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A buyback is great.
It gets you out of the ponzi market.
Its rigged. Its the only way to get out at the top and to get out early.
Get your money out early and stay rich.
Put your Buyback money into a real cash flow asset.
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• Should We Give Up Half Of The Earth To Wildlife? (O.)Change the headline to
• Will We Give Up Half Of The Earth To Wildlife? (O.)
If you cannot put gas into your gas tank then even the cows will go wild and learn how to survive the 4 legged predators.
Dr. D
You beat me to it!
Here is my longer explanationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah
The story of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis 18–19also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_wifeAnother view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot’s wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the sight of God who was descending down to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
There are other stories that are told.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_TempleThe narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12–17, Mark 11:15–19, and Luke 19:45–48) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover.[4]
No matter how many societies have benn recorded as being destroyed, we do not listen and keep repeating the same mistakes.
Will future generations change their way when they hear the stories of the destructions of our existing social/economic systems?
Naw!
We are slow learners.Bullies and victimes cannot change.
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.
Its too later to stop borrowing money that will not be paid back.
Its too late to impose gun control to preserve a social/economic system that does not exist
If gov. try to take away the gun it will cause the revolution, by the victims, against the gov.
Gov., (bullies) fear taking away the guns from the “victims”, (the 90%)Too many expert authors are lying by omission.
We have created an unstainable social/economic system which has been evolving too long.
I repeat this system is unstainable.
90% will not be returning to the same social/economic system with which they know and grew up.Do you remember?
Credit cards did not exist for consumption.
Line of credit were for businesses to meet theirs expenses until their sale income were deposited.
Mortgages were available for 3X your income.
Higher education was affordable.
Health care did not require unafordable health insurance.
Middle class moms could afford to stay home to raise the kids.
Bullies existed and always had victimsYesterday is gone!
In the future, Bullies will still be victimizing 90% of the population.When I was young, I experienced a simpler world.
When I was young, a person lied.
When I was young, Gov. used propaganda.
When I was young,, “Fake news” did not existhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media.[1] Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically,[2][3][4] often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership, online sharing, and Internet click revenue.Its all about:
1. sex
2. power
3. money
4. fear (Victims fear the bullies.)Its a good thing that there exist “religion/morals” to moderate the actions of the “bad” people
What is the crime of Julian Assange
What is the crime of all the men that never learned the appropriate way of expressing their sexual interest and are initiating unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances
There will never be enough jail space for all the men initiating sexual approaches
There are many different societies with different acceptable conducts for expressing sexual interest.
Sexy dancing!!!
Burkas!!!
Arranged marriages“The problem here is that the defending missile costs 10-100 times more than the attacking missile.”
Historically, if you ran out of money you lost the war.
Can the Israelis run out of money or benefactor?heheheh
“… must be shitting bricks at this very moment.”https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2018/02/10/budget-likes-which-pentagon-has-never-seen.html
WASHINGTON – It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else.
And next year it would rise to $716 billion. Together, the two-year deal provides what Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says is needed to pull the military out of a slump in combat readiness at a time of renewed focus on the stalemated conflict in Afghanistan and the threat of war on the Korean peninsula.
The budget bill that President Donald Trump signed Friday includes huge spending increases for the military: The Pentagon will get $94 billion more this budget year than last — a 15.5 percent jump. It’s the biggest year-over-year windfall since the budget soared by 26.6 percent, from $345 billion in 2002 to $437 billion the year after, when the nation was fighting in Afghanistan, invading Iraq and expanding national defense after the 9/11 attacks.
The extra money is not targeted at countering a new enemy or a singular threat like al-Qaida extremists or the former Soviet Union. Instead the infusion is being sold as a fix for a broader set of problems, including a deficit of training, a need for more hi-tech missile defenses, and the start of a complete recapitalization of the nuclear weapons arsenal.hehehehehe
Are the Russian worried about N. Korean’s missiles?“The S-400 is not an offensive system; it is a defensive system. We can sell it to Americans if they want to,” Chemizov told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) when asked about the strategic reasoning behind the S-400 sale to Turkey.
