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    The China, USA, and Colombia connection...

    Goldman, or rather WS owns the Chinese Government too. Where do you think the original capital for the Chinese came from? Captive work force, ultimate tax haven.
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    Goldman Sachs bet on housing meltdown -- and won

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html McClathy has a series of reports on the story. It is pretty damning stuff. They examined some and stopped examining the loans that they bought. They sold mortgage backed bonds with loans that were bad to pension funds and took out...
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    Public sector cost as a % of GDP worldwide

    Unfunded liabilities indeed. The whole SS will be broke meme comes from various R administrations treating the Social Security trust fund as part of the general fund. Unfunded liabilities could easily be turned into funded liabilities by removing the income cap on social security taxes and...
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    Catherine Austin Fitts: The public get's what the public wants.

    She found a way for government investment to have a positive return. So the cleptocrats tried to put her in prison. Go to the site and read the rest.
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    Catherine Austin Fitts: The public get's what the public wants.

    Part 6 part 2 After the sale of Dillon to Travelers, we put together significant Travelers financial support for our LBO business. Birkelund called me to his office to ask me if I would take the lead on marketing our LBO’s to bond buyers. This request caught me off guard, as I was confident...
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    Catherine Austin Fitts: The public get's what the public wants.

    Dillon Read & Co. Inc. & the Aristocracy of Prison Profits by Catherine Austin Fitts http://dunwalke.com/6_A_Parting_of_the_Ways.htm "Make a law, make a business." — Old New Jersey street saying Part 6 There was an invisible spirit that crept through our lives on...
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    Catherine Austin Fitts: The public get's what the public wants.

    Wow, I had NO IDEA that this was out there. Juicy stuff. By Catherine Austin Fitts, Who was Managing director and Member of the Board of Dillon, Reed & Co. Inc and Assistant Secretary of Housing (head of HUD) in the HW Bush Admin...
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    2/3rd (75%) of the economy is consumers buying? but it is dropping?

    It is not. A small number of individuals with access to pools of money from insurance companies and pension funds could get filthy rich by doing buyouts and takeovers and offshoreing manufacturing, and by buying off anyone who might have stopped them, they did. They have reduced the...
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    Goldman Sachs Tells SEC Dark Pools, Short Sales Help Cut Costs

    While I find much of what you say simplistic. and lacking in understanding and historical grounding, (( look up what happened under the Gold Standard, "Free Silver and 42" and all that.) The revolutionary WAR was over the depression that K G caused by forcing colonies to stop printing their...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Okay, who is going to take advantage of the low volume at lunch to move the market? Run up or run down? Or just peter along between 1052 and 1054?
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    +1
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    Ratigan nails how "dark pools" rip off traders: Dark pool trading = 10% of volume

    There is also this from Matt Taibbi http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/10/27/goldman-lobbies-senate-says-full-transparency-sucks/ Oct. 27 2009 - 11:58 am | 5,965 views | 4 recommendations | 39 comments Goldman Lobbies Senate, Says Full Transparency Sucks ALTERNATIVE TRADING...
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    Short Memories at Goldman

    Asia: Not god, but I have seen the country devolve into a worship of the power of money, a focus the Avatar of our most common religion warned against vehemently. Needle Camel, that stuff. The airwaves, Newspapers and other media outlets used to be considered the 4th branch of...
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    Short Memories at Goldman

    Asiaprop: You are saying blame the govenment, not Goldman, but for the last 20 years, Goldman has BEEN the government. It did not matter if the letter was D or R, the party of Goldman$ ascended with Reagan and never left. I believe the overreaching in the affairs of foreign nations that...
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Go back over your last 10 trades and see what would have happened if you had not tightened your stop.
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    Successful traders - sim practice?

    If you could walk on and play quarterback for the Patriots without training would you? You have the same chance of being flattened in the market as on the football field if you don't train first.
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    The Battle Against Letting Wall Street Continue to Make a Killing on Derivatives

    Precisely: They were so upset when Brooksly Born wanted to have everything registered on an exchange because in 1996 because the banks evidently had by that time made a ton of money selling Swaps (insurance policies against default) they had no reserves to cover and did not want out in the open.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Waiting for afternoon test of the morning high at the 1098 level.
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    “Failed moral compass of bankers was primarily responsible for crisis": Goldman Sachs

    Confused again Scat? The CRA required regulated banks to loan to the working poor, but they had had a pretty low default rate until the meltdown. The meltdown was caused by ballon, no doc liar loans and option arms going belly up and the Fs never bought any of the balloon,, no doc liar...
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