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For any system to function, there must be records of those transactions. (bookkeeping)
The function of bookkeeping applies to your credit cards, to bank transactions, real estate transactions, to stock market, etc.
The bookkeeping system was created by the bookkeepers.
The bookkeeping system favors the bookkeeper.Even if you don’t see it, there must be a fee/cost of keeping the records of the transactions.
For the stock market to go up, someone must pay more for some shares and someone must sell their share for more.
If the reverse happens, (for less), then the stock market will go down.
“heads they win, tails you lose.”
Its our economic system.
Its a great scam.
Think of passing a bag of sugar and each one takes out a spoon of sugar before passing it on to the next person.
I won’t be long before the bag will be empty.Where does the money come from to pay the bookkeeping fees/costs?
You can only spend a given dollar once, and it’s been spent.
Time to tell all.
Who’s money got spent?
Who spent the money?
Who received the money?• Jeff Bezos Loses $11 Billion In One Day After Amazon Sales Disappoint (F.)
• Global Selloff Erased $5 Trillion From Stock And Bond Markets In October (MW)
• Expect a “Lost Decade”, Stock Market Rout “Only Just a Start” (Mish)
decade, 10 years, a bubble since 2007 (S&P 1576.09)
Who is that bubble maker that knows how to make money with every down bounce?• Asian Stocks Hit 20-Month Lows, S&P Futures Slide As Investors Flee Risk (R.)
• Friday Hasn’t Even Started Yet, But It’s Already Ugly (WS)
Do bubble makers get ulcers?
Do computer programs have burnouts?Society should start getting concerned at (S&P 1576.09)
• Asia Pacific Shares In Freefall Amid Fears Over Global Economy (G.)
…. set for capitulation ….
This is a lie. He know that.
He is giving wrong info/opinions.There is no market
There are only vulture capitalist gambler taking advantage of the printing press bubble
Watch the bouncer bouncing a bubble ;_)
A bouncing bubble is amazing because most people have never seen a bubble bounce, much less be the person who actually does the bouncing!” Free speech and free ideas on the internet is the enemy.”
I would add,
…. to those in power. Especially, when you are contradicting the accepted propaganda.The internet dissolves blindfolds
“The Caravan”
What do you want to clean up?
2,000 km of litter
or
2,000 klm of cadavers.Support with humanitarian aid.
” ….all people worldwide, just want to have peace and order, rules and norms, ….”
” …. The system is broken beyond repair
Hope, carried too far, is a fools errand ….”Walk carefully, the capitalist vultures and predators are out hunting.
He, (Trump), also threatened to mobilize the U.S. military and shut down the southern border to stop those migrants from entering the U.S.,
So-o-o-o-o
The military will do one of the following1. Gas the people
2. Shoot the people
3. Herd them on busses. Put them in detention/refugee camps. Feed them, Care for them, Teach them a trade etc
4. Sell them as indentured servant to earn their right to become citizens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude5. Release the people to come back again and be detained again
@ DS
As the doctor presses on your injury he asks, “What hurts the most? Here? or Here?”
——-I’m grateful and thankful to be living inside of la-la-land
Outside of our la-la-land the capitalist Vultures and Predators are roaming world wide.A small donation helps but it is not enough to solve the cause of the problem.
The most powerful man in the world is only trying to build a wall to hide the problem.Migrant caravan swells to 5,000, resumes advance toward US
http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html
We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record.
An unprecedented 68.5 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 25.4 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.
Altogether, more than two-thirds (68 per cent) of all refugees worldwide came from just five countries:
Syrian Arab Republic (6.3 million)
Afghanistan (2.6 million)
South Sudan (2.4 million)
Myanmar (1.2 million)
Somalia (986,400)For the fourth consecutive year, Turkey hosted the largest number of refugees worldwide, with 3.5 million people. It was followed by Pakistan (1.4 million), Uganda (1.4 million), Lebanon (998,900), the Islamic Republic of Iran (979,400), Germany (970,400), Bangladesh (932,200) and Sudan (906,600).
If you look outside of LA-LA-LAND, you can find windmills.
CAPITALIST PREDATORS are causing misery around the world.
United Nations cash provides a vital lifeline for 180,000 Syrian refugee families living in Lebanon. But that’s only 30 percent of the refugee families; there are not enough funds to cover them all.
The World Food Programme has to reassess the situation of all registered refugee families annually and make the decision to redirect its aid towards those who need it the most.Afghan refugees in Pakistan express little hope for the upcoming Afghanistan parliamentary elections but also dream of peace in the neighbouring war-torn country.
Some 3,000 Central American migrants prepared to cross into Mexico from Guatemala on Friday with hopes of eventually arriving to the United States. Busloads of Mexican federal police were gathering in Ciudad Hidalgo and a Mexican military helicopter flew along the river in anticipation.
https://www.wvi.org/topics/child-labour
https://www.wvi.org/laos/article/broken-dream-story-forced-labour
Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime and the third most profitable organised crime after the trade in drugs and arms trade. An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked every year for labour or sexual service purposes.
