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Egan Jones On Europe's EUR2.5 Trillion Hole
Sean Egan, of Egan Jones, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to pay penance for his truthiness and daring to open investor's eyes to the reality we are facing. The two main topics of discussion were the European crisis and of course Jefferies. Egan hushes the CNBCers when he describes the three solutions for Europe's problems - which really boils down to one of restructuring and/or printing when faced with reality - and points to a EUR2.5tn hole that needs to be filled at least. Of course, the discussion of Europe's sovereign shackles led to demands from the Kernan, Sorkin, and MCC for their pound of flesh over Egan's call on JEF but the rater defended his call with simple logic as another guest host questioned how Egan expects JEF's business model to be viable at lower than 13x leverage - great question.
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Sorkins almost as much of a joke as Liesman.
thought this was going to be was another article on kim kardashian.
nuts.
But enough about Europe. Let's talk about US.
http://journey-to-alpha.blogspot.com/2011/11/weekly-forex-outlook-usdhuf-usdjpy-and.html
so were all the glitches in the video there this morn???
Rickards on Squawk Box This Morning
Yep, Sorkin is a real Boy Scout that is way out of his depth in his new role as financial commentator.
That hole is no joke. The best way to fill that hole is with the bodies of bankers, cover it lime, and plan for a new plan.
They can finger fuck this problem into oblivion with all their complicated financing and bullshit but it always comes back to the same thing it has always come back to, PRINT or DEFAULT. That is it in a nutshell and everyone knows it. Printing still results in the demise of the current monetary system, just takes a bit longer. Why oh why can't these guys sit down and figure out the next system without totally fucking over everyone on the planet in the interim?
I watched that this a.m. when I saw Egan. He's giving an absoltely beautiful well thought out answer to a question asked... what's the way out, and that littrle pissant Sorkin kept interrupting him. And the rest of the panel wanted to redirect to inane who gives a fuck cocktail party chatter.
CNBS
Egan Rocks
Should Sorkin pass away, my guess is that the only one to miss him would be his dog, if it hasn't run off out of embarassment, yet.
i was quite surprised to see this on cnbc... usually cnbc just runs in the background, pretty tickers and all.... but I actually listened to this.
Me too. Why was it on?
Singularity.
Also known as a shit tornado.
I'll play the devil's advocate here and point out that CNBC also has Peter Schiff from time to time. Only by that, I'll rate them above CNN.
Taylor, you need the clip of David Faber talking to Egan..."come on Shawn, Jeffries did everything right"
Ah yes I see, Sean Egan was summoned to pay pennance for his insolence daring to go against the Cardinals of Wall St finance.
Good he shoved it back in their faces.
Vid cuts off the explanation for Jeffries...
Try this one ....
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000056048
Regards,
Cooter
And still, he said that Italy isnt growing because of austerity measures... CNBC probably loved that segment.
Markets are in "boom" mode.
Cyclicals like Rockwell up 9% today.
Consumer stocks like Macy's completely shucked off its warning last week, now at 52-week highs.
Where is the recession???
Again, this has nothing to do with recession. Bernanke's mission has long changed from safe guarding inflation to pumping the market. The US$ is a trash. Then this idiot blames the treasury department for the US$ policy.
I think RobotTrader is Joe Kiernan.
Kiernan should join Larry Kudlow's reality show "Cheer Leader".
I think RT is JK's fluffer at best....
Joe Kiernan is going to be one of the first to FEEL THE PAIN....and it couldn't happen to a more deserving piece of shit.
Never take advice from someone who works for Wall Street..
Where is the recession???
this is off ONE lame stream shit rag, it is stating it with suger coating
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/08/8687925-nearly-29-of-mortgaged-homes-underwater-report-finds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45201117/ns/business-world_business/
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684796-after-steadying-home-prices-begin-falling-again
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8680598-new-data-show-grim-picture-of-poverty
Really Robo?? You could ask one of the 45 million people on food stamps.. Or, one of the 25+ million unemployed or underemployed.. Or, you could ask the 50+ million that fear for job security..
You're a fucking clown.. Do you realize there are humans on this earth that need to eat food and protection from the elements?
Robo is on food stamps and rides the bus, Zerohedge access thru the public library.
Hobotrader.
I like trains, cheap booze, and I tend to carry my belongings around in a bindle....
Does that make me a hobosexual?
Max doesnt understand that those people cant effect markets.
Those people for the most part didnt, and currently dont, and never will, have the earnings power and consumption to affect our investments.
