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The Mother Of All Chart Porn - Presenting Goldman's Top 100 Favorite Charts
Christmas comes early for chart porn addicts this year, courtesy of Goldman Sachs which has compiled its top 100 favorite charts together in one place.
As Goldman's Hugo Scott-Gall. says:
This is a supplementary chart book to our final Fortnightly Thoughts of the year. In it, we take the best charts that we have published throughout the year and rearrange them to tell the story of the world. Our story is not just of 2011, but also of the years to come, as the world changes at a rapid clip. What follows is a quick read, and hopefully an enjoyable one.
However, there?s a very serious thread running through the following pages. It?s one of realignment, as the different speeds of the world's economies are shown starkly through a multitude of lenses, including growth in consumption, resources, number of cities, favourite brands, farming yields, trading partners and the role and size of government.
When seen together, the bigger picture of the visible and less visible changes in the world becomes clearer. Our subject matter is drawn from a myriad of areas, from the structure of global trade to the world?s highest paid sports teams.
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Porn always sells, especially in these difficult times.
Not very well though, but RedTube hits are way up.
You see, now that the Orwellian Camera is in everybody's phone, everyone who is now cnditioned enough, is out there, porning the web. Masterful.
The best slaves are self-enslaved slaves. Which is most people/slaves.
Asleep at the wheel.
And that first GLI chart.... beautiful. The rest, NUMBers.
ori
/this-that-and-the-4th-reich/
I have seen better doodles at a gradeschool art competition.
These chumps have people pay them for this bullshit?
No matter what chart they draw, it does not mask the fact that this company should not exist the way it does.
Considering the practice of trading against their own clients is fairly well documented, I keep asking myself: Is there something I am missing about the services their clients get? I tend to assume there are lots of stupid people out there but that there are still many out there who are smarter than we think. It's that second smaller group of people I can't understand here.
Didn't see this one...
GS down -44% YTD.
How will Lord Blankfein justify big bonuses?
+ 1 Ha ha! Good one! Got 'em there!
It's funny because you think he needs to justify it.
More sad than funny, don't you think?. Nevertheless, it is likely he will justify paying out big bonuses. My question is how?
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
This.
LOL
Yeah, #10 in the GS conference room.
How about:
"Your schwartz is not as big as mine."
"If it were up to God, he would give us twice what we are giving ourselves."
"We are providing trickle down liquidity to N.Y. service workers."
"We need the money for flu shots."
"It's only money."
"It's only money."
or "proceeds" as the case may be...
fuck mafia charts
Schwartz is a surname. I think you mean schvantz.
He needs to justify them?
if by clients, you mean our government, then yes
Sure GS lets talk about all these 'trends' and whatnot with the removal of 3 years of ZIRP and rescuing every flailing insolvent bank practically on a daily basis....where would we be then? Wheres that chart?
Actually, unless this is supposed to illustrate some strange attractor (for which I would say they need waaaay more data) I dont' see why an x vs. dx/dt graph is more illustrative of an x vs. t graph. Actually, even if you play around with something like the Lorenz equations, it's still just cool pictures. I don't know how you make predictive assessments of stochastic systems from images like this. Is it a complicated way to shrug your shoulders while still trying to imply you are a mensa member?
You've just described 2/3 of computational biology. And probably many other fields as well.
Don't tell the students who are borrowing money to finance their graduate degrees (or the profs going for tenure or with tenure or administrators or...).
Well, I'm an engineering professor surrounded by this stuff all the time. The funding chasing gig is all about making your incremental contributions look like Nobel prize winning work because apparently just being good isn't enough.
It's sad how many people chase the metrics of excellence, thinking it's a shortcut, instead of just chasing the excellence.
"It's sad how many people chase the metrics of excellence, thinking it's a shortcut, instead of just chasing the excellence."
welkome to amerika
This is not unique to America.
The GLI chart is really what the death spiral looks like as viewed from above.
i don't own a cell phone. live free.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it" ~ Frederic Bastiat.
A return to the center....no-thing and every-thing.
... and a pseudo-science that "explains" it.
I guess Lord Keynes didn't quite get the job done.
So according to the graph, I suppose we've arrived at our 'Pineal gland' moment?
Unfortunately you're right!
-John
http://www.youtube.com/carmarketer
Chart looks like a testicle
considering it shows the globes leading indicators from '08 to present, I'd say it is...
consider it a Goldman trophy chart of an, as yet, unanswered bollocking ....
