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Dollar Plummets, Market Surges, Rinse, Repeat
Is today day three of the Bernanke testimony? Because the dollar just plunged as if the Chairsatan was out there somewhere, lurking, once again, guaranteeing the death of the US currency any minute now. In the meantime stocks are going absolutely insane, even though with oil over $100, GDP estimates and EPS forecasts will have no choice but to be whacked. That said, news of any nature are irrelevant: all that matters is momentum. Remember: momentum inducing "market bandits" are vital to efficient markets. Lastly, the USS Enterprise is slowly making its way to Libya.
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King dollar!
gold silver down with it...makes sence
www.silvergoldsilver.blogspot.com
off with his head
Stephen King?
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - H. Keller Authority forgets a dying king - Tennyson A king realizing his incompetence can either delegate or abdicate his duties - M. Dietrich I was king of the mountain for a long time, well I don't want that no more - W. Jenningsking nothing more like
Here King. Here King.
Where is my friend RobotTrader?
I haven't seen him in a week.
Meth head, the booger eater, and billy the tard have taken up his slack.
He was calling a top, and his rhetoric was tired.
I got you Robo...
THIS IS A CORPORATE TAKEOVER, snitchez!
Probably in your bed.
the catfish mouth robo uber bull bear wannabe said he was coming out of "retirement" to give back to the world that made him so wealthy by taking a day job.
How quaint that the know-it-alls on this page are lonely without the last commenter who had anything original to say. Congratulations, you have achieved 100% conformity for this site.
i for one am so thankful for the catfish mouth's originality which suggests that:
1) there is no jpm short position in silver. it's a myth.
2) there's a huge jpm short position in silver. pigmen always win.
3) oil will crash.
4) oil will sky to the moon.
5) don't fight the fed.
6) short the market. fight the fed.
7) the gold silver rally is over, done, caput, deal with it.
8) gold hits new all time high.
and these original thoughts are within the past month.
There are plenty of people with a wide variety of opinions here. We don't need idiots who can't predict the date of the next Tuesday here telling us sweet little lies based on skittle farting unicorn delusions.
Well, we certainly can't tolerate delusions on this site. Ha ha. His thought-crime was taking a realistic view of the market and, gasp, actually seeing the stock market as having profit potential. That's why he'll be down the memory hole along with all the other who dared to post similar views.
at your own risk, or should i say peril, in making $ in the market
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4490541725797746038#
phantom shares must see 25 minute vid
No, his "crime" lay in being a smug and shallow RoboGogoMomoTotoDodo.
A) They're not your friends, and 2) Get the fuck out of here.
Plunging? DX Futs down 0.16% for the day on my screen.
Yes, no one worry about the reserve currencie. It is backed by Crespie Cream doughnuts and No. 7 whiskey. Surely never to fail as a risk asset, the dollar is made from the paper of thousand year old redwoods Move along.
LOL! Nice Lennon. Seriously though kids, DXY coming up on serious support right above 70... plunge that area and we are in uncharted territory. :( Did someone say gold-back Yuan? (I better start exchanging my bond portfolio over to Dim Sum bitchez!)
The Fed's only madate is to keep the stock market propped up and people to "believe" there is a recovery... if the dollar needs to die to save Wall Street, then so be it.
I will say, tensions are rising folks. We're above the threshold for a revolution.
Bob Chapman says 71.18 is the edge of the cliff.
No opinion myself, just reporting it.
i had the same problem here, fois gras. i've got the goldseek home page, with its time delays, but the dollar is UP against the AUD, GBP, CAD, CNY, INR, JPY, NZD, ZAR, and CHF,
but down v. the EUR and down a hair, overall.
i guess Tyler wants us to call him a moronic shitforbrained asswipe, again this morning. but i'm NOT gonna fall for that cheap shot, today. somebody else ge ahead for a change, ok?
dollar is DOWN almost X the board on food commodities, with The Precious taking paws.
risk on!!! especially for kids of poor parents, globally.
local news in norcal this fine morn included continued bewilderment and fingerpointing CYA regarding the San Bruno gas explosion last year, here:
Fire Chief Unaware Of Gas Line Before Explosion - News Story ... and here: Deadly gas explosion is focus of NTSB hearing - Newsas well as the trials of trying to run a train:
Public to comment on Caltrain closure plans clusterfick city, or what?lQQks like the resident fukturds of trains are gonna close stations, cut back sevices, and raise fares, and probably vote themselves pay and pension increases for next year, too!
