[DrStool]

I'll be back a little later with the market update.

[shorty]

SHUT IT DOWN!

Economically beleaguered Michigan faces a possible government shutdown - shuttering highway rest areas, state parks, construction projects, the state lottery, and the legislature's coed escort service - if lawmakers fail to reach a budget deal in the next few days.

The state with the nation's highest unemployment rate has a nearly $3 trillion shortfall. Federal recovery act money printing will fill more than half the gap, but the spending cuts or tax increases needed to fill the rest have caused bitter knifefighting at the state Capitol.

[capitall]

shorty, on Sep 28 2009, 02:50 PM, said:

SHUT IT DOWN!

Economically beleaguered Michigan faces a possible government shutdown - shuttering highway rest areas, state parks, construction projects, the state lottery, and the legislature's coed escort service - if lawmakers fail to reach a budget deal in the next few days.

The state with the nation's highest unemployment rate has a nearly $3 trillion shortfall. Federal recovery act money printing will fill more than half the gap, but the spending cuts or tax increases needed to fill the rest have caused bitter knifefighting at the state Capitol.

.. and the legislature's coed escort service...

[PyurAureo]

DrStool, on Sep 28 2009, 03:32 PM, said:

I'll be back a little later with the market update.

Dr Stool ... Dr Stool ???

Paging Dr Stool !!!

[psyche doctor]

[quanta]

The Season of the Witch

Yeah, yeah, yeah we all know he repeats the same mantra ad infinitum, but you gotta love the prose:

In my father's house are many mansions. Surely one of them has a room with no elephants in it....
Not to crunch too many metaphors right here at the top, but a consensus seems to be firming up in the animate jello of the Internet that we have entered the Season of the Witch. An odor of ripeness fills the virtual air -- something between dead carp and apples baking. Whatever else appears to be going on in the upper stories and verdigris-tinged turrets of capital finance -- currency rackets, gold switcheroos, interest rate arbitrage games, concealment of losses under rugs and behind curtains, Chinese fire drills performed by Spanish prisoners, executive three-card-monte set-ups, boardroom work-arounds, accounting quicksteps, Peter-to-Paul-shuffles, check kitings, pigeon drops, Ponzi schemes, hugger-muggers, bezels, shucks, jives, and enough monkeyshines to make Lord Greystroke cry for mercy -- apart, in other words, from business-as-usual, such as it is these days, on Wall Street, there is a rising collective sense of anxious expectation that things are about to shake loose in the sad-ass shell of what remains of our economy. And the most perplexing part is that there hardly seems any safe place to preserve one's savings.


From one of the best albums of all time:

[Plantagenet]

capitall, on Sep 28 2009, 06:07 PM, said:

The state with the nation's highest unemployment rate has a nearly $3 trillion shortfall.

You will be happy to note that since this article was published, the shortfall has dropped to $3 billion.

[shorty]

Plantagenet, on Sep 28 2009, 04:19 PM, said:

You will be happy to note that since this article was published, the shortfall has dropped to $3 billion.

the stimulus is working!
good, secure, high-paying, green, net-carbon-neutral jobs for everyone!

[shorty]

Is right now the worst possible time ever, in the billions of years that mankind has walked the planet, to invest in a bond fund?

[shorty]

Holy crap the margin man's gonna be happy

my cousin just sent me a Honus Wagner BB card from 1,755,382,069 B.C.

well-centered, very minor corner wear, no creases, VG-EX min (certified)

I'll let it go for $500 million

cash only

hurry!

WAIT A MINUTE I JUST CHECKED....IT'S A ROOKIE CARD!

$600 million

[K Wave Rider]

For any who are interested...

Ron Paul's book End the Fed is out and selling well at Amazon, and currently number 6 on NY Times Bestseller list.

For those in NYC, he is doing a book signing at the Borders at 100 Broadway at noon tomorrow.

http://www.amazon.co.../...TF8&s=books

EDIT: After reading the reviews, sounds like not too much substance except for a chapter or two.

[DrStool]

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[phatbubble]

K Wave Rider, on Sep 28 2009, 09:31 PM, said:

For any who are interested...

Ron Paul's book End the Fed is out and selling well at Amazon, and currently number 6 on NY Times Bestseller list.

For those in NYC, he is doing a book signing at the Borders at 100 Broadway at noon tomorrow.

http://www.amazon.co.../...TF8&s=books

Am expecting HR1207/S604 to gather steam as we head into some of the major astro challenges to both the US chart and the Fed chart (the two of which overlap in pretty revealing ways).

Looks like big dollar developments coming to a head initially in late fall, and remaining in general crisis in 2010.

Jul/Aug 2010 in particular looks real gnarly.

[K Wave Rider]

shorty, on Sep 28 2009, 06:22 PM, said:

the stimulus is working!
good, secure, high-paying, green, net-carbon-neutral jobs for everyone!

And the poor and middle class get poorer....

http://news.yahoo.co...nsus_income_gap

Household income declined across all groups, but at sharper percentage levels for middle-income and poor Americans. Median income fell last year from $52,163 to $50,303, wiping out a decade's worth of gains to hit the lowest level since 1997.

[Charmin]

Why didn't they like IBM on such a fine bull day today?