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As violent as the meltdown in 2008-09 was, it's almost beyond imagination how it will unfold in the not so distant future. There is unbounded "moral hazard complacency" priced into these markets; as if there is no possible way for central banks to lose control of the situation. Also implied...

Seems to me that none of the other bought and paid for candidates were an improvement over The Rahminator. It's just the sad state of affairs in this country...

You can have stagflation for other reasons. For instance, where the private sector loses its pricing power, the government can step in and with brute force increase the cost of living while there is little to no growth. How about a small business that is faced with the headwinds of all...

Very reminiscent of 2006-08...the bulls wax poetic about following the trend, ostracizing anybody who was bearish and then all it took was one or two days to shut them up. A few days later the market would grind higher and take out the highs and the back and forth verbal sparring ensued...

Save your energy Pekelo, Krazy Karl is a Bernanke fanboy and Goldman Sachs cheerleader. If you disagree with the Fed saved the world and Goldman is doing "God's work" thesis, then you are an ignorant, tinfoil hat wearing wingnut...according to Karl.

This topic has been debated endlessly for the past 3 years. I've always held the belief that both sides are equally culpable in this trainwreck. Ultimately though, I put all of the blame at the steps of the Federal Reserve and their endless asset reflation schemes in addition to their complete...

That's right. It's a reason why they'll never re-instate a military draft; we all got a good look at what fury that unleashed 40+ years ago. I'm still of the opinion, that the transformation of the American political scene is a few years off when this current college age generation starts...

I'd rather have an aggressive, uncensored and passionate critique of the status quo than all of these "filtered for content", pro-establishment, paid off and captured journalists any day of the f'ing week. Considering how completely far gone this country is at this point in time, no amount of...

Show me these REAL journalists. It's laughable that you've lobbied these critiques based on the style of his prose, as opposed to the content. He, along with many other upstart "journalists" are de-facto bloggers who make it to print as well. They are a different generation, with...

The criticism lobbed at Taibbi, IMHO, is what is called "picayune". Also, I'd argue against this notion that his vitriol and venom is solely targeted at bankers. Instead, he does a convincing job of targeting bankers, politicians, the court system, etc, etc...Many conservatives take issue with...

I'll never understand how AMT continues to post these ideas (which, btw, I'm almost in complete agreement with), yet posts a smiley face after all of them. Do you find all of it humorous? Do you not for a second think that you'll be just as fucked as everyone else in this country when it all...

Interesting... Have to wonder how these sorts of things play out. Producers of food, beverages, liquor, etc are faced with an enormous rise in input costs...they've been loath to pass the costs on as they know that the economy (outside of the top 1% of asset holders) is still on its ass...

That's pretty much how I see it as well. It's a pretty simple trend over the past decade or so. Each successive bubble has to be more parabolic and extreme than the previous for our economy to have any appearance of "normal". I say that with a great deal of cynicism as it's abundantly clear...

I don't see any flaws in your logic, that pretty much mirrors my set of conclusions as well. We've seen record outflows for over a year (including ETF's), massive insider stock selling, very low volume on most days, etc, etc... Tiv is right, the Fed colludes with its agents to put a...

We run a war economy, it's as simple as that. In their minds, "the ends justify the means". They reach a conclusion and then work backwards to legitimize their rationale. Every generation gets their own war, I suppose concerns over population growth and such play a part in determining the...

And yet they've been involved in making markets and pocketing the spread for generations, yet that didn't stop many of them from blowing up, or at the very least having unprofitable quarters. The OP is right; it's entirely different from the old days and the whole dynamic between flow vs prop...

It's a bit funny and sad, but I remember the 2005-07 period (actually should just be amended to 2003-07), and guys were still stuck with the memories of 98-02 and the really good two way volatility, very liquid options markets, good side by side action with electronic vs pits, etc...So, the...

I'm even more interested in numbers going back say 7-8 years ago and longer. Anybody have that kind of info?

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