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Loading ...That’s how it works here in the US too. Work a gov’t job, get paid double plus the best benefits in the country. Especially if you work a federal job.
Same everywhere, that’s why when the riots begin it will be gov’t employees protesting how the banksters stole their pensions. The rest of us can just eat crap.
The Dow ran from the 44.7 in ’32 to 11497.12 in ’99 in a Super wave….if the next Super wave equals that multiple ie 257.20 times, then with the low being 7062.93 in 2009 that gives us the 1.8 Million plus target.
It’s time theTent put CNBS in the shade…they ain’t bulls their barely bullocks. YEEEEEEHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!
All I would say is no matter the rights and wrongs, what is very apparent in my country is that ALL public officials think we work for them and that they have a God given right enjoy a very lazy but wealthy lifestyle paid for by taxpayers.
Someone bought 8,000 OCT 30 calls for 12 cents.
Looks like they financed the trade by selling 3,000 OCT 25 puts for 32 cents.
because it just never ends.
For sure we don’t know the whole story. If things happened as you heard, then the officer may have been in fear for his life, but he still had options. Perhaps he thought he didn’t, I don’t know.
I don’t think what happened in Ferguson with Brown is the best example of police brutality. I think what happened in NY city and in Wanka’s home of Key West are better examples of police overstepping their bounds, but the trend appears to be one of police militarization to me. Some maybe justified and some not.
I stand by my statement that if it were a white kid, circumstances would be different. I blame Obama the race baiter for that. JMHO.
the dollar explodes and the multi-nationals will in time get crushed.
This is everything right here.
For those who don’t know, I live in St. Louis. I have been following this from the beginning and as you can guess, we are inundated with news. I have been refraining from comment until more information and better evidence surfaced. It has been coming out in bits and pieces from a variety of sources. There is still much to know, but from everything I have been able to piece together, Samb’s post at 11:31 is very close to the mark as to how I would try to summarize what I believe happened. I don’t want to say much more at this point because there are important facts still being gathered and have not been officially released. But please believe me, fellow oasis-ers, what you are getting from the major news media sources is a far cry from what I believe we will come to accept when we get to the bottom of it (If that is possible; it is an unbelievably f–ed up situation).
For those who would like a blow-by-blow discussion not found in the newspapers and on TV, let me suggest my other favorite forum: sigforum.com It is nominally a gun forum, but like the tent/oasis, it is composed of a large and diverse group of interesting people, and features discussions on a very wide range of topics. If you go to the forum, enter and find “The Lounge”. It is the first “room” at the top of the page. In there you will find a long discussion of the events in Ferguson (St. Louis members … stay the H out of the north county/city area!!!) The thread was started by a St. Louis County police officer who has been at the scene almost every night.
EDIT: If you go to sigforum, you will have to wade through the flip comments to get to the thoughtful ones; be advised.
Bars of soap sound like they’re worth a try. You might also try sheets of Bounce stuck here and there. I’ve heard no rodents like their smell.
re Saville Tks
The Fed doesn’t care, they think they have it all under control by “forcing” the mkts to do as they wish and so far they are right. Gods knows what will happen when it stops working, it will be utter chaos.
But his article does show how far Mkts/prices are away from reality.
That happened to my truck when I lived in Ohio–very annoying business. What worked for me after repairing the wiring was to shove bars of Irish Spring soap into every nook and cranny under the hood. They hate that smell and left my truck alone after that.
Cat? Garage? Pellet gun? 🙂
Having a problem with Ground squirrels,& REGULAR SQUIRRELS eating my trucks wiring and gas lines causing several gas leaks wiring problems engine light on problems, all caused by rodents chip minks mostly ..little rodents with white stripes lateraly .I tried mouse traps,sticky boards,poison bait ,spraying vinegar,bleach etc.$1500 DAMAGE SO FAR…Everything except what other animals do …marking my territory ..thats next..
Steve Saville
email: sas888_hk@yahoo.com
Posted Aug 17, 2014
Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th August 2014.
Prior to 2002 the Fed would tighten monetary policy in reaction to outward signs of rising “price inflation” and loosen monetary policy in reaction to outward signs of falling “price inflation”, but beginning in 2002 the Fed became far more biased towards loose monetary policy. This bias is now so great that it seems as if the Fed has become permanently loose.
