Financial topics

[gerald]

ECB "Technically Ready" To Ask Depositors To Pay Banks For Holding Their Money
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... heir-money

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 09:19 | 3521897Stackers

"Hurry folks step right up - Now you too can pay to have the privilege of being an unsecured lender to an over leveraged financial institution run by clinical psychopaths"

Or you could buy one of these --- Especially if you are in Europe --

BedBunker California King Double Gun Safe BB350
$6680.00 - SafeAndVaultStore.com ://www.google.com/search?q=safe+at+home&aq ... 0&bih=1087

And growing up we thought the "old Farts" were nuts talking about putting their money under the mattress!

"Alice In Wonderland " should be reclassified as non-fiction or as a how to manual.

AAANNNNND it gets better -- doubleplusgood --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
The Latest Contribution To US GDP: Promises... No Really http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... -no-really

BEA's latest revision to the way it calculates GDP -will count - corporate promises of how much companies will (may? might?) pay..

"Sadly, we are not making this up: as part of the BEA's latest revision to the way it calculates GDP, the government will no longer count the amount of pension funding that is actually allocated to retirement accounts (counted as wages in the GDP calculation): i.e., an actual cash outlay. Instead, what the Bureau of Economic Analysis will count are corporate promises of how much companies will (may? might?) pay... eventually. The bigger the lie and the promise, the higher the GDP. And presto."

[Higgenbotham]

I've read 2 guys who are in the running for getting the top of the stock market called right...

The second is a pattern/wave recognition guy who has a forecasting service, which I get.

Today he said: "With the current rally not progressing as fast as wave structure suggested, I’m getting concerned about our position."

[aedens]

Samuel and Hagel trajectories suggest politics is an ironic business. Hagel addresses the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy on May 9

[aedens]

http://www.ceridianindex.com/index.php

[gerald]

Signs of the coming dark age

Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... r-studying

All we need is a pandemic, for the cherry on top --

[Reality Check]

Signs of the coming dark age

Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... r-studying

All we need is a pandemic, for the cherry on top --

A good war is needed first to destroy the infrastructure that delivers Food and Health Care, so the conditions for a real effective pandemic can be created.

Of course it will be the young children and the older people who die from starvation and epidemics in the largest numbers.

Wars just get the ball rolling.

[at99sy]

Signs of the coming dark age

Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... r-studying

All we need is a pandemic, for the cherry on top --

A good war is needed first to destroy the infrastructure that delivers Food and Health Care, so the conditions for a real effective pandemic can be created.

Of course it will be the young children and the older people who die from starvation and epidemics in the largest numbers.

Wars just get the ball rolling.

When considering the enormity of our dependance upon imported food stuffs, the modern industrialized nations are at severe risk of starvation due to a major conflict that results in destroyed or even severely weakened abilities to transport food across borders. Most people have only a few days of food in the house and the welfare nation that makes up large portions of all the leading countries will be hungry and on the rampage within days of a crisis. You're right in that war is only the beginning. Conflict- reduction in production and services, hunger, starvation, social disorder, chaos, collapse, wipe the slate clean and start over.

sy

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... currencies

[gerald]

Signs of the coming dark age

Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... r-studying

All we need is a pandemic, for the cherry on top --

A good war is needed first to destroy the infrastructure that delivers Food and Health Care, so the conditions for a real effective pandemic can be created.

Of course it will be the young children and the older people who die from starvation and epidemics in the largest numbers.

Wars just get the ball rolling.

When considering the enormity of our dependance upon imported food stuffs, the modern industrialized nations are at severe risk of starvation due to a major conflict that results in destroyed or even severely weakened abilities to transport food across borders. Most people have only a few days of food in the house and the welfare nation that makes up large portions of all the leading countries will be hungry and on the rampage within days of a crisis. You're right in that war is only the beginning. Conflict- reduction in production and services, hunger, starvation, social disorder, chaos, collapse, wipe the slate clean and start over.

sy

History rhymes? --
It is interesting to note that the Bubonic plague which decimated Europe started in the Orient and was spread by trade and war. One of the Mongol siege tactics against a well walled city with many years supply of food was to catapult bodies of plague victims into the walled city thereby spreading the plague into the city . Survivors of the plague and siege then spread the disease elsewhere by traveling to such places as the port cities of Europe ---and today we have air travel.
It should also be noted -- dirty and contaminated living environments as well as "degenerate " lifestyles accelerate the spread of disease. This could get really interesting --- but not in a nice way.

[Reality Check]

Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-0 ... r-studying

Not only do we need a good war.

But world wide these unemployed are the perfect soldiers for the ambitious leader.

Give them members of an older generation in another country, or in another community within their own country to target.

Free land, free personal property, free young daughters all you have to do is kill the older generations that control and protect these desirable incentives.

The methods are tried and true, and it is happening as we type in in Africa, Syria, parts of the former Soviet Union and elsewhere.