tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29268977631616512182024-03-05T00:58:38.771-08:00Markets&PoliticsPolitics and Stocks, truth about the stock market, politics, media, and any other manipulative source of informationVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-25486357883168094282011-01-06T10:58:00.000-08:002011-01-06T10:58:19.257-08:00CNBC turning a blind eye, I wonder who's telling them to<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cy_h8yJ2DJM0_Rimd2vIZMUqbwu8EPODtkCoofedugbbzdyT9v89BBHUaPq-mZkg83a2DLtdZsCin3WiHtqJETy9_zPs4VG0Rm5Ug7EiPCrjehUXAHX1VJzkaA9xfc6LGNat_RjoJ61Y/s1600/tim+g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cy_h8yJ2DJM0_Rimd2vIZMUqbwu8EPODtkCoofedugbbzdyT9v89BBHUaPq-mZkg83a2DLtdZsCin3WiHtqJETy9_zPs4VG0Rm5Ug7EiPCrjehUXAHX1VJzkaA9xfc6LGNat_RjoJ61Y/s1600/tim+g.jpg" /></a></div>It's quite funny that CNBC published a press release statement article through Reuters on their website that started a market panic. I then noticed only a half hour later they deleted the release completely. Earlier today at 10:26 AM our treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said that if US congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling that we will default by March 31st of 2011. My friends, family, and colleagues that is only 1 month and 3 weeks away. All I have to say is get ready for the big panic that Wall Street is about to endure. If Congress doesn't act or put some type of statement out soon, I am betting that a large panic is about to occur. I am shorting just about everything I can get my hands on. For the rest of you stupid chart trading technical analysts, I will see your accounts marginally lower. Good day!<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603244.html">Timothy Geithner press release</a>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-4688579624107832052011-01-04T20:01:00.000-08:002011-01-04T20:01:21.103-08:00What is The Venus Project? It's useless to criticize the culture without providing alternatives. The Venus Project proposes plans for social change that work toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative social design where human rights are not just paper proclamations, but a way of life. The Venus Project has a vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know to achieve a sustainable world civilization. It calls for a scientific redesign of our culture in which war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human, suffering are viewed as not only avoidable, but unacceptable. Anything less will result in a disastrous continuation of the problems inherent in today's world.<br />
Simply stated, a resource-based economy focuses on resources rather than money, and provides an equitable distribution thereof in a humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which goods and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter, debt, or servitude.<br />
The first objective is to eliminate scarcity. A resource-based economy overcomes scarcity by using renewable sources of energy, plus computerized automated manufacturing and inventory. It would design safe energy-efficient cities with advanced transportation systems, and would provide universal health care and more relevant education.<br />
The aim of this new social design is to encourage an incentive system based on human and environmental concerns, and to avoid the shallow and self-centered goals of individual wealth, property, and power. These new incentives would help people evolve self-fulfillment and creativity, both materially and spiritually.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-36915948479897341722011-01-04T18:33:00.000-08:002011-01-04T18:33:52.236-08:00Technical Analysts have a gift of losingI love when you have traders come out on TV and over the damn internets and talk about how the market is overbought. First off, these guys don't have a damn clue about how markets operate. Prices don't know they are overbought or oversold. There is no such thing because prices are not objective. <b>(Although in the eyes of a chartist it appears that way when they talk about things like a $50 price level and $100 level. It's as if these things are the reasons why a company is succeeding outside of the stock market. Remember that the stock market exists because companies are doing business, not the other way around. So how can prices ever matter?)</b> There is a certain sentiment/psychology taking place in the markets and the charts are deaf, dumb and blind. Too bad most newbies get persuaded into thinking that Technical Analysts are these smart men because today the practice has so many terms and people following it, that it sounds more convincing than listening to an old fashioned CFO about his company, or monitoring the news and economy as you hear it. Newbies are being misled by other failures who now teach what they never could successfully do themselves. Just to make a point, think about how many technical analysts were talking jibberish and chart nonsense at these times in history.<br />
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Larger companies like AAPL and CMG, although high flying stocks by nature due to elements I won't talk about here, are excluded from this example because I want to make a point about stocks that have smaller market caps and can be moved inside of a decision made by one decent fund. But I won't use a stock example that trades under a $1,000,000 per day in dollar volume because of the wide spreads between the bids and offers that can make the stock seem tradeable to the naked eye but experience will show you that being able to step in front of large orders that are sometimes placed in a blink of an eye are not realistic.<br />
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Let's say company XYZ trades 3 million dollar shares a day. Hedge fund ABC gets a note from an insider or friend that company XYZ has good news and numbers coming out next week. Hedge fund ABC decides that they will invest $30 million dollars in company XYZ but they don't wish to do it all in one day since it might be difficult to maintain the attractive $5 dollars a share they wish to recieve. <i><b>(Just remember that this example so far alone already debunks the idea that stocks move up based on momentum but instead some logical, or in some cases illogical factors based on hope, trust and deception)</b></i> They also decide that if it takes longer than a week to acquire these shares then they risk rumors and other insiders getting the information and the price may get away from them as the super computer algorithms and the nosey ass quant strategies begin to take advantage of these alarming statistics when the fund begins its first day of operations.<br />
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P.S. Just about 2 years ago when you use to type in the words "stock charts" in google there were probably only a couple hundred thousand results. Now 23 million! We now have a society of less intelligent investors ignoring information and news and now more charts that will help them predict the future. LMFAO!Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-4798975907259362042010-12-30T21:27:00.000-08:002010-12-30T21:27:32.776-08:00Chinese Government stopping Internet phone providers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy9SK_OCtSc121mYhmP9v-NYgdS3RqrdCZ_rRwI6UYNcC77YWYEix2f_edo_XvKbROJl43hsJ5VsL9BjDVcFu0IkwCuoNcPHMTPQ83zzqY2p4gwslPqfGkNkVIAZLV-FuesCUbncTAqJD/s1600/skype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy9SK_OCtSc121mYhmP9v-NYgdS3RqrdCZ_rRwI6UYNcC77YWYEix2f_edo_XvKbROJl43hsJ5VsL9BjDVcFu0IkwCuoNcPHMTPQ83zzqY2p4gwslPqfGkNkVIAZLV-FuesCUbncTAqJD/s1600/skype.jpg" /></a></div>In the latest attempt from corporations around the world that run our lives through bribery of men in gay dark suits working in governments, these companies are trying to stop Internet phone carriers like SKYPE from growing too big. Governments around the world know that eventually most things will be free and they are trying everything in their power to create laws and punish these companies. Experts say companies like SKYPE operate in a legal gray area and that the notice is a warning to them not to grow too big or to challenge the state-owned telecoms.<br />