The following chart comparing the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) target set by the Fed with the Future Inflation Gauge (FIG) clearly illustrates the change in the Fed’s tactics over the past two decades. The Future Inflation Gauge is calculated monthly by the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) and should really be called the Future CPI Gauge, because it is designed to lead the CPI by about 11 months.
The chart shows that prior to 2002 the FFR tended to follow the FIG. After the FIG warned of rising “price pressures” the Fed would start hiking the FFR, and after the FIG started signaling reduced upward pressure on the CPI the Fed would start cutting the FFR. (Note: Our chart begins in 1994, but the relationship between the FFR and the FIG that we just described goes back much further.) During 2002-2004, however, the Fed not only didn’t hike its targeted interest rate in response to a sharp increase in the FIG, it continued to cut the FFR.
The Fed’s decision to maintain an ultra-loose stance during 2002-2004 was the fuel for the real estate investment bubble and set the stage for the collapse of 2007-2009.
There was a lesson to be learned from what happened during 2002-2007, but the Fed clearly learned the wrong lesson. The lesson that should have been learned was: Don’t provide monetary fuel for bubble activities, because the eventual economic fallout will be devastating. Unfortunately, the lesson that was actually learned by the Fed was: An economic bust can be avoided forever by keeping monetary policy loose forever. The result is that the divergence between the FFR and the FIG that arose during the first half of the last decade is nothing compared to the divergence that is now in progress. The FIG has been working its way higher since early-2009 and just hit a 5-year high, while the Fed’s ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) remains firmly entrenched.
Zooming in on the shorter-term fluctuations, last year’s small decline in the FIG suggested that there wouldn’t be a significant increase in the CPI’s growth rate until at least the final few months of this year, while the rise in the FIG that began late last year suggests that “price inflation” will start to become apparent in the CPI during the final quarter of this year and could be perceived as a serious problem during the first half of next year. This probably means that by early next year the T-Bond bears will start to look correct and the Fed will start to feel irresistible pressure to begin a rate-hiking program. Unfortunately, the US economy is now so rife with ‘bubble activities’ (businesses, projects, investments and speculations that are only viable due to artificially low interest rates and a rapid stream of new money) that a severe downturn is likely to follow an attempt by the Fed to ‘normalise’ its monetary policy.
By ignoring investment bubbles and erring far more in favour of “inflation” than it has ever done in the past, the Fed has set the stage for the mother-of-all economic busts. If the bust doesn’t begin earlier it is likely to begin soon after the Fed starts to raise its targeted interest rate.
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Steve Saville
email: sas888_hk@yahoo.com
Hong Kong
Three year chart.
Rates and the CRB are nose diving. Show me an instance where the FED jacked rates with a plunging long end coinciding with a plunging $CRB. This is a picture of an economy in a tailspin, not one that is about to take off.
If equities were not endlessly manipulated higher we would be witnessing a panicked deflationary scenario. the FED is miles from raising rates.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters battle Afghan forces near Kabul
(Reuters) – As many as 700 heavily armed Taliban insurgents are battling Afghan security forces in Logar, a key province near the capital Kabul, local officials said on Tuesday, in a test of the Afghan military’s strength as foreign forces pull out of the country.
Militants have this summer mounted increasingly intensive assaults across several provinces, often involving hundreds of fighters, as the country braces to stand on it own feet militarily for the first time in nearly 13 years.
more http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-afghanistan-taliban-offensive-idUSKBN0GJ0SV20140819
We don’t know the truth yet. this is the story that I’m hearing. After robbing/shoplifting from the store, Brown and friend were walking down the middle of the street. Police car comes by and cop tells them to get off the street. Brown gives the cop some lip and refuses that order. Cop pulls up in front of them and as attempting to exit the cruiser gets rushed by Brown. Scuffle ensues inside the car with Brown punching the cop and going for his gun.
One shot fired from inside the car and shell casing found there. Brown then either starts walking or running away. Cop gets out of car and tells them to freeze. They turn around and then Brown rushes cop at full speed.
the “kid” was 6 ft 3″ and 300+ lb
nobody is rioting over what happened to this Deputy. The news coverage small.
Deputy Suffers “Life-Changing” Injuries in Mall Attack | NBC Southern California
Food prices are rising in parts of Russia and experts say the state embargo on imports of Western food appears to be making things worse.
