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Total Chaos: Massive Market Moves Spark Selling-Panic Into Close
Perhaps this sums up the day for many FX, bond, equity, and oil traders today...
Incredible Volatility today - 100 point roundtrip in the S&P, and 800 points in the Dow - all driven by a halt in Ruble Trading, the European close, and Kuwait pissing on the US market's fireworks...
Today's melt-up into the European close was the biggst of the year...
Freight Train Rally - now at a record speed for this time of day for 2014: $ES_F $SPY pic.twitter.com/dNx1H20p1e
— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) December 16, 2014
And the volatility was incredible across the entire US equity market - as the S&P ramp ran stops to yesterday's highs then gave it all back...again around the EU close
Close-up on S&P 500 e-minis... the machines ran all the stops everywhere today...
A massive roundtrip in cash markets...
Leaving most of the major indices down over 5% from all-time-highs...
Financials starting to show some risk...
The Russian markets dominated headlines...
but the US credit markets were more worrisome as it appears the risk has finally started to appear in the investment-grade credit market.
High yield bond yields hit 2-year highs... and spreads to 18 month wides...
And Investment Grade credit has become infected...
Longer-term...
Every asset class underwent a roller-coaster...
Treasury yields fell 10ps, rose 10bps then fell 8bps...
and the Treasury yield curve is following the exact smae trajectory as it did into the last recession/tightening..
Silver and Gold pumped and dumped.. as oil dumped and pumped and dumped...
FX markets turmoiled leasving the USD lower on the day but USDJPY wa sin charge of stocks - and major unwinds into the close - which is very unusual ahead of FOMC tomorrow and Japan tonioght
Across the asset classes today - these were the events..
Finally we wonder... who was this mysterious $3.7 billion trader today...
Take a look at these 31 $SPY trades today worth $3.7 billion. Anyone know what they are from? pic.twitter.com/EGIdCHiNDG
— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) December 16, 2014
But don;t forget...
— Not Jim Cramer (@Not_Jim_Cramer) December 16, 2014
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Jingle Janet, central plan-it, rate hikes all the way!
Oh what fun, it is to trade, when Bullard saves the day, HEY!
We need more debt,more printing,more nail guns and more total f$$$$$g idiots in charge immediately.
Kevin took the afternoon off.
That's a print! LOL!!!
Based on careful and diligent reading here at ZH for nigh on half a decade now, my opinion is that this is how the markets should have looked for years.
So why now?
There are no more cleanest dirty shirts. Only debt.
China + Japan (now both in full blown economic contraction as measured in real terms) are leading the way in what is the next global economic crisis, although they'll be getting a huge assist from the EU (PIIGS+FUK), India, Russia, Brazil, Australia, Canada...and the U.S.
This is what happens when China boils its books, Japan goes Full Krugman Retard, and the U.S., UK and much of the EU block of Member States wipe out the formerly large % of their consuming population that used to comprise their middle class.
Retail massacre (brick & mortar AND e-tailers) happens like never before after this Christmas, then the historic real slam-down in equities, bonds and other credit instruments floated on a sea of CB liquidity follows.
There is so much empty air propping up all "asset" valuations (especially vaporware equity and HY bond asset classes), it's like a house built on a foundation of whipped cream (or cards)...
Worse than 1999, worse than 2007...we now not only have overly-indebted slaves by the record full, and massively over-inflated equity/bond/RE valuations, but the middle class has already been decimated.
+1 for this phrase alone: "Japan goes Full Krugman Retard"
December "1+6th" = Lagarde's "7."
BINGO
This article reminds me of something that has a maximum RPM, and once that RPM is exceeded, the failure is catostrophic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUpnPAMDLY8
I've been seeing a few "dominoes" videos trying to descibe the markets, but I think your analogy is much more profound El Vaq.
I suppose that means that I have more reloading to do.
Where show we lay the blame for the panic described in this article?
It's too early to blame on the weather, and Putin puts up too much of a fight.
