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Leaving New York: Mike Krieger On The Biggest Trade Of His Life
From Mike Krieger Of KAM LP
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- All Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
The Biggest Trade of My Life
If all goes according to plan the next time you hear from me I will be settled in my new home of Boulder, Colorado. This is a huge move for me as I have essentially spent my entire life aside from college and a semester in Spain living in NYC. When I resigned from my prior job in January of this year I didn’t know what to expect. I was taking a huge risk walking away from a very comfortable life and income. Nevertheless, I knew that stage in my life had run its course and it was time to open my life up to other possibilities. More than anything else I wanted to see how I would feel and what would happen if I just let all the things that were tying me down fall away and experience total personal freedom in every way imaginable. What has happened is that I have just lived the most fulfilling year of my entire life.
Crucial to my personal evolution this year was driving across America for five weeks this summer. Up until that moment (although I had become considerably more independent) I was still pretty much staring at screens all day. Being on the road for that period of time after having worked on Wall Street for ten years straight was an enormous shock to the system. There were many places I fell in love with on my journey but nothing jolted my soul to its core more than the American Southwest and the Rocky Mountains. The landscape presented me with some of the most powerful scenery I had ever seen. Nature dominates everyone and everything. Rather than man dominating nature or nature dominating man there is symbiotic relationship that permeates the entire culture. I felt alive and connected out there. The people are infectious. As I rushed back from Bozeman, Montana to Montauk, New York for the July Fourth Weekend in a four day caffeine infused blur, I had this very uneasy and profound sensation in me. I felt uncomfortable heading back east. The closer I got to NYC the more I didn’t want to be back there. I knew I had to seriously consider a move. My lease was set to expire in two months and the only thing I knew for certain is that I couldn’t sign a new lease. I arranged for a three month extension so that I could make sure this wasn’t just a brief emotional spasm that would dissipate after a few weeks. It wasn’t.
New York City is Committing Suicide and I Can’t Watch It Happen
One thing I do not want this article to be is a giant bashfest of New York City. I love this place. It is where I was born and it has shaped my personality in every way. The energy is like nothing else on the planet and it will always hold a spot near and dear to my psyche. Who knows, maybe I will return. That said, the current leadership in this city, and by that I mean the financial services industry and the TBTF banks in particular are destroying the city to such a degree that I think it could take a generation to recover. I hope I am wrong on this, but the longer the paper ponzi pushers control this town the worse the devastation will be.
I grew up in Manhattan and I can recall the professions of my friends’ parents. I am sure there were plenty of financial industry parents but I can’t remember any. The vast majority of my friends’ parents owned small businesses, worked in the garment district, were lawyers, psychiatrists, or medical doctors. I bet that if you went to my high school now 50% of the parents work in the financial services industry in one way or the other. This is a complete tragedy and is killing the long-term future of the city I love. What 2008 should have resulted in was a changing of the guard in the United States and in New York in particular. Yes it would have been hard but if we continue in this direction we will end up with a nation where financial terrorists control all the wealth and power and then fund a police state where the only jobs left will be working in the prison system or the police state grid as a TSA type worker that fondles their fellow citizens as if everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
The hardest part about living here now is that most of my friends work in this industry. They are not bad people and they are not fleecing the American public on purpose. They are trying to provide a decent life for their families and afford the ridiculous and unsustainable cost of living that this city and the surrounding areas demand. It is not the rank and file folks on Wall Street that are the problem it is the executives and then the financial “leaders” like Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein that are the problem. These people have proven that they are ego maniacs and greedy beyond belief. They rarely if ever stop to think about whether or not the system that made them so fabulously wealthy is fair or moral. They could give a crap. They are cancers not leaders and until they are discredited and put into positions of zero influence, the United States and NYC in particular will continue to suffer and move further into bondage.
So at the end of the day I feel very uncomfortable in New York City right now. It and Washington D.C. are at the heart of the gulag state and I have chosen to physically remove myself from it. Even if none of this was happening, I still feel like I eventually would have found myself out West. It just feels like the journey I am meant to take. The lower taxes and open spaces aren’t so bad either.
P.S. Nothing will really change from my end. I will continue to manage money and write. I may even experiment with new tools like video blogging down the road. Also please take the time to watch my latest interview with Max Keiser that was posted on Wednesday. Here is the link, I come in at 12:45 but the whole show is great as always. As one of the comments proclaims: “It’s the best show not on TV!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjIWH7CSP8U
See you out West,
Mike
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NO MIKE, trust me i know, don't want to do durango or grand junction. christ, durango is nice for the annual cycle ride to silverton to beat the train, not so swell other times. absolutely hellish winter driving, man, let me tell you. you will maybe like boulder, mike. just meet a young man with a camera with a runway model wife coming from NYC. they love it here. we will see. be careful driving this time of year.
I live in New York City and I cannot stand it no more. Too many people,ridiculous taxes,corruption,stupid ass gun laws,and the crime is rising again very slowly. I'm leaving when I graduate from college and move to Western Pennslyvania. When you live in the city you do not know how to hunt,fish,raise livestocks,and grow your own food. Also the police state is every where,the Hercules unit for example carry assault rifles. While in Brooklyn it is very very difficult to buy a handgun,let alone a shotgun,or rifle. I hate the City,the austerity that is coming will make crime be the way it was during the 80s,and early 90s. At least PA have very lax gun laws,and good people.
I live here too and agree.
Plus, they really sock it to the homeowners here. Like, initiatives to start charging for GARBAGE COLLECTION. WTH. What are property taxes for anyway!?
NH, here I come...
IMO much worse .The crimes that will be seen in NY will in all probability be surreal .
Yeah well I live in small town PA and I've never had to do some of that stuff either. Western PA's not exactly known for its rosy economy, being part of the rust belt that industry ran away from.
Oh, and citationneeded, you pay for garbage pickup in much of PA. Right with you there on wondering what the hell property taxes pay for.
Excellent piece and really appreciate the perspective MK. I've lived in NYC area for 8+ years and have thought of leaving someday...still very torn as I love this city. But someday my time will come as well.
All the best to you good sir, enjoy the great Rocky Mountain West!
Greetings Bredren, or Sistren! Dig the avatar, Jah will Provide!
" You've got to watch Babylon, otherwise they'll take your seat." Joseph Hill knew what was coming.
I live in Brooklyn. My neighborhood has plenty of independently owned small businesses, along with some chain stores. It's diverse, energetic, loud, actually has families with children running around. Stores go out of business and are replaced by other independent businesses. Street parking is available enough to have a car. I used to go into the city all the time, now it's really unpleasant except for a few small areas scattered around lower Manhattan, so I generally avoid it. The lost New York that Manhattanites lament still exists in the outer boroughs, and will return to the city when the mess is eventually cleared up. The one constant in New York is change.
Also I left Brooklyn for L.A. late last year and moved back after six months.
Really, what's your point? Leaving Brooklyn for LA is like leaving crack for crystal meth.
