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If We All Move To Montana There Will Be No Slowdown
We have explained the linkage between an inflating Federal Reserve balance sheet; the intended consequence of that excess (fungible) reserve liquidity leaking into non-printable assets; and that energy costs (and gas prices implicitly) are the end-game 'regulator' of that excess as they crush (again and again) the hopes of multiple-expansion-based equity strategies. However, even as prices of Gas surge once again towards the critical $3.80 level that has capped rallies in the last 5 years, the WSJ notes that Montana and Wyoming are still seeing prices below $3.25. Of course this is all just transitory - as we are told time after time - but the reason it is reflexively transitory is simply because of the effect on all the red states in the chart below driving consumers to cutback. Transitory, yes; slow-down-inducing for sure; the only thing that stops the world's central bankers going into a printing frenzy, absolutely.
If only we all moved to Montana or Wyoming, there'd be no slowdown?
and as a reminder... why this matters...
Source: WSJ
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I hear it is nice in Montana in the Spring. Sounds like a plan, Tyler. Everyone to the Montana side of the boat...NOW!
And I will have a round American woman and raise rabbits and she will cook them for me.
Nice Hunt for Red October reference.
"I would have liked to have seen Montana" he said with his last, dying breath.
Why is it that in American movies Russian/Soviet characters have British accents?
<Never mind. It makes just as much sense as anything else I see on a daily basis these days.>
Christ, I'm going to be lucky to make it to Texas, nevermind Montana.
I dream of placing my hands on Orly's chicken breasts.
Note: Texas may morph into the next Socialist state as Kalifornians relocate to Texas. Texas should have set up policies to both the hoard of liberals relocating to Texas. As more liberals vote in Texas, the more likely it will elect liberal polticians.
Obama declared TX as the a new battleground state. Colbert just had Jeremy Bird on, the Obama campaign "mastermind", who is focusing on turning Texas into a blue state (Battleground Texas http://battlegroundtx.com/ )
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/424178/february-2...
Just reinforcing your point...
If only it wasn't colder than my ex-wife's chriveled up rock of a heart in Montana in the winter .....
Yep, happened in Colorado.
Sad, isn't it?
After witnessing the disaster of the blue presidency of G. W. Bush, I look around and all the Texas big cities have big blue mayors. They have an inrush of blue state voters from across the US and blue voters from Mexico. The restraints on government will not last very long as the limited government oldsters die off and the blue hoards sag what's left. ND and MT - I just wish they weren't so freakin' cold.
We got the turd-world die-verse-it-tie goin on down hya, pardner! Two Mestizos/Blacks for every Euro, a large and growing Asian population, and the and traffic cams are everywhere. We still got our guns, for now, so come on down where it's "free"!
After 30 years of immigration laws demanding that all legal immigrants be non white, and 30 years of encouraged illegal immigration from South of the border....what did you think was going to happen ?
You may regret that, they seem a bit cold and hard to me. ;-)
Miffed:-)
+1
Why is it that in American movies Russian/Soviet characters have British accents?
Because otherwise you end up with whatever it was that Harrison Ford was doing in "K19: The Widowmaker."
Why do American film directors seem to feel that the ancient Romans all spoke with British accents as well?
I wouldn't mind it so much if the typical British accent were not so mushy and mealy-mouthed --- every time a Brit comes on the screen, I have to double the volume and strain just to try to understand what the Hell they are saying. If it's a damned Aussie, I just give up and turn it off; what those people do to vowels should be against the Geneva Convention.
I once worked with a Scot and needed a translator. Couldn't understand a damned thing he ever said.
I once worked with a Texan in a very analogous situation.
The guy was nice as could be, and not uneducated by any means, but DAMN did he have a thick accent!
In the last 20 years...most of the Russians' English teachers were from British Isles.
And a pickup truck.
Split into two "USA's.
Central (conservative) and Coastal (liberal).
Central for production. Manufacturing and Agriculture.
Coastal for.....tourism??....welfare.
Split into 2x3 or 3x3 regions! With real money. 95% of global problems solved.
... maybe even a "recreational vehicle."
"And I will have a round American woman and raise rabbits "
And I will love him and pet him...and I will never stroke his fur backwards...and I shall name him George.
Yes, but im afraid if we all move there it will sink into the ground, and we will all be buried alive.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
No papers?? What kind of science fiction movie is this??
Missoula, bitches!
We can all gather on my ranch and hang up a flag that says F U Bernanke!
Spring in Montana starts in July...just sayin'
And winter starts on Labor Day.
I am moving to Montana soon gone be Dental Floss tycon:))
Raising it up... waxing it down.
Just me and my pygmy pony, over by the dental floss.......bush.
A nod to the Great Frank Zappa is always welcome.