Since the ban was imposed on 7 August imported pork used in processed meat in Moscow has gone up by 6%, Russian business daily Kommersant reports.
In St Petersburg food prices have risen 10%. That inflation occurred even before the impact of sanctions.
Russia’s ban on many Western foods is retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine.
The St Petersburg government’s economic policy chief, Anatoly Kotov, said the pork price had risen by 23.5% and chicken by 25.8%.
On Monday, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he did not expect the ban on food imports to lead to price rises or shortages in the shops. But he also said he hoped the ban – introduced for a year – would not last too long.
If you start pushing back on that your circle of friends begins to shrink — and quite quickly at that.
But it’s not because you’re wrong — it’s because people are uncomfortable with reality, and you’re refusing to put away the “real” card. You’re removing the Facebook patina of perfection, of hedonism, of narcissism and self-delusion.
What am I talking about? The fact that each and every one of you reading this, along with myself, consent to all of the below list each and every day:
Need I go on? I could literally write a book on the outrages, frauds and thefts you suffer on a daily basis. Hell, I have — I’ve written close to 8,500 such examinations and instances since 2007. Through all of this and more over the last decade you’ve seen your cost of living go up dramatically while the median family income has not improved at all. Not only has the technological advancement of the last 10 years, which should have resulted in you obtaining more purchasing power been stolen the theft didn’t stop there; it is in fact even greater!
We all know what the counter-argument is: I voted for someone and he or she may have even promised to change some of this, but didn’t. What am I supposed to do about it?
Ah, that’s the excuse you see. And it’s probably a good one — certainly it is in your mind, and it might even be objectively.
But it doesn’t change the fact that you consented and continue to consent each and every day!
Here’s the thing — even if the alternative(s) involve either intentionally driving yourself into privation or taking illegal action you still consented. That the alternative is distasteful enough for you to refuse to act on it, irrespective of the reason, doesn’t change the fact that you are giving consent to all of the above and will do so again today. It does not change the fact that each and every morning you will arise from your sleep and once again give that consent. You did so intentionally this morning, you will do so of your own free will tomorrow, and you will continue to do so in all probability every day next week, month and year.
Do remember that in 1776 the alternatives to that very same consent — an act of theft via taxation for the purpose of grift that was in fact less than 1/10th of what we consent to today — were very illegal. In fact the alternatives to that consent involved committing acts of vandalism, intentional destruction and theft of other people’s property, arson, and even murder.
You stand here in this place called America this morning because a bunch of people heard all the arguments you’ve raised about how they really should just go along with it because despite protesting via voting, writing letters to the editor, posting bills on trees and other forms of dissent they weren’t getting anywhere, and the remaining alternatives that were available to them had potential (indeed, even likely) costs that were too high.
Privation, prison, even death.
They did it anyway.
This is not advocacy for violence, by the way.
It is, however, an insistence that you, personally, each and every day, admit that you, personally, are consenting to every one of the above outrages and more because you refuse to stop them. It is an insistence that you be honest with yourself, your children, your friends and neighbors. It is an insistence that you not call something******of one’s dignity, civil rights and finances when in fact what happened is consensual sex. It is an insistence that you hold your head high and take credit for what you have in fact done and allowed to continue, each and every day.
Honesty is the first requirement of a civilized and rational people.
Are you ready to be honest with yourself today, or will you instead choose to continue to lie?
just wonder why he felt threatened enough to shoot him at all vs. tazing him or something or waiting for back up. Seems there’s been an awful lot of excessive force used in the last few years.
OTOH, if this were a white kid we’d hear nothing about it and there probably wouldn’t be rioting.
People who are employed aren’t out protesting-rioting at 2 in the morning.
Assuming the OI is honest and correct, it would appear that the wipeout will be those on the long side who get crushed. I’m not sure I can ever remember a time when the commercials (banksters) took a big hit on their positions.
The question is why are they pressuring the price of silver so much? What is so important about silver?
The other question, why are the shares holding up so well with the metals weak?
while everyone was giddy on the ride in 2011. What mattered most was the positioning and open interest and how it resolved.
Outside of a few gents no one is discussing silver’s current structure. We are at a multi-year price lows and open interest is indicative of a wipeout if past is future. Someone is going to lose and lose big here.