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Mar 142012
 
 March 14, 2012  Posted by at 7:21 pm Finance Comments Off on Are You Going to Believe Your Masters or Your Lying Eyes?

Commentary by El Gallinazo.

Under what Bill Gross describes as “the new paranormal,” one has to ask, what exactly do these market caps and index futures mean? While many might argue that in the GOD (good old days) price discovery was rigged, it ain’t nothing compared to what is occurring today. The new generation of software and superduperpooper computers enables the Cabal to fix price discovery as they see fit.

Under the old model of capitalism, the shareholders of a corporation were the owners and the managers were often quite a bit lower on the totem pole. But is that still true? Perhaps the share holder class has become the new suckers and the Owners are primarily invested in the bonds. Who actually owns these equities? From what I read, despite a major disinformation campaign by the Media that “the pump is finally primed,” and “Yes, Mission Control, we do have lift off,” people and even funds are fleeing equities in increasing numbers.

One thing we can be sure of. The Owners and the politician class (three rungs below the Owners on the Great Pyramid of Power) are trying to use the new, improved false price discovery of equities to bamboozle Joe Bagodonuts into believing that we are experiencing an “economic recovery.” If you have three working synapses in your pocket to rub together, then you know this is a load of shit. Basically, its, “Are you going to believe your Masters or your lying eyes?”

 

 

Can the supercomputers keep the S&P500 at 1400 or more until they either pull the plug or the Electric Company turns off the juice at the meter? Maybe. If you are not a speculator or a trader, does it amount to a hill of beans? Only in the sense that it will be concomitant with a credit crisis which will shut down commerce. Is this a set-up for a huge pump and dump on colossal proportions, even dwarfing the South Sea Ponzi? Probably.

Would that activate another round of TARP and a Fed breastfeed of the Too Big to Jail when QEIII proves as effective as shooting meth into a cold cadaver? Probably. If so, when are the owners going to pull the trigger? Well, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds rudely refuse to respond to my emails, so it’s anyone’s guess.

Mar 012012
 
 March 1, 2012  Posted by at 3:34 pm Finance Comments Off on Why? Even the Weekly World News Didn’t Have the Answers

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Satirical Commentary by El Gallinazo.

On this leap year, our own Golden Oxen made the following comment:

“Might I suggest you broaden your time horizon a bit Ashvin. Some of us are playing this thing for our long term survival, not day trading. Print they always have and print they always will, no matter what the banter they throw out to the cannon fodder. You should know better. Take a look at a long term chart of the gold price from 2000 BC until today and it will certainly clear up the matter for you.”

This is not to ridicule Goldie in the least (really) nor to rub salt in his wounds as the cock crowed thrice at the hour of the Bernank today (if I may mix testaments – in truth I was thinking of a more petite golden calf), but the Fed didn’t get into serious printing when currency became non-redeemable in 1934, but rather not until it could no longer be redeemed by foreign sovereigns in August of 1971 to balance trade.

As usual, we can blame the French for this as deGaulle wouldn’t settle for a pound of flesh but insisted on gold in return for his brie and merlot. And gold was valued at $35 an ounce the day before Nixon came forth from his coffin like Bella Lugosi, wrapped in a black cape to announce this change to the world’s finances. So much for a constant value since Nero played us a tune.

 

 

But the question is raised, why did the Fed start to print, and why did it go exponential after the collapse of September 2008? Is it to dazzle the teeming millions into believing that all is well both in the canyons of Wall Street and the ruins of Main Street? No doubt to keep the Owners on Easy Street. Is it to continue the inflation tax on the 99%? Is it to weaken the dollar to surge American exports? Is it an attempt to balance the collapse of global credit as the shadow banking system implodes upon itself like a rehypothecated Mac with 30 open applications trying to shut itself down? Is it to castrate the dollar to make way for the global currency of the NWO’s wet dream?

Is it to prop up the balance sheets of the insolvent TBTF banks with free money for carry and speculation? Is it to transfer any remaining private wealth upwards from beneath the stealth Croesus class cruisers? Can the Owners meet their objectives of total world domination when the Ponzi collapses as well as when the Dow breaks 13,000, by shorting the market, pocketing the pension funds, and buying up land and factories for pennies on the dollar? Do they expect to do this shortly to benighted Greece as a tiny appetizer?

