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Ever wondered what would happen if someone actually "showed you the money"? Well, here it is. All of it.
via XKCD h/t Peter Eller
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Pssh. There isnt even a section for didodecaquadrillions.
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
There is so much global debt that there is no money no matter how long you run the printing presses.
That's why deflation is inescapable.
http://fucklloydblankfein.blogspot.com
The underlying question that must be asked is...."What is a "dollar"?"
A promise to pay.
My head hurts ...
Holy Fucking charts batman! Quick Robin … give me the debt spray.
Show me the currency! I know, it doesn't have the same ring but, the picture? that ain't money!
Anyone know where to download a version of this?
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money.png
The above is low resolution, and from what I can tell he doesn't allow actually downloading the hi-res file. You can view it on the website, but that's about it. He is selling the posters here for $15:
http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#MoneyPoster
Anyone else feel like beating a Boomer's ass after seeing "Typical household net worth by head of household's age" at the bottom left?
Hogwarts? HOGWARTS?
OMFG. Seriously . . . . Hogwarts.
C'mon guys, there is some good news. You can still buy a six million dollar man for less than thirty mil, just...
staggering is the wealth even of a multibillionaire...Geffen buys 300M worth of art. I mean, just jawdropping that someone can actually own stuff that is nearly the exclusive province of major museums.
And then Slim and the Waltons are on a whole 'nuther level. The wedding costs for that shitstain Prince and his whore wife...$80M for that shit? Fucking what a waste. But, Lakshmi spent even more on his daughter's wedding. And the dude has a skyscraper for a house in Bombay.
It's just really incredible at an entirely new level, though, what the USG spends yearly. Or even the deficit. Even one Ford CVN is beyond all but the most obscenely rich individuals.
Goes to show what dumbasses the rich are.
Awesome chart, TD! It will take some time to go through. I hope it has the Rothschild's empire included. If not...viola
What is a dollar?
The visible part of the flow from the great Debt reservoir. That pit of darkness.
ORI
final-cut-trailer-01/
An IOU
Rockefeller and Rothschild are conspicuously absent. Maybe they're on the Quadrillions panel.
Rockefeller and Rothschild: "Assidiously hiding the true amount of our wealth since 1900"
Literally awesome. Will come handy during the times where calculation is even more difficult.
A Nimitz Class Carrier for nearly 5 billions? I still calculated one for one, for example...
Nope. Nor the "greatest generation", genX or Y or even young children. What's your point?
That I want to beat a Boomer. Boomers are generally rude and nearly impossible to please, yet they have the most wealth. Coincidence? I don't think so. More like spoiled.
The poster is well worth it - a lot of research went into the poster, and despite some glaring omissions, is fairly certain to be 100% correct.
Plus, your office will look great with it on the wall!
All of this money that has been printed and all of the money that is about to be printed in order to save the banks makes me think that deflationists are sick delusional characters trapped by group think brought about by bankers, politicians, and the media. Open your eyes deflationists. The one thing that is certain is that the money printers will print.
He missed a spot
You would think so. Yet, Japan still continues to suffer from deflation.
Yes but Japan has always had a market to export to and a balance of payments surplus. That's no longer the case.
Welcome to the collapse.
If you want to know about deflation just look at the cash held on deposit at the CB's. Cash held as wealth is latent inflation, and the more the CB's print to bailout banks turns more of their would be losses into cash.
The deflation took place when the cash was created and not spent. Now we get the inflation...
how's the Jap gold price looking to you? That look like deflation?
So, if the glold price in a country's currency is rising, that country is experiencing inflation? Hmm ...
No it is experiencing a higher gold price. Gold is a store of value; it is only a matter of time before it gets sold and the money flows into higher prices which is inflation. Gold is therefore what prevents inflation because other products do not rise in value when you buy it.
The trick is to maintain a low gold price and low inflation, which can only be achieved through derivatives and tools like ETF's...
But I suspect that you already knew that...
his is bigger.
Start grabbing screenshots at low levels and stitching them together.
Ding! I see gold, where be the silver?
Speaking of silver; from Harvey Organ's blog tonight.
Today the Globe and Mail announced Eric has filed a short form follow up Prospectus for a billion five physical silver, holy jeepers, it could be approved in as little as two weeks people tell me, and he can trigger it OVERNIGHT without warning. Just bang if he has the orders. WE can all know what happened with his last Physical Silver Issue, it was 580 million blasted Silver 18 to 50 bucks in 5 months.
40 billion ounces - 1.280 TRILLION. Not even two blue fucking dots. that's .... just DAMN.
That's just.....cheap,
BITCHEZ.
gold is what it is; not that important. Production is bigger, oil is bigger, there are lots of things people want that are bigger than gold.