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For any of you still asleep or just retardedly lazy to think what this means, this is an exact example of governments running their countries like a cartel. The insiders in these corporations are noticing numbers are slimming down and its because of VOIP. It's too bad you gay fucking corporate hungry pieces of shit. The Internet is changing the world faster than you could ever know. We will soon all be making free phone calls and there is not a god damn thing any internet regulator can do about it. The black market on the internet is impossible to control. The telecom industry is coming to an end and these corporate guerrillas are trying to lobby congressman in the government to stop this from happening. This, my friends, is what you call getting paid off. As long as money exists then stay tuned for another episode of the "F*ck show!"<br />
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<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-to-go-after-Internet-apf-78040210.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=">Yahoo Article Link</a>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-74238757162919690752010-12-29T08:56:00.001-08:002011-01-04T20:10:42.944-08:00What is the ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu20H25-eigXUzQnx3UkSslHg3EIc3QJjIc8h80CJPlRpdczaLKNlDIADXOrb8jznWX1pAYtvs5cSpECV7NNddZxnSo9cheUYJDXdxwLexbiSNUGlQGJ0KfNfKjNWaKy2tjLe17AQdsPH/s1600/zeitgeist+project+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu20H25-eigXUzQnx3UkSslHg3EIc3QJjIc8h80CJPlRpdczaLKNlDIADXOrb8jznWX1pAYtvs5cSpECV7NNddZxnSo9cheUYJDXdxwLexbiSNUGlQGJ0KfNfKjNWaKy2tjLe17AQdsPH/s1600/zeitgeist+project+logo.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span>Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and "Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project. The Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and overcome the lack of sustainability existing currently across the world and work to incorporate new methods and values before it is too late. The basic pursuit of The Movement is to begin a transition into a new, sustainable social design called a “Resource-Based Economy”. This term was first coined by Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project and refers to an economic structure based exclusively on strategic resource management as the starting point for all decisions.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4tvafP771rqNMd0UgCG6hcYIez4M00fwqC1Y8KZu8ZwbjeLt6yjBjCgxVsrVrfaznoEjOmB6V7Xu042zklF1JTmUE5DWp-hImMRXMiU1gkvd2xhL_A2Vgc3urdoqLtFv-0eVqcCUp3eN/s1600/Monorail_by_thevenusproject.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4tvafP771rqNMd0UgCG6hcYIez4M00fwqC1Y8KZu8ZwbjeLt6yjBjCgxVsrVrfaznoEjOmB6V7Xu042zklF1JTmUE5DWp-hImMRXMiU1gkvd2xhL_A2Vgc3urdoqLtFv-0eVqcCUp3eN/s320/Monorail_by_thevenusproject.jpg" width="320" /></a>Basic Observations:<br />
In the view of The Movement, the world today has become very detached from the physical world, with techniques of production and distribution that have no relationship to the environment. Our use of a profit based, “growth” driven monetary system has become one of the greatest destroyers of the natural world, not to mention sustainable human values. It is important to understand that the entire global economy requires “cyclical consumption” to operate, which means that money must constantly be circulating. Thus, new goods and services must be constantly introduced regardless of the state of the environment and actual human necessity. This "perpetual" approach has a fatal flaw, for resources as we know it are simply not infinite. Resources are finite and the Earth is essentially a closed system.<br />
The true goal of any economy is to preserve - or "economize" - this is not occurring and cannot occur in a monetary driven system where labor for income requires consumer demand. We actually live in a global "anti-economy" by all rational standards.<br />
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Also, the intents inherent within a monetary system are counter progressive and derive a strategic edge from scarcity. This means that depleted resources are actually a positive thing for industry in the short term, for more money can be made off each respective unit. This is known as the basic law of supply & demand and hence “value” in economics. This creates a perverse reinforcement to ignore environmental problems and the negative consequences of scarcity, for it literally translates into profit. There is little intrinsic motivation to "solve" any problem or to make things that last in the current model. It is much more beneficial for jobs and hence profit to "service" things- not resolve them.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEjugy4J_aaAe2CAr64xHZJLNJokOeED0mRAMt5hia9bhUFzArDYAWPU_xzpQcL9qkJNsfBHLPTyVAK7mIoLWug6myBvlchAIqO9xZepEvVPkWwR3ef99AD0-Pq7TZo2MsfLZBinMrwEdh/s1600/SeaCity23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEjugy4J_aaAe2CAr64xHZJLNJokOeED0mRAMt5hia9bhUFzArDYAWPU_xzpQcL9qkJNsfBHLPTyVAK7mIoLWug6myBvlchAIqO9xZepEvVPkWwR3ef99AD0-Pq7TZo2MsfLZBinMrwEdh/s320/SeaCity23.jpg" width="320" /></a>In other words, the system requires problems/constant consumer interest in order to work. The more people who have cancer in America, the better the economy due to expensive medical treatments. Needless to say, this generates an inherent disregard for human well being. The monetary arrangement, whether in the form of capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, free-market or the like, is utterly detached from natural resources and thus human well-being. It is erroneously assumed that the incentive to seek money is also the incentive to help society. Nothing could be further from the truth. For example, every single product created by a corporation today is immediately inferior by design, for the market requirement to cut creation costs in favor of lowering the output "purchase price" to maintain a competitive edge, automatically reduces the quality of any given item by default. In other words it is impossible to create the “strategically best”, long lasting anything in our society and this translates into, again, outrageous amounts of resource waste. This is entirely and provably unsustainable as a social system and the world you are beginning to see emerge around you, with growing starvation, poverty, unemployment; along with the growing scarcity of water, food and arable land, is the result.<br />
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Likewise, most occupations are not directly related to the actual necessities of life. Rather, they are artificial concoctions in order to keep people employed so they can acquire purchasing power to keep cyclical consumption going. The very reality that each human being is required to be put in a position of servitude to a corporation or client in order to gain income to purchase the necessities of life also perpetuates extreme, needless waste... however, this time, it is the waste of the human mind and human life. In the modern world, advancements in science and technology have shown that we can automate a great deal. In fact, statistically speaking, the more we have applied mechanization to labor, the more productive things have become. Therefore, it is not only negligent for us to waste our lives waiting tables, working at a bus station, fixing cars, or other repetitive, monotonous jobs, it is also entirely irresponsible for us not to apply modern mechanization techniques to all industries possible for, apart from strategic resource management, this is a powerful way to achieve balance and abundance for all the world's people, reducing crime generating imbalances.<br />
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In other words, it is time to update society to present day knowledge, taking the carrying capacity of the earth into account and realigning our methods based not on the reward of monetary gain..but the goal of social sustainability as a whole.<br />
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Even with our current, destructive methods, the Earth is still abundant with resources. Today our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the well-being of people. Today’s society has access to highly advanced technologies and can easily provide more than enough for a very high standard of living for all the earth’s people. This is possible through the implementation of a Resource-Based Economy.<br />
