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Dave’s Daily: http://www.etfdigest.com http://etfdigest.com/commentary.html FRIDAY THE 13TH BAD NEWS BULLS 7-13-12 { I’d go even further than Dave in terms of cynicism and point to what is tantamount to the ‘pump and dumps’, programmed ‘churn and earn’, ponzis, etc., and posit that they already know the news is going to be bad because the reality is that the economy, financial institutions sitting on worthless paper marked to anything with many trillions in derivatives exposure, the nation, the system are all broke/broken and it’s merely their attempt in their fraudulent ‘alice in wonderland’ way to condition the Pavlov dogs of wall street et als to salivate on the prospect of bad news which is coming anyway. The fact is, fraudulent wall street’s paper churning gains by way of QE are Main Street’s and the real economy’s losses. There are no free lunches; so this is a great opportunity to sell/take profits since there’s much, much worse to come. Really! } ‘Fed voting member Lockhart was quoted saying: “It would take more bad news for more QE”. The bad news keeps on coming and bulls are anxious for QE since for many they’re addicted to it. Friday the 13th was a good demonstration for the “bad news bulls” crowd. Most news was terrible. Even JP Morgan’s (JOM) earnings news was bizarre given trading losses and incompetent management oversight. But there are some big players with skin in the game so they’ll take what they can get.Consumer Sentiment missed and was lower (72 vs 73.5 expected & prior 73.2). That’s the kind of news Lacker and bulls need more of I guess. In this ongoing Alice in Wonderland environment it then shouldn’t surprise that Consumer Discretionary (XLY) stocks were higher. The PPI was also higher .1% vs -.4% expected & prior -1%) which surprised many especially as the “core” rate came in at .2%. News from China indicated GDP fell more than expected (7.6% vs 7.7% expected & prior 8.1%). Of course this is respectable for most economies but not for China. Bulls expect massive stimulus from the PBOC.The Bank of England (BOE) is in QE mode now and perhaps Bank of Japan (BOJ) is said to follow. Stimulus is nothing new to Japan where the government has tried all manner of Krugman-like stimulus packages over the past 22 years. None have worked.In the U.S. QE and ZIRP has boosted stock prices ephemerally but has done little to lift employment or the economy. So, does doing the same thing over and over again without success make sense? It does for short-term trading desk and hedge fund profits—that’s all you really need to know. You’ll recall yesterday the NY Fed issued a report stating plainly the result of their recent policies is why the S&P is at 1300 vs 600 where it would be without this help. (By the way, Jamie Dimon is a director of the NY Fed.).Stocks (led by banks KBE & etc), commodities, and even the euro were strong as this out of the blue rally demonstrates. It’s hard to short when the Fed is hovering above and dangling more hints of QE-crack for the permabulls and HFTs. The only sector to experience some downside was bonds (IEF). Pick any other sector and it was only question of how much they rallied. Most pundits groped for details to explain the rally with comments like: “The confidence number was off some but still way off the bottom” and “…you eventually have to put some money to work” and “…some will point to China as providing more stimulus” and Warren Buffett has been trotted out to the media two days in row talking his book. And, so it goes. This day was reminiscent of the other out of the blue quarter end rally in June. That said, we’re long in portfolios around 40% with the balance in “cash”.Breaking: Late Friday news dump is Visa & Mastercard have reached a $7.25 billion settlement for overcharges with retailers.Volume was incredibly light but breadth per the WSJ was positive naturally. (It’s hard to trust a rally based on such little volume frankly.)…’ , 27 Things That Every American Should Know About The National Debt http://albertpeia.com/27thingsamericansshouldknowaboutnationaldebt.htm , Guest Post: Are Treasuries The Worst Investment In The World? ZeroHedge.com Tyler Durden Lots of people have made good profits on Treasuries by buying them and flipping them to a greater fool or a central bank. On the other hand, so did many during the NASDAQ bubble, or during the ’00s ABS bubble. Bubbles are profitable for some, and that’s why there have been so many throughout history. But once the money starts to dry up they become excruciatingly painful. In theory, there are no limits to how low rates could go. In theory, nominal yields could go deeply negative, so long as there are buyers coming into the market ready to buy at a lower rate, and a push a profit to bond flippers. The inherent value in a bond is its yield; everything else is speculation. It is hard to really call the timing on the end of a bubble. People and events can always get more irrational. Japan has kept the Treasury ball (painfully) rolling for far longer than most of us expected (through market rigging as much as anything else). But this cannot end well. , Ben Bernanke Has Created The Ultimate Bondsy Scheme , Low Volume Squeeze Takes Stocks To Green On Week S&P 500 e-mini futures (ES) traded up to almost perfectly recapture their 415ET close from last Friday after a 15-point, 30-minute ramp out of the gates at the US day-session open recouped five days of losses - as once again - we go nowhere quickly. Just for clarity: China GDP disappointed and provided no signal for massive stimulus; JPM announced bigger than expected losses, cheating on CDS marks, and exposed just how large their CIO was relative to income; Consumer sentiment printed at its worst this year; and QE-crimping inflation printed hotter than expectations - and we get a more-than-30 point rally in the S&P. Whether the fuel was JPM squeeze or another big European bank biting the liquidity dust and repatriating cajillions of EUR to cover costs (or Austria needing some cash for a debt payment), what was clear was equity market's outperformance of every other asset class - with the late day surge for a green weekly close particularly noteworthy. Apart from unch on the week, ES also managed to close right at its 50DMA, revert up to credit's less sanguine behavior intra-week, and up to VIX's relative outpeformance on the week (as VIX ended the week with its steepest term-structure in over 4 months). Treasuries ended the week 6-9bps lower in yield at the long-end (2-3bps at the short end) but the USD's plunge, on the absolute rampfest in EURUSD, took it back to unch for the week. Despite the USD unch-ness, Oil and Copper surged (on the day to help the week) up 2.5-3% on the week while even Gold and Silver managed a high beta performance ending the week up around 0.5%. ES ended the day notably rich to broad risk assets - and wil need some more weakness in TSYs and carry crosses to extend this - for now, the steepness of the volatility slope, velocity of squeeze, and richness of stocks to risk makes us a little nervous carrying longs here. , One Explanation For Today's Irrational Exuberance Since the EU-Summit, US and European equity markets have (in general) outperformed. From being in sync before the Summit, US equities went into the weekend with a sell-off, which then spurred a short-squeeze push as the S&P 500 was over-exuberant (relative to European equities) on the way up at the start of last week. That cracked back to reality at the end of last week - squeezing the over-levered longs to a significant underperformance relative to European equities. It would appear that in the last 24 hours, US equities are now rallying back to that European 'surreality'. Surreal because European stocks remain dramatically exuberant relative to European (peripheral spreads unch and AAA massively bid) and US (Treasuries bid) bonds and European corporate and financial credit. As we stand, the S&P 500 has retraced back to Europe's 'fair' perspective.