Caltrain CEO was making 400k a year for playing with choochoo trains. I'll do same job for 100k.
Best BTFD in gold and silver for a long time...well, last Thursday anyway! Gold looking like a shiny prince that just needs to be picked up off the ground here.
trichet threatens rate increase
gold & silver go down... a bit
the dollar tanks hard
the US stock market goes up
goes up further tomorrow on the "good" fake employment news
Bernanke gets his out to stop QE (Gross was the last straw, his defection.....)
plus is if the ME explodes over the weekend -- market then goes down not on Bennie Boy but due to ME in the mainstream media,
dollar edges back from the abyss for a week or two
JPM gets to savage gold & silver under the air cover, and cover some of its shorts......
Everything at this point looks pretty frothy with the exception of the USD.
I think it's time to go to cash for a little bit. Commodities will almost certainly provide a better buying opportunity in the next few months.
Frothy as in Santorum's frothy?
I do not doubt that someone got stuck with that froth in this engineered run-up.
Danger - I went to cash last week. I expect the middle east to get further out of hand and a significant drop in stocks. The foil to my plan is the HFT's ignoring half the world on fire and keeping the stocks on an artificial rise. No HFT the dow is at 6000.
Captcha is run by HFT:
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I'm no math whiz but How do I solve this if I can't have more than 2 characters. I am humbled by Captcha.
try telling tyler to drop dead.
Are you a human or a bot? Enter the correct answer and "save" anyway!
More great news for the middle class as Immelt and group are sporting a perpetual boner on these developments.
any moment now...
pop goes the weasel...
Everyone knows that we are banging into major support/resistance lines in the dollar/gold/dow/s&p/..... Everyone including the fed and foreign central banks. They're trying to put the pedal down to try to blow through the lines. Will they be able to keep this virtual reality bull market going?????
This is the new normal. There are no correlations anymore. Not the way we knew them in the good old days (like last week?).
This is the end game, no rules time we were forseeing at th eend of last year, when nothing was making sense. Now, it's all nonsense.
only gut trades will work.
And it sure looks like the dollar is being hammered for a purpose.
Cui bono?
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/wisdom-for-warriors-7/
so the freakin goobermint checks don't bounce?
ah but that was in days of yore, when fundamentals 'mattered'
At some point they will matter again...there are no "new eras" when it comes to the market. There will be bubbles long after this one is popped.
USS Enterprise is slowly making its way to Libya
At least 2 Aircraft carriers will be required for the establish a no fly zone over Libya, and that's pushing the human endurance factor for the pilots involved. Let's also not forget that massive air strikes on Anti-air missile batteries will be required before a no fly zone can be instituted. I hope everyone notes it's the democrats that are pushing the start of a third front in the Middle East.
You mention massive strikes on anti-air missiles like its a bad thing. And I'm certain those F/A-18 pilots are more than happy to go without the mandatory 8 hours of "crew rest" required to be back in the air. When democracy and freedom call, who are they to push Libyans to voicemail?
On a serious note, it doesn't matter which party calls for a third front. You are either a statist or you are not a statist. The third, fourth, fifth, etc. fronts were bound to happen, hell or high water (preferably both). Are you familiar with Randolph Bourne's great quote, "War is the health of the state" ?
FWIW, the Air Force and Navy have no problem busting crew rest rules when they need to. Being a former enlisted aviator I can attest to this. Thankfully carrier operations for fighters are relatively short sorties, it's the support aircraft (like out of RAF Mildenhall; UK Souda Bay, Crete; Ramstein AFB, GE) that really have to worry about crew rest in this scenario. When we did it in Kosovo my days/nights were basically brief, fly, debrief, sleep, brief, fly, debrief, sleep. Crew rest becomes a non-issue when you're on that cycle considering the days just blur together.