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A Resource-Based Economy utilizes existing resources rather than money, and provides an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner for the entire population. It is a system in which all natural, man-made, machine-made, and synthetic resources would be available without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of symbolic exchange. A Resource-Based Economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, and the means of production, such as physical equipment and industrial plants, to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources, conservation and the most advanced methods of science and technology, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all. To do this, we have to overcome our current, outdated, establishment practices. This is the purpose of The Zeitgeist Movement- to create a global awareness to thus transition into a new, sustainable direction for humanity as a whole.<br />
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-Peter Joseph of ZEITGEISTVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-72893366768990369812010-12-29T08:18:00.000-08:002010-12-29T08:20:37.227-08:00OPEC policies not likely to stand i na way of $100 oil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisY4hYR29O8T8tyXcBtIiMbu4P07baXl6QSlA560672N8RfftysjkDBseZ4yJh2ki3RFqFf02iohACykrXS1AlsYDYwHO63O-kjVeBJWFnNYrsvrZjvoTisz1knRVRQ4HFvk-WFlparpr8/s1600/opec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisY4hYR29O8T8tyXcBtIiMbu4P07baXl6QSlA560672N8RfftysjkDBseZ4yJh2ki3RFqFf02iohACykrXS1AlsYDYwHO63O-kjVeBJWFnNYrsvrZjvoTisz1knRVRQ4HFvk-WFlparpr8/s320/opec.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Oh don't worry people, OPEC is going to allow for $100 oil. I mean why wouldn't they? The higher oil goes the more money they make. What is this sh*t of a headline. Why are these money hungry corporations doing everything they can to drain us of our money and put more profits into their pockets.<br />
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We the people MUST WAKE THE FUCK UP! Stop allowing big oil to run our lives. Change your energy habits. Start to research alternative energies. Once the world moves into alternative energies the world will be a whole different place. Can you imagine when our houses run on solar and wind energy and its all free. Then we can use and harness that power to grow our own gardens and heat our own homes. But then that would kill a trillion dollar industry wouldn't it? EXACTLY! Be part of the movement. I am going to begin to share and bring to light all the information I possibly can about alternative energies and how you can make the first step. This is about you! This isn't about waiting for the energy companies to change their ways. They don't want natural resourceful energy. Why would they? Their whole business model would die and so would the income they derive from it.<br />
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If you in fact invest in oil and have money in commodities, then please use the profits you make to invest in alternative energy. Like anti-venom, we must use their poison to heal ourselves but action must be taken!Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-8490946202429896962010-12-25T20:09:00.001-08:002010-12-25T20:09:27.806-08:00Ben Bernanke wrong on the economy since 2005I find it amusing that somehow this guy runs our Federal Reserve bank. The Federal Reserve bank has now given itself so much power that it does whatever it wishes in terms of the economy in the US. It can print money, loan money, and spend money as it wishes. But let's not forget that with such loose standards, this is the guy that's doing it. LMFAO!<br />
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In my opinion this is the fear and realization of the posible highly anticipated WikiLeaks release coming this new year. I love Julian Assange because he has no regard for these criminal ass companies. He just wants everyone to see the truth. What are you afraid Bank of America? Oh the poor CFO and the members of the board must be fearing the release that's expected to come any day now. They are even buying domain adresses that include their own names with words like "sucks" and "blows."<br />
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These guys are jokers and Bank of America will be nationalized one day. That banks balance sheet is a mess and so are the lives of people involved in the company. People need to see the truth behind the people they employ to hold their money. Just for ethical reasons, withdraw your money from this crooked ass government owned bank and keep the cash in your house. Banks are a scam and are useless in the whole scheme of things. People don't need them. The whole saving concept is delusional. Cash is King, and whoever holds tangible cash is KING!Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-17929668345696967362010-12-23T09:36:00.000-08:002010-12-24T12:52:04.879-08:00DayTrading Stocks and Digging for Gold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bbzWidggtPSe5jw-MiCMH87vnbqq4koLi2Tchvy83U6NDyg4VHeMmyCuY8tCdMxC7wTW1crNBDGsvalijIrJ4s4mXDQD3L0cCHOaSNkwEbrUiO6gzR36qy_cWJ5DZX4HK5Ue7y-DvXfc/s1600/people-seeking-for-gold.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bbzWidggtPSe5jw-MiCMH87vnbqq4koLi2Tchvy83U6NDyg4VHeMmyCuY8tCdMxC7wTW1crNBDGsvalijIrJ4s4mXDQD3L0cCHOaSNkwEbrUiO6gzR36qy_cWJ5DZX4HK5Ue7y-DvXfc/s320/people-seeking-for-gold.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>These terms have almost become synonymous. At one point in America's history during the 1800's Gold Rush people flocked from all over the world when gold was discovered in California. But only a few people were successful in digging up this gold and it was mere luck. All the people who were in hopes to strike it rich were left hopeless and back home they went poor. But lets not forget who the real gold winners were. It was the people selling the tools and maps to those fools in hope, who came to make a quick buck.<br />
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What happened back in the 1800's is no different than the people today trying to dig for gold in the stock market. Except now we have a more sophisticated style of selling the idea of riches. These prop shop firms sell the idea that daytrading can be made into a living. They know that day trading is a form of gambling and it can become addicting. But to keep you in the game and hopes of making a living out of doing this, they use terms related to sports to sell the idea that trading is a work in progress. They say things like "hit singles and doubles, don't try to hit homeruns all the time with your trades." The guys touting this profession are usually one of two people. The failed daytrader who wants to continue gambling because he's addicted so he sells the professionalism aspect of the field supplied by some venture capitalist with nice offices, computer screens, and sophisticated software. Or theirs the one time money making trader who made his money when the markets were going straight up in a line and because he didn't know much about trading then, he was able to retardedly make so much money that eventually he withdrew enough money out that he was able to live comfortably for years. This same trader realized that the market changed and what he was doing and what he knows now are much different. Buying and selling is not so easy anymore and he can't seem to just buy and hold and make tens of thousands of dollars by the end of the day <i><b>(i.e. dot com bubble, housing bubble, gold boom, blue chip boom, mergers and acquisition boom. These were all periods in time when new lucky faces sprout up and are praised as the new great traders, but they secretly know inside that they had idea what they were doing for the most part, and were secretly wondering at the time of praise what was so hard about trading. But what these new traders end up realizing is that the more they thought they knew about trading, the worse their performance got. Any person who has played poker or blackjack or roulette in the casino's knows what I am talking about.