The system of trade hasn't run on gold for eons. The Sterling Bill and real bills formed the basis of global trade 100s of years ago and far eclipsed the gold system.
Dude, you really need to get your shit together.
A better spray link
wall street guys have the same predicament.
What about the pentiCON? Same predicament?
Show me the lost money bitchez!
Shit....
Show me the gold, Bernanke.
True, but that is a well laid out graph. Great Job!
Actually a dollar is 371 and 4/16ths grains of 999 silver.
A treasury silver certificate was a bearer note on a government held dollar.
A federal reserve note is a counerfeit. It looks almoat exactly like a silver certificate, but, being counterfeit, the us treasury will not redeem it for silver.
What is that in grains of cordite?
All wrong!
A dollar is a book entry, a figment of your immagination!
A dollar is Santa Claus, the easter bunny and perhaps most appropriately the boogy man!
Or to some, A Dollar is a god.
Wait, wait.....
The dollar does represent god, but let's be specific: it represents god incarnate; the form; the tree/the bush, what have you; hence why it 'tis green.
The snake of the tree, it is the mind of the nature
$
The capture (CAP T'URE/CAP TOUR)
The form of knowledge
The caduceus
The tree of life, embodied
This is the dollar, yes, this is what they will have you believe
I think you mean WAS, not is.
Actually i'm not sure. Was the 1792 coinage act repealed? Just because the frns are now commonly called a 'dollar' doesn't make it so. If i call a piece of dry shit 'gold' and convince 10,000 ppl to call it gold, is it still shit or is it gold?
However bernake would probably say silver (and hence the dollar, properly defined) is not 'money'.
Just my 2 (copper) cents
FDR called shit a dollar, and look how well he did!
George Soros is telling the ECB to to get on with the business of gristing europeans in the mill in order to buy all the toxic PIIGS+France+UK toxic 'sovereign' debt.
George Soros. He's coming to town. Lock up your milkshakes before he drinks them up.
He's a gonna drinka your-a milkshake up-a!
11-21 16:48: George Soros says ECB must stop bond run at all costs
No, the Coinage Act of 1792 was never repealed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVrkYTh2jU
However, the subsequent Coinage Act of 1900 established the statutory gold equivalent of a silver dollar:
http://www.simpleliberty.org/aamht/1900-present.htm
The President and Congress swore to uphold the law of the land when they took office.
Said parties sanction the breaking of the law of the land.
The first video above mentions what the law of the land establishes as the penalty for breaking the law of the land.
Sell, sell, SELL your gold!
A lie believed by everybody is still a lie!
I will gladly pay you tomorrow for my promise to pay today.
Pass the hamburgers please.
Ain't gonna happen.
Tree Hund-turd and seventy one grains a "Silvery Goodness"
a unit of measure
What happens when the "measure" part of "unit of measure" is not fixed, but changes daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.... how does one "measure" something when the definition changes? Imagine a tape-measure that was printed on an elastic band.... how does one "measure" with something like that?
Calculus?
In human systems, equations describing human behavior must incorporate feedback mechanisms for those who observe the equations in action. This renders mathematical analysis more or less impossible. At least, mathematical analysis by humans within the system.
And that is the reason why the truth must never be known about the economic systems.
"The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth" ~ Alan Blinder, Federal Reserve
Differential or integral?
Psychosis
good point. hence, a "measure of a unit of measure"
or for more future-proofness, a "some kind of measure"
Bernanke side-stepped this question quite elegantly when he answered Ron Paul: "A dollar is what you can buy for a dollar".... yeah soon you will be able to buy dog SHIT with a dollar....
It that the Spanish Milled or the United States Fascist Fiat variety, my good man?
"What is a "dollar"?".....imo, it's a medium of exchange.....however, if you asked:
What is the value of $1?......Then we'd have fun....
Dollar is what you are living for..Dollar is the main purpose for most of us to live.
Dollar is the main thing you girl friend look into you..and so on. a "dollar" is nothing!
forex trading mean you trade money. futures trading mean you trade commodities to get dollars.
But Forex in this way is better. You can make your trading easier, for example, using a free Forex trading tools as Fibo or Pivot calculators.
+1 on the blog name.
Watch out cuz now the Federal Reserve "public opinion internet police" will come after ya.
I only worry about the Department of Education swat teams.
Look it up.
and your junkstaz have no clue
No shit, that lisping bastard is in charge of swat teams look it up indeed..
http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/08/dept-of-education-swat-team-up
Buy silver and gold, they're still on sale!!!
-John
http://johnu78.blogspot.com/p/items-for-sale.html
dude...unless the debt is infinite, your statement is untrue
Wait a mo! Zimbabwe printed Z$500tn banknotes. That would sort out the US debt in one single swipe.
