Financial topics

[aeden]

Risk Parity portfolios will be modified to reflect these new correlations and volatilities. In simple terms, they will sell. Risk Parity portfolios will not remain levered long if both assets are declining.
So you want to know when to worry ?
For the record: The real bear market will start once this correlation flips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aj9_8t1eQc

[aeden]

He points out that he voted against Nancy Pelosi for House minority leader and insists he got in the race against Cruz without any commitment of help from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... use-217659

The point will be at what level the expensive suits fold. Maybe they can fathom we seen things in the valley of dry bones.
Some had connotations of paying attention. They consume energy leaving things so open. The trend is clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCeGRQtA0PU

[Higgenbotham]

Why too big to fail inevitably fails. The square root of the number of people in an organization do half of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmdIyHXEonI

[aeden]

Why too big to fail inevitably fails. The square root of the number of people in an organization do half of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmdIyHXEonI

Went through it with the americans, canadians, british, french and germans.
The trend is always clear as making sure its linear H.
The system always destroys the linear. Andropov packaged it out.
As we noted clearly before deception is the currency of the realm.

Ill pull up my last two reads...

The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt Hardcover – September 12, 2017
History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks Hardcover – December 16, 2008

Also the Pareto effect gathered over time with rule 5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.

10. Associate opponent charges with old news. A derivative of the straw man usually, in any large-scale matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can be or were already easily dealt with. Where it can be foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually them be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply being a rehash without need to address current issues — so much the better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.

18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.

24. Silence critics. If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their destruction of their character.

[Higgenbotham]

Why too big to fail inevitably fails. The square root of the number of people in an organization do half of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmdIyHXEonI

Went through it with the americans, canadians, british, french and germans.
The trend is always clear as making sure its linear H.
The system always destroys the linear.
As we noted clearly before deception is the currency of the realm.

My thesis would be a bit more complex. The people who could solve the problems of the too big to fail today were weeded out in interviews and front line jobs 30 years ago (he says part of this). The reason they were weeded out is the Heros and Silents needed "yes men" who would not challenge their authority, as they were firmly in control and already had the needed creative management skills themselves.

[aeden]

I understand H
As another study indicated 74 percent where split down the middle in views some misinterpreted
that it conveyed the fault as in militancy and animosity was the fault. Basically right down the middle as the
nation as Amos said blunt and clear. Other books say the same.
Earlier I posted Q findings on the flag which was from the 1933 communist push in Germany in the forums.
No clue but it matches the militant framework GD suggested and we noted over time here also.
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 450#p38233
I have two other points to convey but not right now.

I closed 25 percent of book 4 also before the ramp yesterday.

thread: current assessment

[aeden]

holy water on eco vampires

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/03/ ... ium=social

every one knew this

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=And+if+we+wer ... =hg&ia=web

Anyways we doing fine with ruif since the old Lake Wobegon Days. Every single one of them considers his or her missions and orders “of above average” importance. But not everyone can be above average. This “flattening of the chain of command,” summed up retired lieutenant general William Odom, causes “constipated communication channels” and “diarrhea of the email” that distracts troops from the mission at hand.

We are not having that problem, since not everyone can be above average listening to the grand father clock opines who ever had a solution clue to work flow management resolutions we are already on...

[aeden]

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=DB9ymybM

worth the repost

[aeden]

http://ir.theice.com/press/press-releas ... 018?=news1

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that the ICE Three Month Short Sterling Futures contract achieved two consecutive open interest records of 3,896,252 contracts on 16 March 2018 and 3,867,976 contracts on 15 March 2018. The previous open interest record was 3,801,867 contracts set in July 2007.

[Higgenbotham]

S&P Rating AAA Moody's Rating Aaa
CUSIP 594918BV5
MICROSOFT CORP 1.85% 02/06/2020

Like Moody's, Fitch has kept its top AAA-rating on U.S. government debt. However, Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S.' rating by one notch to AA+ in August 2011. It cited its high level of debt and uncertainty about the federal government's ability to manage that debt load following a debt ceiling showdown.

S&P rates Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson's corporate debt higher than US government debt.