[marmico]

Put up your 100 best posts of the ~21,600 thus far, pstarr, so the 0.46% of the cereal is separated from the 99.54% of the chaff. Most of your stuff is 90% copy of another commentator with a 10% riposte, in any event.

I'll go head to head on your best 100. Now do you make statements that can be empirically falsified or do you just make doom porn.

Yawn.

[onlooker]

Yes P, but the elites set up the table you may say. They provide the liquidity, they speculate in the markets creating the bubbles and ponzi schemes. They emit exaggerated optimistic news to create the furor to nourish the bubbles. Tell me how the average American being duped into mortgages they could not pay, or investing in the Stock market or other ploys are not examples of the masses being suckered, tricked and duped by the Masters. Not to mention the gradual impoverishment of the Western masses via excessive debt, downsizing and exporting of jobs, and other insidiously subtle examples.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Greece, Spain, Italy Portugal, Ireland and the rest all went through a manic housing boom just the same as the US. And when that boom failed so did household accounts and the banks that held them.

[onlooker]

So your absolving the issuers of the loans?

[onlooker]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-0 ... lth-effect
See what I am talking about setting up the table.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'h')ttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-09/former-fed-president-we-injected-cocaine-and-heroin-system-create-wealth-effect
See what I am talking about setting up the table.

[americandream]

Zerohedge is a zerohedge. He would not be able to hedge his way out of a paper bag frankly. His understanding is peripheral.

[Shaved Monkey]

Love this quote in an article on the currency wars driven by money printing,to devalue currency and drop interest rates.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')ven former US central bank officials have their doubts.
Richard Fisher, the outspoken former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said in a television interview on Wednesday night that the US Federal Reserve "injected cocaine and heroin into the system" to push up asset prices in the hope of triggering a wealth effect. Now, he said, "we are maintaining it with Ritalin".

[americandream]

Hahaha. Blind leading the blind.

[dolanbaker]

Someone may have already posted this, but here it is anyway.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')http://www.voxeu.org/article/shrinking-planetary-gdp
Presenting the October 2015 IMF World Economic Outlook, Maurice Obstfeld (2015) identified the fall of commodity prices as one of the powerful forces shaping the outlook for the world economy. The strength of this force, however, is underestimated by the official forecasts in the IMF’s flagship publication. As illustrated in Figure 1 the IMF world economic outlook database reports a reduction of Gross Planet Product (GPP) for the year 2015 by -3,8 trillion dollar (-4.9%). A nominal reduction of GPP of this size has occurred only once since 1980 (the starting year of the IMF database), namely at the start of the Great Recession when GPP contracted by -5.3%. Table 1 illustrates that all previous contractions of nominal GPP are associated with major crises in the world economy.

[americandream]

Capitalism is one endless crisis...the constant quest for accumulation and its cyclical state. Some cycles are more pronounced than others during phases of market loss as we have now with the failed state scenario in the ME, the loss of commodity importers and the flow on effect. But beyond that, this is not a terminal contraction. More a sort of adjustment as latent contradictions in the system are eliminated. Protectionism for example. Then you have market adjustments due for regions that are hard to absorb. The world has more or less charted an erratic course with globalisation since the end of the Cold War with a brief burst of social engineering when vast sums were made available to the eastern bloc in a bid to hasten the emergence of a bourgeoisie class. We are now in full adjustment mode, the honeymoon is over and the next and impending cycle is likely to include some significant conflict, of the military kind in the ME and of the trade kind with the Far East. Massive demographic dislocation, huge instability until the next US elections and beyond.

[onlooker]

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/t ... p_03092016
Walmart customers to broke to shop. Even the cheap products of
Walmart. Oh and remind those who point out that online shopping is going strong, the actual stores that have been closing are what mostly employed many people.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'h')ttp://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-is-how-bad-the-economy-really-is-walmart-customers-are-too-broke-to-shop_03092016
Walmart customers to broke to shop. Even the cheap products of
Walmart. Oh and remind those who point out that online shopping is going strong, the actual stores that have been closing are what mostly employed many people.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'T')rump of course may bring temporary relief.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'T')rump of course may bring temporary relief.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'Z')erohedge is a zerohedge. He would not be able to hedge his way out of a paper bag frankly. His understanding is peripheral.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'h')ttp://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-is-how-bad-the-economy-really-is-walmart-customers-are-too-broke-to-shop_03092016
Walmart customers to broke to shop. Even the cheap products of
Walmart. Oh and remind those who point out that online shopping is going strong, the actual stores that have been closing are what mostly employed many people.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'h')ttp://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-is-how-bad-the-economy-really-is-walmart-customers-are-too-broke-to-shop_03092016
Walmart customers to broke to shop. Even the cheap products of
Walmart. Oh and remind those who point out that online shopping is going strong, the actual stores that have been closing are what mostly employed many people.

[onlooker]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-0 ... al-economy

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually had to look beyond the next week of market activity or study back on market history in comparison to today, then they would not be able to retain their blind optimism, which is exactly what is necessary for them to continue functioning. If they were all to examine the global financial situation with any honesty, the entire facade would collapse tomorrow.

At bottom, it is not central bank stimulus and intervention alone that drives equities and bond markets; it is the naive faith and willful ignorance of average market participants. There is a problem with this kind of economic model, however. Reality is never kept in check indefinitely. Fiscal truths will be exposed, one way or another.

How does one know when this full spectrum shift in awareness will occur?