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Your One Stop To Tracking The 2012 "EOD"s Countdown

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/19/2010 11:56 -0400

Excess Reserves

One has to be living in a cave not to have noticed the recent surge in various earthquakes, tsunamis, violent riots and, recently, volcanic eruptions. This has lead some to wonder just whether the Mayans invented some time-shifting HFT algo to front run the doomsday block orders of 2012. Luckily there is now a convenient way to chart the daily catastrophic events that are happening with greater frequency than various big banks reducing their Non Performing Assets courtesy of Bernanke's vertical curve monstrosity and beating useless estimates (if everything is a buy on a dip due to temporary "disruptions" shouldn't one be really selling everything on the Fed's temporary (one hopes) insanity in unprecedented experimentation with ZRIP and excess reserves?). Hungarian website AlertMap has put together an interactive chart to keep track of all the recent catastrophes and calamities across the globe. And while it does a great job with pretty much everything, we can't identify the highlight over the Marriner Eccles building where the single greatest man-made catastrophe is developing.

Full interactive chart can be found here.

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Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:06 | 308081 King_of_simpletons

People are becoming increasingly sensitive and erratic. That's one thing I have noticed off the bat. Some sort of collective phase shifting is going on.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 14:04 | 308246 Ragnarok

OMG! Plate tectonics is real! Everybody focus on the second-by-second news cycle instead of the 4.9 billion years of earth history.

Instead of Galileo in front of the catholic church we can have some professor from the school of mines hauled before Al Gore.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:10 | 308082 anynonmous

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Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:13 | 308088 John McCloy

Wow Tyler if you did not attain the label of "Doomsday exictable fringe block" the past year well safe to say this is the cherry so let there be no debate.

Ironically I watched 2012 last night.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:12 | 308089 Cognitive Dissonance

"This has lead some to wonder just whether the Mayans invented some time-shifting HFT algo to front run the doomsday block orders of 2012."

Clearly the end is near when you can find the words "Mayans" and "HFT algo" in the same sentence. Those Mayans will soon be blamed for the poor April BLS unemployment report at the rate we're going. :>)

Who would've thunk?

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:14 | 308091 wagefreedom

Green Shoots!

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:17 | 308095 Anton LaVey

Methinks this is said firmly-tongue-in-cheek.

On the other hand, Goldman Sachs demonic HFT systems powered by Mayans algos has a certain ring to it... some kind of dreamy "je ne sais quoi" that should work well with the ladies. You know, doing (the elder) god's work or something...

As long as you don't mind selling your soul to the chtonic non-euclidian horror called the squid, of course.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:33 | 308126 sushi

Goldman Sachs demonic HFT systems powered by Mayans algos . . .

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The GS Mayan algos need a continous supply of fresh virgins. The supply is running short and using virgins past their best before date will bring down the markets and pump Katla.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:24 | 308109 Paul S.

Hmm. Makes you wonder why Neel Kashkari left Washington and built a shed out in the middle of nowhere.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:25 | 308112 Paul Bogdanich

While I don't anything about Myan lore, I do know a bit about geology and the concern about a major geophysical event is quite real. The USGS says the highest probability event is the Hayward or San Andreas fault between Fairfield and Muscle Rock. However that last big quake in Chile is a proble. On the Western lift zone and the Eastern Subduction zone the historical events are roughly as follows. 1850 Japan. 1906 San Andreas. 1964 Chile then Alaska the Chile again. The second 1960 Chilean earthquake was also the most powerful on record since the invention of the seismograph. The point is that about every 60 years we have a major event with significant ground motion. Now it won;t be the end of the world but in Alaska or California is would halt West Coast United States oil distribution and or refining capacity and such a shock would not be good given the otherwis precarious state of economic affairs.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:31 | 308119 Cognitive Dissonance

Kind of reminds me of an old saying. I think it was Wile E. Coyote whom I'm quoting.

"It's never a good day to have an earthquake, just less bad days."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:30 | 308118 b_thunder

When "The whole building is about to collapse (literally) anytime now... Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre]... standing in the middle"... because he purchased the newest product sold by Goldman Sachs: Apocalypse Default swaps (ADS)! "

Bet on the end of the world!

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:31 | 308120 Internet Tough Guy

The mayans are proof that you can worry about the end of the world and miss the bus that's about to run you over. They never saw the Spanish coming.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:33 | 308127 john_connor

This fits in with my December 2012 put purchases. I may not ever be able to collect, but in the spirit of this superficial and corrupt phase of human existance, I would just like to view my electronic balance of fiat dollars explode (from my Ipad v3 no less), before I fall into a crevice full of lava or I am vaporized by aliens.

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:35 | 308131 yabs