Didn't anybody here learn accounting tools from Goldman, like they used to get Greece into the EU? It is acually quite simple. Just borrow shitloads of money at low interest rates and buy back your stock. As long as interest/refinancing is available at low rates, EPS goes up due to less shares. If interest rates go up, the companies might have to issue more stock at a low price, or in the worst case go bankrupt, but why worry about potential future problems when there are bonuses to be fabricated today?
The first guy to use the "If you like your........, you can keep your......... gag was a wit. Then next 100 were morons. Now it's just annoying. The down votes are for being a douchetard.
As long as central banks keep creating money from nothing and throwing it at banks and corporations with reckless abandon while said banks and corporations (and central banks) fuck over the citizenry the pell-mell gumball rally ride to perdition will continue.
He worked as a professional liar for his government. He admitted to telling his citizens lies. So I really don't care if they literally misquote him they are getting the big picture correct.
If you have facts to refute him, then share them with all or spare us your self-righteous interdictions to be shut up.. Your post is a waste of screen space and our time.
"But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the Great War on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to justice."
"All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods."
"It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."
"From time immemorial, however, the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race? And what a race! One of the greatest thinkers that mankind has produced has branded the Jews for all time with a statement which is profoundly and exactly true. He [Schopenhauer] called the Jew 'The Great Masters of the Lie.' Those who do not realize the truth of that statement, or do not wish to believe it, will never be able to lend a hand in helping truth to prevail" (p. 252-253).
Where is Slewie, anyway? Slewie The Pi-Rat, Francis_Sawyer, and Trav666 were provacative and outrageous, but they gave Zerohedge a genuine edginess that I sorely miss. They were completely politically incorrect fight-clubbers.
Rocky told us all multiple times why he was stepping back from posting on ZeroHedge (although he does appear now and then), and Trav got banned, as I felt he actually deserved for all the threads he totally hijacked, but whatever became of Slewie (who simply HAD to be semi-autistic, in a delightful kind of way) and some other former long-timers, I have no idea.
Have faith in endless printing to stay afloat.Relax.The stock market is everything to Greenspan and all his whacko Keynesian idiologists and holds the key to economic recovery.Didn't you know that if you throw enough money at something it's got to work?Only trouble with fractional reserve money printing experiment at the current levels is that the assets backing the debt are literal garbage and the FED has checked into the Roach Motel.Once you check in,you can't check out.If you try,some big cockroach with a Louisville slugger is going to waste ya when you walk out the door.
Just a random language note here. GDP. Gross Domestic Product. Domestic as opposed to international. Funny that we are talking about "world GDP". According to that, we should be using this information to help compare with trade flows to...? Mars? Alpha Centauri? We need to pay attention to the changes in our thought processes being required by this concept of the world as one large single market.
Do we really think habitual gamblers would ever be pessimistic except in the briefest of moments? I would be shocked to see any graph of stock market expectations that is not positive. It seems anyone short is routinely murdered, so of course it is up, up and away! Naysayers are constantly criticized as outliers and "the stopped clock is always right twice a day" theme invoked suggesting that any market downturns are but momentary "corrections" and not the norm or indicative of anything but "profit taking". What a fucking game!
Yes, I too was considering firing my remaining few employees and stiffing my suppliers and customers simply to experience the incredible high of a "profit". Its been too long.
Everything is so distored with all the "money printing" that both forecasts could go either way and the stock markets for major economies might still have a net positive year in 2014. Currency debasement is being partially hidden, while financial assets (other than precious metals) are the chosen outlet for financial inflation. It's a clusterfuck.
Gosh Dangit. How many times I gotta be telling you the S&P index has nothing to do with earnings any more. FED's got software and that is what controls the indexes. Most any programmer could do the same. I mean you would have to believe that after all the counterfeiting and comingling of funds that the FED has done that they would not simply take over the markets. I think they have in late December 2011.
Since when does a .3% drop in GDP equate to a 8% rise in earnings?
Because Obama.
Doesn't everyone believe in miracles?
Bernankenomics says the world is wrong, only The Bernanke is right...cognitive dissonance? What's that? - Ben
This chart is about as realistic as someone pissing and sneezing at the same time... its not possible and shit gets real messy real quick
Lever it 30:1 and you can get 9%.