Thanks for your input...just curious, how many bombs did you drop on those non English speakers? Saw the devastation firsthand from "Smart Bomb" precision accuracy. Spent 2 years in the Balkans and talked to a lot moms and dads that lost children in that Lewinsky bomb fest.
There is no Democrats, there is no Republicans. There is only two teams of looters with nearly identical ideology taking turns at getting payed off for enabling a pillage. It's only the raw grade A stupidity of Americans that let this game continue.
3rd front of war, why not? When you already totally insolvent whats more debt? Hey maybe we'll get more gov employment and the youth of America can go kill people overseas instead of learning about why they can't find work and are buried in student loan debt.
+WW3
They can discharge their guns but not their loans
Oh, PLEASE!
Democrat, schedemocratz.
Think JPM, Chase and your intelligence should rise.
Don't be a fool!
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p.s. good comment unnecessarily politicized.
Lets also not forget the Libya is bombing its own refineries and oil fields as we speak.
It all makes perfect sense:
A surge in commodity prices is "good". It is a result from strength in demand...
A quick decline in oil prices (i.e. WTI) is "good" (despite the price surge which we have established is "good"), because it gives consumers a little more pocket change...
Revolution in the ME and NA is "good". It is proof of democracy on the horizon...
Hugo Chavez's peace plan is "good", because the end to the revolution can only lead to "good" things...
Printing money and subsidizing massive deficit spending is "good" because the Ben Bernank is a "good" guy...
It's all "good", so BTFD.
P.S. Ponzi economy!!!
Didn't Bernie Maddoff elaborate on your ponzi point exactly?
Only organized crime like government can do something so spectacular.
That's right John Law....and don't forget that stocks will get a big boost from the new Ipad2 as that product alone will surely boost GDP by at least 1% over current expectations.
Oh, and in case anybody needed any convincing, no less than the Editor-In-Chief of Marketwatch published this nice little gem that would make even Goebbles proud: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-price-surge-not-a-recovery-killer-2011-03-03 It clearly explains why rising oil prices could be good for stocks. I guess the Chief had to do this propaganda piece because nobody else could spin it. This is the Wall St. Journal for fuck's sake!
But wait, there's more....somehow the ECB announcing it "maybe could" raise rates is also good for stocks, as European AND US stocks are reportedly up on this news.
...and just when it seems our media couldn't get any worse, Shillary Cunton went before Congress yesterday and, in her official role as Secretary of State, declared a "media war" and has requested funding to fight it...she names enemies such as RT, Al-Jazeera, some Asian channel I've never heard of, etc....I'm surprised ZH wasn't named. Nevermind that we have 1rst Amendment protection of free speech and free press. Constitution? What constitution?
Where am I? What country is this? What the hell is going on? Did aliens drug us and transport us all to a cloned planet Earth? I want to go home!
Didn't know Hillary was asking for more money to fight a "media war". But she is ex-officio of the Broadcast Board of Governors bbg.gov chaired by former CNN president Walter Issacson and staffed by other MSM connected types. BBG is apparently the non-military US propaganda agency tasked with convincing people in 59 languages to protest against their government by demanding US style "democracy".
Where am I? Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
Seriously, they can't shut down RT. Where would we get a fix of that lovable crazy man, Max Keiser. Anyone defending the proposition that "Blythe Masters is a witch" has got to be okay in my book.
+1
Standing by for the wealth effect......any minute now.......
Oh, you didn't feel the wealth effect yet? Insiders sure did last month with a record $5.4 BILLION in stock sales.