So we clearly have to blame this on Mohammed Islam and the $72 million "and it's gone". Expect a sharp drop in consumer sentiment too because the dream is gone.
Could it be that someone is trying to trigger some CDS conditions so they can try to get them backed by the US Government which just happens to be one in the same with the US taxpayer?
It could also be that reality is finally starting to assert itself despite all of the manipulation.
… the next thing you’ll be telling me is that There Ain’t No Santa !
All I can say is the graphic strip on the main page that shows a unicorn throating a big rainbow coloured dong was about as weird an image as a guy can handle. Stop messing with my fragile brain Tyler!!!
The France-UK-United States Alliance is in deep shit.
Bullish for squiggly lines
The FUKUS Alliance? Oh dear, we're truly...
I thought the unicorn was puking the rainbow. Oh well, it works either way.
He's saying, "dudes, I don't feel so good", in chunk form.
Now that's funny right there.
When the market moves against you, it's manipulated, and when it moves in the direction you expect, it's "asserting itself despite all the manipulation".
Yep.
I think you got something there, ye SoberOne
We should continue to consult the " Orange Oracle” for further clues.
Feels panicky
Gap down 10% wouldn't shock me....just at the Oct low
please, do a favor to all rationalist decartes based brains, take your numbers logic, put in your fuck ASS and GO FUCK YOURSELF AWAY YOU FUCKING MONGOLOID FUCK
I kind of liked the foundation of whipped cream.
"Japan goes Full Krugman Retard"
Shorten it to "Full Krutard" and that could catch on!
"Japan goes Full Krugman Retard"
Shorten it to "Full Krutard" and that could catch on!
Yeah, as in don't be a Krugtard?
Very well put, TIS.
Very good post, I must say. Many +++'s.
TIS +100. You forgot the most important part. We the taxpayers are now on the hook for all of this shit. The banksters have just been ah waitin for these dumb ass politicians to pass the shit.
The problem that arises, is that the taxpayers have nowhere near the means to pay. It seems as though the rest of the world is just now realizing this. May you live in interesting times.
In fact, there are nowhere near enough physical assets on the planet to underpin the non-gaap valuations claimed by the banksters at current accounting.
It's OK, we have the Fed, right? Right.
Yeah, TIS. Aesop saw this coming, huh? He warned us as children that the farmer would eventually kill the goose that laid golden eggs. He was right, of course.
Exactly. We always knew it would happen, just not when. Is now the "when"?
Are the wager windows open for where war starts first? Are all bets on Ukraine?
War always gets put on the table...if war destroys the economic power of an enemy, and then the victor can get raw materials (and durable goods) cheaper as the spoils of war I get it.
But is that on the table this time around? It's not like we're going to go loot a couple trillion in gold from some Peruvian mountain top. Ukraine? There's no spoils there (except a damn lot of hot women) from a financial perspective. Iraq? Sure...the whole US$ King Currency is at stake with the PetroDollar. And, at $18 T and counting on the US DebtClock....wow, debt is what you go INTO when you get in a big war. We're already up to our eyeballs.
if Putin gets any more desperate, then count on him being willing to play war games over Ukraine.....truth, none of us can afford a real war.
And I'd add there's zero chance the US will ever harvest raw materials from Russia, ever. Both countries will be smouldering ruins before that happens.
I honestly don't get the US endgame here, unless it's to create a cover for the implosion of the USD.
US and western powers don't like that Russia isn't under their thumb like the rest of the world. History shows the west doesn't think things through to the endgame, its kicking the can down the road and avoiding consequences as long as possible, by any means possible.
"truth, none of us can afford a real war."
Tell that to congress, the president, the bankers and the MIC. Even if it stayed conventional, and even if there was very little in the way of fighting in the US, it would destroy this country.
The USSR was one of the "victors" of WW2, and they were barely better off afterward, than those that were defeated. Putin is doing a lot of saber-rattling, after the fashion of the North Koreans, but open war isn't in the cards.