I feel like yesterday and today are just levitation of the markets for the Zynga IPO, especially as seeing how GS is the main underwriter.
Ron Paul Moneybomb today! Time for you Americans to dig deep in your pockets! We over here in Europe are fudged...
Charts bitchez
Charts: if you've seen one, you've seen them all...
No download????
A requiem for a dream...
...and I awoke, faintly bouncing around the room, was the echo of whomever spoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdcHOtAxhY
more like this..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0TedJ56L_w&feature=related
Page 12 - the other brics are also set to drive global demand.
*No they are not Jim , no they are not.
Page 14 - and hence global trade is bounce to increase.
* Strike 2
Page 18 - structural trends in technology should trump cyclical slumps.
STRIKE 3 YOURE OUT.
More garabage from the Squid. Desperately trying to suck in more punters with this BS Emerging Markets meme.
Um, yeah. Why do you think they picked 100? Who remembers chart 5 by the time they get to chart 37?
Pointless complexity = obscurantism = GS 'business model'
I only got to chart 6. Hair trigger.
I thought it was going to be one of those cheesy picture of all the vampire squid management wishing us a merry christmas.
Looks like a brain......hmmm
That's all I could make out. Perhaps the joke is on us.
"This is your brain.... This is your brain on squid."
Fortnightly Thoughts
another 14 night two week observation
called new language fart nightly
Looks like a diagram of Stolper's brain. In that case, hide the children.
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The obvious name for #1 is "BRAINS....." stated in your best zombie voice
That first chart reminds me of looking down a drain. That's odd.
A bunch of dudes over at the SEC are angry right now.
They can still squint at their gubbermint cell phones.
HA! The perfect handle.
The GLI Momentum looks like Goldman's brain. Ooooo. Very curvaceous. Gotta go lay with the 'Five Sisters'. Back in 10 minutes.
Shit, with these charts you should be able to make a f***king FORTUNE !
next great commodity swap, water for oil appears in the charts today
looks like something going down a drain...
Gee, now I can hardly wait to get my fortnightly fiat allotment from my masters so I can lend it back to them. Isn't this S.O.S. just a great bunch.
Goldman left out the chart showing where we'd be without all this total ZIRP intervention. Its like charting how a marathon runner SHOULD theoretically do in the NYC marathon, but leaving out the fact 3 years ago his legs were cut off.
First chart looks like kidney before dialysis, the rest is fucken shit, graph art and display that they're still thinking (problematic)
Everybody looking at sovereign debt, failing banks etc. as the starting point for system failure. I beleive the end comes when one or more insurance co's or a group of individuals demands physical share certificates. This is the epicentre of fraud in the system. Amasing trillions of " someone else's real wealth" into the giant ponzi of derivitives. Think you own your stocks or the real money in your account. Think again. You've been had.
Yea theres no doubt about that, its all just fluffy cotton candy, paper promises.
Tell me more. I don't really own the stock that I think I own (or the stock that my various retirement accounts allegedly represent)? Tell me what you mean, and feel free to talk to me like I'm a 4th grader.
Write on the chalk board 10 times each:
The cash in my account is fractional reserve cash.
The stocks in my account are fractional reserve stocks.
The gold in my account is fractional reserve gold.
The bonds in my account are fractional reserve bonds.
Anything you think you have in "your" account may have been "lent" out to cover the collateral calls of your broker/dealer.
Anything you think you have in "your" account may have been "lent" out to cover the collateral calls of your broker/dealer.
Corrected that for you by bolding it.
Hyper-Hypothecation. No limit to it in Europe. We have a 140% limit for it in the US apparently.
Even if you hold the asset you pledge for a deal, they can still pledge and repledge it, to infinity and beyond, and it seems it is legal.
0_o
'Hyper-Hypothecation. No limit to it in Europe. We have a 140% limit for it in the US apparently.'
Kind of. What you are looking for is The City of London. As you saw from the last summit, when confronted with this by Merkozy David Cameron didn't want regulation over his hyper-hypothecating overlords.
I'm almost certain Frankfurt has rules against hyper-hypothecation but that doesn't mean Euro banks (just like MF and US and Canadian banks) haven't gone through subsidiaries in ... in... The City of London.
Keiser is right, shut that bitch down.