For more than a year, children have been living in fear of the violence in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The war in Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people — three-quarters of the population — in desperate need of aid and protection,United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.
As the conflict enters its fourth year, millions are without access to clean drinking water and the country is at high risk of a cholera epidemic, Guterre said at a donor conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
In Yemen, 2018 looks like it will be another grim yearThe Saudis have repeatedly justified their blockade of the western port of Hodeidah by arguing it is a major entry point for smuggled materiel. But fuel, food, medicine, electronics and arms enter ports across Yemen’s southern coast and over land borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman. Overland trade is worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars a month for everyone from the guys with guns at checkpoints to the top leadership on all sides. Weapons have become so widely available that the price of AK-47s and ammunition has gone down since the war began. Meanwhile, some groups are benefiting from the sale of oil and gas both to local and international markets.
Etc.
CAPITALIST PREDATORS are fighting among themselves.
Look at the proof …. refugees are on the move everywhere.
Apparently the Chinese are as ignorant of economics as Americans.
LIES …. FAKE NEWS …. PROPAGANDA ….” …. 6%+ for a decade …. doubled in size in 10 years. And none of that is reflected in stocks?”
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45910262
China has reported its slowest quarterly growth rate since the global financial crisis.
Third quarter growth misses expectations at 6.5%
Down 59% from its all-time bubble peak on October 16, 2007 (6,092)I’m going to start to be concerned when there is a shortage of popcorn and the Dow returns to the peak of the 2007 bubble. Watch the new entertainment program available at THE AUTOMATIC EARTH. (It is similar to “SURVIVOR”)
“SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST CAPITALIST PREDATORS”
https://www.investopedia.com/features/crashes/crashes9.asp
The S&P 500 declined 57.8% from its intraday high of 1,576.1 on October 11, 2007 to its low of 666.8 on March 6, 2009.
There are more protections in the system against collapse that ever before and more awareness of what letting a crisis run wild will do to all national economies. This has made governments more likely to push on the regulatory side and more ready to dive in on the financial stability side. With any event approaching crash levels, we now get a near immediate government response aimed at slowing the panic and buying time for the market to adjust without collapsing systematically important institutions. (Related: Quantitative Easing: Does It Work?)
Khashoggi execution
Follow the money
reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2017
1
United States
602.8
2
People’s Republic of China
150.5
3
Saudi Arabia
76.7https://www.statista.com/statistics/248552/us-arms-exports-by-country/
U.S. arms exports 2017, by country (in TIV expressed in million constant 1990 U.S. dollars)
Saudi Arabia
3,425
Australia
1,172
United Kingdom
698
Israel
515
Iraq
506
UAE
499
Qatar
496Canadians can chill out
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-17/pot-stocks-slide-canada-debuts-legal-weed-sales“… most government and private estimates range between C$3.5 billion and C$5.5 billion a year. (Last year estimate consumption)
For comparison, the latest annual tally of spending on beer was C$9.1 billion….”Is that $5.5 Billion coming out of the grocery/food budget?
Humans are predators!
“…. the US should stop selling weapons to the Saudi’s, should tell them to stop starving millions of Yemeni children, ….”
“Every US president for many years has been an accomplice to murder, …. It’s how we get cheap oil, how we have built our societies and communities into what they are at present. Good design? Hell no.
But it is what it is.”What they will not teach you.
Humans have found creative ways to be predators.
• Sears Didn’t ‘Die.’ Vulture Capitalists Killed It. (Kuttner)
• Canada ‘Concerned’ About Khashoggi But Will Sell Arms To Saudis – Trudeau (RT)
Question?
Should I add some of the defense budget of Saudi Arabia to the USA military expenditures since the USA is supplying them with expensive hardware?
Is the $ amount for the USA only for what the USA military spend for itself?
Where are the exports numbers tabulated?reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 20171
United States
602.8
2
People’s Republic of China
150.5
3
Saudi Arabia
76.7edit:
I found my answers athttps://www.statista.com/statistics/248552/us-arms-exports-by-country/
U.S. arms exports 2017, by country (in TIV expressed in million constant 1990 U.S. dollars)
Saudi Arabia
3,425
Australia
1,172
United Kingdom
698
Israel
515
Iraq
506
UAE
499
Qatar
496
Taiwan (ROC)
493
Japan
479
South Korea
456
Italy
393
Morocco
351
Norway
330• One-Third Of Young Americans Too Overweight To Join The Military (AFP)
Does the study refer to those that applied and were refused?
What about all of the obese (+100 lbs) people that did not even apply?
