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Frontrunning: December 27
- Nigeria quick to point out supposed would be bomber snuck into country. (Scammers? Sure. Bombers? Niger[ia], please!) [reuters]
- Mousavi's nephew reportedly killed in Iran. [reuters]
- Gordon Brown sucks at economics. ("The shadow [cabinet] knows.") [timesonline]
- 2009: South Korean group wins $40 billion UAE nuclear reactor deal. (2011: South Korean group writes off $36 billion in UAE receivables) [reuters]
- French group reportedly overbid by $16 billion. (French management contract stipulated that reactors could only work for 30 hours per week)
- Dubai Properties Group fires key executives, CFO. (Senior employees "leaving for other opportunities." Read: "To head up UAE reactor project.") [reuters]
- China likes the Yuan right where it is, thank you very much. (Timmy: "Pretty please? Aw, c'mon! We'll be your best friend!") [reuters]
- Housing prices, however, seem a bit high. (Is that a bubble in your housing, China, or are you just happy to stimulate me?) [bloomberg]
- Today in History: Afghanistan seized by Soviets. (1979)
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Mayhem? a coincidence in Iran just as the clock was about to strike midnight
Chumba,
I love it
THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER!!!!!!!
Sorry, Marla.
I have nothing.
I am Chumbawamba.
Not something to be sorry about.
If you loving embrace yourself with the knowledge that you know nothing and have nothing,
Then You'll have everything.
Barry and Timmy are going to have to change the course with the yuan (renminbi). Instead of whimpering that China isn't a currency manipulator, they will need to introduce a storage and transport tax on containers. Sorry Warren, country first, BNSF second.
Hawley at ya boy!
and by coincidence(?), airlines/TSA/DHS are going to make it so unpleasant for US companies to conduct overseas business that we will all be staying home and reinventing "made in America". Sorry People of Walmart
Brown the Clown....
Is into populist economics....
Which is handily defined as ¨say whatever it is
that will get some idiot to vote ....for what it sounds like....
Then deal with the problems later....
....................................
Brown is a perfect example of what plagues both
the US and the UK....
Just for fun....review the wiki biographies not only of
Browns...but any political name....
100 out of a 100 will have no background whatsoever with respect to the industries....about which to make laws....
Politics has moved from Kings aand Queens to what it currently is....
But there is a long long way to go ....before a
properly designed political system will take hold....
This will be when every vote has a computer and knows how to use it....
Until then...there will be more Brown Clowns ruining everything they touch and more....only for someone else to
to pick up the bill...
It is ¨Brown Clown¨closing time....
NOW we know Who brought many to the brink
“The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen,” said Sylvain R. Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York. “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.”
Goldman Sachs: The Grinch who stole Christmas?
Goldman Sachs Sold Hot Air
Goldman Scam: Selling Bad Debts While Betting Against Them
Goldman Sachs' secret bets
Goldman Sachs secretly bet on housing crash
http://tinyurl.com/yas8gud
Q&A WITH KEVIN DUFFY AND BILL LAGGNER: Two hedge-fund managers predict the economy's next leg down. Shorting Goldman Sachs.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=391&p=8913#p8913
"Niger[ia], please!"
too funny
Suppose that there are two Marlas; one Caucasian and the other African-American. Would that make her biracial or just "bi?"
The bankers are praying for forgiveness or bigger bonus's???
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b10ae0e4-eff9-11de-833d-00144feab49a.html
Let's trade Afghanistan to Russia for some GOLD!
I am not Chumbawamba, buy gold 'n' silver... bitches!
•French group reportedly overbid by $16 billion.
Where's the link?
Really? You had to work the n word into that joke? I'm white, but that's tasteless.
It's ZH. The whole site is tasteless.
Oh, go huff and puff over at HuffPo.
You could see someone's panties bunching over that a mile away...if it makes you feel better, you can call me a Kraka-toa.
@anon175491
Yeah, thank heavens we have smart, civilized people like you that can tell us what words it's appropriate to use when communicating with each other in a humorous context.
Are there any other words that you have decided should be struck from the human collective unconscious and only referred to by there first initials?
Please, enlighten us.
You've got 25 more letters.
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM
Well, see, you've already got yourself a problem there.
Which one gets to be the "c-word"?
Is it cunt or cocksucker?
(Oops, I mean c-word or c-word)
media capture accelerates
Bloomberg
Home Prices Stabilize, Confidence Probably Gains, Lifting Economy for 2010
"The housing market, at the center of the worst recession since the 1930s, may keep improving as administration and Federal Reserve efforts to lift sales and lower borrowing costs take hold."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayo9Yu4n8nzQ&pos=1
No anomaly in occidental reporting of the Middle East. Front page of NYT stirring up sheeple into war with Iran and willful suppression of one year anniversary of "War in Gaza."
