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Did Rupert Murdoch Top Tick The Market Again?
Presented with little comment, aside to observe the deal's ridiculous 12.6x EBITDA multiple, even higher than the record median LBO multiples we noted recently.
h/t UBS Art Cashin via Financial Insyghts LLC
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Say it ain't so!!
No one can top-tick this market.... its invincable and full on retarded..
I'm sure there have been some other acquisitions along the way not pictured on that chart.
<< I'm sure there have been some other acquisitions along the way not pictured on that chart. >>
Absolutely correct! I bought 10 shares of NE ...not shown on the chart.
There's a new sheriff in town. His name is Satoshi. You can all get along or you can get movin' along.
Meet the New Boss - same as the old boss...
-The Who
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Same as it Ever was...
-Talking Heads
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The Song remains the same...
-Led Zep
yeah...but everybody knows you never go full-retard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y3FzVQi-R8
its invincable and full on retarded..
gh0atrider
Nope it isn't.
What can you buy tulips for now? Inflation adjusted to 1637 of course.
^^^
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England’s Dark Secret: GCHQ Internet Platform Practices Dark ArtsNo, he did not. This frankenmarket will run like a fucking zombie for years.
Al i junked u for not saying decades.
Fair enough, that was a clear oversight on my part. I hope the S&P dips to 1976 today, I reaally want to buy, but I don't want to overpay.
besides, old ruppert probably access to printing press money, so taking a loss means nothing... his job is to acquire everything he can, and starve out the real humans.
Once everyone says uncle, and only the select are in position to profit, the flash crash coming is going to dwarf 2008. That's my looney opinion and I'm sticking to it.
Umm ya about those builders...
UPDATE 1-JPMorgan pulls back from mortgage lending on foreclosure worries
| Reuters
But sentiment in builders is strong LAMO what a friggen farce!
The world is a farce at the moment (has it been that way forever?!?) yet it remains intact. The only thing I see falling down around me are the logical and sane, the inane and farcical stand tall! Besides, those builders are just taking the advice of Obama.... Hopefully (haha) this is the last dose of hopium?
Common sense, brains, and cunning
used to be immensely helpful in
"the survival of the fittest" —
I dread the loss of those attributes THIS evolutionary cycle !
From your article:
"This could reduce the number of first-time buyers and slow the speed with which people who lost their homes during the crisis can become homeowners again," said Mayer.
Yes, lets work hard and speedy to allow them to borrow again! The problem has not gone away when you keep handing out things with unrealistic terms [like zero down] to people who cannot afford them. On th eother hand, the people houls know better then to buy something they cannot afford. Who would want that lead-weight-debt around their neck nagging them 24/7 for years to come?
Good article Bill of Rights. I did not know they were actually pulling back that much...the tide is turning looks like with negative psychological momentum...maybe due to the losses JPM sees coming and the possibility a Hank Paulson won't be there to bail them out.
"On Tuesday, the bank posted a $74 million loss from making mortgages in the second quarter, compared with $566 million of income in the same quarter last year. The bank has said it expects to lose money making home loans for the full year."
I do see the market slowin gin my area and people are syaing it's more difficult getting a mortgage. Signs for "SOLD" houses sit there for months as buyers haggle with nakers and sales people ... struggling to get on of those 3.5% down loans (they probably cannot afford).
Doesn't Obama still have to work on forgiven students loans before they can buy a house?
The price paid for the company he's acquiring is irrelevant. The price he pays for the money he's using to buy it is what matters. And that price is low.
He doesn't pay for it at all, he has no risk, but will reap any benefits
he is a dirty old bastard
looks like greenspan's lost twin...
So Zimbabwe it is then...
Fuck.
As the dollar goes, so goes the country. Otherwise, what are we going to buy our foreign oil with?
everyone hates the federal reserve. wont the death of the dollar be the rebirth of the US, which died in 1913? I think it will be a good thing. A painful thing, but a good thing none the less.
A lot of people are going to die when the dollar finally cracks up. It is our use of oil that has allowed us to become so disconnected from our food that the petrodollar system props up. You are going to see the veneer of civilization get stripped off. That's not a good thing.