Putin's best bet is to stall for time, as every minute the US doesn't attack makes the US weaker. The US knows it's window is closing, and all it needs is a good (lame) excuse...like a bully shoving David Carradine and saying, "You bumped into me, now I'm gonna kick your ass!" . These are dangerous times.
Ukraine is too obvious.
Kudos, Tyler! My new, most favorite ZH pic.
That photo is revolting and analogous to the USA
vomiting all their cookies all over the Russian Federation.
NOTE: When the projectile vomiting starts it is a clear signal that the party is over.
p.s. America ain't getting laid tonight IMHO.
And we just took 1.1 trillion (FRN printing) Viagra. Great.
And all this liquidity should not be released, to not cause inflation...
Yuk
If the guy is vomiting, why are the other three people opening their mouths so wide?!?
Is that a new game or something?
My gues is that it was taken during an amusement park ride. He barfed at the moment they snapped the photo they try to sell you. Why else would a fully grown man barf like that even if alcohol is involved?
They want us to buy Treasuries.
I'm hoping for a bounce tomorrow so I can cash in my measly calls and add to my huge put position on DIA. Load-em-up!
Be careful
PE reset can be wicked
Neg pe to Less neg pe is a bitch
This all looks like the end result of unintended cocksequences.
3.7 b as in big ones out the door. wow, smart money avoiding the trample, ha...
Cashing in my winnings and hitting the mountains - bitchez!
It's all Bullshit!!!
If the economy was a dead patient he just got shock paddled...
This is total chaos which is soon going to spin into Tanks in the Ukraine.
Don't mix Ukraine with monetization. These are two different topics.
Only if you don't connect the dots...the one is largely symptomatic of the other.
in a military industrialized complex
if you can no longer industrialize
first you monetize
then you militarize
One enables the other.
Back to the classroom for you.
Escrava: Follow these directions.
1. Take a crayon out of the box. Any crayon will do.
2. There are two dots on the paper (Uke-war) and (debt blow-up). Connect the dots.
3. You may use either end of the crayon.
Ukraine is control of the pipeline. West doesn’t want Russia to own the oil and natural gas as well as the pipelines.
Monetization has to happen; otherwise US Empire collapses and America will go hungry.
Russia doesn’t care how much dollar US prints. Russia doesn’t want the dollar anymore.
Ukraine is not about gas, nor pipeline. Similar to Iraq was not about WMD. Look for better information.
Bioscale
So, what is yours?
Here is mine:
http://michael-hudson.com/2014/12/pipeline-politics/
It all comes down to money, which is power and control
Wrong!
Power!
Money and control are byproducts of power.
One can get you the other. It's a two way street with money and power.
El Vaquero
If the last two things in the world were $1 million dollars and a loaded gun.
And the choice is yours. Which one would you take?
That's a very unrealistic hypothetical situation that you've got there. In the real world, if you have a millions of dollars, you can buy several guns and hire people to act as your bodyguard. Or you can buy a congresscritter. Power can get you money and money can buy you power. It is a two way street, and no false hypothetical situation is going to change that.
"congresscritter" lol, I'm stealing this from you.
there was power
before money..
first there were psychopaths, that begat power, that begat money, to begat moar power
So, let's use Vietnam or Mongolia.
They both print money. Where are their powers?
Or say when Colombo came to America. The indigenous didn’t care for his money. So Colombo took them by force.
So, in that case, When Money Dies, I want to be in the possession of that loaded gun.
And that still does not change the fact that if I have enough money, I can bribe congress. Congress is bought off all the time by a lot of different entities, or do you want to argue that it is not? Because buying congress off is using money to buy power. Congress uses its power to get money and bankers use their money to buy power. Or do you want to argue that this isn't so and have me go back though the ZH archives about contributions from the FIRE industry and who voted for the Cromnibus bill?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-13/democrats-who-voted-cromnibus-r...
That is a case of using money to buy power. Or do you want to argue it is not so? You can make up all of the hypothetical situations in the world to justify your position, but there are real world examples showing that money and power are a two way street. If your model does not match the real world, it's not the real world that is wrong.
