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It does not fit into the "inflate or die" mandate.

Each day that passes, Susi becomes a bigger joke.

Agree and just take a look at the likes of Bernanke and Krugman as well. I swear Krugman looks exactly like Bernanke with a hairpiece. Surprised nobody else has noticed this.

I agree, the floor was a bit further towards a system of "checks and balances".

Actually, I pulled it once I did a bit more research and realized the woman was a bit of a nutcase. Nonetheless, UNTIL the clients get the percentage of money back that you insist they will, call me extremely skeptical of this whole situation.

But you didn't address the CTA's who have the individual accounts held at the FCM's. Heck, just looking at the CFTC dollar numbers held in segregated accounts gives an idea at the scope and size.

The lady might have injected some hyperbole into her missive, but the key points are completely spot on. Segregated funds going missing for three weeks is a huge story. The idea that some CTA's, CPO's, etc might get cold feet from this episode is not at all unreasonable. Even if the managers...

I'm not a fan of bureaucrats, but you've misconstrued what I wrote above. By "hard choices", I'm referring to structural reforms that would address the underlying issues for excessive "borrow and spend". More specifically, the whole debacle we witnessed this past August whereby both sides of...

Well stated. Just look at when this thread started..8/19/11. Three months later, an assortment of proposals to simply "buy time" and now the contagion has spread to other countries. Bureaucrats absolutely hate making the hard choices, it always carries the weight of potential career suicide...

Mostly agree, with the caveat that something is going to "blow" in a big way in the not too distant future. All of this chopping right around that 200d moving average (in a whole host of different asset classes btw). It's just become a bit too "cute" that the pols. can basically talk the...

I agree and that's why I think it feels like 2008, albeit the difference is that in 2008 the "market" was still in the dark in so far as what the policy response would be...now, there is a great deal of complacency and many assumptions that everyone, everywhere will be accomodative forever. The...

2008 was very much like this, albeit with more volatility and alot of very palpable fear. This time around I sense just an overwhelming complacency that Europe can somehow repeat the same measures that the US pulled off 3 years ago...only it hasn't happened and every day for the past 3+ months...

Of course I addressed the topic. You did see the word "capitalism" in my post didn't you? I responded to your post to point out the fact that while this ideal of "pure" capitalism is a noble cause, what we currently have is largely crony capitalism. I even suggested a few recent examples from...

Indeed, but you're going off on a tangent again. We have alot more "crony capitalism" than actual capitalism at the present. As mentioned above, look no further than the huge dollars sunk into "green" investments under this administration. Many of the loans done at around 1-2% interest rates...

:D :D Yeah, make sure to tell the OP hashish is perfectly legal in Turkey and to bring it with him.

The latest headline...don't make me laugh. There is a new headline every few hours..all just a way to buy more time. Remember, Susi..you thought they'd "fix" the Eurozone mess 3 months ago.

Any of the CTA's care to comment on the rumblings amongst client's keeping their money at FCM's with the MF Global debacle? Or, alternatively, are you guys pretty concerned about keeping/raising money in the future with this black eye to the industry?

Yeah, flood the Eurozone with "printing" so you can try to salvage some of the damage from your perpetual bullishness...You've been dead wrong for months now, all the while critizing any rational analysis of the situation. Just one bullshit shill storyline after another. Give it up already.

Good post and apropos vis a vis some of the recent revelations about the enormous amount of investment capital flushed down the toilet in those "sweetheart" loans given to many of these "Green" projects over the past 2-3 years (Solyndra is just one of many).

No mention of the fact the tattoo says "Israel"? Or are we all just overlooking that? (He kinda looks like Johnny Damon circa 2004).