In 2011, the Cayman Island entity which floated a sukuk to finance the reactor goes bust, ruler says everything is fine... one of the reactor unit is forcibly inaugurated. South Koreans are offered 30 cents to a $ for the project.
Id trade the congress,the fed amd OHbummer for an ounce of gold...
Depression Bitches !
turning Dubai empty tourist attractors into the nuclear waste dump is an ingenious plan. Also, given the cost per reactor of about 6 bl the scale of it is... amusing, ironic, funny, stupid you name it - they got it.
Lets make nuclear deal with Mongolia, they pay 5 Bln and they can use it (nuclear reactors) for 15 min every day, then sell them real estate software for the next 3 bln, I hope they don't like their yurts and they buy into our very energy efficient dog houses (2X4 and other shit)
Its "everything is for buy" in the wealthy Gulf states .... set up a company, produce or replicate some technology of D or lesser quality, put a xx billion dollar price tag on it and set up a meeting with some of the "government" officials in those countries ... instant billionaire ....
Fuck you CIA bitches !!!!1
I am not Chumbawamba, but i am a fan of his ...
Man, word travels fast. Not surprised you two are asshole buddies.
And Happy Holidays to you too, you savage heathen .....
Sorry, I don't use a primitive system of clicks and grunts to communicate. Mind speaking English?
Speaking of which, where the hell have you been?
"Niger please"? What's next, blackface photoshop of Wolf Blitzer?
- anonymous,
"Niger" is a sovereign state of Africa, borders with Chad to the east, Mali to the west and Nigeria to the south...Dipshit.
And, drum roll... it's got OIL!
Looks like the US will have to bomb another country because a "terrorist" came from there! (never mind that the US has its own share of home-grown terrorists and has failed to bomb itself!)
That would be a great halloween costume..Blackface Blitzer
For the humor impaired and the uninitiated, this is the original reference:
Nice touch.
Looks like a little ODB (RIP) is appropriate in this motherfuck...
Watch your shit fall like Rome
I'm immune to all viruses
I get the cocaine it cleans out my sinuses
...
Kill all the government microchips in my body
I'm the paranoid nigga at your party
I kill all my enemies at birth!
Shut the fuck up!
Bitch let me slide my hands up your skirt
Nigga please!
Btw, never realized the country looks like a drumstick. :-P
let's talk about building 6 and what happened on that day in sept of 2001...
http://www.stagedterror.com/Pages/WTC6.htm
what was in building 6? anybody care to guess?
Our Strategic reserve of twinkies and snickers?
WOW! I'd never heard anyone mention anything abut WTC 6 until now!
What activities took place in WTC 6?
Prince Edward in a can?
Unfluoridated water?
Building 6 Occupants:
U.S. Department of Commerce
BATF (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Labor
Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
Eastco Building Services
Building 7 Occupants included:
I.R.S.
U.S. Secret Service
Securities and Exchange Commission
And a lot of banks and financial service
Thanks Marley!
I especially like the response from Nigeria. Yes, he "snuck" into a country of which he is a citizen and his father is a highly-respected member of the banking community. We call that "going home."
That's almost as good as the Dutch officials' responses of "well, shit, OUR security worked, dunno what the fuck ya'll talking about." Worked real well, assholes. Maybe if you weren't trying to appease the natives over a cartoon, your security would have worked just a little bit better. Ohhhh the irony is rich and frothy on this one.
"That's almost as good as the Dutch officials' responses of "well, shit, OUR security worked, dunno what the fuck ya'll talking about." Worked real well, assholes. Maybe if you weren't trying to appease the natives over a cartoon"
I realise that I'm coming to this late and this thread is most likely six feet under, but in the interest of posterity:
That was Denmark cuntmuscle.
Ah, a classic mix up Denmark and The Netherlands, Danish and Dutch.
I wonder if you're "in Dutch" now?
I have not heard "cuntmuscle" before. Ya need to educate me. Cuntmuscles are very strong. They grip dicks and push out babies. This is high praise for Nopat. I find myself confused.
:-)
Have you been practicing your special exercises?
BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
+1,000,000
@MsCreant- cuntmuscle
And for what it's worth, this is rarefied air for Zero Hedge. I searched "cunt" and only 9 posts came up.
CUNT!
Men have these muscles too. But if I were to insult a woman, would I call her a "dickmuscle?"