I find ironic that many Hedgers are against money printing but, finds money powerful.
Anyway, sorry if I didn’t make myself clear: Power will be the last one standing.
Not money. Not gold. And not God.
And it will be required of you...... Not that you don’t know that.
No, no, no. Lets go back to Darwin.
The strongest (most powerful) are not always the ones to survive, it is the most adaptable. Power is often a matter of circumstance, when the circumstances change so does the nature power.
Often the inverse can occur and the adaptations that were so successful in the old environment become a burden in the new paradigm.
Adaptablity is the best recipe for long term success, "specialization is for insects".
hobopants
Great correlation by using “The Most Adaptable”, by Darwin.
The new norm will be harsh and harsher, so money won’t be able to cover for the ones left behind.
When people realized survival is the final frontier, it is the end; the vast majority of the industrialized society will be finished.
But you can’t say that. Even worse, you can’t even think of that…. Even when that it is staring at us.
So what are those in power going to pay the military/police that keep them in power ?
Exactly my point! It's my theory that those in charge will not cope well with the changes coming to a city near you. They are specialized parasites, the most inadaptable of all organisms.
Yet in most collapses... the 'official' thugs rule because they can & do take what they want and need given the power they have eg ZIM property confiscated, USA asset forfeiture, Nazis c/o Soros property confiscation, Aussie farmers booted off by banks & their state police employees (despite not missing a single mortgage payment)....endless examples old and new everywhere
Money printing only gives a short lived power. That power lasts until the people figure out how badly the effects of seigniorage have fucked them and they lose confidence in the currency. Most here at ZH are against money printing becuase it 1) it is a form of very subtle and dishonest theft and 2) It destroys the value of the currency. Money's power comes from it's supposed future claim on future resources and services. Money printing is an abuse of this power.
And there will be trade even as this shit show really starts to crumble. It may not be in gold krugerands, USDs or rubles, but there will be some form of trade. It may be a BJ for a pack of seeds instead. If that is the case, the guy with the seeds can buy power. Or BJs.
"If the last two things in the world were $1 million dollars and a loaded gun.
And the choice is yours. Which one would you take?" Obviously. I take them Both.
I prefer gum, tinfoil and asslint, MacGyver.
we need more multiculturalism
Looks like the best christmas gift idea is gallons of KY jelly. If you can't stop it, then at least lube it.
Rudolf
the red butt reindeer...
Crashing through the close
On a low trade volume day
Commodities death throes
Digging our own grave....
That was a beautiful haiku.
Enjoy the playground. Aim small miss small. Keep to the strait and narrow, yellow brick road. Pilot to copilot, we're deviating from course only slightly to avoid weather. X times one thousand. Intended destination, the Promised Land. Unfortunately all our shortcuts have expended necessary fuel. Today, allegory and algorithm, only fuel left complete deceit. Don't think well make it....
How to be Japan? Swap currency several months ago, variable to fixed (rigged!!), insert whichever available funds, Kuroda keeps plates spinning. "How to make a zero stated return double digit nomial!"(Yeah! live anothe day!). How to be Russia?. Sweetheart with core population China, India, fight SWIFTly, cut or redivert gas & oil strategically; currently currency very inauspicious. Paper, paper, everywhere but nary a drop to DRIN<K? And Estados Unidos has Never Earning companies with all time highs on their tertiary, (piconary?) paper give-n-takes? Commodities, Reals? Blows strawberry. Calling Wendy and Alice!
All while we whiles out our simple lives! Under the dominion of the Ishtar gates. 80 years your toil and exertion timeline, date stamp on your heel really only forty true active. Most men can't number their joints and muscles or clearly explain the rendition of the retina, but deny Creator? Sign me up! Get me to the exchange. Sennacherib am I, and I want my entitlement and birthly right.
Discovering and harnessing the sustainable art of living, that is the ultimate aim of mankind. Poorer relations seek to exploit, create slavery mechanisms, profit by hate and contention. Eat caviar, scooping it to their mouths with scapulas even brainpans of their enemies. Money but an object to attain in order to attain their final aim. A death's cult. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness--a comedy of bellylaughing for the current navigators. Princes of control and contention. Peace has no profit or leverage. Happiness no angle.
