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Step Aside Big Mac Index....Meet The Shoe Thrower Index
For all those who were wondering which countries are next to follow in the footsteps (no pun intended) of revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt... there is an app for that. Or should be... But there certainly is now an index. But what it makes up for in lack of iPad downloadability it makes up for in sheer name coolness. Step aside Big Mac index and meet the Shoe Thrower index. And while we are still very partial to Jim O'Neill's N-11 (next BRICs) as being the best indicator of countries next to revolt, the Economist presents a slightly less GSAM-chagrined collection of countries to go under next.
From the Economist:
IN THIS week's print edition we ran a table showing
a number of indicators for members of the Arab League. By adding a few
more and ascribing different weights to them we have come up with the
Shoe Thrower's index, which aims to predict where the scent of jasmine
may spread next. Some factors are hard to put a number on and are
therefore discounted. For instance, dissent is harder in countries with a
very repressive secret police (like Libya). The data on unemployment
were too spotty to be comparable and so this important factor is
discounted too. We took out the Comoros and Djibouti, which do not have a
great deal in common with the rest of the group, and removed the
Palestinian territories, Sudan and Somalia for lack of data. The chart
below is the result of ascribing a weighting of 35% for the share of the
population that is under 25; 15% for the number of years the government
has been in power; 15% for both corruption and lack of democracy as
measured by existing indices; 10% for GDP per person; 5% for an index of
censorship and 5% for the absolute number of people younger than 25.
Jordan comes out surprisingly low on the chart, which suggests the
weighting might need to be tweaked. Post suggestions in the comments
below and we will refine it.
Yet once this latest storm blows off once the Chairsatan throws enough money at it, we will be back to the good old and most reliable index of all: the Dart Thrower index, which year after year continues to outperform the S&P, except for those cases, like with inflation which is always modest when excluding everything, when it doesn't. But those can be blamed on snow.
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It's probably best that the term PIGS (or PIIGS) is already taken...
Knock yourselves out ZHers finding the best acronym-anagram...
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
please read this:
http://tfmetalsreport.blogspot.com/2011/02/time-for-caution.html
paid pump
blasphemer
Free source of manure.
His name is Turd.
You're just jealous because he drinks premium coffee. While you have to drink the chinese cadmium and antifreeze blend they serve at Acorn. While signing up hookers for taxpayer identification numbers because pimp daddy bernanke needs some more vice action.
just trying to help.
You're a gold pimp and nothin else.
much appreciated, Turd.
I would take some more time at lower prices. I have some more dollars coming in over the next two months that I need to sell for money.
And as I have said before, the longer gold and silver stay down, and the further they go down, the quicker the end comes. Rising prices will drag out the process, as more people will supply the "market" with physical, allowing these people to cover their shorts, and increasing the investment in production and recycling.
Gradually rising prices also lessen the likely severity of an industrial panic which would cause silver to climb to unity very rapidly, until you could only get it in exchange for gold or other hard assets.
We'll see. There is no way to stop this train over anything longer than the short term. Either they allow appreciation, and they continue the ponzi from a higher base price, or they break the market. There are no other options, barring a visit from Alf in a solid gold mothership (with all silver interior).
So what you're saying in 200 words is SSDD.
Awww, did I hurt your wittle head?
Not necessay to read it. Know what it is.
Well, since the chart is titled "Arab League Index of Unrest", I'll go with:
A. LE. I. O. U., and sometimes Y (Yemen)
HAHAHA i first read 'stone-thrower index' but this is just as funny, and true.
Silly Middle East!
ZeroPower
I pictured it as feces thrower. Because here in the US we see Brown people as little Monkeys either dancing at the end of a leash to our organ grinder tune, or huffily throwing Feces at us.
Now that I think of it we view Yellow and Black people that way as well.
And other White people are just confused and misguided.
Take that Norway.