But I'm actually a step even further removed, right? Let's say I have a $500,000k in various stuff. Various funds, kind of generic distribution. The original poster is saying that those fund managers are the ones who wake up some day and say, "send me certificates". Is that the "fractional reserve stock" that you talk about? So multiple funds are referencing the same physical stock, many times over? They are likely also then representing to clients fractional reserves of what I own? Am I close?
If it is a margin account with a debit balance, then a multiple of the debit balance in the US and an unlimited amount in the UK can be pledged as collateral to a creditor of your broker/dealer, who can then pledge it as collateral to their creditors, and so on, forever in the UK system.
So, theoretically, Celente's $100,000 in rehypothecated gold could back all the debt in Europe?
I wonder how it works as far as claims go. I mean, if you were accepting hyperhypothecated collateral as a pledge for a cash loan, wouldn't you want to know if you are the second, third, nth person in line if you ever need to try to collect the assets?
I'm sure first pledge assets would have more value over second pledge, etc. The first pledge would be the first to get a claim in the event of a default, I would think. There has to be some kind of disclosure as to how many previous claims there are on an asset.
details schmetails.
It doesn't work that way - the same party can't pledge the same assets more than once. Instead, A pledges them to B who pledges them to C, etc.
Thus an unwind when the dominoes start to fall.
S&P is going to a 1989 level and the Cubs will finally win the world series.
GS Intestinal Worm theory. Lovely
They should publish charts of farts.
would offer better investment advice to its clients.
Talk about "Brownian" motion - haha
Only chart that counts booze consumption vs debt :p
Euro group now has the liquidity three year bazooka provided by ECB; what took them so long? Its beyond me this black hole of Eurozone decision making. Not that they have solved their bank/sovereign solvency crisis. But at least they can thumb their noses at the GS short term cabal. On liquidity crunch blackmail. ECB are learning fast the ways of those anglosaxon ass holes who run WS/City. Next we'll know they'll find the balls to do fiscal coordination and eur bonding further down the road in 2013. Sometimes getting yourself into a hole leads to innovative gut reaction. Maybe they will also learn to count.
History often teaches us this as at Thermopylae, or in Anabasis of Xenophon, tales of organising the great defense/retreat plays. On a more gastronomic tone, the french also invented a national dish under dire conditions : the Cassoulet. But that's another story. It has to be served with a good bottle of Faugères; to relieve the dire painful feeling of creative, gastronomic history.
Anyone want to explain what is going on with the 10 year T note versus the market today. Seems someone really knows something is about to go down while the rest of the market coasts along.
There is no spoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaJPNrf1DPY
So many charts
So little time
Yawn... Im gonna die. What else ya got?
I think they need a balun and quarter wave line to match their GLI momentum to the rate of change in GLI momentum.
They're fond of any chart, as long as it is turned ninety degrees to the left
Wish I could print it..
Porn my ass. I just wasted a click hoping to find pictures of Johnny Wadd. What a tease
psych!
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Chart #1, "The Worm has Turned" looks like a fractal forming.
This is kind of like the Rorschach inkblot tests.
I see a death spiral.
I just spontaneously combusted.
Where am I?
ah yes! first up... the famous whirly bird chart! eventually to fly up its own asshole and disappear!
Lot of nice charts there fo sho. Thanks for sharing them TD
The Godsmaked Blankenfien the Hudd says:
"Those who drop their loads at the first signs of empirial porn troopers just need to exercise a little more control."
Since when is "Who owns the US?" equivalent to "Who owns US equities?" A better title for that chart would be "Who is in first loss position?"
Mayhaps bonds and real estate could be important? And could we see households broken down by net worth, and international investors broken down by country?
Mostly great charts though.
That could be the double secret derivative held under lock and key for generations by the Boned Skull Sorority referred to in elite academic circles as the "Drunken DelGammaP Dey Du Daa". Then again, very similar to an MRI of my uncle's sister's aunt's daughter's neighbor's avocado plant's cerebral cortex while it was getting laid.
The utility of a well executed cubic spline is that it makes senselessness sensible!
That sure look to be a "road map" of rating agency sovereign downgrades - that be the one that's hoped to float the indexes through the engineered blood clot bleed downs of sovereign tokens to their "predelivery" scrap value, automatically triggering Executive Order #UPURS-666 limiting gold convertible paper to "only" S&P financial stock certificates.