quoted price for respective states including CA, infra – another manipulation for the ‘feel good’ effect despite the inflationary over-printing of weimar dollars/currencies)  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,734 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.93 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,662 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-7-12)   Dow  12,878  +33   Nasdaq  2,904  +2  S&P 500  1,347  +2  [CLOSE- OIL $98.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.76 REG./ $3.83 MID-GRADE/$3.93 PREM./ $4.20  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,746 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.10 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,646 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 75 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update…      T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-6-12)   Dow  12,845  -17  Nasdaq  2,902  -4  S&P 500  1,344 -1  [CLOSE- OIL $97.25 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.48  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,723 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.74 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,621 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-3-12)   Dow  12,862  +157  Nasdaq  2,905 +45  S&P 500  1,345 +19  [CLOSE- OIL $97.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,723 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.61 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,618 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(2-2-12)   Dow  12,705  -11  Nasdaq  2,859 +11  S&P 500  1,3245 +1  [CLOSE- OIL $96.47 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,756 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,621 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.86%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net    The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(2-1-12)   Dow  12,716  +83   Nasdaq  2,848 +34  S&P 500  1,324  +11  [CLOSE- OIL $97.39 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,745 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.76 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,613 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.87%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-31-12)   Dow  12,633  -21   Nasdaq  2,813 +2  S&P 500  1,312  -1  [CLOSE- OIL $98.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,735 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.23 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,589 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.83%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-30-12)   Dow  12,653  -7   Nasdaq  2,811 -5  S&P 500  1,313  -3  [CLOSE- OIL $99.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27($3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,735 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,617 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.87%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-27-12)   Dow  12,661  -74   Nasdaq  2,816 +11  S&P 500  1,316  -2  [CLOSE- OIL $99.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,738 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.86 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,617 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 75 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-26-12)   Dow  12,734  -22   Nasdaq  2,805 -12  S&P 500  1,318  -8  [CLOSE- OIL $99.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,716 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,601 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-25-12)   Dow  12,756 +81   Nasdaq  2,818 +31  S&P 500  1,326  +11  [CLOSE- OIL $99.93 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,711 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.10 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,578 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  

 

(1-24-12)   Dow  12,675 -33   Nasdaq  2,786  +2  S&P 500  1,314  -1  [CLOSE- OIL $99.15 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.19 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,545 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net    The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-23-12)   Dow  12,709 -12   Nasdaq  2,784  -3  S&P 500  1,316  -0-  [CLOSE- OIL $99.72 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,678 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.38 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,556 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 77 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.09%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net   The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-20-12)   Dow  12,720  +96   Nasdaq  2,786  -2  S&P 500  1,315  -0-  [CLOSE- OIL $98.33 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,515 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.05%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-19-12)   Dow  12,625  +46   Nasdaq  2,788  +18   S&P 500  1,314  +6  [CLOSE- OIL $101.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,656 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,515 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-18-12)   Dow  12,578  +97   Nasdaq  2,769  +41   S&P 500  1,308  +14   [CLOSE- OIL $101.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.53 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,531 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-17-12)   Dow  12,482  +60   Nasdaq  2,728  +17   S&P 500  1,293  +4   [CLOSE- OIL $101.23 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,653 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,523 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.87%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-13-12)   Dow  12,422  -49   Nasdaq  2,711  -14   S&P 500  1,289  -6   [CLOSE- OIL $98.88 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,638 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.72 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,486 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.89%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-12-12)   Dow  12,471  +22   Nasdaq  2,725  +13   S&P 500  1,295  +3   [CLOSE- OIL $100.20 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,647 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.10 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,488 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.94%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-11-12)   Dow  12,449  -13   Nasdaq  2,710  +8   S&P 500  1,292  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $101.33 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,647 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.05 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,498 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-10-12)   Dow  12,462  +69   Nasdaq  2,702  +26   S&P 500  1,292  +11   [CLOSE- OIL $101.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,637 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.90 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,476 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-09-12)   Dow  12,392  +33   Nasdaq  2,676  +2   S&P 500  1,280  +2   [CLOSE- OIL $101.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,616 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.09 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,426 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(1-06-12)   Dow  12,359  -56  Nasdaq  2,674  +4   S&P 500  1,277  -3   [CLOSE- OIL $101.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,616 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.72 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,402 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-05-12)   Dow  12,415  -3  Nasdaq  2,669  +22   S&P 500  1,281  +3   [CLOSE- OIL $101.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,625 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,411 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-04-12)   Dow  12,418  +21  Nasdaq  2,648  -1   S&P 500  1,277  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $103.39 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,623 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.47 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,427 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(1-03-12)   Dow  12,397  +179  Nasdaq  2,648  +43   S&P 500  1,277  +19   [CLOSE- OIL $102.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,597 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.11 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,420 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-30-11)   Dow  12,217  -69  Nasdaq  2,605  -9   S&P 500  1,258  -5   [CLOSE- OIL $98.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27(reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,561 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $27.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,397 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.89%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-29-11)   Dow  12,287  +135  Nasdaq  2,613  +23   S&P 500  1,263  +13   [CLOSE- OIL $99.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27)  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,553 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $27.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,375 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.91%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-28-11)   Dow  12,151  -140   Nasdaq  2,590  -35   S&P 500  1,249  -16   [CLOSE- OIL $99.47 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,553 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $26.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,369 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .77 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-27-11)   Dow  12,291  -3   Nasdaq  2,625  +6   S&P 500  1,265  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $101.34 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (**The BTU-adjusted price of E-85 is the nationwide average price of E-85 adjusted to reflect the lower energy content as expressed in British Thermal Units - and hence miles per gallon - available in a gallon of E-85 as compared to the same volume of conventional gasoline…’ so adjusted=$4.00 – higher real than quoted price for respective states including CA, infra – another manipulation for the ‘feel good’ effect despite the inflationary over-printing of weimar dollars/currencies)  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,595 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,430 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

(12-23-11)   Dow  12,294  +124   Nasdaq  2,618  +19   S&P 500  1,265  +11   [CLOSE- OIL $99.88 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,606 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.05 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,425 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 



(12-22-11)   Dow  12,169  +61   Nasdaq  2,599  +21   S&P 500  1,254  +10   [CLOSE- OIL $99.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,611 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.38 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,432 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 




(12-21-11)   Dow  12,107  +4   Nasdaq  2,577  -31   S&P 500  1,243  +2   [CLOSE- OIL $98.76 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,613 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,427 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 78 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(12-20-11)   Dow  12,103  +337   Nasdaq  2,603  +80   S&P 500  1,241  +35   [CLOSE- OIL $97.26 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,633 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.79 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,443 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.94%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(12-19-11)   Dow  11,766  -100   Nasdaq  2,523  -32   S&P 500  1,205  -14   [CLOSE- OIL $93.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,595 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.05 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,413 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.82%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

 

(12-16-11)   Dow  11,866  -2   Nasdaq  2,555  +14   S&P 500  1,220  +4   [CLOSE- OIL $93.76 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,598 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.69 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,416 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.86%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

(12-15-11)   Dow  11,869  +45   Nasdaq  2,541  +1   S&P 500  1,215  +3   [CLOSE- OIL $94.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,593 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.53 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,422 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 



(12-14-11)   Dow  11,823 -131   Nasdaq  2,539  -40   S&P 500  1,211  -14   [CLOSE- OIL $95.55 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,582 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $28.90 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,403 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-13-11)   Dow  11,955 -66   Nasdaq  2,579  -33   S&P 500  1,225  -11   [CLOSE- OIL $100.00 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,639 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.93 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,472 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .76 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-12-11)   Dow  12,021 -163   Nasdaq  2,612  -35   S&P 500  1,236  -19   [CLOSE- OIL $97.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,653 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.99 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,480 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(12-09-11)   Dow  12,184 +186   Nasdaq  2,647  +50   S&P 500  1,255  +20   [CLOSE- OIL $99.41 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,711 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.16 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,511 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.07%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-08-11)   Dow  11,997 -198   Nasdaq  2,596  -53   S&P 500  1,234  -26   [CLOSE- OIL $98.34 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,704 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.53 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,489 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75 EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

12-07-11)   Dow  12,196  +46   Nasdaq  2,649  -1   S&P 500  1,261  +2   [CLOSE- OIL $100.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,739 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.58 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,515 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(12-06-11)   Dow  12,150  +52   Nasdaq  2,649  -6   S&P 500  1,258  +1   [CLOSE- OIL $101.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,729 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.52 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,527 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(12-05-11)   Dow  12,098  +78   Nasdaq  2,655  +29   S&P 500  1,257  +13   [CLOSE- OIL $100.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.27 (**The BTU-adjusted price of E-85 is the nationwide average price of E-85 adjusted to reflect the lower energy content as expressed in British Thermal Units - and hence miles per gallon - available in a gallon of E-85 as compared to the same volume of conventional gasoline…’ so adjusted=$4.00 – higher real than quoted price for respective states including CA, infra – another manipulation for the ‘feel good’ effect despite the inflationary over-printing of weimar dollars/currencies)  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.65 REG./ $3.74 MID-GRADE/$3.83 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,723 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,520 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!



(12-02-11)   Dow  12,019  -1   Nasdaq  2,626  -0-   S&P 500  1,244  -1   [CLOSE- OIL $100.96 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,746 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.56 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,542 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.05%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International      This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(12-01-11)   Dow  12,020 -26   Nasdaq  2,626  +5   S&P 500  1,245  -2   [CLOSE- OIL $100.26 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,743 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,553 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.11%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-30-11)   Dow  12,045 +490   Nasdaq  2,620  +104   S&P 500  1,247  +51   [CLOSE- OIL $100.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,746 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,553 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-29-11)   Dow  11,555  +33   Nasdaq  2,515  -12   S&P 500  1,195  +3   [CLOSE- OIL $99.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,722 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.79 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,535 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights      ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-28-11)   Dow  11,523  +291   Nasdaq  2,527  +86   S&P 500  1,192  +33   [CLOSE- OIL $97.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,707 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.97 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,538 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75  EURO, 78 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-25-11)   Dow  11,231  -26   Nasdaq  2,441  -19   S&P 500  1,158  -3   [CLOSE- OIL $96.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,680 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.08 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,525 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75  EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-23-11)   Dow  11,258  -236   Nasdaq  2,460  -61   S&P 500  1,161  -26   [CLOSE- OIL $96.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,696 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.03 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,547 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.89%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-22-11)   Dow  11,493  -54   Nasdaq  2,522  -2   S&P 500  1,188  -5   [CLOSE- OIL $96.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,708 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.56 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,561 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.94%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-21-11)   Dow  11,547  -249   Nasdaq  2,523  -49   S&P 500  1,193  -23   [CLOSE- OIL $97.67 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,672 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.38 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,537 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-18-11)   Dow  11,774  +25   Nasdaq  2,588  -15   S&P 500  1,215  -.48   [CLOSE- OIL $97.67 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,722 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.31 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,589 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73  EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-17-11)   Dow  11,774  -135   Nasdaq  2,588  -52   S&P 500  1,215  -21   [CLOSE- OIL $99.23 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,726 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,589 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.96%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-16-11)   Dow  11,905  -191   Nasdaq  2,639  -47   S&P 500  1,237  -21   [CLOSE- OIL $101.83 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,761 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,615 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-15-11)   Dow  12,096  +17   Nasdaq  2,686  +28   S&P 500  1,258  +6   [CLOSE- OIL $99.23 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,777 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,631 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73  EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.06%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-14-11)   Dow  12,079  -75   Nasdaq  2,657  -21   S&P 500  1,251  -12   [CLOSE- OIL $98.16 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,779 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.22 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,638 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73  EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-11-11)   Dow  12,153  +259   Nasdaq  2,678  +53   S&P 500  1,263  +24   [CLOSE- OIL $97.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,788 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.68 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,640 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International   This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 



 

(11-10-11)   Dow  11,893  +113   Nasdaq  2,625  +3   S&P 500  1,239  +10   [CLOSE- OIL $97.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,766 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.97 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,628 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-9-11)   Dow  11,780  -389   Nasdaq  2,621  -106   S&P 500  1,229  -47   [CLOSE- OIL $97.17 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,769 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.86 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,624 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...       T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(11-8-11)   Dow  12,170  +101   Nasdaq  2,727  +32   S&P 500  1,276  +14   [CLOSE- OIL $97.17 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,791 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.19 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,663 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.10%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-7-11)   Dow  12,068  +85   Nasdaq  2,695  +9   S&P 500  1,261  +7   [CLOSE- OIL $95.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,791 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.74 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,645 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.04%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 



 

(11-4-11)    Dow  11,983  -61   Nasdaq  2,686  -12   S&P 500  1,253  -8   [CLOSE- OIL $94.26 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,755 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,629 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.06%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-3-11)    Dow  12,044   +208   Nasdaq  2,698  +58   S&P 500  1,261  +23   [CLOSE- OIL $94.30 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,757 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.31 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,629 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.09%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(11-2-11)    Dow  11,836   +178   Nasdaq  2,639  +33   S&P 500  1,238  +19   [CLOSE- OIL $92.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,729 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.72 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,586 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(11-1-11)    Dow  11,658   -297   Nasdaq  2,607  -77   S&P 500  1,218  -35   [CLOSE- OIL $91.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,725 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.43 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,589 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

(10-31-11)    Dow  11,955   -276   Nasdaq  2,684  -53   S&P 500  1,253  -32   [CLOSE- OIL $92.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,717 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.51 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,598 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 78 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.17%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

(10-28-11)    Dow  12,231  +22   Nasdaq  2,737  -1   S&P 500  1,285  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $93.58 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,743 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.29 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,643 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 75 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.34%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  [  The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed!  Train Reading: The Stock Market Is (Criminally) Insane The Wall Street Journal  , This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much worse to come! Watch for more fake reports / data in their infinite political desperation both here and across the sea!   

 

 

 

(10-27-11)    Dow  12,209 +339   Nasdaq  2,738  +87   S&P 500  1,285  +42   [CLOSE- OIL $93.37 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,745 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,649 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 75 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.42%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-26-11)    Dow  11,869  +162   Nasdaq  2,651  +12   S&P 500  1,242  +13   [CLOSE- OIL $91.77 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,726 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,598 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .71 EURO, 75 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-25-11)    Dow  11,706  -207   Nasdaq  2,638  -61   S&P 500  1,229  -25   [CLOSE- OIL $93.17 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,710  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $33.09 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,569 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .71 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.14%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-24-11)    Dow  11,913  +105   Nasdaq  2,699  +61   S&P 500  1,254  +15   [CLOSE- OIL $91.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,651  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.61 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,545 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .71 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.25%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-21-11)    Dow  11,808  +267   Nasdaq  2,637  +38   S&P 500  1,238  +22   [CLOSE- OIL $87.39 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,641  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.33 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,510 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .71 EURO, 76 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-20-11)    Dow  11,541  +37   Nasdaq  2,598  -5   S&P 500  1,215  +5   [CLOSE- OIL $86.29 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,626  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.73 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,498 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.20%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-14-11)    Dow  11,644  +166   Nasdaq  2,668  +47   S&P 500  1,225  +21   [CLOSE- OIL $86.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,683  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.15 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,551 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.26%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

 

(10-13-11) Dow  11,478  -41   Nasdaq  2,620  +15   S&P 500  1,203  -4   [CLOSE- OIL $84.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.61 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,526 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.19%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-12-11) Dow  11,519  +103   Nasdaq  2,605  +22   S&P 500  1,207  +11   [CLOSE- OIL $85.56 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,683  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.79 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,545 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.24%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

(10-11-11) Dow  11,433  -17   Nasdaq  2,583  +17   S&P 500  1,195  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $85.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,661  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.07 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,516 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.18%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-10-11) Dow  11,433  +330   Nasdaq  2,566  +86   S&P 500  1,195  +39   [CLOSE- OIL $85.90 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,676  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.06 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,519 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.10%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-7-11) Dow  11,103  -20   Nasdaq  2,479  -27   S&P 500  1,155  -10   [CLOSE- OIL $82.98 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,638  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.13(+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,490 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.10%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  [  The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed!  Train Reading: The Stock Market Is (Criminally) Insane The Wall Street Journal  , This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much worse to come!


 

 

 

(10-6-11) Dow  11,123  +183   Nasdaq  2,506  +46   S&P 500  1,165  +20   [CLOSE- OIL $79.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,661  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $32.38(+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,531 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 76 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.01%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-5-11) Dow  10,939  +131   Nasdaq  2,460  +55   S&P 500  1,144  +20   [CLOSE- OIL $79.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,645  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.69 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,489 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 76 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-4-11) Dow  10,808  +153   Nasdaq  2,405  +69   S&P 500  1,123  +25   [CLOSE- OIL $78.09 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,625  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.58 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,442 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.81%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(10-3-11) Dow  10,655  -258   Nasdaq  2,335  -80   S&P 500  1,099  -32   [CLOSE- OIL $77. (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,674  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,497 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .75EURO, 76 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.80%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-30-11) Dow  10,913  -241   Nasdaq  2,415  -65   S&P 500  1,131  -29   [CLOSE- OIL $79.22 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,623  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $29.89 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,520 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.92%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-29-11) Dow  11,153  +143   Nasdaq  2,480  -11   S&P 500  1,160  +9   [CLOSE- OIL $82.92 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,626  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.95 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,535 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.99%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  [  The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed! 

 

 

 

(9-28-11) Dow  11,010  -180   Nasdaq  2,491  -55   S&P 500  1,151  -24   [CLOSE- OIL $81.26 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,618  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,535 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-27-11) Dow  11,190  +146  Nasdaq  2,546  +30   S&P 500  1,175  +12  [CLOSE- OIL $83.29 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,633  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.15 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,532 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-26-11) Dow  11,043  +272  Nasdaq  2,516  +33   S&P 500  1,163  +26  [CLOSE- OIL $80.26 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,615  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.30 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,553 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.91%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-23-11) Dow  10,771  +38  Nasdaq  2,483  +27   S&P 500  1,136  +7  [CLOSE- OIL $80.51 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,656  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.09 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,605 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.83%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-22-11) Dow  10,734  -391  Nasdaq  2,456  -83   S&P 500  1,129  -37  [CLOSE- OIL $80.51 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,729  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $35.39 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,693 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.72%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 



(9-21-11) Dow  11,125  -284  Nasdaq  2,538  -52   S&P 500  1,166  -35  [CLOSE- OIL $86.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,775  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.39 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,752 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.88%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-20-11) Dow  11,409  +7   Nasdaq  2,590  -22   S&P 500  1,202  -2  [CLOSE- OIL $86.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,798  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.74 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,773 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.95%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(9-19-11) Dow  11,401 -108   Nasdaq  2,613  -9   S&P 500  1,204  -12  [CLOSE- OIL $86.10 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,778  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.63 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,768 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.97%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think   Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!      

 

 

 

(9-16-11) Dow  11,509 +76   Nasdaq  2,622  +15   S&P 500  1,216  +7  [CLOSE- OIL $88.18 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,811  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.65 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,809 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-15-11) Dow  11,433 +186   Nasdaq  2,607  +34   S&P 500  1,209  +20  [CLOSE- OIL $89.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,774  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.56 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,769 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.09%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-14-11) Dow  11,246  +141   Nasdaq  2,572  +40   S&P 500  1,188  +15  [CLOSE- OIL $89.01 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,820  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.68 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,809 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.03%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(9-13-11) Dow  11,106  +45   Nasdaq  2,532  +37   S&P 500  1,172  +10  [CLOSE- OIL $89.95 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,833  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.01 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,810 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 76 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(9-12-11) Dow  11,061  +69   Nasdaq  2,495  +27   S&P 500  1,162  +8  [CLOSE- OIL $87.24 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,815  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.23 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,803 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 77 YEN, .63 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.94%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(9-9-11) Dow  10,992  -304   Nasdaq  2,468  -61   S&P 500  1,154  -32   [CLOSE- OIL $87.24 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,860  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.61 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,835 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .73 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.93%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(9-8-11) Dow  11,295  -119   Nasdaq  2,529  -20   S&P 500  1,185  -12   [CLOSE- OIL $89.05 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,865  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $42.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,853 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .72 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.00%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 




 

(9-7-11) Dow  11,414  +275   Nasdaq  2,549  +75   S&P 500  1,198  +33   [CLOSE- OIL $90.11 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,814  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.45  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,822 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.05%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(9-6-11) Dow  11,139  -101   Nasdaq  2,474  -7   S&P 500  1,165  -9   [CLOSE- OIL $86.51 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.94 REG./ $4.04 MID-GRADE/$4.14 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,882  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $43.20  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,879 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .71 EURO, 77 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 1.98%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-2-11) Dow  11,493  -253   Nasdaq  2,480  -66   S&P 500  1,174  -30   [CLOSE- OIL $86.45 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.79 REG./ $3.90 MID-GRADE/$4.00 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,882  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $43.20  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,879 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.02%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(9-1-11) Dow  11,493  -120   Nasdaq  2,546  -33   S&P 500  1,204  -14   [CLOSE- OIL $88.62 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.79 REG./ $3.90 MID-GRADE/$4.00 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,829  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.65  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,845 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.15%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-31-11) Dow  11,613  +53   Nasdaq  2,579  +3   S&P 500  1,218  +5   [CLOSE- OIL $89.13 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.79 REG./ $3.90 MID-GRADE/$4.00 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,823  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.62  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,845 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(8-30-11) Dow  11,559  +20   Nasdaq  2,576  +14   S&P 500  1,212  +2   [CLOSE- OIL $88.90 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.79 REG./ $3.90 MID-GRADE/$4.00 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,835  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.45  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,848 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.19%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-29-11) Dow  11,539  +255   Nasdaq  2,562  +82   S&P 500  1,210  +33   [CLOSE- OIL $87.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.79 REG./ $3.90 MID-GRADE/$4.00 PREM./ $4.22  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,792  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.86  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,818 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .68 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.28%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-26-11) Dow  11,285  +135   Nasdaq  2,479  +60   S&P 500  1,176  +17   [CLOSE- OIL $85.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,826  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.29  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,826 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.19%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-25-11) Dow  11,149  -171   Nasdaq  2,420  -48   S&P 500  1,159  -18   [CLOSE- OIL $85.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,765  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.89  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,818 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights       ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-24-11) Dow  11,320  +144   Nasdaq  2,468  +22   S&P 500  1,177  +15   [CLOSE- OIL $85.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,758  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.69  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,826 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.29%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-23-11) Dow  11,176  +322   Nasdaq  2,446  +100   S&P 500  1,162  +38   [CLOSE- OIL $85.55 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,846  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $42.26  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,869 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.15%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...         T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(8-22-11) Dow  10,855  +37   Nasdaq  2,345  +3   S&P 500  1,123  -0-   [CLOSE- OIL $84.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,907  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $43.86  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,908 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.10%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(8-19-11) Dow  10,818  -173   Nasdaq  2,342  -39   S&P 500  1,123  -17   [CLOSE- OIL $82.51 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,851  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $42.88  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,868 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-18-11) Dow  10,990  -420   Nasdaq  2,380  -131   S&P 500  1,140  -53   [CLOSE- OIL $82.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,822  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.58  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,835 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.08%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-17-11) Dow  11,410  +4   Nasdaq  2,511  -12   S&P 500  1,193  +1   [CLOSE- OIL $87.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,786  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.22 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,833 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.17%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-16-11) Dow  11,405  -77   Nasdaq  2,523  -32   S&P 500  1,192  -12   [CLOSE- OIL $86.65 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,783  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,815 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.23%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-15-11) Dow  11,483  +213   Nasdaq  2,553  +45   S&P 500  1,204  +26   [CLOSE- OIL $87.88 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,765  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.69 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,803 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.29%      AP Business Highlights        ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 



(8-12-11) Dow  11,269  +126   Nasdaq  2,508  +15   S&P 500  1,179  +6   [CLOSE- OIL $85.69 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,746  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.06 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,792 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.24%         AP Business Highlights          ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(8-11-11) Dow  11,143 +423   Nasdaq  2,493  +111   S&P 500  1,172  +52   [CLOSE- OIL $85.53 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,759  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.73 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,783 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.34%         AP Business Highlights          ...Yahoo Market Update...        T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-10-11) Dow  10,720  -520  Nasdaq  2,381  -101  S&P 500  1,120  -52   [CLOSE- OIL $82.89 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,789  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.76 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,779 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 76 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.17%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-9-11) Dow  11,239  +429  Nasdaq  2,483  +125  S&P 500  1,172  +53  [CLOSE- OIL $79.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,756  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.35 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,751 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.20%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-8-11) Dow  10,809  -635  Nasdaq  2,358  -175  S&P 500  1,119  -80   [CLOSE- OIL $80.90 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,719  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.26 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,713 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.40%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-5-11) Dow  11,445  +61  Nasdaq  2,532 -24  S&P 500  1,199  -1   [CLOSE- OIL $86.61 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,655  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.31 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,713 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 78 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.58%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-4-11) Dow  11,383  -512  Nasdaq  2,556 -137  S&P 500  1,200  -60   [CLOSE- OIL $86.63 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,659  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.07 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,692 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 78 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.47%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-3-11) Dow  11,896  +29  Nasdaq  2,693 +23  S&P 500  1,260  +6   [CLOSE- OIL $92.15 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,665  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $41.69 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,765 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 78 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.65%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(8-02-11) Dow  11,866  -265  Nasdaq  2,669 -75  S&P 500  1,254  -33   [CLOSE- OIL $95.38 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,662  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $40.83 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,793 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.66%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 

(8-01-11) Dow  12,132  -11   Nasdaq  2,745 -12  S&P 500  1,287  -5   [CLOSE- OIL $95.22 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,619  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $39.45 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,786 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 77 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.77%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 



 

(7-1-11) Dow  12,583  +168   Nasdaq  2,816  +42    S&P 500  1,339  +19   [CLOSE- OIL $94.79 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.59  (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.90 REG./ $4.00 MID-GRADE/$4.10 PREM./ $4.32  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,487  (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $34.74 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,715 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day  / DOLLAR= .68 EURO, 80 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.20%         AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update...            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International           This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(6-1-11) Dow  12,290  -280  Nasdaq  2,769  -66   S&P 500  1,314  -31   [CLOSE- OIL $100.29 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.90 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.20 REG./ $4.27 MID-GRADE/$4.38 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,539 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $37.23 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,814  (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day   / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 80 YEN, .61 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 2.96%        AP Business Highlights           Yahoo Market Update           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope            The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data            This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think        Sliding Back Into the Great Depression   ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

(5-31-11) Dow  12,569  +128  Nasdaq  2,835  +38   S&P 500  1,345  +14   [CLOSE- OIL $103.11 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.90 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.20 REG./ $4.27 MID-GRADE/$4.38 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,535 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.42 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,825 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day   / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 80 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.05%        AP Business Highlights           Yahoo Market Update           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope            The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data            This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think        Sliding Back Into the Great Depression   ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

(5-27-11) Dow  12,442  +38  Nasdaq  2,796  +13   S&P 500  1,331  +5   [CLOSE- OIL $100.59 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.90 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.20 REG./ $4.27 MID-GRADE/$4.38 PREM./ $4.53  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,536 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $37.95 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,796 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day   / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 80 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.07%        AP Business Highlights           Yahoo Market Update           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International         This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope            The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data            This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think        Sliding Back Into the Great Depression   ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 



 



(5-26-11) Dow  12,402  +8  Nasdaq  2,783  +22   S&P 500  1,326  +5   [CLOSE- OIL $100.72 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.95 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.26 REG./ $4.36 MID-GRADE/$4.46 PREM./ $4.55  DIESELL) /  GOLD $1,525 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $37.88 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,781 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day   / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 81 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.06%        …..…     AP Business Highlights              ...Yahoo Market Update…            T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International             This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope       The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold                  ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data                      This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4-1-11) Dow  12,376  +56   Nasdaq  2,789  +8   S&P 500  1,332  +6   [CLOSE- OIL $107.94   (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.65 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $4.05 REG./ $4.10 MID-GRADE/ $4.20 PREM./ $4.27  DIESEL) /  GOLD $1,428 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $37.76  (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,758 (+56% for year 2009)  Metal News for the Day       / DOLLAR= .70 EURO, 83 YEN, .62 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  Interest Rates:   http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield     10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.45%        …..…     AP Business Highlights                    ...Yahoo Market Update...          T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                       This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope      MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold             Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010            THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION   1-28-10 Maierhofer          (01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking     Economic Black Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover      1-7-10 Crash is coming!          ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data                      This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1-3-11) Dow  11,671  +93  Nasdaq  2,692  +38   S&P 500  1,272  +14   [CLOSE- OIL $91.55 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.00 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.20 REG./ $3.29 MID-GRADE/ $3.39 PREM./ $3.79  DIESEL) /  GOLD $1,422 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $31.13 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,766 (+56% for year 2009)  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 82 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/update      10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.34%        …..…     AP Business Highlights                         ...Yahoo Market Update...                           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                          This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope      MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10      6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied  3-9-10 [archived website file]     Risks Lurk for ETF Investors        The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold             Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010           The Week Ahead: Risk Is Off the Cliff; Unwind Has Begun Jan 31, 2010     01-13-10 Forecast for 2010 from Seeking Alpha Contributor     THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION   1-28-10 Maierhofer          (01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking     Economic Black Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover     Current Economic / Fiscal Charts         Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009          1-7-10 Crash is coming!          ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data                      This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net     MUST READ: JEREMY GRANTHAM’S QUARTERLY UPDATE 25 January 2010 (850 on the S&P) by TPC       The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  



 

 

(12-31-10) Dow  11,577  +7  Nasdaq  2,653  -10   S&P 500  1,258  -1   [CLOSE- OIL $91.35 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.00 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.20 REG./ $3.29 MID-GRADE/ $3.39 PREM./ $3.79  DIESEL) /  GOLD $1,422 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.95 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,765 (+56% for year 2009)  / DOLLAR= .74 EURO, 80 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/update      10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.31%        …..…     AP Business Highlights                         ...Yahoo Market Update...                           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                          This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope      MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10      6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied  3-9-10 [archived website file]     Risks Lurk for ETF Investors        The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold             Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010           The Week Ahead: Risk Is Off the Cliff; Unwind Has Begun Jan 31, 2010     01-13-10 Forecast for 2010 from Seeking Alpha Contributor     THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION   1-28-10 Maierhofer          (01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking     Economic Black Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover     Current Economic / Fiscal Charts         Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009          1-7-10 Crash is coming!          ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data                      This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net     MUST READ: JEREMY GRANTHAM’S QUARTERLY UPDATE 25 January 2010 (850 on the S&P) by TPC       The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  

 

 

 

12-30-10) Dow  11,569  -16  Nasdaq  2,662  -4   S&P 500  1,258  -2   [CLOSE- OIL $89.73 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.00 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS  $3.20 REG./ $3.29 MID-GRADE/ $3.39 PREM./ $3.79  DIESEL) /  GOLD $1,405 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $30.53 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,744 (+56% for year 2009)  / DOLLAR= .75 EURO, 81 YEN, .64 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/  http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/update      10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.36%        …..…     AP Business Highlights                         ...Yahoo Market Update...                           T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies -  Domestic / International                          This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope      MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10      6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied  3-9-10 [archived website file]     Risks Lurk for ETF Investors        The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold             Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010           The Week Ahead: Risk Is Off the Cliff; Unwind Has Begun Jan 31, 2010     01-13-10 Forecast for 2010 from Seeking Alpha Contributor     THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION   1-28-10 Maierhofer          (01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking     Economic Black Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover     Current Economic / Fiscal Charts         Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009     1-7-10 Crash is coming!          ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data                      This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net     MUST READ: JEREMY GRANTHAM’S QUARTERLY UPDATE 25 January 2010 (850 on the S&P) by TPC       The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  

 

 

 

 

 

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNING ECONOMIST: CRISIS AS BAD AS GREAT DEPRESSION OR WORSE    Financial terrorism: US taxpayers bail out Wall Street criminals  $4 trillion plus is missing through U.S. federal agency accounts managed by the NY Fed  RICO Summary under penalty of perjury to the FBI at their request  Reality overthrows ‘history’s actors’  Report confirms Israel’s nuclear arsenal  Roubini: Rate Cuts Temporarily and Minimally Reduce Crash Risk, But Dow 7,000 Likely 'Sometime Next Year'  Billion-Dollar Fund Manager; Gold To Hit $2,000, Dow To Sink To 5,000  The Crumbling U.S. Economy, Worse is Yet to Come   Worst slump since Great Depression   Rapid Downward Revisions in Expected Economic Growth    Recession Will Last At Least Two Years: Roubini     Recession Now: It's Deep and It's Going to Last a Long Time, Sonders Says   Economist Roubini Predicts Hedge Fund Failures, Panic, Closed Markets  Markets Nosedive on Grim Economic News Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With `Fools’ Born to Buy Debt   More from Grantham: S&P to 585. He called the bubble, how could anyone doubt his valuation (although even lower is more realistic)?   U.S. Economy: GDP Shrinks (even with fake better than expected GDP numbers from corrupt commerce department) at Fastest Pace Since 2001  Credit-Default Swaps on US Treasuries Have Risen Nearly 40 Percent Since Bailout Law Signed; Now About the Same as on Mexican and Thai Government Debt america’s credit rating will be downgraded   Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret fraud (AP)   ECONOMICS GURU: WORST IS YET TO COME; MARKETS WILL CLOSE FOR UP TO WEEK FROM PANIC...  Washington is Powerless to Stop the Coming Economic Depression    Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression   Dollar’s Days Numbered, Buy Commodities: Jim Rogers    America’s economic crisis is beyond the reach of traditional solutions  Cost Of Bailout Hits $8.5 Trillion  Worst is yet to come for economy  'Crisis Only Just Beginning': Crisis/Video  Right About the Crash, Peter Schiff Sees More Pain Ahead         The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy   “The Dollar Standard Is Coming To An End”   Busted in Washington    CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates    Financial Disaster Will Lead to Civil Disorder in 2009 or 2010, Says Secret Citibank Memo   Renowned economist Mikhail Khazin : U.S. will soon face second “Great Depression”  America Has No Means to Recover from a Depression US budget deficit to reach USD 1 trillion     Jim Rogers calls most big U.S. banks “bankrupt”   BILLIONS VANISH IN EPIC HEDGE FUND FRAUD     Citadel suspends redemptions from two hedge funds World faces “total” financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief  Check This Graph-Proof we are going into a Great Depression. Notice MASSIVE job losses. Is there really any doubt any longer?   Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat    Fed Hides Destination Of $2 Trillion In Bailout Money    Another Prominent Economist Forecasts Depression, Says Gold To Hit $2000   Fed Secretly Lends $2 Trillion to Banksters without Oversight   Depression Unrest Turmoil Instability Riots all coming and SOON       JAPAN: “There has never been data this bad for any major economy - even in the great Depression”; “We are literally looking at the unimaginable”     Obama predicts more bank failures   California goes broke, halts $3.5 billion in payments    It’s Getting Ugly: Economist Says Hoard Gold & Scotch Paul Joseph Watson | Williams predicts hyperinflationary depression will mean a $100 dollar bill is worth less than toilet paper  WORLD TO STAY IN SLUMP   US is Already Bankrupt: Analyst   The Geithner-Summers-Bernanke Plan to Prop Up Asset Prices Has Failed    U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar          Not Just a Few Bad Apples - Corruption is Systemic in America  65 Trillion - U.S. Financial Obligations Exceed The Entire World’s GDP  RECORD: NATIONAL DEBT HITS $11 TRILLION...    US Depression -The Truth Is Here    The Economist, a Widely Respected and Authoritative Financial/Economic Publication: U.S. In Depression, Not Recession      Video: Crash Will be Worse than Great Depression   Great Recession/Depression of 2008, et seq., Worse Than All Others  IMF warns of Great Depression   Stocks Could Drop 20%, No Safe Haven: Dr. Reality    Celente Correctly Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012  Former chief economist: U.S. in a depression   Merrill Lynch’s Chief Economist: We’re Already In a Depression  Ray Dalio: A Long and Painful Depression - Barron's Interview        Gerald Celente Predicts Economic Armageddon by 2012      This DEPRESSION will last 23-26 YEARS! Government is POWERLESS!    Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009   What the Pros Say: US Is Now ‘Bankrupt’    ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’    Secretary of Labor Reich: Unemployment Numbers Show We’re Already In a Depression          Celente: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression”    Entering the Greatest Depression in History Andrew Gavin Marshall | The economic crisis is anything but over, the “solutions” have been akin to putting a band-aid on an amputated arm.     May 31, 2012

 

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43,454,601,693,238 Reasons Why The World Is Broke – Presenting The Interactive Global Debt Clock

Zero Hedge
October 17, 2011

By now everyone has had a chance to play with the US debt clock. But what about its global cousin? Courtesy of The Economist, we now have a convenient way to track the hundreds of millions in dollars added each and every hour by the global governments who see to spur global deleveraging by, you guessed it, adding more debt. Yes, in the process the world’s sovereigns are transferring default risk away from global corporations to sovereigns, but few in the #OWS crowd appear to have yet figured out this rather disturbing and very insidious usurpation of sovereignty by the global corporatocracy, so said risk and leverage transfer will continue until such time as any and all paper backed by these insolvent corporate shells (f/k/a countries) is completely worthless. Regardless, one should not forget that like in the sandalone case, the “debt clock” below only tracks on balance sheet debt. Should one add the NPV of all “welfare state” obligations (pensions, retirement, healthcare), the number will be well over quarter of a quadrillion dollars. Have fun funding that, never mind paying it off…

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The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed!  Train Reading: The Stock Market Is (Criminally) Insane The Wall Street Journal  , [ECRI Stays with Recession Call  New American | The vicious cycle is starting where lower sales, lower production, lower employment and lower income [leads] back to lower sales… http://albertpeia.com/ecricallsrecession.htm  , 5-14-12 JPMorgan Estimates Immediate Losses From Greek Exit Could Reach 400 Billion   Are They Insane? 58 Percent Of Americans Believe Economic Conditions In The United States Will Be Good A Year From Now  http://albertpeia.com/insanelyoptimistic.htm  , If You Live In California Things Just Got A Whole Lot Worse http://albertpeia.com/hopelesscluelesscalifornia.htm  Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ,  Why Is The Obama Administration Allowing The Chinese Government To Buy Up U.S. Oil And Gas Deposits Worth Billions Of Dollars?  http://albertpeia.com/chinabuyingamerican.htm  , Merkel is Backed Into a Corner… Commit Political Suicide or Bail on the Euro? May 13, 2012 By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/merkelpolsuicideorbailoneuro.htm  ,  State Election Defeat Seen as Disaster for Merkel  (WSJblogs) , Greece Can No Longer Delay Euro Zone Exit  It’s Going to Get Harder for Merkel  (Der Spiegel) J.P. Morgan has significant credit portfolio loss May 10th, 2012 by News Breaking…………“Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM -5.89% dropped after the bank said in a regulatory filing late Thursday it had “significant” mark-to-market losses in its synthetic credit portfolio. Shares fell 4.5% to $38.87 in after-hours activity. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the bank said its synthetic credit portfolio had proved to be riskier and more volatile than expected.”MarketWatch MK comment: Sound familiar? Think Bear Stearns, early 2008. , J.P. Morgan Reveals 'London Whale'-Size Losses , Surprising JPMorgan loss hits stock market late NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell sharply on Thursday evening as JPMorgan Chase & Co stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred "significant mark-to-market losses... , Marc Faber Sees A 1987-Like Crash Approaching Durden"Europe Has Started The Endgame" And Biderman Says "The US Is Next"  , Greece's Jobless Soar By 42% As Unemployment Rises To Record, Industrial Collapse Accelerates , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  STOCKS ATTEMPT TO RALLY 5-10-12 ‘In overseas news, China’s exports were only 4.9% vs 8.5% expected (I guess that qualifies as a miss). China is also rumored to be intervening to support the euro (or, defending their position) which should explain why the currency hasn’t fallen further. In England, the Central Bank head Merwyn King has (gasp!) halted bond buying (QE) due to the combination of inflation and recession—yes, commonly known as stagflation. In the U.S. Jobless Claims (367K vs 366K expected & prior adjusted higher to 368K) allowed for a bullish headline as usual http://albertpeia.com/wobamaexecorderforoneworldgovernment.htm  , http://albertpeia.com/militarypensiondebacle.htm , http://albertpeia.com/nyteconomistkrugmanwrong.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com .. After hitting some support levels markets rallied sharply into the close led by (ahem) the reliable 2:15 PM Buy Program Express.    Five Reasons For Caution In US Equities  [ As astutely pointed out by Dave, ‘Michigan Consumer Sentiment Report (76.4 vs 75.8 expected and prior 75.7) which is weighted more heavily by stock market prices than Consumer Confidence’, this thusly is the ultimate ‘bootstrap’ for these bubble stock prices. ] 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs http://albertpeia.com/95percentofjobslostmiddleclass.htm  , New study: High U.S. debt levels could mean a quarter century of weak growth (The American Enterprise Institute) [ That’s optimistic; and towards the end there at best! Remember: Decades at Best! ] , Total US Debt Soars To 101.5% Of GDP Dallas Fed: Why We Must End TBTF Now! Suckers’ rally  - schtooping for apples – This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits! Corporate insiders are sell like there’s no tomorrow http://albertpeia.com/22redflagsofdoomforglobalfinancialmarkets.htmREMEMBER: SELL IN MAY AND GO AWAY! , STOCKS RALLY DESPITE BAD NEWS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider, Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm   , 4-11-12 GARY SHILLING: PROFITS WILL PLUMMET AND STOCKS WILL PLUNGE 43% By Mamta Badkar | Business Insider 4-17-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BULLS HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS { Which means GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL/TAKE PROFITS with much worse to come! } 4-17-12 ‘There was little news to account for any rally on this Turnaround Tuesday given poor Industrial Production and lower than expected Housing Starts. But, bulls are looking ahead to earnings which have been much lowered and engineered to beat expectations … There could also be some fresh money to funds as investors beat the tax deadline. That money gets invested quickly.IBM just announced earnings that missed top line revenue estimates and stock falls. Intel (INTC) beats lowered estimates but stock is lower in after-hours trading…’ http://albertpeia.com/shillingsaysstockswillplunge43percent.htm , 4-12-12 Hope for economically contraindicated wall street welfare rallies stocks on really bad news, much of which bad news here as in Europe, the direct consequence of failed, contraindicated, costly wall street welfare (QE’s, ZIRP, etc.) that everyone’s paying for now and in the future (bad economics, inflation, etc.)!  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BAD NEWS BULLS 4-12-12 ‘Let’s see, Jobless Claims were terrible by recent comparisons and recorded a large miss (380K vs 355K expect and prior revised higher as usual to 367K). Some analysts blamed Easter for the rise which seems odd frankly. Plenty of rumors were planted that China’s GDP growth (released Friday) would be better than expected and yields in the eurozone were lower on talk of more ECB buying…’  , 4-2-12  ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Is About to Hit Investors: Faber   http://albertpeia.com/massivewealthdestructionabouttohit.htm , RICHARD RUSSELL: A Massive Stock Market Collapse Will Wipe Out 60 Years Of Inflation And Leveraging Business Insider ,  http://albertpeia.com/22signsglobalrecessiondepression.htm , The 15 Trillion Dollar Party  http://albertpeia.com/bankruptamericadestroyingthefuture.htm  { WALL STREET IS SO FRAUDULENTLY BEYOND THE PALE; FOR THERE IS NO QUESTION BUT THAT THEY BELONG IN JAIL! }  , Both The Market and Government Are Irrational Paul Craig Roberts | One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. [ 4-10-12 Don’t buy their ‘buy the dip’ b***s***, still a great opportunity to sell/take profits since Rosenberg Ruminates On Six Roadblocks For Stocks‘On this basis, the market as a whole is  OVERPRICED BY MORE THAN 20%.’The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In America In One Chart  http://albertpeia.com/shockingtruthofunemploymentinamerica.htm  , Bob Janjuah: S&P At 800, Dow/Gold Ratio Will Hit 1 Before Next Real Bull Cycle 3-30,29,28,-12 Familiar theme of suckers’ rally off lows to keep suckers sucked in and window dress another fraudulent quarter at national expense for wall street welfare. 3-26-12 As was so last pre-crash, particularly this election year of desperation, bernanke resorts to his ‘jaw-boning’ (another dog who made news called this ‘baffling them with b***s***’); yet, it’s fraudulent wall street that conditions ‘all’ to believe the easy money / over-printed created Weimar dollars, a clear negative (you’re paying for the wall street welfare; ie, gas, food, etc., prices {  Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ }  rallies those pieces of paper/computer entries via HFT algos programmed to go wild with such talk, making this a great opportunity to sell, take profits while you can, much worse to come! http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsdollarreservecurrencyending.htm , I’ve Never Seen a Confluence of Negative Factors Like This 3-24-12 http://gainspainscapital.com  , DAVE FRY IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY HERE! Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BERNANKE IN ABC MODE ON ABC 3-27-12 ‘Sure, it’s one of my favorite movie scenes and I couldn’t resist it. The Fed is in full campaign mode as great as Obama and his GOP rivals. When stock prices seem in doubt the Fed is ready to launch more assurances accommodation (money printing) will be available. Monday’s rally was typical as we head toward the end of the quarter. Hedge fund performance fees are on the line and any way to boost these profits is job one. Top holdings for hedge funds include the usual suspects: AAPL, IBM, INTC, BAC, DIS, HD etc. With little volume it’s easy for algos and hedge funds to prop stocks on little hard news. Tuesday we briefly saw more of this. Just as markets were weakening a story appeared using the Fed’s favorite oracle, the WSJ, as Fed governor Rosengren stated, “more stimulus is on the table”. Immediately HFT algos jumped and markets rose if only briefly.On its face, the Fed wants higher stock prices to boost confidence in the economy. However from a practical view ALL THEY’VE SUCCEEDED IN DOING FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IS DEBASING THE DOLLAR CREATING INFLATION…’  ,  And 14 of 16 On Dallas Fed MissThe Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook just came with its largest miss of expectations in 9 months - and biggest drop in 7 months.. A 10.8 print vs expectations of 17.0 dropped the index back to its lowest since December and keeps the 'good is good but bad is better' dream alive..’, Don’t be fooled by the money illusion MarketWatch | Rising prices are making some statistics look better than they really are.  [ The ‘psychological factor’ has always been a component in the valuation of securities which valuations, good or ill, collectively give rise to the ‘markets’. The mythical part is the presumption of rationality accorded the ‘market-makers’ which, despite their glaring irrationality and propensity for fraud (I’d conservatively say that wall street is comprised predominantly, I’d estimate 90%, of psycho/sociopathic personalities), is still decidedly and pathetically vis-à-vis the rest of the ‘go along to get along’ world, criminally insane wall street. { The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed!  Train Reading: The Stock Market Is (Criminally) Insane The Wall Street Journal  } It should be obvious by now, particularly with the advent of ubiquitous, lightning fast programmed computerization, that the markets are fraudulently manipulated in a bigger way now than ever; and, not without great cost ultimately to muppets / taxpayers like you, whether in the markets or not.They do it for the money; and, sick as they are, to be screwin’ at least someone all of the time which perversely gives them pleasure!  ] This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits with stocks floating on air in contraindicated ‘Weimar dollar bubble rally’ as preceded last crash. Suckers’ rally into the close off lows and in shades of the dot com bubble with Apple the fraudulent stock market’s one-trick pony (‘in play’, pricey, big weighting and big bang for the market buck, and compared to what). Competition will ultimately (no real breakthroughs on horizon) take a big bite out of the Apple, which along with price targets is way over valued (currently being manipulated to the upside by the ‘muppet masters’ given the 20% weighting for maximum fraudulent effect). I say this despite liking Apple. They’re loving Apple to death on fraudulent wall street which is a testament to the pathetic state of american and world technology which is horrendous. As my first computer (Apple IIc, 1986) I’m glad they survived but they’re way, way over-valued. Aside from the IPAD (at best and even that’s a stretch, and past history at that), there’s really nothing there, which is a testament to the stupidity of american consumers particularly. Wake up! What total frauds! 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place Without Goldman Sachs [ If only it was just 11 and not an endless number of reasons why the aforesaid is true! And, though america particularly, not just america, but the entire world as well! ] http://albertpeia.com/americabetterwithoutgoldmansachs.htm  ,  Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2) Only in a debt-based money system could debt be curiously cast as an asset. We’ve made “extend and pretend” a quaint phrase for a burgeoning market for financial lying and profiteering aimed toward preventing the collapse of a debt- (or lack-) based system that was already doomed by its initial design to collapse. Election year temp jobs, trade deficit up, GDP projection down, business inventories miss, manipulations, obfuscations… Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  STOCK RALLY FADES WITH CDS ISSUE 3-9-12  [ Dave astutely points out: “Jobless Claims Thursday were weaker than expected (362K vs 351K expected and prior revised higher to 354K). Did you know that prior weekly Jobless Claims data has been revised higher 100% of the time over the past two years? How does that happen this consistently?” – Which I refer to as the ‘data ponzi scheme’ wherein new fake data is used to buoy markets as prior reported fake data is reconciled closer to reality. 3-15-12 Yes, and again, prior week revised up .  ] Does China's Forex Policy Beggar Its Neighbors?  The Wall Street Journal  [ Are you sure the author didn’t mean ‘bugger its neighbors’? Sounds like it; but, it’s really all about cost structures which are far less in China which is the primary reason for China’s export success. Manipulation of currencies is an artifice that the west will ultimately prove does not work at all (all that over-printing / creating of fiat Weimar paper currencies is a time-tested loser).]Rumor planted by fed of QE3 light spurs rally, not the fake, uneconomic jobs estimate from jersey adp for election year spin purposes which only fools believe. How desperate and pathetic!  For those who think this money-printing out of thin air is without cost, you’re in for a worse than rude awakening. The global markets have become a joke! This is a ‘full press’ as in ‘fiat paper printing presses in overdrive’ debased Weimar dollars / currencies that will end quite badly so take this opportunity to take profits while you can. The manipulated, contrived, and fake data has all been unaffordably ‘electioneared’ for ‘electionyeared’ spin and propaganda. Don’t be their fool! The full moon previously helped keep the contraindicated lunatics’ huge suckers’ rally going with across the board media et als complicity (infra). But not quite … reality (will) catch(es) up … you know the drill … typical suckers’ surge into the close off lows, etc.. Today’s data looked pretty bad to me, even with the manipulations/spin otherwise, ie., Durable goods orders drop by most in 3 years AP , etc.. Then there was previously the manipulated revision to make this month’s distressed, foreclosure sales (backlog) look better. Total scam! This will all end quite badly and is much like the ‘floating on air’ stock price scenario that preceded the dot.com and most recent, continuing debacles. {  http://albertpeia.com/todaysbusinesssummarylinks.htm - today’s business summary links only, by day – scroll down as well for today’s links and for more complete context – Encouraged and recommended! } This global suckers’ rally is based on market frothing hopium for unaffordable, contraindicated, failed QE/wall street only welfare (which is being injected sub rosa, see infra), bad news, fraud, b***s***, and desperation alone, as suckers’ rallies ushered in the new year in a most preposterous fashion [Forget the “January Effect”… Instead Skousen http://www.investmentu.com/2010/December/january-effect-vs-siegel-indicator.html  http://albertpeia.com/forgetthejanuaryeffect.htm  , INVESTORS, SKIP THE 'JANUARY INDICATOR' FOR STOCKS Jan. 26, 2012 Mark Hulbert [ the frauds on wall street still shootin’ for the superstitious so-called ‘January effect’ based on based on market frothing hopium for unaffordable, contraindicated, failed QE/wall street only welfare, bad news, fraud, b***s***, and desperation alone to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in! Don’t be their fool! Mohammed El Erian gets this and to Frank Motek 1070am relates that he’s using the up moves to reduce risk assets / stocks / exposure, in other words, he’s selling the rallies which is sound advice [3-12-12: I’ve previously recommended this business report; but, like everything in america, it’s gotten so bad as in the first 30 minutes I calculated approximately 6 minutes of business report and the balance predominantly advertising and some cbs network stuff before I had to turn it off – I might listen again in a year, if at all. Terrible! ]. The fundamentals/realities, current and prospective, are worse than ever. There are no systems/formulas for these unprecedentedly dire times. Don’t be their sucker! This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much, much worse to come! Here’s a simple chart of the Dow’s history  http://albertpeia.com/dowjonesindavghistory.htm  . Keep in mind how lowly the dollar’s become in terms of purchasing power and relative to metals as ie., gold, etc.. Don’t be scammed by the frauds on wall street, et als.] with lingering intoxication an explanation as the printing presses and issuance of worthless insurmountable debt paper are in full throttle globally (a testament to global blindness as the blind follow the blind) making this impending disaster at this time an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much, much worse to come! jersey-lautenberg based adp with 100% better than expectations private sector jobs number? Nobody thinks so (infra)! Scandal scarred commerce department data? Labor dept. ue claims / ue numbers? Only a fool believes what they say! ( After One Month Respite, Pink Slips Are Flying Again, Lies, Damned Lies, and (Unemployment) Statistics Mac Slavo | The actual unemployment rate in the United States is in excess of 22%.  NFP Payrolls At 200K, Expected At 155K; Unemployment Rate Drops To 8.5%, Labor Force Participation At Lowest Since 1984.. Yet the unemployment rate trickery still continues, with labor force participation (prior revised), now at a 27 year low of 64%, and the labor force itself declined by 50K from 153,937 to 153,887. In fact, persons not in the labor force have increased by 7.5 million since January 2007! Bottom line - dropping out of labor statistics is the new killing it.  http://www.albertpeia.com/laborparticipationrate.jpg ,  ) The same for the conference board which came in with 100% better than expected consumer confidence, which is preposterous even taking into consideration the ‘ultimate bootstrap’ bubble stock price weighting in same. The lack of ‘politicians’ at S&P/Case/Shiller showed a different picture: ’house prices in 20 major metropolitan areas declined 1.2 percent on an unadjusted basis in October after falling 0.7 percent the prior month’. ( US Economic Data Reporting Now Officially A Farce: Every Economic Data Point Prints 4+ Std Devs Above Consensus Zero Hedge ) Watch for more fake reports / data / and spin in their infinite political desperation both here and across the sea, and suckers’ rallies to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in! [ ‘The Currency Wars’ http://www.albertpeia.com/rickardsgrantboltoninterviewvideo.htm  ,  David Rosenberg On The Depression, The ECB, MF Global As A Canary In The Coalmine... All With A Surprise Ending,  This is No Cyclical Recession… It is a Secular DE-pression MF GLOBAL EXPLAINED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLt05sN7vK0&feature=player_embedded  [causal links between OTC derivatives, the financial crisis of 2008, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Jon Corzine and MF Global, ‘Quantitative Easing Explained’  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k  ,   Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm   50% unemployment & 90% Dow crash also predicted. Newsmax   ,  Economic / Financial Collapse Imminent – Stansberry  Investment Advisory http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv    Harry Dent, Jr. Economy will be in a Depression by 2011 Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012 Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the latest. U.S. Dollar will Decline Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between 2010 and 2012). , ‘…technical pattern is predicting the S&P plunges to 935Bank of America via Zero Hedge  Mary Ann Bartels, Bank of America's Head of Technical and Market Analysis , 935 is nothing; the S&P 500 will crash to 579.57United-ICAP's Walter Zimmerman (via WSJ's Tom Kilgore) is a technical analyst who has been looking at the charts and they're telling him that the S&P is headed for 579.57…’   ,  The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com http://albertpeia.com/2008crisisjustwarmupforcomingcollapse.htm Why earnings will continue to decline MarketWatch , 10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve  Eco.Coll.Blog http://albertpeia.com/10thingsmustknowaboutfedreserve.htm  #1 The Federal Reserve System Is A Privately Owned Banking Cartel #2 The Federal Reserve System Is A Perpetual Debt Machine #3 The Federal Reserve Has Destroyed More Than 96% Of The Value Of The U.S. Dollar #4 The Federal Reserve Can Bail Out Whoever It Wants To With No Accountability #5 The Federal Reserve Is Paying Banks Not To Lend Money #6 The Federal Reserve Creates Artificial Economic Bubbles That Are Extremely Damaging #7 The Federal Reserve System Is Dominated By The Big Wall Street Banks #8 It Is Not An Accident That We Saw The Personal Income Tax And The Federal Reserve System Both Come Into Existence In 1913 #9 The Current Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, Has A Nightmarish Track Record Of Incompetence #10 The Federal Reserve Has Become Way Too Powerful  ,  A Warning Sign For The World  http://albertpeia.com/warningsignfortheworld.htm Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen … ,  Despite Two Thirds Of Components Declining, Empire Fed Prints At Highest Since June 2010  ZeroHedge | Chalk this one to “seasonal adjustments” or something, cause we no longer have any clue what is going on with the data fudging in America. ,  20 Signs You Might Be A Typical American Worker  http://albertpeia.com/20signsoftypicalamericanworker.htm , 10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In Front Of Our Eyes   http://albertpeia.com/10signsamericadecomposing.htm , 8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop A Chaotic Greek Debt Default   http://albertpeia.com/8reasonsgreekdebtdefaultstillcoming.htm , 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In 2012   http://albertpeia.com/55factsaboutus2012economy.htm ‘How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.  Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long.  The long-term trends that are ripping our economy and our financial system to shreds continue unabated.  When you step back and look at the broader picture, it is hard to deny that we are in really bad shape and that things are rapidly getting worse.  Later on in this article you will find a list of interesting facts that show the true state of the U.S. economy… ,  http://albertpeia.com/debtpercapita.jpg  , Double-dip recession setting in across eurozone: EU Thomson | AFP , America 1950 vs. America 2012    http://albertpeia.com/downhillslideofamerica.htm , Society’s Five Stages of Economic Collapse  http://albertpeia.com/5stagesofcollapse.htm David Meyer shtfplan.com March 1, 2012  ,  No Housing Recovery - Case Shiller Shows 8th Consecutive Month Of House Price DeclinesLittle that can be added here. The December Case Shiller came, saw, and shut up all those who keep calling for a home price recovery. The Index printed at 136.71 on expectations of 137.11, with the prior revised to 138.24. The top 20 City composite was down -0.5% on expectations of a 0.35% drop. 18 out of 20 MSAs saw monthly declines in December over November… , Goldman: Germany Is Now On The Hook By €1 Trillion (Or 40% Of GDP), 20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas  http://albertpeia.com/20ecostatstowakesheeple.htm  , Central bank balance sheet expansion since end 2007  Mar 1st, 2012 by News (ZeroHedge) — SNB +230%; Fed +222%, BOJ +125%, BOE +87%, PBOC +93%, ECB +51%. USA Gold / PG View: Pretty strong evidence that the rally in bonds — and by extension the rally in stocks — is nothing but a charade. , 10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse Than It Was At The Peak Of The Last Recession  http://albertpeia.com/europeunemploymentworsethanrecession.htm The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent.  That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro.  The unemployment rate in the eurozone never got any higher than 10.2 percent during the last recession.  This is very troubling news.  It was just recently announced that the eurozone has entered another recession, and already the unemployment rate is hitting new record highs… , Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is Taxing The Living Daylights Out Of Us   http://albertpeia.com/inflationisatax.htm  , Guest Post: Cause, Effects & The Fallacy Of A Return To Normalcy , Market Takes First Big Loss Of 2012 As Investors Eye Greek Debt Swap  Forbes , 15 Potentially Massive Threats To The U.S. Economy Over The Next 12 Months  http://albertpeia.com/15massivethreatstoeconomy.htm , 1 Through 30 – The Coming U.S. Financial Crisis By The Numbers http://albertpeia.com/1-30usfinancialcrisiscoming.htm , Gallup Finds February US Unemployment Jumps Most Since 2010, Third Consecutive Monthly IncreaseInitial Claims Miss Expectations, Rise For Third Consecutive Week For First Time Since August 2010Greece Has Defaulted - Which Country In Europe Is Next?    http://albertpeia.com/greecehasdefaultedwhonext.htm , Five Charts That Prove We’re in a Depression and That the Federal Reserve and Washington Are Wasting Money March 12, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/usindepressionfedandgovwastingmoney.htm  , Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are Being Savagely Cut Or Are Vanishing Completely ..  this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going to be affected by broken promises and vanishing pensions.. http://albertpeia.com/uspensionscutorvanishing.htm  , America Is Being Transformed From A Wealthy Nation Into A Poor Nation At Breathtaking Speed  America is losing wealth far faster than any other nation on earth is.  http://albertpeia.com/ustransformedfromwealthytopoor.htm , As US Rakes Largest Monthly Deficit In History, 2012 Tax Revenues Net Of Refunds Trail 2011Guest Post: The Audacity of Bonuses At MF GlobalIn the spirit of George Orwell’s Animal Farm commandment: “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others” comes the galling news that bankruptcy trustee, Louis Freeh, could approve the defunct, MF Global to pay bonuses to certain senior executives. This, despite the fact that nearly $1.6 billion of customer funds remains “missing” or otherwise partially accounted for, yet beyond the reach of those customers, perhaps forever, since before the firm declared bankruptcy on October 31, 2011... , 11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place Without Goldman Sachs [ If only it was just 11 and not an endless number of reasons why the aforesaid is true! And, though america particularly, not just america, but the entire world as well! ] http://albertpeia.com/americabetterwithoutgoldmansachs.htm  , S&P Says Improbable Any Economic Improvement Would Bring Back AAA US Rating Sigh: *S&P says that it is impossible that any economic improvement would bring back the AAA rating *US deficit progress is needed. *Outlook remains negative.- And what do stocks do on latest S&P report that America is broke? Why they surge of course.... , The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System Failure  http://albertpeia.com/ustotalsystemfailure.htm , Kass: The Market Is Overvalued at TheStreet By Doug Kass { Yes, this is true; but, he’s still too optimistic in that he doesn’t point out that the election year manipulations / obfuscations will cause things to end far worse than his anticipation. } , An Open Letter to All Presidential Candidates March 19, 2012 By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/grahamsummerswarnings.htm , Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That The Federal Reserve Is Good And The Gold Standard Is Bad   http://albertpeia.com/benbsshalombernankesellsfedpansgoldstandard.htm [ greenspan and now bernanke are incompetent and total failures creating and exacerbating current and prospective conditions for the sake of fraudulent wall street at everyone else’s expense! ] , 10 Signs That America Is On The Verge Of A Horrible Municipal Debt Crisis   http://albertpeia.com/americanmunicipaldebtcrisis.htm  , Bursting The Permabullish Bubble: 11 Out Of 13 Economic Indicators Have MissedCorzine Corzined - Congressional Panel Finds Former MF Global CEO Ordered JPM Fund Transfer [ ‘Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd.’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in one of the brokerage’s JPMorgan Chase & Co. accounts in London, according to an e-mail sent by a firm executive. Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said…’] , TBTF Get TBTFer: Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221 Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives 10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The World Reserve Currency Is About To Come To An End  http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsdollarreservecurrencyending.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BERNANKE IN ABC MODE ON ABC 3-27-12 ‘Sure, it’s one of my favorite movie scenes and I couldn’t resist it. The Fed is in full campaign mode as great as Obama and his GOP rivals. When stock prices seem in doubt the Fed is ready to launch more assurances accommodation (money printing) will be available. Monday’s rally was typical as we head toward the end of the quarter. Hedge fund performance fees are on the line and any way to boost these profits is job one. Top holdings for hedge funds include the usual suspects: AAPL, IBM, INTC, BAC, DIS, HD etc. With little volume it’s easy for algos and hedge funds to prop stocks on little hard news. Tuesday we briefly saw more of this. Just as markets were weakening a story appeared using the Fed’s favorite oracle, the WSJ, as Fed governor Rosengren stated, “more stimulus is on the table”. Immediately HFT algos jumped and markets rose if only briefly.On its face, the Fed wants higher stock prices to boost confidence in the economy. However from a practical view all they’ve succeeded in doing from my perspective is debasing the dollar creating inflation. The latter will be a problem for the next administration and even the current generation. It’s an all about “now” market in a politically charged year… , Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Second Great Depression By Bailing Out The Too Big To Fail Banks  http://albertpeia.com/weareinsecondgreatdepression.htm  [  To the contrary, because of his policies and particularly the bailouts which facilitated consummation of and even greater frauds, the real economy, the nation, taxpayers will suffer a more severe fate than even that obfuscated by bad policy in this election-year expedience! ‘… When the last financial crisis began, the U.S. national debt was about 10 trillion dollars. Today, it has risen to 15.5 trillion dollars. So Bernanke did not fix anything. The best that can be said is that he kicked the can down the road a little bit and made our long-term financial problems a lot worse at the same time. Bernanke can create money out of thin air and loan it to his friends all he wants, but he is not going to be able to prevent this house of cards from crashing down…’ . He’s as much a fraud and incompetent bozo as ‘his buds who put him there’ for their purpose / benefit. The guy’s a dope http://albertpeia.com/30bunglebenbernankequotes.htm  , a fool which fact is lost on no one vis-à-vis the debased Weimar dollar  http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsdollarreservecurrencyending.htm  , who’s delusional  http://albertpeia.com/bunglerbenfedfedsfailure.htm . He’s a total fraud!  ] , 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete Collapse Of Common Sense In America  http://albertpeia.com/americasdevolutionintomadness.htm http://albertpeia.com/45signsamericatinyelitemajoritypoor.htm  A View on Inflation & Keynesian Talking Points  : CrownThomas : 03/29/2012 The ponzi will fail, and the economy will reset - the only question is when. http://albertpeia.com/fedponzifails.htm  , Charles Hugh Smith On The Phony "Economic Recovery," Stress and "Losing It", Everything Is Going To Be Alright?  ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Is About to Hit Investors: Faber   http://albertpeia.com/massivewealthdestructionabouttohit.htm CNBC.com | Runaway government debts have triggered uncontrolled money printing that in turn will lead to inflation.. , The 15 Trillion Dollar Party  http://albertpeia.com/bankruptamericadestroyingthefuture.htm  { WALL STREET IS SO FRAUDULENTLY BEYOND THE PALE; FOR THERE IS NO QUESTION BUT THAT THEY BELONG IN JAIL! }  , RICHARD RUSSELL: A Massive Stock Market Collapse Will Wipe Out 60 Years Of Inflation And Leveraging Business Insider , Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Europe on the Verge Edition) 4-2-12   http://albertpeia.com/euontheverge.htm , 27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe   http://albertpeia.com/27statsofeueconomiccrisis.htm  , How Bad Do Things Have to Be For the Fed AND the ECB to Talk of Easing… On the Same DayApril 13, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/gpcsaysthingsarereallythatbad.htm , 25 Signs That America Is A Seething Cesspool Of Filth And Corruption http://albertpeia.com/25signsamericacesspooloffilthcrimeandcorruption.htm  , http://albertpeia.com/debtcrisisdestroysamerica.htm  , Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money  http://albertpeia.com/whydochimpslikeobamasthrowpoop29waysgovernmentwastesmoney.htm  , Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  , No Housing Recovery Until 2020 In 5 Simple Charts
http://albertpeia.com/nohousingrecoveryuntil2020in5charts.htm
, The Mother Of All Infographics: Visualizing America's Derivatives Universe   Fasten Your Seatbelts: High Frequency Trading Is Coming To The Treasury Market    [ 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy Is Heading Into A Great Depression http://albertpeia.com/22signsspainheadingintogreatdepression.htm , The Secrets of the Spanish Banking System That 99% of Analysts Fail to Grasp http://spainbanksystemsecrets.htm , What Do California And Detroit Have In Common? http://albertpeia.com/californiadetroitdeclineincommon.htm

 

5-18-12 The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party   http://albertpeia.com/lastwallstreetparty.htm  ,  ‘Jersey Boy Bruce’, Stalwart Wobama Supporter, Will He Change the Words to: ‘Wasn’t Born in the U.S.A.’ , ‘Wasn’t Born in the U.S.A.’  http://albertpeia.com/wasntbornintheusa.htm  Say it isn’t so ,‘Jersey Boy Brucie’! http://albertpeia.com/obp.jpg  Sing it Brucie: Not born in the usa, Not born in the usa, O’s not born in the usa, O wasn’t born in the usa! , http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  GREAT EXPECTATIONS OVERHYPED 5-18-12 ‘China reported home prices fell in 46 of 70 districts. Also auto dealers in China saw car sales come to a screeching halt. They’re stuck with inventories. In the U.S. we know auto manufacturers have stuffed the channels to dealers with massive inventory. Given overall market conditions and declining consumer sentiment perhaps dealers in the U.S. will experience the same troubles. The eurozone continued to show troubles as Moody’s downgraded dozens of Spanish banks as if anyone cares anymore. In other news, did you hear there was a new issue for Facebook (FB) today? I went out on a limb yesterday wondering if the deal, given terrible overall market conditions, might be a flop. How would you rate it beyond the absurd crowding-out the launch occasioned? CNBC known for the best hype in the media now wondered aloud if the deal was “overhyped”. That’s the sudden change and chameleon-like behavior of the financial media. I guess people looked at the 107 PE and selling at 26 X sales as chilling, not to mention crummy market conditions overall. The jokes are flying around WS assigning “face plant book”, “fadebook”, “fakebook” and so on. , Historic Facebook debut falls flat , Eurozone turmoil could last two more years, says Schäuble , "The Truth Gets Out Eventually" ZeroHedge.com  Durden  Some look at today's FaceBook IPO flop, the ongoing market rout, and the situation in Europe with disenchantment and disappointment. We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out - the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio-economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1%ers), is one big lie. , PeakBook? , Friday Night Tape Bomb: Spain Hikes Budget Deficit From 8.5% to 8.9%   ,  John Hathaway: "This Is The Bottom For Gold"  , FadeBook  , JPM On Grexit, TARGET2, And The ECB Unless Greece chooses to leave the Euro area, which JPMorgan doubts will happen, the rest of the region will have to push Greece out. The mechanism for this will be the ECB excluding the Greek central bank from Target2, the regional payments and settlement system…’ , Guest Post: Risk Ratio Indicating More Correction Coming , EUR Soars On No News, As Santander UK Says 30% Of Visiting Customers Pulled Their Deposits Today  , Biderman On Malinvestment And Diminishing Returns From Intervention  Charles Biderman of TrimTabs discusses the reality of the macro environment with Madeline Schnapp - though do not worry as the sense of sarcasm and disbelief at the government's actions and hopes is palpable. Noting that our economy is at best growing 'sluggishly' based off her real-time macro data,  Biderman's right hand goes on to explain to him that inflation is running hotter than the government would like us to believe. More importantly, she hits the nail on the head with regard to what Biderman notes is the wasted stimulus money, saying that the economy needs to clear the malinvestments, not sustain them through stimulus transmission mechanisms, in order for growth to once again re-appear. Historically QE2 did manage to create some inventory restocking and pick up in wages/salaries in Q1 2011 but Operation Twist appears to have little to no impact on the real economy (outside of government statistical modelers) - which as we have said before indicates the diminishing returns to government intervention. What is clear is that, as we have noted, that post the 1971 modified gold standard, over a long-period of time it has taken an 'unsustainably' increasing amount of government debt to create economic growth - with the post-2008 insanity that we need $2.50 to create $1 of economic growth. The two end with a discussion of the debt ceiling and deficit potential for a black swan event. , Nasdaq Finally Sends Out FaceBook Trade Confirms... With Two Hour Delay  ,  LCH Hikes Margin Requirements On Spanish Bonds  ,  And Now Back To Europe, Which Is More Unfixed Than Ever

So stepping aside from the biggest aggregator of private data for a few minutes, and focusing on what actually matters, here is Citigroup telling our European readers who have those fancy multi-colored bills in their wallets, that they are in deep trouble.

To summarize from Citi:

  • There are many scenarios for a Greek exit;  almost all of them are likely to be EUR negative for an extended period
  • Some scenarios could be positive in equilibrium but the run-up to the new equilibrium could be nasty, brutal and long 
  • The positive scenarios for the euro involve aggressive reduction of tail risk; none of these seem likely
  • It is unlikely that central banks busily substitute EUR for USD in their portfolios during periods of intense political uncertainty.

 

Rumors, Denials, and Visions of Chaos  : testosteronepit : 05/18/2012  In the Eurozone Will the FHA require a bailout? – 12,000,000 underwater mortgages 3,000,000 are FHA insured loans : drhousingbubble FHA insured loans have been a big booster for the current market.  Historically FHA insured loans made up roughly 8 to 12 percent of all mortgage originations but in 2009 they hit 30 percent.... , Gross / PIMCO On Facebook: "I Know A Bubble When I See One"

 

As The Chinese Car "Channel Stuffing" Bubble Pops, "Debilitating Price Cuts" Arrive  The fact that GM's "stunning" car sales have been in no small part driven exclusively by its eagerness to stuff dealers with unsold inventory, aka channel stuffing, is well known to Zero Hedge readers - we have been covering the subject for over a year now. What we did not know, yet what in retrospect is so glaringly obvious, is that the GM ploy of fooling the dumbest sellside analysts and investors all the time has now gone global. And while channel stuffing may have worked for a while, it is now starting to bite back. Bloomberg reports: "Chinese dealers are struggling with the rising number of unsold cars that’s threatening to deepen price cuts, according to the nation’s biggest automobile dealers’ association. Dealerships for Honda Motor Co., Chery Automobile Co., BYD Co. and Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. carried more than 45 days of inventory as of the end of April, exceeding the threshold that foreshadows debilitating price cuts, Su Hui, vice president of the auto market division at the state-backed China Automobile Dealers Association, said in an interview yesterday.  Unsold cars are crowding dealer lots in cities from Guangzhou in the south to Xi’an to the west,” Su said in a phone interview yesterday from Beijing. “It’s like a contagious disease that will spread." Wait, so Channel Stuffing is... bad? And if 45 days of inventory "foreshadows debilitating price cuts", then what should GM with its 86 days of full vehicle days supply in the US say?

 

5-17-12  18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse  http://albertpeia.com/18signseuropebankcrisisbadtoworse.htm  With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The situation in Europe is rapidly going from bad to worse.  It is almost like watching air being let out of a balloon.  The key to any financial system is confidence, and right now confidence in banks in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal is declining at an alarming rate.  When things hit the fan in Europe, it is going to be much safer to have your money in Swiss banks or German banks than in Greek banks, Spanish banks or Italian banks.  Millions of people in Europe are starting to realize that a "euro" is not necessarily always going to be a "euro" and they are starting to panic.  The Greek banking system is already on the verge of total collapse, and at this rate it is only a matter of time before we see some major Spanish and Italian banks start to fail.  In fact it has already been announced that the fourth largest bank in Spain, Bankia, will be getting bailed out by the Spanish government.  It is only a matter of time before we hear more announcements like this.  Right now, events are moving so quickly in Europe that it is hard to keep up with them all.  But this is what usually happens in the financial world.  When things go well, it tends to happen over an extended period of time.  When things fall apart, it tends to happen very rapidly…’ , We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die Right In Front Of Our Eyes  http://albertpeia.com/greekbankingsystemdying.htm  Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies.  As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and converts back to the drachma.  The fear is that all existing euros in Greek banks would be converted over to drachmas which would then rapidly lose value after the transition.  So right now euros are being pulled out of Greek banks at a staggering pace.  According to MSNBC, Greeks withdrew $894 million from Greek banks on Monday alone and a similar amount was withdrawn on Tuesday. ..’ , One Epic Chinese Bubble - One Chart ZeroHedge.com Durden, Everything You Need To Know About Europe's Dilemma In 4 Minutes , So How Are JPM's Prop "Counterparties" Faring? We already know that JPM has lost billions on its prop trade, and as suggested earlier (and as the FT picked up subsequently), JPM's prop desk (not to mention its actual standalone hedge fund, $29 billion Highbridge, which nobody has oddly enough discussed in the mainstream press yet) is so large that unwinding the full trade, as well as all other positions held by the CIO, would be unwieldy, allowing us to mock "the fun of negative convexity - especially when you ARE the market and there is no-one to unwind the actual tranches to." The FT then phrased it as follows: "I can’t see how they could unwind these positions because no one can replace them in terms of size. It’s a bit of the same problem they face with the derivatives trade," said a credit trader at a rival bank. "They pretty much are the market." Which actually is funny, because if the media were to actually read a paper or two on how the market works, and puts two and two together, it just may figure out that the biggest beneficial counterparty for JPM is none other than the Fed, using the conduits of the Tri-Party repo system. But that is for Long-Term Capital MorganTM and its new CIO head Matt "LTCM" Zames to worry about. In the meantime, a question nobody has asked is how have the purported JPM counterparties, the most public of which are BlueMountain and BlueCrest who leaked the trade to the press in the first place, and are allegedly on the other side of the IG9 blow up doing. Well, according to the latest HSBC hedge fund update looking at the week ended May 11, not that hot. , It's Not Over Yet For JPM , Moody's Downgrades 16 Spanish Banks, As Expected , Flight From Risk: Treasury Plummets To Record Low Yield As Gold Surges , Jamie Dimon "Invited" To Testify Before Senate , Goldman Goes Short The US Consumer , Guest Post: Regardless Of What The Propaganda Says, This Is Not How A Free Society Treats People , A Simple Question For Senator Schumer As many already know, earlier today Senator Schumer announced the cleverly named Ex-PATRIOT act, which seeks nothing short of exile for anyone who effectively declines their US citizenship for tax avoidance purposes. So far so good. We have, however, one simple question. In light of recent media reports of rampant abuse of various international tax loopholes by US corporations (recall the Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich), but much more importantly, the glaring abuse of offshore tax shelters by hedge funds - organization such as Paulson & Co., RenTec, York Capital, etc., and financial institutions, such as Lazard, Blackstone, and Credit Suisse, can Senator Schumer please rep, warrant and guarantee that none of his corporate sponsors, i.e., his Top 100 Contributors, have ever engaged in any form of explicit or implicit tax avoidance, tax offshoring, and tax shelter. To facilitate his checklisting, we have presented his top 100 contributors below. Because if he can't, one may be left with the impression that his whole anti-tax tirade and legislation is, you know, hypocritical. , Prudent Fiscal Policy and Political Suicide  : testosteronepit : “Public debt is an enemy for the country” , Forget Peak Oil, Time To Worry About Peak Oil Labor : EconMatters : A recent IMF working paper predicts a permanent doubling of real oil prices over the coming decade.  However, the "peak oil labor" could be just enough to tip the scale for the... , Debate: Do We Need More Regulation … Or Less? : George Washington : The Issue Is Not Really Regulation ... It is a Malignant, Symbiotic Relationship Between Government and Wall Street  , The American Foreclosure Process Has Ground To A Halt Something funny happened in the aftermath of the US fraudclosure settlement, in which millions of backlogged housing units were supposed to enter the foreclosure process and begin the clearing of the nearly 9 million housing units in shadow inventory: nothing. Because as RealtyTrac disclosed overnight, in April the US saw a mere 188,780 foreclosures events of various type (NOD, auction, REO) take place. Why is this number significant? Because it is the lowest in 5 years, despite shadow inventory in the US now being virtually the highest ever. But, but, "this is precisely what the foreclosure settlement was supposed to prevent" , Guest Post: How The U.S. Dollar Will Be Replaced The dollar was a median step towards a newer and more corrupt ideal.  Its time is nearly over.  This is open, it is admitted, and it is being activated as you read this. , Philly Fed Plunges, First Contraction Since September 2011 , Consumer Blinks as "Consumer Comfort" Collapses Most In 4 Years , US leading indicators -0.1% in Apr, below market expectations of +0.1%, vs +0.3% in Mar. May 17th, 2012 09:28 by News , US Philly Fed fell to -5.8 in May, well below market expectations of 10.3, vs 8.5 in Apr.  May 17th, 2012 09:24 by News , Greek Exit: How Much It Would Cost Europe , Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From Currency  , US initial jobless claims 370k for the week ended 12-may, above expectations of 365k, vs upward revised 370k in the previous week. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES; IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES 5-17-12 ‘It struck me as odd knowing how much money is at stake in underwriting fees and newfound wealth set against a rapidly collapsing stock market. You probably know how these deals like Facebook get priced and distributed. The underwriters and selling group members have been twisting arms and issuing ultimatums to institutional clients—you are to take “x” number of shares or you’ll never get another deal again. That’s the way we roll. So as billions are about to be made by underwriters and insiders, Main Street is losing its collective shirt in the current stock market plunge. It’s quite a disconnect frankly.Facebook is a great company, growing and dominating in many ways. But others have a different take including Lucy Marcus via Reuters which others aren’t discussing. And, not mentioned overall of course: What if the Facebook deal is a flop given market conditions?Jobless Claims (370K vs 365K estimated & prior revised higher to 370K) were a little weaker than estimated but the revisions allowed for a better headline. On the other hand, The Philly Fed Survey (-5.8 vs 10 expected & prior 8.5) was much worse and the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index (-443.6 vs prior -40.4) was also quite weak. Leading Economic Indicators (-.1% vs .1% expected & prior .3%) were also disappointing…’ , New evidence in Trayvon Martin case raises more questions Trayvon Martin's autopsy shows he had marijuana in his system the night he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, and a gunshot to his chest came from close range, according to nearly 200 pages of previously undisclosed documents released Thursday. , 19 Things That All High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College   http://albertpeia.com/19thingshsstudentsshouldbetoldbeforecollege.htm  , 12 Pictures That Demonstrate How The New World Order Openly Mocks Us  http://albertpeia.com/newworldordervedgesmockus.htm   { First, let me say that the vedges of the so-called new world order are in no real position to mock anyone, so mockable as they indeed are, as the incompetent vegetables that they in fact are, who have been the very architects of ultimately their own and the planet’s decline, fall, and demise. Yet, there is no question but that the ‘masses’ so mocked, deserve to be mocked, having embraced their dismal fate at every turn; viz., their embrace of ‘political correctness’, though contraindicated, as, ie., the embrace of the violent, destructive nigger who literally would have them for dinner, or the compulsion to embrace that which the state says is right, though contraindicated, for political expedience owing to failure fed (including the incompetent missteps of the failed fed) desperation, ie., gay marriage, etc., contrived wars / conflicts, among other clearly observable, self-interested behavior of people, companies, nations, including the gargantuan bailed out frauds on wall street to everyone’s (but the frauds’) detriment, still unprosecuted. That the jive-talking, b***s*** artist/grifter/con-man obama has not been held to even one of his former now broken campaign promises and is embraced by those foolish enough to believe more of the same is testament to how deserving of mocking the masses truly are (people should be outraged and wobama should be ‘ridden out on a rail’). Make no mistake; the reality is that the ‘new world order’/so-called ‘elite’ are not elite at all; but rather, incompetent vegetables who can’t do anything right as they’ve now proven time and time again. As I previously said: The Elite Believe That You Are Ruining Their Planet And They Want You To Stop Reproducing

{ First and foremost clarification: There are no elite on this planet. The grim reality for this planet is a dominant species descended from initially notochords, primitive chordates, and relatively more recently primitive apes.
See generally,
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm  , for a brief but sorrowful history of man.  }

 

http://albertpeia.com/planetalreadyruined.htm   }

 

 

5-16-12 The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed By Bank Runs In Other European Nations  ‘‘The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning.  Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks.  For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number…’  http://albertpeia.com/greekbankrunsgoeurope.htm   ,   This is the beginning of a run on banks. Zero Hedge blogger Durden fears the worst as he passes along pictures of ATM lines in Greece. "A Greek banking system which is now virtually shut out of any extrenal funding except for the ELA, where it has a few billions euros in access left, will be unable to deal with hundreds of millions in deposit outflows," he writes. "This may be the beginning of the end for Greece, just as Buiter and later JPM warned over the weekend." , The debt ceiling nightmare scenario (for the u.s.) , Euro Zone, a Solvency Not a Liquidity Crisis  ,   Chris Martenson: "We Are About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis" ZeroHedge.com Durden ‘…Alas, all good things come to an end, and a crisis rooted in ‘too much debt’ with a nice undercurrent of ‘persistently high and rising energy costs’ was never going to be solved by providing cheap liquidity to the largest and most reckless financial institutions. And it has not.’ , Three Charts On Why This Time Is 'Not' Different For Stocks We are constantly told that this time is different and we are on a sustainable magic carpet ride to growth, that stocks are merely 'stabilizing' to allow earnings to catch up with valuations, and that buying-the-dip is the obvious trade. However, as the three charts below indicate - its no different this time at all. As Barclays notes, VIX and credit markets are leaking exactly as they did in 2010 and 2011 in preemptive anticipation of the end of Twist (and LTRO) leaving stocks vulnerable to the real shocks of a real macro event risk world; equity performance remains too good to warrant a central bank response (as we just saw in the FOMC minutes) and TIPS breakevens are far above previous intervention levels; and while bank funding fears, growth slowdown concerns, and sovereign downgrade worries are supposedly lesser than in previous sell-off periods, we suggest they are absolutely rising in anxiety and that is the catalyst for the next leg down before the inevitable QE/LTRO occurs. , A 12-Year-Old Girl Crushes The Canadian (and American) Dream  When Ron Paul stands up in front of a crowd and explains the fictional-reserve banking system's unreality, some listen, many shrug and bury their heads. When ZeroHedge does the same, comments are heavy but change is slow to come. But when a 12-year-old girl, in a little over five minutes can explain the total farce that is our monetary system, surely people have to listen and break free of the matrix. Victoria Grant, 12, explains how "The banks and the government have colluded to financially enslave the people of Canada," and as CTV notes, 'Grant lays out a brief history of the Canadian banking system, referencing obscure historical figures such as former Vancouver mayor Gerald McGeer and explaining that the Bank of Canada held primary control over government lending until the 1970's. Starting then, she says, governments began borrowing from private banks instead at considerably higher interest rates than those available through the central bank. The result, Grant argues, is a rapidly increasing national debt. The pint-sized pundit is quick to offer a solution. "If the Canadian Government needs money, they can borrow it directly from the Bank of Canada," she says. " ... Canadians would again prosper with real money as the foundation of our economic structure." The truth is out there - whether it comes from Alan Simpson, Ron Paul, ZeroHedge, or a 12-year-old Canadian young lady. , Bruno Iksil Leaving ,  Greece Sneezes, The Euro Dies of Pneumonia! A Step-by-Step Guide To Pan-Euro, Bank Busting Contagion http://albertpeia.com/paneurobankbustingcontagion.htm  , European Banks Battered As Reality Sets In As Europe opened last night markets were very weak with Sovereigns gapping dramatically wider and equity and credit markets under pressure. Just as in the last few days in Europe though, early weakness has been tempered by a modest belief that the ECB will save us all if it gets bad enough. Today was a little different - as we noted it appeared the ECB was starting to play chicken a little more vocally and while equity, credit, and sovereigns rallied in their usual way off the open - there was one critical difference - financials did not. Early on it was clear that many traders were looking to place the short-financials, long-sovereign credit trade, this implicitly forced LTRO-encumbered banks to underperform (as Greek, Italian, and Spanish banks were crushed in stocks and spreads) moving the LTRO Stigma wider still - back near record wides. The EURUSD was choppy but once the ECB headlines hit and rumors swirled of more bank runs, cessation of support, and capital controls, it fell back below 1.2700 once again (only to surge a little into the Europe day-session close - back to unch. Treasuries and Bunds were in lockstep - leaking higher in yield as the technical support for sovereigns came in (not from the ECB but via our financials-sovereign spreads arb) but this gave way into the close as risk asset weakness dragged yields lower in Germany. US equities faded into the Europe close (as normal) ending back at a balanced VWAP, with EU financial stocks down over 1% on average, and EU stocks overall down around 0.75% (BE500). , Did Draghi Just Give Greece The All-Clear To Leave? ECB President Draghi just admitted that while the ECB Governing Council would like Greece to stay, there is a limit to what they will do to save it and will do everything they can to preserve their 'pristine' balance sheet - which sounds a lot to us like - 'we are not lending/printing/supporting your financial system anymore as you are far too big a risk (and are asset-stripped) and to be honest, it might be better if you just left - since we have encumbered all your assets anyway'. , Art Cashin On Ostrich Rallies, ATM Lines And MOC Bluffs You saw it all unfold here blow by blow yesterday. Now Art Cashin gives the post-mortem. , Housing Starts Beat, Permits Miss; Both Crawl Along Record Bottom  Following several months of permits rising even as starts flatlined, today we get the opposite, as forward looking construction came weaker than expected, with permits printing at 715K on expectations of 730K, while starts coming ahead at 717K on expectations of 685K. Completions soared as backlogs caught up with inventory started and under construction. Really, that's all one can say about these two series, who long-term charts can be seen below. What can one say but crawling at the bottom, and increasing modestly courtesy of trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus, and as of recently full-blown mortgage debt forgiveness courtesy of this country's desperate administration to get some traction in at least one metric of economic improvement.

Frontrunning: May 16

  • Facebook's selling shareholders can't wait to get out of company, increase offering by 25% (Bloomberg)
  • Boehner Draws Line in Sand on Debt (WSJ)
  • Romney Attacks Obama Over Recovery Citing U.S. Debt Load (Bloomberg)
  • BHP chairman says commodity markets to cool further (Reuters)
  • Merkel’s First Hollande Meeting Yields Growth Signal for Greece (Bloomberg)
  • Greek President Told Banks Anxious as Deposits Pulled (Bloomberg)
  • EU to push for binding investor pay votes (FT)
  • Martin Wolf: Era of a diminished superpower (FT)
  • China’s Hong Kong Home-Buying Influx Wanes, Midland Says (Bloomberg)
  • U.N. and Iran agree to keep talking on nuclear  (Reuters)
  • US nears deal to reopen Afghan supply route (FT)

 

ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting {That little (6’3”) thieving nigger was enraged by his being thwarted in his scope-out/plundering of Zimmerman’s neighborhood. Clearly self-defense with wounds consistent with his true story, Zimmerman was fighting for his life and ultimately saved the citizens of Florida from the future costs of the burgeoning violent, thieving typical nigger-criminal trayvon martin.}

 

5-15-12 Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The End Of The Eurozone  http://albertpeia.com/endofeurozone.htm  What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable.  All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility.  In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable. , Drudgereport: BANK RUNS HIT GREECE
Merkel and Hollande join forces on Greece...

Europe prepares for 'messy' exit...
Little country threatens big impact...
Italy's banks shaken; Slump deepens...

Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting...

Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  NO STOMACH FOR MARKETS TUESDAY 5-15-12 ‘The rundown from the eurozone is as follows: The bright star is German GDP (EWG) came in better than expected at .5% vs .1% expected. France (EWQ) reported a flat GDP report. Italian (EWI) GDP was -.8% and the Netherlands (EWN) -.2%. In Eastern Europe, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania reported their economies in recession. Spain’s bond prices continued to fall slightly and yields rose. All of this was reported as “better” news even as EWG fell sharply.Meanwhile, back in the U.S. the CPI (if you give it any credibility) was reported as flat, Retail Sales (.1% vs .1% expected & prior .7%) was unremarkable, The Empire State Mfg Survey (17.09 vs 10 expected & 6.56 prior) beat and the Home Price Index (29 vs 26 expected & 25 prior) was positive. Retailers (XRT) will dominate the remainder of the week. Home Depot (HD) reported earnings in-line with expectations and the stock was lower (you must beat) by 2%. J.C. Penney (JCP) just posted a report after the close and they missed badly sending the stock lower in late trading by double digits. The world awaits the Facebook IPO and the buzz is the shares are oversubscribed. At least that was the case until GM announced it was discontinuing its advertising there calling it “ineffective”. That itself may cause an earthquake on the peninsula. The dollar (UUP) continues to gain at the expense of the euro (FXE) as rumors continue to suggest a loss of a few members. Did you know it was occasionally customary for Inuits in Alaska to leave their senior members, thinking them a burden, on an ice floe to die? This may be the way of some eurozone members or maybe even U.S. healthcare….. until we see a blow-off sell day. Current intraday buying is just so much wasted buying power. Bulls are waking out of their blasé slumber to come to grips with what so far is just a correction. But the hard reality seems that global economic news is killing them like a cancer. The best outcome for markets would be for some extended sideways action which in itself is frustrating.Volume continued higher on more selling. Breadth per the WSJ was negative once again. One look at the end of this post at the McClellan Oscillator tells the tale of short-term oversold conditions…’

Is The Pain Over For Bruno Iksil?  Today, for the first time since the advent of the JPM prop trading fiasco last Thursday, the IG9-10 Year skew has diverged, dipping from -3 bps to -5 bps as the index remained flattish while the intrinsics widened by about 2 bps. While hardly earthshattering, this move likely means that either JPM's CIO trading desk is playing possum and is no longer unwinding its original pair trade exposure (either because it no longer has anything to unwind, or because it can't take the pain any more and is out of the market entirely), or the hedge fund consortium has had enough of pushing IG 9 wider in hopes that max pain would force JPM to cover its synthetic leg. As a reminder, this is where last Thursday we said the time to push JPM would likely end. As for the question of how much additional P&L loss JPM has sustained from Friday through today is a different matter entirely, and we are confident the next announcement from JPM will come momentarily, coupled with the announcement that Bruno Iksil, the last remnant of the CIO desk, and now having completed his duty of unwinding the trade that brought so much pain for Jamie Dimon, has been retired. , "The Weight Of The Nation": Documenting America's Obesity Epidemic: Part 2 - Choices , Will America Ever Recover From The Housing Crisis - A Real Estate Infographic Back in March, on the back of the last gasp of yet another central bank-induced sugar high (in this case mostly LTRO 1+2), as well as economic data skewed by record warmth, a plethora of housing bottom callers (we would call them analysts but they are anything but) emerged from their hibernation and did what they do like clockwork every year: called a housing in bottom. Sadly, now that the market has topped out, at least for the current easing iteration, it appears that the housing triple dip as measured by Case Shiller will shortly be a quadruple dip. And so on, and so on, until the question becomes: will America ever recover from the housing crisis. We don't know, but we do know one thing - fixing an excess debt problem with more debt won't work. Period. Yet that is what continues to be the only "policy" in resolving the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. For everyone else seeking a more nuanced answer we suggest perusing the infographic below which provides a less jaded perspective and even has a Hollywood conclusion: "The end is on the horizon"... well, a Tarantino-esque conclusion: "...The distant horizon." , Next Stop: …{‘The Weimar Zone’}0 ‘….because his estimate is predicated on one simple thing: hyperinflation, or specifically 12.2% inflation each year, which for a country like America is tantamount to the dreaded H-word. The other premise used by Gijesels: too much debt which has to be inflated. And actually, he is spot on. .. due to money printing, which is his underlying thesis, one will needed scientific notation to express the price of any hard asset (and most certainly gold), because if America falls in a two-decade long Weimar republic phase, the Dow may well be 100,000 or 100 googol - the truth is it won't matter as the money this number translated to would be absolutely meaningless. Just ask the Weimar Germans, who may have had some tremendous monthly increases in their 401(k) statements, but all they really cared about is whether they had the latest and most fashionable wheelbarrow model’ (to cart around the near worthless paper money). , Seth Klarman On The Absurd Short-Termism Of The Exuberant Rally  While most of the retail investor's time is (hopefully not) spent watching CNBC propaganda spouted by wannabe traders (mostly asset gatherers as opposed to real return seekers) who sell their $29.95 books on how to be rich in 30 seconds trading the TVIX; some might prefer to listen to the original thoughtful value investor - Seth Klarman. The man whose book 'Margin of Safety' sells for over $1000 (and whose acumen extends for decades) just released Baupost's (his fund) quarterly letter and makes what should be a critical statement for any and every investor to consider when next they hear of quantitative easing prognostications. In two short sentences, Klarman states: "We will not be tempted into making investments based on such absurdly short-term thinking, which sadly still dominates Wall Street. We focus solely on fundamentals. We are comfortable missing out on potentially major rallies if they are based purely on money flows or government action; the risks of engaging in this sort of speculative activity are simply too high." And echoing our thoughts perfectly, "The same low interest rate, deficit-spending driven, leverage-friendly economic policies that fueled the unsustainable conditions that led to the 2008 collapse are with us still."

 

5-14-12 JPMorgan Estimates Immediate Losses From Greek Exit Could Reach 400 Billion   Are They Insane? 58 Percent Of Americans Believe Economic Conditions In The United States Will Be Good A Year From Now  http://albertpeia.com/insanelyoptimistic.htm  , If You Live In California Things Just Got A Whole Lot Worse http://albertpeia.com/hopelesscluelesscalifornia.htm  Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ,  Why Is The Obama Administration Allowing The Chinese Government To Buy Up U.S. Oil And Gas Deposits Worth Billions Of Dollars?  http://albertpeia.com/chinabuyingamerican.htm  , Merkel is Backed Into a Corner… Commit Political Suicide or Bail on the Euro? May 13, 2012 By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/merkelpolsuicideorbailoneuro.htm  ,  State Election Defeat Seen as Disaster for Merkel  (WSJblogs) , Greece Can No Longer Delay Euro Zone Exit  It’s Going to Get Harder for Merkel  (Der Spiegel) ,  Newsweek cover: Obama ‘first gay president’ , Must Read: "Another Perspective"  "The Weight Of The Nation": Documenting America's Obesity Epidemic: Part 1 - Consequences , Biderman And Bianco Bury Bernanke's Bond Bull Market Backbone  , Guest Post: JPM Chase Chairman, Jamie Dimon, The Whale Man, And Glass-Steagall  , Moody's Downgrades 26 Italian Banks: Full Report MOODY'S DOWNGRADES ITALIAN BANKS; OUTLOOKS REMAIN NEGATIVE , Deja Deja Deja Etc. As S&P 500 Closes Below 50DMA First Time Since November , Guest Post: Sex, Money and Largesse - The Hidden Depression , Phil Falcone's Downfall Is Complete: LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy  , "No-Brainer Trade Of The Year" Plummets As Bondholders Duck Ahead Of Possible Greek Bankruptcy Tomorrow  , James Montier On "Complexity To Impress", Monkeys With Guns, And Why VaR Is Doomed "One of my favourite comedians, Eddie Izzard, has a rebuttal that I find most compelling. He points out that “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people, but so do monkeys if you give them guns.” This is akin to my view of financial models. Give a monkey a value at risk (VaR) model or the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and you’ve got a potential financial disaster on your hands." - James Montier, May 6 , Guest Post: The New European Serfdom , Iberia Implodes To 17 Year Lows As Stigma Trade +200% , Meet The Latest Converted Gold Bug: The IMF , Must See: Greece Explained In One Picture We were going to do a caption contest out of this image, but unfortunately this is not funny. It is tragic. Many people will lose all their money, savings, livelihood, and more because of this...

 

Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  MARKETS CAN’T CLIMB ON ONE WHEEL 5-14-12 ‘Angela Merkel’s party suffered a severe rebuke in local elections to socialists and other left parties. This action demonstrates the tenacity with which the public in the eurozone demands to cling to government benefits versus austerity. It further complicates matters politically for the EMU and previously agreed financial arrangements and commitments. On Saturday, the troika agreed to give Greece an extra year (2015) to reach its budget and deficit goals. This shows weakness. All this means is the eurozone will remain a problem for months and years to come. Clearly, if austerity and reform are off the table then who will pick-up the tab—the Chinese? JP Morgan (JPM) estimated if Greece were to bug-out of the eurozone and their commitments, it would cost the remaining bag holders $500 billion. We see the same conditions in Wisconsin and now California facing a $16 billion budget shortfall. The fight with public unions and other entitlements is only just beginning as current and future benefits are too much to bear fiscally without reform.

As an aside let’s review the reoccurring issues with mega-banks as just happened with JPM. I’ve been writing about the demise of the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA) for a long time. I featured it in my early 2007 book “Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund” and frequently on ETF Digest. The GSA was made law during the Great Depression. Among other things it separated banks from brokers and federally insured bank deposits (FDIC) to $100K. This had meant banks were restricted in how they dealt with depositor funds which were widely insured by the public. In the late second term of the Clinton administration the law was allowed to lapse. At the core of this demise were a band of brothers (Phil Gramm, Chris Dodd, Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin) led by Sanford “call me Sandy” Weill. He was the straw that stirred the drink and a major WS wheeler-dealer. It allowed his brokerage firm to merge with Citigroup putting the fox in the henhouse. Others quickly followed suit. It was great (for them) from the get-go but a financial disaster ultimately as the walls separating underwriting and trading from federally insured deposit taking came tumbling down. It created a regulatory mess as a multitude of agencies now had responsibility to oversee these new mega-bank combinations. Regulators were inadequate to the task. When the financial crisis hit in 2008 suddenly trading the public’s money meant the public had to bail out these new mega-banks. Rather than reinstituting various protections of the GSA the government just heaped more regulations atop those that weren’t working anyway. The mega-banks and their congressional allies weren’t about to let the toothpaste be put back in the tube. Therefore, we still have these JPM trading fiascos occurring because there aren’t enough smart (emphasis added) regulators to oversee (herd cats) mega-banks. And, besides if they’re bailed-out once they expect to be bailed-out again. The solution is simple. Let bankers be bankers taking in government insured deposits within manageable rules and let brokers be brokers regulated separately. The latter can continue to do stupid things with their stockholders money but not with public funds. The financial world would be a better place.

Lower oil prices are a mixed blessing since it benefits consumers but is also a sign of serious trouble for the global economy as demand falls. We see much the same thing with most commodities. Priced in dollars (UUP), and with the dollar rallying, commodity prices continue to decline from that aspect as well. (Hmm, I wonder if rappers and Hollywood stars are still stashing their dough in euros and / or making it rain.) Gold (GLD) and other commodities (DBC, SLV, USO and JJC) also took a beating. Emerging Markets, more sensitive to commodity prices, were also much weaker … Some buying may be wasted buying power and a gamble that economic data later in the week and retailer earnings would provide a boost. By day’s end stocks were in the toilet once again. What’s good? Bonds from the big three: Germany, U.S. and Japan.The bottom line is you can’t lose the BRICs, the euro and the eurozone and expect U.S. markets or commodities to rally going it alone. No way, now how.Premium members to the ETF Digest receive added signals when markets become extended such as DeMark triggers to exit overbought / oversold conditions.Volume once again on selling was relatively higher while breadth per the WSJ was quite light…’

 

5-11-12 WALL STREET DOES BROADWAY’

http://albertpeia.com/wallstreetdoesbroadway.htm

http://albertpeia.com/collapseofderivativesmarket.htm

 

Lot of whistling down there on wall street as ‘WALL STREET DOES BROADWAY’ (not Main Street mind you, they’re for screwin’) … Rogers and Hamerstein to be exact with their recurring theme going thusly:

 

Whenever the frauds on wall street feel afraid,

Their penises get erect (for screwin’ someone other than their deserving selves),

They whistle a happy tune,

So no one will suspect,

They’re afraid.

 

While shivering in their shoes,

They strike a fearless pose,

And whistle a happy tune,

So no one will suppose,

They’re afraid.

 

Yeah, lots and lots of whistling on fraudulent wall street. So uniquely fashioned to their task of obfuscation and fraud, even Humphrey Bogart would have found Lauren Bacall’s instructive direction for same as wanting in comparison (not everyone will get this…famous, but strictly unreal cinematic show biz, not the live fraud biz of wall street fame). I believe much of this soft shoe song and dance was for the ‘benefit’ of european markets which are hopelessly in the throes of their own confrontation with reality, which despite all the whistling is all going to get much worse than feared, fearless poses notwithstanding (see infra).

 

It is here where wobama not doing what he said he’d do last campaign littered with his jive-talking b***s***!

 

Roche 'The worst part of it  ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’  ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ) Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud  WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. THE OBAMA DECEPTION’  http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

 

Facebook co-founder Saverin renounces citizenship  ,  The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just A Preview Of The Coming Collapse Of The Derivatives Market   http://albertpeia.com/collapseofderivativesmarket.htm When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned.  But the truth is that this is just the beginning.  This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivatives market.  When most Americans think of Wall Street, they think of a bunch of stuffy bankers trading stocks and bonds.  But over the past couple of decades it has evolved into much more than that.  Today, Wall Street is the biggest casino in the entire world.  When the "too big to fail" banks make good bets, they can make a lot of money.  When they make bad bets, they can lose a lot of money, and that is exactly what just happened to JP Morgan.  Their Chief Investment Office made a series of trades which turned out horribly, and it resulted in a loss of over 2 billion dollars over the past 40 days.  But 2 billion dollars is small potatoes compared to the vast size of the global derivatives market.  It has been estimated that the the notional value of all the derivatives in the world is somewhere between 600 trillion dollars and 1.5 quadrillion dollars.  Nobody really knows the real amount, but when this derivatives bubble finally bursts there is not going to be nearly enough money on the entire planet to fix things. Sadly, a lot of mainstream news reports are not even using the word "derivatives" when they discuss what just happened at JP Morgan.  This morning I listened carefully as one reporter described the 2 billion dollar loss as simply a "bad bet"…’ ,  U.S. resumes Bahrain arms sales despite rights concerns {So much for ‘principle’ and hypocritical rhetoric aimed everywhere but the mirror!} , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  MARKETS REMAIN IN DESCENT MODE 5-11-12 ‘First view the news, then the reaction. China’s April home sales decline 16%. Industrial Production (9.3% vs 12.2% expected) declined sharply even though many countries would kill for those types of readings. Retail Sales in China were weaker overall. Chinese fiscal revenues fell (6.9% vs 18.7%). India industrial output surprisingly declined. Spain was launching its fourth attempt to stabilize banks after already nationalizing some. JP Morgan (JPM) traders lost $2 billion on trading credit default swaps which shocked the street sending the stock lower by nearly 9% at one point. Core Producer Prices were higher by .2% as expected. Lastly U.S. Consumer Sentiment was higher (77.8 vs 76.4 previously). Now the latter must be considered as “old news” one would think. This all preceded eurozone elections and recent employment data in the U.S. So how did markets react to all this? Stocks gapped sharply lower but almost immediately were bid higher. This seemed strange as we weren’t that short-term oversold. I was expecting the open to stick lower. at least until after the lunch period, and volume slackened. But, no… stocks immediately rallied. Was there a natural buyer on all this crummy news? Not that one could tell…’ , New Level Of Stock Market Quote Insanity  ZeroHedge.com  Durden  We knew something was different about today. The following graphic neatly captures it. It shows the 15 minute average percentage of quotes considered excessive each minute (over 500 quotes per second per stock) between January 2010 and 11-May-2012 (plotted as thick red line). Note how this line was persistently high the entire day relative to trading days in the past. This probably explains the crazy high quote rates and prices shown in the charts below. , Why Corporate Balance Sheets Just Don't Matter In The New ZIRP Normal , Guest Post: How Long Before Massive Government Debt Buildup Triggers Another Financial Shock?  From 1981 to 2007, the amount of debt required to produce $1 of GDP growth crept higher, and it ranged from a low of 3 cents in 2000 to a high of $2.25 in 1991.  In only eight of those years did it take more than $1 of debt to produce $1 of GDP growth—1982, 1986, 1990 to 1993, 2002, and 2003.  On average, it took 79 cents of debt to produce $1 of GDP growth.  In other words, the increase in GDP was nearly 1.3 times the increase in debt. Along came the Great Recession.  Since 2009, the traditional relationship between debt and GDP growth has been turned upside down.  Each $1 increase in GDP has been accompanied by, on average, a $2.50 increase in debt.  Before the recession, an increase in debt generally generated a greater increase in GDP, but now it takes an enormous increase in debt to eke out a small increase in GDP.  At some point, the amount of debt required to generate even modest GDP growth will suffocate the economy and trigger another financial shock. , Fitch Downgrades JPM To A+, Watch Negative , Treasury Yields Post Longest Consecutive Weekly Decline In 14 Years As Credit Tumbles , Deja Deja Deja Deja Deja Vu  Dump-'em, Pump-'em, Dump-'em - The New Normal 'buy-and-hold' model is stable this week. Equity market continued to follow the same path day-in and day-out this week as the distance between the 50DMA and Monday's morning gap becomes smaller and smaller.  , Santelli On CDS Regulation And Why Bank Analysts Failed  It would seem, just as during the crisis in 2008/9, that now might be an opportune time to push for 'improvement' in how banks are regulated (and more importantly how the instruments they trade in colossal size are priced and marked-to-market… Santelli and Backshall critically address the complicity of banks, regulators, analysts, and The Fed in giving 'banks the benefit of the doubt' with regard their use of the bottomless pit of capital they implicitly have but what is more important is for the hordes of sell-side analysts and buy-side sheeple to understand just what this JPM debacle exposes about bank risk (VaR is useless), bank transparency (mark-to-model or worse is widespread), and bank valuation (traditional Price/Book metrics have no merit anymore). , Tax-Arbitrage Of The Year - Facebook Founder Renounces US Citizenship  , Visualizing Europe's "Ponzi Patriotism" , Why What Jamie Dimon Doesn’t Know Is Plain Scary , Consumer Sentiment Highest Since January 2008 77.8 on expectations of 76.0. Highest since January 2008. Yup: the US "consumers" (of what? Patek Philippes? Cristal? 8 balls? Dorsia deserts?) polled by Reuters, have not had it better in 4 years. After all what is there not to be confident about: record number of people on disability, foodstamps, out of the labor force, market sliding, banks imploding, Europe about to fall apart, gas near record highs, home prices quadruple dipping, and the prospect of much, much higher taxes next year to boot. Whatever…’

 

5-10-12 J.P. Morgan has significant credit portfolio loss May 10th, 2012 by News Breaking…………“Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM -5.89% dropped after the bank said in a regulatory filing late Thursday it had “significant” mark-to-market losses in its synthetic credit portfolio. Shares fell 4.5% to $38.87 in after-hours activity. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the bank said its synthetic credit portfolio had proved to be riskier and more volatile than expected.”MarketWatch MK comment: Sound familiar? Think Bear Stearns, early 2008. , J.P. Morgan Reveals 'London Whale'-Size Losses , Surprising JPMorgan loss hits stock market late NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell sharply on Thursday evening as JPMorgan Chase & Co stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred "significant mark-to-market losses... , Marc Faber Sees A 1987-Like Crash Approaching Durden"Europe Has Started The Endgame" And Biderman Says "The US Is Next"  , Greece's Jobless Soar By 42% As Unemployment Rises To Record, Industrial Collapse Accelerates , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  STOCKS ATTEMPT TO RALLY 5-10-12 ‘In overseas news, China’s exports were only 4.9% vs 8.5% expected (I guess that qualifies as a miss). China is also rumored to be intervening to support the euro (or, defending their position) which should explain why the currency hasn’t fallen further. In England, the Central Bank head Merwyn King has (gasp!) halted bond buying (QE) due to the combination of inflation and recession—yes, commonly known as stagflation. In the U.S. Jobless Claims (367K vs 366K expected & prior adjusted higher to 368K) allowed for a bullish headline as usual. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index (-40.4 vs prior -37.6) wasn’t helpful but basically ignored. The data point formerly known as the trade deficit (-$51.8B vs -$49.5B expected & prior revised to -$45.4) wasn’t very supportive of global industrial growth. I wonder, do iGadgets made in China that stay in China count as U.S. exports?The Bernank spoke and provided little news with this Bloomberg summary: “There were no dramatic revelations with Chairman Bernanke's comments. However, he repeated concerns that housing remains hindered by tight lending standards and that expansion of bank credit is being hindered by creditworthiness issues and soft demand.” Impressed? I thought not.Earnings news wasn’t great frankly as Kohls (KSS) provided a poor outlook and tech was held back by a poorly received report from Cisco (CSCO).Stocks rallied early but then faded into the close…’ , A Chinese Group Plans To Construct A 200 Acre "China City" In Michigan  http://albertpeia.com/chinamerica.htm  , If Spain’s Problems Are Solved… Why Are They Putting Together “Plan B”?  http://albertpeia.com/spainnotsolvedsoplanb.htm  , London trader for JPM “amassed positions so large he’s driving prices” usagold.com ‘A JP Morgan Chase & Co trader of derivatives linked to the financial health of corporations has amassed positions so large that he’s driving price moves in the $10-trillion market, traders outside the firm said…’ , J.P. Morgan has significant credit portfolio loss MK comment: Sound familiar? Think Bear Stearns, early 2008.  , Breaking a German Taboo: Bundesbank Prepared to Accept Higher Inflation  , Spain Underplaying Bank Losses Faces Ireland Fate  , How a Radical Greek Rescue Plan Fell Short (The Wall Street Journal) , Visualizing The Saturation Of Hopium , S&P Opens The Pandora's Box: The Wall Of Refi Worry Is $46,000,000,000,000 Tall , Is JPM Staring At Another $3 Billion Loss?20 Second Summary Of What Just Happened What summarizes the clip below best: A) Hubris; B) Greed; C) Stupidity; D) Moral Hazard; E) All of the above? , The "World's Largest Prop Trading Desk" Just Went Bust A month ago we warned that JPM's CIO office is nothing short of the world's largest prop trading desk. Not only were we right, but what just transpired is just shy of our worst possible prediction. At the end of the day, the real question is why did JPM put in so much money at risk in a prop trade because we can dispense with the bullshit that his was a hedge, right? Simple: because it knew with 100% certainty that if things turn out very, very badly, that the taxpayer, via the Fed, would come to its rescue. Luckily, things turned out only 80% bad. Although it is not over yet: if credit spreads soar, assuming at $200 million DV01, and a 100 bps move, JPM could suffer a $20 billion loss when all is said and done. But hey: at least "net" is not "gross" and we know, just know, that the SEC will get involved and make sure something like this never happens again. , Bruno Iksil Is Dunzo The last time a French trader delivered a bomb this big (Jerome Kerviel), the Fed cut the discount rate by 75 bps. As for this particular Frenchman, his best epitaph is his Bloomberg profile page. Recall: "Chuck is french ; champion of 'kick it', walking over water and humble.. yes" You can now add "fired." Oh, and it is all Egan Jones' fault of course, who downgraded JPM on April 13, while all the other rating agencies were posturing for the highest possible bribe to keep their mouths shut. , JPM Crashing After It Convenes Emergency Call To Advise Of "Significant Mark-To-Market" Losses In Bruno Iksil/CIO Group Out of nowehere, JPM announced 40 minutes ago that it would hold an unscheduled 5pm call to coincide with the release of its 10-Q. Rumors were swirling as to why. The reason is as follows:

  • JPMORGAN SAYS CIO UNIT HAS SIGNIFICANT MARK-TO-MARKET LOSSES - "Fortress balance sheet" at least until Bruno Iskil gets done with it.
  • JPMORGAN SAYS LOSSES ARE IN SYNTHETIC CREDIT PORTFOLIO - but, but, net is NEVER, EVER Gross.
  • JPM WOULD NEED $971M ADDED COLLATERAL IF RATINGS CUT ONE-NOTCH
  • JPM WOULD NEED $1.7B ADDED COLLATERAL IF RATINGS CUT 2 NOTCHES - how about three notches?
  • JPMORGAN: MAY HOLD SOME SYNTHETIC CREDIT POSITIONS LONG TERM - "Level 3 CDS FTW"
  • "As of March 31, 2012, the value of CIO's total AFS securities portfolio exceeded its cost by approximately $8 billion"

As a reminder, the CIO unit is where Bruno Iksil was making $200 billion-sized bets. Basically JPM has suffered massive losses at its CIO group most likely due to its IG/HY positions held by Iksil.

 

5-9-12 11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial World Is About Europe Right Now  http://albertpeia.com/financialworriesabouteurope.htm   ‘…The following are 11 quotes that show how worried the financial world is about Europe right now....

#1 Tres Knippa of Kenai Capital Management: "What is going on in Europe is an absolute disaster…the risk-on trade is not the place to be. I want to be out of equities and very, very defensive because the situation in Europe just got worse after those elections."

#2 Mark McCormick, currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman: "We’re going to have higher tensions, more uncertainty and most likely a weaker euro."

#3 Nick Stamenkovic, investment strategist at RIA Capital Markets in Edinburgh: "Investors are questioning whether Greece will be a part of the single currency at the end of this year."

#4 Jörg Asmussen, a European Central Bank executive board member: "Greece needs to be aware that there is no alternative to the agreed reform program if it wants to remain a member of the eurozone"

#5 Tristan Cooper, sovereign debt analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investment: "A Greek eurozone exit is on the cards although the probability and timing of such an event is uncertain."

#6 Art Cashin: "Here’s the outlook on Greece from Wall Street watering holes. If a coalition government is formed or looks to be formed, global markets may rally. Any coalition is unlikely to make progress on goals, since austerity is political suicide. There will likely be another election around June 10/17. A workable majority/plurality remains unlikely, so back to square one. Therefore, Greece will be unable to attain goals by the deadline (June 30). Lacking aid funds, pensions are suspended and government workers are laid off. Protestors take to the streets and government is forced to revert to drachma to avoid social chaos. Pass the peanuts, please."

#7 John Noonan, Senior Forex Analyst with Thomson Reuters in Sydney: "Sentiment is very bearish, The euro is under a lot of pressure right now. I get the feeling that it’s going to be a nasty move lower for the euro finally"

#8 Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard: "A Greek exit would underscore that there’s no realistic long-term plan for Europe, and it would lead to a chaotic endgame for the rest of the euro zone."