Didn't anybody here learn accounting tools from Goldman, like they used to get Greece into the EU? It is acually quite simple. Just borrow shitloads of money at low interest rates and buy back your stock. As long as interest/refinancing is available at low rates, EPS goes up due to less shares. If interest rates go up, the companies might have to issue more stock at a low price, or in the worst case go bankrupt, but why worry about potential future problems when there are bonuses to be fabricated today?
gotta say it:
If you like your forecast, you can keep your forecast.
What's with the down votes,fucking libtards don't have a sense of humor.
The first guy to use the "If you like your........, you can keep your......... gag was a wit. Then next 100 were morons. Now it's just annoying. The down votes are for being a douchetard.
As long as central banks keep creating money from nothing and throwing it at banks and corporations with reckless abandon while said banks and corporations (and central banks) fuck over the citizenry the pell-mell gumball rally ride to perdition will continue.
Yea, but it's winter, cold and icy outside, and my balance isn't getting any better with each passing hungry day.
I hope you don't mind, but I've been using your posts to generate random hashes for cryptogenic purposes.
Please don't stop.
It will be what ever they want it to be.
Like the Nazi propagandist taught us.....keep telling the lie often enough and they will believe it.
Nien! Nien! Nien!
Herr Goebels nie gesagt, dass Sie mooken Idioten! Holen Sie es richtig oder halt die Fresse!
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Learn something??
He worked as a professional liar for his government. He admitted to telling his citizens lies. So I really don't care if they literally misquote him they are getting the big picture correct.
No.. Know your history or shut the fuck up!
If you have facts to refute him, then share them with all or spare us your self-righteous interdictions to be shut up.. Your post is a waste of screen space and our time.
goebels seems quaint compared with what we have now
Interesting. He was a fascist scumbag nonetheless, of course :-)
This is relevant because....????
Mein Kampf
"But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the Great War on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to justice."
"All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods."
"It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."
"From time immemorial, however, the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race? And what a race! One of the greatest thinkers that mankind has produced has branded the Jews for all time with a statement which is profoundly and exactly true. He [Schopenhauer] called the Jew 'The Great Masters of the Lie.' Those who do not realize the truth of that statement, or do not wish to believe it, will never be able to lend a hand in helping truth to prevail" (p. 252-253).
Careful there! You might find yourself sharing a non-ZH approved a cell with Francis Sawyer.
In death, a member of Project Zero Hedge has a name. His name is Francis Sawyer.
His name is Francis Sawyer!
Majority of the Jews stayed in Germany till it was to late to leave!
Majority of the stockholders will stay until it's to late!
Laws of human stupidity or hope?
Mark to fantasy forever!
/s
"You can ignore reality,but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality".
Tick tock.
If you are going to say it, say it right - tick tock motherfuckers.
Just being polite in case Santa is watching.
Amost tempted to short this 'market' , but thats as possible as Mr.Clauss.
The FedRes will annonce a Taper, and double down behind the scenes.
"The FedRes will annonce a Taper, and double down behind the scenes." -
yes. Whether or not you and I can profit from it is another question altogether.
The only Tapir that is true is the one on Trumps head.
Now it's time for a battle of the heavy weights, lets see who wins this one.
If you are going to say it, say it right - tick tock motherfuckers.
If you going to say it, say it right.
Tick Tock bitches.
"Bichez"
Where is Slewie, anyway? Slewie The Pi-Rat, Francis_Sawyer, and Trav666 were provacative and outrageous, but they gave Zerohedge a genuine edginess that I sorely miss. They were completely politically incorrect fight-clubbers.
Don't forget Rocky Raccoon
Rocky told us all multiple times why he was stepping back from posting on ZeroHedge (although he does appear now and then), and Trav got banned, as I felt he actually deserved for all the threads he totally hijacked, but whatever became of Slewie (who simply HAD to be semi-autistic, in a delightful kind of way) and some other former long-timers, I have no idea.
Looks totaly legit to me! We've got market wide 'valuations' 6X higher than 1990 levels, certainly the only place to go is UP UP UP reality be damned!
