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Forget Previous Bubbles, This Is The Big Lebowski
Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,
2013-A Year at the Crossroads
“If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now be quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers!”
-Homer Simpson
2012 was an odd year in many senses. The juxtaposition was the speech by Mr. Draghi when he promised to “Save the World,” humanity and the birds and bees on the Continent. Yields fell, have stayed low and no one is arguing with the European Central Bank as small pieces of paper are printed, distributed at all of the usual candy stores and the sweet taste of that sugary substances is all that is imbibed and the manna from heaven flows from Frankfurt.
The Fed and the ECB are both verging on $4 trillion balance sheets, the total for all of the world’s central banks is $14 trillion and these small pieces of paper float around in the breeze and are plucked at will to feed the fires of Wall Street. General Calculus used to be a subject at school and is now thought of as a famous Roman war hero. When all of the central banks on the planet work in concert then, without off-world bourses, there is no place else left to go and the spatial restraints of our planet are the same boundaries for the investment of money. It is then Hobbes Law, the gas inside the container will always expand to fill the container regardless of its dimensions.
Here then we find the explanation of 2012; boatloads of money, a promise to use it or create even more of it if necessary and so, for the first time in history, there was no place else left to go and so the markets went up, bonds contracted, the central banks buy 80% of all new deals, demand exceeds supply and everyone with any sense wanders around and wonders if some political pin-prick or some economic fault will not puncture what may be thought of as the largest bubble ever created on earth.
It is not a dot-com bubble or a real estate bubble or a specific bubble of any type at all or any we have ever seen but the Big Lebowski, the giant squid, the mother of all Blue Whales and the days of living in some place that we have never occupied before. In other times, in other circumstances we would have thought that the bogeyman would be Inflation, massive Inflation, nation destroying Inflation but the central bank created instruments of the concert have controlled the notes along with the tune. Everything is contained by the central banks concerted actions so that the dream state of some economist’s fantasy induced dream has come to pass and it is Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” but having entered, and what I am concerned about, is that no one knows the Rules or even where the goal posts might be located.
Spain, Greece, Portugal or the United States; the numbers, the accounting, has become nothing more than a diversion. More and more and more money will fix everything and we can ignore the rest. It is not the Fountain of Youth but the Fountain of Cash and the promise of eternal life hangs in the air but then there were the Sirens and their songs. If nothing matters or is relevant except some notion, first uttered by Frank Herbert, that “The Spice Must Flow” then what fairytale have we entered and how does it end; or does it?
Those that bet with the central banks have prospered, made fortunes, become vastly richer but how long does this game go on and is there a way out that is devoid of the usual pain to be found in contractions. Will it be an engineered affair which is the way we arrived here or will it be some elongated pin made of politics, made of economics; that pricks the biggest bubble ever created by mankind in our mad rush to save the economies of the world by opening the spigot of never ending cash. The bet of last year was to place your money with the bankers-at-large but will that be the correct bet of this year as the plastic is stretched so thin now that a misstep, the politics of nationalism either of the funding or the funded bursts the balloon and sends it cascading around the room in some wildly gyrating manner.
I wait. I watch. Will the lid on Pandora’s Box get opened?
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Ties the room together.
That's just like... your opinion, man.
Easy dude.....I almost spilled my white russian.
It's "Caucasian".
.....I've always wondered why.
An alert to all you NYer's: Gov Cuomo's power is coming down on you by "infringing on your Second Amendment Rights." Call his ass to tell him to stop being the anti-dude: (518) 474-8390
Contact: http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
Gov's violation of the 2nd: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/albany-gun-control-bill-expected-pas...
There is hope...
http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/
Little Lebowski Urban Achievers one and all.
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude, at least it's an ethos.
MDB was a good trader, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the indoors... and trading, and as an internet troll he explored the forums of the web, from zerohedge to seeking alpha and... up to... yahoo finance. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would MDB. MDB, who loved momo stocks. And so, Milyon Donatello Bonoskawitz, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the latest fat finger HFT tsunami of packet stuffing trades, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.
beautiful
Awesome Red Pill! I'm sending you some cash...just gotta go find a cash machine.
Man. That was, maybe,... the best post I've ever seen here.
