tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6291754871883831137..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: June 6 2010: Go long the Euro at this point in time? Not me!Ilargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-90351979144760716262010-06-08T18:55:19.503-04:002010-06-08T18:55:19.503-04:00Chaos said...
Re: Karl Denninger
He is not stupid...Chaos said...<br />Re: Karl Denninger<br /><br />He is not stupid. He is showing the symptoms of panic and denial.<br /><br />He can see the true outcome.<br /><br />His reaction will be seen all around you in the near future.<br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59361251402364346052010-06-08T18:19:52.574-04:002010-06-08T18:19:52.574-04:00New post up.
We’re approaching a dead end
....New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/06/june-8-2010-were-approaching-dead-end.html" rel="nofollow"><b>We’re approaching a dead end</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-92130933860891853802010-06-08T17:58:03.599-04:002010-06-08T17:58:03.599-04:00@Wolf at the Door
Stillness and simplicity do lea...@Wolf at the Door<br /><br />Stillness and simplicity do lead to a better life, but to some extent it means reassessing attitudes toward labor. Most people are convinced that they have an easier life by working in a cube all day, buying a car, gas, and insurance, and then dragging themselves to a restaurant or the grocery store for some processed food product. They are visibly shocked when they Scholasticahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949750187077380020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-63355766353667357272010-06-08T17:23:46.102-04:002010-06-08T17:23:46.102-04:00Oh, and one more thing about Karl:
He's enter...Oh, and one more thing about Karl:<br /><br />He's entertaining, but he knows diddly-squat about energy. I can point out all his silly errors...Nate Hagens could eat him for an appetizer before lunch and not even feel it.Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511045883879753073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1041989035094936892010-06-08T17:06:37.113-04:002010-06-08T17:06:37.113-04:00@VK
Your points about reducing complexity are wel...@VK<br /><br />Your points about reducing complexity are well taken. I would argue, however, that simplicity isn't always so simple. If we eat the food that is currently supplied by only 300,000 farmers (which for people in many parts of the US means heavy dependency on the fruits of agribusiness), we have to have money or food stamps to buy it. If we use food stamps, someone somewhere has toScholasticahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949750187077380020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43716134170863774952010-06-08T16:56:26.115-04:002010-06-08T16:56:26.115-04:00Re: Karl Denninger
His latest post makes it obvi...Re: Karl Denninger<br /><br />His latest post makes it obvious (with his reference to Foxconn) that he read the Agonist (specifically Numerian's latest post). Incidentally, I like this Numerian more the more I read him... he's got some good stuff. <br /><br />http://agonist.org/Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511045883879753073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13019651095972543672010-06-08T16:39:13.660-04:002010-06-08T16:39:13.660-04:00@ Wolf
Most excellent! Glad to hear that you'...@ Wolf<br /><br />Most excellent! Glad to hear that you're on the road to stillness. From what I've read about hunter gatherers, humans used to work for about 4 hours a day while the rest of the time was spent sleeping, relaxing etc etc. Maybe Greenpa can elucidate.<br /><br />Yes I know that there were great dangers as well but the idea that humans should work 10-12 hours a day is VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13688068505730887392010-06-08T14:44:44.040-04:002010-06-08T14:44:44.040-04:00Karl's biggest failure is to understand two th...Karl's biggest failure is to understand two things:<br /><br />1) He, and most of the readers who support him, actively want a massive "culling of the herd", but they don't realize that they need to start it themselves.<br /><br />If you don't like people being what you consider leeches, then you have to kill them before they kill you. Welfare is nothing more or less than Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83604842152750918122010-06-08T10:15:08.922-04:002010-06-08T10:15:08.922-04:00Stay focused on the real problem!