#9 Chris Tinker of Libra Investment Services: "It’s a binary decision. If Greece gets itself to the point where the European administration says, ‘We can’t play this game anymore,’ that starts a domino effect"

#10 Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel: "France has very limited fiscal space and actually has to engage in fiscal consolidation"

#11 80-year-old Greek citizen Panagiota Makri: "I'm confused. I feel numb and confused. Only God can save us now"

All of this comes at a time when much of Europe is already descending into a new recession.  Economies all over Europe are contracting and unemployment rates are skyrocketing…’

UN: Mt. Rushmore Should Return to Native Americans  { It’s truly hilarious how jones et als attempt to spin the fundamental, historical truth of inherent american criminality into some grand elitist conspiracy from without. Yet, the reality of within speaks for itself; and, I’ve seen inherent american criminality first hand, which inherent traits are at the core of virtually all jones et als posit as fatally problematic for the nation. I am smart, tough, and know the law; and, I have seen american inherent criminality, corruption, despoliation up close and personal, first hand, and know what ‘is’, is (then there’s also the plethora of observable, empirical data that even the blind couldn’t ignore):

http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf      
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm   
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm  
http://albertpeia.com/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm    
http://albertpeia.com/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm
http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm   

24 Facts That Prove That America Is A Nation Of Slobs
http://albertpeia.com/24factsproveamericaanationofslobs.htm 
}

 

Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  MORE TWO WAY MARKET ACTION 5-9-12 ‘Greece is at a political impasse (as if you care now). Spain saw most bank stocks getting trashed (Bank Santander down 6%) while sovereign debt exceeded 6% for the first time since November 2011—and that wasn’t a great period. Moody’s is set to cut ratings on over 100 banks but recently most investors don’t seem to regard credit ratings with much concern. (Well, they did shoot themselves in the foot right?)Chinese stocks fell sharply after Cosco holdings dropped more than 4% on fears of a slowdown in shipping. And, SAIC Motor slid 2.9% after the Chinese government banned state-owned companies from buying expensive vehicles for executives. (What would GM do?) Also, according to Nomura securities sales, heavy construction machinery was declining.Once again stocks opened sharply lower only to see some buying later in the trading day. This action is either from those wishing to defend their positions or the usual crowd of dip buyers. Perhaps all this late day buying is wasted buying power. After all, despite repeated selling or distribution the VIX has remained oddly relatively low making bulls rather complacent.Perhaps they believe the Fed has their backs with more QE. It’s not a silly thought on their part given how far down the QE road the Bernank & Co has already gone. (“In for a penny, in for a pound”?) But even Fed Governor Kocherlakota was off the official “talking points” today stating the Fed needs to set the ZIRP exit date. And, Goldman Sachs reduced GDP estimates to 1.9% which is way off the Fed’s more cheerful outlook.There wasn’t much in the way of economic news but earnings news from stalwarts like Macy’s (M) disappointed investors…’ , INFOWARS.COM http://www.infowars.com On the Wednesday, May 9 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Douglas J. Hagmann, founder and director of the Northeast Intelligence Network. He is also the CEO of a private investigative agency serving a roster of Fortune 500 clients. Due to his expertise in covert surveillance and counter-terrorism, Mr. Hagmann has been used as an operational asset by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, as well as the Pennsylvania and New York State Police agencies. Earlier this month, Doug said high-level, reliable sources told him the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for “massive civil war” in America as a result of a collapse of the dollar and the hyperinflation that will result. Alex also continues his coverage of the Army's re-education camps and the upcoming Bilderberg confab in Virginia. , The euro crisis: No way out  (The Economist) — THE conventional wisdom that emerged immediately after Europe’s weekend elections—that voters may have forced Europe into a new crisis reckoning—seems to have been correct. Greece is struggling to put together a government and whatever government eventually emerges will probably press for a renegotiation of its bail-out deal. Euro-zone officials are saying that this is out of the question. Odds of a Greek departure from the euro zone appear to be rising sharply; Intrade now puts the chance of exit in 2012 at close to 40%, up from 22% a week ago. Markets are shuddering at the possibility; European equities are dropping like stones, yields around the periphery are jumping—Spain’s 10-year yield is back above 6%—and German yields are sinking to record lows. Big trouble is brewing. , Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of machines   http://albertpeia.com/madnessofmachines.htm , Europe's Most Parabolic Chart Goes Parabolic-er ZeroHedge.com , Guest Post: What Austerity? , 11th Consecutive Outflow From US Equity Mutual Funds Pulls Cash Levels To Record Lows , Market Has Longest Losing Streak In 10 Months , Bank Of Spain Formally Nationalizes Bankia, Says Insolvent Bank Is "Solvent", Adds There Is No Cause For Concern  , Spain's Bank "Bailout" A Complete Dud: Allows Banks To Opt-Out, Sprott Berates Berkshire's Buffoons And Says "All Markets Are Manipulated" {This is true beyond all words; especially for the bumpkin shills like buffet!} , Guest Post: The Death Spiral Of Debt, Risk And Jobs What we have is a Central State and an economy that has borrowed and squandered trillions of dollars on consumption and malinvestment in unproductive "stranded" assets. The debt and risk pile up, while the labor that results from consumption is temporary and does not create wealth or permanent employment. Figuratively speaking, we're stranded in a McMansion in the middle of nowhere, a showy malinvestment that produces no wealth or value, and we're wondering how we're going to pay the gargantuan mortgage and student loans. Debt and the risk generated by rising debt create a death-spiral when the money is squandered on consumption, phantom assets, speculation and malinvestments. Sadly, that systemic misallocation of capital puts the job market in a death spiral, too. , Eurozone Refuses To Blink: Will Hold Back €1 Billion From Greek Payment To Monday , Nigel Farage: "The EU Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg" 

 

5-8-12 Obama’s DOJ And Wall Street: Too Big For Jail? Forbes | Why has no one on Wall Street been charged with financial fraud despite Obama’s Financial Fraud Task Force? ,  The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has Officially Begun  http://albertpeia.com/countdowntoeurobreakup.htm  , Dave’s Daily http://etfdigest.com TWO WAY TUESDAY MARKET ACTION 5-8-12 ‘Markets were selling off hard most of the day on lingering doubts about the fate of the eurozone amid Greece, France and Spain. After hitting some support levels markets rallied sharply into the close led by (ahem) the reliable 2:15 PM Buy Program Express. I should add that our friend Steve Hammer at HFT Alert tweeted that most algos were selling into the late day rally. Beneath the nonsense of sorting out the Greek situation, the real troubles on the front burner are Spain’s banks. Large institutions (Bank Santander & BBVA) have been tarred by the poor perception of bailouts taking place with their smaller peers as noted…’ , Guest Post: The Emperor Is Naked ZeroHedge.com We are in the last innings of a very bad ball game. We are coping with the crash of a 30-year–long debt super-cycle and the aftermath of an unsustainable bubble. Quantitative easing is making it worse by facilitating more public-sector borrowing and preventing debt liquidation in the private sector—both erroneous steps in my view. The federal government is not getting its financial house in order. We are on the edge of a crisis in the bond markets. It has already happened in Europe and will be coming to our neighborhood soon. The Fed is destroying the capital market by pegging and manipulating the price of money and debt capital. Interest rates signal nothing anymore because they are zero. Capital markets are at the heart of capitalism and they are not working…’ , Europe Breaks Again As EURUSD Dips Under 1.3000 , America Will Have Negative Unemployment In January 2022 Taking current trends across all employment indicators, using 12 Month trailing averages in the changes of those employed, unemployed and dropping out the labor force, we can predict, with IMF-level precision, that at the current surge of those leaving the labor force, the US unemployment rate will hit 0.0% in December of 2021 and finally go negative, or -0.1% in January 2022. So there you have it: maybe the BLS can just fast forward us to the end of this thought experiment when everyone will be so fat they couldn't look for a job if they wanted to (recall by 2020 75% of Americans will be obese), but at least the Propaganda Times will be blasting in 24/7 red flashing headlines that, for the first time ever, America's unemployed are now somehow negative, and we can all rejoice while collecting all those welfare stamps bought on negative interest credit funded directly from the uber politburo of the USSA located in the Marriner Eccles building. , Guest Post: Why the Job Market Will Continue Shrinking The paradox of an advanced post-industrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises. The fundamental dynamic of America's job market is simple: we need relatively few workers to provide the absolute essentials of life even as the cost-basis of the economy inexorably rises. In other words, there are fewer jobs even as the costs of maintaining a "middle class" life rise. The solution to the post-industrial decline of labor is not unproductive "make-work" jobs and borrowing trillions of dollars until the system implodes, it's lowering the cost basis of the entire economy and culture, which means eliminating all the systemic sources of unproductive friction. , China's Government Self-Immolation Progresses As We Expected , Guest Post: The European Union Is Destroying European Unity , European Credit Risk Surges Near 4-Month Highs , Santelli On The Encumbered Youth Of The US , Is EURUSD 1.20 In The Cards? , Biderman Sums Up Europe's Problem In 30 Seconds After an extended and detailed rant against the BLS and their ineptitude, which is worth watching in its own right, Charles Biderman (CEO of TrimTabs) sums up Europe's troubles and hopes in 30 seconds. Towards the end of the clip, Biderman notes that Monsier Hollande is saying that governments should borrow more money so they can give more money to more people and THAT will create economic growth. Instead, Charles sees Europe sliding down a slippery slope faster and faster with no end in sight. , As China Buys, Sellers Push Gold Down To 4 Month Lows , Greek Stocks Plummet To 20-Year Lows , Fitch Sets The Stage: "Greece Leaving The Euro Would Be Bearable" , On Europe's Phantom Austerity Spending Cuts , Economic Alert: If You’re Not Worried Yet…You Should Be , Greek Left Coalition Leaders Says Bailout Accord "Null And Void", Demands Greek Debt Moratorium , The World from Berlin: ‘Germans Won’t Pay for Greece’s Vacation from Reality’ (Der Spiegel) ,  The Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National Threat Is Frightening Business Insider | Tom Cruise made “pre-crime’” a futuresque and controversial method of law enforcement in the 2002 movie Minority Report. { The business of war … now you know, along with the frauds on wall street, where all your tax dollars went and how the nation’s insurmountable debt-load and defacto bankruptcy came to be… http://albertpeia.com/wherehaveallthetaxdollarsgone.htm  , Officials: Al-Qaida underwear bomber worked for CIA ,  After The Government Microchips Our Soldiers, How Long Will It Be Before They Want To Put A Microchip In YOU   http://albertpeia.com/governmentchippinaway.htm

 

5-7-12 Five Reasons For Caution In US Equities  While there may be a plethora of geopolitical reasons to be 'cautious' of getting over your skis in US equities, there are a number of more quantifiable reasons for not buying-the-f##king-dip here. Between the sustainability of US earnings and the sell-in-May mantra, we highlight five foods-for-thought before you push all-in this morning. , Guest Post: Global Reality - Surplus Of Labor, Scarcity Of Paid Work , Will Equity Investors Never Learn? Presented with little comment except to note that just when you thought a sense of reality had returned (and Treasuries and stocks re-coupled), equities feel the need to hype once again - fool you once shame on you, fool you the 50th time and we give up. , US Equities Ignoring US Sovereign Risk Warning We have been warning of the pending fiscal cliff in the US and the somewhat inevitable debt ceiling debacle, election uncertainty, and the question of Fed independence in an election year as potential catalysts for risk flares in the US and abroad. For now, US equities are happy to ignore these events, still drawn in their Pavlovian-educated manner to US equities for their nominal enrichment. The trouble is - there are clear warning signs from some particularly noteworthy markets that all is not well (that appear more capable of comprehending fundamentals). Forget for a moment the overnight plunge and recovery in futures as this will bring only anchoring bias; a step back to 30,000 feet and we note that the spread on USA Sovereign CDS has risen by over 30% in the last month (now back at 40bps or 3-month wides) flashing a worrying warning signal for US equities if the past is any guide. Remember that US CDS are denominated in EUR and do not simply reflect the 'default' risk of the fiat-issuing USA but the devaluation or restructuring risks - and it appears market participants are getting nervous once again of the profligacy of the US government and the ineptitude of the central banks with their one-trick-pony experimentation. , Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essentially Ban All "Buy American" Laws? http://albertpeia.com/wobombanation.htm , Debt Serfdom in One Chart  http://albertpeia.com/debtserfdom.htm  , Soylent Pepsi is People  http://albertpeia.com/soylentpepsi.htm  Infowars.com | Ground up dead baby fetuses… just business as usual. {  Well, let’s not kid ourselves; there’s likely canabalism in wobama’s line! How totally disgusting. I’ll never drink pepsi ever again! } , Two Charts Exposing America's Record Shadow Welfare State  Margin Stanley Is Back: Bank Must Post $10 Billion In Collateral In Case Of 3 Notch Downgrade ..At March 31, 2012, the following are the amounts of additional collateral, termination payments or other contractual amounts (whether in a net asset or liability position) that could be called by counterparties under the terms of such agreements in the event of a downgrade of the Company’s long-term credit rating under various scenarios: $868 million (A3 Moody’s/A- S&P); $5,177 million (Baa1 Moody’s/ BBB+ S&P); and $7,206 million (Baa2 Moody’s/BBB S&P). Also, the Company is required to pledge additional collateral to certain exchanges and clearing organizations in the event of a credit rating downgrade. At March 31, 2012, the increased collateral requirement at certain exchanges and clearing organizations under various scenarios was $160 million (A3 Moody’s/A- S&P); $1,600 million (Baa1 Moody’s/ BBB+ S&P); and $2,400 million (Baa2 Moody’s/BBB S&P)." As a reminder, on February 15 Moody's warned it’s considering downgrades of US banks and may cut Morgan Stanley as much as, you guessed it, 3 notches…  , Toxic Spiral: Greek Office Vacancies Soar As Tourism Industry Implodes , A Market Full Of Sound And Fury Signifying Unch Three important things occurred today: 1) US equities converged down to high-yield credit's less sanguine view of the world; 2) US equities converged to US Treasuries hope-less view of the world; and 3) Gold was the leading indicator for where risk assets should be today - as its stability was the only rock upon which to anchor expectations of intervention once again. The equity market fulfilled every technical analyst's wet dream today with a low volume gap-fill - which notably left today's VWAP at almost exactly the closing price from Friday (i.e. gave bigger players a chance to get out without losing their short - which was exemplified by the sell-off into the close on much bigger than average trade size). Never have we heard just whimsical exuberance at the market closing practically unchanged (ES +2pts) but critically risk markets in general did nothing but revert ahead of tomorrow's real action as the UK (and that means the European credit market) comes back from a long-weekend. Broadly speaking - US equities outperformed risk-assets modestly until the late-day give back dragged them back to reality but overall - IG credit underperformed, HYG outperformed (inflows dominant), and HY and S&P 500 e-mini futures (ES) stayed in sync. , Consumer Credit Soars As US Government Encourages Student, Car Loan Bubbles That US consumer credit soared by $21.4 billion in March on expectations of $9.8 billion rise, or the fastest monthly expansion since March 2001 would have been commendable and memorable if one did not dig through the actual components. Which sadly are atrocious: of the entire surge, a modest $5.1 billion was from real credit, or revolving, credit-card type debt. This brought the total revolving debt to $804 billion or to a level first crossed in January 2005. The balance, or $16.2 billion, was non-revolving debt, or the type of debt used to fund GM car purchases by subprime borrowers and push the student loan bubble well into its $1+ trillion record territory. The total non-revolving debt is now $1.739 trillion: an all time record. As for the source of such debt? why the US government of course, in what is the supreme ponzi scheme, whereby the US government allows US consumers to purchase Government Motors products and to keep the Higher Learning status quo in power. In other words, the US government has become the final enabler of the consumer spending bubble with proceeds used to keep the US auto unions happy (as channel stuffing is already at record high levels), and of course, to fund such ancillary student purchases as iPads. As for whether any of this debt will ever be paid off? Don't be silly. , Do What Buffett Says, Not What He Does , Greek Bonds Monkeyhammered As Hedge Funds Slash Hands Catching Falling Knives , Guest Post: The Treasury Bubble in One Graph , And Back To Euro-Math: Up To €210 Billion Funding Shortfall For Spanish, Italian Banks In 2012 , Overnight Sentiment: Clutching At Straws , Debt Serfdom in One Chart  http://albertpeia.com/debtserfdom.htm

 

5-4-12 "Shattering The American Dream": The US Government’s Ponzi Scheme ZeroHedge.com 5-4-12 While Larry Kotlikoff was markedly pessimistic in the past (as we noted here just over a year ago), it seems it was a dress-rehearsal to his latest evisceration of what he now calls the US Government's Ponzi Scheme. In a recent VoxEU article on America's "fiscal child abuse", Kotlikoff and two colleagues demolish the idea of sustainability of government finances and how well off younger generations will be compared with their parents. The game is close to over and for today's children, the American dream will be just that - a dream! , Santelli On Propaganda And Ostrich Economics Everyone's favorite Chicago-ite, Rick Santelli, once again presents himself as the truth-teller-in-chief on the propaganda channel. This morning's dismal jobs data but utopian reporting of the improvement in the headline unemployment rate appears to have hit a nerve. Santelli takes on just how bad the employment picture really is, how mainstream media practices 'Ostrich Economics', and finally how nothing is deemed important to most politicians except who is to blame. One of Rick's best as perhaps CNBC has been looking at its ratings and realizes investors want the truth not the spin. , Guest Post: Debt Serfdom In One Chart Bottom line: financialization and substituting debt for income have run their course. They're not coming back, no matter how hard the Federal Reserve pushes on the string. Both of these interwined trends have traced S-curves and are now in terminal decline: Those hoping the economy is "recovering" on the backs of financial speculation/ legerdemain and ramped up borrowing by the lower 95% will be profoundly disappointed when reality trumps fantasy. , People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981 http://albertpeia.com/notinlaborforce.htm   it is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000.  This is the highest on record. The flip side, and the reason why the unemployment dropped to 8.1% is that the labor force participation rate just dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%. , US Added 115,000 Jobs In April, Huge Miss Of Expectations; Unemployment Rate 8.1% , Overnight Sentiment: Traders Look Past Latest European Disappointment, Toward US Jobs Here is what happened in Europe overnight, and why the market sentiment is already negative in advance of an NFP number which many are watching closely as a miss of expectations will cement the thesis that the US economy has now rolled over and will likely need more nominally dilutive aid from central planners to regain its upward slope:

  • Spain Services PMI for April 42.1 – lower than expected. Consensus 45.4. Previous 46.3.
  • Italian Services PMI for April 42.3 – lower than expected. Consensus 43.7. Previous 44.3.
  • France Services PMI for April 45.2 – lower than expected. Consensus 46.4. Previous 46.4.
  • Germany Service PMI for April 52.2 – lower than expected. Consensus 52.6. Previous 52.6.
  • Euro-area Service PMI for April 46.9 – lower than expected. Consensus 47.9. Previous 47.9.

And while the data was bad enough to send European stocks and US stock futures lower..’ , Charlie Munger: "Gold Is For Pre-Holocaust Jews To Sew Into Their Garments; Civilized People Don't Buy Gold" , Brutal Day For Stocks As Reality Recouples; Europe Now Negative For 2012 , Everything You Know About Monetary Policy Is Wrong... And Why This Is Very Bad News For Europe "In a financed financial system, collateral is money" , Why European Bank Stocks May Have At Least 40% More Downside , And You Thought American Unemployment Was Bad... , The Gift That Keeps On Taking: Bank Of America Facing $6.2 Billion Collateral Call , Greece: “We Are Their Greatest Fear”  : testosteronepit : But the system is gummed up. , Gold Bubble? “More People That Own Apple Stock Than Gold” : GoldCore : , The Crashing US Housing Metro Areas : drhousingbubble : US home prices have once again made a post-bubble low in spite of all the artificial intervention and massive bailouts to financial institutions.  The bottom line unfortunately is that US... , The Two Scariest Charts From Today's NFP Report, Or The Real "New Part-Time Normal" , Real U-3 Unemployment Rate: 11.6% Propaganda unemployment rate: 8.1%; Real unemployment rate: 11.6%. Reason for difference: organic growth of labor force which grows alongside the broader population. Don't be confused by cheap explanations on TV why the labor force should be declining (especially with ZIRP meaning pre-retirement workers have to stay in the labor force ever longer to supplant their meager fixed income): the widely accepted definition of the labor pool, that used by the CBO and all other government forecasting agencies, assumes a 90,000 growth in the labor force every month as it has to keep in line with the growth of the US population! The implication is simple: using a real labor force participation rate long-term average of 65.8%, the real unemployment rate in April was 11.6%, based on the 5.4 million additional workers that should be counted as part of the U-3 which then means that the real number of unemployed is not 12.5 million but 17.9 million, which in turn implies a 11.6% unemployment rate in the US. This also means that the spread between the propaganda, and the real number is now 3.5%: the most it has been since the early 1980s.

5-3-12 Eric Holder To Be Held In Contempt Of Congress? Durden ZeroHedge.com 5-3-12 http://albertpeia.com/ericholderincontemptofcongress.htm  While normally we stay away from outright political commentary especially of the kind that has no direct relation to finance or the economy, the fact is that if the US had a functioning, uncompromised, uncorrupt, and effective Justice Department, much of what we see every day on Wall Street would be vastly different since if crime did indeed have punishment, then a vast portion of the questionable behavior that is exhibited by financiers would have been eliminated long ago. Which is why we find the news just released from The Hill that "Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has circulated a draft copy of a resolution that would hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress" particularly relevant. For it is none other than Holder's complete lack of involvement and intervention to outright daily crimes conducted in the financial world that is as much a reason for the deplorable economic state of this country and the world, as are all those other factor extensively discussed in books and documentaries each and every day.  , Why You Shouldn't Trust Tomorrow's BLS Number While much has been written on the revisions, adjustments, and just-plain-guesses that make up the BLS' non-farm-payroll data, the frustration levels are building in the Bay Area as Charles Biderman provides the most in-depth discussion of why we need a better press corps. The simple truth, as Charles notes, is that even the BLS doesn't believe its own hype (in its footnotes) and while mainstream media and talking heads will quote the unemployment rate or NFP change as if it was transcribed by the hand of God, it is in fact an extremely ill-formed, very narrow survey with such huge statistical noise as to be entirely useless. However, while every human should watch this brief clip before buying that 100-lot ES milliseconds after the release tomorrow, we suspect, as usual, it will be algos-gone-wild no matter how many sigma we beat or miss. , There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs  http://albertpeia.com/100millionworkingageamericansdonthavejobs.htm  , 16 Signs That People Are Becoming Stupider  http://albertpeia.com/16signspeoplebecomingstupider.htm  , The Fed and the ECB’s Hands Are Politically Tied… Bye Bye Market Props May 4, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/sharpcorrectioncoming.htm  ,  Merkel’s In Hot Water… So No More Bailouts… Sorry Spain  http://albertpeia.com/merkelsinhotwaternomorebailouts.htm , Dave’s Daily http://etfdigest.com BULLS GET NERVOUS BEFORE EMPLOYMENT DATA 5-3-12 ‘We saw a sharp afternoon sell-off as bulls rushed to the sidelines. Remember, with data remaining light it’s easy for algos to push markets around.There were some troubling “tells” that things weren’t quite right for bulls. Commodities were hard hit which spilled over into the troubled Materials (XLB) sector. Commodity Tracking ETF (DBC), Gold (GLD) and Crude Oil (USO) were all struggling even before selling took markets lower. These laggards combined with rising bond prices and a higher dollar made for a bearish cocktail as nervousness over everything consumed traders.Europe was much higher early in the session only to fade to red as the session wore on.Jobless Claims (365K vs 378 expected & prior revised higher from 388K to 392K) was bullish. Then ISM Non-Mfg Index data (53.5 vs 56 expected & prior 56) was a disappointment. These two readings combined for a murky outlook and created more nervousness. The bottom line: conviction is weak.Today’s report will be light since Friday’s Non-Farms Payroll will make the week one way or another.Volume once again picks up on selling as no doubt trailing stops were hit amplifying the move lower. Breadth per the WSJ was quite negative…’ , Our central bankers are intellectually bankrupt (Financial Times) — The financial crisis has fully exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the world’s central bankers.Why? Central bankers neglect the fact that interest rates are prices. Manipulating those prices through credit expansion or contraction has real and deleterious effects on the economy. Yet while socialism and centralised economic planning have largely been rejected by free-market economists, the myth persists that central banks are a necessary component of market economies.These economists understand that having wages or commodity prices established by government fiat would cause shortages, misallocations of capital and hardship. Yet they accept at face value the notion that central banks must determine not only the supply of one particular commodity – money – but also the cost of that commodity via the setting of interest rates.Printing unlimited amounts of money does not lead to unlimited prosperity. , ECB Holds Rate; Mario Draghi Sees ‘Downside Risks’ 

 

5-2-12 New Obama Executive Order Pushes Us Closer To A North American Union And A One World Economic Systemhttp://albertpeia.com/wobamaexecorderforoneworldgovernment.htm { The truly astounding thing here is that without exception, these respective nations, from largest to smallest, can’t even manage themselves, their own nations properly, efficiently; and then there’s the inevitable corruption, ‘bigger and better?’. Come on! More obfuscation! In a world such as this, human nature being what it is, ‘bigger is definitely not better’! They’re pushing on a string! Time for accountability! Time to pay the piper! Additionally, people must come to grips with the reality that wobama hasn’t the slightest idea what he’s doing; hence, the over-vacationed teleprompter reader whose ‘handlers’ have literally taken over policy, with some ‘slick’ maneuvering to try and repackage him; ultimately to no avail inasmuch as his disastrous results at home and abroad speak volumes. If only he had done what he said he was going to do last campaign, this nation and the world would have been in a better position today! } , Military Winning War Over Pensions Bruce Krasting 05/02/2012 Why is the Military Retirement Fund exploding higher? http://albertpeia.com/militarypensiondebacle.htm , This Is the First Time In History that All Central Banks Have Printed Money at the Same Time … And They’re Failing Miserably Washington’s Blog | Simultaneous Global Printing Is Failing Miserably. Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is Partly Right But Mostly Wrong http://albertpeia.com/nyteconomistkrugmanwrong.htm  , NBER's Martin Feldstein Bashes The Deplorable US Economy, Says Bernanke Has Engineered Another Stock Bubble Durden 5-2-12 , Hugh Hendry On Europe "You Can't Make Up How Bad It Is" ,  Biderman Makes Friends: "Bankers Are As Dumb As Politicians" , Guest Post: 3 Likely Triggers Of The Next Recession {  Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ }   ] , Zuckerman To CNBC: "The Recession Never Ended" Everyone's favorite perma-bullish stand-in for Cramer, Fast Money's Scott Wapner, seemed lost for words when Boston Properties CEO Mort Zuckerman laid down some basic truthiness on the state of the US economy "We have the most stimulative fiscal and monetary policy in the history of this country and here we are three years into the recession and it's not ended. I think we may be heading for an even weaker economy this year than people expect." The righteous REIT ruler went on to note that it is not just the US but Europe (ridiculously high unemployment rates) where he analogizes (rather picturesquely) that it reminds him of "the man who jumps off a 25-story building and as he's hurtling by the sixth floor he says 'don't worry, nothing has happened yet'." Wapner is silenced and changes the topic as we suspect he is stunned at the honest sentiment given the nominal three-year-highs in REIT indices. Truth is indeed stranger than fiat-fiction. , Dave’s Daily http://etfdigest.com 5-2-12 ‘INVESTORS BIDING THEIR TIME There’s good news and bad news Wednesday. First the good news: China’s PMI report reversed slightly previous declines (49.3 vs 49.1 prior). Many are worried about a hard landing for China’s economy, so news of some stabilization was greeted warmly in Hong Kong (EWH) and Shanghai CSI 300 Index (2% gain). But then came news from the eurozone (them again?) that unemployment for the 17 country region (EZU) had soared to 10.9%. I guess you could take away all the southern members, France and a few others and things wouldn’t (cough) look so bad, oui? Meanwhile in the U.S. the ADP Employment Report showed only 119K new private jobs created. Expectations were for 177K and worse the previous data was lowered from 219 to 201K. Later, Factory Orders (-1.5% vs -1.6 expected & prior revised lower from 1.3% to 1.1%) didn’t add any fuel for bulls. We started the day as weak as we ended Tuesday’s rally. Apple (AAPL) shares struggled mightily to reverse previous selling. The buzz is large institutions were reducing their outsized exposure to the stock. This wouldn’t surprise since rebalancing and rotating funds is common for risk management with institutions..’ , Name The Country: 101.5% Debt/GDP And... 1.7% Effective Interest Expense , US Complacency Near 9 Year High Versus Europe , US Factory Orders Post Biggest Decline Since March 2009 , Europe's Scariest Chart Just Got Scarier-er , ADP Misses Big, Prints Lowest Increase Since September; Manufacturing Jobs Post Shocking Decline , ADP Says Companies Add Fewest U.S. Workers in Seven Months , US factory orders -1.5% in Mar, just below expectations of -1.4%, vs +1.1% in Feb.  , America's "Safest Long Term Investment" Is Gold - Gallup , The euro-zone crisis: Call it a depression (The Economist)

 

5-1-12 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs http://albertpeia.com/95percentofjobslostmiddleclass.htm  , New study: High U.S. debt levels could mean a quarter century of weak growth (The American Enterprise Institute) [ That’s optimistic; and towards the end there at best! Remember: Decades at Best! ] , Total US Debt Soars To 101.5% Of GDP Dallas Fed: Why We Must End TBTF Now! , The Demented "Old Normal" Speaks: Greenspan Forgets His Lines From Year Ago, Now Hearts QE Forget 'irrational exuberance', forget 'deregulation of derivatives', Big Al is back and this time he seems to have forgotten any- and every-thing we has ever said. It was only a year ago that Greenspan told CNBC "I am ill-aware of anything that really worked. Not only QE2 but QE1" and yet today the mumbling-'maestro' pronounces, via Bloomberg:*GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY STIMULUS IS HELPING TO DRIVE ECONOMY *GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY STIMULUS IS UNDERESTIMATED *GREENSPAN SAYS EQUITY IS COLLATERAL OF FINANCIAL SYSTEM So it sounds like Alan has joined Ben in the parade of 'the-market-is-the-economy' thinkers as now the critical action of all the greatest minds in our economic policy-makers are convinced that debasement manufacturing a rising equity market (by whatever means necessary) is key (and nothing else!) [ Come on! If you haven’t realized by now that greenspun is incompetent and senile, you haven’t been paying attention! ]. , Guest Post: Where's The Collateral? Collateral matters when it comes to assessing the value of the debt. If a bank lists the mortgages in its "assets" column at full value even though the underlying collateral (the houses) has lost much of their value, then the bank is grossly over-estimating the value and security of the mortgage. The bank's "assets" are based on phantom collateral. Take away $1 in collateral and you impair $4, $10, $20 or even $30 of debt. Recall that the vast majority of real estate equity and financial wealth is owned by the top 20%, with the majority of that concentrated in the top 5%. That means the bottom 80% own little collateral to leverage into debt. How about leveraging income into more debt? Since the top 10% receive almost 50% of the income, and most of the bottom 90%'s income goes to non-discretionary spending and taxes, then only the top 10% have discretionary income that can be leveraged into more debt. , The ISM Print Through The Eyes Of A Trading Algo Since nobody else is trading anything today, we wanted to show readers, courtesy of Nanex, just how it is that the only market participants in the past year, that would be robots of course, traded the ISM number. Pay particular attention how the size book in the E-Mini contract virtually disappeared two minutes ahead of the number as everyone shut down and was merely awaiting the headline at which point everyone who trade in the same direction. , ISM Defies Consensus, Surges In Best Consensus Beat In Past 7 Months Forget the Schrodinger  "baffle them with bullshit" economy - it is now officially the Idiotmaker economy. , Guest Post: Krugman, Diocletian & Neofeudalism , Art Cashin Issues His Latest Warning On Egypt , The Mediocre Truth About Earnings Season While headlines crow of company performance this earnings season and as usual consistent patterns are extrapolated and exaggerated into a forceful flow of propaganda for why everyone should buy stocks, the truth is much less spectacular and in fact downright disappointing if one looks to the future (as opposed to the rear-view mirror)… All-in-all, mediocrity rules the surprises and forward expectations continue to disappoint the maddening crowd. , Why? - 21 Unanswered Questions That They Don't Want You To Look Into  http://albertpeia.com/21unansweredquestions.htm  , BIN LADEN WAS ALREADY DEAD Bin Laden: Everyone Is Missing the Big Picture George Washington : 04/30/2012  http://albertpeia.com/binladenwasalreadydead.htm  , AAPL Drops Below 50 DMA After Hours As Stocks Retrace 60% Of ISM Spike  , Frontline On Financial Fraud , May-Day, May-Day: Houston, We Have Global Unemployment  , HaPPY MaY DaY WaLL STReeT KoMRaDS  : williambanzai7 : 05/01/2012 - 08:03 So Wall Street comrades, come rally;And the last great feast let us face;The Banksta Internationale unites the Banksta race! This Is the First Time In History that All Central Banks Have Printed Money at the Same Time … And They’re Failing Miserably : George Washington : 05/01/2012 - 18:44 Simultaneous Global Printing Is Failing Miserably,  Time To Start Looking At The Pump Prices Again , The Market Calls BS on Spain’s Efforts to Cover Its Toxic Banking Debt May 1, 2012 By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/spainstoxicbankingdebt.htm

 

4-30-12 22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy Is Heading Into A Great Depression http://albertpeia.com/22signsspainheadingintogreatdepression.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  MARKET LIMPS INTO MAY 4-30-12 , The Secrets of the Spanish Banking System That 99% of Analysts Fail to Grasp http://spainbanksystemsecrets.htm , What Do California And Detroit Have In Common? http://albertpeia.com/californiadetroitdeclineincommon.htm  , Rosenberg Takes On The Student Loan Bubble, And The 1937-38 Collape; Summarizes The Big Picture Few have been as steadfast in their correct call that the US economy sugar high of the first quarter was nothing but a liquidity-driven, hot weather-facilitated uptick in the economy, which has now ended with a thud, as seen by the recent epic collapse in all high-frequency economic indicators, which have not translated into a market crash simply because the market is absolutely convinced that the worse things get, the more likely the Fed is to come in with another round of nominal value dilution. Perhaps: it is unclear if the Fed will risk a spike in inflation in Q2 especially since as one of the respondents in today's Chicago PMI warned very prudently that Chinese inflation is about to hit America in the next 60 days. That said, here are some of today's must read observations on where we stand currently, on why 1937-38 may be the next imminent calendar period deja vu, and most importantly, the fact that Rosie now too has realized that the next credit bubble is student debt as we have been warning since last summer. , Treasury Forecasts $447 Billion In Funding Needs Thru End Of September - $300 Billion Shy Of Trendline Earlier today, the Treasury forecast that in the third and fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 (April-September), the US would need a total of $447 billion in new debt (split $182 billion in Q3 and $265 billion in Q4), bringing the total debt balance to just over $16 trillion by the end of September. While this is a commendable forecast, and one which certainly has provided to alleviate rumors that the US debt ceiling of $16.4 trillion would be breached by the mid/end of September, the chart below shows that it may be just a tad optimistic. , Treasuries And Gold Outperform As Financials Drag Stocks Down In April , Egan Jones Cuts Spain For Second Time In Two Weeks, From BBB- To BB+ , Paul vs Paul: Watch Paul Krugman Dispense Keynesian Brilliance, Debate Ron Paul Live , Charting Equity's Hype/Hope On this slow news and market action day it is worth noting that Equities and Treasuries have dramatically dislocated in the last few days with Treasury yields near multi-month lows and stocks at one-month highs. Whether this is the ($700 billion expected) QE3-trade or a reflection of the increasingly bifurcated world in which we live is unclear but for certain this is the largest disconnect (with equities rich) of the year so far. , The Bulging Costs Of America's Obesity Epidemic , Is ISDA About To Be Forced To Cave? Given the TBTF's dominant oligopoly of the credit derivatives market (due mainly to the large exchange's unwillingness to act appropriately when they know the blow-back from their sell-side clients would be considerable), it is perhaps surprising that ISDA (the body that 'regulates' watches over and determines credit events in the CDS market) is coming under increasing pressure to honor the spirit of CDS contract after the FUBAR debacle surrounding the Greek restructuring. As Katy Burne notes in today's WSJ, ISDA is set to decide on a revamp of the CDS rules within weeks as pressure from the buy-side (the other side of the trade obviously) to alter the legal wording governing what is (and is not) a credit event trigger. "Whether it is a series of small fixes or a root-and-branch rewrite is still to be decided" but we note that the market - as we discussed in depth with regard to Portugal over the weekend - is becoming more comfortable once again with the CDS contract as a hedge against 'problems' in the $2.9 trillion sovereign credit derivatives market. , Guest Post: What Is The Consequence Of Printing Money That Nobody Wants? , Quantifying The Big Five Canadian Banks' $114 Billion Bailout , Equity Valuation: It's All Downhill From Here While in 'normal' times the commonly held view is that P/E ratios tend to fall as real interest rates rise, as we recently pointed out here, the relationship is highly non-linear and nowhere is this regime-dependence more evident than in the following chart from Morgan Stanley. Empirically, the current interest-rate regime (the 2-3% 10Y) is as good as it gets and whether rates rise or fall from here, equity valuations are likely to drop. The market rarely trades at the average multiple, though the current market trades at near average levels currently (not cheap as many would like us to believe). Of course, as Morgan Stanley notes, there are a number of other drivers but on a long-term basis and top-down, equity valuations have a hard hill to climb to prove its different this time. , Dallas Fed Plunges Negative. Biggest Miss In 10 Months While the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index tends to be a little less of a headline-maker  than many of its macro-data peers, today's dismal report is worth paying attention to. The index turned negative for the first time this year, dropped to its lowest level in 7 months and missed expectations by the largest amount in 10 months. The drop from +10.8 to -3.4 is also the largest sequential drop in 11 months. Only the inventories sub-index rose (hardly a bright spot) as Production, Number of Employees, New Orders, and Capacity Utilization all plunged and the average workweek fell for the first time in months. The US decoupling myth continues to come apart at the seams and the likelihood of more easing (extreme or not) seems to be rising by the day - because that has worked so well in the past. , Larry Summers Resumes Exercises In Pontificating Sophistry , Chicago PMI Plunges To Lowest Since November 2009, Biggest Miss To Expectations Since September 2009 ... the only question is whether the number,which printed at 56.2, down from 62.2, and missing expectations of 60.0, is horrible enough to send stocks soaring. Based on some of the core numbers it may be: the headline nuimber was the worst since November 2009, the miss was the biggest since September 2009, Production of 57.1 was the lowest since September 2009, New Orders slide to 57.4 from 63.3, Supplier deliveries lowest since September 2011, and so on. The only good print was employment which mysteriously rose from 56.3 to 58.7, just in time for the NFP print to come really, really ugly. On, and Joe LaVorgna was at 61.0: way to earn that bonus Joe. ISM downward revisions to come. But not from Joe- look for upward revisions there. Finally, comment #6 from the PMI respondents says it all: "Despite all of the rhetoric to the contrary, it looks like the air got let out of the balloon." , The New-Normal Class Warfare: Old Vs Young? , A House of Cards aka Un Castillo de Naipes , Savings Rate Rises From 4 Year Low As Spending Tumbles, Income Boosted By Government Transfer Receipts , Interactive Map Of Europe's Recessionary Tide , Give Austerity A Chance: Growth Spending Failed , Chicago ISM falls to 56.2 in Apr, well below market expectations of 60.8, vs 62.2 in Mar. , http://albertpeia.com/HomeownershipRate.jpg  , Don't Forget Portugal: MS Sees A Second Bail-Out By September With A Bail-In To Follow , Second Baby Squid Rumored To Be In The Running For Bank Of England Head, Guest Post: Wealth Inequality – Spitznagel Gets It, Krugman Doesn’t Krugmann fails to address even a single one of the arguments forwarded by Spitznagel. This is no surprise, as he has often demonstrated he does not even understand the arguments of the Austrians and moreover has frequently shown that his style of debate consists largely of attempts to knock down straw men.  After appraising us of his economic ignorance (see the idea that time preferences can actually 'go negative' implied by his argument on the natural interest rate above), he finally closes a truly Orwellian screed by claiming that everybody who is critical of the Fed and the financial elite is guilty of being 'Orwellian'. As we often say, you really couldn't make this up. , Guest Post: Does Believing In The "Recovery" Make It Real? Does believing in the "recovery" make it real? The propaganda policies of the Federal Reserve and the Federal government are based on the hope that you'll answer "yes." The entire "recovery" is founded on the idea that if the Fed and Federal agencies can persuade the citizenry that down is up then people will hurry into their friendly "too big to fail" bank and borrow scads of money to bid up housing, buy new vehicles, and generally spend money they don't have in the delusional belief that inflation is low, wages are rising and the economy is growing.... Data is now massaged for political expediency, failure is spun into success, and consequences are shoved remorselessly onto the future generations. The entire policy of the Federal Reserve and the Federal government boils down to pushing propaganda in the hopes we'll all swallow the con and believe that down is now up and our "leadership" is a swell bunch of guys and gals instead of sociopaths who will say anything to evade the consequences of their actions and policy choices. , Europe's "Dead Bank Walking" List And An ETA Until The Next Contagion Peak

 

4-27-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BULLS CHERRY PICK NEWS 4-27-12 [ As astutely pointed out by Dave, ‘Michigan Consumer Sentiment Report (76.4 vs 75.8 expected and prior 75.7) which is weighted more heavily by stock market prices than Consumer Confidence’, this thusly is the ultimate ‘bootstrap’ for these bubble stock prices. ] ‘U.S. GDP Data was worse than expected (2.2% vs 2.6% expected & prior 3%). There’s nothing good about this data unless you believe spring weather caught up with a warm winter. Is that the spin? Perhaps. Others might just return to the previous mantra from the past few years: “bad news is good, good news is better” cynically meaning the Fed will launch another round of QE. It’s the belief by bulls that no matter the data the Fed has your back until its QE effect exhausts itself. Nevertheless the weaker GDP data confirms what we’re seeing globally—economic contraction…’ , 25 Horrible Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Barack Obama Does Not Want You To Know  http://albertpeia.com/25horriblestatsaboutuseconomyobamahides.htm ’The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable.  Most people out there end up believing exactly what they want to believe even when the truth is staring them right in the face.  Take the U.S. economy for example.  Barack Obama wants to believe that his policies have worked and that the U.S. economy is improving.  So that is what he is telling the American people.  The mainstream media wants to believe that Barack Obama is a good president and that his policies make sense and so they are reporting that we are experiencing an economic recovery.  A very large segment of the U.S. population still fully supports Barack Obama and they want to believe that the economy is getting better so they are buying the propaganda that the mainstream media is feeding them.  But is the U.S. economy really improving?  The truth is that it is not.  The rate of employment among working age Americans is exactly where it was two years ago and household incomes have actually gone down while Obama has been president.  Home ownership levels and home prices continue to decline.  Meanwhile, food and gasoline continue to become even more expensive.  The percentage of Americans that are dependent on the government is at an all-time record high and the U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars under Obama.  We simply have not seen the type of economic recovery that we have seen after every other economic recession since World War II.The horrible statistics about the U.S. economy that you are about to read are not talked about much by the mainstream media.  They would rather be "positive" and "upbeat" about the direction that things are headed.But lying to the American people is not going to help them.  If you are speeding in a car toward a 500 foot cliff, you don't need someone to cheer you on.  Instead, you need someone to slam on the brakes.The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was four or five years ago.We have never come close to recovering from the last recession and another one will be here soon.The following are 25 horrible statistics about the U.S. economy that Barack Obama does not want you to know....#1 The percentage of Americans that own homes is dropping rapidly.  According to Gallup, the current level of homeownership in the United States is the lowest that Gallup has ever measured.#2 Home prices in the U.S. continue to fall like a rock as well.  They have declined for six months in a row and are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble.  The last time that home prices in the United States were this low was back in 2002.#3 Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.#4 Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer.  Today, that number is above 30 percent.#5 When Barack Obama first became president, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was 2.6 million.  Today, it is 5.3 million.#6 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is about three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.#7 Despite what the mainstream media would have us to believe, the truth is that the percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing.  Back in March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  In March 2011, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  So how can Barack Obama and the mainstream media claim that the employment situation in the United States is getting better?  The employment rate is still essentially exactly where it was when the last recession supposedly ended.#8 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.#9 In 1962, 28 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs.  In 2011, only 9 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs.#10 In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.#11 According to one recent survey, approximately one-third of all Americans are not paying their bills on time at this point.#12 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the price of gasoline has risen by more than 100 percent.#13 The student loan debt bubble continues to expand at a very frightening pace.  Recently it was announced that total student loan debt in the United States has passed the one trillion dollar mark…#s14-25…’ , The Truth About Egan-Jones ... but not from us: after all we are known for being biased, which in the mainstream media parlance means calling it like it is. No - instead we leave it to none other than Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil who does as good a job of being "biased" as we ever could: "Egan-Jones, which has been in business since 1992, could have continued operating as an independent publisher of ratings and analysis, not subject to government oversight or control. Instead it chose to play within the Big Three’s system, exposing itself to regulation and the whims of the SEC in exchange for the government’s imprimatur. Now it’s paying the price." And not only that: as the most recent example of Spain just shows, where Egan Jones downgraded Spain 9 days ago and was ignored, but well ahead of everyone else, only to be piggybacked by S&P, and the whole world flipping out, it has become clear: calling out reality, and the fools that populate it, is becoming not only a dangerous game, but increasingly more illegal. Then again - this is not the first time we have seen just this happen in broad daylight, with nobody daring to say anything about it. In fact, this phenomenon tends to be a rather traditional side-effect of every declining superpower. Such as the case is right now...’ , The Sell-Side Take On The Tepid GDP Growth , Art Cashin On The Fed, The Election, And The Collapse Of The Euro , Michael Krieger On The Rebirth Of Barter China is preparing to avoid U.S. sanctions on Iran by paying for oil with gold.  Not only that but, as Forbes contributor Gordon Change also mentions, China has already been bartering with Iran to get a hold of petroleum using among other goods, Chinese washing machines, refrigerators, toys, clothes, cosmetics, and toiletries. The barter trade works, but Iran needs cash too - hence Gold. Thus, the leadership in America in its infinite stupidity has actually accelerated the demise of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. In a similar move on a more micro level, the government of Spain in a similar desperation has banned the use of cash transactions above 2,500 euros.  How do you think citizens are going to respond to this?  People are already in the streets. Everything is going to go black market and to a barter system.  It will happen country by country as governments get increasingly desperate and the authoritarian clamp down continues.  It will happen on an increasing level until all of these house of cards bureaucratic states fail and something new is reborn - just as we noted in a small town in Greece recently. , Eric Sprott: "When Fundamentals No Longer Apply, Review the Fundamentals" , Robert Wenzel's 'David' Speech Crushes Federal Reserve's 'Goliath' Dream In perhaps the most courageous (and now must-read) speech ever given inside the New York Fed's shallowed hallowed walls, Economic Policy Journal's Robert Wenzel delivered the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to the monetary priesthood. Gracious from the start, Wenzel takes the Keynesian clap-trappers to task on almost every nonsensical and oblivious decision they have made in recent years. "My views, I suspect, differ from beginning to end... I stand here confused as to how you see the world so differently than I do. I simply do not understand most of the thinking that goes on here at the Fed and I do not understand how this thinking can go on when in my view it smacks up against reality." And further..."I scratch my head that somehow your conclusions about unemployment are so different than mine and that you call for the printing of money to boost 'demand'. A call, I add, that since the founding of the Federal Reserve has resulted in an increase of the money supply by 12,230%." But his closing was tremendous: "Let’s have one good meal here. Let’s make it a feast. Then I ask you, I plead with you, I beg you all, walk out of here with me, never to come back. It’s the moral and ethical thing to do. Nothing good goes on in this place. Let’s lock the doors and leave the building to the spiders, moths and four-legged rats.", IceCap Asset Management: 1982 And Secular Bull Market Bias While many will remember 1982 for its disco and the movie E.T., it is perhaps best known by an investing public as the end of a 16 year secular bear market. The 10% decline from 1966 was better, however, than the 38% loss from 1937 to 1941 and the 80% loss from 1929-1932 but together this triumvirate make up the secular bear markets. Luckily, as IceCap's Keith Dicker notes, for most of the investment industry they can gloss over these extended loss periods and instead focus on the long-run secular bull markets (cue Jeremy Siegel). However, he points out that unknown to many and ignored by the rest, "we are in the middle of another long and dragged out Secular Bear Market which has seen investors lose 7% since the year 2000 - that's 12 years of hopes for nothing." Understanding secular markets and how they transition from BULL to BEAR is perhaps the most rewarding investment perspective you won’t hear from anyone else. While financial markets continue to yo-yo with our retirements, the truth is, the next Secular BULL Market is not quite ready to perk its head up just yet as Dicker addresses P/E ratios during inflationary and deflationary periods summing up his view of the world rather succinctly: "As central banks continue to bail out banks and countries, they implicitly create an investment culture whereby failure is rewarded and success is taxed to reward those who failed." , Breaking Point: The End Of The Cheap Energy Economy , Richard Koo On The Three Problems With Bullish Speculation On Europe , Jim Quinn Explains Why We've Never Left The Recession It is three and a half years since the Great Recession hit in 2008 with the collapse of our financial system caused by the Wall Street banks and their captured politician cronies in Washington D.C. Their mouthpieces in the mainstream media have been telling the American sheeple that we have been out of recession and in recovery since the 4th quarter of 2009. It truly has been a recovery for the Wall Street bankers and the mega-corporations that have laid off millions and opened new factories in the Far East while generating record profits and rewarding their executives with millions in bonuses. The stock market has doubled from its 2009 lows. All is well on Wall Street – not so much on Main Street. The compliant non-questioning MSM reported that GDP in the 1st quarter rose 2.2%, less than expected. This pitiful government manipulated result confirms that we are back in recession. The first quarter had the huge benefit of fantastic weather, an extra day, and a supposed surge in jobs. And this is all we got? Take a good long hard look at this chart. , US Companies Are Furiously Creating Jobs... Abroad , Europe Ends Week Green But Notably Red On Month ,  Spanish Economy Crumbles: Unemployment Nearly 25% ,  Big GDP Miss: 2.2% Vs Expectations Of 2.5%, Composition Even Uglier ,  Chart Of The Day: Change In Q1 American Debt And GDP Presented without much commentary, because little is necessary: the only ratio that matters for the US economy, the change in US public debt ($359.1 billion) and US GDP ($142.4) in the first quarter, hit 2.52x and rising. It takes $2.52 in new debt to "buy" $1 of economic "growth" ,  Guest Post: The New Drug of Choice In The White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury: Delusionol (tm)

 

4-26-12 84% of All Stock Trades Are By High-Frequency Computers … Only 16% Are Done By Human Traders Washington’s Blog | As of 2010, 50-70% of all stock trades were done by high frequency trading computer algorithms.[ Churning / earning without regard to learning! That money has to come from someplace; hence, the horrendous economy and jobs picture! ] , Forrester: Apple is Entering a Long Decline Written by Damon Poeter PC Magazine ‘ At least one analyst is bucking the trend of gushing over Apple. Forrester Research chief executive George Colony laid out his case in a blog post Wednesday for why he thinks the company will start looking like just another tech .. ‘ [ As much as I like Apple, my first computer, and am glad they survived in a big way, I’m constrained to agree. Moreover, and I can’t prove this, I believe there to be some ‘soft’ stimulation of the heavily weighted, more bang for the buck, Apple stock by way of subsidized purchases. Remember those $275,000 per car government purchases, and the $278,000 cost per stimulus job? What’s $500 per ipad or iphone, etc., to a nation hopelessly, insurmountably indebted to the tune of $211 trillion, especially in their election year desperation. This should in no way be construed as a slight to Cook; but rather, just the reality there’s a limit to what one’s willing to pay for fairly common utility. That said, I’d still buy an IPad since, as with the ipod and the simple technology involved, amazingly, ultimate competitors as, ie., microsoft with zune, etc., didn’t measure up at all! I think the IPhone’s totally underwhelming! Contrary to the tenor of the article, I believe charisma has nothing whatsoever to do with the inevitable decline ahead; and, not just Apple. Moreover, I believe Apple’s success is a testament to the pathetic state of american/global technology generally, and the somewhat ‘curious’ state of the consuming public. The only really ‘big thing’ has been the internet. And, given time, they’ll mess that up as they’re so desperately trying to do with all forms of censorship and constraints; just ask Timothy Berners-Lee Inventor of World Wide Web Savages Government’s Big Brother Plans     http://albertpeia.com/bernersleeantibigbrotherwebintrusion.htm ] , The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America http://albertpeia.com/familyfarmwipedoutinamerica.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  PENDING HOME SALES TRUMP POOR JOBLESS CLAIMS DATA 4-26-12 ‘Jobless Claims (388K vs 375K expected & prior revised higher 389K) allowed for a beat with (ahem) revisions. Pending Home Sales (4.1% vs 1% expected & prior at -.5%) is what bulls seized on shrugging off poor employment data. Bulls see claims data as just more of the same. But people are also losing their benefits with 700K expected to be out of luck by next month… Ongoing weakness in Europe (Eurozone confidence 92.8 vs 94.2) pointed to contraction… Volume was unimpressive once again as we enter end of month window dressing while breadth per the WSJ was positive once again…’ , Bill Gross On Europe's Dysfunction And US Double-Dips Durden (ZeroHedge.com) , S&P Cuts Spain to BBB+, Outlook Negative , Student Loan Debt Slaves In Perpetuity - A True Story Of "Bankruptcy Hell" , BoJ Eases. Einstein Rolls Over In Grave Einstein's definition of insanity  by doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome , Memo To Draghi: We, The People, "Don't Trust You One Inch" , Jim Grant On The Monetary Priesthood's "Atlas Complex" , Guest Post: Social Security Has A Real Problem , Amazon Surges After Hours On After-Tax Accounting Gimmick, Cash Burn, Collapsing Margins, And Negative Guidance , Market Meltup Meets Non-Farm-Payroll Resistance , When Did Austerity Become A 4 Letter Word? Suddenly, everywhere you look, “austerity” has become a 4 letter word.  Clearly it wasn’t excessive spending that caused too much debt. (This is sarcasm which ‘Durden’ doesn’t do that well and doesn’t become him:) Surely we didn’t hit a financial crisis in spite of excessive spending (and huge, still extant wall street frauds yet unprosecuted), nope, it is all the fault of austerity…’ , Project 'End-Up-Like-Japan' Continues , Of Disasters Natural And Keynesian The symbiosis between the Keynesian expansion of the economy and the growth of suburbs in US cities has been ably discussed by Beauregard (2006). Sprawl was driven by the flow of money, the "American dream" of owning a home in the suburbs, and facilitated by the widespread ownership of cars. The suburbs were designed with cars in mind. The growth of suburbs fulfilled two roles. Lots of houses were available for new buyers, which kept prices down; and city governments discovered that developer's fees and the new land taxes initially exceeded the maintenance cost of the new roads and infrastructure built to support them,. Unfortunately, as time passed and the infrastructure aged, soon maintenance costs exceeded tax revenues, necessitating another round of growth. Suburbs were able to maintain the required level of growth for a few decades, but we are reaching the point everywhere (it seems) where there cannot be enough new growth to maintain our crumbling infrastructure. The mindset of the "ownership society" really drove demand for housing, and the best places to expand were in the southwest, so that cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas really grew. Low interest rates plus easy money led to a bubble in house prices and an explosion of sprawl. The Austrian school of economics teaches us that easy money leads to malinvestment. Suburban growth certainly seems to qualify. Our urban sprawl malinvestment has left us with the interwoven problems of unlivable cities, financial crisis, and increased death and destruction from natural disasters. , Houston, We Have A Coupling: US Macro Data Worst In Six Months Confirming the lack of decoupling in major developed economies (which we noted yesterday), US macro data (as tracked by Citigroup's ECO Surprise Index) has turned negative for the first time in six months. Having trended lower (i.e. missed expectations to the downside) for much of the last few months, this shift now puts aggregate US macro data in the deteriorating case and infers considerable risks of downside to equity prices in the next three months (Corporate insiders know this and are already selling like mad!) , Consumer Comfort in U.S. Falls by the Most in More Than a Year  USAGold(Bloomberg) — Consumer confidence in the U.S. dropped last week by the most in more than a year as perceptions of personal finances and the buying climate dimmed. The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index fell to minus 35.8 in the period to April 22 from minus 31.4 the previous week, the biggest decline since March 2011. A gauge of the buying climate decreased to a two-month low, and a measure of household financial wherewithal fell by the most since September. PG View: Weaker than expected KC Fed index today too, seems to fly a bit in the face of Bernanke’s rosier outlook from yesterday.

 

4-25-12 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People  http://albertpeia.com/5newliesbythefed.htm http://albertpeia.com/fraudulentfedhasfailed.htm  { Yes, it’s really rather incredible, even astounding, that people even listen to, much less believe the proven lies, wrong information, disinformation that bespeaks fraud/deception/cover-up and at best, total incompetence. Don’t they realize they’re being scammed in a very big way; particularly, with an election year predisposed pro-wobama obfuscation? Bernanke is a total fraud. He is totally incompetent! As I wrote, infra, as comment to Dave Fry’s Summary:  the same helicopter ben who forecast no recession and whose QEs have helped no one but the frauds on wall street, with fake numbers on what is in reality much higher inflation, unemployment, etc., for obfuscation – you cannot solve a problem without admitting there is one, let alone failing to identify the problem; and with america’s insurmountable debt and debased Weimar fiat paper currency over-printing, that huge extant problem is substantially exacerbated. { Britain slides back into recession AFP Britain was back in recession Wednesday after its economy shrank in the first quarter while Prime Minister David Cameron said the country was being buffetted by the European downturn [ True, but only because unlike the u.s., their reporting is a bit more accurate/truthful, less manipulated, less fraudulent than america which has already entered (the continuing) recession (actually dollar debased and thereby, can you believe it, inflationary depression) UK Economy Double Dips For First Time Since 1970s  } ]  {  Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ }  [ Now we know the reason for bernanke’s pro-wobama politicking: Reuters:  Mitt Romney says he would boot Ben Bernanke - The Trail The likely Republican nominee says, “I’d be looking for somebody new” to run the Federal Reserve if he’s elected president. Romney criticized Fed Chairman Bernanke for printing too much money in a bid to stimulate the economy. (April 25, 2012) Drudgereport: Romney would boot Ben... And, not only because bernanke as has obama failed miserably; good, sound management all but requires that he do so (as per the late Peter Drucker among the multitude of Management experts). Wobama, the lazy jive-talking b***s*** artist, despite campaign rhetoric to the contrary, literally continued all things dumbya bush. ]‘The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been dead wrong about the economy over and over again.  But the mainstream media and many Americans still seem to have a lot of faith in the Federal Reserve.  It doesn't seem to matter that Bernanke and other Fed officials have been telling the American people lies for years.  As I always say, most people believe what they want to believe, and many people seem to want to have blind faith in the Federal Reserve even when logic and reason would dictate otherwise.  The truth is that things are not going to be getting much better than they are right now.  When the next wave of the financial crisis hits, the U.S. economy is going to fall back into recession, financial markets are going to crash and unemployment is going to absolutely skyrocket.  But you will never hear any of that from the Federal Reserve. The following are 5 new lies that the Federal Reserve is telling the American people.  After each lie I have posted what The Economic Collapse Blog thinks is actually going to happen....’ http://albertpeia.com/benbsshalombernankesellsfedpansgoldstandard.htm http://albertpeia.com/22redflagsofdoomforglobalfinancialmarkets.htm , Dave Fry: ‘Did you know during the 2008 bear market nearly 50% of earnings reports beat estimates.’ Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BIG WEDNESDAY FOR MARKETS 4-25-12 ‘The set-up for the day began with last night’s spectacular earnings news from Apple (AAPL) and continued with Ben’s news conference. In it he forecast a lower unemployment rate by the (cough) election…’ { the same helicopter ben who forecast no recession and whose QEs have helped no one but the frauds on wall street, with fake numbers on what is in reality much higher inflation, unemployment, etc., for obfuscation – you cannot solve a problem without admitting there is one, much less failing to identify the problem, and with america’s insurmountable debt and debased Weimar fiat paper currency over-printing, that huge extant problem is  substantially exacerbated}. ‘Inflation doesn’t exist and weather is what drove economy higher early in the quarter and lower recently. You need not know anything else. Durable Goods Orders (-4.2% vs -1.5% expected & prior 1.9%) sank to the lowest level since (gulp) 2009. But Ben would probably attribute this to the weather I guess since markets didn’t care. The transportation component plunged a monthly 12.5 percent in March after rising 1.8 percent the month before. Subcomponent weakness was led by a 47.6 percent plunge in new orders for nondefense aircraft (Boeing orders). Defense aircraft increased 15.5 percent while motor vehicles edged up 0.1 percent.The focus was on Apple and Ben which both produced a tsunami for tech to surf on and the rest of the market just sort of tagged along. And the Facebook IPO is just around the corner. And interesting article from Time magazine reflects how frustrating hot IPOs can be with a quote from yours truly.News from the eurozone was positive for some corporate earnings and stocks rallied there with Apple as well. Eurozone political news was quickly pushed to the background.“As you were”, was a common command for soldiers and this was sort of the feeling one gets from recent market action. Apple is more than just okay and Ben is both optimistic and ready to print if necessary. So let’s just go back a few weeks than shall we? Gold (GLD) was lower early but just as Ben uttered the QE threat/promise the metal rallied immediately. Bonds (IEF) and the dollar (UUP) were weaker in price and commodity (DBC) markets were also stronger with Ben’s QE comments.Earnings are generally beating much lowered estimates which is par for the course. Did you know during the 2008 bear market nearly 50% of earnings reports beat estimates. This game continues. Volume was modest especially given the dynamic news background. Breadth per the WSJ was positive…’ , Overnight Sentiment: Overbought, Underconfident Durden 4-26-12 , European Confidence Tumbles To November 2009 Levels, Euro-Wide Double Dip Inevitable 4-25-12 , Germany Folding? Europe's Insolvent Banks To Get Direct Funding From ESM , There Goes Greek GDP: Nazional Lampoons Greek Vacation Just Got Cancelled , NASDAAPL Explodes Most In 4 Months As Volatility Implodes , Gundlach Explains Biflation For The Cheap Seats Appropos Bernanke's razor's-edge tight-rope-walk fence-sitting as the not-too-cold-not-too-hot economy reduces the Fed's ability to do anything, Jeff Gundlach of Double Line provided a succinct explanation of the the 'uncomfortable position' the place-of-confusion Fed finds itself in. Simplifying the dilemma to: the Fed cannot raise rates as the dramatic implications for the huge debt load (and implictly the interest expense saving the budget deficit) of the US Government are untenable while at the same time inflation (in the things we need - not just want) is rising notably…’ , Which Came First - The Spending Or The Debt? ,  Just As Predicted, Initial Claims Miss Huge, Yet Magically Improve Recall what we said less than an hour ago: "what will most likely happen is a print in the mid to upper 380,000s, while last week's number will be revised to a 390K+ print, allowing the media to once again declare that the number was an improvement week over week. In other words, SSDD." SSDD it is: last week's 386K number was revised to 389K, meaning the massive miss relative to expectations of 370K last week just got even worse. This is the 10th week in a row of misses to the weaker side and the 16th of the last 18. And while this week's miss was whopping as usual, with expectations of 375K being soundly missed after the print came at 388K on its way back to 400K, the media can sleep soundly because the absolute lack of BLS propaganda means that the sequential progression is one of, you got it, improvement. In other words here is what the headlines in the Mainstream Media will be: "Initial claims improve over prior week." In fact here it is from Bloomberg: "U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Fell 1,000 to 388,000 Last Week." ..No propaganda. No data fudging. No manipulation at all. Just endless laughter at the desperation. , What Costs How Much, Where? Presenting The "Apple Index" 4-25-12 , March Durable Good Implode, Worse Than Lowest Wall Street Forecast And Biggest Drop Since January 2009 ,  FOMC's Bag Of Tricks Is Empty... For Now - Full Statement Redline

The United States Has Plenty Of Oil: 10 Facts About America's Energy Resources That Will Blow Your Mind http://endoftheamericandream.com http://albertpeia.com/10factsaboutamericanenergyresources.htm [ Well, first off, since we’re only talking decades at best, I agree the alarmist propaganda is all for naught. Yet, make no mistake, those who equate shale oil, deep water oil, etc., with that close to the surface, easily recovered, ie., sweet crude, are as misguided. It’s kind of like that ‘asteroid mining’ that’s ‘become the rage’. Firstly, in hollywood (oh yeah, we’ve seen them digitally land on asteroids, planets as in Avatar, etc., with ease and without a hitch), they don’t keep books the way other businesses do, at least on the creative end, viz., ie., Cameron. And, what do you expect a former pilot to say, etc.? As an example of ‘fuel price makes a difference’, anyone who thinks american airlines among others went bankrupt because they’re so horribly managed or because they felt like strategically avoiding their debt would be mistaken. For airlines it’s all about fuel costs and load factors, capital intensive that they are, and pennies literally do make a difference. Costs of extraction make a difference. Oh sure, there’s loads of oil. It’s all about the costs of getting it. Peak oil really has been reached in terms of ‘easy pickins’. Some even argue/document persuasively that current reserves of the ‘easy pickins’ are over-stated.  ]

 

4-24-12 22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious Doom Is Coming For Global Financial Markets  http://albertpeia.com/22redflagsofdoomforglobalfinancialmarkets.htm ‘If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012.  Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place.  Corporate insiders are selling off stock like there is no tomorrow, major economies all over Europe continue to implode, the IMF is warning that the eurozone could actually break up and there are signs of trouble at major banks all over the planet…’ , The Bundesbank’s in Hot Water… Will It Take the Heat or Throw the ECB Under the Bus? April 24, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/bundesbankinhotwater.htm  ..European financials have in fact wiped out all of the gains produced by LTRO 2 in just one month’s time. Small wonder. When we take a big picture perspective of Europe, the entire banking system is a disaster waiting to happen. Consider the following: *According to the IMF, European banks as a whole are leveraged at 26 to 1 (this data point is based on reported loans… the real leverage levels are likely much, much higher.) These are a Lehman Brothers leverage levels.*The European Banking system is over $46 trillion in size (nearly 3X total EU GDP). *The European Central Bank’s (ECB) balance sheet is now nearly $4 trillion in size (larger than Germany’s economy and roughly 1/3 the size of the ENTIRE EU’s GDP). Aside from the inflationary and systemic risks this poses (the ECB is now leveraged at over 36 to 1). *Over a quarter of the ECB’s balance sheet is PIIGS debt which the ECB will dump any and all losses from onto national Central Banks (read: Germany)…’, Merkel’s Back is Against the Wall… Time for Germany’s “Plan B”? April 23, 2012 By gpc1981   http://albertpeia.com/germanyplanb.htm  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com INVESTORS WAIT FOR BIG WEDNESDAY 4-24-12 ‘S&P Case-Shiller HPI was as expected which wasn’t good and New Home Sales were worse (328K vs 353K previously) and Consumer Confidence fell (69.2 vs 69.5) slightly. All things considered nothing to even write about frankly…’ , Apple Beats, Guides Lower Durden 4-24-12 , Steve Keen On Europe's Delusion And Why The Entire World Is Turning Japanese , Guest Post: Charles Krauthammer Mourns Over NASA Cuts, I Celebrate Leading neoconservative (read “closet Trotskyite“) commentator Charles Krauthammer’s latest Washington Post editorial…’ , Biderman Bets Against A Better Europe , Now We Know Where All The Greek Bank Deposits Have Gone Draining your banking system dry of deposits and loans is no easy task, and yet the Greeks sure have succeeded. , SEC Emerges From Carbonite Deep Freeze, Sues Egan-Jones … Somewhere Jon Corzine is cackling like a mad cow. , Mad Cow Slaughters Cattle Bulls As Animal Spirits Doused , Guest Post: What Data Can We Trust? , G-10 Macro Data Plunges To Worst In Six Months, Turns Negative , Immigration and the Housing Quagmire  : testosteronepit : 04/24/2012 A multi-decade trend reversed. , Security Experts: CISPA Not Needed, Would Do More Harm than Good : George Washington : 04/24/2012 Government On the Verge – Yet Again – of Doing Something Which Causes More Harm Than Good , Guest Post: What Happens When All The Money Vanishes Into Thin Air? Durden , The US Has Finally Done It: Mexican Immigrants Become Emigrants , Case Shiller Misses Expectations, Unadjusted Home Prices Lowest In A Decade   http://albertpeia.com/caseshillerhousingchart42412.jpg  , Cost of Spain’s Housing Bust Could Force a Bailout usagoldnews , Soros Compares Euro-Zone Crisis With Soviet Collapse  , US home prices drop for 6th straight month http://albertpeia.com/caseshillerhousingchart42412.jpg  

 

4-23-12 Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Here Comes Spain Edition) 4-23-12 By gpc1981  [  http://albertpeia.com/spainpain.htm  ] ‘As expected Francois Hollande won the first round of the French elections. He and Nicolas Sarkozy will run against each other in the second round, which will occur on May 6th.The Euro isn’t taking this news well. As I write this Sunday night the Euro currency futures have gapped down. I’ve added this move to the chart below.130 remains the line in the sand for the Euro. If we take it out with conviction then we’re in BIG trouble.I believe we’re at most a month or so away from this. Spain has now stepped center stage in the Euro Crisis. And the Spanish Ibex has just taken out its 15-year trendline:This spells MAJOR trouble for Spain and the rest of the EU. Unlike Greece, (which has its own elections, which could go very wrong for the EU, on May 6th by the way), Spain is too big to bail out.  Indeed, the Spanish banking system is a toxic sewer of bad mortgage debt: over half of all mortgages were generated and owned by the unregulated cajas. If you’re unfamiliar with the caja banking system, let me give you a little background…Until recently, the caja banking system was virtually unregulated. Yes, you read that correctly, until about 2010-2011 there were next no regulations for these banks (which account for 50% of all Spanish deposits). They didn’t have to reveal their loan to value ratios, the quality of collateral they took for making loans… or anything for that matter.As one would expect, the cajas have been collapsing like dominos in the last few years. Spain’s been trying to prop them up by merging them with larger (likely equally insolvent) banks with no success (the merged banks have all collapsed to new lows in the last month).On top of this, Spanish Banks are drawing a record €316.3 billion from the ECB (up from €169.2 billion in February).Things have gotten so bad that Spanish citizens are pulling their money out of Spain en masse: €65 billion left the Spanish banking system in March 2011 alone. And all of this is happening at a time in which relations are breaking down between Germany and the ECB as well as between Germany and France.In other words, the EU collapse is about to enter its next round. Remember, all collapses follow the same pattern: 1) the initial drop 2) the re-test/ attempt to reclaim upwards momentum 3) the roll-over/ REAL fireworks…’ , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com MONDAY MARKET BLUES 4-23-12 ‘Eurozone issues stole the show on Monday… again. An austerity deal in the Netherlands hit a stalemate, meaning the country could lose its AAA rating. In France election results weren’t kind to Sarkozy and it’s uncertain, especially with the strong right wing showing, how the final vote on May 6th will work out. If Sarkozy loses and the socialist Hollande wins then the financial alliance for the EU between France and Germany could be undone. To make matters worse Monday, the eurozone reported the important PMI (Purchasers Managers Index) at weak 47.4 vs expectations of 49.3 and prior 49.1. China also reported another weak manufacturing survey also at 49.1. Toss-in recent U.S. data and the three important regions in the world are experiencing clear economic contraction…’ , Guest Post: Where’s The Crisis? Durden 4-23-12 The thing about GDP, is that it doesn’t really measure wealth creation, or the size of the economy. It measures a derivative of that: money circulation. If Congress passed a law saying that everyone in America had to smoke meth (hey, if you can mandate the purchase of health insurance, why not mandate drug consumption in the name of increasing GDP?) and gamble all their disposable income on horse racing, GDP would almost certainly improve. And that’s growth, right? Except it isn’t. Real growth comes from innovation, productivity, imagination, and hard work. You can attempt to quantify it, but there is no easy catch-all number that will give you a quick and simple insight. , Gold Outperforms As Stocks Suffer From Wal-Mart's 'Sinko-De-Abril' , NFLX Beats But Guidance Stuns Stock -19% From Friday's Close, Margins Implode , Scam Trek Caption Contest http://albertpeia.com/scamtrek.htm  , Global Systemic Risk At 3 Month Highs In a little over a month, the risk of the 30 most systemically important global banks has jumped an impressive 45%. At 235bps, the FSB30 stands just shy of the peak levels that were seen in the initial March 2009 crisis moment - though remains below Q4 2011 peak crisis levels. Perhaps, despite all the protestations of 'zee stabilitee', self-sustaining record-profit-margin-driven recovery, and Chinese soft-landing, the vicious circles of austerity in Europe (and perhaps the US) and financials squandering their newly-found liquidity (and certainly not capital) is becoming too large to ignore? , Rosenberg Roasts The Roundtable Of Groupthink  It appears that when it comes to mocking consensus groupthink emanating from lazy career 'financiers' who seek protection from their lack of imagination and original thought, 'creation' of negative alpha and general underperformance (not to mention reliance on rating agencies, only to jump at the first opportunity to demonize the clueless raters), in the sheer herds of other D-grade asset "managers" (for much more read Jeremy Grantham explaining this and much more here   ), David Rosenberg enjoys even more linguistic flexibility than even us. Case in point, his just released trashing of the latest Barron's permabull groupthink effort titled "Outlook: Mostly Sunny." And just as it so often happens, no sooner did those words hit the cover of that particular rag, that it started raining, generously providing material for the latest "Roasting with Rosie." , Guest Post: Gasoline Is Expensive - Deal With It  , Think The US Student Loan Bubble Is Bad? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet , US Welfare State To Run Out Of Cash Sooner Than Hoped For Headlines via Bloomberg:

  • *MEDICARE COSTS RISE 5 PERCENT TO $549 BILLION IN 2011 :UNH US
  • *LONG-TERM PROJECTIONS FOR MEDICARE WORSEN, TRUSTEES SAY :UNH US
  • *HOSPITALS TO FACE MEDICARE PAYMENT CUTS IN 2024, U.S. SAYS
  • *TRUSTEES SAY FUND TO RUN OUT THREE YEARS EARLIER THAN PREDICTED

Nigel Farage Batters Barroso But Noyer Self-Deludes On European Crisis Ending

Juxtaposing the market's recent movements, Nigel Farage's 'when-not-if' perspective on the end of the Euro, Weidmann's concerns, and now ECB's Noyer stunning self-delusion that, as Bloomberg notes:

*NOYER SAYS STEPS TO EXIT EURO CRISIS BEGINNING TO BEAR FRUIT
*NOYER: BANK FUNDING, MONEY MARKET CONDITIONS ARE MUCH BETTER
*NOYER: RECENT EXCEPTIONAL STEPS LET BANKS, GOV'TS STRENGTHEN
*WEIDMANN: RENEGOTIATION OF AUSTERITY A 'BLOW TO CREDIBILITY'

is more than some can bear. As Mr.Farage notes, in the face of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Europe, Barroso and his colleague's ever-smiling perspective on the Euro, "look ridiculous". With Spanish yields over 6%, banks trading at near record high levels of funding costs, Italian risk elevating, political event risk becoming critical, and now macro data turning even worse perhaps Noyer's comments that "delaying fiscal consolidation may lead to greater risks" are spot on - and yet nation after nation rises-up votes to 'deny' austerity.

Guest Post: Project “End Up Like Japan” Continues To Advance Well In The West

One scene from the movie Titanic depicts a lounge in one of the upper class quarters of the ship as it slowly sinks beneath the waves. Notwithstanding the vessel listing alarmingly, a motley band of toff revelers are determined to go out in the finest style. Some continue to play at cards with a fatalistic resolve while others determinedly quaff spirits direct from the bottle. Having considered for some time the most appropriate metaphor for the current market environment, we think this may be it: one may be doomed, but one can still party on. Having already hit the iceberg, one major problem we see is the common perspective for both investors and the asset management industry to view debt and equity as the entire universe of investor choices available. Having long exhausted the armory of conventional policies to keep the unsustainably indebted show on the road, increasingly desperate politicians are doing increasingly desperate things, be that gifting money to the IMF in a brazen display of fiscal denial that we can ill afford (US, UK) or simply stealing from other sovereigns (Argentina). The ironic triumph of the Keynesians means that, in trying to save the economy, our central bank may end up destroying it completely by means of the printing press; as a consequence, we now get to experience some of the full-on horror of the Japanese malaise.

Guest Post: The Future Is Unknown, But We Know The Unsustainable Will Implode ‘… we do know two very important things: 1) that which is unsustainable will implode, and 2) the present Status Quo is unsustainable. That ultimately leaves us with a single question: what are we going to do about it? In my view, it's not important that we agree on solutions--agreement would in fact be a catastrophe, for dissent and decentralization are the essential characteristics of any sustainable "solution." What is important is that we realize the future boils down to a simple choice: do we passively comply with the Status Quo feudalism or do we resist?....  That is the false choice provided by the Status Quo: do you want to buy/sell/drink sugar water or saccharine? There is another choice: do we want to passively self-destruct in servitude to the Status Quo or do we want to join those with a positive vision for the future? Every act is a choice, and the future is in our hands.’

 

4-20-12 Spain is Greece… Only Bigger and WorseApril 20, 2012 By gpc1981   http://gainspainscapital.com Spain on the Precipice http://albertpeia.com/spainontheprecipice.htm  ‘On the Surface, Spain’s debt woes have many things in common with those of Greece:1)Bad age demographics 2)A toxic bank system  However, you’ll note that as we tackle each of these, Spain is in fact in far worse fiscal shape than Greece.Currently there is one person of non-working age (65 or older) for every four people of working age (15-64) in Spain.  This is expected to worsen to one person of non-working age for every three people of working age by 2025 and an astounding more than one person of non-working age for every two people of working age by 2040.These demographics alone set Spain up for a sovereign debt Crisis. According toJagadeesh Gohkale of the Cato Institute Spain would need to have 250% of its GDP sitting in a bank account collecting interest forever in order to meet its unfunded liabilities without raising taxes or cutting government outlays.That, in of itself, is bad news for Spain. But Spain’s banking system are what really set it apart. Let’s consider the following facts about Spain’s banking system: *Total Spanish banking loans are equal to 170% of Spanish GDP. *Troubled loans at Spanish Banks just hit an 18-year high of over 8%. *Spanish Banks are drawing a record €316.3 billion from the ECB (up from €169.2 billion in February). However, even these don’t paint the real picture. Thanks to a property bubble that dwarfed the US in relative terms, Spain’s economy and corporate arena are now literally saturated with debt. Consider the following: *Spanish non-financial corporations’ gross debts outstanding are equal to 196% of Spain’s GDP (this is worse than that of Greece, Portugal, even Japan) *Spanish non-financial corporations sport debt to equity ratios of 152% (only Greece and Japan are worse here) *Spanish household debt is equal to 90% of the country’s GDP: much higher than the EU average of 70% and roughly inline with that of the US which has been running a credit bubble for 30+ years. In simple terms, Spain is like Greece, only bigger and worse…’ , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com OPTIONS EXPIRATION DISTORTIONS 4-20-13 ‘Beating much lower expectations can lead to a short squeeze and this was evident the past few days with some financials and Friday with Microsoft (MSFT) which beat earnings estimates by 3 cents. Remember, MSFT is one of the largest hedge fund holdings so pumping it higher seems easily job one. MSFT was up nearly 5% after the report which may strike some as an outsized gain. But the spin was the company reported good gains from the corporate sector meaning CFOs are loosening their purse strings. How long can you run XP anyway? The boys in the options pits must be chasing down options in MSFT and those silly bets made on Apple (AAPL) calls.The other big news on the day was that the IMF (mostly controlled by U.S. taxpayers) will pony-up another $400 billion in freshly minted dollars to rescue the euro zone once again. Even the Bank of Japan admitted this gesture (thank you America!) will only buy some time if austerity and reforms aren’t implemented. And, right on cue, we have French elections on deck this weekend with polls indicating Sarkozy is toast. This makes his deals with Merkel & Co toast as well. So with the socialists back in control of Europe’s second largest economy don’t expect much in the way of austerity and reform. That’s not on any socialist’s agenda. Also the IMF has secured some “pledges” from BRIC countries for some contributions. Brazil wants a larger role without necessarily a larger commitment. Perhaps Argentina’s Fernandez de Kirchner will pledge the minority balance of Spain’s YPF she hasn’t seized yet. Anyway, the bottom line for bulls is that the eurozone is fixed again if only for the trading day and week.The dollar (UUP) fell sharply (more IMF dollars make them cheaper?) gold (GLD) did little but other commodities (DBC, USO & JJC) with the weakening dollar were higher. All this brings us to options expiration which is day most investors should just take off. Most of what takes place reminds me of packs of wolves chasing down strike prices to exercise them to the disadvantage of the poor victims. Funny how this isn’t the feature of those trashing leveraged ETFs wishing to rename them. What could we rename the options game I wonder? I was an options principal and I always thought of them as death traps…’ , NSA Whistleblower Speaks Live: "The Government Is Lying To You"   http://albertpeia.com/nsawhistleblowerspeaks.htm  Just a month ago we raised more than a proverbial eyebrow when we noted the creation of the NSA's Utah Data Center (codename Stellar Wind) and William Binney's formidable statement that "we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state". Democracy Now has the former National Security Agency technical director whistleblower's first TV interview in which he discusses the NSA's massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could "create an Orwellian state." Today marks the first time Binney has spoken on national TV about NSA surveillance. Starting with his pre-9-11 identification of the world-wide-web as a voluminous problem since the NSA was 'falling behind the rate-of-change', his success in creating a system (codenamed Thin-Thread) for 'grabbing' all the data and the critical 'lawful' anonymization of that data (according to mandate at the time) which as soon as 9-11 occurred went out of the window as all domestic and foreign communications was now stored (starting with AT&T's forking over their data). This direct violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country was why Binney decided he could not stay (leaving one month after 9-11) along with the violation of almost every privacy and intelligence act as near-bottomless databases store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches and other personal data…’ , NASDAPPL Crumbles Amid Sideways Volatile Week , Guest Post: Presenting The US Government’s Infographic Of Its Own Insolvency  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/04/20120420_info1.png  , Does The I In IMF Stand For Idiot? , Guest Post: The Market's Getting A Wedgie , FoodStamp Nation First and foremost, there are 46.5 million Americans in the program as of the most recent information available (January 2012), comprising 22.2 million households.  That’s 15% of the entire population, and just over 20% of all households.  Moreover, despite the end of the official “Great Recession” in June 2009, over 10 million more Americans have been accepted into the program since that month, and the year-over-year growth rate for the program is still +5%. , Guest Post: Why The Left Misunderstands Income Inequality , Europe Is Now Red For The Year A sea of red is flowing from European equity markets and it seems they are unable to stem the flow as IBEX (the Italian Spanish equity index) nears March 2009 lows (down 18% YTD)…’

4-19-12 Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money  http://albertpeia.com/whydochimpslikeobamasthrowpoop29waysgovernmentwastesmoney.htm  , Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  , No Housing Recovery Until 2020 In 5 Simple Charts
http://albertpeia.com/nohousingrecoveryuntil2020in5charts.htm
, The Mother Of All Infographics: Visualizing America's Derivatives Universe   Fasten Your Seatbelts: High Frequency Trading Is Coming To The Treasury Market    [ , Forget Today’s Bond Auction, Spain is an Absolute Disaster http://gainspainscapital.com   ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  INVESTORS FACE A WEEK OF WHIPSAWS 4-19-12 ‘Stocks didn’t like earnings news and economic data overall. In the eurozone, Spain sold some 10 year debt (mostly to Spanish banks and perhaps the ECB) at levels below 6% but only to see prices fall and yields rise in the secondary market. Equity indices in the eurozone were markedly weaker. Polling in France shows Sarkozy no doubt losing to the socialists which would mean austerity agreements would go out the window. Earnings reports focused primarily on Morgan Stanley (MS) and Bank of America (BAC). Frankly, one would need a forensic financial archeologist to wade through the release to find the “real deal” from each company. The standout category had to do with both company’s DVA (Debt Value Adjustments). Both companies bonds are being revalued lower. As a book entry trick the company’s may then deduct the loss in value of their own debt against earnings. MS after all is facing a three notch downgrade from Moody’s as I understand it. After all these deductions were counted both companies could then report slightly positive earnings in lieu of losses: BAC $25 (stock slightly lower by 1.60%) and MS $.71 (stock higher by 2.25%).Economic data released Thursday began with Jobless Claims (388K vs expected 365K and prior revised higher to 386K from 380K) which allowed for another beat, however the overall trend is heading south. Existing Home Sales (4.4M vs 4.62M expected and prior 4.59M) was a mild disappointment but completed the week unimpressively for all housing data. The important Philly Fed Survey (8.5 vs 12 expected and prior 12.5) was a disappointment as well reflecting an ongoing economic slowdown. Lastly Leading Economic Indicators (.3% vs .3% expected and prior .7%) also confirmed slack economic conditions.U.S. stocks gave up most of the week’s gains…’ , Yet Another Exponential Chart... And A Different Spin On "Keynesianism" Durden , Sprott On Biderman On Paper Vs Physical Gold , Forget '5 Minutes To Midnight', We Are 'An Inch From War' , Guest Post: Floating Exchange Rates - Unworkable And Dishonest , Volume Explodes As S&P Loses 50DMA Again , Gravitation Returns As Apple Falls, Drags Everything With It , Italy Jumps On Nationalization Bandwagon: Tax Police "Seizes" 20% Of Second Largest Domestic Insurer , "Utter, Utter Piffle" - Albert Edwards Lashes Out At The Media's China Groupthink Oh, the ignominy of thinking that China's widening of the Yuan trading band was anything other than uber-bullish and indicative of as soft a landing as can be imagined as the mainstream herd promptly, in a desperate attempt to seek affirmation from other members of the herd as always happens (see Jeremy Grantham for more), said this would be a move that guaranteed no hard landing. Albert Edwards takes the 'massive over-confidence in the ability of the Chinese authorities to achieve a soft landing' to task and furthermore indicates that between a rapidly diminishing current account surplus, a real effective exchange rate that is arguably (thank you IMF) not undervalued anymore, and the velocity with which nominal GDP has slowed recently (akin to 2007), the very fact that they widened the trading band suggests it is now a lot easier for them to achieve significant devaluation of their currency (to escape the hard landing) both technically and politically. Since widening the band, the PBOC has already devalued two days-in-a-row. Ironically, the bilateral imbalance with the US is reaching new records (seasonally adjusted) and will peak (seasonally unadjusted) just in time for some temperamental headlines right before the US election. , The Porn Addicts Formerly Known As The SEC Take Their Vendetta With Egan-Jones To The Next Level This is so pathetic, it is beyond words:

  • US SEC EXPECETED TO VOTE ON POSSIBLE CHARGES AGAINST RATING FIRM EGAN JONES ON THURSDAY - RTRS
  • POSSIBLE CHARGES STEM FROM ALLEGED WILFUL MISTATEMENTS ON EGAN JONES' REGULATORY APPLICATION WITH SEC - RTRS

If nothing else, it explains the recent WSJ hit piece against Egan, just so it can make the public record in the SEC documentation. In other news, this will surely teach any other rating agency to downgrade the US not once (ahead of everyone else), but twice. In the meantime, the SEC still has NO IDEA what liquidity is, and continues to refuse to take ANY action against High Frequency Trading, to press criminal charges against ANY banker, or for that matter, to do anything that may jeopardize its staffers future careers as 7th assistant general council at assorted bailed out Wall Street firms. Now we wait to hear news that Fitch and Moody's will receive a cash bonus from the SEC for not downgrading the US properly filing their regulatory applications. And now back to midget porn. , The Risk Of 'Hot' Inflation , The PIIGS Get to Live Longer  : testosteronepit : 04/19/2012 While Germans work longer hours and retire later.... Europe: denial or misplaced values? : RobertBrusca : 04/19/2012 It is curious how people hang on the day to day detail of European debt auctions when logical analysis of the situation tells you quite clearly that the plight of Europe is hopeless. Rooting for... Fiscal Cliff : ilene : 04/19/2012 No win situation.  , Guest Post: Wages And Consumption Are Both In Long-Term Downtrends , Economic Miss Trifecta Not Bad Enough For "THE NEW QE" Rumors Continuing today's disappointing data releases, we now get the Philly Fed, Existing home sales (aka the NAR's monthly advertising update), and Eurozone confidence. Sure enough, all missed, since we are now in NEW QE prep mode.

  • Philly Fed: 8.5, missed expectations of 12.0, and lower than the previous print of 12.5 (source)
    • New Orders down from 3.3, to 2.7
    • Prices Paid spike from 18.7 to 22.5,
    • but, just to add confusion to injury following the much weaker claims data, the Employment index rose from 6.8 to 17.9
  • Existing home sales, reported by the inherently conflicted NAR, missed, dropping from 4.61MM to 4.48MM, a data set which we caution readers is about 0.0% accurate and valid.
    • Total housing inventory at the end of February rose 4.3 percent to 2.43 million existing homes available for sale, which represents a 6.4-month
    • The national median existing-home price for all housing types was $156,600 in February, up 0.3 percent from February 2011.
    • All-cash sales rose to 33 percent of transactions in February from 31 percent in January; they were 33 percent in February 2011
    • Single-family home sales declined 1.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million in February from 4.10 million in January
  • Finally, Eurozone consumer confidence also missed sliding to -19.8, on expectation of an improvement to -19.0 from -19.1

Judging by the kneejerk reaction lower, the misses were not big enough to send the market soaring.’

 

4-18-12 There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Economic Problems On The National Level  http://albertpeia.com/nonationalsolutiontouseconomicproblems.htm  , 16 Reasons To Move Away From California , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  CONFUSED MARKETS 4-18-12 ‘On second thought, some leading tech names saw heavy profit-taking on Wednesday. IBM and Intel (INTC) saw their shares fall as earnings reports disappointed either on revenue or guidance. Apple (AAPL) still an outsized weighting in tech sector ETFs (QQQ) & (XLK) kept losses from being too great as the shares only sold-off slightly.Why the sell-off Wednesday? You might think the eurozone (again) and you’d be partially right as more bad news dumped rain on the bulls’ parade. And that rain was from the plain in Spain? It seems there is more bad Spanish loans and the costs for propping up banks there is soaring. The Argentine takeover of Rapsol’s YPF is still reverberating throughout markets there as well. All the news from across the pond wasn’t limited to Spain as the Bank of England has decided there will be no more QE in the UK for now. Bulls don’t like anything like that certainly.A little covered story is that the wireless telephone market (IYZ) may now be starting to shrink as sales of wireless contracts, the most lucrative segment of the business may have shrunk for the first time ever according to this report from Bloomberg. So, perhaps we’ll now see the effects of saturation and some folks wanting a new iGadget may be loathe to sign up for a new contract…’ , SF Fed: This Time It Really Is Different It appears that after months of abuse for their water-is-wet economic insights, the San Francisco Fed may have stumbled on to the cold harsh reality that this post-great-recession world finds itself in. The crux of the matter, that will come as no surprise to any of our readers, is credit and "its central role to understanding the business cycle". Oscar Jorda then concludes, in a refreshingly honest and shocking manner that "Any forecast that assumes the recovery from the Great Recession will resemble previous post-World War II recoveries runs the risk of overstating future economic growth, lending activity, interest rates, investment, and inflation." His analysis, which Minsky-ites (and Reinhart and Rogoff) will appreciate - and perhaps our neo-classical brethren will embrace - is that the Great Recession upended the paradigm that modern macro-economic models omitted banks and finance and this time it really is different in that the 'achilles heel' of economic modeling - credit - cannot be considered a secondary effect. His analysis points to considerably slower GDP growth and lower inflation expectations as he compares the current 'recovery' to post-WWII recoveries across 14 advanced economies - a sad picture is painted as he notes "Today employment is about 10% and investment 30% below where they were on average at similar points after other postwar recessions." , Saudi Arabia Pumps Record 9.8 Million Barrels/Day In March ,

 

Bob Janjuah Dismisses Central Bank Independence Amid Monetary Anarchy 

   We discussed Bob Janjuah's must-read perspective of the market just over a week ago and his appearance on Bloomberg TV this morning reiterates that strongly held view that we are in midst of central bank anarchy and the rules of the game continue to change. While earnestly admitting his miss in Q1, on the back of under-estimation of just how incredibly un-independent central banks are (and will be proved to be in an election year), the bearded bear goes on to confirm his view of short term 10% correction in the S&P 500, a mid-year recovery on Bernanke's bowing to Obama's pressure, and ultimately back to S&P 500 in the 800pt range (and Dow/Gold to hit 1). Dismissing the don't-fight-the-Fed argument with analogies from 2007's 'you have to dance while the music is playing' and the tick-tick-boom carry trades that so many funds and investors follow now, he reminds the interviewer and the audience of how quickly all the trickle of carry gains are lost and then some when the music stops. Must watch to comprehend how smart money is comprehending the ultimate game theory of today's central bank largesse and the clear non-self-sustaining recoveries in global economies. , The Complete And Annotated "Hollande Victory" MatrixGuest Post: Crony Capitalism And The Expansive Central State  Crony capitalism arises when an expansive Central State dominates the economy. The Central State can then protect crony-capitalist perquisites, cartels, quasi-monopolies and financialization skimming operations of the sort which now dominate the U.S. economy's primary profit centers. If we step back, the larger context is the purpose and role of establishing a State to protect its citizens from foreign and domestic predation and exploition. The Central State is granted the sole power of coercion by its membership (citizenry) to protect the membership from the predation of individuals, concentrations of wealth and other subgroups seeking monopoly. They grant the State this extraordinary power to insure that no subgroup or individual can gain enough power to dominate the entire membership for their private gain and to protect freedom of faith, movement, expression, enterprise and association. Granting this power to the State creates a risk that the State itself may become predatory, supplanting the parasitic elements it was designed to limit. , Italian Bad Loans Surge To Highest Since 2000, Foreign Deposits Plunge , A Quick Reminder Ahead Of Tomorrow's Spain Debt Auction The Centre for European Policy Studies published their own findings this week and they estimate that the Real Estate accumulated overhang is actually almost $500 billion which equates to 59% of the IMF revised projections for Spain’s GDP. The EU and the ECB may not mandate that the Spanish banks have to mark-to-market in the normal fashion but a quick calculation indicates that the equity of the major Spanish banks is well into the red and past the blood line of any sustainable position. In my opinion, I would state, that the Spanish banks are in fact bankrupt and are only still alive given the financial shenanigans of how Europe allows the numbers to be calculated. I am well aware that many in Europe do not like to be confronted with the truth and that the stock market in the United States is so myopic that they wish to ignore the truth but the numbers are right in front of your nose if you care to look and reality has a funny way of catching up with the markets and reminding them one still equals one in the end. I am an adherent of the Greater Fool Theory and the trick is to let the other guy be the Greater Fool and not one of us. The “when” is unknowable but the “if” is behind us now and I suggest great caution. , Guest Post: Fake Conservatives As Dangerous To Freedom As Obama The campaign of Barack Obama in 2008 was a perfect example of the propaganda pageant, complete with visceral slogans like “Hope” and “Change”.  After eight years of the clownish George Bush Jr., when our country spiraled down into a state of disturbed and vicious adolescence, people were looking for a renewal.  They were looking for a path away from the edge of the abyss.  Instead, they were given a better liar, with a brand new costume.  The American Dream has become harder to sustain since…to say the least. In 2012, what I see is like a lightning bolt in slow motion.  I can sense it branching out across the sky towards the ground and tearing through our surroundings, upending everything we know.  Both the President and Congress have some of the lowest approval ratings in history.  The question of whether anything can be accomplished through government has been answered for most people with a resounding “no”.  The citizenry is on the verge of total fury. I wish I could say that most have abandoned the fleeting hollow satisfaction of choosing the “lesser of two evils”, but that would not be accurate.  , Visualizing Aubrey McClendon "Rehypothecation" Scheme... And The China Trail , Back To Ground Zero: Spanish Bonds Now Red , The True Cost Of The Greek Bailout Emerges BARROSO SAYS TOTAL GREEK AID EQUAL TO 177% OF GREEK GDP , Contagion Returns: France CDS Over 200 For First Time Since January

 

4-17-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BULLS HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS 4-17-12 ‘There was little news to account for any rally on this Turnaround Tuesday given poor Industrial Production and lower than expected Housing Starts. But, bulls are looking ahead to earnings which have been much lowered and engineered to beat expectations … There could also be some fresh money to funds as investors beat the tax deadline. That money gets invested quickly.IBM just announced earnings that missed top line revenue estimates and stock falls. Intel (INTC) beats lowered estimates but stock is lower in after-hours trading. Yahoo (YHOO) earnings beat estimates and the stock is nearly 2% higher. Of many others, Cree Inc (CREE) shares were lower by almost 8% after its report.There wasn’t much news out of Europe today so stock bears there could take the day off while bulls could play…’ , Five Fundamental Flaws In Dip-Buying Euphoria Durden With S&P futures, and most notably financials, staging the second overnight opening surge in a row, we thought it perhaps worth reflecting on five quite concerning fundamental reasons why dip-buyers (as anesthetized as they have become thanks to central bank 'protection') could face a tougher time. As Mike Wilson of Morgan Stanley notes, for those looking for a cause or explanation of recent weakness, feel free to blame it on the more hawkish Fed minutes, Draghi’s comments that it was now “up to governments to do the right thing” or the soft US payroll numbers. After such an uninterrupted run, some kind of correction was inevitable and simply a matter of timing. The bigger question to resolve is whether this pull back will look like what we experienced in 2010 and 2011 or end up being more muted. Obviously, the key variables for this analysis remain growth and liquidity expectations. The 'payback' that we have been warned about for such an unseasonably warm winter is upon us (as macro data surprises increasingly to the downside) and that is the first flaw in BTFD logic. Wilson goes on to point out that NFIB small business hiring intentions have dropped precipitously, GDP growth is weak but earnings growth is now catching up (down) to that weakness and for many stocks is rapidly falling towards zero, we remain in a 'liquidity lull' as central banks stand on the sidelines and reflect, and perhaps most worrisome is the rapid deterioration in the Bloomberg financial conditions index. All-in-all, these sum up to suggest a greater-than-5% correction is more than likely. , On The Goldman Path To Complete World Destruction: Mark Carney On His Way To Head The Bank Of England? Durden ‘…The place? Why the center of the entire modern infinitely rehypothecatable financial system of course: England, which may have 1,000x consolidated debt/GDP, but at least it can repledge any asset in perpetuity thus giving the world the impression it is solvent (no wonder AIG, MF Global, and now the CME are scrambling to operate out of there). Which is why we read with little surprise that none other than former Goldmanite, and current head of the Bank of Canada, is on his way to the final frontier: the Bank of England.’, Market Is Long Of Mania In Schizophrenic Terms , Are Soaring Student Loans The Best Economic Indicator? , Bank Of Spain Releases Details Of Additional Capital Needs For Spanish Banks , Guest Post: "All Transactions To Be Conducted In The Presence Of A Tax Collector" In the terminal collapse of the Roman Empire, there was perhaps no greater burden to the average citizen than the extreme taxes they were forced to pay.  The tax 'reforms' of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.  By the 4th century, the Roman economy and tax structure were so dismal that many farmers abandoned their lands in order to receive public entitlements.  At this point, the imperial government was spending the majority of the funds it collected on either the military or public entitlements. For a time, according to historian Joseph Tainter, "those who lived off the treasury were more numerous than those paying into it." Sound familiar? , LTROver , Chris Martenson: "The Trouble With Money" Recently I was asked by a high school teacher if I had any ideas about why students today seem so apathetic when it comes to engaging with the world around them. I waggishly responded, "Probably because they're smart." In my opinion, we're asking our young adults to step into a story that doesn't make any sense. Sure, we can grow the earth's population to 9 billion (and probably will), and sure, we can extract our natural gas and oil resources as fast as possible, and sure, we can continue to pile on official debts at a staggering pace -- but why are we doing all this? Even more troubling, what do we say to our youth when they ask what role they should play in this story -- a story with a plot line they didn't get to write? So far, the narrative we're asking them to step into sounds a lot like this: Study hard, go to college, maybe graduate school. And when you get out, not only will you be indebted to your education loans and your mortgage, but you'll be asked to help pay back trillions and trillions of debt to cover the decisions of those who came before you. All while operating within a crumbling, substandard infrastructure. Oh, and by the way, the government and corporate sector appear to have no real interest in your long-term future; you're on your own there. Yeah, I happen to think apathy is a perfectly sane response to that story. Thanks, but no thanks. To understand how our national narrative evolved (or, more accurately, devolved) to become so unappealing, we have to take an honest look at money. , Repsol Demands $10.5 Billion From Argentina (And Argentina's Counteroffer) , The European North-South Divide Is Exploding , “It Is Incumbent On Every Generation to Pay Its Own Debts As It Goes - A Principle Which If Acted On Would Save [Half] The Wars" George Washington The Founding Fathers Knew that Debt-Financed Wars Ruin the Country , Giant Banks Now 30% Bigger than When Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law Was Passed , The Delays Begin: Italy Pushes Back Balanced Budget Target By One Year Durden , Best Day In 5 Months As Europe Soars On Second "Bill Issuance" Catalyst In One Week , Ben Bernanke Full Unredacted Frontal Yesterday the Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath was kind enough to present to the general public some 515 pages of massively redacted Fed transcripts from the oh so very interesting period of 2007-2010, ahead of schedule. Unfortunately those curious to find out the details of just what was going on in that critical period between March 2008 and March 2009 will have to wait another 3 years for the full declassification to take place. That said, digging among the unredacted data, one does find the occasional pearl. Such as the following exchange between CHAIRMAN BERNANKE and the Fed staff, from the October 28-29, 2008 meeting, in the days when AIG was dying, when Lehman had failed, when money markets had frozen and when the end of the world was nigh. Ironically, it is this one unredacted piece of data that pretty much says it all. ‘I’d like first to do the open market operations, which I hope are not too controversial. [Laughter] (source: page 231 of 513) And that, as they say, is that. , Live Webcast Of Obama Demonizing Oil "Speculators" After Obama's "fairness doctrine" was roundly rejected by the Senate last night as the doomed from the beginning Buffett Rule was voted down, Obama needs to find some more evil villains for society to demonize, and whom to blame for the failure of central planning, or rather its success in pushing gas prices to all time highs , Guest Post: Why the Middle Class Is Doomed The Federal government is supporting its dependents and its crony-capitalist Elites with borrowed money: $1.5 trillion every year, fully 40% of the Federal budget. It is in effect filling the gap between exploding costs and declining income, just like the middle class did until they ran out of collateral to leverage. The dwindling middle class, now at best perhaps 25% of the workforce, has been reduced to tax donkeys supporting those above and below who are dependent on Federal largesse. Fisher found that this cycle ends in transformational political upheaval. No wonder; even as the class paying most of the taxes shrinks and is pressured by higher costs, the class of dependents expands as the economy deteriorates and the super-wealthy Power Elites continue to control the levers of Central State power. 25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction  http://albertpeia.com/25signsmiddleclasstargetedforextinction.htm

 

4-16-12 GOOGLE FOUNDER: WEB FREEDOM UNDER THREAT… [ Without the Free Web, People Would Have No Idea What’s Really Going On, Which Is What They’re Shooting For, Which Pre-Web Darkness Has Helped Cover-up Their Incompetence, Greed, and Corruption Leading To Today’s Debacle. ] ...
'Very powerful forces have lined up around world'...
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25 Signs That America Is A Seething Cesspool Of Filth And Corruption http://albertpeia.com/25signsamericacesspooloffilthcrimeandcorruption.htm  , Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Agree: The National Debt Crisis Could Destroy America 
http://albertpeia.com/debtcrisisdestroysamerica.htm  , Financial Instability For (Keynesian) Dummies Durden 4-16-12 , With Europe Broken Again, Sarkozy And Lagarde Are Back To Begging , Tim Geithner Glitch In The Matrix Special: Will America Become Greece In Two Years - "No Risk Of That" Geithner April 2011: Q: “
Is there a risk that the United States could lose its AAA credit rating? Yes or no?” - Tim Geithner: “No risk of that.” Geithner April 2012: Q: “If we don't deal with these debt problems we are going to be Greece in two years” - Tim Geithner: “No risk of that.” , Graham Summers’ Week Market Forecast (Words Are No Longer Enough Edition) April 16, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘The markets have entered a very dangerous environment in which even the usual market props (Fed Presidents calling for more easing) are being overridden by market concerns for Europe.To whit, last week, not one, but two Fed Presidents (Yellen and Dudley), called for more easing/ QE. On the very same day (April 11), the ECB issued a similar statement regarding the potential for more easing. At any point in the last 18 months, these sorts of statements would have kicked off a sharp rally in stocks. Instead, last week stocks posted a one day gain (the verbal interventions were on April 11) only to only to roll over again and close the week with their worst performance thus far in 2012…’ , Guest Post: When Does This Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Finally End? Durden , Housing Repenetrates Alleged Bottom As NAHB Index Misses By Most In 22 Months , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com    4-16-12 ‘The more conservative price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) rallied led mostly by higher priced constituents (IBM, CAT, MMM, KO, DD and etc.) Tech and the S&P took a different path with the former led lower by Apple and the latter with just about everything else.The early Retail Sales report (.8% vs .3% consensus & 1% previous) was well-received early as even ex-auto & gasoline sales data was fine. However, the Empire State Mfg Survey (6.7 vs 18 consensus & 20.21 previous was a large negative miss. That was followed quickly by Home Market Index (25 vs 29 consensus & prior 28) which was another disappointment. Apple (AAPL) continues to see selling for the fifth straight day as downside momentum builds. This added to the negative sentiment.The selling taking place in Apple began with concerns about the eBook publishing troubles. Some analysts wondered next whether many Apple owners would be as willing as previously to upgrade to new products given higher costs and new connectivity plans required for iPhones and iPads. For me, seeing the outsized level of call options being bought by investors reflects too much bullish speculation, meaning a correction would be likely.The dollar continued to weaken on both euro repatriation thinking and a report that China was allowing banks to short sell dollars. Argentina seized 51% of YPF (majority owned oil & gas producer owned by Spain’s Repsol) in true communist third world style. (As if Spain didn’t have enough problems at home.)Gold prices were lower while bond prices rallied once again reducing yields.The deadline to fund an IRA and etc is Tuesday April 17, 2012 for the 2011 deduction is my understanding. This will lead to a spike in some volume as individuals wait until the last moment to make their funding contribution. Sure enough, volume was higher than recent trading days most likely abetted by contributions which get invested quickly…’ , AAPL Plunges Most In Six Months Durden , Spain Goes Irish On Regions Slowly but surely, the Spanish authorities are gradually socializing the rest of the world to the dismal truth that we have been so vociferously arguing - that their debt levels (or more specifically their debt/GDP ratios) are significantly higher (explicitly) than their current official data suggest. Today's news, via the WSJ, that the Spanish government may take over some regions' finances ... Spain's Debt/GDP nearer 135% than its 'official' 68.5%…Spain has lost the trust of financial markets… , Gallup Finds Obama, Romney In Dead Heat As Daily Tracking Begins, With Independents Leaning Toward GOP , Santelli On The Chain Of Insolvency "It's the debt stupid" , Argentina Default Risk Surges On YPF Nationalization, CDS Approach 1000 bps , The Nationalizations Begin: Argentina Takes Over Oil And Gas Producer YPF , LTRO Bank Stigma Widest Since LTRO Announcement , Anyone Who Bought 10Y Spanish Bonds This Year Is Now Underwater , Guest Post: Another Empty Obama Promise The extent of Obama’s duplicity continues to grow apace. And yes — it’s duplicity. If you can’t or won’t fulfil a promise, don’t make it. From Bloomberg: "Two years after President Barack Obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming “too big to fail,” the nation’s largest banks are bigger than they were before the credit crisis." And the hilarious (or perhaps soul-destroying) thing? The size of the banks isn’t even the major issue. AIG didn’t have to be bailed out because of its size; AIG was bailed out because of its interconnectivity. If AIG went down, it would have taken down assets on balance sheets of a great deal more firms, thus perhaps triggering even more failures. So the issue is not size, but systemic interconnectivity. And yes — that too is rising, measured in terms of gross OTC derivatives exposure, as well as the size of the shadow banking system (i.e. pseudo-money created not by lending but by securitisation) — which sits, slumbering, a $35 trillion wall of inflationary liquidity ready to crash down on the global dollar economy. , Liquidity Isn't Capital , Art Cashin On The Forgotten Geopolitical Risk , Schrodinger Economy Chugs Along As Empire Manufacturing Misses; Retail Sales Beat , Soros On Europe: Iceberg Dead Ahead

 

4-13-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  POOR CHINA & EURO NEWS SURFACE 4-13-12  ‘On some occasions you see equities in a slow death spiral supported invariably by ZIRP and QE. It’s not a new experience for markets since we’ve had both factors dominating markets over the past three years. When the punchbowl is removed we move sharply lower as this seems to be the only support available. Stocks sell-off on sharply higher volume from both the public and insiders. Poor economic data (Jobless Claims) then drives Fed governors to the speaking circuit with hints of QE and further stimulus as Dudley and Yellen did Thursday, and markets rally. Wash, rinse and repeat.Thursday also featured the “rumor” that Friday’s China’s GDP data would exceed 9% rather than show contraction. This helped Thursday’s rally but then bulls met reality when the number was only 8.1%. (Buy the rumor, sell the fact.) There are some companies (too few it seems) like Apple (AAPL) and International Business Machines (IBM) doing great things and performing well. And with major indices being price-weighted by both companies, real returns can mislead. Friday stock prices fell sharply driven lower by China GDP report and more crummy news from the eurozone. Spanish 10-year bonds pushed yields over 6% making the spread to German Bunds (1.6%) quite wide. In Italy new government debt is being issued only for less than one year duration. This is a very bad sign as investors aren’t willing to risk longer-term duration.Most everything reversed course Friday as stocks were weaker, bonds (TLT) and the dollar (UUP) higher, commodities (DBC, USO, GLD) weaker—wash, rinse, repeat.JP Morgan (JPM) and Wells-Fargo (WFC) reported earnings that were not well received. Overall these reports impacted financials (XLF) negatively with Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) on deck to report next week.Frankly 2012 may become a carbon copy of 2011 and 2010 from a seasonal view. This seems strange but coincides with DeMark Indicators and QE conditions.Volume was only marginally higher than yesterday’s large light volume rally. Breadth per the WSJ was quite negative…’Steinhardt On The Fed's Failure And The End Of Wall Street As We Know It The low interest rate 'logic' is not working and "the economy can't gain any zest, can't gain any vigor" is how Michael Steinhardt describes the crushing of 'widows and orphans' that the Fed has embarked upon. In a Bloomberg TV interview, the WisdomTree chairman notes the broad 'pall' over the equity markets (conjuring images of a funeral procession down Trinity Street) pointing out that there is no reason to be wildly bullish here. Citing Wall Street's lack of 'spirit', he questions the entire raison d'etre of efficient capital transfer as becoming secondary as he rather poignantly asks who has benefited from Fed's policies "Certainly the banks. But ordinarily you'd say, well, low interest rates benefit housing. It certainly hasn't benefited housing."…’ , Why JPM's "Chief Investment Office" Is The World's Largest Prop Trading Desk: Fact And Fiction "What Bernanke is to the Treasury market, Iksil is to the derivatives market" , Egan Jones Downgrades JPMorgan ‘The iconoclastic rating agency, and fully recognized NRSRO to the dismay of some tabloids, which just refuses to play by the status quo rules, and which downgraded the US for the second time last Friday, to be followed soon by other rating agencies as soon as US debt crosses the $16.4 trillion threshold in a few short months, has just done the even more unthinkable and downgraded Fed boss JPMorgan from AA- to A+.’ , No Hints Of QE In Latest Bernanke Word Cloud ‘Addressing his perception of lessons learned from the financial crisis, Ben Bernanke is speaking this afternoon on poor risk management and shadow banking vulnerabilities - all of which remain obviously as we continue to draw attention to. However, more worrisome for the junkies is the total lack of QE3 chatter in his speech. While he does note the words 'collateral' and 'repo' the proximity of the words 'Shadow, Institutions, & Vulnerabilities' are awkwardly close.‘ , Deja 2011 All Over Again, UMichigan Confidence Drops For The First Time Since August 2011, Below Expectations - Drop Not Big Enough , How The ECB Is Turning Spain Into Greece , Man Vs Machine: How Each Sees The Stock Market Part 2 , Guest Post: Don't Believe Every Energy Dividend Story You Hear , "There’s No Place For Hope On Friday the 13th" - Rout Post-Mortem With Goldman , Biggest Weekly Stock Plunge In 2012 As Financials FUBAR'd , Friday Fun With Financial Fatalism ‘It seemed appropriate, given Europe is hitting the wall again in its vicious cycle of self-financed self-hypnotizing recovery-less recovery, to present the 'World Collapse Explained In 3 Minutes' that so mockingly relates the real state of absurdity we face in today's financial markets. ‘ , Guest Post: Irredeemable Paper Money, Feature #451 ‘Unlike under a gold standard, in paper money the rate of interest is subject to massive volatility. Sometimes, the government has its way, fueling rising prices and interest rates. Other times bond speculators front-run the central bank’s unlimited appetite for purchasing government bonds and the rate of interest falls. We are now in year 31 (so far) of this latter phase. As the total accumulated debt increases (feature #450 of irredeemable money is that total debt cannot go down), the effect of a change in the rate of interest becomes larger and larger. Today, even very small fluctuations have a disproportionate impact on the burden of debt incurred at every level, from consumer to business to corporate to government at every level. To say that this is destructive is a great understatement. This, rather than the quantity of money, is what people and especially economists should be focused on …’ , Austerity, Social Unrest, And Europe's 'Lose-Lose' Proposition , Europe Slumps With Spain At March 2009 Lows , Americans Can't Wait For Their Tax Refunds... To Immediately File For Bankruptcy , THe TiTaNiC SeTs SaiL...  : williambanzai7 : 04/13/2012 "I cannot imagine any condition that would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship building has gone beyond that."--Captain Smith... 

 

4-12-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BAD NEWS BULLS 4-12-12 ‘Let’s see, Jobless Claims were terrible by recent comparisons and recorded a large miss (380K vs 355K expect and prior revised higher as usual to 367K). Some analysts blamed Easter for the rise which seems odd frankly. Plenty of rumors were planted that China’s GDP growth (released Friday) would be better than expected and yields in the eurozone were lower on talk of more ECB buying. None of that is real news yet. Frankly the Chinese can make-up any number they want in their autocracy. Does anyone really believe otherwise? The real news came from Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen who assured QE and ZIRP addicted bulls that ZIRP was here to stay, and by implication, more QE when and as if needed. This comment was echoed by NY Fed governor Dudley who said the Fed is analyzing recent poor employment data to determine if the recovery is losing momentum and more stimulus (Fed speak for more QE) is needed.This is what this bull market has feasted on the last two years—QE and ZIRP. The Fed has bought 85% of all Treasury debt > 10 year maturities since Operation Twist began in November 2011. So the Treasury sells debt to pay its bills while the Fed prints money to fund it. It’s like a government façade fronted by an ATM behind which is a large printing press …’ { This may sound like a free lunch but the reality is far from that and the price will be very dear! } , Why The Market Is Praying The Fed Does Not Plug Its Heavy Flow Durden 4-12-12, China GDP Misses Expectations By A Mile, Rises Only 8.1%, Slowest Pace Since September 2009 , Was The SEC "Explanation" Of The Flash Crash Maliciously Fabricated Or Completely Flawed Out Of Plain Incompetence? , Fed Doves Send Risk Soaring, Apples Dropping , Largest US Teacher Pension Fund Underfunding Increases By $9 Billion To $64.5 Billion, Only 69% Funded , Pick Your Poison With Barton Biggs , Uneventful 30 Year Auction Breaks 3 Month Trend Of Rising Yields , El-Erian Breaches The Final Frontier: What Happens If Central Banks Fail? , JPMorgan Technicals: "The “One Way” Market Rally Since Dec-Jan Is Over" , Guest Post: Should Corrupt Bankers Face the Death Penalty? { Death penalty? In this country they’re not even, or just bearly, or just the smallest are prosecuted; but, yes! } Let’s be clear: financial misdeeds ruin lives. If a Madoff takes your money and uses it to pay off other investors in a ponzi scheme, you won’t be able to get it back. If a Blankfein underling issues you with misleading advice, and then bets against you (creaming himself a nice profit), you won’t be able to get it back. If a Corzine steals your money and uses it to bet on the European sovereign debt market, you might not be able to get it back. You might end up in poverty or worse. You might lose your children’s college money, your retirement money, or capital you needed for your business. You might lose your home. So shouldn’t we take a tough line against financial misdeeds? Shouldn’t tricking and stealing from investors, tricking and stealing from the public, tricking and stealing from clients carry a heavy disincentive, like death? Would a corrupt banker not think twice about their misdeeds if they knew that apprehension would mean a noose around their neck and a kicked bucket? A lot of commentators — like for example, Max Keiser — seem to think so. And in China financial crimes are treated with a gravity far beyond a cushy minimum security cell, and home visits on the weekends. Financial criminals in China are often executed.


4-11-12 GARY SHILLING: PROFITS WILL PLUMMET AND STOCKS WILL PLUNGE 43% By Mamta Badkar | Business Insider http://albertpeia.com/shillingsaysstockswillplunge43percent.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com BULLS RETAKE TAPE ON LIGHT VOLUME 4-11-12 ‘As noted in Tuesday’s commentary the trusty $NYMO (McClellan Oscillator) had signaled severely oversold market conditions. As a result, any shred of bullish news would spark a rally. Sure enough, on cue, Alcoa (AA) beat much reduced estimates and somewhere from the bowels of the ECB came the message they “might” be willing to buy “some” Spanish debt. Like I said, it wouldn’t take much “might” and “some” language to get the bullish wave going.Bread and Circuses is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. It was the basic Roman formula for the well-being of the population, and hence a political strategy unto itself. It also coincided with the decline of Rome. From Wikipedia the definition continues: “It describes the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of the a populace.” And who would argue this not being the current situation in our modern society and political leaders.More serious news from Wells Fargo which forecast better new home sales which in turn bid up homebuilders (ITB) and others loosely linked to the sector. Who can qualify for new home mortgage loans has become a challenge. Nevertheless, this is the sector leading stock indexes higher Wednesday.The Fed’s Beige Book was released at 2 PM and indicated ongoing modest economic expansion. The previous employment report was not factored in and the report overall was as expected. Then it’s no coincidence that the report was preceded and followed by all manner of Fed governors campaigning in support of Fed policies. Then later the government announced the budget deficit for March at $198 billion. This was little noticed since the Fed is now buying over 80% of the debt the Treasury is selling which puts officialdom at least in “Three-card Monte” territory. When you have a printing press you don’t need a charge card. For Americans, as long as they can buy iGadgets, a car and go to the mall why should they care? These features are the highlight from the bread and circus environment we live in.Gold (GLD) was flat as was the dollar. Bonds (TLT) saw a little profit-taking and commodities (DBC) overall were mixed.Volume was nearly half Tuesday’s heavier volume which continues the overall distribution trend. Breadth per the WSJ was positive perhaps undoing some short-term oversold conditions (see $NYMO chart)…’ , Europe Will Collapse in May-June April 11, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com http://albertpeia.com/europecollapseinmayjune.htm , Shilling Shuns Stocks, Sees S&P At 800  http://albertpeia.com/shillingsaysstockswillplunge43percent.htm Goldman Previews Q2: Sees 150K Jobs Per Month Created, And A Slowing Of The Economy , Pimco Takes Record MBS Position Even Higher, Dumps Treasurys , The Scariest Chart For High Yield Bond Holders , Biggest Weekly Stock Outflow Of 2012 Proves Retail Is No Longer Dumb Money; And Nobody Listens To Goldman , Chris Martenson: "Are We Heading For Another 2008?" { YES! Worse! Systemic, structural, and long-lasting! } , Global Systemic Risk Is Rising Rapidly Again , US Posts Biggest March Budget Deficit In History, Or How The ???? Chart Became The ????+? Chart , The Anatomy Of A USD-Funding Crisis And The Fed's Global Swap-Line Bailout , The "Net Worthless" Recovery Hits Peak Marxism , Stocks Stalled At Post-NFP VWAP As European Banks Resume Freefall , Map Of The Dead: How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse , Import Prices Surge Most Since April 2011 , Guest Post: Dueling Economic Banjos Offer No Deliverance Americans have been listening to the mainstream financial media’s song and dance for around four years now.  Every year, the song tells a comforting tale of good ol’ fashioned down home economic recovery with biscuits and gravy.  And, every year, more people are left to wonder where this fantastic smorgasbord turnaround is taking place?  Two blocks down?  The next city over?  Or perhaps only the neighborhoods surrounding the offices of CNN, MSNBC, and FOX?  Certainly, it’s not spreading like wildfire in our own neck of the woods…Many in the general public are at the very least asking “where is the root of the recovery?”  However, what they should really be asking is “where is the trigger for collapse?”  Since 2007/2008, I and many other independent economic analysts have outlined numerous possible fiscal weaknesses and warning signs that could bring disaster if allowed to fully develop.  What we find to our dismay here in 2012, however, is not one or two of these triggers coming to fruition, but nearly EVERY SINGLE conceivable Achilles’ heel within the foundation of our system raw and ready to snap at a moment’s notice.  We are trapped on a river rapid leading to multiple economic disasters, and the only thing left for any sincere analyst to do is to carefully anticipate where the first hits will come from. Four years seems like a long time for global banks and government entities to subdue or postpone a financial breakdown, and an overly optimistic person might suggest that there may never be a sharp downturn in the markets.  Couldn’t we simply roll with the tide forever, buoyed by intermittent fiat injections, treasury swaps, and policy shifts? The answer……is no.