Power, dominion, control of the central Eurasian riskpiece--0h delicious. But who established peace, kind principality, carefree existence, constant tending to small gardens? Who most powerful? Caiaphas, Caesar, Pontius Pilate, or thorn-crowned INRI? "By very small beginnings do great things become!" Only by burning the village can we save it.
And diseases grown desperate are by desperate means relieved or they die ignominiously!
Where's your wallet? And where's your soul? If you have one, perhaps. Man without money is nothing. But what rapscallion alchemist makes the daily and incremental determinations which establish value upon that paper and ink you so worship? Some small day he shall walk away.
Puke, puke, puke away you've never considered judgement day. Your kingdom sold for a monetary war horse. Enjoy your pottage, Esau! I'll make a well-ordered elsewhere.
Alexandre, are you the long lost son of Dr. Bronner?
Alexandre Stavisky,
I miss your posts. Where have you being?
Study upon how to build the most magnificent mousetrap, Er!, mankind trap. Ease them to the bait, habituate them to the easy takings which reward their bellies, and then suddenly..."
Like lightning to young children eased, with explanations kind, so truth should descend gradually 'less every man go blind!
Hope for you is that knowledge comes before the spring snap and the compromised neck.
Alexandre Stavisky
You wrote this over two years ago:
The house needs the gamblers to enter the scheme. They're filling the floors with shills, advertising loose slots, pumping the shows and buffets, showcasing the supposed instantly wealthy...anything to keep people in their game and chips. Problem's when everyone has deserted the floors, cashed in the chips, and show no interest in the gamble. They're left with the deadbeats, parasites, and coupon clippers. Make an economy with that.
So, is Russia deserting the floor our “Black Swan?”
Dollar and/or Wall Street collapse, coming next?
"Power, dominion, control of the central Eurasian riskpiece--0h delicious. But who established peace, kind principality, carefree existence, constant tending to small gardens? Who most powerful? Caiaphas, Caesar, Pontius Pilate, or thorn-crowned INRI? "By very small beginnings do great things become!"
At last, a bright Light Knight of the East rains down some real from the heart where the depths of true spirituality, real light, and love shine so well from. You gotta good connection there, Sir. You would be one of the Twelve.
Everyone saw the massive crash a comin...like...zowie...kapowie!
Save your seeds, and pray for RAIN! United, we can pull this baby out of the rothchillian storm and turn her about to sail off into safer waters WITHOUT THEM! All for one, and One for ALL!
Big giant hats off to ya good heart for this brilliant truth. There are Knights of Western Light in Temples atop Majestic 12 mountains who thank you for speaking your truth to power.
Awards and significance in places where it counts the most to all the grand brilliant truthful posters on ZH, the World Forum for real seekers after truth.
IHSV
Bless.
Alex, one of best posts I have read by an obviously well read, thinking man. Cuados for you and for all other who have taken the time to compose a excellent responses such as yours. By the way, i cannot recall reading you before. Your print has changed that for sure.
Again my thanks. Milestones
wow
"Burn this bitch down"
Janet : I will print forever
Me print for you long time... Ahh so horney.. Ahh so horney ...
Too beaucoup!
Me No Print With Soul Brother! Too beaucoup,
Too beaucoup!
170pt drop in the Dow in the last hour - 350pts from the top!
Just fucking die already you fucking fucks! I hope the FOMC blows up in their fucking faces tomorrow and the whole entire thing implodes right at Christmas when everyone is with their families.
BURN BABY BUUUUUURRRRRNNNN!!!!!!!!!
Top Tick Bitchez!! (yeah look at that time stamp, that's how bookies roll em)
Tue, 12/16/2014 - 11:38 | 5558667T-NUTZ, Vote up!6
Vote down! -1
Time to SHORT RIPS, BITCHEZ!!!
closing deep in the red today
what will you get your banker this christmas?