It is the top half consumption and spending that affects market direction. The bottom 20 percent never mattered in terms of markets and the economy.
I can somewhat sympathise with poor people, but that does not change the fact that their spending patterns are largely irrelevant.
According to the expert on recessions (Lachsman Achuthan), the markets do not reflect a recession until about 6 months into it. That is because the markets are based in part to hype.
That’s what you get in pre-revolutionary societies – those who look to the ones benefiting from the ponzi and saying “So what’s the problem?” and those who look at the victims of the ponzi.
Poor people are more seriously victimized by deflation rather than by unflation or increases in the money supply. Poor people tend to be in debt.
Their plight has nothing to do with the ponzi- like financial system.
They were hosed even worse in the past on a hard money standard. Read William Jennings Bryan and how the poor were sacrificed on a cross of gold.
Your views are grossly over simplified to the point they miss the real issue entirely.
Alot of people were asking those questions in nazi germany.......if you lived in small town in Hesse the possibility of Auschwitz seemed remote. The recession in the US isn't reflected in a lot of the economic data because of the source from which it comes. Securities prices emanate from an even murkier outlet (anything involving an interaction between market makers and IB/HFs is real suspect). Same with corporate profits etc. For fuck sake ENron had a buy rating by half of the analysts covering the stock. Simply put, I find it really hard to trust the accounting, data, etc. What was MF Global's quarter like before they went belly up? Did it presage such an event? The DOW could go to 83,000 by noon and it wouldn't change that stark economic conditions that beset the entire fucking globe. I think dipshit investment bankers and corporate types (the ones at these public companies) are trying desperately to have a few more good quarters much in the same way people about to b executed are given a last supper. Hopefully martial law will expedite things. In this new society, survivalists will become the new elite and message boards will be dedicated to how certain people good hunting and eating bark are getting tons of pussy and abusing the system just as does Wall St now.
No leverage, no business model.
The ponzi MUST grow or it all goes to hell.
Problem is productive uses for the slosh are running out and incentives are skewed to direct it into the inelastic bits of the economy - food and energy.
Yay fractional reserve.
Kinda appropriate that the Italians might be the ones to bring this particular edition to an end.
Thou shall print - fuck the Germans, they have no choice.
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
forget everng ...watch the dollar.....whatI thought at first as a bull flag ...is now morphing into a Symmetrical triangle...still this has more chance of being a continuos pattern ....and so expecting dollar to go higher after this consolidation .......right now just a as the stocks flew high , the dollar actually touched the lower trend line of this symmetrical pattern .......this coulds also be a iHnS....but the thing is I see a Wolfe wave on the 10 minute dollar charts ...and the dollar is SET for FAST RISE now...and stocks worldwide will go down ....
go ahead... bet on the ship that's sinking a wee bit slower than the other one.
Robo isn't faster than the bear... But at least he thinks he's faster than the other guy running from the bear...
and ladle water INTO the boat.....
Saw that too, and as much as I would welcome a strong dollar and the chance to restock certain things my company needs from foreign suppliers, I don't think TPTB will let it happen.
Mish has a post:
Perfect Storm; Eight Reasons to be Bullish on the US DollarGood....let him buy them. No shortage based of them around. Meanwhile, I'll be sticking to PMs.
Facebook is going to save Italy, yeah right. Still pitching that infinite growth model in this finite world, good luck. Personally, I like the Euro devaluation solution.
Trillion smillion, I hear the Japanese have figured out how to do this in the quadrillions...in the world of hole-diggers, they have no peers...
We are gonna need a bigger calculator.
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/11/ignore-egan-jones-at-your-peril....
CNBC is starting to air more truth speakers in a bid for relevance as the the banking system crumbles.
When the MSM starts airing truth, they are doing nothing more than preparing the sheep. Too little, too late, as usual.
Sorkin is a little bitch.
\E\ /J/
I like this Egan fellow...
Who would have figured?
In the midst of a European credit bust?
That Wal-Mart would turn into a "momentum" stock???
New 52-week highs.
If a person had bought Walmart in 2000 they would have the same amount of money now as they did then. Great return. But wait we have had inflation since then....
Oh stop being so tacky
New 52 week highs are the same as years ago, you blithering idiot.
Egan Jones needs to fuck off. Europe is fine
Wells Fargo and Regions Financial
Both taking off like scalded dogs today
seriously...STFU.
You provide 0% to this site. Your predictable ramp day/hour name dropping and rear-view mirror analysis is beyond trolltarded.
Even other trolls are embarrassed by your posts...