.....haha.....but the SoCal crowd really gets off watching those Noreast blizzards on TV come January. Winter means singing the old tune " why the fuck do they live in all that shit " ?? : >)
Probably a fine decision. Though I wouldn't have gone that far – New Hampshire is widely considered the freest state in the union.
And it's not just crime that could be a problem in NYC. No one seems to remember, that city was a basket case before the wave of societal optimism that, among other things, swept Reagan & Giullinanni to power. I think the city clings to financials because it remembers how Bad it was beFore they became the One True Light.
When the last vestiges of the 80's are gone, the city will return to a being a bankrupt, well past-carrying-capacity nightmare, with not enough funds or clout to keep basic infrastructure going. Water mains, gas mains, sewers, subways, roads, they all depend on each and every one, and the city can't keep them going withut more $ than it will be getting.
Consider the amount of garbage NYC exports every day
"The energy is like nothing else on the planet" ... is this a joke?
For goodness sake, buy a ticket to HK, kid.
NYC is a boring, tedious, conservative .. it's about as exciting as any large mall.
You're going "Out West" to "find yourself"? Good grief. Imagine, the Western United States! Gosh!
It's so weird and bizarre there, you'll be so challenged. Good grief.
If you spend most of your time in a room staring at a computer screen, any room will do - anywhere. The internet has changed everything. You can challenge your mind on the internet and challenge your body working the land. Can't do that last part in NYC.
WHY DIDN'T YOU GO TO CAYMAN OR BVI?
Brooklyn to St. Lucia soon as I can wrap things up here.
You don't have the slightest idea what a gulag state really is.
Grab bottle and a cigar. Relax. It'll be along soon enough.
Boulder is NYC of the west. Some Change. I'm going to a pristine landscape untouched by man..
Boulder? Your neighbors will probably be Krugman and Summers. Liberal hell hole full of Ph.d's. Sad Colorado is going down the tubes. Too many Calif. refugees.
Skip Boulder, head to Buenos Aires!
I would if i had enough cash...
I grew up on Long Island and had NYC in my backyard. It was a great place to grow up, always something up, full spectrum humanity that was always up front and raw. Today, when I visit my parents who still live in Nassau County, it really seems to be but a hollow shell of it´s former self. My street which I grew up on in New Hyde Park had over 27 kids around my age. Today there may be two kids with no one else to play with. It´s shocking how the effects of ultra high property taxes, as well as the cost of living, has stripped Long Island of it´s once vibrant middle class. So many of my friends have left, including myself. Most of us were just looking to provide the same standard of living our parents were able to provide for us when we were kids. Many now have enjoyable lives, but never would have left the NYC area if they had a choice. I too will always have a special place for NYC and Long Island in my memory.
All good except the Nurnberg defense for bankers. ENOUGH people at the top committed fraud deliberately, against one another and the taxpayers knowing the likely outcomes. At the turn, you can see their fraud elevated beyond belief as the cash poured in. At the end, you can reconstruct their scrambling to PUT THE TAXPAYER on the hook for their fraud, by using MORE fraud against the taxpayer while doing it.
So, the people talking their orders from frauds who destroy their own nation have decisions to make, like yours Mike. They can participate or oppose it. They probably won't starve either way. Some think they'll be a whistleblower from the inside. (where are they?) In history, lots of people made the easy choice, at the time, and paid a higher price later. Worse, if you follow the ABA banking lobby, you will KNOW they're setting up a bigger and uglier game that locks the taxpayer to them permanently. They have done NOTHING to signal they care about their host nation.
Good Luck out West.
aahh yes, the Berkeley of the west.
Got 1200 miles out from NYC in 2005, and glad of it: the stink began rising at an increasing rate after 1998/LTCM & accelerated with the post-9/11 Greenspan put. My husband and I knew we had to bite the bullet ASAP. It can be hard to leave your high-speed homeland and ratchet down to slower living with alot less cultural 'stuff'. Born 60 years ago one mile from NYC, raised less than 20 miles north, we witnessed the Tri-State region morph into total fiscal and social arrogance, and we were very sad about it. I don't want to bash, either, as we reaped the overflow benefits of world-class medical care and a passing middle-class public education. Felt guilty leaving at first, as if we were responsible to fix things, but now am relieved we abandoned ship. Wonder if more will be doing same.....
I can see you mean well, but, frankly, your presentation is obnoxious.
To wit:
"We will end up with a nation where financial terrorists control all the wealth and power and then fund a police state where the only jobs left will be working in the prison system or the police state grid as a TSA type worker that fondles their fellow citizens as if everyone is guilty until proven innocent. "
And, then, in the very next sentence you spout:
"They (your erstwhile colleagues in the financial industry) are not bad people and they are not fleecing the American public on purpose."
At least the TSA worker, benighted, perhaps even depraved, though he or she may be, has the excuse of having few if any other options for employment. What was your excuse?
The problem with New York is that crime is slowly rising. I live in Sunset park Brooklyn. The crime where i live is slowly going up. Near Maimonides Hospital a jewish family was shot at last summer. A guy was stabbed to death outside my apartment. Three years ago this was unheard of. The reason why I live in Sunset is because my parents did not want to live in the "utopia" of Flatbush,East Ny,Bed Sty,or my favorite Brownsville. But the crime is spreading and rising. On top of this we have the strictest gunlaws in the USA. The only people who own guns in NYC are the police,some cititzens,and the thugs. new York is not facinating,there is no dream here. new York is just a city of too many people,too much taxes,and a pension explosion that will lead to high layoffs and crime. PA here I come!
Checking into Harrisburg? Good luck wit dat! :>D
I love the west. It's more relaxed, more friendly. Colorado is fucking gorgeous. I threw away a depressing and greed driven life. Kill that internal hostage taker. I made that exact journey three years ago and I have never been happier.
I have spent roughly half of my entire life 18 wheeling around the USA and parts of Mexico and Canada at times. I have to tell you that out west and down in the South in certain areas life is... well, you are ALIVE!
Come out to any place out west at least 100 miles from any town or city at night and sit under the stars for thirty minutes.
You will see a great deal of stars horizion to horizon. Much more than you probably ever seen in your lifetime.
Another example of freedom out west will be near Dyess AFB, the Bones (B-1's) come out of there low level agile as fighters with the blue flame exhausts and loud noise doing what they have to do. None of that crappy quiet zones or noise exclusion bullshit.
Or maybe stop somewhere in the Bitterroot Mountains at a little BBQ place by the side of a road and enjoy the best meats you ever will see this side of heaven.
The United States have alot to offer and all the room for it too.
I don't like Alamgordo, down there is a land of death to me. *Shudders. But have you seen some of the other lands out west where you have literally nothing man made for dozens of miles around you.
You can find little valleys on the sides of the mountains and hollows somewhere that will make you want to drive a stake into the land and claim it as your own, but first check with the county seat to make sure no one is owning that area. It has it all. Clear water, green grass, plants and wildlife to boot. I almost did just that a few times when I found some of these places that I can call home.