I think I'll leave a giftwrapped nailgun on the doorstep of my local Chase bank. Just because.
Just one of course. They'll have to fight over it.
nahhh.... 100 feet of rope. Enough to go around. Why break the bank? They aren't getting me anything.
My banker gift (note that I'm two scotches in at this point, and going for more):
My banker gift is a combination of 400 feet of bungi cord and some active dry-rot bacteria. Each day, the banker led to the top of his 2000-story edifice, where he is pushed off the side of the building (tied firmly to the bungi cord, of course). This is a daily gift, and after each push, a little of the dry rot is made to "get busy" on the bungi cord. Eventually, after 20, 30, or even a hundred or more pushes, the dry rot wins out and Mr. Banker's bungi cord snaps and we get a wonderful dead cat bounce. The beauty of the gift is that the banker really never knows when the last ride will be.
My rant is done.
Must be some mighty fine scotch.
Good wrap up.
tear rolling down my cheek. beautiful.
Nailgun? Too messy.
Rope? Not painful enough.
I suggest Dimethylmercury
I'm on a budget.
and I waited till the last minute.
You could always go for gold and go with Scaphism.
But if you are going to use a rope, make sure it's not the kind of party where drops are involved. Those drops with the sudden stop at the end tend to speed things up a lot. Just ask Blackjack Ketchum.
Deport to West Africa with no access to health care, money or passport and wait for ebola to get them.
The Ebola virus would likely get up and leave.
HF acid,I hear the pain is intense.
The Urban Legend is that "back in the day" the Great State of Utah gave the condemned the choice being shot or hanged.
It is said that one prisoner wanted to know which method cost the State the most and that would be his choice.
Good enough for Utah it's good enough for Jamie D. and his ilk.
BTW Putin is a wounded animal. I'm done hoping cooler heads prevail. America is nutcase.
Look at #3 on the list of CNBC's possible Putin retaliations:
3. Launch an all-out cyber war on Western and U.S. companies and government agencies.
See that scapegoat over there? He's the shirtless one riding the bear.
I'm a little concerned that the bankers and elite have choosen a nuclear power as their scapegoat...at least when they were blaming the muslims for everything we didn't have to worry about world wide extinction... of course maybe that's the point isn't it? we just aren't scared enough for them to continue removing our rights one by one, and Putin on his horse makes the perfect boogeyman.
If there was ever a time when hubris is going to bite them (and us as bystanders) in the ass it is now.
I don't think they chose Putin. He opted out of bystander to his own destruction.
The Muslim script was working fine until Syria.
Pliable American minds accept such plot twists with nary a batted eyelash.
Sadly you'll find that our country does not have a monopoly on stupidity, we're just the best at flaunting it.
Divide et impera is working in more places than the good ole US of A at the moment, it seems like most of humanity hasn't caught on to the scheme yet.
No doubt you are correct on this point, Mr. Pants.
Nothing can be done for willful ignorance- the only cure is an encounter with the real.
Yep... it seems like every generation has to learn this lesson for themselves. It's not enough to be told that the stove is hot, we have to touch the damn thing. The only problem is we may not survive the encounter this time around. Scares the crap out of me.
Every time a lesson goes unlearned the stakes increase. I believe this is true for the nation as well as the individual. Call it a natural law- something inside us trying to achieve balance.
We've overshot the moon this time. Screwed the pooch and sent pictures home to momma.
Sowing and reaping. But who wants to hear that?
"But who wants to hear that?"
The denizens of fringe blogs apparently ;-) I'm hoping that nukes stay out of whatever is coming, but man is it frightening no? We've only had the ability to "self terminate" for what a little over half a century? A blink of the eye as far as human history is concerned. The odds are against us.
You know about Chekhov's gun.
Why have it if you don't intend on using it?
Right.... so we don't have to.... tee hee.
Humans won't learn to not destroy the planet until we've destroyed the planet.
I had to look it up, but I have to say it's an apt analogy. If we're going to go with dramatic theory, Deus ex machina shouldn't be neglected either. Seems as though the FED has been trying to orchestrate such a solution for the last 5 years.
