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It's hard for some folks.
If only all us individuals would just behave according to the FEDs models, instead of acting on our own, then we'd be able to have perfection and achieve the nirvana the NWO is working so hard for on our behalf.
When you blow a debt bubble and it fails, you are stuck at zero interest rate in perpetuity.
Depends on your definition of "blow"...........vs Steve Liesman's definition
...or Bill Clinton's.
Plenty of consistency, but you have to ask the right question:
What maximizes income for Jamie and Lloyd?
Wealth extraction and the slow-motion poisoning of the biosphere.
Only job tougher than this is the price check person at the Dollar store
That's just plain cruel
True, but cruel
PS The other day I spent some time in a Dollar Store and several Discount Food Mart type places. It was a bit depressing. While it's damned good that there are quality products available are attractive prices, this is what it's coming to. A few folks traipsing merrily through the Neiman Marcuses, a whole boat load of folks traipsing through sections of town spending their EBT cards and if unsatisfied, burning the places down then blaming somebody else for their malcontent, while the few who still work for a living (and I'm excluding the kids and folks captured in perpetuity flipping burgers, for that's nothing short of slave labor while the teeming others get the EBT's and the corporations get away with murder), it's all just become plain depressing which is trying to be offset (reality being offset) with propaganda.
Depressing view of reality from outside the matrix
Bill stuck a cigar in the wrong hole.
Even though it was Cuban, it still tasted like shit.
that was the one he gave to Arafat.
We need a decider in chief....
/s
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People who were 50 are now 60 and 60 are 70 and 70 are now dead
They are starving the old folks.....
They are feeding them to the Mexicans and Cubans
Soylent Green.........................it's only a matter of time.
Wait... ZH told me GDP was crashing and unemployment skyrocketing!?
You don't actually believe unemployment is 5.8%, do you?
What happens when ZIRP ends? Or better put, what happens if ZIRP doesn't end?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
Win!
That's an amazing algo!
Pull your big boy pants up & raise rates, Mr. Yellen!
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Easy-Button/product_606396
Just in time for Christmas its the new Yellen Barbie"raising rates is hard!!!!"......
New central bank documentary worthy of ZH audience:
Princes of the Yen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY
The party always comes to an end.
Where is the 'girls with big boobs' trending stories go? I don't need a mixer.
Fed decision maker:
"More theft or steal more?"
An American, not US subject.
Guillotine the Fed!
The 2014 decision is whether to keep interest rates at Zero, or go back to the 2009 numbers!
best.post.ever. fucking hilarious. fuck the fed.
Just keep printing and creating more debt until the economy gets better or blows up.
If the drug addict starts going through a withdrawal just give them more stronger doses until they die.
However, the heroine addict is only destroying himself. The Fed is destroying the American people.
The perps will then "return," flee, with the loot.
Actually, they are already fleeing, as that is what the dollar run-up is all about.
An American, not US subject.
Guillotine the Fed!
All of the numbers in the chart are lies.
VIDEO:
Paul Craig Roberts – US Government Most Corrupt on Earth
Submitted by IWB, on December 17th, 2014
On the teetering economy and possible economic collapse, former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “We know something serious is wrong. The only provision of Dodd-Frank that has any teeth is the provision that says if the big banks are going to be casinos and gamble on derivatives, they cannot do that in the depository institution where depositors have their accounts. They have to farm it out into subsidiaries. So, if the subsidiaries get into trouble, the subsidiaries have no access to depositor’s money. This is the only real reform part of Dodd-Frank. Citigroup got put into the recent spending bill, the repeal of this, so banks can gamble on derivatives, and taxpayers and depositors are on the hook for the losses. Why would you do that unless you had a lot of derivatives trouble. It could easily be the oil derivatives. . . . The banks can gamble all they want and they are covered by the FDIC, which has no money. . . . This gives the banks access to depositor’s money. . . . This is sick, and it shows the United States government is the most corrupt government on earth, far more corrupt than Russia or China.”
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.
http://usawatchdog.com/is-ruble-colla…
That, my friends, is Liquidity Trap Exhibit A.
I REST MY CASE. NO OTHER EXHIBITS NEEDED.
T-Minus 55 minutes away from the Fed Prophets coming down from Mt. Sinai and delivering to us the good news that there will no longer be a "considerable amount of time" before they raise interest rates... they just still don't know when [if ever] they will do it. This should deliver a crushing blow to the evil barbarous relic that enslaves us all!
