tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post1100763587434341129..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: June 19 2009: Bagmen and BoardroomsIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20566010757410157112009-06-20T23:41:49.632-04:002009-06-20T23:41:49.632-04:00Re: Won/Dollar
Thanks for the comments. None of t...Re: Won/Dollar<br /><br />Thanks for the comments. None of this looks good for us... our time line is too short, it seems, to wait for a real dollar collapse.<br /><br />Hmmm.... Rock, meet Hard Place.<br /><br />Cheersccpohttp://aperfectstormcometh.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22076199607658922542009-06-20T21:43:41.766-04:002009-06-20T21:43:41.766-04:00Mr. Vulture sez --
The banks are keeping their s...Mr. Vulture sez --<br /><br /> The banks are keeping their stash in reserves at the Fed as that is the closest thing to real money outside of maybe gold.<br /><br /> .. .<br /><br /> I think in the final analysis, their most important asset is control of the American military. Whatever it takes.<br /><br />___________________________________<br /><br />You got it my friend.<br /><br />The Ventriloquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17710882943614273994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13020793792910069372009-06-20T21:20:25.686-04:002009-06-20T21:20:25.686-04:00New post upNew post upIlargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24440281704003537022009-06-20T20:32:01.989-04:002009-06-20T20:32:01.989-04:00Watch the Frontline Video
Now, take the narrators...Watch the Frontline Video<br /><br />Now, take the narrators ominous voice and imagine the script for next Frontline 6 months - 1 year from today.<br /><br />Can't you hear what that narrator will be saying......<br /><br />Narrator: By June of 2009, the dark clouds, which had loomed heavy over Wall street for past year, seemed to have cleared. Word of a recovery, green shoots, filled the Erin Winthropehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535747338165517395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59733076630791783352009-06-20T20:28:26.440-04:002009-06-20T20:28:26.440-04:00Jib Jab, lolJib Jab, lolbluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54770276635398997482009-06-20T20:26:50.417-04:002009-06-20T20:26:50.417-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Erin Winthropehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535747338165517395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83501959428098941972009-06-20T19:27:28.909-04:002009-06-20T19:27:28.909-04:00Tt,
Re: filched argot. According to Wikipedia (a...Tt, <br /><br />Re: filched argot. According to Wikipedia (and in agreement with my own memory) the bagman is the one who carries money and tickets back and forth in the numbers racket. Which looks like a more honest game than high finance, anyways. <br /><br />And that jibjab vid was fuunneee!Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-23532986762456577912009-06-20T18:59:39.860-04:002009-06-20T18:59:39.860-04:00So tomorrow we get to be waiter and they become th...So tomorrow we get to be waiter and they become the served, dollars saved will be spent and debts made will be paid. The tide goes out and the tide comes in and in between there is inconsistency and interim turmoil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14334422725083729982009-06-20T18:48:02.608-04:002009-06-20T18:48:02.608-04:00Alabaman maybe sees the same GE commericial that I...Alabaman maybe sees the same GE commericial that I see where I live near the Canadian border on the prairie. Lives saved, airplanes flying, water provided, energy created. "If this is what we [GE] did today... imagine the future..." I felt so warm and fuzzy and safe. All is well, GE is taking care of us. GE is, afterall, too big to fail.Leonanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58759422712565712512009-06-20T18:42:24.897-04:002009-06-20T18:42:24.897-04:00Can somebody please let me know when the mext 150 ...Can somebody please let me know when the mext 150 comment TAE day will be? You know,so I can plan to just stop by and say hi again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79558304663359160172009-06-20T18:33:34.047-04:002009-06-20T18:33:34.047-04:00@ el g
Those images are awesome.
