Treasury Resumes Pillaging Retirement Accounts To Fund Deficit Spending Until Debt Ceiling Raised

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Back on January 5, when we first broke the news that the US debt ceiling has been reached, and breached, yet again, we said "And now the Social Security Fund pillaging begins anew until Congress signs off on the latest interim debt ceiling increase." Sure enough, operation rape and pillage is a go.

  • U.S. SUSPENDS PAYMENTS TO PENSION FUND TO AVOID DEBT CAP BREACH
  • GEITHNER INFORMS CONGRESS ON SUSPENSION OF PAYMENTS TO FUND
  • GEITHNER SAYS `G' FUND PARTICIPANTS `UNAFFECTED' BY SUSPENSION
  • GEITHNER SAYS `G' FUND TO BE MADE WHOLE AFTER DEBT LIMIT RAISED
  • GEITHNER: DEBT LIMIT WILL BE INCREASED JAN. 27 UNLESS BLOCKED

In other words: Congress better pass the debt ceiling prontt, or else it will have to explain to government retirees the tens of billions in deficit funds, i.e., marketable debt, already issued will permanently offset the level in G-fund holdings.

Lastly, any comparison to similar acts of commingling performed by other insolvent entities in recent months is purely coincidental and no Obama handlers were thrown in jail as a result of this post.

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Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:27 | 2072096 Mongo
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Financial rape & pillage

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:35 | 2072119 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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"Operation Rape and Pillage is a go!"  Yelled Bernanke from his newly refurbished Treehouse.

"Timmah!"  Yelled little Timmah Geithner as he ran at a dummy they had put on a tricycle at the base of the tree.  The dummy had "Stupid 'Mercan" written on its chest in black sharpie.

Timmah was wearing a plastic knights helmet, a cape, and held both a plastic sword and shield.  He battered the dummy until it fell off of the tricycle.

"Keep your shield up Timmah!  Shield up!"  Bernanke said as he held his Malibu and Rum close to his chin.

"Timmah."  Said Timmah as he imitated Ben.

"I have to ready the press for QE...whatever we are calling the next one.  You stay out here and practice your technique."

"Timmah."  Said Timmah obiebiantly, as he took a deep breath and lifted the dummy back on the tricycle.  He circled the tricycle with eyes wide, before charging at it with his sword raised.

"Timmah!"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2072128 Pladizow
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I think Washington and Wall St. have an ongoing bet/challange as to who can most brutally ASS RAPE the US taxpayer!

Perhaps an 8mm snuff film will be released shortly!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:41 | 2072145 Obummer
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Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans, good citizens of the world. Today I find that once again I must talk to you about our Federal debt ceiling.  We have an opportunity here, at this moment that is so critical for the future our great country.  For in front of us we have the opportunity to set a new course for America, one that will take us to places un-dreamed of just ten years ago.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again; the key to our prosperity is to win the future.  Well, my office has delivered a proposal to Congress that will allow us to do exactly that.  But our plan will not just win the future in the future.  We will win the future TODAY.  Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, not in 2025.  Today.  That's right folks, our proposal will win the future in the present.  We have proposed debt ceiling target enhancements that can pull our success out of the future and into today, and we will win the future today.  Let me say that again, I know it sounds incredible, but we CAN win the future today.  All we have to do is adopt these enhancements to the debt ceiling target.

You may hear some elements of society say that debt is damaging the economy, that the debt ceiling should not be targeted for additional enhancements.  It seems to us that these may be extremists who do not want what is best for America.  Well, we are watching the situation closely.  And to these extremists let me be clear; the debt ceiling target will be met, and it will be exceeded.  We do this for the greater good of Americans of all walks of life.

We have no choice but to succeed in this. 

As long as I am President I will make sure that we succeed in this.

Thank you, good night, and God bless America.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:44 | 2072170 SilverIsKing
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Standing ovation!!!!  Bravo!!!!

