tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post1528828000361482872..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: March 27 2009: So ThereIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8734020750227145932009-03-28T23:10:00.000-04:002009-03-28T23:10:00.000-04:00"Iceland highlighted this macho world of fishermen..."Iceland highlighted this macho world of fishermen-turned-financiers. And how their all-male political party has been dumped - in favour of the all-women political party. Who are left to do the dirty-work of cleaning up the boys' mess all over the stock-market floor"<BR/><BR/>This closely tracks the US two 'party' system. Behind the scenes in Washington, the Republicans are historically referred Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26873170559450143002009-03-28T18:55:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:55:00.000-04:00Gravity, The South Park episode was wonderfully in...Gravity, <BR/><BR/>The South Park episode was wonderfully insightful. Is there a ticker symbol for double inverse leveraged Margaritaville futures?Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52598995206693141482009-03-28T18:47:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:47:00.000-04:00@GravityThanks for the link to the South Park. It...@Gravity<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link to the South Park. It was hilarious.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17735647250027283312009-03-28T18:39:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:39:00.000-04:00The law of Gravity is nonsense,no such law exists....The law of Gravity is nonsense,<BR/>no such law exists. If I think <BR/>the Geithner-plan works, <BR/>and you think it works; <BR/>then it happens.<BR/><BR/>Only the disciplined mind <BR/>can see reality, it takes <BR/>an effort of the Will, <BR/>an act of self-destruction.<BR/><BR/>Its not about ability; <BR/>its about the will to generate <BR/>collective dissociative psychosis.Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10656029877312909402009-03-28T18:32:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:32:00.000-04:00el gallinazo,Simmons knows oil intimately. I don't...el gallinazo,<BR/><BR/>Simmons knows oil intimately. I don't know how much he knows about deflation, but he is a bloody investment banker after all.Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37241177550040069812009-03-28T18:29:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:29:00.000-04:00Anon 509: I said it before, I will say it again: ...Anon 509: I said it before, I will say it again: If the people responsible for this and their co-conspirators are all nailed, you'll have about 5 congresscritters left standing.Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12203217813916433362009-03-28T18:27:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:27:00.000-04:00Wage Deflation Sets In<A HREF="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/wage-deflation-sets-in.html" REL="nofollow">Wage Deflation Sets In</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37318597864840759592009-03-28T18:22:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:22:00.000-04:00Re:my last post.I'm not Richard - I'm Bloody Angry...Re:my last post.<BR/>I'm not Richard - I'm Bloody Angry.<BR/>I'm BloodyParadise. I'm BloodyParadise.wordpress.com<BR/><BR/>I can't believe how reasonable and moderate I am when I post. <BR/>Day by day I can see my future and the future of my children go down the tubes. Les chiottes. Down the crapper.<BR/>The most I can do in the face of all this merde - is work my garden.<BR/>The most I can offerBloodyParadisehttp://www.bloodyparadise.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79570413123237424842009-03-28T18:00:00.001-04:002009-03-28T18:00:00.001-04:00For anyone interested, the latest south park 1303 ...For anyone interested, the latest south park 1303 has some interesting finance related moments, and features Geithner in an novel bailout-scheme.<BR/>www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7yxoOWJdnYGravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25679893918814940662009-03-28T18:00:00.000-04:002009-03-28T18:00:00.000-04:00Mani, der Mond - the moon is male. Female is the s...Mani, der Mond - the moon is male. Female is the sister Sunna, the sun. The romanic tradition has it all wrong :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47695483370442038352009-03-28T17:32:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:32:00.000-04:00Oh - so we're all feminists now here, are we?Lula ...Oh - so we're all feminists now here, are we?<BR/>Lula says it's the blue-eyed whites - but he can't quite see beyond his own protuberance. <BR/>'Animal Spirits' and 'Exhuberance' and investment mania and<BR/>herd instinct have all been discussed from Keynes on, and probably before.<BR/><BR/>All of them blithely overlook the fact that these crises are not Man-Made : they are 'male-manufactured'. BloodyParadisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821022728507064669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49890081239804742642009-03-28T17:29:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:29:00.000-04:00@BigelowFinancier sees oil shock from credit crunc...@Bigelow<BR/><BR/>Financier sees oil shock from credit crunch<BR/><BR/>It's a race to the bottom between demand and supply. Ilargi has mentioned $20 crude first is not out of the question. Stoneleigh says that gold and crude will be the first to recover from the commodity demand collapse. Time to pull out the dart board, the Ouija board, or the water board. I, for one, prefer to listen to my el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44900972486543422062009-03-28T17:22:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:22:00.000-04:00@ RC"I salute your ability to have played the biz ...@ RC<BR/><BR/>"I salute your ability to have played the biz and academic games as long as you did,<BR/>and based on that fact your insufferability must be at a markedly lower level than mine."<BR/><BR/>I fail to follow the logic on that one. After watching the CEO's of the car makers and financials on C-Span for the past few months, I have concluded that being an insufferable asshole in the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71614981116936852182009-03-28T17:16:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:16:00.000-04:00got2surf said... "Is there any hope for my oil ...got2surf said...