tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post4524433982594546782..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, August 2 2008: Bouncing Down the MountainIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72570671650902594442008-08-03T13:40:00.000-04:002008-08-03T13:40:00.000-04:00Snuffy, I started to answer you but my answer got ...Snuffy, I started to answer you but my answer got a little long so just let me point you to my reply - <A HREF="http://intothegreyzone.blogspot.com/2008/08/riding-roller-coaster.html" REL="nofollow">Riding the Roller Coaster</A>.Greyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67672172417737039742008-08-03T11:12:00.000-04:002008-08-03T11:12:00.000-04:00Anonymous said“With the net,and other sources of n...Anonymous said<BR/>“With the net,and other sources of news and information,I have notice that the truth gets out there,in the public's gut,eventually.How they react will be the key.”<BR/><BR/>About the internet, as Ure commented yesterday:<BR/>“Corporations have more rights than you in many ways - taxing on net income just being one example. They've hijacked the radio spectrum and owning that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10230219516647341002008-08-03T10:04:00.000-04:002008-08-03T10:04:00.000-04:00El Pollo wrote: Stoneleigh writes that the equity ...El Pollo wrote: <I>Stoneleigh writes that the equity market is driven by sentiment over the short and mid term. However, in my opinion, there comes a point when the reality of gravity takes over, much like Wile E. Coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon.</I><BR/><BR/>That's exactly what will happen once we reach a cascade phase, although sentiment will still be a key driver. Cascades happen when everyone Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12477440515994853462008-08-03T09:12:00.000-04:002008-08-03T09:12:00.000-04:00"This sh*t didn't happen on it's own, accidentally..."This sh*t didn't happen on it's own, accidentally. They knew what they were doing, still know what they're doing."<BR/><BR/>You may be right. William Engdahl was asked this question directly at the end of a recent hour radio interview. Was this latest debacle another premeditated act in the ongoing saga of disaster capitalism? His reply was no, the Fed, Treasury, and investment banks became Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1273608539931565032008-08-03T07:18:00.000-04:002008-08-03T07:18:00.000-04:00This sh*t didn't happen on it's own, accidentally....This sh*t didn't happen on it's own, accidentally. They knew what they were doing, still know what they're doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55833244864748317552008-08-03T00:10:00.000-04:002008-08-03T00:10:00.000-04:00(Cid Yama) Frankly, unlike experienced con-men, th...(Cid Yama) <I>Frankly, unlike experienced con-men, they didn't know when to quit.</I><BR/><BR/>Or is that part and parcel with 'the game' they are playing, as you imply further in your comment:<BR/> <I><BR/>Now, by controlling the Government, they were allowed to borrow from the rest of the world,</I><BR/><BR/>If there was a plan to this I do not think it would be for money or wealth alone, but Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46108926996839639712008-08-02T23:50:00.000-04:002008-08-02T23:50:00.000-04:00Cid,I know your right,but I hope we get it right t...Cid,I know your right,but I hope we get it right this time ,and place the blame for our unraveling in the pocket of those who set us on this path.<BR/><BR/>With the net,and other sources of news and information,I have notice that the truth gets out there,in the public's gut,eventually.How they react will be the key.<BR/><BR/> I think we will stumble along,like a drunk with a serious medical Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46478123151909440482008-08-02T21:42:00.000-04:002008-08-02T21:42:00.000-04:00The Fed and Treasury Dept have done a good job to ...The Fed and Treasury Dept have done a good job to slow the collapse so far, but nothing will prevent it.<BR/><BR/>The Banking industry, stripped of regulation by the Bush Administration, engaged in fraudulent practices which, like all Ponzi scemes, netting them extreme plunder in the beginning, now face the endgame.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, unlike experienced con-men, they didn't know when to quit. TheyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62082211097661116752008-08-02T19:23:00.000-04:002008-08-02T19:23:00.000-04:00Bigelow wrote,"U.S. stock markets have been divorc...Bigelow wrote,<BR/><BR/>"U.S. stock markets have been divorced from the realities of manufacturing and Main Street for years. Not going to change now, so Wall Street will go back up starting in early October even as the economy gets worse for ordinary citizens.That is a guess."<BR/><BR/>Stoneleigh writes that the equity market is driven by sentiment over the short and mid term. However, in my Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-5329621552473453662008-08-02T18:04:00.000-04:002008-08-02T18:04:00.000-04:00“The banking system aims to make sure that the onl...“The banking system aims to make sure that the only losers are the customers it is supposed to serve: debtors, homeowners and employees of companies being “financialized” as the economy is de-industrialized. Indeed, financialization and de-industrialization are becoming almost synonymous. The trick is to get voters to think they are getting rich while actually they are being painted into a debt Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67838273948072141922008-08-02T17:33:00.000-04:002008-08-02T17:33:00.000-04:00"“The power to bargain for higher wages, a power t..."“The power to bargain for higher wages, a power that we assume was dismantled, may not be so feeble,” said Richard W. Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who is the most certain of all that a wage-price spiral is imminent."<BR/><BR/>The FED must continue to lie and set the stage for their next fantasy game of blame the victim. Also as more of the USA is sold, more dollars Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64351465516725506462008-08-02T15:13:00.000-04:002008-08-02T15:13:00.000-04:00This administration is going to do whatever it has...This administration is going to do whatever it has to do to keep it all together, until next year. Or until there is a major catastrophic event to wake up the public, the majority go about their business as usual. <BR/>Anonymous ReaderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27216413157260774962008-08-02T15:12:00.000-04:002008-08-02T15:12:00.000-04:00Dusting off the old crystal ball and wait, it says...Dusting off the old crystal ball and wait, it says something... <I>Server not found. Try again later.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36279409935804899992008-08-02T15:10:00.000-04:002008-08-02T15:10:00.000-04:00snuffy,U.S. stock markets have been divorced from ...snuffy,<BR/>U.S. stock markets have been divorced from the realities of manufacturing and Main Street for years. Not going to change now, so Wall Street will go back up starting in early October even as the economy gets worse for ordinary citizens.That is a guess.Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9495022229619358502008-08-02T15:03:00.000-04:002008-08-02T15:03:00.000-04:00I'm still of the mind that the Big UnRaveling will...I'm still of the mind that the Big UnRaveling will need to have a MAJOR distraction to avoid a sheeple stampede that will trample all the Bankster Gangsters and "K" Street Thugs into the dust bin of history.<BR/><BR/>IMHO a 'preemptive' strike or false flag OP on Iran will fit the bill. Nothing like mindless war to confuse the folks into believing their destitution is the direct result of "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60704133388224580372008-08-02T14:35:00.000-04:002008-08-02T14:35:00.000-04:00That we have not seen a "Black Swan"yet is proof e...That we have not seen a "Black Swan"yet is proof enough of market "stabilizing".There is so much proof of the existence of a dark chasm that will swallow whole our financial system,its a wonder that people are still using banks,playing the market,and acting as if its just another smooth day of summer.<BR/><BR/> Winter will be here soon enough <BR/> <BR/> [carefully adjusting the new Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com