But back in the Cities and Urban areas (I was raised in one) I just cannot rest knowing what awaits out west and down south.
But for you city folks on the coast, you must heed my warning. Bring one months food and drink with you during winter. If you plan to live out here, buy a big freezer and weapons because it could be a while before the law gets to you. And winters may be 6 months before you can get out of your place.
I live in what you call "the land of death". Why do you call it this?
If it because of the Desert, then good... I am counting on the Desert to insulate us from all these sheeple in the Cities.
It takes a certain kind of hard ass to thrive in the desert... Just look at the flora and fawna... All Spines and Venom... For a Reason.
Alamogordo is Disney Land. Milk and Honey.
Try Chaparral, South El Paso, The Southern NM Rio Grande Valley...
That is closer to the "land of death"
Now you wanna get a glimpse of just why the TPTB are scared shitless?
Take a gander at Juarez... That is where we are "headed" (no pun intended) when things collapse.
Might Makes Right, Often in the Middle Of The Night...
Enjoy counting your paper.
There is a ten mile pull in the vicinity of the Labs down there, after I made the pull the rig was not running well. When I added up the provisions in the cab; very much a tumbleweed, all I had was half a mc donalds coffee and a bag of chips.
It would be about 16 hours until the shop got me going again and all the money in the world could not get me a drink of water out there. I counted myself lucky that winter day. And from that day on at Lordsburg, I stocked up 4 weeks worth of water and foods as well as bought a freezer.
I would go through there many times since but did not have the mental drain of worry regarding food and water out there.
I understand El Paso and across the border perfectly as well as the easterly bad lands along the Rio. That is the other part of the lands I did not particularly enjoy.
But to end on a postive note, west past Yuma in the desert waiting for a load of lemons can be durn good with the locals helping out a little with good hospitality.
I can see that being an issue.
If that ever happens again (sounds like it won't), call the NMSP. They will bring you some water if they have units available and without bitching.
But yeah man... It's an austere environment. One NEVER forgets water.
I go out into it for extended periods (4-5 days) year round.
It's not so bad once you get used to it.
Security is the main issue now. Going out into the desert alone (armed or not) is not advised.
If there ever was a Melt Down NYC would be the last place anyone would want to be.
Where I live at least I can have a Generator. Pretty hard in a NYC Apartment.
I have a Fireplace, gas powered chain saw and a lot with lots of trees to cut. How will NYC heat without electricity?
I have a well for water (although I do need a hand pump, I could hook up a battery). What would NYC do without water and electricity?
I have enough land to grow food. What would the Apartment dwellers do to grow their food?
I have a basement to store food. How much space do Apartment dwellers have to store food?
There are not a lot of subsidized people that would steal and pillage where I live. What about NYC?
Maybe that is why they have such an incentive to stop a meltdown.
No hand pump needed... If you have a tradtional well (6-8" PVC Case) that is less than 400' you can get a device that drops down inside the well casing and picks up some water like a bucket for about 80$. I saw one the other day at an out of town ranch and asked what it was.
I thought it was a Great idea. I think he got it from AgriSupply.
i call it a thief, but some call it a baler.
Nice!
They guy had it hooked to a spool of cable on a drum with a small motor and a tripod set up over the wellhead.
It was pulling up cold, clean water... About 5 gallons at a whack.
I gather you could rig some kind of hand pull... Could be done using some climbing pulleys and a bag hauler.
I have this: http://www.simplepump.com/
Works great. Way better than a bailer.
Grew up back east, worked the mid altlanctic region for years until I was 30.
Then I moved out west. I can say I never looked back.
Ski Taos, Climb 14'rs, Rent a Yurt in the Brazos backcountry and ski 10 miles into it, Ride the South Boundry trail, Ride Friuta...
The only thing I miss is Deep Sea fishing... So I go 400 mi to the "worlds biggest fishtrap" and fish, and see whales, and swim with Manta's...
Fuck crowds.
Get a CCW permit for filling out a 1 page document and sending 50 rounds downrange...
You will love it in the West.
Fruita rocks. but i like the trails out by the colorado river, Mack Colorado. man, i would ride and ride and ride and raced those trails, the best.
guess what happened in a firing range in denver on tuesday? two damn dumb woman shot each other. one dead the other injured.
But they weren't locals, right. Came from Australia; been there about a week.
People shoot each other all the time.
Nothing to get excited about.
LOL
Look for a spike in that statistic.
why do i get junked, FUCK YOU.
Very soon there will be nowhere else to go in this Republic.....perhaps New Zealand
Get yor ass back here and get to work. Or trade in your jammies and pretend you work for the SEC
Oh so limited. Hope you enjoy Colorado, but what you consider "out there" is so, so... very much part of the USSA.
You should have traveled the world and found something seriously different. But who knows, maybe you're not ready for a real change.
All the bashing of the bankers is misdirected hostility in my opinion.
Of course bankers are happy to take free/cheap money and lend it for easy profit. Of course they're happy to have the government bail them out of their bad choices so they can continue on as they were before.
But everyone is like that. Everyone is going to take advantage of such business opportunities.
The problem isn't the bankers. It's the moral hazard engendered by the government, which steps in to bail out people in financial trouble. If the government wasn't handing taxpayer money out to guarantee these banks, there wouldn't be a problem.
And part of the reason the government is doing that is that if the 2008 collapse had been allowed to proceed as it should in a free market, without government intervention, there's a good chance almost all of us would have lost some or all of our retirement accounts and savings in the ensuing collapse. If that had happened you would have been begging the government to step in and save you from such a loss.
So the real fault here is in the American voters, who elect a government that promises to print all the money necessary to prevent them from suffering such financial losses. This problem we're suffering from is not a problem of greedy bankers. It's a problem of short-sighted, something-for-nothing voters -- the whole modern culture -- who want someone to protect them from making stupid financial choices and getting burned.
So quit harping about the bankers. They're just taking advantage of legal financial opportunities like anyone else. They'd be stupid not to. Blame the modern culture and bailout mentality that is the real source of the problem.
MnMark... It's not that complex. All you need to understand the concept is captured in the following:
Fuck me. FUCK YOU.
Simple huh.
Law of the jungle.... Bitchez.
I hope someone takes advantage of some financial opportunities in your house while you're out, jackhole.
You're argument might float, if the financial complex didn't have an effect on elections, dumbass.
No kidding. I've seen so many people blame the system while holding the perpetrator blameless. What really gets me is when this comes from the personal responsibility crowd. Everything's "wah wah wah government made/stopped me" with them. Yeah, government is screwed up, but it doesn't give you an excuse to be lazy or crooked.
Of course bankers are happy to take free/cheap money and lend it for easy profit. Of course they're happy to have the government bail them out of their bad choices so they can continue on as they were before. But everyone is like that.