+ 1 i like that
+ 1 i like that
I'd like to see where Iran falls on that list - I guess they left it off cuz they're persian & not arab?
ha ha ha if you ever stop this great blog , please start as comedian.
love these titles :-)
Too bad we couldn´t toss a few shoes at the bernank....
the only thing stopping me right now is my severe phobia of prison sex; that and i live on the other side of the country...
speaking of which, anybody ever hear about what happened to Muntadhar al-Zaidi?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntadhar_al-Zaidi
The instant support of millions of people around the world for his act of defiance against the pig-fuckers is all that prevented him from being disappeared for good.
Gotta have reflexes like Bush...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw
Or like a Chinese property developer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hF7w8fmQ6g
Man he was way back there...lobbing artillery shoes.
Those were just ranging shots, but he ran out of shoetillary.
the shoe is going to be the contemporary iteration of the pitchfork...
it even comes with a built-in hangman's noose...
It's like he's had shit thrown at him before.
Perhaps even literally.
only in my darkest, deepest, wrist-slicing-ist, requiem-for-a-dream-watching depths of depression can I bring myself to a state where I am able to imagine the unspeakable terrors that must have taken place on any given day in the Bush household. Can you even imgaine the sick, twisted shit that George the older would dream up to discipline his spawn?
I'd rather be 16 and pregnant, and on the streets of Newark than be raised by George and Barbara. The horror...
dbl
oh doc-tor. uncle Remus re-minds me of my old frathouse, Phi Zappa Crappa. i think turd might be a member, 2. my fave is the "shoe-bomber"---one of the smallest false flags in american history, and right outa the freaking cartoons, too. without even the amelikanization to go into the freaking shitter to light up! he'd probably heard about the smoke sensors and didn't want to take the risk!
we're all shoe-horned, now. no vaseline. here's how frank zappa would handle the situation: no vaseline? no problem. just use the broken glass from this light bulb in my head... bet it... and unforget it!!! this song was banned even b4 the beach boys!
YouTube - Frank Zappa Dinah-Moe Humm
and remember: dO nOT eAT tHE yELLOW sNOW!!!
I can't believe it's actually called the Shoe Thrower's Index.
Well someone has their tongue thoroughly in cheek.
While not a member of the Arab League, this country is Muslim and actually takes the cake for corruption: Pakistan. And its cabinet just resigned today.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/us-pakistan-cabinet-idUSTRE718...
Pakistan is in the worst shape than Egypt or Yemen. Revolt is not possible as long as America is in Afghanistan. Fundamentals behind the "revolt theory" are different in Pakistan. Pakistan is a chess board right now and the pieces on the board are America, Israel, India, china, PAK army, Zardari, IMF, and Pakistan Supreme court. It can take me days if I try to explain the role of all these pieces on this chess board. But for simplicity and ease I can say the day American forces withdraw, Pakistan will change.
Resignation of cabinet has no value in this game. You can completely ignore it.
The kalashnikov or ak-47 index is a good leading indicator of unrest and political upheaval. Changes in black market prices of the familiar rifle give a good idea of how pissed off and worried a society is.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/lebanons-ak-47-inde...
http://mediacook.blogspot.com/2007/06/black-47-list-index.html
Sadly they limited the list to Middle East countries. They didn't want to broaden the scope globally for fear of some embarrassing moments when GB, USA and Europe are found to be near the top.
<Whistling through the grave yard enjoying all the newly planted bodies flowers.>
US, GB, and Europe won't tip the scale like you might think, because the algo significantly weights a youthful population, and as we know, the industrial developed nations have rapidly again populations.
Home-Price Drop Leaves 27% of U.S. Owners Underwater on Loans, Zillow Sayshttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-09/home-price-decline-leaves-27-of...
The resulting consequence of ill-conceived monetary policy can create a world where one experiences the risk of purchasing power destruction with the overall prospects of end demand declining.