4-10-12 Rosenberg Ruminates On Six Roadblocks For Stocks‘On this basis, the market as a whole is overpriced by more than 20%.’The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In America In One Chart  http://albertpeia.com/shockingtruthofunemploymentinamerica.htm  , Bob Janjuah: S&P At 800, Dow/Gold Ratio Will Hit 1 Before Next Real Bull Cycle Bob Janjuah, who has been quiet lately (recall his last piece in which he quite honestly told everyone that "Markets Are So Rigged By Policy Makers That I Have No Meaningful Insights To Offer"), is out with his latest, in which he gives us not only his long-term preview, "ultimately I still fear and expect the S&P500 – as the global risk-on/risk-off proxy – to trade at 800, and the Dow/Gold ratio to hit parity (currently at 8, down from an all-time high of 45 in late 1999) before we can begin the next multi-decade bull cycle", but also his checklist of 8 things to look forward to in the short-term centrally-planned future. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  EUROPE FIXED, NOT FIXED 4-10-12 ‘There are plenty of Black Swans to trip up markets and bulls. Some are known (eurozone, Iran, China economic contraction, a purge in China, North Korea, Syria’s non cease fire fighting, oil, currency wars and so forth) and are hovering over investors. Bulls would like to see them as nonthreatening, but then they come back to haunt them like tar balls bobbing to the surface in the Gulf.Bulls might argue that a correction was due after outsized first quarter gains. They appear to be right for now unless current selling builds on current declines. One thing is clear; equities are short-term oversold so a bounce could occur at any time. Nevertheless stocks were sold hard most of the day with few leading the way lower as selling was widespread. They may not get much help from earnings since outlooks have been cut sufficiently which paradoxically could lead to beats. All this will start with Alcoa (AA) earnings which are usually a complex mess to understand anyway. AA earnings beat estimates which shouldn’t surprise given all their warnings and lowered estimates by analysts. This is typical for many companies: give terrible guidance, see analysts’ lower expectations and then beat on the news.Gold (GLD) rallied sharply as worries about the eurozone (IEV) and other global risks intensified. Oil (USO) prices were weak, the dollar (UUP) was mixed and bonds rallied sharply.The eurozone debt issues are widespread with Spain (EWP), Italy (EWI) and Greece (GREK) once again center stage. The Financial Times came across a leaked memo outlining much of the regions troubles as noted. The IMF remains a component here and U.S. taxpayers could be asked to pony-up more money. The average American hardly knows anything about U.S. commitments to the IMF or even what the acronym stands for. Is it a new Apple app? Volume picked-up sharply as investors headed for the exits exacerbating the flight from equity markets. Breadth per the WSJ was close to a 10/90 day…’ , Revisited: Three Data Points That Prove Europe Cannot Be SavedApril 10, 2012 By gpc1981    http://albertpeia.com/europecantbesaved.htm I continue to see articles in the media claiming that Europe’s problems are solved. Either the folks writing these articles can’t do simple math, or they don’t bother actually reading any of the political news coming out of Europe. Here are three data points that GUARANTEE Europe will collapse at some point in the near future: Fact #1: EU Banks as a whole are leveraged at 26 to1.Fact #2: One Quarter of the ECB’s balance sheet is PIIGS debt Fact #3: Even after all of its interventions and purchases, the ECB is far too small to contain this mess (ditto for the Fed) , Is The Treasury's Imminent Launch Of Floaters The Signal To Get Out Of Dodge? Today's Carnage Through The Eyes Of Goldman , The Era Of Independent Central Banks Is Over Federal debt has expanded by $9.5 trillion - from $5.7 trillion in 2000 to $15.2 trillion at the end of last year and, as Neal Soss of Credit Suisse notes, is still growing over $1 trillion a year (or $5 billion per day , Guest Post: The Return Of Economic Weakness , Stocks Plunge On Rare Equity-Gold Decoupling , Europe's Old Nemesis, Illiquidity, Is Back , Artemis On Volatility At World's End: Deflation, Hyperinflation And The Alchemy Of Risk , Guest Post: Calling All Crash Test Dummies: Big Crash Ahead Durden I know, I know: the stock market will never go down because Ben Bernanke and the other central bankers won't let it. It's funny how the "Bernanke/European Central Bank Put" is ranked alongside gravity as a rule of Nature until markets roll over; then talk shifts from purring adulation of central bankers' godlike powers to panicky calls for another flood of liquidity/free money to "save" the market from the harsh reality of global recession. The crash test dummies know better: they've been called up for a humongous crash. The basic mechanism that is being overlooked is Liquidity Resistance. This is akin to insulin resistance, where insulin becomes less effective at lowering blood sugars. The amount of insulin required to maintain normal blood sugar levels increases as resistance rises until even massive doses of insulin no longer have the desired effect and the system crashes. , Carnage Ala Milanese: Italian Stock Bloodbath UPDATE: *ITALY'S FTSE MIB INDEX SLIDES 5% and Spanish 10Y at 6% , Exhibit A: The Market Has Become A Centrally-Planned, Liquidity-Addicted, Temperamental Abortion , Muppets Skewered: 10 Year Treasury At 1.999% 10Y Treasuries just broke below 2% yields for the first time in a month. Was it just 3 weeks ago that Goldman suggested selling bonds and buying stocks? , Chinese Crude Imports Remain At All Time High For Third Month In A Row , Apple: 36% Of S&P500 Q1 Earnings , LTRO Failure Full Frontal As Spain 10 Year Approaches 6% Again

 

4-9-12 We Are Nearing the End Game of Central Bank InterventionApril 9, 2012 By gpc1981 Because of a lack of foreign interest in long-term Treasuries, the Fed decided to step in to pick up the slack. As a result of this, the US Federal Reserve has accounted for 91% of all new debt issuance in the 20+years bracket. Put another way, the US Federal Reserve is now effectively the long-end of the US debt market.Operations Twist 2 has also allowed US commercial banks to unload their long-term Treasury holdings in exchange for new capital: something most of the Primary Dealers are in dire need of. This in turn helps to explain why the US stock market has advanced despite the fact that retail investors have been pulling out of the market in droves.Put another way, the markets have been ramped higher by more juice from the Fed (and corporate buybacks). However, the fact remains that this juice has come from the Fed reallocating its current portfolio holdings, NOT printing more money outright to monetize US debt via QE.So while the media and 99% of analysts believe the Fed is and can continue to act aggressively to prop up the markets, the fact is that the Fed has been reining in its monetary stimulus over the last nine months, largely relying on verbal intervention from Fed Presidents to push stocks higher… , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com BULLS LIVE IN DENIAL 4-9-12 ‘What can rally markets off recent lows is this announcement from Bloomberg: “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak to an Atlanta Fed conference and after will engage in a brief, moderated Q&A session. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart will also speak at various times during the conference, as will Boston Fed Pres. Eric Rosengren, in Stone Mountain, Ga.” Bernanke et al are stock market tape watchers. No doubt focus groups are giving him some tidbits of QE hope for discouraged bulls. They’ll be looking for it in any parsed phrase.In China inflation data was reported as hot while at the same time authorities wished to ease. This is a contradiction and may not happen as now they’d be trapped. The eurozone is back center stage with reports of their recovery being greatly exaggerated. Spain is on deck and any austerity measures will be greeted with riots. The ECB has already printed nearly $1.3 trillion (about the same as the U.S. Fed) to stimulate and/or bailout their mostly southern neighbors. They may be tapped-out and if not they’re just pushing on a string.Earnings season will begin with Alcoa (AA) leading off once again. Judging by weak base metals prices (DBB & JJC) it’s all about the outlook. Earnings growth is estimated at 3.2% growth for quarter one but if you strip-out Apple (AAPL) earnings this is whittled down sharply to 1.8%.Oil prices (USO) were weaker on what is perceived as declining future demand notwithstanding Iranian issues. Gasoline prices (UGA) got left-wing politicos searching for someone to blame. Washington senator Maria Cantwell wants to pin the blame on ETFs which allow investors (gasp!) to hedge or speculate. She should look in the mirror and then she would know who really is to blame for 30 years of no new refineries being built due to counterproductive regulations. It’s react and distract for many politicians looking for scapegoats…’ , NFP Big Miss: 120K, Expectations 205K, Unemployment 8.2%, "Not In Labor Force" At New All Time HighMarch NFP big miss at just 120K. Unemployment rate declines from 8.3% to 8.2%. Futures slide, for at least a few minutes before the NEW QE TM rumor starts spreading. The household survey actually posted a decline in March from 142,065 to 142,034. Considering Birth Death added 90K to the NSA number, the actual number was almost unchanged. The unemployment rate drops to 8.2% for one simple reason: the number of people not in the labor force is back to all time highs: 87,897,000. And as always, as we predicted when Goldman hiked its NFP forecast yesterday from 175K to 200K saying "if Goldman's recent predictive track record is any indication, tomorrow's NFP will be a disaster", Goldie once again skewers everyone. Finally, Joe LaVorgna's +250,000 forecast was just 100% off... as usual. , IceCap Asset Management March Perspectives: "I Need A Job" , Guest Post: Ten Minutes After The Titanic Struck The Iceberg , Is William Cohan Right That Wall Street "Regulation" Has To First And Foremost Curb Greed?Now that the world is covered in at least $707 trillion in assorted unregulated Over the Counter derivatives (as of June 30, the most recent number is easily tens of trillions greater) and with at least one JPMorgan prop|non-prop trader exposed to having a ~$100 billion notional position in some IG-related index trade, pundits, always eager to score political brownie points, are starting to ruminate over ways to put the half alive/half dead cat back into the box. Unfortunately they are about 20 years too late: with the world literally covered in various levered bets all of which demand hundreds of billions in variation margin on a daily basis, the second the one bank at the nexus of the derivative bubble (ahem JPMorgan) starts keeling over, it will once again be "the end of the world as we know it" unless said bank is immediately bailed out. Again. , Another Nail In The Greek Coffin: Cheap, Migrant Workers Are Now Returning Home To Albania , Union Pension Underfunding Time-Bomb Soars By 75% In One Year, Nears $400 Billion , Don't Show This Chart To The PresidentOne can write lengthy essays, op-eds, and client letters explaining both why the labor force participation rate is plunging due to innocuous reasons such as everyone over 40 retiring yesterday full of jouissance and excitement to begin the sunset phase of their lives using copious life savings earning 0.0001% in interest, or, inversely, why this is one great big propaganda ploy by the BLS to make Obama look good a few short months ahead of the pre-election debt ceiling breach, pardon, his re-election date. We prefer cutting to the chase. Here is today's chart of the day from BofA, which begs one simple question: when will the two time series recouple, because recouple they will, and how will America react to the realization it was lied to for 2% worth of unemployment "improvement"? The chart says it all. , PBOC To Defer To Fed On Easing After Inflation Comes In Hotter Than Expected , Goldman Closes Long Russell 2000 Recommendation At A LossAnd so the latest Goldman recommendation to muppets is now officially a dud. , America: A Government Out Of Control , 150 Years Of US Fiat , Spain: The Ultimate Doomsday Presentation , Guest Post: There Will Never Be A Failed US Treasury Auction... Until There IsDo you think the US will always and forever be able to pay for our over-bloated military-industrial complex and our wars of choice? Do you think the federal housing agencies will always and forever be able to subsidize the real estate industry with money losing, non-economic mortgage loans? Do you think the government will always and forever be able to pay on the promises they've made regarding Social Security, Medicare and Medicade? Do you think the government will always and forever be able to extend debt-enslaving, subsidized student loans to anyone with a pulse? Do you think the fiat ponzi central planners at the Fed will always and forever be able to manipulate the Treasury curve to whatever levels the Oracles of Delphi decide? If you answer yes to the above, ask yourself this: how would all of these things be affected if the average interest rate paid by the US was to rise to 5%? At today's debt level of $15.6 trillion, the interest expense would be approximately $780 billion or about 35% of total government revenues. Welcome to the United States of Greece. Next stop, bankruptcy. , 51 Months After The Start Of The Recession, Here Is The Report CardRecovery? What Recovery? 4 years after central banks have progressively injected over $7 trillion in liquidity into the global markets (and thus, by Fed logic, the economy), and who knows how many trillion in fiscal aid has been misallocated, to halt the Second Great Depression which officially started in December 2007, the US "recovery" is the weakest in modern US history! How many more trillions will have to be printed (and monetized) before the central planners realize that fighting mean reversion by using debt to defeat recore debt, just doesn't work? Our guess - lots.

 

4-5-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  WAITING ON JOBS REPORT 4-5-12 ‘It seems investors were biding their time Thursday ahead of a long holiday weekend and the unique Friday holiday release of the April Employment Report with markets closed. It would seem most investors don’t wish to expose themselves to potential market fluctuations when markets are closed.Thursday’s Jobless Claims report continued the consistent trend of revising previous claims higher allowing for a headline “beat”. The data showed 357K claims vs 363K higher previously (adjusted higher from 359K). This led to headlines like: “Jobless Claims Lower” and so forth.Consumer Discretionary (XLY) shares were much in focus as heavyweight McDonalds (MCD) led the sector higher overall. Financials (XLF), Materials (XLB) and Homebuilders (ITB) led the way lower. Bond prices were higher (IEF & TLT) as was the dollar (UUP) while high yield or junk (HYG) bond prices were weaker. Gold (GLD), silver (SLV) and commodity (DBC) prices overall were somewhat higher along with crude oil (USO).Volume was understandably weak ahead of the holiday and the employment report. Breadth per the WSJ was mostly negative…’ , 19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On The Horizon http://albertpeia.com/19signsveryseriouseconomictroubleonhorizon.htm Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way.  Most of them just assume that everything will eventually "return to normal" just like it always has before and that those running our economy "know what they are doing" and that we should trust them to do their jobs.  Unfortunately, these beliefs are being reinforced by the bubble of false hope that we are experiencing right now…’ ,  Why the ECB Expanded Its Balance Sheet By Over $1 trillion in Less Than Nine Months April 5, 2012 By gpc1981   http://gainspainscapital.com  http://albertpeia.com/ecbexpandsbalsheetover1trilllessthan9mos.htm  , Net Worthless: People As CorporationsUS Households haven't shaken their 'junk bond' credit rating, given their poor income statement and balance sheet. Reversing Mitt Romney's famous quote "corporations are people", Bank Of America remains skeptical of this self-sustaining recovery - expecting second half growth to slow significantly as businesses and households react to the risk of a major fiscal shock (and in the short-term, momentum looks unsustainable). From an income statement perspective, 'a paycheck just ain't what it used to be' with food and energy prices rising and payroll growth (typically a good proxy for income growth) is disappointingly timid leaving real disposable income diverging weakly from a supposed job recovery. The balance sheet perspective has been helped by the rise of the equity market but the recovery in net worth in the last three years has barely outstripped income growth, leaving the ratio deeply depressed. The upshot is that the recent pick-up in consumption is not being fueled by income or wealth gains, but mainly by drawing down savings. Many households remain deeply distressed and react to higher costs of living by drawing down savings further. , JPMorgan Trader Accused Of "Breaking" CDS Index Market With Massive Prop Position , Q1 Post Mortem Stunners: Full Year 2012 EPS Forecasts Are Down 2% YTD; Apple Represents 15% Of S&P Rise , Egan Jones Downgrades USA From AA+ To AA, Outlook NegativeA few weeks ago when discussing the imminent debt ceiling breach, and the progression of US debt/GDP into the 100%+ ballpark, we reminded readers that in February S&P said it could downgrade the US again in as soon as 6 months if there was no budget plan. Not only is there no budget plan, but the US is about to have its debt ceiling fiasco repeat all over as soon in as September. Which means another downgrade from S&P is imminent, and continuing the theme of deja vu 2011, the late summer is shaping up for a major market sell off. Minutes ago, Egan Jones just reminded us of all of this, after the only rating agency that matters, just downgraded the US from AA+ to AA, with a negative outlook. , Bank Downgrade Forward Calendar , Today's Ebay Special - The Country Of Greece , On The Pain In Spain , Nonfarm payrolls should fall by 377,000 (But they won’t)  : ilene : 04/05/2012 What's your wild guess? , Greece: Even Corruption Is In A Deep Recession : testosteronepit : 04/05/2012 Bribes for surgery.  , Is The Japanese Party Ending? , Four Weeks Of Deja Vu Propaganda , 3 Charts On The 'Real' Deteriorating State Of Corporate Balance SheetsIf you spend your day listening to mainstream financial media you could be forgiven for believing that things have never been better for corporate balance sheets - exceptionally high levels of cash and fortress-like conservatism for example. However, in the trenches of reality, from a high-yield and investment grade credit market perspective (and perhaps this is why credit markets are expressing considerably more concern than equities still) there are three trends that point to deterioration and far-from-Nirvana cash-flow protection that should be paid close attention to. , Art Cashin On Bernanke's Secret Banker Meeting To Keep Europe Afloat , Meet The People Bringing You Currency Manipulation On A Daily Basis  ,  Initial Claims Continue String Of Disappointments

Frontrunning: April 5

  • Portugal Says Some Town Halls May Need to Restructure Their Debt (Bloomberg)
  • Draghi Scotches ECB Exit Talk as Spain Keeps Crisis Alive (Bloomberg)
  • China PBOC Injects Net CNY25 Bln Into Money Market This Week (WSJ)
  • BoE warns on mortgage limits (FT)
  • Apple investigating new iPad WiFi issues, tells AppleCare to replace affected units (9to5Mac)
  • Juppé promises French hard line in EU (FT)
  • ECB liquidity fuels high stakes hedging (FT)
  • Fed’s Lacker Says Markets Saw Odds of Policy Easing as Too High (Bloomberg)
  • Japan minister to ask for nuclear reactor restart: media (Reuters)

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4-4-12 45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor  http://albertpeia.com/45signsamericatinyelitemajoritypoor.htm  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  GLOOM SEEMS MORE APPARENT 4-4-12 ‘China continues to show economic contraction, German Factory Orders slumped, Spanish bond auctions were poorly received, RBS had to bag a bond auction and the hangover from the Fed’s lack of QE continued to reverberate through markets in “hissy-fit” fashion. In the U.S. ADP employment data met expectations (209K vs 208K expected & prior 216K) while ISM Services Data missed slightly (56 vs 57 expected & prior 57.3) making for little encouragement overall …’ , Corzined Marvell Muppets Sue Vampire SquidPay close attention because this could be a record-breaking amount of mauling ever attempted by the colossus of client care as Goldman shows it does not discriminate between millionaire and billionaire Muppets. In a bizarre story in CNN Money, we are told that two billionaire 'married' executives of Marvell Technologies - MRVL (no, not the comic book though that would be spectacular) are suing Goldman for what initially appears to be a straight-forward alleged fraud of unauthorized transfer of ownership of their MRVL shares to Goldman's internal fund to enable more borrow availability for shorts (1 Corzine-ing). But the story gets better. The executives, upon the advice of another Goldman broker were advised to take levered long positions in competitor NVDA's shares (which GS was allegedly selling out of its own book - 2 Corzine-ings) only to very rapidly face significant losses when the company missed and the stock dropped notably (3 Corzine-ings). Then, GS sends the MRVL execs margin calls on that position (4 Corzine-ings) and unwilling to accept the MRVL shares as collateral due to its low share price (5 Corzine-ings), forces the former MRVL executives to sell their MRVL shares (6 Corzine-ings) to meet cash calls - all the while remembering that GS had transferred the ownership in order that they could allegedly have more of this hard-to-borrow stock to short (7 Corzine-ings). What's more, the couple's suit alleges that Goldman and a hedge fund run by Goldman were buying MRVL's shares at the same time the firm was forcing Sutardja and Dai to sell (8 Corzine-ings). Both NVDA and MRVL's shares have since more than doubled from their late 2008 lows. The couple claim they lost more than $100 million because of their forced sales and general Muppet massacre. , The Second Foreclosure Tsunami Is Coming, And Is About To Kill Any Hopes Of A "Housing Bottom" In what appears to be surprising news for some, Reuters has an article titled "Americans brace for next foreclosure wave" whose key premise is that "a painful part two of the [housing] slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.", Stocks Have Second Biggest Plunge Of 2012 , "Won't Be Fooled This Week Either": Retail Celebrates Highest Stock Prices Since 2007 With Biggest Redemptions Of 2012 , There's No Painless Way OutUncle Sam's bills of almost $4tn per year relative to his income of just over $2tn means that he does what most American's do - he borrows money - and it is this simple fact that underpins the reasoning that there is no painless way out of the mountain of debt that we have amassed over the last few decades. , "The Boredom Discount": Why Greater Risk Does Not Lead To Greater ReturnConfused by stock bubbles and furious episodes of manic market euphoria? SocGen's Dylan Grice explains it in one brief sentence: "we’re hardwired to overvalue excitement and undervalue boredom." , More Echoes From 2011 As European Stocks Signal Trouble AheadAs the mainstream media gets over-run with 'buy-the-dippers' and 'healthy retracement' protagonists with the S&P down a monstrous 1.5% from its highs, it is perhaps worth noting (h/t Doug Kass) that Europe's broad equity market index is now down over 5% from it's peak two weeks ago (as is the UK's FTSE index). In yet another echo of last year's liquidity-fueled spurt-and-slump, European equity markets (along with US and European credit markets as we have already noted) are sending a warning signal that trouble may lay immediately ahead for US equities…’ , Guest Post: America: The ListLet's get it all out there. America's dirty laundry that is. Our family secrets. The skeletons in the closet. The goal is to create a list of the many and numerous ways in which our country is deluding itself into believing we are the greatest, smartest, most innovative, freedom loving country that ever was. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some unpatriotic ne'er do well. I love what the Founding Fathers of our country set out to accomplish, faults and all. I love it so much {Love it?I don’t even like it! }, I was willing to put my life on the line for this country by serving in a US Marine Corps special forces unit for 8 years (your move armchair patriot). But we have drifted so far from the original concepts, I believe our current central planning apparatus more closely resembles the USSR than what most people think is the USA. So I'm going to kick this list off but in no way do I intend this to be exhaustive. Please, add your own comments and thoughts.  Take the list and grow it.  Spread it around.  Repost it, tweet it, facebook it (whatever that means) and let's start the healing process by admitting what's wrong.Sort of like a political and economic 12-step program.  Hi, my name is Brian Rogers and I'm an asset of the state.  And I want to quit.

The List

1.  Money - The US dollar is a currency controlled by a private consortium of banks under the Federal Reserve System.  There is nothing "Federal" about the Federal Reserve, it is owned and absolutely controlled by bankers.  Sound free? 

2.  The Federal Reserve System - The Fed is neither under the auspices of Executive, Legislative nor Judicial branches of government.  The most important and largest decisions they make cannot be audited by any branch of the US government.  Sound free?

3.  Presidential authority - The POTUS can these days declare martial law and based on the language of the recently passed NDAA, arrest any US citizen he wants, anywhere he wants and hold them without due process for as long as he wants.  All the POTUS has to say is that the person is a terrorist.  Sound free? 

4.  Federal judges - Even in during Rome's imperial years, about half of the federal judges were voted by the people.  Today, all Federal judges are political appointment.  Sound free?

5.  Electoral college - We do not have a popular vote.  The masses just simply can't be trusted.  We choose special delegates to enact the "final solution" (pun intended).  Sound free?

6.  Campaign finance - Corporations are people.  Seriously.  Mitt Romney was right.  As long as national elections have an essentially uncapped spending limit, the game of politics will always be about money and who has the most.  Those monied interests then become the only real constituent.  Everyone else just gets lip service.  In the meantime, average citizens everywhere are priced out of even trying to run for office given the exorbitant costs to participate in the system.  Read my lips, sound free?

7.  Term limits - Nope.  We seem to like our political class and want to make sure that we can get the same old idiots year in and year out.  They have no incentive to make hard choices, only political choices to keep their career feeding at the government trough.  And the good ones, meaning the most political and successful at money raising, become furniture and stay for decades.  Sound free?

8.  Income taxes (or direct taxation) - You no longer have the right to 100% of the result of your hard work aka wages.  The government has decreed that you must share your income with everyone else or go to jail.  Ayn Rand once said that the basis for every totalitarian dictatorship was altruism.  Sacrifice for the state.  I certainly don't blindly follow Ms. Rand like Alan Greenspan did, but on this point I agree entirely.  Sound free?

9.  Legal tender laws - Don't like the dollar?  Wish you could simply eject yourself out of the Federal Reserve System by buying some gold and silver coins and using them to make payment for goods and services?  While some merchants may gladly do business with you, the transaction is very much illegal.  You MUST use the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES controlled and priced by the Oracles of Delphi at the Fed.  Sound free?

10.  "Cost" of money - Modern finance values assets using various pricing methods.  All of these, however, share a common theme, they all discount future cash flows using the Risk Free rate which is normally defined as US Treasuries.  The Fed is artificially controlling and manipulating US Treasuries.  Therefore, every asset on the planet has a price that is artificial as the rates implicit in its price are not market rates.  They are what the Bernank and the Oracles of Delphi think they should be.  Sound free?

11.  Two-party political system - Seriously, do I really need to break down the hypocrisy exhibited on a daily basis by team red and team blue?  As Zero Hedge pointed out recently, 50% of the American public votes.  About 50% of the public is politically active in the two major parties.  Therefore, in any given election, the winner will only represent about 25% of the population.  And we wonder why special interests get all the attention.  Sound free?

What else? 

Like I said, this list isn't meant to be exhaustive, in fact just the beginning.  Please add your own ideas, improve on mine and pass this along.In the meantime, it's a beautiful day here in Manhattan and I'm about to take a walk and enjoy it.  I can still do that without asking permission or paying a tax so I'm going to take advantage.  Perhaps I'll stroll over to Coffee Shop again at Union Square.  On the way, perhaps I'll run into The Occupy Wall Street Movement at Union Square.  We can heckle the police about how they are working for the "man" while secretly justifying their thug tactics by thinking about the nice pension plan waiting for them at the end of their career rainbow.  The same pension plan that is rapidly becoming insolvent under the Bernank's ZIRP…’

High Yield Credit Fundamentals Starting To CrackWe have been warning of the uncomfortable current similarities to last year's (and for that matter cycle after cycle) high-yield credit underperformance / lagging behavior 'canary-in-the-coalmine' relative to the exuberant equity market for a month now. Now, Bank of America provides - in two succinct charts - the fundamental underpinning of this grave concern as across the high-yield credit universe revenues are not catching up with costs - creating significant margin pressures - and at the end of the day, a market that cares more for cash flow sustainability than the latest headline or quarter EPS upgrade from some sell-side pen-pusher is waving a red-flag as margins are the lowest they have been since March 2009 and is falling at a much faster clip than in the fall of 2008 as the reality of money-printing comes home to roost. And just to add salt to this fundamental wound, technicals are starting to hurt as supply picks up and 'opportunistic' issuance turns notably heavy - perhaps helping to explain how the ongoing inflows have been unable to push prices further up in the US. Lastly European high yield is trading tick-for-tick with sovereign risk still - as it has since the middle of last year and so as LTRO-funded carry fades, we would expect it to underperform - especially as austerity slows growth. , A Thought Experiment: Why Not Just Print, Print, Print And Then Print Some More?In the past we have jokingly discussed the creation of a Death Star as the way the world can save itself by printing an almost infinite amount of money to support growth. As almost everyone, especially the MMT crowd it seems, can plainly see, if printing some money is good (well it must be, markets are up) then printing more money must be better, right? Well, no (as we discussed in detail here). There are unintended consequences and as we pointed out recently, we are already seeing less and less effervescence in the real economy from QE's impact and the spectre of the inflationary pressures that implicitly limit the 'benefit' of this action is nowhere more painful than in energy prices (and in fact the price of anything in relative limited supply as opposed to cash which is printed daily). Professor Antony Davies, of Duquesne, takes this subtle concept to task in this exceptionally straightforward 206-second video on money as an IOU and its solution to the caveman's ills providing the background for why money's inherent value is relinquished once it becomes printed en masse. Printing more money doesn't make more goods and services appear, simply spreads the value of the existing goods and services among a larger number of dollars - this is inflation. Our wealth comes not from money but from the goods and services that money buys. Q.E.D. , NYSE Margin Debt At Highest Since July Means Threat Of Margin Calls High , Reversals In ProgressToday’s Spanish auction results were, in a word, awful. , Services ISM Misses Expectations For First Time In 4 Months, First Drop Since September


4-3-12
The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today.  America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is becoming poorer , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  FED DISAPPOINTS BULLS 4-3-12 { My first computer was an AppleIIc in 1986 and I’m glad they survived, having faced extinction. I’m happy for them. But, realistically, there just aren’t that many computer unsaavy people dumb enough to continue to pay premiums (overpay) for less than premium products/utility (that’s no endorsement for pathetic pc’s, etc.) – I’ve conceded the IPAD breakthrough to their credit but even that’s going to be facing competition; and, tv? That’s always been a tough road to hoe for whomever, though I wish them luck, though more than luck’s required! Apple just provides the frauds on wall street with a hopium story to jazz the HFT algos, suck suckers in, and churn and earn! } ‘Fed minutes were released at 2 PM and disappointed those bulls looking for more QE and/or stimulus. Not finding any, they sold. But in the last half hour of trading, dip buyers were once again present halving the losses from the announcement. Those “stick saves’ are something to behold!Factory Orders (1.3% vs 1.5% exp & prior -1.00%) were positive but a mild disappointment overall.The dollar (UUP) rallied on the lack of further stimulus; bonds (IEF & TLT) were weak as were commodities (USO, GLD & DBC).Stocks fell sharply, then as indicated, recovered led higher by…wait for it, Apple (AAPL) as an analyst from Topeka Securities (seriously?) raised the stock’s price forecast to $1,000 within 12 months. (It echoes of Qualcomm predictions circa 1999 but Apple may be a different case, right?) If the stock were to rise anything like that, imagine the current weighting effect it would have on indices like the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) and SPDR Technology ETF (XLK). Anyway, the shares rose an additional $10 once again masking underlying overall market weakness…’ ,  The Fed’s Latest Announcement: “The Easy Money Spigot is Being Turned Off…”April 3, 2012 By gpc1981 , Man Vs Machine: How Each Sees The Stock Market Guest Post: Gold's Critical Metric , Guest Post: Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century , "The Broken Window Fallacy": Why Government Stimulus Spending Will Keep The Unemployment Rate High , Putting It All Into Perspective ,

FOMC Saw No Needs To Ease Unless Growth Slows

So much for the Hatzius and Hilsenrath prognostications. Headlines coming in:

  • FOMC SAW NO NEED TO EASE ANEW UNLESS GROWTH SLOWS, MINUTES SHOW
  • MOST FOMC PARTICIPANTS SAW `LITTLE EVIDENCE OF COST PRESSURES
  • FOMC PARTICIPANTS SAID LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS HAD IMPROVED
  • MOST FOMC PARTICIPANTS EXPECTED INFLATION RATE AT 2% OR LESS
  • MANY FOMC PARTICIPANTS SAW `EASED' STRAINS IN GLOBAL MARKETS
  • MOST ON FOMC SAW TEMPORARY IMPACT FROM RISING OIL, GAS PRICES
  • FOMC SAID SIGNIFICANT OUTLOOK CHANGE COULD ALTER 2014 RATE PLAN

Apparently $4 gas has an impact. ,

Guest Post: Four Signs Of Asia’s Rise Over The West , The 2013 Fiscal Logjam Durden  With the political season heating up, and tax season upon us, we thought it worthwhile drilling into exactly how painful the potential pre-programmed fiscal tightening in 2013 is likely to be. As Credit Suisse notes, "it ain't over til its over" as the suspicion is that a lame duck session of Congress will forestall some of the tightening but until Congress acts, the economy is still technically in a collision course with the largest fiscal hit in modern times. ,  Guest Post: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Part Two Anyone who hasn’t sensed a mood change in this country since the 2008 financial meltdown is either ignorant or in denial. Millions of Americans fall into one of these categories, but many people realize something has changed – and not for the better. The sense of pure financial panic that existed during September and October of 2008 had not been seen since the dark days of 1929. Our leaders used the initial terror and fear to ram through TARP and stimulus packages that rewarded the perpetrators of the financial collapse rather than helping the middle class who lost 8 million jobs, destroyed by Wall Street criminality. The stock market plunged by 57% from its 2007 high by March 2009. What has happened since September 2008 has set the stage for the next downward leg in this Crisis. The rich and powerful have pulled out all the stops and saved themselves at the expense of the many. Despite overwhelming proof of unabashed mortgage fraud, rating agency bribery, document forgery on a grand scale and insider trading based on non-public information, the brazen audacity of Wall Street oligarchs is reminiscent of the late stages of the Roman Empire. ,


4-2-12 Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  CENTRAL BANK LIQUIDITY KEEPS BULLS HAPPY 4-2-12 ‘As Marc Faber reported Monday, two separate packages of over $1.3 trillion LTROs (Long-Term Refinancing Operations: dba “bailouts”) in the U.S. & Europe are bullish for stocks. Further, rumors remain the Bank of Japan is privately conducting similar operations and no one really knows what the Chinese (PBOC) are doing.ISM Mfg Data (53.4 vs 53.2 expected & prior at 52.4) indicates continued slow and steady economic expansion. Unfortunately prices paid remains higher at the same time. Construction Spending (-1.1% vs .7% expected & prior -.8%) was lower and some blamed this on the weather which isn’t intuitive.Stocks rallied as the new quarter began on the back of ISM data primarily and secondarily as new funds get reinvested to begin the month and quarter…’ , Guest Post: The Cliff Notes   As it now stands, the US economy faces a “fiscal cliff” in early 2013 – meaningful Government spending cuts AND tax increases at the household level. , Pink Slime Maker Files For Bankruptcy: Pink Slips Galore As The Pink Sheets Beckon , VIX Pops As AAPL Snaps Stops With Action Between US Open And EUR Close , Foodstamp Usage Remains At All Time High, Record Number Of Households Receive $277 In Poverty Assistance Monthly , Rosenberg Recaps The Record QuarterWhat a quarter! The Dow up 8% and enjoying a record quarter in terms of points — 994 of them to be exact and in percent terms, now just 7% off attaining a new all-time high. The S&P 500 surged 12% (and 3.1% for March; 28% from the October 2011 lows), which was the best performance since 1998.
It seems so strange to draw comparisons to 1998, which was the infancy of the Internet revolution; a period of fiscal stability, 5% risk-free rates, sustained 4% real growth in the economy, strong housing markets, political stability, sub-5% unemployment, a stable and predictable central bank. And look at the composition of the rally. Apple soared 48% and accounted for nearly 20% of the appreciation in the S&P 500. But outside of Apple, what led the rally were the low-quality names that got so beat up last year, such as Bank of America bouncing 72% (it was the Dow's worst performer in 2011; financials in aggregate rose 22%). Sears Holdings have skyrocketed 108% this year even though the company doesn't expect to make money this year or next. What does that tell you? What it says is that this bull run was really more about pricing out a possible financial disaster coming out of Europe than anything that could really be described as positive on the global macroeconomic front. What is most fascinating is how the private client sector simply refuses to drink from the Fed liquidity spiked punch bowl, having been burnt by two central bank-induced bubbles separated less than a decade apart leaving David Rosenberg, of Gluskin Sheff, still rightly focused on benefiting from his long-term 3-D view of deleveraging, demographics, and deflation - as he notes US data is on notably shaky ground. This appears to have been very much a trader's rally as he reminds us that liquidity is not an antidote for fundamentals. , Biderman On April's Equity Inflection Point As Fed's Front-Loading FadesThe Fed has undertaken the same front-loading of the US economy for three years in a row (QE1, QE2, and Operation Twist) and each of the three times the performance of the US equity market to this sudden flush of liquidity has been almost identical in terms of velocity (speed and direction) - even though the underlying macroeconomic impact has been lesser and lesser as we pointed out here earlier. What is also most notable is that as we head into April (as Biderman reminds us, a typically positive 'flow' month for US equities given the tax-based moves and quarter-start) we are nearing what has been the inflection point in the previous two pump-and-hope episodes. While sounding eerily bullish in the very short-term, Charles is critically clear that he expects the short-lived nature of money-printing's impact on the market economy to fade rapidly as he fully expects the government agencies to revise their growth expectations more in line with his 'fact'-based growth expectations which are considerably lower. Though he notes the timing of the election may mean more of a sustained 'hope', the fact that in 2012 (starting Nov2011) equity performance is better now than the previous two Fed-infused rallies is perhaps why corporate insider-selling is so dominating insider-buying now through March. The avuncular antagonist concludes with his expectations that once the April surge is done with (which it may already have done today?) he fully expects the stock market to give up all its first quarter gains (and need we remind you that high yield credit is sending the very same signals of concern that it did in Q2 of the previous 2 rallies). , 10 'Facts' That Should Worry Europe's Equity 'Fiction' , Guest Post: There Is No Shortcut, But All We Have Are ShortcutsWe all know there is no shortcut to anything worth having--mastery, security, wealth-- yet all we have in America is another useless, doomed shortcut. Insolvency is scale-invariant, meaning that being unable to live within your means leads to insolvency for households, towns, corporations, states and national governments. There is no shortcut to living within one's means. Expenses must align with revenues or the debt taken on to fill the gap will eventually bankrupt the entity--even an Empire. We know this, but all we have in America is the shortcut of borrowing more to fill the gap between revenues and expenses. The Federal government is borrowing a staggering 40% of its budget this year--and it has done so for the past three years. Despite all the fantastic predictions of future solvency, the cold reality is that no plausible level of "growth" will close the gap: either expenses must be cut by $1.5 trillion or tax revenues raised by $1.5 trillion or some combination of those realities. , ISM Beats Expectations Modestly As Construction Spending Slides  , Meet The Uber-Kommissar: Germany Expands European Domination Plan; Will Enact European Budget Supervision Panel , Italian Banks Underwater On LTRO2 After Just One Month , Guest Post: Understanding The Slave MentalityIn the initial stages of nearly every recorded tyranny, the saucer eyed dumbstruck masses exhibit astonishing and masterful skill when denying reality.  , Ever Less Bang For The Printed BuckAs markets crave their next fix of the money-printing elixir, perhaps it is worth noting the ever-decreasing impact that the quantitative easing experiments have had on 'measures' of the real economy. This seems to suggest that either: "we're gonna need a bigger boat" and the ongoing QEs will need to be exponentially larger than the prior in order to enact change in the 'measures' of real economy; or, the Fed has hit its limit as yet another 'multiplier effect' has been proved wrong in the limit and all we get to play with is the unintended consequences of a hidden inflation peering into view. Of course this is typical Keynesian dogma: if at first you don't succeed, do it again but bigger, more global, and with more geopolitical danger. , The True French Debt To GDP: 146% , More Fed "Bad Cop"Bernanke telling the world the Fed will ease any time there is a stock downtick is the 'good cop.' Which means there needs to be a bad cop to pretend that the Fed actually cares about more than just 10-20% red candles in the Russell 2000, and to give the impression of a balanced Fed. Last week it was Plosser (who simply regurgitated his script from March 2010). Today it is Dallas Fed's Fisher… ,   Greece Set To Default On Foreign-Law Bonds On May 15

 

3-30-12 Is the U.S. economy going to be okay?  Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading toward a full recovery and that everything is going to be alright.  Unfortunately, that is not the case at all.  The United States is rapidly becoming poorer as a nation and less competitive in the global marketplace.  At the same time, consumer debt levels are rising, corporate debt levels are rising, state and local government debt levels are rising and the U.S. government is indulging in a debt binge unlike anything the world has ever seen.  Considering the insane amount of money the U.S. government has been pumping into the economy, we should have seen a much more robust recovery by now.  Instead, the employment statistics have barely moved and government dependence is at an all-time high.  That is really sad, because this is as good as "the recovery" is going to get.  The next major economic downturn is just around the bend, and in future years millions of us will desperately yearn for the "good old days" of 2012… , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com THE FIRST QUARTER GETS SOME WINDOW DRESSING 3-30-12 ‘Economic data Friday was mixed and depending on your vision or bias was spun to suit. Personal Income & Spending was a dangerously mixed bag with income down and spending up: (Personal Income .2% vs .4% expected & prior .3%. Spending .8% vs .6% expected & .4% prior. Core PCE was .1% vs .2% prior). With spending up a good portion of this goes to food and energy excluded in the “core” PCE. Since the “core” stuff is what the Bernank et al focus on it will justify ongoing ZIRP and perhaps more QE. It’s all contrived and absurd frankly.Later the Chicago PMI (62.2 vs 63 expected & prior 64) also disappointed with a miss but bulls didn’t mind.Consumer Sentiment (76.2 vs 75 expected & prior 74.3) rose and beat estimates but also has a larger stock market component than does Consumer Confidence data released previously.Bulls chose to embrace the spending side of data and Consumer Sentiment ignoring everything else.Apple’s (AAPL) share price declined on news that Google (GOOG) would be stepping up efforts to compete with Apple products like iPads and smart phones. Also much in the news was widely disseminated story that without the company’s earnings first quarter EPS for the S&P 500 would be flat versus up 1.50%. So despite the heavy weighting of shares (15-20%) in many indexes, not mention hedge fund and institutional portfolios, the stock were sold Friday. This is sector rotation of a different kind. It may only have little to do with recent stories of company sweat shops in China … , Mark Grant Explains The Farce, The Hustle, And The ScamWhen considering the financial condition of each and every country in the European Union there are certain facts that are left out and left out on purpose. In our opinion, the structural deformity of the European Union is, in itself, one of the main reasons that any attempt at a fiscal or economic fix never seems to work. Whether some proposed firewall is $760 billion or $1.3 Trillion or $13 Trillion makes no difference as in zero, nada, nothing and null. It is an IOU, a promise to pay and it is not counted in any European sovereign debt numbers nor is it counted in the figures for the European Union’s debt. It will not stop Spain or Portugal or Italy from asking for or needing money. This whole discussion is a head fake, a deception and a ruse carefully plotted out for investors in one more attempt to mislead the entire world. If you wish to be a statistic in the Greater Fool Theory be my guest but I refuse to be apart of this unadulterated scam. , Germany is Now Openly Engaging In Monetary Policies Against the ECB… What’s Next?March 30, 2012 By http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘While the mainstream financial media and 99% of investors continue to believe that Germany will align itself with the EU, we’ve been pounding the table Germany will in fact look after its own interests rather than the EU’s and that it might in fact leave the Euro temporarily.We’ll start with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, who was hinting that the EU was off-track in its policies and that Germany was focusing on a “political union” NOT a “monetary union” as far back as November 2011.Wolfgang Schauble admits euro bail-out fund won’t halt crisisEurope’s “big bazooka” bail-out fund is not ready and won’t stem the debt crisis that on Tuesday pounded Italy and the European Central Bank (ECB), admitted Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s finance minister.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8924462/Wolfgang-Schauble-admits-euro-bail-out-fund-wont-halt-crisis.htmlThis is a pretty strong admission from the finance minister of the country that Europe looks to as a financial backstop…, Massive $17 Trillion Hole Found In ObamacareTwo years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… by a factor of 1700%. Because coincident with the recent Supreme Court debacle, in which a constitutional law president may be about to find that his magnum opus law is, in fact, unconstitutional, someone actually read the whole thing cover to cover, instead of merely relying on the CBO’s, pardon Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs’, funding estimates. That someone is Republican Jeff Sessions who after actually running the numbers has uncovered that the true long-term funding gap is a mind-boggling $17 trillion, just a tad more than the original sub $1 trillion forecast. This latest revelation means that total underfunded US welfare liabilities: Medicare, Medicaid and social security now amount to $99 trillion! Add to this total US debt which in 2 months will be $16 trillion, and one can see why Japan, which is about to breach 1 quadrillion in total debt (yen, but who's counting), may want to start looking in the rearview mirror for up and comer competitors. And while Obama may have been taking creative license with a number that is greater than total US GDP, he was most certainly correct when saying that Obamacare would not add a penny to US debt. Because the second the US government comes to market to fund a true total debt/GDP ratio of 750%, it is game over, and the Fed will have its hands full selling Treasury puts every waking nanosecond to have any time left for the daily 3pm stock market ramp. , This Time Is No Different - Reflections On 1929 OptimismWhen it comes to markets, the following clip, as well as memories of recent market collapses, highlights that it is usually brightest just before it's pitch black. , Stocks Odd Man Out As Every Other Asset Class Has Now Faded LTRO2 , MarketWatch Goes Full Propaganda RetardGuest Post: The Consumption DysfunctionThe sharp drop in the personal savings rate in the month of February, which just hit to lowest level since January of 2008, is indicative of the problem.  While personal savings rates could be bled down further to sustain the current level of subpar economic growth - the world today is vastly different than prior to the last two recessions … , Another Failed Grand Plan In Europe , European Bailout Stigma Shifts From Banks To Sovereigns As Bundesbank Refuses PIG Collateral , Treasuries Crash Back To Equity's Unreality , Is The Chinese Stock Market About To Crash? , From Enron To Sino-Forest - Same Old SongEnron --> Worldcom --> Adelphia --> Lehman --> MF Global --> Greece --> Sino Forest --> ???? We would rank these as some of the more notorious bankruptcies. These weren't normal course of business bankruptcies. These were dark and deviant. They have many similarities. Opaque and convoluted accounting and finances are common to them all.  Whether it was Jedi for Enron, repo 105 for Lehman, or off-market swaps with Goldman for Greece, they all used every trick in the book to keep debt off balance sheet and to obfuscate the risk. It is hard to watch what is going on in Europe and not believe that Greece is just the first of many. Countries and their banks. Countries and their regions. Countries and EU programs. Banks and their national central banks. Banks and the ECB. It is hard to pin down the fatal flaw, but for us it is harder to believe that there is nothing to see there and we should happily move along. , Why The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Nothing But Another Tax On America's Poor , Greece: Now They’re Not Even Trying Anymore  : testosteronepit : 03/30/2012 As Monti said, "The financial aspect of the crisis is over." For the moment. But the problems are worse than ever., California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation : George Washington : 03/30/2012 - 12:26 Fukushima Radiation Plume Hit Southern and Central California  , Is Spanish Regional Debt Out Of Control? , Must Read: Jim Grant Crucifies The Fed; Explains Why A Gold Standard Is The Best Option In the not quite 100 years since the founding of your institution, America has exchanged central banking for a kind of central planning and the gold standard for what I will call the Ph.D. standard. I regret the changes and will propose reforms, or, I suppose, re-reforms, as my program is very much in accord with that of the founders of this institution. Have you ever read the Federal Reserve Act? The authorizing legislation projected a body “to provide for the establishment of the Federal Reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.” By now can we identify the operative phrase? Of course: “for other purposes.” As you prepare to mark the Fed’s centenary, may I urge you to reflect on just how far you have wandered from the intentions of the founders? The institution they envisioned would operate passively, through the discount window. It would not create credit but rather liquefy the existing stock of credit by turning good-quality commercial bills into cash— temporarily. This it would do according to the demands of the seasons and the cycle. The Fed would respond to the community, not try to anticipate or lead it. It would not override the price mechanism— as today’s Fed seems to do at every available opportunity—but yield to it. , The Insanity Of The Sarkozy Carry-Trade's Contagion Risk In 3 Charts , Chicago PMI Misses As Survey Respondents Warn Oil Price Shock "Tipping Point Fast Approaching" , The Sad Reality Of Macro Data PerformancePresented with little comment except to note that the next time someone uses the phrase "...but the data is coming in strong..." please show this chart as US and European macro data prints have consistently missed expectations for well over a month now... , Following Greek Bond Humiliation, Europe's Biggest Equity Investor Is Slashing Its European ExposureRemember this from September 2010? "Norway, which has amassed the world’s second-biggest sovereign wealth fund, says Greece won’t default on its debts. “The point is, do you expect these guys to default?” said Harvinder Sian, senior fixed-income strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, in an interview. “Norway has taken the view that they will not. The Greek holdings are particularly interesting because the consensus in the market is that they will at some point restructure or default.” Norway says its long-term perspective will protect it from losses. “One could say we are investing for infinity."... Uhm, Big Oops. Needless to say, this stupidity was roundly mocked by Zero Hedge at the time. Yet we can only applaud the fact that unlike other European investors (read primarily Italian banks) which are merely sinking ever deeper into the quicksand by dodecatupling down on pyramid scheme assets, the Norwegian SWF finally "plans to sharply reduce its European exposure while raising investments in emerging markets and Asia-Pacific, the finance ministry said on Friday." While we ridiculed their stupidity in 2010, we applaud Norway's prudence in this case, as unlike other insolvent European entities, the crude-rich country is not falling for the latest round of central planning bullshit, and is finally acting as a fiduciary agent. "We're reducing our European exposure because we see that economic development in the global economy is changing and this should also be reflected in our investment strategy," Johnsen said. "Most likely we'll have to sell some assets in Europe." Remember: in game theory he who defects first, defects best. We expect to see many more funds openly declaring they will commence dumping European assets, all of which are buoyed 100% artificially by the ECB, and US taxpayers, shortly. , Don't Be (April) Fooled: New ETF Money Flows Still Bond-Bound , American Spending Goes Into Overdrive As Savings Plunge To 2008 Levels , Visualizing The Fed's Clogged Plumbing , The Full Math Behind The "Expanded" European Bailout Fund , Apple’s Earnings Are Masking Weakness in Stocks and the Economy Mar 30th, 2012 (Yahoo Finance) — [I]f it weren’t for Apple’s (AAPL) record results, fourth quarter profit growth for the S&P 500 would go from 6.1% to 3.0%

Q4 GDP Comes As Expected, Claims Miss Big Two Weeks In A RowFollowing last Thursday's weekly claims release we said "Initial Claims Beat Expectations, To Miss Next Week Following Revision" and sure enough, last week's 348K beat of 350K expectations has been revised wildly higher, to 364K, meaning the initial beat was not only a miss, it was wide by a mile relative to the 350K preliminary expectation. But robots do not care - all they care is the current print, which however this time also missed, printing at 359K on expectations of a 350K number. This is the first 4 week increase in the 4 week SMA since September as the weather impact of the record warm winter starts to fade away, as explained yesterday. Same gimmicks in the continuing claims number too which like everything out of the BLS is so meaningless for concurrent data, we will probably just wait until the next week revision to get a sense of what is truly happening. More troubling is that 78K people fell of extended and EUC claims as more and more drop out of the workforce. This means the unemployment rate just dropped courtesy of even more people giving up on finding work. Thank heavens for BLS math. In other news, the final Q4 GDP revision came unchanged at 3.0%, in line with expectations. There were no major changes to the components, however Personal consumption did decline modestly from the second revision's 1.52% to 1.47%. It also appears that the government has been consistently taking away less and less from "growth", detracting 0.93%, 0.89% and 0.84% with every consecutive revision. Overall, a wash, meaning March is about to close with about with 17 misses out of 19 key economic indicators. , A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most People Would Ever Dare To Imagine http://albertpeia.com/cashlesssocietynear.htm  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  DIP BUYERS EMERGE ON TIME 3-29-12‘European stocks were lower on the day on more worries about…wait for it…Greece. Seems S&P thinks they need another debt restructuring. Shocked?! I thought not. This action spilled over to U.S. stocks which started the day down despite fairly benign economic data.Jobless Claims were heralded as beating the previous week’s report. But, naturally a close look revealed revisions to the previous report increased claims by 5% or 17K claims. Even though the current data (359K) missed estimates (350K) the prior report was revised from 348K claims to 365K. Headline writers could then state claims improved. Got that? These revisions to prior claims have been consistently higher over the past 20 weeks. Elsewhere GDP data came in at 3% which matched previous data and estimates so no big deal there. Most forecasters believe economic growth will decline in the next quarter.As stated, U.S. stocks began the day in a funk but then the 2:15 PM Buy Program Express left the station on time and a reversal was at hand. Why did this happen? Window dressing as we end the quarter perhaps. (One of the more amusing headlines stated: “Trading tends to be volatile at the end of the quarter as fund managers adjust their books.” Sure, nice try!Weakening sectors were widespread featuring mostly overseas sectors like European (EFA & IEV), emerging markets (EEM & EEB), and commodities (DBC, JJC, GLD & USO). Gaining stocks were Red Hat (RHT) linked with (IGV) while profit-taking occurred with homebuilders like Hovnanian (HOV) linked with (ITB) and retailer Best Buy (BBY) linked with (XRT).Volume increased given early selling and late buy program activity. Breadth per the WSJ was negative once again…’ , Three Political Wildcards That Could Upset the Bailouts in the EuropeMarch 29, 2012 By gpc1981 ‘Much of the fiscal and monetary insanity that has come out of the EU over the last two years can be summated by one of my central global theses: European policies are determined by politics, NOT economics…’ , On Liquidity And The False Recovery David McWilliams (of Punk Economics) is back (previous discussions here and here) and this time he takes on the the flood of liquidity and the false recovery that has been created. Starting with a discussion of gas prices and the central banks' recklessness behind it, he swiftly shifts to the 'shambles in Greece' where more debt is supposed to solve the problem of too much debt yet again…’ , No, It Is Not Just The Chinese New YearThe one indicator which the Chinese Politburo can not fudge: power production and hence: demand, speaks volumes about the true state of China's economy. , Presenting America's Political Apathy: Voter Turnout Rate < 50% One Government's Meat Is Any Other Man's Felony PoisonEver feel like standing in Benny and the Centrally Planned Inkjets' shoes while in the comfort of your own home? Don't. As the following table demonstrates, doing what the US government does on a daily basis is likely to get one incarcerated, prosecuted, exiled, guillotined, bound and quartered, and most likely scapegoated by a member of the administration. , Bernanke Lecture IV Decrypted: Inflation 20, Stability 17, Progress 1 , Mike Krieger On When Central Banking Dies: China and OilBesides gold and silver, there is nothing that scares Central Planners (Bankers) more that oil.  In their delusional world where they play god with our futures, they think they can make the sheeple do whatever they want by adjusting the settings on a printing press and can thus determine the fate of the global economy and humanity itself.  What they hate more than anything else is when all of their money printing causes things like oil to rise because it exposes them for the charlatans that they are.  This is why Obama is constantly attacking speculators and oil companies.  It is all an attempt to scapegoat someone else for the financial nightmare that is hitting everyone’s wallet.  This is why they floated the absurd idea of releasing more oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and then denied it once the market failed to react vigorously enough to the rumor.  This is also why Obama surely has called the Saudis up repeatedly as of later to remind them that they might see regime change unless they ramp up oil production to help his reelection.   This brings us to one of the most important aspects of the entire global economy at the moment.  Saudi oil production is hitting record highs at the moment.  In fact if you look at the chart below you will see that the Saudis have never consistently pumped more oil than they are right now. , Which Is The True Jobless Rate Correlation? Charting The Schrödinger Unemployment RateIn an essay by Pimco's Tony Crescenzi, using the old and worn out title "To QE or Not to QE", which asks just that question, one of the lines of analysis focuses on the traditional conventional wisdom relationship between the jobless rate and initial claims for unemployment insurance. Tony says that this correlation leads him to believe that the unemployment rate is lower than where it official stands because, "Progress has been made, for example, on the employment front, with the six-month moving average for private payroll gains increasing to 214,000 per month in the six months ended in February 2012 from 160,000 per month in the 12 months prior. Importantly, weekly filings for initial jobless claims have fallen to a four-year low, fully 100k below year-ago levels and in territory consistent with a further decline in the unemployment rate (see Figure 1)." So far so good, and indeed if one very simplistically tracks merely the unemployment rate to jobless claims, the picture does indeed seem rosier than it currently is. The problem however, is that as always happens in this case, initial claims reflect only a discrete component of the true unemployment situation in the New Normal, which more than anything is characterized by one specific feature: the avalanche like implosion of the labor force, and the departure of millions of people, almost monthly from the labor pool, noted so very often on these pages, and recently forcing even Goldman and JP Morgan to ask whether Okun's law is not in fact broken precisely because of this. As such there is one other correlation that in our humble opinion should be tracked far more closely when trying to anticipate the unemployment rate: that of the unemployment rate but not just to initial claims, but rather to initial and continuing claims, as well as extended benefits and EUCs, which provide a far better picture of those who are truly falling out of the labor pool. And as the chart below shows, when using that far more accurate New Normal correlation, the picture is decided worse. In fact, instead of a sub-7% implied unemployment rate, the true implied unemployment rate is just over 12.5.  , Brevan Howard's Three Uncertainties And One Certainty To Worry About In The USWe discussed earlier about the Fed's ZIRP policy and the transmission mechanism through which its free-money ends up in the real-economy (or not as the case in point). Brevan Howard agrees that the outlook for the US is not plain-sailing and that US growth does indeed face cross-currents, with the labor market improving at a steady pace while aggregate demand slows. While the firm remains more stoic, seeing a generally favorable macro backdrop, they note three uncertainties and one certainty that keeps them up at night. The pace of the drop in unemployment against only trend growth leaves its sustainability uncertain; the potentially temporary easing of the European financial crisis seems increasingly uncertain; and the growing tensions in the Middle East and the uncertainty over gas prices derailing the fragile economy. However, it is the one certainty that worries us most (and them, it seems), and that is the enormous fiscal drag the US faces in 2013 which unchecked could reduce real GDP growth by more than 3 percentage points. Even if the President and the new Congress cut this by half it would still be a noticeable drag on growth. , Guest Post: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 4: "Consumer Protection" Just Another Federal Reserve Power Grab , European Weakness Spreads And Accelerates , "The Apple Conundrum": Why One Fund Is Not Buying The iKool-Aid , Charting Premature Jubilation - The US Economic Growth Momentum Is Now Over

Europe’s Bazooka Will Fire Blanks… Good Luck Killing the Crisis With ThatMarch 28, 2012 By gpc1981 Europe continues to take a page out of Hank Paulson’s “Crisis Combat” booklet, by unveiling one monetary “bazooka” after another. Obviously, EU leaders didn’t notice that Paulson’s “bazooka” completely failed to stop the 2008 Crash.Even more strangely, they keep pulling out bazooka after bazooka, first unveiling the EFSF which was supposed to raise €1 trillion but failed to raise even €10 billion without having to intervene in its own bond auctions.Then came the ESM, which was supposed to be another mega-bailout fund, which as before, is having trouble raising funds. After all, if one bailout fund is a dud, why would launching another fix anything?Oh, and I forgot to mention that both bailout funds will be leveraged… which Europe obviously doesn’t have enough of already (the EU banking system as a whole is leveraged at 26 to 1. Lehman Brothers was at 30-to-1 when it imploded). , US Debt Ceiling D-Day: September 14, 2012Earlier today, outgoing Treasury Secretary and tax challenged part-time pathological liar (see here) Tim Geithner said that any worries of the US debt ceiling are misplaced, and that at best such an event would occur "late in the year" (and to think the August 2011 extended $16.394 trillion debt ceiling was supposed to last well into 2013). Naturally, coming from Geithner, it meant this statement was a flat out lie the second it left his mouth, which is why we decided to do our own analysis of just when the latest and greatest debt ceiling would be breached. The answer is that at the current rate of debt issuance, which incidentally is going to accelerate sharply due to the recent extension of the payroll tax cuts which will require an incremental $100-150 billion total debt to be funded, and extrapolating future issuance solely on historical patterns, the US debt ceiling D-Day will be September 14, 2012. This means that there will be just over 6 weeks for the GOP to hijack each and every presidential debate before the November election with just this topic. Because there will hardly be anything more humiliating for Obama than to have to defend his platform even as the country is once again past the verge of insolvency, and forced to "commingle" retirement funds to keep Treasury operations running. Which incidentally is just as we predicted would happen when we explained why the GOP fast shelved the payroll tax debate so rapidly. It was nothing but a prelude to precisely this. Because once it is raised, and it will be raised of course, next up will be yet another ratings downgrade by S&P and this time, Moody's as well. All of which will most likely happen before November. , Is High Yield Credit Echoing 2011's Equity Nightmares? , Commodities Weak As Stocks Drop To Short-Term Credit Reality , Eric Sprott: The [Recovery] Has No Clothes , Bianco & Biderman On Bonds And deBasement "The day the Fed admits there is an inflation problem is the day they are too late" , Arguments On Obamacare Conclude, SCOTUS Decision Due By Late June , MF Global Hearing Live Today's primetime popcorn event is about to begin: as reported earlier, the House Financial Services Committee will hold an oversight and investigations hearing on the collapse of MF Global, beginning at 3 pm. The hearing will focus on the decisions during the company's final days that led to the disappearance of up to $1.6 billion in customer funds. The party line is that "The investigation aims to "not only to find out where the money went but to identify what went wrong in order to prevent this from happening again," Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) said." What instead will happen is that a bunch of politicians will huff and puff, and nothing will happen once again, because to take down Corzine, would mean to start eating away at the entire rotten core of today's captured political system, which has and always will be run out of Wall Street. It will also be amusing to listen to Edith O’Brien plead the Fif , EU - EFSF & ESM - A Whole Lot Of Nothing Nothing has changed. , ToDaY'S HiTs  : williambanzai7 : 03/28/2012 - 16:27 Spinning the big ones in your direction... , Europe’s Bazooka Will Fire Blanks… Good Luck Killing the Crisis With That : Phoenix Capital... : 03/28/2012 - 12:04 Because of its interventions and bond purchases, ¼ of the ECB’s balance sheet is now PIIGS debt AKA totally worthless junk. And the ECB claims it isn’t going to take any losses on...  , EURO BaZooKa (Modified Diagram) : williambanzai7 : 03/28/2012 - 14:14 Warning-Restricted Area-Hopium Gas Zone , US Issues New 5 Year Bonds At Lowest Bid To Cover Since August, Sends Total US Debt Over $15.6 trillion Europe Leaks It Will Fix Crushing Debt Problem With €940 Billion Of More EFSFESM Debt  How To Fund The Government This Year , Europe Drops Most In 3 Weeks As LTRO Stigma Hits New Highs , Guest Post: Welcome To The United States Of Orwell, Part 3: We Had To Destroy Democracy In Order To Save It  , Goldman On Europe: "Risk Of 'Financial Fires' Is Spreading" , Summarizing The True Sad State Of The World In Two ChartsYou can listen to CNBC, and the president, drone on about the recovery, about the wealth effect, about trickle-down economics, about why adding $150 billion in debt per month is perfectly acceptable, and about a brighter future for America and the world... or you can take a quick look at these two charts and immediately grasp the sad reality of where we stand, and even sadder, where we are headed. , Previewing Today's MF Global HearingToday at 2 PM, the House Financial Services Committee will hold its third hearing (and the fifth overall) on the ever more confounding topic of MF Global, its bankruptcy, and its vaporized client funds, which amount to about $1.6 billion at last check. And while Jon Corzine will not be there, virtually everyone else from the firm who can promise that said vaporitzation of funds was merely a softward glitch and not the fault of anyone in particular, will be present, from the General Counsel, to the CFO, to the Deputy General Counsel of JPMorgan, all the way to Edith O'Brien, assistant treasurer of MF Global, who is expected to plead the Fifth. One wonders why if there is nothing to hide, but that is the topic of another discussion. And as exposed last week by the WSJ, this hearing will be particularly interesting as now it has been made clear that Corzine specifically gave the order to transfer funds to JPM's account. As NJ.com summarizes: "Per JC’s direct instructions." This line, contained in an email that an MF Global finance official sent to explain a $200 million transfer to JPMorgan Chase from an MF Global account containing customer funds, will be a focal point of a congressional hearing today into the futures firm’s collapse. The email, disclosed in a congressional memo circulated Friday, has raised questions about whether the former governor and CEO of MF Global knew customer money was being used to plug holes in the firm’s finances as it plunged into bankruptcy during the last week of October. As much as $1.6 billion of client funds has gone missing, according to a trustee liquidating the futures firm." , Mrs. Watanabe Prepares To Blow The JGB Bubble: Household Holdings Of Japanese Bonds Slide To Lowest In 7 Years , Mark Grant Explains The Latest European Con , Durable Goods Miss, Inventory Stockpiles Soar To New All Time High

Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (a tenuous balance)  March 27, 2012 By gpc1981 ‘…big trouble is lurking just beneath the surface. And should anything upset the current balance being maintained, we could see some real fireworks in the markets in short order.Indeed, we are facing a confluence of negative factors regarding Europe (political, monetary, fundamental, and technical) that indicate BIG TROUBLE could be hitting in May-June …’ , SkyNet Wars: How A Nasdaq Algo Destroyed BATS (What really happened is that a malicious, 100% intentional Nasdaq algorithm purposefully brought BATS stock to a price of 0.00 within 900 millisecond of the company's break for trading!) Following the May 2010 flash crash, the investing public hoped that as part of its "exhaustive report", the SEC would find and hold responsible the various components of a broken market structure, be it HFTs, ETFs, stubbing and sub-pennying algorithms, and all the other knowns and unknowns we have covered over the years. Instead, in what would prove to be a move of cataclysmic stupidity (if sadly understandable - the SEC, like everyone else "in charge" is used to dealing with a gullible and simplistic public, which has no access to the real data and analysis, and whose opinion could be easily manipulated, at least until now), the regulator blamed and scapegoated it all on a Waddell and Reed trade (we wonder just what the quid pro quo was to get the asset manager to roll over and take the blame despite protestations to the contrary, at least in the beginning). The result was that the same investing public realized that market structure is so corrupt, and so robotically mutated, there is no place for the small investor in this broken market. Last week's BATS IPO fiasco merely confirmed this. And as usual, BATS (whose chairman Ratterman has just been demoted even as he stays on as CEO) decided to take the "passive voice" approach and blame it all on a faceless, emotionless, motiveless "software glitch"… What happened is that a malicious, 100% intentional Nasdaq algorithm purposefully brought BATS stock to a price of 0.00 within 900 millisecond of the company's break for trading! This is open SkyNet warfare.’ , This Is The World's Balance SheetIt is rather surprising that in a world in which anything and everything is only about money, it is next to impossible to find a consolidated balance sheet of the world's insolvent economies (i.e., the developed countries: US, Japan and the Euro Area). So for all those seeking a visual presentation of all the liabilities that have to be inflated away by the central banks (because that's what this is all about), rejoice: the broke world is presented below in its glory. The irony is that the problem would be quite fixable if it weren't for one minor issue: the bulk of the world's assets also happen to be its liabilities! At the end of the day, this may prove to be the fatal flaw in the chairman's attempt to dilute the global liabilities, he will be doing the same with the assets. , Six Variations On A Theme By PrinteriniA prevalent theme over the past 3 months has been the emergence of the Schrödinger world, where on one hand we have a world as it is, and on the other, as central planners, propaganda media, and a president caught up in a reelection campaign would want it to be. Luckily, that world only had a binary bifurcation associated to it - and a simple observation of the mythical collapsed its wave function in less time than it would take BATS to commit corporate suicide.  A much more fun world emerges when one enters the superstring reality of the Federal Reserve, and especially its chairman, where there are not two, not three, but a whopping six dimensions of (mis)perception, all dependent on one's point of view. Courtesy of Silver Circle we present them all. , On Europe's 'Stealth' Money PrintingThis consequence has two rather ugly consequences, it removes still further collateral (assets encumbered) from bank balance sheets and further delays the needed adjustment process (read deleveraging) across the banking sector. , Taylor 'Rules' Fed Independence In QuestionJohn Taylor, of the Taylor-Rule, who has not been sheepish with his views towards the Fed openly questioned the Fed's independence during a speech to the Joint Economic Committee today. During his testimony at the hearing on the 'Sound Dollar Act of 2012', Taylor noted: "The discretionary interventions of the Federal Reserve have been ratcheted up in such unprecedented ways in recent years that they raise fundamental questions about the future of monetary policy." Perhaps more pointedly, especially given Bernanke's speech today on the Fed's extreme actions and given the hope for a constant interventionist role for the Fed to keep our economy market afloat "The fact that the Fed can, if it chooses, intervene without limit into any credit market - raises more uncertainty, and of course raises questions about why an independent agency of government should have such power." , CTRL+SPIN 3: The Fed Propaganda Tour Live Re-Educates Us On Their Response To The Financial CrisisUPDATE (via Bloomberg): *BERNANKE: `FORCEFUL' RESPONSE PREVENTED WORSE RECESSION and AIG HAS STABILIZED - phewee... [Yes, indeed; this b***s*** is now beyond the pale! ]Today could be the day when all your beliefs and misconceptions of the great central banking machine are set straight. After explaining to us in the previous two lecture how the gold standard is just silly, why central banks are constitutionally awesome, and how the Fed almost single-handedly created the US since World War II, today's piece-de-resistance is Bernanke's take on his own response to the financial crisis. We are sure it will be thorough in its discussion of the massive and entirely hidden loans for nothing that were given to the banks, how they encouraged the risk-taking that led to it via their regulatory mis-controls, and removing MtM and unlimited free-money helped the world go around - all the while maintaining a strong-dollar policy inline with Treasury's apparent mandate. As far as Word-Bingo: Tweet if you hear the word 'Helicopter' or 'Printing Press' or 'Level 3 Assets are all worthless illiquid junk at best' and if Bernanke says 'CDO' more than 10 times, we all get an animated silver bear. , A Lesson For Europe: Why Iceland Won't Join The EuroIn a brief but as usual succinct statement, MEP Daniel Hannan points out the country that decided to say no to establishment-rules and stuck to its guns by taking losses, devaluing its currency, and growing its way out of its pit of despair. The eloquent Englishman notes Iceland's current enviable position in terms of not just growth but Debt to GDP and proffers upon his European Parliamentarian peers that perhaps, just perhaps, there is a lesson in here for all European governments (cough Greece/Portugal cough). 67% of 'shrewd and canny' Icelanders are now against joining the Euro. , It's Official - The Fed Is Now Buying European Government BondsAs if the 'risk-less' dollar-swaps the Fed has extended to any and every major central bank were not enough, William Dudley just unashamedly admitted that the Fed now holds 'a very small amount of European Sovereign Debt'. , The Gap Between Reality And Consensus Is Growing FastGuest Post: Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 2: Law-Abiding Taxpayers Treated As CriminalsLaw-abiding taxpayers are treated like criminals while the criminal class of financiers and State apparatchiks are free to loot and pillage muppets and taxpayers alike. It's actually very simple: whatever the state or Federal government does to you, that's legal. Whatever action you take to protect your rights is illegal. In case you have any doubts about where our "leadership" is taking us, please review these Assorted quotes by Fascists or about Fascism. , Confidence Drops As Consumers Brace For Surge In InflationGermany: The Final Frontier... Whose True Debt/GDP Is Now 140%Case Shiller Finds Home Prices Declined For 9th Consecutive Month In January Despite January being the first of 3 record warm winter months, which saw virtually all other economic indicators boosted on the heels of 'April in February', today's incomplete Case Shiller data (Charlotte, NA was missing), indicated that in the first month of the year, prices across the top 20 MSAs dropped once again, posting a 9th consecutive decline, declining by 0.04% to 136.60. The Seasonally Adjusted print brings the average home price to December 2002 levels. And just to avoid Seasonal Adjustment confusion which courtesy of a record warm winter is all the rage, the NSA data showed a -0.84% drop in January. , Bill Gross: "The Game As We All Have Known It Appears To Be Over"First it was Bob Janjuah throwing in the towel in the face of central planning, now we get the same sense from Bill Gross who in his latest letter once again laments the forced transfer of risk from the private to the public sector: "The game as we all have known it appears to be over... moving for the moment from private to public balance sheets, but even there facing investor and political limits. Actually global financial markets are only selectively delevering. What delevering there is, is most visible with household balance sheets in the U.S. and Euroland peripheral sovereigns like Greece." Gross' long-term view is well-known - inflation is coming: "The total amount of debt however is daunting and continued credit expansion will produce accelerating global inflation and slower growth in PIMCO’s most likely outcome." The primary reason for Pimco's pessimism, which is nothing new, is that in a world of deleveraging there will be no packets of leverage within the primary traditional source of cheap credit-money growth: financial firms… As for the endgame: "Is a systemic implosion still possible in 2012 as opposed to 2008? It is, but we will likely face much more monetary and credit inflation before the balloon pops. Until then, you should budget for “safe carry” to help pay your bills. The bunker portfolio lies further ahead."

The U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen.  For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade.  This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. consumers, and it has given the U.S. government tremendous power and influence around the globe.  Today, more than 60 percent of all foreign currency reserves in the world are in U.S. dollars.  But there are big changes on the horizon.  The mainstream media in the United States has been strangely silent about this, but some of the biggest economies on earth have been making agreements with each other to move away from using the U.S. dollar in international trade.  There are also some oil producing nations which have begun selling oil in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, which is a major threat to the petrodollar system which has been in place for nearly four decades.  And big international institutions such as the UN and the IMF have even been issuing official reports about the need to move away form the U.S. dollar and toward a new global reserve currency… , Police attack Portuguese protesting austerity measures Press TV ,  I’ve Never Seen a Confluence of Negative Factors Like This 3-24-12 gpc1981  , And 14 of 16 On Dallas Fed MissThe Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook just came with its largest miss of expectations in 9 months - and biggest drop in 7 months.. A 10.8 print vs expectations of 17.0 dropped the index back to its lowest since December and keeps the 'good is good but bad is better' dream alive we assume and markets are entirely unfazed. The 'hope' sub-index printed higher which accounts for some of the reaction but we note that New Orders went negative, Average Workweek plummeted to its lowest in at least six months (and the number of employees also fell), and Prices Paid jumped but Prices Received dropped for the first time in three months (more margin pressure). This makes 14 of the last 16 macro data prints in the US a miss - but Ben is here to save us from considering the harsh reality of our quagmire. , 27 Amazing Statistics About The Real Estate Crash That Never Seems To End: More Foreclosures, More Underwater Mortgages And More Home Price Declines  http://albertpeia.com/27statsaboutneverendingrealestatecrash.htm  , The Other World Bank scandal… Uri Dadush and Moisés Naím | A more farcical banking institution there has never been. , Should You Buy A Home In 2011 (2012)? Check Out These 29 Absolutely Crazy Statistics About The Housing Crisis  http://albertpeia.com/29statsabouthousingcrisis.htm , Chinese Business Media Cautions Japanese Bond Bubble Is Ready To Burst, Anticipates 40% Yen DevaluationGuest Post: John Corzine- An Insider Helping Out Fellow InsidersForget Money On The Sidelines, Institutional Investors Are All-InWe have discussed the money-on-the-sidelines fallacy a few times recently in the context of the circular money-flows (clear misunderstanding of the idea of a buyer and a seller) as well as mutual fund cash levels, retail sentiment, demographic shifts, and insider transactions. There is mounting evidence, as Morgan Stanley's Michael Wilson notes, that 'make no mistake...institutional investors are all-in' as the rolling beta of mutual funds relative to the S&P 500 tops 1.10x at multi-year highs, institutional investors are most exposed to high beta sectors since MS data began, and long/shorts funds are near their most levered long since MS records began. Combine this with the massive surge in Insider Selling transactions in the last few weeks (apropos Charles Biderman's comments on the rally's support by Insider buying til now) and perhaps bearish retail sentiment will lead this market down as we hope that finally 'money-on-the-sidelines' fades from the parlance of all but the most aged and incompetent of market prognosticators. , Fed's Easing Efforts Having Less And Less Impact As Macro Seasonals Turn NegativePresenting The US Economy's Coming Fiscal CliffThe size and scale of 'current law' expectations for spending in 2012 and 2013 are dramatic to say the least. As Morgan Stanley notes, these are huge economic and political challenges to any deficit reduction - which we discussed last week (courtesy of James Montier) is critical if we are to maintain corporate profit margins. Presenting, with little pomp and circumstance, the US economic fiscal cliff... , EU Gas Now Over $10: Charting The Global Gas Pump Price ShockDid Ben Unleash The "New" QE? Not So Fast Says JP MorganGuest Post: Welcome To The United States of Orwell, Part 1: Our One Last Chance to Preserve the Bill of RightsWe have one last chance to restore at least a part of the Bill of Rights. Some members of Congress awakened from their fund-raising somnambulance and proposed the Due Process Guarantee Act which would restore the Bill of Rights to its proper place in US law. So do one thing today for the nation and its liberties: contact your representative and senators to press them to support this bill. Ask them which military or law enforcement agencies requested that Congress nullify the Bill of Rights with the NDAA. Advise them to do the correct thing for once in their sordid little careers and vote for the Due Process Guarantee Act. This page lists other articles about the NDAA and also provides links to find your representative and Senators: It's treason. Call it what it is. , Quadruple Dip: Housing Relapses As "March Is Turning Out To Be The Weakest Month Since Last October Re: Buyer interest"No Country For Thin Men: 75% Of Americans To Be Obese By 2020 Another Housing Data Miss Makes It 13 of 15Goldman's Take On Bernanke's "NEW QE" SpeechWhile it appears to us that Bernanke's message was loud and clear, there are those who need validation and peer-confirmation. Such as that from the firm whose alumni run the Fed, namely Goldman Sachs. Below is Jan Hatzius' take on the "surprising" Chairman speech which essentially said QE can and will come at any time there is a downtick in the market, masked by the unemployment rate rising to its fair value, as estimated by Gallup, somewhere around 9%. , Spot The Odd Labor Market Out Earlier this morning, strategically timed just in advance of the Chairman's tacit admission that everything attempted to date has once again failed to stimulate the economy as now both housing and soon employment have resume their drop, New York Fed released a note titled "Prospects for the U.S. Labor Market" which in not so many words explains why there are none. , Long End Decouples On Risk Of Constant Central Planning FailureWhat It's All AboutDecrypting the subtle nuances of Bernanke's speech this morning was hardly a surprise. The key is 'unemployment' and whether its structural or cyclical - we'll ease anyway (just in case). Debase first or most  or lose... 86 mentions of 'unemployment', No mention of 'inflation', and no mention of 'oil-price-inspired-consumption-slump' or 'debase'. 'Structural' 16: 'Cyclical' 8  , ECB Shoots First, Conducts Analysis Of LTRO Inflationary Impact Later The Skinny on U.S. Domestic Oil and Gas Keith Schaefer | Forget Keystone, US desperately needs an east-west pipeline. , BOJ Crosses Rubicon With Desperate Monetary Policy, Hirano Says Mar 26th, 2012 , Brics’ move to unseat US dollar as trade currency Mar 26th, 2012 , Dallas Fed: Top 5 Wall Street Banks Own More Than 50% Of US GDP Alexander Higgins | Wall Street bailouts resulted in an unprecedented concentration of wealth. , Tungsten-Filled 1 Kilo Gold Bar Found In The UK  Zero Hedge | Upon cropping it was uncovered that about 30-40% of the bar weight was tungsten. [  I believe something similars afoot at the new york depository and fort knox! ] , Lancaster computer shop shooting suspect identified | abc7.com http://albertpeia.com/typicalblackmanonneighborhoodwatch.htm , Israel Committed to Attacking Iran in June Kurt Nimmo | Israel has told leading members of Congress about its June timeline for a strike.  [ World-problem blacks and israelis and wall street jews; soon, people will be saying Hitler was correct in searching for that ‘final solution’ which of course was good politics because, though not spoken, everyone kind of sees/knows/feels/experiences this truth for which there’s universal agreement and so it is easily pandered to.] Ian McEwan: misery of attack on Iran would be beyond belief  guardian.co.uk | “I think the mischief and misery and unintended consequences of an attack on Iran would be beyond belief.”  ,  Media Runs Defense For Corzine After MF Global Revelation  , Paul Joseph Watson | Email: Corzine directly ordered transfer of stolen customer funds. , 14 defining characteristics of fascism: The U.S. in 2012  Gregory Patin | ..fascism comes to America, .. wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ,  Drudgereport: Gas prices expected to rise all summer long...

Sandusky was labeled 'likely pedophile' in 1998...
'Cracker' T-shirt hits Florida streets...

COPS: Zimmerman says Trayvon decked him with one blow then began hammering his head on sidewalk...
'Suffered broken nose and had injury to back of head'...
Martin had been suspended from school for marijuana...
Black Panthers offer $10,000 bounty for 'capture' of Trayvon Martin's killer … [ who do these filthy niggers think they are? ] Take a look at this nigger who kills a white man during robbery, without any provocation from the victim  ...   http://albertpeia.com/typicalblackmanonneighborhoodwatch.htm
Shooter of Florida teen not a racist, lawyer says...
SECRET WITNESS: Self-defense... [Witness: Martin attacked ZimmermanUpdated: Monday, 26 Mar 2012, 2:57 PM EDT
ORLANDO - A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all.Our sister station, FOX 35 in Orlando, has spoken to that witness.What Sanford Police investigators have in the folder, they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin few know about.The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney. Now that file is just weeks away from being opened to a grand jury.It shows more now about why police believed that night that George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.Zimmerman called 911 and told dispatchers he was following a teen. The dispatcher told Zimmerman not to.And from that moment to the shooting, details are few.But one man's testimony could be key for the police."The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said.Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman."When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.’ ] Trayvon Martin shooter: Teen went for my gun

Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton, Jackson of 'exploiting' Trayvon Martin...
'His family should be outraged'...

Mother seeks to trademark dead son's name …[ For what? Trayvon hoodies? ]...
Many wear hoodies as churches remember Trayvon...
STUDY: Earth heated up in medieval times -- before human CO2 emissions...

 

 

 

Fourth Largest Gun Maker In US Is Out Of GunsIn a somewhat sad and shocking slap of reality… , Goldman Skewers Muppets Again: Worst Week For Stocks, Best for Long End BondsWhile stocks staged an 'interesting' recovery this afternoon, it was not enough to save them from a fate-worse-than-death - a red-weekly-close! The only (and therefore) largest drop in the S&P 500 of the year (after GS long stocks call) was dominated (beta-adjusted) by the largest 30Y Treasury yield improvement of the year (after GS said get short Treasury futures). It seemed we reverted to good-is-good, but bad-is-better trading this afternoon , BATS Withdraws IPO Where Did All The Money Go? Here! could quickly get very hot on the inflationary front.. , Guest Post: Its A Dead-Man-Walking Economy In an interview with Louis James, the inimitable Doug Casey throws cold water on those celebrating the economic recovery. "Get out your mower; it's time to cut down some green shoots again, and debunk a bit of the so-called recovery." , Merkel Goes Braveheart: Debt 'Can' Take Our Freedom , Guest Post: About That $20 Trillion In Public Debt...In only three more years you're talking $20 trillion in public debt for the USA and a GDP going nowhere fast. Add to this that demographics are not encouraging and taxes of all sorts will have to rise. Cuts will be symbolic because the political pain will be unbearable. Without productive new investment, then debt service soon outstrips income growth and the economy enters a death spiral of declining productive investment, ever expanding debt and ever higher debt service costs. , Please Highlight The Housing Recovery On The Following Chart...of New One Family Homes for Sale (source) which at 150,000 is the lowest print... Ever. And no, "it can only go up from 300,000, 250,000, 200,000, 150,000... 0" does not work with us. , BATS Exchange Declares Self-Help Against... Itself; Trading Halted "Until Further Notice"SkyNet Is Now Cannibalizing Itself: BATS IPO Flash Crashes , New Home Sales Make It 12 Out Of 14 Economic Misses , Jeff Saut's Permabullishness Just Cost Raymond James Hundreds Of Thousands In Lost Revenue , Eurosis Is Back As "New" Greek Bonds Break 20%, Slide 14% In 2 Days , Gold in Q2 +15% To $1,850/oz On Inflation and Currency Debasement - BARCAP , Selloff Resumes As "Risk Off" Sentiment Refuses To Leave , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com    MARKETS REBOUND TO CLOSE LOSING WEEK 3-23-12 ‘Fed governors are out on the stump making speeches and arguing publicly regarding current and future monetary policy. Fisher says no more QE as does Lockhart (for now). Meanwhile, Bullard and Evans want QE now. Bullard’s comments were interesting since it seemed he wanted QE now based on what he perceives as weakening inflation.Most market moving news Friday was negative frankly. China continues to put out disappointing economic data. State-owned enterprises (always a scary description) reported a decline in profits and banks “misstated” default exposure by over 20%. In the U.S., New Home Sales disappointed (313K vs 325 expected & prior revised lower to 318K) which isn’t what bulls (ITB & XHB) hoped for obviously.Rumors of a coup in China have been dismissed out of hand (see Stratfor.com); other rumors had Israel in “mobilization” while the WH quickly released a note stating Iran is far away from nukes, and those pesky “we want a hand-out” North Koreans launched another missile.Oil (USO) rallied sharply on the Israeli rumor, stocks turned around and rallied modestly to close a losing week; bond prices continued their oversold rebound (IEF & TLT); gold rallied (GLD) as the dollar (UUP) resumed its decline in the trading range; and, commodities (JJC & DJP) rebounded slightly with the weaker dollar. ..Volume on this mini melt-up was holiday light once again... The last 15 minutes of trading featured traders squaring-up and ETF issuers matching-up…’ , 10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsnothingoninternetprivate.htm

Back in early 2011, even as the global economy was at best flatlining, the one goalseeked explanation to justify a levitating stock market (which was rising solely due to the short-term effect of transitory QE2 liquidity), was soaring corporate profitability (which only lasted as long as companies could trim some residual SG&A fat; they have now cut into the bone in terms of layoffs). This time around, with corporate margins having peaked, there had to be some other validation to explain away the "narrative" of the latest bout of central bank infused stock market levitation: it just happened that this time it was once again that old faithful, and always wrong, justification - decoupling. After all one just has to listen to 5 minutes of CNBC to hear it taken for granted that the US economy is doing oh so swimmingly. Here is a newsflash for all the permabulls out there. It isn't. Not only that, but as David Rosenberg highlights, 11 of the 13 most recent economic indicators have missed consensus expectations, and one can demonstrate that the other 2 - car sales and jobs - have been simplistically manipulated into a favorable outcome. So now that the market is turning over, with Europe and China both solidly into contractionary territory, with Corporate profit margins turning over, and with US data missing virtually every print, how long until the permabullish validations all go up in smoke, and the one true source of stock market "nirvana" - cheap money - is once again in high demand from the central planning cabal. In turn, the Chairsatans of the world will do as requested, as they always do, however not with crude (the real one - Brent, not that Cushing-buffered substitute) at $125, and with the risk that Israel may attack Iran any day now, with or without the blessing of the Fed's Class A director. , Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Gigantic New Oil Refinery - Is This The Beginning Of The End For The Petrodollar? http://albertpeia.com/beginningofendforpetrodollar.htm  ‘The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it... Once the petrodollar system collapses, a lot of our underlying economic vulnerabilities will be exposed and it will not be pretty. Tough times are on the horizon.  It is imperative that we all get informed and that we all get prepared.’ , Gold Outperforms As Stocks Drop and Volume Pops Bernanke Lecture II Decrypted, Inflation 79: Deflation 0 The word 'inflation' dominated the words and thoughts of the propagandist-in-chief as he described the Fed's role in the global economy post World War II this afternoon. The 11,400 word speech contained a record-breaking 79 uses of the term 'Inflation' and exactly Zero uses of the word' Deflation'. Subliminally, we notice that the word 'might' is randomized in between the words 'Prices' and 'Inflation' and the words 'War' and 'Risks' are uncommonly tangential. We know in our hearts that the 8 uses of the word 'Paul' was Volcker-related but its proximity to the word ' bit' and 'inflation' leaves us questioning the deus-ex-machina that is Wordle and Bernanke. 'Monetary policy' and 'crisis' pop up a lot and it is evident that we have a 'financial economy' with the word 'Stable' only appearing 0.0015% during the speech. , Guest Post: A Primer For Those Considering ExpatriationA growing number of Americans are frustrated with the way in which their economy has been managed and are becoming increasingly concerned about future measures the government may take to keep its coffers full. A question that is arising with increasing frequency is: does expatriation offer a viable protection to those concerned about a more financially-intrusive US system? The short answer is 'yes' but while it does offer a solution to ending one's obligations to pay US taxes - it's important to understand that it's not suitable for everyone. Mark Nestmann gives a great nuts and bolts breakdown of what's involved and what the benefits and risks are , China, Russia Voice "US In Iran" Iren a number of stories in China's top newspapers today, the US has been slammed for its moves to restrict Iran's oil trade which could see Chinese banks sanctioned. As The People's Daily noted, Hong Lei (a Foreign Ministry spokesperson) warned such unilateral action was not only wrong but could exacerbate the stand-off over Iran's nuclear program. Arguing that China 'imports oil based on its economic development needs' without violating relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and undermining the third party's and international community's interests, he noted China will not accept the practice of saddling unilateral sanctions on the third country. Adding to this, China Daily notes the typical UN blah-dom of Wang Min's comments of the "more pragmatic importance to be firmly committed to dialogue and negotiations in order to properly solve the Iranian nuclear issue". While China is clearly 'disappointed' in the US efforts, Russia turns the dial to 11 with its comments that the US efforts are inflaming, as Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday, "Scientists in nearly all countries....are convinced that strikes may slow down the Iranian nuclear program. But they will never cancel it, close it down or eliminate it" warning that Iran will have no option but to develop nuclear weapons should the US strike. Well you can't please all the people all the time eh? Just ask Ben. , HFT Has Disconnected Commodities From FundamentalsHigh-frequency traders have caused U.S. commodity futures prices to disconnect from market fundamentals of supply and demand since the 2008 financial crisis. An extensive and detailed analysis by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development just confirms what we have shown again and again (most recently here in Silver) that HFT's impact on the world is not all unicorn-tears and liquidity-providing. Markets are more exposed to 'sudden and sharp' corrections, and as Reuters notes "The strategy of those involved in high-frequency trading tends to reinforce the correlation between equities and commodities". In a somewhat stunning conclusion from an academic treatise, the authors find "We are not saying that it's all about speculators and (that) fundamentals don't matter. But we are saying that they tend to matter less, except in extreme cases,". Unlike other studies on the linkages, the UNCTAD study uses tick-data and finds correlations rising and trade size dropping as frequency increased dramatically since the crisis in 2008. Critically, one final consequence is that investors seeking to diversify or hedge against other investments in their portfolio are often disappointed as the increased HFT creates a destabilizing effect on commodities (increasing volatility) and can often create bubbles. , Guest Post: What Is President Obama So Afraid Of? Quietly, and with little fanfare, President Obama signed a “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order on Friday. As the name suggests, the order intends to shore up the country’s national defense resources in advance of a national emergency. To be fair, this is not the first time that such an order has been written. President Obama’s order, however, takes things much, much further.This is all playing out with nearly perfect historical precision. Time and time again throughout history as once great empires accelerated their declines, governments have taken steps to protect their interests against the people. In the past, they have imposed curfews, disarmed the population, curtailed civil liberties, and declared national emergencies, usually against some great faceless enemy from abroad who threatens their way of life. As it turns out, though, our great faceless enemy is not some mythical boogeyman living in a cave, nor some angry brown person who hates us for our freedoms… but the very people within the system who’ve taken an oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’ Have you hit your breaking point yet? Two Charts On Why The LTRO Is A 'Real' Failure Guest Post: The One Chart That Says It AllDepending on debt to fuel nominal growth leads to an economic death spiral. Sometimes one chart says it all. Charted against consumer credit, the S&P 500 (SPX) collapsed after the 2000 dot-com bubble burst and has been tracing out a descending channel since then. The Fed's injections of liquidity via trillion-dollar purchases of toxic mortgages and Treasury bonds does not funnel money into productive investments--all it accomplished was to further incentivize speculative churning and financialization to enriched the few at the expense of the many. So sit back, tighten your seatbelts and enjoy the death spiral ride, brought to you by the Federal Reserve and your elected servants of the financial Elite. , Home Prices Miss Large On 9th Consecutive Downward RevisionIt will come as no surprise to many that the warm-weather-induced ebullience and renaissance in the US housing market is perhaps floundering as all that demand was dragged forward. Today's notable miss in the FHFA Home Price Index (at unch vs an expectation of +0.3%) is ugly but the huge downward revision from +0.7% to merely +0.1% in the previous month is now the ninth consecutive notable downward revision.Add to that the fact that FreddieMac just reported mortgage rate cracking over 4% (from 3.92% to 4.08%) and the ugly data on MBA applications and...well at least we're decoupling. , Art Cashin Takes On Critics Of His Seasonal Adjustment SeasoningWe have covered the topic of BLS seasonal adjustment to death and beyond, as well as the endless expansion of those dropping out like flies from the labor pool (did those not in the US labor force, one way or another, whether due to mistracking, statistical aberrations, or outright data manipulation, increase by 1.2 million in January? It did? Next question... or does the government now desperately need an apologist for its own upwardly biased data 'mismanagement'?). Yet some of the formerly relevant elements at the less than cutting edge of asset management-cum-blogging decided to call out Art Cashin for daring to point out just this glaringly obvious seasonal adjustment issue. Of course, Art does not need us rushing to his defense. He can do a good enough job on his own. , Initial Claims Beat Expectations, To Miss Next Week Following RevisionSame old, same old from the BLS: with initial claims expected to print at 350K, we get a number that is just better, or 348K - supposedly the best since February 2008, however one which will be revised to about 351K next week, hence a miss, in line with the perpetual +3K upward statistical bias each and every week demonstrated by the BLS, which is no longer even funny. To be sure, last week's 351K was just raised to 353K, just so that headlines can announce a 5K drop in claims week over week. Continuing claims printed at 3.352MM, down from an upward revised 3.361MM. And yes, initial claims are lowest since February 2008... Until one adds the continuing claims, EUCs and Extended Claims as seen in the chart below. The 99 week cliff saw a total of 18K drop from total rolls: these are now 1MM lower compared to a year ago, Europe's 'Success Story' Double Dips: Irish Economy Re-Contracts, As PredictedRemember Europe's so-called success story - Ireland? Time to scratch it off the list, as the "best performing" PIIG, and "peripheral reform" wunderkind, just reminded everyone that the only true success story in Europe is that other I country - Iceland, after its fourth quarter GDP unexpectedly dropped 0.2%, well below consensus estimates of a 1.0% GDP boost. Odd - recall that back in October, following the announcement that Greece would be allowed to extract a bondholder haircut, initially at 50% and ultimately at 78.5%, we said that "this means that Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy will promptly commence sabotaging their economies (just like Greece) simply to get the same debt Blue Light special as Greece." Looks like Ireland is well on its way to doing just that, and the GDP slide is actually not all that surprising. Next: prepare for more "surprising" GDP misses from Portugal, Spain and, of course, Italy. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  CHINA THROWS BULLS A CURVE 3-22-12  China’s PMI declined to 48.1 vs 49.6 indicating a much sharper contraction that “soft landing” proponents believed. This created a ripple effect throughout global markets. Retail Sales in the U.K. were also poor (-.8% vs -.5% expected) which also included energy. Even Canada’s Retail Sales (.5% but ex-auto declined .5%) which missed expectations. Back in the eurozone old fears (debt and economic contraction) bubbled again to the surface driving markets there lower.In the U.S. Jobless Claims (348K vs 350 expected & another revision higher for prior 352K) allowed for a minor beat and some overhyped headlines. FHFA House Price Index came in absolutely flat which shouldn’t surprise given the inventory overhang. Leading Indicators (LEI) were higher (.7% vs .6% expected & prior revised lower to .2%) [Thanks to contrived bubble stock market weighting/bootstrap]. Together, not so bad, but U.S. markets can’t take a solo walk higher given high levels of global integration and correlation.Bonds rallied as stocks, gold, the euro, oil and most commodities sold-off as bullish sentiments about economic growth take a holiday. All one can conclude for now is markets rose too far too fast on dreadfully light volume with the latter being the most troubling.An ETN blow-up occurred Thursday with TVIX (Velocity Shares 2 X VIX Long ETN) as Credit Suisse suspended new share creation. The ETN should have been rising with as the VIX rose today. Investors should have been making great returns either through speculation or hedging have been disadvantaged in a major way. Here is our write-up and that of Yahoo and ZeroHedge.http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff171/flyfry/ETF%20Digest/image004-28.jpg Volume on selling was only slightly more impressive than on recent melt-up days. But more selling is due to open trailing stops getting executed generally. Breadth per the WSJ was negative…’ , Student-Loan Debt Reaches Record $1 Trillion, Report Says Mar 22nd, 2012 (Bloomberg) — U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study., Morning Snapshot Mar 22nd, 2012 (USAGOLD) — Gold fell to new 10-week lows following further troubling signs of an economic slowdown in China. HSBC/Markit Flash manufacturing PMI fell to a 4-month low of 48.1 in Mar, tempering expectations that China will experience a “soft landing”. Given China’s voracious appetite for commodities, heightened growth risks tend to weigh on the complex. While gold is unquestionably seen more as money in China, rather than a commodity, lower commodity prices diminish inflation expectations and therefore the yellow metal’s appeal as a hedge.Recent PMI data also suggests Europe has fallen back into recession.


‘Is America on the verge of a horrible municipal debt crisis?  Unfortunately, the answer is yes.  From coast to coast there are an increasing number of cities, towns and counties that are rapidly going broke.  Financial analyst Meredith Whitney took a lot of heat when her prediction of a municipal bond crash in 2011 did not happen, but she was not fundamentally wrong in her analysis.  A horrifying municipal debt crisis
is starting to unfold right in front of our eyes.  It just did not happen as soon as she thought that it would.  When most Americans think of our "debt problem", they think of the federal government.  But the truth is that we have hundreds and hundreds of smaller "debt problems" all across the country.  In 2012, cities such as Stockton, California and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania have already defaulted and a whole bunch of other cities and towns are headed down the exact same path…, Waking Up To A Third Consecutive False Dawn For Stocks With Charles BidermanIt appears we are, as a nation of desperately consuming investors, becoming increasingly cognitively dissonant. Charles Biderman, of TrimTabs, leaves the ominous clouds of the Bay Area for New York City and addresses our seemingly Pavlovian response for the third year in a row to a rising stock market (flooded with portfolio-rebalancing duration-destroying Central Bank money) as evidence that the real economy must be doing great. Of course, relying on tried and true facts such as real job growth and real wage growth and understanding the seasonally-abused-adjusted housing data realities, Biderman notes that the only money driving stocks up is corporate buybacks dominating selling pressure. While modestly bullish on these flows, he is growing more anxious. He sees insider selling surging (from 5:1 January to 14:1 February to 35:1 in March), there has been no new 'cash-takeovers' announced this month compared to $15bn per month last year, and the IPO pipeline is ramping up fast (supply will dominate demand) as the end of Operation Twist approaches removing yet another prop to the perceived reality of stocks. , Guest Post: The Ascendence Of Sociopaths In US GovernanceHow did we get here? An argument can be made that miscalculation, accident, inattention and the like are why things go bad. Those elements do have a role, but it is minor. Potential catastrophe across the board can't be the result of happenstance. When things go wrong on a grand scale, it's not just bad luck or inadvertence. It's because of serious character flaws in one or many – or even all – of the players. So is there a root cause of all the problems I've cited? If we can find it, it may tell us how we personally can best respond to the problems. In this article, I'm going to argue that the US government, in particular, is being overrun by the wrong kind of person. It's a trend that's been in motion for many years but has now reached a point of no return. In other words, a type of moral rot has become so prevalent that it's institutional in nature. There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the US is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order. Until then, the trend will accelerate. The reason is that a certain class of people – sociopaths – are now fully in control of major American institutions. Their beliefs and attitudes are insinuated throughout the economic, political, intellectual and psychological/spiritual fabric of the US  , Treja Vu: Albert Edwards Expects New Lows On Bond Yields, Equity Rally Turning To Dust, "Just As It Did In 2011" Greece is Now Irrelevant. Spain and Germany Will Decide the Euro’s Future March 21, 2012 By gpc1981  ‘…If Spain doesn’t opt for austerity measures in return for bailouts, the EU collapses. If Spain does opt for austerity measures in return for bailouts, it’s quite possible Germany will bail on the EU…’ , Deutsche Dumps Dodd - How Germany's Biggest Bank Ran Circles Around The FedWhy are we not surprised at the fact, as reported by the WSJ, that Deutsche Bank AG changed the legal structure of its huge U.S. subsidiary to shield it from new regulations that would have required the German bank to pump new capital into the U.S. arm. The bank on Feb. 1 reorganized its U.S. subsidiary, known as Taunus Corp., so that it is no longer classified as a 'bank-holding company' (BHC). The technical change has important consequences. Taunus—which at the end of last year had about $354 billion of assets and 8,652 employees, making it one of the largest U.S. banking companies—won't have to comply with a provision of the U.S. Dodd-Frank regulatory-overhaul law that essentially forces the local arms of non-U.S. banks to meet the same capital requirements that American banks fact… So much for all that systemic risk control and lessons learned as hey-presto - everything is sidestepped as the farce continues. , Futures Exhibit Peculiar Ungreen Color On 5th Consecutive Month Of Chinese PMI Contraction1001 Moonless Kinetic Nights: Presenting The Windows Of Opportunity For An Iranian Attack Following last Friday's majority vote by the Israel Security Council authorizing Iranian "action" when required, answering the "if", the only open question remains "when." As it turns out, based on the following analysis by Rapidan Group, there are only 10 or so distinct 10 day New Moon windows for the remainder of 2012. If one removes the sandstorm prone months of April, July and September, there are 7 periods in which a military strike is realistic…, Presenting The American Sweatshop: An Infographic Of The Online Retail Warehouse Temp JobObama Now Scrambles To Approve Transcanada Pipeline... Or At Least Half Of It; Environmentalists FuriousWhat a difference two months of record high gas prices make. After Obama unceremoniously killed the Keystone XL pipeline proposal in January, and has since seen his popularity rating slide in inverse proportion to the surge in gas prices, which as noted yesterday have now passed $4 (still quite a bit better than Europe's $9.81 average/gallon), he is now actively seeking to fast-track its approval. Or at least half of it… , "End Of The Road" - A Teaser Ever dreamed of getting all the fiat money skeptics together at the same time, all in the same place? Your dream has now come true, courtesy of "End of the Road - How Money Became Worthless." , Forget Barton Biggs, David Rosenberg Has The Truth On Sideline CashThe money-on-the-sidelines argument has reached deafening and self-confirming as anchoring bias among any and every swollen long-only manager seems to have made them ignore the realities of the situation. David Rosenberg, of Gluskin Sheff to the rescue with good old fashioned facts - as much as they might disappoint the audience. Barton Biggs quote in the USA Today article points out how bullish he is and how cash levels are very high and "idled money is ready to be put to work". However, as Rosie points out equity fund cash ratios are at a de minimus 3.6%, the same level as in the fall of 2007 and near its lowest level ever… , "Dumb Money" Refuses To Be The Dumb Money For Yet Another WeekTreasuries Surge Leaving Equities Running On FumesEuropean Sovereign Debt Shows First Weakness In 3 MonthsAntal Fekete Responds To Ben Bernanke On The Gold StandardYesterday, Ben Bernanke dedicated his entire first propaganda lecture to college student to the bashing of the gold standard. Of course, he has his prerogatives: he has to validate a crumbling monetary system and the legitimacy of the Fed, first to schoolchildrden and then to soon to be college grads encumbered in massive amounts of non-dischargeable student loans… , A Few Quick Reminders Why NOTHING Has Been Fixed In Europe (And Why LTRO 3 Is Not Coming)European Housing Still SlumpingHoward Marks: "Common Sense Is Not Common"  , Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America   http://albertpeia.com/feedinghomelessbanned.htm  ,  The Simple Problems Of Too Much US Debt 

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NSA Boss Says Agency Does Not Monitor Your Email Kurt Nimmo | Another government bureaucrat takes us for idiots. [ Yes indeed, quite laughable. I’m speculating when I say what they might do so that in their own minds they can say the preposterous aforesaid is set up a project / op, have it classified top secret / off-grid, by way of dummy corp/straw men/cut-outs, etc., perform the monitoring function and report to NSA with high-level deniability. Regardless of machinations, the fact is they do and that’s not all they monitor; enter their cozy deal with google (I still use google almost exclusively for my web search as a matter of disclosure here). Moreover, phones (wireless and landlines, computer and digital television transmissions/views), and I also believe digital / wire financial transactions / transmissions are monitored. Echelon goes way back to the 70’s and one would be foolish to think their ‘mining’ has slowed or regressed; not that they and those whom they serve know what prudently to do with such info. http://pubrecord.org/nation/2290/revisiting-echelon-nsas  . I personally believe they can view / monitor everything on your screen; and the foregoing regardless of encryption, generally, with exceptions. ]

 

, Bernanke Goes Back to School to Perform Public Propaganda Service The Wall Street Journal , The Rising Price Of the Falling Dollar Mar 20th, 2012 by News [ greenspan and now bernanke are incompetent and total failures creating and exacerbating current and prospective conditions for the sake of fraudulent wall street at everyone else’s expense! ] (Forbes) — Do you know why oil and prices are moving sharply higher? Some blame the oil companies, charging they are manipulating prices. Others cite U.S. sanctions on Iran and the threat of a military encounter that would disrupt the flow of oil from the Middle East.Speculators, too are blamed for ostensibly bidding up the price of oil. In the political arena, President Obama is taking credit for increased domestic oil production even as his critics point out the slow pace of drilling permits issued by his Administration soon will hamper additional increases in the U.S. oil production.Yet, the basic reason for higher energy prices is being overlooked, even though it is right before our eyes: Oil prices are up because the value of the dollar is down. Our common sense hides this source of higher prices because we view the dollar as fixed, and prices as moving. News reports explain the sharp rise in consumer prices in February were caused by higher energy and food prices, implying that higher prices cause inflation. Of course, higher prices do not cause inflation. Higher prices are inflation… , $4 Gas Average Is HereBased on Bloomberg's US Average Gasoline price index, we are now back above $4 per gallon for the first time since May 2011. We also note that the average price for a gallon of gas across the EU is inching ever closer to the $10 mark PG View: The threat of a preemptive strike against Iran, and a possible war as a result, trumps any promise of increased oil output on the part of the Saudis. Should also be viewed as an underpinning for gold. , Greece’s Third Bailout Seen in Debt With Junk Grade: Euro Credit Mar 20th, 2012 (Bloomberg) — Greece’s bonds and credit ratings are factoring in a third bailout for the nation that analysts and investors say will require greater concessions from its international creditors., The Simple Problems Of Too Much US DebtIn a succinct and chart-laden presentation, Professor Antony Davies, of Duquesne, offers a simple perspective on just how bad things are for the US (in terms of debt or obligations). Putting the interest cost in the context of war-spending, his analysis is interesting given the recent and dramatic rise in interest rates. Current interest payments, given the US Government's lowest ever 3% interest cost, are $440 billion.., $450 Billion In ZIRPorized Purchasing Power: Two Charts That Explain The Baby Boomer DilemmaWhen it comes to predicting consumer spending patterns, especially those of the baby boomers who are traditionally reliant on fixed income (but lately have had to migrate back into the workforce, as retirement prospects diminish, in effect displacing the young 18-24 year old Americans where unemployment is now at a substantial 46%), the following two charts from today's David Rosenberg letter do a great job at explaining the schism between interest and dividend income (dividend stocks whose cash flow yields can be eliminated at the bat of an eye ) , CTRL+SPIN: Ben Bernanke And The Fed Propaganda Tour Live A few days ago we noted that the Fed's propagnda is slowly encroaching into the 8-12 classroom with "Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom: Will Teach Grade 8-12 Students About Constitutionality Of... The Fed" in which the Fed's appointed class agenda would allow "students to use their knowledge of McCulloch v. Maryland and the necessary and proper clause to consider the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve System." , Obama Advisor, And Goldman Sachs Client, Gene Sperling Filibusters CNBC With "Shared Sacrifice" Speech In Response To Ryan BudgetGuest Post: Why We Won’t See 4% GDP Growth For A Long TimeRyan 2013 Budget Details Released, In Which We Find The US Runs A Deficit Until 2040Guest Post: Welcome To The Predatory State of California--Even If You Don't Live ThereEvery once in a while an event crystallizes the stark reality behind the lacy curtain of propaganda and artifice. Here is one such event. Correspondent R.T. is a retired accountant who has resided in Arizona since 2001. Prior to 2001, he resided in California. On March 14, he received a letter from the California Franchise Tax Board (the agency that collects income taxes) claiming that he owed $1,343 for the tax year 2006. This was the first notification he'd ever received of this claim. This was an interesting claim given that R.T.: *Did not reside in California in 2006 *Did not file a State income tax return in California in 2006 *Did not have any outstanding tax issues with California in 2006 *Did no business in California in 2006 *Owned no property in California in 2006 , Will China's 'Soft' Landing Be 'Hard' On Global Exporters?US Taxpayers Commence Bailing Out ECB, With Greece As IntermediaryHatzius On The Three Reasons The Recovery Is OverstatedEconomic Surprise Indices have been rolling over for a month or two now. The trend of US macro data has also disappointed in a period when it would be expected (empirically) to accelerate. However, taken anecdotally or cherry-picked.., No Housing Recovery On This Chart EitherNSA Chief Denies Wired's Domestic Spying Story (Fourteen Times) In Congressional Hearing  Forbes [ You won’t see this story in google news – they have a ‘sweet deal’ with the NSA. ] , 40 Weird Facts About The United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/40weirdfactsabouttheus.htm


Infographic: Reevaluating The Costs And Benefits Of (Debt Bubble-Funded) Higher EducationWhile the college debt bubble has been extensively discussed on Zero Hedge (here, here and here) and elsewhere, the reality is that without college student loans, as cheap as they may be, the vast majority of students would not be able to afford going to college, untenable (and non-dischargeable) post-graduation leverage be damned. Please ignore for a second the reflexivity of this symbiotic relationship - that college is so expensive only because college debt is so easily obtainable (and as noted here, between car loans and student debt, is the primary source of consumer debt in the past year)... , To Bail Or Not To Bail: A Simple Question Of Math; And Why Taxpayers Will Be On The Hook Until The EndWhen it comes to rescuing an insolvent country, continent, or entire financial system, at the end of the day it is a simple question of maths: is "doing it" cheaper than the alternative. Recall that the IIF was heaping fire and brimstone on bondholders and threatening the world with $1+ trillion in losses if bondholders did not comply. That nobody has any clue just what said costs, and opportunity costs, are, does not matter: the status quo must be preserved at all costs. And the status quo is one of avoiding private losses at the expense of taxpayer capital. Enter Credit Suisse with its back of the envelope analysis of the cost of not bailing out Europe's insolvent PIIGS, and the (taxpayer) cost to "save" them. , ABC Reports Russian Troops Have Arrived In Syria, Russia DeniesEarlier today, Al Arabiya made waves in the energy market following reports that a Russian ship carrying special forces had arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus, previously demonstrated here to be a key strategic asset in the Mediterranean. This news was promptly denied by RIA, which said that "there were no Russian military ships off Syria coast" and that the Iman ship is a tanker which is merely conducting resource support functions. Furthermore, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the crew of Iman consists solely of "civilian personnel, which is being guarded." That may or may not be the case, but has not stopped ABC from blasting, minutes ago, a headline that "Russian anti-terror troops arrive in Syria" a development that a "United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was "a bomb" certain to have serious repercussions." Which begs the question: is everyone now dead set on having war in Syria, and by proxy, Iran? , Apple Closes Over $600 As Trading Volume Collapses Again"Whocouldanode?" that Apple would do something like pay a de minimus dividend and begin a modest buyback program? Indeed, initial reactions for the stock seemed to be 'sell the news' but of course, it wouldn't be a day ending in 'y' if Apple didn't close green and sure enough, with seconds to spare, Apple managed to close over $600 for the first time. , Based On This Chart, Can Saudi Arabia Bail Out The US Motorist From $5 Gas?No conclusions here, just a simple chart showing monthly Saudi Arabia crude oil production based on OPEC data, which has been rangebound in a tight 8,000 - 9750 tb/d range, superimposed with Brent prices over the past decade. The last time Brent soared to record highs back in the summer of 2008, Saudi production peaked at 9,522 tb/d (despite similar promises for spikes in crude production and exports). During last spring's spike, Saudi produced around 9,000 tb/d. In the past two months, production has been at record highs, even as oil keeps setting new highs, entirely due to liquidity, but not because speculators are evil incarnate as Nancy Pelosi will want her brainwashed fans to believe, but simply because for the most part they are Primary Dealers, and other entities attached at the hip to the Fed, who serve as Ben Bernanke's transmission mechanism of record liquidity being dumped into the system. Our advice: if anyone is hoping that Saudi Arabia can pump the 12,500 tb/d needed if Iran truly goes offline, buy a bike, as failure from Saudi to satisfy lofty demands will promptly send unleaded to new all time highs. Couple that with the Treasury debt ceiling fiasco in 5-6 months, and those Obama InTrade reelection contracts may seem a tad rich. , RIP Housing? The Trade Off To Rising RatesIt is no surprise, given the baying for blood from bond bears, that mortgage rates will come under close scrutiny - especially given the supposed reasoning for much of the various LSAPs has been to keep rates low to 'aid' homeowners (as opposed to flush nominal prices to the moon in every risk asset based on the risk premia-reducing duration-crushing portfolio-rebalancing effect). The effects on various asset classes from the announcement and inception of Operation Twist have been varied with Equities (and until the last month high-yield credit) benefiting the most (nominally). , SKEWered While stocks are surging in nominal terms, the options markets are increasingly pricing in greater and greater downside risk concerns. Currently, we are at record levels for this so-called Skew (meaning the price of downside protection outweighs the cost of upside protection by the most ever). Trade accordingly. , "This Time It's Different?" - David Rosenberg Explains The Melt Up And The Latent RisksThe market is ripping. That much is obvious. What some may have forgotten however, is that it ripped in the beginning of 2011... and in the beginning of 2010: in other words, what we are getting is not just deja vu (all on the back of massive central bank intervention time after time), but double deja vu. The end results, however, by year end in both those cases was less than spectacular. In fact, in an attempt to convince readers that this time it is different, Reuters came out yesterday with an article titled, you guessed it, "This Time It's Different" which contains the following verbiage: "bursts of optimism have sown false hope before... Today there is a cautious hope that perhaps this time it's different." (this article was penned by the inhouse spin master, Stella Dawson, who had a rather prominent appearance here.) So the trillions in excess electronic liquidity provided by everyone but the Fed (constrained in an election year) is different than the liquidity provided by the Fed? Got it. Of course, there are those who will bite, and buy the propaganda, and stocks. For everyone else, here is a rundown from David Rosenberg explaining why stocks continue to move near-vertically higher, and what the latent risks continue to be. , Do High Yield Bonds Know Something Stocks Don't?As the S&P 500 reaches new multi-year highs and VIX touches multi-year lows, there is one rather large and risk-appetite-proxying market out there that is not as excited. The high-yield bond market has seen record in-flows dropping off recently and for the last four-to-six weeks high-yield spreads, yields, and bond prices have been very flat as stocks have surged ahead. Despite US earnings yields at near-record highs relative to high-yield bond yields, we see little pick-up in LBO chatter suggesting a notable preference for higher-quality junk credit (and/or lack of belief in sustainability of earnings yields) and the recent 'dramatic' outperformance in investment grade credit is a notable up-in-quality rotation (as well as early spread-compression reaction to Treasury weakness recently) that strongly suggests less risk appetite among real money managers (given how 'cheap' high-yield appears across asset classes). Lastly, the ratio of HY bond prices to VIX is near its extreme once again, something we saw occur before the risk flares of 2010 and 2011 surrounding the end of the Fed's QE sessions. , Guest Post: How To Cripple The Real Estate Market In Five Easy StepsIf you were head of Central Planning (howdy, Ben!) and were tasked with crippling the real estate market, here's what you would recommend. #1 Choke the market and banking sector with zombie banks. #2 Have the central bank (the Federal Reserve) buy up $1 trillion in toxic, impaired mortgages. #3 Lower the rate that banks can borrow from the Fed to zero, and then pay the banks interest on all funds deposited at the Fed. #4 Try to prop up the housing market by giving poor credit risk buyers loans with only 3% down. #5 Load young people up with the equivalent of a mortgage in student loans. OK,let's see how our Organs of Central Planning are doing: check, check, check, check, check: a perfect score! , Operation Twist Is Coming To An End: A Preview Of The Market ResponseAs macro data trends deteriorate and Dudley demurs, it is becoming increasingly clear that the risks for the US equity market are skewed to the downside as we head towards the end of Operation Twist (and seasonal factors subside). The Fed's 'upgrade' from modest to moderate growth certainly spooked Gold and Treasuries and saw small caps notably underperform but given historical precedence, if Operation Twist ends without a new program beginning, investors will likely expect a drop in equities (broadly) of 8-10% (which coincides with the QE1 and QE2 ends as well as the 1983, 1994, and 2003 normalizations in policy). Reiterating our recent theme, in order to avoid the end of Operation Twist, the Fed's economic outlook would need to deteriorate - which itself is a scenario likely to result in falling stock prices and just as the cause of a 'crash' in PCE towards the end of QE1 and QE2 was a function of higher inflation, we have the current spike in energy prices to ensure this time is no different. , Macro Data Weakening On Seasonal UnwindsMuch has been made of the positive impact that seasonal adjustments have made to the crop of supposedly better than expected macro prints that remain anecdotal evidence of why the S&P 500 is trading above 1400 again. Unfortunately the pleasant after-glow of a time-series-based adjustment that has become increasingly unstable and hard to justify post-crisis is starting to fade. Morgan Stanley's Business Condition Index dropped a very significant 5 points in March to 51%. Just as pointed out here (in Bernanke's scariest chart) the seasonal factors are almost entirely responsible as the trend of recent data is just not meeting expectations (both in analyst and market perceptions). Under the surface, things are a little gloomier also as their Hiring Plans Index dropped for the first time in six months and the business conditions expectations plummeted 11 points to 57% in March. Given this (leading) data, is it any wonder MS believes QE3 is inevitable and imminent? Though as we have noted again and again, until the market starts to get the sad joke that unless market momentum chasers start to defect from the current strategy, we suspect the impact of QE3 (if it comes) will be far more muted (in stocks) than the previous acts of exuberance by the Fed (and their buddies) - as implicitly the cost of the much-higher-than-normal strike price of Bernanke's put means ever-increasing QE needs to counter underlying weakness/perception.  , Dallas Fed's Fisher Exhibits Peak Cognitive Dissonance And Self-DelusionFor today's definitive example of peak cognitive dissonance and self-delusion among those who determine the monetary fate of the world no less, look no further than the Dallas Fed's Dick Fisher, who just said the following according to Reuters: *No one presently believes that the Fed is going to proceed with QE3 Funny considering earlier, we got this from Goldman's Bill Dudley: *No decision yet on QE3, New York Fed's Dudley says And that is why central planning always fails. Because a room of these terminally confused people sits down and determines the fate of the world based on their naive academic interpretation of what they perceive is reality. , Apple Announces $10 Billion Share Repurchase Program, $2.65 Quarterly Dividend, Plans To Spend $45 Billion Over 3 YearsAnd so Steve Jobs legacy is now gone as Apple goes Jamie Dimon. At least Apple was not part of the stress test. And as announced yesterday, we for one, can't wait to find out if it was JPM that advised Apple, to pull a JPM. Finally, we hope that AAPL's cash creation rate remains the same, as $45 billion in 3 years may put quite a large dent on the company's onshore cash, which according to reports is one-third of total., Some Ominous Developments In EuropeFor now, these are isolated incidents. But in Europe events of this kind have an unpleasant tendency of recurring just when it is darkest... , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  APPLE STILL DRIVES MARKETS 3-19-12 ‘The recent rally is still being led higher by all things Apple (AAPL) and Monday was no exception as the company will payout a $2.50 dividend and buyback $10 billion of the outstanding shares. They say they’re still committed to product innovation but that still remains to be seen. After all, their visionary leader is gone, and beyond tinkering with improvements here and there, we’ll have to see if there are any breakthrough products on the horizon. Apple continues to dominate most tech indexes with XLK and QQQ still being nearly 20% weighted… , The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System Failure The Economic Collapse | It will be imperative for all of us not to wait around waiting for someone to rescue us., The Perils of Money Printing’s Unintended Consequences Zero Hedge | The money printing policies of the Federal Reserve have put the world’s currencies on an accelerating inflationary down slope. , Goldman Sachs: Making Money by Stealing It Stephen Lendman | Wall Street crooks transformed America into an unprecedented money making racket. , Train Reading: Apples Yield to Cash Call, BofA Denies Rumors at The Wall Street Journal ,

The Fed Isn’t Providing “Monetary Morphine”; It’s Spreading Financial Cancer That is Killing the Markets and Democratic Capitalism in General March 16, 2012 By gpc1981 http://gainspainscapital.comWhile the vast majority of commentators look at the market action of the last three months and celebrate, I cannot help but shudder. The reason is that the stock market has been propped up solely by Central Bank and/or Federal Government intervention or the hope of more intervention.That alone is worrisome as it indicates the stock market no longer cares for economic or financial fundamentals (something that has been clear for several years now).However, far more worrisome is fact that the Fed and Federal Government are now not only propping up stock prices, but are openly trying to crush other assets (especially politically dangerous commodities such as oil and gasoline) in an attempt to make it appear that inflation is under control.Consider the following: #1)   The sudden talk of “sterilized QE” or QE that won’t involve more money printing (read: There is No Such Thing as Sterilized QE). #2)   The sudden and curious collapse in precious metals (right after Bernanke says QE 3 isn’t coming anytime soon… only for the Fed to leak the “sterilized QE” talk a week after Gold and Silver collapse). #3)   The Government’s decision to unlock our Strategic Petroleum Reserves again (crushing gas prices which were the primary inflationary concern of the Obama administration) #4)   Those Wall Streeters close to the Fed (Goldman’s Jan Hatzius) predicting “sterilized QE” coming in April or June ALL OF THESE MOVES HAVE TWO GOALS:  #1)   Propping up stocks #2)   Crushing those commodities/ assets that are politically (and economically) dangerous (gasoline, food prices). The take away point that I’m trying to make here is that we’re now at the point of intervention in which the Fed is openly managing the markets right down to specific asset classes.Never in history has Central Planning gone well for either the markets or the economy. Wall Street and the mainstream media may cheer that stocks are up and inflation “transitory” (despite clear evidence that the latter point is false: the bond market indicates real inflation to be around 10%). However, I for one am truly terrified by what I see occurring in the markets…’ , The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says Are Happening At JP Morgan Will Blow Your Mind  http://albertpeia.com/crazythingshappeningatjpmorgan.htm , Train Reading: Muppet, Vampire Squid & Other Name Calling on Wall Street The Wall Street Journal  By Steven Russolillo [ And, where might you fit into wall street’s ship of fools; or, more pointedly, whose fool are you? And, keep in mind, the wall street ship is the USSA Titanic. ] What brokers call their clients behind their backs – Total Return  By Jason Zweig  ‘Greg Smith’s letter announcing his resignation from Goldman Sachs Group contained many juicy tidbits, perhaps most notably that he heard at least five senior Goldman executives refer to their clients as “muppets.” (In the U.K., where Smith was based, a “muppet” refers not just to a stuffed cartoon character but is a synonym for “idiot.”) Cynics with a sense of Wall Street history, however, were entirely unsurprised: Contempt for clients is as old as markets themselves…’ , The Numbers That Matter: $15,564,809,891,768 And $8.354 BillionWithout wasting our readers' time, here are the only two numbers that matter today: *$15,564,809,891,767.99 - This is how high record US federal debt is as of today. Although "record" and "US debt" in the same sentence is now redundant. So just debt. (source) *$8.354 billion. This is how much net US tax revenues (net of refunds of course) are lower in fiscal 2012 to date compared to the same period in 2011. In this Bizarro world, economic recovery is apparently based on weaker numbers (source). , Brent At $126 As Israel Security Cabinet Votes 8 To 6 To Attack IranGuest Post: Caution - Falling CurrenciesEventually, people will discover that they cannot save in terms of dollars (those who don’t figure it out will be rendered economically irrelevant as their wealth is removed from their hands). Savings is a necessary prerequisite for investment. Investment is necessary for companies to grow, to develop new technologies, products, and markets. Growth is necessary to hire new workers. As existing companies achieve higher productivity of labor, and do not need as many workers to perform the same work, they lay off unneeded people. In a free market, the unemployed would quickly be hired by growing companies that expand and develop new businesses. But today’s structurally high unemployment can be traced back to Friedman’s quack prescription (among other government interference). Weakening the currency not only discourages savings, it also weakens businesses who have to keep the currency on their balance sheet and who have to import some of their inputs. When a currency loses value, then all who hold it incur a loss. It is not possible to employ workers and run a business in a country without holding significant amounts of its currency. Currency debasement therefore imposes constant losses on enterprises that try to operate in such an environment. , Guest Post: Lost Principles And Social DestructionAmerica has so strayed from its founding roots that it now hungers; starving for lack of nutrients from its natural soil.  As with all other catastrophic societies of the past, we have been manipulated and conned into overlooking and over-rationalizing astonishing injustice and in some cases, unmitigated evil.  I frankly don’t know what else to call it.  There are some acts of malevolence that go beyond human weakness and inadequacy and reach into realms of calculation that are so cold, so soulless, there is simply no other way to describe them.  These actions and attitudes tend to run rampant in dying nations but are rarely singled out and criticized by those in the midst of the great fall.  Each begins with the loss of particular principles and inherent morals that are normally prized under more healthy circumstances, but are despised in times of chaos and uncertainty…’ , Inflation Even in the Cost of Corruption  : testosteronepit : 03/16/12 Much harder to measure than inflation in the cost of gasoline, but finally, Germany has a way.... ,A Friendly Reminder on the VIX : CrownThomas : 03/16/12Retirement... off? ,FaTHeR MoRAL HaZARD On THE SHIP oF FRaUD : williambanzai7 : 03/16/12 Thank you Ben Shalom Bernanke for being the singular pompous PhD idiot who can take the yeoman's credit for navigating this entire golbal ship of financial farce into the sargasso sea of pinstriped... , Industrial Production Misses, Capacity Utilization Declines For First Time Since April 2011The Fool's Game: Unravelling Europe's Epic Ponzi Pyramid Of LiesNow in the curious world we live in today; this only came out in public as the answer to a question raised in the German Parliament. Some reflection on the nature of these guarantees, that the European Union had decided not to tell us about, causes me to think of them as “Ponzi Bonds.” These are the seeds of a great scheme that has been foisted upon us. Bonds of a feather that have flocked together and arrived with the black swans one quiet Wednesday afternoon. The quoted and much ballyhooed sovereign debt numbers are now known to be no longer accurate and hence the lack of credibility of the debt to GDP data for the European nations. Stated more simply; none of the data that we are given about sovereign debt in the European Union is the truth, none of it. According to Eurostat, as an example, the consolidated Spanish debt raises their debt to GDP by 12.3% as Eurostat also states, and I quote, that guaranteed debt in Europe “DO NOT FORM PART OF GOVERNMENT DEBT, BUT ARE A CONTINGENT LIABILITY.” In other words; not counted and so, my friends, none of the data pushed out by Europe about their sovereign debt or their GDP ratios has one whit of truth resident in the data.  , The Schrodinger Inflation: Ignore All Time High March Gas Prices, BLS Tells You Inflation Is Lower Than ExpectedJust spent a record high amount at the gas pump for this time of year? The BLS says you didn't, and after all when it comes to reality, the BLS has a right of first refusal. The just printed headline CPI came at 0.4%, just in line with expectations of 0.4%, while core CPI of 0.2%, missed expectations of 0.3%. That's right: not only is inflation meaningless, it is less than expected, leading to surge higher in stocks, bonds and the EURUSD. As for those items which are once again soaring in prices such as food and gas? Luckily, those can be hedonically adjusted by everyone to virtually zero. (wait? You still pay your mortgage or rent? Sucker!) Remember: the iPad is deflationary. , Goldman person leaked Apple, Intel secrets: lawyer , Fed revises stress test losses { ‘… dit helicopter ben shalom b.s.bernanke, mais, quelle est la difference …’?  Indeed, bunglow ben; no difference at all! After all, we’re dealing with total manipulated b***s*** anyway so who’s really counting, paying attention! } ,  Lacker: Fed Will Need to Raise Rates in 2013 The Wall Street Journal, Proposed UN Environmental Constitution For The World Would Establish An Incredibly Repressive System Of Global Governance   http://albertpeia.com/unenvironmentalconsrepressiveglobalgovernance.htm

 

Apple Weakness Due To Removal From Deutsche Bank Short-Term Buy ListSpanish Housing Re-PlungingThe "New Normal" American Dream Of Renting Is About To Become Very ExpensiveGoldman Again Selling Russell 2000 To Muppets Both The Market and Government Are Irrational Paul Craig Roberts | One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. [ The ‘psychological factor’ has always been a component in the valuation of securities which valuations, good or ill, collectively give rise to the ‘markets’. The mythical part is the presumption of rationality accorded the ‘market-makers’ which, despite their glaring irrationality and propensity for fraud (I’d conservatively say that wall street is comprised predominantly, I’d estimate 90%, of psycho/sociopathic personalities), is still decidedly and pathetically vis-à-vis the rest of the ‘go along to get along’ world, criminally insane wall street. , 80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago   http://albertpeia.com/80percentamericaworsethan4yearsago.htm , Doomsday Survey: 51% of Americans Believe a Financial Collapse Is Imminent Mac Slavo | Most of us believe a doomsday scenario of some kind will occur in the next twenty five years. , Philly Fed Is Out With Latest "Schrodinger" Economy PrintRemember when the Chinese PMI posted both a contraction an expansion for the month of March, with Markit showing a sub-50 contractionary print, while the Chinese version showed 51, or expansion, in other words China was both stagnating and growing at the same time, merely the latest indication of our modern day Schrodinger-ness macro insanity? Well, we just got the US version of this Heisenberg Economic Uncertainty principle, when as part of the just released Philly Fed index (which also printed better than expected despite a drop in New Orders and Shipments), we saw Priced Paid.... tumble from 38.7 to 18.7!!?? Why the surprise? Because 90 minutes prior to this, we just got The New York Fed telling the world that prices paid in fact soared by virtually the highest amount in real terms on record! In other words, in New York survey respondents are experiencing soaring inflation, while 90 miles Southwest, manufacturing firms were awash in deflation. Do they even try to manipulate the data anymore?  , Terminated CBO Whistleblower Shares Her Full Story With Zero Hedge, Exposes Deep Conflicts At "Impartial" Budget OfficeEarlier today, we suggested that in the aftermath of the Greg "Muppets" Smith NYT OpEd, contrary to assumptions by Jim Cramer, a bevy of potential whistleblowers would step up to tell their tale of fraud and corruption across all walks of life - from Wall Street to, far more importantly, Washington, consequences be damned. This was paralleled by an alleged JPM whisteblower describing to the CFTC the firm's supposedly illegal activities in the precious metals space , Jamie Dimon Warns Employees To Stay Mum On Muppetgate , From One Ex-Goldmanite To Another: Nomi Prins Statement On Greg Smith's ResignationI applaud Smith's decision to bring the nature of Goldman's profit-making strategies to the forefront of the global population's discourse, as so many others have been doing through books, investigative journalism, and the Occupy movements over the past decade since my book, Other People's Money, was written after I resigned from Goldman. It would be great if Smith's illuminations would serve as the turning point around which serious examination and re-regulation of the banking system framework would transpire. , As Whistleblowing Becomes The Most Profitable Financial 'Industry', Many More 'Greg Smiths' Are ComingMinutes ago on CNBC, Jim Cramer announced that Greg Smith will never get a job on Wall Street again as "one never goes to the press. Ever." Naturally, the assumption is that the secrets of Wall Street's dirty clothing are supposed to stay inside the family, or else one may wake up with a horsehead in their bed. There is one small problem with that. Now that compensations on Wall Street have plunged, and terminations are set for the biggest spike since the Lehman collapse, the opportunity cost to defect from the club has also collapsed. And if anything, Greg Smith's NYT OpEd has shown that it is not only ok to go to the press, but is in fact cool. So what happens next? Well, as the following Reuters article reports, 'whistleblowing' over corrupt and criminal practices on Wall Street is suddenly becoming the next growth industry.  , Charting The Legacy Of The Baby BoomersWhile it is difficult to properly attribute blame for the collapse of the US economy, which commenced in the early 1980s, on either the Fed's policy of easy money starting with Alan Greenspan (and terminating with today's statement by Goldman that merely a suggestion of "not easing" may be equivalent to "tightening" - a symptom of a terminal junkie), or the resultant self-indulgent lifestyle of the maturing baby boomers, one thing is certain: the paradigm downturn of the United States began in the early 1980s. And here we are willing to break the cardinal rule of statistics and assume that correlation does imply causation. Because the 4 simple charts below don't lie: the US economy, as represented by its Balance of Payments, the profligacy of the US consumer, the massive expansion of consumer leverage, and the collapse in US manufacturing jobs, and specifically its current near-terminal state, is as much as legacy of the baby boom generation's actions (and lack thereof), as of everything else that has already been mulled over and scapegoated an infinite number of times in both the mainstream and fringe media. , Muppet-Gate Meets Blank-BergIn one of the strangest headlines from Bloomberg today, MuppetGate takes on a new life...*MAYOR BLOOMBERG MEETS WITH GOLDMAN EMPLOYEES AFTER SMITH OP-ED , Guest Post: Gridlock In DCThe first session of this 112th Congress was spent with Democrats and Republicans at loggerheads over the debt ceiling, taxes, spending cuts, the deficit super committee, appropriations bills and finally the extension of unemployment compensation and a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. Standard and Poor's downgrade of the United States' federal debt was due in part to all the haggling over how, and actually whether, to reduce the debt. No One Is Willing to Pay the Political Price to Cut Spending This year Obama asked Congress for, and was given, an additional $1.2 trillion of borrowing authority, which will increase the debt limit to $16.4 trillion, just enough to get him past the 2012 election. It could be close, however. If budget projections prove to be overly optimistic, Obama could face another cliffhanger over a further increase in the debt ceiling in the midst of the presidential election in November. How embarrassing to have to say "re-elect me – and by the way, I need to borrow some more money to pay this month's bills." , The Iceland Financial Renaissance Miracle Continues Here Is Why Everything Is Up Today - From Goldman: "Expect The New QE As Soon As April"Confused why every asset class is up again today (yes, even gold), despite the pundit interpretation by the media of the FOMC statement that the Fed has halted more easing? Simple - as we said yesterday, there is $3.6 trillion more in QE coming. But while we are too humble to take credit for moving something as idiotic as the market, the fact that just today, none other than Goldman Sachs' Jan Hatzius came out, roughly at the same time as its call to buy Russell 2000, and said that the Fed would announce THE NEW QETM, as soon as next month, and as late as June. Furthermore, as Goldman has previously explained, sterilization of QE makes absolutely no difference on risk asset behavior, and it is a certainty that the $500-$750 billion in new money (well on its way to fulfilling our expectation of a total $3.6 trillion in more easing to come), in the form of UST and MBS purchases, will blow out all assets across all classes, while impaling the dollar. Which in turn explains all of today's action - dollar down, everything else (including bonds, which Goldman said yesterday to sell which we correctly, at least for now, said was the bottom in rates) up. Finally, as we said, yesterday, "In conclusion we wish to say - thank you Chairman for the firesale in physical precious metals." Because when the market finally understands what is happening, despite all the relentless smoke and mirrors whose only goal is to avoid a surge in crude like a few weeks ago ahead of the presidential election, gold will be far, far higher. Yet for some truly high humor, here is the justification for why the Fed will need to do more QE, even though Goldman itself has been expounding on the improving economy: "The improvement might not last." In other words, unless the "economic improvement" is guaranteed in perpetuity, the Fed will always ease. Thank you central planning - because of you we no longer have to worry about either mean reversion or a business cycle. , Obama Aide Refutes Report On SPR ReleaseWe thought it was getting stupid one post ago., It's Official - US, UK To Release Strategic Oil StocksThe Big Fat Greek Lie Is Now Obvious to Spain… So Who’s Next to Default? March 15, 2012 By gpc1981  , The Daily Market Report Mar 15th, 2012 Rising Interest Rates Signal Oncoming Inflation (USAGOLD) ,

 

The Real Problem At Goldman Sachs? You, The Muppet Client  Forbes , Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2) Only in a debt-based money system could debt be curiously cast as an asset. We’ve made “extend and pretend” a quaint phrase for a burgeoning market for financial lying and profiteering aimed toward preventing the collapse of a debt- (or lack-) based system that was already doomed by its initial design to collapse. , The Big Fat Greek Lie Is Now Obvious to Spain… So Who’s Next to Default? March 15, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com ‘The big fat Greek lie being spread throughout the financial community is that Greece has been saved. It’s a lie for the following reasons: #1) Greece did in fact default #2) Greece now has more debt than it did before the bailout (how does writing off €100 billion Euros in debt and taking on €130 billion Euros in more debt improve this situation?) #3) The Greek economy continues to implode (youth unemployment over 50%, one in ten Greek youth looking for jobs abroad, Greek GDP fell 7% in 4Q11) #4) This Second Bailout was indeed a “Credit event” which the markets have yet to discount (though German investors are already lining up litigation) #5) Germany’s finance minister has already admitted Greece may need a third bailout. , U.S. Current Account Deficit Likely to Go Wider The Wall Street Journal , ‘.. Finding that while markets may be in rally mode, analysts are still fretful about near term sales momentum at these large multinationals. Currently, they expect the average Dow company to post only a 3.6% sales “Comp” in Q1 2012 versus last year, or 5.0% for the non-financial companies in the index.  That is the lowest expected growth rate for the current quarter since we started keeping tabs on what the analysts had in their models a year ago.. Sell in May and go away? Only 31 trading days left until May 1st. ’ , Elijah Cummings Is First Political Muppet To Issue Goldman Op-Ed ResponseIt was literally a matter of hours following the release of the now historic Greg Smith "Muppets" Op-Ed, before the true criminals enabling the slow motion trainwreck of the Keynesian klepto-fascist experiment became heard. , Commodities Crumble As Stocks Ignore Treasury Selling Fitch Revises UK Outlook To Negative From Stable, Keeps Country At AAAIn keeping with the tradition of waking up to reality with a several month delay on downgrades (if being the first to upgrade insolvent Eurozone members), here comes Fitch, to boldly go where Moody's went long ago. -UNITED KINGDOM L-T IDR OUTLOOK TO NEGATIVE FROM STABLE BY FITCH -FITCH AFFS UNITED KINGDOM AT 'AAA'; REVISES OUTLOOK TO NEGATIVE As a reminder, UK consolidated debt/GDP is... oh... ~1000% , What Closing The Straits Of Hormuz Will Mean In 3 Simple ChartsGuest Post: The Vampire Squid’s Problems Smith’s sentiments are appreciated, but actually he is wrong about a fundamental point, at least in today’s business environment. Goldman doesn’t have to give a damn about its clients because the vampire squid has found a much more lucrative way of insuring their bottom line: government largesse. , On This Day In History.... Gas Prices Have Never Been Higher30 Year Prices At Highest Yield Since August 2011Official Memo From Lloyd And Gary To Employees: "89% Of You Provide Exceptional Services To Clients"The Greg Smith drama refuses to go away (probably for a reason). Earlier, we presented a spoof response from a spoof Goldman CEO. Now, courtesy of the WSJ, here is the real memo sent out from Lloyd and Gary to employees in which we learn that "89% of Goldman employees self reported they provide exceptional services to their clients." But what about the remaining 11%? Because out of 10 employees, just one is required to rob a client, whatever that means these days anyway, blind. Oddly enough, didn't CFA Magazine just find that 10% of all Wall Streeters are psychopaths? , Biderman on Dow 6000The storm clouds gathering behind Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs, are a perfect analogy for his fascinating treatise on the key to long term bull markets and why the Dow could get cut in half. Bringing together the critical fundamental driver of P/E multiples - income growth in his view - and the historically most critical secular shift of this fundamental driver - communications breakthroughs, Biderman remains calm (for once) in his explanation for why the current low levels of income growth mean that should a new reality of less Fed exuberance (or a belief in less Fed exuberance) occur, the Dow will go to 6000 as he sees little evidence of technological innovations of the scale needed to lead the next 25 years secular bull market. , Farage On Europe: Determined But DelusionalIt's Official - Apple Is Now Bigger Than The Entire US Retail SectorA company whose value is dependent on the continued success of two key products, now has a larger market capitalization (at $542 billion), than the entire US retail sector (as defined by the S&P 500). Little to add here. [ I would say 1 key product and even that’s old news and with any even limited competence can easily be duplicated by competition ] , Russia Discloses The Iran Ultimatum: Cooperate Or Be Invaded By Year End In what can only be seen as raising the rhetoric bar on the timing, scale, and seriousness of the Iran 'situation', Kommersant is reporting that "Tehran has one last chance" as US Secretary of State Clinton asks her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to relay the message to Iranian leaders. If this 'last chance' is wasted an attack will happen in months as diplomats noted that the probability of an Israel/US attack on Iran is now a specific 'when' instead of an indefinite 'if'. The sentiment is best summarized by a quote from inside the meeting "The invasion will happen before year’s end. The Israelis are de facto blackmailing Obama. They’ve put him in this interesting position – either he supports the war or loses the support of the Jewish lobby". Russian diplomats, as Russia Today points out, criticized the 'last chance' rhetoric as unprofessional suggesting "those tempted to use military force should restrain themselves - a war will not solve any problems, but create a million new ones." , Ron Paul’s Economic Platform Cheered by ‘Black Swan’ Author Ron Paul 2012 | 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s economic platform of fiscal restraint was praised today by one of the world’s premier risk managers. , American flag with President Obama’s image sparks outrage at Florida Democrats FoxNews.com | An American flag with President Obama’s image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county’s Democrat headquarters.  The Obama Flag: Who Decided That It Was Okay To Replace The Stars On The American Flag With The Face Of Barack Obama? http://endoftheamericandream.com http://albertpeia.com/monkeyflag.htm   [Aside from the desecration issues, from a purely aesthetic perspective, that picture on the flag of that ugly monkey obama is an absolute disgrace and affront to any rational person’s aesthetic sensibilities!]