And I've been here awhile.
Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowlin'.
What? what did the guy really die?
The FIRST step .
What problem was the cry from the bankers..
Gold, Bitchez!
Sorry! I couldn't help myself...
It's a trap. They won't even have to "false flag" the response... they are anxiously awaiting the opposition. In 5... 4... 3...
The Big Lebowski is right! $16+ trillion in debt, spending on a moonshot path, the Fed going crazy and enabling Obama/Congress theft from taxpayers/future generations, Europe doing more or less the same thing.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/debt-star-federal-deb...
Why bother. They are going to do what they want anyway. There is no law anymore, so why listen, It's just them writing shit on a piece of paper and it don't mean shit
You seem to be under the impression that the system works. When the law is unjust and unconstitutional there is no law.
Call his ass to tell him to stop being the anti-dude:
it's too late...new york will be our petri dish...
I hope Gov Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg have no presidential aspirations. They have just killed them.
Both do have, unfortunately, dictatorial ambitions...
It's probably a bit too late to be calling at this point. Your time would be better spent preparing to resist.
Add cream to Black Russian, create White Caucasian Russian. (vice Caucasian)
edit: Fuck, too many Causasions
"Easy dude.....I almost spilled my white russian."
Are we talking about the drink or the AK-47xWhite Widow cross?
Love White Russian (the white widow ak-47 cross, that is).
But it smells like chinaman pee.
The Chinaman is not the issue here
What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here.
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ausPKEMVk0
Also when you Find a Stranger in the Alps
Yeah, I've got a rash man.
Shut the fuck up Gooch you're out of your element.
8 year olds, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONyLZn0pLI
....you can call me Dooud, or el doouderino, but don't call me mr. Lewboski.
Aw, fuck it!
Yes, fuck it, that's your attitude about everything.
"This naked agression will not stand"
Just watched the Dude again the other night- great flick
Piss on...all of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmapdBbOYI
Darkness warshed over the Dude. Darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.
I will not tolerate another toe. (tax cheat as SEC-TRES under both fiat and keysenism)
Abide anther toe.
Not to be combative, but are you correcting my quote, or are you making an announcement to the hedgefund world that "carried interest" is not what Einstien meant by the most powerful force in the universe?
I, for one, welcome our new IRS task master.
With open "arms".
Timmay uses a straw to steer his reatrded world. "Arms" are for up and commers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TANqlCkUbk
Bunny Lebowski: Act of inserting one's big toe into the anus of your partner during sex, especially to achieve orgasm.
Damn, learn something new every day....
Who says you can't get an education on the Internet?
Does that "toe" thing work on white guys?
You're not blowing
That must be exhausting!
But you toenail sure looks messy afterward...
Bernake's a good doctor and thorough.
We are off the lows... LOL
The Dude Abides!
Er go... Diamandis and Google's Kurzweilian Planetary Resources.
www.tradewithdave.com
Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Pushing Leverage To Ridiculous Extremes
http://investmentwatchblog.com/goldman-sachs-and-the-big-hedge-funds-are-pushing-leverage-to-ridiculous-extremes/
Darkness Warshed over the Dude
The vampire squid knows the taxpayer is always there to bail them out if their big bets go horribly wrong. It's still a socialize losses and privatize profits operation.
As Kyle Bass says, it ends in war... it always ends in war. And the war has already started.
This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.
Goodman was fantastic in that movie. The Dude abides
Shut the Fuck up Donny
Great line. Those who have followed the Fed have done okay...those who have followed Wall Street have gotten killed. Makes you wonder why we bailed them out. Sure "they repaid all that we lent them"....and look! We got trillion dollar deficits as our reward! "Plus a lawsuit" it would appear. "Oh the humanity!" Seriously tho the business cycle and the Federal GOVERNMENT is what has propelled wealth creation....not "reading the tea leaves" of Ben Bernanke. With interest rates this low why do we need the Fed again? Heck the last time the USA got downgraded the interest rates on our debt collapsed. Sorry Mr President but I'm not buying this "game of chicken" theory. Submit your spending priorities and then Congress will "commence the taxpayer dollar clock." Congress will stop when the money is gone. If you wish to fund the rest personally or with your buddies by all means. Unless of course you believe in the "Government money only flows one way" theory.