What a great American that Obummer is.  We are so lucky to have a man like him at the helm of the greatest nation on earth, or what was once the greatest nation on earth.  I just can't remember.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:56 | 2072227 redpill
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So much negativity in this thread.  Sounds like they just did some routine rehypothecation.  What could go wrong?

 

/MF

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:03 | 2072255 Bay of Pigs
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No doubt. Fire up the band!

Hail to the Chief.

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:17 | 2072296 TheSilverJournal
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So many are dependent on continued government spending which makes it very difficult to cut including :

  • government retirees
  • government workers
  • entitlement recipients
  • improved property owners
  • bank despositors

TheSilverJournal.com

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:38 | 2072367 oddjob
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Promises to retirees and government bond buyers from bankrupt governments are likely to be repaid with inflation.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:27 | 2072522 Captain Kink
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No mention of "tax payer" or "working stiff" on your list. Bummer.  I can't even comment seriously on this.  Tell me you forgot the /sarc.

 

govt retirees:  ask any airline pensioner from the 70s or 80s whether they should be treated differently

govt workers:  ask european (esp greek) govt workers about this

entitlement recips:  can't afford it, got to change it, at least for future recips

etc...etc...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 19:32 | 2072706 Henry Hub
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Continued:

  1. Wall Street Banksters
  2. Military Industrial Complex
  3. CIA & Homeland Security
  4. Israel
Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:02 | 2072444 Grinder74
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No doubt. Fire up the band!

Hail to the [T]hief.

 

FIFY

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:02 | 2072448 General Decline
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You know, I really don't like where that deck chair is right now. I think it would look better over there. Nope, a little to the left....a little more.... Perfect! Right there.
What? What do you mean the bilge pumps can't keep up anymore? Who cares! That deck chair looks marvelous over there!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:04 | 2072260 VanillAnalyst
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this is such bullshit.... goddam pyramid scheme government

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:51 | 2072598 Chupacabra-322
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The Bail Outs List Obtained by Bloomberg News FOIA request and Lawsuit

Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)

FYI: The total amount of money given to various named and unnamed entities since 2008 is now 29 Trillion Dollars or 1/2 of ALL the money printed by the Federal Reserve since 2008….and people wonder why the economy is not growing?

Mitt Romney Top campaign contributors for 2012 3rd quarter


*Goldman Sachs …………………$354,700
*Credit Suisse Group ……………$195,250
*Morgan Stanley ………………….$185,800
HIG Capital ……………………….$176,500
*Barclays ………………………….$155,250
Kirkland & Ellis…………………..$129,100
*Bank of America …………………$121,500
PricewaterhouseCoopers ……..$118,250
EMC Corp …………………………$117,300
*JPMorgan Chase & Co ………..$109,750
The Villages ……………………….$92,500
Vivint Inc ……………………………$88,250
Sullivan & Cromwell ……………..$78,750
Marriott International …………….$75,837
Bain Capital ……………………….$69,500


*UBS AG …………………………….$64,250
Wells Fargo ………………………..$63,000
Blackstone Group ………………..$57,300
*Citigroup Inc ……………………….$56,550
KKR & Co ………………………….$53,900

Does America Really want Mitt “Obama” Romney? I see a conflict of interest here in these lists. I see bigger bailouts and more debt on America. Romney IS bought and paid for by the bankers. The media is pro Romney because it does not want to lose its investments!


Obama Campaign Contributors

University of California……….. $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs………………… $1,013,091
Harvard University……………. $878,164
Microsoft Corp………………….. $852,167
Google Inc ………………………. $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co………….. $808,799
Citigroup Inc……………………… $736,771
Time Warner……………………… $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP………………… $600,298
Stanford University……………… $595,716
National Amusements Inc……… $563,798
WilmerHale LLP ………………….. $550,668
Columbia University …………….. $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al ……………… $543,539
UBS AG…………………………….. $532,674
IBM Corp…………………………… $532,372
General Electric……………………. $529,855
US Government …………………… $513,308
Morgan Stanley……………………. $512,232
Latham & Watkins…………………. $503,295