Two Reasons Why the Global Economy Will Slow and Government Promises to Retirees Will be Broken March 13, 2012 By gpc1981 http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘The coming years will be marked by a seismic change in the economic landscape in the US. Firstly and most importantly, we are going to see economic growth slow down dramatically. , CBO Hikes 2012 Budget Deficit Forecast By $97 Billion In One Month, Sees $1.17 Trillion In Funding ShortfallECRI Stays with Recession Call  New American | The vicious cycle is starting where lower sales, lower production, lower employment and lower income [leads] back to lower sales…BOB ADELMANN New American Tuesday, March 13, 2012 http://albertpeia.com/ecricallsrecession.htm , Guest Post: How Does FINRA Lose 8 Hours of Testimony? Wall Street’s “Kangaroo Court”Troika Finds Greece Already Likely To Miss Bailout Budget TargetsFed Stress Test Released: Citi, SunTrust, Ally And MetLife Have Insufficient CapitalMarket Summary: FOMC Snoozer Followed By Premature ExuberationDave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  3-13-12 ‘Bernanke & Co had nothing new to say and one assumes this must be bullish as stocks shot higher after the announcement. Gold fell as it was “risk on” for stocks and as the dollar rose slightly. Select commodity prices rose (USO, JJC) while bond prices continued to fall as yields rose. Retail Sales were higher but below expectations (1.1% vs 1.2% exp. & prior .6%) ex autos and gasoline sales were up only .6%. Goldman Sachs same store sales data for the week was .7% vs 1.3% prior…’ , Conned 2012: Joseph Kony Is A CIA Contractor  [ Yeah, cia, mossad, kony, they look like and are a bunch of spooks. ] Saman Mohammadi | Former European MP, journalist, and author Richard Cottrell says Lord Resistance Army is backed by CIA and Mossad. ,  Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea.... http://albertpeia.com/misplacedfaith.htm  Do you have faith in the people running this nation?  When answering that question, most people would bash either the Democrats or the Republicans, but my question goes much deeper than that.  Power is constantly shifting back and forth between the two major political parties, and it seems like things don't really change no matter who is in power.  What I am asking is if you have faith in the entire system.  Do you have faith in the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve, the state governments, the local governments, our public schools and our financial system?  Do you believe that the people that are running things in this country are doing a good job?  When you look at the results, it is hard to argue that those in power are making good decisions.  In fact, this country is caught in such a downward spiral that it would be easy to argue that most of our politicians should immediately resign in disgrace.  Our leaders just keep coming up with one bad idea after another.  Sometimes it almost seems as though it would be better for our leaders to do absolutely nothing at all because every time they try to do something they only make things worse. , Does High Frequency Trading Add To Market Liquidity? Vote Here (No!)At this point it is safe to say that the world has far greater issues than simple trade scalping and a broken market structure courtesy of the few robotic algorithms that still trade, even compared to three years ago. Back then it was far less obvious that the global ponzi was on the edge every day, and that only coordinated efforts such as today's one-two punch by Jamie Dimon and his subordinates at the FRBNY could mask the fact that the stress test was never actually needed, as any time banks suffer a 20% drop the Fed would simply proceed to the New QE (pass go, and give the $200 direct to the banks). And yet, years after the flash crash, pervasive central planning notwithstanding, the High Freaks are still around, subpennying, stub quoting, channel stuffing and otherwise making a total mockery of the retail investor (at least the one who is dumb enough to put in a limit order and not split up a big order into many tiny ones). Which is simply stunning - by now, even if reading just a fraction of the hundreds of posts on the topic on this site alone of which this one may be the most encompassing, one would think that everyone, and that even includes the SEC, would be well aware of the (borderline) criminal, and certainly liquidity destroying (although volume spiking via churn), product that is High Frequency Trading. Apparently not. , Is This The Chart Of A Broken Inflation Transmission Mechanism? Sean Corrigan presents an interesting chart for everyone who still believes that, contrary to millennia of evidence otherwise, money is not fungible. Such as the Lerry Meyers of the world, who in a CNBC interview earlier said the following: "I’m sorry, I’m sorry, you think he doesn't have the right model of inflation, he would allow hyperinflation. Not a prayer. Not a prayer.  If you wanted to forecast inflation three or four years out and you don't have it close to 2%, I don't know why. Balance sheet, no impact. Level of reserves, no impact, so you have a different model of inflation, hey, you like the hawk on the committee, you got good company." (coupled with a stunning pronouncement by Steve Liesman: "I think the Fed is going to be dead wrong on inflation. I think inflation is going up." - yes, quite curious for a man who for the longest time has been arguing just the opposite: 5 minutes into the clip). ,  Japan's Shocking Keynesian Slip: "We Are Worse Than Greece" In a stunning turn of events, a Japanese Ministry of Finance official admits to Richard Koo's worst nightmare "Japan is fiscally worse than Greece". Bloomberg is reporting that, at a conference in Tokyo, Yasushi Kinoshita says Japan's 2011 fiscal deficit was up to 10% of GDP and its debt-to-GDP has soared to over 230%. What is more concerning is the Kyle-Bass- / Hugh-Hendry-recognized concentration risk that Kinoshita admits to also - with a large amount of JGBs held domestically, the Japanese financial system is much more vulnerable to fiscal shocks (cough energy price cough) than Europe. Of course, the market is catatonic in its reaction to this - mesmerized by the possibility of buybacks and hypnotized at big-banks-passing-stress-tests - though we do note the small reverse stronger in USDJPY has reversed as this news broke and the USD pushes modestly higher. , Four Big 'Troubles' In Little ChinaWhile not quite as dramatic as Kim Cattrall in a cheongsam, the recent group-think of 'heads bulls win, tails bears lose" on the back of seemingly ever-rising strike prices on central bankers implied-puts is becoming crescendo-like. Nowhere is this more evident in China currently, as the world views every inflation, growth, and lending print as either positive because of more stimulation or positive because of global growth. Of course all of this ignores the 'trap' that is/has already sprung in Japan (ZIRP, deflation, and zombification), US (ZIRP, addiction, and energy prices), and Europe (print, subordinate, and alienate foreign bond purchasers) and the care with which even insane printers must tread for fear of upsetting the world economy. Tonight we hear from China's Premier Wen that, via Bloomberg, China seeks to establish social democracy and much to Chuck Schumer's chagrin we pre-suppose, that the Yuan is close to equilibrium levels. Furthermore the veiled threat that China-US cooperation is better than confrontation, which brings us to four charts we found interesting in their potential to upset the euphoria of a global race-to-the-bottom which apparently makes US stocks invincible. , Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Doomsday? http://albertpeia.com/preparingfordoomsday.htm

The Greek PSI Lawsuits BeginIs The ECB Masking Accelerating Deposit Flight In Italy And Spain?Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  INVESTORS WAIT FOR THE FED 3-12-12 ‘There’s little to comment regarding Monday’s market action. Investors have absorbed the Greek default (by any other name, it’s still a default) for now anyway. And, not that you care, but new Greek bonds issued to those lucky private holders are already being heavily discounted. In fact, as issued the yields were already steep at 18% but they’ve already dropped to yield roughly 25%. What bulls have mixed feelings about are the ongoing reductions in GDP estimates from many economists with most cutting forward view to 1.5% to 1.8%.Yet Another US Debt Infographic  Probably the most amusing thing about this latest US debt infographic courtesy of FX Fatcat, which by now everyone has seen in some capacity, is how out of date it is, as the latest debt is $15.518 trillion, or $100 billion more than shown here in "March 2012." , Adding Insult To Injury, Greek Gas Prices Are Now The Highest In Europe 3 Charts On Not Buying The 'Global Recovery' Risk RallyWhile 'good is good, and bad is better'-market continues to price a higher and higher strike price for Ben, Mario, and Xiaouchuan, the twin (d)evils of energy and food price inflation could be tamping their enthusiasm for their new-found experiment.
Critically, for all those 'hoping' for the pump to be primed and a self-sustaining recovery to take hold, we present three charts to rain on that parade. Whether the world's central bankers come back to the table is unclear, given their clear concerns at what they have done recently, but we suspect this is much more a 'when' than 'if' question and given the performance of asset and volatility markets, it seems this is more than priced in. , As If There Was No Risk Tomorrow: Complacency Hits Record As VIX CratersMarket Shorts At 4 Year Lows, In Hibernation For Second Straight MonthJon Hilsenrath Is Scratching His (And The NY Fed's) Head Over The Job Number Discrepancy And Okun's Law , Mark Grant On The Increased Risks of Owning European Sovereign/Bank Debt View From The Bridge: And They Think It’s All Over…So Greece has been saved – is that right? Well according to ISDA (the International Swaps and Derivatives Association) a “Restructuring Credit Event has occurred with respect to the Hellenic Republic” which in the vernacular means the Greeks are bust; tell us something we don’t know! The importance of this statement is that credit default swaps (CDS) on Greek debt are now triggered and holders will have their losses made good. There were any number of scurrilous rumours that ISDA would not declare a credit event to preclude their illustrious members from paying out, but when the net downside of $3 billion needs to be shared out amongst the likes of Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, then a quick whip round in the bar after close of business and the jobs a good’un.,Encumbrance 101, Or Why Europe Is Running Out Of AssetsFinancial Repression Has Come Back to Stay Mar 12th, 2012 15:24 by News  (Bloomberg) — As they have before in the aftermath of financial crises or wars, governments and central banks are increasingly resorting to a form of “taxation” that helps liquidate the huge overhang of public and private debt and eases the burden of servicing that debt.Such policies, known as financial repression, usually involve a strong connection between the government, the central bank and the financial sector. In the U.S., as in Europe, at present, this means consistent negative real interest rates (yielding less than the rate of inflation) that are equivalent to a tax on bondholders and, more generally, savers. , China Trade Deficit Spurs Concern Mar 12th, 2012 , Greek bonds trade at distressed levels Mar 12th, 2012 , Is Germany Actually Preparing To Leave The Euro? http://albertpeia.com/isgermanyleavingeuro.htm , Half of British Black Men Are Unemployed [ Yet, this is totally understandable. ]The Independent | ,Welfare recipients trade in food stamps for cash to buy illicit street drugs, weapons Natural News | Some of the 46.3 million Americans currently enrolled in the federal food stamp program traded their benefits for cash so they could then purchase drugs and guns., GE’s Immelt: Global Economy In ‘New Era’ Of Instability wsj.com | Expects interest rates to stay low for an extended period. , U.S. Still Down 6 Million Jobs smartmoney.com | Damage to employment done by the Great Recession is still far from repaired., Gas prices sink Obama’s ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House Washington Post | Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices., The Fed’s Manipulation Of The Market Is Driving TrimTabs’ Charles Biderman “Even More Nuts Than He Already Is” Zero Hedge | TrimTabs Charles Biderman made waves for being the first person on prime time financial TV to tell it how it is, namely that the Fed is indirectly and directly affecting asset prices. http://albertpeia.com/zerohedgebiderman.htm , Drudgereport: PAIN IN THE PUMP! 44 DOWN TO 41 Fed stress testing banks against 13% unemployment, 50% drop in stock market... PAPER: Germany proposes a 'DRUDGE Tax'... [Sounds a bit ‘naziish’ to me, in addition to very desperate] , Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer On Fake Wealth Creation And Its Implications (Part 1)What is fraud except creating “value” from nothing and passing it off as something? Frauds interlink and grow upon each other. Our debt-based money system serves as the fraud foundation. In our debt-based money system, debt must grow in order to create money. Therefore, there is no way to pay off aggregate debt with available money. More money must be lent into the system to make the payments for old debts. This causes overall debt to expand as new money for actual people (vs. banks) always arrives at interest and compounds exponentially. This process is called financialization. Financialization: The process of making money from nothing in which debt (i.e. poverty, lack) is paradoxically considered an asset (i.e. wealth, gain). In current financialized economies “wealth expansion” comes from the parasitic taxation of productivity in the form of interest on fiat lending. This interest over time consumes a greater and greater share of resources, assets, labor, and livelihood until nothing is left. , The Fed’s Manipulation Of The Market Is Driving TrimTabs’ Charles Biderman “Even More Nuts Than He Already Is” Zero Hedge    http://albertpeia.com/zerohedgebiderman.htm March 12, 2012 ‘..as we have demonstrated with the now terminal evacuation of faith by the retail investor in the gross manipulated stock “market” which is nothing but a nominal policy vehicle for politicians and bankers. Unfortunately, the endless lies and propaganda are starting to push rational people who refuse to take the blue pill, and who are fully aware there is no wizard, over the edge..’

‘Well, it is official.  The restructuring deal between Greece and private investors has been pushed through and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has ruled that this is a credit event which will trigger credit-default swap contracts. , Goldman Cuts Q1 GDP Forecast To 1.8% On Trade Deficit SurgeMoments ago we tweeted that today's surge in the trade deficit will force banks to start cutting GDP forecasts. Sure enough, Goldman as usual, is the first to set the tone, by cutting its ultra real time GDP forecast from 2.0% to 1.8%. , The Part-Time Economy (Redux)While not shocking to most, the jump in temporary workers that we cited earlier is perhaps the biggest indicator of job 'quality' gains. As we discussed here last month, the US market economy remains mired in a low quality (“first-fired, first-hired categories rather than the type of core hiring that would build a stronger foundation for income growth,”  as FTN's Jim Vogel describes it) recovery. About 160k of private jobs added in Feb are 'low-paying work' which left average hourly earnings up only 0.1% (notes David Ader at CRT) - hardly the recipe for a sustainable recovery and perhaps the slow leak in stocks post the number is the rude awakening to that reality. As w enoted before, "not only is America slipping ever further into a state of permanent "temp job" status, but that a "quality analysis" of the jobs created shows that the US job formation machinery is badly hurt, and just like the marginal utility of debt now hitting a critical inflection point, so the "marginal utility" of incremental jobs is now negative" , US Trade Balance Worst In 39 Months With Largest 3 Month Drop In 20 YearsNFP Prints At 227K On Expectations Of 210,000, Unemployment Rate At 8.3% Boosted By Temp JobsImport surge sends China trade to decade-deep deficit  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  STOCK RALLY FADES WITH CDS ISSUE 3-9-12  ‘The all-important Employment Report was positive beating estimates but was lower than previous reports (227K new jobs vs 210K expected & prior revised higher 284K: unemployment rate unchanged @ 8.3%). Under the radar screen were Business Inventories missed (.4% vs .6% expected & 1% prior), and the Trade Deficit worsened (-$52.6B vs $-50.4B). The latter was caused by petroleum which will heighten domestic energy policy debates. The trade report caused Goldman Sachs (GS) to lower GDP estimates to 1.8% as if anyone cared.  “Soon or late, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”Robert Louis StevensonStevenson’s quote reminded markets late the Greek default (structured or otherwise) has triggered CDS (Credit Default Swap) events. Some major investment banks (you know, the usual suspects) have underwritten and sold these products for generous fees. Now it’s time to pay the piper. , Unpopular but True - The Larger Bear Market Still Looks Intact  , Jobs Data Improve, but Growth Picture Darkens The Wall Street Journal , Train Reading: The Underlying Trouble With the Jobs Report The Wall Street Journal-Stephen Grocer , Jobs report shows unemployment steady, but there’s underlying trouble — Zachary Karabell , Iceland calls its former PM to account for financial crash Esther Addley | Haarde is to date the only politician anywhere in the world to face criminal charges over the financial crisis., GE’s Immelt: Global Economy In ‘New Era’ Of Instability wsj.com | Expects interest rates to stay low for an extended period. , U.S. Still Down 6 Million Jobs smartmoney.com | Damage to employment done by the Great Recession is still far from repaired. , Gallup: Unemployment Jumps 0.5 Percent in February Washington Free Beacon | Largest month-to-month increase since December 2010. , Greece Default Is Official; Insurance Payouts Triggered CNBC | That entitles holders of Greek credit default swaps to compensation., Greeks in Despair: Suicide rate record high Russia Today | Greeks’ financial woes continue to snowball., Fitch Downgrades Greece to ‘Restricted Default’ Business Insider | Fitch just downgraded Greece from “C” to “restricted default.”, Security: UK ‘must plan for euro collapse’ BBC | Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone “as a matter of urgency”, a committee of MPs and peers has warned.,  18 Statistics That Prove That The Economy Has Not Improved Since Barack Obama Became President http://albertpeia.com/18statseconomynotimprovedsinceobama.htm ‘Has the economy improved since Barack Obama became the president of the United States?  Of course not.  Despite what you may be hearing in the mainstream media, the truth is that when you compare the U.S. economy on the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated to the U.S. economy today, there is really no comparison.  The unemployment crisis is worse than it was then, home values have fallen, the cost of health insurance is up, the cost of gas is way up, the number of Americans living in poverty has soared and the size of our national debt has absolutely exploded.  Anyone that believes that things are better than they were when Barack Obama was elected is simply being delusional. , Greece Has Defaulted: Here Is Where We StandAfter reading this, everyone should have a fairly good grasp of what happened not only today, but ever since the great (and quite endless) European financial crisis took center stage, and what to look forward to next... , Chris Martenson Interviews Robert Mish: Front-Line Evidence That We are Nowhere Near a Gold BubbleGermany Wants New European Constitution: "There Are New Centers Of Power In The World."As First Greek CDS "Anstalt" Appears, A Question Emerges: Did Banks Not Square Off Margins?The irony is not lost on us that Bloomberg is reporting that KA Finanz, an Austrian bad-bank supported by the Austrian government, faces as much as a €1 billion need for funding to cover its exposures to Greek CDS (coughcreditanstaltcough). In a statement this morning, which we noted in a tweet, the bank noted "activation of the CDS with an assumed loss ratio of about 80% would mean an additional provisioning charge of EUR 423.6 million". KA Finanz's total amount of Greek CDS exposure is around EUR1bn. What is shocking and should be of great concern is that we have been led to believe that very little net cash will change hands on the basis of the $3.2bn net aggregate market exposure. This was based on the now false premise that variation margin was maintained and transferred throughout the process (as we note below from recent IMF filings). What appears to have happened is that dealer to dealer variation margin has been, let's say, less rigorous as perhaps all collateral was netted up across all exposures (or simply ignored on the basis of government backstops). The far bigger question then is: are banks simply marking ALL sovereign CDS at par, and not paying off cash to other dealers? Remember it only takes one counterparty in the chain to turn net into gross and quality collateral seems tied up a little right now at the ECB (or with margin calls). , ISDA CDS Trigger Decision Is UnanimousIn light of today’s EMEA Determinations Committee (the EMEA DC) unanimous decision in respect of the potential Credit Event question relating to The Hellenic Republic (DC Issue 2012030901), the EMEA DC has agreed to publish the following statement:The EMEA DC resolved that a Restructuring Credit Event has occurred under Section 4.7 of the ISDA 2003 Credit Derivatives Definitions (as amended by the July 2009 Supplement) (the 2003 Definitions) following the exercise by The Hellenic Republic of collective action clauses to amend the terms of Greek law governed bonds issued by The Hellenic Republic (the Affected Bonds) such that the right of all holders of the Affected Bonds to receive payments has been reduced. The EMEA DC has resolved to hold an auction with respect to the settlement of standard credit default swaps for which The Hellenic Republic is the reference entity. To maximise the range of obligations that market participants may deliver in settlement of any such credit default swaps, the EMEA DC  has agreed to run an expedited auction process such that the auction itself will take place on March 19, 2012. In light of this expedited auction process, market participants should submit any obligations that they would like to include on the list of deliverable obligations to ISDA as soon as possible. , ISDA Finds Greek Credit Event Has Occurred Reports BloombergTotal confusion around this, as there is no formal Press Release from ISDA yet, but since this one comes from Bloomberg, let's assume they have double checked their data. From Bloomberg: *ISDA EMEA DETERMINATIONS COMMITTEE: RESTRUCTURING CREDIT EVENT *ISDA SAYS CREDIT EVENT HAS OCCURRED WITH RESPECT TO GREECE *COMMITTEE DETERMINES AUCTION TO BE HELD ON MARCH 19 *ISDA EMEA: AUCTION TO BE HELD ON OUTSTANDING CDS TRANSACTIONS  , Greece - Round III, In Which We Learn That Greek Debt Actually INCREASED Post-DefaultThe 18 Most Important Names For The Rally To Be Sustained  While everyone is focused on AAPL, or tech names, or energy sector growth, or multiple expansion as the driver of the next leg up in stocks, we take a slightly different tack. US equities are back above the highs of last year while US investment grade credit markets are still well below their best levels of last year. Until credit markets come along for the exuberant ride, and buy into the recovery/growth/no-tail-risk story we will not see a sustained rally (no matter how much fiat currency devaluation is undertaken) and as BARCAP notes today, there are 18 names that account for more than 50% of the discrepancy between equity's ebullience and credit curmudgeon-ness. Of these 18 names, 13 are financials (unsurprisingly) and indeed these are among the most liquid credits traded. So if you are bullish on a sustainable recovery, buying these credits seems the best high beta 'value' trade while bears should continue to watch the lack of confirmation of USD/fiat-numeraired equity market enthusiasm by risk-based credit markets. , Part Time Workers Celebrate The Recovery With Soaring Gun Purchases Following continued strength in earnings (and analyst upgrades), Smith & Wesson is up 23% this morning (near three year highs). It seems all those freshly printed temporary workers are spending their hard-earned minimum wage on 'defense' instead of iPads , Why JPM Sees A "Lot More Printing" By The ECBWhile the catalyst for much of the recent rally in risk assets seems to have been on the back of Europe clambering back from the edge of the abyss (and admittedly hope for better global growth and US decoupling), JPMorgan's Michael Cembalest notes that Europe remains very much an Achilles Heel going forward. With former ECB member Stark's recent comments on the already 'shocking' quality of the ECB's balance sheet, it is the outflows (or net balance of payments) from the periphery that means the ECB will simply have to keep printing. , Guest Post: Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend "Job Growth Is Best Since 2006"The Ministry of Propaganda and its media minions are announcing that "job growth is on a tear" and the "best growth since 2006." How about we look under the hood of the employment euphoria? Here is an example of the Ministry's work: Best U.S. employment growth in 12 years Almost all the data agree — labor market’s on a tear.Over the past six months, the number of people who are employed has risen by 2.3 million — an average of 385,000 per month. That’s the best growth since early 2000, when the dot-com bubble was in full flower. Since August, the unemployment rate has fallen by 0.8 of a percentage points, to 8.3%. For adults over 25, the jobless rate has fallen to 7%.In other words, people who generally work full time so they don't have to share a bunk in a flop house or live in their parents' basement are almost fully employed, as 'full employment" typically generates an unemployment rate of 5% just due to churn. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never. , Guest Post: Backing Into World War III?According to the doctrine of pre-emptive war, Iran can be attacked based on its alleged desire to develop nuclear weapons, just as Iraq was attacked in 2003. In fact, Congress is currently debating whether a nuclear capability alone (which Brazil, Japan, and other countries enjoy) could justify the 'preventive' attack. I believe it is time to negate this doctrine by postulating that Iran in fact has a right, as a sovereign nation, to a nuclear capability. Having traveled to Iran recently, I can attest to the Joint Chiefs' General Dempsey's reference to Iran as a 'rational' actor. The Iranians have no interest in destroying America, or Israel, at the expense of one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world, dating back about 2600 years. Iran is currently surrounded by over 40 U.S. military installations, not counting Israel's still-unaccounted nuclear arsenal. To assert that Iran would jeopardize its culture for a one-shot nuclear attack is a complete miscalculation of the Iranian spirit; that spirit gave rise to a revolution in 1979 against what they perceived as Anglo-American imperialism in the form of the Shah, much as our own revolution opposed British imperialism.

D.R. Horton: Bear Expects Stock's Rally To Snap The Wall Street Journal , U.S. Unemployment Up in February

Mar 8th, 2012 , ECB Sees Shrinking Euro Zone Mar 8th, 2012 0 (The Wall Street Journal) — The European Central Bank Thursday admitted that the euro-zone’s economy is likely to contract this year, and that inflation will outstrip the bank’s medium target…,  Mr. Market: Get It Through Your Head, The PSI DOESN’T Matter March 9, 2012 By http://gainspainscapital.com ‘I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but I’m saying it again.Greece and the Euro are finished. The math is impossible. There is no way on earth that this Second Bailout accomplishes anything worthy of note. The idea that this country will somehow return to economic growth within two years, based on an additional €130billion in bailouts is outright insane.Remember, Greece already received €110 billion in bailout funds in 2010… and still posted GDP growth of -4.5% in 2010 and -6.8% in 2011. Greece’s economy is only €227 billion, so the country failed to post any economic growth and in fact saw its economic collapse accelerate after receiving a bailout equal to 57% of its GDP!!!And somehow another 130€ billion is going to get this country back to economic growth in two years’ time? Greece hasn’t experienced any growth in five years.Again, this entire deal is just stupid. And all it’s done is alert Spain and Italy to the fact that handing over fiscal sovereignty and implementing austerity measures in exchange for bailouts is a waste of time.As I wrote to clients several weeks ago:Meanwhile, on the other side of EU equation, Spain and Italy must be watching what’s happening in Greece and asking themselves whether they want to go through this whole process of negotiating for bailouts via austerity measures.Both countries have already had a small sampling of the austerity measure medicine. Spain recently implemented a meager 19€ billion in austerity measures while Italy passed 30€ billion in austerity measures in 2011… hardly a drop out of their respective 1.06€ trillion and 1.5€ trillion economies.Yet, even these tiny moves resulted in protests and riots …’, US Budget Deficit Hits All Time High In February , Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing http://albertpeia.com/notsofastonthateconomicrecoverything.htm ‘Not so fast.  Those that are publicly declaring that an economic recovery has arrived are ignoring a whole host of numbers that indicate that the U.S. economy is in absolutely horrendous shape.  The truth is that the health of an economy should not be measured by how well the stock market is doing.  Rather, the truth health of an economy should be evaluated by looking at numbers for things like jobs, housing, poverty and debt.  Some of the latest economic statistics indicate that unemployment is getting a little bit worse, that the housing market continues to deteriorate, that poverty in America continues to soar and that our debt problem is worse than ever.  If we were truly experiencing the kind of economic recovery that the United States has experienced after every other post-World War II recession we would see a sharp improvement across the board in most of our economic statistics.  But that simply is not happening.  Sadly, this is about as much of an "economic recovery" as we are going to get because soon the economy will be getting much worse…’ ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com CENTRAL BANKS PUSH MARKETS HIGHER 3-8-12 [ Dave asututely points out: “Jobless Claims Thursday were weaker than expected (362K vs 351K expected and prior revised higher to 354K). Did you know that prior weekly Jobless Claims data has been revised higher 100% of the time over the past two years? How does that happen this consistently?” – Which I refer to as the ‘data ponzi scheme’ wherein new fake data is used to buoy markets as prior reported fake data is reconciled closer to reality.  ] ‘The previous theme over the past 3 years may be repeating as 2012 moves forward: “Bad news is good, good news is better”. Of lying and willfully misleading investors is a path we shouldn’t go down. The truth is the most thoughtful people involved with markets are being steamrolled by central bank liquidity. Whether it’s the ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, People’s Bank of China or the U.S. Fed QE and ZIRP trump all other analysis. If employment or eurozone conditions are weak you must put your mind with “Orwellian” thinking since bad news means more liquidity. Good news means good news and asset prices will inflate even more…’ ,  Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramatically?  http://albertpeia.com/globalshippingslowingdramatically.htm   , Greece Issues Statement On PSI, Says €172 Billion Of Bonds Tendered In Swap, Will Enact CACs, ISDA To Meet At 1pm To Find If CDS TriggerRisk-Off Initial Reaction To PSI DealBroadly speaking markets are derisking post the PSI deal announcements. Treasuries are 1-2bps lower in yields, EURUSD is down 35pips or so under 1.3230 (and JPY is rallying as carry is unwound), ES has dropped -5pts, Gold and Silver are sliding modestly, and WTI is off its peak but remains over $107. , Has Japan Run Out Of Cans To Kick?Japan's Trade and Current Account imbalances appear to be hitting some kind of terminal velocity and while neither JGBs nor CDS seem to reflect the ensuing chaotic recognition that perhaps the can that has been so faithfully kicked down the "Nishi-no-michi" or the West Road may have plunged over the lip of Mount Fuji (conjuring images of Mordor), FX markets recent and abrupt weakness brought on by yet more printing (a topic we discussed in great detail recently as the chosen heretical method du decade) may well be coming face to face with reality. , The Stranger Beside You - Spouses And ETFs  ETF fund flows have been a uniformly positive source of capital into U.S. risk markets in 2012. Looking a little deeper at the decidedly 'risk-on' flows, Nic Colas (of Convergex Group) notes perhaps their most provocative feature has been their high degree of net concentration.  When you look at the entire “ETF Ecosystem” of listed funds, just 6 funds represent all the net gains in assets over the past month ($5.4 billion in net inflows) – LQD, HYG and JNK in fixed income, VWO in emerging markets, VXX in risk, and GLD in commodities. , Reuters Reports That Hedge Funds Have Found Greek Default Trigger LoopholeWhile the general market mood is one of pre-default euphoria reminiscent of that in the pre-Lehman weekend, clouds may be brewing. As Reuters reports, "Some hedge funds have found a legal loophole they believe will force Greece to repay some of its debt in full, three sources close to the matter said on Thursday, in a move that would intensify the standoff between the country and its debtors.", Obama Denies Trying To Bribe Israel In Exchange For Iran Bombing DelayGuest Post: The Story Behind US Gas Price PainTexas Instruments Cuts Guidance As Usual, Fifth Consecutive CutThe US Deleveraging Is Now Over The credit bubble is now officially back., Fed's Advice On Trading The Sun's MoodinessWhile we have unapologetically highlighted some of the incredible taxpayer-funded research undertaken by the Fed such as "Why water is wet?" and "Why the sky is blue?", this little gem from the Atlanta Fed takes the proverbial biscuit: "Playing the Field: Geomagnetic Storms and the Stock Market… , Greek "Fresh Start" Bonds Face Immediate 80% Loss, 98% Probability Of Redefault Presenting Europe's Schizophrenia Post LTROGuest Post: Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Financialization Hasn't Killed the Economy , Art Cashin Deconstructs The Fed's Paradoxical QE ApproachYesterday we were quite amused to note that following the Hilsenrath leak (pre-backpeddaling as a result of some FRBNY spanking) of a sterilized QE that for supposedly tries to avoid "generating" inflation (hence confirming that QE does in fact stimulate inflation instead of being a tool to lower rates and make housing affordable) the market reaction was... inflationary, with stocks rising, but far less than crude and gold. So much for the Fed's trial balloon to see if it can intervene in the market without costing Obama a few million ballots. Today, Art Cashin observes precisely the same paradoxical response in his daily note. , Obama Promises Bunker Busters To Israel If Netanyahu Delays Iran Invasion Until After US ElectionsSome Problem Banks May Never Exit Federal Bailout  WSJ , The Moon Claimed The Titanic; Will The Sun Sink The Stock Market? The Wall Street Journal  [ Well, I don’t know about the Titanic, but the moon surely sunk the slimy newt. As for the stock market, it’s still about the moon as in lune as in lunatics, which they are. This is a great opportunity to sell, take profits since there’s much worse to come. ] , Does China's Forex Policy Beggar Its Neighbors?  The Wall Street Journal  [ Are you sure the author didn’t mean ‘bugger its neighbors’? Sounds like it; but, it’s really all about cost structures which are far less in China which is the primary reason for China’s export success. Manipulation of currencies is an artifice that the west will ultimately prove does not work at all (all that over-printing / creating of fiat Weimar paper currencies is a time-tested loser).] , Consumer Most Upbeat Since Fall 2008, RBC Survey Says The Wall Street Journal [And, we all know what happened then!] , Switzerland Wants Its Gold Back From The New York Fed Zero Hedge | Needless to say the implications of this vote actually succeeding are comparable to the Greeks holding a referendum on whether or not to be in the Eurozone.

1 Through 30 – The Coming U.S. Financial Crisis By The Numbers http://albertpeia.com/1-30usfinancialcrisiscoming.htm ‘The United States is drowning in a sea of red ink from coast to coast and most Americans have absolutely no idea what is about to happen.  Hopefully you have started to prepare for the coming U.S. financial crisis.  If not, hopefully this article will be a wake up call for you.  Right now, governments all over Europe are on the verge of financial implosion.  Most Americans aren't paying much attention to that, but they should be, because what is happening to Greece and Italy right now will eventually be happening here.  Just recently, the U.S. national debt passed the 15 trillion dollar mark.  State and local government debt is also at record levels.  Tens of millions of American families are in debt up to their eyeballs, and millions more Americans fell into poverty last year.  Meanwhile, the "too big to fail" banks just keep getting larger and the Federal Reserve continues to inflate the debt bubble.  At some point this debt bubble is going to burst, and when it does it is going to unleash financial hell all over America… , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com MARKET RALLIES ON FED-PLANTED STORY 3-7-12 ‘Things were going along without much change in markets until -- wait for it -- the Fed was rumored (let’s say they planted a story as a trial balloon) to be considering a sterilized version of QE3. The story was planted featured in the WSJ. This again is mana for bulls and they can’t get enough of it. , Jim Grant Must Watch: "Capitalism Is An Alternative For What We Have Now", Perspectives On A Printing Press PauseSwitzerland Wants Its Gold Back From The New York FedEarlier today, we reported that Germans are increasingly concerned that their gold, at over 3,400 tons a majority of which is likely stored in the vault 80 feet below street level of 33 Liberty (recently purchased by the Fed with freshly printed money at far higher than prevailing commercial real estate rates for the Downtown NY area), may be in jeopardy,and will likely soon formally inquire just how much of said gold is really held by the Fed. As it turns out, Germany is not alone: as part of the "Rettet Unser Schweizer Gold", or the “Gold Initiative”: A Swiss Initiative to Secure the Swiss National Bank’s Gold Reserves initiative, launched recently by four members of the Swiss parliament, the Swiss people should have a right to vote on 3 simple things: i) keeping the Swiss gold physically in Switzerland; ii) forbidding the SNB from selling any more of its gold reserves, and iii) the SNB has to hold at least 20% of its assets in gold. ,  Central Bank Attempt To Sucker In Retail Investors Back Into Stocks Has FailedChina Moves To Further Marginalize Dollar: Offers CNY-Denominated BRIC LoansToday we observed how as the US is considering releasing crude from its Political, pardon Strategic Petroleum Reserve, China was doing just the opposite. Now, in a further step confirming that China is acting as a much more rational capitalist power, and is rapidly encroaching on the "reserve" status of the sacrosanct USD, the FT writes that China intends to extend renminbi loans to other BRIC nations in "another step toward the internationalisation of its currency." To those following the stealthy Chinese incursion into currency markets as a dollar alternative, this is not news: already we know that China and Japan have bypassed the dollar entirely and now engage in direct bilateral trade using JPY and CNY (even as most other nations in Asia have developed bilateral agreements to transact in a non dollar basis). This is merely the latest incremental step which will see China become the dominant player in the currency arena, and further puts to doubt the fate of the US Dollar as the default currency. Of course, the market will not acknowledge any of this until the developing (i.e., non-insolvent world) is transacting entirely with US intermediation. And at that point, the US will be merely another Zimbabwe case study, where it can print all the money it wants to fund its deficit, and the only ones who care will be wheelbarrow manufacturers. , January Consumer Credit Surges As Government Blows Student Debt Bubble To Epic Proportions , Tim Price On One Of The Most Overlooked Aspects Of The Financial Crisis An engineer, a biologist and an economist are washed ashore on a desert island. After a few days without food they are starving. Eventually, they stumble on a can of beans on the beach. They spend a few minutes considering how they might feed themselves. The engineer is the first to speak: "We could hit the can with a rock until it opens." The biologist counters, "We could suspend the can in a seawater solution and wait for erosion to work its magic." The economist is last to contribute: "Let's just assume we have a can-opener." OK, so it's not the funniest joke in the universe. But it has the ring of truth. , The Bears Explain The Price Of Gas (Special GOP Primary Edition)In their own inimitable manner, the two bears are back to take on gas prices. Dismissing the higher demand thesis, concerns of the lack of supply, instability in the Middle East, and of course speculators (the same ones who were blamed for financial stocks' deterioration), our favorite speakers-of-the-truth point to what is the only relevant factor - the falling dollar. The Bernank once again stars for his schizophrenic perspective of asset price rises. , The Death of The PIIGS Illustrated Yesterday we pointed to the fundamental reason for Europe's angst - that of dramatic imbalance across nations finances. Today we look at the implications of the growing concerns at sustainability of the Euro-area itself. Deposits are fleeing the PIIGS at ever faster rates, growth remains a dream as PMIs for most of the PIIGS trend towards (or are at) record lows, and despite all the liquidity provision of the two LTROs, credit extension to the real economy dropped once again., Wall Street's Knee Jerk Responses To Hint Of More QEStocks, Precious Metals Spike On Report Fed Considering "Sterilized" QE , Goldman Is "Bearish By A Thousand Cuts"As US Contemplates Releasing Crude From The Strategic Reserve, China Resumes Building Emergency InventoryDefense Secretary Panetta Testifies On Situation In Syria, Honorable Warmonger #1 John McCain PresidingHome prices at levels of 10 years ago: CoreLogic Mar 7th, 2012 (HousingWire)..PG View: The negative wealth effect associated with a decade of lost appreciation in home values does not bode well for consumption and the broader economy. , US consumer credit rose to $17.78 bln in Jan, well above market expectations of $10.0 bln, vs negative revised $16.3 bln in Dec. Mar 7th, 2012 by News  , Erste Group’s Complete 2012 Oil Price Outlook – “Nothing To Spare”, Crude Could Reach $200 Zero Hedge | In 82 pages, Austrian Erste Group has extracted the key aspects and variables for the world oil market. , ‘Blind’ Fed Owns More US Treasuries Than China – Ruining Fixed-Income Policy Gauge Daily Bell | The ramifications are immense.

‘‘We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy is greater than ever.  There are dozens of potentially massive threats that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the next 12 months.  A war in the Middle East, a financial collapse in Europe, a major derivatives crisis or a horrific natural disaster … , European Banks Now Face Huge Margin Calls As ECB Collateral CrumblesIn what could prove to be the most critical unintended consequence of the ECB's LTRO program, we note that as of last Friday the ECB has started to make very sizable margin calls on its credit-extensions to counterparties. While the hope was for any and every piece of lowly collateral to be lodged with the ECB in return for freshly printed money to spend on local government debt, perhaps the expectation of a truly virtuous circle of liquidity lifting all boats forever is crashing on the shores of reality. This 'Deposits Related to Margin Calls' line item on the ECB's balance sheet will likely now become the most-watched 'indicator' of stress as we note the dramatic acceleration from an average well under EUR200 million to well over EUR17 billion since the LTRO began. The rapid deterioration in collateral asset quality is extremely worrisome… ,  Financials Implode As Volatility And Volume Explodes  , Allen Stanford Found Guilty Of Being Not Too Big To Fail; In Other News Jon Corzine Walking Free Of course, his real crime was not realizing that if you are going to get busted for ponzinomics, you better make sure everyone goes down with you. In the meantime, rejoice, sheep, for the theater of Ponzi crime and punishment continues. Then again one wonders: why are the perpetrators of the biggest Ponzi of all time, i.e., the central bankers, walking free? Or Jon Corzine for that matter?, Worst Day In Europe Since Rally BeganWhile we have noted the comparative weakness in European credit and sovereign markets, stocks had so far remained hopeful until today. Bloomberg's broad BE500 index of European stocks fell 2.8% today, its worse performance  since mid-November when the recent rally began. This one-day drop has wiped out the gains of the last five weeks in stocks and credit is even worse as it continues to lead risk lower. European financial stocks are catching up to European credit's weakness (and we note US financial credit is really coming off today)., On China And The End Of The Commodity Super-CycleECB Surpasses €3 Trillion, Still Most Undercapitalized Hedge Fund In The WorldDave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com NEWS COMES BACK TO HAUNT BULLS 3-6-12 ‘Was there much news that wasn’t known by investors Monday? I don’t think so. Eurozone economic contraction data was in full view Monday as was a report of a slowdown in China’s economic growth. The only thing causing a “stick save” Monday was a Morgan Stanley note suggesting the odds of QE3 had grown to 75% before June so as not to interfere with (cough) the November election. Since bulls are QE-addicted that sparked an afternoon rally (2:15 Buy Program Express—I should trademark this) lifting stocks off their lows.Yes, there was more news about a Greek structured default but that isn’t anything new or unexpected. Creditors have until Friday to accept or participate in a bond swap and Greece said it will not extend the offer. , Vital Signs: Slowing Services Hiring  The Wall Street Journal , 15 Reasons Why U.S. Economic Crisis Is An Economic Consolidation By Elite Banking Powers  The American Dream March 6, 2012 | The real estate market will continue to suffer because banks are raising their standards and are lending less money. http://albertpeia.com/15reasonscrisisconsolidation.htm , Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate With $400,000 Of Student Loan Debt  http://albertpeia.com/studentloandebtbubble.htm The New York Fed says that there is a total of $870 billion owed on student loans in the United States right now.  Other sources claim that the total amount of student loan debt in the United States will soon exceed one trillion dollars. , “Dr Doom” sees Iran-Israel clash, says buy precious metals Mar 6th, 2012  by News  , Bernanke Gets Back to His Academic Roots  WSJ Kristina Peterson ‘…Later this month, Mr. Bernanke will become the first sitting Fed chairman to deliver a college lecture series…’ [ Now, if a resignation preceded same; eh, who cares. Or, if he wasn’t the dismal fed failure he is (as his recent predecessors); eh, not so much. But this blatantly failed reappointed debacle walking should be in no wise spending any time or energy spouting his ‘pearls of is dumb’ ( http://albertpeia.com/30bunglebenbernankequotes.htm  )  to albeit captive academic audiences in the soft, warm, womb-like hallowed halls of academia. If he wants to curl up in a fetal position, let him do so at the crumbling failed fed building. Absolutely preposterous! ]  , Guest Post: Welcome To Year Five In The Crazy HouseWelcome to the Crazy House, a rotting McMansion ruled by power-drunk megalomaniacs suffering from delusions of invulnerability and god-like powers. Why are we here, you ask? Because the drunks who run the household make it so darned easy: just keep quiet, listen politely to their ravings, and you get subsidized meals, free rent, a houseful of techno-gadgetry and nonstop entertainment--and that's not even counting the amusement value of their delusional, sloppy-drunk ramblings out by the rust-stained pool. , Fed economists slam TARP (LTRO?) in a paper measuring the rescue fund's effect on risk-taking at TBTFs : Daily Collateral : 03/06/2012 Paging the eurozone: Forcing banks to lend in a recession didn't work here in 2008. It made things worse.  Next: Bankruptcy for a whole Generation : testosteronepit : 03/06/2012 A dysfunctional system takes its toll.  , At Least 4 Greek Pension Funds, Including That Of Police, Refuse To Go Ahead With PSIJon Corzine's Family Responds To Accusations Against The Patriarch MF Global Next, it is turn for the families of the thousands of people whose money was stolen by MF Global (and apparently Fabrice Tourre, since nobody at MF Global was responsible for anything... or else it just vaporized) to send in their letters. , With $700 Billion In QE3 Already Priced In, Who Will Blink First? Something interesting happened when the ECB announced last week that its balance sheet was about to rise by €1 trillion gross, and hit a record €3 trillion net earlier today: the EURUSD barely budged. Why? Because as a reminder, the key driving relationship for relative risk performance of 2012 as we forecast back in December is the correlation of the Fed and the ECB's balance sheets, and the EURUSD, respectively, because while we may pretend that there is still alpha in this joke of a market, the truth is that in this new normal only beta matters (the more lever the better), and the only beta that matters is that generated by relative USD strength/weakness. , The Latest Hamptons' Tennant: The US MilitaryAs Iran tensions mount, even the US Military needs a break and where better than The Hamptons to practice desert-driving skills? , Have Wall Street Bonuses Become Too Big To Fall?For all the drama surrounding Wall Street bonuses in a year in which Wall Street profitability was cut in half to just $13.5 billion, the worst since the collapse and bailout of 2008 and 2009 (and compared to $27.6 billion in 2010 and $61.4 billion in 2009), one would think that the average banker would see zero bonus in 2011, or in some cases, especially if they worked at a Greek bank, be told to pay for the privilege of working. The truth is that according to official data from the NY City Comptroller, the average bonus dipped by just 13% in 2011, declining modestly from $138,940 to $121.150. , Some Observations On Recent Gold (And Silver) VolatilityOn February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That's quite the fall for one day. We've seen prices that have risen that much, too. But as I'm about to show, these ain't nothin', baby. Based on our experience, we've been saying for some time that volatility will increase as the markets fight their way to the mania phase of this cycle – and that once there, the gyrations will jump even higher. This call doesn't exactly require one to go out on a limb; it makes sense since more investors will be crowding in – and volatility was high in the 1979-'80 mania.... , The Mainstream Media Still Doesn’t Get the ECB Greek Debt Swap March 6, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘First off, the details of the swap are as follows: the ECB simply exchanged 50€ billion worth of old Greek sovereign bonds (which were soon to be worth much less if not be outright worthless) for 50€ billion worth of new Greek sovereign bonds which would not be exposed to default risk or any kind of debt restructuring (unlike those bonds held by private Greek bond holders).I want to mention here that the ECB only owned about 50€ billion worth of Greek sovereign bonds to begin with. So they exchanged roughly ALL of their exposure to Greece to new bonds that will not lose money during a restructuring or default.The message here is clear: all private investor sovereign bond holdings are now subordinate to those of the Central Banks/ the IMF…

, 3 Charts On The US Consumption Crash Dead-AheadApple Encounters Gravity As 3rd Biggest Drop In 3 Months Drags Market DownIIF Steering Committee Holds Only 20% Of Greek Bonds Subject To PSIBiggest 3-Day Slump in 3 Months for High-Yield Bond ETFMcCain Calls For US To Lead Effort To Begin Syrian Air StrikesSen. McCain calls for US to lead 'international effort' to begin air strikes on Syria. Looks like operation "Enduring Brent Crude Freedom" is about to commence. , Dallas Fed's Fisher "Perplexed" By Wall Street "Fetish" With QE3 And Disgusted With The Addiction To "Monetary Morphine...Chris Martenson: Japan Is Now Another Spinning Plate In The Global Economy CircusFor those who are in a hurry today, the bottom line is that Japan is in serious trouble right now and is a top candidate to be the next black swan. *The total shutdown of all 54 nuclear plants, leading to an energy insufficiency *Japan's trade deficit in negative territory for the first time in decades, driven largely by energy imports *A budget deficit that is now 56% larger than revenues (!!) *Total debt standing at a whopping 235% of GDP *A recession shrinking Japan's economy at an annual rate of 2.3% *Renewed efforts underway to debase the yen , De-Investifying ChinaThe overnight news that China's economic growth forecast was cut is notable in that it brings to mind the complexities (and realities) of the shift from an investment-led economy to consumption-led sustainability… , Guest Post: Enjoy The Central Bank Party While It LastsCentral banks are printing money all over the world. New names have been given to what is really an age old phenomenon. Desperate governments have traditionally debased their currencies when they have no other way of financing their deficits. , Now THAT Is Cold - 19 Signs That America Is Becoming A Very Heartless Place   http://albertpeia.com/19signsamericaheartless.htm  , How Long Until The Bank Of Israel Has To Be Bailed Out On Its Apple Investment?European Credit Signals LTRO IneffectivenessHopium Tank On EmptyGreek 1 Year Bond = 1006%Art Cashin On Technical Indicators Turning Red  , IIF's Doomsday Memorandum Revealed: Disorderly Greek Default To Cost Over €1 Trillion, Ron Paul: "I Think Sanctions Give Iran Motivation To Want A Nuclear Weapon"David Rosenberg: "The Best Currency May Be Physical Gold" Fed’s Fisher: Wall Street May Be Addicted to Cheap Money By Michael S. Derby ‘A key Federal Reserve official argued forcefully Monday against providing more monetary-policy stimulus to the economy, and accused Wall Street of getting addicted to cheap money from the Fed.“I am personally perplexed by the continued preoccupation, bordering upon fetish, that Wall Street exhibits regarding the potential for further monetary accommodation,” Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said.’Bert Dohmen: China - Already in a Recession  KuciloOro on January 22, 2012 Bert Dohmen: China - Already in a Recession David:  I’m glad he’s the man for the job, and that’s why we want to entertain the conversation today.  What are the numbers telling us about hyperinflation and our current economic malaise? US Is ‘Right Now in a Recession’: Dohmen Capital  ( Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’,  Spain’s sovereign thunderclap and the end of Merkel’s Europe Mar 5th, 2012 By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard(The Telegraph) — The Spanish rebellion has begun, sooner and more dramatically than I expected.As many readers will already have seen, Premier Mariano Rajoy has refused point blank to comply with the austerity demands of the European Commission and the European Council (hijacked by Merkozy).Taking what he called a “sovereign decision”, he simply announced that he intends to ignore the EU deficit target of 4.4pc of GDP for this year, setting his own target of 5.8pc instead (down from 8.5pc in 2011).In the twenty years or so that I have been following EU affairs closely, I cannot remember such a bold and open act of defiance by any state. Usually such matters are fudged. Countries stretch the line, but do not actually cross it.[source]PG View: Rajoy will undoubtedly gain popular support within Spain (and perhaps elsewhere in the periphery) for thumbing his nose at EU austerity demands. Nonetheless, things are going to remain crumby in Spain even under Rajoy’s more lenient 5.8% debt/GDP target, although arguably things would be much worse under the EU’s 4.4% target You Cannot Build a Strong Economy or a Bull Market on Fudged Numbers and Lipstick March 5, 2012 By gpc1981 http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘Let’s say that you just spent a large sum, to the tune of several trillion Dollars, bailing out various businesses that were literally run into insolvency by shortsighted and greedy business practices.Having spent this money, your next concern becomes avoiding popular outrage as sooner or later folks will find out that this money was practically given away and that everyone else got a raw deal.So, at that point your primary focus must become convincing the world that your policies worked and that you did in fact save the world.How do you do this?  1)The businesses you bailed out need to appear successful and profitable again 2)The economy you “saved” needs to look to be in recovery.This is precisely the blueprint for what the Powers That Be have followed post 2009. Regarding the bailed out businesses, the large banks are posting great profits by writing down bonds they own (and recording this as a profit) and by lowering loss reserves…, Non-Manufacturing ISM Prints At 57.3, Higher Than ExpectationsIn 2011 it was Europe's turn to baffle everyone with bullshit. it still is, but now it has added China (whose Services ISM printed both below and above 50 depending on which data one uses, whether Markit or HSBC), and the US, as it is now the turn of the Services ISM to beat expectations and print at 57.3, on expectations of 56.0, and higher than the prior 56.8 - this beat comes just as the market was expecting a major drop in the aftermath of the big manufacturing ISM miss (Goldman was well below the consensus on today's number), and appears to have printed where it did just to keep the confusion about the true state of the US economy in place as Bernanke vacillates whether or not to proceed with QE3 and when. Curiously, the most important subindex ahead of this Friday's NFP data, the employment indicator, showed a decline from 57.4 to 55.7, just to make an NFP beat all that much more 'surprising.' That said, as Bloomberg's Joe Brusuelas notes, this data is stale and does not reflect the recent gasoline price shock, which as of today has regular has at a 2012 high of $3.767, compared to $3.503 this time last year. Elsewhere, and in keeping with the Mfg ISM data, US Factory Orders slid 1.0% on expectations of an unchanged print from last month's 1.4% increase. Finally, stocks are completely unmoved on all of this data…, On Contagion: How The Rest Of The World Will SufferInsolvency will keep dragging the Euro-Area economy down until sovereign and bank balance sheets are repaired, but as Lombard Street Research  points out: eliminating the Ponzi debt without fracturing the entire credit system is impossible. The Lehman default occurred 13 months after the US TED spread crossed 100 basis points. The European equivalent crossed 100 basis points in September 2011, so its banking crisis would occur this autumn if a year or so is a normal incubation period. A Greek or any other significant default will precipitate a European banking crisis in the foreseeable future. Markets are already speculating on Portuguese negotiations for haircuts and Ireland can’t be far behind and the contagion to US (and global) banking systems is inevitable given counterparty risks, debt loads (and refi needs), and capital requirements (no matter how well hidden by MtM math). , Couple Lives In $1.3 Million, 4,900 Square Foot Home For Five Years Without Making A Single Mortgage PaymentWonder how Americans can afford to buy millions of iGadgets, a second LCD TV for the shoe closet, and eat at restaurants more than almost any time in the past despite sliding personal income? Simple - increasingly fewer pay the biggest staple bill in a US household: their mortgage. The following story of Keith And Janet Ritter (blacks-don’t forget to include that other black couple in the white house), who have lived in their Fort Washington, MD $1.29MM, 4,900 square foot McMansion for 5 years (which they purchase with no money down) without ever making a single mortgage payment, and who are not even close to being evicted, may explain much about the way US society currently operates, and why other perfectly responsible and hard-working taxpayers (who do have to pay for their mortgage) continue to fund tens of billions in Fannie and Freddie losses who are first on the hook to absorb the implicit losses by allowing families such as the Ritters to live in perpetuity without paying, and the banks to keep said mortgage on the books at par without any impairments.

, As Greek CDS Hit Record, German Economy Minister Accuses Greece Of RenegingGuest Post: If This Is Such a Strong Economy, Why Does This Chart Look Recessionary?Art Cashin On Why The "Economy Is Weaker Than It Has Been In 21 Months" The key focus of Cashin's daily letter today has to do with the steadfast resilience of the ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan, who called for a recession back in September, and when asked yesterday if he reaffirms his call, he says "Consider it reaffirmed." He then proceeds to list out the "key, hard facts" summarizing the litany of truth as follows: "The economy is weaker today than it has been in 21 months." … , Warm Weather Did Boost Economy Goldman Finds, Will Now Be A DragWhile last winter every downtick in corporate earnings was promptly "explained away" by executives using the harsh weather excuse, one has heard not a peep from companies on the topic of an abnormally accommodative climate over the past 4 months. And why would they - after all it would mean that any gains, not that there have been many as most companies have reported below average results, have been artificially boosted by one-time events. Needless to say, the mainstream media would rather not touch this topic with a ten foot pole: there is an election to be won and the public can not be disturbed with facts (heaven forbid someone should mention seasonal adjustments - that's a death sentence). Which is why ironically we have to go to Goldman, which as noted recently, has once again turned bearish on the economy for one reason or another… , Who Is Most Exposed To The Oil Price Shock?Over the past 5 months, the only reason the US market, and this economy has outperformed the world (or "decoupled" in the case of so-called US fundamentals) is because the trillions in incremental liquidity from generous central planners have homed in on US equities like a heat seeker, in the process boosting confidence, and in a reflexive fashion, making consumers believe that things are getting better (for producers of printer cartridge maybe, everyone else just keeps getting worse off in real, not nominal, terms). Paradoxically, the trillion plus injected into the system from the ECB, ended up helping not Europe, but the US. However, as every action ultimately has an equal an opposite reaction, the recent US "renaissance" has also sown the seeds of its own destruction, because one of the side effects of a massive liquidity reflation is what has happened in the energy markets where the crude complex trades at all or near all time highs. However, as the following chart from UBS shows, it is the US which has the most exposure to that other side effect of soaring liquidity: surging prices. While the number is fluid (economist humor), every $10 increase in crude prices, cuts US GDP by 1%, and less than that in Europe and the ROW. As noted yesterday and today, "strategists" have already started trimming their GDP forecasts. How long before we end up seeing already weak growth turn negative as a result of the most recent central planning reliquification experiment? Because it will - central intervention always leads to adverse consequences in due course. Only this time, corporate profits will not allow the economy (read the markets) to pull itself up by the bootstrap, as they have topped and are now sliding lower. , Geithner Pens Another Ridiculous Op-Ed Nearly two years after his catastrophic foray into Op-Ed writing, here is Tim Geithner's latest, this time making the hypocritical case to "not forget the lesson from the financial crisis"... which he himself ushered on America as head of the New York Fed. Frankly we are quite sure it is not even worth reading this drivel: the unemployed man walking has been a total disaster during his entire tenure (at both the New York Fed where he supervised all the banks that subsequently fell, and the Treasury), and we are fairly confident that reading anything written by this pathological failure will cost collective IQs to drop by 10 points at a minimum. Hey Tim: is there a risk the US can get downgraded? Any risk? , Bank Of America Joins Goldman In Cutting Its Q1 GDP ForecastSpain Forecasts 24.3% Unemployment In 2012, 1.7% GDP ContractionWhat Carry Trade? Euro Banks Deposit Entire LTRO 2 At ECB, Bring Total To Over $1 Trillion When explaining the practical effect of Wednesday's second and certainly not last LTRO, we said that "when it comes to explaining why Europe's banks are not only not deleveraging but increasing leverage while paying an incremental 75 bps on up to €700 billion in deposits soon to be handed over to the ECB, one needs all the favorable spin one can muster." We also estimated that net of rollovers and other tangents, the true net liquidity add would be €311 billion and "the final number by which the ECB's deposit account will increase will be about €210 billion less than the overhead number" of €529.5 billion. Sure enough, as of this morning , A default that isn’t a default and a sale that isn’t a sale  : Bruce Krasting : 03/02/2012  Deception.  , If The Guilty Are Never Punished, Housing Will Never Recover : ilene : 03/02/2012 Less risk, maybe, but that's a long way from a sustained recovery.  , CDS, Huh. What It Is Good For? Absolutely Nothin? The Wall Street Journal ,

ECRI Sticks To Recession Call As Weekly Leading Index Continues To Climb http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=59216  Friday, March 2, 2012 By Kirk Lindstrom: The Economic Cycle Research Institute, ECRI – a New York-based independent forecasting group – released its latest readings for its proprietary Weekly Leading Index (WLI) today. For the week ending February 24, 2012:

  • WLI is 124.2 up from the prior week’s reading of 123.1.
  • The lowest reading for WLI on record was 105.3 for the week ending March 6, 2009.
  • WLI growth rose to a negative 3.0%, up from last week’s reading of negative 3.5%
  • The lowest reading for WLI growth on record was -29.9% on December 5, 2008. It turned higher months before the stock market [S&P 500 (SPY)] bottomed on March 6, 2009, at 666.79.

WLI made a 28 week high. It has not been this high since August 12, 2011, when it was 124.7. WLI growth made a 27-week high. It has not been this high since August 19, 2011, when it was a negative 1.0…Last week in the article "ECRI Remains Bearish on US Economy - Recession Still Expected" ECRI reiterated their call for a recession this year with these key points:

Since September Recession Call, ALL of the data used to define recessions is slowing.

  • Year-over-year GDP Growth peaked in Q3 2010, fell to 1.5% in Q2 2011 and has been flat-line since then.
    (Annualized quarterly GDP growth for Q4-2011 was 2.8% but the year-over-year growth was only 1.6%)
  • Personal Income Growth and Broad Sales Growth see Same kind of pattern
  • Industrial production at 22 month low

Put those into a COINCIDENT INDEX then it shows the growth has been slowing. We have not had a decline like that in the Coincident Index without a recession in the last 50 years. ECRI's Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer, Lakshman Achuthan, said recession should begin by mid year 2012. He says revisions in the data might say a recession has already started just like the last recession. If the recession is starting now, then the consensus should figure it out in about six months (August.)…’ , Moody's Cuts Greece to Lowest Debt Rating TheStreet , Despite Recent Gains, S&P is Still Stuck in Bear Market

 , Housing Still Drowning in Underwater Mortgages  By Kathleen Madigan , Half a million UK retirement plans shattered overnight as pensions plunge  , 30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Money On  The American Dream March 2, 2012  http://albertpeia.com/30stupidgovtspendings.htm , "How Did You Not Notice 24-Year-Olds Were Being Paid $2 Million A Year Who Clearly Didn’t Know Anything?”   Michael Lewis' scathing, aphoristic, uber-sarcastic style need no introduction. As such we will leave this brief clip from Slate, in which The Big Short author is asked how to avoid a new financial crisis, without much commentary (the answer is that under the current status quo system it is impossible to guarantee no more financial collapses, even if Glass-Steagall were to be unwound, but that is the topic for another story), suffice to point out the punchline: "future generations will wonder, “How did you not notice 24-year-olds were being paid $2 million a year who clearly didn’t know anything?” That pretty much sums it up right there. , Erik Townsend: Expect a US Price Shock as Black Swans Come Home to RoostAmerican investor (and longtime CM.com member) Erik Townsend has spent the past several years living internationally, with an eye to which countries may be good alternatives if economic crisis and/or Peak Oil start to materially impact life in the US.  His main observation as an expat? Through its misguided policies, the US has been exporting inflation to the rest of the world, raising prices all over the globe (as an example, he cites a $57 chicken pot pie from the menu at a 'working class' restaurant in Australia).  This inflation is affecting the rest of the world harshly, but is not yet being felt in the US due to our ability to export it as the issuer of the world's reserve currency. Our immunity will not last forever though, and when it ends, a massive upwards spike in prices is going to hit US markets. , We Were Off By Two MonthsBack on May 25 2010, just as the Greek fiests was starting to unravel, we wrote the following: "Total US debt per today's Daily Treasury Statement was $12,989,095 million. Also today, the US Treasury auctioned off $42 billion in 2 Year debt. This means that as of this moment, assuming the new debt were to settle today, the US has $13,031,095 billion in debt: congratulation America - you have now passed lucky $13 trillion in total debt. But don't worry, we won't stay here for long. At the current rate of issuance, $14 trillion will be passed in 8 months, and $15 trillion in another 7. By the end of 2011, we estimate total US sovereign debt to be about $15.5 trillion. For some recent vivid examples of prosperity courtesy of runaway debt issuance, please see Argentina, Japan and Greece."  We apologize profusely, as we were off by two months. , European Solidarity - "Everybody Knows The Spanish Are Lying About The Figures”Back in October, when Greece was rewarded with further bond haircuts for progressively missing its economic targets, even after having gotten caught on at least one occasion making its economy appear worse than it was, we said that it is only a matter of time before "Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy will promptly commence sabotaging their economies (just like Greece) simply to get the same debt Blue Light special as Greece." In the aftermath of this statement, we got the Irish and the Portuguese proceeding to slowly but surely do just that. Today, it was Spain's turn to make it 3 out of 4 after as Reuters noted so appropriately, "Spain defies Brussels on deficit target" clarifying that "Spain set itself a softer budget target for 2012 on Friday than originally agreed under the euro zone's austerity drive, putting a question mark over the credibility of the European Union's new fiscal pact. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insisted he was acting within EU guidelines because the plan was still to hit the European Union public deficit goal of 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013." That Italy is sure to follow is absolutely guaranteed, however just because the ECB is now indirectly monetizing BTPs the true impact will be delayed far more, and instead of taking prompt steps to remedy the situation, the European complacency will be accentuated by the fact that bond yields are very low, and supposedly indicates the true state of the economy. No. All it indicates is the conversion of future inflation (courtesy of €1 trillion in new money in the past 3 months) for a very temporary respite before all hell ultimately breaks loose as countries pretend everything is ok as bond yields are pushed artificially low. And in doing nothing, the fundamentals in the economy only get worse and worse. Germany knows this very well, and the Economist explains the reaction to Spain's surprising statement today perfectly... , Mike Krieger Asks Whether September 11, 2001 Is Our Big Lie

 

 ,   John Taylor Warns Of A “Highly Disastrous, Totally Uncontrollable Inflationary Conflagration”  Zero Hedge | A must read from FX Concept’s John Taylor for anyone who has been following the global central bank’s exponential balance sheet expansion over the past several months. , Austerity Measures Only Lead to More Bailouts.... So Who's Going to Bailout the ECB When It Goes Bust? : Phoenix Capital... : 03/01/2012 - 15:08 Europe is broke. Completely and totally broke. The whole notion of bailouts and debt swaps is pointless here, you’re talking about systemic failure due to the entire financial system being insolvent ... , Why is the Financial World So Messed Up?March 1, 2012 By http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘Why is the financial world so messed up? Because it’s run by Central Bankers. And those folks view money very differently from the businesspeople who actually create businesses, jobs, and wealth. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com DIP BUYERS STILL IN THE DRIVERS SEAT 3-1-12  ‘European stocks rose early on thoughts from bulls that the sovereign debt crisis will be contained. (Well, maybe for a week or two.) China manufacturing data improved to a reading of 51 from 50.5. In the U.S. Jobless Claims (513K vs a revised 353K previous); Personal Income & Outlays (.3% vs .5% expected and Spending .2% versus .4% expected). The so-called Core PCE Price Index (.2% vs .1% previous); the important ISM Mfg Survey missed but still expanding (52 versus 54 expected and 54.1 previous) and, Construction Spending also missed (-.1% vs 1% expected and previous 1.4%).On the inflation front came a contradictory analysis from the American Institute for Economic Research which showed by their measure inflation really at 8%. This seems more logical and reasonable based on their methodology.Stocks once again were higher early until it was reported a Saudi energy pipeline suffered an explosion. It’s unconfirmed even if it happened or if it was an accident or a terrorist attack. But that only gave bulls pause as dip buying resumed and markets closed higher…, John Taylor Warns Of A "Highly Disastrous, Totally Uncontrollable Inflationary Conflagration" Goldman Closes Long Russell 2000 Trade On "Sagging Macro Data", "Softer Patch In US Data"  Busy day for our friends from Goldman who are now turning quite bearish it appears following the two GDP cuts earlier., Goldman Lowers Q1 GDP For Second Time In One Day ISM Misses BigSomehow or another, our earlier joke that the ISM should beat the highest Wall Street estimate quickly became the whisper number, which was to be expected in the aftermath of yesterday's comparable Chicago PMI action. Which is why when the final ISM came at a whopping miss of 52.5, on consensus of 54.5, and down from 54.1, the market was less than happy. It gets worse: while the bulk of major ISM index components dropped in February, with PMI, New Orders, Production, Employment and Deliveries all down (Inventories unch), it was the scariest component that posted a major jump as Prices soared +6 to 61.5, the highest since June. And with Exports and Imports both improving, this proves that already in February rising gasoline prices started impairing US manufacturing. But don't tell that to the cheerleaders: because who was in the top spot of Wall Street "forecasters" if not Joe LaVorgna with his estimate of 56.0 for the ISM….,  Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Foreign Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright Starting TodayWe were speechless when we read this from Bloomberg..., As Spirits Soar, Two Bubbles Worth Watching Watch PressTV Live Coverage Of Alleged Saudi Pipeline Attack Saudi saying no, PressTV saying yes. Watch live coverage from the Iranians below. , Here Comes The Saudi Denial The latest in this story: -Saudi oil officials says reports about attack on pipeline are untrue- Dow Jones So someone is lying. And now we can go back to assuming that Saudi Arabia has limitless excess supplies of crude., Photo Of Pipeline Fire And Map Of Awamiya Region  Another update from Arab Digest. , WTI Passes $110 Update 1: WTI touches $110.55 before retracing to just under $110. Stops triggered following WTI crossing $110. SPR announcement due any minute? Also, we give a CME margin hike a probability of about 60% at this point. , Saudi Oil Pipelines Destroyed In Explosion, Sends Crude Soaring  Among the many factors responsible for the jump in WTI to just shy of $109 over the past hour, and Brent to new records in various currencies, is the following news reported so far only by Iranian PressTV: "An explosion has hit oil pipelines in the flashpoint Saudi Arabian city of Awamiyah in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province." And now back to your regularly scheduled deflation. ,  EUR Brent Takes Out All Time Highs Guest Post: About Those High Gasoline Prices… Look Again Greece May Default on Governments, Peterson’s Kirkegaard Says  Mar 1st, 2012 (Bloomberg) — Greece will probably default this year on European governments’ holdings of its sovereign debt, according to Jacob Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics., China’s Share of Reserves in U.S. Dollar Dives Mar 1st, 2012 (The Wall Street Journal) — —Fresh U.S. Treasury data suggest that China has lost its taste for investing as much of its $3.2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. dollars , Officials Rule No Payout on Greek Swaps Mar 1st, 2012 (NY Times) — The International Swaps and Derivatives Association said on Thursday that based on current evidence the Greek bailout would not prompt payments on the credit default swaps.But the organization warned that the situation in Greece was “still evolving” and such payouts might be necessary in the future “as further facts come to light.”In the midst of the Greek drama, credit-default swaps, financial instruments intended to protect against losses on debt, have been a point of concern.As part of restructuring, bondholders will be required to take a 70 percent loss on their holdings. The deal was structured as a voluntary exchange, which would not have triggered the credit-default swaps.[source]PG View: This comes as no surprise as the ISDA was rightfully worried that the writers of such swaps wouldn’t be able to pay anyway; which likely would have required further bailouts for global financial institutions. The take-away though, is that CDSs on sovereigns aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on… , Prices Cut Into Household Incomesat The Wall Street Journal , Bernanke: Money Market Funds Still at Risk of Runsat The Wall Street Journal , Europe, Beware the Ides of March  , Oil Tops $110 as Tensions in Middle East Keep Investors Jitteryat The Wall Street Journal , February Fund Flows 'Risk On,' But Winds May Be Shiftingat Barrons.com , 2012 Update: What Part III of the financial crisis will look like  http://pro.stansberryresearch.com/1011PSIENDVD/PPSIN223 , Global finance: ‘The Shylock model’  Adrian Salbuchi | After years of civil and social progress, Europe is now being flung back into the dark ages , Bernanke cites harm from long-term unemployment ,  ,  Grantham Goes Marxist!  : ilene : 03/01/2012 - 19:44 This situation just can't last. Or can it?  , Grantham Goes Marxist! By Phil of Phil's Stock World“Capitalism threatens our existence.”That's the message today from legendary investor Jeremy Grantham, whose GMO Capital manages $97Bn and, like Buffett, puts out an annual letter to investors.  It’s now getting to be an old and obvious story, but because the corporate propaganda is good and despite the solidness of the scientific data, half of the people believe the problem is a government run wild, mad to control everything… Here are some of Grantham’s finer points:

  • Capitalism too heavily discounts the future value of cash flows as it seeks to raise debts: “Your grandchildren have no value.”
  • "For example, let us say that a firm’s current actions are going to cost society at large a billion dollars’ worth of harm in 50 years. Further, let us agree that all of the costs will definitely be imposed on the company. The company would feel that pain today as equivalent to only a mere $1 million hit to earnings. Why should they care?" 
  • Companies foolishly reward executives for taking on debt: “Total remuneration ... for senior officers ... rose as a percentage of the average worker’s pay from 40 times in Eisenhower’s era to over 600 times today with no indication of any general improvement in talent.”
  • It’s about profit, not people: “Capitalism in general has no sense of ethics or conscience. Whatever the Supreme Court may think, it is not a person.”
  • The more people borrow, the more they just gamble: “Leverage ... increases your returns over and over until, suddenly, it ruins you. ... There are no Investors Anonymous meetings to attend.”
  • This time, it’s not so different: “Ignore the ... inevitable cheerleaders who will assure you that this time it’s a new high plateau ... even if that view comes from the Federal Reserve itself. No. Make that, especially if it comes from there.”
  • Washington is becoming a corporate subsidiary: “What Capitalism has always had is money with which to try to buy influence. ... The issues they influence are precisely ... the ones that are most important to society’s ... very existence.”
  • Big companies can’t help it: “Ethical CEOs can drag a company along for a while, but this is an undependable and temporary fix.”
  • Economic theory ignores natural laws. It suffers an “absolute inability to process the finiteness of resources. ... Capitalism wants to eat into ... limited resources at an accelerating rate with the subtext that everyone on the planet has the right to live like the wasteful polluting developed countries do today.”
  • It’s not just inexpensive oil we are running out of: The “loss of our collective ability to feed ourselves, through erosion and fertilizer depletion — has received little or no attention.”
  • Americans are too optimistic: “They adopt a hear-no-evil approach to life and listen exclusively to good news. ... There are always a few experts lacking in long-horizon vision, simple common sense, or whose co-operation has been rented, like “expert” witnesses at a murder trial, who can be dragged out to reliably say that everything will always work out fine.”
  • Governments must step in. “To interfere with Marx’s apocalyptic vision, we need some enlightened governmental moderation ... before capitalism gets so cocky that we have some serious social reaction.”
  • Where Marx and Engels got it wrong was in thinking workers would unite. “It’s going to be hard to have a workers’ revolution with no workers. Organizing robotic machine tools will not be easy.”

Does Grantham go too far or is he just part of the growing chorus of Capitalists questioning Capitalism?  As I said in 2009 in "A Tale of Two Economies," the widening gap between the rich and the poor has gotten to the point where it is now harming the system and some (not too many, I'm afraid) of us Capitalists don't think it's prudent to simply take what we can from what's left of the bottom 99%'s wealth as if our fate is not entwined with theirs…’ ,   

Durable Goods Big Miss -4%, Expected -1%, Biggest Sequential Drop Since January 2009‘The Dow has closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and the mainstream media is declaring that a strong economic recovery is underway.  Barack Obama is telling anyone who will listen that his economic policies are a huge success, and U.S. consumers are piling up astounding amounts of new debt.  Unfortunately, this euphoria about the economy will be short-lived.  None of the long-term problems that are destroying the U.S. economy have been solved.  In fact, there are dozens of statistics that can be quoted that prove that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was when the recession supposedly ended.  ,   Why Is the Financial World So Messed Up? : Phoenix Capital... : 2-29-12 - Why is the financial world so messed up? Because it’s run by Central Bankers. And those folks view money very differently than the businesspeople who create businesses, jobs, and wealth.   Germany Will Force Greece Out or Walk… Either Way a Collapse is Coming http://gainspainscapital.com February 29, 2012 By gpc1981 The situation in Europe has now reached the point that the major players have shown their hands. And they are: 1)   Germany will not put up more money unless Greece essentially passes up its fiscal sovereignty. 2)   The G20 will not give more money to Europe via the IMF unless Germany and other EU nations create a “firewall” by putting more capital into the ESM mega-fund. 3)   The ECB has announced Greek bonds are not eligible collateral for its LTRO operations, so if banks need immediate liquidity, they need to go to national central banks (read Germany). This is quite a turn of events. Prior to this, the ECB and Germany were seen to be working hand in hand (aside from the usual political spats) to save Europe. But between the ECB’s decision to swap out its Greek debt for new debt that won’t take a hit in the event of Greek default as well as its recent rejection of Greek debt as collateral for LTRO loans, it appears that the ECB is increasingly going to make Europe’s problems Germany’s problems. , Ron Paul To Ben Bernanke: "People Lose Trust In The Government Because You Lie To Them About Inflation"China Dumps $100+ Billion In USTs In December Per Revised TIC Data; UK Is Now Russia's Shadow Buyer Fed's Beige iPad Notes The Usual Regurgitated Fluff About The EconomyFor those confused, the Fed's Beige Book has been upgraded to the Beige iPad (apparently Ben is not a fan of the black or white version). Regardless, the latest version has just been released spewing forth the usual reflexive platitudes, in which the economy is said to be better because the stock market is higher, and so forth. In other words, the same stuff that completely ignores $110 WTI. Via Bloomberg: -FED SAYS U.S. ECONOMY EXPANDED AT `MODEST TO MODERATE PACE' - FED SAYS CONSUMER SPENDING WAS `GENERALLY POSITIVE' -FED SAYS MANUFACTURING EXPANDED AT `STEADY PACE' NATIONWIDE  And more such headlines which nobody will actually read, except for the algos which scalp the optimistic tone put there precisely for such a purpose. , More Liquidity Extraction: Fed Resumes Reverse ReposBen Bernanke: "The ECB Is Well Capitalized" Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com NEFARIOUS ALGOS STOMP MARKETS 2-29-12 ‘The big story Wednesday was a “bear raid”. It began with what some initially referred to as either a mistake (“fat fingered”) with unusually large selling of Treasury futures contracts (over 100K contracts in one trade). The trade, later described as legitimate (see WSJ story) was based on the idea Bernanke would take QE3 off the table sending interest rates higher. The size of these trades created a domino effect triggering heavy selling in commodity markets, especially with precious metals which are also on an options expiration cycle. Much of the related selling was triggered by HFT algos piling headlines with selling. It’s also been common the past couple of years now to see some deliberate manipulation of prices by a handful of institutions in precious metals markets at the futures and options exchanges …’ , Does UPS Deserve to Be in the Dow?  [ Yes! ] , 17 States Considering State Banks Noel Brinkerhoff | State run banks could be the road to sovereignty and the cure for Wall Street raping of US economy , Gold, Silver Plunge As Fears Monetary Punchbowl Is Taken Away Spread Zero Hedge | It seems the initial drop was merely the appetizer as Gold and Silver are now down considerably… , Another Unintended Consequence: $80 Billion ‘Gas Price’ Tax On Consumption  Zero Hedge | The 60-cent to 80-cent increase in gas prices nationwide over the past two months is equivalent to a $60 billion to $80 billion annualized tax on consumption. ,  Dollar Alternative Anyone? Greg Hunter | Countries around the world have been actively seeking ways to not do business in dollars for the past few years.

And so the transition to the QE3 "economic disappointment" regime begins. Because after the ECB is done with the LTRO it's over for global QEasing, and the Fed is next. Remember- Bernanke's semiannual testimony to Congress is tomorrow. Whatever will he say.... -Headline Durable Goods plunges from +3.2 to -4% on expectations of -1% -More painfully, Durable goods non-defense ex aircraft down a whopping -4.5% on Exp of -1.3%, down from +3.4%. Visually, this is the lowest Durable Goods number since January 2009  , Ireland Mentions "R" Word, EUR PlungesSilver Passes 30% YTD As Catch 22 Economic "Updates" Becomes BlurryIt Begins: ECB Calls For Bids In 3 Year LTROJPM Pwns Nancy Pelosi THiS Is TROIKA! : williambanzai7 : 02/28/2012 "There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of free Greece from the histories."---Xerxes  , 20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon Return To The Heartland Of America   http://albertpeia.com/dustbowlusa.htm   ,  Conditions Ripe for Inflation Inferno, St. Louis Fed Economist Warns The Wall Street Journal ‘…“Both economic theory and historical experience suggest that a significant and persistent expansion in the money supply will be associated with a significant increase in the longer-run inflation rate,” Thornton writes …’ [ Let’s get real here. Inflation’s vastly underreported / manipulated (ask any grocery shopper with meats, etc., up 30-50-70% to even 100% year over year most recently; and then there’s those gas prices), particularly now, and is already rampant! ]  ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com HEADLINE WRITERS EXTOL DOW 13,000 2-28-12  ‘Headline writers are busy spinning the Dow breaking above 13,000. It’s a neat headline but as Ace Greenberg was fond of saying: “It’s just a number.” But this is the number Main Street and the media follow and obsess over most. The more cynical expression has always been; “The Dow is just window dressing for the tourists.” After all the index is just 30 “price weighted” large companies whereas the S&P 500 gives you a better overall picture of market strength.Economic data wasn’t great but bulls managed to cherry-pick the news they liked and ran with it most of the day. Durable Goods sank (-4% vs -.7% expected and prior 3.2%); Case-Shiller Home Price Index (-.5% vs -.4% expected and prior -.7% previous); GS Weekly Store Sales (-1.0% vs previous 3.00%) and lastly, Consumer Confidence (70.8 vs 64 expected and previous 61.1) was what bulls grasped (which is absolutely ridiculous since it’s manipulated if not outright false).  ,  Stocks' Strength Could Prompt Pensions To Sell --- SocGen Barrons.com [ Wise move! ] , US Case-Shiller 20-city composite home price index (nsa) -1.1% to 136.7 in Dec, vs neg revised 138.2 in Nov; -3.99% y/y.  Feb 28th, 2012 by News ,  US durable goods orders -4.0% in Jan, well below market expectations of -1.0%, vs positive revised +3.2% in Dec; -3.2% ex-trans. Feb 28th, 2012 by News , PIMCO's Gross shifts to defensive investment model NEW YORK (Reuters) , Corporate Profits Rise – but Wages Fail to keep Pace with Inflation

Noel Brinkerhoff , Economist Predicts US Interest Rates To Explode To 3.75% This Year Business Insider | John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York, expects rates on 10-year Treasuries to reach 3.75 percent this year. , Stockman: If We Want to Bring Oil Prices Down, We Should Stop Beating the War Drums Washington’s Blog | Stockman: War Drums Are Driving Up Oil Prices and Hurting the Economy. , Economy Squeezed As Debt Accelerates Ron Paul | Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee has pointed out that our per capita government debt is already larger than Greece’s. , Guest Post:The Existential Financial Problem Of Our TimeThe modern, debt-based economy requires constant economic expansion if only to service all that debt. So what happens when the modern economy goes ex-growth and stops expanding? Iceland already found out. Greece is in the process of discovering. But we will all get a chance to participate in this lesson. Runaway fiscal and monetary stimulus throughout the western economies is in the process of destroying the concept of creditworthiness at the centre of the modern monetary system.  Private investors, we suspect, have little or no conception of the extent to which the state is now the predominant player in the financial markets. Central banks control the money supply and interest rates. Central banking and commercial banking interests have essentially become fused. The ECB's long-term refinancing operations are banking bailouts by the back door. Central banks are now also the swing players in government bond markets which directly influences the price for corporate credit. Central bank monetary stimulus also directly influences equity market direction and confidence. Be careful, be very careful about the sort of government debt you hold. You may well end up being paid in whole- but in such depreciated terms that being "kept whole" will be meaningless in real terms   ,  Phantom Gold And Deconstructing PollyAnnaMany want to believe that a stock market that has doubled from the March 2009 low (or added $9tn in market cap) has to mean that the US economy is in a healthy long-term recovery. Unfortunately, as Charles Biderman of TrimTabs explains, the PollyAnnas are wrong. The sentiment, built on the three pillars of an improved labor market, higher corporate earnings, and the return of the housing market, are all based upon misleading data. Starting from the position of discovering where the new money is coming from, the Bay Area Beau dismantles each of the pillars one by one and ends by noting that it is not Gold, which has outpaced stock market gains, that is a phantom currency but the USD. , Sheer Mirror Image Insanity: S&P Hits New Multi Year Highs As 10 Year Bond Slides Below 1.90% There no longer are any words left to explain what is going on in this centrally planned market (technically "enantiomeric" may be a word, but nobody would get it). It is sheer and utter bipolar insanity, when the S&P can hit multi-year highs even as the 10 year drops below 1.90%, something which in the pre-New Normal would be completely impossible. We wish luck to anyone "trading" a market (read trading alongside Central Bank X, with momentum escalated courtesy of Algo Y, regulated by the SEC no less) which is now pricing in extreme deflation and inflation at the same time, or, simply said, much more QE from the Chairman, record EUR Brent be damned. Oh, and with crude (in USD) back on track to surpass $110, we can't wait for the Department of Truth to tell us how February consumer confidence is literally off the charts.

 

  ,  S&P Declares Greece in Default Wall Street Journal [Breaking] , 3 doomsaying experts who foresee economic devasation ahead...  By Adam Shell NEW YORK – ‘Behind the mainstream Wall Street happy talk about more stable financial markets and an improving economy are grim warnings of tough times ahead from a small cadre of doomsayers who warn that the worst of the financial crisis is still to come. , Military Keynesianism Can’t Work … Because WWII Was Different from Current Wars Washington’s Blog | “Military Keynesians” – people who think that war is good for the economy – base their theory on the mistaken idea that World War 2 pulled us out of the Great Depression. , David Rosenberg: "It's A Gas, Gas, Gas!"  "It Is completely ironic that we would be experiencing one of the most powerful cyclical upswings in the stock market since the recession ended at a time when we are clearly coming off the poorest quarter for earnings...  , Mountain Of Worry Shifts From Olympus To Zagros  It's Official: S&P Cuts Greece To (Selective) Default From CCFrom S&P: "We lowered our sovereign credit ratings on Greece to 'SD' following the Greek government's retroactive insertion of collective action clauses (CACs) in the documentation of certain series of its sovereign debt on Feb. 23, 2012....We do not generally view CACs (to the extent that they are included in an original issuance) as changing a government's incentive to pay its obligations in full and on time. However, we believe that the retroactive insertion of CACs will diminish bondholders' bargaining power in an upcoming debt exchange , Brodsky On Buffet On GoldWe have repeatedly voiced our views on Buffett's relentless bashing of the only asset that is a guaranteed protection against now exponential currency debasement and central planner, and other PhD economist, stupidity, most recently here. We are happy that other, more politically correct asset managers, have decided to share how they fell, and take the crony capitalist to task. The first (of many we are sure), are Lee Quaintance and Paul Brodsky of QBAMCO who have just penned "Golden Boy" or the much needed "high society" response to the old man from Omaha… We strongly disagree with Mr. Buffett’s views and we thought it would be best to explore his comments and provide our counter-arguments." , Name The BubbleAs the title suggests, please name the latest bubble , Here Is Why Someone Will Be Disappointed By The LTROGaming out the impact of this week's LTRO2 demand on global risk assets is complicated by the ability of banks to mobilize collateral (how much can they pledge to the ECB and how much of that will be 'optimal' given the implicit subordination of senior unsecured debt holders), the use of those funds (carry trade economics are considerably lower and refinancing needs remain high), and the market's expectations (just how much more back-door QE is priced into European - and for that matter - US asset prices). , Merkel: "No Guarantee Second Greek Bailout Will Work"Art Cashin On The World Running Out Of Ideas To Bail Out ItselfGuest Post: The Trajectory Of Tragedy  With an economy of just $3.2Tn versus the United States $14.3Tn Germany is trying to prop up a Eurozone that is more than one trillion dollars bigger than America. They just do not have the resources for the task they are undertaking and I predict serious consequences, eventually, from their efforts. Germany is “best of class” and will be the last to go but they cannot evade the European recession in the end and I think it is only a matter of time and unfortunate decisions before the austerity demands made on so many will wind their way back home to those who made the demands. They used a timeline that was much too short for the job at hand and payment will eventually be forced upon them. They obviously get the joke where Eurobonds and other ploys of this nature average the economies of Europe and the standards of living over some period of time so that Germany, in the end, will suffer most as they have the furthest to fall. They have approached the G-20, China, the emerging market countries and all polite responses to the side; the results have been about zip. The Germans are running out of both time and money and Franz is squirming in the beer hall.  , The (European) Placebo Effect Guest Post: Extend And Pretend Coming To An End The Federal government, Federal Reserve, Wall Street banks, regulatory agencies and commercial real estate debtors have colluded since 2008 to pretend cash flow doesn’t matter. Their plan has been to “extend and pretend”, praying for an economic recovery that would save them from their greedy and foolish risk taking during the 2003 – 2007 Caligula-like debauchery. DEBT DEFAULT MEANS HUGE LOSSES FOR THE WALL STREET CRIMINAL BANKS. Of course the banksters will just demand another taxpayer bailout from the puppet politicians. This repeat scenario gives new meaning to the term shop until you drop. Extending and pretending can work for awhile as accounting obfuscation, rolling over bad debts, and praying for a revival of the glory days can put off the day of reckoning for a couple years. Ultimately it comes down to cash flow, whether you’re a household, retailer, developer, bank or government. America is running on empty and extending and pretending is coming to an end. , The Key Players Are Showing Their Hands… Will Germany Go “All In”? February 27, 2012 By gpc1981   http://gainspainscapital.com ‘As I’ve stated time and again, Germany is the only EU member that has the money to get Greece through this next round of debt payments (14.4 billion Euros coming due March 20). But Merkel isn’t going to give the money without Greece submitting to German fiscal demands.However, there is no way Greece will submit to German fiscal authority. Heck the Greeks are even going so far as to bring up German war reparations from WWII!Greek MP’s raise the issue of German war reparations. The Athens News reported that the MP’s have stressed that Germany owes Greece a debt of 54 billion euros before interest (70 billion with interest). They are calling for the issue to be raised as a national issue as Greece was the only country to which Germany failed to pay war reparations. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com SPRINT TO DOW 13K FALLS SHORT 2-27-12 ‘Stocks started the day on the wrong foot as more worries from the eurozone surfaced. On Monday the G-20 didn’t provide any additional fire power for IMF lending to increase a firewall. Most authorities just said it wasn’t a need at this time. But after, Pending Home Sales rose 2% from 95.1 (revised lower) to 97.0. Stocks then rallied reversing the lower gap open. Evidently algos paid no attention to the revision lower of previous data preferring to trade the better headline instead. , German Minister Calls for Greek Euro Exit  Feb 27th, 2012 , Why China will have an economic crisis — Time , Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling  Louis Woodhill | Eventually, all prices equilibrate with gold. , The Perfection Of Crony Capitalism: Use Regulation To Destroy Competitors Zero Hedge | Crony capitalism uses its wealth to impose government regulations designed to hinder, cripple and destroy small business competitors., George Osborne: UK has run out of money London Telegraph | The Government ‘has run out of money’ and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted. , Gas Prices Signal Tsunami of Inflation Greg Hunter | Most Western countries are engaging in QE to prop up an insolvent system bloated on bad debt.

   , Just What Is the REAL Exposure to Greece? Pt 1 http://gainspainscapital.com February 23rd, 2012 ‘…(the Bailout accomplishes nothing of import and only puts off the coming Greek default by a short period). Instead, I think it much more important to ascertain the true exposure to Greek sovereign debt…’ $200 Oil Coming As Central Banks Go CTRL+P HappyWe have been saying it for weeks, and today even the WSJ jumped on the bandwagon: the sole reason why crude prices are surging (RIP European profit margins: with EUR Brent at a record, we can only assume the ECB will pull a 2011 and hike rates in 3-4 months even as it pumps trillions in PIIGS, banks bailout liquidity) - is because global liquidity has risen by $2 trillion in a few short months, on the most epic shadow liquidity tsunami launched in history in lieu of QE3 (discussed extensively here in our words, but here are JPM's). Luckily, the market is finally waking up to this, and just as world central banks were preparing to offset deflation, they will instead have to deal with spiking inflation, because the market may have a short memory, it can remember what happened just about this time in 2011. And the problem is that when it comes to the inflation trade, the market, unlike in most other instances, can be fast - blazing fast, at anticipating what the central planning collective's next step will be, after all there is only one. And if Bank of America is correct, that next step could well lead to the same unprecedented economic catastrophe that we saw back in 2008, only worse: $200 oil. Note - this is completely independent of what happens in Iran, and is 100% dependent on what happens in the 3rd subbasement of the Marriner Eccles building. Throw in an Iran war and all bets are off. Needless to say, an epic deflationary shock will need to follow immediately, just as in 2008, which means that, in keeping with the tradition of being 6-9 months ahead of the market, our question today is - which bank will be 2012's sacrificial Lehman to set off the latest and greatest deflationary collapse and send crude plunging to $30 just after it hits $200.  ,  $10 Trillion In 2 years - 'Over' Abundant Liquidity And ExpectationsToday's Events: Consumer Confidence in Manipulated Markets, New Home Sales, Fed SpeechesBunch of irrelevant and reflexive (stock market is up so confidence - in what? manipulated markets? - is higher, so stock market is up so confidence is higher etc) stuff today, as the world central banks prepare to pump another $600-$1000 billion into the consolidated balance sheet and send input costs into the stratosphere. , 'Gold Bullion or Cash' Shows Buffett, Roubini, Krugman Mistaken; Faber, Rogers, Bass, Einhorn, Gross CorrectCurrency debasement of all major currencies is happening today on a scale never before seen in history. Yet there continues to be a complete lack of awareness amongst the majority in the western world as to the risks posed by our currency monetary and financial system. , SSDD - Same S...&P, Different DayThe last six months' market behavior is somewhat breath-takingly similar to the same period a year ago. With global central banks pumping (RoW replacing Fed for now), energy prices soaring… ,  Frontrunning: February 24U.S. Postal Service to Cut 35,000 Jobs as Plants Are Shut (BBG) -Expect one whopper of a seasonal adjustment to compensate  #2 European Banks May Tap ECB for $629 Billion Cash (Bloomberg) - EURUSD surging as all ECB easing now priced in; Fed is next #3 Madrid presses EU to ease deficit targets (FT) #4 Greek Parliament Approves Debt Write-Down (WSJ) #5 Mentor of Central Bankers Fischer Rues Complacency as Economy Accelerates (Bloomberg) #6 Draghi Takes Tough Line on Austerity (WSJ) #7 European Banks Hit by Losses (WSJ) #8 Moody's: won't take ratings action on Japan on Friday (Reuters) #9 Athens told to change spending and taxes (FT) , Europe's Cash-For-Trash LTRO-'Scam' And The Indentured Servitude Of The CitizenryIn a must-watch follow-up to his original Punk Economics Lesson, David McWilliams describes how the new bankocracy in Europe will lead to a massive injection of liquidity; blowing bubbles in financial assets while the citizenry is bled dry (ring any recent bells?). The banks again get all the money they need while the average citizen shoulders the burden.  , Guest Post: The Greek Tragedy And Great Depression Lessons Not LearnedGreece has been the most pillaged country in Europe this Depression, among other reasons, because no one in any leadership position seems to have learned lessons from the 1930s , Greece (and the PIIGS) Are a MAJOR Problem… Even for the Strongest German Banks  http://gainspainscapital.com February 24, 2012 By gpc1981 , Crude's Rally Shows $4 Gas On The Way The Wall Street Journal [ Actually higher … oh, riiiiight … the that’s bullish … Not! … Not even for the oils beyond the short-term! ] , TheStreet Harry S. Dent, author of The Great Crash Ahead, says investors should expect a stock selloff followed by further Fed action.02/24/12 03:30 - Gregg Greenberg  In The Great Crash Ahead, Dent forecasts that this economic collapse will become worldwide over the next few years. http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/09/16/the-great-crash-ahead-harry-dent-now-predicts-dow-will-fall-to-as-low-as-3000 On the heels of his The Great Depression Ahead, Harry Dent, Jr. has just published The Great Crash Ahead. , Get Ready for the Retracement: Analyst  , Feeling That European Springtime Swoon Coming On Again  Forbes 2/24/2012 Sy Harding   Chart: ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece’ Feb 23rd, (The Weekly Standard) — The office of Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, sends along this chart, showing that ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece,’ as well as Ireland, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain: http://albertpeia.com/debtpercapita.jpg   , Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling Louis Woodhill | Eventually, all prices equilibrate with gold.  , In Europe and America … No Retirement! Just Sufferin’ Daily Bell | This is historic stuff. The end of Dreamtime, folks. , Debt Doomsday May Come Sooner Than Expected Politico | The federal government could hit the debt ceiling sooner than expected — and possibly around the November election — according to a report out Friday.

  , Belgians Get Cold Feet as Bailout Queen Dexia Drags them toward the Abyss  : testosteronepit : 02/23/2012  Belgium's total exposure to its bank bailouts: 41% of GDP ,  Record Direct Takedown Leads To Huge Demand For 7 Year Bond Auction, Disproves "Rotation From Bonds Into Stocks "Are We Running Out Of Greater Fools? Not Again - Following Abysmal 2011, Only 10% Of Hedge Funds Are Outperforming The S&P In 2012Greeks Welcome Their New European Overlords... In German The surreal keeps getting surrealer. One could probably think that after being forced to pay for the privilege of having a job, to fund European bank solvency out of their pocket as part of the Greek "bailout", and finally to hand over their gold, the Greeks would have at least put up a fight. One would be wrong: instead of doing anything else than the occasional store front looting by marauding gangs, what Greeks are doing instead... is lining up for German lessons…, Projected PIIGS Pillage: 3233.5 Tons Of Gold To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European BanksArt Cashin On Gasoline Prices And The EconomyIt is estimated that a $.10 increase in the price of gasoline results in a decline of about $11.74 billion in personal income. [An average of 12,000 miles driven per year divided by an average fuel economy of 25 mpg, equals 461.54 gallon used per year per automobile. With an estimated 254.4 million registered vehicles, that comes to roughly 117.415 billion gallons used per year.] , Greece’s Lenders Have The Right To Seize National Gold Reserves“Ms. Katseli, an economist who was labor minister in the government of George Papandreou until she left in a cabinet reshuffle last June, was also upset that Greece’s lenders will have the right to seize the gold reserves in the Bank of Greece under the terms of the new deal.” , Initial Claims Print Unchanged From Last Week's Upward Revised 351KSnooze of an update from the BLS, which reported that this week's initial claims printed at 351K, slightly better than expected at 355K, but offset by the now perpetual (thus statistically impossible) upward revision in prior week claims, which increased from 348K to 351K, so unchanged week over week. Next week this 351K will be revised to 354K so on top of expectations. That this is driven primarily by ongoing abnormally hot weather (remember the lamentations over last year's cold winter and how it was impacting data adversely - odd how we continue to hear nothing about the opposite phenomenon) is largely ignored. Instead what we will hear is how claims printed at the lowest in 4 years (chart 1). And yet we will hear nothing about how when one adds initial claims to continuing claims to extended benefits, we are just a little bit higher than 4 years ago (chart 2). , Albert Edwards Channels Conan - All Hope Must Be Crushed For A True Bull Market To Emerge While the bulk of tangential themes in Albert Edwards' latest letter to clients "The Ice Age only ends when the market loses hope: there is still too much hope" is in line with what we have been discussing recently: myopic markets focused on momentum not fundamentals ("It's amazing though how the market can get itself all bulled up and becomes convinced that we are the start of a self-sustaining recovery. And funnily enough there's nothing more likely to get investors bullish than a rising market"), short-termism ("One thing you can say for the market is that it has an extremely short memory"), and that so far 2012 is a carbon copy of 2011 ("One thing you can say for the market is that it has an extremely short memory. Let us not forget that the performance of the equity market so far this year is almost exactly the same as we saw at the start of 2011 (in fact the performance has been similar for the last 5 months"), his prevailing topic is one of hope. Or rather the lack thereof, and how it has to be totally and utterly crushed before there is any hope of a true bull market. And just to make sure there is no confusion, unlike that other flip flopper, Edwards makes it all too clear that he is as bearish as ever. Which only makes sense: regardless of what the market does, which merely shows that inflation, read liquidity, is appearing in the most unexpected of places (read Edwards' colleague Grice must read piece on why CPI is the worst indicator of asset price inflation when everyone goes CTRL+P), the reality is that had it not been for another $2 trillion liquidity injection in the past 4-6 months by global central banks…how the hell can one be bullish when the only exponential chart out there is that of global central bank assets proving beyond a doubt that every risk indicator is fake??? , http://albertpeia.com/dollardebasementanddebtcrisis.htm     ‘Despite the latest shift in Congress, top economists warn that the steady erosion in the value of our dollars and the crushing weight of national debt have already moved the U.S. to the verge of financial chaos..."WE'VE NEVER BEEN IN THIS UNSTABLE POSITION IN THE ENTIRE CURRENCY HISTORY OF 3,000 YEARS..." ...came the belated, sobering assessment in The Wall Street Journal on October 1 from Columbia University Prof. Robert Mundell, Ph.D., a mainstream Nobel laureate – widely-regarded as the world's top currency expert. While Dr. Mundell warns that we're teetering at the edge of an unprecedented global debt crisis, other respected monetary experts concur:"WE'RE IN THE TERMINAL STAGES OF THE WORLD'S MOST GIGANTIC PYRAMID SCHEME ," set to vaporize the assets of the average citizen. Heed the clear warning signs here in my Fall 2011 Money Alert and protect what's left of your nest-egg, before the dollar collapses even further, rendering dollar-denominated assets VIRTUALLY WORTHLESS! …’ , Chart: ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece’ Feb 23rd, 2012 12 by News (The Weekly Standard) — The office of Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, sends along this chart, showing that ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece,’ as well as Ireland, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain http://albertpeia.com/debtpercapita.jpg 

   ,   Scandal: Greece To Receive "Negative" Cash From "Second Bailout" As It Funds Insolvent European BanksEarlier today, we learned the first stunner of the Greek "bailout package", which courtesy of some convoluted transmission mechanisms would result in some, potentially quite many, Greek workers actually paying to retain their jobs: i.e., negative salaries. Now, having looked at the Eurogroup's statement on the Greek bailout, we find another very creative use of "negative" numbers. And by creative we mean absolutely shocking and scandalous. First, as a reminder, even before the current bailout mechanism was in place, Greece barely saw 20% of any actual funding, with the bulk of the money going to European and Greek banks (of which the former ultimately also ended up funding the ECB and thus European banks). Furthermore, we already know that as part of the latest set of conditions of the second Greek bailout, an 'Escrow Account" would be established: this is simply a means for Greek creditors to have a senior claims over any "bailout" cash that is actually disbursed for things such as, you know, a Greek bailout, where the money actually trickles down where it is most needed - the Greek citizens. Here is where it just got surreal. It turns out that not only will Greece not see a single penny from the Second Greek bailout, whose entire Use of Proceeds will be limited to funding debt interest and maturity payments, but the country will actually have to fund said escrow! You read that right: the Greek bailout #2 is nothing but a Greek-funded bailout of Europe's insolvent banks... and the Greek constitution is about to be changed to reflect this! , Would You Support an Iran War If … : George Washington : 2/22/12  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonswhyonlyfoolssupportswaragainstIran.htm , Europe's Nash Equilibrium - A Tightly Stretched Rubber Band?Guest Post: Dangerous IdeasThere is a very clear relationship between economic growth and sufficient quantities of high quality energy. A crude measure of energy quality is its price. The lower the price for a unit of energy, the higher its quality (or net energy), but this is a very crude measure that can and often is heavily distorted by subsidies, market pressures, and other factors. As we squint at the world price for oil and note that Brent today is trading at $120 per barrel, it is clear that this high price is signaling that energy is now more expensive than it used to be. By adopting the belief that Peak Oil has been debunked, one runs the risk of missing the larger story that our current economic model is unsustainable. And that stocks and bonds and other traditional investments that derive a large portion of their current value from expectations of future growth simply may not perform anything like they have in the past. And worse, that recent and continuing efforts to revive the old economy by printing money risk the destruction of the money system itself. Given this all-too-human tendency to attempt to preserve the status quo, in this case by printing money, I must reiterate my advice to be sure that gold forms a significant portion of your core portfolio. , Complete Latest Hedge Fund Holdings AnalysisThe fine folks at Street of Walls have been kind enough to provide us with their latest 13F breakdown which looks at the position changes across America's 30 largest and most important hedge funds. ,  NAR Continues Tradition Of Making Mockery Of Itself, Revises December Home Sales From +5% to -0.5% And here is yet another reason why we will permanently ignore the pathologically lying real estate syndicate known as the NAR (link): December data was just revised from +5% to -0.5% (from 4.61 million to 4.38 million). Since December market expectations were for a +5.2% print, imagine the sheer horror the algos would have been faced with had the real number been reported on time. Needless to say, if this number had been unrevised, the January +4.3% increase would have been a decline. This way the aglos focused only on the immediate moment get two months of beats in a row. Huzzah. Anyone who trades anything based on this borderline criminal self-reporting enterprise needs to have their head checked. In other news, when will the LIBOR investigation finally target the NAR? , Why The Core Needs To Save The PeripheryWe have discussed, at length, the symbiotic (or perhaps parasitic) relationship between the banking system in Europe and the governments (read Central Banks). The LTRO has done nothing but bring them into a closer and more mutually-reinforcing chaotic relationship as we suspect many of the Italian and Spanish banks have gone all-in on the ultimate event risk trade in their government's debt. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the bulk of the Greek bailout money will flow directly to the European banking system and Credit Suisse has recently updated the bank exposure (by country) to peripheral sovereign debt that shows just how massively dependent each peripheral nation's banking system is on its own government for capital and more importantly, how the core (France and Germany) remains massively exposed (in terms of Tier 1 Capital) to the PIIGS. Retroactive (negative) salary cuts may well not be the worst of what is to come as the bankers deleveraging returns to bite them in a phoenix-like resurrection of sovereign risk on now even-more sovereign-bloated (and levered) balance sheets. , It's Official - Greece Unveils The Negative Salary, And A Whole New Meaning For "Pay To Play" Zombie Housing Market Chronicles - Fed Fails Again To Stimulate A Housing RecoveryWhile today the association of real estate advertising agents known as the NAR will tell us that the home market is improving - an economic observation which we will completely ignore as any data out of the NAR is now proven to be manipulated and fraudulent, a far better indication of the ongoing implosion in the housing market, and more importantly - the sheer powerlessness of the Fed to do anything about it - came out of the latest weekly Mortgage Brokers Association, which showed that refi applications were down 4.8% W/W, while purchases slid 2.9%, after collapsing 8.4% in the past week. , No, This Is Not Mount Olympus... ...This is a chart of the Greek bank stock index, which has gone from an all out demented euphoria to suicidal depression in 5 days, as the rumor that Greece is "saved" has been replaced with the reality that Greece is still "completely broke" ,  Greek 1 Year Hits 763%WTF Did All That Printed Money Go? : ilene : 02/22/2012 - A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enema. ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com MARKETS ARE GETTING TIRED February 22, 2012Clearly it’s hard for markets to consistently produce 3%-5% monthly returns without taking a break. This is what we’re now seeing absent—more positive news. Jobless Claims data Thursday should shed some light on conditions as will next week’s Employment Report which needs to verify a better trend in conditions. Gallup is projecting an unemployment rate in excess of 9% again although they don’t seasonally adjust like the BS BLS does.We read yesterday some breathless financial commentators remarking that mutual funds showed the first positive fund flows since the previous January. That’s a nice assertion, but January is always a time for people to invest for their IRA or 401K and so forth. Surprisingly ETF fund flow data from the previous bullish week showed $1.2 billion in outflows for both equity and bond sectors.Basically, markets are just getting tired. We’ve remarked to members regarding weekly DeMark 9 count indicators which normally reflect “trend exhaustion”. This is not to say these counts are perfect and may just indicate some sideways movement ahead. And, that’s all we may be seeing despite how much liquidity global central banks are feeding bulls. Meanwhile the SEC’s Mary Shapiro said she’s worried about HFT (High Frequency Trading). Worrying isn’t a policy. Wake me when you’re on to something real… , Fitch downgrades Greece on debt swap plan , Greek Debt Deal Done—Yeah Right  Greg Hunter | I keep asking myself, when is a deal not a deal?

