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WALL STREET DOES BROADWAY’

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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…’

 

Bye bye unemployment benefits  More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.

 

 

 

11-May-12 09:28PM  ETFs Go Nowhere on Rocky Week as JP Morgan Hit By Blunder at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:18PM   Curb Your Facebook IPO Enthusiasm, Morningstar Says at The Wall Street Journal 05:50PM  Chesapeake Energy: How To Lose $1 Billion In 46 Minutes at The Wall Street Journal 05:46PM  Next Week's Tape: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, It's a Facebook Week at The Wall Street Journal 05:12PM  Train Reading: Grecian Burn at The Wall Street Journal 05:08PM  Chesapeake Energy: How To Lose $1 Billion In 46 Minutes at The Wall Street Journal 04:48PM  J.P. Morgan Erases More Than $14 Billion In Market Value at The Wall Street Journal 04:45PM  J.P. Morgan Erases About $15 Billion In Market Value at The Wall Street Journal 04:43PM  Consumers Feel Better as Vacation Time Rolls Around at The Wall Street Journal 04:17PM   STOCKS FALL, JP MORGAN AND CHESAPEAKE GET DESTROYED: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 03:59PM  Chesapeake Shares Slide Amid Confusion Over Quarterly Report at The Wall Street Journal 03:59PM  STOCKS FALL, JP MORGAN AND CHESAPEAKE GET DESTROYED: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider 03:53PM  J.P. Morgan Erases About $15 Billion In Market Value at The Wall Street Journal 03:31PM   InPlay: Further afternoon slippage -- Dow -25, S&P -2, Nasdaq Cop +5.9 Briefing.com 03:07PM  Nasdaq Aims to Keep Facebook IPO From Going BATS at The Wall Street Journal 03:05PM  You Know How J.P. Morgan Has a PR Problem? Mom's Anxious at The Wall Street Journal 03:05PM  J.P. Morgan's London Whale, and Other Disastrous Trades at The Wall Street Journal 02:55PM  Buzz on the Street: JPMorgan Gets a Big Fat 'F' in Risk Management at Minyanville 02:51PM   Plunging Commodity Prices Are Ominous For Stocks at Forbes 02:44PM  InPlay: Afternoon slide slightly extended: Dow -14, S&P -0.9, Nasdaq Comp +11 Briefing.com 02:39PM  J.P. Morgan's London Whale, and Other Disastrous Trades at The Wall Street Journal 02:35PM   NY Fed Releases Latest View on Economy at The Wall Street Journal 02:25PM  You Know How J.P. Morgan Has a PR Problem? Mom's Anxious at The Wall Street Journal 02:21PM  NY Fed Releases Latest View on Economy at The Wall Street Journal 02:20PM  Facebook Bull Shows Cautious Side at The Wall Street Journal 02:11PM  You Know How J.P. Morgan Has a PR Problem? Mom's Anxious at The Wall Street Journal 01:38PM  Seasonal 'Sell In May' Strategy Triggered A Sell, How Well Has It Performed? at Seeking Alpha 01:04PM  InPlay: Dow +17 and S&P +2.4 slightly extend slip off late morning highs -- Nasdaq Comp +16 Briefing.com 01:00PM  Valero Deploys Fiserv Zacks 12:31PM  Index, ETF option volumes near midday optionMONSTER 12:06PM  Is J.P. Morgan Still a Buy? at The Wall Street Journal 11:58AM  For Greece, Life Wouldn't End After Leaving the Euro at The Wall Street Journal 11:58AM  Economists See Growth, Inflation Modest in 2012 at The Wall Street Journal 11:57AM  Hedge Funds On the Other Side of J.P. Morgan's Whale at The Wall Street Journal 11:32AM  Index, ETF option volumes near midday optionMONSTER 11:30AM  J.P. Morgan Blunder Puts Bank In Regulators' Crosshairs at The Wall Street Journal 11:20AM  InPlay: S&P +5.8 and Dow +48 set new highs -- leading Nasdaq Comp +21 has thus far not confirmed the move Briefing.com 11:15AM  Best of the Blogs: Care for Some Google Offers to Go With Your Google Map? at Minyanville 11:12AM  Look Who Is Buying J.P. Morgan Shares Doug Kass at The Wall Street Journal 10:58AM Stock Market Shrugs Off London Whale at The Wall Street Journal 10:44AM   What Beached the London Whale? Credit Indices at The Wall Street Journal 10:25AM  Dallas Fed Chief: We Shouldn't Have Banks That Are 'Too Big to Fail' at The Wall Street Journal 10:19AM  InPlay: S&P +1.5 and Dow +6 join leading Nasdaq Comp +15 in positive territory Briefing.com 10:10AM  More on What Beached the London Whale: Credit Indices at The Wall Street Journal 10:09AM  Consumer Sentiment Improves at The Wall Street Journal 10:07AM  Secondary Sources: Europe Crisis, Shrinking Unemployment Rolls, Teen Pregnancy at The Wall Street Journal 10:05AM  Morning Links: London Whale Edition at The Wall Street Journal 09:56AM   The Hit to J.P. Morgan's Reputation 'Really Hurts' at The Wall Street Journal 09:44AM  InPlay: Weaker start for stock indices amid Finance/Banking pressure but working off lows led by Nasdaq/Semi Briefing.com 09:26AM  Stocks to Watch: J.P. Morgan, McDermott, Arena Pharmaceuticals at The Wall Street Journal 09:16AM  Morning Links: London Whale Edition at The Wall Street Journal 09:05AM  Pre-Market Primer: Is JPMorgan the First Act of a Greek Tragedy? at Minyanville 08:55AM  Here are the Drivers You Must-Know from NVIDIA Earnings at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 08:46AM  J.P. Morgan Pulling Banks, Market Down at The Wall Street Journal 08:30AM  Vital Signs: Easing Unemployment Claims at The Wall Street Journal 08:07AM  NVIDIA Earnings: Beats Analyst Estimates, Stock Surges Up at Wall St. Cheat Sheet 07:56AM   Morning MarketBeat: J.P. Morgan Gives Market a Whale of Time at The Wall Street Journal 07:18AM  10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell Business Insider 07:05AM  Morning MarketBeat: J.P. Morgan Gives Market a Whale of Time at The Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: We Screwed Up