We need to end centrally planned inflation targeting which would mean ending the IMF and central banking. We are no closer to solving the world's greater problems as a result of this so-called 'world order'.
kinda racist
When do the brainiacs on Wall Street come out with the STI related ETF?
I'm all in!
I'm waiting on the 3x directional leveraged ETF myself but either way it'll be a good conversation starter...
What do you trade?
Thrown shoes, mostly.
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Equivalent in Asia is the "plastic rice throwing" index. http://therookiecynic.wordpress.com/
may i have attention, please. Rare Bird AlerT: Actually gold is not a commodity, but rather MONEY, being pursued as the global monetary system fractures and crumbles.
someone knows what is going on! i wish i had a source...oh, wait! i doodoo!
Mythology & Official Nonsense
this is probably just some more propaganda from the Constitution, or something. pretty riskeee, too! enjoy!
p.s. he can't prove it, prob. just tosses it in as an aside. prob. just talking his book, or that of whoever pulls his string...sry...
Entirely OT, appy polly logies, but do what do Canadians think about this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/mo-british-neocolonialism
Lord Melbury says, "Deffo! Spot On! Shall we bring back the old world to the New World? Let's see, Canada looks ready for a right rogering."
Here comes 'Recolonization'!
Foolish enough to view Canada as still being a sovereign nation? Just wait until this 'thin end of the wedge' gets jammed down your maple syrup gulping neck: http://www.stockhouse.com/News/FinancialNewsDetailFeeds.aspx?n=14039295&src=cp
It is, of course, painted by the TSX and London as a merger that will have a 'net benefit' for Canukistanians, but the controlling interest (55%) will be held, wait for it... in England. And keep in mind any new capital that can boost the share value of listings on an exchange can also short them to zero, regardless of the underlying fundamentals, sentiment and technicals; especially if a layer of opacity for Canadian regulators is added through transferring the majority of ownership of their exchange to another country (ever tried to get a banker extradited from Britain?). Which, in all likelihood, is exactly what is going to happen if this deal goes through.
Exchanges consolidating everywhere is not conducive to the healthy capitalist axiom of competition, in my opinion.
http://www.stockhouse.com/News/FinancialNewsDetailFeeds.aspx?n=14040843&src=cp
If you are a Canukistanian, and would care to express a concern, or have a question about this new machination designed to separate you from your country, here's the guy you should contact: http://www.tonyclement.ca/EN/contact_tony/
These events, combined with the backdoor EU 'authourity having jurisdiction' deals being made by the Harper Gov't and the fresh trouble in the middle east, are crucially important to annihilating what little is left of the sovereignty of Canada. I'm not joking, these actions will probably have the most profound effects on anyone too young to defend themselves, yet are probably happening just fast enough that even the "I'm all right so ef all the rest" crowd are gonna get some too.
"There is no time..." -Lou Reed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygNAnIG8g_E
Bonne Chance!
Gerald Celente says that in US, young adults are least likely to revolt because that generation is mostly made up of kids raised by soccermoms.
Hmm. Our kid (now 24) and her friends in college seemed more tranquil (re rage) than when I was in college. Yes, it is hard to see a younsters' revolt.
Except of course when it comes time for them to be asked to pay for S.S. and Medicare...
The 1960s were my teen years. It sure ain't the same today!
That may cover the suburbanite and rural youth, but somehow I don't see the urban youth being so passive.
Just take away their cell phones and blame it on the government. Another problem solved...
Why did Hilary Clinton call every U.S. ambassador in the world back to Washington for a week long meeting starting last Sunday? It could have been done virtually, but since it was not, and has never been done before, could this mean something?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48471.html
Interesting.