If you include the fat fucks riding scooters in Walmart as part of the veneer, I say we can use a little bit less of it. Long handi vans to keep the veneer of civilization buying nutrition free food at Wally World.
When the dollar fails, we'll then see how much of our wealth is from theft. Won't be pretty. Like a drunk thrown out of the house.
yes Law, yes
why not start a new company with a 40 billion blanc cheque?
I mean...
you can build 5 mars colonies with that kind of money...
or fund the deficit for... 2 weeks?
new company or new country?
The BID was not hit, so clearly we have higher to go.
So Rupert Murdick owns Chris-Craft? Tells me what maker of boats I WON'T be buying, ever!
EDIT: Chris-Craft, Inc. is a privately held American manufacturer of civilian powerboats based in Sarasota, Florida.
Funny the Wiki listing makes no reference to being owned by Murdick.
I, too, assumed the boating company. Chart should clarify name as Chris-craft Industries, Inc. See this article:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-08-13/news/0008130309_1_united-t...
Hopefully this is like the AOL merger that popped the Nasdaq bubble,
PS got to be a special place in hell reserved for Murdoch after the Iraq war cheerleading in his entities, so he has that to look forward to...
The Fed is not putting enough money into the banking system to support the stock market anymore. Going forward they will put in less. Or hide it and that means it will go to fewer entities. Either way, there will be no general support left for this bubble. The economy itself is sure the hell not going to hold it up. The market only cares about easy money. You need collateral to borrow easy money. You need public QE to get free money spread to all bankers. This market is not supportable because both are gone or going away.
And the unfortunate truth of this system is that there is no way to stem the selling in a corrupt system that allows unlimted creation and selling of all paper assets. The Fed and the Treasury do not have enough bandwidth to prop this up when it starts dropping. On top of that, down is faster and easier than up.
We'll always have Belgium....
Ever been to Bruges?
Lovely.
I am planning a visit to walk through the rubble when this is over. There will be smaller crowds.
<< down is faster and easier than up. >>
Truer words have never been said!
http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/the-feds-stealth-tightening
When VCs value companies like UBER for $200 Billion you know your fiat money is essentially worthless, unless of course you're smart enough to trade it in for something non-fiat before the muppets realize this fact too.
THAT is the problem! There is noting left to buy. You cannot get gold in large weights and companies are over priced.
Sheeples are not going to buy gold in large weights.
lol @ chris craft, obviously he's not a seasoned boater...
Never enough storage space. They're convinced if they cut a single hole in the deck to put in a storage area, the boat will instantly sink. Of course, nobody else has that problem, but that's their story and they're sticking to it.
He must have lots of gold
Price would include a ton of intellectual property not directly revenue producing and that's exactly why he would bid at all, but yes, just possibly yes it's a Sign of Doom.
I hope AOL comes in with a competing bid.
Oh no he didn't!
WTF is Rupert Murdoch again?
Ahem,
"Oh no he d'int!"
Thank you sir/madam. :-)
That deal never would have been inked - antitrust.
Did the market not understand this, or, am I not understanding something about the market {hey man... very possible, I'm first to admit and part of why I'm here}
or, am I not understanding something...
goldman sachs et al are doing the financing
What if this is a false flag offer? Time Warner hovered between 60 and 73 USD for more than a year now. Today "stable" between 81.50 and 84 USD
Options expire this Saturday. How much money do you think one could have made just by buying a ton of call options on the days leading up to yesterday?
TWX JUL14 75C was 0.05 USD yesterday. Today: 8 USD....
A factor of 160 (something like 6500% in ONE day!!!).
Don't you think he had some middlemen put some chips on that table before announcing his "intentions"?
WTF.
when the 0.01% pay -0- interest, what difference does 12.6x EBITDA multiple make?
Go Rupert! (u POS) buy! buy! buy!
'Top tick' apparently meaning maybe a .5% decline followed immediately by new highs the next day?
We don't let 80 year olds do much around here, and we certainly would never let an 80 year old man spend Eighty billion dollars, on anything.
Your point is absolutely valid but he is one wealthy bugger despite consistently buying at the top.
Your point is absolutely valid but he is one wealthy bugger despite consistently buying at the top.