Mediabistro | The business networks have been in overdrive after J.P. Morgan revealed a $2 billion loss at a London trading unit yesterday.



Banks prepare for the return of the drachma

Reuters | Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency.



JP Morgan Suffers ‘Massive’ Losses: $4.2 Billion Probable; May Spread to Entire Sector

Mac Slavo | …”egregious mistakes” …”self inflicted” …”could easily get worse”



Millions Of Illegal Immigrants Are Using A Massive Scam To Get Bigger Tax Refunds Than You Are

The American Dream | Did you know that illegal immigrants all over the United States are using a massive scam to receive tax refunds from the federal government that are often in excess of $10,000?

 

 

 

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Impeach Obama 2012. Join the National Campaign

Infowars.com | Now is the time to put an end to Obama’s treasonous and tyrannical behavior.

http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm

Nancy Pelosi Wants to Amend the First Amendment Kurt Nimmo | When Pelosi says “special interests,” she means interests opposed to establishment Democrats. [ Here’s a look at the pelosi / wobama styled new california  ( 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ) . pelosi’s incompetent / senile in that chronological order. At this point, wobama the b for b***s*** is just incompetent but acts and seems as if he’s senile, particularly with regard to previous things he’s said and prior promises that he’s made. ]

Drudgereport: Obama: 'Sometimes I Forget' Magnitude of Recession…{ Oh! How conveniently forgetful, though the vast majority of americans don’t have wobama’s luxury of feigned amnesia suffering from what wobama did and didn’t do contrary to promises last time around the perpetual campaign trail littered with his typical jive-talking b***s***! The following headline will help him remember some of his sordid, pot-clouded high school past! }...
FLASHBACK: Obama's Sordid High School Past...
By Ben Shapiro ‘While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days.Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.” Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me," Obama said. "I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. It wasn't until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.”The New York Times, however, went out of its way to find Obama’s classmates to testify that drugs played only a “bit part” in Obama’s youth. Yet Obama would later brag on the campaign trail that he “inhaled frequently … that was the point.”During his high school years, Obama hung out with communist radical Frank Marshall Davis; in 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that during his high school days, “he felt the first stirrings of anger toward whites. He says he also delved into black nationalism.” He was “offended or even enraged when white classmates adopted black street slang or revealed their underlying consciousness of his race by going out of their way to tell him how much they admired a black musician or athlete.” This activity is certainly more reflective of Obama’s ideological history than Mitt Romney’s pranks on teachers and fellow students. And as for the drug use – well, that seems just a bit more serious than walking a teacher into a door or cutting a student’s hair. But leave it to the Post to ignore or downplay all of that in favor of continuing stories about Romney’s dog, his high school hijinks, and whatever other nonsense they can use to protect President Obama from his own incompetence.Ben Shapiro is Breitbart News Editor-at-Large.  Follow him on twitter @benshapiro.
Cracks in the Washington Post story on Romney’s ‘pranks’ emerge
Correction Request: Washington Post Uses Falsehood in Romney Hit Piece
Media Downplays Obama's Past, Tries to Define Romney with Teen Prank
If we're going to delve deep into a candidate's past, let's delve deep into a candidate's past. Here's Obama in his own words admitting to physically shoving a little girl named Coretta. Yes, it was at this moment that the first shot in the War on Women was fired.http://albertpeia.com/obamashovesgirl.png

