SHORTING GLOBALIZED MARKET STATES

Call it a 'mixed' paradigm..............

CAN YOU SAY SHORTING GLOBALIZATION

The only game left at the Casino is:

SHORTING GLOBALIZATION.

RE MARC FABER INTERVIEW realecontv GREAT STUFF ESPECIALLY THE FERRARIS AND BENTLEYS PARKED OUTSIDE

He has a great sense for political apprehensions; see espcially his connections between Libya, Africa, Pakistan, and China.

http://www.realecontv.com/page/1826.html

RE ITS NOT ABOUT YOU BROOKS NYT EDITORIAL

It is ironic that the very boomer, conservative, individualistic, anarchistic, civil liberties, maverick, globalistic, corporatist, entrepreneurial, politics and ethos that Brooks himself has regularly espoused is what he criticizes here. It smacks of the usual dishonesty. 


Compare with Thomas Friedman's similarly disingenuous article on The Osama Decade. 


Deep hypocrisies.

RE THE BIN LADEN DECADE NYT EDITORIAL THOMAS FRIEDMAN

As usual, a profoundly false and misleading essay throughout.

RE KEYNESIANS VERSUS AUSTRIANS A FALSE DICHOTOMY IN AN EVIL DARK WORLD

Realecontv does not necessarily get anything right, in a deeper sense, but this is fun to watch:

http://www.realecontv.com/videos/media-con-artists/who-did-you-listen-to-.html

RE THE GOOD BANKER JOE NOCERO NYT EDITORIAL TODAY CASINOS AS BANKS AS INVESTORS

He cites a good banker saying the typical bank now is just a casino.
This was also what I had inferred.

RE BBC REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS OUT OF US AFTER EXPENSIVE EDUCATION

Smelling the global struggles coffee to come. 


Us higher education: No doubt one of the biggest tech and academic sluices in the world for many decades now. 


Paraphrasing Churchill, re RAF, 

('Never was so much owed by so many to so few')

'Never In The History Of Human Conflict Has So Much Been Given Away to So Many By So Few.' 


All comers education here has not helped the American people unfortunately, although heavily funded by taxpayers the whole time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13595196

VERY INTERESTING CHANOS ON CHINA

http://www.realecontv.com/videos/china/not-bearish-enough.html

BUBBLELIZATION LEADS TO BABBELLIZATION WHICH LEADS TO GLOBISH

Q.E.D.

RE CHARLES BLOW ENDANGERED RYAN-OS NYT EDITORIAL RINOS

This is the tone of discussion, from what used to be the left, I guess.

RE US LAWMAKERS BLOCK CHINA FIRMS PENTAGON CONTRACTS

Rather a ridiculous discussion, at this point.


This is how the US has been doing 'business'
for a long time now.....


Can you say, lack of political economic or strategic 'leverage'?


Terms search: leverage, playing three sides, etc.

STAGFLATION AND GLOBALIZATION

Natural partners.

RE THIS FROM GLOBALSPECULATION.COM

This person does not know what they are talking 

about, unfortunately.

'The gold standard failed because it imposed natural constraints on countries that left them unable to defend themselves and their citizens. It is absurd to form an entity for public purpose and then not be able to utilize that entity when you most need it. Some people like to think of govt’s as these foreign entities that are created for their own benefit (primarily because they’ve read too much economics from people who lived in the days of communism and socialism), but that is not the case. We live in a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. If you are that pissed then stand up and do something. This is YOUR govt. It is to be used for YOUR benefit.

When you enter yourself into an arrangement such as the one that Greece is involved in then what is the purpose of your govt? You are no longer fulfilling public purpose. You are just existing in someone else’s system. That is what the gold standard did. And it is what the Euro is doing today. The trade imbalances are a direct result of the single currency system. The gold standard failed. It isn’t coming back. And we’re all better off for it.'

RE THE DOWNSIZED COLLEGE GRADUATE NYT EDITORIAL

Uaintsenutniet.

RE MYERS BRIGGS AND OTHER THINGS

Post Jungian personality system......


Used, as Wikipedia notes, during WW II, great watershed event, to help women be incorporated into the wartime workforce.


I first took the test, many years ago.
It showed I was 'the Inventor'. ENTP. 


Not a 'type' apparently supposed to be appropriate for parentage, at all!! Inventors should never procreate.  


We were advised not to have any children with this personality profile.


I took a similar Myers Briggs test, many years later, at the office. It showed, at that time, that I was the most 'well balanced' tested personality, of the 12 or 13 people who took the test in the office. 


This result was announced to us all at an office meeting. Many people in the office were taken somewhat aback by this 'finding'............


Many different implications might be drawn from these bare bones factual musings. 


Do 'inventors' not procreate, 
even if they turn out, 
according to the very same criteria, 
to be better balanced than many other different character examples? 


Rather a ridiculous series of events, to say the least.......


Should a society which has inventors prevent them eugenically from procreating? 


Then, question, isn't this rather cutting off one's intellectual nose to spite one's ostensible societal face?


These are some of the rather odd conclusions one might draw from this strange psychological schematism, 


and its very different, and potentially conflicting, and explosive, 'clinical applications'.


Terms search social science, philosophy, etc.

RE GOLD SAY WHAT

http://seekingalpha.com/article/271802-china-gold-and-etfs

There are a lot of historical reasons why Americans are driven into gold. 


Some of those reasons are contained on this blog, for those having an interest.  


It is not a matter of being liberal or conservative; those terms, and the party system, and the political system, on which they 'free rode',  are what got us here.

RE INVESTMENT TERMINOLOGY BECOMING NOW OBSOLETE CALL IT JUST SHORT TERM GAMBLING

Unfortunately, most investment terminology, heretofore used in the West, and for a while elsewhere, is becoming obsolete.


'Value investing', 'sectoral' investing...
debt, versus equity, even....
investing versus just plain hedging, or even casual gambling, these are all blending into a half light of global financial twilight activities; traditional investment terms losing their traditional relevance in the tumultuous world of 
momentary gains versus momentary losses, 
of politics and corruption over private property, 
or private property and corruption over politics, 
in a dog eat dog world of ...... what?


Momentary investment activity nevertheless is gathering strength, then waning strength; 


is it also a species or a symptom of military strength; or weakness?

RE GOLD CHINA AND INDIA AND THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

To date, their demand for gold doubles last years' demand.


Maybe it's just a bling thing.


What really 'backs' the dollar? 


(Used to be things like gold, industrial capital, productive assets, labor force, things like that.)


What now backs the dollar? 
Mostly only our military, and the relative weakness of others'.


Rather a weak position to be in, unfortunately.

RE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST

Great summations on this site. Terms search here: David Kaiser, or DK, for some of my past comments on his site.


I would say that, as I am sure many have long anticipated, these instabilities he notes going on now, will quickly grow into major military conflicts involving the great powers. 


There are many reasons for this. Paramount is the nagging need for secure supplies of oil resources from this region, even though its proportion of world sources has declined over the decades. 


I skimmed a book, some years ago now, The Middle East, Oil, and The Great Powers, recounting the history of rivalries in this region back into the 19th Century.