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Citi Warns Of "Dancing", "Music" And "Complicated Things" For The Second Time

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When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.”

    - Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, July 9, 2007

Several months later the liquidity "music" ends, Bear Stearns fails, Lehman bankruptcy follows and entire financial system nearly collapses.

 

...

 

Fast forward to:

"Truth be told, we almost hope those forecasts are proven wrong. They imply a widening gap between valuations and traditional fundamental relationships. They imply a dearth of yields and spreads that will almost invariably push more and more investors into positions they would ultimately rather not take. But if the old adage that markets move in the direction that causes the most pain to the largest number of people is anything to go by, then we suspect that this is what will happen. Depressingly, our instinct is that those new forecasts are more likely too conservative than too aggressive. Longer-term, sweet dreams really aren't made of this."

    - Citigroup Strategist Hans Lorenzen, February 20, 2015

Several months later, will it be different this time?

 

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Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:07 | 5813361 q99x2
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Words of a Prince not a King.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:12 | 5813376 kliguy38
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I trust this guy with my life

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:32 | 5813423 Pool Shark
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Just dance close to the door...

 

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:43 | 5813444 new game
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boy oh boy this article gave me soooooooooooo

much new knowledge. i'm enlightened...

lets see the coyote is looking out for the hens.

fucken-eh...

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 20:11 | 5813514 Carpenter1
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Everyone thinks they're close to the door, 99% find out they weren't close enough.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:20 | 5813826 Gent
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Wait...What?  There's a door?

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:36 | 5813855 Its_the_economy...
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No one gets out alive

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:45 | 5815005 Sages wife
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In this case the door opens in.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:15 | 5813388 dimwitted economist
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What a Fag!

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:18 | 5813395 BaghdadBob
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Boring.....Where's the coverage on the West Coast Ports blockade? Other than one article considting of distant airborne photos of ships at anchor there hasn't been a sniff. It's the most obvious act of war against the U.S. by China and yet nothing is being reported. Come on....

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:27 | 5813411 junction
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Would things be much different if aliens took over the world in 1971 and have been running things since then?  No inflation yet penthouses go for over $100 million.  The World Trade Center is destroyed and there is only a whitewash investigation.  Out of nowhere comes ISIS and it takes over a big chunk of Iraq almost overnight.  Barack Obama has no verifiable social security number, a hidden college record and looks to be a creation of the the dark core of the CIA, a legend.  Autism rates 100 times higher than 30 year ago and silence form the medical commissars at the CDC.  Maybe the urban myth that lizard people run the world has some basis in fact.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:48 | 5814381 idontcare
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Supreme Commander Ana says "hello"! 

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:34 | 5813429 Ruffmuff
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So citishit admits they can't continue to make millions just rubbing two nichels together.  

IF i could print money and spent on everything and buy everything I'd dance too. But for the other 99.9% we have to actually work to keep the lights on.

Global citishitty and their cartel of other asshats can call anything they want. Are they warning us for years. Maybe they should heed their own warning and have at it with a nail gun.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:07 | 5813362 H. Perowne
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He who bails first. . . laughs all the way down.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:38 | 5813858 Its_the_economy...
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It doesn't matter who exits first when you're at 30,000 feet.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:09 | 5813367 Bay of Pigs
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Maybe they should bring back good ole Bob Rubin.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:18 | 5813397 buzzsaw99
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hans is a nobody

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:27 | 5813412 techstrategy
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It's going the other way people.  Those who've run the financial asset ponzi know they've lost control.  Cash, gold, short duration treasuries and long domestic producers.  The inevitable currency adjust will happen through gold.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:37 | 5813434 Majic
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I'll know its really bad when "Generic" foods are back on the store shelves... I ate a lot of that shit from white and black cans when my Dad was unemployed during the Carter recession.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 20:11 | 5813512 MakeMineADouble
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Dude, they were blue and white. 

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:58 | 5813462 Wild Theories
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~Sweet dreams are made of this,

who am I to disagree,

I travel the world and the seven seas

everybody is looking for something~

 

actually, the lyrics of the whole song seems it can be applied to the current market.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 19:56 | 5813475 Jack of All Trades
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It's actually more like Russian roulette than musical chairs. . .

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 20:48 | 5813593 Youri Carma
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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg
Sat, 02/21/2015 - 21:12 | 5813662 I Write Code
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Yeeeaah!

When the music's over ...

When the music's over, yeah, ...

When the music's over, turn out the lights!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61ZUu48-58

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:05 | 5814273 bid the soldier...
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yet another musical reply

Princes come Princes go

An hour of pomp and show

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 08:06 | 5814626 AbbeBrel
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Banging the copper pot in time to the music -

It was been really fun watching Dr. Copper get one malady (sickness) after another. Right now the Doktor is waving in the wind :

By Bulkowski it appears that the copper chart matches a flag on a flagpole - only on the way down:

http://thepatternsite.com/flags.html

The P&F pattern has a target of 1 (!!) -

http://goo.gl/juZrvI

That is a cool 60% off the current price of 2.6. Could take a while to get down there since the last big move down was in 2009... Yep make sure that nobody has put any chains on that door so you can slip out quickly in this new Year of the Sheeple.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:53 | 5816350 Sokhmate
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No mention of chairs. Wtf 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:53 | 5816351 Sokhmate
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No mention of chairs. Wtf 

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