Maybe you don't get it yet. This isn't it or where it ends. Most of those loans were collateralized with assets. So, the banks are NOW rolling up these private assets. They OWN 65% of the GDP. Do you understand that number? They just started rolling-up assets. This roll-up will go on for years. This isn't a "profit". This is a seizure of assets. There's an enormous difference.
Fiat money loans made against the laws governing regulatory reserve requirements were make against real, productive assets, people, homes and did everyone forget...industry. THAT was the scam. That's it, whatever happens, you win either interest or assets. If you own the gov, you get BOTH. Businesses are going down and their assets are being rolled into the banks, who fund their competition, which is consolidating into a perfect-duo banking-multinational chosen partnership. Both win off fraud and seizure of the competition.
People still don't get this. They think it's a downturn. Show me a time the 6 largest banks owned 70% of a nations assets. 15 years ago, the top six owned 17% of GDP. Now, THEY make markets, not you.
The other day on a subway car in NYC, I saw a 12-yr old fall asleep next to his pack with a brand new iPhone and PSP in it.
Naturally, I snatched them both and traded them to the dealer on my corner.
But you can't fault me for that. Everyone's like that. Everyone would take advantage of such opportunity.
(Oh...wait. I just realized I'm a FUCKING SCUMBAG. Oopsie.)
We will see a replay of the 1970's - only worse. I survived that time but lots of my contemporaries in Brooklyn/Queens did not. NYC will be filthy and crime ridden once again. I left in 94 and missed it a lot at first. I got over it. So will you. You are right, NYC is not the place to be when the SHTF.
Congrats.
Better than protesting in a rally.
Pardon the French. (but it is subtitled)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uop5R7E314
Tom Waits [15]. I'll Take New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjRYzpANdJ4&feature=related
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Tom Waits - Going Out West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw
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wherever ya go, there ya (r).
Yeah, about that...
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA061FF83555117B93C1AB1783D85F428685F9
Colorado is allready being distroyed by California assholes now we get smarmy New Yorkers too. Nice that you pick Boulder. AKA The Peoples Republic of Boulder.
Your not really wanted here. FYI.
+1
Pearl Street. Jax Fish House (good beer on tap). The red lion restaraunt. MMmmmm - not to mention the hott chicks. Been 10 years since I was in Boulder - Pearl Street reminds me of Bostons faneuil hall a little bit.
''These people have proven that they are ego maniacs and greedy beyond belief. They rarely if ever stop to think about whether or not the system that made them so fabulously wealthy is fair or moral. They could give a crap. They are cancers not leaders and until they are discredited and put into positions of zero influence, the United States and NYC in particular will continue to suffer and move further into bondage.''
Last week, I had a discussion with a former colleague of mine. We got on the subject of how grossly overpaid people in the financial industry are. Not everyone, but this is especially true at the upper levels. We were talking about a guy who used to work with us and now works at SAC Capital. Sharp guy, very driven, probably making millions a year in bonus, but also getting called ten times each weekend by Stevey Cohen..lol! We also talked about Corporate America and how these CEOs are making hundreds of times more than the average factory worker. A total joke. That's the inherent problem in capitalism and the fact is the US still hasn't addressed gross income inequalities. Chomsky annoys me, but he wrote an excellent short book called the ''Prosperous Few and the Restless Many.'' If you never read it, pick it up, quick, excellent read and he correctly points out the cancers of our society. Living in NYC is exciting, but you have to make a shitload of money to keep up, and you lose touch with reality. In the end, it's all ''status'' bullshit.
I like this topic. Grew up in Phoenix area, lived here most of my life, except a little stint in NYC. I saw a lot of NYC, including the Silk District, Harlem, South Bronx, and the poor neighborhoods just across the street from wealthy neighborhoods in Westchester. I really liked the culture of the place, but even Phoenix isn't relaxing enough for me. I've recently had thoughts about moving to the Denver area myself, as I love the mountains. Southwest Colorado (San Juan Mountains) is my favorite place in the world.
Problem is, as much as I would love to live in a little village like Silverton, CO, there really aren't job opportunities in small western towns anymore. Our economy is now such that you have to live in an at least moderately-sized city (if you want a choice between more than one or two employers, you have to be in a metropolis).
It'll be interesting to see what happens. I worry about crime in the Phoenix area as much as in NYC... Except in Phoenix, it's infinitely easier to burglarize a home without any neighbors noticing. A little over a year ago my place got burglarized in broad daylight. Eventually everyone living in the city will just be sitting ducks; I have a place in the wilderness near the source of the Rio Grande where I'm thinking I'll go live off the land should things get too crazy. It's only about 30 miles from Galt's Gulch.
Tons of Beaver up in those headwaters...
Beautiful, Beautiful country...
If I were you, as soon as it thawed...
take it from me you REALLY absolutely do not want to live in silverton. i know david hale and wife live there in the winter, to track avalanches. shawn white the snowboarder made a hell of a halfpipe back in there, impressive.
30 miles to gait alley is red mountain pass. christ almighty trust me you don't want to leave home in the winter to get to ouray.
I was up at silverton Kathy last September, and climbed for 3 weeks around T-Tide.
that place get's in your soul, and I'm sorry i ever left
my dream is to watch the snow fall for 20 more winters in T-ride or Crested Butte; just watch it fall and take a few runs each day to keep in touch
FUCK OFF
Got to Phx in the late 60's, watched it turn into the shithole it is today, left in 2002. Went to Denver in 70's to visit, unimpressed with it and Colorado in general, never went back. Now am in fly-over, hoping to ride the storm out.
If you can afford it, are young enough, get the fuck out. My wife won't emigrate, so I am not leaving either. The window of opportunity won't stay open.
Mike,
Boulder, huh? Not the best choice, really, unless knee-jerk liberalism doesn't bother you. I'd rather live around honest conservatives who can argue the issues than the majority of the people I've met in Boulder ... but hey, good luck, be brave. If you really don't need to be anywhere but online to make your living, don't buy in Boulder ... check out Ouray, my favorite place in this state, and one of the prettiest places on earth.
Ouray ROCKS!
Check this out if you want to have some fun... It's coming up in Feb...
http://ourayicefestival.com/
I might see ya there!
I went last year and had a ton of fun!
oh i know all the people that do that, and the organization.
do you participate or jst watch?
Participate!
You can get the DVD and not freeze your ass off if you just want to watch.
I love swinging those rad looking sharp tools and pounding them into that styro-ice. It really gets me pumped.
It's like fucking hand to hand combat with Ice Monsters!
Plus it's sooooo easy compared to rock climbing... The holds are where you put them... Not where they want to be.
Fun Shit!
FUCK Y O U †
Annette Bongiorno indicted today. Bentley seized.
Her recalcitrant bitch attitude should make for some nice fodder at sentencing.
Mike: This is your Medal of 'Freedom'
Mike: This is your Medal of 'Freedom'
The west is not a paradise, it has it's drawbacks.
Some unique places out west are not "out west" but rather "out in fucking space" all alone.
