tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post2411009568240147265..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: May 25 2011: The Future of Physical Gold, Part II - The Evolution of ValueIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85905406072924439072011-05-29T20:45:52.589-04:002011-05-29T20:45:52.589-04:00... a deal that would lead to unprecedented outsid...<i>... a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatisation of state assets, in exchange for new bail-out loans for Athens.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/greeces-ultimatum-bailout-bankers-or-loss-sovereignty" rel="nofollow">The Greek "Ultimatum": Bailout (For Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20905183173121181432011-05-29T17:50:21.226-04:002011-05-29T17:50:21.226-04:00@latturi
Thank you the link, that is very interes...@latturi<br /><br />Thank you the link, that is very interesting material. The simplifying assumptions of economics (and many other social sciences) is probably the single most critical factor determining why otherwise very intelligent and "well-read" people accept flawed theories and their descriptions/predictions of reality. For some reason, they treat these assumptions as being Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75368372280014434852011-05-29T17:45:10.422-04:002011-05-29T17:45:10.422-04:00@Wyote, Ha, that sucked me in:)@Wyote, Ha, that sucked me in:)scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30597139072001810952011-05-29T17:43:50.523-04:002011-05-29T17:43:50.523-04:00New post up.
Honey, I Swapped the Greeks
....New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-29-2011-honey-i-swapped-greeks.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Honey, I Swapped the Greeks</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55562698048972113552011-05-29T17:34:49.544-04:002011-05-29T17:34:49.544-04:00Scandia,
A play on the phrase "The check is...Scandia,<br /> A play on the phrase "The check is in the mail". <br /><br />The urban dictionary defines it as: <br />"A catch phrase used by people, organizations, and credit lepers to appease other creditors, and other people and organizations waiting for money and is 1 of the top 3 lie top lies used by white males 18-65 living in the United States. ; )"Wyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17639946106031416118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21433886576178263582011-05-29T17:22:46.674-04:002011-05-29T17:22:46.674-04:00@Wyote, oh dear, that one went over my head?@Wyote, oh dear, that one went over my head?scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59888118395107125232011-05-29T17:18:47.867-04:002011-05-29T17:18:47.867-04:00If people have missed Adam Curtis' "The T...If people have missed Adam Curtis' "<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheTrap" rel="nofollow">The Trap</a>" (3x60 min document) then you better find time to watch it. Lots of observations about how the world is as it is.<br /><br />Part one is about how Nash's Game theory started trumping common sense (hint: easier to make calculations about humans when they arelautturihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09269968661393439346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45314901228463240092011-05-29T12:29:13.046-04:002011-05-29T12:29:13.046-04:00Scandia: I'll have what she's having.
Bea...Scandia: I'll have what she's having.<br /><br />Bear joke:<br />A Russian scientist and a Czechoslovakian scientist had spent their lives studying the grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study the bears.<br /><br />Finally their request was granted, and they immediately flew to NY and on West to Yellowstone.<br /><br Wyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17639946106031416118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85285437045384538002011-05-29T12:16:18.363-04:002011-05-29T12:16:18.363-04:00Taibbi does a short piece on oil and commodity spe...Taibbi does a short piece on oil and commodity speculation, promising an in depth article in the future.<br /><br />http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/wikileaks-cables-show-speculators-behind-oil-bubble-20110526el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24310509205497194032011-05-29T11:43:40.833-04:002011-05-29T11:43:40.833-04:00I do apologize in advance Ash for this posting but...I do apologize in advance Ash for this posting but the woman's laugh is so contagious, a tonic in these times. I keep watching it and laughing and laughing...Others might be in need of a laugh too.<br /><br />http://scoutmagazine.ca/2011/05/12/smoke-break-848-russian-news-anchor-cant-keep-straight-face-for-bc-pot-story/scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-38486248879311220412011-05-29T10:48:55.504-04:002011-05-29T10:48:55.504-04:00@JTHAB, "How can you possibly have it both wa...@JTHAB, "How can you possibly have it both ways? QEII causes low bond yields, and no-QEII causes low bond yields too?! I'm confused."<br /><br />The reason that could work short-term, IMO, is because QE1 and QE2 have acted as a suction for both "dumb money" and "smart money" into risk assets, to keep the ponzi scheme going. A risk asset rally would typically be Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82941571922646891342011-05-29T02:00:51.808-04:002011-05-29T02:00:51.808-04:00Greenpa - thanks
Tyler Durden describing Goldman ...Greenpa - thanks<br /><br />Tyler Durden describing Goldman Sachs paying off a senator:<br /><br />Squid Pro Quoel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44860507595372247622011-05-29T01:48:24.160-04:002011-05-29T01:48:24.160-04:00I would love someone to explain the position of Al...I would love someone to explain the position of Albert Edwards and Russell Napier (see links below). They seem to be advocating a S&P mega-crash...but yet Napier thinks the safety will be in emerging economy currencies! Huh? Just as baffling, Edwards postulates that US bond yields will go due to the end of QEII and the resultant collapse in commidities...yet he also says the only reason bond Skip Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01503427289412937022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69309956954480648822011-05-28T22:50:19.093-04:002011-05-28T22:50:19.093-04:00El Gal; my familiarity with chagas is minimal-
