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19 Reasons Why The Real Bubble Is In Inflating Bubbles
From BNP, courtesy of Leo Kolivakis. It appears the list was first posted over at MacroMan. As always, kudos on the creativity.
- Goldmans calls for $2 trillion
- Rumours fly around that the Fed may eventually do 4 trillion
- China starts complaining that the Fed is about to purchase $1trn of USTs despite buying a similar amount themselves
- Xerox is up 38% since Jackson Hole
- Your Mom calls you asking about QE
- IBM issues a super-long bond
- Mexico issues a really super-duper-long bond
- You find out that both these organisations have a guy who had Bernanke as a thesis advisor in their Economics PhD program before joining their respective Treasury departments
- Jersey shore tourist tat-shops sell QE wallets three times the size of normal ones
- The guy that trades European telecoms on the credit floor explains to you how QE works
- The CDI (Cab Driver Index) flashes red when your cab driver starts using QE to justify his gold ETF position
- A word score of 36 in Scrabble is nicknamed 'scoring a QE' in old folks homes
- Your FX sales bit-on-the-side starts giving you minute by minute updates on 1030s, but doesn't know what '1030s' is
- Handing out an extra 200,000 to all players when anyone goes bankrupt is now mandatory in the offical rules of Monopoly
- The DPI (Dinner party Index) flashes red when you are in the Hamptons and the heir to the DuPonts tells you how much more QE is needed
- Your Mom calls you back and asks if she should put her 401k into Gold to hedge against inflation
- Bill Gross goes on the rampage calling the Treasury a ponzi scheme
- The UK decides to privatise the Royal Mint
- Your Mom calls again and explains how she expects 500bn over the next 6 months..............
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20. Cotton hits all time highs on money printing demand alone.
LOL - excellent
Debt is the bubble.
20. Bubbles The Clown asks if you want to see his super-duperous-long QE.
...but first you have to step under the boardwalk with him....
Your Jockie shorts cost more than a bar of Gold.
Farmers stop feeding corn to their cattle and eat it themselves.
People go to Chinese Takeout and buy their used cooking oil to heat their homes.
69. Your mom calls you asking where she can buy .38 ammo in bulk.
- North Korea declares USA a currency manipulator and will trade slave labor only for gold and euros
You stop feterilizing you lawn to grow dandelions to eat their leaves in your salad.
21. street hustlers give you 100 dollar bills for a copper penny and as it turns out, the penny is worth 100 times more then the 100$ bill...
Heidi Klum will not get out of bed except for Tulip bulbs
You keep a picture of Bernankie on your Refrigerator to remind you not only do you need to lose weight, you cannot afford to eat anything inside.
99. Your dad starts saying he'd like you to put £100 on gold tomorrow like it's a race horse.
You steal and eat the Mouse the Cat brings home.
The cat runs away knowing he'll do better without you :)
Yes, Cats are smart. They would run away knowing they may be next on the menu.
You keep your self warm by sleeping under a pile of 100$ notes on the sidewalk
Manipulated medicated market = bubble. POP - there's gum all over the face.
People buy your house just for the Copper pipes, the aluminum siding and the hardwood floors for fuel.
Exactly, your fucking renters strip out the plumbing & electrical and have enough to pay for 6 months of care free living.
Yes, they do but that is nothing new. I once had a tenant tear off a deck and burn it in the Fireplace for heat.
26. The kids at the corner lemonade stand will only take silver dimes.
Your dog won't let you near his food bowl
You have come a long way in a year Leo....best post yet!
You start fliping Card Board 'houses' for dead rats
20) The equity salesman on your desk who doesnt know what M2 is tells you to buy stocks based on QE expectations tomorrow and puts in a p/a buy ticket to compliance for a commodity ETF "because thats the best way to play money printing"
You play a monopoly game with 'real' money
You intently watch CNBC to see how much your can of Corn and your 5 lbs of flour, 4 lb bag of sugar is worth today. You feel you are totaly diversified. But, should you buy a can of coffee? Cnbc says yes.
27. Kim Karsashian releases branded debit card.
(This has actually already happenned, release is 10 Nov.)
http://www.credit.com/blog/2010/11/the-new-kardashian-kredit-kard-watch-...
We live in a society where HomeMadePorn whores like 'Paris Hilton' and self styled retards 'Ali G' are the generation heroes it's kinda good that it won't last long I'd be more concerned if it did
10 years ago you at least had to be somebody like J Lo. or Britney Spears or a 'Boy Band' today all you need is to be a jack ass with an YouTube account
No sh*t?
OK, I give up folks, the world really is coming to an end. My next investment is in a pair of Glocks and hundreds of boxes of ammo.
You don't already have a hand gun? Got a little cathing up to do!
Check out my new baby!
You mean racoon, you.
Careful with that snub-nosed .357, you might hurt someone.
And handguns are a bit difficult to get where I live...
Just use eBay if you're in a commonwealth country. You would be surprised the crap they let through the mail or hang out at a pub. I'm sure the neighbourhood dealer would sell you a trunk special.
You know the markets are quiet when Bank strategists have to plagiarise popular blogs and pass it off as their own ...
Thank you Tyler Durden - you are the best XXX
Me too @Nictrades, Thanks Zerohedge - Tyler Durden & crew!!!
The Communist Chinese lecture America on the free markets
Commodities prices exploded right before the 2008 melt down. They're starting to do it again:
http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=DBA&ty=c&ta=0&p=m
You wake up in a bathtub full of ice in a seedy Tijuana hotel and find that the effort to harvest your kidney was abandonded in mid-operation when the organ knappers noticed and pried out your last silver-filled molar, which has a street value of $2 billion freshly minted bernanko dollars. You now worry that you will starve to death because you can no longer successfully masticate shoe leather.
35. CNBC studio is totally made of Gold and they tell people deflation could be a problem looking forward
Rare earth metals is another bubble. Gold is much rarer.
... in a currency war (universal fiat fraud) ... "real things are money"
... gold & silver too. Barter on.
How about $1.48 quadrillion derivatives bubble? Is there an even bigger one I missed?
20. rapper jay-z releases hit single in which he brags about "dropping a qe in da club."
22. The Pope throwing trillions of $$$ from the PopeMobil trying to convince others but mostly himself he's doing some charity work.
23. My chiropractor actually said he would trade a session for an oz of silver.
MCP!
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20. Quantitativegate becomes part of the lexicon.