tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post1270441095097673750..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, April 6 2008Ilargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80252474614276190832008-04-08T13:53:00.000-04:002008-04-08T13:53:00.000-04:00I eventually managed to translate Auskalo's commen...I eventually managed to translate Auskalo's comment written in Basque above.<BR/><BR/><I>Here in Euskal Herria the prices of the houses have more than doubled in the last fifteen years. But Spanish laws do not allow giving back to the keys (jingle mail) - they take you by the neck in the name of the house.<BR/><BR/>Comments on this?<BR/><BR/>Thank you very much for your blog.</I>Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10374002218691546752008-04-07T10:15:00.000-04:002008-04-07T10:15:00.000-04:00Ilargi,Stoneleigh. I don't have any sense of the c...Ilargi,Stoneleigh. I don't have any sense of the condition of Cdn banks. Are they yet marking to market? Is there info anywhere on transparency of the balance sheet? I have noted only silence from the Gov't and Mr. Carney at the Bank of Canada. I find this public silence disturbing. <BR/>If the EU wins the move to transparency this will affect Canada as well as the US. <BR/>Not encouraging is a scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1308114539000370922008-04-07T09:00:00.000-04:002008-04-07T09:00:00.000-04:00Ric, When one party starts marking to market, the...Ric, <BR/><BR/>When one party starts marking to market, the game is up. I said as much a few days ago.<BR/><BR/>As for the US accountants, FASB, there was a directive late last week, about which Karl Denninger said:<BR/><BR/><I>"It appears that the FASB has removed the concept of QSPEs, which is the enabling "piece" to make off-balance-sheet securitizations possible, from the FASB set of Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56982247122834101452008-04-07T07:48:00.000-04:002008-04-07T07:48:00.000-04:00Ilargi--What happens when the EU banks mark their ...Ilargi--<BR/><BR/>What happens when the EU banks mark their assets to market and the U.S. banks, under the directions of the SEC, continue to mark to fantasy? Do our banks simply claim the EU banks' valuations are based on distressed or forced sales? Won't this increase the conflicts between the EU and the U.S.? <BR/><BR/>On a similar note, how will accountants react to banks continuing to Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724736418456262462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3881256505877380762008-04-07T00:51:00.000-04:002008-04-07T00:51:00.000-04:00This link works.<A HREF="http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/basque.html" REL="nofollow">This link works.</A>VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-34851479256006053922008-04-07T00:48:00.000-04:002008-04-07T00:48:00.000-04:00http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/basque.htmlhttp://www.freelang.net/dictionary/basque.htmlVLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55937286588934659902008-04-07T00:06:00.000-04:002008-04-07T00:06:00.000-04:00Hello Auskalo,We can manage quite a few European l...Hello Auskalo,<BR/><BR/>We can manage quite a few European languages between us, but unfortunately Basque isn't one of them (beyond the odd word here and there that is). Internet resources are also somewhat limited, so we eventually had to admit defeat. Any chance you might be able to run your comment by us again in English?Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51991079407931558192008-04-06T21:28:00.000-04:002008-04-06T21:28:00.000-04:00Kaixo Ilargi eta Stoneleigh;Hemen Euskal Herrian e...Kaixo Ilargi eta Stoneleigh;<BR/><BR/>Hemen Euskal Herrian etxeen prezioak bikoiztu baino gehiago egin dira, azken hamabost urteetan.<BR/><BR/>Biana Espainiako legeek ez dute giltzak itzultzen uzten (gingle mail), baizik eta lepotik harrapatzen zaituzte, etxearen izenean.<BR/><BR/>Komentariorik horretaz.<BR/><BR/>Eskerrik asko zuen blogagatik<BR/><BR/>Adeitsu,<BR/><BR/>AuskaloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81268817712324431292008-04-06T16:47:00.000-04:002008-04-06T16:47:00.000-04:00Hello,I went to the site for French population ind...Hello,<BR/><BR/>I went to the site for French population indicated by anonymous in yesterday's Rattle and was immediately sceptical.<BR/><BR/>It shows a population of about 3.8 million for the ages 0 to 4 in the year 2000, whereas INED, the national demographics institute, indicates 2 984 421 births during the four years in question.<BR/><BR/>Deaths would reduce that number somewhat, immigration Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45154932391184142352008-04-06T14:56:00.000-04:002008-04-06T14:56:00.000-04:00Hi Ilargi.Re your pieces about the UK's reality ch...Hi Ilargi.<BR/>Re your pieces about the UK's reality check, and Darling's responses to it. Over here, we have become used (numbed?) to; constant oxymorons ("sustainable growth"), misleading statements ("Strong financial sector"), distractions ("Oh- look everyone, Olympics coming soon...") and downright nonsense ("Inflation is 2.5%") - that we as a country have not even remotely tuned in to this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com