HFT induced market spasms, panic and bobblehead chatter, Frank made the soundtrack along time ago.... When Yuppies go to Hell.
If you find the city of tiny lights let me know, I'll head out right away.
Same whipping post.
Different state.
Don't forget your pair of heavy-duty zircon-encrusted tweezers!
Stupid foreigners question: Are sales taxes included?
There are various taxes included. It varies state by state and will seem minor compared to the EU.
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/web_gas_taxes.php
There are no stupid foreigners questions...just stupid foreigners.
Before all of the people who live in literalville beat me up that was just a joke...get your panties out of a wad.
No sales tax in Montana.
I suspect this will be the last time we see widespread $3.xx gas nationwide.
<Ready or not here comes $4.xx.>
Hey C.D. - Will not goto $4 in FL, price controls in effect.
Or... anarchy bitchez.
NY and CA, you get what you deserve. $6/gallon coming soon.
Yes it is, and we certainly do. The outcry will be epic all the same just you wait.
Bush will be blamed and for some reason the answer will be accepted. Kleptocracy be damned.
I can hear it now.
Taxes had to be raised, to pay for the entitlements, that increased during the recession, that BUSH caused.
"The outcry will be epic all the same just you wait."
Change!!!!
Luckily, my car is parked 95% of the time--I commute by subway--so $6 gas is certainly doable...
Yeh, but think of the increased cost to transport food/booze into NYC. You will get hit in other ways....Bloomberg will ensure that.
Montana needs cheap gas because it's 300 miles to the supermarket for a lot of the farmers.
Fuck Montana...Simon Black told me to buy a ranch in Chile...or move to Somefuckistan.
"We" are not the demographic Simon Black is looking for. Move along.
<Neither is he.>
Simon wants me to put all of my gold out of my reach so that when the final USSA lock-down is implemented, I cannot get at it. Sounds great, but I smell a rat ....
I don't think the Montanans want the rest of us showing up there. And of the 300 million guns in the country I suspect an outsized proportion of those will be found locked and loaded at the gates into the country of big sky.
INFLATION IS HAPPENING...$6 this summer! Note useage is at 1980 level...but massive money printing is already pushing everything up!
I buy a york peppermint patty from time to time at checkout. Not more than a year ago, they were $.49. The price went to $.79, but it was buy one get one free... for a few weeks... then the price stayed at $.79. 6 months later, the same process at $.99. Two nights ago it was $1.19 (buy one, get one free... but that'll last a week). Pretty remarkable, really.
It's costing alot more to get the sensation these days.
Did you save any of the wrappers of old? Check the weight. One supposes they are getting smaller/thinner/lighter while the price is going up.
And "chocolate" is probably now relegated to one of the "artificial flavors".
At least there is no (well -- little) risk of finding any horse meat in there so you have that going for you.
Guy in Walmart today asked me where to find a 12 pack of soda instead of the 8 packs. I told him he better be checking for 12oz cans also.
What the hell is up with those tiny cans? Americans keep getting bigger but our containers of food keep shrinking.
I notice lately the BudLight billboard ads in my town are extolling the virtues of their spiffy new "Platinum" brew in the "slim" can.
Budweiser is the King of Korn. They have new gadget cans about twice a year. Some of the innovations are just too stupid to believe sometimes. Their target market segment must be "morons". I someday expect a can with a digital liquid level readout. Or it will talk to you when it's empty; "Time for another Budweiser, homie!" except in whatever language is dominant in your community according to your GPS location.
But back to my point: I think the slim can is about delivering less product. Pretty soon all their cans will be "slim", they'll charge the same amount per can, and they'll sell more cans but not more beer. Which is fine because the beer is cold piss.
You weren't listening.
It's transitory.
I was listening, what I'd heard was transitory.
Herd the sheeple up to the caldera.
I can't wait until Ben introduces Negative Interest Rates, like the Bank of England is currently mulling, and other countries already have implemented.
http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/02/27/bank-of-england-policymakers-consider-...
"Bernanke is sticking with his guns"
If there was ever a person who needs their guns confiscated it's the Bernank.
What do the Juice need guns for when they have congress, lawyers, lobbyists and the entire world banking apparatus on their side?
They have the MSM and most of the Christian churches captured, too. The only thing they lack control of just now is the military services, though they are doing a fine job of destroying it through feminism.
And the Gayocracy.
I can't believe how many times I got passed over for women who had 1/3rd of the scores I had.
Glad to have gotten out, I was done wasting my time and risking my life to destabilize other countries for the benefit of Israel.
....speaking of which, maybe I should've served in their military. I could be mayor of Chicago by now.
Way to go, Ben! When you were installed as Fed Chairman on Feb 1, 2006, the price of gold was $568. It's a thousand dollars higher now--WAY TO GO, BEN!!