These places that I know about are:
There are smaller planetoid type towns that also exist in the netherworld...
Outside of these places, life was fairly normal... Now you really have to look to find a "good" place because of all the influx of refugees from the Cities. I am not about to share the list of good places in the west openly. If you do some homework, it's not hard to figure out.
I do NOT plan on staying where I am presently when things get worse. I am only here prostituting myself for the FRNs these days.
I would not go west either due to the water problems.
I already live in the SW desert... We are used to water issues.
But the fewer people that join us out here in the "land of death" the better off we are!
uses a jersey accent... *wadder? What wadder? Tell you what...
You get out into towards Lake Havastu (If I have that spelled right) you are actually driving on the bottom of what was once a great ocean hundreds of feet deep eons ago.
Never mind the water. They will serve you water just the same as it was back wherever you came from.
A tip though. Kaopectate will keep your wheels going and earning money instead of wasting it on the thrrone due to the runs.
Add Planet Santa Cruz for a real changer.
Santa Cruz Bettys
Does anyone find it odd that the 911 attack occurred on Bush's 1st -2nd month in office while the market crash happened in his last month in office?
What are the odds of the 2 most tragic events happening to the same President not to mention the events occurring at the front and end of his term.
My take is 911 was accomplished to let us set up shop in the middle east and run a giant pipeline from Iraq to Afgan, all in the name of hunting terrorists. I suppose if he doesn't pop up, we will trample over the world looking for him. (only if said countries have minerals or oil.)
The market crash was accomplished to make a few banks very rich and make many more disappear. Also the market crash was accomplished to consolidate the banking industry and usher some new regulation which is mostly about fraud. This new fraud will really get a nuance around the people.
I also expect that cash will be removed from the system soon and we will all be required to use some type of card. Don't have one, not to worry the state will issue you one.
The last piece of fraud that Obama will try to shove down our throats has to do with carbon tax credits. Don't be surprised if the same card that indicates your liquid worth will also contain your carbon units remaining for your consumption.
Carbon units, man, people would have to be INSANE to allow them to do either.
One, the whole cashless society will be called a sign of the Apocalypse by the religious folk, so we have that working in our favour (mark of the Beast, and all that).
Two, carbon tax is a BUREAUCRAT's dream. Think of the world's biggest control freak. Now imagine putting him in charge of how far someone can drive to work, how big your house can be, how much you can heat or A/C your house, what food you eat...
We must fight for sound money with every fibre of our being.
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Manhattan real estate is a VERY BAD investment.
Can anyone even imagine what it would be like if the people in NY had to evacuate and live somewhere else? What it would do to the surrounding areas. I was watching the History Channel about the potential of Mass Migration. They New Yorkers could cause extreme problems for all areas surrounding New York. I guess that would the the next Crisis they would cause by over stressing all surrounding States and areas that are not designed to handle that many people.
Welcome to the Rockies, if you are ever in SLC look me up and we will do some skiing (I also know the good gold/silver physical dealers here) . I watched your piece on Max Keiser on gold/silver and it was brilliant.
Good Bye fellow New Yorker. (weeep) Now we have to find someone else to tax beside you.
You write some great stuff Mike, and good luck in you journey, even though I don't think re-locating to Boulder will satisfy the reasons you're making the move. It's like moving to Boca Raton to "get away from it all." However, it'll get you started on the new path by cutting the cord, so to speak.
In a couple years I bet you'll get more rural, especially if what we think is going to happen comes to bare.
Welcome to life, Mike. After 16 years as a professional trader, I hung it up last Thursday. I have never slept better. Screw it all... I can breathe again....
Ponzi what ponzi
It is a slow day in the small "pick your state" town of Pumphandle, and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.
A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.
As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.
The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.
The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.
Mike is crying like a bitch. You and your kind ruined NYC, and now your leaving the wreckage behind. F*ck you and the horse you rode in on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjr7NtntWeQ
Good luck to you Mike,
You will be among many peers in Boulder.
For they also discovered the meaning of thier lives while driving around the country in 5 weeks.
Jeez...
After driving about the countryside for several days I pulled up to the great Oracle's drive-up window menu in my 2011 BMW 870 and out it squaked "Go West to Boulder", I knew I had to go...
So you bled us for a decade, and now decide to take you FRNs and leave...and we are supposed to thank you? Nice note on the income taxes being lower as well in your new nest.
So you produced nada for a decade, fed like a tick along with the pals you lambaste, and have felt the call of the West? How can the soulless be inspired by Rocky vistas?
Tell you what pal, you want to be a hero, stay while wearing a wire, work with the Feds, bring some of your 'friends' down. Better to rob and flee, though, isn't it?
+100
'cept the feds don't want the work and no money seems to be available to hire a forensic accountant.
It's a shitty world we live in.
We got less than 5% of the Attorneys in the country prosecuting crime (yet the Prisons are full) and 95% of the Attorneys working damn hard to subvert every law that might put their clients shorts in peril.
By my calculations this works out to leave all the Major white collar criminals in power while the XYY males that would monkey-hammer the living piss out of said criminals (given proper motivation) are put away and fed estrogen or some shit.
So we will all be led to figurative or perhaps leteral slaughter just like the nueters we slaughter for BBQ!
Well, maybe not all of us...
+2
All the knuckle draggers with large frontal lobes (required to pass an LSAT) who would have put a proper fight club back in the legal system decided that if Spitzer get whores... porn must be just as good.
In other news: the same company that owns a cable TV channel for video games and anime (G4) bought CNBC/SEC today.
sent from my Ipad in boulder
Nice!
I know what happened to these men... I know what they have been bottling up for years...
One of my favorite blogs is some chick who lives alone in the woods, with donkey, chickens and everything else. makes her own clothes too.
http://oko-organic-clothing.blogspot.com/
Good luck brother!
Mike i saw your video with Max and Stacy on wednesday. you were great. your young and good looking and smart you will do well here. the chicks are HOT but not to bright, most of them. i use to live next to Lisa who teaches at UC in economics and PR. she really is HOT. i will introduce you to her. really HOT. came from chicago and leaving JPmorgan Chase or the husband that worked for JPM.
and if i had read your first sentence:
If all goes according to plan the next time you hear from me I will be settled in my new home of Boulder, Colorado.
and it said Aspen, Colorado i probably would of shot myself. that is where all the fraudster banksters live nowadays. scenery is the best in the world, though. to bad it has been bought and sold G O N E†
safe travels, sir. you got my email address if you need anything.
FUCK YOU.
Dear MK,
No problem can be solved from the consciouness that created it.
All the best
At some point NYC will lose its money center standing thanks to these greedy ass clown baby boomers.
The next money center will be; [drum roll here] Best Guesses
Countries that have no extradition treaties with the US:Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan,
Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Indonesia,
Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar,
Mali, Maldives, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal,
Niger, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome e Principe,
Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda,
USSR, UAE, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Yemen South, Zaire & Zimbabwe
Countries which do not have extradition treaties but do maintain
diplomatic relations with the US are; Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bophuthatswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, China (People's
Republic of China), Ciskei, The Comors, Cote d' Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Jordan, Korea (South), Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Maldova, Mongolia,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Philippines, Principe and San Tome, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Samoa, Yemen, Zaire, and Zimbabwe.