By the way, anyone watching the silver calls?
thought you might enjoy this story........US to supply coins to Zimbabwe....
http://nakedempire.wordpress.com/
There must be a correlation between dollar dismay and market euphoria. Is it QE-3 expectation? The snake in the grass is the Libyan caper that goes on as its poison for market as it is for QE-forever. I wonder when Alice will traverse the mirror and come out of Wonderland. I have a feeling that the ongoing ME oil spike trick has got her all bemused in speechless incertitude. Look how Lenina Crown talks of "losing the information war" to Al-Jazeera. As if information is "war" and not the dissemination of truth. Another twist to the turn of War being "diplomacy by other means". Good ole KL. She, Lenina, is so obsessed to keep the geopolitical hold on Saudi oil she will do anything. Even dance the tango with Chavez!
He must be laughing in his "burnous", the lord of Tripoli, Q, of land of cheap sweet oil.
The only thing back stopping the dollar. And it's taking on water fast.
As I said over 2 years ago, whoever has the biggest guns wins. That is what the whole Bretton Woods was about. Take the gold standard away and rely solely on big, bigger and biggest guns. If someone is pointing a gun to your head and says, "lend me X amount and I 'll give you an IOU" who will refuse?
If Dr. Deficit wants to devalue the dollar 50% and tell bondholders to Fu*k off then he can. Why? Who will step up to the bully in the school yard when everyone else is at least 50% smaller but 100% smarter? hmmmmm
Empires fall because they rot from inside. An army is not an economy
100% correct. The US has been rotting like "wormwood" since 2000. Corruption is the norm. The US will fall. Sorry to smash everyone's patriotic hopes, but it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We we pick up the pieces, we will never allow too big to fail anything and the political structure will be void of any connections with commercialism. No more Goldman Sachs-Fed-Congress ties...
We will waste you and anyone that ever showed any favor towards you.
We have done it before and can do it again.
Do not deceive yourself son, you are as dust on my boots.
It isn't patriotic hopes that are troubling me. I am looking into the future and not really loving the replacement options. The difference between the US and previous empires was that as long as you played the game everyone was ok and they threw you a bone or two.
I would challenge anyone from the "west" who is of average means to go and live in China as an "average" Chinese person.
in the game of musical chairs for central bankers, nobody really looses til the music stops, and the pied piper's profit from the music
Global Gunboat Diplomacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
doen't work when the creditor country says "youfuckoffee too" and walks away with his cheap stuff. Selling/buying to others. Then dumps his USD to FED and asks for refund in gold...No refund?...the USD dissolves into mud. Can't fight 6 billion people on your own with a load of shit as money. Run out of oil, run out of men, run out of guns.
Could explain why China has entered the arms race a few years ago.
And if you look to WOII how long it takes to build up a hughe force : +- 3 years.
The US advantage isn't "that" big.
+ China has more canon meat then the US.
Plus, they can afford it.
And see this.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/27/china-deploying-carrier-sinking-ballistic-missile/#
Not really. Bretton Woods was more about the US being the only viable Western nation with an industrial base, and everyone owing the US for war debt.
Military dominance trying to make economic dominance does not work. Might in the very short term, but the cost of the mil is self defeating. And in the era of nukes good luck. Can nuclear blackmail all the nations without the bomb. Do it and everyone will have an incetive to get the bomb.
In 1945 the USA could outproduce anybody. Everybody wanted US stuff. The US economy was on mega big surplus. Period. All the way to 1970 or thereabouts.
Now the USA is in chronic deficit. Nobody wants US goods any more. Nobody wants US money now. So what can a gunboat do? You can't produce oil in its barrel. And you can't force a guy to sell you his oil for nothing if he can sell it for more to another (China). I don't see USA occupying Saudi and churning out oil from its infrastructure. DO you?
Everybody wanted US-manufactured goods because the rest of the world's manufacturing capabilities either didn't exist or had been bombed back to the stone-age. War debt + Marshall Plan sealed the deal. Having an ocean on either side is a great advantage in an age of cheap, easy oil.
Eventually, I would think the Chinese might. It's true that we are, or were, the school yard bully. We were even the BMOC Star Quarterback in H.S., dispensing wedgies and beatings at will, but soon we will "graduate" and end up "pumping gas" for the Chinese or some other nation.