</b><b>)</b></i> and must now generate an income if he wishes to survive and support his addicted gambling habits. So he starts up a proprietary firm and has training courses that teach everything that he and his partners think they understand about the market. I love the fact that they never teach you the real inner workings of the stock market or who the players are, or how and why it operates. From the inevitable stock runs ups that are complete scams to the legit forces that move the markets and stocks based on true fundamentals. And it's all because they don't know a damn thing because they themselves are brainwashed into thinking that the charts had once coincedentally worked and continue to study and think that because a pattern happened 2 times in the past that'll will work a third time in the future. They also don't realize that by the time a pattern is discovered its almost definitely too late. But the best part about these training courses is that there is not 1 verifiable source that they actually work. Its all a hoax, but you won't hear that from the aspiring new trader who believes in these mentors who have resumes that cover up the fact they use to make money but not as consistently anymore, hence the new business model. The new trader becomes brainwashed into deceiving himself that he or she is getting better by learning strategies and rules that keep them in the game longer as promised by the firm. It's like the man who use to play the 5 dollar slot machine and use to lose his money within 10 minutes but now discovered the 1 penny slot machine which can keep him busy for days.<br />
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Like I said, if you don't think it's a scam or your skeptical of what I'm saying, then please go right ahead. I'm speaking from experience and inside knowledge of the business. It's a little funny that people would believe that by trading and scalping stock all day that they are adding value to the economy, world, or even mankind. There is no get rich quick scheme, and playing in the stock market is not about indicators and chart patterns. If you want to learn the true inner workings of the market then stay tuned, this is the point of this blog. People don't want you to speak about this stuff because the big players are making a living through your ignorance.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-15703545542363915042010-12-22T21:23:00.000-08:002010-12-23T14:29:26.017-08:00SMB Capital, T3 Capital, Broadstreettrading - How daytrading firms sell you<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpn_9scfMBFo9GgzZFc5nCxBYKmDTXpa8VPqtfZbjN5a-mB_-6ii_hOy2TkbnKyRGjqejfWuuahFEmwh_gSNmxeTcTfvAAUGMEa2u5x0ImIIQTI45UjzQi0RLnIEB2pNMfZZtWdEbmOcU/s1600/trading-floor-300x201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpn_9scfMBFo9GgzZFc5nCxBYKmDTXpa8VPqtfZbjN5a-mB_-6ii_hOy2TkbnKyRGjqejfWuuahFEmwh_gSNmxeTcTfvAAUGMEa2u5x0ImIIQTI45UjzQi0RLnIEB2pNMfZZtWdEbmOcU/s1600/trading-floor-300x201.jpg" /></a></div>I know you've wondered what daytrading is, but I can tell you from over a decade of experience of investing and trading that it's a scam. Making money in the market is not about turning the stock market into a game of buying and selling. Don't believe the guys that run these Proprietary firms claiming their own success of making money throughout the years. They have been profiting off of the people who sign up with their firms. You see, these firms get paid from the clearing houses and the exchanges to have their traders, trade back and forth. This strategy of teaching traders at a cost, and having the interviewees put up trading capital is a scam run by these prop shop firms. If you don't believe me then go right ahead and waste a couple years out of your life, while these guys promise you that it can be done. They say things like <b><i>"Losing in the beginning is part of paying your tuition to the markets"</i></b>, and <i><b>"Once you get gross positive, you are on your way to becoming a successful trader"</b></i> and last but not least <i><b>"Day trading is a work in progress, and its the safest form of taking money out of the markets."</b></i> The faces to these companies make money off of your ignorance. This profession attracts three type of people mainly. The college graduate, the career change oriented person who has some money saved up, and the retiree. There is no quick way to riches folks. The stock market is a sophisticated profession of psychology, math, foresight, and logic. Not some gambling attitude of over-leveraging yourself on a short term basis to scalp pennies out of a stock. Where is the productivity in your life if what you do for a living is trade a stock back and forth based on a chart and a price screen. You've wasted your brain talent on such nonsense. Of course there will be a few random people who will make money over a time period and will be the exception based on coincidental circumstances in the market in a given time frame.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-65555304753180413172010-12-22T15:47:00.000-08:002010-12-22T16:01:32.888-08:00The great Paul Tudor Jones Documentary banned<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6XrldBfCE4JxtbkOfN_ojtg7pPqe9a1AiCCtGA_-_52Xg4os-L48gpzXgx1u7-SYjn-5_TJBPpuMxchm-xWb66TZ23pBGQfmXadtp_99loyW9ThkAThxt47Km04OsmeFN17T_3W-d2ST/s1600/Paul+tudor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6XrldBfCE4JxtbkOfN_ojtg7pPqe9a1AiCCtGA_-_52Xg4os-L48gpzXgx1u7-SYjn-5_TJBPpuMxchm-xWb66TZ23pBGQfmXadtp_99loyW9ThkAThxt47Km04OsmeFN17T_3W-d2ST/s1600/Paul+tudor.jpg" /></a>Even though Paul Tudor Jones has tried to ban and stop his documentary from being aired anywhere on the Internet, its just not possible. I think he realized that he gave a little too much away when he agreed to this documentary back in 1987 and he showed the way he manipulates and plays around with the market and the people around him, all in good fun of course. I think he feels that it could hurt his reputation and it seems as though why he's had his lawyer stay so pro-active in banning it from airing on TV or the Internet. Well too bad cause the video can run but it can't hide. International sites don't share our copy right infringement laws that our gay congressman passed when these corporate lobbyists pro actively bribed and blackmailed the politicians in Washington to pass a law that would stop people from sharing material not produced by them. Sorry Mr. Jones I got the link right here, so you ain't going to the grave with this one.All sh*t aside anyway, his line of thinking is common sense and psychological. If you think your really going to learn something new other than what you've already probably knew in terms of how life and the markets are extremely identical, then your mistaken. Go take a psychology class and learn how people think because the market is just a reflection of such thoughts. <br />
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<a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XH5W4vffBbY/">Paul Tudor Jones documentary video</a>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-53593010685424550862010-12-22T12:20:00.000-08:002010-12-23T14:30:17.930-08:00Jack Schwager's Market Wizard's deceptionLet's first understand something about mister Jack Schwager. Till this day he has almost without a doubt in my mind not been able to sufficiently acquire an income from his trading on a stand alone basis and has made his fortune off of selling his Market Wizards books. To further prove my point, if you want to see where Jack works today you only have to look to a site called fortunegrp.com. It's an investment banking company no different than the crooks at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_i4U_HN4hiLnQp5HZfIMWWQStuRTYSarq-vOI5vzTMOsQGvJ1nqZbHjTEsFCDnDtTFndZF70XEJGLwb20XP0tyoC5SFDZGL7cxZqXc5amQQP17vyck-1Nj-NdCRYPinAy_4oAIWJgvBJy/s1600/marketwizards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_i4U_HN4hiLnQp5HZfIMWWQStuRTYSarq-vOI5vzTMOsQGvJ1nqZbHjTEsFCDnDtTFndZF70XEJGLwb20XP0tyoC5SFDZGL7cxZqXc5amQQP17vyck-1Nj-NdCRYPinAy_4oAIWJgvBJy/s1600/marketwizards.jpg" /></a>What he did in the time of writing and publishing his Market Wizards series was no different of a concept than the idea to sell shovels to all the gold diggers and dreamers during the gold rush. The only people who got rich were the suppliers. He like everyone else who has failed at trading decided to profit from it by selling information. But his approach was different this time. He sold the information told to him from the successful traders themselves, not his own system. Genius right? Well kinda if you only look at the surface. To further propound on his idea you'll notice that the people that Jack interviewed have been trading for at-least 8 years or more. Genius again, right? Now Jack can propose that trading is not a random act of luck and that, yes there are credible traders that have done well over a prolonged period of time. This makes any quick to conclude skeptics opinions, short lived.<br />