How many time h...Stay focused on the real problem!<br /><br />How many time have you heard a financial advisor say,<b>”GO TO CASH!”</b><br /><br />This one comes from BMO, Mark Steele in their newsletter Focal Points, of June 2, 2010 <br /><br />It is being made available by Zero Edge.<br />http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/Go_To_Cash_Fact_and_Fiction.pdfjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54970357159894009102010-06-08T07:09:36.324-04:002010-06-08T07:09:36.324-04:00Interesting. I just heard Obama mention, during an...Interesting. I just heard Obama mention, during an interview with Matt Lauer, a relationship between people's anger regarding the oil spill and the "24-hour news (feed)", with the oil cam showing the oil spewing into the gulf.<br /><br />What, does he think if people don't SEE the oil constantly spewing it somehow isn't?<br /><br />I can hardly believe Obama is actually memphishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679189378406297005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88904933066264277582010-06-08T06:54:45.512-04:002010-06-08T06:54:45.512-04:00@ Scholastica
"... as soon as the idea of me...@ Scholastica<br /><br />"... as soon as the idea of messy creative people seeped into the public consciousness, every moron with a cluttered desk was suddenly creative."<br /><br />Yeah I can't disagree with anything you said. I am with you regarding the destruction of language and meaning. And I probably should not have butted into VK's post I just strenuously agree with the Wolf at the Doorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06404239808359033422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14935234764532130112010-06-08T06:24:35.652-04:002010-06-08T06:24:35.652-04:00@ Scandia
"There have been some news reports...@ Scandia<br /><br />"There have been some news reports that caught my attention, that I would call odd."<br /><br />I have been thinking along these lines (not in a conspiracy way). It just strikes me as....curious....in a mathematically improbable way that we would experience the largest ecological/environmental clusterfreak in US history (and maybe more) at the exact same point in Wolf at the Doorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06404239808359033422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-92202481531583911462010-06-08T03:05:32.178-04:002010-06-08T03:05:32.178-04:00@Gravity
(A)
i. Gold = Money
ii. Gold = Nothing ...@Gravity<br /><br />(A) <br />i. Gold = Money<br />ii. Gold = Nothing Else<br /><br />Therefore Money = Nothing Else<br /><br />(B) Gold = (Money + Nothing Else)<br /><br />(C) Gold = Money. There is nothing else to report.Glennjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717673597621943322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57074495671114550092010-06-08T01:40:00.928-04:002010-06-08T01:40:00.928-04:00So Chrysler is now having its "Safety Moment&...So Chrysler is now having its "Safety Moment": http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6535I220100607<br /><br />One can not help but wonder if the US government and all its industrial cronies will come down hard on these dangerous deficiencies in Chrysler's "Made in the USA by Americans" products like was done with Toyota's sudden acceleration problem (traceable to Biologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88786332192875355652010-06-08T01:23:04.157-04:002010-06-08T01:23:04.157-04:00Canada is urging the EU to cut spending and get to...Canada is urging the EU to cut spending and get to balanced budgets.<br /><br />Canada is trying to balance its budget!!!!!<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/03/mackay-shipbuilding-cansec.html?ref=rss <br /><br />Defence Minister Peter MacKay on Thursday laid out Ottawa's $35-billion plan to reinvigorate Canada's moribund shipbuilding industry.<br /><br />http://jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-65081209892527624722010-06-08T00:59:07.483-04:002010-06-08T00:59:07.483-04:00Karl Denninger still does fairly well on investiga...Karl Denninger still does fairly well on investigative reporting on the world of economic scam.<br /><br />He fails miserably when he gets off subject and rants about energy consumption, ecology, etc. On these subjects he is about as misinformed as the rest of the "teabaggers"<br /><br />His latest post keeps popping up reference to thermodynamics with no explanation what that has to Biologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53717406338668481682010-06-07T20:13:36.471-04:002010-06-07T20:13:36.471-04:00There have been some news reports that caught my a...There have been some news reports that caught my attention, that I would call odd.<br />Goldman sold BP shares before the spill. Hayward of BP sold shares before the spill. Most odd is that it was reported Obama and Hayward have not met yet. I thought the first thing a president would do in the face of the oil spill threat to America would be to call Hayward to the White House to ask some scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10005686623099139132010-06-07T19:55:36.562-04:002010-06-07T19:55:36.562-04:00The cyber rant bored me to tears, but wow, what a ...The cyber rant bored me to tears, but wow, what a garden JHK has cultivated--very, very impressive. Mr Made By Hand has the look and feel of an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__qOY9hcm64&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Impeccable Craftsmen</a>Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02818666639049192595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11909718626346408512010-06-07T18:41:29.726-04:002010-06-07T18:41:29.726-04:00M said...