Same with the Roman Empire, expanded just fine using its military till it was spread far too thin and collapsed.
really? I think empires die by design, because the enemies always get behind the gates as traitors from within
You are telling me that the thing that coasts $1 trillion (before Rummy gets his greasy hands all over the blank checks) is what is keeping the dollar? Huh?
It's not a matter of how much we spend. It's a matter of how much we can print. The gunboats induce others to buy all that comes off the printing press. Until recently it has worked for 40 years.
Bail faster and maybe we can get a few more years out of it.
To think, with just a few hits of a ten key pad Zimbabwe Ben can summon one of those bad boys from the ether... He might want to summon a few more up for the world he is creating, summon up a few million barrels of oil while he's at it.
"Creation of all things is easy. One only needs to create the unit of measure equal to such a thing. In the past it was necessary to have elaborate industrial or chemical process. Possibly employment millions. Now all things can be made through a printing press. this will create an era free from want or hunger. A golden age."
Modern Day Alchemy by Ben Shalom Bernanke.
/quote is a joke, but it would not suprise me if he wrote it.
China's fancy new ASBMs (anti-ship ballistic missiles) might have something to say about that. Pentagon seems to think so.
So whens my American brothers /sisters going to rise up and crush these sacks of shit.
Remember what Jefferson said about the tree of Liberty.
It's time for some fertilizer my friends.
Does the tree of liberty grow in the barrel of a smoking gunboat ?
I think Jefferson had other ideas on that.
The American public has been brainwashed with mind-numbing shows like Dancing with the Stars. They know nothing of the mass raping of the middle class nor do they care until it impacts their way of life. Period.
And for now, the calming drug is working...
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On September 23, 2010, the first session of congress was convened by the united free state Republics of the re-inhabited united States of America. The seating of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the Republic government were successfully established. This was completed by more than the required two-thirds majority vote of “We the People” on the land of the independent free state Republics. Delegates from more than 42 free state Republics attended, and officers for all three branches of our government have been officially sworn into office, lawfully electing interim President James Timothy Turner and interim Vice President Charles Eugene Wright, along with other established cabinet members with a presiding majority vote of 94% approval. Thus, the Republic government is officially re-inhabited and staffed for the first time since 1868 by the will of “We the People”.
We humbly come forward apologizing for the numerous atrocities we have unknowingly allowed the U.S. CORPORATION to carry out upon the international community. It is our mission to establish the American image of truth, honesty, integrity and honor around the world. Our plan is to rebuild our economy and support other economies around the world, fulfilling humanitarian needs. We will allow our military to withdraw from unnecessary conflicts around the world and promote world peace and prosperity. We intend to follow God the Creator’s command to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and care for the sick, irrespective of creed, religion or race. There is no law against these things.
We are calling on the support of all Nations around the world to help us end the tyranny that has been perpetrated by the unlawful actions of the UNITED STATES CORPORATE DEMOCRACY government. We shall achieve this goal PEACEFULLY AND LAWFULLY, with boldness, integrity and truth, so help us God.
Join a free American people.
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calling for government revolution without calling for monetary policy revolution is idiocy, just what the central bankers are hoping for.
Bankers would have us believe it is their sole right to conjure into existence our money supply, and they tell government that it should not be in the banking business, and that money creation is best left to banks. Government should tell the bankers that money creation is the greatest sovereign authority of government, and banks should get out the government business of money creation. This should be a policy referendum to be voted on. Long live the State Bank of North Dakota, and the others that are soon to follow.
lesterbegood: so, are you out on bail awaiting trial, hoping that your personal share of the fines doesn't slow ya down for too long?
try reading the US Constitution, ok? then tell ALL yer new friends here @ ZH, again, if we mighta missed something, EXACTLY the source of your claim to legitimately claim something in the name of "We The People".
i can't wait for you to show me where! sorry, i don't wish to visit your dumbass website if you don't mind me choosing where to point my computer, myself, ok?
if you don't want to share with us your constitutional basis for tyring to pull this nonsense, please get the fuk away from this site, and don't ever try blowing this smoke around here, again, asswipe.
no shit. either back up yer bullshit, or get the fuk away from here.