Other factors such as prior drug use or a lack of academic qualifications are also taking a toll.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine general, last month said the shrinking pool of Americans eligible to serve was a “big concern.”
“It’s a sad state of affairs when 71 percent of the 18 to 24-year-old males in this country cannot qualify to enter the United States Army as a private,” he said.Hey?
What about the females?
Are the numbers worst?I think that if 100% of privates are not fit to join the military, then you cannot make war. 🙂
I wonder if its a good idea to keep all your rich relative locked up in a hotel room until they share their wealth?
The poor people are causing all of the problems for the rich.
The rich would all be better off if there were no poor people !!!!!!!• Stocks Could Fall 40% To 50% To Reach Fair Value – Yusko (CNBC)
I would not take that bet. When the market fall to the last high of 2007 ( aprox. 14,000), then its time start to be concerned.
” …. if they actually cared about the environment, they would just stop building, stop using, stop growing like a cancer, and use their trillion dollar fortunes to put the land to rest. They don’t.”
Why?
There is a demand for the supply from every Tom Dick and Harry
ps. Winter is coming. I need more energy to stay warm.
• Ron Paul: US Barreling Towards A Stock Market Plunge Of At Least 50% (CNBC)
Bring it on!
I have made my reservation under the overpass.However,
The dow is at 26,400
50% drop will be 16,200
That is not even close to a problemhttps://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia/charts
10/01/2008
dow 8,776.39Mosquitoes rule the world
https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-mosquitoes-1968300
How the elite move money around the world
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-06/danske-bank-who-helped-them-launder
The elites are going to let another elite join their hidden money laudrying club
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-07/us-and-north-korea-agree-second-summit-meeting-after-productive-conversationre. Contes barbares 1902
red-orange luminous hair
The figure on the left …. diabolic-looking image of his friend in the middle of a South Sea landscape.
(father? …. daughter? …. hair color?)plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
The USA farmers found ways of getting their milk production subsidized (corn).
Canadians found ways to keep a dairy industry in Canada. (Supply management)
The USA found a way to dump their excess dairy & products into Canada.
Canada will have to find another mechanism to keep a dairy industry in Canada.
Eventhough I keep myself informed about the world events, I am still powerless to change the outcomes of the actions that have been taken by individuals that have power and wealth/money.
Who’s actions have the most effects?
Does it matter if you are not affected?
Does it matter if you put a label on that action? socialist? capitalist?We have frost, again, this morning. Yesterday, I had to dump a wheelbarrow of surplus green tomatoes because nobody wanted them.
without public assistance,
1. capitalism would be dead
2. mercenaries/private contractors would be a booming business
3. the wealthy middle class would be poor
They are only boom times BECAUSE the debt rises so fast.
• US Gross National Debt Hits $21.5 Trillion in Fiscal 2018 (WS)The debt celling chart should make everyone see that something will change that could affect everyone.
All the countries are in a race to the top
The story sells. It has Trump, it has sex, it has drama, abuse, the promise of more to come.
Ideal set-up for the media.Old news.
Even the Roman Empire entertained the people.https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-margolis/mr-10—our-man-in-islama_b_402218.html
03/18/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad
By Eric MargolisSkeletons are dancing out of Zardari’s closets: $63 million in illegal kickbacks and commissions allegedly hidden in Swiss bank accounts; accusation of laundering $13.7 million in Switzerland. Charges of kickbacks on helicopter and warplane deals. In 2003, Swiss magistrates found Zardari and Bhutto guilty of money laundering, sentencing them to a six month suspended jail term, a fine of $50,000, and ordering them to repay $11 million to Pakistan’s government.
Zardari has an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion; luxurious properties in the US, France, Spain and Britain, and on it goes. He avoided trial in Switzerland by claiming mental illness.Money laundering is a multi-bank phenomenon.
Laundering of money is an expensive service being done for the rich, powerful, people who work for governments and large rich companies.
Here is another input to the discussion
Will ‘God’ Save Kavanaugh?
“The Jesuits encouraged us to think of ourselves — each one of us — as exceptional, down to the last man, so to speak. It was Lake Wobegone on steroids. We had been pre-selected to become the future leaders of the sole exceptional country in the world — an ethos that prevails, in spades, at Georgetown Prep.”This Kavanaugh spectacle is having an effect on our social structures.
Our social structures are on trial.
Even though there are millions of people watching and following this circus and kangaroo court, the remaining 90% of the population who are not watching, will not be affected, will not be de-programmed and will continue to become sexually frustrated ass grabbing dirty old men.
Will there be new sexual education programs in elementary schools?
Will this circus be the end of “slow dancing”?
Will this circus encourage the spread of the burqa as an attempt to reduce sexual advances and sexual impropriety for 10% of the population?
“They are Fueled by Love™ and have only our best interests in mind.
NGO are suppose to be among the “good guys” in our society.
Sorry … I already read that romance story.