"Doing violence to the element wate...M said...<br />"Doing violence to the element water is like hitting oneself. Most sensitive humans cry inside at the tragedy in the gulf; however, that tragedy is underlined with reality that water will have the last laugh at the end of the day..."<br /><br />That whole paragraph was great!NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06676287221558805541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88474713775647329192010-06-07T18:25:38.077-04:002010-06-07T18:25:38.077-04:00@ Scholastica
Yeah, that was the idea - to just c...@ Scholastica<br /><br />Yeah, that was the idea - to just chillax. The best way forward given resource constraints, biological overshoot, yada yada is survival socialism.<br /><br />Only 5% of the population is allowed to work in critical areas - Food production, healthcare, police, firemen etc etc. Today there are only 300,000 or so farmers in the US who can supply everyone with food. So why VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-38285162452684474292010-06-07T17:21:04.988-04:002010-06-07T17:21:04.988-04:00I hear Hitachi is coming out with a Special Limite...I hear Hitachi is coming out with a <i>Special Limited Edition Commemorative Memorial Tar Ball Grill</i> in honor of the Gulf Oil Drano Volcano.<br /><br />It's so everyone can get in touch with their Inner Redneck. <br /><br />Great for tailgate cookin' at the NASCAR track.<br /><br />Tar Balls are the new hillbilly 'Road Apples' except don't try to fertilize the watermelon Top Hat Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062738110354384414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18102113284187026642010-06-07T17:17:02.378-04:002010-06-07T17:17:02.378-04:00Wolf at the Door said:
Re: Laziness
If you substi...<i>Wolf at the Door said:<br />Re: Laziness<br /><br />If you substitute the word "still" for lazy in VK's post, the basic idea is valid.</i><br /><br />Using the word "still" would work well, though that gives the post something of a zen/mystic feeling, which may not have been VK's intent. Actually, I agree that his idea is valid, even using the word "lazy".Scholasticahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949750187077380020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79234776920985720702010-06-07T16:54:23.973-04:002010-06-07T16:54:23.973-04:00Be still, my heart!
"Netflix, Guitar Hero co...Be still, my heart!<br /><br />"Netflix, Guitar Hero coming to iPhone"<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/28ppf8h<br /><br />Salvation has arrived.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78935528732564937582010-06-07T15:41:46.100-04:002010-06-07T15:41:46.100-04:00" $$$Dollar$$$ said...
Denninger is teeing up...<i>" $$$Dollar$$$ said...<br />Denninger is teeing up on Peak Oilers. Specifically targets Jim Kunstler."</i><br /><br />Wait, there's still people who read Karl? Jeez... Where have I been? <br /><br />I'm so far behind, I gave up a long time ago when he reversed himself on mark-to-market and refused to own up to it. <br /><br />And this diatribe is more proof that the Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49367375795853810342010-06-07T15:39:12.266-04:002010-06-07T15:39:12.266-04:00So sorry, what I more properly meant to ask was, u...So sorry, what I more properly meant to ask was, under certain conditions which may exist currently, could a weaker euro automatically result in, or at least be capable of, increasing deflationary pressure in the eurozone, specifically by higher oil prices? Most countries could not fully offset those hypothetical effects with more exports anyway, after a certain point none could, or might be ableGravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.com