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[aeden]

Execution date 04/02/2018 11:25:17 a.m.
Half short book four closed.
Will wait some time as you suggested and I note also.

Tyler Durden
Mon, 04/02/2018 - 11:20
Well that re-escalated quickly...
All major US equity indices are now negative for the year...

Efficient markets was off by 3 minutes and change....

ESF has run out of ammunition

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 05:30
It is impossible to understand the world today without knowing what the ESF is and what it has been doing. Officially in charge of defending the dollar, the ESF is the government agency which controls the New York Fed, runs the CIA's black budget, and is the architect of the world's monetary system (IMF, World Bank, etc). ESF financing (through the OSS and then the CIA) built up the worldwide propaganda network which has so badly distorted history today (including erasing awareness of its existence from popular consciousness). It has been directly involved in virtually every major US fraud/scandal since its creation in 1934: the London gold pool, the Kennedy assassinations, Iran-Contra, CIA drug trafficking, HIV, and worse...

Money And Governmental Atrophy

Remember LME since you should.

[John]

> Boomers need to grow some compassion and invest in their
> kids. Remember the younger generations are America's Future and
> the West's Future.

> Looks like a good business. Basically, anything the Boomers need
> to buy is worth looking at because it will trend up and up for
> decades.

> Diapers for Baby Boomers Give Boost to the Paper Industry
> By Jen Skerritt
> March 9, 2017, 6:00 PM CST Updated on March 10, 2017, 5:58 AM CST
> Digital era kills paper use; adult incontinence fuels growth
> International Paper, Domtar expanding fluff-pulp capacity
> Diaper-wearing baby boomers are coming to the rescue of the
> beleaguered paper industry.

> Betting on boomers, P&G enters the adult diaper market
> Sara Eisen | @saraeisen
> Published 2:44 PM ET Fri, 8 Aug 2014
> CNBC.com
> P&G's bet on adult diapers
> 12:01 PM ET Fri, 8 Aug 2014 | 01:28
> It's the fastest-growing household products business—growing
> faster than toothpaste, tissues, toilet paper and other
> multibillion-dollar household staples. Give up? It's adult
> diapers.

> We’re peeing in our pants. Lucky for the diaper industry
> BY ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ
> aveciana-suarez@miamiherald.com
> March 13, 2017 09:10 AM
> Updated March 13, 2017 09:55 AM
> Diaper sales are booming, but the customers aren’t young parents
> swaddling their babies.
> Baby boomers are buying more absorbent hygiene products than ever,
> helping a beleaguered paper industry that has seen its fortunes
> plummet as information grows increasingly digital and paperless.
> U.S. retail sales for incontinence products are projected to
> increase 9 percent in 2017 and 8 percent in 2018, according to
> Svetlana Uduslivaia, the head of industry research at Euromonitor
> International. In 2016 sales adult incontinence products racked up
> almost $2 billion.

Diapers is a low margin business, requiring a huge up front
infrastructure cost for manufacturing and distribution.

There's a MUCH better business for Gen-Xers if they really want to
make money:

Suicide kits.

This would have the following advantages for Gen-Xers:

• Seeing Boomers kill themselves would be a very satisfying and
  pleasant career for Gen-Xers.
• The kit could be made up of perfectly legal items, easily
  assembled: A large plastic bag, a large elastic or flexible gymnastic
  band that fits around the neck to hold the bag in place snugly, a
  cardboard hat or sweatband to hold the plastic bag away from the face,
  vinyl or plastic tubing, a tank of pure helium or nitrogen, adhesive
  tape to hold the tubing in place, and various over the counter
  medications used in different scenarios, such as ten bottles of
  Sominex or ten bottles of caffeine.
• Because of the overwhelming demand of these kits from Boomers, the
  Gen-Xer would be able to mark the costs up substantially -- possibly
  to $700-1000 per kit.
• The kit could be sold online, and mailed to the Boomer in a plain
  brown wrapper. Depending on the legal situation, it could be shipped
  from a foreign country.

This is the perfect money-making business for a Gen-Xer, and a great
career choice -- much better than any of your suggestions.

[CH86]

Boomers need to grow some compassion and invest in their kids. Remember the younger generations are America's Future and the West's Future.

Last thought on this. 20 years ago (in 1998) I had a realization.

The Boomers beat me to the good jobs. Nothing I could do about it.

They beat me to the cheap real estate and drove house prices up. Again nothing I could do.

Then I thought they haven't retired yet. I'm going to buy a retirement property and sell it to a Boomer and get my due. I headed out to Idaho near a ski resort and looked at properties. It was the Fall of 1998 and I timed my trip during the 1998 "Asia Contagion". There was a really nice property listed for 89K and I bought it for 55K.

I waited 6 years and called my Boomer broker and asked him if prices were up and he said yes. He sent me a listing contract for $119K with 10% commission. I thought if he could get 119K I'd give him the 10% and signed it and mailed it back.

A Boomer called me and asked if I'd lower the price. I told him no, the other Boomer is charging me 10% commission. Ask him to lower his commission.

The Boomer wouldn't lower the commission and the other Boomer paid the 119K.

My Silent relatives loved that story for some reason.

What I'm saying is figure out something to sell to the Boomers and have them invest in you that way.

Only wealthy Boomers are retiring, Middle Class and working class boomers can't afford to retire, Political Class/Academic Class Boomers however refuse to retire.

[Higgenbotham]

Depending on the legal situation, it could be shipped
from a foreign country.

Excellent suggestion. The Boomer hating Millennial could relocate to Namibia and sell the kits from there. That would guarantee a great income stream until the Boomers get annihilated in a potential nuclear war or societal collapse.

And I would add that no Millennial can claim any longer that you or the Boomers who buy their kits weren't trying to help them.

[Higgenbotham]

You also raise a good point in that, if Boomer commit suicide en masse they won't be buying food or diapers either one.

[John]

> You also raise a good point in that, if Boomers commit suicide en
> masse they won't be buying food or diapers either one.

Also, Boomers won't be Hoovering up benefits, something CH86 often
complains about.

[Higgenbotham]

What I'm saying is figure out something to sell to the Boomers and have them invest in you that way.

Only wealthy Boomers are retiring, Middle Class and working class boomers can't afford to retire, Political Class/Academic Class Boomers however refuse to retire.

Figure out what to sell them now. That was what I figured out in 1998 when they thought they were going to retire.

[Higgenbotham]

Boomers have a flair from making dramatic entrances and exits, so how about a suicide travel package to your favorite suicide destination which includes one way air fare, suicide by your preferred method in the company of fellow Boomers, funeral, and burial, all for $2599, or something like that. One possible package might be a one way ticket to Guyana with reenactment of the Jim Jones Kool-Aid right on the original site, for example.

[John]

> Boomers have a flair from making dramatic entrances and exits, so
> how about a suicide travel package to your favorite suicide
> destination which includes one way air fare, suicide by your
> preferred method in the company of fellow Boomers, funeral, and
> burial, all for $2599, or something like that. One possible
> package might be a one way ticket to Guyana with reenactment of
> the Jim Jones Kool-Aid right on the original site, for
> example.

I don't see how that would work. Suicide is a highly personal
decision that you can't even share with people. If you try to talk
about it with someone, they get mad at you. No one except a maniac
would try to sell a suicide trip to his friends and family.

[CH86]

Xers and Millies do not want boomers to carry out mass suicide. They Merely want boomers leaders to share power with the young, pave the way for the passing of the torch to young people and give up the usual boomer policy of "full-steam ahead" whenever the proverbial Titanic Sees an Iceberg and instead try to go around the "Icebergs".