Not a nice one, but it would do the trick. The only problem would be paying the interest on it, and that goes to the banks.
There is one other alternative - forgive the debt outright. Wipe the slate clean and start again. It would hurt, but it would stand a better chance of working than what we have right now.
Show Me The Money
Ya know it's funny. I just skipped everything else and went right to the trillions.
Me too! That's all I cared about!
+ 1
Who has the time and money to put this together? TD please respond. This bothers me.
XKCD - guy is a well known boffin, with a canny eye on digital culture.
http://www.explainxkcd.com/
What you should be aware of, is that these days no-one really cares if you know the picture, and can spend the time adding it all in. Most data is accessible, and if you have the mind to link the dots, then you can do it. Oh, and there's some fun in there -
In the Billions section, I'll take on the "Fictional Billionaires".
Carlsine Cullen is from the Twilight Series of books and movies. He is a vampire and adoptive father of Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen, as well as Rosalie and Jasper Halewho. He was born in the 1640s and amassed his wealth through many years of compound interest and investments.
Scrooge McDuck is a cartoon character from many properties including the afternoon cartoon, Duck Tales. Scrooge McDuck has a "money bin" full of coins and other sorts of collectibles that he routinely goes swimming in.
Bruce Wayne is Batman. Batman is Bruce Wayne. He is portrayed in many comic books, graphic novels, TV shows and movies by many different actors.
Artemis Fowl is an Irish child prodigy and a ruthless master criminal from the book Series by the same name. He uses his intelligence to build his family fortune through crime.
i.e. don't read this like you would a financial paper... oh, wait, those have more fiction in.
p.s. Look for "Value of a solid gold toilet (626 lbs) by year" and "Politicians and allegedly evil plutocratic puppetmasters".
It is definitely missing the Russians out, as well as Chinese - not sure why. I'm presuming for comic effect relying on names people recognise.
I'm just waiting for the first politician to roll-out the term googolplex to throw us off their scent for a day or two.
Release the hounds!
How many pixels of that is mine?
check the fullsize PNG:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money.png
wait , its not fullsize.... where can I find the fullsize pic.
hm, its gonna cost me: http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#MoneyPoster
Asset or liability?
Here's another hint where the money really is:
Multinationals Add Millions of Jobs Abroad, Cut at HomeUS.-based multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and the Pacific region during the 2000s, and 477,500 workers in Latin America, while cutting payrolls at home by 864,000, the Commerce Department reported
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020371070457705222009693283...
Another component of biflation: decreased domestic revenue with multiplier effect, but inflation being re-imported back to US. The more Bernanke supports reflation, the greater the feedback loop.
#DeepCapture
Here is an interesting article
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/28/black_market_global_eco...
Yup. Blackmarket will grow first because prices are mis-aligned with economic realities. And to get around tariffs, regulations and taxes. But it can have a dark side: sooner or later gangs move in and price-fix, bribe locals and regulate supply. Also do you really want to buy your medications from a dealer with a cellphone? Just more reasons why an economic reset is preferable to inflating a new bubble
But it can have a dark side: sooner or later gangs move in and price-fix, bribe locals and regulate supply. Also do you really want to buy your medications from a dealer with a cellphone
You are right. It is called government
+ 1
That was a very interesting article, thanks for sharing it.
I've linked that before, but aye.
Wider discussion on it with more links here
Reminds me of the warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones.
National Treasure and The Mummy's Tomb
My eyes! My eyes!
Where is the Pelousy Theft acct? American Samoa just has to be there, somewhere.
Holy Jeebus!......Sim City....for Shylocks
My God, it's full of debt!
Well of course it is! Pull a federal note out and look at it carefully. It says it's only good for debt on each and every note!
My two favorite sites crossover!!
tru dat!
Love XKCD.
That is an awesome graphic.
I noted the spending on wars didn't include the fake homeland security battle on domestic terrorism or the bogus war on drugs. Get rid of that shit already...or is there worries the CIA will cause another event??
On the ball as usual Mr. AssFire!!
Is this before or after ECB and FED print more?
xkcd.com totally rocks. though to fully appreciate the humor it helps if you have a graduate degree in nerdology.
If Sam Walton were alive today, he'd easily beat Carlos Slim to be the world's wealthiest man with over $80 Billion.
well you have mexicans and then you have mexicans............
THE YIDS ARE COMING TO GET YOU!
Ot. Iran just captured CIA operatives. Here we go.
Was one named Cynthia McKinney?
If yes, ignore.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wcy-YdoMIDo/Tdj9cTZHrXI/AAAAAAAAFp0/sVQViydZP8...
Christ, already puked once today. No thanks for #2.
Never clean yourself on an empty stomach...