 



 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:16 | 2072788 JPM Hater001
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Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:31 | 2072941 Chupacabra-322
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@ JPM Hater001,

I actually had a case of Violent Explosive Diarrhea after posting the figures.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:47 | 2072186 The Swedish Chef
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You forgot "Make no mistake...", O Great Telepromteur.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:52 | 2072211 Roy T
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Also forgot "Let me be clear"

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:05 | 2072265 redpill
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Also forgot,

"previous administration"

"inherited"

"saved or created"

"there are those who say"

etc

but a solid effort nonetheless

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:18 | 2072297 knukles
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The closing was transcribed wrongly.
It should have read "Alluah Akbar.  It is God's will.  Jihad shall be done.  Kill the infidels.""

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:03 | 2072451 Grinder74
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Aargh, why do you have to pick on the peaceful Muslims?  Everyone knows there are just as many Buddhist terrorists that make me nervous when I see them in traditional Buddhist garb.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:41 | 2072842 non_anon
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don't fuck with the monks

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:38 | 2072833 gravedestruction
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Who the heck? Wait a minute - walks like a duck - quacks like a duck - hmmm...

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 01:13 | 2073497 Freddie
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Hope & Change.

I actually know seniors and baby boomers who voted for the islamic Mugabe.  Boy are their lives f***ed now.  Their lives are essentially over.

(post under review by DHS)

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:44 | 2072574 valley chick
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Once again the "G" fund is the target...screw you assholes in Washington....got out of it in 2011 before the first rape.....BITCHEZ !

Got physical?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:15 | 2072787 UP Forester
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They're still searching for the "G" spot.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2072131 Caviar Emptor
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lol

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:57 | 2072230 francis_sawyer
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As one "pillages"... One is obliged to bellow...

BRING ME ALL THE FINEST MEATS & CHEESES IN THE LAND!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:44 | 2072393 catacl1sm
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you forget "bitchez".

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:43 | 2072388 JohnG
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Been a while.  Please do more of these. :)

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 19:25 | 2072688 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Please send all requests to my muse.

PO Box:

On my Shoulder

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:57 | 2072232 navy62802
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Financial terrorism.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:02 | 2072251 falak pema
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As Alan Greenspan was known to say, with Paulson, Rubin and Summers saying "Hear Hear!" 

"Financial rape, irrational exuberant impulse, is impossible!  Sub Prime investor with skirts up runs faster than Squid/PD with pants down!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:29 | 2072812 Endurus
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My only question is how long before the government rapes and pillages (restructures) the private sectors 401k's and IRA's.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 22:42 | 2073144 Buck Johnson
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They are just setting precedent when they decided to go after teh 401k's of everybody.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:26 | 2072097 Dr. Richard Head
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The Federal Reserve - pilfering the nation's money and coffers since 1913.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:28 | 2072102 HamyWanger
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If you think that ensuring vital stability in the banking system is "pillaging" then yeah, right... 

Before the Federal Reserve, there was a banking panic and a depression every fifteen years. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:30 | 2072112 tekhneek
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You have a whorish mouth.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:32 | 2072116 HamyWanger
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And I haven't even mentioned the continuous monetary deflation which was slowly killing every vital force in our economy. 

America has never witnessed more prosperity and technological innovation than since the day the FED was created. Nerdy libertarians and redneck confederates MUST FACE IT. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2072124 dumpster
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hammy only one/ half thing to say to your doppy views in your diaper clad penis

use other parts of body beside the dick to view the world

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:57 | 2072233 falak pema
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he can't he breathes thru the pin head. No other pores, he is in cabin 223 on the Costa Concorde. Just an analogy, but that boat is as good as the Poseidon adventure for real! 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:35 | 2072126 EscapeKey
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That's right, that's why the US economy was in continuous decline throughout the 19th century.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:38 | 2072137 HamyWanger
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What??? What are you talking about, moron???