Countries which have neither diplomatic relations nor extradition
treaties with the US are; Andorra, Angola, Bantu Homelands, Bhutan,
Bosnia, Cambodia, Ciskei, Cuba, Iran, Korea (North), Libya, Maldives,
Serbia, Somalia, Taiwan, Transkei, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. I pick Cuba (although I have a special place in my heart for Madagascar (lemurs). Between the legacy of Meyer Lansky and the demise of the Bros. Castro, Cuba will be everything the Caribbean used to be money wise. Pirates, Special Purpose Vehicles, cocaine, Anonymous ATM cards, some venereal diseases I can't pronounce and a 1 hour flight time from Miami to Havana. Plenty of time to see the Donkey.
I have a Patent for Coca-Cola from Tunisia!
Really.
Also, the real Donkey is in Boy's Town across from Laredo in the "Zona Rosa".
Sadly it is all too real. Drink heavily before attending.
Fiat, below-reserve loans-against-assets and your chicks for free.
That may have been fun and lighthearted, right bankers? No harm, free money...
But - when you're only able to SEIZE those assets AFTER you....
1) get a 15 trillion dollar bailout and,
2) are allowed to use different accounting than the asset-owner.
That's psycho serious.
Mass property crime from abusing a constitutionally delegated power.
Sounds like war to me.
You will leave a slime trail all the way there.
Good luck, Mike. I feel the same way about DC. Lots of great memories, but it's the belly of the beast, and getting worse every day. For a weekend trip, check out the mule deer, and the view of Pike's Peak from the Air Force Academy. When Army or Navy visit for football, there is a flyover to die for. Happy Trails
The most essential gift for a good writer, is a built in, shock proof bull shit detector.
Hemingway
"As the economic engine of New York City, with its 2.3 million workers drawn from the entire New York metropolitan area accounting for almost two-thirds of all jobs in New York City, Manhattan overflows with successful businesses and individuals facing tax resolution questions and challenges. The 280,000 workers in the Finance Industry earn more than half of all the wages paid in the borough. As the recession hit and hard times affected everyone across the board, the Manhattan success stories suddenly found themselves facing real tax difficulties.
As the center of finance, the securities industry —known as Wall Street — forms the largest segment of the city’s financial sector, accounting for over 50% of the financial services employment. Before the financial crisis of 2008, the average weekly pay in the financial industry was about $8,300 (including bonuses), while the average weekly pay for all industries was about $2,500. This was by far the highest in the country’s 325 largest counties, and the salary growth of 8% was the highest among the ten largest counties."
12% of toilers get more than half of total salaries paid out in the borough of Manhattan. And, with 8% average pay increases, as opposed to 1-4% EverywhereElse, no sign of AnyShareholdersAnyWhere.
http://www.taxresolutioninstitute.com/manhattan-tax-resolution-services/
what a fucking joke...this faggot is part of the problem for the last 20 years and now that the party is almost over he wants to bail. I got news for you boy....you head out west....but know that when the day comes that the locals find out who you are....you`ll get your chance to get right with god.
Sounds like he's already getting his mind right with God. Give him a chance to show up.
I don't care much for Boulder (as it isn't the "west") or Wall St. Types.
But if this guy proves to have turned the corner on all that crap (see 5 years down the road), there will be many locals no matter where he goes that will always treat him with respect. It's not likely that locals will be demanding his ass or something... If they do, well there is a Sherriff ya know.
You are more than welcome to move to Oregon. Bring your money, your ideas and start a business. We need all the help we can get. From anyone.
It's a crude tangent, but your post reminded me of Jarrell and the Turret Gunner:
"From my mother's sleep I fell into the State
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flack and the nightmare fighters
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
The financial system was your state and your mind froze in front of those screens. The little side bit trip out west has taken you for a loop and your body is now being washed out from the sulpher subways and Paris Cafe. But that is exploring, and getting off the wheel to try something else. Kudos to you.
I've spent 6 years both vacationing and visting denver and boulder for business and pleasure. It is a mind numbing knee jerk liberalism, as if a shovel had picked clean the likes of UVM or Vassar and dropped them in the mountains. SLC is a time warp once you get inside of it deep enough, best to just skip it.
Also note that genital warts and herpes are insane out there, so be careful. They don't really care about it, nobody is aorund to notice and the mountains mean everything. I'm not talking about the paid help either, this is from the locals who just accept it.
o/t. wiki going down...
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/sweden-seeks-arrest-of-wikileaks-boss-julian-assange-amid-rape-allegations/19723750
You'll feel at home at the NY Deli on Pearl St.
Boulder is on the Lower East Side of the Continental Divide
Best of luck to you and your family.
Look, no great debate necessary. Let's just call this what it is: A steaming pile of self-indulgent shit.
Of the 3mm working in NYC... how many are bankers??? Of the "bankers" how many are the Demonic bankers" you guys bundle in with just thye regular "bankers"?
Ya see, you can't pay that electronic bill, buy that food you eat, and perform just about any other modern function without the work of "bankers" to track and coordinate. Most of you (not all) have no idea how complex the banking industry has grown. (I've written articles on it. ...about the overgrowth of the service industry).
Me, like most other new yorkers, are just as fed up with the elite, but can't stand being bundled in with that name "banker". I've also written about the social unrest thyat would like ensue due to the elite's power and corruption.
I've spent years bringing this corruption to the publics eye while writing for Nouriel Roubini's RGE monitor. I was writing for the masses. I spent hours upon hours (pro bono) trying to make the public aware of the crime that was going on. I, unlike so many others, actually offered solutions. I actually advised bloggers who frequented my columns free advice. I guided plenty of people to save their retirement funds.
...and I, am a banker. Not an elite. Not a 6 figure guy. Living in the most populated place in america. because it's where I was born raised, and loved.
...and am I supposed to go to California, and become a Silicon Valley sham start up and live with earthquakes??
...am I supposed to go to florida to flip houses, and deal with hurricanes?
...am I supposed to go to the midwest, work for Buffet and deal with floods and tornados???
Or do I stay where my freinds and family are? Not because of som Pavlovian syndrome! Not because I'm for debt enslavement camps! ...but because that's life. ...and it's where you are. ...and shit happens everywhere. ...but you don't see me wishing it upon anyone. Certainly not another 9/11.
I still see the faces of people falling to their death. I didn't need a TV to see it. I was at 100 church. the 2nd plane came through my windows while I was on the phone with my family letting them know I was al right.
...and so now, I sit at my 60x100x standard nassau county lot, and enjoy life with my family and freinds who also live here. ...and tomorrow i go to work as a banker, for another round of debt slavery that we're all in, (but at least i realize it) and I go and make sure that your money is in your bank account and that your 401k isn't getting fleeced.