Don't be jealous of robo for MAKING MONEY WHILE YOU ARE LOSING YOUR ASS SHORTING THIS BULL MARKET
Regions Financial is down almost 50% for the year. Its damn near a penny stock. And how much has it paid back for the TARP crap? Crickets....
obviously, you are uninformed by the 'tards unsuccessful trading. he is not a trader. he is a buy and hold wannabe. and i can assure you based on his own words in his more candid moments, and delineation of his investments, he has not, and is not making money. those are his words, not mine, or anybody elses words on this site.
Robo is one of the Tylers. I'm convinced by the writing style
i've looked closely at the style, too. i disagree. the 'tard is a part-time, contract 1099 processor at a small bank in los angeles. his words, not mine. research his past posts. he's a fraud, writ large, and a provocateur with too much time on his hands for his own good.
I've read that myself about the 1099. I don't believe it. I'm sticking with my guns, it's one of the Tylers trolling his own audience which is fucking hilarious
suit yourself.
you have to admit, the writing style is very similar.
Itis called money printing and bailouts. Don't stupidly confuse that with economic activity. And don't stupidly buy bank stocks. There are better ways to play money printing.
Austerity or Bust (Part 1)
http://www.france24.com/en/20111107-debate-Austerity-or-Bust-Fresh-fears...
Part 2
http://www.france24.com/en/20111107-debate-Austerity-or-Bust-Fresh-fears...
I believe Kernan and MCC are the only two desk jockies left at CNBC who have a clue. When they have to give their own opinions they always seem to have a good understanding of the reality of the situation. When somebody like Sean Egan comes on they are forced to play devils-advocate and set up the pins in order to let him knock them down.
Sorkin and Liesman however are clueless. Liesman actually believes the Keynesian crap that he continually bleats. Sorkin is like a wide-eyed little high school socialist who can't believe that everybody doesn't agree with him and his "kumbaya" ideals.
Sorkin: You knew the markets were in a tenuous place after MF global and what your call did to JEF and the markets , do you regret making that call? Translation/ Why didn't you wait until the markets were on better footing to tell the truth?
Here goes Sean again, in search of getting his name out there on discussion boards. Sean is not about truth or real analysis, he's about promoting his business. What better way to get advertising and get his name more in the mainstream that to put forth a bunch of outlandish commentary. He looks totally stupid for his comments on JEF, and while Europe is a total disaster, Egan misses the mark with his analysis of the primary conceerns.
The result of a model under lower leverage will be lower bonuses. Such is life. Boo-hoo.
Egan stood up like a champ. loved when he insinuated the barclays guy was "fairly naive". boy could he have said a lot worse than that.
that barclays guy's comment about its hard to make ROE below a certain level is beyond moronic. you can not survive a hit above a certain level and that was the emphasis of Egan.
CNBC set the hit squad to rip Egan Jones and they failed miserably.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/29-systemically-dangerous-global-banks/
we live in a system of a bunch of leverage junkies, like crack cocaine to the financial douche bags
You had me at "hushes the CNBCers"
Egan was stupid to use the word "Clintonesq" And I hate Clinton. Just say the process is being dragged out.
Wow. An adult conversation on CNBC? Impressive. A fluke I'm sure.
CNBC taking shots at Shawn Eagan right now ...attack the messenger as usual...they no like what went down this morning...
CNBC is such a fucking joke. See it for what it is. They are looking for ad revenue, completely beholden to these Wall ST scumbags who love the opportunity to get on TV to make their idiotic stock picks which are based on what (what analysis actually goes on-they look at a fucking PE???), and gratify these outrageous corporations. The have entire shows lionizing the story of Walmart, Apple, Etc. The on-air jerk offs and Wall St. interviewees are on AIM or facebook the whole fucking day trust me. The thought process of an analyst apearing on CNBC can be summed up with the following: "I'm gonna be on Squawk Box. I need to wear my 5g Brioni suit with that Charvet tie the lebanese hooker picked out for me when we went shopping." These people are decerebrate charlatans with ALL the money. You expect them to be stupid an greedy enough to lose it but that's really what our government does (next to foreign incursions and creating a monster criminal justice complex) is make sure that everything is all white.
here are actual IQ test results from CNBC hosts:
Pisani-38
Bartiromo- 64
Guy adami- 68
Mandy-58
Bill Griffeth- 52.6
Mental retardation (MR) is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors. It has historically been defined as an Intelligence Quotient score under 70.[1]
He told them the truth and they didn't want to believe it.