Full PFG CEO Suicide Note

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/13/2012

"I have committed fraud. For this I feel constant and intense guilt...

The forgeries started nearly twenty years ago...

Should I go out of business or cheat...

I guess my ego was too big to admit failure..."

PFG Head Arrested

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/13/2012

UPDATE: Suicide note details added:

*WASENDORF SAID HE USED PHOTOSHOP, SCANNER IN FORGERY, U.S. SAYS
*WASENDORF SAID CHOICE WAS GO OUT OF BUSINESS OR CHEAT: U.S.
*WASENDORF'S STATEMENTS MADE IN SUICIDE NOTE, PROSECUTORS SAY
*PEREGRINE'S WASENDORF SAID `I HAVE COMMITTED FRAUD,' U.S. SAYS

While unable to successfully kill himself, it appears the CEO of PFGBest is even less successful at evading the police. As just reported,

*PFGBEST'S WASENDORF ARRESTED IN IOWA
*FED PROSECUTORS CHARGE IOWA FIRM CEO W/ LYING TO REGULATORS:AP
*PEREGRINE CHIEF WASENDORF CHARGED BY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS (with making false statements to the CFTC)
*WASENDORF FRAUD AT PEREGRINE LASTED 20 YEARS, PROSECUTORS SAY

What is probably more concerning to him now is the fact that he was not a Presidential bundler - as the Big House is definitely calling...

U.S. investigates whether JPMorgan traders hid losses [ Duh! ]

Obama: Biggest mistake too much perspiration, not enough inspiration [What total b***s***!] { Biggest mistake: too much b***s***, not enough substance; that’s reality, not spin! } White House on weak jobs report: Don’t ‘read too much’ into it Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News { Riiiiight! Sounds like a plan! After all, wobama’s gotten’ by on b***s*** and ‘special consideration’ alone, never having done anything of substance in his entire life. Indeed, even his so-called ‘auto-biographies’ are works of what appear to be ‘choom-gang’ induced fantasies which reveal a psychogenic/dissociative amnesia that works well in the continuing ‘narrative’ devoid of fact on his ‘more b*** s*** campaign trail’ littered with the cowpies of stark reality. People owe themselves and their children more than this grifter’s con which in numbers measures more than the increased deficits of all the presidents since President General Eisenhower combined to obfuscate his unequivocal failure. http://albertpeia.com/10waysobamakillingjobsinamerica.htm } Obama Asks People Getting Married To Forgo Gifts... Donate To His Campaign Instead... [ Wobama is so pathetic! Sure, sacrifice for the grifter wobamas so they can continue livin’ large on the taxpayer dime while accomplishing nothing except greater public debt to hide his failure. This from the record holder for fundraisers, 151 and counting. Then there’s the 100 plus rounds of golf in addition to being famously over-vacationed while in office. It’s laughable to hear him blame congress for his lack of accomplishments when the reality is that he ‘really wasn’t there’ for any of it. For wobama the presidency is just endless debate, rhetoric, campaigning, vacationing, soundbites from the teleprompted speeches, jive-talk, b***s***, and ‘choom fantasy’. He’s a total fraud and failure and anyone who buys into election-year desperation / promises, etc., is just a fool of the worst kind! AP: ‘…THE FACTS: Five Senate Democrats voted against sending the DREAM Act to the Senate floor for full consideration. The bill would have created a path to citizenship for many young illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children. Last week, Obama announced plans to stop deporting illegal immigrants who would have qualified for the DREAM Act. The policy change does not include a path to citizenship…’Then there’s the other meretricious ‘wobama desperation hail mary’ that once again falls short. Indeed, as an investor, one analyzes earnings, projects prospective earnings over a 3-5 year horizon, and the quality of the earnings along macro economic factors which are affected by ‘political considerations’. Does anyone remember the honorable Ross Perot who warned of NAFTA’s effect on american jobs even as the democrat administration et als were hell-bent on passing same? Should Romney have breached his legal duty to shareholders and invested in companies with poor earnings prospects? After all, in the financial / security analysis step of projecting the income statement, prospective labor costs figure prominently in the bottomline. In sum, Romney took conditions as he found them, and made the prudent choices which as per his legal duty were optimal for those who put their trust in him. For those who put their trust in proven failure wobama, all they have to show for such misplaced trust are broken campaign promises, now insurmountable record deficit spending exceeding all the presidents since Eisenhower combined to obfuscate what clearly has been wobama’s unequivocal failure. ]
Will accept your birthday or anniversary gifts, too...

