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[Higgenbotham]

Very interesting article on who is still AAA.

https://www.suredividend.com/aaa-rating-jnj/

[aeden]

Very interesting article on who is still AAA.

https://www.suredividend.com/aaa-rating-jnj/

ty H
sold half of book 4 just now
will look for dcf only

[Higgenbotham]

Covered short futures position and flat.

[aeden]

closed book 4
kitty will bounce
we will not

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=0PEwa9io

America is bankrupt and the dollar is toast. They might as well still build something with it for as long as people still believe it has value.
America can't hold on much longer, just for survival it needs a 5% deficit. Imagine a war would break out and the deficits would jump to 20 to 25%!
There's no reserves, massive debt, uncountable obligations...
pretty depressing...

And it's falling way back on Europe now also. America has lost it's entire edge. The "leaders" just don't want to admit it because that way they can still have their cake.
America isn't that great anymore. The nature is very nice, yes, that's what attracts all the tourists.
But when you see the cities... the towns... most people say "fuck that, let's hope it never gets that bad in our country".
America is now what England was in the 30's. It used to be great and many still believed that the empire would return.
2 decades later and the entire country was drowning in poverty for the next 40 years.
America now is as good as it will ever be in the future. Things will get a shitlot worse and the pool of poor people will only grow and conditions will only get worse and worse.
And how does America cope with it? They look at the worst parts in the world and say "AHA! WE'RE STILL BETTER THEN THEM!"
That's the alcoholic saying his addiction isn't that bad...
America can't compare itself to Europe either. America is build with cardboard walls, Europe is build from stone walls that last centuries. The foundations go way deeper.
And as long as nobody realizes what's happening in America and as long as most idiots believe that prepping and bugging out with a crossbow will save you... then they should try to move to the Amazons for 4 months and try to survive there. Life is more then just surviving.

When you drill down that you are between two assholes only one things will be seen from them.
Taxpayers deserve what they sown.

http://www.gabelli.com/Gab_pdf/PRs/GUT_19Mar2018.pdf

http://www.internationalboulevard.com/t ... -need-you/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMoAf9ld4I

[CH86]

You Might as well be posting From another planet, In the Current Recession Europe has been doing far worse than the US. Especially southern Europe, even Germany is increasingly depressed economically due to the self-imposed refugee burden.

[aeden]

I agree CH with your view.
This was from a Belgium Guy and he has a stellar track record to effect on the ground.
He is rather damn well sharp and about your age group.

Can we turn it around?
If Trump shoots Mitch in the knee and burys Nancy up to neck on a fire ant hill
to start we can at least say somebody tried to stop these cake eating maniacs
decades behind the curve on actual affairs.

Mind you this is a condensed view from a lot people knocking around in circles.

I am like H in some actuual regards that we are F$%cked over.

Execution date 03/23/2018 12:56:18 p.m., ET
book four short again

It will take much time and pain for these people to fathom the suicide slid they ignited.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03- ... everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMoAf9ld4I

amos vix

[aeden]

ai said rebalance today.
And to whom do I attribute the fulcrum.

Ai responded, humans are smart and programmable.

The next step indicated after the ripe fruit from Amos was judgment, call it flypaper as warned for those attached to mental frameworks

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03- ... ex-exposed

Cookies monster the quintessential consumer. Navigate to the "Cookies" directory to find the desired cookie files.

craftiness; it is sometimes translated “seduced.”

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

They offer nothing.

You Might as well be posting From another planet.

[Higgenbotham]

If this is a crash, it is the slowest moving crash I am aware of. That is why I pulled out of short positions yesterday. However, this week I moved most of my money into shorter term t-bills and high quality corporates. I'm not holding or trading any stocks.

My next move will be to watch. If it does crash, I may then buy some stocks for a counter trend move that could last 2-3 months. If this is a correction, I will try to short the new all time high that occurs.

The critical elements in my short term plan are not to be in stocks, to be in high quality interest bearing paper, then to lock down high probability gains on speculation (short positions in the recent case). For me, it's much easier to guess where a top will occur than to figure out where the bottom is. The bottom very well could be today. Why would I say that? Because the 1987 crash bottomed on calendar day 55 after the all time high and the 1929 crash on day 56. Today is day 56.

[aeden]

The bottom very well could be today. Why would I say that? Because the 1987 crash bottomed on calendar day 55 after the all time high and the 1929 crash on day 56. Today is day 56.

Damn good point H.
It is a construct of the last regimes spasm of identity politics. Not a crash H.
Money is moving because as before the proto communist god philosophy is anti Christian to the rottenness of its very bones.
We are gauging the slow motion beast spasm not economic yet.
The wound will heal and they will worship the man of perdition if we are not wise.
As Johns recent article noted the World is falling into darkness as the press vanishes.

"ethics" for a short hand version

The beatings will continue as we enter the window and no one wishes that at all.

For decades this nation has been adulterated.

[John]

> If this is a crash, it is the slowest moving crash I am aware of.

Take a look at my Dow Jones historical page.

http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... i.djia.htm

And take a look at what happened starting September 3, 1929,
which was the market peak.

The market began a gradual decline that lasted four years. What
people refer to as a "crash" was actually a panic that occurred six
weeks later and lasted around a week, followed by a recovery.

About six weeks after the peak, the market had gradually fallen 16%,
but no one was concerned. In fact, pundits said that it was time to
buy. Everyone believed that the economy and the market were
"fundamentally sound" (that phrase is a sure sign of trouble), and so
few suspected that anything was wrong.

If we're finally entering a crash, then this is exactly the way that I
would be expecting it to proceed.