I share your apprehension, hobopants.
It's all becoming too real, and other than as you say the fringe blogs I'm not seeing an awareness let alone an interest.
If you've ever wondered how the world wars happened we're seeing the recipe right now. And I don't mean ArchDukes catching bullets, but more of what Tolstoy was kicking around in the second epilogue of War and Peace.
(1) What is power?
(2) What force produces the movement of the nations?
(1) Power is the relation of a given person to other individuals, in which the more this person expresses opinions, predictions, and justifications of the collective action that is performed, the less is his participation in that action.
(2) The movement of nations is caused not by power, nor by intellectual activity, nor even by a combination of the two as historians have supposed, but by the activity of all the people who participate in the events, and who always combine in such a way that those taking the largest direct share in the event take on themselves the least responsibility and vice versa.
Sleepwalking. Willful ignorance. And beneath it all perhaps a death wish.
Best to you and yours.
Tolstoy may be a celebrated author, but he is an underrated philosopher.
"Best to you and yours."
Same to you. Gloomy but interesting conversation.
No one is getting nuked it's a pipe dream from all the ZHers living out in the woods. These tyrants still need peasants to lord over and a planet to grow food on. There may be threats but there will be no nukes.
Dresden style fire bombings are certainly on the table and any kind of mass bombings that do not include radiation but these fucks still have to eat, breath, and drink what this planet produces so they aren't going to irradiate everything. The nuke crap is straight up fear mongering...
You'll forgive me if I don't share in your belief that megalomaniacal psychopaths are a stable bunch of people. If there was ever a group of people who would rather see the world burn than lose their power and stature, it is the current bunch.
Shit is coming undone and they need a foil, a big one, bigger than the weather, bigger than ISIS, bigger than Ferguson. I think they have discovered that terrorists have kind of peaked and minorities too easily bought off so they went for something....bigger. The religion of government is STIMULUS and they are in desperate need of moar.
and not a mention of Russian Rubles on the front page of Marketwatch... amazing.
Marketwatch is to actual financial news what TMZ is to global geopolitical events.
Never thot i'd defend marketwatch, but three headlines at the moment:
"Putin ‘stuck,’ may need to withdraw in Ukraine"
"Apple halts online sales in Russia as ruble tumbles "
"Putin’s ‘shock and awe’ puts the markets on high alert"
You are a strange man.
Well done tribe, you finally did it to Christmas--the goyoms will be thrilled. Tell me, where in the hell do you go run and hide? Milestones
Tomorrow’s headline:
After CSPAN accidentally preempts Yellen with rerun of Clinton-Lewinsky testimony, GLD algos flash-crash at "improper physical relationship."
I'm still waiting for the all-important headline as to how Russia's global test of its 'RIFT'* system went.
You know, the one that's supposed to be the parallel to BIS's SWIFT.
* RIFT = Real International Financial Transactions (aka Russian International Financial Transactions). Until they officially announce a Live Birth and the child's name, I'll front-run in ZH style and keep calling it RIFT. It just seems so appropriate and catchy.
RIFT, a gift to SWIFT. Just as big things have small beginnings, a small rift can lead to a big RIFT. Hope ZH keeps us posted in this crucial event.
Man, that Craps table is busy!
Goin under
Rats in the cellar
Goin under
Skins turnin yellow
This has been the most interesting trading day since the flash crash. Something wicked this way cometh I do believe.
Well said doc.
My damn thumbs won't stop pricking. You may be right, Doc.
At least your prick isn't thumbing. Or you're not thumbing your...oh, never mind.
I feel it too, doc. Tie up ya loose ends peeps.
and that which comes
has no regard for stop signs...
You think Putin is pissed off now? ZH should throw up that pic again of him on a horse with his disgusting, flabby man titties flopping around. Yikes! Nukes will be outbound in minutes.
Liquid. Free. Efficient. Markets.
Huh.
Funniest thing I've read all day, thanks.