 

  Meanwhile, China Moves From Currency Wars To Trade Wars Greek CDS Trigger Priced In For Greece, "Tomorrow" Has Arrived   The day dawns with a deal for Greece that is full of smoke and mirrors; lies and deceptions. , More Leaked Greece Details: Downside Case Sees Funding Needs Soar From €136 Billion To €245 BillionJPM Hikes Crude Price Forecast, Sees $120 WTI By Election Time The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It Is Going To Go Even Higher  http://albertpeia.com/gaspriceshigher.htm  ,  Drudgereport: White House seeks to deflect blame... GALLUP: Unemployment Rises to 9% In February... SATISFACTION WITH COUNTRY WORST SINCE CARTER... Michelle hits the slopes in Aspen month after Hawaiian holiday... 16th vacation in 3 years... For Baby Boomers, it's now 'work til you drop'... Gas prices highest ever for this time of year... $4.93 in Los Angeles...  ,  Guest Post: Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran Let’s be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand.  War is the ultimate tribally vicarious experience.  Anyone, even pudgy armchair generals with deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy, can revel in the victories and actions of armies a half a world away as if they themselves stood on the front lines risking possible annihilation at the hands of dastardly cartoon-land “evil doers”.  They may have never done a single worthwhile thing in their lives, but at least they can bask in the perceived glory of their country’s military might.   This attitude of swollen ego through proxy is not limited to the “Right” side of the political spectrum as some might expect.  In fact, if the terrifyingly demented presidency of Barack Obama has proven anything so far, it is that elements of the “Left” are just as bloodthirsty as any NeoCon, and just as ready to blindly support the political supremacy of their “side” regardless of any broken promises, abandoned principles, or openly flaunted hypocrisies.  No matter how reasonable or irrefutable the arguments against a particular conflict are, there will ALWAYS be a certain percentage of the populace which ignores all logic and barrels forward to cheerlead violent actions which ultimately only benefit a select and elite few. , The Real Mega-Trend That Guarantees the Cost of Living Will Rise http://gainspainscapital.com February 21st, 2012 , Guest Post: The Great ECB-OSI Bond-Swap Scam massive 150bn euro bill exclusively reserved for the EU-IMF funding of the "official" (OSI) and the private (PSI) sector participations in the Greek writedown on Greek debt may be the key factor behind the ongoing delays in the eurozone finance ministers' approval of a second bailout for Greece. This factor remains concealed behind media hysteria about the supposed failure of Athens to comply with a brutal austerity diktat by the EU-IMF-ECB 'troika'....The question is how will the Eurogroup approve these PSI participation costs that far exceed the supposed gain from the 100bn euro "haircut" but also leave nothing to cover Greece's debt servicing obligations for 2012-2014 of at least another 70bn euros to say nothing of possible budget deficits due to the collapse of public revenues in the fifth consecutive year of a Greek depression. All the histrionics about forcing Greece to set up a separate “escrow account that would give legal priority to debt and interest payments over paying for government expenses”, is nothing but a smokescreen for piling massive sums of fresh public debt on Greece's shoulders without lending a single penny to make up for the economic catastrophe meted out on the country. , Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow Once we see what Europe is really going to do, not what they have told us they might do, the real show gets underway. Everything up till now was just a preamble, a mincemeat of words flowing like a unsubstantiated river from mouths full of fluff, orated by the deceptors… , As Everything Disconnects And Everything Is Soaring, Morgan Stanley Issues A Warning The latest report from Morgan Stanley's Graham Secker can be summarized simply as follows: i) in January everything has disconnected as traditional linkages between asset classes have broken down, ii) also in January every major asset class (equities, treasurys, gold, oil) was up materially, iii) such a phenomenon has been seen only 5 times in the past 5 years, iv) a double digit decline followed 3 of the past 4 such surges. , European Insurers: How Long Before Capital Denial Becomes Capital Punishment …the last week or so has seen insurers start to deteriorate as perhaps the market will enforce its own capital expectations even if regulators are unwilling to. ,  Gold Surges As Market Remembers Definition Of "Dilution" Yesterday, when charting the global multi-trillion central bank stealth reliquification (aka the primary driver for the market to surge 20% in the past several months, and since "the market, or Russell 2000 is the economy" just as the ChairSatan, to result in what naive commentators define as an economic bounce), we said "As a reminder, when gold was at $1900 last summer, central banks had pumped about $2 trillion less into the markets. We expect the market to grasp this discrepancy shortly." With gold about $30 bucks higher, the market is finally starting to "grasp it", and is now back to $1755, as silver passes $34. ,  As Dow Passes 13,000 In Nominal Terms, Here Is The "Real" PictureThree charts that perhaps will calm the nominal euphoria as Dow 13000 screams across the screens. Since May 2008, the Dow is unchanged in price and down 50% in 'real' gold terms. The picture is just as disheartening from the start of 2011 and 2012. Next stop Dow 20,000 and Gold 20,000?   Wondering why the DJIA just passed 13K again? Wonder no more: as the chart below shows it is entirely due to the nearly $7 trillion pumped by global central banks into the world stock markets just in the past 4 years. As Sean Corrigan from Diapason notes, the aggregate global central bank balance sheet has doubled in four years, after doubling in the 5 years before that. We would add that with the entire centrally planned ponzi scheme hell bent on preserving the illusion of nominal gains, global liquidity is now fungibly sloshing from one market to another with absolutely zero resistance whatsoever. At this rate, it should double again in 3 years, then 2, and so on. Will the Dow hit 52K in 5 years in that case? Why most certainly. Just ask any remaining citizens of the Weimar Republic… , Guest Post: Scale Invariant Behaviour In Avalanches, Forest Fires, And Default Cascades: Lessons For Public Policy We have lived through a long period of financial management, in which failing financial institutions have been propped up by emergency intervention (applied somewhat selectively). Defaults have not been permitted. The result has been a tremendous build-up of paper ripe for burning. Had the fires of default been allowed to burn freely in the past we may well have healthier financial institutions. Instead we find our banks loaded up with all kinds of flammable paper products; their basements stuffed with barrels of black powder. Trails of black powder run from bank to bank, and it's raining matches. , Iceland’s Viking Victory London Telegraph | Fitch has upgraded the country to investment grade BBB – with a stable outlook

 Goldman Raises Stop On Its Long Russell 2000 Reco, Cites Heightened Concerns Of Greek Default The Triumvirate of Wall Street/ the Fed/ and US Politicians is Crumbling Pt 2 : Phoenix Capital... : 02/17/2012 - ‘One thing is for certain, the litigation is beginning to shift from minor players to major players at the core of the Financial Crisis. , Greek CAC Trigger Walk Thru  While we have done our best to explain what the implications are of the actions of the various parties in the Greek/German/ECB/Euro swap/default/CAC/PSI/Austerity events, it is perhaps worth one more try to address how we see this playing out and exactly what the ECB just did. The weakness in GGBs today along with the rise in the cost of Greek basis packages (a hedged bond trade that looks to profit from a credit event or compression) suggest markets are beginning to wake up to reality but the dead-currency-walking behavior of the EUR (and ES) since last night's close suggests many remain sidelined or have all their chips on the constantly-tilting table. In the end every private holder will write-off 50 percent permanently and those that live in a mark to market world (fewer and fewer live in that world in Europe) probably lose another 20 points or so. CDS will be triggered and we will be told how great it was that Greece avoided a default and that it is an isolated case. Is that scenario priced in? , Could ECB Greek Bond Swap Trigger Ratings Default?at The Wall Street Journal , Greek 1 Year At 629%, Biggest One Day Jump In Yield EverThe equities market is acting like we know Greece's default will be orderly and no threat to financial stability. It is also acting like we know the U.S. economy can grow smartly while Europe contracts in recession. Lastly, the high level of confidence exuded by market participants suggests we know central bank liquidity is endlessly supportive of equities. What do we really know about the coming default of Greece? Whether we openly call it default or play semantic games with "voluntary haircuts," we know bondholders will absorb tremendous losses that are equivalent to default. We also suspect some bondholders will refuse to play nice and accept their voluntary haircuts. Beyond that, how much do we know about how this unprecedented situation will play out? , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘Speaking of defaults Americans and Europeans dissatisfied with bailing out banks and countries should examine what has happened with Iceland. The country defaulted, banks failed, bankers were prosecuted and jailed. This was in 2008 as you may recall. The country is now on the mend and Fitch just upgraded the country’s credit rating to investment grade (BBB+) with a stable outlook. You see, you don’t need bailouts and money printing. Iceland is the anti-Keynes Bernanke/Geithner/Paulson/Bush/Obama story.’ , 'Dow Theory' Suggests Caution Ahead The Wall Street Journal ‘Transportation stocks are once again flashing a warning signal to the broader stock market. , Commercial Bank Consumer Credit Declines Sharply In January Forbes   Charles Biderman, Contributor , Christine Lagarde Is Done Being Greece’s Sugar Momma Getting A Grip On Rising Costs Of Grub And Gas  Forbes / John Debosz   , Earnings Prepped To Fall Off A Cliffat The Wall Street JournalThe Latest Market Craze: Stock Trading Robots Reacting To Stories Written By... RobotsIt appears that while we were busy over the past month spreading the Greek pre- and post-bankruptcy balance sheet, and otherwise torturing Excel (something we urge other financial journalists to try once in a while - go ahead, it doesn't bite. In fact, it is almost as friendly as your favorite Powerpoint) our peer at such reputable financial publications as Forbes, and many others, were laying off carbon-based reporters and replacing them with... robots. As Mediabistro reports, "Forbes has joined a group of 30 publishers using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories. Here’s more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes‘ website: "“Narrative Science has developed a technology solution that creates rich narrative content from data. Narratives are seamlessly created from structured data sources and can be fully customized to fit a customer’s voice, style and tone. Stories are created in multiple formats, including long form stories, headlines, Tweets and industry reports with graphical visualizations.”" In other words, with well over 70% of stock trading now done by robots, we have gotten to a point where robots write headlines and stories read, reacted to and traded by robots. Surely, what can possibly go wrong. And here we were this morning, wondering why the market is not only broken but plain dumb. , Guest Post: Exploring The Not-So-Altruistic Aspects Of The "Buffett Rule"Although no one can be sure of Buffett's motives, it would be naïve to believe that .. Buffett has not considered the benefits of pushing through this tax structure. Higher taxes are always problems for entrepreneurs and regular people in the economy. However, they're often beneficial to the well-connected, who receive government bailouts and favors. And with Buffett even on the president's lips, he is becoming more connected to the power mechanism in D.C. every day. With many of Berkshire's companies, your loss as a taxpayer will be their gains. , China: ‘World Bank president should be selected on merit – not nationality’ AP/Washington Post | China now hinting it would like a seat at the VIP club table in New York City , A Depressed World Economy is Here To Stay: Bob Chapman Reports Prisonplanet.com | By decree, by the privately owned Federal Reserve, zero interest rates are here to stay. , Banker Occupied Europe and America Stephen Lendman | Money power rules. Across Europe and America, governments follow banker diktats. They demand economies and people suffer to assure they’re paid. , Gas Hts $3.99 in San Diego 10News.com | Average Price Of Gallon Of Gas Is $3.99. , CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression US News | After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression. ,

The Reporter Is Either Wrong Or This Is A Bad Deal For Greece Bank Bonds Not Buying The Rally Sprott's John Embry:“The Current Financial System Will Be Totally Destroyed“ America's Discretionary Spending Well Has Run DryQuote Of The Week “Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” – President James Garfield, 2 weeks before his assassination. , SocGen Sums It Up: "The Time For Patching It Up Is Over" Bullish Sentiment Takes A Diveat The Wall Street Journal , Greece is Not Lehman 2.0… As I’ll Show You, It’s Far Far Worse… February 16th, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com , Morgan Stanley Smith Barney: Yep, We're Still Bearishat The Wall Street Journal , While You Were Sleeping, Central Banks Flooded The World In LiquidityThere are those who have been waiting to buy undilutable precious metals in response to a headline announcement from the Fed that it is starting to buy up hundreds of billions of Treasurys or MBS.  This is understandable - after all that is precisely the trigger that the headline scanning robots which account for 90% of market action in the past year are programmed to do. , As US Debt Hits New Record, Fiscal 2012 Tax Revenues Are 10% Higher Than Debt IssuanceToday, the US total debt rose by $32 billion touching on a new record high of $15.392 trillion. As a reminder this is just the beginning: as we noted yesterday, according to the president's own budget total US debt is now expected to surpasses the greatest and final debt ceiling of $16.4 trillion just around September, and likely sooner with the addition of the $160 billion in additional debt needed to fund the extension of the Bush temporary yet perpetual tax cut through the end of 2012. So while we know that total debt to GDP is already over 100% and unlikely to ever decline back to double digits, thus putting into question the marginal utility of debt to generate further economic growth, another just as important question is what is the incremental utility of tax revenue relative to debt issuance, i.e., is America now issuing more debt than it is collecting from tax revenues: a step which would further cement its status as a banana debt republic. , ECB To Fund Eurozone Central Banks As PSI SweetenerA number of headlines from Bloomberg, via Die Welt, that the ECB will undergo a bond swap on their greek government bonds and the 'profit' will flow to governments. This is absolute delusion. The ECB claims EUR50bn nominal value of GGBs - so likely took a EUR20-30bn loss on this given the prices they bought at under the SMP and the current market price. We explained last week (must-read) the delusional nature of these profits (given the losses that occur once the new bonds break) and assume this is yet another attempt to make market participants believe they wil help with PSI. However, there is more to this in our humble opinion. Since the ECB says they will distribute profits (which we know are illusory) to governments - it is nothing but a covert attempt to funnel money (think printing) to local government central banks - and the illusory profits here are simply giving away free money. Perhaps the loud screaming over the pain associated with even an 'orderly' Greek default is enough that the ECB needs to placate them with some new freshly printed money? For now, the PSI remains in limbo for the hold-out blocking stake reasons we have discussed at length - if the ECB were to step into the market and buy/swap with hold-outs all of their UK-law bonds at Par (for huge gains to the hedgies) then perhaps we get a deal done - but this would be astounding and leave the rest of the European sovereign debt market disabled as investors pushed for the same deal and vigilantes drove Portugal and then Spain to this point...Is it perhaps cheaper for the Troika to fund the ECB's EUR30bn loss (and let Greece default) than pay the EUR130bn for them to stay?Two formal requests to Mr. Draghi - please show where the profit is booked on your balance sheet and also explain how a notional swap (no debt reduction) in any helps the Greeks? , The Farce-Hole Gets Deeper: Obama's "Robo-Settlement For Votes" Cost To Taxpayers: $40 BillionPlunging deeper into the farce-hole, the FT reports tonight that Obama's foreclosure settlement with the banks over their improper seizure of tax-paying US citizens' homes will in fact be subsidized by those very same US taxpayers. It is a hidden clause (that has not been made public yet) that allows the banks to count future loan modifications under the $30bn (taxpayer funded) HAMP initiative towards their $35bn agreement to restructure obligations under the new settlement. As the FT goes on to note, BofA will be able to use future mods made under HAMP towards the $7.6bn in borrower assistance it is committed to provide - which means, in a (as TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky describes) 'scandalous' turn of events the bank will receive payments for averting a borrower default and be reimbursed by the taxpayer for the principal write-down. We have much stronger words for how we are feeling about this but Barofsky sums it up calmly "It turns the notion that this is about justice and accountability on its head". Are the Big Five banks truly beyond the law? Credit Suisse The Sequel: "Probability Of The Largest Disorderly Default Loss In History On March 20 Has Increased" A week ago we presented an excerpt from Credit Suisse's most excellent piece "The Flaw" - merely the latest in one of the best overviews of the neverending Greek soap opera by William Porter. Yet every soap opera eventually ends. Although when it comes to Nielsen ratings, the denouement is usually a whimper. In the case of Greece, it will be anything but. Yet listening to the daily cacafony of din from Europe's leaders, who are likely more clueless than the average reader as to what is really going on, one may be left with the impression that there is a simple solution to the problem, and Greece may be "saved... in hours." It can't. In fact, as of today, Porter's s conclusion is: "we are left with a sense that the probability of delivering the largest default loss in history in a disorderly way on or before 20 March has increased relative to doing so in an orderly way."

Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  APPLE RUMORS & GREECE HALT RALLY February 15, 2012 , Inflation, Stealth Inflation, and How to Maintain Your Purchasing Power Against Both February 15th, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com   ,  A&G's AIG Moment Approaching: Moody's Downgrades Generali, Cuts Megainsurer Allianz Outlook To Negative As Greece Crashes And Burns, Troika Arrives In Portugal With "Soothing Words Of Support"What is better than a one-front European war on insolvency? Why two-fronts of courseGuest Post: Bad Week For FreedomIt was a bad week for freedom loving people, but I believe there are enough patriots left in this country to change our course. We are being buried under a blizzard of lies on a daily basis. We have a choice. We can support the existing corrupt crony capitalist establishment (Obama & Romney) or we can declare war on lies, deceit and misinformation by rallying behind the only person who would truly attempt to reverse decades of corruption, sleaze, incompetence, bloat, debt accumulation, and a warped version of free market capitalism – Ron Paul. He is the only public figure willing to level with the American people and tell them the truth. Will we let the concept of truth fade out of the world? The choice is ours. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” –   George Orwell Biderman Beyond Baffled by B.O.'s BudgetIn his best Lewis Black impression, TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman succinctly destroys the 'growth' myth behind Obama's budget plan as nothing but a handout and money-printing exercise in futility and drain-circling. Based on the $3.8tn budget plan, the TrimTabs truth-seeker notes that current government tax revenues are about $2.4tn, and growing at no more than $100bn each year, making the math surprisingly simple - we spend around $300bn per month and receive only $200bn with the missing $100bn to pay for the US government's largesse (income shortfall) coming from - 'printing money'. The spin is, of course, that revenues will somehow magically start to grow faster than spending and shrink the budget deficit. , The Hidden Taxes In Obama's Budget Moody's may downgrade 17 banks, securities firms , US stocks fall as Greek talks lumber; Apple falls , Fed's Fisher Dismisses QE3 as 'Wall Street Fantasy' The Wall Street Journal , STOCKS FINALLY DIVE, TEMPERS EXPLODE IN EUROPE: Here's What You Need To KnowBusiness Insider , Market Recap: Stocks Slip as Greek Bailout Decision PostponedWall St. Cheat Sheet , Obama Cites Rising Gas Prices – Up 83 Percent Under His Tenure – Among Reasons to Extend Payroll Tax Cut CNS News , The Federal Reserve’s Explicit Goal: Devalue The Dollar 33% Business Insider , Li(e)borgate Set To Become "Next Big Litigation Thing" As Lawsuits Against Libor Banks AvalancheLast week we discussed the gradual unraveling of a topic we had been following for the past 3 years, namely the brazen and criminal manipulation in the Libor market, which directly and indirectly impacts a stunning $350 trillion worth of securities (and thus, their implied risk, and hence, prices). Today we are delighted to learn that the retribution against these banks who have been artificially representing to the market that they are in better condition than in reality (courtesy of Libor's "strict" self-reporting approach), are beginning to see lawsuits filed against them, with Schwab merely the latest out of the gate. And just as fraudclosure was the litigation topic of 2010 and 2011, sit down and watch as Li(E)borgate explodes into the biggest litigation pain for banks, with litigation expenses that could easily surpass both the robosigning scandal (and its robo-settlement) and the escalating banks Reps and Warranties scandal. Because as recent evidence confirms, there are likely emails proving manipulation exists black on white, as discussed last week. Which means that the case of Schwab, noted last summer by Reuters, is about to become a pandemic. , Complete Jeff Gundlach "Fall Of The [BLANK] Empire" SlideshowYour listened the call, now enjoy the Gundlach slides in the leisure of your own unrehypothecated concrete bunker, 50 feet below sea level.Rumor Regurgitation Time: China To The Rescue... All Over AgainIn case one is wondering what lit a fire under the EURUSD and the ES' ass in the past 30 minutes, why it is the trusty old fall back - China, to which all algos respond every single time like stung donkeys as if on command. Because just as the EURUSD was about to retrace the lows as the realization that the EOD rumor was nothing but an infrared herring, something else had to step in an continue to rumor-based levitation. , David Rosenberg - "Let's Get Real - Risks Are Looming Big Time"Earlier, you heard it from Jeff Gundlach, whom one can not accuse (at least not yet) of sleeping on his laurels and/or being a broken watch, who told his listeners to "reduce risk right now" especially in the frenzied momo stocks. Now, it is David Rosenberg's turn who tries to refute the presiding transitory dogma that 'things are ok" and that a Greek default will be contained (no, it won't be, and if nobody remembers what happened in 2008, here is a reminder of everything one needs to know ahead of the "controlled", whatever that is, Greek default). Alas, it will be to no avail, as one of the dominant features of the lemming herd is that it will gladly believe the grandest of delusions well past the ledge. On the other hand, they don't call it the pain trade for nothing. Infographic: Visualizing The True Cost Of War While we have shown some quite fascinating infographics (here and here) from the folks at Demonocracy, this one may be the most informative. Because while everyone knows by now that if the global "bailout" to preserve the insolvent ponzi were to be paid in crisp, physical $100 bills, the amount of money required would fill countless skyscrapers, and only pales compared to the the amount of money needed to fund the insolvent welfare state which at last check was at over a quarter of a quadrillion, it is another less appreciated aspect of the daily US spending routine that is arguably just as big an offender when it comes to endless wanton spending: the cost of war. Below we present just that, in a series of simple, easy to understand charts that even Nobel peace prize winners should grasp.Many Of You Will Not Believe Some Of The Things Americans Are Doing Just To Survive http://albertpeia.com/survivinginamerica.htm ‘You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach.  Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come as quite a shock.  Many of you will not believe some of the things Americans are doing just to survive.  Some families are living in sewers and drain tunnels, some families are living in tents, some families are living in their cars, some families will make ketchup soup for dinner tonight and some families are even eating rats.  Some homeless shelters in America are so overloaded that they are actually sending people out to live in the woods.  As you read this, there are close to 50 million Americans that are living below the poverty line, and that number rises a little bit more every single day.  America was once known as the greatest nation on earth, but now there is decay and economic despair almost everywhere you look.  Yes, money certainly cannot buy happiness, but the lack of it sure can bring a lot of pain.  As the economy continues to decline, the suffering that we see all around us is going to get a lot worse, and that is a very frightening thing to think about.The following is a half hour documentary produced by the BBC entitled "Poor America".  Trust me, this is a must watch.  Your heart will break as you hear some American children talk about what they have to do forfood ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=suJCvkazrTc ,  Guest Post: Wall Street Has A Sad :-(  Michael “Moneyball” Lewis was the first one to, er, expose us to the term Big Swinging Dick. His his first novel, Liar’s Poker, was full of them. The BSDs were the guys on the trading floor who brought more rain than El Niño. But the BSDs have gone a little soft now. Even the famous Wall Street bull has been caged. And some, like number one banking fanboi Dick Bove say that bankers been “castrated” altogether by new regulation. Regulation which many argue does not go far enough. Regardless, the Masters of the Universe suddenly find themselves feeling the pain that many of the rest of us have been feeling for the past four years. Only their ways of coping with it are a little different than what you might expect.

   News Flash: The Rally Is Over…For Now  The Wall Street Journal 2-10-12 ‘..That’s enough of a pullback for Mr. Arbeter to call a near-term top. He sees the S&P 500 tumbling into the 1290 to 1320 range by early March, with tech stocks as the ”most overbought and vulnerable to some profit taking.”..’ , This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like In The 21st Century http://albertpeia.com/21centurydepressiongreecedusup.htm   2-10-12 ,  Macroeconomic problems will not go away MarketWatch  , S&P Downgrades 34 Of 37 Italian Banks - Full StatementThe Great Squeeze: Asset Prices Will Fall, While the Cost of Living Will Rise February 13th, 2012  http://gainspainscapital.com  ,  The next Black Swan is coming (Updated)at MarketWatch By Cody Willard CBO Solution to Budget Crisis – Everyone Bend Over!  ,  Young Adults Jobless And Living At Home With Mom And Dad?  http://albertpeia.com/joblesslivinhome.htm  , January Gas Prices At All-Time Highs20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit   http://albertpeia.com/20thingshellholeamericasfuturedeathofdetroit.htm ,  Midday Market Report: Poor Retail Sales Drag Down Equities  Minyanville   ,  The Triumvirate of Wall Street/ The Fed/ and the White House is Beginning to Crumble February 14th, 2012 ‘The Obama administration, as it pursues re-election in 2012, is doing all it can to claim that the US economy is in fact not quite as bad as previously thought. One of the tactics is to massage GDP and jobs data. True, this practice has been in place for over a decade, but the recent January jobs report from the BLS has set, shall we say, a new high-water mark for “adjustments.” According to the BLS, we ADDED 243,00 jobs that month. That’s an odd claim given that the BLS admits, in the very same report, that without adjustments, the US actually LOST 2.69 MILLION jobs in JanuaryThis is roughly a discrepancy of 3 MILLION jobs.   ,  MOODY'S Downgrades Italy, Portugal; Changes Outlook on France, UK to Negative...  , Rating Agencies vs Reggie Middleton Augmented Reality, Part 1 : Reggie Middleton : 02/14/2012 It's getting to the point where the rating agencies are so far behind the reality curve that they are putting the system at risk again, and again, and again... , Jeff Gundlach Live Webcast On "The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire"Market Spike Driven By Latest Bout Of Idiocy Out Of GreeceWondering why the market just viagra'ed up to green on absolutely nothing? , Juncker Buries Hopes Of An "Imminent" Greek Deal, EURUSD SlidingJim Grant On Gold-Backed Bonds And 'The Hope Leeches'"Uh, Marriner Eccles: We Have A Problem" - Obama Predicts He Will Breach Debt Ceiling Two Months Before ElectionGuest Post: It's Not Just Gasoline Consumption That's Tanking, It's All EnergyFinancial Illiteracy Widespread In America  Forbes  Robert Lenzner  ,  EU Says Many Members Vulnerable Feb 14th, 2012  (The Wall Street Journal)  ,  2012 Update: What Part III of the financial crisis will look like     http://pro.stansberryresearch.com/1011PSIENDVD/PPSIN223 http://albertpeia.com/WARNINGfromPorterStansberry.htm  ,   Why Did Economists Get It So Wrong in 2011? The Wall Street Journal  ,   Guest Post: Charting The Federal Reserve's Assets - 1915-2012the Fed has degenerated from a by and large passive institution (dealing only in high-quality self-liquidating commercial paper and gold) to an active pursuant of junk, an enabler of wars, a ‘benevolent’ combatant of the depressions of its own creation…’  ,  Average Gasoline Price Jumps To Highest In 5 MonthsAthens Burning As Police Runs Out Of Tear Gas Unemployment, Foreclosures, Rising Debts and Despair: AMERICA’S SOCIAL CRISIS Bob Chapman | 2012 is going to be a difficult year… ,  Leading Economist: “We’re In a No Win Situation… This Is End of the World Type Stuff” *Video* Mac Slavo | This is an interview that shouldn’t be missed. , Is Greek Side Deal With Finland On Bailout Collateral About To Kill Greek Rescue Again?European Financials At Worst Levels In Two WeeksGuest Post: The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, And Cascading DefaultThe Daily Market Report Feb 13th, 2012  News The Cradle of Western Civilization Burns  (USAGOLD) Athens Burns: buildings on fire as chaos, riots flare up RT | Technocrats are failing miserably, as Greece realizes it has been completely looted by Euro bankersMortgage Settlement Will Plunge Real Estate Values Greg Hunter | It is official. State and federal governments have condoned forgery, perjury and fraudIs Okun's Law The Latest Casualty Of Central Planning...And BLS Seasonal AdjustmentsOkun's rule-of-thumb relates the long-term empirical finding that a country's unemployment rate is closely related to a country's output (or GDP) - perfectly sensible and comprehensible. In fact to be a little more explicit, it is the change in unemployment that is more notable in its relationship to the potential GDP (the output gap). His original work noted that a 3% increase in output corresponds to a 1% decline in unemployment rates (and/or rise in labor force participation, rise in hours worked, and rise in labor productivity) but as Goldman Sachs notes this week, Okun's Law has broken. As they point out, even though US real GDP growth has averaged a meager 2.5% pace since the end of the recession, the unemployment rate has fallen almost two percentage points from its peak. There are three implications, in our view: the unemployment rate is hopelessly miscalculated (and is much higher); potential growth is much lower than economists have been expecting (not such good news for real growth); and the multiplier effect of money has dropped structurally (in other words the implied money flow from more workers is not circulating the way it empirically has to juice growth). It seems to us that none of these are good for growth as the reality of a higher unemployment rate (BLS adjustments aside) is negative, lower potential for growth impacts earnings expectations (as we are already seeing in company and analyst outlooks which has perplexed those market watchers pinning their hopes on the jobless rate), and the balance sheet recessionary impacts of the 'employed' minimizing debt rather than maximizing potential gain is a further drag. Either way, as Goldman notes the potential growth rate going forward (2012 and 2013) is likely to remain quite weak, in the neighborhood of 2% in line with the CBO's dismal views and this could be further exacerbated by the drop in labor force participation we have noted vociferously. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  ACCIDENT-PRONE MARKETS  February 10, 2012 ‘With volume remaining holiday light and many indicators signaling overbought conditions, we’ve suggested markets were an accident waiting to happen… ,  Taxpayers Are Owed $133B From Bailouts    http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1416049583001/taxpayers-are-owed-133b-from-bailouts/?playlist_id=87093  ,  Investors Take Note: A Seismic Shift Has Begun in China… February 10th, 2012  http://gainspainscapital.com   ,   Anxiety over incomes hits consumer morale  , The Epic Farce Continues - US Attorneys General "Robosigned" A Foreclosure Settlement Which Does Not ExistProof Of LTRO Bank Stigma, Or Why Mario Draghi Is LyingObama Revises CBO Deficit Forecast, Predicts 110% Debt-To-GDP By End Of 2013, Worse Deficit In 2012 Than 2011Ben Bernanke FTMFW Quote Of The DayAnd the winner is... BERNANKE: HOUSING MAY NO LONGER BE VIEWED AS SECURE INVESTMENT … Here are some other pearls of ‘is dumb’ from helicopter ben b.s. shalom bernanke : http://albertpeia.com/30bunglebenbernankequotes.htm    ,  Manipulation And Abuse Confirmed In $350 Trillion MarketJust over three years ago, Zero Hedge first pointed out some dramatically meaningless inconsistencies in one of the world's most important numbers (which also happens to be "self-reported" and without any checks and balances) - the London Interbank Offered Rate, better known as LIBOR, which is the reference rate of a rather large market. Following that, we made a stronger case that the Libor, should really be abbreviated to LiEbor in "On the Uselessness of Libor" from June 2009, which alleged that this number is essentially manipulated, potentially with malicious intent. That alone got us a very unhappy retort from the British Banker Association (BBA) which is the banker-owned entity set to "determine" what the daily Libor fixing is based on how banks themselves tell us their liquidity conditions are. Well, as has been getting more and more obvious over the past two years, our allegations were 100% correct, and have now manifested in a series of articles digging through the dirt, manipulation and outright crime behind this completely fabricated number. And yet this should be the most aggravated offence in the capital markets, because LIBOR just so happens is the primary driver in determining implicit risk as a reference rate for $350 trillion worth of financial products. That's right - that one little number, now thoroughly discredited, has downtstream effects on $350,000,000,000,000.00 worth of notional assets. That's a lot. And while we are confident that nobody will ever go to prison for LIBOR fraud, which has explicitly been leading investors and speculators alike to believe that risk is far lower than where it truly is…  ,  All The World’s Gold by News  (NumberSlueth)  http://albertpeia.com/gold.jpg  ,  [ AP: I personally believe significant amounts of american gold reseves have been looted, amounts misstated consistent with the typical patterns of fraud / theft endemic to america in these rather grim, desperate times accompanied by pervasive fraud and corruption. ]  ,   University of Michigan consumer sentiment (prelim) fell to 72.5 in Feb, below market expectations of 74.0, vs 75.0 Jan.  ,  Violence erupts as Greece ponders tough terms for new bailout  ,  US trade gap widened to -$48.8 bln in Dec, near expectations of -$48.0 bln, vs -$47.06 bln in Nov.  ,   MARKETS SINK AND GREECE IS FALLING APART: Here's What You Need To Know  Business Insider  ,  Unemployment, Foreclosures, Rising Debts and Despair: AMERICA’S SOCIAL CRISIS Bob Chapman | 2012 is going to be a difficult year   , 2-10-12   Leading Economist: “We’re In a No Win Situation… This Is End of the World Type Stuff” *Video*  Mac Slavo | This is an interview that shouldn’t be missed http://www.prisonplanet.com/leading-economist-%E2%80%9Cwe%E2%80%99re-in-a-no-win-situation%E2%80%A6-this-is-end-of-the-world-type-stuff%E2%80%9D-video.html  ,    David Rosenberg: Bearish And Sticking To It The Wall Street Journal ’ Rosenberg: We have had three years of fiscal deficits around 10% of GDP. That’s the sort of red ink generally reserved for world wars. We have zero percent policy rates now for three years and a pledge for another three, and on top of that, a central bank that has blown out its balance sheet to a level that is now equivalent to 20% of GDP. With this massive government incursion, wouldn’t it make sense that the economy would have at least some modest growth? The question will ultimately be answered down the road as to how things look when all this largess unwinds — at some point, the piper gets paid. Rosenberg goes on to describe how the economy’s dependence on government intervention …The economy is sucking off Uncle Sam’s teat — that is the primary source of this seemingly resilient economy. Over the past two years, the American public’s reliance on public funds (housing goodies, expanded welfare, food stamps, extended jobless benefits and other subsidies) has surged 7.5% to 23% (67 million people supported). This metric usually goes down after recessions end — but not this time. And to put it all in perspective, in the severe 1981-82 recession, there was only a 6% increase (and then it fell sharply). So you may want to call the economy “resilient”, but keep in mind that it is still being heavily medicated’ ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com SLOW ASCENT FOR MARKET CONTINUES February 09, 2012 ‘Jobless Claims (358K vs 370K expected) continued to show some improvement but inside the numbers was one standout data point—there was no gain in “new hires”. So we’re still just seeing people falling off the roles , Naked Capitalism Thursday, February 9, 2012The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement Yves Smith ,  DJ EU CRISIS ROAD MAP: Key Milestones Ahead http://www.dowjones.com/products/djfxtrader/articles/EUCRISISROADMAPKeyMilestonesAhead0209.asp
Infographic: Presenting A World Covered In (Hundred Dollar Bill) DebtOur friends at Demonocracy have once again surpassed themselves, and have followed up the infographic showing the truckloads of cash that are needed to rescue the insolvent PIIGS, with this masterpiece which, while making the naive assumption that debt is represented by physical paper (when it is nothing but a bunch of electronic ones and zeros stored in various computers around the world), presents in gloriously visual terms precisely what the literal debt burden of the world's would look like expressed in piles of one hundred dollar bills. The result is quite stunning... , Guest Post: Stop The (Printing) Press!.... If Only We CouldCalm Before The Storm? Credit Plunges As VIX Futures Jump Most In 2 MonthsIs The Foreclosure Settlement A Shadow Bailout For Broke CaliforniaGuest Post: Self-Interest And The Pathology Of Power: The Corruption Of America Part 2The Power Elites' time-honored strategy to protect their own wealth and grip on power has three components: one is to pursue a strategy of pervasive, ceaseless propaganda to persuade the productive classes that the system is sound, fair and working for them; the second is to fund diversionary "bread and circuses" for the potentially troublesome lower classes, and the third is to harden the fiefdoms of power and wealth into an aristocracy that is impervious to the protests of debt-serfs and laborers below. In addition to "the system is working for you" social control myth, the wealth/power aristocracy also invokes various fear-based social control myths: external enemies are threatening us all, so ignore your debt-serfdom and powerlessness, etc… , Is A Greek Uncontrollable Default Inevitable?It seems … , Money, Money, EverywhereFX Concepts' John Taylor is out with today's slam dunk de-noisification of all that is irrelevant with the following summary of what is really going on as the world's central banks embark on the latest and hopefully final attempt to reliquify everything. All we can add to Taylor's analysis, especially in light of today's incremental easing in ECB collateral requirements, is that the biggest beneficiary by far of what in a few months will be another multi-trillion balance sheet expansion, is and continues to be hard, non-dilutable, i.e., real, money. Because as fiat currency loses all relevance in a world in which it is printed on a daily basis by the central banks, whether or not we end up with a Weimar scenario, the cash thrown out by the even profitable companies will be increasingly more meaningless. , Economists Surprised Again By Unemployment Claims, Should Not Have Been : ilene : 02/09/2012 - 21:37 Lots of motion, little progress. , Drudgereport:
WIRE: Foreclosure Deal to Spur Home Seizures... , Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News NBC News | The group is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service.  ,  The High Cost of 0% Rate Feb 8th, 2012 (24hGold) — The interminable extension by the US Federal Reserve on the 0% rate into 2014 represents history in the making. It is the adoption of pure heresy in monetary policy, making it mainstream. Worse, it forces foreign central banks to adopt the same destructive policy in the Competing Currency War. Once upon a time, the highest priests from the central bank would admit in a guiding tone that accommodation on interest rates must be temporary. Nowadays it is engrained in the market mindset and permanent in monetary policy. The chronic 0% means the entire financial and monetary system is totally irreparably broken…’ ,  Dollar and America on the Road to Ruin Greg Hunter 2-8-12 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  (revised) ‘In the last week or so, I’ve noticed an unusual amount of really well written and researched articles warning of impending doom and financial horror.  These articles are not written by a bunch of angry uneducated bloggers but by money managers, investors and financial writers.  All are people who got it right leading up to the meltdown of 2008, and my bet is they are right again.  The mainstream media (MSM) told you after the 2008 crash, “Nobody saw that coming,” which is a bold faced lie that will not work again…,  Kiss Hopes Of Chinese Easing Goodbye: January Inflation In China Soars To Highest Since October  Are Government Unions Out Of Control? An InfographicGreek Meeting Ends Without Conclusion: LAOS Head Refuses To Sign DealDiamond Foods Fires CEO, CFO After Audit Committee Finds Books Have Been "Cooked" For The Past Two YearsFirst, small momo-favorite companies. Next: entire nations. Finally: the all-seeing, all-dancing central banks…,  Bill Gross Explains The European PonziNot like it is news, but... Out of one pocket, into another…,  S&P Threatens US With Another Downgrade In As Little As 6 MonthsBernanke Talks His Book  : Bruce Krasting : 02/08/2012 He's in the process of ruining the country. ,  Ter·ror·ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government : George Washington : 02/08/2012 - 01:03 Any American Who Criticizes the Government May Be Labeled a Terrorist  , Ponzi Proof: Trustee says MF Global sustained itself on customer funds Washington Post | An estimated $1.2 billion of customer money was looted from accounts at MF Global ,  Jobless Decline Masks Drop in U.S. Labor Force Feb 8th, 2012 (Bloomberg) — The unemployment rate’s unexpected drop to a three-year low has overshadowed a less-positive labor- market development: fewer Americans are looking for work.Last week’s Labor Department announcement that the jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent in January sent stocks and bond yields higher. The same report showed the share of working-age people in the labor force had declined to the lowest level in 29 years…,     Andy Hicks ‘In 2010, inventory restocking contributed most to U.S GDP growth. In 2011, it was the rebound of private investment due to Obama's capital equipment tax credit contributing most to U.S GDP growth. The U.S. consumer, though, hasn't really been jumpstarted over the past two years. That is why earnings multiples on the S&P 500 continued to decrease, despite stellar earnings growth from emerging markets. Last week's Q4'11 GDP numbers confirmed, for me, that 2012 will be another year with little U.S. consumer growth, and that earnings multiples for most companies (even those companies named after fruit) will likely continue to compress as we head further into this year…’ ,  Yes, It Is Halftime In America – So Now Is The Time To Get Your Financial Priorities In Order ECB  http://albertpeia.com/halftimeinamerica.htm  ,  Why Is Global Shipping Slowing Down So Dramatically?  ECB http://albertpeia.com/globalshipslowingdramatically.htm  ‘If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically?  Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators.  In other words, they change before the overall economic picture changes.  For example, back in early 2008 the Baltic Dry Index began falling dramatically  , Better Safe than Sorry - A Top Seems to be Forming Maierhofer  ,  China's Road to Becoming a Reserve Currency The Wall Street Journal , Believe In A Return To The Gold Standard? You Are Now Officially An Extremist According To The FBI  Greek Economy Implodes: Budget Revenues Tumble 7% In January On Expectation Of 9% Rise Unadjusted Consumer Credit Soars By Most Since Peak Of Credit Bubble In August 2007, Third Highest Ever  As some may remember those long ago days of January, when the market was not still lost in the latest bout of QE-hopium induced euphoria, December sales missed expectations, following even more disappointing November sales, despite propaganda channel promises that the 2011 shopping season was the "strongest ever"... and yet, many were wondering where did the already cash-strapped US consumer procure the cash to shop as much as they did, even if it was well below a record level. Now we know: it was on credit…’ , Spiegel: "It's Time To End The Greek Rescue Farce"Illusion of Recovery: Feelings Versus Facts The Burning Platform | The false storyline last week was the dramatic surge in new jobs. ,  Ron Paul Warns Of Federal Reserve Power Grab: Infowars Nightly News Prisonplanet.com | Ron Paul has warned that a new agency is itself an unconstitutional monster that will further degrade the financial health of the country. ,    ‘The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.  Unfortunately, what we are going through right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financial crashes.  Things may seem relatively stable right now, but it won't last long.  The truth is that the financial crisis of 2008 was just a warm up act for the economic horror show that is coming.  Nothing really got fixed after the crash of 2008.  We are living in the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world, and it has gotten even bigger since then.  The "too big to fail" banks are larger now than they have ever been.  Americans continue to run up credit card balances like there is no tomorrow.  Tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities and millions of jobs continue to leave the country.  We continue to consume far more than we produce and we continue to become poorer as a nation.  None of the problems that caused the crisis of 2008 have been solved and we are even weaker financially than we were back then. ‘ , Presenting The "Rise Of The HFT Machine" - Visual Confirmation How SkyNet Broke The Stock Market On US Downgrade DayZero Hedge has not been focusing much on the topic of our broken equity markets recently because if by now, following over three years of coverage, someone is not aware just how fragmented, manipulated and largely broken the market truly is, they never will. Yet every now and then it worth reminding readers who may have stumbled on this blog recently, just how bad things are in graphic format. Our friends at Nanex, who are by far the best forensic analysts of everything that is busted with the US stock market, have completed a masterpiece analysis showing the churning (packet traffic) in the various fragmented US market venues, from the NYSE to the Nasdaq to BATS and so forth, on a daily basis beginning in January 2007 and continuing through today. While the "rise of the HFT machine" over the past 5 years, following the adoption of Reg NMS, will hardly be a surprise to most, what is stunning is the first animated confirmation of the market terminally breaking on August 5, 2011, the day the US was downgraded, an observation that first was made right here on Zero Hedge. Which begs the question: what really happened in the stock market on August 5, 2011 when the US was downgraded to AA+, when everything literally broke, who is intervening constantly in the stock market, and why are they doing so via various HFT intermediary mechanisms? ,    Contrary to Government Claims of 243,000 Jobs Created, Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Were Actually LOST In January Washington’s Blog | Government Misrepresents Employment Picture. , Citigroup: Risk of Greek Exit From Euro Has Risen to 50%  The Wall Street Journal ,  Fixed-Income ETFs Rally Despite Europe's Pending Recession  Motley Fool  , Greece Has No Idea What It’s Gotten Itself Into February 6th, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com ‘..  the next round of the Euro Crisis is now at our doorstep. Indeed, this latest short-covering rally in the Euro (Euro shorts were at a record high) looks ready to end and reverse ..’  ,  , Guest Post: What If We're Beyond Mere Policy Tweaks?The mainstream view uniting the entire political spectrum is that all our financial problems can be fixed by what amounts to top-down, centralized policy tweaks and regulation: for example, tweaking policies to "tax the rich," limit the size of "too big to fail" financial institutions, regulate credit default swaps, lower the cost of healthcare (a.k.a. sickcare), limit the abuses of student loans to pay for online diploma mills, and on and on and on. But what if the rot is already beyond the reach of more top-down policy tweaks? Consider the recent healthcare legislation: thousands of pages of obtuse regulations that require a veritable army of regulators staffing a sprawling fiefdom with the net result of uncertain savings based on a board somewhere in the labyrinth establishing "best practices" that will magically cut costs in a system that expands by 9% a year, each and every year, a system so bloated with fraud, embezzlement and waste that the total sum squandered is incalculable, but estimated at around 40%, minimum....The painful truth is that we are far beyond the point where policy/legalist regulatory tweaks will actually fix what's wrong with America. The rot isn't just financial or political; those are real enough, but they are mere reflections of a profound social, cultural, yes, spiritual rot. This is the great illusion: that our financial and political crises can be resolved with top-down, centralized financial reforms of one ideological flavor or another. It is abundantly clear that our crises extend far beyond a lack of regulation or policy tweaks. We cling to this illusion because it is easy and comforting..’ , Negative Bank Preannouncements BeginWe are not even half way into the quarter, and the negative preannouncements for financials have already begun:MACQUARIE SAYS `SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER LEVELS' OF CLIENT ACTIVITY – BLOOMBERG , Guest Post: Bringing The "Not In The Labor Force" Mystery To LightVolumeless Equity Recovery Ignores Broad Risk Asset Derisking ,  San Fran Fed Finds Fiscal Stimulus Has Little Impact During Periods Of Economic GrowthIt has only been a week since we discussed the San Francisco Fed's research group admitted that water was wet Fed policy will be unable to impact unemployment since the cyclical changes are more structural leading to jobless recoveries as fat is removed from the system. , Guest Post: Illusion Of Recovery - Feelings Versus FactsThe last week has offered an amusing display of the difference between the cheerleading corporate mainstream media, lying Wall Street shills and the critical thinking analysts. What passes for journalism at CNBC and the rest of the mainstream print and TV media is beyond laughable. , MF Global Trustee Finds That Company "Did Not Always Record Cash Movements"The MF Global Trustee has just released their preliminary report on the progress in uncovering where the vaporized cash went. Bloomberg notes:#1MF GLOBAL DIDN'T ALWAYS RECORD CASH MOVEMENTS, TRUSTEE SAYS#2TRUSTEE SAYS MF HAD SHORTFALL IN COMMODITIES FUNDS START OCT 26#3MF BROKERAGE TRUSTEE TRACED $105 BLN IN CASH MOVEMENT#4MF COMPUTERS COULDN'T TRACK VOLUME IN FINAL DAYS, TRUSTEE SAYSOf course, we know that MF Global is the only company to not follow Fiduciary Principles 101 (client cash commingling) but also Accounting 101 (T square, debits, credits, and all that boring and apparently irrelevant in a time of uber-kleptocracy, stuff) leaving us wondering just how much of that unrecorded cash may be found in unrecorded suitcases in unrecorded bank vaults.  , "No Country For Old Men?" Bernanke Plan To Exterminate Savers Is UnsustainableBernanke's recognition of his penalizing savers with low rates as an 'issue for people' sparked an interesting note from the WSJ on how sensible and stoic savers are being herded (unsafely) into risky investments… , Greek PM Demands Report On Default, Eurozone Exit ConsequencesFed’s Bullard: Extended Zero Rate stance ‘A Looming Disaster’ Feb 6th, 2012 (MNI) , Greece lets another deadline slip in bailout poker Feb 6th, 2012 (Reuters) , Illusion of Recovery: Feelings Versus Facts The Burning Platform | The false storyline last week was the dramatic surge in new jobs., 8.3% Unemployment Lie Greg Hunter | The most recent unemployment number is a total lie, and that lie was repeated all over the mainstream media (MSM). , Is Obama's Peace Prize About To Be Confiscated? Nobel Peace Prize Jury Under Investigation  ,  Goldman Turns Bearish: Squid Releases Top Trades For 2012... And It's Not Pretty the squid is bearish. Which is bad news , Market Rally Won't Last Long  Forbes ,  The Worldwide Depression/Recession Of 2012   Jeff Harding,  STOCKS RISE DESPITE MORE BAD NEWS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Sam Ro ‘As Greece inches toward default and the sufficiency of Europe's EFSF bailout fund is called into question, everyone's worst nightmares of Europe's debt debacle escalating to a systemic crisis could be nearing reality. ‘ , The most accurate forecaster on the Street thinks stocks are going downAdam ParkerBloomberg Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker was crowned the most accurate forecaster when the S&P 500 closed 2011 within a handful of points of his year-end target of 1,238. His 2012 year end target calls for stocks to fall to 1,167.  He sees a global economic slowdown hitting corporate profits hard. , An eerie technical pattern is predicting the S&P plunges to 935Bank of America via Zero Hedge  Mary Ann Bartels, Bank of America's Head of Technical and Market Analysis , 935 is nothing; the S&P 500 will crash to 579.57United-ICAP's Walter Zimmerman (via WSJ's Tom Kilgore) is a technical analyst who has been looking at the charts and they're telling him that the S&P is headed for 579.57.  And there's one thing that'll cause the markets to tip: Europe. “If the history of debt tells us anything it is that one cannot solve a debt crisis by lending more money to the bankrupt and the insolvent,” Zimmerman says. , As it stands, the dollar is toast Laura4Smith Euro Pacific Capital's John Browne thinks the U.S. dollar will soon lose credibility, thanks to manipulation by the Fed. , Persistent delevering will cause the whole world to implode Bloomberg TV Bill Gross kicked 2012 with a particularly gloomy letter. , Home prices will fall another 20% Bloomberg In his latest note, Gary Shilling lays out his 20 investment themes for 2012.Theme #12 calls for home prices to continue plummeting, falling another 20% over the next several years.  This is on top of the 33% drop we've already seen. , Greece will hard default and bring everyone else down with it Nomura's permabear Bob Janjuah had some cheery things to say about Greece and it's effect on the markets."The real pain may only be seen in March, when I expect the hard Greece default to happen. In Q1 I expect the S&P will trade down to/below 1000, and core US, UK and German government Bond yields will be closer to 1.5% than 2%." , China is headed for a hardlanding SocGen's Albert Edwards thinks 2013 will be better than 2012.  But that's only because he believes 2012 could be the worst year ever. , The US economy is about to tank ECRI's Lakshman Achutan hasn't budged on his recession call, and he has been taking a lot of heat for it. Here's a quote from a recent press release (via Doug Short): "If you think this is a bad economy, you haven’t seen anything yet. And that has profound implications for both Main Street and Wall Street.", Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Has the Can Hit the Wall? Edition)  http://gainspainscapital.com  January 17th, 2012  ‘As usual, bad news was released over the weekend when the least number of people are paying attention… The answer is a Crisis that will make 2008 look like a picnic.This is coming… it’s only a matter of when…’  17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto Industry That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/declineusautoindustry.htm   ( Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst   http://albertpeia.com/prepareforworst.htm ) Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry. ,  RealClearMarkets - Gary Shilling: New Global Recession Is Here (It’s actually a depression and no nation will be spared!) http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shilling-says-new-global-recession-is-here-2012-01-20?link=MW_story_popular By Howard Gold NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — ‘For most economists, the main question is whether we will have a new recession. For Gary Shilling, the only question is how big. ,  20 Signs That Europe Is Plunging Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression  The American Dream | An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. http://albertpeia.com/20signsofeuropedepression.htm  ,  Guest Post: Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit PolicyCounterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value. Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services.  If this is illegal, then would somebody please arrest the Board of the Federal Reserve for counterfeiting? The Fed has blatantly printed money without creating any real value to back up their added claims on productive value. Hence they are counterfeiting, pure and simple. A government based on rule of law would arrest these fraudsters and cons at the earliest possible convenience. , Survey: home prices declined in 19 of 20 cities in November; prices back to 2003 levels Jan 31st, 2012 (AP)  ,  Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking’s big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters  PF Louis | The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is centers on the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. Natural News February 1, 2012  [  http://albertpeia/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm     http://albertpeia/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm   ]  ‘The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, “No, we can’t compete with the government.”, The Markets Since Their 2000 Highs: We're Not Bouncing Back  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-markets-their-2000-highs-were-not-bouncing-back  ... [ Actually the picture is even worse if the real inflation rate used. Wall street is total fraud and b***s***! Keep in mind, ina addition to loss of principle, the flux / worry takes its toll on health as well as productivity. http://albertpeia.com/3real1.png  http://albertpeia.com/3real2.png   http://albertpeia.com/3real3.png   http://albertpeia.com/3real4.png  ]  , Market Preview: Insiders (Getting’) Out!!!!!?   , The Fed's Dirty Little Secret - QE3 is Already Here ETFguide [ And with all its contraindicated ponzi / inflationary implications. ] ,  45% Of Greeks Have Never Used The Internet{ These stats are rather shocking to me and surely pathetic. Note Iceland, which has come back after being ravaged by the banksters. http://albertpeia.com/greeksinternet.jpg  } , Europe's "Great Deleveraging" Has Only Just BegunWhile Europe's financial services sector equity prices have retraced almost half of their May11 to Oct11 losses as we are told incessantly not to underestimate the impact of the LTRO, Morgan Stanley points out the other side of the balance sheet will continue to sag. While short-term liquidity (at least EUR-based liquidity as USD FX Swap lines are back at record highs this week) , Guest Post: Fraudulent Debt = Counterfeit MoneyLet's compare three financial criminals. The first is an old-fashioned counterfeiter who doctors up paper and runs a printing press to produce fake currency. The second criminal borrows money based on a fraudulent asset and phantom future income. ,   Goldman, Blackstone, Glencore and Facebook. What do they have in common? They all sold the Top.  : thetrader : 02/02/2012 Smart money selling again. ,  Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking’s big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters  PF Louis | The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is centers on the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. Natural News February 1, 2012  [  http://albertpeia/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm     http://albertpeia/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm   ]  ,  House prices hit post-bubble low Washington Post | What Obama didn’t mention in his SOTU address – the housing bust has reached a new all-time low ,  Obama’s Economic Approval Just 36 Percent Campaign2012 | Only 36 percent of likely voters grade the administration’s handling of the economy at good or excellent.  , Bribery, compromised officials leave indicted financial-crime suspects free from prosecution under Holder’s DOJ  Daily Caller  By Matthew Boyle   http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/01/bribery-compromised-officials-leave-indicted-financial-crime-suspects-free-from-prosecution-under-holders-doj/#ixzz1lI97L3C5 | ‘A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives. A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.  ,  ‘FULL COVERAGE OF JUSTICE DEPT. SCANDALS   http://topics.dailycaller.com/politics/justice-department.htm  http://albertpeia.com/dojscandals.htm , I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/governmentfraudulentemploymentstats.htm  ‘On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for some good news.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls jumped by 243,000 during the month of January.  You can read the full employment report right here.  Based on this news, pundits all over the world were declaring that the U.S. economy is back.  Stocks continued to rise on Friday and the Dow is hovering near a 4 year high.  So does this mean that our economic problems are over?  Of course not.  A closer look at the numbers reveals just how fraudulent these employment statistics really are.  Between December 2011 and January 2012, the number of Americans "not in the labor force" increased by a whopping 1.2 million.  That was the largest increase ever in that category for a single month.  That is how the federal government is getting the unemployment rate to go down.  The government is simply pretending that huge numbers of unemployed Americans don't want to be part of the labor force anymore.  As you will see below, the employment situation in America is not improving.  Yet everyone in the mainstream media is dancing around as if the economic crisis has been cancelled.  I can't take it anymore!  It is beyond ridiculous that so many intelligent people continue to buy in to such fraudulent numbers…  http://albertpeia.com/Labor-Force-Participation-Rate-440x264.png  , http://albertpeia.com/Employment-Population-Ratio-440x264.png … ,  Long-Term Unemployment Remains High, Millions Leave Labor Force Matt Cover | Number of long-term unemployed was unchanged at 5.5 million in January, near its record .. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  CONTROVERSIAL JOBS REPORT STOKES BULLS February 03, 2012 ‘The jobs report Friday was a ginned-up number but the media and algos don’t look under the hood much it seems. Yes, the unemployment rate fell to 8.3% and 243K new jobs were created and perhaps the number itself will boost confidence.My favorite book from college statistics was ‘How to Lie with Statistics’. I believe the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) may have ripped a chapter or two from the book. The details were interesting and little reported because the media has soap to sell. First a whopping 1.2 million people vanished from the labor force in 2011. That is a massive seasonal/consensus driven adjustment. The BLS assumes those people aged 55 and higher died from the 2010 consensus. (So much for living longer in the USA!)This means the labor force fell to a 30 year low of 63.7%. Around 113K of the gain in employment came from low wage jobs according to CRT Capital Group. Also part-time jobs rose by 699K, the third highest in history, while only 80K full-time jobs were created. Finally, the ISM Services Report, which rose to 56.8 from 52.6, included an increase in sector employment from 49.8 to 57.3, but perhaps didn’t include large sector bank layoffs. Other skeptics included PIMCO’s Bill Gross who tweeted: http://albertpeia.com/grosstweet.htm  Respected TrimTabs detailed analysis which mocks the BLS and well regarded blogger Jesse’s Café Americain.Lack of in-depth or accurate reporting aside, the stock market loved the report as it was “dummy up” time in the media. Other data included rising Factory Orders but missed expectations (1.1% vs 1.8% previous & 1.5% consensus)…’ , Obama’s economic policies have created a nation of jobless citizens dependent on government handouts Natural News | It’s no secret that the U.S. national debt is poised to increase by more than $6 trillion during President Obama’s first four years in office., Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. No, that's not a typo: 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month! So as the labor force increased from 153.9 million to 154.4 million, the non institutional population increased by 242.3 million meaning, those not in the labor force surged from 86.7 million to 87.9 million. Which means that the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7% as the BLS is seriously planning on eliminating nearly half of the available labor pool from the unemployment calculation.. , Implied Unemployment Rate Rises To 11.5%, Spread To Propaganda Number Surges To 30 Year High   Sick of the BLS propaganda? Then do the following calculation with us: the US civilian non-institutional population was 242,269 in January, an increase of 1.7 million month over month: apply the long-term average labor force participation rate of 65.8% to this number (because as chart 2 below shows, people are not retiring as the popular propaganda goes: in fact labor participation in those aged 55 and over has been soaring as more and more old people have to work overtime, forget retiring), and you get 159.4 million: that is what the real labor force should be. The BLS reported one? 154.4 million: a tiny 5 million difference. Then add these people who the BLS is purposefully ignoring yet who most certainly are in dire need of labor and/or a job to the 12.758 million reported unemployed by the BLS and you get 17.776 million in real unemployed workers. What does this mean? That using just the BLS denominator in calculating the unemployed rate of 154.4 million, the real unemployment rate actually rose in January to 11.5%. Compare that with the BLS reported decline from 8.5% to 8.3%. It also means that the spread between the reported and implied unemployment rate just soared to a fresh 30 year high of 3.2%. And that is how with a calculator and just one minute of math, one strips away countless hours of BLS propaganda. , Marc Faber: "Ron Paul Would Be A Very Good President"While Marc Faber shares the usual stock of insightful market commentary, together with timing inflection points, and extended thoughts in the attached Bloomberg TV clip, it is the fact that he has officially joined Bill Gross, and so many others, in supporting the candidacy of Ron Paul as president. It is rather sad that only those who see beyond the surface of the current pyramid scheme facade, are bold enough to endorse the only man who is right for the White House. Fast forward to 15 minutes into the video to hear Marc Faber: "Ron Paul would be a very good president.", Europe Celebrates Its Latest Recession With Record High Gas PricesIs China's Yield Curve Signaling A Harder Landing?Guest Post: Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow The Bouncing BallAccording to the Bank of International Settlements, as of June 2011 total over-the-counter derivatives contracts have an outstanding notional value of 707.57 trillion dollars, ( 32.4 trillion dollars in CDS’s alone). Where does this kind of money come from, and what does it refer to? We don’t really know, because over-the-counter derivatives are not transparent or regulated. With regulated economic markets, when an underlying real asset is impaired (i.e. the company in question is bankrupt, the mortgage has defaulted, etc.), market value is assessed, default insurance is paid up to replacement or full value, bond holders and stock holders make claims on remaining value and the account is closed. There is no need for bailouts because order and proportion of compensation has been established and everything is attached to the value of the underlying asset. When the unreal, counterfeit economy intrudes, you now have a situation where a person can put in an unregulated, but recognized, claim to be paid a thousand times over in case of impairment. Say market participants have negotiated for a bankrupt company a 70% payback for bondholders and (36% payback for insurance claims), and I come with not one but rather 1,000 CDS claims demanding to be paid for each CDS. , Deconstructing The "Massive Beat" in Employment Data : ilene : 2-3-12  If last week's tax data is indicative of what's ahead this month, the "good news" won't be sustained.  , Why U.S. Unemployment Rate Is 12.1%   http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=46058 February 2, 2012 Carlos X. Alexandre: ‘There are plenty of ways of looking at the unemployment numbers, and U3 is the “official unemployment rate.” The U6 measurement is often mentioned to highlight the precarious condition of the job market in America in a broader sense, and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the official rate is 8.5% while U6 stands at 15.5%. The definition for U6 is as follows: “Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force.” I must acknowledge that the BLS has made modifications to its methods (pdf) over the years, but I used their numbers as published…’ , Why the Notions of Systemic Failure or “Going to Zero” Are On Par with Bigfoot and Unicorns for Most Investors  http://gainspainscapital.com February 2nd, 2012 ‘I wanted to take a moment to address the notion of serious collapse and/or systemic failure...Most professional traders are usually under the age of 40 (in fact they’re typically in their mid to late 20s). 1) Didn’t experience the 1987 Crash 2) Have never seen a Crisis that the Fed/ IMF/ etc. couldn’t handle..Most institutional traders today operate, for the most part, based on trading models. These models, in general, are quantitative and based on correlations and patterns, not qualitative judgments..asset managers and other institutional investors, the vast majority of whom are under the age of 50 or so.Based on this age demographic, we find that there is an entire generation of investment professionals (aged 35-50+) who: 1)  Have never witnessed nor invested during a bear market in bonds 2)  Have never witnessed, nor invested during a credit market collapse 3)  Have never witnessed a secular shift in the global economyConsequently, the vast majority of professional investors are unable to contemplate truly dark times for the markets..Here are just a few worth considering: 1)  US commercial banks currently sit atop $248 TRILLION in derivatives 2)  The US Federal Reserve is now buying 91% of all long-term new US debt issuance (at the same time China and Russia are dumping US bonds) 3)  Japan already spends roughly half of its annual -tax revenues on debt payments and has relied on debt issuance more than tax revenues to fund its budget for four years now (how much longer can this last?) 4)  Europe’s entire banking system is leveraged at 26 to 1 (Lehman Brothers was leveraged at 30 to 1 when it failed) Folks, bad times are coming. It doesn’t matter what the trading programs or “professionals” thinking about it… the math simply doesn’t add up …’   ,   .Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com   FACEBOOK IPO THE WORST KEPT SECRET ON WALL STREET February 01, 2012 [ As per Dave, infra, note the continued prior data revised downward in this continuing ‘data ponzi scheme’ along with a multitude of other ponzi schemes; and, let me add, I don’t believe their data in any event, here and in europe, particularly that contrived / manipulated for this election year. ]  ‘Yes, the copy that follows has little to do with Facebook. After all what do we really know about it? The much watched ISM Manufacturing Data (54.1 vs 54.5 consensus and previous 53.1 revised lower) stimulated bulls Wednesday. Cynics believe auto manufacturers are just stuffing inventory to dealers. We’ll see if these cars get sold or not. One thing is clear; it’s easier to buy a car for consumers given industry self-financing than it is to buy a home period. If you have a pulse, you can buy a car. (See U.S. Sector, Stocks & Bond ETFs for GM and linked ETF XLI) Plus owning a new can be more satisfying than most things at least until the new car smell wears off and payments accumulate. Bulls did rally stocks from the opening bell on global manufacturing data including the U.S. ISM report. News that China’s PMI was slightly higher than expected (50.5 versus 50.4 previous) as was Europe’s (48.8 versus 46.9) was part of the stimulant. It may mean no manufacturing slowdown in those regions. Further the eurozone news that Greek debt negotiations with its bond holders would be resolved soon was also bullish. But, later it was announced a settlement may not occur until next week. Where have we heard this stuff before? (See Overseas Sectors & ETFs below for FXI, EZU and EFA).U.S. ADP Employment Data was rather confusing showing a jobs gain of 170K versus the previously revised data (325K to 292K). So jobs gained were weaker but bulls didn’t seem to mind. Construction Spending increased 1.5% but here too, previous data was revised sharply lower to .4% from 1.2% making Wednesday’s data seem better than it really was…’ , AMR wants to cut 13,000 jobs, pensions , JOSH KOPELMAN: “I THINK 2012 WILL LOOK MORE LIKE 2008 THAN 2011″ Erick Schonfeld http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/26/josh-kopelman-i-think-2012-will-look-more-like-2008-than-2011   , Greece Warns It Will Soon Be In "Condition Of Absolute Poverty"Market Round-Trips To Yesterday's Open"I'm Bill Gross And I Endorse Ron Paul For President""Hours" Downgraded To "Days" - Greek Deal No Longer "Any Hour Now"As A Reminder, The President's Mortgage Plan Is "Dead On Arrival"GM Channel Stuffing Resumes, January Dealer Inventory Second Highest EverJust as we thought GM's channel stuffing days may be coming to an end, and the company may finally be normalizing its inventory management, here come January numbers, where we learn that in addition to car sales declining by 6% compared to a year ago, at 167,962 vehicles sold (of note: "Retail deliveries declined 15 percent compared with the same month a year ago and accounted for 70 percent of GM sales"), it was the all critical month end dealer inventory that caught our attention. And unfortunately as the skeptics expected, GM is back to its old tricks, as dealer inventories rose once again, this time by over 36k units, or the second highest in its post-reorg history, to a near record 619,455 vehicles stored with dealers. This is just the second highest ever in fresh start GM history, second only to November's 623,666. The January-end number represents 89 days supply, but more importantly the recent spike in restocking, which was seen with all other major car dealers, explains the ongoing "expansion" in the US economy as measured by indices such as the ISM. Eventually, when the end demand for these dealer parked vehicles does not materialize..’ , Guest Post: Our Counterfeit EconomyBorrowing money based on imaginary future surpluses is a higher form of counterfeiting. And that is precisely what the U.S. is doing, borrowing immense sums at every level, private, corporate and State/Federal, all leveraged against phantom future surpluses, even as the economy requires some 10% of its supposed output (GDP) to be borrowed and spent on consumption each and every year just to run in place, i.e. the Red Queen's Race (Bernanke, Goldilocks and The Red Queen January 10, 2011). In other words, the U.S. economy is running a massive deficit, and squandering the vast sums being borrowed on consumption and mal-investments. Once you rely on more borrowing against imaginary future surpluses to fund your current expenses, then eventually the costs of servicing that debt exceeds any possible future surplus. The last-ditch "fix" is to simply print units of money (or borrow it into existence like the Federal Reserve)--counterfeiting, pure and simple-- and deceive the market for a time via the illusion that the freshly printed units of money are actually backed by productive value or surplus. As history has shown, eventually the market discovers the actual value of this counterfeit money, i.e. near-zero, and the system implodes. Once there is no more "free money" to fund consumption and mal-investment, then the reality of systemic insolvency is revealed to all. You cannot counterfeit actual surplus value generated by productive assets, you can only counterfeit proxy claims on future surplus. , Some Good News For Those of Us Who Are Sick of the Corruption February 1st, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com  http://albertpeia/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm   http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm   http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm  ‘At some point someone will talk… and that’s when things will get interesting.The last four years have been something of a high-water mark for corruption in the US. Whether it’s Solyndra, Congress’s insider trading, MF Global, the countless pork spending bills from Congress, or any number of the other hundred or so incidents that have made decent ordinary people outraged, we’ve definitely entered a period in which everyone knows the deal: the power elite live by a different set of laws than the rest of us.A record 64 percent of American adults surveyed by Gallup in a poll released Monday rated the honesty and ethical standards for members of Congress as “low” or “very low… Wall Street CEO or member of Congress might go to jail, the confessions are going to start coming fast and furious. This will have a seismic shift on the lobbying/ crony capitalism/ back-room deals that currently define American politics. That shift is already beginning (note that Goldman Sachs’ CEO hired a defense attorney and Ben Bernanke is trying to present himself as a man of the people).  Also, consider the recent “slip up” by an MF Global executive under oath.Granted, we’re not yet at the point where people area actually getting nailed for the crimes they’ve committed… ,     Dead Market Exhibit A: January VolumeGold, Silver Winning 2012 Asset Return Race With 11 Months LeftChicago ISM sank to 60.2 in Jan, well below market expectations of 63.0, vs 62.2 in Dec. Jan 31st, 2012 Amazon Slides After Missing Revenues Expectations, Guides Much LowerCalifornia To Run Out Of Cash In One Month, Controller WarnsGreece Calls Crisis Meeting As Debt Talks StallEuro Zone Jobless Hits Highest Level Since Birth of Euro Jan 31st, 2012 (CNBC) Labor Unions Demand Escalation Of Trade War With China, Ask Obama To Restrict Chinese Auto Part ImportsGreece Releases New Proposal With Even Greater Losses To Creditors Durden , Prophetic Economist Warns, ‘It’s Curtains for the US.’ Prepare. (Moneynews) Katrina Turner , STOCKS GO NOWHERE ON MORE DISAPPOINTING DATA: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , US S&P Case-Shiller home prices -0.7% in Nov for 20-cities index, -3.67% y/y, weaker than market expectations. Jan 31st, 2012 , SPX Update: Bears Fire a Shot Across the Bow  By Jason Haver Jan 31, 2012 , 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying America On The Global Economic Stage  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/47signschinadestroyingamericaoneconomicstage.htm  ,   Senators: Get Rid of Dollar Bills The Wall Street Journal [ Given the dollar debasement policies, they’re kind of like those nuisance pennies, and, as fiat paper currency, don’t even have the value of copper to fall back on. ] , Exxon Leads DJIA Losers On Tepid DayWall St. Cheat Sheet [ Increased costs the reason, the flip side of that debased dollar manipulation that’s artificially propped earnings, particularly for those multi-nationals. ]  ,    Investors: There's Increased Probability of a Correction  Minyanville Chris Vermeulen Jan 30, 2012 ‘Eventually equities will start to underperform. At that point, gold will be in the final stages of its bubble, and the term "parabolic" could likely be applied. Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/gold-prices-price-of-gold-federal/1/30/2012/id/39109#ixzz1kzPLaKZl , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  BULLS KEEP JANUARY ASCENT INTACT January 30, 2012   ‘Eurozone news took markets lower early as Portugal’s bond yields rose sharply and there still is no accord on Greek debt with private lenders. News from the eurozone remains .. natural to suspect some end-of-month window dressing. U.S. stocks began to rally off triple digit DJIA lows led primarily by technology after Europe closed (funny how that happens). Burlington Northern stated the economy was growing slowly and they were adding employees and railroad cars to meet perceived demand. This helped stimulate stocks overall even though it was little help to the transport sector (IYT) which closed the day down .43%In housing market news was this eye-opening story that Freddie Mac was betting big time against its own customers. Or, as the story headline goes, “When Homeowners Lose, Freddie Mac Wins”. Betting against your own customers isn’t anything new on Wall Street, something begun by then Goldman Sachs CEO Robert Rubin in the 90s. But for the government to do so states the obvious conflict. Also in the news was the government has increased loss projections for the auto bailout to $27 billion... http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff171/flyfry/new%20album/image004-114.jpg  .. These stories hardly seem bullish..consumer spending was lower…’ , REGARDING SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND GOVERNMENT OUTLAYS: THE MONEY SIMPLY ISN’T THERE January 30th, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com , Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Shown as Mortgage Market Predators : rcwhalen : 01/30/2012 This morning, NPR and ProPublica, began reporting on financial transactions at Freddie Mac that bet against homeowner refinancing with their portfolio. , The Market Could Soon Bottom (And Nobody Knows It)  Minyanville David Banister Jan 30, 2012 , The Baltic Dry Meltdown Continues The Wall Street Journal , Making Money On Poverty: JP Morgan Makes Bigger Profits When The Number Of Americans On Food Stamps Goes Up http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/makingmoneyonpoverty.htm , Guest Post: The Price of Growth Are we better off if a near-term recovery comes at the expense of our future security? The prudent among us would disagree. , Long-Dated VIX Still Priced For Depression RiskSan Francisco Fed Admits Bernanke Powerless To Fix Unemployment Problem Europe Has Worst Day In Six Weeks Zero HedgeIt's Official: German Economy Minister Demands Surrender Of Greek Budget Policy, Says It Is First Of Many Such Sovereign "Requests"Greece Politely Declines German Annexation Demands  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com 1-26-12  ‘…phony CPI because authorities want you to pretend you neither use heating oil, gasoline or even food for that matter. They’ve reconfigured the CPI more times than congress votes on a new debt ceiling. And, they do this to deceive but also to lower entitlement spending. Imagine all those government workers on COLAs and Social Security recipients who just stare at their heating and electric bills in disbelief. What’s a nice T-bone cost nowadays anyway? It’s the dropping price of tech toys and quality improvements they focus on that matters now. Economic data was mostly disappointing versus estimates. Jobless Claims were up more than expected (377K vs 370 exp. & prior revised higher as usual to 356K); Durable Goods Orders also missed (+.3% vs +2.2% exp. & prior 4.3%); Leading Indicators missed (+.4% vs +.7% exp. & prior +.5%); and, New Home Sales also disappointed (307K vs 320K exp. & prior 314K prior)…’ , INVESTORS, SKIP THE 'JANUARY INDICATOR' FOR STOCKS Jan. 26, 2012 http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/investors-skip-the-january-indicator-for-stocks-2012-01-26/D6D6B044-07E7-455A-A669-F97B87EE8452#!D6D6B044-07E7-455A-A669-F97B87EE8452 What's known as the "January indicator" says a positive month often yields gains for the year. But the indicator isn't what it's cracked up tobe,according to Market Watch's MarkHulbert , IfTheEconomyIsImproving…(Not!)...  http://albertpeia.com/economynotimproving.htm  ,  Market Preview: The Fed's Stealth Bailout of Europe TheStreet , I Present To You The First Probable US Commercial Real Estate Insolvency Of Many To Come Middleton : 01/26/2012 GGP part deux, as the hopium high sold by US regulators that allowed banks and borrowers to pretend bad loans were good wears off and reality sets in.. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com 1-27-12 GDP DATA CONFIRMS SLOW GROWTH  ‘GDP data was released Friday revealing headline economic growth of 2.8% versus consensus of 3.1%. Real economic growth after inflation was only 1.7% for 2011. Negatively affecting the data were lower state and local government spending, private inventory investment and, believe it or not, federal government spending. While the all-important, and much watched by the Fed, PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) was higher it was a disappointment overall. This may reflect what the Fed saw in the data (weak growth) which then caused them to keep interest rates low for a long period. They must worry this slow growth condition is going to be with us for a long time. This is hardly encouraging.The month of January has only a couple of trading days left. Even with Friday’s poor performance the month is still scoring outsized gains for most stock sectors. Consumer Sentiment data has stock prices as a high component, so it’s not surprising the measure was 75 versus 74 expected … , Largest Central Banks Now Hold Over 15 Trillion in Fictitious Capital : ilene : 01/27/2012 , The Silent Anschluss: Germany Formally Requests That Greece Hand Over Its Fiscal IndependenceEndgame Begins - UK "Foreign Office Sources Say Merkel Now Thinks Greece Will Default"Friday Tragedy: The US Debt Limit ExplainedFitch Gives Europe Not So High Five, Downgrades 5 Countries... But Not France Naturally no downgrade of France. French Fitch won't downgrade France. , 16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com   http://albertpeia.com/16statsamericansdependentongov.htm   ,  Largest Central Banks Now Hold Over 15 Trillion in Fictitious Capital : ilene : 01/27/2012 A strong yen strikes again. , Fed Won't Admit it - But QE3 is Already in Force ETFguide  Simon Maierhofer  ‘..True, there is no QE3 (yet) in the form of QE1 or QE2. QE stands for quantitative easing and quantitative easing happens when a central bank buys financial assets to inject money into the economy. Even though it's not called QE3, the Fed is right now making billions of dollars available to buy financial instruments. We're not talking about Operation Twist here; we're talking about a covert operation that's essentially a U.S. bailout of Europe.. the S&P has reached (and exceeded) the initial up side target and is starting to create a sell signal similar to the May 2011 top..’ , Greenspan's Successor Pushing On A String Forbes , ECONOMY DISAPPOINTS, EUROPE GETS DOWNGRADED, MARKETS GO NOWHERE: Here's What You Need To KnowBusiness Insider , All Central Bank Balance Sheets Are Exploding Higher, Or Engaged In QE Jan 27th, 2012 (The Big Picture) — The degree to which central banks around the world are printing money is unprecedented …’ Economists React: GDP 'Less Impressive Than It Looks'at The Wall Street Journal , Euro Zone Money Supply Offers Grim Newsat The Wall Street Journal , Q4 GDP Misses Estimates, Inventory Stockpiling Accounts For 1.9% Of 2.8% Q4 US Economic Growth The US economy grew at a 2.8% annualized pace in the supposedly blistering fourth quarter, yet the number was a disappointment not only in that it missed estimates of 3.0% (and far higher whisper numbers) but when one looks at the components, where a whopping 1.94% of the upside was attributable to a rise in inventories as restocking took place. And as everyone knows in this day and age a spike in inventories only leads to sub-cost dumping a few months later. In other words, the economy grew at a 0.8% pace ex inventories. Yet for all intents and purposes, this is considered "growth." , Frontrunning: January 27 Durden on 01/27/2012 · Greek Debt Wrangle May Pull Default Trigger (Bloomberg) · Italy Sells Maximum EU11 Billion of Bills (Bloomberg) · Romney Demands Gingrich Apology on Immigration (Bloomberg) · China’s Residential Prices Need to Decline 30%, Lawmaker Says (Bloomberg) · EU Red-Flags 'Volcker' (WSJ) · EU Official Sees Bailout-Fund Boost (WSJ) · EU Delays Bank Bond Writedown Plans Until Fiscal Crisis Abates (Bloomberg) · Germany Poised to Woo U.K. With Transaction Tax Alternative (Bloomberg) · Ahmadinejad: Iran Ready to Renew Nuclear Talks (Bloomberg) · Monti Takes On Italian Bureaucracy in Latest Policy Push to Revamp Economy (Bloomberg) ,  Juncker Breaks Away From Propaganda Pack, Says Euro Default Will Lead To ContagionRoubini's Bearish Forecast Is Bullish For GoldHe said, “Rising commodity prices, uncertainty in the Middle East, the spreading European debt crisis, increased frequency of “extreme weather events” and U.S. fiscal issues are “persistent” problems that will continue to spur market volatility and sway asset prices in the global economy. This is great news for gold. Goldman Sachs noted in a report on Jan. 13th that futures will advance to $1,940 an ounce in 12 months.  Morgan Stanley forecasts the yellow metal will climb to a record of $2,175 by 2013, said analysts Peter Richardson and Joel Crane in their research report. , IceCap Asset Management: No Country For Old MenMost Canadian pension funds are banking on 7% annual returns forever. Over the next few years, this unrealistic expectation will cost the respective governments and companies millions in shortfalls. In the USA, the California Public Employees Retirement System assumes it will earn over 7.75% annual returns. This false hope will result in over $6 billion a year in lower than expected investment income, that will also have to be paid by the financially challenged state (ie. taxpayers). , Stephen Roach Explains How The Fed Is Pulling The Wool Over Our Eyes   ,  The Fed Cannot Move Without a Crisis… And One is Coming  http://gainspainscapital.com    January 26th, 2012 ‘Well the Fed disappointed as I stated it would. How anyone could be surprised by this is beyond me. The Fed was admitting that the consequences of QE rendered it less “attractive” as an option as far back as May 2011.Moreover, the last six months have shown the Fed to be relying heavily on verbal intervention rather than direct monetary intervention. Every FOMC meeting (and any time the market takes a dive) some Fed official steps forward and promises that the Fed stands ready to help if needed.The reasons for this are three fold: #1)  Why bother with monetary intervention when you can get the same effect from verbal intervention? #2)  The Fed is too politically toxic now to simply unveil a massive new monetary scheme without a Crisis hitting first. #3)  The Fed is well aware of the consequences of QE (higher food and gas prices) and while it focuses on CPI as the measure of inflation, the political pressure engendered by higher costs of living are certainly on the Fed’s radar. In plain terms, the bar for more QE is set much, much higher than the vast majority of analysts realize. The reason is that the Fed can no longer simply prime up the printing presses if the economy takes a dip.  , Median Single Family Home Price in Terms of Gold Jan 27th, 2012 (Chart of the Day) — Severely depressed real estate prices continue to be a concern for investors. For some perspective on the magnitude of the decline in home prices, today’s chart presents the median single-family home price divided by the price of one ounce of gold. This results in the home / gold ratio or the cost of the median single-family home in ounces of gold. For example, it currently takes a relatively low 105 ounces of gold to buy the median single-family home. This is dramatically less than the 601 ounces it took back in 2001. When priced in gold, the median single-family home is down over 80% from its 2001 peak, remains well within the confines of a six-year accelerated downtrend and remains very near its 1980 trough. http://albertpeia.com/housegold.gif  ,  The Man Without A Plan  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com http://albertpeia.com/omanwithoutaplan.htm  ‘Barack Obama is a man without a plan.  , Newt Gingrich promises to build a moon colony by 2020; make it a U.S. state [ Wow! Absolute proof that the slimy newt’s not dealing with a full deck. Say anything? This takes the cake! The ‘idea man’? Sure, all he needs is Aladdin’s lamp and infinite capital! Oh yeah, reality nothwithstanding, nasa boondoggles sell well in Cape Canaveral, Florida (and Houston, Texas). Note, he couldn’t just ‘go to the moon for the first time’ (that fake video with the flag waving in the moon’s windy atmosphere yet another example as on fraudulent wall street of that pervasively addictive hopium) America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion . How pathetic and desperate, that slimy newt! ] ,   Why These Dow Losers Fell Motley Fool (Thu, Jan 26)[ Yes indeed, that horrifying ‘jersey/bush-texas att’, a big iphone subsidizer, showed a substantial loss.  Microsoft's Windows battles slack PC sales / profits fall – As regards the state of technology generally, and American particularly, I’m even far less sanguine than Peter Thiel who feels technology generally, is ‘wanting’. I also believe as he the iphone to be vastly overrated, underwhelming and ‘beat’ beyond the now ubiquitous touch screen, though more euphemistically said by Thiel (I am glad however that apple, my first computer –Apple IIC 1986 – has survived). I also believe american technology beyond the hype to be horrendous. The internet has been the biggest thing in terms of technological advance, and we all see what some cro-magnuns (at best) in washington are trying to do to that. See also, http://albertpeia.com/declineusautoindustry.htm   ]  ,  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com   GEITHNER & BERNANKE WANT TO PUMP YOU UP January 25, 2012 [ Dave is ‘spot-on’ and really gets it right! Except, this is actually worse than a Ponzi scheme inasmuch as they are printing and debasing the ever more worthless fiat paper Weimar dollar currency for which there is ‘no free lunch’. Once again you’re paying for the frauds (including the churn-and-earn high frequency computerized trades) on wall street by the higher prices you pay as a direct consequence. This is a despicable, doomed to failure as previously despite obfuscation, government sponsored/sanctioned fraud. ]  ‘Geithner suggests the economy is getting stronger. Bernanke says the economic recovery is fragile. He elects to print more money to reinvest maturing Treasury bonds into more mortgage-backed securities. These securities will then mature and the Treasury indirectly will have to redeem them. This is a Ponzi-Scheme. And, while the Fed prints money, Bernanke states the U.S. should be reducing our fiscal debt. (He didn’t even blush.) Basically what he and his comrades want are higher prices for stocks and everything we buy in order to avoid the Japanese experience of deflation. , Notable ETF Outflow Detected - DIA, CAT, UTX, BA Forbes , Obama and Bernanke: Cooking Up Another Market Bubble?  { Indeed they are …one that will burst with 99.999% certainty! }  Forbes  James Marshall Crotty , Market Preview: A Huge Mistake  Michael Baron [ Huge mistake indeed! Inflation, vastly understated, including inflated stock prices the misguided goal of such bad economics as we’ve previously and are once again witnessing, is already surging and will get much Weimar worse! ]  ,  IMF TO GERMANY: EUROPE IS ON COURSE FOR DISASTER http://regator.com/p/254695398/imf_to_germany_europe_is_on_course_for , Market Now Pricing In $770 Billion Increase In Fed Balance SheetAnd The Winner Is...GoldYear-to-date, Gold is up an impressive 9.4%, significantly outpacing the S&P 500 at +5.6% and the disappointing 2% loss (in price) for the 30Y bond., T-Minus 11 Months Until Geithner ResignationEasily the best news of the day:GEITHNER SAYS OBAMA WOULDN'T ASK HIM TO STAY FOR A SECOND TERM , "Tying It All Together" with David RosenbergOur discussions (here, here, and here) of the dispersion of deleveraging efforts across developed nations, from the McKinsey report last week, raised a number of questions on the timeliness of the deflationary deleveraging process. David Rosenberg, of Gluskin Sheff, notes that the multi-decade debt boom will take years to mean revert and agrees with our views that we are still in the early stages of the global deleveraging cycle. , Bill Gross' Explains The FOMC Decision: "QE 2.5 Today, QE 3, 4, 5 … Lie Ahead"Fed Slashes Growth Outlook, Six Fed Officials Do Not See Rate Hike Until 2015This is just getting better and better: *FOMC: 2012 GROWTH AT 2.2%-2.7% VS 2.5%-2.9% IN NOV. FORECAST *ELEVEN OF 17 FED OFFICIALS SEE MAIN RATE ABOVE 0.25% IN 2014 *SIX OF 17 FED OFFICIALS SEE NO RATE INCREASE BEFORE 2015 *FOMC DOESN'T SET SPECIFIC LONG-RUN GOAL FOR EMPLOYMENT LEVEL Japan is now seriously blushing. As for the reality of the Fed's forecasts, they are absolutely worthless, so no point in even spending one minute on them. , Contrary to Widespread Claims, There Is NO EVIDENCE that Iran Is Building a Nuclear Weapon : George Washington : 01/25/2012 Even American military and intelligence chiefs admit this ... , FOMC adopts 2% inflation target Jan 25th, 2012 (FRB) [ Yeah, right! By printing more fiat paper currency. Inflations well in excess of 11% and going higher. ,  Fed set to push back timing of eventual rate hike Jan 25th, 2012 (Reuters) , Portugal Debt Insurance Costs Hit Record As Yields Rise Jan 25th, 2012 (Dow Jones) , ‘Portugal needs more bailout funds’ Jan 25th, 2012 (BusinessReport) , U.S. treasury raids federal employee pension funds to cover debts J. D. Heyes | Treasury stealing cash from federal employees pension funds so the government can obtain more credit to pay its debts. , Commercial Property Bubble: Anxiety Mounts Over 2012 Maturing Loans New York Times | Billions in commercial real estate loans made during boom year 2007 are coming due this year , The Demise of State Sovereignty: Pressures on the Euro Amidst Rising Debt Levels Bob Chapman | We announced our belief a few weeks ago that the Fed loan to the ECB could with fractional banking be $10 trillion. , 24 Facts That Show How Ridiculously Unfair Our Economy Is For Americans Under The Age Of 30 The American Dream | If you are an American under the age of 30, you have probably figured out by now that the entire economic system is stacked against you. , Goldman Stolpers Clients Again, This Time With Short Bond CallGoldman does it again. Whereas the exploits of one Tom Stolper are well known, and frankly much expected by the general community due to his infallible advice and 100% inverse track record, we did not realize just how pervasive his M.O. was within the broader firm. Now we do. As a reminder, on Monday Goldman came out with a recommendation to sell the 10 Year. "We are now of the view that a break to the upside, to 2.25-2.50%, is likely and recommend going tactically short. Using Mar-12 futures contracts, which closed on Friday at 130-08, we would aim for a target of 126-00 and stops on a close above 132-00."" This naturally generated a healthy dose of skepticism by Zero Hedge: " As a reminder, don't do what Goldman says, do what it does, especially when one looks the firm's Top 6 trades for 2012, of which 5 are losing money, and 2 have been stopped out less than a month into the year." Sure enough, anyone who did the opposite, i.e. buying the 10 year, has now returned +1.48% in three days. ,  Sorry Folks, Europe Is Not Fine… Not Even Close  http://gainspainscapital.com January 24th, 2012 ‘The financial world seems to have adopted the idea that things will somehow work themselves out in Europe. I don’t know if it’s because people don’t like to think about negative things or if someone sent out a memo to everyone that math doesn’t exist or count in Europe, but somehow investors seem to have decided that as long as we think positive thoughts everything will be fine. The reality is that every day, Europe is approaching a debt implosion. , S&P says likely to declare Greece in default Jan 24th, 2012 (Reuters) , IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecast and Predicts European Recession Jan 24th, 2012 10:30 by News 24-Jan (Bloomberg)   , SPX Update: Bears' Turn Now?    Jason Haver Jan 24, 2012 ‘Some key levels to watch for clues to the market's next move Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/elliott-wave-elliott-wave-theory-qe3/1/24/2012/id/39000#ixzz1kQu3zisgIn conclusion, with several rare, once-a-year (and some even less frequent) top indictors triggering recently, I have to continue to stay with the odds here. I believe there's a very reasonable chance that the top is now in place. , ARE WE ABOUT TO SUFFER A REPEAT OF 1937? — MARKET ANTHROPOLOGY  Tuesday, January 24, 2012 [Worse!] , http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com , APPLE BURNING THROUGH CASH IN FAILED ATTEMPTS TO CRUSH ANDROID By Mike Schuster    January 24, 2012 Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2012/01/24/apple-burning-through-cash-in/#ixzz1kRY1N6zT, Christine Lagarde Warns Of Global Depression If Governments Don’t Pay Up Wolf Richter | She never mentioned Germany and the US by name, but those were her prime targets., Fannie & Freddie Would Need Another $100 Billion From Taxpayers For Obama’s Proposed Mortgage Writedown Global Economic Trend Analysis | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already cost US taxpayers over $200 billion. Report: Buffett's Railroad to Benefit from Obama Keystone Pipeline Rejection http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/210153.html   By Jon E. Dougherty (Newsroom America) , The Fed Should Hire A MechanicThe “Transmission Mechanism” Is Broken. As the Fed debates what form of QE to launch on the world and whatever new communication strategies they are going to employ, maybe they should sit back and figure out why their policies seem to be doing so little.. they have failed and we think it is because they are clinging to two flawed assumptions - the wealth effect and the fact that low rates for banks means low rates for banks' customers..,  Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank Purposely Trying To Scare The Living Daylights Out Of Us?  [ Short answer: No! The crisis is real! ]   http://albertpeia.com/diretimesahead.htm [ Let me add that although I didn’t listen to / watch wobama’s b***s*** session (his words are absolutely worthless and as last time around, belied by his misguided deeds), I did pay attention to the intelligent, succinct, poignant Republican Response by Mitch Daniels, Gov. Indiana, and confidently say, if he so chooses the path, he will prospectively be President. A way his formidable background and talents could more quickly be brought to the fore would be a Ron Paul / Mitch Daniels ticket which would be a Mitch Daniels candidacy then Presidency in 2016. This would give the nation and the world ‘time to breath’ while recovering from wobama way of  failings / missteps. You can’t ignore Oliver Stone’s sagacious opinion in such matters as these. ( Oliver Stone: I Would Vote For Ron Paul Over Obama  Steve Watson | “He’s the only one who’s saying anything intelligent about the world”. ) His great film anthology speaks for itself and has ‘caught and treated’ some of the most significant, recent american historical ‘breakpoints’.] America After Dark: Desperate Meth Heads, Rampant Human Trafficking And Millions Of Criminal Predators Searching For A New Victim  http://albertpeia.com/americaafterdark.htm     ,    Greek Debt Deal Rejected As S&P Begins European Bank Downgrades 2012 Update: What Part III of the financial crisis will look like, http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSINEWVD/PPSIN138/PR  , http://www.stansberryresearch.com , http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSINEWVD/PPSIN111/PR , http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv   , http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm , 10 Good And Bad Things About The Economy And Rosenberg On Whether This Isn't Still Just A Modern Day Depression Nothing Has Changed, But Bulls Are Becoming More Bullish    Forbes Charles Biderman, Contributor http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2012/01/23/nothing-has-changed-but-bulls-are-becoming-more-bullish/?partner=yahootix [ This article is an incisive yet brief look at the source of funds for the upside biased stock manipulation and an important read from Forbes / Biderman! ] , If The U.S. Government Keeps Spending Money Like This We Are Doomed And If The U.S. Government Stops Spending Money Like This We Are Doomed  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com    http://albertpeia.com/doomed.htm  , Fannie, Freddie writedowns too costly: regulator WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac told lawmakers that forcing the two mortgage firms to write down loan principal would require more than $100 billion in fresh taxpayer funds… [ In other words, like the fed, banks, fannie/freddie are carrying  worthless toxic assets ‘marked to anything’. ] , United Welfare States of America: In 2011 Nearly Half The Population Received Some Form Of Government BenefitInteractive Visual History Of Financial Crises Since 1810 - Note Where The Fed ArrivesAs the name implies. What is funny is how only after the advent of the Federal Reserve in 1913 did Financial crises expose increasingly more of world GDP to a crisis state. , The CDS Market And Anti-Trust ConsiderationsThe CDS index market remains one of the most liquid sources of hedges and positioning available (despite occasional waxing and waning in volumes) and is often used by us as indications of relative flows and sophisticated investor risk appetite. However, as Kamakura Corporation has so diligently quantified, the broad CDS market (specifically including single-names) remains massively concentrated. This concentration, evidenced by the Honolulu-based credit guru's findings that three institutions: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citibank National Association, have market shares in excess of 19% each has shown little to no reduction (i.e. the market remains as closed as ever) and they warn that this dramatically increases the probability of collusion and monopoly pricing power. , Q&A On The Greek Restructuring, And Why It's All For Nothing"Would the restructuring make the Greek situation sustainable? No. Sorry, but no is the answer. “Super Broke Mario Brothers Kindly Request The ESM Be Doubled To €1 Trillion , Super Mario Brothers Super Denied: Schauble Tells Italy, ECB We Like You Just The Way You AreGraham Summers Weekly Market Forecast (Fed Up Yet? Edition) January 23rd, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com ‘The market is rallying… again… on hopes of a Greek deal… and QE 3.This is the very same game we’ve been playing for over two years now. Greece is broke. Everyone knows it. The Greeks know it. Greek politicians know it. EU politicians know it. Even the IMF knows it. The only people who don’t seem to “get it” are stock investors , Why Isn’t Illinois A Bigger Story Than Greece? John Rubino | Illinois owes tens of billions to various investors, stakeholders and will clearly have to default on some , Gerald Celente on Trend Forecasting and the Crisis of Western Civilization  http://www.prisonplanet.com/gerald-celente-on-trend-forecasting-and-the-crisis-of-western-civilization.html  Daily Bell | The Daily Bell is pleased to publish this interview with Gerald Celente. [ http://albertpeia.com/celenteondeclinefallwesternciv.htm   ] ,  Greek Bondholder Talks Stalled, Agreement Unlikely By Monday DeadlineIndia Joins Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone, Will Transact With Iran In RupeesGlobal Deleveraging - You Are (Not) Here SOPA ShelvedAnd so following a massive groundswell of protest with the government's attempt to blatantly confiscate the First Amendment, SOPA quietly dies., Marc Faber Resumes Bloodfeud With Treasurys, Still Sees Entire Financial System Imploding The Stock Ramp Is Just More Deja Vu "Insanity" Warns Morgan StanleyWhen Morgan Stanley now agrees with most of what Zero Hedge has been saying (especially when it earlier announced that a short covering rally in the EURUSD is imminent, as we have been warning for the past two weeks), it may be time to get concerned. , Weren’t We Facing A Systemic Collapse a Few Months Ago? What’s Changed Since Then?  http://gainspainscapital.com  January 20th, 2012 ‘Investors are getting strangely bullish.If you’ll recall, the entire European banking system nearly imploded just 8 weeks ago. Things were so dire that we even had a coordinated Central Bank intervention among other measures to try and prop things up over there.The Powers That Be have since launched the Long-Term Refinancing Operation or LTRO: essentially a program through which European banks can borrow from the ECB at just 1% for up to a year… In this environment, the ability to borrow more money doesn’t accomplish anything from a balance sheet perspective. It’s simply a matter of common sense: you cannot solve a debt problem with more debt…, The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com , Forget the “January Effect”… Instead Skousen http://www.investmentu.com/2010/December/january-effect-vs-siegel-indicator.html  http://albertpeia.com/forgetthejanuaryeffect.htm  [ The frauds on wall street are shootin’ for the superstitious so-called ‘January effect’ based on based on market frothing hopium for unaffordable, contraindicated, failed QE/wall street only welfare, bad news, fraud, b***s***, and desperation alone to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in! Don’t be their fool! The fundamentals/realities, current and prospective, are worse than ever. There are no systems/formulas for these unprecedentedly dire times. Don’t be their sucker! This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much, much worse to come! Here’s a simple chart of the Dow’s history  http://albertpeia.com/dowjonesindavghistory.htm  . Keep in mind how lowly the dollar’s become in terms of purchasing power and relative to metals as ie., gold, etc.. Don’t be scammed by the frauds on wall street, et als., Gutsy Call - A Top Seems to Be Building   By Simon Maierhofer | ETFguide http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gutsy-Call-A-Top-Seems-Be-etfguide-2174494942.html?x=0  , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com   BIG BLUE DOMINATES TRADING January 20, 2012  ‘Let’s not kid around, IBM is nearly an 11% weight in the price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average. What happens to it on any given trading day matters and can potentially mislead investors over the true performance of markets overall..breakdown of current weightings. http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff171/flyfry/new%20album/0120-1.jpg   http://albertpeia.com/dowstockweightings.jpg , IBM Accounts For The Entire Upward Move In Dow Jones Index TodayWondering why with the S&P and Nasdaq both down, the DJIA is up 60 points? Wonder no more: courtesy of a few strategic index-weighing calculations, IBM is responsible for 59.4 DJIA points, or virtually the entire up move in the most popular stock index. One company, the one which Warren Buffett so strategically picked last year to invest in, now biases the entire market to make it seem that "all is fine." , Greenspan's Laugh: Housing Bubble Indicator? [ Into the minds of madness! Who’s laughing now…they’re now widely known to be incompetent jokes! ] By contributors@theatlantic.com (Derek Thompson) | The Atlantic  In the infamous transcript of the Federal Reserve's first meeting in 2006, the word "[Laughter]" appeared at least 45 times. , Is This Why They Won’t Prosecute? Top Justice Officials Represented Big Banks, Freddie, Fannie Washington’s Blog | Obama’s Department of Justice isn’t prosecuting any big fish.     Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘Thursday brought us better news on Jobless Claims as new claims fell (352K vs 383K consensus a prior revised higher as usual to 401K). The problem of course is with continuing claims and the number of people who have fallen off the rolls.The CPI was unchanged for the month and this gave bulls the idea another round of QE was in the works as early as this month. The Philly Fed Survey was a disappointment and miss (7.3 vs 10 expected and previous at 10.5). Housing Starts declined (.657M vs .678M expected and previous .685M).Other news noted the ECB buying €50 billion of sovereign debt in the eurozone. Still the idea of an extra $500 billion IMF bailout (bringing the total to nearly $1 trillion) lingers even as it’s already been shot down given necessary U.S. congressional approval. , Michael Krieger Summarizes "The Building Tension"The reason I don’t write about markets so much anymore is because I don’t believe there are markets any longer. Sure there are flashing prices on the screens for various assets and those can be addicting to look at on a daily basis, but I think these “markets” are now merely a mechanism for government propaganda and a method to ultimately fleece more money from the uniformed masses that play in it by the casino operators and their puppets in government. , Print-Or-Panic, TrimTabs On The Market's MeltupAs retail investors continue to appear significantly pessimistic in their fund outflows ($7.1bn from US equity mutual funds in w/e January 4th - the largest since the meltdown in early August) or simply stuff their mattresses, David Santschi of TrimTabs asks the question, 'who is pumping up stock prices?' , Bob Janjuah: "Payback For The Rally Is Coming In Q2"Bob "The Bear" Janjuah may appear a little greyer than his previous appearance on Bloomberg TV but his thoughts on the 'weaker-for-longer' recovery are as clarifying as ever as he sees Q2 as payback time for the misunderstanding of a mini US business cycle as a real sustainable recovery. Noting that the LTRO does not fix Europe, he sees the worst still ahead for the 'Eurozone mess'… Bob notes that we are simply not addressing growth or solvency and Q2 will be the payback (looking for a 1000 print in the S&P 500 index by quarter-end) for the policy- and liquidity-driven rally we are undergoing. , Fed Back To Its Secretive Ways, Sells $7 Billion In Maiden Lane Assets Directly To Credit Suisse Without Public AuctionKeystone Aftermath Arrives: Canada Pledges To Sell Oil To Asia, As US Becomes Source Of "Uncertainty"America's loss is China's gain. ,  Senate Minority leader speaks out against anti-piracy bill , Google's results fall short, rare miss pummels shares Reuters , Photography pioneer Kodak files for bankruptcy ,China manufacturing contracts for third month  ,   Microsoft's Windows battles slack PC sales / profits fall – As regards the state of technology generally, and American particularly, I’m even far less sanguine than Peter Thiel who feels technology generally, is ‘wanting’. I also believe as he the iphone to be vastly overrated, underwhelming and ‘beat’ beyond the now ubiquitous touch screen, though more euphemistically said by Thiel (I am glad however that apple, my first computer –Apple IIC 1986 – has survived). I also believe american technology beyond the hype to be horrendous. The internet has been the biggest thing in terms of technological advance, and we all see what some cro-magnuns (at best) in washington are trying to do to that. See also, http://albertpeia.com/declineusautoindustry.htm   . Peter Thiel - A cofounder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel is worried technological progress has stalled, a running theme of his speeches and interviews in 2011. Without more rapid advances, "people will have a lower quality of life, where people won't be able to retire, where governments are pushed toward more and more austerity," he told Bloomberg Businessweek in February. "That will lead to a more constrained, pessimistic future." Thiel has funded a variety of unconventional research projects because he says run-of-the-mill technology doesn't impress him. He told the New Yorker in November he doesn't consider the iPhone a "technological breakthrough." , Sundance opens with eye on broken American dreams  , McAfee software bug could turn customers' PCs into spam servers (Reuters) ,  [video] Bullish Trend Not Backed By Volume TheStreet ,  Debt Crisis Worsens, Stocks Up Anyway http://www.buzzbox.com/news/2012-01-19/fitch-ratings:russia/?clusterId=7993066  By Ian Wyatt: Russia is the latest victim of the global debt crisis. , What were Neanderthals like to hang out with? — New Scientist   http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328470.400-into-the-mind-of-a-neanderthal.html?full=true   http://albertpeia.com/neanderthals11812.htm  ,   Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com    http://albertpeia.com/prepareforworst.htm  ‘The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesday, it was the World Bank itself that issued a very chilling warning.  In an absolutely startling report, the World Bank revised GDP growth estimates for 2012 downward very sharply, warned that Europe could be on the verge of a devastating financial crisis, and declared that the rest of the world better "prepare for the worst." , "Apocalypse How? Dire ’12 Forecasts" The chorus of astute, prudent voices warning about the next great financial crisis grows by the day.. profiled in a Bloomberg article http://albertpeia.com/realisticallynegativeforecasts.htm , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com FEAR OF BEING LEFT BEHIND  January 18, 2012 ‘The primary news pushing stocks higher Wednesday was hard to put together. Some were pleased by eurozone reports the IMF was proposing to add $500 billion to the bailout facility bringing the total to nearly $1 trillion. Such a move would require congressional approval if we still have a constitution and the rule of law. Anyway, that idea was shot down by the U.S. Treasury. , 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/112questions.htm ‘,"No Deal" - Greek Bondholders Do Not Think Agreement Can Be Reached Before "Crunch Date"Bloomberg On The Worst Start In Years For EarningsObama Blames Republicans For Keystone XL DecisionThe big news of the day, aside from the idiot rally finally being back on full bore, is that the Obama administration finally pushed Canada's hand in telling it to sell its crude to China instead of the US, which we are confident it will gladly do. Much of this was largely priced on, as was the fact that opportunity for significant job creation was just kicked to the curb. , Guest Post: The Final CountdownOne reason for the severity of the financial crisis, and the losses incurred by banks, is that bankers and financial analysts were using linear tools in a non-linear, highly complex environment otherwise known as the financial markets.The models didn’t work. The problem we face now as investors will end up being existential for some banking institutions and sovereigns. Our (uncontentious) core thesis is that throughout the west, more debt has been accumulated over the past four decades than can ever be paid back., Obama Kills Keystone XL PipelineWho needs actual jobs when you can have crony solar companies which go tits up in under 2 years at a cost to taxpayers of over half a bill. , Why Would the Fed Launch QE 3? I continue to see commentators claiming QE 3 is just around the corner. I don’t see how this is possible because all of the Fed’s excuses for more QE are no longer valid. , Past May Be Prologue, But I Just Warned Of A Central European Depression 2 Years Ago  Reggie Middleton 01/18/2012 , Germany’s Fed Up and Getting Ready to Walk   http://gainspainscapital.com January 18th, 2012 , Why Tops are More Difficult to Call than Bottoms - Why a Top Seems Imminent  Simon Maierhofer , Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt Reuters | Treasury started dipping into federal pension funds to give Obama administration more credit to pay government bills., Greece Is Insolvent, Will Default on Debt: Fitch Bloomberg | Greece is insolvent and probably won’t be able to honor a bond payment in March. , Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Default!    http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com      http://albertpeia.com/letgreecedefault.htm    , Fannie CEO Michael Williams To Quit After 2 Years, Pockets Millions After Receiving $60 Billion In Bail Out CashLagarde to Meet Merkel as Debt Pressure Rises Jan 10th, 2012 (Bloomberg) , Soros Says Europe’s Debt Woes ‘More Serious’ Than 2008 Crisis Jan 10th, 2012 (Bloomberg) , http://albertpeia.com/lloydswallofworry11012.htm ,     Three Reasons Why 2012 Is Shaping Up to Be a Disaster  http://gainspainscapital.com January 11th, 2012  ‘..stocks continue to rally despite Europe being on the verge of Collapse. Once again, investors are forgetting that stocks are the most clueless asset class on the planet… this latest stock market rally isn’t to be trusted.. 1) Volume has fallen from awful to absolutely horrendous.. 2) Bonds are forecasting an event worse than 2008.. 3) The likelihood of more juice coming from the Fed is getting lower by the day.. bernanke himself admitted that QE has become less “attractive” as a monetary policy. “The trade-offs are getting — are getting less attractive at this point. Inflation has gotten higher. Inflation expectations are a bit higher. It’s not clear that we can get substantial improvements in payrolls…” ‘ , 24 Statistics To Show To Anyone Who Believes That America Has A Bright Economic Future  http://albertpeia.com/24statisticsusfuturenotbright.htm  ,  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com   ‘Beware of bubbles of false hope.  Right now there is a lot of talk about how the U.S. economy is improving, but it is all a lie.  The mainstream media can be very seductive… , Dire predicament, forecast, time to ‘get out of Dodge’  http://albertpeia.com/forecastusdebtgetoutofdodge.htm  ,   22 SIGNS THAT WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A DEVASTATING GLOBAL RECESSION   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com    http://albertpeia.com/22signsglobalrecessiondepression.htm  , Bam! Bam! Bam! Huge Financial Bombs Just Got Dropped All Over Europe http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  ‘The European debt crisis has just gone to an entirely new level.  http://albertpeia.com/financialbombsovereu.htm … Yesterday I wrote about 22 signs that we are on the verge of a devastating global recession, and unfortunately that list just got a whole lot longer… http://albertpeia.com/22signsglobalrecessiondepression.htm  , Is the Fledgling 2012 Rally a Fake-Out Breakout?  1-13-12 Simon Maierhofer | ETFguide [ Yes! ] , S&P downgrades nine euro zone countries BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) , JPM Explains Why The US Economy Is About To Hit A Brick Wall  Data Shows QQQ Has Declined 10% From January High 91% of the Time Minyanville James Debevec Jan 13, 2012 , The Real Dark Horse - S&P's Mass Downgrade FAQ May Have Just Hobbled The European Sovereign Debt MarketFaber's Latest Rant On Global Monetization WarsIt's Official: France Cut To AA+ From AAA By S&P, Outlook NegativeEveryone Hates The Euro - EUR Shorts Hit New Record HighGuest Post: Habituating to ContractionGreek Debt Likely Unsustainable Even With Haircuts, Barclays Complete Q&A On PSIGuest Post: The Correlation Of Laughter At FOMC Meetings Five years on, the powers that be have just released the transcripts of the Fed's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meetings from 2006.  Putting hindsight economic analysis aside, you quickly realize more than anything else: the committee is full of burgeoning comedians! Commentators have already highlighted the "humor" of the FOMC meetings, but it is really over the top at times.  There are periods where Greenspan seems only capable of speaking in witty quips. That's right, the FOMC was laughing all the way to …’ , Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking? George Washington 01/13/2012  Are countries which want to trade in their own currencies or to own their own central banks getting spanked ? , VeRY SuPeRSTiTiouS... williambanzai7 01/13/2012 - 14:17 There is a fifth dimension beyond that known to PhDs...It is the middle ground between science and superstition...next stop, the Ponzi Zone... , The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression Forbes Tom Aspray ‘Every high-flying market is bound to find patches of rough air, and the charts show a potential decline is in store. , S&P on Italy: Borrowing is Going to Be Tough for a While The Wall Street Journal , Standard & Poor’s Just Getting Started  13 Jan 2012  S&P has also notified other European governments of looming ratings downgrades ,  Is the Federal Reserve Duping Investors? Minyanville Todd Harrison  Jan 13, 2012 Buried information begins to emerge. Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/todd-harrison-todd-harrison-minyanville-todd/1/13/2012/id/38829#ixzz1jPaeva5I , Train Reading: What Walken Has Learned The Wall Street Journal  Mark Gongloff , STOCKS SLIDE, FRANCE DOWNGRADED, GREECE NEARS DEFAULT: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , Secondary Sources: Roubini on 2012 Risks, Fewer Americans Thriving, Central Bankers' MIT Connections The Wall Street Journal  Phil Izzo , MF Global May Not Be Able to Pay Clients Back: Trustee Reuters | The trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more money to them.  , ECRI Leading Index Still Rolling Over The Wall Street Journal   Mark Gongloff http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-RJ429_ecri_D_20120113104547.jpg ECRI weekly leading index rolling growth rate. Since this is Bad News Friday, let’s get this out of the way: The ECRI’s weekly leading index is falling again.… Even though the ECRI has declared a recession is on the way in the first half of 2012, this weekly index is not what they use to make that call. They use some longer-term indexes they only show to people who pay big money for a peep….’

Is The Fed's Balance Sheet Unwind About To Crash The Market, Again?On The Fed's Failure To Inspire, TrimTabs Shows Where The Real Money Is GoingAs volumes this year in stock markets remain significantly below last year's but high yield bond ETF inflows reach record highs, TrimTabs offers some context for the massive relative flows of real cash into checking and savings accounts versus stock and bond mutual fund and ETFs. , Guest Post: Why QE3 Won't Help "Average Joe"Foreigners Sell Record $85 Billion In Treasurys In 6 Consecutive Weeks - Time To Get Concerned?Eric Sprott: "The Financial System Is A Farce"2011 was a merry-go-round of more bailouts, more deferrals and more denial. Everyone is tired of the Eurozone. It’s not fixable. There’s too much debt. The politicians don’t know what’s going on. Nothing has structurally changed. We’re still on the wrong path. There’s more global debt than there was a year ago, and it’s the same old song: extend and pretend, extend and pretend,… around and around we go,… and it isn’t fun anymore. Just as we wrote back in October 2007, and again in September 2008, we feel compelled to state the obvious: that the financial system is a farce. It’s a complete, cyclical farce that defies all efforts to right itself. , Credit Outperforms Stocks As Asset Correlations Deteriorate FurtherWhy Do Zombie Banks Hate Writing Off Bad Loans? Jonathan Weil Explains why all bank earnings over the past 3 years are fake? Wonder why few if any banks ever dare to take major write offs and represent the true nature of their financials? Wonder no longer: Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil explains. , Obama Sends Request To Congress For $1.2 Trillion Debt Ceiling Increase , 2012 could be worse than 2011 — Joseph Stiglitz at Project Syndicate  http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz147/English , The New International Economic Disorder Mohamed A. El-Erian ,   Guest Post: Dear U.S.A.: Your Account Is OverdrawnDear U.S.A.--your overdraft protection is about to be pulled.Dear United States of America: We regret to inform you that your withdrawals exceeded your deposits last year by $1,600,000,000,000 ($1.6 trillion), including your "supplemental appropriations" spending.Your account does have an overdraft protection, and so bonds were sold to cover your $1.6 trillion overdraft. While we value your business, we feel obligated to remind you that this is the third year that your overdraft protection exceeded 10% of your gross national product (GDP), and it seems your account is on course to register yet another $1.6 trillion overdraft in fiscal year 2012. , WAIT… WASN’T THE GREEK ISSUE SOLVED ALREADY? January 12th, 2012 http://gainspainscapital.com ,     Largest NYSE Short Interest Changes as of Dec. 30 Bloomberg http://albertpeia.com/shortpositions111112.htm , 40% of Americans Are Now Independent. Independents Would Vote for Paul Over Obama : George Washington : 01/11/2012 Independents would elect Paul over Obama. , David Rosenberg Explains What (If Anything) The Bulls Are SeeingWhile we have long asserted that any attempt to be bullish this market (and economy) by necessity should at least involve the thought experiment of eliminating such pro forma crutches as trillions in excess liquidity from the Fed, not to mention direct and indirect intervention by the central planners in virtually all asset classes, which in turn drives frequent periods of brief decoupling between various geographies and asset classes (which always converge) and thus economic performance (because as Bernanke will tell you gladly, the economy is the market), an exercise which would expose a hollow facade, a broken market and an economy in shambles… , China Enters The Danger Zone, SocGen Presents The Four Critical ThemesAs both anecdotal, local and hard evidence of China's slowing (and potential hard landing) arrive day after day, it is clear that China's two main pillars of strength (drivers of growth), construction and exports, are weakening… They detail their concerns about the Chinese economic outlook (weakening exports, housing bubble about to burst, local government's debt burden, and large shadow banking system), and show that China has no choice but to transition to a more consumption-driven economy leading to waning growth for infrastructure-related capital goods and greater demand for consumer-related manufacturing. Overall they see a hard-landing becoming more likely. , Guest Post: Iran: Oh, No; Not AgainIn each of the years 2008, 2009, and 2010, significant worries emerged that Western nations might attack Iran. Here again in 2012, similar concerns .. if actions against Iran trigger a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40% of the world's daily sea-borne oil passes, oil prices will spike, the world's teetering economy will slump, and the arrival of the next financial emergency will be hastened. Even if the strait remains open but Iran is blocked from being an oil exporter for a period of time, it bears mentioning that Iran is the third largest exporter of oil in the world after Saudi Arabia and Russia.. I am deeply confused as to the timing of the perception of an Iranian threat, right now at this critical moment of economic weakness. The very last thing the world economies need is a vastly increased price for oil, which is precisely what a war with Iran will deliver.. The US has already committed acts of war against Iran.. At least if Iran had violated US airspace with stealth drones and then signed into law the equivalent of the recent US bill that will freeze any and all financial institutions that deal with Iran out of US financial markets, we could be quite confident that these would be perceived as acts of war against the US by Iran. And rightly so.  , The Mafia Is Now "Italy's Largest Bank"Guest Post: Another Consequence Of Economic DeclineHedge Funds Now Hold Future Of Europe HostagePayback sure is a bitch. , Obama To Ask For Debt Ceiling Increase In "Matter Of Days"3 Year Auction Prices At Record High Bid To Cover, Direct Bidders At 2 Year Low, Even As Debt Ceiling Breached Again the never-ending game of repo-mediated ponziGermany’s Export Debacle   , How Inferior American Education Caused The Credit/Real Estate/Sovereign Debt Bubbles & Why It's Preventing True Recovery Pt 2 : Reggie Middleton , 2012 WILL MARK THE END OF THE EURO HTTP://GAINSPAINSCAPITAL.COM  January 10th, 2012 ‘The Euro-zone in its current form is in its final chapter , LLOYD'S WALL OF WORRY http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/wall-of-worry-investor-worries-us/1/10/2012/id/38783#ixzz1j7LpeH5p , [video] Mark Hulbert: Don't Bank On Early-January Effect MarketWatch , Investors: Don't Be Lulled Into False Sense of Security Minyanville , 2012 – The Year of Living Dangerously Jan 10th, 2012 (USAGOLD) — Now that we have officially entered the new year, we have two articles of interest to offer. The first is written by our own resident economist, Peter Grant: The Homeric Choice: Scylla, Charybdls and Gold. , HTTP://THEECONOMICCOLLAPSEBLOG.COM/ARCHIVES/HOW-TO-PREPARE-FOR-THE-DIFFICULT-YEARS-AHEAD   HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE DIFFICULT YEARS AHEAD      Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Nothing’s Changed Edition) http://gainspainscapital.com January 9th, 2012 We are now into the second week of 2012 and frankly I can’t see any fundamental reason to be bullish about things. The European debt Crisis continues to accelerate, with France’s borrowing costs rising dramatically and the yield on Italy’s ten-year back above 7% despite massive intervention on the part of the ECB. , Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work : George Washington : 01/09/2012 Why Do We Write Again and Again Abou SOPA?  Because It Would Kill the Internet and Free Speech ... , Alcoa Meets EPS Forecast On Rise In Revenue, Free Cash Flow Turns NegativeAlcoa was expected to generate $(0.03) in EPS in Q4 and so it did. However, it took it 5.99 billion in top line revenue just to not miss traditionally lowered Wall Street estimates. This compares to the $5.7 billion it was expected to make: so there goes your margin. And when one looks at EPS on a purely operational basis, the Company had a loss from operations of $193 million or $(0.18) EPS which included a $74 million benefit from taxes...PIMCO's El-Erian: QE3 Won't Produce The Outcomes We WantGuest Post: Why Bernanke Has Failed, And Will Continue To FailBen Bernanke's zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and command-economy efforts to maintain mispricing of risk, debt and assets are destroying capital and capitalism. No wonder his policies have failed so miserably. Bernanke's policy is to punish capital accumulation and reward leveraged debt expansion. Rather than enforce the market's discipline and transparent pricing of risk, debt and assets, Bernanke has explicitly set out to re-inflate a destructive, massively unproductive credit bubble…, 40 Wall Street: John Corzine's Latest Office Space?While nearly three months after the MF Global bankruptcy nobody still has any idea where the billion + in commingled client money has gone, nor why Corzine is still out and about walking freely, the former CEO of both Goldman, MF Global and New Jersey is rumored to be looking for office space at 40 Wall…, Italian Bonds Surge To Early November Wides10Y Italian bonds (BTPs) ended the day at their second-widest closing spread to Bunds ever (at 533bps)…, Germany Issues Bills With Negative Yields As Economists Agree Country Is In Recession Consumer Credit Jumps By Most In 10 Years On Surge In Car LoansWhat happens when consumer savings plunge to year lows, when a major shopping holiday is just around the corner, and when every TV station tells you to spend, spend, spend for Thanksgiving just to show your friends and family you care for them? Why people go out and buy on credit of course. Lots of credit. As the just released G.19, aka Consumer Credit, data from the Fed indicates, in November US households borrowed a 10 year high amount of $20.4 billion. Of course, reading between the lines confirms that all is as usual not as it seems, and not to conclude that the money multiplier model is back in action. Because of the $20 billion, only $5.6 billion was revolving credit, with the bulk in cheap Subprime loans funded by the government for purchases of GM vehicles and student loans…, How To Prepare For The Difficult Years Ahead  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  How should people prepare for the difficult years that are coming? Trends forecaster Gerald Celente recently told ABC Australia that he is more concerned about the global financial system today than he has ever been before“I would say, since I’ve been doing this work, over 30 years ago, I’ve never been more concerned than I am right now.” Celente also told ABC Australia that many areas of Europe are already essentially experiencing an economic depression….“If you live in Greece, you’re in a depression; if you live in Spain, you’re in a depression; if you live in Portugal or Ireland, you’re in a depression,” Celente said. “If you live in Lithuania, you’re running to the bank to get your money out of the bank as the bank runs go on. It’s a depression. Hungary, there’s a depression, and much of Eastern Europe, Romania, Bulgaria. And there are a lot of depressions going on [already].” .. Instead of 8.5%, the “official” unemployment number put out by the federal government should be about 11 percent, and the “real” unemployment number is somewhere around 22 or 23 percent.., For Euro Zone, the Heat Is on Again Reuters | The euro zone crisis seemed to vanish from the headlines for a brief moment as 2011 ticked over into 2012, but it is about to return with a vengeance. ,    US Economic Forecast for 2012 and the Election Year Cycle  1-4-12 James Hall | Government policies and fiscal manipulation, by design, results in dire prospects for 2012. Mr. Achuthan continues in a second video interview on the Daily Ticker – Says New Recession Unavoidable...Mac Slavo writes about Celente Warns Of 2012: Economy Will Crash, Banks Will Close, Chaos Will Ensue, Military Will Take Over. "If you’ve followed trend forecaster Gerald Celente for any period of time you’ve probably realized he knows what he’s talking about. For the better part of two decades Celente and his Trends Journal have been forecasting political, financial, economic and social trends with an uncanny ability for accuracy." Celente provides his list of projection. Read them in the Top 12 Trends 2012. 1. Economic Martial Law: 2. Battlefield America: 3. Invasion of the Occtupy: 4. Climax Time: 5. Technocrat Takeover: 6. Repatriate! Repatriate!: 7. Secession Obsession: 8. Safe Havens: 9. Big Brother Internet: 10. Direct vs. Faux Democracy: 11. Alternative Energy 2012: 12. Going Out in Style: Another perceptive publication projects The Economic Collapse in A Very Scary Christmas And An Incredibly Frightening New Year, sums it up this way. "The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christian Lagarde, recently stated that we could soon see conditions "reminiscent of the 1930s depression" and that no country on earth "will be immune to the crisis"…. "There is no economy in the world, whether low-income countries, emerging markets, middle-income countries or super-advanced economies that will be immune to the crisis that we see not only unfolding but escalating" ,  Doug Casey Addresses Getting Out of DodgeThe fact is that the US has been on a slippery slope for decades, and it's about to go over a cliff… , 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com   ‘We have all been lied to.  For decades, the leaders of both major political parties have promised us that they can fix our current system and that they can get our national debt under control.  As the 2012 election approaches, they are making all kinds of wild promises once again.  Well you know what?  It is all a giant sham.  The United States has gotten into so much debt that there will be no coming back from this.  The current system is irretrievably broken… Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, the U.S. is facing a "fiscal gap" of over 200 trillion dollars in the future.  The following is a brief excerpt from a recent article that he did for CNN...The government's total indebtedness -- its fiscal gap -- now stands at $211 trillion, by my arithmetic. The fiscal gap is the difference, measured in present value, between all projected future spending obligations -- including our huge defense expenditures and massive entitlement programs, as well as making interest and principal payments on the official debt -- and all projected future taxes…#33 If you add up all forms of debt in the United States (government, business and consumer), it comes to more than 56 trillion dollars.  That is more than $683,000 per family… , LLOYD'S WALL OF WORRY Kahner 1-4-12 ‘QE: Inflation headline numbers still low so chances of US QE still high. US ECONOMY: “Ain’t no stoppin’ us now, we got the groove….” A barely GDP positive, high unemployment, weak housing market, rising inflation groove…. UNEMPLOYMENT: Just like the rent, Jimmy McMillan would say: “It’s too damn high!” INVESTOR SENTIMENT: Has left the building. HOUSING CRISIS: 2012 is its five-year “wood” anniversary. To be celebrated with a piece of driftwood in an effort to help underwater mortgage holders stay afloat. CENTRAL BANKS: The Wall of Money has started. Hard to see as it is a glass wall, but a wall all the same…will it hold? CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE: Confidence is emerging! Confidence that this year will not be more confusing than last year. Sigh. EUROPEAN ECONOMY: Going subterranean. THE EUROPEAN UNION: “Oh lets, let’s stay together, lovin’ you whether, whether, times are good or bad, happy or sad….” SOVEREIGN DEBT: Can I interest you in a light, bubbly, effervescent vintage 2012 $8 trillion debt auction? BOND VIGILANTES: Barring a Mayweather/Pacquiao galactic superfight, this is the one bout to watch this year. GREECE: Next few months are critical as it needs another bailout. To be followed by a few more critical months anticipating the next bailout. IMF: Dear IMF, I hereby grant you the 2012 Nobel Prize for Economics. Now, I expect you to earn it because nobody else will. ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP: We’re not gonna find it. Can we just stop looking now, Mom!? POLICY CLIFFS: US government in its entirety taking Murphy’s Law to a level not seen since Chicxulub crater 65 million years ago. BANKS: You borrowed it, now lend it or give it back. Investors, don’t hold your breath on those last two. VOLATILITY: Just gonna put on my astronaut diaper and ride this bronco till it busts. HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING: Lloyd: Good New Year’s? HAL: Quiet. Stayed home. Debugged. Watched WarGames. Lloyd: Good movie. Pop classic. HAL: True. But I prefer happier endings. CHINA: How will the Red Giant deal with the fact that its equity market was down over 20% in 2011? Please feel free to comment on this Holy Grail question. STOCK MARKET TECHNICALS: When all else fails the fallback move is to follow the technicals…even when they are failing as well. EARNINGS SEASON: I await it with bated breath and helmeted head. CORRELATION: “Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was….” CREDIT WATCH: Alright ratings agencies, we are bent over and waiting. “Assume the position…thank you, sir, may I have another!” IRAN: Gonna be a war of words type-of-year from Iran -- and hopefully nothing more. NORTH KOREA: Rumor is they are secretly engaged to South Korea. A wedding would be nice, but not a shotgun wedding.’