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Jack did quite well with the concept of his book. And with its allure of fast money making traders came many curious readers. The book is filled with interviews by chart traders which Jack himself was for over 20 years prior to his writings <b><i>(also note that Jack hasn't had any consistent success chart trading himself, hence the reason for the book)</i></b>. Readers instantly believed that because he was able to find enough people that used charts to make money over a prolonged enough time period, that made technical analysis trading a viable method and would put to rest any skeptics opinions that they've never met a rich technician. But first let me note what he fails to mention about the markets in the years prior to his interviews with these so called super stock chart traders <b><i>(I also would like to mention that not all of the people he interviewed were chart traders, some are actually valid investors with real life strategies that any intelligent person with half of a brain would recognize as something logical and real i.e. Jim Roger's interview)</i></b>. You see, most people would think, "Oh yea this profession is possible and look at all these technical analysis traders who made all this money after all these years. Wow they must have figured out a system or a discipline that was used by charting and pricing the right indicators or chart patterns, right!?" Wrong! Jack Schwager failed to mention the most important thing that would have made all his research nothing more than a failed attempt to prove that its not the amount of people you find that are successful that's relevant, but instead the time period in which you find them.<br />
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It's kind of like when the real estate or internet boom happened, most people that were lucky and dumb enough to chase these stocks to valuations never before seen and thought prices could never come down <i><b>(these companies didn't even have revenue let me mind you, yet some of these companies traded at levels that made them worth more than the entire US economy at one point)</b></i> got rich on paper faster than the logical intelligent minds of the business world had. Just as long as these same idiots were fearful enough to realize that this all felt to easy and made more money than they ever dreamed and <b><i>(yet they didn't know a damn thing about the stocks or the markets they were trading in)</i></b> got out, they managed to cash out enough money to continue to gamble away in the stock market and live very rich comfortable lives. Let me show you a chart of what the market averages had done since the idea of the book to the time of its publication. If it doesn't all make sense after this then your continuing to lie to yourselves, because your desire to get rich off of charts is greater than your thirst for truth. By the way, any one who is lazy enough to believe that by looking at a chart of a company is sufficient enough to make an investment decision, is completely delusional. Making money is not a game of drawing lines on a chart and whoever tells you this is trying to steal you for your money either by teaching you it, or having you subscribe to their services. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTh8fneXjZcOXu1cqWZkbfS0iCVAT010SXhmn_EwPaRgP5CQhtzGMXrJE3fTu9J0T6OJqeomV_AuCTM8uc_D3Elwh1s9JRRlF6dpVyGGMSowfbKecmeCByD0gUSn5cz1pN9rHbOISZode/s1600/djia1900JackSchwagger.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTh8fneXjZcOXu1cqWZkbfS0iCVAT010SXhmn_EwPaRgP5CQhtzGMXrJE3fTu9J0T6OJqeomV_AuCTM8uc_D3Elwh1s9JRRlF6dpVyGGMSowfbKecmeCByD0gUSn5cz1pN9rHbOISZode/s320/djia1900JackSchwagger.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-22546944061513916782010-12-21T16:56:00.000-08:002010-12-21T16:56:33.133-08:00The hilarious argument against CapitalismI love when people say that "The Story of Stuff" video is an argument against capitalism. I mean really, where do these liberals on FOX and other propaganda filled news stations get their conclusions from? I wonder sometimes if they just make this sh*t up. I love this video as it explains exactly how retarded most consumers are and how they are so mis-informed on what actually happens to things that are created and then disposed of. People are the worst savers and the best spenders ever. They will buy things only to find that statistically 90% of the things they buy are thrown away. We only use 10% of the stuff we actually buy. That says a lot about people's desires to own the pointless material things they work so hard and desire. Watch and learn something and quit watching TMZ and reading your gossip magazine bullsh*t.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/gLBE5QAYXp8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-39921337491239548762010-12-21T16:29:00.000-08:002010-12-21T16:29:27.868-08:00Peter Schiff predicted the economy would collapse in 2006He wrote a book called Crash Proof in 2006 and explained exactly how the US economy would collapse. He even wrote what would happen after he was right. Well guess what exactly what he said happened and now we are bailing everyone out. Look at all the perma-bull retards calling him crazy. Even the reporters have no idea what they are talking about but that shouldn't be of any surprise since their job is to ask questions and listen. He also brings up a great point that its funny how everyone that couldn't see it coming are the same people trying to fix the problem. It's freaking pathetic. The fact that the American people are still sleeping is of no surprise. This country is full of sheep and talking parrots!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z0YTY5TWtmU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-15265489096924022612010-12-21T15:53:00.000-08:002010-12-23T14:31:09.448-08:00T3capital.com / T3live.com brings on Jordan Kimmel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqM0WYwyItHDCmcEPaMLpOAwnrGdfS7TUW0g7tuI5ssT9RcPsuoL9LwpN-XglYbQG1oJMcWdlsnOqxB8GshG7SrhjmZPgkS8yy0LnJC0sb2yEiimOL0DCckXE2NzOqV_o2M62P4oWzYRHZ/s1600/Kimmel-host.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqM0WYwyItHDCmcEPaMLpOAwnrGdfS7TUW0g7tuI5ssT9RcPsuoL9LwpN-XglYbQG1oJMcWdlsnOqxB8GshG7SrhjmZPgkS8yy0LnJC0sb2yEiimOL0DCckXE2NzOqV_o2M62P4oWzYRHZ/s1600/Kimmel-host.jpg" /></a></div>Your probably wondering why I'm wasting my time writing about such an irrelevant pathetic issue, but I guess you can say I have a vendetta against these prop shop casino firms. So let me tell you why T3 allowed Jordan Kimmel to join their company. Well for one he runs a radio show that probably has thousands of dumb followers. It's a chance for T3 Live <i><b>(their subscription based bull crap)</b></i> to get his audience to sign up to their gambling casino firm of a daytrading business. Jordan Kimmel probably signed up with T3 also because they gave him some money to trade with a business approach commission to sign his audience up with T3. Jordan will collect commissions on the traders he signs up and T3 gets richer also. Oh that sounds about right now.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-52028803249659135932010-12-21T07:22:00.000-08:002010-12-25T11:11:07.064-08:00Lawyers and politicians do dirty work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQCgmlp1bd_Dz7As1PqrKBseLpusumunB9rrlwHLj4wVdLar7HNgkZROtriErzERJbpkeelCuFXqM3OeF6GsEBZODEiU0OnhkcJIWMvrzANgvzj1Do9o_bz7gnqSfgc_MKWWVOqIGajAs/s1600/lawyer_jax.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQCgmlp1bd_Dz7As1PqrKBseLpusumunB9rrlwHLj4wVdLar7HNgkZROtriErzERJbpkeelCuFXqM3OeF6GsEBZODEiU0OnhkcJIWMvrzANgvzj1Do9o_bz7gnqSfgc_MKWWVOqIGajAs/s1600/lawyer_jax.jpg" /></a></div>The court system in America still after hundreds of years is completely flawed. Just about anyone can take someone to court for just about anything. In civil cases, that means the defendant must hire his own lawyer and pay thousands of dollars to prove his innocence. The person can be completely not at fault, yet he must spend his own money proving it.<br />