The growing demand can be attributed to the high reliability and long history of the S missile defense system family. The S-200, designed by Almaz in the 1960s, still serves many nations today. On Saturday, a Syrian S-200 Vega medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile was allegedly used to intercept an Israeli F-16.
Two weeks ago I sold you my thingamagig for 100 units.
Yesterday my brother bought the tingamagig from you for a 4% less.
You lost and I gained.
This kind of transactions resulted in (at 4%) 2.5 trillion dollars loss for the new sellers and a 2.5 trillion dollar gain for the old seller.The gains have gone to smart money and the losses have been taken by the dumb money.
Yesterday, I said, what I thought was going to happen today.
“Watch for the printing press to spew out dollars to bring thing back up to normal”http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-passes-massive-budget-deal-end-government-shutdown-2018-2
Congress passes massive budget deal before sunrise to end government shutdown
Yesterday, I said, what I thought was going to happen today.
“Watch for the printing press to spew out dollars to bring thing back up to normal
Here is what I read
China’s central bank said on Friday that it has released temporary liquidity worth almost 2 trillion yuan ($316.28 billion) to satisfy cash demand before the long Lunar New Year holidays.
Of course, I don’t know anything. Of course, all those people who do know everything, never advised you to sell.
How do you explain to an ordinary person,
where did all the money that was lost, go?If there is a seller there must be a buyer.
Stock market value wiped out equals $2.5 trillion and counting…
John MelloyNot everyone can fly high
SpaceX launches new megarocket with Tesla car on board
So in a bit of cross-marketing, he put his own cherry-red Tesla Roadster on the Heavy’s inaugural flight with a space-suited dummy at the wheel. No car has ever rocketed …
It’s starting to look like the trampoline is still working.
Are the highs going to get higher.?
I read that some pretty big players have had their socks knocked off?
if Donald John Trump cannot do anything for the victims (the majority) then I’ll wait for the next savior.
WOW!
Good presentation“So how do you fix it when even fair market value would destroy an economy built on lies?”
The solution depends on the meaning of “fix” and on who is “you”.
I’m not part of the wealthy and powerful bully of our existing social/economic structures.
I’m part of the poor and powerless victimized majority being held down by those who will not accept any changes that would negatively impact their elite positions in our social/economic structures.
Famous sayings:
Lock in your profits
Sell at the highs
Better to be out early than too late
Dumb m0ney vs smart money
Bullies vs Victimes
Which makes you fell sorry the most, Puerto Rico’s misery or the lost of the Patriots in the super bowl?
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232917
This, incidentally, is likely to bring an end to the market’s euphoria — and not gently either. See, the market folks didn’t count on that trillion dollar issuance, but now it’s happening. Good luck with the “record stock market” nonsense in that environment. If what I expect happens as a result, of which the first rumblings were heard this week, you won’t have any of those gains within the next year or two, and in fact will likely have lost half of Obama’s too.
People say I should be happy that tax rates went down. Really? They didn’t go down for anyone because the deficit is in fact going up. Treasury estimates the hit to be $400 billion this year alone, pushing new issuance to over a trillion dollars. Every single dollar of net newly-printed Treasuries is a tax increase; there’s perhaps $100 billion in “tax cuts” in the economy but $400 billion in increases, so in fact it’s a $300 billion tax increase, not a cut. You won’t see it in your paycheck but you sure as hell will in the price of things you buy and the loss of purchasing power, which will then compound for every year forward — unlike the one-time adjustment to the withholding tables. The so-called tax cuts are a scam and a fraud folks.
Hey!
Look!
My morning headlines.And the winners are…
1. He who didn’t play
2. He who lost the least
Ray Dalio Warns: Investors Just Got “A Taste Of What Tightening Will Be Like”
Are Markets Coming To Terms With The Notion Of The Punch-Bowl Running Dry?
Blackstone COO: “Stocks Could Fall As Much As 20% This Year”
Evercore ISI: “The Selloff Is Almost Over”
Cash Open Sparks Stock-Buying-Panic – Nasdaq Green
White House: “We Are Concerned About The Market Selloff”
“Translation: 90% of the U.S. counties are effectively the 3rd world.”
What could be the % of the 3rd world that is below the 3rd world?
