Financial topics

[Higgenbotham]

From the standpoint of future scenarios, there is a problem with this configuration being bullish because oil and retail gasoline are not far from their lower highs (than occurred in past years) but have stalled and been unable to advance. That indicates to me that oil is weighing on the economy at lower prices than it has in the past, which means the economy is weakening.

Let's say copper was down a little, silver was down a little, etc., and oil and gasoline were down a lot from higher prices, the opposite of what we are seeing. Then I think in that instance the market could stay stable. That is some variation of what happened after May 2011. From the stock market high there, oil dropped a lot and I think that helped hold things up.

[aedens]

They will blow it up when they are ready.
It is impossable to grow with 90$ plus oil
They will destroy it to save it is there sick dream.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/tre/sdr/sdrbasket.htm
http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.aspx

Example and he is correct: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... hanie.html

[Higgenbotham]

Playing around with Fibonnaci numbers and dates, low of 3/9/09 plus the Fib number of 1597 (July 23, 2013), minus Fib 144, yields 3/1/13. Short 25.

H - I like your idea of out of the money puts.

From July 19, 2007 to the March 1, 2013 day you mentioned is a Fibonacci 5.618 years, or 2052 days (including the leap day). This is interesting from the standpoint that it is 4 plus the golden ratio and is also 5 plus 1 divided by the golden ratio. Looking at the work I had done earlier, I had wondered about the total pattern falling just short of the 5.618 years, but now we've seen the Dow hit the high there on the nonconfirmation. The reason I have looked at July 19, 2007 so closely is that would have been the high had Bernanke not panicked and dropped interest rates down that August after meeting the PIMCO execs in California and realizing subprime wasn't really contained as he had thought.

[aedens]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03 ... stockpile/

morons in charge

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-gaz ... -takeover/

heating up

http://www.timesofisrael.com/plague-of- ... cts-egypt/

figures since what else could possibly go wrong with US tax dollars sent there.

[Reality Check]

During these times when it appears governments in the west can do nothing but borrow money the citizens can not pay back,
and spend limited government resources on useless feel good projects,
the media is still covering stories that show our western civilization is vital, dynamic and robust.

Take these articles for example.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cy ... 705344.ece

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cy ... 701198.ece

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cy ... 705446.ece

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cy ... 687409.ece

http://road.cc/content/news/77379-final ... ace-monday

[Higgenbotham]

Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:42 pm

Here's how I would put it. What we are seeing here is civilizational collapse. The authorities are trying to pretend it isn't happening. My take has been when a civilization goes into that mode for whatever reason, the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

The intent of these press conferences in my opinion is to discuss abnormal and previously unthinkable situations and "normalize" them for public consumption. Now let's fast forward a few months or years to the point when gasoline does get to $6, auto sales have crashed, and VMT is perhaps 80% of what it is today. A reporter may ask Bernanke about that and the response would be, well, yes, gasoline will remain high but, yes, there are alternatives like bicycles and walking that many people do and there is public transportation in some areas so for those who are not strong enough to bicycle, maybe they should consider locating on a bus line. And by that time, whatever happens along those lines will appear perfectly normal and logical to many people. At least, it will be reality, we can say that for sure.

[Reality Check]

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[aedens]

case in point:

American officials have been naive in withholding arms and criticizing rising Syrian Islamists, while expecting everything to work out for the best in the end. In reality, Washington may wake up to a situation in a post-Assad Syria in which it is ignored, criticized and marginalized for not helping the rebels when they urgently needed military help. This may facilitate the dominance over Syria of Islamists and other “bad guys” in American eyes. It is hard to think of a more simplistic, ineffective and counterproductive policy than the one the U.S. is now pursuing.
Rami G. Khouri
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Col ... z2MbOohF7x
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

As a taxpayer I say not a dime to any since how many wolfs ears are we to hold?
No way ever this can be fixed. We see outside our own window first and the Hill tells us to fuckoff.
As we crash these cherful and village do not even pretend to care. This translate to being so stupid and evil to read the Letter they
are sworn to protect as they buy gear to slaughter us and are eating our grandchildren. Evil is good and good is evil. No need to convey
the age we live in anymore. We already know this day as we go night. WE the people cannot decide since we are children to this evil
cargo cult. Prepare and stock up with essentials. Washington is insane.

[Reality Check]

The United States Homeland Security Department recently explained that the reason it was purchasing over a Billion rounds of high caliber, high power, hollow point ammunition was to conduct training for it's employees who work in the United States to keep the American People "safe from terrorists". Terrorists have been redefined by homeland security over the last few years to emphasis "home grown terrorists" as the threat rather than foreign terrorists.

Homeland Security did not explain why it was buying relatively expensive, high power, high caliber ammunition, with bullets that mushroom in size after entering a human body. Nor did Homeland Security explain why they bought over a Billion rounds of ammunition that is not really cost effective nor suitable for intensive target practice, rather than the much cheaper, lower power, smaller caliber favored for intensive target practice. Any training that would require a few thousand Homeland Security employees to fire a Billion of rounds of ammunition over a period of even a few years would be extremely intensive and frequent target practice.

Homeland Security also did not explain why they were buying the type of bullets that have been banned in warfare as inhumane because of the horrific injuries they cause to human beings.

Most recently Homeland Security has purchased thousands ( 2,700 ) anti-insurgent Armored Vehicles designed by the U.S. Army for use by a heavily armed occupying force to travel through armed, hostile civilian populations. These vehicles were designed specifically for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Homeland Security has so far failed to explain why it would ever need to use thousands of these armored vehicles in the United States.

These vehicles are being purchased by the U.S. Army for the Homeland Security Department, because, despite the stenciled world "Police" on the side of the vehicle in the photo, they are very expensive military vehicles that police forces in the United States neither need, nor can police forces afford to buy.



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03 ... stockpile/

[Higgenbotham]

The writing looks to be pretty clearly on the wall as far as how this is going to go down.

Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:02 am

The times were not static. Loss of confidence in the guarantors of order opened the way to demands for change, and miseria gave force to the impulse. The oppressed were no longer enduring but rebelling, although, like the bourgeois who tried to compel reform, they were inadequate, unready, and unequipped for the task. Marcel could not impose good government, neither could the Good Parliament. The Jacques could not overthrow the nobles, the popolo minuto of Florence could not advance their status, the English peasants were betrayed by their King; every working-class insurrection was crushed.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1978

Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:45 pm

Then on Monday morning, while the reports that the banking industry suffered greater infiltration than expected, the DHS and US armed forces would be poised to enact martial law to control the potential for domestic insurrection caused by the realization that every American has had their money stolen from them by the banking cartels in one fell swoop.

http://occupycorporatism.com/be-warned-