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What if tomorrow by mistake you trip someone you know while walking in the mall by accident and the next day he is suing you for pain and suffering, assault and whatever other bullsh*t law that the suing parties attorney will make up. This is the biggest form of highway robbery. The American people are robbing each other blind and the only ones making money off it all are the lawyers. The plaintiff's attorney might gladly take the case on a contingency basis in which he gets paid from the money owed to his client from the defenses parties pocket. But you won't ever find a defense attorney doing the same for his client. One might say you can represent yourself but in doing so you are subject to losing almost by default because of the fact that your not allowed to cite statutes and case history which would support your defense because your not a practicing attorney. So the game is rigged from the start. Lawyers are paid not for their intelligence but instead for their license to cite law. So you can be as innocent as a duck, yet because of your lawyers inability to debate the facts correctly you risk losing.<br />
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The lawyer also doesn't have to guarantee you that he will win in order to get paid. He will get paid regardless, so the incentive to win and succeed is completely diminished. What if you hired a plumber to fix your sink and when he left he told you that regardless of his inability to fix it he must get paid anyway? You would throw a fit and rebel. Why is the same not happening with our legal system. Don't depend on the same people who create the laws <i><b>(lawyers and politicians)</b></i> to be the same people to make it more fair and honest. In a sports game a lawyer would be the equivalent of a referee who is also in charge of coaching one of the teams. Do you think that referee would have any incentive to make his teams life any harder? This would not constitute as fair and honest, and people would say that the game is rigged and would cease watching the sport all together.<br />
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People need to revolt and get this truth out there. The more people that wake up and see how our whole system is corrupt and rigged from the start, the better chance we stand in revolutionizing our system. I know what most of you are thinking, "I've never been a defense case where my whole life savings were in jeopardy, so why the rush" or "That won't ever happen to me." Good I wish you all these thoughts, so that the day your confronted with such an issue, your insides will boil with pain and suffering, then the real revolution inside will start. Only then will you, like me, be on a mission to get as much truth out there so that we the people can be free of such harsh and unfair law.<br />
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I also figured I might share with you the latest news about the politicians and lawyers in Washington changing laws so that once again they can make the playing field more uneven for the common man. A new regulation was just passed that inhibits lawyers from receiving retainers from clients on anything to do with mortgage loan remodifications. Washington understands that the banks they are in bed with are getting sued left and right. So in order to stop such occurences from getting out of hand they answered a small prayer of mine but for the wrong reasons. Now lawyers must get paid after the job is complete and they know lawyers are not use to getting paid after the work is complete. They want to get paid for the phone calls they make with their client, the meetings, the due diligence, and just about anything that leads up to the completion of their work. This new law will hinder many people from remodifying their loans so that they stand a chance in keeping their home of shelter. In this one article a lady has tried over a dozen of attorneys to help her but they've all refused her. If after reading this article you don't see the politicians intentions and your not angered then you clearly are not putting 2 and 2 together. Here read the <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/40763534">article</a> yourself.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-8209018647058580822010-12-20T22:57:00.000-08:002010-12-20T22:59:02.451-08:00Look at this FOX news propaganda bullcrapLook at this FOX news propaganda. I don't know who these people are but they must have friends at FOX news helping to promote their bullshit. Look at the freakin' kid lieing his ass off to the camera with his father constantly looking at him to make sure he sticks to the script. The reporter also seems to know the story all to well and leads them into every answer. Everyone's getting paid here. If you can't see the lie behind this self promoting bull-shit then go crawl back into your ball of retarded soup and converse with other fellow sheep.<br />
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For many years, I’ve been a fan of Warren Buffett’s long term approach to value investing. Understanding the value of a company, regardless of its momentary stock price, is a great long term investing strategy. <br />
<div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>But it pains me whenever I read commentary from Buffett that glosses over reality or is somehow self-serving. His OpEd in the NYT – <b><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17buffett.html?_r=1"><b>Pretty Good for Government Work</b></a> </b></b>– paints an artificially rosy picture of the Bailout, ignores the negatives, and omits his own financial interest in government actions. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>What might he have written if Sir Warren was dosed with some sodium pentothal before he sat down to pen that <b><b><i>“Thank you”</i></b></b> letter? It might have gone something like this: </div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2926897763161651218&postID=8327924421206575914" name="StoryImage"></a><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>I was about to send you a thank you note for bailing out the economy . . . but then some nice men dressed in Ninja outfits came in and shot me full of truth serum. That led me to make one more set of edits to my letter thanking you for saving the economy. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><br />
</div>It also helped me recall some things I seemed to have forgotten in my other public pronunciations about the bailouts. <br />
<div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>I suddenly recalled who it was who allowed the banks to run wild in the first place: You. Your behavior before, during and after the crisis was the epitome of a corrupt and irresponsible government. You rewarded incompetency, created moral hazard, punished the prudent, and engaged in the single biggest transfer of wealth from the citizenry of the United States to the Wall Street insiders who created the mess in the first place. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><i>Kudos.</i> </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Before I get to the bailouts, I have to remind you that in: </div><ul><li class="textBodyBlack">1999, you passed the Financial Services Modernization Act. This repealed Glass-Steagall, the law that had successfully kept main street banking safely separated from Wall Street for seven decades. Even the 1987 market crash had no impact on Main Street credit availability, thanks to Glass-Steagall. </li>
<li class="textBodyBlack">1997-2010, you allowed the Credit Rating Agencies to change their business model, from Investor pays to Underwriter pays — a business structure known as Payola. This change effectively allowed banks to purchase their AAA ratings, and was ignored by the SEC and other regulators. </li>