 No doubt that after expending all that energy bullying an innocent little girl, young Obama readied himself for round two by eating a Golden Retriever. More on this breaking story here.If you're wondering what the rules are regarding a candidate's past; how far back we're allowed to go in an attempt to define them -- the answer is simple: the corrupt media will let us know.
Washington Post Disgraces Itself By Targeting Romney's 'Anti-Gay' High School Pranks
Obama WILL NOT pursue gay marriage as part of party platform...
STONE: 'Playing a cruel and cynical game'...
Unites Republicans?New Black Panther Niggers Plan Newspaper Cover With Zimmerman In Noose { and civilized people everywhere should respond with niggers in nooses and contributions to the Klu Klux Klan! } ...
LOONEY CLOONEYLAND: BIG CAMPAIGN BOXOFFICE FOR NIGGERO – Meanwhile, looney clooneyland ain’t doin’ so well with the niggero model – see next headline! ...
Failed Wobama model illustrated: 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htmPostal Service loses $3.2b in first quarter...78% of California 8th graders fail national science test...

 

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A Warning Sign For The World  http://albertpeia.com/warningsignfortheworld.htm, Inventor of World Wide Web Savages Government’s Big Brother Plans  http://albertpeia.com/bernersleeantibigbrotherwebintrusion.htm , 16 Reasons To Move Away From California  http://albertpeia.com/16reasonstomoveawayfromcalifornia.htm  ,  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 , 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! } 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 Tyler 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" 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  ,  http://albertpeia.com/debtpercapita.jpg  , Double-dip recession setting in across eurozone: EU , America 1950 vs. America 2012    http://albertpeia.com/downhillslideofamerica.htm , Society’s Five Stages of Economic Collapse  http://albertpeia.com/5stagesofcollapse.htm ,  No Housing Recovery - Case Shiller Shows 8th Consecutive Month Of House Price Declines, 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 , Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is Taxing The Living Daylights Out Of Us   http://albertpeia.com/inflationisatax.htm  , 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 Greece 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 gpc1981  http://albertpeia.com/usindepressionfedandgovwastingmoney.htm  , Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are Being Savagely Cut Or Are Vanishing Completely .http://albertpeia.com/uspensionscutorvanishing.htm  , America Is Being Transformed From A Wealthy Nation Into A Poor Nation At Breathtaking Speed   http://albertpeia.com/ustransformedfromwealthytopoor.htm , 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 , Consumer prices rise on high gas costs But outside higher pump prices, inflation stayed mild. (Washington Post) [ Wake up! They’d have a hard time denying what’s in plain sight for everyone to see. Yet, apparently they’ve not gone grocery shopping lately; you know, all that catered food for fools in Washington.  , 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…’ , 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. , 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.com  , 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!] , Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea.... http://albertpeia.com/misplacedfaith.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
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, The Mother Of All Infographics: Visualizing America's Derivatives Universe   Fasten Your Seatbelts: High Frequency Trading Is Coming To The Treasury Market    [ , As US Rakes Largest Monthly Deficit In History, 2012 Tax Revenues Net Of Refunds Trail 2011Guest 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., 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. , Guest 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... ,