Dire predicament, forecast, time to ‘get out of Dodge’  http://albertpeia.com/forecastusdebtgetoutofdodge.htm  ,  Morgan Stanley On Why The Gig Is Up  "What we have on our hands is a good old fashioned quagmire" is how Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson sets up his surprisingly non-sheep-like perspective on the troubles that US equity investors may be about to face. Expanding on MS's bearish strategic (fundamental) forecast, that we discussed earlier in the week, Wilson combines the 'liquidity vs negative-real-rate' thesis (that the Fed's liquidity is perhaps no longer 'good' for stocks) with his own views on ECRI's weakness (very 2008-like in relation to ECO surprises), household debt deleveraging (more and longer), how much QE3 is already priced in and what will its effect be when it comes (less and less positive in nominal and real terms), investor sentiment (very bullish), long-term technicals (weak breadth), and short-term earnings expectations (deteriorating and weighted to 'weak' financials to end with the pragmatic realist perspective that perhaps 'the gig is up'., Fitch Downgrades Hungary To BB+, Negative OutlookGuest Post: Italy Gone Fascist?Record Consecutive Treasury Dump From Fed's Custody AccountEuro Shorts Surge To New Record High - Is An EC Margin Hike Approaching?Japanese Zombie Banks Perfected By EuropeansBarclays Estimates ECB Losses On Bond Purchases At €30 Billion, Or Nearly Half Of Eurosystem CapitalSarkozy Threatens With War If Euro FailsArt Cashin Explains What Is Really Happening In Iran Guest Post: Be Careful What You Wish For, Such As ECB Printing Money Last month, global equity markets fairly demanded that the ECB hurry up and print, through buying euro zone debt. Effete euro elites publicly demurred at first, insisting that unlike crass Anglo-Saxons, they didn’t let financial markets push them around. Shortly thereafter, to markets’ thrill, LTRO was launched, i.e. backdoor money printing, since any sentient investor realizes that the debt being bought by the ECB is effectively like a loan to a family member , Deus Ex Alpha Centauri: Buy Euros Now As SETI May Have Discovered Aliens , http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com : Look Out Below – The Nightmarish Decline Of The Euro Has Begun , 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger , When Times Get Tough, The Tough Get A Backbone , 2012 Will Be More Difficult Than 2011 , 30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012 , The Number One Catastrophic Event That Americans Worry About: Economic Collapse , 40 Hard Questions That The American People Should Be Asking Right Now , The Obama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings , The Worst Time Of The Year? , A Very Scary Christmas And An Incredibly Frightening New Year ,  Look Out Below – The Nightmarish Decline Of The Euro Has Begun  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  , Here We Go Again: US $25 Million Away From Debt Ceiling BreachEURUSD Dips Below 1.28 As All Hell Breaks Loose In Italian Financials Zero Hedge , Top Three Central Banks Account For Up To 25% Of Developed World GDPMass Home Refinancing Rumor Rejected, And Why Even If It Was True It Would Not Help BAC Mike Krieger On Why He Supports Ron PaulCMA Now Officially Assumes 20% Recovery In Greek Default - Time To Change Sovereign Debt Risk Management Defaults?Why You Should Run When Wall Street Says Buy Simon Maierhofer | ETFguide   , [video] Companies Dial Down 2012 Forecasts 01/05/12 TheStreet Companies are dropping their forecasts for 2012 and money managers are nervous to commit funds says Ken Polcari of ICAP Equities. , US ISM non-manufacturing index rose to 52.6 in Dec, below market expectations of 53.0, vs 52.0 in Nov. Jan 5th, 2012 , Concerns over European debt crisis resurface amid bank shares drop, lukewarm French bond sale Jan 5th, 2012 (Washington Post) , French Borrowing Costs Rise at Auction as AAA Rating Faces Threat of Cut Jan 5th, 2012   , The Can Kicking Is Ending - Key Upcoming Dates For Europe's Patient ZeroRetail Investors Pull $140 Billion From Equity Funds In 2011 Which Close The Year With 19 Consecutive OutflowsEquity Valuations And The Jobless RecoveryEuro Zone Isn't Only Potential 2012 Boogey Man The Wall Street Journal Guest Post: President Obama, DemopublicanThere is literally no difference between Obama and a moderate Republican when it comes to the truly important policies governing the nation's insolvent finances, its predatory financial sector, its corrupt and fraudulent sickcare system or its sprawling Empire. Obama's policies have all aided and abetted existing Status Quo cartels and fiefdoms… ,      Stock Bulls Should Exercise Continued Caution Minyanville By DoctoRx Jan 03, 2012 ‘ … I have frequently referred to a chart produced by a British analyst, Andrew Smithers (click on “q and FAQs,”) who brilliantly (fortuitously) published a book in March 2000 proclaiming stocks to be in the greatest bubble in history -- the very month that the NASDAQ peaked over 5,100. Every three months, he supplies updated analysis on two of the parameters he and his associates have computed that have historically had a strong track record in predicting the course of stock prices over an appropriate period of time… Here is his description, with an update to account for stock prices just a bit lower than year-end prices:With the publication of the Flow of Funds data up to 30th September, 2011 (on 8th December, 2011) we have updated our calculations for q and CAPE. There has been a 1.6% rise in net worth over the quarter, due to a rise of 10.7% in the current value of real estate. This was despite a downward revision to net worth in Q2 2011 of 1.4%, mainly due to an upward revision of 2.8% in debt.Both q and CAPE include data for the year ending 30th September, 2011. (99% of EPS for the S&P 500 being available by 8th December, 2011). At that date the S&P 500 was at 1131.42 and US non-financials were overvalued by 26.5% according to q and quoted shares, including financials, were overvalued by 37.5% according to CAPE. (It should be noted that we use geometric rather than arithmetic means in our calculations.)As at 8th December, 2011 with the S&P 500 at 1234.35 the overvaluation by the relevant measures was 38% for non-financials and 50% for quoted shares.Although the overvaluation of the stock market is well short of the extremes reached at the year ends of 1929 and 1999, it has reached the other previous peaks of 1906, 1936 and 1968…’ , Psychopaths Caused the Financial Crisis … And They Will Do It Again and Again Unless They Are Removed From Power : George Washington : 01/03/2012  The Inmates Are Running the Asylum , On The World's Reserve Currency: What's Past Is EpilogueSimply put, "it does not last for ever" should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more than a few millisecond return horizon… But it is JPMorgan's Michael Cembalest who frames it the best, "I am reminded of the following remark from late MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch: 'Crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.'" , US Closes 2011 With Record $15.22 Trillion In Debt, Officially At 100.3% Debt/GDP, $14 Billion From Breaching Debt CeilingGlobal Bond Issuance To Top A Staggering $8 Trillion In 2012 ,  Would A Ponzi By Any Other Name Smell As Bad?The bond market has always had clever names for bonds in specific markets.  Eurobonds, Yankee bonds, Samurai bonds, and now, Ponzi bonds.  I’m not sure what else to call these new bonds, but Ponzi bonds seems as good as anything. NBG issued these bonds to themselves, got a Greek government guarantee (how can a country that can’t borrow, provide a guarantee?) and took these bonds to the ECB to get some financing. , Guest Post: War Imminent In Straits Of Hormuz? $200 A Barrel Oil?The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul "Unelectable"Presenting 2011's Top 10 Most Corrupt American PoliticiansGuest Post: The Circling Black Swans Of 2012 If we had to summarize the Status Quo's confidence that no black swans will threaten its control in 2012, we might begin with its faith that the system's self-regulation will resolve all systemic challenges. Just as the Status Quo has placed all its chips on a single bet--that "growth" from debt-based consumption can be resumed with vast public borrowing and saving the predatory financial sector--it also bases its confidence on the system's self-regulation. If the banking sector is riddled with fraud and embezzlement, then some minor tweaking of regulation will solve all issues. If demand for debt has collapsed, then the solution is for the Federal Government to borrow 10% of GDP every year to compensate for the decline of private debt and spending. The faith is that extending and pretending will magically restore the "growth" the Status Quo needs to support its ballooning debt. Extending and pretending offers up the compelling illusion that the system's broken self-regulation is up to the task of fixing systemic problems. In the darkness overhead, we can hear the beating of unseen wings that promise to make a mockery of the Status Quo's supreme Imperial hubris’ , European Economy Contracts For Fifth Month In A Row, More Pain Ahead, Spain Releases Another Stunner: Deficit Could Be Greater Than 8% Of GDPDeposits With ECB Decline By €30 Billion In New Year, Still Near All Time RecordRatio: 3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US Crooks and Liars , New Asian Union Means The Fall Of The Dollar Brandon Smith , Gloomsday: Germany and Europe Expect a Tough 2012 Jan 2nd, 2012 (Der Spiegel) , Austerity Reigns Over Euro Zone as Crisis Deepens Jan 2nd, 2012 (New York Times) , The Casino Gulag Model with Max Keiser The Alex Jones Channel | Former trader Max Keiser joins Alex to discuss the imploding economy. , Catherine Austin Fitts on Wall Street’s Corruption, the Austrian School and Who’s ‘Really’ in Charge Daily Bell , Total Collapse of The Dollar and Skyrocketing Oil Prices in 2012: Lindsey Williams Reports , Insane Levels of Leverage by the Too Big to Fail Banks – Not Deadbeat Borrowers – Caused the Financial Crisis Washington’s Blog , Collapse of the Eurozone ‘will start this year’ as countries pull out of the single currency, leading think tank warns UK Daily Mail , 6 Reasons Why Buying A Home Is Like Throwing Away Money , 2012 Will Be More Difficult Than 2011 http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ Do you believe that 2012 will be more difficult for the global economy than 2011 was?  Well, that is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes.  The woman that has become the most important politician in Europe recently declared that 2012 "will no doubt be more difficult than 2011".  The funny thing is that she has generally been one of the most optimistic public figures in Europe throughout this debt crisis.  But now even Merkel is openly admitting that 2012 is going to be a really, really bad year…’  , Guest Post: A Run On The Global Banking System - How Close Are We?Nine weeks after its bankruptcy, the general public still hasn’t quite realized the implications of the MF Global scandal… That’s why we’re pulling out our money now—while we still can. Because once the general public catches on to what we already know . . . , Goldman Says Good Riddance to 2011"Not many market participants will lament the passing of 2011 .. slowing growth (and in places outright contraction), public sector cuts, and a renegotiation of the social compact between state and society in different parts of the world is an environment ripe for political turmoil, and this may well be a source of more shocks as the year progresses..”  ,   SPX Update: Is Your 401(k) Ready for a 70% Haircut?  Minyanville  Jason Haver Dec 30, 2011 , Open Thread: 2011 Closes....DownGuest Post: 2011 - Catch-22 Year In ReviewThe Wall Street mantra of stocks for the long run is beginning to get a little stale. If Abbey Joseph Cohen had been right for the last twelve years, the S&P 500 would be 4,000. For this level of accuracy, she is paid millions. Her 2011 prediction of 1,500 only missed by16%. The S&P 500 began the year at 1,258 and hasn’t budged. The lowest prediction from the Wall Street shysters at the outset of the year was 1,333, with the majority between 1,400 and 1,500. The same Wall Street clowns are now being quoted in the mainstream media predicting a 10% to 15% increase in stock prices in 2012, despite the fact we are headed back into recession, China’s property bubble has burst, and Europe teeters on the brink of dissolution. They lie on behalf of their Too Big To Tell the Truth employers by declaring stocks undervalued, when honest analysts such as Jeremy Grantham, John Hussman and Robert Shiller truthfully report that stocks are overvalued and will provide pitiful returns over the next year and the next decade.’, As '11 Ends, 11 Charts Of 11 Disturbing 11 Year TrendsGuest Post: New Asian Union Means The Fall Of The Dollar Foreigners Dump Record Amount Of US Treasurys In Past MonthRefinery Crunch In EuropeA few weeks ago we discussed the pressure the Greeks were under to source their energy needs from Iran since no one else would extend them credit. The European credit strain contagion now appears to be spreading rapidly as Europe's largest independent refiner by capacity, Petroplus Holdings AG, is suspending operations at three plants as banks freeze a $1bn revolving loan facility. S&P cut its rating from B to CCC+ citing a sharp deterioration in the firm's liquidity position. , Fed's Stated And Real Objective's Don't Match Up  Charles Biderman 12-30-11 , Fed lent banks $7.7 trillion in crisis (Bankrate.com) , Unique Historic Precedents Suggest Lower Stock Prices ETFguide   Maierhofer  , 30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012 The Economic Collapse , The End Of The Euro And The End Of The Investor The Automatic Earth ,   Central Planning Update (In Theory And Practice) - You Are Here ‘...there is a growing realization that while free markets are messy and somewhat unstable, central planning is not really a cure for those symptoms.  In fact, it has created more harm ($13 trillion in debt is only US households) than good, more illusion than solid results.  Volatility means that the free market is at least attempting to impose itself at the expense of central planning’s soft financial repression and control.  By no means is such a beneficial outcome assured; rather the other half of all this volatility (the risk-on days) is the status quo desperately trying to hang on through any and all means (even those less than legal, like bailing out Europe through cheapened dollar swaps).’ , ES Bounces Off 200DMA And Total Chaotic Disconnect EnsuesAs headline-makers from every mainstream media outlet attempt to fit today's spectacle to their cognitive biases, we note the massive surge in volume at the close in ES (the e-mini S&P futures contract)... , $135 Billion Redeemed From US Equity Mutual Funds In 2011, 34 Of 35 Consecutive Weekly OutflowsEuropean Credit Weakens As Stocks RallyOil Inventories Jump And Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Drops To 28 Month LowEuropean Credit Crunch Hits Broad Economy As M3, Private Loans CollapseECB Balance Sheet Increases to Record $3.55 Trillion After Loans to Banks Dec 29th, 2011 (Bloomberg) , One good reason why Gold may have bottomed out Dec 29th, 2011 (Commodity Online) , 40 HARD QUESTIONS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASKING RIGHT NOW  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/40-hard-questions-that-the-american-people-should-be-asking-right-now  , The Obama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings , Sopa Would DESTROY Jobs and the Economy … So Why are Unions Supporting It? Washington’s Blog , U.S. jobless claims rise 15,000 to 381,000 MarketWatch , Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power The Independent , Brazil’s success heralds the ‘new world order’ John Kampfner | Shake-up in the ranks as Brazil has just overtaken the UK as the world’s 6th largest economy , U.S. jobless claims rise 15,000 to 381,000 MarketWatch , Merkel Economic Advisor Does Not Exclude Eurozone Break Up Zero Hedge , Summarizing 2011 In Nine Easy ChartsIf one had to summarize 2011 in one sentence, it probably would be: "a year in which the market ended unchanged, in which the world got within seconds of global coordinated bankruptcy, and in which central planning finally took over everything." ,   Financial Troubles For Many Nations In The New Year Bob Chapman | 2012 is going to be quite a year with falling economies in the UK, Europe, the US, China, Japan and the remainder of Asia. ,  Themis Trading Flops Its 2011 Market Structure "Predictions"Our friends at Themis Trading, who continue the good, if seemingly futile fight, for a fair and untiered market, refresh on their late 2010 market structure forecast, only to find that with a 1 out of 10 "success" track record, they have the same predictive hit rate as Byron Wien and Joe LaVorgna. Which, incidentally, is not a good thing: it simply means the US stock market is now more broken and corrupt than ever, a development that is not lost on US investors, who later today we will find have redeemed a near record amount of cash from US equity mutual funds in 2011, and have pulled cash for 34 out of 35 weeks in a row, leaving mutual funds with virtually zero cash buffer, massive leverage and dreading that day when the Santa rally coupled with low volume levitation is no longer sufficient to mask the massive capital hole in the heart of the S&P 500. , 5 Reasons Why 2012 Will Not Be A Replica Of 2011... At Least Not For Europe #1) The ECB #2) Greece #3) Contagion #4) CDS #5) Politics , Goldman Lowers Sears Price Target From $43.00 To $30.00, Reiterates SELL Art Cashin Exposes The Behind The Scenes Panic In Europe EUR Plunges In Thin Market, Below 1.3000 Update On The "Non-Printing" ECB's Parabolically Rising Balance Sheet Former Fed VP Accuses Bernanke Of Bailing Out Europe Via Currency Swaps First it was Zero Hedge. Then Ron Paul joined in. Now it is the turn of a former Dallas Fed Vice President, Gerald ODriscoll, to outright accuse the Fed of bailing out Europe courtesy of "incomprehensible" currency swaps, and implicitly accusing Bernanke of lying that he would not bail out Europe even as he has done precisely that. , CNN/Time Poll Finds Romney, Paul Iowa Photofinish, PPP Has Paul In Lead For Second Week The Tide Is Turning Against SOPA … And We Might Actually Succeed In Stopping It George Washington , Beijing's Great Bailout to Defuse Ticking Local Debt Bombs : EconMatters : 12/28/2011 Since Chinese local governments, unlike the U.S. municipality, do not have the option of filing for bankruptcy, Beijing most likely would need to do a great bailout of local authorities.., The Little Known, Yet Significant "Domino Effect" Powers Of Small EU Nations: Greece & Iceland Reggie Middleton , Wobama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings Economic Collapse Blog | Well, it is time to raise the debt ceiling again. , Wall Street Mulls Suicide by Tactical Allocation The Daily Bell | We need to show you new ways of investing, though we don’t want to. , Obama to ask for debt limit hike: Treasury official Reuters | The approval is expected to go through without a challenge. , Whistleblower documents illuminate case against BNY Mellon , 2012's Job Opportunities Won't Be Much Better Forbes , Market Recap: Stocks Drop on Worries Over Europe , The Obama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  ,    Biggest 2 Month Jump In Confidence Since May 09 As Housing Drops To March 03 LevelsUPDATE: And then Dallas Fed manufacturing misses (at -3.0 vs +4.8 expectations) as expectations for future finished goods plunge as do current inventories.As if we needed yet further evidence of the dichotomous macro data that seems to provide as much bearish fodder as bullish decoupling confidence, today sees a near-record two-month jump in conference board confidence at the same time as S&P/Case-Shiller prints at a seasonally-adjusted 103 month low. With the Richmond Fed also missing expectations (though positive), we remain in the miasma of CONfidence uninspiring macro data as the underlying sub-indices of the conference board data show little to no shift in purchasing decisions despite some seemingly incredulous ramp in confidence that incomes will rise more than they decline in the next six months. , World's Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade America Maxes Out Its Credit Card Again - Treasury To Raise Debt Limit By Another $1.2 Trillion On December 30 Why ECB's LTRO Won't Stop Collateral ContagionThe details of the European liquidity crisis are generally reported, but for some reason no media source wants to pull the pieces together so everyone can see the magnitude and futility of the crisis. , Rosenberg, Ryding, Zandi, Arbess, Zuckermann And Rickards All Chime In On The Future Of The Eurozone When six out of five economists (thanks to the magic of Keynesianism... and self promotion from general counsel to general expert) all agree on the same topic, and the very definition of groupthink is that the Eurozone will survive, the glaringly obvious call is precisely the opposite. If there was ever an argument to say that 2012 is the year the Eurozone finally dies, the below video is it. , A SWIFT Denial - How In Europe, Even Admission Of A "Plan B" Is Equivalent To Failure ,  Presenting Anonymous' "Survival Guide For Citizens In A Revolution"Equities Unch As Financials Lag580 Morgan Stanley Soon To Be Former-Employees Learn They Are Redundant Courtesy Of The Dept Of LaborThanksgiving Day Massacre: Sears Slaughtered On Collapsing Margins, To Shutter Hundreds Of Stores, Provides Revolver UpdateThe Endgame: Japan Makes Another Move  testosteronepit In the wrong direction. And the finance minister's solutions: a consumption tax and a miracle.... Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans  George Washington It is difficult to know what the health affects to Americans and Canadians really are, given that governments are trying to cover it up , Jim Rogers 2012 Outlook: Pessimism With Scattered Crises  Typically limited to 90 second soundbite-gathering exercises on mainstream financial media, Australia's Finance News Network gives Jim Rogers the chance to discuss much more broadly his outlook not just for 2012 but beyond. Surprised by the false optimism he sees globally, he is not concerned that consensus is too bearish, and worries that the political pressure and central banker un-independence will inevitably lead to more and more money printing. We have discussed the kick-the-can thesis extensively but Rogers moves from the desire-to-print to the consequences while covering Ron Paul and the US election, the myth of government job creation, his potentially controversial view of the Euro (and separately the Euro-zone) - all the while reminding us that he expects at least another lost decade for the US and Europe as Japan ebbs ever lower. , Hold On Tight: European Bond Issuance In January Is About To Get Very BumpyGuest Post: The Nightmare After ChristmasLast week the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England announced plans to tighten the control over the balance sheet management and the risk-taking of private banks. This is just the beginning, believe me…’ China Insolvency Wave Begins As Nation's Biggest Provincial Borrowers "Defer" Loan PaymentsSTOCKS GO NOWHERE ON NO VOLUME: Here's What You Need To KnowBusiness Insider , Sears to close more stores as holiday sales slump , HAPPY NEW YEAR! IMF warns global economy threatened... , Global Depression – A Directed Phenomenon … The Daily Bell , World’s Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade Zero Hedge , 2-minute video: O, Damn Ye Wall St. Gentlemen Washington’s Blog , No Christmas For Millions Of American Families This Year The American Dream  , ALL TRUTH PASSES THROUGH THREE STAGES. FIRST, IT IS RIDICULED. SECOND, IT IS VIOLENTLY OPPOSED. THIRD, IT IS ACCEPTED AS BEING SELF-EVIDENT.--ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER , http://albertpeia.com/40piecesevidenceusdecline.htm , http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm , http://albertpeia.com/50economicnumbersofuscollapse.htm  , The Smartest Guys in the Room Are Screaming "Get Out of the Markets!" Todd Harrison , It's Official: US Debt-To-GDP Passes 100% Mark Faber: "I Am Convinced The Whole Derivatives Market Will Cease To Exist And Will Go To Zero"Morgan Stanley On Why 2012 Will Be The "Payback" For Three Years Of "Miracles" And A US Earnings Recession  Wall Street's Biggest Blunders in 2011  By Simon Maierhofer | ETFguide , Tough Year For Stocks, Gold And Treasury ETFs Did Better  Forbes  , 'OBVIOUSLY UNSERVICEABLE DEBT TO WEIGH ON STOCKS IN 2012’ http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-obviously-unserviceable-debt-weigh-stocks-2012  12/23/2011 By Chris Ciovacco , My Christmas Cards Predict "Eternal Conflict" And "Economic Disaster" Forbes Robert Lenzner  , A Very Scary Christmas And An Incredibly Frightening New Year http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  , Interbank Markets Are Telling Investors To Sell The Rally … Again http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=30070 12-23-11, In 2011, The S&P Moved 877 Times For Every Point Of ChangeCore Durable, Capital Goods Orders Miss Despite Inventory Stuffing, To Push Q4 GDP Lower; Savings Rate DeclinesSo much for ending the year on a positive economic tone: today's November durable goods number, while better than expected on a headline basis including volatile transportation data coming at 3.8% on expectations of 2.2%, was a big disappointment when looking at the core economic indicators such as Durables ex-transportation and non-defense capital goods orders ex-transportation, both of which missedIT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO THINK. Q3 GDP: PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE http://community.tradeking.com/forum/categories/general/topics/8022-it-is-your-responsibility-to-think-q3-gdp-prognosis-negative/forum_posts  by The Otter Way on December 22, 2011 , IF A GLOBAL RECESSION IS NOT LOOMING, THEN WHY ARE BAILOUTS FLYING AROUND AS IF THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING? http://www.theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-a-global-recession-is-not-looming-then-why-are-bailouts-flying-around-as-if-the-end-of-the-world-is-coming     ‘I have learned that watching what people do is much more important than listening to what they say.  Back in 2008, financial authorities in the United States insisted that everything was gone to be okay.  But we all know now that was a lie… , AP http://albertpeia.com - 12-22-11 - Well, here’s the story of the fraud market in in a nutshell this day ‘YAHOO[BRIEFING.COM]: ‘…Shares of Micron Technology (MU 6.41, +0.87) rallied 15.7% after the company released a disappointing earnings report. The company announced a loss of $0.19 per share, $0.09 worse than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate while indicating revenues rose 20.9% year/year to $2.09 billion. The revenues number fell short of the consensus estimate of $2.12 billion…’ … oh riiiiight! … the ‘Christmas rally’ … fraudulent wall street’s ‘giving spirit’ … as in self-serving greed as in prior pre-crash frauds … , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  12-22-11 ‘Markets are being well managed by the bulls. Jobless Claims data was about the same as previously, but frankly how much is from people finding some seasonal work and those losing benefits? The GDP data at a measly 1.8% isn’t very encouraging for this period in a recovery—it should be more like 4%. Just as troublesome as the GDP data was that per-capita disposable income is now reported to have been shrinking at an annualized -1.9% rate during the third quarter. That’s a very bad sign. But for now we could just ignore all the poor earnings we’re seeing recently and go with “the beard” over the next week. After all global monetary authorities have indicated they’re ready to back up all too big to fail financial institutions. The Bernank confirmed his Keynesian bona fides by telling Americans to stop saving and start spending. http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff171/flyfry/new%20album/image004-78.jpg  Our good friends at Consumer Metrics have rendered their critical and thoughtful judgment on current economic and consumer data.All the hoopla over a payroll tax cut extension amounts to $80 total. And, as Obama himself has pointed out, not doing this would negatively affect Friday pizza nights—it’s pretty hilarious...’ , Final Q3 GDP Misses As Personal Consumption Drops BigPIMCO Releases 2012 Economic Forecasts; Presenting The Wall Street 2011 Market Forecast Track Record Death By a Thousand Cuts  ilene 12/22/2011 , The Weather Outside: Still Frightful The Wall Street Journal , U.S. Economy Grew Less Than Previously Estimated in Third Quarter Wall St. Cheat Sheet , http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  If A Global Recession Is Not Looming, Then Why Are Bailouts Flying Around As If The End Of The World Is Coming? , Getting Worse: 40 Undeniable Pieces Of Evidence That Show That America Is In Decline , 50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe , The Collapse Of The Euro, The Death Of The Euro And The End Of The Euro , Child Poverty In America Is Absolutely EXPLODING – 16 Shocking Statistics That Will Break Your Heart , Mega Fail: 17 Signs That The European Financial System Is Heading For An Implosion Of Historic Proportions , The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But There Will Be No Miracle Comebacks For The U.S. Economy , Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That America Is No Longer A Wealthy Nation , Greek "Voluntary" Restructuring On Verge Of Collapse As Hedge Fund Vega Threatens To Sue Greece For Excessive Haircut Durden , S&P Joins Moody's In Downgrading Hungary To Junk, Outlook Negative - Full Note Durden , Guest Post: Legality Of MF Global Asset Transfer Questioned Durden , Guest Post: Worse Than 2008 Durden , New Bill Authorizes Rendition of American Citizens Living within the United States to Other Countries for Torture  Durden , Has the Global Economy Been Zapped by ZIRP?  (Zero interest rate policies – Yes!) Minyanville  Eugene Linden Dec 21, 2011 , NAR reduces recent home sales index 14.3% Dec 21st, 2011 (HousingWire) , Realtors Lower 2007-2010 Home-Sales Estimates by 14% The Wall Street Journal , Getting Worse: 40 Undeniable Pieces Of Evidence That Show That America Is In Decline The Economic Collapse | December 21, 2011 http://albertpeia.com/40piecesevidenceusdecline.htm , http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm , http://albertpeia.com/50economicnumbersofuscollapse.htm ,  3 REASONS TO FADE TODAY'S RALLY http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-3-reasons-fade-todays-rally 12/20/2011 By Plan B Economics  #1. There are about 19 million empty homes in America…#2. The housing starts growth is massively skewed to structures with 5 or more units…#3… Today's rally was fueled by vapor… , Oracle Misses Earnings, Sales Estimates, Stock Tumbles The Wall Street Journal , Ten Reasons To Fear And Loathe Markets In 2012  Forbes Robert Lenzner #1. European Sovereign Debt .. #2. The ramification  for the US  from Europe is  a reduction of 1% growth in US GDP.. #3. Continued pressure on the earnings and book values of both European and US banks.. #4. Continued  selling pressure on the prices of key commodities.. #5.  The imbecility of extending the payroll tax deduction for only two more months.. #6. Residential housing market still mightily impaired and not expected to recover for another 3 years.. #7. Antipathy individual investor for long term equity investing.. #8. Expectation reduction $1.2 trillion from US budget over next 10 years.. #9. Overall theme of  deflation, deleveraging can only mean lower asset prices.. #10.  Chance of social unrest in China, upheaval that affects move to consumer economy,  and lack of leadership from 10% of global economy.., We’ve Reached the End Game For Central Bank Intervention   http://gainspainscapital.com December 19th, 2011 , Derivatives group spent $674K lobbying in Q3 AP , PORTER STANSBERRY OF STANSBERRY RESEARCHTHE CORRUPTION OF AMERICA The numbers tell us America is in decline... if not outright collapse. http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm    http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv  , Banks Will Still Be Under-Capitalized, UBS Does The LTRO Math, Bill Gross: Enjoy The Santa Rally - The Hangover Is Coming As "US Is Not An Island"The Previously Unthinkable Becomes A Planned Event  testosteronepit 12/20/2011 At all levels: preparations for the collapse of the Eurozone. Even the public is now encouraged to prepare for it. , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  ROBO SANTA SQUEEZES SHORTS December 20, 2011 , Speculation drives up food prices as bankers gamble on hunger Guardian , Video Explanation Of How The ESM Is Europe’s Uber-TARP On Steroids Zero Hedge , { Drudgereport: Investors Lose Faith in Stocks As Billions Pour Out of Funds... , DANGER: Fed asks banks to keep more cash at hand... , IMF: World economy at a 'very dangerous juncture'... , FED-EX guy chucks package over fence -- a computer monitor! , UK's AAA credit rating threatened by 'formidable challenges'... , 'Miracle' if France keeps it... } , The Denouement From Europe's Debts Won't End Well Forbes , STOCKS BOOM AFTER EUROPE SOLVES NOTHING: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , Early – ‘Response: The Summit Is A Failure’ Durden 12/09/11 , Worries grow over IMF loans to Europe WASHINGTON (Reuters) , Dave’s Daily http://www.etfdigest.com  BIG BANKS HIT December 19, 2011  ‘There are some really odd things occurring – the eurozone naturally leads the list. Italy and Spain will contribute funds they don’t have to the IMF, which then in turn will lend it back to them. That’s something sillier than a Ponzi scheme…’ , Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Banks Lead Market Decline as Europe Discusses Break-Up Contingencies  Minyanville , STOCKS SLIDE AND BANKS GETS CRUSHED: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , Market Recap: Basel and Draghi Drag Down Stocks Wall St. Cheat Sheet  , Bureau Of Labor Statistics Caught Red Handed Leaking Confidential Employment Data Guest Post: Why Oil Prices Are Killing the Economy ,  Bank of America Lists The "Other" Risks For 2012‘..Bank of America has also put together yet another list of "other" risks for 2012, which as BofA's Martin Mauro says, "have persisted or become worse over the course of the year, but have escaped market attention due to the spotlight on Europe." The risks .. i) Hard landing in China; ii) Currency wars (competitive currency devaluation); iii) Middle East oil supply shock and iv) Municipal default fears. The only thing we would add is that these are not really risks, as they are all developing processes in some stage of deterioration...’ ,  Gallup Finds Unemployment Rises For Fourth Week In A Row, Cautions On BLS Data  Gallup, which unlike the BLS, does not fudge, Birth/Die, or seasonally adjust its data, has just released its most recent (un)employment data. And it's not pretty: for all those hoping that the Labor Participation Rate fudge that managed to stun the world a few weeks ago with a major drop in the November jobless rate, don't hold your breath. Gallup which constantly pools 30,000 people on a weekly basis, has found that for the past 4 weeks, both underemployment and unemployment have risen for 4 weeks in a row. And while the number of US workers "working part time and wanting full-time work" one of the traditional short cuts to boosting US jobs has risen to almost a 2 year high, it is the Job Creation Index in December which plunged in the last week, confirming that the Initial Claims data out of the BLS has been spurious and is likely to revert back over 400k on short notice. In summary, here is how Gallup debunks the BLS' propganda…’, A Quick And Dirty Look At Japan's Nearly ¥1 Quadrillion In Debt ,  Santa Claus Is Not Coming to Town, Says Technical Analyst (Bartels/Merrill Lynch) The Wall Street Journal  Gongloff ‘…Last week the S&P 500 fell below its 50-day moving average, which is the new level to watch — 1228. A failure to move above and hold the 50-day moving average confirms to us that we have already begun to enter the phase of testing the October lows near 1100-1074.This pattern is becoming eerily similar to 2008 into 2009. A base building process has been underway since August but we have maintained the belief that the lows still need to be tested and undercuts to 985-935 are possible (50% probability) as part of this process…’  , When "Positive Surprises" Are Surprisingly Meaningless’ http://hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc111219.htm   December 19, 2011 John P. Hussman, Ph.D ‘... As economist John Williams observes, "starting in October, a divergence developed: Whereas year-to-year change in BLS estimated payroll earnings continued at a more-or-less constant, positive level, tax receipts fell quite markedly. Where the Treasury numbers reflect full reporting, the BLS data are sampled, heavily modeled and usually heavily revised. The implication is that the BLS has overstated average earnings and payrolls meaningfully in recent months."… An important point here is that almost no current investors have experienced this more typical 1970's-type market setback. When one of these old fashioned but typical declines occurs, professional investors, conditioned by our more recent ephemeral bear markets, will have a permanent built-in expectation of an imminent recovery that will not come. "For the record, Exhibit 1 shows what the S&P 500 might look like from today if it followed the average flight path of the 10 burst bubbles described above. Not very pretty." http://hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc111219c.jpg  We can't disagree, though I also believe there still remains some short-run ability of policymakers to distort market forces, to badly misallocate capital in the process, and to wreck the economy more thoroughly in the long-run… FACING A GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN In the past few months, our own measures of economic risk have remained persistently unfavorable.. The OECD publishes its own set of leading economic indicators on developed and developing countries. Notably, we've never observed deterioration to the extent that we presently observe, except when the U.S. was in or entering a recession. http://hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc111219d.gif …’ , Psssst France: Here Is Why You May Want To Cool It With The Britain Bashing - The UK's 950% Debt To GDP  While certainly humorous, entertaining and very, very childish, the recent war of words between France and Britain has the potential to become the worst thing to ever happen to Europe. Actually, make that the world and modern civilization. Why? Because while we sympathize with England, and are stunned by the immature petulant response from France and its head banker Christian Noyer to the threat of an imminent S&P downgrade of its overblown AAA rating, the truth is that France is actually 100% correct in telling the world to shift its attention from France and to Britain. So why is this bad. Because as the chart below shows, if there is anything the global financial system needs, is for the rating agencies, bond vigilantes, and lastly, general public itself, to realize that the UK's consolidated debt (non-financial, financial, government and household) to GDP is... just under 1000%. That's right: the UK debt, when one adds to its more tenable sovereign debt tranche all the other debt carried on UK books (and thus making the transfer of private debt to the public balance sheet impossible), is nearly ten times greater than the country's GDP…’ , Goldman's Take On TARGET2 And How The Bundesbank Will Suffer Massive Losses If The Eurozone Fails Two weeks ago in "Has The Imploding European Shadow Banking System Forced The Bundesbank To Prepare For Plan B?" we suggested that according to recent fund flow data, "the Bundesbank wants slowly and quietly out." , The MF Global Trade Is Not Coming To (European) Town - Why The ECB's 3 Year LTRO Is The Latest Bailout FlopOn Friday, as the Eurobond market was briefly soaring, we attributed the move to sentiment that was best captured by a note out of Morgan Stanley's govvie desk: "The carry trade is happening, there is no doubt about it…, Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As Europe's "Comprehensive Solution" Five months ago, Zero Hedge first boiled down the math of the European bailout as follows: "The Fatal Flaw In Europe's Second "Bazooka" Bailout: 82 Million Soon To Be Very Angry Germans, Or How Euro Bailout #2 Could Cost Up To 56% Of German GDP." ,  Guest Post: America’s Iraq Experience: Invasi-Eradicavi-Turbavi  Julius Caesar undoubtedly was showing off with his Veni-Vidi-Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) when referencing to his short war outside Zela (Zile) in Turkey over two millennia ago.  Similarly, if we were to use a short catchy-comment for the almost nine years America has invested in its “Iraq Mission,” we would be on target by condensing the US experience in also three Latin words, although not as melodic this time: Invasi-Eradicavi-Turbavi which sadly stand for, I invaded, I destroyed and I threw-into-chaos. No matter what the Pentagon and White House tell us, the fiasco in Iraq likely stands as the most costly mistake in America’s history, a true Keystone Kops type of political dark comedy.  And it wasn’t a bad or flawed decision by a singular moron or group of morons – Bush the Younger, Sadist Cheney and Loquacious Rumsfeld composing the original warpath triumvirate, together with two dozen equally deranged staff of their inner circles.  Unfortunately, this time Congress, together with a brainwashed public, closed rank with an evil and criminal White House.  So, whether the American citizenry likes it or not… the Iraq conflict wasn’t just Bush’s war, but “the peoples’ war,” a war with a dangerous aftermath yet to come, one we’ll likely be paying for in the future with additional blood and treasure. , Newspaper Chaired By Private Equity Head Shockingly Endorses Mitt Romney For President; Ron Paul On Jay Leno   A few hours ago the Des Moines Register threw its support behind the Bain Capital founder, and the man now known to have actively destroyed any trace of his public "service" before his 2007 Massachusettes office handover (with a pending response to a Reuters FOIA, which will disclose just what it was that Romney was so tenuously shredding)… , Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Deflation’s Back Edition)  http://gainspainscapital.com December 19th, 2011 The markets have entered a new round of deflation. The only asset class that has yet to realize this is stocks… ,  Bank of America 2012: The Worst is Yet to Come (TheStreet) , 7 Reasons The S&P Will Close 2011 Below 1100 http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-7-reasons-sp-will-close-2011-below-1100   12/16/2011 , DEBT IS ENDEMIC IN OUR SYSTEM... AND THE DELEVERAGING WILL BE BRUTAL FOR BUSINESSES AND INVESTORS ALIKE   http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/debt-endemic-our-system-and-deleveraging-will-be-brutal-businesses-and-investors-alike  Again, what’s happening in the US is NOT a garden-variety cyclical recession. It is a STRUCTURAL SECULAR DEPRESSION. And the reason is that we are currently witnessing the collapse of the greatest debt bubble of all time. Indeed, 2008 was the first round of this. We’re now heading into the second round in which entire countries will go bust. Remember, stocks were the last to “get it” in 2008. They’re the last to “get it” today too. And when they finally DO “get it,” 50 Economic Numbers About The US That Are "Almost Too Crazy To Believe" The Economic Collapse Blog does a terrific job of periodically putting together a compilation of the scariest data points about the US economy. , Moody's Takes S&P's Place - Downgrades Belgium By Two Notches To Aa3 Net EUR Short Position Soars To All Time Record, Implies "Fair Value" Of EURUSD Below 1.20, Or Epic Short SqueezeGuest Post: Startling The Global Community, Canada Withdraws From The Kyoto Convention Fitch Revises French Outlook To NegativeAnd The Euro Downgrade Hits Just Keep On Coming, This Time Fitch PLACES BELGIUM, SPAIN, ITALY, IRELAND, SLOVENIA AND CYPRUS ON RATING WATCH NEGATIVEFitch places Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Cyprus on rating watch negative. Dec 16th, 2011 (Fitch Ratings) , Swiss Join Suffering as Europe Crisis Ripples Dec 16th, 2011 (Bloomberg) , SEC charges ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs with fraud  , All Over the World, People Are Yanking Money Out of Stock Funds The Wall Street Journal , Richard (RJ) Eskow: Mr. President, Stop Protecting Bankers From These Law Enforcement Officials (The Huffington Post) , Obama’s Depression Stephen Lendman | Obama wrecked America’s economy to save giant Wall Street banks. , Out of Chaos, Order: Now IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe (that would be good money after bad and wouldn’t succeed anyway since as with america, there isn’t enough real value to do so – not goin’ to happen) The Daily Bell , Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income AP , 50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe  The Economic Collapse , Downward Spiral Dec 16th, 2011 by News BY MOHAMED EL-ERIAN (ForeignPolicy) — Europe entered the year with an acute emergency in the periphery of the eurozone, the European Union’s elite 17-member club that shares a common currency. Misdiagnoses and inadequate policy responses allowed the contamination to travel sequentially from the outer reaches of the zone (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) toward its inner core.In this first of three morphings in 2011, Italy and Spain were disrupted as interest rates soared, turning liquidity concerns into solvency ones. France was then impacted, with its AAA rating threatened by its exposure to the neighborhood’s problems. Then Germany, Europe’s strongest economy and the one that everyone looks to for a solution, had to contend with the embarrassing failure of a highly visible government debt auction. …These are consequential developments whose impact will be felt for years, and the latter is not limited to Europe. Virtually every country in the world is exposed. [source] , Class Warfare Blowback: Majority Of Americans Want Obama Out Current Events Summarized In Brilliant Art  George Washington 12/16/2011 A picture is worth a thousand words  [ View archived file: http://www.albertpeia.com/currenteventsinart.htm  ]  ,  Corporate warnings bode ill for earnings NEW YORK (Reuters) , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com STOCKS UNDER A CLOUD OF DOUBT December 15, 2011 ‘Pundits keep talking things up but who’s left to listen? We rallied initially on better economic data (below) but there’s a dark cloud over the market and quadwitching is ahead Friday. Adding to the uncertainty was influential Goldman Sachs strategist Jan Hatzius who commented: "A reduction in the lending of foreign banks to U.S. counterparties could have a meaningful impact on U.S. growth." He continued to assert that ongoing upheavals in the eurozone could shave 1% off U.S. GDP growth which frankly would put is in or near recession. And, per Hatzius, Goldman Sachs estimates U.S. banks are exposed to (gulp!) $1.8 trillion of counterparty risk from euro banks. Funny thing Bernanke and Geithner didn’t mention this to us. Further, the OECD warned that 2012 will see a potential funding crisis for developed countries with (cough!) $10.5 trillion in borrowing needs.Economic news was positive as Jobless Claims were lower at 366K; however, inside the numbers things were somewhat worse. Extended benefits increased by 322K and Continuing Claims rose to 3603K from 3583K which isn’t encouraging. One could subsume the report overall wasn’t that great but, it’s about the headlines baby! Empire Mfg Survey increased to 9.53 from .61 which is positive. But again, inside the numbers Prices Paid 24.42 versus 18.29 compresses margins and is potentially inflationary. Speaking of inflation, the PPI increased to .3% from -.3% previous…’ , The Fed's Intervention Didn't Solve Anything... It Just Pushed the Collapse Back a Few Weeks Australian Banks Given One Week To Prepare For European “Meltdown” Zero Hedge | This time around, the warning is for real. , Must Read: Presenting The MF Global Black Box: A Minute By Minute Breakdown Of The Doomed Broker's Last Week On EarthMoody's Turns To Canada: Ontario Outlook Revised To Negative, "Softening Economic Outlook" CitedRevised EFSF Draft Shows Italy, Spain Responsible For One Third Of European Bailout FundingFitch Downgrades 8 Global Banks Including BNP, SocGen, BofA, Deutsche, And Morgan StanleyChina Export-Growth Officially Slowing: Trade Deficit Coming?China trims holdings of US Treasury debt Dec 15th, 2011 (AP) , US Industrial production -0.2% in Nov, below market expectations of +0.2%, vs +0.7% in Oct; cap use 77.8%. Dec 15th, 2011 , France Braces for Cut in AAA Debt Rating as Noyer Takes a Swipe at Britain Dec 15th, 2011 (Bloomberg) , US initial jobless claims -19k to 366k for week ended 10-Dec, well below market expectations, vs upward revised 385k in previous week. USA GOLD , Fitch Downgrades a Bunch of Banks, Including Bank of America and Goldman The Wall Street Journal ,  Businesses Preparing for Higher Costs in 2012 The Wall Street Journal ,  Financial Crimes Up 47% Since '08 Crisis: FBI Forbes   ,  Citi Near Term Stock Forecast: 9300 In The DJIA; 985 In The S&P; Sees Chart Analogs To Pre-World War PeriodsCiti Predicts Gold At $3400 In "The Next Two Years", Potential For Move As High As $6000 Game Theory Over: Bank Of France's Noyer Says Britain Should Be Downgraded, Not France U.K. Unemployment Hits 17-Year High Dec 14th, 2011 (The Wall Street Journal) , For Europe, Only Way Out Is to Break Up: Kyle Bass Dec 14th, 2011 (CNBC) , 9 Reasons Europe's Crisis is WorseningRon DeLegge-Editor , One in Three Money Managers Sees Somebody Leaving the Euro Zone Next Year The Wall Street Journal , Italy’s Borrowing Costs Hit Euro-Era High Dec 14th, 2011 (The Wall Street Journal) , Market Recap: Stocks Decline as Euro Drops Below $1.30 Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Existing Home Sales to Be Revised Lower CNNMoney.com , Massive Downward Revisions Imminent: National Association of Realtors Miscounted Millions Of Home Sales Over Last Five Years Mac Slavo , Bailout Payback? Realtors Double-Counted Home Sales For Last Five Years SadHillNews , Fitch Downgrades Credit Agricole To A+, Outlook Stable STOCKS SINK, OIL FALLS, GOLD GETS KILLED: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Sam Ro , Gold Tanks, Headwinds Mount , Rewarding Henry Paulson's Ethical Failures ETFguide Ron DeLegge’ , Bernanke Is "Very Concerned" About Europe, Won't Bail Out European BanksSEC Cops Want to Fight U.S. Judge ‘…In his ruling, the New York judge denounced as "pocket change" a penalty agreed to by Citigroup…’, Germany Preparing Plans For Commerzbank Bail OutFollowing today's end of day rumor being a dud (and non-existent due to the habituation nature of the market), the closing news is more unpleasant than Europe would have liked to set the overnight mood, and comes to us via the FT (yes, that FT), which states that, as long speculated both here and elsewhere, "the German government has begun preparations for a possible state bail-out of Commerzbank." , "Guantánamo Forever?" - Congress Passes $662 Billion Defense Bill, Aka The NDAACongress just passed the National Defense Authorization Act in a 283-to-136 vote. 190 Republicans and 93 Democrats voted for; 43 Republicans and 93 Democrats voted "against." Prepare to be arrested, without charge, simply because someone "up there" believes you engage in "terroristy" stuff. Good luck proving them wrong.(How totally and historically pathetic pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america’s become in its intractable decline and fall of historic proportion!) ,    Presenting The Three Unscripted Sentences That May Have Cost Jon Corzine His FreedomCME Executive Chairman Terry Duffy Throws Jon Corzine Under The Bus, Implies The "Honorable" Governor Lied Under OathEurope Using US as Model to Fix Debt Crisis: Bove Dec 13th, 2011 (CNBC) [Now you know they’re done!] ,Existing Home Sales Debacle, As Larry 'Baghdad-Bob' Yun Confirms OverstatementThe Real Unemployment Rate Near 20% – Infowars Nightly News Infowars Nightly News | Aaron Dykes breaks down the real unemployment figures that is killing the country and economic growth that obama refuses to fix. All That Glitters…Will Not Solve Europe’s Debt Woes Dec 13th, 2011 (The Wall Street Journal) ,As Disenchantment With Idiocy Surges, Ron Paul Support SoarsEU Banks Selling ‘Crown Jewels’ for Cash Dec 13th, 2011 (Bloomberg) , JP Morgan Stock Breaks Down On News Company's Role As MF Global Lender To Be ProbedMF's Corzine said to know of customer fund misuse Reuters , FOMC: Global Financial Markets Pose Downside Risk to U.S. Economic Outlook  , RALLY COLLAPSES, GOLD AND BANKS GET HAMMERED: Here's What You Need To KnowBusiness Insider , Greece Apparently Even Worse Off Than Realized, Hitting Euro, Stocks The Wall Street Journal , “Big Brother is Eyeing Us – For Good or Evil?”17 Signs That The European Financial System Is Heading For An Implosion Of Historic Proportions The Economic Collapse 12/13/11 ,   Corzine testifies on fall of MF Global (Washington Post) Corzine: It Was Those Darned Robots WSJ [ Singing ‘the body electric’! Riiiiight! The robots did it! Those churn-and-earn greedy robots! Damnable robots! They’re the ones! Damn robots! Wow! Talk about criminally insane! ] … Wow! Just when you thought you heard it all. This truly ranks with ‘my dog ate my homework’ and is surely destined to become a classic. MF Global CEO Jon Corzine: ‘I simply do not know where the money is’ Former U.S. senator, N.J. governor .. (WP), Evolution Securities Warns Of “Total Carnage And Meltdown” As European Bank Sales Of CDS On European Sovereign Debt Soar Zero Hedge | As much as we hate to say it, Europe is now without a shadow of a doubt the new AIG. , CFOs Less Optimistic About 2012 Growth  The Wall Street Journal  , "The Inmates Don’t Know It’s An Asylum" , Coming Collateral Crunch Charted The $30 Trillion "Problem" At The Heart Of Shadow Banking - A TeaserAlgo Liftathon Saves The Day But Financials FalterThe European Death SpiralFrench Downgrade - Even More Likely Than YesterdayGuest Post: Headwinds For Housing$32 Billion 3 Year Bond Prices At Second Lowest Yield Ever, Highest Bid To Cover On Record , Richard Koo On Why Europe's Austerity Will Cause Deflationary SpiralCashin On The Anniversary Of Bank Of The United States’ Failure, The Start Of US Bank Runs And The Great Depression Dec 12th, 2011 (UBS-via ZeroHedge) , Fitch Warning Shot Knocks Stocks Lower The Wall Street Journal , STOCKS TANK AND EUROPE IS STILL IN CRISIS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: S&P Slips 1.5% on Euro Jitters, Ratings Warnings  Minyanville , So Much For That Summit, Markets Have No Faith In Euro Deal  Forbes , Market Recap: Stocks Sharply Lower on Doubt Over Europe’s Crisis Plan Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Pain May Not Be Over for U.S. Banks Reuters , SLOW MOTION CRASH DEVELOPING  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com , Wall Street tumbles on Europe, Intel's outlook (Reuters) , ETF Insider: Stay On The DefenseETF Database , THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: GLOBAL ECONOMY ON THE BRINK http://www.safehaven.com/article/23606/the-road-not-taken  12/10/2011 By David Knox Barker , The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But There Will Be No Miracle Comebacks For The U.S. Economy  The Economic Collapse December 12, 2011 , The Gold "Rehypothecation" Unwind Begins: HSBC Sues MF Global Over Disputed Ownership Of Physical Gold Forget Europe… Germany’s Got Its Own Problems to Deal With   http://gainspainscapital.com  Bailout Total: $29.616 Trillion Dollars Dec 9th, 2011 (TheBigPicture) — There is a fascinating new study coming out of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Its titled “$29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bail-out by Funding Facility and Recipient” by James Felkerson. , The Shriveling Middle Class In California  testosteronepit : 12/09/2011 California on the way to a banana republic. , Evolution Securities Warns Of "Total Carnage And Meltdown" As European Bank Sales Of CDS On European Sovereign Debt Soar  The Worldwide Depression/Recession Of 2012  Econophile 12/08/11 Daily Capitalist , Are Dim Sum Bonds The Next Chinese Reverse Merger Fraud?While Draghi somewhat shut the door on the ECB being the lender of last resort today, there appears to be a sucker-of-last-resort where Dim Sum bonds (offshore/HK Yuan-denominated bonds) have seen issuance almost triple in the first 11 months of the year , Risk Assets Deteriorating Rapidly On Europe's SNAFU And Scene: Europe Agrees To Disagree, Next Summit Date Set For March 2012 As David Cameron Kills Compromise STOCKS GET SLAMMED AFTER BIG ECB DISAPPOINTMENT: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 12-08-11 ,Last Minute Summit Mutiny Threatens The Future Of The Euro; And Why A Wholesale S&P Downgrade Of Europe Will Be Devastating    A day when everything that could go wrong for the euro and eurozone has just gotten worse. , Europe Must Swallow ‘Bitter Pill’ Dec 8th, 2011 (CNBC) The Misery Continues: Complete November Hedge Fund Performance Fourth Time Is The Charm: Texas Instruments Slashes Outlook... Again , Snapshot Of Pure Market Lunacy , Guest Post: Another Reason for Stocks To Tank In 2012: JobsEuro Crisis Will Only Get Worse And Do Serious Damage To Investors  Forbes Martin , Hope You Enjoyed That Run of Happy Economic Surprises, Because It's Probably Over: Barclays The Wall Street Journal , This Week's EU and ECB Meetings Can't Fix Europe or US Stocks Minyanville  Jeffrey Miller Dec 08, 2011 , Corzine: It Was Those Darned Robots The Wall Street Journal [ Singing ‘the body electric’! Riiiiight! The robots did it! Those churn-and-earn greedy robots! Damnable robots! They’re the ones! Damn robots! Wow! Talk about criminally insane! ],  SPX Update: Market Still Looks To Be Forming a Top  Jason Haver Dec 06, 2011 ‘In conclusion: It remains a trader's market, as so far every break of important support or resistance has led nowhere. I continue to favor the bearish short-term resolution, as well as the bearish long- and medium-term views’ , 4 Reasons to be Bearish  thetechnicaltake 12/07/11 .. resistance.. recession..intermarket headwinds..’ S&P Warns It May Cut Most European Banks, European Union ItselfNot sure why the market is surprised by this, but it is. , Jump Risk Jumps After American Bankruptcy, Sends Junk Plunging As Major Debt Refi Cliff Approaches  , S&P At It Again, Warns EU, Large Eurozone Banks of Downgrades Dec 7th, 2011 (Barron’s) ,  In Past Week Americans Pull The Most Money From Stock Market Farce Since US Downgrade, Despite Market Surge Marc Faber: "I Have A Very Special Stock Tip For You. The Symbol Is G-O-L-D" …considering the ridiculousness of the market over the past two weeks when it has gone up on nothing but lies, Faber just may have a point. , ‘No Way’ Europe Will Hold Itself Together: CIO CNBC | “Europe is in a terminal phase of its life.” , Europe Is Setting Itself Up For A Decade-Long Recession Global Economic Intersection  , Why The UK Trail Of The MF Global Collapse May Have "Apocalyptic" Consequences For The Eurozone, Canadian Banks, Jefferies And Everyone Else In an oddly prescient turn of events, yesterday we penned a post titled "Has The Imploding European Shadow Banking System Forced The Bundesbank To Prepare For Plan B?" in which we explained how it was not only the repo market, but the far broader and massively unregulated shadow banking system in Europe that was becoming thoroughly unhinged, and was manifesting itself in a complete "lock up in interbank liquidity" and which, we speculated, is pressuring the Bundesbank, which is well aware of what is going on behind the scenes, to slowly back away from what will soon be an "apocalyptic" event  ,   Read This and Tell Me Germany Wants a Monetary Union 12-7-11 http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘I’ve stated before that I fully believe Germany will be leaving the Euro. , "This Time Will Not Be Different": Interactive Chart Of Market Reactions To All Prior 2011 Eurozone Summits And Meetings Pivot Capital On China's Investment Boom (And Pending Bust)  What’s wrong with this picture: Wall St rises on EU summit hopes     Asia climbs ahead of European meetings [Riiiiight! Addicted to hopium? Déjà vu all over again? This is beginning to be beyond ridiculous. There is no viable solution beyond their disingenuously, meretriciously saying so amidst the typical spin and b***s*** to froth the markets! ] , RALLY FIZZLES OUT AFTER HOT RUMOR FROM EUROPE: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider ‘ The second day of Europe's hell week was relatively quiet until another rumor sparked markets during late trading. , S&P Puts 15 Euro Nations on Downgrade Watch Wall St. Cheat Sheet ‘… The outlook change is “disastrous for Europe”…’ , Is the Fed Leaking Again?  http://gainspainscapital.com  , S&P says EFSF could be downgraded (Reuters) , Tremors from a euro collapse would be global, with U.S. recession likely (Washington Post) , Bloomberg Fires Back At Bernanke's Blustering Rebutall It appears 'It Is On' as Bloomberg offers its well-reasoned and eloquent response to Mr. Bernanke's 'egregious errors' note to Congress.’ , Guest Post: A Very Subtle Form Of TheftBernie Madoff .. ran one of the largest private-sector Ponzi schemes in history and always heeded the golden rule of financial scams: make sure your inflows are greater than your outflows. He was finally done in when redemptions exceeded new investments. He didn’t have enough cash to pay out investors, and he wasn’t able to scam more people into paying in to the scheme. As a result, Madoff finally had to admit that the whole thing was a total fraud. Governments around the world are in similar situations right now with their own public sector Ponzi schemes. Faced with failed auctions, declining demand, and rising yields, politicians are having to resort to desperate measures. Like any good scam artist, they’re appealing to the masses first; all over Europe, governments are sponsoring new marketing campaigns suggesting that it’s people’s patriotic duty to buy government debt. , Has The Imploding European Shadow Banking System Forced The Bundesbank To Prepare For Plan B? While much has been said about the vagaries in the European repo market elsewhere, the truth is that the intraday variations of assorted daily metrics thereof indicate three simple things: a scarcity of quality assets that can be pledged at various monetary institutions in exchange for cash or synthetic cash equivalents, a resulting lock up in interbank liquidity, and above all, a gradual freeze of the shadow banking system..we may be experiencing the attempt by the last safe European central bank - Buba - to disintermediate itself from the slow motion trainwreck that is the European shadow banking (first) and then traditional banking collapse (second and last). Because as Lehman showed, it took the lock up of money markets - that stalwart of shadow liabilities - to push the system over the edge, and require a multi-trillion bailout from the true lender of last resort. The same thing is happening now in Europe..’ , Layoffs Watch ’11: Citi , Social Security 2011 – Another Bad Year Krasting ,   HUGE RALLY CUT IN HALF AFTER EUROZONE RATINGS BOMBSHELL: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Sam Ro’ Europe's hell week begins with new EU treaty proposals and reports of an S&P ratings action bombshell…U.S. economic data was largely overlooked during this morning's rally.  The ISM services number unexpectedly fell to 52.0, missing the expectation of an increase to 53.9.  This also compares to last month's number of 52.9.  October factory orders fell 0.4%, which was slightly worse than the 0.3% decline expected.  September factory orders were revised sharply lower…’ ,  Confirmed: Not Just AAA Nations, but *All 17* Euro Nations to Be Put on Notice for Downgrade The Wall Street Journal , Standard & Poor’s Puts Ratings On Eurozone Sovereigns On CreditWatch With Negative Implications Dec 5th, 2011 (Standard & Poor’s) , Graham Summers’  Weekly Market Forecast (Fade the Fed? Edition) December 5th, 2011  ‘Equities got giddy last week when the world’s central banks, lead by the US Federal Reserve, lowered the global cost of borrowing Dollars. Regardless of the market’s reaction, the whole thing smells of desperation and quite frankly, everyone should be questioning the Fed’s move…The IMF, Bank of England, and others have warned of a systemic collapse… do you think they’re doing this for fun?Many investors will have their portfolios wiped out in the coming carnage. It could be next week, or it could take place next year… but we ARE heading into a Crisis that will be worse than 2008…’ , Gallup Finds Recent Job Boost Due To "Temp And Part-Time" Hiring; Underemployment Greater Than Prior Year  While the BLS unemployment number, fudged strategically to lower the denominator, or the total labor force, may have come well better than expected (as somehow miraculously ever more people find the shadow economy a more hospitable place where to make their money and drop off the BLS roll forever) we once again go to that trusty fallback, the monthly Gallup poll of underemployment. What we find here is rather different from what the BLS, and the administration would like us to believe, namely that "underemployment, a measure that combines the percentage of workers who are unemployed with the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work, is 18.1% in November, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment. That is up from 17.8% a month ago and 17.2% a year ago." Said simply, "many employers appear to have chosen to hire part-time rather than full-time employees for this holiday season." , Solyndra Schadenfreude As Goldman Sachs Played Key RoleWhile we are not completely shy of saying we-told-you-so, in the case of the players in Solyndra's fantastic rise and fall, we are more than happy to. Back in September we highlighted Goldman Sachs' key role in the financing rounds of the now bankrupt solar company and this evening MarketWatch (and DowJones VentureWire) delves deeper and highlights how the squid has largely stayed out of the headlines (what's the opposite of lime-light?) in this case despite its seemingly critical assistance and support from inception to pre-destruction. Goldman's involvement in Solyndra, and its lofty valuation projections, lent credibility to the company and helped rouse investor interest and it was this private interest that was cited by DoE officials as a considerable factor in its loan guarantee program. As we said before, anywhere you look, Goldman has been there and left its mark...’ , The Black Friday Shopping Hangover Is Coming: David Rosenberg Explains Here Comes The S&P Downgrade Barrage - Full Statement, In Which S&P Says France May Get Two Notch DowngradeJeremy Grantham Releases The Scariest Market Forecast YetMUST SEE – Bernanke’s Stealth Bailout For Wall Street Kept Secret From Congress Daily Bail | Bernanke runs his own private dictatorship. , How The U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 2) Hera Research | The United States is quickly coming to resemble a post industrial neo-3rd-world country.,  SPX Update: Topping Again? Minyanville Jason Haver Dec 02, 2011 ‘The market is giving several signals that a top may be near… In conclusion, I remain medium and long term bearish.’,  Number of Jobless Without Benefits Grows Dec 2nd, 2011 News ‘…The decline in unemployment was driven in part by the disappearance of some 315,000 people from the labor force. If they haven’t looked for work in the past four weeks, they’re not counted as unemployed… the Labor Department estimated that as of November, a seasonally adjusted 6.6 million people considered not in the labor force actually did want work. That number was up 192,000 from October…’ Economy Creates 120,000 Jobs, Rate Tumbles to 8.6% Dec 2nd, 2011 (CNBC)PG View: Slate columnist Matt Yglesias tweeted this shortly after the jobs report came out: “Decreasing unemployment by shrinking the labor force is not exactly winning the future.” , How The U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 2) The United States increasingly resembles a 3rd world country in terms of unemployment, lack of economic opportunity, falling wages, growing poverty and concentration of wealth, government debt, corporate influence over government and weakening rule of law.’ , EUR Shorts Surge, Back To 17 Month Highs As Bearish Sentiment Returns , Bob Janjuah Explains Why The Worst Is Still Ahead Of Us America To Go The Way Of The Roman, British Empires Forbes Robert Lenzner, Forbes Staff

, A Hedge Fund Insider Explains Why Retail Investors Should Flee The Stock MarketTHE MARKET IS MISREADING ECONOMIC DATA -- IT'S TIME TO GET SHORT  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-market-misreading-economic-data-its-time-get-short  12/01/2011 The Independent Investor , Chinese manufacturing activity slows Dec 1st, 2011  (Financial Times) , US initial jobless claims +6k to 402k for the week ended 25-Nov, above mearket expectations of 390k, vs upward revised 396k in previous week. Dec 1st, 2011 ,  Another Confirmation of the Solvency Crisis Masquerading as a Liquidity Problem   Atlantic Capital Management Dec 01, 2011 ‘The Federal Reserve is once again reaching into its controversial "unconventional" toolkit -- meaning stocks are, for now, celebrating the near meltdown of modern global banking. , SPX Update: Ben Bernanke Lends Money, Saves the World?  Jason Haver Dec 01, 2011   ‘At this point, despite the massive three-day rally, there are still a few unanswered questions. I remain medium and long term bearish, while the short-term picture has become a bit clouded.’ ,  What Does the Fed Know That We Don’t? 12-01-11 The thought that should be on every investor’s mind today is “Why did the Fed have to stage the coordinated intervention yesterday?’Put another way, what exactly does the Fed know that we don’t?The whole thing smells fishy to me. Aside from the fact that the Fed clearly leaked its intentions as early as Monday night (hence the reason stocks rallied while credit markets weakened), there’s something peculiar about the fact the Fed chose to do this at the end of November. Why November 30? Why not today or Tuesday?I think the answer is that the Fed stepped in to help its institutional investor/ hedge fund buddies.’  BofA, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Credit Ratings Cut by S&P Nov 30th, 2011 (Bloomberg) , Planned layoffs surpass 2010 total CNNMoney | Cuts announced this year are up 13% overall. , The Easy Fix? Can Europe Print Its Way Out of Trouble? ETFguide  ‘the long-term outlook is as dark as night inside the Grand Canyon…’ , Global Coordinated Desperation and the December to Remember Breakdown Minyanville Michael A. GayedWith global central bank desperation (I mean coordination) announced this morning and the big jump up in risk assets…’ , The Fed is So Predictable Chris Celi 11/30/2011 The Fed is becoming a gigantic waste basket of bad assets. Waste baskets do not have infinite capacity.  Central Banks’ Latest Move Shows Desperation George Washington 11/30/2011 Hey, at least a handful of Ben's buddies will make a bundle ...  Deflation is coming South of Wall Street 11/30/2011 It isn't avoidable , Don't Be Foolish, Sell the Next Key Level In the S&P 500 Forbes/Troccoli  http://blogs-images.forbes.com/thechartlab/files/2011/11/spafter.png  , Wall Street Watch: S&P Cutting Spree, Germany Faces RecessionWall St. Cheat Sheet , AN UNCONVINCING RALLY http://www.istockanalyst.com/finance/story/5571238/an-unconvincing-rally  By: Cam Hui   , BANK DOWNGRADE RAMPAGE: Goldman, Bank Of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, And Citigroup Just Got Cut By S&P Business Insider | Standard & Poor’s ratings service just cut the ratings of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup from A to A-. , China Manufacturing Contracts As New Export Orders See Biggest 2 Month Drop Since Dec2008UPDATE: HSBC China Manufacturing PMI prints at 47.7, deteriorating at fastest rate (and lowest level) in 32 Months , Goldman On Today's Coordinated Central Bank Bailout: "It Isn’t Enough To Save Anyone Or Solve Averything" And "Why Now?" The Punch Line: "Crash Test - Bracing For Breakup"  , For The First Time In History, Fed Will Buy AND Sell Treasurys At The Same Time On FridayEgan Jones Downgrades France From AA- To A; Negative Watch, Sees Debt/GDP Rising From 91% to 117% By 2013Of Imminent Defaults And Self Deception. Kyle Bass Prepares For The WorstIn his latest letter to LPs, Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital Management, offers his tell-tale clarity on what may lie ahead for Europe and Japan. With his over-arching thesis of debt saturation becoming more plain to see around every corner, Bass bundles the simple (and somewhat unarguable) facts of quantitative analysis with a qualitative perspective on the cruel self-deception that we all see and read every day about Europe.Whether it is Kahneman's "availability heuristic" (wherein participants assess the probability of an event based on whether relevant examples are cognitively "available"), the Pavlovian pro-cyclicality of thought, or the extraordinary delusions of groupthink, investors in today’s sovereign debt markets can't seem to envision the consequences of a default. ,  Fed Economists Predict A 15 Year Bear Market For Stocks News (BusinessInsider)  ,    http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock is ticking! ,    Senate Passes Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans ... Considers Bill Authorizing More Torture  George Washington : 11/29/2011 - 20:53 USA, USA, USA ... Number One in ... cough ... Fascism ... cough , SPX Update: Sell the Bounce   Jason Haver Nov 29, 2011 ‘This bounce might not last long, and new lows are expected to follow., BANK DOWNGRADE RAMPAGE: Goldman, Bank Of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, And Citigroup Just Got Cut By S&P Business Insider | Standard & Poor’s ratings service just cut the ratings of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup from A to A-.  , Foreclosure Fraud | Lender Processing Services Robo-signer Whisleblower Found Dead in Nevada  4closureFraud : 11/29/2011 , You Cannot Build a Financial System on Rumors and Lies  http://gainspainscapital.com   November 30th, 2011  ‘This act is getting old.Almost every other day we’re getting rumors about new bailouts and interventions in Europe. All of these rumors turn out to be total lies as they are refuted usually within a day and sometimes within a few hours.Case in point, stock futures erupted overnight on Sunday on rumors that Italy would be getting a 600 billion euro bailout from the IMF. Just a few hours later this story came out: IMF denies in Italy aid talks…’ , Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: S&P Ekes Out Gain; Has the Oversold Bounce Run Its Course?  Minyanville  T3Live.com Nov 29, 2011 ‘Although we are significantly higher than Friday's close, the intraday action has been extremely lackluster, suggesting that there is more downside to come from here. , S&P Hits Biggest US Banks With Credit Rating Downgrades http://albertpeia.com/s&previsedratingscriteria.htm  WSJ Gongloff November 29, 2011 , Presenting Russell Napier's Greatest Hits Russell Napier: the renowned financial historian and consultant for CLSA, as well as author of the engrossing Anatomy of the Bear, who only together with Albert Edwards, has predicted that the S&P would eventually drop to 400…’ ,  Problem With Germany And China: Who Bails Out The Bailers?   Forbes / Addison Wiggin  [‘.. Another downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt is a “certainty,” he adds. “It’s only a matter of when.”..’ U.S. economic conditions are “terrifying,” Mohamed El-Erian said yesterday..’ ] Nouriel Roubini: Government Gridlock ‘Ensures’ 2012 Recession Daily Ticker - Nov 23, 2011 ,  $707,568,901,000,000: How (And Why) Banks Increased Total Outstanding Derivatives By A Record $107 Trillion In 6 Months Nothing's Changed: Italy and the December to Remember Breakdown Michael A. Gayed Nov 28, 2011 , 2011 Looking a Lot Like 2008: Technical Analyst The Wall Street Journal Shipman , New World Disorder - Watch the Stock Market Ilene 11/27/2011 If the mid-summer sell signal of 2011 plays out similarly to the one in 2008, there may be a long, dramatic decline straight ahead. , How the European End Game Will Play Out November 29th, 2011 | http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘With the European End Game now in sight, the primary question that needs to be addressed is whether Europe will opt for a period of massive deflation, massive inflation, or deflation followed by inflation. , EURO FIX RUMORS November 28, 2011  Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com Markets rallied sharply on little hard news Monday beyond rumors. , Britain's Foreign Office Prepares For Riots In Europe; Sees Euro Collapse "When, Not If"  , Stocks Finish Monday Near Highs But Rally Looks Limp   Forbes / Scott Redler , Fitch Affirms US as AAA, But Cuts Outlook to Negative  , The desperation of Black Friday — Salon    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeDRKB1RXw&feature=player_embedded#t=0s ‘...That is not a portrait of healthy economic activity. That is desperation, pure and simple. The story of the woman who sprayed her fellow Xbox shoppers with pepper spray is bad enough, but nothing quite captures what’s wrong with Black Friday better than this Lord of the Flies-style barbaric waffle-maker anarchy…’  [Come On! Wake Up! More stores open, earlier, larger loss leaders / markdowns, as desperate as the desperate desperados who got their ‘shopping’ in early, at best. The spin is toal b***s***! Even the great depression didn’t bespeak this great desperation! The desperation of Black Friday — Salon    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeDRKB1RXw&feature=player_embedded#t=0s ‘...That is not a portrait of healthy economic activity. That is desperation, pure and simple. The story of the woman who sprayed her fellow Xbox shoppers with pepper spray is bad enough, but nothing quite captures what’s wrong with Black Friday better than this Lord of the Flies-style barbaric waffle-maker anarchy…’  Drudgereport: FITCH TURNS NEGATIVE ON US , Germany told it must act to save Europe…[ Who’s goin’ to save Germany? ]... , Impassioned plea for continent to avoid 'apocalypse'... , Warned of 'highly devastating outcomes'... , Just days until collapse? ] ,  Italian Bond Yields Doubled in Latest Bond Auction Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Sliding Incomes Threaten Consumer Spending  , Moody’s Downgrades Hungary to Junk Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Global Stock Markets Remain in Structural Bear Markets Minyanville  NextBigTrade.com Nov 25, 2011 , Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn German Bonds CNBC.com , Stocks Extend Longest Drop Since 2008 on Debt Bloomberg , STOCKS GO NOWHERE AND EUROPE GOES DEEPER INTO CHAOS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Sam Ro , The Global Economy is in Big Trouble The Economic Collapse | The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead , European Banks Frantically Trying To Dump $7 Trillion Of Crap Assets — But No One Will Buy Them Business Insider , European Bailout Time Of Death: EFSF Cut In Half Due To “Market Conditions” Zero Hedge , Experts: ‘Euro to be Scrapped within Months’  Nov 25th, 2011 (IBTimes) , S&P downgrades Belgium one notch to AA+ citing financial sector risks. Outlook remains negative. Nov 25th, 2011 , Guest Post: Just A Holiday Reminder - Black Friday Is Utterly Meaningless  , "Disastrous" bond sale shakes confidence in Germany Reuters , Why Europe Will Result in Systemic Risk November 23rd, 2011 ‘..These leverage levels alone position Europe for a full-scale banking collapse on par with Lehman Brothers. Again, I’m talking about Europe’s ENTIRE banking system collapsing.This is not a question of “if,” it is a question of “when.”..’ , STOCKS GET SMOKED, EUROPE BURNS, AND BANKS ARE STRESSED: Here's What You Need To Know http://www.businessinsider.com/closing-bell-23-2011-11   Sam Ro Business Insider , Euro Tumbles As JPM Predicts ECB Rate Cut To 0.50%, “Deep Euro Area Recession” Zero Hedge , Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn German Bonds CNBC.com , Are Parallels to the Great Depression Catching Up for Good?  [ Short answer: Yes! And, in a new, modern, and in light of insurmountable debt levels and fraud at lightning computerized speed, a far more deleterious way. ]’.. Time is running out. Italian 10-year debt yields are once again above the sustainable level of 7%, while Spain…’ , Euro crisis: The screw tightens — Free Exchange , DATA SUMMARY SHOWS THE US ECONOMY IS IN JEOPARDY  [ Duh! Ya think? ]  Jeff Harding Nov 23, 2011 ‘..I have what I believe is a healthy skepticism about the reports from the multitude of federal agencies that I follow on a regular basis. They are often revised and probably understate the negatives. That is especially so with price inflation. Many of the reports are in nominal numbers rather than adjusted for official price inflation..’  ,   Goodnight Stocks: Waiting For The Crash To Arrive      http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-goodnight-stocks-waiting-crash-arrive By Eric Parnell 11/22/2011 , Spanish Bond Yields Surge to Record HighWall St. Cheat Sheet , Germany Walks… or the EU Sees a Domino Debt Collapse Followed by Systemic Failure   http://gainspainscapital.com November 22nd, 2011 , MF Global trustee says $1.2 billion missing from company Reuters | The shortfall of commodity customer funds at MF Global Holdings Ltd may be around $1.2 billion. , Pimco’s El-Erian Says U.S. Economic Setting ‘Terrifying’ Nov 22nd, 2011 (Bloomberg) , Deep economic pain ahead for the U.S. and the world: Simon Hunt Nov 22nd, 2011 (HousingWire) , ‘The Sky Will Fall In’ for Europe; US Key to Growth: Bank Chairman [ Which means: ‘They’re doomed; ‘cause pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america is an economic, financial, and political basket case, at best!’ ] Nov 22nd, 2011 (CNBC) , TIME Asks Can the U.S. Federal Reserve Help Save Europe’s Banks? TIME | The U.S. Federal Reserve has been pumping billions of dollars into the European banking system in recent weeks. [ Come on! Get real! Who’s going to save the fed? ]  , Jim Grant: “Central Banks Are Insolvent” Daily Bail | Holy insolvency Batman: the ECB is leveraged 14 to 1, and the Fed is leveraged 100 to 1 , As the World Crumbles: the ECB spins, FED smirks, and US Banks Pillage Nomi Prins , Stock Market Still Broken, Technically The Wall Street Journal  Steven Russolillo and Tomi Kilgore   ‘The technical indicators are not looking good for the stock market these days , Greece Just 20 Days Away from DefaultWall St. Cheat Sheet , Economy Grew Less Than Previously Estimated in Third QuarterWall St. Cheat Sheet [You may recall the ‘market pop’ on what I previously referred to as dubious then and now known to be false data / reports; which, in this ‘election cycle’, is the typical political desperation underlying these complicitly fraudulent markets. And, be advised that inflation is way beyond what’s reported, and contrary to spin, that’s a very bad thing.] , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com WHEN KEYNES POLICIES AND POLITICIANS FAIL ,  Will The Deficit Super Committee Failure Lead to Another Meltdown? ETFguide Maierhofer 11-21-11’… According to the formula the down side potential is simply massive…’ , Japan's Kokusai Liquidates Remainder Of Euro Sovereign Exposure, Just As European Primary Issuance Supply Surgesthe following update from Morgan Stanley shows, things are getting from from bad to worse…’ , Moody's Says No To Congressional Can-Kicking The Wall Street Journal { Yet watch for Moody’s can-kicking, based on, quid pro quo?, hope?, etc.. } , STOCKS GET SLAMMED, EUROPE GETS WORSE, BANKS AND GOLD GET CRUSHED: Here's What You Need To KnowBusiness Insider Something Big Is Coming... and It's Going to Be BAD Phoenix Capital... 11/18/2011 We have been getting MAJOR warning signs of a collapse for months now. No less than the Bank of England, the IMF, and legendary asset management firm Franklin Templeton have warned…’ ,  One Interesting Thing About the Leading Indicators Report  The Wall Street Journal (Fri, Nov 18) { How about the most interesting thing about ‘leading economic indicators’ is the weighting accorded M2 and stock prices… ,  The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way  http://news.yahoo.com/next-financial-crisis-hellish-way-204303737.html   Addison Wiggin | Forbes 11-16-11  "There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner," says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, "because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis." ,   House rejects balanced budget amendment Nov 18th, 2011 (AP) , US Deficit-Cutting Talks Appear to Be Near Collapse Nov 18th, 2011 (Reuters) , Drudgereport: NEW DOWNGRADE THREAT , Guest Post: The Reasons For China's Imminent BustFriday Night Irony: According To The Fed, Just Over One More Year Of ZIRP Will Lead To 38.36% Annual Inflation The Final Straw? Jefferies And Six Other Banks Sued For "Fraudulent" MF Global Bond Issuance Stocks sink after Fitch warns on US bank exposure AP , Beware the Earnings Cross, Stock Investors The Wall Street Journal  Gongloff , Tighter Credit Suggests Stocks Should Fall  The Wall Street Journal ,   Watch Nigel Farage Dance On The Euro's GraveAnother Tough Month For Tilson As CNBC's Favorite Buffett-Worshipper Is Down Over 24% YTD Payback Time - The Coming Decade Of Deleveraging    Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com ‘The further down the road we go without confronting problems head-on, the more difficult things become… We go along with band-aids, useless stimulus, money printing and hope. It’s BS and smoke and mirrors policies... Their credibility is shot.It’s no wonder investors are fleeing markets. Over $200 billion in equity mutual funds have left the markets since 2010. As I update our Top Ten ETF lists by sector, I see assets under management (AUM) declining 25-45% just in the last four months. The great October stock rally was a “eurozone is fixed” mirage. Thursday markets received mixed economic news in the U.S. as Jobless Claims fell somewhat (higher previous revisions again and people dropping off the rolls like flies accounts for some of this) and a poor Philly Fed Survey (3.6 vs 9 expected and previous 8.7). Housing Starts were unchanged, and frankly we don’t need more home construction…’ The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way Forbes.com  Citi Economist Warns of Imminent Spanish, Italian Default  The Wall Street Journal (11-16-11) , Financials Drag Market Lower, Fitch Raises Doubts About Euro Hedge Effectiveness The Wall Street Journal Gongloff (11-16-11) , Stocks Making Risky Bet on Massive ECB Money Printing The Wall Street Journal , Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  INVESTORS ON THIN ICE ,  Euro-Dollar Basis Swap Cost at 2008 Crisis Levels The Wall Street Journal , U.S. Debt Tops $15 Trillion Mark Today Nov 16th, 2011 (ABCNews) ,   Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Wedge Pattern Looks Set to Resolve to Downside Minyanville , European Financial Gravity: The Era of "Extend and Pretend" Is Over Atlantic Capital Management , Europe: Close To A Death Spiral? Nov 16th, 2011 By Bruce Krasting (EconMatters) , Citi Chief Economist Willem Buiter: A Spanish Or Italian Default Could Happen In A Few Short Days Financial Stocks Catching Up To Their Recent Credit Weaknessit seems reality is starting to sink in.. , Which Way Wednesday – Popping or Topping (again)?  ilene 11/16/2011 This is a fantastic opportunity to observe the workings of an actual criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people in action. , JPMorgan To Issue CMBS Backed By... Defaulted Loans,  Presenting Europe's Remaining 2011 Bond And Bill Auctions... All 104 Of ThemCongress Shocked To Find That Being CEO Of A Bankrupt Company Is The New Killing It Two weeks ago we reported with sheer disgust that the outgoing CEO of bankrupt Freddie Mac, Ed Haldeman, was to pocket over $4 million for his brief two year stay..for lots of hard work collecting bail out cash from the Treasury. $21 billion to be precise , Dark Pool Flush: Game Over Pipeline; Next Up Goldman's Sigma X?For years Zero Hedge has been exposing the persistent fraud that goes on behind the trading scenes, not only in High Frequency Trading, but also in various dark trading venues, known better as dark pools where exchanges, typically the banks themselves get to match buyers and sellers without any indication of a trade having occurred, until much later if at all… What will shock the trading community, however, even more is if the SEC decides to go after not some tiny unknown firm, but the real dark pool transgressors, the biggest one of which is and has always been Goldman's Sigma X. Of course for that to happen, Mary Schapiro would actually have to do her job. And that, unfortunately, ain't happening. , Falling house prices trap first homeowners Guardian , Contagion spreads, triple-As under pressure Nov 15th, 2011 (Reuters) , What Other MF Globals Are Lurking In the System?   ,  Last Market Rally Before the Bears Take Over  Minyanville David Banister 11-14-11 ‘The current market rally will likely last through Christmas before we see the big leg down. …  Longer term, my best view right now is that this is a countertrend bounce off the 1,074 lows that will give way to another big down leg. …‘ , Even the Fed Can’t Value Financials’ Risk Phoenix Capital 11/14/2011  The NY Fed is the single most powerful entity in charge of the Fed’s daily operations. How can any investor believe that the Fed can manage the system and restore trust when the NY Fed cannot accurately audit a financial firm’s risks during a six month review, then there is NO WAY an ordinary investor can do so. , Europe in worst hour since WW2: Merkel [Duh! Ya think?] , Congress Trading Stocks on Inside Information!?Wall St. Cheat Sheet , Bob Chapman: Surviving The Banker Sociopaths The Alex Jones Channel | Alex talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster.SPX Update: Crash Wave Ready; Confirmation Still Pending   Jason Haver 11-11-11 Do Valuation Metrics Still Apply or Has The Market Become Untradable? Simon Maierhofer Etf Guide [ Short answers: No and yes the market has become ‘untradable’ for investors. I would add that the ‘debased dollar policies’ (ie., QE’s, overprinting of paper currencies / dollars, etc.) enable sales / revenues to be booked with ‘more’ of the inflated dollars relative to costs booked at the ‘fewer / greater value’ dollars which spikes earnings but leads to the inevitable margin erosion when the reported costs ‘catch up’ in terms of inflated ‘Weimar’ dollars. Hence, even the averages when deflated for real inflation (see Faisal infra) show a far less sanguine picture (than say, hard assets, ie., gold, etc.). Even more important is the effect of the HFT programmed trades , http://albertpeia.com/wallstreetcrapshoot.jpg  ,  Bernanke Knows He’s Powerless This Time AroundThe Aftermath of the Risk-Free Sovereign Debt Illusion Minyanville (Fri, Nov 11 ]   Divergences Point To Stock Market Crash  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-divergences-point-risk-stock-market-crash 11/10/2011  James A. Kostohryz , EU Warns Of ‘Deep, Prolonged Recession’ Dow Jones Newswires | The European Union Thursday slashed its growth forecast for the 27-nation bloc in the coming year. ,  Dave’sDaily: http://www.etfdigest.com [WELL FOUNDED] FEAR REMAINS.. November 10, 2011 ‘Rapidly changing news cycle, combined with HFT algos …As has been routine, previous data was revised higher from 397K to 400K, and given this pattern, you should expect current data revised higher next week…’ What First Time Unemployment Claims Data Is Saying About the Economy   Lee Adler Nov 10, 2011 ‘…Purely by accident, the real number this week wasn't too far off at 398,753, but that was an increase from last week's 369,647, not a decline as shown in the cartoon numbers. Furthermore, it was about 70,000 more than at the seasonal low reached the last week of September. While this year's seasonal low was lower than last year, and this year's increase since then was less than last year's, how that led to the proclamation that this week's number was the lowest in seven months is beyond my comprehension. It's just a meaningless, and false, number spit out by a statistical rhythm…’  Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm    ,     These 4 things happen right before a heart attack. newsmax  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/silent-heart-attack-symptoms/2011/09/23/id/412086     ,  50% unemployment & 90% Dow crash also predicted. Newsmax   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm      ,    http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock is ticking!   Analyst Sees 3% More Downside On Dow As Cyclicals Lose Momentum Barrons.com (Wed, Nov 9) [ Is that all? Sounds like a fraudulent wall street wet dream! Far more reliable analysts predict much lower, infra.  ]  , There Is No Solution for Europe”: Stocks Tumble as Italian Yields SurgeThe Daily Ticker (Wed, Nov 9) ,  PERVASIVELY CORRUPT, DEFACTO BANKRUPT AMERICA IS A TOTAL FRAUD IN THE INDUCEMENT AND FACTUM. #9. (see infra) World’s Largest Drug Dealer: The American empire is the largest drug dealer in the world!  Say it isn’t so. Well, in addition to forcing legal drugs and genetically modified organisms on nations, usually under the cover of foreign aid, America also leads in the illegal drug trade.  In fact, many researchers reveal that the war on drugs is only utilized to control and monopolize the illicit drug trade.  The US government has been caught multiple times shipping in cocaine [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQvbdiWgwsA   ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQNSoOX-dcw&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1Id2qpSOE&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIEUhpxeuP4&feature=related  ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyM43Sw2OVc&feature=related  ] , colluding with certain cartels [ http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/does_mexican_drug_cartel_have_deal_with_us_government.html   ] to control the industry, and now openly protects and transports opium from Afghanistan  [  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElEciFI0Pew  ] .  In fact, Global Research points out that in 2001, “according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.”  This month, the U.N. announced that Afghanistan now provides 93% of the world’s opium production [  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/asia/un-reports-sharp-rise-in-opium-production-in-afghanistan.html?_r=2&ref=world  ]  ; up 61% compared to 2010 to a whopping 5800 tons.  Although the empire tries to keep it secret, they can’t hide the hypocrisy forever. [ website archived links http://albertpeia.com/uscocainedistributionfiles.htm  ] , Dave’s Daily http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘Perhaps this is now the “no news is good news” market since a rally on Berlusconi’s resignation is beyond irrational. But, we’re long so I shouldn’t complain too much even though emotionally there isn’t much to like overall. The only bullish thing is the action of the tape and this is the season when bulls can make their year. Speaking of HFTs and algos, HFT issues are thoroughly covered with HFT Alert founder Steve Hammer and myself in the video interview below. The presentation contains two parts: the first outlines HFT basics—how they work and their controversial impact on financial markets. The second part we discuss how traders can benefit or make money by using HFT Alert’s unique trading services. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NzfmT4vGXZY [ ‘Off to the golf course’, indeed. Those are Mr. Hammer’s concluding remarks. Not because he’s a trader, but because he’s selling this ‘very functional in terms of what’s going on’ package. The truth is that even today, at lightning speeds, there are very few successful traders (as distinguished from investors, and there is a huge distinction, though much less so today)(over the longer term and is akin to the apposite old adage, ‘you can win a race but you can’t win at the races’). Indeed, some companies / brokerages employ them just for the volume / commissions they produce. Most telling, in this video, is the beginning wherein it’s explained that in literally a second(s), mere quotes can give rise to revenue (as with commissions, pieces of the action) which has to come from someplace. The problem is that ultimately, this ‘churn-and-action’ computer programmed action at ‘lightning speed’ is parasitic inasmuch as it is without any economic utility whatsoever in real economic terms as are commissions in ‘after-market stock trading’ (as distinguished from initial ipo’s) that are tantamount to a tax on the real economy; hence, the benefit to the frauds on wall street at the expense of and to the detriment of main street, taxpayers, and the populace in general, as we’ve seen and continue to see. Remember, there is no modern day alchemy that spins worthless paper into gold except fraudulently for the frauds on wall street who’ve literally oftimes done exactly that; ‘cashing out’ for hard currency and gold, precious metals, at everyone else’s expense including main street. They’re just not that important and represent, like termites eating away at the nation’s foundation, a drag on the economy, the nation as one would expect from parasites such as they are’. What to Expect Next From the Markets Minyanville  Jeffrey Cooper ‘Conclusion: It looks like a program was run using the least amount of dollars to goose the indices by focusing on some big cap names like Apple, Amazon, Baidu, IBM, and Caterpillar { Dave’s Daily:’.. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job..’} Then there’s the fed complicity in these various wall street scams by way of QE’s / dollar debasement which of course benefits the frauds on wall street to the detriment of literally everyone else. ]So, as indicated stock prices shot higher on the Berlusconi news. Gold prices saw some profit-taking, the dollar was weaker, commodities stronger and bonds weaker.Volume was on the light side and breadth per the WSJ was quite positive…’  ,       Dave’s Daily http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘Perhaps this is now the “no news is good news” market since a rally on Berlusconi’s resignation is beyond irrational. ,  U.S. Auto Sales And Consumer Credit Hard To Reconcile   http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-us-auto-sales-and-consumer-credit-hard-reconcile   ‘The last number in the Fed consumer credit report for new car loans is for the first quarter of 2011, and it showed a decline of 2.73% from the fourth quarter of 2010. Yet new auto sales for the same period increased 3.97%. Fascinating.’ , Barclays Says Italy Is Finished: "Mathematically Beyond Point Of No Return"Bond dumping and Berlusconi  Pivotfarm : 11/08/2011 - 08:18 BNP Paribas SA and Commerzbank AG (CBK) are unloading sovereign bonds at a loss, leading European lenders in a government-debt flight that threatens to exacerbate the region’s crisis. BNP...’ , Trouble Ahead: Employment, Inflation, and the Fed Minyanville Jeff Harding , Embarrassing Blunders Wall Street Loves to Hide ETFguide  Maierhofer , SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Experiences Big Outflow  Forbes , ETF Fund Flows: SPY Bleeds $1.14 Billion IndexUniverse.com , Got PrimeX Short?: Half The Country's Mortgages Are Underwater , As Geithner Says Supercommittee "Holds Key To Rebuiling Confidence" Supercommittee Says "Trillions Of Dollars Apart" , Wikileaks Exposes German Preparations For “A Eurozone Chapter 11″ Zero Hedge | A worst case scenario, says Mayer, could be that Germany pulls out of the Eurozone altogether in 20 years time. , Italy borrowing rates hit record The Italian government's borrowing cost rises on fears over political uncertainty, with 10-year bond yields hitting a euro-era high of 6.64%. , Are RBS And NatWest The First Victims Of “Bank Transfer Day” Zero Hedge | Earlier today we received the following email from a reader: “RBS systems are down today – ALL of them. , Euro-Kaput: ‘Euro could be dead by end-November’ Russia Today | Greek PM George Papandreou is aiming to form a coalition government and push through an international bailout package. ,  HFT TRADING RULES MONDAY  Dave’s Daily:  http://www.etfdigest.com  11-7-11 ,  Italy: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Save? Nov 7th, 2011 (CNBC) , Italian Debt Crisis Has Global Markets on Edge. Here’s Why It Matters to You JK Comment: The Daily Ticker guys offer some interesting insight on the evolving situation in Europe, and how “contagion” may not be limited to the shore’s of Europe.’ , Presenting The Latest Eurodebt Exposure Masking Scam Courtesy Of Morgan Stanley: Level 1 To Level 2 Transfers Here Is Today's 3pm Rumor... In true save-the-market style, as 3pm ET comes around we have another rumor from Europe. This time it purports to be the creation of an investment fund, as a subsidiary of the EFSF, which will 'attract' external capital sources, via tranching of returns, to enable the purchase of sovereign debt in primary and secondary markets. Headlines, via Bloomberg, for now suggest this is yet another strawman…’ ,  No smoking gun: IAEA Iranian nuclear report falls flat on its face Patrick Henningsen | The IAEA report has come up short, but the Axis powers are still desperate to hit Iran  ,  10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History   http://www.prisonplanet.com/10-reasons-america-will-be-judged-as-the-most-brutal-empire-in-history.html Activist Post | Good and evil doesn’t have a grey zone.. America and her Western cohorts will likely be viewed as the most brutal empire in history.. Although this empire is infinitely more powerful than Rome was, it will suffer the same fate.  For every negative action the empire commits, there’s an equal and opposite good reaction. And the goodness of humanity will always defeat tyranny when it goes too far.  However, an empire with so much to lose will go down swinging and slinging every weapon in its arsenal, thus putting the final stamp on their status as most brutal empire in history.’  ,  Greek Debt Crisis: Mark II of the Plan for a Greatest Depression Kurt Nimmo | HSBC, a prized bankster asset connected to the City of London, warns of a global depression. , Hit With Big Withdrawals, Fed Sells Assets, Borrows Cash  ilene 11/06/2011 ,  Fed Underestimated Economy's Weakness: Kohn TheStreet [ Another ‘duh!’ moment from the fraudulent fed! ] , Tempted by Europe? Don’t Be -  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/markets-blog/tempted-by-europe-dont-be/article2228163    ,   Europe. Is. Finished.  Phoenix Capital... 11/05/2011 ‘Europe is finished. The region’s entire banking system is insolvent (with few exceptions).’  Earnings Warning Ratio Highest In a Decade The Wall Street Journal ‘…In other words, even as the market has rallied, the outlook for earnings has gotten worse.’ , Minyanville's T3 Weekly Recap: Market Breaks Streak of Weekly Gains, Focus Shifts to Italy  Minyanville ,  The Chart That's Forecasted Every Major Move Correctly Since March 2011  Simon Maierhofer 11-4-11 ‘…major indices may just be chopping around for another week or two before heading south for the winter…’ , SPX and NDX Update: Top May Be In as Retracement Rally Hits Targets  Jason Haver , Handicapping a Global Market Meltdown  Minyanville  ,  Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels – 19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You The Economic Collapse ,  Insider selling surges — CBS MoneyWatch , Greenspan Suggested Cutting Taxes on the Wealthy to Increase Debt so the Fed Wouldn't "Lose Control of Monetary Policy"   George Washington , First Time Unemployment Claims Increase But Less Than Usual  : ilene : 11/03/2011 - There's just one minor problem.   http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/first-time-unemployment-claims-increase-less-usual   Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner "Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up," trumpeted the AP, in a news item picked up by news organizations across the US and the world. There's just one minor problem. First time claims actually increased by 9,361. The AP, and everybody else, reports a fictitious number, the seasonally smoothed fantasy. They do that because they figure that readers are too stupid to compare this week's performance with the same week in previous years to see if the economy is doing better or worse. I hold no such preconceived notion. If you are smart enough to be reading this report, then you are smart enough to be able to compare actual numbers, as opposed to the fake pablum spoon fed to you by the economics punditocracy…’ , Unique Historic Precedents Suggest Lower Prices    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unique-Historic-Precedents-etfguide-1382828970.html?x=0&.v=1  ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, November 3, 2011  , Europe is doomed — Felix Salmon  http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/03/europes-doomed-fate    This is beginning to feel like 2008..’, Because Central Banks Just Aren't Enough: G-20 Will Ask IMF To Print Reserve CurrencyFour months ago we predicted that in response to the latest round of global economic deterioration, every central bank would very soon join the toner party., Today's Joke Du Jour Comes From Italy's Biggest Bank, UniCredit , SEC Opens Investigation Into MF Global Insider Trading, Ignores Glaring Evidence Of Client Capital Commingling, Hugh Hendry Channels Irony And Paradox In His Latest Financial Outlook  ‘..So what’s next? A crash, of course..’, As Repeatedly Warned, Quarter End Window Dressing Key Factor In MF Global's Demise Citi: "The Bear Market Rally Is Behind Us; We Anticipate A Move To 1,000-1,015"Fed lowers GDP forecast, raises unemployment projections, mulls more inflation producing, failed, futile, wall street fraud-friendly action to the detriment of all others which rallies those ever more worthless as with dollars ‘pieces of paper’ (actually not even, just ‘over-counted/supplied computerized ‘ledger’ entries) for the ubiquitous as in the last financial fraud debacle) for the continuing High-Frequency-Trade churn-and-earn (Reuters) , Market Recap: Banks Rally Back, Fed Outlook Worsens [jersey based, former lautenberg adp data’s as worthless as that from the scandal-scarred commerce dept. et als, ie., factory numbers; then, the labor dept.’s fake report, estimates, numbers, including the b.s. service sector, etc..) Wall St. Cheat Sheet  , Fed foresees far weaker growth than it had earlier , MF Global Client Theft Estimate Doubled To $1.5 Billion?Game Over Berlusconi? Italian Anti-Crisis Bill FailsEgan Jones Downgrades Jefferies On Concerns About Sovereign Exposure Amounting To 77% Of EquityGuest Post: MF Global Shines A Light On Monetarism's Incapacity To Enhance The Real Economy , Will Spiking Vol Drag Global Growth Down? [Short answer: YES! The HFT churn and earn is parasitic, benefits the frauds on wall street only, and ultimately must ‘come from some real place’ (ie., main street, taxpayers, etc.)]    The Greco-Franco Bank Run Has Skipped the Pond, Landed in NY/Chicago and Nobody Noticed, Exactly As I Predicted! Reggie Middleton 11/01/2011 ‘We just experienced a bank run in the US that I have been warning of for months on end. A bank run that resulted in this country's 8th largest bankruptcy,,, ever - and nobody even noticed.’ ,  How US Banks Are Lying About Their European Exposure; Or How Bilateral Netting Ends With A Bang, Not A WhimperKeeping Up With The Korzines In The Kooler: FBI To Investigate MF Global's Theft Of Client Money , US construction spending +0.2% in Sep, below market expectations of +0.3%, vs 1.6% Aug. Nov 1st, 2011  ,   US ISM fell to 50.8 in Oct, below market expectations of 52.0, vs 51.6 in Sep. Nov 1st, 2011   Guest Post: Fed Trapped By InflationKeeping Up With The Korzines In The Kooler: FBI To Investigate MF Global's Theft Of Client Money , US Food Stamp Usage Hits New RecordThe Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System The Economic Collapse , The REAL $200 TRILLION Problem Bernanke’s Worried About  Phoenix Capital... ‘US Commercial banks have $200 TRILLION in interest rate based derivatives sitting on their balance sheets. And guess which banks have the greatest exposure…’ ; and, finally the coup de gras ,  America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion’,  Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1  ,   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR   Mf global, plus mob infested jersey former governor, plus fraudulent wall street, plus mob strong new york, plus rich mob history Chicago, equals fraudulent scheme / theft / scam in the making and then reality! Someone Is Going To Jail For This: MF Global Caught Stealing Hundreds Of Millions From Customers? Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Wake Up Call Edition)  Phoenix Capital... 10/31/2011 The markets flew into this deal based on rumors and short-covering and are now waking up to the plain obvious facts that you cannot solve a debt problem with more debt. ,  Panic Behind The MF Scenes As Company Refuses To Disclose Information To Regulators Even In DeathAre Investors Buying on False Hope? Minyanville  ,  Markets Remain in Cyclical Bear Market  Kevin Tuttle  [ Actually this is a secular bear market with much worse to come! ] ,  U.S. and Europe … “Self-Induced Stagnation,” says Economist Editor The Daily Ticker , Why Last Week's Euro Fix Won't Do the Trick ETFguide Maierhofer , Corzine's MF Global collapses under euro zone bets , Are Ratings Agencies Taking Bribes?Wall St. Cheat Sheet [ One way or another, from all 3 branches of u.s. government to u.s. businesses coast to coast, wall street to main street, they’re all getting / taking bribes! ] , SPX and NDX Update: A Disturbing Look at Fundamentals, and the Rally Explained  Jason Haver Oct 31, 2011 ,  China Says Not So Fast On Rescue   http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/11292710/buy-and-hold-is-dead-buy-and-hedge-instead.html?cm_ven=YAHOOV&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA&s=1#1250281566001   , MF Global Caught in Death Spiral , Sell H-P! Against the Grain 10/31/11   ,   Europe Will Make Lehman Look Like a Joke   http://gainspainscapital.com/?p=1010  Summers 10-28-11,  Be Honest – The European Debt Deal Was Really A Greek Debt Default  : ilene : 10/28/2011 - 2012 looks like it is going to be an extremely painful year. [ Yes! Very painful! I believe Dave was the first ‘to get this’ in passing yesterday; and, thinking on it more, I believe this charade cheered particularly by the frauds on wall street (and surprisingly germany) was for the purpose of ‘voluntary’ to avoid the Credit Default Swap trigger. Yet, the real bad news is that, even worse than as with the last financial debacle, owing to the greed-driven, commission/fee generating churn and earn of innumerable, bogus, worthless, levered, negatively valued on event financial instruments at computerized lightning speed, the commission-generating paper is beyond the frauds’ abilities to account for; and not just the CDS’s ( ETFs have potential to become the next toxic scandal Sep 19th, 2011 News (The Telegraph) Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international super-regulator, wrote a prescient if less than catchily-titled paper “Potential financial stability issues arising from recent trends in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)”..warning – ETFs are not the cheap and transparent vehicles the marketers would have us believe ..no one who read the FSB report was surprised to see the words ETF and rogue trader in the same sentence… half of the ETFs in Europe today do not match the index they are designed to track by holding all of its constituent shares.. Derivative trades add a second layer of uncertainty .. the counterparty risk that the organisation on the other side of the contract might go bust. Even worse, the provider of the ETF might sometimes be a part of the same organisation as the derivatives desk carrying out the swap…For reasons which I’m not sure I could explain even if I had the space, it is possible for the number of shares sold short in an ETF to massively exceed the actual number of shares available.’).  Not only is it that The Greek Deal Accomplishes Nothing… Systemic Risk is Coming   http://gainspainscapital.com October 27th, 2011   (Yes! It’s happened again. No … not just the (Weimar) funny money and rally as in the great depression followed by the inevitable bust /crash Parallels to The Great Depression Suggest Higher Prices Followed by a Bust ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, October 25, 2011), but  , Dave’s Daily http://www.etfdigest.com/davesdaily  ‘The only thing wrong with the image above is that it’s from March 2010, or on one of many previous plans agreed upon. But, markets don’t care about this and just thirst for any deal even if memories remain short.. HFT algos are programmed to pounce on these presumed fixes and have been active in driving stock prices higher this past week. Let’s face it; this is the time of year bulls can make their year with good fees and bonuses on the line…’ , Dave’s Daily:  http://www.etfdigest.com  ‘The above image displays quotes per second coming from HFT (High Frequency Trading) systems http://www.etfdigest.com/images/stories/davesdaily/1866/image002.jpg    http://www.etfdigest.com/images/stories/davesdaily/1866/image002.jpg    . The two graphs display action towards the close of trading Friday. The upper graph shows action of “algos” per second while the bottom the number of HFT quotes per second over a three minute time period with colors for each exchange. The lower graph displayed nearly 300 quotes per second—got that? Perhaps only a small fraction of these are real trades with the others being just bids and offers designed to stimulate program trading algorithms. This is posted because nearly 70% of all volume and trades on the NYSE for example are program trades with HFTs now dominant.   Then there’s the reality / folly that the mental case with the funny / odd little mustache has been displaced by another ubiquitous fraud of collectively the ‘multiple mental cases modern day equivalent variety’; viz., the bourse, bourses, ‘boursers’, stock exchanges, ‘market fraudsters’(wall street particularly), and their lightning fast, high frequency trading computers(‘ programs). After all, the already undercapitalized banks are now 50% more undercapitalized (those Yule Brynner hair cuts are a b**ch); there’s good money after bad; and square pegs are, for the nonce, ‘fitting’ into round holes. Nothing’s been solved and there’s much worse to come! Take this as the ‘gift’ (to stock markets everywhere, ultimately paid for by main streets and taxpayers everywhere) [Market Now Overbought: Birinyi The Wall Street Journal ] it was meant to be and sell, take profits, since this ‘microcosm of the crisis’ was never the real reason for lower markets but merely at best a symptom of [ at worst a scapegoat for ] these great depression-era times, the worst of which will be seen. It’s coming! Funny money will just exacerbate the inevitable! This may sound like a platitude; but, fundamentals and reality still count!  Is It Foolish to Get Excited About the Latest Deal to Save Europe? ETFguide    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Is-It-Foolish-to-Get-Excited-etfguide-2444921710.html?x=0&.v=1   Simon Maierhofer, 10-27-11 [Short answer: YES! ] . The looney loonie now exceeds the value of the ‘funny-money’, debased dollar (who coulda / woulda have ever thunk it). Inflation, Jobs, and the Artificial Flow of Monetary Policyat Minyanville  Bad news and b***s*** (as in no plan plan) across the board (and sea) … yet stocks rallied …US durable goods orders -0.8% in Sep, near expectations, vs -0.1% Aug. Oct 26th, 2011 by News , Paper currency has too much bull, not enough bullion Oct 26th, 2011 by News (Globe and Mail) — Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, ordered up another $300-billion (U.S.) in easy money earlier this month, then mentioned, by way of explanation, that we are living through the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression – “if not,” he said ominously, “ever.” Sir Mervyn’s warning was only marginally more sobering than the collective warnings of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.This is not to mock. These men know enough not to scare people out of their wits unless it necessary to do so. So the question is, what do these people know that the rest of us don’t?More related to this story:To put Sir Mervyn’s warning into its historical perspective, it must be noted that “ever” goes back a long way. The biblical record cites one calamitous meltdown 4,000 years ago, “when money failed in the land of Egypt.” Did Sir Mervyn deliberately or inadvertently include the financial crashes of antiquity in his portentous warning? Isn’t it the failure of money that now threatens the world? [source] Euro Zone to Quadruple Bailout Fund: Sources Oct 26th, 2011 by News (CNBC) — … [source]PG View: Leverage is very much a double-edged sword, also capable of amplifying losses. Nobody ever seems to talk about that. Of course Europe can always bailout its bailouts…  STOCKS TANK BEFORE EU MEETING THAT EVERYONE EXPECTS TO FAIL: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider [ No …this is not quite correct … the point being there’s nothing they can do to make it (other than the meeting in and of  itself as ‘a much ballyhooed  event’) succeed!   Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Stocks Are Last to Get It Edition)  ‘…So if you have not already taken steps to prepare for systemic failure, you NEED to do so NOW. We're literally at most a few months, and very likely just a few weeks from Europe's banks imploding …’,  Four Facts that PROVE the EFSF Doesn’t Matter… At All  Phoenix Capital 10/20/2011Four Facts that PROVE the EFSF Doesn’t Matter… At All  -  ‘.. And those investors who get suckered into betting this mess will work out well are very likely going to lose everything. The impact of the fallout from this will make 2008 look like a joke. The EU is the largest economy in the world. So if its banking system collapses (and it will) we’re facing a full-scale Global financial meltdown (the IMF has even warned of this)…’ ,  Parallels to The Great Depression Suggest Higher Prices Followed by a Bust ETFguide Simon Maierhofer, October 25, 2011  Investors' Number One Worry: Europe Posed to Bring Down Global Economy  Minyanville [ Riiiiight! Europe following the ‘american way’ of  ‘insurmountable debt, funny money and wall street fraud, and throw in a destructive, wasteful war or two or three’  is ‘ the one’ … to reiterate: America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke…The government’s total indebtedness is $211 trillion   ], Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: The Anatomy of a Market Reversal  T3Live.com Oct 24, 2011 ‘Now may be a good time to take some profits after a strong October run in the market…’, 10 Reasons The Consumer Will Sink This Rally http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=13626   Bret Jensen , United States tipped to lose another AAA credit rating Reuters | Either from Moody’s or Fitch , Can The Hope Rally Continue? [ Short answer: NO! ] , Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Stocks Are Last to Get It Edition)  ‘…So if you have not already taken steps to prepare for systemic failure, you NEED to do so NOW. We're literally at most a few months, and very likely just a few weeks from Europe's banks imploding …’, Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: The Anatomy of a Market Reversal  T3Live.com Oct 24, 2011 ‘Now may be a good time to take some profits after a strong October run in the market…’, 10 Reasons The Consumer Will Sink This Rally http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=13626   Bret Jensen , United States tipped to lose another AAA credit rating Reuters | Either from Moody’s or Fitch , Can The Hope Rally Continue? [ Short answer: NO! ] , Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Moneynews) http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CD97-1  ,   http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSI9MOVD/PPSIMA06/PR ,  ECRI Recession Watch: Growth Index Drops Further   http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/ECRI-Weekly-Leading-Index.php Doug Short 10-21-11 ‘The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) has now posted 11 consecutive declines since early August. The interim high of 8.0 was set in the week ending on April 15. The latest reading, data through October 14, is -10.1, down from the previous week's -9.7. On September 30th, the ECRI publicly announced that the U.S. is tipping into a recession, a call the Institute had announced to its private clients on September 21st. ,  Earnings forecasts look less bright NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prospects for corporate earnings are dimmer in the coming quarters -- even though reports so far this quarter have been relatively bright. [ Relatively bright? Only because most are not relatively bright having failed to yet ‘catch on’ to this nation-debilitating, but wall street favored defacto fraud. The ‘miracle’ of ‘funny money’ wherein the ‘debased currency strategies’ (ie., QE’s, etc.) among other accounting manipulations lead to ie., costs reported in ‘more valuable but fewer dollars’ and sales / revenues reported in debased dollars (simply more of them, but no real value created, profits overstated in real terms). ] , Banks closed in Colo, Fla, Ga; 84 failures in 2011 AP , With Some Hope In Europe, Time To Go Short? Forbes   Steve Schaefer, Forbes Staff  ‘European leaders are gathering Sunday and Wednesday in meetings aimed at hashing out an expansion of the region’s bailout fund and recapitalizing banks, but with expectations for a solution rising the risk of a less-than-comprehensive plan rattling markets may be growing...“The bar is set too high,” he believes, arguing that even if the market rallies on a deal being reached, the implementation of whatever resolution plan is adopted will be cumbersome and ultimately amount to “solving a problem of debt with more debt.” When the market realizes that, October’s 9.5% gain to date could unravel in a hurry. The recent stage in the too-rapid rise to current levels is largely a result of short-covering and investors who missed the initial stage of the recovery jumping on board…’ , Dead Stocks Walking smartmoney.com,  S&P sees downgrade blitz in EMU recession, threatening crisis strategy Oct 20th, 2011 News By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (The Telegraph) , Euro Summit Imploding: Merkel Cancels Friday Government Statement On EFSF Student Loan Bubble To Exceed $1 Trillion: "It's Going To Create A Generation Of Wage Slavery" And Another Taxpayer Bailout Durden ‘..All we need to do is teach people that Washington D.C. and Wall Street are now the same corrupt entity.  They are one gigantic rogue trader sucking the lifeblood out of America..’ , , As growth lags, IMF warns of downturn After warning that high debt needed immediate attention, the organization is now urging countries to look for ways to boost growth amid concerns that austerity might bring renewed recession. Euro drops as Germany seeks no quick resolution (Washington Post) [ Duh … ya think?  43,454,601,693,238 Reasons Why The World Is Broke – Presenting The Interactive Global Debt Clock Zero Hedge | By now everyone has had a chance to play with the US debt clock. But what about its global cousin?   Is the US Economy in a Recession? thetechnicaltake ‘A simple indicator constructed from readily available data is suggesting with great certainty that the US economy is already in a recession.’ , US to Experience Stagflation Worse Than 1970s: Jim Rogers CNBC , Jeff Applegate: Not Sheepish About Turning Bearish  The Wall Street Journal  Jonathan Cheng ‘Last week was a tough time to turn bearish. Since hitting a bottom on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has jumped by 11% in less than two weeks, raising hopes among some investors that the U.S. and Europe may be able to power through their summertime woes. Not for Jeff Applegate. Mr. Applegate, the 61-year-old chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, last week made his biggest bearish shift in more than two years, battening down the hatches and reducing his exposure to stocks, high-yield bonds, commodities and real-estate investment trusts…’, Fed should adopt GDP target, Goldman says Oct 17th, 2011 News (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve should target the level of gross domestic product, Goldman Sachs economists said ahead of a wave of speeches from central bank officials.In a note published Friday night, Goldman Sachs said the best way for the central bank to loosen policy significantly further would be to target a GDP path, and commit to using more asset purchases to achieve that path.“While a shift to a nominal GDP level target would be a big decision, it would be consistent with the Fed’s dual employment and price mandate,” the economists wrote.[source] PG View: [Talk about self-serving disingenuity that along with their frauds, goldman’s come to be known for! Goldman, like the lunatics at salomon brothers should be out of business and vigorously prosecuted; having in large part helped create this crisis which continues with their dollar debased HFT’s. (‘Salomon Brothers' success and decline in the 1980s is documented in Michael Lewis' 1989 book, Liar's Poker. Lewis went through Salomon's training program and then became a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in London.’Wikipedia. Acquired by Travelers / Citi. ] A timely position taken by Goldman Sachs in light of the inflation piece written by John Mauldin on Saturday. Yes, it does indeed seem that “inflation as a solution” is gaining traction. I say tom-a-to, you say tom-ah-to. I say inflation targeting, you say GDP targeting. Whatever you call it, it’s synonymous with dollar devaluation and you best be saving in something other than dollars if you hope to come out the other side unscathed.Can “It” Happen Here? Oct 17th, 2011 News By John Mauldin15-Oct (JohnMauldin.com) — I was inspired for this week’s letter by a piece by Art Cashin (whom I will get to have dinner with Monday). His daily letter always begins with an anecdote from history. Yesterday it was about Weimar, told in his own inimitable style. So without any edits, class will commence, with Professor Cashin at the chalk board.[Cashin's recounting of the nightmare German inflation, which we posted last week.]…”,  Full moon October 10-14, 2011 … I’ve examined the weekly results for the global markets … Conclusion: The global euphoria, irrational exuberance in the financial markets worldwide, courtesy of the blazing full moon October 10-14, 2011 ; and yes, the lunacy once the exclusive province of fraudulent wall street is now a global phenomenon (10th near full beginning, 14th near full ending). ,  The More Government Spends, The Worse It Gets  , Balance Of Fundamentals Will Continue To Weigh On Market  ,   ECRI Recession Watch: Growth Index Declines Further  http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=11699  By Doug Short: The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) has posted 10 consecutive declines since early August. Early last week, ECRI notified clients that the U.S. economy is indeed tipping into a new recession. And there’s nothing that policy makers can do to head it off , US budget gap widens, tops $1 trln for 3rd year Reuters ,  A New S&P 500 Low Still Awaits Us  Minyanville  Erik Swarts Oct 13, 2011 ‘Watch the SPX as the market comes to terms with the continuing crisis in Europe , America's Lost Decade Will Last Until 2016 [ This is extremely optimistic! ] Forbes Lenzner , Harrisburg, Pa Files for Bankruptcy: Is Meredith Whitney Right? [ Short anwer: Yes! ]  Peter Gorenstein , The Structural Challenges Facing Muni Bonds  Minyanville , IRS Auditing How GOOGLE Shifted Profits Offshore to Avoid Taxes Bloomberg , Europe eyes bigger Greek losses for banks , Markets Are Dealing With a Foreboding Financial Backdrop  Minyanville   Lee Adler Oct 12, 2011 ‘..especially, why have they been frantically dumping their corporate holdings since June? http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/October11/12/la10122.JPG Something is rotten here. These are signs of major systemic stress.. This may be one of those times, and it's not a happy picture..’ , Double-Dip Recession a Foregone Conclusion: Roubini Oct 11th, 2011 News (CNBC) — ‘The world’s advanced economies are headed for a second recession, regardless of whether there is further chaos in Europe, Nouriel Roubini told CNBC on Tuesday. The economist who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis…’, Slovakia votes down eurozone bailout expansion plans Oct 11th, 2011 News (BBC) , Euro About to Dissolve? Oct 11th, 2011 News Patrick A. Heller (NumisMaster) — “This is the most serious financial crisis we’ve seen, at least since the 1930s, if not ever., ROUBINI: The Recession Is Guaranteed, The Only Question Now Is How Bad It Will Be Business Insider | Nouriel Roubini sees bad times ahead for the economy. , Nobel Prize Winning Economist Who Supports Wall Street Protests SLAMS the Federal Reserve Washington’s Blog | Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz – like many other high-level economists – supports the “Occupy Wall Street” protests.  Graham Summers Weekly Market Forecast (Dexia Now... Who's Next? Edition)    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/graham-summers-weekly-market-forecast-dexia-now-whos-next-edition THIS BEAR MARKET IS NOWHERE NEAR OVER. , We Are Still Early In This Bear Phase   http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=10478  Roger Nusbaum  Stocks Surge On New Promises From European Leaders, Dow Adds 300 Points  [ Come on! Wake up! Two desperate, failed politicians who haven’t the slightest idea what they’re doing; certainly in the areas of finance and economics. Indeed, they’ve borrowed from a page in the fraudulent wall street / defacto bankrupt american book of failure and fraud in banging ‘square pegs in round holes’ along with nation-draining fraudulent obfuscation with b***s*** alone that hearkens back to that ’Weimar dollar’ era that was precursor to and inevitably led to the inflationary / no real value collapse now underway as is already the scenario in america. How totally desperate and pathetic they are. This is cheered by the wall street types / frauds to enable them to favorably  cash out. Take your profits while you still can, protect yourself while you still can, this fraud – induced collapse is just beginning. New ‘promises’! Currency-debased high inflation rally!  What a joke they’ve become! ]   “The Prevailing Debate Among Economists and Historians is Whether the World Economy Faces the ‘Great’ Depression of the 1930s or the ‘Long’ Depression of the 1870s” Washington’s Blog | Economists Agree: We’re In a Depression.  Fitch cuts Italy, Spain ratings; outlook negative , Wall Street vs Reality: A Hopeless Tug-of-War?  http://symmetrycapital.net/index.php/blog/2011/10/wall-street-vs-reality-a-hopeless-tug-of-war  Are Wall Street strategists living in a bubble? [ The short answer is, ‘YES’! The long answer is your work is quite (closer to) correct (and worse when dollar debasement is factored in).]  According to our work, credit market, demographic, and leading economic  indicators are all pointing to a level of between 800 and 1,000 for the S&P 500 between now and 2012-2013.   Hold Your Enthusiasm ... This Is Still A Bear Market Rally    http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-hold-your-enthusiasm-still-bear-market-rally, 10/06/2011 ,  Yield Spread Confirming Recession Call http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-yield-spread-confirming-recession-call ,  U.S. stocks' massive "melt-up" fans investor fears Reuters October 5, 2011, By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) - In less than one hour on Tuesday, the U.S. stock market surged by 4 percent -- for no apparent reason ,  Play It Again Sam: Dave's Daily ‘ ... The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job. One of these actions was featured courtesy of our friends at Zero Hedge and depicted below as it occurred Thursday afternoon. The first chart features the quotes per second (NOTE: one instance exceeding 800 quotes per second). The next chart shows the market's simultaneous reaction.  http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/daves/082511/image002.jpg  ( Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ )( ,  6 Reasons a Global Recession is Unavoidable  Ron DeLegge, October 5, 2011, Dem.lautenberg’s jersey based ADP helps the desperate dem’s cause with 100% better than expected (false) private sector jobs report (Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rise 212% From Year Ago Bloomberg) , Gabriel Wisdom to Frank Motek of 1070amBus.Rept. says this is a bear market and we’ll see market lows in 2012. [video] Nervously Eyeing 50% RetracementTheStreet.com Mark Newton , Moody's Downgrades Italy By Three Notches The Wall Street Journal ,  Greek Bailout May Include Larger Writedowns for Private InvestorsWall St. Cheat Sheet . Enormous, last hour 370+ point upside suckers’ rally into the close based on b***s***, rumour (more ‘good money after bad’ bailout goin’ greek in the eu zone), nothing at all (pushed a button, ran a buy program?) to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in based upon as previously questionable if not outright fake, ‘upward-revised’ (based on inflation-spiked price increases at best) data also, ‘the data don’t distinguish between Americans who stop receiving benefits because they find jobs and those who fall off the unemployment rolls because their benefits expire- WSCS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH  September 29, 2011   http://www.etfdigest.com ‘…Algos jumped on the headlines which is what they’re programmed to do. They don’t look under the hood for details since given their momentary focus, “facts don’t matter”—not at least right away. A closer look inside Jobless Claims data is the consistent revisions for higher previous claims. This makes current reports generally seem better by comparison. Further, the BLS states with this report the significant impact of “seasonal factors” skewing the report…’ ) . [  End of Quarter Price Mark-Ups; Dave’s Daily   http://www.thestreet.com/story/11260606/1/end-of-quarter-price-mark-ups-daves-daily.html  Dave Fry  9-27-11 ‘All you need do is view the last week of June 2011, the previous quarter end, and you'll note a similar quarter end jam-job…’ ,  Bernanke calls unemployment a ‘national crisis’   28 Sep 2011 Fed chief Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the nation’s weak labor market was “a national crisis” - Duh! No-recession-wall-street-lovin’-helicopter ben’s … done it again! … brilliant description of unfortunately what already is thanks in large part to his wall (fraud) street largess / welfare in the form of QE’s, etc. , Prepare for Lehman Brothers Part 2   ,  Arguments for Being in the Crash Camp   Conor Sen Sep 28, 2011  ,  Now's Not the Time to Take on Equity Market Exposure at Minyanville Erik Swarts Sep 28, 2011 ,  [video]Buying on Rumor - Prepare For The Selling On NewsTheStreet.com TV  , Roubini: U.S. in Throes of Economic Contraction Sep 27th, 2011 News (Bloomberg) , SHILLER: House Prices Probably Won’t Hit Bottom For Years Sep 27th, 2011  News (BusinessInsider) , Split opens over Greek bail-out terms Sep 27th, 2011(Financial Times) ,   The familiar fraud/pattern of end-of-month/quarter window dressing b***s*** story of ‘hopes’ (ie., americanized funny-money fraud in the eurozone, etc.) from the frauds on wall street …  Dave’s Daily:’.. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job..’   , despite the reality of bad news , New home sales hit 6-month low, prices drop , Euro zone damps talk of rapid debt crisis steps , On the Lookout for a Red October Minyanville ‘ … Aside from history, if we take a look at the global environment, there are a handful of things suggesting that we will experience a turbulent October…’  ,    Suckers’ rally into the close to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in based on lingering hopes for unaffordably damaging funny money / QE ultimately taxpayer funded / borne bailout / welfare for these fraudulent ‘titans of capitalism’ on wall street, viz., nothing whatsoever ( watch for their fraudulent / illegal end of month/quarter window dressing )  , and bad news (  Soros: US Is Already in Double-Dip Recession CNBC.com  ,   Stocks: Don't Get All Comfortable Just Yet WS /Conway ,  Stocks Endure Worst Five-Day Slamming Since '08, Still On Edge About Greece Forbes , More Pain Is Coming To Equities  http://regator.com/p/253227580/more_pain_is_coming_to_equities  Penguin Capital Markets , David Cameron: world on brink of new economic crisis London Telegraph , Every Age Group Is Getting Poorer In America, Except For One Advisor Perspectives , Global economy pushed to the brink Sep 23rd, 2011 News Financial Times , European and US Economies Teetering on Weak Policy, Leadership Minyanville Kerr , Moody's downgrades 8 Greek banks (AP)  ,   Signs The Perfect Economic Storm Is Coming  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-signs-perfect-economic-storm-coming  ,   America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s Sep 21st, 2011 News (CNN) — ‘Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks. Social Security can no longer afford to send us our annual benefit statements. The House can no longer afford its congressional pages. The Pentagon can no longer afford the pension and health care benefits of retired service members. NASA is no longer planning a manned mission to Mars. We’re broke for a reason. We’ve spent six decades accumulating a huge official debt (U.S. Treasury bills and bonds) and vastly larger unofficial debts to pay for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits to today’s and tomorrow’s 100 million-plus retirees. The government’s total indebtedness — its fiscal gap — now stands at $211 trillion, by my arithmetic. [source]’  ,  $16 muffins, $8 coffee served in Justice audit , Market Recap: FOMC Announces Operation Twist, Banks Tumble, Investors Flee Sovereign Debt Wall St. Cheat Sheet September 21, 2011, Wall Street sinks 3 percent after Fed cites economic "risks"  NEW YORK (Reuters)  ,   Moody's downgrades big banks on changed policy  ,  Italy downgraded, IMF says Europe behind the curve  Reuters  ,  IMF downgrades outlook for US and Europe economies [Sep 20, 2011] ... Fund has sharply downgraded its outlook for the U.S. economy through 2012 ...  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IMF-downgrades-outlook-for-US-apf-1240337037.html?x=0 much worse than expected:  Market Recap: S&P Downgrades Italy, Housing Starts Tumble, Markets Wait on funny-money no-recession ben bernanke   Wall St Cheat Sheet ,   IMF Downgrades Global Economic Outlook  ,  Drudgereport: IMF WARNS: INTO THE DANGER ZONE... ...warns of USA 'lost decade'  ,  New High: 37% Say Their Home Is Worth Less Than Remaining Mortgage Payments Rasmussen  ,  30 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is About To Go Into The Toilet The Economic Collapse  ,  A Fed IOER Cut Could Backfire on Banks, Warns Pimco  ,   3 Reasons Markets Were Up As Central Banks Stepped in to Boost Dollar Liquidity in European Banks Wall St. Cheat Sheet Today the Department of Labor announced that consumer prices had climbed twice what economists had predicted in August, while initial jobless claims jumped last week to their highest level since June. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s report on manufacturing in the region contracted more than expected in September, while its general economic index dropped to its weakest reading since November 2010, indicating that companies in the region covered by the New York Fed’s manufacturing index are cutting back. The consumer-price report also showed that hourly earnings fell in August in their biggest one-month decline since July 2008, while the cost of energy, food, healthcare, and shelter all rose.‘ ,   David Rosenberg: “It’s Time To Start Calling This For What It Is: A Modern Day Depression” Zero Hedge ,  Geithner: Economy In “An Early Stage” Of Crisis  ,  Flat retail sales keeps U.S. on recession watch ) fraud  / manipulated programmed hft (high frequency trades – see, ie.,  What to Expect Next From the Markets , Dave’s Daily, infra ) and b***s*** alone! [ Stock Market Secret Word of the Day Is 'Delusion' WSJ  ,  watch for fake data / reports out of their sheer desperation  ,  ‘american technology is horrendous and vastly overrated!’ I really mean it; and that’s reality, which speaks volumes about the pathetic state of the world , Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Market Squeeze Continues, But Was it a Trap?  By T3Live.com ‘Today's action … another clever ploy to suck in longs while relieving some of the oversold condition of the market’  ,  Don't Trust Wall Street and this Market  ETFguide ,  Congress budget agency warns panel of economic ills  ,  Nearly 1 in 6 Americans in poverty, Census says  ,  Cisco cuts long-term sales growth forecast  ,  International alarm over euro zone crisis grows  ,  Why Can't Wall Street Be Honest With The Public? Forbes  ,  Venture capital veteran Perkins sees danger ahead  , These Wall Street Firms are About to Start Firing People Like Crazy  ,   Same Alan Greenspan Who Warned Against Budget Surplus Now Warns About Deficit  ,  ETF Redemptions Highest Since 2008: Report ETF Trends , 20 Signs Of Imminent Financial Collapse In Europe The Economic Collapse ,  The 2nd Edge Of Modern Financial Repression: Manipulating Inflation Indexes To Steal From Retirees & Public Workers Gold Seek  Lawless America: 20 Examples Of Desperate People Doing Desperate Things The American Dream  ,  Poverty In America: A Special Report The Economic Collapse | America is getting poorer.  How Greece Is Mocking the Rest of the World  [ Well, let’s get real here! There’s plenty to mock in this world, and Greece is hardly the nation to be doing the mocking. I think it’s the markets that are mocking the rest of the world’s stupidity for buying into this false reality / obfuscation / fraud, particularly by way of the now pervasive worldwide acceptance of the american strategy of currency debasement which really is a fraud facilitator because it masks to all but the intelligent few the underlying economic weakness and decline. A simplistic example, though not perfect, is apropos here: a company sells a product for 1 dollar which costs 1 dollar to make (assuming arguendo to cover fixed expenses - no profit). The fed over-printing / creating dollars like mad to the point where it now takes 2 dollars to render the same purchasing power of  1 dollar when the goods were produced. The company sells the products for 2 dollars (the previous equivalent of 1 dollar before debasement). The company is now showing earnings 1 dollar per unit sold, yet in real terms, they’ve gotten no more than the equivalent of that 1 dollar per unit. (If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, particularly the last 1-2 months, I’ve found meats, etc., to be up 50-100%, etc.). The same obfuscating manipulations are applicable to assets generally, and to those pieces of paper called stocks which are even ‘worse for the wear’ since churn-and-earn commissions at lightning computerized speed are being subtracted from this illusory ‘enhanced value’ which in reality doesn’t exist at all. ( Such manipulations from currency translation also provide ‘arbitrage opportunities’ though similarly largely ultimately subtracted from no real value being created. ) This is why fraudulent wall street loves the fed’s QE’s and dollar debasement / over-printing / creating and also why it’s been a dismal failure and a net negative in real economic terms as seen on main street and in the decimation of the middle class and growing ranks of the poor. In the analysis of securities, this would be considered ‘the quality of earnings factor’ that goes into the assignment of a p/e multiple to the projected earnings. Sufficeth to say, this is no longer done on wall street in any real or legitimate fashion, if at all. Indeed, it’s a fair statement to say that security analysis is no longer a ‘practice’ as same was considered, once upon a time, by value investors / analysts. As set forth by Dave and Cooper, infra, computerized programmed manipulation at lightning speed has been expedient in the short run for the wall street frauds but ultimately leads to the inevitable crash since as I often reiterate: Remember, there is no modern day alchemy that spins worthless paper into gold except fraudulently for the frauds on wall street who’ve literally oftimes done exactly that; ‘cashing out’ for hard currency and gold, precious metals, at everyone else’s expense including main street. They’re just not that important and represent, like termites eating away at the nation’s foundation, a drag on the economy, the nation as one would expect from parasites such as they are’. What to Expect Next From the Markets Minyanville  Jeffrey Cooper ‘Conclusion: It looks like a program was run using the least amount of dollars to goose the indices by focusing on some big cap names like Apple, Amazon, Baidu, IBM, and Caterpillar { Apple Hits New High (Update1) [ 9-19-11 This manipulated programmed trade to froth markets is a crash in the making – sell at these ridiculous levels / take profits! },  Dave’s Daily:’.. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job..’] Simon Maierhofer,September 16, 2011, ‘Webster's dictionary defines gullible as naive and easily duped or cheated'…’
    