So...El Gal; my familiarity with chagas is minimal-<br /><br />Some blood feeders inject an anesthetic with their saliva immediately. Vampire bats have an anesthetic and an anticoagulant they inject; along with teeth so sharp they cut with minimal force.<br /><br />Don't know about the distribution specifically in this case, but there are MANY organisms in South America with relatives in Africa; Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14520207284688261632011-05-28T20:11:32.151-04:002011-05-28T20:11:32.151-04:00el G,
Chagas disease sounds absolutely dreadful. ...el G,<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas" rel="nofollow">Chagas disease</a> sounds absolutely dreadful. The best advice I found was to sleep with a mosquito net - two for one.<br /><br>Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17828325428232320812011-05-28T19:41:53.663-04:002011-05-28T19:41:53.663-04:00Was emailing with VK about the HI - deflation thin...Was emailing with VK about the HI - deflation thing. He points out that you cannot have HI without wages and salaries shooting up. And that certainly is not what the Fed and the politicians are doing. <br /><br />What happens when you are working at WalMart for $6/hour and a loaf of crappy white bread cost $500. Nobody is going to work. It just doesn't make any sense. You would have to el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80015163323272468582011-05-28T17:44:16.440-04:002011-05-28T17:44:16.440-04:00IMN
I follow all the arguments, over and over. D...IMN<br /><br />I follow all the arguments, over and over. Deflationistas are outnumbered about 50 to one. We don't even have enough wagons to form a circle. Some of the hyperinflationistas are pretty smart too, like Tyler Durden, John Rubino, and Celente. It's just that three of the smartest members of the thinking class, I&S and Steve Keen are in the deflation camp. Also el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-90740620446657827772011-05-28T17:15:34.981-04:002011-05-28T17:15:34.981-04:00el g,
For guys like us it's definitely deflat...el g,<br /><br />For guys like us it's definitely deflation all the way. The Big Dogs get some inflation. No matter what prices may do, we won't be able to afford it. But, you already know that because Stoneleigh frequently reminds us.<br /><br />I don't see HI happening unless we somehow get to a cash based economy with more than one currency being accepted as tender. Which certainlyPhlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26789850789740323192011-05-28T17:11:03.564-04:002011-05-28T17:11:03.564-04:00Greenpa
May be coming to a theater near you.
Dog...Greenpa<br /><br />May be coming to a theater near you.<br /><br />Dogs as far north as Virginia have tested seriopositive for chagas.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21438356277493196992011-05-28T16:55:23.642-04:002011-05-28T16:55:23.642-04:00Chas
My thoughts are that you would have to study...Chas<br /><br />My thoughts are that you would have to study and mull over the fine print for hours, and I don't find it personally interesting enough to do so.<br /><br />My other thought is that with fraud so endemically rampant in the financial markets, I don't trust nobody. (I recently learned that all the discount brokers charging $10 or less per trade are making their profit by el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75329220495968115282011-05-28T15:33:08.672-04:002011-05-28T15:33:08.672-04:00boise be in da howse! do 'em stoneleigh!
ash,...boise be in da howse! do 'em stoneleigh!<br /><br />ash, i just looked over part 2 again. way to break it down and make me work for it... a lot less than you had to. :) great stuff man.benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48594863923390040542011-05-28T14:23:12.657-04:002011-05-28T14:23:12.657-04:00@ I. M. Nobody
Your image is very telling.
There...@ I. M. Nobody<br /><br />Your image is very telling.<br /><br />There is a family story that, after the deportation, a group that were allowed back to Quebec, had to make a hole in the banks of a river in order to survive the winter.<br /><br />Our forefathers survived.<br />Very few people can claim that they are descendants from a plush doomstead.<br /><br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81386338481723952632011-05-28T14:09:00.161-04:002011-05-28T14:09:00.161-04:00Stoneleigh is in Boise TONIGHT.
All AutoEarthers ...Stoneleigh is in Boise TONIGHT.<br /><br />All AutoEarthers in the area UNITE!<br /><br />See you there:<br /><br />7pm<br />Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowhip<br />1520 N 12th St.<br />Boise, ID<br /><br />What could possibly be more important than this?deflationistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12493260004417743546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-32619719804082462692011-05-28T14:06:17.917-04:002011-05-28T14:06:17.917-04:00I think jal's comment about doomsteads tending...I think jal's comment about doomsteads tending to draw the attention of people with dubious intentions deserves some consideration. If you build it, they will probably come. <br /><br />This <a href="http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_free_images/0420-0908-2015-1457_u_s_soldier_sitting_next_to_a_mud_hut_in_afghanistan_m.jpg" rel="nofollow">image</a> may represent the ultimate in doomsteadPhlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64520750934129426142011-05-28T13:16:21.587-04:002011-05-28T13:16:21.587-04:00Any thoughts about this?
https://www.everbank.com...Any thoughts about this?<br /><br />https://www.everbank.com/personal/marketsafe-cd.aspxChashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266745551401583981noreply@blogger.com