<li class="textBodyBlack">2000, you passed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act. It allowed the shadow banking industry to develop without any oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the SEC, or the state insurance regulators. This led to rampant creation of credit-default swaps, CDOs, and other financial weapons of mass destruction — and the demise of AIG. </li>
<li class="textBodyBlack">2001-04, the Fed, under Alan Greenspan, irresponsibly dropped fund rates to 1%. This set off an inflationary spiral in housing, commodities, and in most assets priced in dollars or credit. </li>
<li class="textBodyBlack">1999-07, the Federal Reserve failed to use its supervisory and regulatory authority over banks, mortgage underwriters and other lenders, who abandoned such standards as employment history, income, down payments, credit rating, assets, property loan-to-value ratio and debt-servicing ability. </li>
<li class="textBodyBlack">2004, the SEC waived its leverage rules, allowing the 5 biggest Wall Street firms to go from 12 to 1 to 20, 30 and even 40 to 1. Ironically, this rule was called the Bear Stearns exemption. </li>
</ul><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>These actions and rule changes were requested by the banking industry. Rather than behave as adult supervision, you indulged the reckless kiddies, looking the other way as they acted out. <i>You were the grand enabler of the finance sector’s misbehavior.</i> Hence, you helped create the mess by allowing the banking sector to run roughshod over decades of successful constraints. (<i>Kudos</i> again on that). </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><br />
</div>There were voices warning about the upcoming crisis, but you managed to turn a deaf ear to them: Warnings about subprime lending, problems with securitization, against the false claim that residential real estate never went down in value, or that the models forecasting VAR were wildly understating risk. An economy driven by growth dependent upon credit fueled consumption was unsustainable, and yet you encouraged that reckless credit consumption. The compensation schemes for Wall Street were hilariously short term (ignored by you); the crony capitalism of Boards of Directors that undercut market discipline was similarly ignored. You encouraged the hollowing out of the US economy, allowing it to become increasingly “Financialized” at the expense of industry and manufacturing. What was once a small but important part of the economy became dominant, yet unproductive, with your blessing. <br />
<div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><b>Bottom line:</b></b> You were at a loss for understanding the many factors that led to the crisis in the first place. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>When the crisis struck, you did not seem to understand the role you should play. Instead of stepping up to halt the financialization, to unwind it, you gave away the shop. You failed to extract concessions from firms on the verge of bankruptcy. Your negotiating skills were embarrassing. In the face of meltdown, you panicked. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>You could have undone the decades of radical deregulation at that moment. You could have fired the incompetent management, wiped out the shareholders who invested in insolvent companies, gave the creditors and bond holders a major haircut for their foolish lending. Instead, you rewarded them for their gross incompetence. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>The solutions you ran with were ad hoc, poorly thought out, improvised. You crossed legal boundaries, putting the Fed in the position of violating its charter and exceeding its mandates. You created a Moral Hazard, the impact of which may not be felt until decades in the future. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Very few of your senior elected and appointed officials understood what was going on. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Rather than offer an intelligent response to the crisis, you delivered brute force: Trillions of dollars were thrown at the problem, papering over its symptoms but not its underlying causes. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Well, Uncle Sam, you delivered a motherload of cash. Considering the dollar sums involved, your actions were remarkably ineffective. What was left over afterwards was a wildly over-leveraged consumer whose credit limits had been reached; State and municipal budgets were heavily dependent upon that excess consumer spending, creating huge budget holes because of it. Net net: The resultant economy was in the worst recession since the Great Depression. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>As a student of the Great Depression, Ben Bernanke should have had the best grasp – but his bailout of Bear Stearns revealed him to be just another banker, intent on saving the banks – banking system be damned. To give you a clue of exactly how lost Hank Paulson was, he spent his time praying, and creating documents that exempt himself personally for liability. He’s from Goldman, so we know that “team first” ain’t exactly his style. Tim Geithner, who did such a stupendous job overseeing the banks in the first place, was in way over his head. And while I never voted for George W. Bush, I give him great credit for hiding under the bed and pretty much staying out of everyone else’s way. I would call him clueless, but that wouldn’t be fair to the legions of clueless around the world. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Sheila Bair grasped the gravity of the situation earliest, and put numerous failed banks through the insolvency process. If we were smart, we would have allowed her to work her way through the entire finance sector, effecting a <b><b>GM</b></b>-like prepackaged bankruptcy for <b><b>Citigroup, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AIG,</b></b> etc. It would have been painful as hell, but we would be much better off had we allowed her to tear the band aid off quickly. Instead, we are suffering through a death of a 1000 cuts, Japanese style. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>I would be remiss if I failed to mention my personal positions in this: I made a killing in <b><b>Goldman Sachs </b></b>and <b><b>GE</b></b>. My investments in <b><b>Wells Fargo</b></b> would have been a disaster if not for you. Don’t even get me started with me being the largest shareholder in Moody’s – that was some clusterf**k. And considering all of the counter-parties that <b><b>Berkshire Hathaway</b></b> has, we risked being just another insolvent investment firm along with everyone else had nothing been done. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>So I must say thanks to you, Uncle Sam, and your aides. In this extraordinary emergency, you came through for me — and my world looks far different than if you had not. </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Your grateful but wide-eyed nephew, </div><div class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Warren </div>Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-34525347806527145862010-12-20T11:13:00.000-08:002010-12-20T11:13:51.446-08:00The employement job hiring system is a SET UPThese high end company's employment system is a set up. It's a fixed system in which people get hired in one of two ways. The first is by the amount of college you've completed combined with your grades and your major, and the second way is on a referral basis. The best part about this system is its set up to just hire the best most qualified people that are desperate to take the lowest pay. The college system is an honor system that sets up the person's intelligence using curriculum's filled with rigorous pointless memory exercises. Colleges can actually careless if you know anything, they just want you to remember things that are told to you by your professors and to score well on their exams. Even if what they are saying is not true. With the proof of grades companies can evaluate your ability to take directions and learn (because that might make it easier for them to train you). But what employers are too dumb to realize is that, having good grades is the last determinant of a successful employee. I have known many of the dumbest people who were so great at taking tests, and teacher's pets all throughout their lives of