HAH! I love your comments, Ms.
IMO, the term "cuntmuscle" is just a slang - whether medically correct or not. Logically, it makes little sense, also. EXCEPT, when a dude understands that calling a woman a cunt is about as degrading as you can get.
In somehow applying that same term to another dude, it might actually be interpreted as emasculating him, as well. This would be (again, IMO) far more scathing than calling a woman a cunt.
Dudes don't like to have their masculinity challenged, let alone DEMOLISHED. (See- Shaq and Kobe)
(This is a finance site, right?)
Happy New Years, Hun!
Comes naturally in the course of a day. Have you?
The ppaarrttyy is just about to get started! I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning.
from Michigan Newspaper (mainstream) December 26
Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport
The Indian man said he needed to get (the Nigerian man) on the plane, but he had no passport."(not to be confused with a seperate incident that took place on Dec 27 on the same route - AMS to DET)
I guess there is a special hallow around Indian men to be identified as "Indian". Half the terrorists look Indian and that's the pity.
It appears that the Haskell's are unable to tell the difference between Indians and Pakistanis. Judging from the photo, they also like to swing and celebrate St. Patty's.
I'm sure they were less concerned with arbitrary national borders and more concerend with the gentleman trying to ignite explosives a few rows forward. But hey, clearly their judgement is in question and on trial, not the Muslim extremists trying to murder a planes full of innocent civilians.
Nice red herring though.
Unable to tell? Like a born on date, stamped to the bottoms of their feet? You're right, let's pretend they're the ones with judgement in question and on trial and not the Mulsim extremists trying to murder innocent civilians by blowing up planes. I'm sure they were real concerned with country of origin.
What a way to lose the forrest for the trees.
Umm paks are the same race as indians more or less. Except for the minority balochis (who are more iranian) and the afghans.
Both of you idiots ought to know that Indians generally aren't Muslim, aren't extremists, and don't blow themselves up. That's for the Pakis.
And most of them don't run around spreading "democracy" by boming wedding parties either... no, that's a genetic trait of folks from the USA...
Thanks for playing!
damn, dude. India has one of the biggest muslim populations in the world... if not THE biggest.
Every bomber crazy bout a sharp dressed man...ZZ TOP MOFO!
DTW = Motor City Madhouse (it's a madhouse!)
And I know I'm goin' KABLOOEYS
Silk suit, black tie
I don't need a reason why
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz every jihad's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man
Gold watch, diamond ring
I ain't missin' not a single thing
Cufflinks, stick pin
When I blow up I'm gonna do you in
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz every fed's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man
Top coat, top hat
I don't worry coz my wallet's fat
Black shades, white gloves
Lookin' sharp and lookin' for (72 virgins of) love
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
Coz Allah's freaking crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man
Sunday entertainment...
Just ask Tuco...
http://www.youtube.com/user/riolyCinema#p/c/F7500A1FD07F13DF/17/nLvlwY35Kw8
this is a very interesting interpretation and discussion by the CIO of Sprott Asset Management, John Embry, on gold: http://www.goldalert.com/stories/Parabolic-Gold-Price-Rise-Imminent-Asserts-Gold-Bull-John-Embry
Huh?
A mere 45% difference in the bids. I don't know about the rest but if I saw something like that on a bid, I would be highly skeptical and that's just on regular goods. If I saw that on a fricking Nuclear plant? What good could possibly come from nuclear plant dumping?
Can I uh see how you are planning to make the 15 feet protective walls ? Oh Cardboard stolen from the homeless. That's uh very uh innovative and the Rods? Wow, who would have ever thought of using rebar from stripped us Commercial properties.
Samsung and LG have been pretty heavily involved with Middle Eastern construction; as a matter of fact they built Burj Dubai. I don't know about the other participants, but I'd argue it's probably a combination of cementing their place in the region, existing supply chains allowing them to dive deeper, national pride, and probably some back-channel agreements. Not to mention there's probably some doubling-down going on, knowing it's all or nothing with the region.
In some industries, it's still true that "you get what you pay for."
And where exactly is Obama during all of this?
Oh, that's right... sunning himself on a Hawaiian beach. A BEACH!!!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/4068811545_b7bf98ec59.jpg
http://www.sadellite.de/uploaded_images/blog_usa_hawaii_big_island_beach...
Edited: There was a joke here, no one got it.