Old fashioned wesson-oil party?
dude! palm oil!!!
not applicable ^ kikice. from linron down, really:
YouTube - Neil Young & Pearl Jam!
neil's gettin so old, he may soom BEcum the great grandaddy of grunge. hey! so am i! getting old, i mean. so are you. i hope he's still got his '59 caddy. in the picture i have of him sitting on it, it looks pretty dirty. so maybe we have that in common, too: wash the car every six months whether it needs it, or not. "got fuel to burn. got roads to drive."
if there's point to this shoe, it is that the slaves of the nation are divided. polls show it. oh, shit! what if THAT isn't true, either? if we get lies about all the facts, the opinions are probably still ok, right? hmmm... i mean, here we are, all waiting for some shoefly or shoedrop, while we keep getting told what our opinions are and it must be true, b/c it's scientific. that's reassuring, eh?
we do have different intersts, but are we really as diametrically opposed to each other as the goobermint keeps saying? the old want to eat, sleep, shit, and fuk. the young people i know don't have a problem with that. they understand those needs and desires, except the last one, if i recall, correctly. and don't we all want about the same things from the goobermint, in general? fairness. justice. peace. don't all the different races want to put food on the table for their kids and get them educated and the hell outa the house? jeeez! maybe postmodernism works! maybe all we hafta do is sit tight and watch this giant pyramid of lies and hoohah collapse, so we can all...ok. i'm flexible. let's wait a while longer. how about two more days?
people knew judi barry b4 she "got sick". people were IN seattle. toronto. DC, when the hasidic jew head bangers showed up and gave a great curly-haired middle finger to zionism, netanyahu AND obama in july, one of my FBI moles was there, keeping his eye on the ever-dangerous cindy sheehan for us, who was also there, awaiting trial for throwing a shoe or nine, said that when these hasidic men in black came up outa the subway and started screaming, and it was the BEST part of the whole hot stinkin waste of time day. common citizens. all over the place. even canada. freaking hosers!
hey! i just thought of something else neil young and i have in common: when we do the housekeeping, we use a large rake.
ok, zeroheads: it's SHOETIME!!!
She needed help getting into her new pants suit since she's packing two extra Vietnamese children in weight around her thighs and a pot bellied pig at her belly.
now, now - just because Hillary is an ugly, fat bitch, it doesn't mean you should say mean things about her ..
From:
Coinflation: Forbes Article: The likelihood of a hyperinflationary event and signs we may be in the beginning stages right now.
http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelpollaro/2011/02/08/america-poised-for-a-h...
I can't post, so if someone else who thinks it's interesting and can post, feel free...
Excellent article!
They forgot the most important factor: food price / disposable income.
People will accept all kind of misery for a long time, but everybody is nine meals away from barbarism, even you.
Index of Notable Figures Leading to Anarchy in the Middle East
The GDP/capita should probably shift to something like % making under $2/day. The internet access in Egypt is about twice what it is in most of those countries. That seems to be a factor. The subset of the population that is college-educated, under 35 and unemployed is probably the critical demographic.
Oman is too high on the list. It is actually one of the better countries in the region. I think there is too much weight attributed to the age of the population under 25, and not enough weight on the per capita GDP.
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Reports of the demise of the Egyptian revolution appear to be premature, at best.
http://www.debka.com/article/20646/
from the Debka article inre the Kearsarge:
"The flotilla has a rapid strike stealth submarine, the USS Scranton, which is designed to support special forces' operations."
yep, any good humanitarian/evacuation effort should have a rapid strike stealth submarine at its disposal ...
xD
Lets start an index for Asia as well. Can anybody help me with the name of a country with more than 1.2 bn people we can put on the list?
I don't care why the local tribes complain about her, Jordan's Queen Rania is SMOKIN' HOT.
USS Scranton? Anyone been to Scranton Pa. lately? Now there's an example of an effective entity. Let's hope her namesake is equally well-managed. If so, the Egyptian revolution has little to worry about from this 'rapid strike stealth' boat.
Shoe throwing is terrorism. If you throw a shoe you must hate America.
How about a Flip Flop?
I assume the good ol' "Hooker Index" may be one of the most accurate:
Bloomberg See Latvian Sex Industry As Economic Indicator