"X" Marks The Spot Of US Cognitive Dissonance.
You've been outed CD. That's what you get for being a guest poster.
Have faith in endless printing to stay afloat.Relax.The stock market is everything to Greenspan and all his whacko Keynesian idiologists and holds the key to economic recovery.Didn't you know that if you throw enough money at something it's got to work?Only trouble with fractional reserve money printing experiment at the current levels is that the assets backing the debt are literal garbage and the FED has checked into the Roach Motel.Once you check in,you can't check out.If you try,some big cockroach with a Louisville slugger is going to waste ya when you walk out the door.
Just a random language note here. GDP. Gross Domestic Product. Domestic as opposed to international. Funny that we are talking about "world GDP". According to that, we should be using this information to help compare with trade flows to...? Mars? Alpha Centauri? We need to pay attention to the changes in our thought processes being required by this concept of the world as one large single market.
Sorry, but paying attention is not allowed.
Please report to your nearest FEMA camp, ASAP!
I don't understand how both the S&P Forward 12 mo EPS estimate and the Negative to Positve guidance ratio can be correct. I'm talking about this chart from several days ago: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-09/seeking-guidance#comment-4231106
Anyone?
Thanks
"I see nothing wrong from where I sit." - Cognitive Dissonance
Quoting Ben Bernanke again I see. Too much of that mountain air?
I'm Gellin' for Yellen.
What does Mrs. Cog think about that?
Mrs. Cog just rolls her eyes when I say something corny like that. She knows nobody is interested in an old broken down fuddy duddy like me.
<Except her of course. And I count my lucky stars nightly for that.> :)
Like a fellon?
Do we really think habitual gamblers would ever be pessimistic except in the briefest of moments? I would be shocked to see any graph of stock market expectations that is not positive. It seems anyone short is routinely murdered, so of course it is up, up and away! Naysayers are constantly criticized as outliers and "the stopped clock is always right twice a day" theme invoked suggesting that any market downturns are but momentary "corrections" and not the norm or indicative of anything but "profit taking". What a fucking game!
YES!!!!
Today: The Dow has always been 16000. Tomorrow: The Dow has always been 6000
+1 for Orwellian goodness.
+2 for DoublePlusGood-ness, the highest praise possible.
W. Smith
1984
Lay off enough people and earnings can still increase even with a reduction in GDP --
At least until it doesn't.
Yes, I too was considering firing my remaining few employees and stiffing my suppliers and customers simply to experience the incredible high of a "profit". Its been too long.
Let me tell you baby, you ain't nothin but a two-bit, no-good jive.
Went to sleep last night, worked as hard as I can,
Bring home my money, you take my money, give it to another man.
I should have quit you, baby, such a long time ago...
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg.
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg.
The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
sounds like a melon, a lemon has more savvy.
A bowler hat of banker is the best melon in town!
Tis the season to believe, in God's work.
buy back enough shares, ... yes.
Hot chocolate anyone?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOl4oeHZnBk
Everything is so distored with all the "money printing" that both forecasts could go either way and the stock markets for major economies might still have a net positive year in 2014. Currency debasement is being partially hidden, while financial assets (other than precious metals) are the chosen outlet for financial inflation. It's a clusterfuck.
Eric Dubin, Managing Editor, TheNewsDoctors.com
Divergence, bitcheez.
Put a few stars on that chart and the south will rise again!
Why not?
The South was right!
Enlighten yourselves
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/10/23/rising-energy-costs-lead-to-recession-eventually-collapse/
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/12/06/diminishing-returns-energy-return-on-energy-invested-and-collapse/
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/10/14/two-views-of-our-current-economic-and-energy-crisis/
Gosh Dangit. How many times I gotta be telling you the S&P index has nothing to do with earnings any more. FED's got software and that is what controls the indexes. Most any programmer could do the same. I mean you would have to believe that after all the counterfeiting and comingling of funds that the FED has done that they would not simply take over the markets. I think they have in late December 2011.
I need my perception managed to lift my spirits but cannot bear the nonsense on the tv anymore.
So its off to the package store for some spirits to lift my perception.