U.S. GDP was up every single year since 1913, with a few exceptions. You should go back to junior high. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:39 | 2072140 EscapeKey
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There's something rather ironic about you calling me a moron, yet failing to realize 19th century = 1801..1900.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:42 | 2072156 LawsofPhysics
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Don't feed the trolls.  Pretty clear who the moron is.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:43 | 2072165 Vergeltung
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cystal.

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:10 | 2072901 gravedestruction
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This certainly will come to a fowl end...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:44 | 2072168 HamyWanger
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OK, I admit I read too quickly. But that doesn't change my point.

The American economy was indeed in harsh and continuous decline throughout the 19th century (1801-1900). 

Poverty and misery were WIDESPREAD, notably among rural populations and African-Americans. Half of the US population was living under the poverty line. Do some research

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:51 | 2072206 SilverIsKing
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Because there was no central bank?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:20 | 2072302 knukles
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Because Hamy can't read quickly. His lips don't move fast.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:17 | 2072794 UP Forester
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I think Hamy thinks with a lisp....

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:15 | 2072907 gravedestruction
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"a lisp" - gotta think about that one...

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:52 | 2072208 NotApplicable
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What this, a troll apologizing? This is an outrage!

We need better trolls.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:07 | 2072271 Bay of Pigs
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Yes, where is GoldenMiddleFinger and William the Bastard when you need them?

 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:10 | 2072285 Careless Whisper
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@ HammyWanger

Glad to see you're out of rehab.

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 04:23 | 2073694 boattrash
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Sorry to see Hamwanker back on the Crack-pipe so soon though.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:17 | 2072295 SheepDog-One
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The trolls these days are inept losers....must mean we're at the market top here.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:25 | 2072517 Almost Solvent
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Where's a real troll, like Master Bates or that other guy, Harry Wagner. 

 

These new trolls are Lame-O

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:56 | 2072228 The Swedish Chef
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Yeah, poverty among African-Americans was all due to the lack of a central bank. The fact that they were just released from slavery had absolutely nothing to do with it. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:04 | 2072263 economics1996
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Blacks did okay up to about 1870, and then the southern Democrats started oppressing them.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:58 | 2072237 economics1996
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Briefly you seem like one of my business students who believe the shit they read in college.  The shit in the economic text books is fairy tales.  It is designed to get students to believe the Fed is good, printing money is good, and the federal government spending money is good.  Its complete bull shit.

From 1873 to 1913 workers wages increased more than at anytime in our history.  Especially 1870 to 1880.  Economists confuse deflation with lower living standards.   If you look at prices level and wages for that period price level went down FASTER, and wages rose slightly.

Read Rothbard History of Banking if you do not want to look like a idiot in public, especially on this forum where most of these readers are pretty fucking up on finance.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:02 | 2072252 economics1996
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You can also read Rothbard's "America's Great Depression" for a good explination of money, time, consumer, and capital users.  

Printing money is theft, plain and simple. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:05 | 2072267 bob_dabolina
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Hamy is Tyler's foil. Everyone can relax.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:47 | 2072402 catacl1sm
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I got the audio book of that one.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:31 | 2072534 Fred C Dobbs
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One could also watch The Secret of Oz on youtube.

 

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 04:28 | 2073697 boattrash
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Or you can look at purchasing power of the dollar, 1913 to present.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:27 | 2072313 falak pema
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In NEw Orelans during that period they had what was known as the French Quarter index; the number of girls on the block. It truly was the Belle Epoque and the french quarter thrived from the port activites of New Orelans, especially at turn of century. 

People forever visited the cabarets where they danced the can-can so hard it broke the floor boards; those river steamers were a place of floozy buzz. And it fed the Jazz tradition that was born. "Summerime" was boootiful in New Orelans. 