Law and order...@ el g<br /><br />Those images are awesome. <br /><br />Law and order baby!!! Pepper pray those hippies. Law and order son! How about a knee in the back of the head - you spoiled brat.<br /><br />Battalions of goons just itching to set straight all those touchy-feely effeminate latte drink'in losers.<br /><br />Too bad they don't see it coming. Too busy tending their urban chickens.Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69491830235333574632009-06-20T18:16:14.414-04:002009-06-20T18:16:14.414-04:00@Thomas
"And by the way, those fascist polic...@Thomas<br /><br />"And by the way, those fascist police crackdowns are coming to city near you within a few years. Police batons will be cracking the heads of rioting pensioners who've just learned their pensions no longer exit."<br /><br />Don't want to wait a couple of years for those depressing photos? Go to:<br /><br /><br />http://maxkeiser.com/2009/06/20/el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30825717205959265802009-06-20T17:00:42.958-04:002009-06-20T17:00:42.958-04:00Just listening to the FSN netcast today, their gue...Just listening to the FSN netcast today, their <a href="http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2009/Mohr.html" rel="nofollow">guests</a> today are the makers of this movie: <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLHT028qARU<br /><br />It's about the ongoing sale of fraudulent shares in SiriusXM, but also about the general atmosphere of fraud and corruption on Wall St. over the last decade or Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29139417203875502802009-06-20T16:39:35.362-04:002009-06-20T16:39:35.362-04:00“As strange as it may seem, the peak oil crisis, w...“As strange as it may seem, the peak oil crisis, which has been focused on geologic constraints to oil production, supply and demand, geopolitical threats and inadequate investment, seems to be morphing into an issue of how much debt the U.S. Treasury can sell and still keep interest rates under control.”<br /><a href="http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10789791529294588192009-06-20T15:56:29.180-04:002009-06-20T15:56:29.180-04:00The Brutal Crackdown in Iran:
I find all the hype...The Brutal Crackdown in Iran:<br /><br />I find all the hyperventilating in the US press amusing. If similar protests were to threaten our client, the King of Saudi Arabia, do you still think the media still cover the crackdown with such vigor?<br /><br />I think not. I think we'd all hear about the importance of Law and order.<br /><br />American leadership doesn't give a rat's assThomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3410526817437227682009-06-20T15:42:23.983-04:002009-06-20T15:42:23.983-04:00Not bad mocking bird, but hey and also you can be...Not bad mocking bird, but hey and also you can be glad you don't got <a href="http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama" rel="nofollow"> Jib Jab</a> on your case.:)<br><br>-Transitory turmoil-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42183449615317252932009-06-20T15:38:46.836-04:002009-06-20T15:38:46.836-04:00Anon 2:31
Yeah, I also ponder over how the maggo...Anon 2:31<br /><br />Yeah, I also ponder over how the maggots are storing their ill gotten gains. Some in gold no doubt. I think a lot is going right now into oil futures. How else to explain that every orifice in the world is filled with crude and the price has doubled. Short term US Treasuries for sure. The banks are keeping their stash in reserves at the Fed as that is the closest thing toel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-565961507998035292009-06-20T14:31:29.741-04:002009-06-20T14:31:29.741-04:00I was just wondering what the goons and thugs of A...I was just wondering what the goons and thugs of American finance were doing with their loot & booty. They sure as hell aren't entrusting to US banks, so where's the beef?<br /><br />Stumbled on this:<br /><br /><b>AIG's ex-CEO had private jet fly stock to Bermuda</b><br /><br />Seems the ex-head Blowfly (carrion maggot) of AIG was so paranoid his old posse was going to 'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-63800458182539636282009-06-20T13:37:40.491-04:002009-06-20T13:37:40.491-04:00Regarding Ilargi's post in the comment sectio...Regarding Ilargi's post in the comment section that the Italian bondage story is not worth discussing because the truth will never be known for certain, this observation applies to well over 50% of everything discussed here starting with the Fed's balance sheet. Also, never is a long time. <br /><br />It is also a fact of nature that nothing in the empirical word is ever known for el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55650968190329447872009-06-20T13:25:55.079-04:002009-06-20T13:25:55.079-04:00el Yankee eagle, try this:Knights of the Bag. Bag...el Yankee eagle, try this:<br><br>Knights of the Bag. Bagmen who <br />travel for mercantile orders. Bet that pre-dates your failed English colony's filched argot.<br><br>Don't ask me what they carried in those bags, I bet it isn't any nicer than what is in Tims bag. Now there, I must admit, is a proper bagman for you!<br><br>-Transitory turmoil-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2142128632244314412009-06-20T12:18:29.480-04:002009-06-20T12:18:29.480-04:00Anon @ 9:01 - Many people still have and use credi...Anon @ 9:01 - Many people still have and use credit cards in order to keep spending.bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29356358194138041212009-06-20T12:06:14.842-04:002009-06-20T12:06:14.842-04:00CCPO,
I can only offer a partial answer to your q...CCPO,<br /><br />I can only offer a partial answer to your question as I don't follow the value of the Korean currency. IMO the dollar will appreciate in general (pullbacks notwithstanding), but I can't comment on its specific exchange rate with the Korean won.Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-63447984992429147242009-06-20T11:00:50.381-04:002009-06-20T11:00:50.381-04:00JustJohn,
i know, exaggerating the madness a tad ...JustJohn,<br /><br />i know, exaggerating the madness a tad works miracles at times. The new $15.000 credit is not just for first-time purchases anymore, I understand. They'll get rid of other distractions in due time and order, I'm sure. The present housing situation is a grave threat to the entire financial system.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69618622363381805302009-06-20T10:59:57.022-04:002009-06-20T10:59:57.022-04:00"Canada's 308 members of Parliament claim..."Canada's 308 members of Parliament claim almost $128 million a year in personal and office expenses – spending that's risen 42% since 2000. But when the Star asked where the money was going, almost everyone refused to talk"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/654005#Comments" rel="nofollow">Our MPs' spending secrets</a>PKPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45971260506927160522009-06-20T10:36:51.961-04:002009-06-20T10:36:51.961-04:00Ilargi,
Thanks again for the great blog.
A quibbl...Ilargi,<br />Thanks again for the great blog.<br /><br />A quibble with your seventh bullet point, about the $8000 tax credit for first time home buyers & Detroit house prices. While both your statements are true, people might get the wrong idea that the tax credit would cover the house... remember the credit is only 10% of the house cost. So the $6000 Detroit house would only get a $600 justjohnnoreply@blogger.com