IF IT WAS ONLY ONE THING ABOUT WOBAMA THAT MAKES HIM SO WRONG. YET, IT’S A MULTITUDE OF REALITIES; FROM INVARIABLY BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISES (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 , etc.) , TO VERY REAL BIRTH ISSUES (WHAT PERSON FAILS TO GET THEIR PLACE OF BIRTH CORRECT – THE FRAUDULENT WOBAMA KIND http://albertpeia.com/wasntbornintheusa.htm http://albertpeia.com/obp.jpg http://albertpeia.com/impeachobama.htm ) , TO THE CURRENT OBFUSCATING FRAUD, Obama's Five Trillion Dollar Lie http://albertpeia.com/obamas5trilliondollarlie.htm { the economy is already in depression in real terms when taking into account real inflation numbers.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…’ } , WOBAMA ET ALS’ DISINGENUOUS ATTACKS AGAINST ROMNEY ON WHAT WAS PRIZED AND LAUDED AS LEGAL, COMPETENT MANAGEMENT INCREASING SHAREHOLDER WEALTH (THE TASK OF COMPETENT MANAGEMENT) IN THOSE BLOATED, NON-COMPETITIVE TIMES CONTRASTED WITH WOBAMA’S UNPRECEDENTED FURTHER BANKRUPTING OF THE NATION AND INDISPUTABLE FAILURE AS PRESIDENT (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…’). IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF TRAGEDY TO SEE PEOPLE DELUDE AND MAKE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES IN SUPPORT OF JIVE-TALKING GRIFTER/CON-MAN OBAMA. GOOD BYE FORMER FAILED PRESIDENT WOBAMA … GOOD RIDDANCE!

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

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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 bs 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. ]

Wobama’sChoom Gang Bangin’ { This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a watch! }

http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv

PAPER: Obama's grandfather tortured by the British? A fantasy (like most of the President's own memoir)... { http://albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangfantasy.htm }

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 by Ben Shapiro { It is true! The once great now failed newspaper, the washington post, is an absolute disgrace! But a shadow of its former self, the post is biased presumably owing to shared desperation with the failed president wobama in return for access. So egregious had the bias become wherein ‘sensitive’ commentary antithetical to wobama and his, seldom seemed to work/post properly; and, then of course, the post’s pro-wobama perpetual darkness-induced blind ‘constituency’. I stopped posting there and have not visited their site since nor will I ever again. A rather pathetic swansong / end / wind-down / final chapter for what was once a great newspaper for which I had the utmost regard and respect! }
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.htm
Postal Service loses $3.2b in first quarter...
78% of California 8th graders fail national science test...

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{ some prior links of current interest }

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 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! } ,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 Durden [ We’re already in a (continued) recession, stupid; actually, depression. { 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 Durden , Goldman: Germany Is Now On The Hook By €1 Trillion (Or 40% Of GDP) Durden, , 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.htm , 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
http://albertpeia.com/nohousingrecoveryuntil2020in5charts.htm Durden `,` The Mother Of All Infographics: Visualizing America's Derivatives Universe http://albertpeia.com/usderivatives221trillionof707trillionglobal.htm , Fasten Your Seatbelts: High Frequency Trading Is Coming To The Treasury Market `[` http://albertpeia.com/highfrequencytradingcomingtotreasuries.htm , As US Rakes Largest Monthly Deficit In History, 2012 Tax Revenues Net Of Refunds Trail 2011 Durden, Guest Post: Money from Nothing - A Primer On Fake Wealth Creation And Its Implications (Part 1) Durden 3-12-12 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) ZeroHedge.com 3-14-12 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 Global Durden 3-12-12 In 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...