The Fed and the Treasury now have every man, woman and child (not including the family dog) in the USA indebted to pay off 53 grand; $63k if you throw in the current balance sheet of the Fed. Does adding further to this debt in the future which can never be repaid as it stands, advantage the Owners or does it make their plans riskier? Does Vinnie the Horse care whether Joe Schmo can pay off his loan as long as he pays 5% every week until Gabriel finds his trumpet? When does increasing the public debt become a hindrance? Could that be when hyperinflation becomes a serious possibility?

Why is it that that once cuddly anal orifice of Omaha is now touting the new MSM propaganda line that Joe and Jane Bagodonuts are the sordid villains who ruthlessly victimized and bamboozled Jamie Dimon and Angelo Mozilo (the primordial orange man)? Do the owners care about elections any more, now that Diebold picks the winner in advance, and the FEMA camps have hired staff cooks and executioners?

The Onion: Diebold Spoiler Romney Wins 2012!

 

Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election

Inquiring minds want to know and I can’t seem to get the answers – not even from the National Inquirer. I even checked the back issues of the tragically defunct Weekly World News, but to no avail. And where would be a more appropriate place? All I could find there was the following quote from the former managing editor, Sal Ivone, who said, “If someone calls me up and says their toaster is talking to them, I don’t refer them to professional help, I say, ‘Put the toaster on the phone’.”

But among the photos of alien hybrid children not a hint as to the strategy of our global masters. What is going down is like Ezekiel’s vision – wheels within wheels. If I had half the answers, this would make a great article. Now it is just a lot of questions marks, vowels and consonants. But before we assume with certainty that the Owners are going to “print” their way into hyperinflation, we had better get a few more answers. I am hearing echoes of “doncha worry buddy, real estate can only go up.”

Feb 282012
 
 February 28, 2012  Posted by at 11:41 pm Finance Comments Off on When the Deflation Tsunami Hits, Losing the Least is a Winner

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This is a Guest Post by long time TAE regular, El Gallinazo.

A subject that commonly comes up in TAE is what to do with your savings if you have too much to stuff in “that creative place” that Nicole often refers to. And what she suggests is that the safest place to put it is in short term treasuries. If you are a citizen or a legal alien in the USA, that means T-bills, and if your money is not tax deferred, the only sensible way to do it is via Treasury Direct. A couple of days ago one of my closer friends sent me the following piece by Robert Moore on Rick’s Picks:

T-Bills May Offer Boomers a ‘Safe’ Way to Lose

She sent it with the message, “What’s this mean?” She is never one for verbose emails. As you might imagine, the title of the article by Robert Moore, intrigued me, but as I read through it I became a bit irate, and I decided to reply with a comment. Well this comment got supersized and I thought it might have the makings of a feature on TAE. I haven’t done one for almost a year. Instead of interleaving my commentary with the offending article, I would like to present it in a continuous format. So may I suggest that you read the Moore article and perhaps some of the comments and then come back.

I found this article to be quite irritating, not because your ideas were ipso facto bogus, but that you should label anyone who might disagree with them to be a fool and ignoramus. The entire premise of your article is that we are headed into a period of immediate global inflation or hyperinflation. However, there are some very bright people, Nicole Foss (Stoneleigh) of The Automatic Earth comes first to mind, who believe that the collapse of the global Ponzi, which began in 2008, and which is slowly accelerating, will result in the short term, perhaps several years, in a global deflationary depression.

She maintains that this deflation is already under way, in the Austrian School use of the word, as a net reduction in the sum of money, credit, and velocity. Mish also believes this. The continuing collapse of the shadow banking system and consequent credit destruction are the current cause though it is soon to spread to the TBTF banks and sovereign treasury bonds. This will lead in the short term to a price deflation of paper and physical assets in terms of the USD, which can already be seen in regard to US residential real estate.

The inflationistas will counter that the Fed and the other central banks will never allow a deflationary collapse. They will “print” their way eventually into hyperinflation (HI). (I put print in quotations because expanding debt through a central bank is really quite different from actually printing paper currency for which there is no true debt holder, but simply a dilution of the currency value.) This assumes that first they would want to, and second that they can. As to the first point, probably only the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds have an accurate idea of what the cartel’s long term strategy is.