<BR/><BR/> "Is there any hope for my oil and oil-service stocks to recover? I didn't find TAE in time to sell before all of this..."<BR/><BR/>--------------<BR/><BR/>“"We are three, six, maybe nine months away from a price shock. We are not talking about three to five years away -- it will be much sooner," Simmons told Reuters in London.<BR/>"These prices now are dangerously Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50563151705035983362009-03-28T17:04:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:04:00.000-04:00El G,For one thing, Stoneleigh is a much better ch...El G,<BR/><BR/><I>For one thing, Stoneleigh is a much better chemist :-)</I><BR/><BR/>I was a biologist originally, but for some reason I got my best grades in organic chemistry and physics. I also studied water treatment for a post grad diploma in air and water pollution control and did a dissertation on sewage sludge disposal, so I have some background in your field. All that feels like a Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69811103996592576622009-03-28T17:01:00.000-04:002009-03-28T17:01:00.000-04:00All will be fine in London, Joe is in control.http...All will be fine in London, Joe is in control.<BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970185.stmChangeYourDogCanRollInnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8128640576811931452009-03-28T16:54:00.000-04:002009-03-28T16:54:00.000-04:00“Here are EIU’s probabilities on how the economic ...“Here are EIU’s probabilities on how the economic crisis will unfold:<BR/><BR/>Scenario 1: Stimulus stabilizes system — 60% chance<BR/>Scenario 2: Stimulus fails, leading to depression — 30% chance<BR/>Scenario 3: Dollar collapse, social unrest, violent protest — 10% chance<BR/><BR/>If I was forced to guess, these would be my numbers:<BR/><BR/>Scenario 1: Stimulus stabilizes system — 10% chance<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24190385516116949612009-03-28T16:23:00.000-04:002009-03-28T16:23:00.000-04:00@ el galIt's how much the banks overleveraged@spli...@ el gal<BR/>It's how much the banks overleveraged<BR/><BR/>@splittering plank<BR/><I>"I don't see how market bottoms can be thought of if the commercial real estate will have as much effect as the home real estate has had. If you run into anything that compares the two please post it. "</I><BR/><BR/>CRE will have the same effect on small banks that the Residential mortgages had on large banks.<Persephonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16990525279110502147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17325424177961541932009-03-28T15:58:00.000-04:002009-03-28T15:58:00.000-04:00El G -- friends would also describe me as insuffer...El G -- friends would also describe me as insufferable, or at least the two friends I used to have would. The place where our similarities really diverge is in the educational and previous employment background. I tried mightily all the way back to sophomore year of High School to grasp Chemistry and to be able to do better than just get an above average grade on the tests, but I lacked the RCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71301461484896633762009-03-28T15:47:00.000-04:002009-03-28T15:47:00.000-04:00@plank's variable: There is, of course, a double-i...@plank's variable: <BR/><BR/>There is, of course, a double-inverse-leveraged swap fund which allows you to benefit from the observed commercial real estate situation. <BR/><BR/>SRS<BR/><BR/>(the usual disclaimers apply: significant risk, I do temporarily have some in my name, you will lose your shirt, and this is not a recommendation)Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54534579168751861512009-03-28T15:28:00.000-04:002009-03-28T15:28:00.000-04:00Thanks Persephone, I don't see how market bottoms ...Thanks Persephone, <BR/><BR/>I don't see how market bottoms can be thought of if the commercial real estate will have as much effect as the home real estate has had. If you run into anything that compares the two please post it. Thanks as well for that personal experience about renegotiated leases, something to think about as I tread the muted malls.<BR/><BR/>-splintering plank-<BR/><BR/>@el Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89352721114893624602009-03-28T15:11:00.000-04:002009-03-28T15:11:00.000-04:00Murphy Says Central Banks Are Manipulating Gold Pr...<A HREF="http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=Murphy%20Says%20Central%20Banks%20Are%20Manipulating%20Gold%20Price&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vXs598d3rd.k.asf" REL="nofollow">Murphy Says Central Banks Are Manipulating Gold Price (Video)</A> Bloomberg<BR/><BR/>Stoneleigh, any comments on this story beyond,"ma oui" would be greatly appreciated. <BR/>A StrangerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41863669666650061252009-03-28T15:02:00.000-04:002009-03-28T15:02:00.000-04:00@ Persephone"As of Dec. 31, more than 2,900 banks ...@ Persephone<BR/><BR/>"As of Dec. 31, more than 2,900 banks and savings institutions had more than 300% of their risk-based capital in commercial real-estate loans,"<BR/><BR/>Can you explain this sentence to me, I mean the 300%. Is it like giving an effort a 110%?el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9180498123399498662009-03-28T14:55:00.000-04:002009-03-28T14:55:00.000-04:00@ content plankThanks for the link.My comments abo...@ content plank<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link.<BR/><BR/>My comments about Kunstler are totally based on reading his The Long Emergency this past year and not his blog.<BR/><BR/>There is a very fine line between physical chemistry and physics. In which department would you typically find the machinery for argon dating for example (often referred to as part of radiochemistry)?el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51139186879558501242009-03-28T14:44:00.000-04:002009-03-28T14:44:00.000-04:00@ brimstoneThe registry idea is quite simple. It ...@ brimstone<BR/><BR/>The registry idea is quite simple. It is just a way for TAEers to contact each other without requesting an email on the blog and posting their email on the blog, every time that they want to contact another TAEer directly. Since automated spam spiders cruise the web constantly, this acts as a protection for anybody but me from these virtual arachnids. I started this in the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.com