Debt Rattle December 16 2018

 

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    Paul Klee Carnival in the snow 1923   • Why The Fed Won’t Save The Stock Market (MW) • Why The US-China Trade Talks Will Work: The Personal Touch
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 16 2018]

    #44381
    V. Arnold
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    Kindly allow me to open the comment thread thusly; Ladies and gentelmen I give you the greatest show on earth: Four rings of entertainment extraordinaire;
    1st ring: Donald Trump and reality…
    2nd ring; The Pentagon and foreign policy…
    3rd ring; the MSM and all its stringers fabricating facts and talking points…
    4th ring; the financial sector known as Wallstreet and their magic economic data…
    All there for you!
    All you need to do is let go and believe and enjoy the circus; it’s all for you…

    #44382
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “scheme to silence two women”

    Pejorative words for an article edited to clarity the truth. How about “two women who, as famous women, true equals to men, were happy to voluntarily accept 6 figures for light work, being capable, well-informed adults, before, during, and after the act.”

    What would you “scheme” at here? If they didn’t want to be silent, all they needed to do was not take the money. Clearly they can’t prove extortion or they would. Clearly it could not be extortion because if you had leverage or any intent to use it, you wouldn’t pay so large a sum.

    Sigh. Just, every. Day. And this is from NPR, who were once kind of journalists before they voluntarily contracted the brain-eating disease.

    “Russians used humour to escape the bleak reality of economic stagnation, food shortages and long queues.”

    As do we, today, for the very same reasons. Living in a humourless, Soviet, Kafkaesque nightmare or pastel overlords “helping” us to death. The Dolores Umbridge of tyranny, fluffy pink sweater and all.

    But not to fear! Britain has founded and funded a propaganda arm to counter this humour and stop these Russian “jokes.” Because that’s not ruthless, cynical propaganda, but “helping” “defend freedom”, by making it illegal for you to read opinions, and illegal to even discuss topics such as “immigration” without Alexa informing MI6 to “help” you with extraordinary rendition and be reformed by a year or two of solitary confinement, without medical, until you voluntary see the error of your ways. Then you will be free! So free to see things exactly, precisely, exactly as the state tells you to, or else.

    …And you think I’m being hyperbolic or talking about some distant future. If only. Why don’t you ask Martin Armstrong, Butina, Assange, Robinson, Manning, Kim.com, for an interview about their “western freedom” in defense of “western values”? Why? Because we’d end up depersoned, bank accounts frozen, audited, investigated by someone with a career-long history of open injustices, then pressured to sign false confessions and false allegations or else be bankrupted while serving abnormally long sentences for made-up process crimes. We all know it. The reporter on Butina is decades behind the times: the U.S. has been illegally convicting people, openly for decades, then torturing them for fun with impunity. Ask Leonard Peltier how that goes, that was 1977. Or heck, the Quakers. That was 1777 and still today.

    “The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.” H.D. Thoreau

    People are not interested in that man in the mirror. They are not going to make that change. It’s always somebody else’s fault.

    #44383
    zerosum
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    “….. equities today are still basically flat year-to-date when it comes to total returns. ….”

    Therefore, those who invested before this year would still be selling as winners.
    If you got into the market in 2018 you are a loosing seller.

    See ….
    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dows-tumultuous-120-year-history-in-one-chart-2017-03-23

    Last year was one for the record books: The Dow literally set a record for setting records. In 2017, the Dow added 25.1%, having hit 71 closing records over the year. The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.91% gained 19.4%, and the Nasdaq COMP, -2.26% rose 28.2%. All three indices posted their best year since 2013, and the Nasdaq rose for its sixth straight year, its longest such streak since one that lasted from 1975 to 1980, according to the WSJ Market Data Group.

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