Slightly off topic but I just had to post this comment as it relates to just how stupid MSM has become. I was reading an article on MarketWatch about how the Europeans want their gold back. The author of the article starts out by stating in the second paragraph:
"Gold has no meaningful role in the financial system anymore". Ok, don't hammer me yet as this gets better.
Then to start paragraph number four, the author notes "is an insurance policy against a chaotic return to national currencies".
I don't care if you are a gold bull or bear, whether you believe in gold or not, but this type of reporting which blatently contradicts itself is so bad, misleading, and poorly written and structured that I'm appauled how it could even be published. I mean, you say it has no meaningful role yet is the ulitimate insurance policy.
My vote goes to this dip shit being the absolute buffoon and moron of day. Here's the link:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europeans-want-their-gold-back-and-why-...
Traditional media can't compete or make money in the digital space so they hire morons with no experience to write articles for very little money.
I looked at the author of what you mentioned, and he wrote this book: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Force-Matt-Lynn/dp/0755344952
that explains it doesn't it
MSM only use fiction writers... non-fiction writers need not apply
We dilemned some folks
Yooz folks are so cynical; What with all the private commercial business experience inside the FED they're bound to turn this PONZI around by the 22nd Century.
Another way to look at it is that after each crash at the end of each Fed Theft-Cycle (There is NO such thing as the "business cycle"), the Fed has to move interests rates down a bit to try and restore production levels. Just a little at first, and then larger and larger decreases over time as the Fed's thefts become more pervasive.
So one could say that the Fed has turned the interest rate into a "Fed theft monitor," and it is currently flashing "game over."
An American, not US subject.
Guillotine the Fed!
TILT.
what time do these omniscient kikes come out with their statement?
2:00 Eastern. Fade the gold mini-spike pre-statement by shorting the miners, if you're looking for a fun-filled casino bet.
2:00 Eastern...
i'm on pins and needles over here. /s
I know, right? I wonder what she'll say today!
What does GDP, unemployment, or the Dow Jones have to do with Fed Policy?
Nothing.
It is vaudvillian meaningless data to the Fed.
The Fed only really cares about its owner-bank's balance sheets, and those of the owner's primary debtors.
The Fed loves you.
I did not have sex with that woman.
You like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.
Let me be perfectly clear.
Washington is the bought and paid for diseased whore of the world banking industry.
And, chickens have lips.
Only one of these statements is true.
Choose wisely.
I fail to understand how they can or would allow rates to rise given the size of the debt. They have created a dead end canyon with the only escape sure death. Our death. Will they build a monument to these idiots like they did Custer?
So, going to 20 Trillion is the only answer.
They probably will never do the right thing...let rates punish those who go into more and more debt.
That would be mean spirited.
No longer doe economics work....greater supply should depress the price of debt and raise rates...but that is so 20th Century
We reduced some folks.
Can you even have a model when all your data is shit?
If I spent $85B of unleveraged USD per month, I could control interest rates too.
But at a burn of 1.1T per year, yellen's job description has now changed.
The US prime rate is set by the markets
http://bullandbearmash.com/about/us-prime-rate/
and the 6-month t-bill has QUADRUPLED since October - any guess where the 3 month is going ...very soon?
The primary investment goal for 2015 is capital preservation, not just for retirees, IMO, but for everybody. The smart people are saying hang on to what you have because we’re headed for the cliff. Even certificates of deposit, IMO, are smarter than the market now.
Reality from Shadowstats:
November Unemployment Rates: 5.8% (U.3), 11.4% (U.6), 23.0% (ShadowStats)
November Money Supply M3 Annual Growth Surged to Five-Year High
October Annual Inflation: 1.7% (CPI-U), 1.5% (CPI-W), 9.4% (ShadowStats)
Third-Quarter GDP Headline Growth of 3.5% Should Revise to Below 2.5%; Fourth-Quarter GDP Activity Fair Bet for Outright Contraction
http://www.shadowstats.com/
The right side of your ledger is fake. If it were real, you'd truly see how easy the decision is.
When did our economy get reduced to listening on eggshells to a brain dead academic who has never even run a lemon-aide stand?
Around 1973
ZH forgot the [SARC] tag.
Maybe Tyler could add it. Yellen could get confused.
Any caveman can set interest rates up or down! Let's put the members of the Fed to the test - you have one year to create a profitable business and if you fail, you will be ISIS'd.....
They put themselves in a no-win situation. So that is hard.