There has been much prophecy (provided by whatever means) of the third world war that the United States is involved in.
- It is a short war
- NY City is completely destroyed (maybe this is the same time that Rome is destroyed by fire from above ... dunno)
- The outcome for the US is uncertain depending on whether the attack starts from the East or West
- During the war there is a period of 3 days of darkness (some argue that it is 70 hours)
- 1/3 of the population of the planet is killed
There is much more prophecy ... some regarding the war and some just regarding our future. Maybe it is all B/S and maybe not. The anti-christ was forecast to be someone who would initially appear to be a being of peace, but his true nature as a beast of destruction would eventually become apparent. I do not know if Obama is "the beast". However, I think that it is possible that he believes he is.
I'm not Catholic or any of that shit, but the "Prophecy of the Popes" has come to an end with the current one... that guy that looks like Emperor Palpetine from Star Wars....
Malachi's prophecies may well end like a Mayan Calendar, with a whimper rather than a bang at the last page.
Further, the status of recent "Popes" as actual Popes is not completely certain among Catholics, neo-catholics, nor "any of that shit".
<dupe>
Seriously Mario, forget all that Bayside crap. It's just more diabolical disorientation dressed up as gnostic, heavenly newsfeeds.
Fatima's all you really need to know. The incontrovertible Miracle of the Sun and the realization of the predicted nocturnal illumination presaging the beginning of WWII provide the proof of the reality and validity of our Blessed Mother's prophecies and requests there. Lucy was told that "eventually the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to my Immaculate Heart, but it will be late". Well, we certainly have the "late" part down.
It's all bs. Some future scenarios may actually play out that way, but nobody predicted it. Prophecy is just more mind-control bullshit.
don't look now but there really is no United states, all the power is with the internationalists. the people have been hypnotized by gadgets and glitter into servitude. the war is ove,r we lost
Yep. I especially love to hear "conservatives" bray about how "we won the cold war".
I hate the Eagles, man. Unless they are Au or Ag.
Dude, we will be lucky if we can find non-dairy creamer to make a White Caucasian when this is over....
Got (powdered) milk?
Long on AR-15's Bitchez!
Not a fan of carbines, then?
this dude prefers mid length
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7483897/AR-15_Lower_Receiver___5rd_Magazine
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7477522/AR15_IGES_files_for_Machining_(Upper_Lower_Handle)
Printable full modifications for 3d metal mill
Or those with better things to do than hang out in the woods with a stockpile of beans waiting for the man.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7322510/Nerf_Gun
Looks like the "printable" standard (30 round) capacity AR/AK magazines are already a reality. Go long magazine springs, trigger groups, bolts and barrels, all other parts can be "printed".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKAaO26FAvA
This could be the place for you
http://www.iiicitadel.com/
There is also this tidbit *just* for you
I briefly checked out the Citadel site. Clearly, this is one of many Waco's for the new millennium.
Worst thing you can do is bunker up and make an "impenetrable" target of yourself. Ask Saddam (oops, never mind), or see the French example early into WWII.
Blend in as inconspicuously as possible if you wish to survive. Otherwise you commit suicide in a glorious blaze of (superior) firepower.
Yep...
I wonder what happens when the MREs run out....
See: "Grey man"
Wow, good one Flak!
Wonder who is going to enforcing all these rules within this "free' community?
Details TBD?
Is that like rules TBD?
pods
Its a commune thingie where everyone yet no one is in charge (The irony is delicious...)
Dig deeper. The guy trying to set it up is a crook using an alias.
Naw... I'd rather watch paint dry...
Watching paint dry is a seriously underrated activity. I really like the ceiling paint that goes on pink and drys white.
The psychological profile of bank overlying strategy, and stated novelty thereof, sums fuel and food for the idiocy of the masses... again.
Let's Go Bowling
This article is about "nothing"
This sums it up nicely,
Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.
Nihilist: Ve don't care. Ve still vant ze money, Lebowski, or ve fuck you up.
I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck....or the Credence.
ben don't roll on shabbos
The old man told me to take any rug in the house.
"The German economy grew by 0.7% in 2012, a sharp slowdown on the previous year, preliminary figures show.