If you really want to stick it to the "man" you'd and everyone else in the world would shift your 401ks and pension funds 100% into the MMKT funds. You see, these have been the enabler (the buy side of the market) for the last 20 years. The "demonic bankers" are the sell side, selling over and over and over to the buy and hold retirement funds. ...and why?? ...because america no longer wanted to just have a savings account. they wanted a magic pony retirement fund that doubled every few years and allowed them to retire early and rich. so they traded in savings, for retirement funds... ...and there my friends was the creation of all your modern bubbles as a buy side was put in for everything "they" wanted to sell.
So when you get mad at the bankers... look in the mirror, because you (america) funded them by switching you money from saving to a chair at the casino table... ...and now you get made that the house always wins, and they take the vig.
All the best,
Miss America
Hey, Miss America, Miss America! Ow, Ow, Ow...
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!
You know what? When America says: FU New York. I say, hooray!
Because we are going to fix it. We ARE! We are going to fix LLoyd, and dismember giant squids.
We screwed up before. We did. We had Lindsey, and you couldn't sit on B'way on the Upper West side and have a cup of coffee and not be panhandled. And, really, Eddie Koch gave us visibilty...and a lot of corrupt people. And David Dinkins, well, he gave us more corrupt people, but people were happy about diversity. And, honestly? That's not bad. It's not bad. I don't like Obama, but people suddenly looking at me without that reserve, like they are now at the big kids table? That's not bad. It has its foibles. David Dinkins was weak, he had lots of foibles, but it wasn't the end.
Then, Rudy came along. And he benefitted from all that past and it was the right time, and it ws his time. And New York rocked.
I have watched Gangs of New York many times. Those Irish, they were dirt.
But, the story they told washed all of New York and washed out to the suburbs and the many states beyond.
It's a story that will be told again. Now, maybe it's a story told by an idiot, signifying nothing, or maybe it's not.
I love you Miss America.
I would like to encourage everyone to watch this video, now, in honor of Mike and Miss America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsDBQNFbJo
Those who junk you and direct their vitriol at you are just scrabbling around looking for a scapegoat. It is the whole democratic socialist system -- "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner" -- that is fucked.
Learn a new trade.
Something you can create.
Shoes, Toys, Guns, Knives, Saddles, Origami, Hash Oil, Blueberries, and on and on.
I don't feel bad for you if you are stuck because you won't learn anything.
Fuck Banks. Usurious Whorehouses.
Why? Any system involving the manufacture and sale of goods needs bankers, insurers, warehousers, transporters, assessors, wholesalers, retailers, reporters, etc. These are all "service sector" jobs that support the manufacturers (and the purchasers of their produce). The real problem is corruption and parasitism ... ie. politics. Politics serves nobody but the politicians.
Everyone here who criticises bankers should clearly state what their own trade is ... lest they be seen as hypocrites.
Statism is dead!
if I was King, all these f-ing bankstas and their obediant minions would be put at hard labor
you don't need a bankster to trade, what do you think they did 100 years ago; you only need bankstas to mange/groom the debt slaves in society
these banks are dieing, but not fast enough
Mike Krieger, you belie the public image of a wall street trader...! A well-written, thoughtful and introspective piece of writing. Three stars.
Right. Replace "American" with "German" and imagine a sergeant of Wehrmacht saying this in early 1945. Who is running the system, then? How can it be so evil, if everyone is nice and honest? Just following orders, eh? If they couldn't afford NYC, there's plenty of room on the planet—but somehow they chose NYC in exchange for a tiny bit of their souls.
You want to show that you are capable of emotions ("Rocky Mountains… jolted my soul") and seem to speak like a real human being, but you are not. The true reason behind this piece is the following:
You worked hard to screw your neighbours, had no issues with lying, yet now, when you feel the ship is sinking, you are sneaking downstairs in an attempt to pass for an oar slave. Good luck.
yea good point- the finance industry scum (the author) ruined ny so i'm leaving-TO RUIN SOMEPLACE ELSE. nurmberg trials where held because that's were "it" started ny should "host" the new trials-and don't say it's hyperbolie-THESE FUCKERS ARE WORSE THAN THE NAZI'S (WALTER IN BIG LEBOWSKI-"say what you want about the tenets of national socialism AT LEAST IT'S AN ETHOS")
Every single politician -- and every single voter who voted for them -- fits this description!
The politicians lie to the voters ... and the voters lie to themselves if they believe the politicians.
The politicians promise to screw certain sectors of the electorate -- and each sector of the electorate is voting for "their guy" to screw another sector of the electorate. That's the democratic socialist game.
Analyse this, Sigmund Freud ~
Come in and sit down on that couch over there, relax....
I was born in a small town, but I love big cities.
I like banks, money, wealth and the freedom these things can bring.
I even love the hustle and bustle of places like Wall Street.
Everything in your life can be positive or negative and it is up to you,
and the choices and decisions you make, day by day, in your pursuits of happiness.
Money like anything, you can put to good or bad use.
Same goes for a place or city like New York City.
It is not so much the place, but how you use it and live your Life there,
that makes you feel good or bad,happy or sad (as the song goes).
Happiness does not depend so much on the place or city you live in.
You don't need money or wealth to be contend or to feel good and healthy.
Happiness is a state of mind and for some a New York State of mind.
It all depends on doing what you really really really like and want to do ;)
So, there you are - now go and free your state of mind
righttttttt......hi taxes,bedbugs,draconian absurd laws are a "state of mind" ok............
wah
Yankees still suck, but they won't leave.
Novum Yorko delando Est
- Ned
just stay out of South Park , CO.
Die hippie die
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e02-die-hippie-die
ny died in tha late 90's-that's when i left-if a town is only fun( and livable) for billionaires,why bother. -by the way has anyone noticed that "culture/art" and fashion kinda stopped in 99? what the author describes is part of the reason why.....
Please move back to NYC. In Co. we are tired of you types comung and stinking up the place. Serious.
New York--it is more than just the finance industry, but more and more the finance industry overwhelms all else.
Years ago I lived in New York--as a form of stoicism therapy. I wanted to see if I could survive such a bizarre and anti-life environment. I remember the first time I entered New York (probably in the mid-sixties), my overwhleming impression was, "My God, what keeps anyone living here! This is like a prison with no walls! Why don't people want something better?"
Later, I lived there a while--no highfalutin jobs for me--I got a hack license (quite a feat for someone from elsewhere), which led to many amusing encounters. At other times, I moved furniture. I observed. Kept my eyes open. Tried to stay alive in some scary scenes. But the best phrase I could come up with for epitomizing the Big Apple was "satanic adrenaline". Yes, there is lots of energy--but it is weirdly focused. And so many alienated Jews! I could see that the only options were to insulate oneself from it all, embrace it and try to fit in, or get the hell out. After I made my observations, I decided to get the hell out. I have never regretted this.
it's a great place to live if you want to be distracted from well YOURSELF. it is addictive in the way you can forget yourself-but whiskey@heroin are cheaper@ less hassal
Good luck, Michael. I've always enjoyed your honest and perceptive writings and interviews. However, I'd recommend that you get right out of Dodge rather than simply transferring to a different district within the Gulag Control Grid.