Why don’t the 3rd world rise up against the bullies?
Why do victims put up with the misery?“… no one will do anything about it.”
Why are victims so passive?
The victimes just stand around watching the bully pick out an individual and fear being next.
Its all about bullies and victims
Men better stop running for office.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/canada/president-of-ontario-pc-party-rick-dykstra-resigns-hours-after-alleged-sexual-assault-surfaces/wcm/b1313c9d-a391-481f-9047-e23ab1e2f94aWomen have found a sure way of winning elections
https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/women-candidates-2018-elections.html
That fantasy of restorative justice is particularly resonant amid still-cascading #metoo revelations of sexual abuses by those who’ve had too much power, in too many industries, for too long. “Let’s make a full-blown trend out of replacing predatory men with women who were long overdue to hold their jobs in the first place,” crowed one writer in Vogue. “It’s really the least the patriarchy can do.”
It’s certainly true that the policies that are enacted depend on which women run and win — the country is full of Sarah Palins, not just Elizabeth Warrens.
Since nobody here is paranoid ; evaluate this story
Is their objective to sell, sell or something elseFitness-app Strava’s online map may reveal sensitive military positions
The “Global Heatmap,” a online interactive map produced by fitness-app company Strava Inc., shows locations around the world where millions of runners, cyclists and other athletes have used mobile fitness trackers such as Fitbit and Jawbone.
But, as the Washington Post reports today, the satellite-generated map may also reveal the locations of military personnel using GPS-enabled fitness devices in troubled areas across the globe.
The map — which shows the movements of athletes as a web of bright lines — exposes “the locations and outlines of known U.S. military bases, as well as of other unknown and potentially sensitive sites — presumably because American soldiers and other personnel are using fitness trackers as they move around,” the Post says.While the location of most U.S. bases worldwide is public knowledge, the Post says the satellite map may have inadvertently pinpointed unpublicized bases and missile sites in Somalia, Yemen and Africa.
https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#4.06/-121.46781/48.76106/hot/all
Yep!
Couldn’t afford to play when I was in lalaland.
Didn’t know how to play when I could afford to play.
Now that I could afford to play and that I think I know how, I’m reading that some of the smartest, biggest. smartest guys are closing their hedge funds.I guess being too early is better than being too late.
Opsss!
Now, I’m too old for even the buzzard to find an appetizing meal.Most of my life I was living in lalaland and ignorant of the social/economic activities.
Now, with TAE and other bloggers, I’ve finally begun to understand the way it use to be.
Suddenly, all the expert ‘talking heads” are say that yesterday is gone and we are going to have a collapse that will destroy lalaland.
I just can’t win.
Thank You!
Your best advise
“get out of debt. “However, the saving that I believed that I had are truly gone. I will realise it when the cash flow stops.
( Cash flow stops when those individuals that are in debt do not make their payments)
The bullies have got the system set up so that the victims will allow the system to continue.
Richest 1% Took 82% Of New Global Wealth Last Year (Ind.)
42 People Hold Same Wealth As 3.7 Billion Poorest (G.)The victims are told wait, keep the peace …
The name of our savior/butterfly is
“… debt will ultimately be the destructor of the system….”
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1. Bullies and their victimes – scales from unwanted sexual misconducts to right up to destroying countries and their economic/social structures.
2. Social media – twitters. facebook, e-mails, WikiLeaks
3. Bitcoin
4. Fake news/propaganda
5. Painkillers – cannabis to fentanyl
6. Pension cash flow shortfall…not to pay Senators? …
The Gov. is shut down. Everyone is on temp leave of absence with no pay except essential serviceHave senators been declared essential?
… is the flu; more deadly…
The flue is not in every country, head south if you think you are in danger.
Human Nature!!!!
BULLIES
Check out the definitionPerhaps its also human nature not to change your mind when the facts will not agree with what you believe.
@ Arnold
Yepp!
Let’s relax,
Let’s take a refreshing drink
Let’s admire all the sunrises
Stay calm
Don’t worry about what you cannot changeHave some popcorn
If I would have been there, I would have finished drinking my coffee, while sitting on the balcony, looking at the sky for the signs of an approaching missile coming to make another sun in the west.