And in Feb 2006, a barrel of oil cost $61 and a gallon of gas averaged $2.31. Now oil is $93 and gasoline is at record highs everywhere. WAY TO GO, BEN!!
In Feb 2006, the US govt could only afford to finance two wars. Now we can finance six, even seven! WAY TO GO, BEN!
In 2006, the Fed's balance sheet was a piddly $800 billion---Today it's FOUR times that big. WAY TO GO! Incompetent crooked rat bastard.....
Hey, Kroog...if you're going to kiss his behind, please don't do it publicly.
"In 2006, the Fed's balance sheet was a piddly $800 billion---Today it's FOUR times that big"
More like 15 times, if you include the $9T that is missing and off the Feds balance sheet:
9 TRILLION Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve Federal Inspector General (Alan Grayson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3BmhhWFFQh
" Incompetent crooked rat bastard"
Incompetant? Nah, He just following orders.
FWIW: Just before Bernanke gave his infamous helocopter speech, Gold was at $300/oz and Oil was below $30 (back in 2002). US Manufacturing was about 20% of the US economy, today is less than 5%.
Montana and Wyoming are beautiful if you don't mind a few ICBM silos here & there.
Those ICBM silos over there? It just means you are safer...
Wow, Montana must be terror free!
These silos have very thick walls for a reason.
I live in Maryland but I go to Virginia somewhat frequently. I used to live in North Carolina and I had all the cheapest gas stations along I-95 memorized. Gas is literally 30-35 cents cheaper, not because it gets transported to either state differently, but because of fucktarded liberal taxes. When I do go I make sure I fill up at my preferred station as I enter the state and definitely right before I leave. The $2-3 difference means a lot added up over time. Make sure to bring the gas cans for the tractor and weedwacker, that makes a difference too and feel better (not good, just a little better) knowing your taxes are going to a conservative state where the roads actually get paved instead of getting used as kickbacks to the teacher's unions.
Hey! Is this an election map with the colors switched. Funny how the states that tax fuel delivery, fuel dispensing, fuel usage, and have higher property taxes and environmental regulations on gas stations and refineries just by chance have higher gas prices? Or is this just a plot by rich Republican oil barrons to stick it to voters on the other side of the aisle?
If everyone moves to Montana, it will turn into California!
correct me if I"m wrong, but if we kill all of the golfers...
Anyone here live in AZ? I went over the past summer and talked to a guy at his shop for a good 20 minutes. Naturally we got on the topic about taxes and regulation (I tend to ask people how business is going, try it, SMB owners love when you ask, most of them)
He mentioned how about 15 years ago he moved from CA to AZ to avoid taxes, regulations and live a freer life, but now with so many more fleeing California (often not knowing the reason(s) why, but going anyway or making up some other excuse) he said they're coming over, getting involved in politics and enacting the exact same bullshit that has/is/will bankrupt the state they just fled.
It's sad really. If any border control is needed in the US it's to keep Californians and New Englanders out of everywhere else.
Arizona gave the world Janet Napolitano.
Lib states who voted for the current POTUS really paying for it now....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lived there, the weather chased me off, that and uncle sending me to Korea
North or South Korea ?
Long sod huts on the northern prairie.
NO, NO, NO.
It's awful here!!
Don't come.
It's cold, and windy, and there are dangerous animals everywhere!
STAY AWAY!
That's what the Vikings who wanted their freedom and independence said about Iceland. It is cold though.
Yes, for Heaven's sake, don't come to Montana. It's been 40 below zero since Thanksgiving and the snow is ass deep to a tall Indian. Yes, there are real Indians! Scalp your ass if you ain't careful.
"ass deep to a tall Indian."
Haven't heard that one in decades! Made me smile.
My upbringing was about as far away from PC as you can get without actually belonging to the local chapter of the Order of the KKK. Some great memories tho. Rough people living in a rough world, made me what I am though they probably wouldn't have me now. And they call themselves rednecks.
How about hub deep on a Ferris Wheel? My maternal great-grandfather was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan until my father (a Catholic) got his oldest granddaughter (my mother) pregnant. Grandpa had to resign because there were no Negros or Jews to harass the local Klavern had to settle for the odd Catholic. Ended the Klan in that part of the Corn Belt. You can't make this stuff up!
Montana and Wyoming have cheap gas primarily because they are tied to the Canadian crude oil market as their primary supply. Canadian crude prices are depressed with a discount of $30-40/bbl off WTI because of export constraints (e.g. Keystone XL delays). Thus refineries in these states can buy cheap oil and thus make cheap gas.
Can I drink the water in Montana - or is 85% of it still polluted from willy nilly mining interests that didn't give a fuck?
Land aint worth SHIT without potable water.