A severe deflation, which they would have prepared for as they have engineered it, would allow them to buy up the remaining physical assets of the globe for pennies on the dollar. And could they prevent it even if they wished to? The growth of the central bank’s balance sheets of the USA, ECB, UK, and Japan since the collapse started in 2008 is less than $5T. (I am leaving China out as their statistics are moot). The collapse in global real estate values alone is considerably larger, and when you include all asset classes and throw in the quadrillion dollar derivative market, it is many times that. There are many expert analysts who predict that when the defaults begin in earnest, Uncle Ben and Don Capo Draghi will be as helpless as the Wizard of Oz to stop it. They will be overwhelmed by the collapse of the Ponzi resulting in a tsunami of default.

But let me regress for a moment to contemplate the strategic plans of the NWO. Some might say that the capos of the global banking cartel have no long term strategy. That they do not even discuss this concept with each other and all their actions are based upon fear and greed with a time horizon of 72 hours. They might even argue that the Bilderbergers, like Wendy’s, simply wish to compete with McDonalds, and the Trilateral Commission and the CFR are just watering holes with good leather upholstery. But for those people who believe that the people who possess most of the world’s wealth and coercive power might deem it as useful to construct a long term business plan as a garage based entrepreneur, we might give it a little thought.

My conclusion is that the final goal is to subject the global 99% into permanent debt serfdom. But if they permit the currencies upon which those debts were structured to go into hyperinflation, then the potential debt serfs could divert a wheelbarrow full of said currency from their home heating systems and buy their way out of life long debt servitude into the bright light of freedom, if one of debt free poverty. Ah yes, as Janis wailed, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” So I must conclude that the NWO capos regard HI as a potential disaster to be avoided.

But any intelligent economist, meaning one of the Austrian School, will freely admit that the natural consequence of the world’s all time hugest bubble bursting is a deflationary collapse, as in deflation. And that the only way that could be conceivably avoided would be for the central banks to “print” stupendous amounts of offsetting credit. But this could lead to a global HI which are the bankers’ worst nightmare as it would essentially lead to a jubilee for the 99%.

In a severe deflationary collapse, most assets will drastically lose value in nominal terms. In my opinion, the S&P 500 is absurdly overpriced. Every time the Fed or the ECB expands their balance sheets, whether covertly (currency swaps) or openly, the so call risk assets surge. So what are the options of a person with some savings? We have the general risk assets of equities and commodity futures, physical assets such as land and buildings as well as assorted junk from China, bonds excluding the US Treasury, US Treasuries, and the precious metals.

So if deflationary collapse, which I predict, does come to pass, then all but the last two will be obvious losers in both nominal and real terms. As to precious metals, it is my opinion that they will maintain their real value over the longer term, as they have since the time of Rome. However, I believe that during the collapse, PMs will lose nominal value for two basic reasons. First, their current nominal value is artificially high because it is propped up by extreme margin leverage extended primarily by the commodity brokers (such as MF Global) and their backers (JPMC). What do you think the value of paper gold would be if there were no credit to buy it on margin? And I think we are rapidly entering a world where most credit is disappearing.

Second, I think that many during the collapse will be forced to sell PMs, particularly gold, to meet margin calls, trying to stave off insolvency. Gold may be the only thing that anyone might be interested in buying at that point in time, and it would become a buyer’s market. I do believe, however, that gold will be the first physical asset to recover.

So here we are with US Treasury Bills as the last of the list. Let me state for the record that I am a retiree with modest savings; that most of my savings are in 13 week treasuries purchased through Treasury Direct, and that I am currently living in Mexico in very modest comfort on my Social Security checks. In short, I am one of Robert’s idiots.

Now let me direct my idiotic blather to several of his points as well as supporting commenters:

* When the currency of a country appears to be nearing collapse (most would regard this as imminent HI), then the yield on the bonds go into an exponential moon shot. This is because lenders would want to be compensated for the loss of real value as well as the probability of sovereign bond default. Greece is not a great example as it doesn’t have its own currency, but look at the current yield of their six month bonds. One might look at Argentina 2000-02 for a better example. So Robert is correct that only we idiots would invest in sovereign debt at 0 or negative nominal yields.

Say a currency does go into a deflationary collapse of 7% per annum in terms of general purchasing power, and you hold bonds with a minus 2% yield. While you are losing 2% in nominal terms, you are actually gaining a 5% yield in real terms. This appears strange to people simply because the Fed criminals have kept the country in inflation since 1913 with a few modest exceptions such as the Great Depression.