:-(
CRE winter Olympic update
(Bloomberg) -- Intrawest ULC, a Vancouver-based ski-resort operator owned by private-equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC, may miss a debt payment due today on a $1.4 billion loan, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Intrawest, which owns venues being used at the 2010 Winter Olympics, may be pushed nearer to default
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awYh3af132Gw
It is now being reported that this "terrorist" was allowed to board the plane without a passport. So as usual it is becoming quite clear that this whole episode was a manufactured event by some black ops operation from the start. Why am I not surprised?
http://www.gulagblog.com/?p=58453
Yeah, when you or I cannot get a tube of toothpate on board!
Like I mentioned previously, keep your eye on the oil- Nigeria just happens to have more of the US's lost oil!
South Korean company wins nuclear reactor deal? That's strange. I didn't know South Koreans were familiar with nuclear technology?
El-Erian strikes again, completely agreeing with my outlook.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_bi_ge/us_markets_sugar_high;_y...
El-Erian and his famous partner, Pimco founder Bill Gross, are watched closely because they've made investors a lot of money over the years. The Pimco Total Return Fund, which at $203 billion is the world's largest mutual fund, has returned an average 7.6 percent annually over 10 years, after fees, versus 6.3 percent for Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate fixed income index fund.
The hotshots at Pimco have made money by anticipating big moves in the economy and interest rates way before other investors. In the depths of the financial crisis last year, for instance, Pimco sold some of its Treasury bonds to panicked investors looking for a safe haven and put the proceeds into government-backed mortgages and bank debt — in time to catch the big upswing in prices of those and other riskier securities this year.
Now Pimco is once again changing tack. El-Erian says people are fooling themselves if they think all the bullish data of late means a strong recovery is in the offing. So he's buying Treasurys and selling riskier stuff.
His bet: Investors will get scared again and want U.S.-guaranteed debt so they know they'll get repaid.
At Total Return, government-related securities, including Treasurys and corporate debt backed by Washington, comprised 48 percent of the fund's holdings in September. That was up from 9 percent at the beginning of the year. One of Pimco's newest funds, the Global Multi-Asset Fund, a hybrid stock-bond offering, is 35 percent in equities now, down from 60 percent earlier this year.
Investors betting on stocks or high-yield bonds are likely to be disappointed, El-Erian says.
Markets for those securities are rallying not because people like them but because they hate the puny yields of safer investments like money markets and feel they have no choice but to buy, he says. He quips that that makes the bull market as likely to last as a forced marriage.
.......
"I'm calling it as I see it," he says. "I'm not optimistic or pessimistic — I'm realistic."
*yawn* Didn't I call that?
And yes, it feels good when one of the top investment minds in the world backs a call I've been making. Damn good.
Look for the monthly cycle in TLT to kick up after the open
Don't get too excited. El-Erian sells BONDS. He's calling for STOCKS to fall.
DO you think he might have a vested interest in the call?
Of course he does, but when the world has been screaming for Treasuries to be the biggest bubble ever and that has been the CNBC mantra for a year now....
Why the hell do people continue to agree?
I made this call a long time ago because I've studied my history, much, much, much more than most, thanks largely to Google's e-library and the exceptional library at the University near me with two Noble prize winning economists (as farcical as that award is) in the past 5 years. Even ZH has been doing their best to bash Treasuries (and we all know I love the hell out of this website, I've been a daily reader since about 3 weeks since it started).
Jesus people, go to ALFRED and take a look at 13 week paper, rates were low all throughout the 30s.
The hotshots at Pimco have made money by anticipating big moves in the economy and interest rates way before other investors.
LOL... their weight helps them cause shifts in the market, let's get real here. TBTNP (To Big To Not Profit)
Seer
The Treasury market is the one market that is still somewhat honest.
I like your posts. You put it out there, regardless of how popular it is or how well it is going to be received.
Keep rollin'.
The would-be-bomber was initially reported to be from Niger, which as already noted is another country in Africa (just north of Nigeria, incidentally).
Anyone thinking it was a racist comment is woefully ignorant. Much like the media/public witch hunt for the UN appointee who had used the word "niggardly" at one time (a Dutch word having no connection whatsoever to the well-known ethnic slur used in America).
its gold bitches. look at that sea of green ink in asia....
I Keel You!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaxXhwxiaSI
Lets see, a guy on watch list gets into a plane without a passport and has explosives hidden on his person..
Even the stupidest airport in the vaguest part of Africa checks passports at least twice and gives you the suspicious, " Eh.... you are going on business is it"
Now Amsterdam is supposed to be a modern airport
but since he had no passport how do we know who he was? a watch list for unidentified persons...
That UAE stuff is going to be comedy gold before long. I can taste it.
BBC now admits Al Qaeda never existed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hYorNi0nA
does the American Public care ? probably not.