Thats just what Im wondering. Everyone in america is great at Stockholm Syndrome, marveling at their captors. So when do people get sick of taking their crap and say 'no more!'
Lastly, the USS Enterprise is slowly making its way to Libya.
Slowly perhaps, but only by choice. When Enterprise answers a flank bell, get the hell out of the way.
I would not be surprised if Enterprise is still the fastest ship in the US Navy. Eight reactors if I recall!
... and easily taken out with one (Chinese) ASBM.
Carriers going the way of battleships in this new missile-dominated phase of warfare.
SPX
Down channels.
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/99er-charts-0
As always....excellent charting.
I watched cnbc all this week--its is insanely schitzophrinic as the markets.
"Fast Money" azzholes yesterday said, "BUY! gld and oil!" Watch today. It will be "BUY! equities!"
Im not wasting my time anymore. You guys have fun with this thing. I hope its a hobby and you dont have to earn your living?
Even if you own US equities and the FED is your rabbi, you will wake up one morning and they will destory your life.
I watched cnbc all this week
What was that punishment for ? You're not a Wall St CEO are you ? Is that the latest SEC deterrent for corrupt billionaire Wall St schmucks - watch CNBC for a week.
The bi-polar nature of asset classes and breaking down of expected correlations with increased volatility - its either a top or a bottom. Hmmm markets already doubled though on hopium.
I turned off CNBC long ago when it lost any credibility 2 years ago and jumped into the total Wall St/FED cheerleader mode.
Funny .... never hear 'em say 'buy shorts' ... except fruit-of-the-loom commercials perhaps ... but don't watch those either.
Looks like the bottom is in vs the Swiss Franc, others to follow.
We shouldn't over think the weak dollar trade which is due to our central bank position to "HOOOOOLD" steady at ZIRP. ECB getting closer and closer to raising rates, as they focus on the headline numbers. Whether that is the right policy or not remains to be seen. Last time they raised rates was in June '08, 3 months after Bear and 3 months before Lehman. Trichet had plenty of egg on his face when he lowered them shortly afterwards, however the market is pricing in the expected raise.
Hillary Clinton makes me sick. http://www.prisonplanet.com/hillary-clinton-we-are-losing-the-infowar.html Start telling it like it is and maybe you would only spend half your budget.
She's going to have to start getting those face lifts bi-monthly if she wants to keep up with gravity. Now that I think about it, maybe there is a corrilation between her face lifts, and the Swiss Franc devaluation. Half life of a few days for both.
Maybe Gadaffi's and Mickey Rourke's plastic surgeon can fix her up.
Ha!
I think it has a lot to do with Steve Jobs.
HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE.
Oh Great and Wonderous Bernank, we prostrate ourselves before thee.
It's working. It may be a malevolent force, building more imbalances that will unwind again in a most painful way, but you must admit, "it" is working.
Things are reflating. 20% unemployment says inflation will not suddenly get out of hand. That unemployment level also says that if you are a government which does not control your own monetary policy because you are pegged to the almightly $, you will be blown to smithereens waiting for Americans to re enter the labor force. You will be inflated to ... Hell !
The logic is simple and compelling. And crazy. It's the crazy part that makes it even more disturbing and more compelling.
Thou shalt buy equities and commodities!
?? The real US unemployment rate is not 9.8% but between 25% and 30%. That is a depression level of job losses – so why doesn’t it look like a depression for many people?
December 30th, 2010 http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-real-us-unemployment-rate-is-not-9-8-but-between-25-and-30-that-is-a-depression-level-of-job-losses-so-why-doesnt-it-look-like-a-depression-for-many-people/ ??these congress people need to pull out some fucking charts for bernanke for the world to see, stop qe3 and raise interest rates you fucking financial terrorist
The gain is worthless if the value of that which the gain is paid in goes down.
Love you Tyler. You make me laugh! Chairsatan... :-)
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