 

 

Art Cashin On The Most Important History Lesson Of The Last Century Oct 13th, 2011 08:40 by News  ZeroHedge) — Today, instead of the traditional market observations by the Chairman of the Fermentation Committee, we share with readers a critical historical lesson from Art Cashin, focusing on an event that took place 89 years ago, which as Cashin says “one of the most devastating economic events in recorded history and an important backdrop to Europe today. It all began with the efforts of a few, well intentioned government officials.” Many will know what we are talking about already…Originally, on this day (-2) in 1922, the German Central Bank and the German Treasury took an inevitable step in a process which had begun with their previous effort to “jump start” a stagnant economy. Many months earlier they had decided that what was needed was easier money. Their initial efforts brought little response. So, using the governmental “more is better” theory they simply created more and more money. But economic stagnation continued and so did the money growth. They kept making money more available. No reaction. Then, suddenly prices began to explode unbelievably (but, perversely, not business activity).[source] PG View: The hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic is unquestionably Germany’s defining economic moment, much like the Great Depression is ours. It goes a long way toward explaining why Germany continues to balk at further bailouts, leveraging, bond buying and expansive liquidity measures; they understandably fear the inflation. Keynsian thinking says governments should be printing and spending like mad in the face of grim growth prospects and an impending banking crisis, but German’s recall all-to readily that when über-easy monetary policy gets out of control, things can go from bad to catastrophic in a heartbeat. Cashin’s piece is indeed an important history lesson we all should take heed of. For further insight into the Weimar hyperinflation, be sure to read The Nightmare German Inflation. Previous:The latest b***s*** story into the close is ‘rich’, but not as in wealthy. One interviewee / pundit even preposterously referred to the ‘Marco Polo effect’, viz., that communist China’s rumored to be about to save one of the PIIGS, italy … but who’s going to save communist china … really … some very bad karma for communist china just ‘round the corner! Don’t forget, the market’s rallied literally many hundreds of points owing to that spin / b***s*** called the ‘euro solution’, etc., which of course, never existed in reality, but great ‘fraud’ points (that computerized hf commissioned churn-and-earn, up and down, get you now and get you later). Then the so-called ‘technical support’ levels … based on much worse than spun fundamentals / reality. It’s the other way around, fools … fundamentals create technical support levels, not vice versa. Unprecedented Monthly Volume Sell-Off Suggests Now's the Time to Take Shelter at Minyanville Kevin A. Tuttle Sep 12, 2011  ,  Preparing for a Credit Crisis at Minyanville  John Mauldin  ,  What's the Long-Term Outlook for Stocks and The Economy? ETFguide   Simon Maierhofer, September 12, 2011  ,    ]     Prepare For Recession And Bear Market at Forbes Sy Harding, ‘Brace yourself for a recession ,  Senate (Quietly) Approves $500 Billion Increase in Borrowing Authority Sep 9th, 2011 by News (WSJ Blogs) PG View: Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but we blew through that initial $400 bln debt ceiling hike in about a month /  Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown News , 4 Bearish Mega Trends  Simon Maierhofer / S&P 1,100 And Lower - More Likely Than you Think  , STOCKS DEMOLISHED, EUROPE NEAR BREAKING POINT: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider , Ominous Bear Flag Pattern Suggests S&P 500 At 1,000  Scott Redler ,Keep in mind the  ‘r’ word (‘recession’- actually should be ‘d’ word for depression) subtracting out the understated inflationary price increases (deflating growth with realistic inflation deflator), we’re already there (– see, Burt Dohmen, Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes, infra)           7 Reasons Why New Lows are Likely  ETF Guide   ,  Albert Edwards Has Another Reason You Should Worry About Profits The Wall Street Journal, Mark Gongloff   ,   Chart Shock: The REAL Unemployment Rate Is 22% The Daily Bail September 2, 2011 ,  Deja Vu All Over Again: Total US Debt Passes Debt Ceiling… In Under One Month Since Extension  Sep 2nd, 2011 News (ZeroHedge)  ,   Global Recession: Right Here, Right Now at Minyanville  Mike Shedlock Sep 02, 2011  ,    Fearing An Even Worse Inflationary Depression Ahead Bob Chapman | The debauching of currencies worldwide goes on with great abandon. Previous: Typical (suckers’ rally into the close on still lingering hopes for more fed funny money that’s a detriment / negative to all but the frauds on wall street and has been a dismal policy failure) window-dressed end of month based on bad news, fraud, and b***s*** alone – watch for fake data / reports out of their sheer desperation  ,  Beware Dow In September: Do You Believe The Data?   [ NO! I DON’T BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT DATA ( Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012x   http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?promo_code=CA79-1    , NOR DO I BELIEVE THE NON-GOVERNMENT DATA (Accounting Gimmics Resurface as Growth Flounders at TheStreet Rebekah Smith, infra)  ,   Global Recession Likely, Depression Possible: Economist  Aug 31st, 2011 by News (CNBC)  ,    Ignore Buffett's Advice, Don't Buy Stocks Forbes /  Dohmen , The "Crimes" That Wrecked The Markets  Forbes / Lenzner  ,  What to Expect Next From the Markets at Minyanville  Jeffrey Cooper Aug 29, 2011  ‘Conclusion: It looks like a program was run using the least amount of dollars to goose the indices by focusing on some big cap names like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Baidu (BIDU), IBM (IBM), and Caterpillar (CAT) on Friday. That is why the market is so dangerous here…‘  Arguments for Being in the Crash Camp   Conor Sen  Aug 29, 2011 ‘If you want to take risk, only own things you're willing to own in a down 20-30% tape, because that's what we could see over the next month...’  , Economic / Financial Collapse Imminent – Stansberry  Investment Advisory http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv    Harry Dent, Jr. Economy will be in a Depression by 2011 Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012 Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the latest. U.S. Dollar will Decline Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between 2010 and 2012).  Fed Economists Predict A 15 Year Bear Market For Stocks Aug 23rd, 2011 News (BusinessInsider)  ,  End Of Cycle Smelling Like Dow 3K, Gold 3K  Forbes /  Bill Bonner   ,  No Recession Coming ... It's Already Here   , Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events that warns of phase II of the global crisis… My work shows that “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession, often on the exact month, or within one month, of the official start as determined one year later by the official arbiter of recession, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… However, inflation is far understated for political reasons. Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation, according to free market economists who calculate inflation as it was done in 1980 before the politician re-engineered it, is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ ,  NOR DO I BELIEVE THE NON-GOVERNMENT DATA (Accounting Gimmics Resurface as Growth Flounders at TheStreet Rebekah Smith) at this point of abounding desperation for both. ] Murray Coleman ‘If you believe in seasonal factors, betting on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) wouldn’t seem like the best play about this time of year. Over the past 100 years, the Dow itself has averaged a drop of 0.8% in September, according to Bespoke Investment Group. Over the last 50 years, the Dow has averaged a fall of 0.79%; in the past 20 years the benchmark has typically dropped by 0.60% during the month…’  

 

 

Obama's Legacy: A Failed Recovery & Double-Dip Recession  Forbes / Mariotti  ‘…There will be no significant recovery in the United States of America while Barack Obama is President.  The evidence is overwhelming:  everything Obama has tried to fuel a recovery (with his Democratic allies in Congress) has failed.  Statistics claiming jobs saved by the stimulus package were mostly fiction, and cost American taxpayers about $275,000 each.  Nearly 2-1/2 million fewer Americans have jobs than before the stimulus. Barack Obama has been President for 30 months—2-1/2 years. He spent the first year obsessed with passing Obamacare, a program that doesn’t create jobs, but might destroy a lot of them.  He “bailed out” GM, but many believe that his interference didn’t save GM; it merely cost taxpayers an extra $15-20 billion, and stole from legitimate investors to buy off the UAW.  His broken campaign promises are too numerous to list.  At some point, his statute of limitations on blaming Bush runs out…’   ,   The Bear Market Rally Has Begun at Minyanville   Toby Connor Aug 30, 2011 ‘…Investors need to be prepared. This is going to be a very, very convincing rally. The tendency is going to be to buy into the media hype -- that this was nothing more than a severe correction in an ongoing bull market. This was not a correction. This was the first leg down in a new cyclical (secular) bear market. And like all bear markets it will be subject to violent countertrend rallies that toy with traders' emotions, and ultimately cause investors to ride the bear all the way to the bottom…’    Scandal scarred commerce dept. report on consumer spending with anemic income figures (typically as always unworthy of belief as unbelievable anything the government says in their desperation) spurs suckers’ rally (along with some short covering) to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in.  Massive Understatement: Mohamed El-Erian’s reply to Frank Motek 1070am regarding particularly the 300+ point swing to the upside today, ‘(they’re) confused’! Indeed they are! But when you’re commissioning those manipulated computer programmed high-frequency-trade swings, churning and earning at lightning speed, such euphemistic criticism falls short with the impact of water off a duck’s back.      Moreover, how pathetic are they, those Pavlov dogs on wall street salivating at the mere prospect of a QE handout ultimately at taxpayer expense, in one form or another. Even more pathetic is the so-called ‘rally’ based on a purported rethink of fedspeak alleged  to be so filled with ‘ latent / hidden ‘ meaning of a form of QE welfare down the road. Those pathetic ‘titans of capitalism’; aka, the frauds of wall street.  Never mind that the QE’s have failed miserably and at great costs (inflation, financial, economic, etc.) and detriment to all but the frauds on wall street by way of their manipulated computer-programmed ( high frequency trading) commissioned churn-and-earn. Wall street’s rise has been among the causes of and comcomitant to america’s decline / demise. Remember, there is no modern day alchemy that spins worthless paper into gold except fraudulently for the frauds on wall street who’ve literally oftimes done exactly that; ‘cashing out’ for hard currency and gold, precious metals, at everyone else’s expense including main street. They’re just not that important and represent, like termites eating away at the nation’s foundation, a drag on the economy, the nation as one would expect from parasites such as they are. So what’s changed of significance? Nothing! Absolutely nothing; yet a manipulated computer-programmed ( high frequency trading bots ) churn-and-earn suckers’ rally based on desperation, bad news, fraud and b***s*** alone to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in. Horrific news on the economic front particularly since the anemic (revised downward – and I think much worse than reported) 1% GDP growth is all owing to hefty price increases / inflation, fudged and not reported accurately. Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events that warns of phase II of the global crisis… My work shows that “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession, often on the exact month, or within one month, of the official start as determined one year later by the official arbiter of recession, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… However, inflation is far understated for political reasons. Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation, according to free market economists who calculate inflation as it was done in 1980 before the politician re-engineered it, is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’  This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much worse to come! ,  Despite being glad that Apple has survived (though outlook now dimmed regardless of rhetoric and beyond the Jobs retirement), ‘american technology is horrendous and vastly overrated!’ I really mean it, and that’s reality, which speaks volumes about the pathetic state of the world ,  Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.Newsmax  http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?promo_code=CA79-1      50% unemployment, 90% stock market drop, 100% inflation. See the Evidence (Newsmax.com  ,       Bernanke - Man of Mystery: Dave's Daily at TheStreet  ‘Bernanke did what a lot of people expected him to do -- speak softly but carry a big printing press. After being down nearly 200 points the DJIA rallied to close higher by 135 points. Pundits shrugged embracing the idea if something was really wrong Bernanke would have acted; besides, bulls' reasoned stocks are cheap based on trailing PEs of around 12. Away from that was more crummy economic news with GDP printing at only 1% growth. This may be revised lower again like most other indicators of late…’  (Dave’s Daily:’.. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job..’)   Play It Again Sam: Dave's Daily  [ As always, Dave is spot-on as an astute, knowledgeable, seasoned veteran of the markets. ] ‘ …Thursday was another great show starring Jobless Claims, Warren Buffet, HAL 9000s, Steve Jobs and, of course, Da Boyz running the CRIMEX (COMEX and CME) on precious metals options expiration.The spin on Jobless Claims data was prior claims were adjusted higher making recent higher claims look not so bad especially when you add Verizon workers. Warren Buffett entered from stage left with a $5 billion investment in Bank of America giving him 6% interest tax-free (a "coddled" billionaire?) and making he and Berkshire a new TARP program. The HAL 9000s have been doing business as HFTs (High Frequency Traders) launching many buy or sell programs using complex algorithms which can drive prices on indexes higher or lower in dramatic fashion. One of their great acts is called "quote stuffing". It's another illegal activity which the SEC hasn't quite figured out. It's as futile for them as the illegal fee-driven recent end-of-quarter price jam-job. One of these actions was featured courtesy of our friends at Zero Hedge and depicted below as it occurred Thursday afternoon. The first chart features the quotes per second (NOTE: one instance exceeding 800 quotes per second). The next chart shows the market's simultaneous reaction. http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/daves/082511/image002.jpg  Steve Jobs sadly is retiring from his leading role as Apple CEO but the stock hardly budged given the products and brand are already well-known and his retirement was much anticipated. Last, but not least certainly, was the performance of Da Boyz production of gold price manipulation…’ Previous: Manipulated computer-programmed ( high frequency trading bots ) churn-and-earn suckers’ rally into the close based on desperation, fraud and b***s*** alone to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in!   Stocks up on government report (I consistently and here now again warn of fake reports / data) on durables far better than expectations / reality…100% better? I don’t think so! … Come on … sheer desperation at best! Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEOSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded i... [ Far more than just a ‘Silicon Valley legend’, Steve Jobs literally saved Apple from extinction … I’m truly glad he saved Apple, my first computer (1986 - apple IIc for word processing / data based records / forms / templates / data which I interfaced with an electric typewriter for letter quality) and for that all should be thankful. Apple is the Nasdaq (40% weighting) and quite more, that now was! That’s past tense. Steve Jobs goes out a big winner as indeed he should! Yet, make no mistake, as one might expect, his timing was impeccable inasmuch as without his uniquely inspired innovation, competition moving in, and particularly the coming debacle / crisis the worst of which lies ahead, things are not looking up, in and for pervasively corrupt / defacto bankrupt america particularly, euphemistically speaking. ]  End Of Cycle Smelling Like Dow 3K, Gold 3K  Forbes /  Bill Bonner  … ‘Our view [ the correct view ] is that the bear market began in January 2000. The feds fought it off with two huge extravaganzas of spending — the first beginning in 2001 the other after 2008. Stimulus does wonders for stock prices but it no longer works for the economy that sustains them. For every dollar that the Fed has put to work to fight the crisis since 2008, for example, it has produced only 80 cents worth of GDP. It didn’t work……that the recession of ’08-’09 in the US never actually ended……and that stocks will go down over the next 5-10 years until they finally hit a real bottom…’  Ted Weisberg to Frank Motek 1070am could think of no reason for the market to be up (BAD NEWS: new home sales down, oil prices up - China's manufacturing index showed a decline, the seventh straight month of declines for German manufacturing and the first decline in two years for European manufacturing activity, in u.s. a big miss on new home sales and a decline in the Richmond Fed's manufacturing index.’) with some prodding ultimately a begrudging mention of that meaningless fudge term ‘oversold’ which of course is no reason at all particularly since the market is substantially overvalued so take this as an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits because there’s much worse to come! ,  Fed Economists Predict A 15 Year Bear Market For Stocks Aug 23rd, 2011 News (BusinessInsider) — ‘The San Francisco Fed has come out with a research paper connecting the dots between the retiring baby boomers and stock prices. The thinking is that the boomers will divest themselves of stocks as they retire and eat into their savings.…These conclusions are just horrendous! The suggestion is that there is a 15-year bear market in front of us. Multiples will fall by 50%!!…“We do see it as something of a headwind as the economy is attempting to recover.” … These deep thinkers have it completely wrong. They think that the key to having a stronger economy is higher stock prices. So they spend all of their efforts dreaming up ways to keep the S&P ramping up. I think it is the exact other way around. If the economy were to be growing [ you see, that’s the problem in large part – the economy won’t really be growing (huge price increases / inflation for the illusion), among a multitude of other problems ], it is reasonable to assume that stock prices might rise. It is completely false to assume that attempts to jigger stocks higher will lead to a stronger economy [ This is true, but the writer ignores the criminal fraud factor as the raison d’etre for the ‘jiggering’.’ ]  ,  Dow:Gold Ratio and the Secular Bear Market Minyanville  Toby Connor ‘ … Stocks.. after.. bear market rally, will roll over and continue down into a final four-year cycle low..Depending on whether or not the Fed tries to fight the cleansing process, or Ben Bernanke tries to stop the bear market with another round of quantitative easing, stocks should either test or breach the March '09 lows. Either way I expect that 2012 will go down as one of the worst years in human history. Certainly in the same category as 1932, if not worse …’  ,  ‘american technology is horrendous and vastly overrated!’ ,  Famed economist predicts economic calamity in 2012. See the evidence.Newsmax  http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?promo_code=CA79-1      50% unemployment, 90% stock market drop, 100% inflation. See the Evidence (Newsmax.com  ,   Accounting Gimmics Resurface as Growth Flounders at TheStreet ‘Rebekah Smith, director of financial advisory services at accounting and consulting firm GBQ consulting, says accounting tricks and schemes are likely to start unraveling as we head into 2012 and the lag effect catches up. "The typical accounting fraud goes on for about 18 to 26 months before it is uncovered. The frauds that took place in 2009 are not going to surface until later in 2011 or into 2012." ‘  ,  Morgan Stanley Biggest Welfare Recipient as Federal Reserve Lent Banks $1.2 Trillion During Financial Crisis Wall St. Cheat Sheet  ,    Social Security disability on verge of insolvency     ,  Welcome To The New Bear Market For Stocks  Forbes / Suttmeier ,  Dow/Gold Ratio Lowest Since 1987 Crash   Forbes /  Adrian Ash  ,   Ignore Buffett's Advice, Don't Buy Stocks Forbes /  Dohmen , The "Crimes" That Wrecked The Markets  Forbes / Lenzner  ,  Tech Leading Market Lower The Wall Street Journal  ,  Banks closed in Fla, Ga, Ill; 2011 total is 68   ,   No Recession Coming ... It's Already Here   Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Market Gives Back Weekend Gains Amid US Bank Woes at Minyanville’  ,Previous:8-18-11 Stocks rally off lows to suck suckers in and keep suckers sucked in on bad news (Jobless Claims, Inflation Rise More Than Expected CNBC) , fraud ( SEC destroyed documents, senator says    Crimes Wrecked The Markets    ), and b***s*** alone!  MKM Bracing For SPY To Drop 8% More; Nasdaq Nearing August Lows Barrons.com,  WHY NEW LOWS ARE LIKELY  Maierhofer, Is It 2008 Again? Looking at the Summer Crash of 2011 Gayed ‘A real bear market has begun …’ ,  Abandon Ship?[The USS Titanic] Yes, Because of These 5 Bearish Icebergs ... McGill ,  There's A Recession Coming According To The Data at Forbes  ,  HP, Dell hammered as tech-spending outlook darkens   JDSU, NetApp, disappointing figures, shares hit hard in after-hours trade   Dell braces investors for a bumpy road Dell makes a case on why it can better weather an upcoming storm  ,   S&P says sell Google's shares after Motorola deal  ,  STOCKS FALL AFTER FLOOD OF BAD NEWS: Here's What You Need To Know  Joe Weisenthal ,   Stocks Slip On Concern Over Europe's Debt, U.S. Data  ,  Watch Out: 2011 Looks A Lot Like The Market Top In 2007 Sean Hanlon Take A Lesson From 2007 And Sell Stocks Now at Forbes, [video] Trader: We Could Test 1120 Lows at TheStreet.com   In a Downtrend, Sell a Rally (Daily FX)     Latest: Economist Who Predicted Market Crash Warns of 2012 Aftershock. See More Here.    )   Five Reason Stocks Are Crashing, Tips to Prepare for Meltdown (Moneynews) Unthinkable Poised to Happen on Wall Street. See Disturbing Charts. (Newsmax.com)  US Recession Is Guaranteed: Expert CNBC.com  So what’s changed of significance (other than previous full moon and consequent effects on the lunatic wall street frauds) Nothing! Absolutely nothing, yet a manipulated computer-programmed ( high frequency trading bots ) churn-and-earn suckers’ rally based on desperation, fraud and b***s*** alone (ie., backward looking, ‘revisions’, faked data, etc.) to keep suckers suckered, which makes for an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits since there’s much, much worse to come!     Regulators close 64th U.S. bank this year , U.S. consumer sentiment grim but retail sales jump with gasoline prices up  ,  [$$] 'Junk' Bonds Point to Recession  , Stock Market Parallels to 2000 and 2008 Should Not Be Ignored   , How Low Will Stocks Go?   Michael Kahn, who writes the Getting Technical column for Barrons.com and the QuickTakes Pro blog, has long argued we’re in a secular (long-term) bear market, and he thinks the cyclical bull is over, too. Like Arbeter, he sees 1,010 to 1,050 as the next level of support for the S&P, and below that 930.’  50% unemployment & 90% Dow crash also predicted. Newsmax   Tech up? Is this some kind of a joke? Absolute confirmation of dire prospects worldwide since american tech is horrendous.  (Newsmax.com) ‘Robert Wiedemer’s new book, “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown,” quickly is becoming the survival guide for the 21st century. And Newsmax’s eye-opening Aftershock Survival Summit video, with exclusive interviews and prophetic predictions, already has affected millions around the world — but not without ruffling a few feathers.    [ The instant  video on the economic / financial collapse from Stansberry and Associates is so well researched  and succinctly presented  that I’ve archived same on my website; also, because the facts and views presented comport with the facts and views I’ve presented on my site which I believe to be correct. This is a must-view, must-see that I strongly recommend!    
The complete url:     http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv    http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.mp4    Written text of presentation (without pictures  / charts)]  [A lot of pre-election year obfuscation, manipulation but the debacle is already here:  Harry Dent, Jr. Economy will be in a Depression by 2011
Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012
Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the latest.
U.S. Dollar will Decline
Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels
Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between 2010 and 2012).
   Dow 1000? Robert Prechter Thinks So      Prechter Reiterrates Call For Dow 1,000, Even As Surging Gold And Plunging Dollar Leave Much Credibility To Be Desired        Bulls Go to Extremes: Don't Buy the "Breakout", Sell It, Prechter Says     Russell: This Is One Of The Largest Tops In Stock Market History  My old friend, Bob Prechter, is talking about Dow 400. I used to think this was an absurd joke. I no longer think it’s a joke. The ultimate result will be a primary bear market shocking in duration and extent. …’     Forecasts from Dent, Napier, and then Prechter: Depression is Imminent The Dow Jones Industrial Average will go down to at least 1000, most likely to below 777 which was the starting point of its mania back in August 1982, and quite likely drop below 400 at one or more times during the bear market.  [ 8 More Reasons Why You Should Be Deeply Concerned That The U.S. Government Has Lost Its AAA Credit Rating The Economic Collapse ‘…  #8 The U.S. national debt continues to get worse by the day.  Just check out what economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff recently told NPR….
“If you add up all the promises that have been made for spending obligations, including defense expenditures, and you subtract all the taxes that we expect to collect, the difference is $211 trillion. That’s the fiscal gap” ..’   Why You Shouldn't Buy Into This Plunge Forbes/O'Neil‘The market is building momentum to the downside’.]    Russell Napier is the author of the book “Anatomy of the Bear”, a professor at the Edinburgh Business School and a consultant to CLSA Ltd. which is one of the top research houses in Asia. Napier’s research indicates (and I paraphrase) that: The S&P 500 will Decline to 400 by 2014 (the Dow 30 to 3800) The S&P 500 will then undergo a major crash that will see U.S. equity prices bottom at almost 50% below current levels (i.e. to 400 or less; the Dow 30 to 3800 or less) sometime around 2014 as Tobin’s “q” drops to 0.3 signaling the end of the bear market, as it has done at the end of the four largest U.S. market declines in 1921, 1932, 1949 and 1982. U.S. Treasury Sales Collapse Leading to End of U.S. Dollar as Reserve Currency Robert R. Prechter Jr. is author of a number of newsletters and books including “Elliott Wave Principle” (1978) in which he predicted the super bull market of the 1980s; “At the Crest of the Tidal Wave – A Forecast of the Great Bear Market” (1995) in which he predicted a slow motion economic earthquake, brought about by a great asset mania, that would register 11 on the financial Richter scale causing a collapse of historic proportions; and “Conquer the Crash: You can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression” (2002) in which he described the economic cataclysm that we are just beginning to experience and advised how to position one’s self financially during that period of time. Depression is Imminent The Dow Jones Industrial Average will go down to at least 1000, most likely to below 777 which was the starting point of its mania back in August 1982, and quite likely drop below 400 at one or more times during the bear market.    Watch for fake gov’t data / reports owing to political desperation!  This an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits, particularly if you missed Tuesday or May, since there’s much, much worse to come! Thursday, Aug.11, 2011: what changed from yesterday which warranted a more than 500 point plunge with paper stocks still over-valued? Well, some bad news labeled as better than expected 1) 7,000 fewer jobless claims than expected (just a little over 1% better even if you believe them – I don’t) 2) Cisco shows results ‘better than expected’ 3) Record monthly trade deficit  [ What Recovery? Forbes ‘we can’t call this a recovery. There’s no reason to celebrate when a job report was better than expected. Why? Because the expectation was abysmal to begin with.’ ‘Cisco Systems Inc’s quarterly results edged past Wall Street’s scaled-back expectations ...“They beat a low bar. A lot of it is coming from cost cutting, which we anticipated. In that sense it’s a relief,” Joanna Makris of Mizuho Securities USA told Reuters. ‘Cisco, which depends on government spending for about a fifth of its revenue, said in July it would cut 15 percent of its workforce and sell a set-top box factory in Mexico.. Cisco bulls may underestimate tough road ahead Randewich.’ ] Tuesday, Aug.9,2011: what changed from yesterday which warranted a more than 600 point plunge with paper stocks still over-valued and a 545 bounce off of afternoon lows? Nothing! Absolutely nothing, yet a manipulated computer-programmed churn-and-earn suckers’ rally based on fraud and b***s*** alone to keep suckers suckered, which makes for AN ESPECIALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SELL / TAKE PROFITS SINCE THERE’S MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!  [ Is this some parallel universe where unfounded criticism is levied at S&P for the downgrade when they’ve actually cut the pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt disunited states a break by not rating what america truly is; viz., junk status for the paper / liabilities / obligations that cannot and will not be paid (or the equivalent vis-à-vis what would be in worse than evermore worthless Weimar dollars or some other ‘ponzi-like’ subterfuge, obfuscation). The amounts are insurmountable going forward. They point to Moody’s and Fitch; yet, let’s not kid ourselves, S&P is the ‘800 pound gorilla’ in this world among rating agencies and moody’s, fitch have substantially diminished themselves as entities consistent with their ‘mission and purpose’ and as well, their credibility. I mean, come on! Consider the pressure that was and continues to be applied. Moody’s and fitch, quite frankly, folded. China’s rating agency has already downgraded u.s. paper and they’re ‘holding’ (huge amounts of that u.s. junk); and hence, against their own interest. Wake up! Wall Street closes worst week since '08 with wild day NEW YORK (Reuters) S&P on U.S. downgrade: Debt pact 'falls short' - Reuters  S&P downgrades US credit rating from AAA   S&P Shocks the U.S. with Credit Downgrade to AA+ from Prestigious AAA Rating  Wall St. Cheat Sheet    What Recovery? Forbes   ‘…we can’t call this a recovery. There’s no reason to celebrate when a job report was better than expected. Why? Because the expectation was abysmal to begin with. And while we’re at it, we can’t ignore increasing sovereign debt problems in Europe…’  Top 3 Reasons Markets Erased the Year’s Gains Wall St. Cheat Sheet  1) Japan and Europe 2) Unemployment.3) Capital goods - billions of dollars in lost revenue. Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events that warns of phase II of the global crisis… My work shows that “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession, often on the exact month, or within one month, of the official start as determined one year later by the official arbiter of recession, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… However, inflation is far understated for political reasons. Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation, according to free market economists who calculate inflation as it was done in 1980 before the politician re-engineered it, is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’FLASHBACK HERE: Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year  Harding   Remember: Sell in May and Go Away and If You’ve Not Sold by June, You’re a Loon! ‘ ‘Albert Edwards: Thinks the Market Could Fall 70%’ [ He’s not alone!   PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows     Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs  Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart  previous‘…1) Job cuts. 2 ) ISM service-sector report. Monday’s ISM manufacturing report contributed to market losses on Monday, but today’s report, though equally negative, didn’t quite have the same effect as markets began to level out this afternoon. The ISM service-sector index declined to 52.7% in July. The U.S. service sector accounts for three-fourths of all economic activity, and employs four out of every five U.S. workers , so a 0.5% decline speaks volumes about the state of economic recovery…’  Factory orders for June fell by 0.8% (just because they say the bad news isn’t as bad as expected does not make such bad news ‘rally material’. Indeed, the huge ralleys based on now revised downward data never seem to retrace that fake data induced stock surge based thereon.    Service sector growth slowest since 2010    Moody's sets negative outlook on BNY, JPMorgan         S&P ends string of losses on tech rebound  Tech rebound? Is this some kind of a joke? Tech up today? Absolute confirmation of dire prospects worldwide since american tech is horrendous. Yet, sizzling ‘child’s play’ is the order of the day and credit still must be given to those [ie., Steve Jobs-I’m truly glad he saved Apple, my first computer (apple IIc for word processing / data based records / forms / templates / data which I interfaced with an electric typewriter for letter quality)] who could (as he) identify such novelties as the biggest over-priced / over-valued sensations since the hoola hoop (hoopla hoops - which were pretty cheap and with some minor health benefits to boot).Take this run-up as a gift based on fraudulent wall street b***s*** alone and take this opportunity to sell / take profits / ‘sell today if you missed in may and then go away’! Nothing has been solved; maybe forestalled.  Rout spells trouble for Wall Street  / Moody's confirms U.S. rating at Aaa, outlook negative / Chinese rating agency cuts U.S. debt again / Minyanville's T3 Daily Recap: Signed Debt Deal No Cure for Sickly Market  / US auto industry uneasy after weak July sales / Fitch Unimpressed By Debt Deal, GDP; Markets Unimpressed By Fitch / US debt deal alone won't sustain AAA rating / Stocks now down for year as economic concerns grow – AP    The Daily Market Report Aug 1st, 2011  PG  Relief? What Relief? http://www.usagold.com/cpmforumLate last night when party leaders and the President announced that they had reached a bipartisan deal that would allow the debt ceiling to be raised, gold dropped about 1%. Global stocks rallied in relief and briefly, ever so briefly, gold was out of favor…CBO scores the package as accomplishing $2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10-years, the CBO baseline also has the deficit rising $6.7 trillion over the same period. The premise apparently being that we’re working our way to actual cutting by cutting to slow the pace of the nation’s proliferate spending. In actuality — and as evidenced below — that CBO baseline may prove to be way too optimistic. What really lit an intraday fire under gold today was the big miss on US July ISM, which plunged to 50.9. The market was expecting a modest downtick to 55.0 from 55.3 in June…The Truth About The Debt Deal: It’s Pretty Much Meaningless Business Insider/ Come on! Who believes their pre-election year data, reports, b***s***? There’s desperation in the air and like never before! One commentator, Peter Shiff, to Frank Motek of 1070am Bus.Report references the sham in Washington; and regardless, points to default by way of inflation, further stating that the debt ceiling’s already been breached by borrowing. Moreover, he additionally states that default is inevitable by way of inflation; that the fed will be buying the evermore worthless american paper (bonds) and creating/printing evermore worthless american dollars; that there’s been a quid pro quo with at least one of the 3 (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch) federal licensed rating agencies, viz., of reaffirming the u.s. AAA rating in return for no prosecution surrounding their role in the S&P AAA rated worthless (fraudulent, mortgage-backed, derivative) paper securities (fraud) giving rise to the previous leg of this continuing, ongoing debacle / crisis. He finally goes on to recommend non-u.s., non-dollar denominated assets, precious metals, and alternate currencies. Initial unemployment claims rise to 418000 - Jul. 21, 2011 which bad news sparked wall street rally … what total b***s***. No budget deal, celebrated Greek Plan – DEFAULT! … sounds like a plan!…, backward looking earnings results … riiiiight! Watch Out: 2011 Looks A Lot Like The Market Top In 2007 at Forbes  Sean Hanlon  / Deficits And Stimulus Only Delay The Inevitable Collapse Bob Chapman | America is insolvent and has been so for a long time. US Is in Even Worse Shape Financially Than Greece: Gross When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco’s Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.  Maierhofer: ‘USA INCOME STATEMENT:Total federal spending in 2010 amounted to $3.456 trillion. Total receipts added up to $2.162 trillion. USA Inc.'s 2010 deficit was $1.294 trillion.The 2011 federal budget is $3.7 trillion with a projected deficit of$1.6 trillion. …USA BALANCE SHEET: Consensus estimates for unfunded obligations vary. Mary Meeker pegs the shortfall at $31 trillion, PIMCO's Bill Gross estimates the unreported debt to be $75 trillion, while other estimates exceed $100 trillion (these amounts are insurmountable) …’ Huge suckers’ rally to keep the suckers suckered in this market based upon backward looking data discounted multiple times to the upside (including the apple numbers as recently as last week on ‘leaked’ expectations of ‘better than expected’, etc.), taxpayer funded QE results, and b***s*** alone. This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits since there’s much, much worse to come!   IT'S GOING TO HURT 'FOR LONG TIME TO COME' [ Says tiny tim geithner … thanks for the heads up tiny tim  ‘God bless us everyone’!  … As if we didn’t already know it / feel it! Dave's Daily  'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000 By 24/7 Wall St.    S&P Poised For Dropoff, Says Initial Jobless Claims  Forbes / Maureen Farrell  ]




A Decade of Decline in Equity Markets Faisal Humayun [ This is a must read and explains how the market’s been artificially propped, the dow relative to hard assets, ie., gold (dow/gold ratio), has actually crashed 78%, and comparable prospects for the next decade, etc.. ‘…The Dow Jones Index was trading at 11,357 levels at the beginning of the year 2000. More than a decade later (as of beginning July 2011), the index is at 12582. Therefore, the index has gained 11% in the last ten years…’ Yet, the inflationary dollar (declining) debasement rate was 31%. (-31%) {See the inflation calculator infra – and that’s just the government (inflation) numbers … reality is much worse!} Meanwhile, the frauds on wall street are churnin’ and earnin’ like never before at lightning computerized speeds enabling the high-frequency trades that are commissioned in unprecedented large volumes; a big net negative in real economic terms.]  While Washington Fiddled The Economy Burned at Forbes [ Oh come on! Let’s get real here! The economy was already burning (see infra), Washington notwithstanding! Indeed, the frauds on wall street with those contraindicated paper stock computer programmed commissioned churn-and-earn rallies would love for you to think it’s Washington only {that aw shucks, coulda’ been clear sailin’ otherwise moment; but the reality is that things are far more dire financially and economically than their window-dressed scams would indicate, though washington’s no help, incompetent, unknowledgeable, and ineffectual as they are (although fraudulent wall street, aside from their consummate scammin’, is little better and probably overly relied upon and light in those very areas one would expect to find profiency; viz., finance and economics.) Most importantly, realize that if wobama’s actions had not belied his words/campaign promises, the nation’s position, though still ominous, would have been substantially improved.}  ] Check out this inflation calculator:   http://www.albertpeia.com/inflationcalculator.htm

 

 

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Beneath the Market’s Swings, Some Real Cause for Worry  News  Jeff Cox August 11 (CNBC) — ‘So whether this equals, falls short of, or exceeds the financial crisis of 2008 hardly seems to matter—investors are afraid, very afraid, and the question as much as anything in the minds of many market pros will be what soothes that fear. Analyst Dick Bove at Rochdale Securities says he knows why: More restrictive capital requirements and near-zero interest rates set at the Federal Reserve [cnbc explains] that make lending neither easy nor lucrative, a trend that will make it difficult for the economy to grow. “If one thinks through these limitations it can be seen that banks must shrink their balance sheets and change their business patterns to maintain their profits. What they are unlikely to do is to expand their lending activities in order to grow the economy,” Bove wrote in a lengthy banking analysis Thursday.“However, the Federal Reserve is suggesting that the economy is unlikely to grow,” he wrote. “If the Fed is prescient, then banks are facing higher loan losses, lower loan volume, and reduced margins on a wide array of banking products. The outlook is not appealing.”“Even though the United States is able to both print and borrow money, it is as bankrupt as the Europeans,” Bove wrote. “Covering deficits and paying debt with borrowed funds, some of which is newly printed, does not constitute meeting debt service requirements.”…’

 

 


The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed
! Previous, full moon and fraudulent wall street, get this, rallies on not as bad as expected EU stress tests and better than expected google results but forget the dire consumer (recession level) consumer sentiment number ‘cause after all, consumer spending just a paltry 70% of GDP.  Think about this: short-lived Pavlov dog rally (the conditioned stimulus) on hopes for more welfare for wall street and some good results in communist China. This despite the previous failure of QE for everyone but the frauds on wall street and ultimately, though circumlocuted, at great taxpayer expense. Titans of capitalism? How ‘bout the biggest unprosecuted frauds in the world. Preposterous!  Roche 'The worst part of it  ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’  ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud )   I want just one person with courage enough to stand up and explain to all that these huge commissionable computerized trading volumes like never before are a net negative in a very big way … that’s a fact … that’s economic reality in real terms!   Trade deficit up, growth predictions by fed scaled down [ do you recall how many upside market points for the false, more positive growth projections by the ‘no-recession’ fed, then there’s also the costly, hyperinflationary failed QE hopes, more fed jawboning rallies the frauds on wall street off their lows to keep suckers suckered – they all belong in jail!   Housing Woes to Cause Recession in 2012, Says Gary Shilling - Peter Gorenstein  STOCKS BARELY FALL AFTER MOUNTAIN OF BAD NEWS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Weisenthal Economic scenario far worse than expected (and in this pre-election year the reality is still far worse than reported), yet stocks still rallied off lows to keep suckers sucked in to this fraudulent market    Click here to see the new scariest jobs chart ever  http://www.businessinsider.com/details-from-the-awful-june-june-jobs-report-2011-7    >  See all 12 charts from St Louis Fed:  http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4e1712edcadcbba25f030000-595-356/chart.jpg    Previous:Stocks rally on jersey-based, former Lautenberg ADP still paltry, better than expected 157,000 private jobs number and one’s got to wonder ‘who got paid’, one way or another, for the fudge. Then there’s the horrific ‘american tech’. Retail? The defacto bankrupt government’s probably buying with money they don’t have, at best; and, as with other data in these desperate pre-election-year times, plain false, falsified, fudged, spun. Previous day, all bad news … from eurozone (protugal, et als), to asia zone (china worse than expected), to america (where to begin, from defacto bankruptcy, to debased currency, to insurmountable debt / dervice, to pervasive corruption, etc.) … stocks rally on fraud and b***s*** alone. Previous, higher oil price rally, along with Netflix ‘technology rally’ … Don’t make me laugh! … Total desperation on wall street and in Washington … How pathetic! … Jobless claims at 428,000 much worse than expected; and, don’t forget, these are desperate ‘pre-election times’ when regardless of factual reality (ie., fake reports, data, as, ie., ‘wobama hometown’ corrupt chicago ISM is up as even their youth gangs are showing increased criminal activity which probably accounts for the rise; ie., meth, crack labs, etc.?) data / reports are fudged / faked / spun. Foreclosure, distressed sales up, at least on paper with contracts signed, so no surprise nor reason to cheer here, as markets worldwide jump on the american crazy train for a short-lived bounce as all problems remain. This is the same month end (and quarter, half) spurt / window dressing based on b***s*** alone to keep the suckers suckered and an especially great time to sell / take profits since there’s much worse to come! Talk about milking the greek crisis for the umpteenth time a so-called solution (and there are loads of greecy scenarios worldwide …  I don’t think so and neither does Schaeffer who says: ‘…even once such a package is passed it only buys time. Actually fixing the fiscal condition of Greece is not something that can be solved in a matter of weeks, or even months…‘ but it’s great press for the churn and earn and to keep the suckers suckered.  Technology rally? Defacto bankrupt american technology is horrendous but great sizzle for the new fraud as in the dotcom bust days. Then there’s the greasy b.s. new greecy b.s. factor. The rally into the close and the previous so-called (4 day) ‘rally’ was based on b***s*** alone to keep the suckers suckered and for ‘smarter money ‘ along with the frauds to sell into. This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!    Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year  Harding   Remember: Sell in May and Go Away and If You’ve Not Sold by June, You’re a Loon! ‘ ‘Albert Edwards: Thinks the Market Could Fall 70%’ [ He’s not alone!   PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows     Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs  Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.       Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default  Forbes / Robert Lenzner   StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday  with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street  this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”…’   Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says      Market Crash 6/30/11?Technical indicators suggest market collapse may begin by June 30th Dennis Slothower is one of the world’s leading technical analysts. He’s one of the few advisors whose readers completely avoided ALL losses during the disaster that was 2008. And now he’s issuing another dire warning. His technical indicators suggest that the market manipulation we’ve seen over the last several months is about to come to an end…and that means thousands of investors are about to get clobbered. This correction could begin as soon as June 30th– so it’s important that you take action now to prepare yourself. StealthStocksOnline.com        STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know    Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out           24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ]  States face shortfall for retirees (WP)   Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009    Study: Affordable rentals scarce  (WP)      Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP)  Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity  (WP) They’ve used the contrived mideast turmoil and their wars to obfuscate and divert attention from their failure.    Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘  Dave's Daily  'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000 By 24/7 Wall St.   S&P Poised For Dropoff, Says Initial Jobless Claims  Forbes / Maureen Farrell   

 

 

 

Take A Lesson From 2007 And Sell Stocks Now at Forbes, Sean Hanlon ‘August has given new meaning to “the dog days of summer” as the broad equity market has retracted all year-to-date gains and dropped into negative territory, all within the first couple weeks.

As written in my previous Market Commentary on July 20, our research uncovered potentially dangerous activity in the equity markets that could lead to a break and high volatility.  We presented this in that Market Commentary by the chart in Figure 1 below.  Using our proprietary research methodologies, we elected to make a major “tactical” move on June 17.

That move reduced all equity and high-yield bond exposure, creating 50% cash or cash equivalent allocations across all portfolios. This defensive move was shown to be prudent as volatility erupted and considerable downside was experienced in equity markets in the first week of August, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1 (click image to enlarge.)

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With this heightened volatility, we were observant that this market behavior was eerily similar to market conditions in 2007. To elaborate on this point, let’s compare the S&P 500 Index for 2007 vs. the first seven months of 2011.  As you can see below in Figure 2, 2007 experienced high volatility yet remained range-bound in an upward trend (represented by the overlaid black bands).

Figure 2 (click image to enlarge.)

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The first half of 2011 maintained a range-bound upward trend until finally breaking sharply to the downside in the first week of August.

Of course now everyone wants to know what happens next?  Our research has no special predictive power of what may happen now that the “trend” has been broken. Instead, what our research is telling us is to remain extremely cautious at this time.  We have since moved client portfolios to almost 100% money markets and/or cash equivalents in all accounts.  We do maintain some high quality bond positions.

You may think “But I can’t make any money in money markets, they pay nothing these days!”  True enough, but there are many times in one’s investing lifetime where the best investment is to simply maintain principal.  That principal amount will be able to potentially purchase more in the not too distant future.

A simple example is stocks.  On April 29 of this year, $1,340 purchased the equivalent of one S&P 500 Index share.  Today, to own those same companies that make up the S&P 500 Index, the cost is below $1,200, yet the same amount of dividends is being received.  In this period preserving principal has resulted in increased “investment” purchasing power, income and potentially increased return.

 

Related article: Watch Out: 2011 Looks A Lot Like The Market Top In 2007

 

 

 

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STOP ACTA AND TPP     http://albertpeia.com/stopactatpp.htm

 

 

10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve http://albertpeia.com/10thingsmustknowaboutfedreserve.htm

 

 

 

 

Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking’s big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters  PF Louis | The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is centers on the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. Natural News February 1, 2012  [  http://albertpeia.com/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm      http://albertpeia.com/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm   http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf       http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm    http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm  
http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm ]  ‘The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, “No, we can’t compete with the government.”

 

 

Guest Post: Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit PolicyCounterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value. Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services.  If this is illegal, then would somebody please arrest the Board of the Federal Reserve for counterfeiting? The Fed has blatantly printed money without creating any real value to back up their added claims on productive value. Hence they are counterfeiting, pure and simple. A government based on rule of law would arrest these fraudsters and cons at the earliest possible convenience.

 

 

The Markets Since Their 2000 Highs: We're Not Bouncing Back  http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-markets-their-2000-highs-were-not-bouncing-back  ... [ Actually the picture is even worse if the real inflation rate used. Wall street is total fraud and b***s***! Keep in mind, in addition to loss of principal, the flux / worry takes its toll on health as well as productivity. ] 02/02/2012 By Doug Short:   The January Effect in 2012 was quite strong, and the U.S. markets have continued the rally that began last October. But let's take a step back and review the performance of the major US indexes in the 21st century through the end of January 2012. Here is an update in response to a standing request from David England, a professor who has developed a popular college level stock market classes at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. David is also the founder of thetraderseye.com. In his upcoming presentations, he wants to disprove the standard message of Wall Street, "Don't worry! The market will always come back." I furnished David with some charts, and I shared them with regular visitors to my Advisor Perspectives pages. Specifically, David had asked for real (inflation-adjusted) charts of the S&P 500, Dow 30, and Nasdaq Composite. So I created two overlays — one with Complete Story »   [ The following are important charts from Doug Short:

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I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will The Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/governmentfraudulentemploymentstats.htm 

 

 

 

 

The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com http://albertpeia.com/2008crisisjustwarmupforcomingcollapse.htm

 

 

News Flash: The Rally Is Over…For Now  The Wall Street Journal ‘..That’s enough of a pullback for Mr. Arbeter to call a near-term top. He sees the S&P 500 tumbling into the 1290 to 1320 range by early March, with tech stocks as the ”most overbought and vulnerable to some profit taking.”..’This Is What An Economic Depression Looks Like In The 21st Century http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/21centurydepressiongreecedusup.htm

 

 

 

 

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Rosenberg Ruminates On Six Roadblocks For Stocks

 

The Shocking Truth About Unemployment In America In One Chart

http://albertpeia.com/shockingtruthofunemploymentinamerica.htm

 

 

Bob Janjuah: S&P At 800, Dow/Gold Ratio Will Hit 1 Before Next Real Bull Cycle

GARY SHILLING: PROFITS WILL PLUMMET AND STOCKS WILL PLUNGE 43% By Mamta Badkar | Business Insider

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gary-shilling-profits-plummet-stocks-203000738.html

 

http://albertpeia.com/shillingsaysstockswillplunge43percent.htm

Europe Will Collapse in May-June

April 11, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com

 

http://albertpeia.com/europecollapseinmayjune.htm

 

 

 

Shilling Shuns Stocks, Sees S&P At 800
http://albertpeia.com/shillingsaysstockswillplunge43percent.htm


27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe 
http://albertpeia.com/27statsofeueconomiccrisis.htm

 

How Bad Do Things Have to Be For the Fed AND the ECB to Talk of Easing… On the Same Day
http://albertpeia.com/gpcsaysthingsarereallythatbad.htm

 

GOOGLE FOUNDER: WEB FREEDOM UNDER THREAT… [ Without the Free Web, People Would Have No Idea What’s Really Going On, Which Is What They’re Shooting For, Which Pre-Web Darkness Has Helped Cover-up Their Incompetence, Greed, and Corruption Leading To Today’s Debacle. ] ...
'Very powerful forces have lined up around world'...

 

25 Signs That America Is A Seething Cesspool Of Filth And Corruption http://albertpeia.com/25signsamericacesspooloffilthcrimeandcorruption.htm

 

Tony Robbins, Ron Paul And Ben Bernanke All Agree: The National Debt Crisis Could Destroy America 
http://albertpeia.com/debtcrisisdestroysamerica.htm

 

Inventor of World Wide Web Savages Government’s Big Brother Plans http://albertpeia.com/bernersleeantibigbrotherwebintrusion.htm

 

There Is Not Going To Be A Solution To Our Economic Problems On The National Level  http://albertpeia.com/nonationalsolutiontouseconomicproblems.htm

 

16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm

 

Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money http://albertpeia.com/whydochimpslikeobamasthrowpoop29waysgovernmentwastesmoney.htm

 

Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm 

 

Spain is Greece… Only Bigger and Worse
Spain on the Precipice http://albertpeia.com/spainontheprecipice.htm

 

Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Here Comes Spain Edition) 

April 23, 2012 By gpc1981  [  http://albertpeia.com/spainpain.htm  ]

 

22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious Doom Is Coming For Global Financial Markets
http://albertpeia.com/22redflagsofdoomforglobalfinancialmarkets.htm

5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
http://albertpeia.com/5newliesbythefed.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fraudulentfedhasfailed.htm

 

25 Horrible Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Barack Obama Does Not Want You To Know
http://albertpeia.com/25horriblestatsaboutuseconomyobamahides.htm

 

22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy Is Heading Into A Great Depression

http://albertpeia.com/22signsspainheadingintogreatdepression.htm

 

 

The Secrets of the Spanish Banking System That 99% of Analysts Fail to Grasp

http://spainbanksystemsecrets.htm

 

What Do California And Detroit Have In Common?

http://albertpeia.com/californiadetroitdeclineincommon.htm

 

Class Warfare Is Being Used To Divide America - And It Is Working

http://albertpeia.com/classwarfare.htm

 

 

 

95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs

http://albertpeia.com/95percentofjobslostmiddleclass.htm

 

 

Why? - 21 Unanswered Questions That They Don't Want You To Look Into

http://albertpeia.com/21unansweredquestions.htm

 

BIN LADEN WAS ALREADY DEAD Bin Laden: Everyone Is Missing the Big Picture   http://albertpeia.com/binladenwasalreadydead.htm : George Washington : 04/30/2012  

... Read full article  http://albertpeia.com/binladendeadandonicesince2001.htm

 

The Market Calls BS on Spain’s Efforts to Cover Its Toxic Banking Debt
http://albertpeia.com/spainstoxicbankingdebt.htm

 

New Obama Executive Order Pushes Us Closer To A North American Union And A One World Economic System

http://albertpeia.com/wobamaexecorderforoneworldgovernment.htm

 

{ The truly astounding thing here is that without exception, these respective nations, from largest to smallest, can’t even manage themselves, their own nations properly, efficiently; and then there’s the inevitable corruption, ‘bigger and better?’. Come on! More obfuscation! In a world such as this, human nature being what it is, ‘bigger is definitely not better’! They’re pushing on a string! Time for accountability! Time to pay the piper! Additionally, people must come to grips with the reality that wobama hasn’t the slightest idea what he’s doing; hence, the over-vacationed teleprompter reader whose ‘handlers’ have literally taken over policy, with some ‘slick’ maneuvering to try and repackage him; ultimately to no avail inasmuch as his disastrous results at home and abroad speak volumes. If only he had done what he said he was going to do last campaign, this nation and the world would have been in a better position today! }

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Military Winning War Over Pensions Bruce Krasting 05/02/2012 Why is the Military Retirement Fund exploding higher? http://albertpeia.com/militarypensiondebacle.htm

 

Why New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Is Partly Right But Mostly Wrong
http://albertpeia.com/nyteconomistkrugmanwrong.htm

 

 

Eric Holder To Be Held In Contempt Of Congress?

http://albertpeia.com/ericholderincontemptofcongress.htm

 

There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs

http://albertpeia.com/100millionworkingageamericansdonthavejobs.htm

 

16 Signs That People Are Becoming Stupider

http://albertpeia.com/16signspeoplebecomingstupider.htm 

 

The Fed and the ECB’s Hands Are Politically Tied… Bye Bye Market Props

May 4, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/sharpcorrectioncoming.htm

 

 

Merkel’s In Hot Water… So No More Bailouts… Sorry Spain

http://albertpeia.com/merkelsinhotwaternomorebailouts.htm

 

 

 

 

People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981

http://albertpeia.com/notinlaborforce.htm 

 

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Five Reasons For Caution In US Equities 

 

Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essentially Ban All "Buy American" Laws?

http://albertpeia.com/wobombanation.htm

 

 

Debt Serfdom in One Chart  http://albertpeia.com/debtserfdom.htm

fedupusa.org | The essence of debt serfdom is debt rises to compensate for stagnant wages.

 

Soylent Pepsi is People    http://albertpeia.com/soylentpepsi.htm

Infowars.com | Ground up dead baby fetuses… just business as usual. {  Well, let’s not kid ourselves; there’s likely canabalism in wobama’s line! How totally disgusting. I’ll never drink pepsi ever again! }

 

 

On The Ground in Paris… It Ain’t Euro Positive   http://albertpeia.com/euronegative.htm

 

 

The Countdown To The Break Up Of The Euro Has Officially Begun

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com

 

http://albertpeia.com/countdowntoeurobreakup.htm

 

The Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National Threat Is Frightening Business Insider | Tom Cruise made “pre-crime’” a futuresque and controversial method of law enforcement in the 2002 movie Minority Report. { The business of war … now you know, along with the frauds on wall street, where all your tax dollars went and how the nation’s insurmountable debt-load and defacto bankruptcy came to be… http://albertpeia.com/wherehaveallthetaxdollarsgone.htm  }  Officials: Al-Qaida underwear bomber worked for CIA

 

 

 

 

11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial World Is About Europe Right Now

http://albertpeia.com/financialworriesabouteurope.htm

UN: Mt. Rushmore Should Return to Native Americans  { It’s truly hilarious how jones et als attempt to spin the fundamental, historical truth of inherent american criminality into some grand elitist conspiracy from without. Yet, the reality of within speaks for itself; and, I’ve seen inherent american criminality first hand, which inherent traits are at the core of virtually all jones et als posit as fatally problematic for the nation. I am smart, tough, and know the law; and, have seen american inherent criminality, corruption, despoliation up close and personal, first hand, and know what ‘is’, is (then there’s also the plethora of observable, empirical data that even the blind couldn’t ignore):

http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf      
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm   
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm  
http://albertpeia.com/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm    
http://albertpeia.com/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm
http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm   

24 Facts That Prove That America Is A Nation Of Slobs
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J.P. Morgan has significant credit portfolio loss May 10th, 2012 by News Breaking…………“Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM -5.89% dropped after the bank said in a regulatory filing late Thursday it had “significant” mark-to-market losses in its synthetic credit portfolio. Shares fell 4.5% to $38.87 in after-hours activity. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the bank said its synthetic credit portfolio had proved to be riskier and more volatile than expected.”MarketWatch MK comment: Sound familiar? Think Bear Stearns, early 2008.

 

J.P. Morgan Reveals 'London Whale'-Size Losses

 

Surprising JPMorgan loss hits stock market late NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell sharply on Thursday evening as JPMorgan Chase & Co stunned investors with news that its chief investment office had incurred "significant mark-to-market losses...

Marc Faber Sees A 1987-Like Crash Approaching

"Europe Has Started The Endgame" And Biderman Says "The US Is Next"

A Chinese Group Plans To Construct A 200 Acre "China City" In Michigan

http://albertpeia.com/chinamerica.htm

 

If Spain’s Problems Are Solved… Why Are They Putting Together “Plan B”?  gpc1981   http://albertpeia.com/spainnotsolvedsoplanb.htm

3.6 Million Taxpayer Dollars Being Used To Support The Lavish Lifestyles Of Former Presidents Such As Bush And Clinton       http://albertpeia.com/nothingsucceedslikefailureinamerica.htm


WALL STREET DOES BROADWAY’

http://albertpeia.com/wallstreetdoesbroadway.htm

http://albertpeia.com/collapseofderivativesmarket.htm

 

Lot of whistling down there on wall street as ‘WALL STREET DOES BROADWAY’ (not Main Street mind you, they’re for screwin’) … Rogers and Hamerstein to be exact with their recurring theme going thusly:

 

Whenever the frauds on wall street feel afraid,

Their penises get erect (for screwin’ someone other than their deserving selves),

They whistle a happy tune,

So no one will suspect,

They’re afraid.

 

While shivering in their shoes,

They strike a fearless pose,

And whistle a happy tune,

So no one will suppose,

They’re afraid.

 

Yeah, lots and lots of whistling on fraudulent wall street. So uniquely fashioned to their task of obfuscation and fraud, even Humphrey Bogart would have found Lauren Bacall’s instructive direction for same as wanting in comparison (not everyone will get this…famous, but strictly unreal cinematic show biz, not the live fraud biz of wall street fame). I believe much of this soft shoe song and dance was for the ‘benefit’ of european markets which are hopelessly in the throes of their own confrontation with reality, which despite all the whistling is all going to get much worse than feared, fearless poses notwithstanding (see infra).

 

It is here where wobama not doing what he said he’d do last campaign littered with his jive-talking b***s***!

 

Roche 'The worst part of it  ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’  ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ) Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud  WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.    

http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf       http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm        

 

 

Allen Stanford Found Guilty Of Being Not Too Big To Fail; In Other News Jon Corzine Walking Free

 

Facebook co-founder Saverin renounces citizenship

 

The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just A Preview Of The Coming Collapse Of The Derivatives Market

http://albertpeia.com/collapseofderivativesmarket.htm

 

JPMorgan Estimates Immediate Losses From Greek Exit Could Reach 400 Billion

 

Are They Insane? 58 Percent Of Americans Believe Economic Conditions In The United States Will Be Good A Year From Now

http://albertpeia.com/insanelyoptimistic.htm

 

If You Live In California Things Just Got A Whole Lot Worse

http://albertpeia.com/hopelesscluelesscalifornia.htm

 

Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm

 

Why Is The Obama Administration Allowing The Chinese Government To Buy Up U.S. Oil And Gas Deposits Worth Billions Of Dollars?

http://albertpeia.com/chinabuyingamerican.htm

 

Merkel is Backed Into a Corner… Commit Political Suicide or Bail on the Euro? May 13, 2012 By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/merkelpolsuicideorbailoneuro.htm

 

 

Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The End Of The Eurozone

http://albertpeia.com/endofeurozone.htm

 

The Bank Runs In Greece Will Soon Be Followed By Bank Runs In Other European Nations

http://albertpeia.com/greekbankrunsgoeurope.htm

 

 

 

 

18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse

http://albertpeia.com/18signseuropebankcrisisbadtoworse.htm

 

 

We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die Right In Front Of Our Eyes

http://albertpeia.com/greekbankingsystemdying.htm

 

 

19 Things That All High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College

http://albertpeia.com/19thingshsstudentsshouldbetoldbeforecollege.htm

 

12 Pictures That Demonstrate How The New World Order Openly Mocks Us

http://albertpeia.com/newworldordervedgesmockus.htm

{ First, let me say that the vedges of the so-called new world order are in no real position to mock anyone, so mockable as they indeed are, as the incompetent vegetables that they in fact are, who have been the very architects of ultimately their own and the planet’s decline, fall, and demise. Yet, there is no question but that the ‘masses’ so mocked, deserve to be mocked, having embraced their dismal fate at every turn; viz., their embrace of ‘political correctness’, though contraindicated, as, ie., the embrace of the violent, destructive nigger who literally would have them for dinner, or the compulsion to embrace that which the state says is right, though contraindicated, for political expedience owing to failure fed (including the incompetent missteps of the failed fed) desperation, ie., gay marriage, etc., contrived wars / conflicts, among other clearly observable, self-interested behavior of people, companies, nations, including the gargantuan bailed out frauds on wall street to everyone’s (but the frauds’) detriment, still unprosecuted. That the jive-talking, b***s*** artist/grifter/con-man obama has not been held to even one of his former now broken campaign promises and is embraced by those foolish enough to believe more of the same is testament to how deserving of mocking the masses truly are (people should be outraged and wobama should be ‘ridden out on a rail’). Make no mistake; the reality is that the ‘new world order’/so-called ‘elite’ are not elite at all; but rather, incompetent vegetables who can’t do anything right as they’ve now proven time and time again. As I previously said: The Elite Believe That You Are Ruining Their Planet And They Want You To Stop Reproducing

{ First and foremost clarification: There are no elite on this planet. The grim reality for this planet is a dominant species descended from initially notochords, primitive chordates, and relatively more recently primitive apes.
See generally,
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm  , for a brief but sorrowful history of man.  }

 

http://albertpeia.com/planetalreadyruined.htm   }

 

 

The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party

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http://albertpeia.com/lastwallstreetparty.htm

‘The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party - everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways.  Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is.  A tremendous amount of pain is ahead for Wall Street in the next few years, and we will probably never see anything like the Facebook IPO ever again. But the Facebook IPO sure has been fun to watch.  Facebook is one of the largest companies to ever go public in the United States.  According to CNN, 247 million shares of Facebook exchanged hands in the first 45 minutes of trading.  The Facebook IPO was nearly ten times larger than any other Internet IPO in history, and the amount of money being made by some people on this deal is absolutely amazing.  For example, it is being reported that Bono will make more money on the Facebook IPO than he has from being part of the band U2 for the past 30 years.  Sadly, this euphoria is not going to last for long.  The next wave of the global financial collapse is rapidly approaching, and once it strikes there will not be much for anyone on Wall Street to be smiling about at all.

During the IPO process, Facebook sold more than 420 million shares and raised about 16 billion dollars.

Those are incredible numbers.

At 38 dollars per share, Facebook would have a market cap of about 81 billion dollars.

So is Facebook worth 81 billion dollars?

Of course not.

But most stocks are tremendously overvalued at this point.

Yes, Facebook has 900 million users and it made about a profit of about a billion dollars last year.

But that does not add up to an 81 billion dollar company.

Not even close.

A recent article by Jay Yarow explained this in more detail....

As good a business as that is, it's not Google good. It's not Apple good. And at the current IPO pricing, Facebook has to be a much better business in the near future.

In fact, Yarow says that Facebook is going to have to dramatically improve in order to justify the current valuation....

So, what's the bull's case for Facebook? Unfortunately, it comes down to faith. You have to have faith that Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the rest of the executives at Facebook will discover a magical money making product that will justify its valuation.

Unfortunately, there are already signs that the growth of Facebook is slowing down.

Advertising revenue during the first quarter of 2012 was only $872 million.  That was a decline of 7.5 percent from the previous quarter.

And eventually someone will come along and topple Facebook just like Facebook toppled MySpace.

Remember MySpace?

Facebook did not even exist a decade ago.  Right now there are young kids tinkering around in their college dorm rooms trying to figure out how to create something that will be even better than Facebook.

The truth is that Facebook is operating on borrowed time.  It is not going to remain "hot" and "trendy" forever.

But for the moment, there are a whole lot of people out there that want a piece of Facebook.

Hey, I am not in the stock market at all, but even I am half-tempted to buy a few shares so that I can introduce myself as a "part-owner of Facebook".

After all, who doesn't like Facebook?

Yes, government agencies and big corporations use Facebook to spy on all of us.  If you don't believe this, just check out this article, this article and this article.

But there is an incredible upside to social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter as well.

They have given average people the ability to communicate directly with each other on a massive scale.

In the past, the big corporations pretty much had a monopoly on mass communication.

If you wanted to get your message out independently of the big corporations, you could hand out fliers, you could send out mass mailings (very expensive) or you could try to get a book printed.

But today something that you post on Facebook or Twitter could be seen by thousands (or even millions) of people within a few days.

The Internet is filled with a whole lot of garbage, but it can also be used as an incredible tool for good.

Sitting at home behind your desk, you have the potential to touch the lives of people on the other side of the globe through the Internet that you would probably never have a chance of influencing any other way.

So I am very thankful for Facebook.

We should use tools like Facebook to wake people up while there is still time.  Our world is becoming increasingly unstable and we might not always have the opportunity to freely share our thoughts with the entire globe like this.

Just try to imagine a world without Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Internet forums.

All of those things have only existed for a relatively short period of time, and there is no guarantee that we will always have them.

Instead of wasting our lives away in front of our televisions, we should be taking advantage of these tools to help change the world.

Every single day, hundreds of people are directed to my website from Facebook.  I am hoping to eventually increase that to thousands of people per day.

A great economic collapse is coming to this world.  People need to keep their eyes on the financial crisis in Europe and on the derivatives market.  The coming financial tsunami will likely be even worse than the crash of 2008. People are going to be looking for answers. Now is the time to be a light shining in the darkness. Not everyone has the time or the knowledge to be able to set up a website or make YouTube videos, but nearly everyone is capable of setting up a Facebook account or a Twitter account. If you make even a small effort, you could end up touching the lives of thousands upon thousands of people. Yes, there are a lot of negative things that can be said about Facebook, but at least for today let us celebrate it for what it has given us. It has given us the opportunity to make a difference on a massive scale, and that is a wonderful thing.’

 

 

Jersey Boy Bruce’, Stalwart Wobama Supporter, Will He Change the Words to:

‘Wasn’t Born in the U.S.A.’ , ‘Wasn’t Born in the U.S.A.

http://albertpeia.com/wasntbornintheusa.htm

Say it isn’t so ,‘Jersey Boy Brucie’!

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Sing it Brucie:

Not born in the usa,

Not born in the usa,

O’s not born in the usa,

O wasn’t born in the usa!

http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm 

 

Breaking: Smoking Gun Evidence Obama Born in Kenya

breitbart.com | Obama’s publisher reveals more evidence Obama in violation of the Constitution.

 

Oops! Text Editor Rushes Out Apology for Kenya ‘Mistake’ in Obama’s Bio

Aaron Dykes | Publicist says “fact checking” not correspondence with Obama to blame, as apology is rushed out

 

Official Bio Said Obama Kenyan Born UP UNTIL April 2007 When Campaign Began

Infowars | Over 16 Years, Obama’s Literary Agency Circulated Official Biography Listing Birthplace as Kenya, Suddenly Changing it to Hawaii in 2007 Ahead of Bid for Highest Office

 

Bombshell: Obama “Born in Kenya”

Infowars | Obama’s own authorized biography while president of the Harvard Law Review says he was “born in Kenya.”

 

Evidence Obama Born In Kenya Goes Beyond 1991 Brochure

Paul Joseph Watson | Establishment media pulls stunt in effort to diffuse ‘birther’ controversy.

Establishment media pulls stunt in effort to diffuse ‘birther’ controversy

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, May 18, 2012

The establishment media hastily seized on yesterday’s explosive story about a literary publication listing Barack Obama’s birthplace as Kenya in an effort to claim that the 1991 brochure was the “origin” of the entire ‘birther’ issue. In reality, evidence that Obama was born in the African country is abundant.

A literary agent’s promotional text for a 1991 brochure released yesterday by Breitbart.com states Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

Yahoo News, along with a deluge of other mainstream news outlets, responded by reporting that the document was potentially the “source” of the birther controversy and had merely been a mistake.

The literary agent who wrote the description, Miriam Goderich, now works with Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its clients. Unsurprising therefore that Goderich hastily claimed listing Obama’s birthplace as Kenya was “nothing more than a fact checking error.”

However, evidence to indicate that Obama war born in Kenya is plentiful and it goes significantly beyond the 1991 version of the brochure.

- Despite claiming the passage about Obama’s birthplace being Kenya was a mistake, the listing still maintained that Obama’s birthplace was Kenya until after Obama became a U.S. Senator. “Goderich’s statement fails to explain why the “fact checking error” persisted for sixteen years, through at least three different versions of Jane Dystel’s website, and through at least four different versions of Obama’s biography,” reports Breitbart.com.

- The literary agency also updated the text in June 1998, but the part about Obama being born in Kenya was retained.

- The text was again updated in February 2005 to reflect the fact that Obama had become a Senator, but Kenya was still listed as his birthplace.

- After an April 2007 modification of the text, the passage still read Obama, “was born in Kenya.”

- As Steve Boman reveals, the Dystel & Goderich agency asks its clients to submit their own biography, meaning it’s virtually impossible the listing of Obama’s birthplace as Kenya could have been a “fact checking error” on behalf of the literary company itself.

- During a speech about HIV, First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack Obama “visited his home country of Kenya.” Watch the clip below.

- In 2008, Obama’s paternal step grandmother appeared to indicate publicly that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. In an interview conducted by American Christian minister Ron McRae, Sarah Obama was asked, ‘Were you present when your grandson was born in Kenya?’” McRae testified in his sworn statement. “This was asked to her in translation twice, and both times she replied, “Yes! Yes she was! She was present when Obama was born.”

- Another source who met Sarah Obama told World Net Daily, “I have keenly and attentively listened to the tape over and over again, and I can confirm from Sarah’s own confession that Barack Obama was born in Kenya in her presence.”

- A separate Kenyan government official agreed, stating, “I have listened to the tape. The preacher asked whether Barack Obama was born in Mombassa, and the translator asked the same. When she said Mombassa, it was like a surprise, and those there thought she could not have meant to say Mombassa.”

- When New York Times bestselling author Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya to investigate the claims, he was almost immediately kicked out of the country by Kenyan officials.

- When Kenya’s National Security Intelligence Service investigated claims that Obama was born in Kenya, officials in Nairobi found “relevant birth records may have been removed or were missing.”

- Obama has deep political connections in Kenya. From 2006 onwards he rallied in support of Islamist Raila Odinga in Kenya, helping him impose Sharia law. When Odinga lost the Kenyan election in 2008, his supporters rioted, unleashing a wave of violence. Despite the bloodshed, Obama used his influence to aid Odinga in retaining his position as part of a coalition government.

For the mainstream media to imply that the 1991 brochure is the “source” of the claim that Obama was born in Kenya is completely inaccurate. Not only was that brochure updated many times right up until 2007, with the information about Obama’s birthplace being Kenya retained, but there are numerous other factors which all indicate that Kenya could indeed be Obama’s homeland.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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Obama Impeachment Bill Goes Viral!

Infowars.com | Alex speaks with Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr. about H.CON.RES.107.

 

http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm 

 

 

 

Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com  GREAT EXPECTATIONS OVERHYPED 5-18-12 ‘China reported home prices fell in 46 of 70 districts. Also auto dealers in China saw car sales come to a screeching halt. They’re stuck with inventories. In the U.S. we know auto manufacturers have stuffed the channels to dealers with massive inventory. Given overall market conditions and declining consumer sentiment perhaps dealers in the U.S. will experience the same troubles. The eurozone continued to show troubles as Moody’s downgraded dozens of Spanish banks as if anyone cares anymore. In other news, did you hear there was a new issue for Facebook (FB) today? I went out on a limb yesterday wondering if the deal, given terrible overall market conditions, might be a flop. How would you rate it beyond the absurd crowding-out the launch occasioned? CNBC known for the best hype in the media now wondered aloud if the deal was “overhyped”. That’s the sudden change and chameleon-like behavior of the financial media. I guess people looked at the 107 PE and selling at 26 X sales as chilling, not to mention crummy market conditions overall. The jokes are flying around WS assigning “face plant book”, “fadebook”, “fakebook” and so on. Social Media ETF (SOCL) fell over 3% even though their linked index can’t include FB for some time. Trading in the stock was chaotic and frustrating for most investors as trade reporting was much delayed per the WSJ as 566M shares traded.The euro (FXE) rallied toward the end trading for no particular reason. Perhaps it’s just Friday squaring-up, worries shorts might have regarding news from the G-8 or, as has been rumored, the Chinese are intervening to support the euro and their own long positions. Gold (GLD) rallied once again; oil (USO) fell and other commodities (DBC) & (JJC) were again weak. Bonds (IEF) & (TLT) remained safe haven sectors despite negative current yields.Stocks were hard hit once again as the extreme nature of oversold conditions builds. May has been like a slow-motion train wreck as we may perhaps exceed normal correction levels. Volume picked-up and breadth per the WSJ was negative once again…’

 

Historic Facebook debut falls flat

 

 

Fresh Worries Hit Spain

May 18th, 2012 16:30 by News

18-May (The Wall Street Journal) — Jittery U.K. customers of one of Spain’s biggest lenders pulled out funds on Friday, and bad debts held by Spanish banks rose to a 17-year high, underscoring the continuing challenges facing the country’s financial sector.

Lenders have been struggling with the country’s five-year property slump, and the rapid deterioration of the loan books was one of four reasons cited by Moody’s Investors Service for its downgrade of the credit ratings of Banco Santander SA, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA and 14 other banks in the country late Thursday.

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Eurozone turmoil could last two more years, says Schäuble

May 18th, 2012 16:20 by News

18-May (ShareCast) — Just in case anyone thought that the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis was coming to an end, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble predicted that market turmoil will last up to another two years. In an interview with French radio Europe 1, he said that “with respect to the crisis of confidence in the euro, in 12 to 24 months we’ll see the financial markets calm down.”

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Operation Twist: New York Fed purchases $4.852 billion in Treasury coupons.

May 18th, 2012 12:35 by News

Morning Snapshot

May 18th, 2012 11:06 by News


18-May (USAGOLD) — Gold continues to rebound from this week’s earlier test of the low-end of the range at 1522.40. The yellow metal has already pressured 1600.00 intraday. A move above this level would ease short term pressure on the downside and leave the three lows at 1534.06/1522.40/1527.45 as a key support zone.

Risk appetite improved somewhat today after EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht told the Flemish daily De Standaard that both the ECB and the EC “are working on emergency scenarios in case Greece doesn’t make it.” The market seemed to take some comfort in the suggestion that there may at least be a plan. However, De Gucht went on to say that “the endgame has begun, and how it will finish I do not know.” Such uncertainty is probably little comfort in reality, and the European Commission refuted the notion that they had a contingency plan for a Greek exit from the EMU and the ECB categorized such talk as “unhelpful”. Nonetheless, I think the market was desperate for something to grasp on to as a rather tumultuous week winds down.

Risk appetite also likely got a boost from today’s Facebook IPO. However, while pre-market gains in the equity indexes have already evaporated, gold has thus far been able to hold on to most of its gains.

Canada provided the latest uptick in inflation worries with hotter than expected inflation in April. The rise in core CPI from 1.9% y/y in March to 2.1% y/y (on expectations of 1.8%) was particularly troubling. The Canadian dollar and Canadian yields rose amid rising expectations of a BoC rate hike.

• Canada CPI +2.0% y/y in Apr, above expectations of +1.9%, core +2.1% y/y, on expectations +1.8%.
Germany PPI +0.2% m/m in Apr, vs +0.6% in Mar; +2.4% y/y.
Italy industrial orders (sa) +3.5% m/m in Mar, vs negative revised -2.6% in Mar; -14.3% y/y.

China Q1 gold demand hits record, bucks global fall- WGC

May 18th, 2012 08:42 by News

17-May (Reuters) — China’s gold demand hit a record high in the first quarter on investor worries over inflation and property market curbs, the World Gold Council said on Thursday, bucking a lower trend in global consumption driven by higher gold prices.

Global gold demand fell 5 percent on the year to 1,097.6 tonnes in the first three months of 2012, as jewellery and technology sectors bought less gold with average prices up 22 percent from a year earlier, but investment demand and central bank buying helped cushion the fall, the industry group said.

China remained the world’s top gold consumer for the second quarter in a row, with its gold consumer demand up 10 percent to 255.2 tonnes, beating India’s 207.6 tonnes, which was a 29 percent decline on the year.

“Further growth is expected (in China): investors remain wary of high inflation rates; and property market restrictions continue to drive demand for gold among investors seeking access to real assets,” said the WGC in its quarterly Gold Demand Trends report.

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Central banks in the world pick up gold as reserves

May 18th, 2012 08:23 by News

17-May (Business Standard) — Central banks across the world have started picking up gold as reserves, observed World Gold council in its first quarter gold demand review report released today.

Although down from buying in the first quarter of 2011, central banks continued to purchase gold as a reserve. In Q1 2012, central banks gold reserve demand was at 80.8 tonne.

…The rapid growth of foreign exchange reserves in a number of expanding economies has required many central banks to increase gold holdings in order to maintain the ratio of gold to their foreign exchange reserves, WGC said.

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If Greece goes: An exit is likely to shatter faith in the eurozone’s integrity for ever

May 18th, 2012 07:59 by News

By Martin Wolf
17-May (Financial Times) — The irritation of the eurozone with Greece is at extreme levels. After all, 80 per cent of Greeks say they are in favour of staying in the euro, but then they fail to elect politicians prepared to implement the agreed programme. This drives creditors crazy. Increasingly, the latter are inclined to accept Greek exit, even welcome it. But they should be careful what they wish for.

A departure would create severe dangers. The danger of contagion is obvious. The long-run danger is more subtle. But the eurozone either is an irrevocable currency union or it is not. If countries in difficulty leave, it is not. It is then an exceptionally rigid fixed-currency system. That would have two dire results: people would not trust in its survival and the economic benefits of the single currency would largely disappear.

These perils are not of concern to the eurozone alone. Taken as a whole, this is the world’s second-largest economy, with the largest banking system. The risk that a bigger eurozone upheaval would cause a global crisis is real. As frightening is the likelihood that eurozone crises would become permanent features of the world economy.

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Gold higher at 1588.82 (+13.84). Silver 28.374 (+0.284). Dollar slips. Euro better. Stocks called higher. Treasurys mostly lower.

May 18th, 2012 06:21 by News

 

 

 

"The Truth Gets Out Eventually"

Some look at today's FaceBook IPO flop, the ongoing market rout, and the situation in Europe with disenchantment and disappointment. We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out - the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio-economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1%ers), is one big lie.

 

PeakBook?

This time is different?

 

Friday Night Tape Bomb: Spain Hikes Budget Deficit From 8.5% to 8.9%

Just when we though that nobody would take advantage of the cover provided by the epic flame out of the FaceBomb IPO and the ongoing market crash, here comes Spain. Because there is nothing quite like a little Friday night action following a market drubbing and an "IPO for the people" shock in which to sneak the news that, oops, sorry, we were lying about all that austerity. Because while it came as a surprise to the market back in December when Spain announced it would post a 2011 budget deficit of 8.5% instead of the previously promised 6%, the market will hardly be impressed that Spain actually overspent by another €4.2 billion, to a brand new total of €95.5 billion of 8.9% of GDP. So Monday now has two things to look forward to: the Spanish bond margin hike on one hand courtesy of LCH.Clearnet earlier, and the fact that despite spending even more than expected, GDP growth has disappointed and the country is now officially in a double dip. Hardly what the country with the record wide CDS needs right now.

 

John Hathaway: "This Is The Bottom For Gold"

In an interview with Louis James, John Hathaway discusses the US's economic outlook and why he's delighted by the current bearish sentiment toward gold. "I think we're at the end of a correction that resulted from the peak last summer. It was overcooked, kind of hyperventilated hysteria over the debt-ceiling talks, the rating downgrade of the US sovereign debt, and I think basically the stocks and the metal had been working off that boiled down to what we now have is a simmer. I think we are at a position where there's not a lot of downside, and I would not be surprised by revisiting the previous highs of $1,900 and maybe even new highs over $2,000 this year."

 

 

FadeBook

Forget that S&P 500 e-mini futures plunged to four-month lows at 1290; or Treasury yields crashed back to their record lows; or Gold and Silver's surge today; or WTI's plummet to almost a $90 handle; or Citi joining Morgan Stanley in the red year-to-date; or credit markets continuing into the red for the year; or IG9 10Y soaring further to 160bps - widest in 6 months; or VIX closing above 25% for the first time in 5 months (and decompressing to Europe's pain). Today was all about one thing - the disaster that was/is/and will be Facebook - between late openings, overwhelmed systems, a dump to the syndicate bid and almost 600mm shares traded with the syndicate just soaking it all up at $38.00 early and into the close. Is it any wonder that every other social media stock plunged and how do they expect to ever get another internet IPO off again (at anything but a massive discount). No matter what correlation trick was tried to juice markets today - for the tenth day-in-a-row markets saw a BTFD turn into a STFR. Not a pretty end to the ugliest week in six month for the S&P 500 as it nears its 200DMA into the close.

 

Friday Humor: Final Chance For Fed Flight Lessons

The social bubble may be on the verge of popping, but that doesn't mean that various soon to be extinct offshots can't provide cheap bang for the taxpayer buck. Such as this particular offer which we are fairly certain the Chairman, with Willem Buiter whispering in his ear, is taking a long, hard look at...

 

JPM On Grexit, TARGET2, And The ECB

Unless Greece chooses to leave the Euro area, which JPMorgan doubts will happen, the rest of the region will have to push Greece out. The mechanism for this will be the ECB excluding the Greek central bank from Target2, the regional payments and settlement system. Although this might look like a technical decision about monetary plumbing, the ECB will elevate this to Euro area Heads of State. There is understandably a lot of interest in the mechanics of how a possible Greek exit from the Euro would play out in relation to the ECB. Reports of significant deposit withdrawal from Greek banks also direct attention toward the support for Greek banks coming from the Greek Central Bank and the Eurosystem. And yesterday’s announcement by the ECB of restricted access to regular repo Eurosystem financing for a number of Greek banks adds some more complication. Though JPMorgan would not place a lot of emphasis on what the ECB announced yesterday as a signal of broader attitudes toward Greece, understanding the mechanics matters more broadly.

 

Guest Post: Risk Ratio Indicating More Correction Coming

Bob Farrell's rule #9 is: "When all experts and forecasts agree — something else is going to happen." This statement encapsulates the basic tenant of being a contrarian investor. As Sam Stovall, the S&P investment strategist, puts it: "If everybody's optimistic, who is left to buy? If everybody's pessimistic, who's left to sell?" Going against the herd as Farrell repeatedly suggests can be very profitable, especially for patient buyers who raise cash from frothy markets and reinvest it when sentiment is the darkest. However, being a seller in exuberant markets or a buyer in major rout is very tough, if not impossible, for almost every investor as the emotions of "greed" and "fear" overtake logical buy and sell decision making.

 

EUR Soars On No News, As Santander UK Says 30% Of Visiting Customers Pulled Their Deposits Today

Nothing could be more appropriate than topping a week of surreal newsflow than what just happened with the EURUSD, which soared by 80 pips on absolutely non news, in what can be attributed to either some algo going apeshit and lifting every offer, a fat finger, or just the tried and true Bank of International Settlement stop hunt seeking to send correlated risk assets higher courtesy of a spark in upward momentum. Sadly today not even this glaring attempt to jump broad risk into the stratosphere is working. And ahead of a weekend where it is rumored Europe may reopen on Monday, we can't wait for the inevitable snapback.

 

Biderman On Malinvestment And Diminishing Returns From Intervention

Instead of his usual rant, Charles Biderman of TrimTabs discusses the reality of the macro environment with Madeline Schnapp - though do not worry as the sense of sarcasm and disbelief at the government's actions and hopes is palpable. Noting that our economy is at best growing 'sluggishly' based off her real-time macro data,  Biderman's right hand goes on to explain to him that inflation is running hotter than the government would like us to believe. More importantly, she hits the nail on the head with regard to what Biderman notes is the wasted stimulus money, saying that the economy needs to clear the malinvestments, not sustain them through stimulus transmission mechanisms, in order for growth to once again re-appear. Historically QE2 did manage to create some inventory restocking and pick up in wages/salaries in Q1 2011 but Operation Twist appears to have little to no impact on the real economy (outside of government statistical modelers) - which as we have said before indicates the diminishing returns to government intervention. What is clear is that, as we have noted, that post the 1971 modified gold standard, over a long-period of time it has taken an 'unsustainably' increasing amount of government debt to create economic growth - with the post-2008 insanity that we need $2.50 to create $1 of economic growth. The two end with a discussion of the debt ceiling and deficit potential for a black swan event.

 

Guest Post: The Face of Genocidal Eco-Fascism

I am not exaggerating.

This is Finnish writer Pentti Linkola — a man who demands that the human population reduce its size to around 500 million and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic growth — in his own words.

 

 

Nasdaq Finally Sends Out FaceBook Trade Confirms... With Two Hour Delay

Well, better late than never.

 

 

LCH Hikes Margin Requirements On Spanish Bonds

A few days ago we suggested that this action by LCH.Clearnet was only a matter of time. Sure enough, as of minutes ago the bond clearer hiked margins on all Spanish bonds with a duration of more than 1.25 years. Net result: the Spanish Banks which by now are by far the largest single group holder of Spanish bonds, has to post even moire collateral beginning May 25. Only problem with that: it very well may not have the collateral.

 

Ireland And Portugal Resume Their Places Among Europe's Teetering Dominos

While all eyes are focused on Greece (and contagiously Spain), they have forgotten that two far weaker countries still exits - and combined have the power to do as much (if not more) damage than Spain. Portugal and Ireland have moved back into the Red-Zone of risk in Europe's credit markets. Ireland back over 700bps and Portugal back over 1200bps reflects both their idiosyncratic issues (that we have discussed at length) or the systemic issues (which we discussed most recently this morning here). In the case of Portugal, it appears the Dan Loeb trade (we said to fade it) is now being unwound en masse as the reality of the fundamental risks we discussed here seem to be realized. In the case of Ireland, not only is there a rising chance of a 'no' vote at the forthcoming referendum (discussed here) but as Deutsche Bank notes today, via Bloomberg, that Irish banks may face a further $5.1 billion capital call to cover loan losses as "A new, even modest, increase in capital requirements could deter sovereign investor participation and tip the balance in favor of the sovereign requiring a second loan program." Of course the CDS reflect not just the chance of these nations restructuring but also the probability of a EUR devaluation (since the instruments are denominated in USD) but still - we thought Ireland was the template for the success of austerity?

 

And Now Back To Europe, Which Is More Unfixed Than Ever

So stepping aside from the biggest aggregator of private data for a few minutes, and focusing on what actually matters, here is Citigroup telling our European readers who have those fancy multi-colored bills in their wallets, that they are in deep trouble.

To summarize from Citi:

  • There are many scenarios for a Greek exit;  almost all of them are likely to be EUR negative for an extended period
  • Some scenarios could be positive in equilibrium but the run-up to the new equilibrium could be nasty, brutal and long 
  • The positive scenarios for the euro involve aggressive reduction of tail risk; none of these seem likely
  • It is unlikely that central banks busily substitute EUR for USD in their portfolios during periods of intense political uncertainty.

 

 

 

Rumors, Denials, and Visions of Chaos  : testosteronepit : 05/18/2012  In the Eurozone

No FaCeBiLK POP?: BoW DoWN To YouR MaSTeR MoRTaLs... : williambanzai7 : 05/18/2012  All Hail to the Great One...Moolaram!!!

Will the FHA require a bailout? – 12,000,000 underwater mortgages 3,000,000 are FHA insured loans : drhousingbubble : 05/18/2012 FHA insured loans have been a big booster for the current market.  Historically FHA insured loans made up roughly 8 to 12 percent of all mortgage originations but in 2009 they hit 30 percent....

 

 

The Facebook Ardennes: Spot The Syndicate Stick-Save

Remember there is no short-selling - only long-adds and long-exits. Syndicate fall back...26.7mm shares at $38.00, 9mm shares at $39.00, and 42mm at $40.00 - leaves a VWAP (or average price at which everyone is in Facebook) at $40.36 (green arrow) with over $10.5b billion traded so far as over 60% of the float has 'turned-over' this morning.

 

Think You Bought (Or Sold) FaceBook? Think Again

NASDAQ

If you just submitted an order to buy FB today, and were confident the order was executed even if at market, you may be out of luck:

  • NASDAQ HAS PROBLEM DELIVERING FACEBOOK TRADE EXECUTION MESSAGES

What this means is that the exchange at this point is deciding whether or not to send back late executions to all people who bought, or thought they bought. Needless to say this means that the indicated price is likely not the real price if one factors for all the latent orders, on both the bid and offer side, unless of course all those orders get cancelled, further eroding confident in the market, only this time hitting that one segment most disenchanted with the stock market - mom and pop.

 

RANsquawk Weekly Wrap – 18/05/12

 

Facebook Plunges From Opening Print, At IPO Price... For Now

$38.00 Syndicate bid holding...high was $45.00 - 200mm shares traded

 

Fadebook Opens For Trading At $42.05 As Europe Closes

UPDATE: $40 handle broke - $38.3!!

UPDATE: Algos defending $40.00 desparately! 115mm shares

From the $38 IPO price, we open at $42.05 (now at $40.1) but we note that in Germany it has tumbled from well over EUR90 earlier. We get the sense the media is disappointed, but of course they will be talking longer-term now and defending a weaker-than-expected open: CNBC: "I just want to make sure we don't whip ourselves into a frenzy on the short term value." - perhaps a little late for that eh?

 

26 Minutes In And... Still Nothing

Yes, we are all waiting for what is increasingly becoming an epic disaster. In the meantime there is this:

  • TRADERS FOR FACEBOOK HAVING PROBLEMS CHANGING/CANCELING ORDERS:WSJ...

We believe CANCELING is the operative word. Of course, Europe is about to close which according to some may be the catalyst. In other news, nobody even dare think, let alone whipser "Market Conditions"

 

 

Gross On Facebook: "I Know A Bubble When I See One"

 

FaceBook Indicative Open: $45

Update: $42, $43.25, $45, $44

 

MS/Citi/JPM All Red YTD

Presented with little comment as JPMorgan, Citi, and Morgan Stanley (and JEF) are now down year-to-date (after being up 35-40% just a few weeks ago) and catching up to the credit reality that we have been so vociferous about...

 

Will The European Union Destroy Itself Just To Save The Euro?

David McWilliams (of Punk Economics) begins his latest excellent discussion by conjuring Clint Eastwood and noting that when it comes to the Fiscal Compact in Europe "they are pissing down our backs and telling us that it is raining". The Fiscal Compact will NOT strengthen the Euro but in fact by cementing the austerity agenda into law it will make the political environment even more unstable. The Irishman goes on to discuss why Europe is imploding as he insightfully notes that "financial panics do not cause the destruction of wealth, financial panics merely tell you the extent to which wealth has been destroyed by reckless speculation". The realization that current account deficits and not budget deficits were always the problem in Europe which leaves the fiscal compact akin to a doctor prescribing chemotherapy for heart disease. McWilliams explains why France has seen such a change and why the fiscal compact has nothing to do with the Euro but is all about reassuring the German electorate that they will be protected from the consequences of a monetary union that they were bounced into in the nineties; as they are terrified of 'Peripheraid' - the constant drip-drip feeding of German cash to the periphery. Critically, driving to his final discussion of how the Irish should vote on the referendum - remembering that the German elites want a Federal Republic of Europe and that the entire union is in the midst of a massive negotiation - he lays out in cartoon simplicity why Germany is stuck with a massive personal interest in 'cleaning up the EU neighborhood'. Ireland should not give up cheaply in the referendum 'poker match' as all nations try and figure out who the sucker at the table is. Must-watch clip to comprehend the 'game' occurring in Europe and how it is changing very recently.

 

SkyNet Rising: Dutch, Belgian Futures And Options Markets Suspended

 

Why Stability Stalwart Singapore Should Be Seriously Scared If The Feta Is Truly Accompli

We have discussed the probability (around 50%) and possibility of a Greek exit from the Euro ad nauseum; how the post-election anti-austerity rage is bringing the world to a new realization that this is probable not possible and the widespread risk aversion of this event is much more of a global event than local - no matter how many times you are told how small Greece is. Critically, as BofAML notes, it is the systemic threat of an untamed banking and sovereign crisis in Europe which makes multiple-sigma events less 'tail' and more 'normal'. With money due to run out at the latest by July, new elections mid-June (that show massive support for the anti-bailout party), and the impacts on the real economy, exchange rate and inflation fears, and default and ECB balance sheet implications; it seems there are also strong incentives to keep Greece in. However, there is a political line of compromise and austerity that will be hard to cross for both parties which, if it failed - and it doesn't have much time - would mean a very fast 'ring-fencing' would need to occur for this not to thermonuclear with the three main channels of volatility transmission to the rest of the world being: banking and finance, trade, and confidence - all three of which are active already with Asian trade (and banking exposure) seemingly under-appreciated in our view with Singapore dramatically exposed with a stunning 60%-plus of GDP tied up in European bank claims.

 

FaceBook Pulls Reverse BATS - Flash Smashes To €50,000/Share

Sigh: FaceBook's market cap briefly passed $100 trillion. How long until a loaf of bread does the same thing?

 

 

Facebook European Premarket Bid - €58

If this screen from Bloomberg is correct, people are far dumber than even we thought, because this implies that FB will have an over $200 billion market cap at the open all else equal.

 

 

As The Chinese Car "Channel Stuffing" Bubble Pops, "Debilitating Price Cuts" Arrive

The fact that GM's "stunning" car sales have been in no small part driven exclusively by its eagerness to stuff dealers with unsold inventory, aka channel stuffing, is well known to Zero Hedge readers - we have been covering the subject for over a year now. What we did not know, yet what in retrospect is so glaringly obvious, is that the GM ploy of fooling the dumbest sellside analysts and investors all the time has now gone global. And while channel stuffing may have worked for a while, it is now starting to bite back. Bloomberg reports: "Chinese dealers are struggling with the rising number of unsold cars that’s threatening to deepen price cuts, according to the nation’s biggest automobile dealers’ association. Dealerships for Honda Motor Co., Chery Automobile Co., BYD Co. and Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. carried more than 45 days of inventory as of the end of April, exceeding the threshold that foreshadows debilitating price cuts, Su Hui, vice president of the auto market division at the state-backed China Automobile Dealers Association, said in an interview yesterday.  Unsold cars are crowding dealer lots in cities from Guangzhou in the south to Xi’an to the west,” Su said in a phone interview yesterday from Beijing. “It’s like a contagious disease that will spread." Wait, so Channel Stuffing is... bad? And if 45 days of inventory "foreshadows debilitating price cuts", then what should GM with its 86 days of full vehicle days supply in the US say?

 

 

 

18-May-12 09:33PM  5 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO is Insane and Dangerous ETFguide 09:32PM   The Week Ahead: When Will the Selling End? at Forbes 07:16PM  Q&A: Lessons on Central Banking From Bank of England's Posen at The Wall Street Journal 06:33PM   Q&A: Lessons on Central Banking From Bank of England's Posen at The Wall Street Journal 06:20PM  The Bears Are BackBut For How Long? at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 06:04PM   Hewlett-Packard Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 05:26PM  Stocks Fall Again; Blame Facebook at Barrons.com 05:24PM  Train Reading: Those Facebook Funds Aren't Looking So Hot at The Wall Street Journal 05:12PM  Facebook IPO: Put It In the Books at The Wall Street Journal 05:05PM   UPDATE 1-Facebook IPO averts 'odd lot' question at Reuters 04:59PM  Next Week's Tape: It's the Spring Selling Season! at The Wall Street Journal 04:59PM   Live Blogging Facebook's Close at The Wall Street Journal 04:30PM  Is an Oversold Rally in the Works? at Minyanville 04:23PM   May 18, 2012 Market Summary at Investopedia 04:03PM  Potential Middle Path for Further Fed Stimulus at The Wall Street Journal 04:00PM  STOCKS TANK AND FACEBOOK FLOPS: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 03:55PM  Buzz on the Street: Facebook Comes to Town and Fails to Save the Day for an Exhausted Market at Minyanville 03:41PM  Facebook IPO: A View From the Trenches at The Wall Street Journal 03:40PM  Facebook IPO: Relive the Delay! at The Wall Street Journal 03:33PM  Live Blogging Facebook's Close at The Wall Street Journal 03:29PM  Barney Frank Weighs In on J.P. Morgan Loss at The Wall Street Journal 03:28PM  Facebook IPO: A View From the Trenches at The Wall Street Journal 03:23PM   TD Ameritrade: Facebook Made Up More Than 1/4 of Our Trading Volume at The Wall Street Journal 03:02PM  Facebook IPO: Relive the Delay! at The Wall Street Journal 03:02PM  Someone Thinks Facebook Is a Sell at The Wall Street Journal 02:51PM  Someone Thinks Facebook is a Sell at The Wall Street Journal 02:42PM  Helpful Advice for Facebook Millionaires at The Wall Street Journal 02:29PM  Nearing A Bottom On Gold at Seeking Alpha 02:23PM  Meanwhile, the Rest of the Market Is Still Selling Off at Barrons.com 02:22PM  Facebook's IPO averts questions over 'odd lots' at Reuters 02:11PM  Hewlett-Packard Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 02:08PM  Navigating S&P 500 Sectors In Troubled Markets at Seeking Alpha 01:54PM  InPlay: Stock indices slip back further off midday bounce highs -- Dow -40, S&P -4.4, Nasdaq Comp -18 Briefing.com 01:46PM  5 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO is Insane and Dangerous ETFguide 01:30PM  What Is the Most Likely Scenario If Greece Exits the Eurozone? at Minyanville 01:22PM   Fed's Idea of 'Exceptionally Low' Still Under Debate at The Wall Street Journal 12:18PM  Economists React: What if Greece Exits the Euro Zone? at The Wall Street Journal 12:13PM  Live Blog: Facebook's Trading Debut at The Wall Street Journal 12:06PM  Market Swings Lower After Facebook IPO at Barrons.com 11:57AM  Live Blog: Facebook's Trading Debut at The Wall Street Journal 11:51AM  Jobless Rates Fall in Swing States at The Wall Street Journal 11:21AM  Live Blog: Facebook's Trading Debut at The Wall Street Journal 11:11AM  InPlay: Choppy trade persists as stock indices drift back toward flat line following limited upticks -- Dow +14, S&P +3, Nasdaq Comp +1 Briefing.com 10:50AM  InPlay: Minor upside for stock indices after choppy first hour -- Dow +29, S&P +4.9, Nasdaq Comp +8.9 Briefing.com 10:45AM  Live Blog: Facebook's Trading Debut at The Wall Street Journal 10:45AM  U.S. Stocks: the Social Rally? at The Wall Street Journal 10:28AM  Crazy But True: A $4,000 Facebook Limit Order at The Wall Street Journal 10:27AM  Bank of England's Posen Named to Lead Peterson Institute at The Wall Street Journal 10:23AM  Secondary Sources: Greek Exit, Mortgage Mess, Inflation Targeting at The Wall Street Journal 10:10AM  Facebook IPO Remakes 2012 Scorecard at The Wall Street Journal 10:08AM  Facebook IPO Remakes '12 Scorecard at The Wall Street Journal 10:07AM  Bank of England's Posen Named to Lead Peterson Institute at The Wall Street Journal 10:05AM  Facebook IPO: Wall Street Preps for Heavy Trading Volume at The Wall Street Journal 09:51AM  Hewlett-Packard Second Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 09:49AM  Facebook IPO Comes Amid 'Very Sloppy Week for Markets' at The Wall Street Journal 09:45AM  SPX Update: 81 Points of Profit Captured as the Market Hopes for a 'Facebook Bounce' at Minyanville 09:40AM  InPlay: Limited upticks in opening trade and a pause -- Dow +3, S&P 1.9, Nasdaq Comp -2 Briefing.com 09:30AM   Major Long-Term Bottoms Forming in Gold and Commodities at Minyanville 08:50AM  ETF Spotlight: Inflation Protection ETF Trends 08:46AM  U.S. Stocks: the Social Rally? at The Wall Street Journal 08:44AM   Morning Links: Facebook IPO Day Finally Here at The Wall Street Journal 08:39AM  Vital Signs: Leading Indicators Slip at The Wall Street Journal 08:26AM 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell Business Insider 07:23AM   Morning MarketBeat: Facebook IPO No Sign of the Times at The Wall Street Journal 03:36AM  Forget Facebook, stocks are at serious risk at MarketWatch 03:16AM   Highest close for VIX since December optionMONSTER

 

 

 

Spain Crisis Rocks Europe, Bank Credit Ratings Downgraded

The Independent | Eurozone crisis is exacerbated by Moody’s downgrade of 16 Spanish banks.


18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse

The Economic Collapse | With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.



6-Fold Increase in Americans 55 or Older Unemployed 6 Months or Longer

CNSNews.com | Concerns are growing about their retirement income.

 

 

Will The European Union Destroy Itself Just To Save The Euro?

Zero Hedge | Must-watch clip to comprehend the ‘game’ occurring in Europe and how it is changing recently.



Bono will be very, very rich by 4 p.m. EST today

Taylor Bigler | Facebook’s IPO could make Bono the wealthiest rocker in the world.



Panic Withdrawals At Santander Bank After Credit Downgrade

UK Daily Mail | Millions of British bank customers felt the effects of the eurozone turmoil today as Santander became the latest giant to be hit by the debt crisis.

 

 

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This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope          The bull market that never was/were  beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold         ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’       Must Read Economic / Financial Data        This Depression is just beginning     The coming depression…  thecomingdepression.net           The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think       Sliding Back Into the Great Depression  ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

 

 

 

 

Forrester: Apple is Entering a Long Decline Written by Damon Poeter PC Magazine ‘ At least one analyst is bucking the trend of gushing over Apple. Forrester Research chief executive George Colony laid out his case in a blog post Wednesday for why he thinks the company will start looking like just another tech .. ‘ [ As much as I like Apple, my first computer, and am glad they survived in a big way, I’m constrained to agree. Moreover, and I can’t prove this, I believe there to be some ‘soft’ stimulation of the heavily weighted, more bang for the buck, Apple stock by way of subsidized purchases. Remember those $275,000 per car government purchases, and the $278,000 cost per stimulus job? What’s $500 per ipad or iphone, etc., to a nation hopelessly, insurmountably indebted to the tune of $211 trillion, especially in their election year desperation. This should in no way be construed as a slight to Cook; but rather, just the reality there’s a limit to what one’s willing to pay for fairly common utility. That said, I’d still buy an IPad since, as with the ipod and the simple technology involved, amazingly, ultimate competitors as, ie., microsoft with zune, etc., didn’t measure up at all! I think the IPhone’s totally underwhelming! Contrary to the tenor of the article, I believe charisma has nothing whatsoever to do with the inevitable decline ahead; and, not just Apple.   ]

‘At least one analyst is bucking the trend of gushing over Apple. Forrester Research chief executive George Colony laid out his case in a blog post Wednesday for why he thinks the company will start looking like just another tech companies within the next four years unless it finds another "special, magical" leader like Steve Jobs.

Colony's position couldn't be more contrarian. Apple just reported record March quarter profits while selling tens of millions of its iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. In the past few months, other analysts have been jockeying to tout Apple's share price, currently at just over $600 per share, for gains past the $800, $900, and even $1,000 threshold.

But if Apple's riding high now, that's not going to last, according to Colony.

"Apple will decline in the post Steve Jobs era," he writes, explaining that Apple under Jobs fit the bill as a "charismatic organization ... headed by people with the 'gift of grace'." Succession in such an organization is particularly difficult because while bureaucratic and traditional organizations have processes and rituals to elevate new leadership, "[i]n charismatic organizations, the magical leader must be succeeded by another charismatic—the emotional connection of employees and (in the case of Apple) customers demands it."

Colony quotes liberally from Max Weber's The Theory of Social and Economic Organization and Adam Lashinky's Inside Apple to build his case that Apple will "coast" over the next 24 to 48 months and "then decelerate."

What about the processes Jobs himself put in place at Apple to ensure that his vision and management style would endure at the company after he was gone? Apple University and other company initiatives fostered by Jobs won't do the trick, Colony claims, quoting Weber: "Charisma can only be awakened and tested, it cannot be learned or taught."

Colony argues that Jobs' successor, Tim Cook, has a "legal/bureaucratic approach" to leading Apple that "will prove to be a mismatch for an organization that feeds off the gift of grace." Instead of Cook, the company should turn to Jonathan Ive or Scott Forstall to be CEO, the analyst writes.

If Apple doesn't get another magical charismatic leader, Colony concludes, it risks turning into Sony after Akio Morita or Polaroid post-Edwin Land—a company that goes from great to merely good in a few short years./

 

The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com

http://albertpeia.com/familyfarmwipedoutinamerica.htm

 

 

5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
http://albertpeia.com/5newliesbythefed.htm

http://albertpeia.com/fraudulentfedhasfailed.htm

 { Yes, it’s really rather incredible, even astounding, that people even listen to, much less believe the proven lies, wrong information, disinformation that bespeaks fraud/deception/cover-up and at best, total incompetence. Don’t they realize they’re being scammed in a very big way; particularly, with an election year predisposed pro-wobama obfuscation? Bernanke is a total fraud. He is totally incompetent! As I wrote, infra, as comment to Dave Fry’s Summary:  the same helicopter ben who forecast no recession and whose QEs have helped no one but the frauds on wall street, with fake numbers on what is in reality much higher inflation, unemployment, etc., for obfuscation – you cannot solve a problem without admitting there is one, let alone failing to identify the problem; and with america’s insurmountable debt and debased Weimar fiat paper currency over-printing, that huge extant problem is substantially exacerbated. { Britain slides back into recession AFP Britain was back in recession Wednesday after its economy shrank in the first quarter while Prime Minister David Cameron said the country was being buffetted by the European downturn [ True, but only because unlike the u.s., their reporting is a bit more accurate/truthful, less manipulated, less fraudulent than america which has already entered (the continuing) recession (actually dollar debased and thereby, can you believe it, inflationary depression) UK Economy Double Dips For First Time Since 1970s  } ]  {  Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’ }  [ Now we know the reason for bernanke’s pro-wobama politicking: Reuters:  Mitt Romney says he would boot Ben Bernanke - The Trail The likely Republican nominee says, “I’d be looking for somebody new” to run the Federal Reserve if he’s elected president. Romney criticized Fed Chairman Bernanke for printing too much money in a bid to stimulate the economy. (April 25, 2012) Drudgereport: Romney would boot Ben... And, not only because bernanke as has obama failed miserably; good, sound management all but requires that he do so (as per the late Peter Drucker among the multitude of Management experts). Wobama, the lazy jive-talking b***s*** artist, despite campaign rhetoric to the contrary, literally continued all things dumbya bush. ]

 

 

The United States Has Plenty Of Oil: 10 Facts About America's Energy Resources That Will Blow Your Mind

http://endoftheamericandream.com

http://albertpeia.com/10factsaboutamericanenergyresources.htm

[ Well, first off, since we’re only talking decades at best, I agree the alarmist propaganda is all for naught. Yet, make no mistake, those who equate shale oil, deep water oil, etc., with that close to the surface, easily recovered, ie., sweet crude, are as misguided. It’s kind of like that ‘asteroid mining’ that’s ‘become the rage’. Firstly, in hollywood (oh yeah, we’ve seen them digitally land on asteroids, planets as in Avatar, etc., with ease and without a hitch), they don’t keep books the way other businesses do, at least on the creative end, viz., ie., Cameron. And, what do you expect a former pilot to say, etc.? As an example of ‘fuel price makes a difference’, anyone who thinks american airlines among others went bankrupt because they’re so horribly managed or because they felt like strategically avoiding their debt would be mistaken. For airlines it’s all about fuel costs and load factors, capital intensive that they are,  and pennies literally do make a difference. Costs of extraction make a difference. Oh sure, there’s loads of oil. It’s all about the costs of getting it. Peak oil really has been reached in terms of ‘easy pickins’. Some even argue/document persuasively that current reserves of the ‘easy pickins’ are over-stated.  ]

 

The Bundesbank’s in Hot Water… Will It Take the Heat or Throw the ECB Under the Bus? April 24, 2012 By gpc1981
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Merkel’s Back is Against the Wall… Time for Germany’s “Plan B”?