Can't believe 4 TDs think that bitch is worth a shit.
This site is supposed to be educated.
Guess it's a bunch of racist Joo haters, cuz they worship Sharia.
Anyone else feel like beating a Boomer's ass after seeing "Typical household net worth by head of household's age" at the bottom left?
According to ABC News, Hezbollah operatives figured out that CIA informants who had infiltrated the Iranian proxy group were meeting with their agency handlers at a Beirut Pizza Hut. How could Hezbollah deduce that location? “The CIA used the codeword ‘PIZZA’ when discussing where to meet with the agents,” ABC reports.
Brilliant Fucks we have working for us.
Your mistake. You work for ODummer.
Why don't they have a team of Hollywood jews write the script instead of these fucking Langley jews.
It's getting old and I want to be entertained. I'm bored.
Occassional setbacks = Intelligence mumble jumble for death by firing squad.
i know. i know. they were just on sight seeing trip and they didn't know they were in iranian territory. yeh i have seen this one before.........
what you still doing here? Don't you know...
THE YIDS ARE COMING TO GET YOU!
Well, I guess that means Iranian scientists and high-ranking military officials will stop dying for a while at least.
I got to get a bigger wallet......
Ok....If I land on yer Park Place...I don't have to pay you...
...and if you land on my Pennsylvania Ave....you don't have to pay me.
And all of those un-washed masses....they'll pick up the tab....deal?
Saw this on XKCD earlier and was wondering if it would migrate to ZH. Classic humor.
IT'S GOD! I SEE GOD!
Lego time!!!
720 $ per year
to keep a rabbit....
thumpers days are numbered....
$720 for rabbit stew is a bargain compared to Middleton's $350,000 wedding dress....fucking insane
i must say, the devil's in the details.
I was under the impression John D. Rockefeller would be the all time richest.
Searched and searched...can't find my name in there. This can't possibly be accurate.
Rockefeller didn't make the list of the richest?
must have been an oversight...
I noticed that as well.
However, I did enjoy the breakdown of what it would cost to buy the love if you had a million dollars as well as buying the world a coke.
Cannot compute this!
WHAT NO TREE LIGHTING ceremony as debt 2 gdp ratio has hit 100 %%%%%%
NO MO MONEY HONEY
Wow, resembles a Silicone chip! I would have a better chance of reading and understanding a silicone chip!
And once again, the Rothschild family is despondent that they didn't make the top 10 wealthiest list.
How tragic it must be for them to be forgotten so often when these sorts of lists are made, and remarkable that Oprah must have a greater net worth than they.
Crying in their castles vineyards, banks and monopolies. Almost makes me want to shed a tear as well.
I knew that Oprah had a lot of dough!
looks like ARM7 architecture but without the cache.
No worries. Globalists and TPTB gonna make it all good when they create the one global currency : The Esperanto. All debts will be re-valued at 1:100, tendered, securitized and re-issued in the new currency. Then we'll all be one big happy, goofy family! Oh, forgot the military industrial complex
World's money supply is around 50 trillion and the total gold supply is about 5 billion ounces, which means a gold backed "world currency" would fetch 10K/ounce. Deal.
So gay, after new currency is issued try $10/oz and you will be banned from owning it
So gay? How's dorm life.
Whatever, I'll bite. So presumably new currency is issued because the dollar fails, and this new dollar fetches only 1/10 oz of gold, but I am banned from owning it. This is like 6 levels of stupid so I'll take them one at a time. A currency failing would result in gold skyrocketing. If gold ownership is banned in the subsequent monetary ponzi, it will be worth a fortune if you can get your hands on it. If it was only worth as much as 3 loaves of bread currently, there would be no reason to ban it. If gold went to 10K in the old currency and $10 in the new, then gas would cost a nickel again and everything would be wonderful. There just isnt' a scenario where your comment makes any sense, I was just f'n around with the post but at least it was logical.
Greeks are moving their money (and businesses) to Bulgaria?
http://www.grreporter.info/en/greek_investors_look_security_bulgaria/5253
On DW TV tonight they showed over 2,000 Greeks have moved thier companies across the border for cheaper taxes, cheaper workers and a "government friendly" "safe haven" environment.
Wow...who would have thought...Bulgaria?
and its gone ..........
That's the liberal version of http://kleptocracy.us
I just had the same feeling I got the first time I watched the ending scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-rQ6Jay6w
At least now I know how much a good Velociraptor goes for these days.
I think maybe u mean "showing you the I.O.U.'s "....that amount of money doesn't even exist !!!
Larry Kudlow just asked, "Is the super committe failure actually a good thing"? because now taxes are not being raised hahahahhahahahahahahaha BULLLLLS ON THE MARCH recession nowhere in sight its all up from here baby