French lace, lazy Louisina Creole, Cajun spicy bell pepper food, were the name of New Orelans. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:04 | 2072256 bob_dabolina
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I know you're trolling hard and I'm liking your style but I just wanted to add that between 1865-1900 was a period of intense economic despair and hardship. I think it was probably worse than the great depression.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:49 | 2072405 catacl1sm
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Certinaly due to the lack of Central Bank. What was Lincoln thinking!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:45 | 2072171 PianoRacer
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All you can do is shake your head...

If I had to pick a three letter word to credit the growth in the 20th century, it would be spelled O-I-L, not F-E-D.

We prospered DESPITE the fucking Fed, not because of it. And now this dickbag want to give the theives credit?

Unbelievable. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:58 | 2072234 55 men
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SLAM... da da da...da da da...SLAM......Let the boys be boys....That was sweet Escapekey!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:46 | 2072174 The Swedish Chef
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You are absolutley right. I can only compare it with my own accelerating meth habit. I have never had so much fun, gotten so much done and I have never wasted so little time on sleeping, eating and having erections as I have the last copule of smokey weeks. If you excuse me, I´m gonna blaze up a nice stem o´ crank. FUCK HEALTH!

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:48 | 2072190 azzhatter
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Yep, increased almost as much as debt but not quite. 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:09 | 2072278 carlnpa
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In the same period of time the dollar lost 97% of its 1913 value.

Continuous planned inflation anyone?

Any common moron can grow GDP with that type of inflation.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:40 | 2072146 Caviar Emptor
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Right. In the 19th century there were more businesses than banks, and that's just wrong. Now I walk out my door and pass 12 bank branches within a short walk. Progress! 

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:42 | 2072154 EscapeKey
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It certainly is. Because as they all insure eachothers debt, there's no risk whatsoever.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:09 | 2072896 gravedestruction
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"that's why the US economy was in continuous decline throughout the 19th century"

1813 came after the war of 1812 right?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:51 | 2072194 dwdollar
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Yeah right...

Technological innovation in 1912 = electrifying a country, achieving a vastly more productive economy

Technological innovation in 2012 = subsidizing alternative energy, achieving nothing except false promises and making wealthy bankers even more wealthy at the expense of the few productive people still left

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:09 | 2072283 DosZap
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HamyWanger

America has never witnessed more prosperity and technological innovation than since the day the FED was created. Nerdy libertarians and redneck confederates MUST FACE IT. 

YOU give the FED credit for American ingenuity, and genius?,who on the Fed,ENDOWED us with all this ability,that was never present until the White Knights rode in,Xmas Eve 1913?.

I give credit to Americans hard work, and diligence........................the Banks created nothing, just like the Fed.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:51 | 2072412 catacl1sm
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Can you name another famous federal govt invention that came into being on Christmas eve?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:30 | 2072530 Hephasteus
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The federal reserve.

 

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 01:19 | 2073509 Freddie
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Also ObamaCare.

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 08:28 | 2073836 Ace Ventura
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Not sure if it was Christmas Eve or not, but the 16th Amendment, followed shortly by the IRS? Completely coincidental timing with the creation of the fed though. Totally. For sure.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:38 | 2072372 docmac324
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Your icon as the American flag, based on your opinion is offensive.

The Federal Reserve is only 2nd to religion in killing more people than any other entity or belief.

RET USN

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 00:58 | 2073462 FlyPaper
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Hamy: 

Arizona has never witnessed more prosperity and growth in its econony since the day the sun started shining in Arizona.   

Might there need to be some evidence of correlation in your hypothesis?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:50 | 2072203 azzhatter
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My standard of living was going up fast because I received so many credit cards.  Was living large. I forgot to read the fine print that says I have to pay it back- oh shit I don't have any income

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:06 | 2072268 economics1996
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Buy one of them printing presses from the Federal Reserve.  It will solve all your problems.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:01 | 2072249 SheepDog-One
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And now we just get one long constant depression, except youre not allowed to call it that as the Emperors robes are deemed 'splendid'.

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:06 | 2072270 GOSPLAN HERO
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Hamy was skull-phucked at a tender age.

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