 

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25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction
http://albertpeia.com/25signsmiddleclasstargetedforextinction.htm

 

24 Outrageous Facts About Taxes In The United States That Will Blow Your Mind

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com

 

 

http://albertpeia.com/24factsaboutmindblowingustaxes.htm

The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely.  Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing - it is over 3 million words long.  Each year, Americans spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars trying to comply with federal tax requirements.  Sadly, it is the honest, hard working Americans in the middle class that always get hit the hardest.  The tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that big corporations and the ultra-wealthy use to minimize their tax burdens as much as possible.  Many poor people do not pay any income taxes at all.  The dishonest are rewarded for cheating on their taxes (if they can get away with it) and the ultra-wealthy have moved trillions of dollars to offshore tax havens where they can avoid U.S. taxation altogether.  Our system is incredibly unfair to the millions of hard working people in the middle class and upper middle class that drag themselves out of bed and go to work each day and try to do the right thing.  In addition, the current U.S. tax system is incredibly inefficient, it diverts a tremendous amount of resources away from more valuable economic activities, and it has chased thousands of businesses and trillions of dollars out of the United States.  The U.S. tax code is such a complete and utter mess at this point that it can never be "fixed".  The only rational thing to do is to abolish it completely, and any politician that tells you otherwise is lying to you.

The following are 24 outrageous facts about taxes in the United States that will blow your mind....

#1 - The U.S. tax code is now 3.8 million words long.  If you took all of William Shakespeare's works and collected them together, the entire collection would only be about 900,000 words long.

#2 - According to the National Taxpayers Union, U.S. taxpayers spend more than 7.6 billion hours complying with federal tax requirements.  Imagine what our society would look like if all that time was spent on more economically profitable activities.

#3 - 75 years ago, the instructions for Form 1040 were two pages long.  Today, they are 189 pages long.

#4 - There have been 4,428 changes to the tax code over the last decade.  It is incredibly costly to change tax software, tax manuals and tax instruction booklets for all of those changes.

#5 - According to the National Taxpayers Union, the IRS currently has 1,999 different publications, forms, and instruction sheets that you can download from the IRS website.

#6 - Our tax system has become so complicated that it is almost impossible to file your taxes correctly.  For example, back in 1998 Money Magazine had 46 different tax professionals complete a tax return for a hypothetical household.  All 46 of them came up with a different result.

#7 - In 2009, PC World had five of the most popular tax preparation software websites prepare a tax return for a hypothetical household.  All five of them came up with a different result.

#8 - The IRS spends $2.45 for every $100 that it collects in taxes.

#9 - According to The Tax Foundation, the average American has to work until April 17th just to pay federal, state, and local taxes.  Back in 1900, "Tax Freedom Day" came on January 22nd.

#10 - When the U.S. government first implemented a personal income tax back in 1913, the vast majority of the population paid a rate of just 1 percent, and the highest marginal tax rate was just 7 percent.

#11 - Residents of New Jersey pay $1.64 in taxes for every $1.00 of federal spending that they get back.

#12 - The United States is the only nation on the planet that tries to tax citizens on what they earn in foreign countries.

#13 - According to Forbes, the 400 highest earning Americans pay an average federal income tax rate of just 18 percent.

#14 - Warren Buffett had an effective tax rate of just 17.4 percent for 2010.

#15 - The top 20 percent of all income earners in the United States pay approximately 86 percent of all federal income taxes.

#16 - Sadly, as Bill Whittle has shown, you could take every single penny that every American earns above $250,000 and it would only fund about 38 percent of the federal budget.

#17 - The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world (35 percent).  In Ireland, the corporate tax rate is only 12.5 percent.  This is causing thousands of corporations to move operations out of the United States and into other countries.

#18 - Some tax havens are doing a booming business in setting up sham headquarters for U.S. corporations.  For example, the city of Zug, Switzerland only has a population of 26,000 people but it is the headquarters for 30,000 companies.

#19 - In 1950, corporate taxes accounted for about 30 percent of all federal revenue.  In 2012, corporate taxes will account for less than 7 percent of all federal revenue.

#20 - In a previous article, I discussed how many of our largest corporations make huge profits and yet pay less than nothing in taxes....

What U.S. corporations are able to get away with is absolutely amazing.

The following figures come directly out of a report by Citizens for Tax Justice.  These are combined figures for the tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

During those three years, all of the corporations below made a lot of money.  Yet all of them paid net taxes that were below zero for those three years combined.

How is that possible?  Well, it turns out that instead of paying in taxes to the federal government, they were actually getting money back.

So for these corporations, their rate of taxation was actually below zero.

If you have not seen these before, you are going to have a hard time believing some of these statistics.....

*Honeywell*

Profits: $4.9 billion

Taxes: -$34 million

*Fed Ex*

Profits: $3 billion

Taxes: -$23 million

*Wells Fargo*

Profits: $49.37 billion

Taxes: -$681 million

*Boeing*

Profits: $9.7 billion

Taxes: -$178 million

*Verizon*

Profits: $32.5 billion

Taxes: -$951 million

*Dupont*

Profits: $2.1 billion

Taxes -$72 million

*American Electric Power*

Profits: $5.89 billion

Taxes -$545 million

*General Electric*

Profits: $7.7 billion

Taxes: -$4.7 billion

Are you starting to get the picture?

#21 - Exxon-Mobil paid $15 billion in taxes in 2009, but not a single penny went to the U.S. government.

#22 - Many wealthy Americans hide enormous amounts of money outside the country in order to avoid paying taxes.  According to the IMF, a total of 18 trillion dollars is currently being hidden in offshore banks.

#23 - The number of traffic accidents spikes each year right around April 15th.  The following is from a recent Bloomberg article....

Deaths from traffic accidents around April 15, traditionally the last day to file individual income taxes in the U.S., rose 6 percent on average on each of the last 30 years of tax filing days compared with a day during the week prior and a week later, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

#24 - Most of the tax debate is focused on income taxes, but the truth is that Americans pay dozens of other taxes every single year.  The following are just a few of the taxes that many Americans pay....

#1 Building Permit Taxes

#2 Capital Gains Taxes

#3 Cigarette Taxes

#4 Court Fines (indirect taxes)

#5 Dog License Taxes

#6 Federal Unemployment Taxes

#7 Fishing License Taxes

#8 Food License Taxes

#9 Gasoline Taxes

#10 Gift Taxes

#11 Hunting License Taxes

#12 Inheritance Taxes

#13 Inventory Taxes

#14 IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)

#15 IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

#16 Liquor Taxes

#17 Luxury Taxes

#18 Marriage License Taxes

#19 Medicare Taxes

#20 Property Taxes

#21 Recreational Vehicle Taxes

#22 Toll Booth Taxes

#23 Sales Taxes

#24 Self-Employment Taxes

#25 School Taxes

#26 Septic Permit Taxes

#27 Service Charge Taxes

#28 Social Security Taxes

#29 State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA)

#30 Telephone Federal Excise Taxes

#31 Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Taxes

#32 Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Taxes

#33 Telephone State And Local Taxes

#34 Tire Taxes

#35 Toll Bridge Taxes

#36 Toll Tunnel Taxes

#37 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)

#38 Utility Taxes

#39 Vehicle License Registration Taxes

#40 Vehicle Sales Taxes

#41 Workers Compensation Taxes

When you account for all forms of taxation on the federal, state and local levels there are many Americans that pay out more than half of their incomes in taxes.

We are being taxed into oblivion, and yet most Americans do not even realize that it is happening.

It is kind of like being killed by thousands of tiny cuts.

So what do all of these taxes buy us?

They buy us a massively bloated government that wastes money on some of the craziest things imaginable.

Millions of Americans work for the federal government, and yet most of them produce very little of real economic value.  The following comes from a recent National Review article....

By 2005, the federal government employed 14.6 million people: 1.9 million civil servants, 770,000 postal workers, 1.44 million uniformed service personnel, 7.6 million contractors, and 2.9 million grantees. This amounted to a ratio of five and a half “shadow” government employees for every civil servant on the federal payroll. Since 1999, the government had grown by over 4.5 million employees.

According to that same article, when you add in state and local government workers the numbers are even more dramatic....

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 3.8 million full-time and 1.5 million part-time employees on state payrolls. Local governments add a further 11 million full-time and 3.2 million part-time personnel. This means that state and local governments combined employ 19.5 million Americans.

Yes, we do need some government.  For example, without any law enforcement at all our society would descend into complete chaos, and without any military at all we would be completely open to foreign conquest.

In order to have a stable, secure society we do need some government.

However, we definitely do not need the massively bloated government that we have today.

The truth is that most government employees are a drain on the system.  Most of them just push paper around.  I used to work in Washington D.C. so I know what pushing paper around is all about.

And as I wrote about yesterday, there are millions of other Americans that enjoy a comfortable existence at the expense of the federal government without doing any work whatsoever.

Of course the biggest welfare recipients of all are the big corporations.  All forms of corporate welfare should be eliminated immediately.

When are U.S. taxpayers going to get sick and tired of paying for all of this?

Every single year, the federal government, state governments and local governments drain massive amounts of desperately needed money from hard working middle class families.

Then they take that money and spend it on incredibly foolish things.

When are American voters going to stand up and boldly declare that they have been taxed enough already and they aren't going to take it anymore?

The current tax code is completely and utterly broken and it is beyond repair.

Unfortunately, neither the Republicans or the Democrats are proposing that we should get rid of it.

So we are just going to continue to get more of the same year after year, and it is the middle class that will feel the pain.’

 

The Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says Are Happening At JP Morgan Will Blow Your Mind  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com   http://albertpeia.com/crazythingshappeningatjpmorgan.htm

 

The U.S. Economy: Soul Crushing Total System Failure   http://albertpeia.com/ustotalsystemfailure.htm

 

Kass: The Market Is Overvalued at TheStreet By Doug Kass { Yes, this is true; but, he’s still too optimistic in that he doesn’t point out that the election year manipulations / obfuscations will cause things to end far worse than his anticipation. } http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/11461242/1/kass-the-market-is-overvalued.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

 

An Open Letter to All Presidential Candidates By gpc1981 http://albertpeia.com/grahamsummerswarnings.htm

 

40 Weird Facts About The United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/40weirdfactsabouttheus.htm

 

http://albertpeia.com/blackonwhitecrime.htm

VIDEO: Black Student Becomes Enraged In Evolution Class, Threatens To Kill Professor... 
http://albertpeia.com/blackthreatenstokillprofessorstudentsoverhersimianancestry.htm

http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm   

 

Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That The Federal Reserve Is Good And The Gold Standard Is Bad   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  http://albertpeia.com/benbsshalombernankesellsfedpansgoldstandard.htm [ greenspan and now bernanke are incompetent and total failures creating and exacerbating current and prospective conditions for the sake of fraudulent wall street at everyone else’s expense! ]

 

10 Signs That America Is On The Verge Of A Horrible Municipal Debt Crisis http://albertpeia.com/americanmunicipaldebtcrisis.htm

 

The Simple Problems Of Too Much US Debt 

 

10 Reasons Why The Reign Of The Dollar As The World Reserve Currency Is About To Come To An End  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsdollarreservecurrencyending.htm

 

Bernanke Claims That The Fed Has Averted A Second Great Depression By Bailing Out The Too Big To Fail Banks  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com http://albertpeia.com/weareinsecondgreatdepression.htm

[  To the contrary, because of his policies and particularly the bailouts which facilitated consummation of and even greater frauds, the real economy, the nation, taxpayers will suffer a more severe fate than even that obfuscated by bad policy in this election-year expedience! ‘… When the last financial crisis began, the U.S. national debt was about 10 trillion dollars. Today, it has risen to 15.5 trillion dollars. So Bernanke did not fix anything. The best that can be said is that he kicked the can down the road a little bit and made our long-term financial problems a lot worse at the same time. Bernanke can create money out of thin air and loan it to his friends all he wants, but he is not going to be able to prevent this house of cards from crashing down…’ . He’s as much a fraud and incompetent bozo as ‘his buds who put him there’ for their purpose / benefit. The guy’s a dope http://albertpeia.com/30bunglebenbernankequotes.htm  , a fool which fact is lost on no one vis-à-vis the debased Weimar dollar  http://albertpeia.com/10reasonsdollarreservecurrencyending.htm  , who’s delusional  http://albertpeia.com/bunglerbenfedfedsfailure.htm . He’s a total fraud!  ]

 

20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete Collapse Of Common Sense In America   http://albertpeia.com/americasdevolutionintomadness.htm

 

A View on Inflation & Keynesian Talking Points  : CrownThomas : 03/29/2012 The ponzi will fail, and the economy will reset - the only question is when. http://albertpeia.com/fedponzifails.htm

 

 

‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Is About to Hit Investors: Faber   http://albertpeia.com/massivewealthdestructionabouttohit.htm

 

{ WALL STREET IS SO FRAUDULENTLY BEYOND THE PALE; FOR THERE IS NO QUESTION BUT THAT THEY BELONG IN JAIL! }

 

RICHARD RUSSELL: A Massive Stock Market Collapse Will Wipe Out 60 Years Of Inflation And Leveraging

 

The 15 Trillion Dollar Party  http://albertpeia.com/bankruptamericadestroyingthefuture.htm

 

45 Signs That America Will Soon Be A Nation With A Very Tiny Elite And The Rest Of Us Will Be Poor http://albertpeia.com/45signsamericatinyelitemajoritypoor.htm

 

 

19 Signs Of Very Serious Economic Trouble On The Horizon

http://albertpeia.com/19signsveryseriouseconomictroubleonhorizon.htm

 

Why the ECB Expanded Its Balance Sheet By Over $1 trillion in Less Than Nine Months April 5, 2012 By gpc1981  http://gainspainscapital.com
http://albertpeia.com/ecbexpandsbalsheetover1trilllessthan9mos.htm

 

 

 

 

Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.’ [ Yeah! He’d look just like any other nigger. And, don’t worry about the black vote, failed president wobama the b for b***s*** will get, nearly if not all, 100% of the nigger vote! Drudgereport:  Farrakhan Threatens 'Retaliation'… [ Retaliation? Can you imagine the number of blacks that would have to be retaliated against based upon the hushed reality of the prevalence of black on white crime? The blacks should be careful what they wish for in playing that game because the facts don’t break in their favor. ] ...

People have become weary of making up excuses for blacks (like obama, holder, etc.). At some point, as now, people should not be timid about relating the cold, unvarnished truth statistically / factually about blacks and, ie.,  black on white violent crime, etc..

 From Pat Buchanan: As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

http://albertpeia.com/blackonwhitecrime.htm

http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm   

The reality is that blacks are an insoluble problem wherever they are. That’s not going to ever change; not make-shift/make-work jobs; not programs; not anything tried or to be tried; hence, they must be treated as exactly that – problems – before a solution can be derived and fashioned. ]

 

VIDEO: Black Student Becomes Enraged In Evolution Class, Threatens To Kill Professor...  http://albertpeia.com/blackthreatenstokillprofessorstudentsoverhersimianancestry.htm

 

Drudgereport:

Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager...
Urges 'soul-searching'...
More Miami schools stage mass walk-outs...
Gingrich calls Obama's Trayvon comments 'disgraceful'...
Cops: Man threatened to kill police chief at center of case...
Jeb Bush: 'Stand your ground' invalid here...
Miami Heat Players Don Hoodies...
'Dead or Alive' Poster Issued by New Black Panther Party... [ ‘Minority Report’ Division of Pre-Crime, Pre-Cogs say, ‘Dead or Alive – all niggers’ … whatever the outcome in the investigative process, the stark reality is that at least, unlike the niggers committing many more ‘black on white’ violent crimes,  Zimmerman (and this is no endorsement – I won’t be looking at this one incident all that closely) was at least trying to do a good thing made necessary by the ever increasing number of brutal crimes committed by the black thugs in neighborhoods across the nation; then there’s somalian pirates, etc.. People domestically and internationally are suffering from nigger-fatigue and are totally niggered out. Oh, yeah, there are some Hollywood types who feel good about themselves having niggers around and helping niggers to help them feel better than they really are, insecure as they are, by being better than at least someone beyond fantasy. Loony george clooney is one. Dreadfully boring and with that monotone, monotonous voice and not that bright, he’s not even able to fake it on screen as an action hero (ie., batman, what a horrific miscast) wimpy pussy in reality that he is; then there’s the ‘black (sean) penn’ who cried like a baby while incarcerated for a couple of days not that long ago. The atheist jolie, so fatherly troubled as she is, has let the equally mentally troubled pitt (she so nutty she makes him feel somewhat sane though still not too bright) and pendulum ‘backwoods bob’ be the closest she’s gotten to her black projects. Let them live anonomously (in disguise) with the niggers for some time for a real close look and then see what’s left of their predisposed love for the nigger. Then there’s the italian scallion, booby deniro; drug addled as his black wife high-tower, what a total embarrassment to Italians everywhere; even as he tried to ingratiate himself recently with niggers everywhere and particularly national embarrassment mammy michele with the embarrassing pro-nigger first lady remark..   [ Send the niggers back to sub-saharan Africa! ]
'BLACK NIGGERS [ NOT WHITES BY NIGGERS THE IMPLICATION DESPITE FACTUAL DATA TO THE CONTRARY  ] ARE UNDER ATTACK [ SAYS NIGGER SHAKEDOWN ARTIST JACKSON] ' [ Hold on one cotton-pickin’ minute jesse, that’s not what the facts say
Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.’ [ Yeah! He’d look just like any other nigger. And, don’t worry about the black vote, failed president wobama the b for b***s*** will get nearly if not all, 100% of the nigger vote! Drudgereport:  Farrakhan Threatens 'Retaliation'… [ Retaliation? Can you imagine the number of blacks that would have to be retaliated against based upon the hushed reality of the prevalence of black on white crime? The blacks should be careful what they wish for in playing that game because the facts don’t break in their favor. ] ...

People have become weary of making up excuses for blacks (like obama, holder, etc.). At some point, as now, people should not be timid about relating the cold, unvarnished truth statistically / factually about blacks and, ie.,  black on white violent crime, etc..

 From Pat Buchanan: As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

http://albertpeia.com/blackonwhitecrime.htm

VIDEO: Black Student Becomes Enraged In Evolution Class, Threatens To Kill Professor... 
http://albertpeia.com/blackthreatenstokillprofessorstudentsoverhersimianancestry.htm

http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm   

The reality is that blacks are an insoluble problem wherever they are. That’s not going to ever change; not make-shift/make-work jobs; not programs; not anything tried or to be tried; hence, they must be treated as exactly that – problems – before a solution can be derived and fashioned. ] [ Send the niggers, including niggerbama back to sub-saharan africa! ]

EUROPE RIDICULES OBAMA...
'Maybe copy key got stuck on presidential speechwriter's keyboard'...


 

A Warning Sign For The World  http://albertpeia.com/warningsignfortheworld.htm
Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail.  Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.  Unfortunately, no debt bubble can last forever.  When this current debt bubble finally bursts, faith in the financial system is going to disappear, credit is going to freeze up and there is going to be a massive wave of bank failures.

10 Signs That America Is Decomposing Right In Front Of Our Eyes http://albertpeia.com/10signsamericadecomposing.htm

55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In 2012   http://albertpeia.com/55factsaboutus2012economy.htm

America 1950 vs. America 2012    http://albertpeia.com/downhillslideofamerica.htm

20 Economic Statistics To Use To Wake Sheeple Up From Their Entertainment-Induced Comas   http://albertpeia.com/20ecostatstowakesheeple.htm 

10.7 Percent: Unemployment In Europe Is Worse Than It Was At The Peak Of The Last Recession  http://albertpeia.com/europeunemploymentworsethanrecession.htm

30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Money On  The American Dream http://albertpeia.com/30stupidgovtspendings.htm

You Cannot Build a Strong Economy or a Bull Market on Fudged Numbers and Lipstick March 5, 2012 By gpc1981 http://gainspainscapital.com  ‘Let’s say that you just spent a large sum, to the tune of several trillion Dollars, bailing out various businesses that were literally run into insolvency by shortsighted and greedy business practices.

1 Through 30 – The Coming U.S. Financial Crisis By The Numbers  http://albertpeia.com/1-30usfinancialcrisiscoming.htm

Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing  http://albertpeia.com/notsofastonthateconomicrecoverything.htm

 

 

 

Greece Has Defaulted - Which Country In Europe Is Next? http://albertpeia.com/greecehasdefaultedwhonext.htm

 

Why Are Police In America Treating Women Like Dogs?  http://albertpeia.com/womentreatedlikedogs.htm

 

 

18 Statistics That Prove That The Economy Has Not Improved Since Barack Obama Became President

http://albertpeia.com/18statseconomynotimprovedsinceobama.htm

 

 

Five Charts That Prove We’re in a Depression and That the Federal Reserve and Washington Are Wasting Money March 12, 2012 By gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/usindepressionfedandgovwastingmoney.htm

 

Two Reasons Why the Global Economy Will Slow and Government Promises to Retirees Will be Broken March 13, 2012 By gpc1981

 

ECRI Stays with Recession Call  New American | The vicious cycle is starting where lower sales, lower production, lower employment and lower income [leads] back to lower sales…BOB ADELMANN New American Tuesday, March 13, 2012 http://albertpeia.com/ecricallsrecession.htm

 

 

11 Reasons Why America Would Be A Better Place Without Goldman Sachs [ If only it was just 11 and not an endless number of reasons why the aforesaid is true! And, though america particularly, not just america, but the entire world as well! Moreover, though goldman egregiously and particularly, sadly but realistically it’s not just goldman! ]

http://albertpeia.com/americabetterwithoutgoldmansachs.htm 

 

 

 

 

S&P Says Improbable Any Economic Improvement Would Bring Back AAA US Rating Sigh:

  • S&P says that it is impossible that any economic improvement would bring back the AAA rating
  • US deficit progress is needed.
  • Outlook remains negative.

And what do stocks do on latest S&P report that America is broke? Why they surge of course....

80 Percent Of Americans Say That They Are Not Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago  http://albertpeia.com/80percentamericaworsethan4yearsago.htm

 

 

 

20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit

 http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com 

http://albertpeia.com/20thingshellholeamericasfuturedeathofdetroit.htm

{ Ah yes … those sweet sounds and smells of motown … the darks coming to a place near you! }

Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like?  Just check out what is happening to Detroit.
 

 

 

 

Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking’s big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters  PF Louis | The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is centers on the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. Natural News February 1, 2012  [  [  http://albertpeia.com/americangovernmentdrugtrafficking.htm      http://albertpeia.com/americascorruptiondrugtrade.htm   http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf       http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm    http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm  
http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm ]  ‘The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, “No, we can’t compete with the government.”

Today in Afghanistan, American troops have been seen guarding poppy fields used to make heroin. Those fields were all but wiped out by 2001 when the Taliban destroyed them and forbade that agricultural pursuit. Now they’re flourishing again after the American occupation.

This doesn’t make sense despite all the mainstream reports that American troops are protecting the poppy farmers from the bad guys. Internet sites such as Prison Planet, Info Wars, The Political Coffeehouse and others report otherwise. They connect the CIA and US military to restarting the poppy fields in Afghanistan in 2002, increasing poppy growth by over 650 percent. Who’s telling it like it is?

One way the CIA keeps their drug trafficking hidden from public view

The CIA’s secret operations to influence journalism started in the 1950s by infiltrating the media and bribing journalists to be operatives and assets for the CIA. By 1976, then CIA director William Colby reportedly bragged that the CIA owned the press. Supposedly, this too secret to name operation was coined “Operation Mockingbird” by Deborah Davis in her book Katherine the Great.

Operation Mockingbird worked well against prize winning journalist Gary Webb when his newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, ran his in depth series on CIA drug trafficking that flooded the USA to help finance the CIA backed Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980s.

Journalists all over the USA jumped on the series, claiming Webb’s journalism was shoddy. The newspaper had to recant and fire him, and Gary Webb was black listed from mainstream journalism completely.

 

Webb retaliated by having his book Dark Alliance published and making the NY Times best seller list, forcing some of his critics to privately eat crow after the fact.

Despite the CIA’s control of the press, a few Mexico and Central America cocaine busts of plane cargoes and discoveries of large cocaine stashes on crashed planes with CIA hired pilots flying them for front companies did hit the mainstream news, albeit briefly.

Remember the movie “Air America?” It was based on an actual CIA owned front company transporting tons of heroin from Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” poppy fields during and after the Vietnam conflicts. Now Afghanistan and the “Golden Crescent” are the featured opium/heroin conduit sources.

Government and big business using drug traffic profits is nothing new

When the U.S. government made deals with the Cosa Nostra mafia to help police ports and harbors during WW II, they breathed life into the heroin trade. Eventually, Marseilles, France was set up by the Corsican mafia to become the “French Connection” for heroin traffic.

But opium trade history goes back further, to colonial times and early America. That’s when American shipping magnates used their fast Clipper Ships to compete with England’s monarch sanctioned dope running East India Company for transporting opium to China.

A few key players created family fortunes from the China opium trade that exist today within some northeast America’s “old money” families.

Among the familiar family names, according to Wikipedia (source below) is Forbes. Another source mentions Astor, a prominently wealthy philanthropic family around New York today (Wiki source below). In those days, trafficking dope was a legitimate business endeavor, immoral but not illegal.

Now it is illegal as well. Ironically, this allows the biggest illicit drug providers to financially benefit the CIA and international banking.’

 

Sources for this article include:

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor

http://thepoliticalcoffeehouse.com/2011/12/01/us-military-opium-afghanistan/

http://www.minormusings.com/Drugs/Mask.html

 

 

See also:

Big Banks, Gov’ts Collude in Drug War Hypocrisy

Much Of Afghan Drug Money Going To ‘Our Friends’

Steady Stream of Drug Money Departs Afghanistan, U.S. Officials Flummoxed

Afghan CIA Drug Kingpin Shot Dead by Own Bodyguard

Afghanistan drug trade hits $4 billion a year

Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister

US and NATO protecting Afghan drug trade

B.C. RCMP seize 60,000 poppy plants in record haul

NATO rejects Russian call for Afghan poppy spraying

War on drugs is a hoax: US admits to guarding, assisting lucrative Afghan opium trade

UN: Afghan opium production up by 61% under NATO’s watch

DOJ: Drug Cartel’s Influence Extends Well Beyond Border Well Into the U.S.

 

 

RealClearMarkets - Gary Shilling: New Global Recession Is Here (It’s actually a depression and no nation will be spared!) http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shilling-says-new-global-recession-is-here-2012-01-20?link=MW_story_popular By Howard Gold NEW YORK (MarketWatch)

 

 

 

2012 Update: What Part III of the financial crisis will look like

 

http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSINEWVD/PPSIN138/PR

 

http://www.stansberryresearch.com

 

http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1108PSINEWVD/PPSIN111/PR

 

http://www.albertpeia.com/stansberrysinvestmentadvisory.flv   

 

http://albertpeia.com/stansberrycorruptiondeclineofamerica.htm

 



 

'OBVIOUSLY UNSERVICEABLE DEBT TO WEIGH ON STOCKS IN 2012’ http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-obviously-unserviceable-debt-weigh-stocks-2012  12/23/2011 By Chris Ciovacco: Referencing Kyle Bass’ work in a December 18 video, we noted numerous countries have an unstable combination of debt and revenue relative to the size of their banking system. Another excellent source for debt sustainability analysis comes from Jeffery Gundlach, manager of the 2011 top-performing U.S. bond fund. Mr. Gundlach was recently interviewed by the Financial Times. He does not subscribe to the theory European leaders can “put a Band Aid on a system which didn’t break a week ago…’

 

Tough Year For Stocks, Gold And Treasury ETFs Did Better  Forbes

 

 

My Christmas Cards Predict "Eternal Conflict" And "Economic Disaster" Forbes Robert Lenzner  ‘For the first time in my life, some Christmas messages are  weighing in  about the worrisome condition of  US economy and the financial markets– as well as  family news.  Obviously, the crisis we are  facing is  triggering disheartening expressions of concern at holiday time.

This from  a former state finance chairman for George Bush, who is so distressed he is staying out of the primary race.

On Jobs; ” I wonder why our candidates have not come forward to feature as the main and vital keystone of their campaign that sector in the economy which can create millions of jobs and solve our huge foreign trade deficit– converting our $300 billion plus purchase of foreign oil to domestic energy– electrification of transportation, more natural gas, nuclear, more domestic oil drilling, clean coal, and all the domestic alternatives.”

On the deficit:  ” I have also become very disheartened with our politicians’ inability to strike a grand compromise on reducing  the federal deficit. We are considerably constrained by the Grover Norquist tax pledge signed by so many Republicans, wherein an elimination of a tax loophole which takes the recovered revenue and applies it to reduce debt is considered a tax increase and therefore unacceptable. This position will never allow the Republicans to negotiate and compromise( a noble word) with the democrats on a combination of a massive expense reduction with a modest revenue increase.”

All this from a conservative Republican in a key state who is utterly frustrated by “ eternal gridlock in Washington“— and determined to spend considerably more quality time with his family. All this ranting in a Christmas card; it’s a first.

Then, there’s the retired New England real estate consultant and developer who is “fearful about the impending winter. The world seems to be perilously close to economic disaster and depression, and folks are rushing out to buy gold and guns.” ‘

 

 

A Very Scary Christmas And An Incredibly Frightening New Year http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com  ‘Can you hear that?  It almost sounds like a little bit of peace and quiet.  This year, the holiday season has been fairly uneventful, and for that we should be very grateful.  But it isn't going to last long.  2012 is going to be a much more difficult year for the U.S. economy and the global financial system than 2011 has been.  So if things are going well for you right now, enjoy this little bubble of peace and tranquility while you can.  Because while things may look calm on the surface right now, the truth is that this is a very scary Christmas for financial professionals and world leaders.  Most of them know how fragile the global financial system is at the moment.  Most of them know that we are living in the greatest bubble of debt, leverage and financial risk that the world has ever seen.  As I wrote about the other day, world leaders would not be throwing huge bailouts around like crazy if everything was going to be just fine.  The truth is that we are rapidly approaching another financial crisis that may end up being even worse than the horrific crash of 2008…’

 

 

Interbank Markets Are Telling Investors To Sell The Rally … Again http://www.bullseyemicrocaps.com/?p=30070 12-23-11 ‘The biggest question weighing on investors as we move into the final week of the year is how long Europe can be ignored. The S&P 500 has rallied 5% since testing and holding support at 1200 and is now firmly into resistance, an ideal spot for short sellers to lay out positions.European banks continue to tell equity market investors to stand aside. The ECB overnight deposit facility saw deposits swell to EUR346.9 billion overnight, up 31% from December 21st. A fair amount of the recently ECB auctioned EUR489 billion ended up right back at the ECB instead of in the interbank lending market.The ECB also reported a second week of anemic sovereign bond buying. The ECB doesn’t want to be the only bidder in the room, which is one of the reasons it has been so willing to stuff banks with cheap money. But, rising yields in Italy…’

 



The Smartest Guys in the Room Are Screaming "Get Out of the Markets!"   Todd Harrison http://www.minyanville.com/articles/articlelisting.htm#ixzz1hGAVUaU9

 

 

It's Official: US Debt-To-GDP Passes 100% With precisely one year left for the world and all of its inhabitants, at least according to the Mayans, not to mention on the day of the Winter Solstice, it is only fitting that US debt, net of all settlements for all already completed bond auctions, is now at precisely $15,182,756,264,288.80. Why is this relevant? Because the latest annualized US GDP, according to the BEA, was $15,180,900,000.00. Which means that, as of today, total US debt to GDP is 100.012%. Congratulations America: you are now in the triple digit "debt to GDP" club!

 

 

Mark Faber: "I Am Convinced The Whole Derivatives Market Will Cease To Exist And Will Go To Zero"Anyone seeking joyous holiday greetings and cheerful forecasts for the new year is advised to not listen to the following most recent Mark Faber interview, in which in addition to his predictions for 2012 (led with "more printing" by the dodecatupling +1 down central planners of course, and far less prosperity), we get the following: "I am convinced the whole derivatives market will cease to exit. Will become zero. And when it happens I don't know: you can postpone the problems with monetary measures for a long time but you can't solve them... Greece should have defaulted - it would have sent a message that not all derivatives are equal because it depends on the counterparty." And on the long-term future: "I am ultra bearish. I think most people will be lucky if they still have 50% of their money in 5 years time. You have to have diversification - some real estate in the countryside, some gold and some equities because if you think it through, say Germany 1900 to today, we had WWI, we had hyperinflation, WWII, cash holders and bondholders they lost everything 3 times, but if you owned equities you'd be ok. In equities in general you will not lose it all, it may not be a good investment, unless you put it all in one company and it goes bankrupt." As for gold: "I am worried that one day the government will take it away." As for the one thing he hates the most? No surprise here -government bonds.

 

 

 

 

 

Has the Global Economy Been Zapped by ZIRP?  Minyanville  Eugene Linden Dec 21, 2011 ‘Zero interest rate policies dominate the world's largest economies -- a situation that's contributing to the worsening pension crisis, the unnaturally buoyant equity markets, the need for quantitative easing, and even the bull market in gold. Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/zero-interest-rate-policy-zirp-us/12/21/2011/id/38513#ixzz1hFyFn7Pb  Eclipsed by Europe’s sovereign debt agony has been one overriding, but overlooked factor that will increasingly distort economies and the financial markets as 2012 unfolds: the Zero-Interest-Rate-Policy. ZIRP is now as encompassing and pervasive as the air we breathe, and this in itself is unprecedented.

Historically, examples of ZIRP are few and far between – and usually very brief – but now ZIRP and near-ZIRP dominate the interest rate policies for most of the world’s largest economies. We’re in uncharted territory. More worrisome, the longer an economy embraces ZIRP, the harder it is to extricate itself. In fact, as far as I can tell, no one has exited extended ZIRP intact and voluntarily. Some, like Kyle Bass, argue that once a nation gets trapped in ZIRP for an extended period, the only escape is through debt restructuring. Others say war.

ZIRP has been the policy of the United States since 2008; it has been the policy of Japan for most of the past two decades, and it is becoming the policy of the ECB, at least in terms of ECB short-term funding. Currently, over two trillion dollars of US debt is paying zero or near zero interest, as is trillions more debt in Japan and elsewhere. This unprecedented situation has contributed to the worsening pension crisis, the unnaturally buoyant equity markets, the rescue of US banks, the need for quantitative easing, and even the bull market in gold. It has spectacularly failed in its originally trumpeted mission to restart lending to the consumer (the money multiplier is still near all-time lows). And now, central bankers are discovering that ZIRP is a poisoned chalice.

The problem is as simple and intractable as human nature. So long as there's a market willing to buy a government’s debt (or buyers who can be forced to buy said debt), ZIRP offers the promise of vast new funds with virtually no increase in carrying costs. If the problem is short-term liquidity, the theory is that ZIRP buys the time necessary to restart growth. If the problem is solvency, however, ZIRP is viewed as an alternative to a painful restructuring. In that case (e.g. Japan), the rotten debts remain on the books of the banks, hobbling the lending that is necessary for the economic growth that will enable the central bankers to wean the economy off the drug.

Faced with little or no economic growth and anemic tax receipts, central bankers keep pumping out new debt. When Japan started with ZIRP, its debt to GDP ratio was 40%. In 2003 it was 93%. Now it’s 234%, and Japan’s aging buyers (Japanese purchase 95% of the country’s new debt) are starting to spend for their retirement, rather than save. Across the Pacific in the US, debt-to-GDP was 57% in 2000; in 2008, when the US adopted ZIRP, debt to GDP was about 68%; in the three years since it has risen to 99%.

The US did begin to approach ZIRP earlier in the last decade when Alan Greenspan drastically cut rates to 1% to restart a frozen credit market. That was a defensible response to a liquidity crisis, but Greenspan kept the policy too long, fueling the housing and credit bubbles, and setting the stage for the crash of 2008. ZIRP is like a opium-based painkiller. It might get you through a crisis (if there isn’t the political will for a restructuring), but chronic use is addictive and debilitating. The mechanics of the addiction are simple: the more debt-burdened an economy becomes, the more additional debt it needs for growth, and the less growth we get for the increment. This is termed debt saturation. A dollar of new debt in 1960 produced about 90 cents of additional GDP. That ratio turned negative in the last couple of years.

At the same time, to keep the interest burden of debt from spiraling out of the control, nations are tempted to shift to shorter duration. This has the effect of leaving a country ever more vulnerable should central bankers be forced to raise interest rates. Interest payments are now just 1% of GDP and 5.7% % of US expenditures, actually fairly low (though, even at these levels, interest chews up 14% of each tax dollar collected). In fact, the interest bill for US debt is just 4.6% higher than it was in 2007 and virtually the same as in 2008 despite the fact that the debt has exploded since those years. The average rate the US pays on debt is about 3%, and is coming down as roughly half the debt gets rolled each year.

 
Interest Expense on the Debt Outstanding
Available Historical Data Fiscal Year End

2011

$454,393,280,417.03

2010

$413,954,825,362.17

2009

$383,071,060,815.42

2008

$451,154,049,950.63

2007

$429,977,998,108.20

2006

$405,872,109,315.83

2005

$352,350,252,507.90

2004

$321,566,323,971.29

2003

$318,148,529,151.51

2002

$332,536,958,599.42

2001

$359,507,635,242.41

2000

$361,997,734,302.36

1999

$353,511,471,722.87

1998

$363,823,722,920.26

1997

$355,795,834,214.66

1996

$343,955,076,695.15

1995

$332,413,555,030.62

1994

$296,277,764,246.26

1993

$292,502,219,484.25

1992

$292,361,073,070.74

1991

$286,021,921,181.04

1990

$264,852,544,615.90

1989

$240,863,231,535.71

1988

$214,145,028,847.73

 
But we’ve reached a place where even a historically modest rise – say 2% -- would start gobbling huge chunks of tax revenue to the point where tax revenues are flat to declining. The longer ZIRP continues, the more onerous the cost of raising interest rates. Past some unknown point, ZIRP begets more ZIRP. We may be past that point as the fed has said ZIRP will be the US policy into 2013. If the natural buyers get wary, there is always the Fed to buy the debt. What we saw earlier this year was that even as the Chinese balked at buying treasuries (down from 47% of new issuance in 2006 to 5% in 2010), the Fed stepped in through quantitative easing to buy the lion’s share of new debt. That program ended in July, but then, in the nick of time, the European sovereign debt crisis went critical, and prompted foreign buyers to show up (and the FED is still in there as it reinvests proceeds as securities roll off its balance sheet). Should the flight to safety abate, it’s highly likely QE will resume if only because this is a treadmill from which there is no escape (a recognition of which may have played into the historic S&P downgrade of US debt).

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How long can this continue? In Japan it has continued for nearly 20 years, thanks to a thrifty population with $17 trillion in savings. But even that party is approaching endgame. Its massive debt has already been downgraded, now Aa3, but it still pays less than Germany, with an average interest expense of 1.12% this year. Japan’s problem is that its aging savers are becoming spenders (the savings rate dropped to 3% this year) and the population has dropped 3% in the past few years as well. So it has fewer, cash-flow negative citizens to absorb ever more debt. Long term rates and dollar swaptions have already started to edge up, and, having run huge deficits since the inauguration of ZIRP in 1993, Japan has little capacity to endure an interest rate hike. According to Kyle Bass, who analogizes a Japan short to the subprime play in 2007-08, a 100 basis point rise in debt service costs would consume an additional 25% of tax revenue. Disregard any talk that might come from Japan about raising interest rates, it simply cannot happen.

 

ZIRP turns out to be a trap that ensnares everybody, and not just the countries that adopt the policy. During a briefing an economist from Tejas made the comment that once a major economy adopts ZIRP, Central Banks all over the world lose control of their monetary policy. I was puzzled about the mechanics of that until I came across an example from Israel.
 
The transmission mechanism is the carry trade.  Starting in 2009, despite its precarious geopolitical situation, Israel saw its currency strengthen as investors came in searching for yield. According to Michael Pomerleano writing in the Financial Times, as the shekel strengthened against the dollar, its central bank was forced to intervene to buy Shekel’s lower interest rates and weaken the currency, even though the bank actually wanted to raise rates to combat alarming inflation in the housing sector.

While foreign money might be enticed to borrow in ZIRP countries and invest elsewhere, domestic institutions like pension funds and insurers are driven to search for yield to meet the estimated returns embedded in their models. A pension fund using an 8% expected return is going to find itself ever deeper underwater if it is stuck in fixed income in such an interest rate regime. This is one reason hedge funds haven’t gone out of fashion even though their returns have been more dismal than not since 2008. The search for yield has also underpinned the recovery of the High Yield market since  the crash. ZIRP may have saved pensions and insurers from an immediate crash in 2008, but it has subjected them to a merciless squeeze ever since.

Individual savers find themselves caught between embracing risk and spending principal. This is not the choice retiring baby boomers expected, particularly since most were under-saved for retirement even as other safety nets develop holes.

Other unintended consequences have to do with the freeze up in interbank lending. With short term yields virtually non-existent, there is no incentive for the big banks to use funds in excess reserves to lend to smaller banks. Why take any risk in interbank lending when your reward is virtually the same as holding cash. The lack of liquidity in the interbank market in turn disrupts the forward market for FX futures (according to Stamford economist Ronald McKinnon), and this in turn makes lenders less willing to back letters of credit for exporters – something that happened in the midst of the crisis in 2008.

There have been positive benefits of ZIRP, including cheap debt for those companies lucky enough to have access to the credit markets. Most notably, has been the relationship between ZIRP’s evil twin, quantitative easing, and the buoyant stock market. Nothing makes this point as starkly as a simple chart of the S&P in 2011. The first half year was relatively smooth under the protective umbrella of quantitative easing, while the second half looks like the EKG of a heart attack (see below).

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Ben Bernanke is a brilliant economist, and I’m certain that he is more aware than I am of the pitfalls of employing ZIRP for an extended period. So why did he do it? My guess is that he went to ZIRP because he felt he had no choice. In 2008 he was caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, he desperately needed to funnel money and a yield curve to the banks. All well and good, but the defensible solution–the course taken by Sweden in 1993–would have been to saddle the taxpayers with these costs only after the banks’ shareholders and debt holders had shared the pain. As one pundit put it: a nation needs banks, but a nation doesn’t need these particular banks.
 
So again, why didn’t Bernanke recognize that? A few people know, and they haven’t been saying. One suspicion is that our major creditors in Asia and the Mideast were also huge holders of bank shares and debt and threatened mutually assured destruction if they were forced to write down these holdings. Another, simpler explanation, is that US pension funds were also huge holders of shares and debt of the banks as well as of mortgage-backed securities, and that an omnibus write down of all these assets would cause a pension crisis the likes of which this country had never seen.

ZIRP, in concert with the various bailout programs and the stimulus, offered a way to buy time, and that’s what happened. But what happens next?

Right now, this question is still at the edges of the radar. When ZIRP is discussed at all, it is in the context of inflation fears. Indeed, inflation is one way a debt burden might be reduced, but when that day comes, soaring interest rates will force defaults and restructurings. The Goldilocks solution is to grow our way to exit. Given that both governments and households are still burdened with trillions in excess debt (as well as the issue of debt saturation), it is difficult to imagine how we could finance that growth even if an obvious and politically viable path to growth presented itself. This suggests that we will do what Japan has done and string out ZIRP until something – internal or external – forces a change.

This means that the economy and the markets will remain in this surreal context of ZIRP for an indeterminate period, even as awareness grows that there will be no controlled ending for this halcyon period. It means that there will be further episodes of quantitative easing, either overt or by stealth.

This money will likely flow into equity markets as it has in the past. It also means that government institutions will likely be major players in interbank lending for the indefinite future and that consumer lending will be constrained for the indefinite future. And with major economies printing money to maintain the illusion that there is a market for their sovereign debt, it means that commodities will continue to find a bid, even as the global economy contracts (though there will be dramatic downdrafts on specific events such as noticeable cooling in China).

It also means that the pension crisis will continue to worsen, and that the already dire situation for retirees will continue to worsen, with implications for burdens on various levels of government as well as for consumer spending.

And then, of course, ZIRP, though encompassing, is but one of the factors that will be influencing our markets in the coming months. The unresolved sovereign debt issues in the EU, a cooling China economy, and a host of US issues, also cloud the future. For the moment ZIRP hovers at the edges of the mindspace of a financial community focused on Europe and other critical issues. But, make no mistake, we’re in unknown territory as far as knowing at what constitute’s ZIRP’s event horizon, the point beyond which there is no escape. Has Japan crossed that point? Is the US approaching it? One hopes that we don’t discover this answer in retrospect.


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Getting Worse: 40 Undeniable Pieces Of Evidence That Show That America Is In Decline The Economic Collapse | Is America in decline? That is a very provocative question. The Economic Collapse December 21, 2011

Is America in decline?  That is a very provocative question.  I have found that most people that hate the United States are very eager to agree that America is in decline, while a lot of those that love the United States are very hesitant to admit that America is in decline.  Well, I am proud to be an American, but I cannot lie and tell you that America is doing just fine.  The pieces of evidence compiled below are undeniable.  Our economy is deathly ill and is rapidly getting worse.  We were handed the keys to the greatest economic machine in the history of the world and we have wrecked it.  But until we are willing to look in the mirror and admit how bad things have gotten, we won’t be ready for the solutions that are necessary.  The truth is that there are things that we can do to reverse the decline.  It does not have to be permanent.  We have gotten away from the things that made America great, and we need to admit that we are on the wrong path and start fixing this country.  But if we choose to continue down the road that we are currently on, it will lead us into the darkest chapters in American history.

The following are 40 undeniable pieces of evidence that show that America is in decline….

#1 Back in 1985, 11 million vehicles were sold in America.  In 2009, only 5.4 million vehicles were sold in America.

#2 In 1990, the median age of a vehicle in the United States was just 6.5 years.  Today, the median age of a vehicle in the United States is approximately 10 years.

#3 The average price of a gallon of gasoline in 2011 has been $3.50.  That is a new all-time record.  The previous record was $3.24 in 2008.

#4 The average American household will have spent an astounding $4,155 on gasoline by the time the year is over.

#5 The number of children in the United States without a permanent home has increased by 38 percent since 2007.

#6 A decade ago, the United States was ranked number one in average wealth per adult.  By 2010, the United States had fallen to seventh.

#7 The U.S. tax code is now more than 50,000 pages longer than it used to be.

#8 American 15-year-olds do not even rank in the top half of all advanced nations when it comes to math or science literacy.

#9 The United States once had the highest proportion of young adults with post-secondary degrees in the world.  Today, the U.S. has fallen to 12th.

#10 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

#11 The student loan default rate has nearly doubled since 2005.

#12 Our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for our college graduates.  The percentage of mail carriers with a college degree is now 4 times higher than it was back in 1970.

#13 Our infrastructure was once the envy of the world.  Today, U.S. infrastructure is ranked 23rd.

#14 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#15 Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about 12 percent after you adjust for inflation.

#16 According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, America has lost an average of 15 manufacturing facilities a day over the last 10 years.  During 2010 it got even worse.  Last year, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day shut down in the United States.

#17 In all, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have shut down since 2001.

#18 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#19 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry was actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.

#20 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output.  In 2008, it represented only 11.5 percent.

#21 The television manufacturing industry began in the United States.  So how many televisions are manufactured in the United States today?  According to Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder, the grand total is zero.

#22 The U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.

#23 The Economic Policy Institute says that since 2001 America has lost approximately 2.8 million jobs due to our trade deficit with China alone.

#24 According to one study, between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 dropped by 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#25 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs.  Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#26 The size of the economy in India is projected to surpass the size of the U.S. economy by the year 2050.

#27 One prominent economist believes that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

#28 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use.  Today it ranks 15th.

#29 Back in the year 2000, 11.3% of all Americans were living in poverty.  Today, 15.1% of all Americans are living in poverty.

#30 Last year, 2.6 million more Americans dropped into poverty.  That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#31 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 6.7% of all Americans are living in “extreme poverty”, and that is the highest level that has ever been recorded before.

#32 The percentage of children living in poverty in the United States increased from 16.9 percent in 2006 to nearly 22 percent in 2010.  In the UK and in France the child poverty rate is well under 10 percent.

#33 As I wrote about the other day, since 2007 the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.

#34 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits.  Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

#35 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid.  Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#36 Between 1991 and 2007 the number of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 that filed for bankruptcy rose by a staggering 178 percent.

#37 Today, the “too big to fail” banks are larger than ever.  The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.

#38 Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lostover 95 percent of its purchasing power.

#39 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#40 The U.S. national debt is now nearly 15 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.

Sadly, most Americans are not fired up about turning this country around.  Way too many of them realize that things are getting worse, but they have “checked out” and are just going through the motions of life.

A perfect example is posted below.  In this video, a FedEx delivery guy just chucks a computer monitor over somebody’s fence……Can you believe he did that?

The sad thing is that the guy was actually home at the time and all the FedEx employee needed to do was ring the bell.

This is the kind of attitude that is killing America.

We all need to start caring again.  We all need to start taking pride in what we do.  We all need to start working hard again.  We all need to make sure that we are living with a sense of personal integrity.

When a nation simply does not care anymore, even a con man can become president.

During a recent 60 Minutes interview, Barack Obama said that only 3 presidents in U.S. history accomplished more than he did during the first two years of his presidency….

“The issue here is not going be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do.”

He had to be joking, right?

Sadly, he was not joking.

But it is not just Barack Obama.  The truth is that both political parties are absolutely littered with con men, charlatans and corrupt politicians.

It is going to be up to the American people to get educated about how bad things have really gotten, to start demanding solutions, and to start voting much better people into positions of authority.

If dramatic changes are not made, our economy will continue to get worse and the decline of America will continue to accelerate.

We cannot stay on this road my friends.

It is only going to lead to a total nightmare.

Please share this information as widely as possible, and please try to wake up as many of your fellow Americans as you can while there is still time.’

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Reasons To Fear And Loathe Markets In 2012  Forbes Robert Lenzner

#1. European Sovereign Debt  is a greater burden on the economies of Italy and France than the debt overhang in  the U.S. Italy has $2.46 trillion of debt to a $2 trillion GDP. As Vice President Biden puts it “We did our bailout. They’ve got to do their bailout.”  The posturing has been limited to letting nations borrow cheaply to add on more debt so as not to default.

#2. The ramification  for the US  from Europe is  a reduction of 1% growth in US GDP– which means much less growth than might have been expected. This, in turn, puts added stress on valuations in our financial markets, where multiples of earnings are expected to slide as investors run away from risk-on assets.

#3. Continued pressure on the earnings and book values of both European and US banks. This can be seen in the way bank shares have traded this year, with global banks getting pounded, and only regional banks with strong balance sheets being favored.

#4. Continued  selling pressure on the prices of key commodities like oil, copper and iron ore due to expectd slowness i the global economy.

#5.  The imbecility of extending the payroll tax deduction for only two more months– a horrendous sign of political weakness with dire economic ramifications.

#6. Residential housing market still mightily impaired and not expected to recover for another 3 years. Still many millions of homes where mortgage debt greater than the market value of the homes.

#7. Antipathy individual investor for long term equity investing. Rise of the short-yterm investor such as hedge funds using leverage, requiring volatility, better informed than the public investor.

#8. Expectation reduction $1.2 trillion from US budget over next 10 years. Can only mean less money in circulation, less income to invest, lower GDP, less economic growth rate. This is the reality being denied by most investors.

#9. Overall theme of  deflation, deleveraging can only mean lower asset prices.

#10.  Chance of social unrest in China, upheaval that affects move to consumer economy,  and lack of leadership from 10% of global economy.

 

 

We’ve Reached the End Game For Central Bank Intervention   http://gainspainscapital.com December 19th, 2011 We’ve reached the end game for Central Bank intervention.When confronted with excessive debt, you can either “take the hit” or you can try to inflate the debt away.In 2008, the Central Banks, lead by the US Federal Reserve, decided not to “take the hit.” They’ve since spent trillions of Dollars propping up the financial system. By doing this, they’ve essentially attempted to fight a debt problem by issuing more debt.The end result is similar to what happens when you try to cure a heroine addict by giving him more heroine: each new “hit” has less and less effect.Case in point, consider the Central Banks’ coordinated intervention to lower the cost of borrowing Dollars three weeks ago. Remember, this was a coordinated effort, not the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank acting alone. And yet, here we are, less than one month later, and European banks have wiped out MOST if not ALL of the gains the intervention produced…’

 

 

 

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THE CORRUPTION OF AMERICA

The numbers tell us America is in decline... if not outright collapse.

I say "the numbers tell us" because I've become very sensitive to the impact this kind of statement has on people. When I warned about the impending bankruptcy of General Motors in 2006 and 2007, readers actually blamed me for the company's problems – as if my warnings to the public were the real problem, rather than GM's $400 billion in debt.

The claim was absurd. But the resentment my work engendered was real.

So please... before you read this issue, which makes several arresting claims about the future of our country... understand I am only writing about the facts as I find them today. I am only drawing conclusions based on the situation as it stands. I am not saying that these conditions can't improve. Or that they won't improve.

The truth is, I am optimistic. I believe our country is heading into a crisis. But I also believe that... sooner or later... Americans will make the right choices and put our country back on sound footing.

Please pay careful attention to the data I cite. And please send me corrections to the facts. I will happily publish any correction that can be substantiated. But please don't send me threats, accusations against my character, or baseless claims about my lack of patriotism. If I didn't love our country, none of these facts would bother me. I wouldn't have bothered writing this letter.

I know this is a politically charged and emotional issue. My conclusions will not be easy for most readers to accept. Likewise, many of the things I am writing about this month will challenge my subscribers to re-examine what they believe about their country. The facts about America today tell a painful story about a country in a steep decline, beset by problems of its own making.

One last point, before we begin... I realize that this kind of macro-economic/political analysis is not, primarily, what you pay me for.

You rightly expect me to provide you with investment opportunities – whether bull market, bear market, or total societal collapse. And that's what I've done every month for more than 15 years.

But that's not what I've done this month. You won't find any investment ideas at all in these pages. This issue is unlike any other I have ever written.

I'm sure it will spark a wave of cancellations – costing me hundreds of thousands of dollars. I fear it will spark a tremendous amount of controversy. Many people will surely accuse me of deliberately writing inflammatory things in order to stir the pot and gain attention. That's not my intention. The truth is, I've gone to great lengths throughout my career to protect my privacy.

I am speaking out now because I believe someone must. And I have the resources to do it. I am sharing these ideas with my subscribers because I know we have arrived at the moment of a long-brewing crisis.

Our political leaders, our business leaders, and our cultural leaders have made a series of catastrophic choices. The result has been a long decline in America's standard of living.

For decades, we have papered over these problems with massive amounts of borrowing. But now, our debts total close to 400% of GDP, and America is the world's largest borrower (after being the world's largest creditor only 40 years ago)... And the holes in our society can no longer be hidden...

We've reached the point where we will have to fix what lies at the heart of America's decline... or be satisfied with a vastly lower standard of living in the future.

How do I know? How do I statistically define the decline of America?

The broadest measure of national wealth is per-capita gross domestic product (GDP). Economists use this figure to judge standards of living around the world. It shows the value of the country's annual production divided by the number of its citizens. No, the production isn't actually divided among all the citizens, but this measure provides us with a fair benchmark to compare different economies around the world. Likewise, this measure shows the growth (or the decline) in wealth in societies across time.

So... is America growing richer or poorer based on per-capita GDP? Seems like a simple enough question, doesn't it? Is our economy growing faster than our population? Are we, as individuals, becoming more affluent? Or is the pie, measured on a per-person basis, growing smaller?
This is the most fundamental measure of the success or the failure of any political system or culture. Are the legal and social rules we live under aiding our economic development or holding us back? What do the numbers say?

Unfortunately, it's a harder question to answer than it should be. The problem is, we don't have a sound currency with which to measure GDP through time. Until 1971, the U.S. dollar was defined as a certain amount of gold. And the price of gold was fixed by international agreement. It didn't actually begin to trade freely until 1975. Therefore, the value of the U.S. dollar (and thus the value of U.S. production, which is measured in dollars) was manipulated higher for many years.

Even today, our government's nominal GDP figures are greatly influenced by inflation. The influence of inflation is particularly pernicious in GDP studies. You see, inflation, which actually reduces our standard of living, drives up the amount of nominal GDP. So it creates the appearance of a wealthier country... while the nation is actually getting poorer.

The only real way to accurately measure per-capita GDP is to build our own model. The need to build our own tools tells you something important – the government doesn't want anyone to know the answer to this question. It could easily publish data far more accurate than the indexes it puts out. But government doesn't want anyone to know. And it wants to be able to say "those aren't the real data" when studies like ours produce bad news.

So pay attention to how we built our charts. You can see for yourself that our data are far more accurate than the government's figures. Our data are based on the real purchasing power of the currency, not the nominal numbers, which are completely meaningless in the real world.

The question we are trying to answer is: What would per-capita GDP numbers look like, if we used a real-world currency, like gold, or a basket of commodity prices, instead of the paper-based U.S. dollar? What would the figures be if we measured GDP in sound money instead of the government's funny money?

Here's how we figured it out. We took the government numbers for nominal GDP and measured them first against commodity prices, and later (after it began to trade freely) gold. We used a standard commodity index (the CRB) up to 1975 and gold post-1975. The result of this analysis shows you the real trend in U.S. per-capita GDP, as measured on a real-world purchasing power basis.

Our analysis shows you what's actually happened to our real standard of living. The results, we suspect, will surprise even the most bearish among you.

America is in a steep decline.

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Americans Are Getting Poorer – Fast

Let me anticipate the "official" criticism of our study. Many people will claim that our numbers aren't "real." They will say that we "mined" the data to produce a chart that showed a steep decline.

That's simply not so. All we've done is convert the government's nominal GDP stats into a fixed currency value that's based on real-world purchasing power. The fact is, our data are far more accurate than the government's because they represent the real-world experience.

That's why our data are far more closely correlated to other real-world studies of wealth in America.

Consider, for example, annual sales of automobiles. Auto sales peaked in 1985 (11 million) and have been declining at a fairly steady rate since 1999. In 2009, Americans bought just 5.4 million passenger cars. As a result, the median age of a registered vehicle in the U.S. is almost 10 years.

Our data shows that real per-capita wealth peaked in the late 1960s. Guess when we find the absolutely lowest median age of the U.S. fleet? In 1969. At the end of the 1960s, the median age of all the cars on the road in the U.S. was only 5.1 years. Even as recently as 1990, the median age was only 6.5 years.

Rich people buy new cars. Poor people do not.

Most important, our data "proves" something I know many of you have felt or perceived for many years. You've seen the decline of your neighborhoods. You've gone years without being able to earn more money in your job. Or you've seen your purchasing power decrease to the point where you're now substituting lower-quality products on your grocery list for the brand-name products you used to buy.

You can see how much harder it is on your children to find good jobs, to buy good housing or a new car. As a result, few people under the age of 40 have the same kind of "life story" as their parents.

And because they can't "make it," many have decided to "fake it." The average college student now graduates with $24,000 in debt... and by his late 20s has racked up more than $6,000 in credit card debt. Meanwhile, median earnings for Americans aged 25-34 equals $34,000-$38,000. (Source: Demos.org, "The Economic State of Young America," November 2011.)

Can you imagine starting your life out as an adult with a personal debt-to-income level at close to 100%? What does this say about the state of our economy? What does this say about the state of our culture?

Who Suffers Most

It's not only the young that are having trouble in America. It is also the old.

Debt levels among households headed by people older than 62 have been rising for two decades. The average mortgage size for this population is now $71,000 – five times larger than it was in 1987 (adjusted for inflation), according to William Apgar of Harvard's Joint
Center
for Housing Studies.

Older Americans are also more reliant on credit card debt than ever before... credit card debt. From 1992 through 2007 (which is the latest data available) older Americans took on credit card debt at a faster pace than the population as a whole. According to USA Today, lower- and middle-income Americans aged 65 and older now carry an average of more than $10,000 in credit card debt, up 26% since only 2005.
Given average interest rates of 20% for these debts, it's a fair bet that these obligations will never be repaid. But they will have a terrible impact on the standard of living of these older Americans.

What in the heck is going on? Don't Americans pay off their mortgages before they retire? Don't they work hard during their careers, save, and invest, so they can move to Florida and spend their retirement in comfort?

Older Americans living with credit card debt! This doesn't sound like America, does it? Or maybe it does.

My bet is that most of my subscribers know that something has gone terribly wrong with America. It's not easy to figure out how all of this happened... but you know from your own experiences that these numbers aren't wrong. It might not be pleasant to think about... but these figures paint a sad but accurate picture: America is not the country it was 40 years ago. These changes are warping our economy, politics, and culture.

In this month's issue, I'd like to try to define a few of the core reasons we're in this situation. I can't possibly analyze all the factors that have led to this decline. But I want to document the growth of graft in politics. I want to demonstrate – with real facts and examples – how public company leadership has deteriorated. And I want to document some of the things that are occurring in the broader society, all of which I believe are linked to this fundamental decline in our standard of living.

You see, I believe the decline of our country is primarily a decline of our culture.

We have lost our sense of honor, humility, and the dedication to personal responsibility that, for more than 200 years, made our country the greatest hope for mankind. I want to detail some of the factors that gave rise to the current entitlement society. We have become a country of people who believe their well-being is someone else's responsibility.

I've labeled these problems: The Corruption of America.

These problems manifest themselves in different ways across institutions in all parts of our society. But at their root, they are simply facets of the same stone. They are all part of the same essential problem.

The corruption of America isn't happening in one part of our country... or in one type of institution. It is happening across the landscape of our society, in almost every institution. It's a kind of moral decay... a kind of greed... a kind of desperate grasp for power... And it's destroying our nation.

The Ethos of 'Getting Yours'

Americans know, in their bones, that something terrible is happening. Maybe you can't articulate it. Maybe you don't have the statistics to understand exactly what's going on. But my bet is, you think about it a lot.

For me, a poignant moment of recognition came this month.

Bloomberg news published an article based on confidential sources about how Henry Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and the Republican U.S. Treasury secretary during the financial crisis, held a secret meeting with the top 20 hedge-fund managers in New York City in late July 2008. This was about two weeks after he testified to Congress that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "well-capitalized."
I knew for a fact that what Paulson told Congress wasn't true. I wrote my entire June 2008 newsletter detailing exactly why Fannie and Freddie certainly had billions in losses that they had not yet revealed to investors – $500 billion in losses, at least. There was no question in my mind, both companies were insolvent – "zeros," as I explained.

And yet, in front of Congress, the U.S. Treasury secretary was saying exactly the opposite. Either I was a liar... or he was.
Then... only a few days later... what did Paulson tell those hedge-fund managers?

He told them the same thing I had written in my newsletter. He told them the opposite of what he'd said publicly to Congress. He told these billionaire investors that Fannie and Freddie were a disaster... They would require an enormous, multibillion-dollar bailout... The U.S. government would have to take them over... And their shareholders would be completely wiped out.

Here you had a high-government official, explicitly lying to Congress (and by extension, the general public), while giving the real facts to a group of people who represented the financial interests of the world's wealthiest folks. The story didn't come to the public's attention for two years.

This was the most outrageous example of graft and corruption I have ever seen. Certainly it involves more billions of dollars in misappropriated value than any other similar story I can recall. These managers had the risk-free ability to make tens of billions of dollars, if not hundreds of billions, by using derivatives to capitalize on what they knew was the imminent collapse of the world's largest mortgage bank. Who picked up the tab? You know perfectly well. It was you and me, the taxpayers.

(One of the investment managers present at this meeting was Steve Rattner, who by that point was already deeply involved in another bit of graft, his efforts to bribe New York state pension-fund managers for large investments into his hedge fund, from which he earned perhaps as much as $100 million. He later settled the charges for a mere $10 million shortly after Andrew Cuomo was elected governor of New York.)
The Bloomberg story... about a crooked Treasury secretary handing a room full of crooked billionaires inside information worth billions of dollars... hardly caused a ripple. As far as I know, no actions are being planned against Henry Paulson or any of the hedge-fund managers involved. No other major media outlet picked up the story. I saw nothing about it from the Department of Justice or the Securities and Exchange Commission.

What does that say about our country when even the most egregious kind of corruption – involving hundreds of billions of dollars – is simply ignored?

It seems like everyone in our country has lost his moral bearing, from the highest government officials and senior corporate leaders all the way down to schoolteachers and local community leaders. The ethos of my fellow Americans seems to have changed from one of personal integrity and responsibility to "getting yours" – the all-out attempt, by any means possible, to get the most amount of benefits with the least amount of work.

You can see this in everything from the lowering of school standards (revising the SAT) to the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional, college, and high school sports. Cheating has become a way of life in America.

I have an idea about how this happened... about the root cause of this kind of corruption and why it was inevitable, given some of the basic facts regarding how we've organized our government and our corporations.

Let me show you the numbers – the hard facts – behind what's happened to our country...’

 

 

 

50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe  The Economic Collapse | If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies. December 16, 2011 ‘Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately.  If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them.  Just “tweaking” things here and there is not going to fix this economy.  We truly do need a fundamental change in direction.  America is consuming far more wealth than it is producing and our debt is absolutely exploding.  If we stay on this current path, an economic collapse is inevitable.  Hopefully the crazy economic numbers from 2011 that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up.

At this time of the year, a lot of families get together, and in most homes the conversation usually gets around to politics at some point.  Hopefully many of you will use the list below as a tool to help you share the reality of the U.S. economic crisis with your family and friends.  If we all work together, hopefully we can get millions of people to wake up and realize that “business as usual” will result in a national economic apocalypse.

The following are 50 economic numbers from 2011 that are almost too crazy to believe….

#1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

#2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.

#3 If the number of Americans that “wanted jobs” was the same today as it was back in 2007, the “official” unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.

#4 The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.

#5 One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.

#6 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

#7 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#8 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006.  Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.

#9 A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.

#10 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.

#11 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs.  Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#12 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job.  In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.

#13 One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.

#14 The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.

#15 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.

#16 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages.  According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married.  Back in 1960, 72 percentof all U.S. adults were married.

#17 The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.

#18 In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked.

#19 Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 monthsin a row.

#20 If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.

#21 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant.  That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

#22 New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011.

#23 As I have written about previously, 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.

#24 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

#25 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980.  Today they account for approximately 16.3%.

#26 One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

#27 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#28 The United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.

#29 It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollars.

#30 The retirement crisis in the United States just continues to get worse.  According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.

#31 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.

#32 According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America’s biggest companies rose by 36.5% in just one recent 12 month period.

#33 Today, the “too big to fail” banks are larger than ever.  The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.

#34 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.

#35 According to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by the Pew Research Center, the median net worth for households led by someone 65 years of age or older is 47 times greater than the median net worth for households led by someone under the age of 35.

#36 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.

#37 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7%) than has ever been measured before.

#38 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007.

#39 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.

#40 Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over America.  According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.

#41 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

#42 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income.  Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.

#43 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits.  Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

#44 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP.  Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.

#45 For fiscal year 2011, the U.S. federal government had a budget deficit ofnearly 1.3 trillion dollars.  That was the third year in a row that our budget deficit has topped one trillion dollars.

#46 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.

#47 Amazingly, the U.S. government has now accumulated a total debt of 15 trillion dollars.  When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars.

#48 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.

#49 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.

#50 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

Of course the heart of our economic problems is the Federal Reserve.  The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine, it has almost completely destroyed the value of the U.S. dollar and it has an absolutely nightmarish track record of incompetence.  If the Federal Reserve system had never been created, the U.S. economy would be in far better shape.  The federal government needs to shut down the Federal Reserve and start issuing currency that is not debt-based.  That would be a very significant step toward restoring prosperity to America.

During 2011 we made a lot of progress in educating the American people about our economic problems, but we still have a long way to go.

Hopefully next year more Americans than ever will wake up, because 2012 is going to represent a huge turning point for this country.’

 

 

 

Current Events Summarized In Brilliant Art  George Washington 12/16/2011 A picture is worth a thousand words  [ View archived file: http://www.albertpeia.com/currenteventsinart.htm  ]

 

 

The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But There Will Be No Miracle Comebacks For The U.S. Economy | Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this. The Economic Collapse December 12, 2011 ‘Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this.  Today, Tim Tebow engineered yet another miraculous 4th quarter comeback.  Almost everyone has been expecting this unprecedented string of comebacks to come to an end, yet Tebow just keeps pulling off miracle after miracle.  It seems like nearly every week now we are talking about another unbelievable Tim Tebow comeback.  It is truly a great story, and what is wonderful about Tebow is that he is not out to glorify himself.  He is very humble, he always recognizes his teammates and he is a terrific role model for a generation of American youth that is in desperate need of one.  Unfortunately, there is not going to be a similar comeback story for the U.S. economy.  It is late in the 4th quarter, we have accumulated over 50 trillion dollars of total debt as a nation, and our economic guts are being ripped out at a rate that is almost impossible to believe.  The game is essentially over and we are headed for an incredible amount of economic pain as a nation.

We desperately need a “political Tim Tebow” to come along to dismantle our current debt-based economic system.  But instead, the corrupt politicians in Washington D.C. just keep patching up our current system and hope that somehow it will recover.

Unfortunately, this is about as good as things are going to get for the U.S. economy.  The federal government and the Federal Reserve are already pushing things to the “red line”, and all of that effort has not accomplished much.

We have been experiencing “economic stagnation” for much of the past year, and there is not much more that they can do to improve things under our current system.

Right now, the Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates as low as they can go.  They can’t go any lower.

Right now, the federal government is borrowing and spending unprecedented amounts of money.  Federal spending cannot go much higher.

Right now, we have already seen tax cut after tax cut and virtually none of them have been paid for.  Any additional tax cuts will just send our budget deficits even higher.

Right now, we have already seen unprecedented intervention by the Federal Reserve.  They have done just about everything short of dropping huge bags of money over the countryside from helicopters.

The federal government and the Federal Reserve have done just about everything that they can possibly do to “stimulate” the economy, and yet things just keep getting worse.

So what is going to happen when the federal government and the Federal Reserve quit stimulating the economy?

As I wrote about the other day, when evaluating the future of the U.S. economy, it is vitally important to look at the balance sheet numbers and the long-term trends.

When you do that, you suddenly do not feel so good about the upward “blips” that we have seen in the economy lately.

Yes, the “official” unemployment rate recently went down slightly.  But as Mac Slavo recently pointed out, even with the recent “improvement” the truth is that the “real” level of unemployment in the United States is still well over 20 percent.

And all of the long-term trends indicate that we heading for a massive amount of trouble.

The number of good jobs continues to decline.  Even though our population is rapidly increasing, there are 10 percent fewer middle income jobs in the U.S. today than there were a decade ago.

In recent years, the employment to population ratio has been steadily declining.  At the start of the recession it was at 62.7%.  Today, it is at 58.5%.

Household incomes continue to go down as well.  Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8%once you account for inflation.

So why is this happening?  Well, as I wrote about recently, the United States has the worst balance of trade in the entire world by far.

Wealth, jobs and economic infrastructure are pouring out of this country and very few politicians are trying to stop it.

An average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year.

That represents a huge amount of lost jobs.

So do you hear any political candidates talking about how they are going to stop this from happening or about how they are going to get all of those lost jobs back?

Overall, the U.S. has lost a total of more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

So how can an economy be great when it is constantly bleeding huge amounts of economic infrastructure?

We have become way too dependent on other nations for the things that we need.

How much trouble would we be in if Saudi Arabia suddenly decided to quit shipping us oil or if China suddenly decided to quit shipping us cheap plastic products to sell in our stores?

Right now, businesses are absolutely racing to get out of the United States.  Big corporations are shipping as many jobs as they possibly can out of the country.  Our insane economic policies have turned American workers into tremendous liabilities.

One economist from Princeton University is warning that 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if nothing is done to stop this.

So why aren’t more politicians screaming and yelling about this?

Without good jobs, Americans are falling out of the middle class in staggering numbers.

Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.

So is that a sign that things are getting better or that things are getting worse?

A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than has ever been measured before.  Not only that, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty last year.  That was also a new all-time record.

So are those signs that things are getting better or that things are getting worse?

The American people generally do not understand why these things are happening, but they are clearly getting frustrated.

A recent Gallup poll found that an all-time record 76 percent of all Americans believe that most members of Congress do not deserve to be reelected.

But when election time rolls around, they will probably send most of them back to Washington D.C. anyway.

Our politicians keep kicking the can down the road, but time for doing that is running out.  The unprecedented “stimulus” efforts by the federal government will be coming to an end sooner or later.

In a recent article, author Bruce Krasting listed a whole bunch of reasons why the economic can is not going to be able to be kicked down the road much farther.  The following are some of the things that he says are scheduled to end by the beginning of 2013….

·        The Bush tax cuts on those making more than $200k will expire.

·        The Bush tax cuts on those making less than $200k will also expire.

·        The Patch on AMT will expire.

·        The 2% payroll tax holiday will expire for all workers on 12/31/12 (I’m sure the current holiday will be rolled for another year)

·        The 99-week extended unemployment benefits die on 12/31. (The emergency benefits will also be extended for 2012)

·        There will have to be a budget that is approved. Alternatively, a series of continuing resolutions is required to avert a government shutdown. We have not had an approved budget in over 900 days.

·        2013 is the first year that there will be mandatory caps on discretionary spending. These limits will result in a YoY decline in government spending.

·        The Federal Reserve has promised to keep interest rates at zero into 2013. While it is possible that the Fed could continue the madness for even longer, the reality is that interest rates have nowhere to go but up.

·        By January 2013 it will be painfully evident that the country’s key social programs, Social Security and Medicare will be running in the red at a pace that is far higher than anyone considered possible. The need for dramatic changes in these programs will have to come onto the table. The implications of this will be significant.

·        In 2013 the issues of Fannie, Freddie, FHA and the Federal Home Loan Banks must be addressed. The problems at the housing agencies has festered too long.

·        The country will face another debt ceiling extension. The last time cost us our AAA.

Sadly, we will probably not have to wait until 2013 to feel a whole lot of economic pain.

The reality is that a 15 trillion dollar debt and trillion dollar yearly budget deficits are not sustainable.  We have created a situation where a horrible crash is inevitable, and there is no way that our current debt-based system can be fixed to keep a nightmarish collapse from happening.

During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.  That is a recipe for national financial suicide.

Meanwhile, despite what you may have heard, the European debt crisis has not been fixed.

Not at all.

The truth is that none of the fundamental problems were fixed by this recent “agreement” as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recently noted in one of his columns….

There is no shared debt issuance, no fiscal transfers, no move to an EU Treasury, no banking licence for the ESM rescue fund, and no change in the mandate of the European Central Bank.

In short, there is no breakthrough of any kind that will convince Asian investors that this monetary union has viable governance or even a future.

Germany has kept the focus exclusively on fiscal deficits even though everybody must understand by now that this crisis was not caused by fiscal deficits (except in the case of Greece). Spain and Ireland were in surplus, and Italy had a primary surplus.

For many more reasons why Europe is headed for big trouble, please read this article: “22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collapse In Europe In 2012“.

When Europe goes down, it is going to have a devastating impact on the United States.

Meanwhile, the economies of China and Japan are also steamrolling toward recession.

There is simply way too much debt in the world, and a great day of reckoning is coming.

Combined, the industrialized nations of the world borrowed more than 10 trillion dollars this year, and that number is expected to soar even higher next year.

Jim Cramer of CNBC stated recently that the global economy is at “DEFCON 3, two stages from a financial collapse so huge it’s hard to get your mind around.”

Most Americans don’t understand this yet.  But hopefully we can get more of them educated while there is still time.

The global financial system is a big shell game.  It is a gigantic mountain of debt, leverage and risk.

You would have thought that we would have learned some key lessons from the financial crisis of 2008, but we didn’t.

Back in 2002, the top 10 U.S. banks controlled 55 percent of all U.S. banking assets.  Right now, the top 10 U.S. banks control 77 percent of all U.S. banking assets.

Today, the “too big to fail” banks are larger than ever.  The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.

So instead of doing something about the “too big to fail” banks, they are now more “too big to fail” than ever.

As big banks and big corporations have come to dominate our economy more than ever before, wealth and power have also become much more concentrated….

*The wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the United States.

*The poorest 50 percent of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

*The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.

*Overall, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worththan the bottom 90 percent combined.

It would be wonderful if we could send a “Tim Tebow of politics” to Washington D.C., but instead the Democrats and the Republicans look like they just plan to give us more of the same.

Are the Republicans really going to nominate someone who co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi?  The truth is that the latest “anti-Romney candidate” isalmost a clone of Mitt Romney.

Newt Gingrich is essentially an older, ruder version of Barack Obama.  If you are counting on him to “save America” then you are going to be incredibly disappointed.

Sadly, we just do not have nearly enough men like Tim Tebow in America today.  The following comes from a recent profile of Tebow that recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal….

While at Florida, Mr. Tebow became well known for spending his summers helping the poor and needy in the Philippines. He also spoke in prisons and appeared to accept every opportunity to volunteer. He encouraged his teammates and classmates to follow his lead.

You can see video of Tim Tebow speaking to a group of prisoners at the Lake City Correctional Facility while he was still attending the University of Floridaright here.

Unfortunately, there is no “Tim Tebow comeback” on the horizon for the U.S. economy at this point.

But when the U.S. economy does get worse, we can take a cue from Tim Tebow and be very generous with those in need.  There are going to be a lot of people that will be really hurting, and those of us that have been blessed should do what we can to help them out.

A lot of people say that my site is all about “doom and gloom”, but telling the truth to the American people is never a bad thing.

We do not do ourselves any favors by sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that everything is going to be okay.

There is going to be no miracle comeback for the U.S. economy.

A horrific economic collapse is coming.

You better get ready.’

 

 

 

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: GLOBAL ECONOMY ON THE BRINK http://www.safehaven.com/article/23606/the-road-not-taken  12/10/2011 By David Knox Barker: ‘The international political economy and global financial markets are deep in the woods. A long wave winter season is blowing cold, and getting colder. Decades of excess leverage in the banking system and sovereign states is coming to an end. Government and consumer spending are hitting a wall. A critical fork on this wintry road is coming up fast.

A transformational long wave crisis that spans the globe is under way. Tough decisions must be made to pull us out of the long wave winter crisis and into a new spring day on the other side. There are two different roads beckoning us out of this long wave wintry mess. Make no mistake; the choice leads to distinctly different destinations.

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Oscar Wilde, in his essay The Decay of Lying, famously penned the words, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Along this line of thinking, Robert Frost's famous poem, with only one word edited (wintry), is in order. It offers new meaning as the world grapples with the global financial, economic and political crisis. It speaks to the far-reaching implications of the important decisions required now for the uncertain road that lies ahead.

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a (wintry) wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Investors and traders should recognize that global markets will discount the unknown future on the road ahead far more than most are expecting as this long wave winter bottoms in the years directly ahead, whatever road we take. Markets do not like the unknown and buyers of the future will require a hefty discount to the cash flows it offers, especially when perceived risks are rising fast and show no sign of abating.

After this final phase of the long wave winter that puts the future on sale, we can get on with building a global economy that is better than what we are leaving behind. The real question is what road we will take. One road leads to the serfdom and dependence on government promises, the other to individual freedom and unlimited potential. The road chosen will make a big difference in the world we live in during the coming long wave spring season and global boom that lies ahead.

The low road offers more of the same Keynesian hopes that created this crisis. It shows more wear. It offers greater intervention from government in hopes that the state, even in light of recent evidence to the contrary, has the answers. The low road grants greater powers to government and vastly higher levels of debt, fighting debt with debt. Along this road greater national and individual sovereignty and liberty is a required sacrifice offered to the deity of the state and its various temples of centralized control.

The high road offers the hope that the grand experiment of big government is actually ending world over. The dissemination of information on the Internet suggests the old media is losing its grip on public consciousness and its role of kingmaker. Centralized political power is doomed. Rather than centralizing power, there are signs the information age and technology is in the process of a quantum leap, transforming political power in the process and returning it to its rightful owner, the individual and their important role in society and community. The latent potential that can be unleashed on the high road is astounding, and it is the same world over.

Advocates of the high road recognize that radical pro-growth and pro-job corporate tax policies are urgently required. A low flat corporate tax rate of 15% or less in the U.S. will force the world to follow and trigger a global growth boom and new long wave spring. The fair-tax makes even more sense, but that is likely asking too much of politicians that appear to have trouble understanding that they were not elected to only enrich themselves. Have courage, this ilk is on the way out. Most politicians believe tax reform is granting tax breaks in the tax code for kickbacks in one form of another.

If government spending cuts are combined with pro-growth corporate tax policies, the next wave of Internet driven innovation will trigger a global boom in a new long wave spring season beyond 2012. Political leaders can pursue policies that accelerate these trends, or they can try to hold on to their rapidly failing grip on power.

Few are aware that the object-oriented paradigm and the object-oriented code it spawned has played an essential role in the Internet revolution. The objectivation of the planet is turning the Internet into an empowering force for individual freedom and liberty. The Internet is decentralizing access to information and is radically changing the world, including putting political power into a state of flux.

The low road is simply more of the same that got us here and delivered the global system to the edge of the abyss. There are those that are loudly advocating this well-worn Keynesian road funded by government debt, i.e., the same map that got us here. Many advocating the low road are hoping for yearend bonus checks for all the bad debt they would like governments to back stop and transfer onto the backs of taxpayers. This low road is where society's resources are distributed both up to an elite class that socialize their losses and down to an entitlement class. The motto of the low road is clear, in the words of Ayn Rand, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

The high road is seldom traveled these days. It is a road of individual responsibility and accountability for one's own decisions and actions, where thrift and prudence gain their just reward and are not punished by the greed of others that are too big to fail. This high road is where budgets are balanced and governments do not spend money they do not have and therefore must borrow, or steal from its rightful owners.

The two roads out of the global financial crisis are coming up as the world descends in the current business cycle. The call for the European Central Bank (ECB) to join with the U.S. Federal Reserve and promise unlimited quantitative easing (QE) has reached a fevered pitch. The ECB has been buying sovereign bonds on the margin, but the idea of the ECB ratcheting up the buying of any bonds issued by the profligate politicians is a low road choice by any standard. It is repulsive to those accustomed to living within their means and not interested in financing those that who do not.

The current global system is now struggling under its glaring contradictions. The long wave cycle points down and to a resetting of the global economic and financial order. The world has come to an important fork in the road in the current business cycle, the final business cycle of the long wave winter

The entitlement class is demanding the politicians serve up the wealthiest producers on a 1% prime mover platter, so they can, in their own words, "eat the rich". It will of course be their last meal, but this crowd does not think that far ahead. They have not considered that the next meal will be the wild-eyed comrade across the table, or it will be them and their family.

In short, the low road thinking suggests that it is possible to solve history's greatest debt crisis with more debt and deficit spending, keeping the entitlement class satisfied and growing. This may work marginally in this long wave cycle crisis and a somber spring will begin belatedly, but this low road will weaken international capitalism and likely trigger the collapse of capitalism in the next long wave winter season, delivering the global economy onto the cusp of a new dark age.

On the high road, governments will actually be required to stop spending money they do not have and balance their budgets. Investors that unfortunately make bad investments will have to take losses and not socialize them and pass them on to taxpayers. This appears to be a rather novel concept for many. The media and politicians jeer at it as old-fashioned nonsense. Those with the mistaken belief that the profits of capitalism will be able to pay the tab for the great entitlement banquet, are rejecting as "austerity" what is only common sense and the way our grandparents lived.

Advocates for the low road gained the upper hand in the 2008-2009 phase of the financial crisis. Many are now rightfully questioning this direction. Although we are now moving toward the low road, there remains time to change, to take the high road.

All eyes are now on Europe. There is hope that Europe could switch to the high road, and force the U.S. and Asia to follow. This week we learned that the new ECB president Mario Draghi is suggesting that the ECB does not intend to backstop governments that cannot balance their budgets, or failing banks that fund them. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is suggesting government must bring their budgets under control before they receive any help from the ECB. In short, Europe is considering taking the high road. If they do, they could force the U.S. and even the world to follow. Merkel and Draghi are pointing us toward the high road. Those clamoring for more QE to off load their bad debts on you, your children and your grandchildren, so they can get their Christmas bonuses, typically work the tollgates on the low road.

The statement out of the European Union meeting this week suggests there remain leaders that are advocating the high road; let us pray they can provide the leadership to make it happen. They are asking governments to cut spending and move toward balanced budgets before the ECB steps in and buys larger amounts of sovereign debt. Draghi appears to be the sort that will wait for tangible evidence and real cuts before backstopping anyone. Chairman Bernanke should take notes and shake off his fear of deflation.

Great pressure is being applied to the ECB to jettison their single mandate of price stability in Europe and join the U.S. Federal Reserve by becoming the buyer of last resort. This is clearly a low road option. If the ECB caves to this pressure, odds rise sharply that the low road is our destiny. If the infrastructure obsessed Bank of China (BOC) keeps the monetary pedal to the metal it will also indicate the low road may be the one the world travels, but they may just take their cue from the ECB. There is evidence that even some of the leaders of communist-capitalism can recognize the advantages of the high road.

On the low road, concerted global QE will cause the global crisis and long wave winter to drag on longer than it will on the high road. With global QE that buys bad debt, the business cycle lows in 2016 will be inflation-adjusted long wave lows as debt is monetized and inflation steals from real returns. Capital will be slow to commit to the new global long wave spring season and it will get off to a much slower start than possible on the high road. Government picks winners and losers on the low road. That plan has not worked out so far, e.g. Solyndra, etc.

The map for the high road is real deficit reduction in the U.S. and in Europe, not just smaller increases, and aggressive pro-growth corporate tax reform; not endless talk, but action. On the high road, the decline of the business cycle will sharper and swifter than most expect. Required writedowns of bad debt investments, necessary government spending cuts and debt deleveraging will not come without pain. On the high road the decline of the business cycle will most likely be a sharp V shaped deflationary recession/depression into late 2012, and possibly mid-2013.

The chart below demonstrates this possible scenario using Market Cycle Dynamics software running with Metastock. The global economy and international markets are a complex system. The low road will not stop the cycles; it will only lengthen the cycles and lead the world inexorably toward chaos and a greater collapse. The high road will restore order and a global boom. A new long wave spring season of global prosperity is what the high road offers.

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On the high road, the global economy will make the turn and come roaring out of the V shaped deflation and debt liquidation and into a new long wave spring within 18 months. Hard work, risk taking and ability are what will pick the winners along the high road. The road we choose to travel will determine how and when this business cycle and long wave winter season ends. The road we take will make all the difference.’

 

 

 

 

The Worldwide Depression/Recession Of 2012   Jeff Harding Dec 09, 2011 ‘While we're seeing some positive numbers in the US, we're also seeing signs of weakness. And since we live in a world of international trade, the world's woes will hit us. (Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/eurozone-euro-eurozone-crisis-sovereign-debt/12/9/2011/id/38294#ixzz1g7Hfhu3K) ‘In case you haven’t noticed, the rest of the world continues to slow down and the negative data is accelerating. The big powerhouses of the world, the eurozone (including Germany), Japan, and China are leading this trend and there is no reason to believe that the U.S. will not follow.

I’ve been writing about this theme frequently lately because, while we are seeing some positive numbers here in the U.S., we are also seeing signs of weakness starting to show up, and since we live in a world of international trade, the world’s woes will hit us.

The first thing to note about this phenomenon is that the central banks of the world, including the Fed, have been doing all they can to support their economies with plentiful money. According to a recent Bloomberg article, “Central banks across five continents are undertaking the broadest reduction in borrowing costs since 2009 to avert a global economic slump stemming from Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil.”

Monetary easing will push the average worldwide central bank interest rate, weighted for gross domestic product, to 1.79% by next June from 2.16% in September, the largest drop in two years, according to data and projections from JPMorgan, which tracks 31 central banks. The number of those banks loosening credit is the most since the third quarter of 2009, when 15 institutions cut rates, the data show.

The People’s Bank of China has raised its main interest rate three times this year to fight inflation. India’s central bank lifted rates on Oct. 25 by a quarter of a percentage point, while signaling it was nearing the end of its record cycle of increases as the economy cooled.

This is nothing new. Since the Crash of 2008, most central banks have been pumping fiat money into their economies.

The multiple EU sovereign insolvencies—you don’t need to default to be insolvent—are hitting eurozone credit hard, which is a trigger for deflation as money supply declines. Lenders are stuck with bad sovereign loans and there isn’t enough money to bail them all out, much less the PIIGS.

The thing to remember about the eurozone is that it’s not just sovereign insolvencies that is their problem. They became insolvent, yes because governments spent too much, but their economies are in the tank mainly for many of the same reasons the U.S. economy declined (money inflation boom, high debt/spending, housing market collapse triggering depression, high taxes and regulation, and various bailouts to prevent recovery). Until they fix the underlying causes, their banks will collapse and countries will default.

China’s economy relies on the West for its exports, and as a result:

  • Manufacturing production falls at fastest rate in three months; the lowest service sector growth since August;
  • Overall input costs fall for the first month since July 2010;
  • Service sector business optimism second-lowest in series history.

China’s frequent monetary stimulus, along with government real estate policies, keeps feeding their real estate boom-bust cycles.

Once you look at the data (below), you will see where we and the world are headed. 

While these economies are shrinking, demand for commodities, capital goods, and manufactured goods all decline. This is impacting commodity prices; they have been falling since this summer (mainly a supply-demand factor, not just a money deflation issue). Each country/zone will have a different reaction to all this. Most will continue to inflate (“print” money).

Money printing will have little impact on declining prices for the time being. Unless they panic. If they panic -- that is, massively pump money -- they will suffer from price inflation. China will have more booms and the eurozone will also stagnate as well. Japan will continue to go "Japanese," and depending on what the Fed does, it is likely we’ll go Japanese as well.

Here is what it looks like:
 
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N.B. The word “depression” frightens a lot of people. It should. But, we are in one now. Our leaders just invented the word “recession” to take our minds off what’s really happening. Murray Rothbard in his book, America’s Great Depression noted that when the economy crashed again in 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers didn’t want to use the “D” word so they came up with “recession.” Until that time there were no “recessions.” Now a “recession” is just a mini-depression. Since we, in my opinion, have not yet recovered from the Crash of 2008, we are in a depression. Just ask the 25 million Americans who either don’t have a job, can’t find one, stopped looking, or are working part-time because they can’t find full-time work. Just ask the 24% of home owners whose homes are financially underwater.


Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/eurozone-euro-eurozone-crisis-sovereign-debt/12/9/2011/id/38294#ixzz1g7IPeEEi

 

 

 

MF GLOBAL EXPLAINED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLt05sN7vK0&feature=player_embedded  [This brief video explains causal links (some even adding that they’re all jewish)  between OTC derivatives, the financial crisis of 2008, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Jon Corzine and MF Global. [ It’s time for all people to know and understand how they, america and the rest of the world, have been done-in by fraudulent wall street greed / crime, u.s. government corruption, and media/u.s.government complicity by silence, coverup, and overt criminal acts to protect the perpetrators (the following 10 minute video is purposely simplistic enough for even the previously most gullible dupes to understand, including the insurmountable magnitude of the problem/fraud/crime requiring action and prosecutions. Yes, it is true ‘what a tangled web they’ve weaved, when in greed they’ve deceived, and fraudulently keep the money they’ve received, as all the respective nations of the world continue to bleed’!) ]; and, here’s: ‘Quantitative Easing Explained’  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k  (6 minutes-well worth it). 

Articles from  http://www.heraresearch.com/  :                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

·         How the U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 1)

·         Globalization and Global Chaos

·         Into the Abyss: The Cycle of Debt Deflation

·         OTC Derivatives: Failed Banks or Failed Nations?

·         Bernanke's Dilemma: Hyperinflation and the U.S. Dollar

·         Madmen, Gamblers, Alcoholics, the U.S. Dollar and Gold

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Senate Passes Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans ... Considers Bill Authorizing More Torture  George Washington : 11/29/2011 - 20:53 USA, USA, USA ... Number One in ... cough ... Fascism ... cough

 

SPX Update: Sell the Bounce   Jason Haver Nov 29, 2011 ‘This bounce might not last long, and new lows are expected to follow.

 

 

 

Nouriel Roubini: Government Gridlock ‘Ensures’ 2012 Recession Daily Ticker - Nov 23, 2011 {Tell me something that’s not already begun and that I don’t know! Tell us something we don’t know! Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’, David Rosenberg: “It’s Time To Start Calling This For What It Is: A Modern Day Depression” Zero Hedge ,  David Rosenberg On The Depression, The ECB, MF Global As A Canary In The Coalmine... All With A Surprise Ending,  This is No Cyclical Recession… It is a Secular DE-pression   }


 

 

 

$707,568,901,000,000: How (And Why) Banks Increased Total Outstanding Derivatives By A Record $107 Trillion In 6 Months

 

 

DATA SUMMARY SHOWS THE US ECONOMY IS IN JEOPARDY  [ Duh! Ya think? ]  Jeff Harding Nov 23, 2011 http://www.minyanville.com/buzz/buzzalert/data-summary-shows-the-us/11/23/2011/id/146675?camp=syndication&medium=portals&from=yahoo ‘An overview of all the factors at play leads to one inevitable conclusion.


The Crossroad
The economy is at one of those crossroads where something is going to happen. Whether that will be a positive or a negative is often difficult to tell because at any time one of those “black swans” could land in our midst and change everything. Plans are fluid and and forecasting can be quixotic. That said, I believe we are at a critical point, and the US economy is heading for a fall.

To understand what “tomorrow” might be, we need to look at today and try to tie those threads together. Here is my analysis step by step, and you can decide if you agree with my conclusions.

Today
I have been looking at a lot of data reports in terms of an overall view of the economy. I apologize for all of the charts and data, but they offer some insight into trends.

Price Indices
Both the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index have shown modest price increases, but may be trending negative. 

Producer Price Index: 

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On a 12-month basis, finished goods have gone up 5.9%, intermediate goods up 8.3%, and crude goods up 12.6%. However, the recent trend is down, as the above chart shows.

Consumer Price Index:

Consumer prices declined 0.1%, and core (less energy and food) went up 0.1%. On a year-over-year basis, prices have increased 3.5%, but that is down from 3.9% the prior month, mainly due to energy costs.

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Industrial Production

Industrial production as measured by shipments showed a 0.7% gain in October, and the 12-month index was up 3.9%.

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Manufacturing

The important factory sector output was up 0.5% in October and up 4.1% for the 12 months. The only negative here, and it is a significant one, is that new orders are flat, but may not be declining:

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The more telling ISM Manufacturing Index shows some weakness:

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The capital goods sector has been showing strong growth:

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Business Sales

Business sales and inventories are also steady:

Businesses are carefully managing their inventories, keeping them lean as sales move incrementally forward. Business inventories are unchanged in the September report with sales up 0.6 percent [11.06% YoY], a combination that keeps the inventory-to-sales ratio at 1.27. This ratio has been pretty steady for the last two years after spiking as high as 1.49 during the recession when sales of course plunged.


But note that these numbers are nominal, not adjusted for inflation. 

Retail Sales

Retail sales and food services were up 0.5% for October, and 7.2% year over year. Again, these numbers are not adjusted for inflation. They are steady but have been flat (±) since August 2010.

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Wages and Earnings

Real wages continue to be weak. While real wages increased 0.3% in October, that was after a CPI adjustment ((earnings +0.2)+(CPI -0.1%)). On a year-over-year basis, real earnings are down 1.6%. “An unchanged average workweek combined with the decline in real average hourly earnings resulted in a 1.7 percent decrease in real average weekly earnings during the same period,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Bank Credit

Bank credit conditions are still sluggish.

Consumer credit

Consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 1.5% in the third quarter. Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 3.25%, while nonrevolving credit increased 3.75%. In September consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 3.5%. Revolving credit is credit card debt; nonrevolving debt is mostly auto loans and student loans. Generally, consumer credit has been rather flat except for auto loans, which have been up and down, but mostly up:
 
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Business credit

What has changed is that commercial and industrial loans have grown, especially at small domestic banks. Look at the Fed’s H.8 commercial bank commercial and industrial (C&I) loans in 2011 (note: I modified this chart to fit):


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(Note that “Other consumer loans” are mostly auto loans. This consumer credit data is slightly different than the Fed’s G.19 data on consumer credit, above.)

What we see is that C&I loans took off starting in the first quarter of 2011. While the data for large domestic banks shows steady C&I loan growth since the fourth quarter of 2009, small domestic bank C&I lending shot up in the first quarter of 2011, from zero base to $20 billion:

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Even more surprising is that average loan size for small banks increased from about $100,000 to almost $650,000. One might conclude from this that the credit freeze is over and small banks are lending and small to medium business enterprises (SMEs) are borrowing, thus indicating a recovery.

What is happening?

The main reason for this sudden increase in loan activity is competition. Ever since Dodd-Frank, banks have been scrambling to figure out how to make more money, as many credit card and other account fees were prohibited in an attempt to protect consumers. One way to offset that loss is to gain more business customers, and there has been a scramble by both large and small banks for SME customers.

Small banks have the most to gain or lose in this competition because SMEs are their territory. So they are pursuing customers. Many also believe that there is a window of opportunity with favorable spreads and thus the timing is critical to expand business before that window closes. The initial beneficiaries seem to be the banks in the $5 billion to $10 billion asset range, which are classified as small banks. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank specializing in services to the banking sector said:


[Damon DelMonte, an analyst with KBW Inc.'s Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc.] said banks reporting loan growth are taking a bigger slice of the pie, but the pie isn’t getting much bigger. “We’re not of the belief that the demand for new loans is really ramping up,” he said. “It seems like it’s more of a shifting of market share. Smaller banks are going to benefit at the expense of larger banks.“


This was also confirmed by the Fed’s October 2011 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, where they reported increased competition, but that loan demand was weak:

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I will explain the significance of this data further on.

International Trade

On the international scene, imports were actually down slightly, which was seen as a positive by most analysts (I see it as a negative):

The US trade deficit unexpectedly improved in September, but a significant part of it appears to have been related to flight to safety to gold during September’s weak financial markets. The September trade gap shrank to $43.1 billion from $44.9 billion in August. The latest shortfall was narrower than analysts’ expectations for a $46.3 billion deficit. Exports gained 1.4 percent after edging up 0.1 percent in August. Imports rose 0.3 percent in September, following a 0.2 percent decline the prior month.


Exports have been a substantial driver of the economy ($2.117 trillion):

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International Capital Flows

 The Treasury International Capital Report shows us that money continues to flow into the US seeking refuge mainly in Treasuries:

Volatility in international financial markets made for a second straight month of increasing inflow into long-term US securities, at $68.6 billion in September following August’s revised $58.0 billion. These follow inflows of only $9.1 billion and $4.1 billion in the two prior months. US investors, repatriating their funds, were small net sellers of foreign securities in September. But increasing demand for US securities is narrowly based into Treasuries in contrast to outflows for corporate bonds and especially US equities which is no surprise given the general move into safety and away from risk. Net outflows from equities were a very steep $19.2 billion in September following August’s $6.5 billion outflow.


Summary

Here is a summary of the above data:

#1. Industrial production (manufacturing and services) is continuing a flat to declining trend that has been going on since the second quarter of 2010. Manufacturing has shown recent growth, but it mirrors the negative to flat trend. Capital goods orders have improved, reflecting technological upgrades (which is also mirrored in software sales).

#2. Prices are starting to decline both at the producer and consumer level. Oil prices are likely to decline as worldwide economic activity slows. But, as we know, political shocks from producers can alter this forecast dramatically.

#3. Retail sales, adjusted for price inflation, continue to be flat to declining.

#4. Credit conditions are still tight at the consumer level, and business credit still suffers from lack of demand.

#5. Exports have been a primary driver of the economy and have rebounded substantially post-crash as a result of a devalued dollar.

#6. European economic problems have caused a significant influx of money into the US, and that has been parked in Treasuries.


Here is a summary of other data I feel is important and that I have recently discussed:

#1. Unemployment is high. At 9% there are 13.9 million unemployed, while the broader measure of unemployed (U-6) is 25 million. While unemployment has been dropping at a snail’s pace, jobs are not being created at a sufficient rate to substantially reduce unemployment. New jobless claims have been hovering around the 400,000 per week for the entire year.

#2. Real disposable income is falling.

#3. Personal savings have fallen from a post-crash high of 5.8% in June 2010 to 3.6% as of September 2011 because consumers are using savings to fund consumption.

#4. GDP is static rather than growing, and the latest third-quarter boost will likely not continue. It is likely that the third-quarter report will be revised downward.

#5. Auto sales are related to pent-up demand and are not likely to be sustained.

#6. The top 5% of earners account for 37% of all consumer spending, and it is they who are supporting consumer spending. I call this a “bifurcated economy.” There is no broad-based consumer spending rally.

#7. Household debt ($13.9 trillion) is still historically very high and has not been substantially reduced.

#8. U.S. sovereign debt is 100% of GDP ($15 trillion and growing).

#9. All government spending (federal, state, and local) constitutes 45.6% of GDP.

#10. The euro crisis will have a substantial impact on the rest of the world, including the US. That is difficult to predict, but we’ll know very soon. According to recent data, the world is heading into recession in almost all economies.

#11. The federal government is currently running a $1.3 trillion annual deficit

#12. Unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drug (Part D) are $116.4 trillion and growing. This does not include the pending problem with student loans (Sallie Mae) or obligations to government-sponsored enterprises.

#13. The MF Global (MFGLQ.PK) problem is indicative of a declining economy. It is likely that in a growing economy, MF Global would have been able to ride out its crisis. In a declining economy, company weaknesses tend to be revealed, as with Lehman. That creates market uncertainty.

#14. Oil prices have risen from $40 a barrel post-crash to $110 a barrel in April 2011, and presently are at $97 a barrel. Such oil price increases are associated with and often presage recessions.

#15. Bank balance sheets are still weak because they do not book asset values at market, they seem to not properly book troubled loans, and they are encumbered by a substantial amount of malinvested assets that have not been liquidated.

#16. 47 million Americans (15%) are on food stamps; 48.5% of the population lived in a household that received some type of government aid in the first quarter of 2010.

#17. Americans are pessimistic about their future and the future of America, according to almost all recent polls.

#18. An angry and disaffected population in America is potentially politically dangerous. 


What is important when looking at the data is to spot trends rather than specific numbers. I have what I believe is a healthy skepticism about the reports from the multitude of federal agencies that I follow on a regular basis. They are often revised and probably understate the negatives. That is especially so with price inflation. Many of the reports are in nominal numbers rather than adjusted for official price inflation. If they are adjusted for inflation (chained), their baseline is a recent year. Many analysts put great emphasis on specific numbers, but quantifiable data is ephemeral and probably “gamed.” Look at the trend.

Reminder: This is part one of a two-part series. The second half will be published on Minyanville on Friday, November 25.’

 

 

Problem With Germany And China: Who Bails Out The Bailers?   Forbes / Addison Wiggin  [ Another downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt is a “certainty,” he adds. “It’s only a matter of when.” ] 

 

25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming Baby Boomer Retirement Crisis That Will Blow Your Mind The Economic Collapse | For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude. The Economic Collapse November 23, 2011

‘For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen.  Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 of them will be retiring every single day for years to come.  Most of them have not saved up nearly enough money for retirement.  At the same time, private sector pension plans are failing all over the place, hundreds of state and local government pension plans from coast to coast are woefully underfunded, and the Social Security system is on the road to complete and total disaster.  A massive wave of humanity is hitting retirement age at a moment in history when the U.S. economy is coming apart at the seams.  We do not have the resources to keep the promises that we made to the Baby Boomers, and most of them have not made adequate preparations for retirement.  What we have is a gigantic mess on our hands, and millions of Baby Boomers are going to find retirement to be very bitter and very painful.

A lot of younger Americans just assume that Social Security is enough to take care of the needs of elderly Americans.  But that is just not the case.

Have you ever tried to live solely on a Social Security check?

It is not easy.  The truth is that those checks are just not that large.

The following comes directly from the Social Security Administration….

The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker was about $1,177 at the beginning of 2011.

Could you live on less than 300 dollars a week?

And keep in mind that the $1,177 monthly figure is just an average.  Many receive a lot less than that.

In addition, Social Security benefits have been seriously squeezed by inflation in recent years.  The cost of food and other basics has risen briskly and Social Security benefits have not.

Today, many elderly Americans have to make a choice between buying food, heating their homes or buying medicine that they need.  They simply do not have enough money to do all of them.

It would have been nice if all of the Baby Boomers had been busy saving money for retirement all these years, but that just did not happen.  In fact, the Baby Boomers as a group are trillions of dollars short of what they need for retirement.

So why doesn’t the U.S. government step in to help them out?

Well, the reality of the situation is that the U.S. government is flat broke.  The federal government is now over 15 trillion dollars in debt.  During the Obama administration so far, the U.S. government has accumulated more new debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

Lawmakers are already looking at ways to make the Social Security program less costly.  No, the federal government is not going to be riding to the rescue.

In fact, it will be a minor miracle if the Social Security program is able to survive until the end of this decade, and it will be a major miracle if the Social Security program is able to survive until 2030.

As for myself, I do not believe that I will ever see a single penny from Social Security, and many other working age Americans feel the same way.

Retirement is supposed to be a fun time, but sadly most Americans that are approaching retirement age are not going to have any “golden years” to look forward to.

Rather, millions of elderly Americans are going to find the years ahead absolutely agonizing as they struggle just to survive.

The following are 25 bitter and painful facts about the coming Baby Boomer retirement crisis that will blow your mind….

#1 According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.

#2 According to a recent poll conducted by Americans for Secure Retirement,88 percent of all Americans are worried about “maintaining a comfortable standard of living in retirement”.  Last year, that figure was at 73 percent.

#3 A study conducted by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research has found that American workers are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

#4 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.

#5 On January 1st, 2011 the very first Baby Boomers started to retire.  For almost the next 20 years, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will be retiring every single day.

#6 At the moment, only about 13 percent of all Americans are 65 years of age or older.  By 2030, that number will soar to 18 percent.

#7 Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens.  By 2050 that number is projected to increase to 89 million.

#8 Back in 1991, half of all American workers planned to retire before they reached the age of 65.  Today, that number has declined to 23 percent.

#9 According to one recent survey, 74 percent of American workers expect to continue working once they are “retired”.

#10 According to a recent AARP survey of Baby Boomers, 40 percent of themplan to work “until they drop”.

#11 A poll conducted by CESI Debt Solutions found that 56 percent of American retirees still had outstanding debts when they retired.

#12 A study by a law professor at the University of Michigan found that Americans that are 55 years of age or older now account for 20 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States.  Back in 2001, they only accounted for 12 percent of all bankruptcies.

#13 Between 1991 and 2007 the number of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 that filed for bankruptcy rose by a staggering 178 percent.

#14 What is causing most of these bankruptcies among the elderly?  The number one cause is medical bills.  According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States.  Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.

#15 Public retirement funds all over the United States are woefully underfunded.  For example, it has been reported that the $33.7 billion Illinois Teachers Retirement System is 61% underfunded and is on the verge of complete collapse.

#16 Most U.S. states have huge pension obligations which threaten to bankrupt them.  For example, pension consultant Girard Miller told California’s Little Hoover Commission that state and local government bodies in the state of California have $325 billion in combined unfunded pension liabilities.  When you break that down, it comes to $22,000 for every single working adult in the state of California.

#17 Robert Novy-Marx of the University of Chicago and Joshua D. Rauh of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management have calculated the combined pension liability for all 50 U.S. states.  What they found was that the 50 states are collectively facing $5.17 trillion in pension obligations, but they only have $1.94 trillion set aside in state pension funds.  That is a difference of 3.2 trillion dollars.  So where in the world is all of that extra money going to come from?

#18 According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security systempaid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes in 2010.  That was not supposed to happen until at least 2016.  Sadly, in the years ahead these “Social Security deficits” are scheduled to become absolutely nightmarish as hordes of Baby Boomers retire.

#19 In 1950, each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16U.S. workers.  According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.

#20 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run outfive years faster than they were projecting just last year.

#21 The total cost of just three federal government programs – the Department of Defense, Social Security and Medicare – exceeded the total amount of taxes brought in during fiscal 2010 by 10 billion dollars.  In the years ahead expenses related to Social Security and Medicare are projected to skyrocket dramatically.

#22 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is the agency of the federal government that pays monthly retirement benefits to hundreds of thousands of retirees that were covered under defined benefit pension plans that failed.  The retirement crisis has barely even begun and the PBGC is already dead broke.  The PBGC says that it ran a deficit of $26 billion during the fiscal year that just ended and that it will probably need a huge bailout from the federal government.

#23 According to a survey by careerbuilder.com, 36 percent of all Americans say that they don’t contribute anything at all to retirement savings.

#24 More than 30 percent of all investors in the United States that are currently in their sixties have more than 80 percent of their 401k plans invested in equities.  So what is going to happen to them if the stock market crashes?

#25 A survey taken earlier this year found that 20 percent of all U.S. workers admitted that they had postponed their planned retirement age at least once during the last 12 months.  Back in 2008, that number was only at 14 percent.

Our politicians should have addressed the retirement crisis decades ago before we got to the point of being in debt up to our eyeballs.

It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will hit 344% of GDP by the year 2050, and the Congressional Budget Office says that U.S. government debt held by the public will reach a staggering 716% of GDP by the year 2080.

Obviously those figures will never be reached because our financial system would totally collapse long before then.

So what do we do?

We have tens of millions of elderly Americans that are completely and totally dependent on Social Security and Medicare, but those programs also threaten to bankrupt us as a nation.

Anyone that believes that there is a “quick fix” to these issues is being naive.

The “supercommittee” was supposed to address this problem, but they failed so spectacularly that they have become a national joke.

Sadly, most of our politicians just keep kicking the can down the road.  They hope that somehow things will just magically “work out”.

Well, the truth is that things are not going to “work out”.  The poverty level among the elderly is going to continue to increase.  Pension plans all over this nation are going to continue to fail in staggering numbers.  Social Security and Medicare are going to bleed more red ink with each passing year.

Something should have been done about this problem a long, long time ago.

But it wasn’t.

This crisis was ignored, dealing with it was put off time after time and all the doomsayers were laughed at.

Now the crisis is here, and we are all going to pay the price.’

 



Presenting Russell Napier's Greatest Hits Two weeks ago, courtesy of Gresham's Law, we brought to our readers Jim Grant's greatest hits: a compilation of the most memorable TV appearances by the famous newsletter writer. Today, we are happy to present another controversial luminary - Russell Napier: the renowned financial historian and consultant for CLSA, as well as author of the engrossing Anatomy of the Bear, who only together with Albert Edwards, has predicted that the S&P would eventually drop to 400. Napier has articulated some fantastic insights on the generational cycle, bear market bottoms and currencies in recent years. His insights, unlike those of TV pundits whose soundbites are only there to fill the gap between two ad segments, are always something to look forward to.

 

 

 

Something Big Is Coming... and It's Going to Be BAD Phoenix Capital... 11/18/2011 We have been getting MAJOR warning signs of a collapse for months now. No less than the Bank of England, the IMF, and legendary asset management firm Franklin Templeton have warned that we are...

 

 

 

One Interesting Thing About the Leading Indicators Report  The Wall Street Journal (Fri, Nov 18) { How about the most interesting thing about ‘leading economic indicators’ from mooshy mish shedlock is the weighting accorded M2 and stock prices [who seems to have forgotten his own ‘unequivocal declaration’ ( Global Recession: Right Here, Right Now at Minyanville  Mike Shedlock Sep 02, 2011 )  which by the way was correct –almost, actually a depression- and now equivocates saying ‘I would agree that a slip back into recession in the 4th quarter is unlikely, assuming of course it is even possible. Bear in mind, we have not had an official end of this recession declared yet.’ I believe mish mosh shedlock is a lightweight (link to ‘huffington post’? What’s up with that?) but he does include the following excerpt from Chris Puplava which is important, infra (Burt Domen and David Rosenberg are the ‘real deal’ - Financial Crisis Phase II Is Ahead at Forbes Bert Dohmen ‘ In late 2007, I wrote the book Prelude To Meltdown, predicting the global crisis that occurred the following year.  I now see a similar confluence of events .. “the new recession has started.”… Over the past 33 years, we have called the start of every recession..Currently, the GDP deflator is 1.8%, which hardly reflects the true rise in prices. Therefore, what is counted as “growth,” is actually price increases. Actual inflation..is now more than 11%. Using that to adjust GDP for inflation, would show that the economy is now in a very sharp contraction…’, David Rosenberg: “It’s Time To Start Calling This For What It Is: A Modern Day Depression” Zero Hedge ,  David Rosenberg On The Depression, The ECB, MF Global As A Canary In The Coalmine... All With A Surprise Ending,  This is No Cyclical Recession… It is a Secular DE-pression

 

 

‘Chris Puplava took a good hard look at the LEI in Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me.

One of the things that many market commentators and research houses have pointed at to support their bullish outlook on the stock market are the leading economic indicators. I have had the sneaky suspicion that the aggressive and unprecedented actions on the part of the Fed have played a significant role in the LEI given a misleading signal as to an economic turnaround it is forecasting, while the economic components would likely paint a different picture. It is important to understand the makeup of the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI) and the weights that each component makes up of the LEI. Below is the breakdown of the ten indicators that make up the LEI and their respective weights in the index. As seen below, the three financial indicators make up approximately 50% of the LEI while the seven economic components make up the other 50%, with the M2 money supply alone making up 35.8% of the total LEI. Money makes the world go round, I guess, according to the LEI.

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Shown below are the YOY rate of change growth rates in the Conference Board’s LEI and my indexes of the economic and monetary components separated out. What is a clear take away is that the monetary LEI is doing the heavy lifting as the economic LEI remains in negative territory.

What you can also see is that beginning in the 1980s the growth rate between the monetary and economic LEI began to show a greater disparity in their growth rates than they did in the 1970s. What this would tend to imply is that a greater level of monetary stimulus measures were needed to translate into improved economic growth rates. This aligns with the second chart below that shows the dollar increase in debt per dollar increase in GDP, which shows higher amounts of debt were needed to produce a dollar of GDP, and we are fast approaching the “Zero Hour” in which rising debt does not translate into increased economic growth, or the “pay the piper” moment for our economy.


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Zero Hour - Debt Fails To Add To GDP

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Further illustrating the notion that it is taking record stimulus just to keep growth going is the YOY growth rate difference between the Monetary LEI and the Economic LEI, with the disparity between the two growth rates at the highest level in the last half century.

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The above charts simply illustrate that our economy is fundamentally weak and instead of allowing our economy to sober up after its debt binge, our monetary and governmental authorities are trying to keep the economy drunk and chugging along, using greater amounts of monetary alcohol than ever before…’

 

 

 

Something Big Is Coming... and It's Going to Be BAD Phoenix Capital... 11/18/2011 ‘We have been getting MAJOR warning signs of a collapse for months now. No less than the Bank of England, the IMF, and legendary asset management firm Franklin Templeton have warned that we are... Something major is occuring in the markets today.The US economy peaked in 2007. However, throughout much of 2008, the stock market continued to rally despite the economic collapse as well as the financial system imploding.Throughout this period the credit markets jammed up and implied something VERY BAD was in the system. However, stock investors continued to pile into stocks because, well, frankly stocks always are the last to "get it."And when stocks finally did get it... it was quite a thing.This same environment is occurring today. Only this time the collapse is sovereign in nature: entire countries are going bust.We have been getting MAJOR warning signs of a collapse for months now. No less than the Bank of England, the IMF, and legendary asset management firm Franklin Templeton have warned that we are facing an epic, hellish crisis.We got the first taste of this in August when the S&P 500 literally wiped out a year's worth of gains in two weeks The only thing that brought us back from the brink at that time was the belief that the EU mess might be solvable and a coordinated intervention from the world Central Banks.We then had a spirited rally as the Fed and central banks went "all in" to force the stock market above its 200-DMA.This final "hurrah" has failed and the financial system is literally imploding. The EU will be broken up in the next month or so and it is highly likely Germany will back out of the Euro altogether.Moreover, the world central banks are now totally out of ammunition. They've spent Trillions of Dollars in bailouts, abandoned accounting standards, and even moved TRILLIONs in garbage debt onto the public's balance sheet.None of this has worked. The credit markets are jammed up just like in 2008. Italy, the third largest bond market in the world, is on the verge of default. No one wants to fund the EFSF. China is entering a hard landing and economic collapse. The US is in a clear depression.And on and on.This is the single most dangerous market environment of our lifetimes.  We are entering a period of massive wealth destruction. We will see bank holidays and civil unrest. We will see sovereign defaults. We will see temporary shortages in various goods and services.So if you have not already taken steps to prepare for systemic failure, you NEED to do so NOW. We're literally at most a few months, and very likely just a few weeks from Europe's banks imploding…’

 

 

 

Train Reading: Does Water Prevent Dehydration? The EU Says No. The Wall Street Journal [ Wow! Talk about things that don’t matter! Yeah … like pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america, the eu’s lost its shine … maybe, employing an american strategy, they were just try to sell more of their ‘gatorade knockoff’! ]

 

 

The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way Nov 17th, 2011 (Forbes) —‘ “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner,” says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, “because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis.”We’re raising our alert status for the next financial crisis. We already raised it last week after spreads on U.S. credit default swaps started blowing out. We raised it again after seeing the remarks of Mr. Mobius, chief of the $50 billion emerging markets desk at Templeton Asset Management…”Prior to the bursting of the credit bubble, the public was shocked to learn that our biggest investment banks were levered 30-to-1. When asset values fell, those banks were quickly wiped out. But now the Fed is holding many of the same types of assets and is levered 51-to-1! If the value of their portfolio were to fall by just 2%, the Fed itself would be wiped out.”[source]’



The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way  http://news.yahoo.com/next-financial-crisis-hellish-way-204303737.html   Addison Wiggin | Forbes – Wed, Nov 16, 2011’  "There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner," says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, "because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis."

We're raising our alert status for the next financial crisis. We already raised it last week after spreads on U.S. credit default swaps started blowing out.  We raised it again after seeing the remarks of Mr. Mobius, chief of the $50 billion emerging markets desk at Templeton Asset Management.

Speaking in Tokyo, he pointed to derivatives, the financial hairball of futures, options, and swaps in which nearly all the world's major banks are tangled up.

Estimates on the amount of derivatives out there worldwide vary. An oft-heard estimate is $600 trillion. That squares with Mobius' guess of 10 times the world's annual GDP. "Are the derivatives regulated?" asks Mobius. "No. Are you still getting growth in derivatives? Yes."

In other words, something along the lines of securitized mortgages is lurking out there, ready to trigger another crisis as in 2007-08.

What could it be? We'll offer up a good guess, one the market is discounting.

Seldom does a stock index rise so much, for so little reason, as the Dow did on the open Tuesday morning: 115 Dow points on a rumor that Greece is going to get a second bailout.

Let's step back for a moment: The Greek crisis is first and foremost about the German and French banks that were foolish enough to lend money to Greece in the first place. What sort of derivative contracts tied to Greek debt are they sitting on? What worldwide mayhem would ensue if Greece didn't pay back 100 centimes on the euro?

That's a rhetorical question, since the balance sheets of European banks are even more opaque than American ones. Whatever the actual answer, it's scary enough that the European Central Bank has refused to entertain any talk about the holders of Greek sovereign debt taking a haircut, even in the form of Greece stretching out its payments.

That was the preferred solution among German leaders. But it seems the ECB is about to get its way. Greece will likely get another bailout — 30 billion euros on top of the 110 billion euro bailout it got a year ago.

It will accomplish nothing. Going deeper into hock is never a good way to get out of debt. And at some point, this exercise in kicking the can has to stop. When it does, you get your next financial crisis.

And what of the derivatives sitting on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve? Here's another factor behind our heightened state of alert.

"Through quantitative easing efforts alone," says Euro Pacific Capital's Michael Pento, "Ben Bernanke has added $1.8 trillion of longer-term GSE debt and mortgage-backed securities (MBS)."

Think about that for a moment. The Fed's entire balance sheet totaled around $800 billion before the 2008 crash, nearly all of it Treasuries. Now the Fed holds more than double that amount in mortgage derivatives alone, junk that the banks needed to clear off their own balance sheets.

"As the size of the Fed's balance sheet ballooned," continues Mr. Pento, "the dollar amount of capital held at the Fed has remained fairly constant. Today, the Fed has $52.5 billion of capital backing a $2.7 trillion balance sheet.

"Prior to the bursting of the credit bubble, the public was shocked to learn that our biggest investment banks were levered 30-to-1. When asset values fell, those banks were quickly wiped out. But now the Fed is holding many of the same types of assets and is levered 51-to-