* Moore suggests that it would be smarter to kept your savings in currency under your mattress than in T-bills. First, the Fed and the NWO Banking Cartel frown upon currency. It is one of the few remaining areas of freedom and privacy in the money world. They would prefer to have every pack of gum you purchase recorded in their computers, complete with brand and number of pieces contained in the package. In order to villainize cash, anyone with large sums is ipso facto regarded by the “authorities” as either a drug dealer or a terraist. And this tends to be at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury or his minions. Recent “laws” in this regard deprive you of any judicial recourse, on the off chance that the courts are not totally rigged.

So anyone holding large amounts of currency is subject to it’s confiscation. Second, I challenge anyone to go to his bank, if you live in the USA, and try to withdraw, say $8000 in cash. See how easy and hassle free it is. First, they usually ask you, in writing, what it is for, like it is a loan and not your own money. When you tell them to go to hell, they tell you that Turbo Timmah made them ask it. For most, the only hassle free way to accumulate cash is to take out the daily max from your ATM. But I would imagine that the banks will shortly build a weekly or monthly limit into their ATM programs.

* Next we come to bank savings which includes CD’s. Legally your savings are a loan to the bank, and with the repeal of Glass-Steagall, your bank may go to the casino and gamble with it as it sees fit, or give it out as a bonus for their deserving traders to purchase hookers and snort. And with recent federal legislation, holders of derivative instruments are the first in line when a bank fails. Please note the transfer of $60T in derivative wagers from the Merrill-Lynch division to the BAC FDIC flagship. Wonder why they did that?

The segregated accounts at MF Global were legally more secure than any checking account, CD, or money market account. They were essentially virtual safety deposit boxes in which MFG was given the authority to take out money only upon the account holder’s explicit orders to purchase future contracts or cover margins. Yet Corzine and Dimon stole as much as $2B from these accounts without even a hiccup from Eric PlaceHolder, who was too busy running guns to the Zetas in Mexico. And you think your money in the bank is safe?

* And now we come to the FDIC. First, that Robert should accept the $250k limit at face value is bizarre. A joint account is insured up to $500k, and insurance goes by the account not by the person. So if some dude has five million bucks, he just opens up 20 accounts and puts $250k in each. No hay problema. But will the FDIC pay off on a systemic collapse of the banking system. Note that the C in FDIC stands for corporation. And it is basically broke as we breath. Are TPTB willing to monetize $5T to pay off account holders?

One may observe that the balance sheet of the Fed after all the illegal and quasi legal crap gone down over the last 4 years, including taking near worthless assets off the hands of their buddies at face value, stands at under $3T. So I don’t think so. The Boyz don’t put their money in checking accounts or CD’s and the Boyz run the show. As the late George Carlin put it, “It’s a club and you’re not in it.” I think it is far more probable that they will pay out the account holders a nominal sum, like $400 a month, until it is paid off in the 22nd century.

* As everyone interested in macroeconomics knows, since 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window, money is debt and nothing more. And the debt that supports the US currency is the Treasury debt. So the dollar is totally dependent on the confidence of the world in the US Treasury. The collapse of the Treasury would result in the dollar immediately becoming worthless, i.e. instant HI. There are some very intelligent people who believe that the NWO intends to collapse the dollar eventually and replace it with a global currency. I am one of them (though you may leave out the intelligent descriptive in my case).

And the easiest way to collapse the dollar is to collapse the confidence in the Treasury. However, in my opinion this is in the future and not the immediate future. And the advantage of buying T-bills through Treasury Direct is that you have no “private sector” broker in the middle (Jon Corzine for example) to steal them. The drawback is that you cannot use tax deferred funds to buy them. But the ominous future on tax deferred funds would be the makings of a rant for another day. It seems that people are becoming too irresponsible not to wait until after they die to withdraw them.

In a severe deflationary collapse, what appeared to be money during the bubble expansion (really credit) disappears with barely a trace as it is sucked into an alternate universe. Since the total sum of money and credit becomes a small fraction of what it was at the bubble’s peak, the vast majority of asset holders become losers both in nominal and real terms. With a few very rare exceptions, the ones who lose the least – win.

So, in summary, I remain “invested” in 13 week T-bills through Treasury Direct and have no intention of being forced into risk assets or using up my modest savings in a couple of years and then eating dog kibble.

Your faithful idiot,

El Gallinazo