As I've posted in another thread, but it bears repeating here for all the blame merchants looking for a single target to blame:
The current "system" (ie. democratic socialism) cannot be "changed" or "fixed". Change requires recognition of what is wrong and agreement on how to fix it. The current system will continue to evolve on its preordained path until it simply sinks ... very soon.
Does the majority of the voting public recognise what the problem is and what the solution should be? No. The majority believes that the red team or the blue team can make some periodic minor adjustments to the deckchairs ("but don't move my chair!") and the Titanic will sail on forever!
Does the current elected captain and crew recognise what the problem is and what the solution should be? No. The captain knows that the first mate has deliberately steered the Titanic INTO the iceberg (on orders from the ship's owners) while his crew are too busy stuffing their pockets from the ship's safe, and bogging into the lobsters and champagne for one last fill, before they all escape, along with some of the first class passengers, in the lifeboats. The second and third class passengers are all still dancing under the stars while the band plays on...........
Without a visionary leader, and a willing populace to follow him through a massive restructure, the future for the US is a watery grave (prison state). Other western democracies will follow.
This is like the Kalifornians that have been invading Oregon. Fleeing the festering socialist entitlement society they created that is now crumbling. They swarm us like locusts and try to recreate their Kalifornian utopia somehow thinking the outcome will be different.
Stay in the third world shitholes you created.
Hahahahaha...
Nothing like seeing this shit go on and on forever and ever.
The fucking flood of human wreckage coming out of California is unending.
They breed as fast as they leave!
They are all mind-warped senile hippies who have filled up their little place in California with shit and now need to come somewhere else and do the same... Their nascent subdivisions and developments fester all over the West.
BTW: I don't agree with Aboitic Oil... But any Enemy of my Enemy is a friend.
As a person who has recently taken a NYC job from living west of the rockies my whole life, I am in total agreement. NYC is an amazing place. I'm working with people on the street every day and I can't believe how insane these people are. Its like they've lost track of what it means to have a life and value more than money or their careers.
I too, with only my short stay in NY, have decided to leave within a few months. There is nothing here for me except federal reserve notes... and we all know how those will end up. Its time to go back to a better life.
I really liked this article, Mike. One of the hardest things to do in life is change what you call home but that basic courage was the foundation of America. Wishing you all the best with your decision.
On a lighter note, I find myself becoming a Max Keiser junkie. That was another great clip from the best guy not on TV and I thought your observations were right on.
Val Kilmers Ranch is up for sale...
Remote as all hell, Pecos river trout in the front yard, big Elk Herd.. Nice place.
I think the price was recently cut way down too.
I think these rich guys like to stay around each other in gated communities...
That way when TSHTF they can all split the costs of Security for their "Little Island in the Storm".
Xe don't work cheap, nor does Triple Canopy or any other major (read capable) player in that arena.
Better have plenty of gold stored up... They won't be taking FRNs by the time you realize that it would be a good idea.
that algebra puzzle stuff is getting old. Anywho:
"One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions, okay? What are you going to land on – one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics." - Michael Herr (I think)
looks like yer goin' to Colorado and tryin' to land on 'one quarter'.
One or two folks came close... You have to make it where yer at, man. Runnin' away is runnin' to. ye got a long way to go either way.
Made similar pilgrimages myself. physical pilgrimages. then I learned it's all mental...
Let the world come to you. cuz that's what it's doing anyway.
know what i mean?
Bruce, you're going to LOVE Colorado.
People that are awed by the Rockies - that sensation never leaves and is a religious experience.
Do yourself a huge favor and invest in some good fishing equipment. There are lakes so clean surrounded by majestic rock, loaded with fantastic fish, that you'll live to fish and find Zen in it, whenever you are able to.
There is nothing to trading. All you do is sit down at a computer and bleed.
Shove your Kensington boots up your fucking ass.
Wait....
I have to ignite them first...
miss america,
i will love bankers and banks when we end the fed!
end the fed! already love my credit union. and i would
read with great interest the
baseball story if you would post or publish , also, are you
familiar with msbl and those folks? s.s.? would love to watch
you throw sometime.?
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Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown [HQ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mmx68VmTEo&list=PL510F58F2E6223211&index=4&playnext=2
Hey there Bman…
As far as the baseball/steroid thing goes, I only get opportunities to go on TV or radio whenever someone new/famous gets caught.
Otherwise, my fight/plight is dead in the water. People don’t care about the victims because in most cases, the victim was not “them”. (and so few realize that there was “ACTUALLY” a victim of the steroid era.) I’ll keep trying to get the clean players of that generation the credit they deserve, but there isn’t enough of an audience. (you can only bang your head against a wall so many times.)
As far as me pitching… we won the Nippon cup for the second straight year. I threw a 9 inning 3 hit gem in the championship, and was still dialing the fastball up to the mid-high 80’s. (not bad for a 38 year old desk jockey)
…as far as posting like this, I don’t know why I bother arguing with some ignorant people. This buzzsaw dude and many others are rightly mad, as we all should be… …but their anger is misguided. Somewhere the word “banker” got mixed with the words “traders/brokers”… and then you get idiots thinking that “bankers are evil. Stupidity annoys me. …but even the trader’s/brokers (which I am not) aren’t all evil either.
Hope life treating you well.
All the best, MA
you know the first time i ever posted on a blog was in response
to that piece you wrote in 2008 about the retirement dreams
of mutual fund investors screwing themselves by miscalculating
their risk. seeking love in all the wrong places. etc. i don't
remember the details but i do remember it was a stimulating
piece. so much so that i felt the need to write a response which
was something like their earnings that were "invested" were not
subject to the analysis you offered? so much fraud has been exposed
since the 2008 event. the thing is the brokers / bankers need to
clean house if they don't want to be smeared with the others ,
i'm guessing usually the bosses. the structure of the system makes
demands on the day to day function and debt saturation, by design,
is dictating compromises and these compromises or sacrifices or
contaminations or frauds reach across all segments of the culture /
civilisation as the idea of accounting and "money" is common to
all endeavor. all. so, it seems if the "bankers" don't clean up their
mess and recognise the doomed structure of privately owned
fiat fractional reserve banking and it's effect on civilization they
will be removed from service as their service is just terminating
life and opportunity.
monkeys wouldn't stand for it.
.
ps. that is the tim hott league, no? mid week baseball? i used to play
there also. played for the bayside braves, we won the championship
9/12/2002. lost a number of championship games before that, folded
as a team shortly after. anyway, maybe next season i will come and
watch you do the mound thing. i used to do that too. moments of
magic among hours of struggle and boredom. like life, somebody said it.
best to you.