The figure was well below the 3% growth seen in 2011 and suggests the economy contracted in the fourth quarter."
"The eurozone economy as a whole is already in recession, having contracted in both in the third and fourth quarters of last year."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21023478#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source...
"The spice must flow ... the roads must roll" ... to combine two similar quotes. And so sides are chose. The empire tighten's its grip and all sorts of stuff starts oozing out from between its fingers.
I have to wonder, what is so terrible about free markets, fairness, free will and treating each person with respect and goodwill? Obviously the consequences must be something terrible because almost nowhere throughout human history has such a condition existed. And yet, the vast majority of the people I know envision that as the goal... not some tin-pot dictator's idea of what those in power have the privilege to do to others.
Ah... the smell of idealism in the morning...
"but having entered, and what I am concerned about, is that no one knows the Rules or even where the goal posts might be located."
Forget the rules and the goalposts. The thing you need to know at all times is the location of the exit.
And where you left your scuba gear
Why, whatever for?
The Bernank treats objects like women, man.
Quit the alarmism already! How do we make money in '13, is the question.
"How do we make money in '13, is the question."
The question is "how do I retain my wealth in '13". If all you give a shit about is nominal gains, then go all in SSO. If, however, you're concerned about preserving your wealth, divest of paper ASAP and purchase physical gold.
It's really not that hard dude.
Meh. Slow burn to a neo-feudal world; my bet is it takes a couple of generations at least.
It will be a lot like the last feudal world but with less manual labor and more TV.
More porn too....
I DK, there was some pretty hot stuff, back in the day.
Fair enough, but do you think that the current crowd could deal with that level of abstraction?
Hmmmmmmm............ no.
Walter Sobchak: I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!
Well, they print money that nobody has or will get their hands on.
They print billions and less and less people get by.
So you have a hyperinflation in the money supply
And a depression in the real world.
Strangely... time catches up and reality sinks in into the real world.
After the commercials that is....
The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
Walter - Shut the fuck up Donny, you're out of your element
Where can I find the "vaginal" paintings?
"I'll suck your cock for $1000 dollars"
"I'm going to find an ATM"
Physical silver still cheap folks, hint,...hint!
Nobody fucks with the JESUS!
nobody except roman soldiers.
Put Bernanke in the "most modestly priced recepticle" and chuck that fucker over the cliff without a parachute - just make sure the wind is blowing the right way.
"General Calculus used to be a subject at school and is now thought of as a famous Roman war hero."
HAIL CALCULUS!
Et tu Bernoulli?
I'm bullish: Youtubes about the end, population control, useless eaters and government conspiracy theories.
Grow poppies, the sheeple will need lots of pain meds soon.
You think this is bad? Ha! Wait til you see what's coming next." - Hannibal Barca
CFR: Communists From Russian mafia
Someone please explain to me how Mr. Grant IS NOT just a POTENTIAL broken clock. I see no ACTUAL TRANSPIRED EVENTS to cause me to think otherwise.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
Barry and Ben spent trillions of tax dollars keeping these markets up - so Barry can get re-elected.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/dow-jones-weekly-stalled-long-term-resi...
Dow weekly has a long way to fall in 2013 - the Dow was up over 10% in 2012, but GDP was about 1% - nice job Barry.
Careful what you wish for Barry and keep raising those taxes.
Being Lebowski is a good gig.
Large-scale even perhaps global-scale war is quitely brewing behind the scene. 1945 plus 80 gives you the target year of 2025. Be prepared.
You ask, “is there a way out?’
Yes, there is; and it is a historically-proven solution.
The central problem is taxes or debt imposed on people without their consent.
Here is a short account of how English rebels brought down judges and tax collectors, bishops and kings who thot they had a divine right to impose taxes/debt on other men without the latter’s consent; men, who 150 years later, guided American rebels.
This power/right belongs to all men. It is available to us thru the First Amendment.
See my further remarks at this comment.
Watch this and please pass along: It all ties in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKDT7XwgMMo&sns=em
Hobbes Law? What are you talking about?
Thomas Hobbes was a 17th century philosopher and legal theorist. He had nothing of note to say about gases and containers.