schooling, only to be the dumbest most illogical people I've ever talked to. They rely on their books and the knowledge of others to determine whats right or wrong, or good or bad. Its also quite pathetic how the referral system works. You have one person who works at a company for X amount of years. Then she asks her boss if he would consider hiring her friend. Now because the employer - employee relationship has already been established he will give the friend a chance. Actually a special advantageous chance because he already has a relationship with an employee so to keep his political standings he must be courteous and bias. This is in my opinion is the purest form of a breach of the EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-83639378533453176082010-12-20T09:37:00.000-08:002010-12-20T20:41:12.101-08:00College is a scamHa, your probably one of those people that went to college and now can't find a job. Well first off blame yourselves for listening to your guidance counselor who bullshitted you all the way through college about taking this class and/or wait take this class. "Oh if you switch your major then these classes don't count and now you must take another 3 classes to graduate." LOL, college is a scam. You can pick up a book in a library and read up on macroeconomics. But the fact is most of you don't want to learn at all. You just want to be fed the truth because your lazy and watch to much TMZ and read STAR magazine. Your interested in gossip and other people's lives and not interested in education.<br />
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If you wanted to become a doctor then there should be a school just for that. A lawyer? An independent school just for that. SPECIALTY SCHOOLS! Not money wasting education that is nothing but a re-run of your senior year of high school. It's a scam, they want their money! I challenge all the retarded, money mafia billionaires to put up their money on matters that are truly important. Not like the gray haired retarded timing birth of Warren Buffett who's encouraging billionaires to give away their wealth to the government and dumb caused foundations that Bill Gates' wife runs. Is he F'en serious!<br />
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I have a thing about Warren Buffett that bothers me. He just happens to be the one person who was born at a time when America was growing and new simple developments were taking place like shaving razors, and furniture companies. What he did was invest and re-invest his money in the best companies of that simple nature throughout his whole life and stuck with these companies until he became a billionaire. Today, that can never be done. The structure of the economy and the companies are not the same. The 80's is when the market took off and he was riding that bull wave up until now. I challenge anyone to argue on why he wasn't a merely lucky investor with a simple concept that could never be duplicated today. That's why I know if he was born today he would have never been able to duplicate his success. A matter of fact, I'm sure he would fail ten times over!Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-19701612982017480102010-12-20T09:02:00.000-08:002010-12-20T09:08:24.766-08:00Abolish the Federal Reserve BankEven the great Thomas Jefferson was quoted saying "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."<br />
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Today we see more than ever what he was talking about. The federal reserve is stealing our wealth by printing new dollars and we're paying the cost through inflation of all commodities from sugar to corn to oil. This is absolutely ridiculous and if an American revolution doesn't happen soon then we will all be very sorry. Here is ZEITGEIST documentary about the Federal Reserve system and how, what, when, where, and why it operates. Damn scumbag of a government!<br />
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p.s. Its unfortunate that many of you will construct as many ideas about why everything this documentary is saying is not true. You'll continue to make arguments up in your minds on why Jesus Christ, Mohammad, and or whoever you believe to be your great prophet existed. Just like Santa Clause was a story we were told at a young age to give us wonder and hope, you eventually learned that it was all made up. It's unfortunate for many of you, but the truth no matter how shattering it is must be faced in all of us. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yGQ7qzGvt6U5aVxIwEZIleexxRcRKvNdnkPUbXJUwFmTPax2aymtdYq35GBluEpbggD9Oh1pm9j8BMuliMXF2fAh8teh8eBTStZP3wGQtgHA7AR53F7pE0wAMq2ydbMB04KthCUL6pUd/s1600/helicopter-ben-bernanke-150x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yGQ7qzGvt6U5aVxIwEZIleexxRcRKvNdnkPUbXJUwFmTPax2aymtdYq35GBluEpbggD9Oh1pm9j8BMuliMXF2fAh8teh8eBTStZP3wGQtgHA7AR53F7pE0wAMq2ydbMB04KthCUL6pUd/s1600/helicopter-ben-bernanke-150x150.jpg" /></a>Ben Bernanke should be prosecuted for lying to the American people on 60 minutes 2 weeks ago. He comes on and says that the Fed is not printing money, when just last year he admitted that's exactly what they were doing. I'm not quite clear as to when we the American people decided that having a private bank called the Federal Reserve should be allowed to print our tax dollars away and invest it into whatever they wish. Why are they the money managers of our tax dollars? I don't remember the time that everyone came together and whole-heartily agreed that we want some privatized bank to control our money supply. And it's only right that we wouldn't ever agree to such a thing because by allowing such power, inflation and the price of goods in this country could get out of hand. The Federal Reserve with all this money printing is causing an imbalance between the money supply and the amount of goods made to consume.<br />
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I also love how the idiots on the news always say the same thing about the people who speak the truth about the economy and how pessimistic these guests are for doing such things. I forgot that hope and lies are what people really want to hear. But of course the system of reporting is corrupt. News about the economy has to stay upbeat and positive or else the viewers won't watch because the majority of American people hate inconvenient truths. But lets not forget how much people are addicted to listening to all the stealing, killing, and robbery going around the world. And its probably because people think that staying informed about the dangers around the world is a good thing, while being lied as to how bad it is economically, and how the government is concealing the truth on a daily basis benefits us. I love the amount of retardation that's growing on the minds of human beings. It's really a sight for sore eyes.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2926897763161651218.post-68775926127952259682010-12-19T09:16:00.000-08:002010-12-20T09:11:29.088-08:00North Korea and South Korea will go to war<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RiX1UYHguuu_TGmPMc8axpFiw58LWsXsCQnqCbMVSyAFvBurF80_ctKaFsaRvacLykfDcYS3RWRY_MkAZpqGWzd1xVgB-yWXsSV49mNNQjTX2zdDPAILyY99hd85bjD4vBPEl6TET-m-/s1600/061003_north_korea_south_ko-300x158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RiX1UYHguuu_TGmPMc8axpFiw58LWsXsCQnqCbMVSyAFvBurF80_ctKaFsaRvacLykfDcYS3RWRY_MkAZpqGWzd1xVgB-yWXsSV49mNNQjTX2zdDPAILyY99hd85bjD4vBPEl6TET-m-/s1600/061003_north_korea_south_ko-300x158.jpg" /></a>Mark my words. I been saying this for some time. I'm a trends forecaster and I make my predictions based on current events. Like Gerald Celente says, current events form future trends is absolutely correct. I been collecting all the news articles and the language in what is said between countries. They will be at war very soon, and the market will dip hard in my opinion. Here is the <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/40722390">link</a> to one of the most recent articles of North Korea warning South Korea. This is not the first time they've warned them but this time they're warning is the equivalent of someone telling someone "If you cross this line, then we will fight." Read the article and decide for your self.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038785873875253781noreply@blogger.com0