POLITICS ANYONE?

rffrydr · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: POLITICS ANYONE?

As much as I'd like to believe I'm above this kind of red-baiting the fact remains there's an elephant in the room: we have now clearly surpassed inflation adjusted expenditures on the Vietnam war:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,460007,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt-responses.html

This doesn't seem to talked about much in the economic press, let alone the washington press--maybe since the funding is a "homeland emergency."

The conventional economic story goes this spending set us off on madcap inflationary, productivity destroying, binge spending generational trauma. Now...nothing. Is China the secret of our success? Technology of warfare? A demogrpahic thing? Same path and just don't know it? The story this time seems to be how little noise that elephant makes--or, maybe that was the story last time....adjusted for hindsight.
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:57 am Post subject:

Industrial Policy Q.E.D.:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120411/AUTO01/204110392/1148/rss25

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:45 am Post subject:

The "Rule of More":

http://www.economist.com/node/21547772
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:48 am Post subject:

Jamie's letter:

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/04/jamie-dimons-letter-the-highlights/

Not what I'd call, "presidential material" but the point about not having a say in reform is a politician's lie in the grandest style. Dodd-Frank was almost written by bankers, and when Basel III gave you 'til 2019 you didn't have to give yourself a "competitive" six months.

The sucking sound coming out of the economy cannot be denied however. Don't lend/don't borrow dynamic is alive an well. --But so is the don't M&A. That's reform, J.D.
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smile · Veteran Poster Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 192

A conservative, a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar.

Bartender says Hi Mitt.

rffrydr · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject:

Sign O' th' Times:

http://phrasegenerator.com/finance

Laughing

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HenryTo · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:39 pm Post subject:

The state of the U.S. budget (deficit).

http://blog.yardeni.com/2011/12/us-treasury-outlays-receipts.html

rffrydr · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:11 am Post subject:

Wall St.'s own little political project, "Safe-Harbor Act" now stands to prevent MF Global customers from recovering all of their own money sans formal fraud determination. All slipped through Congress with nary a customer in the building. That OWS is a crazy outfit.
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:46 am Post subject:

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:41 pm Post subject:

Listen here, you can hear it: the old Liberalism has found a new faith. The antipolitics of OWS puts the lift back into the marching feet.

http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/News/Surveillance/vx9EIW1drjoo.mp3

".... 'What do you call a conservative these days?'...'A conservative these days is anyone afraid to give up the grip of power.'"

You'll also hear, strangely, a Republican countervoice.
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:28 am Post subject:

The "automated cutting machine" that is supposed to kick it now would be a market wonder. That we all know they won't has just sealed the deal on the gridlock Wall St. once idolized. We are a long long way from '07.
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:

These guys are so far out of touch with their little Horatio Alger homilies and dog-eared capitalism. Amazingly, their tree has yet to be shaken.

http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Markets/Analyst_Calls/vuitl0WOWiik.mp3

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/W8tTm-xKj5g/
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:22 pm Post subject:

We did a good job last few sessions resisting the eyrostaria--why not now? --Or how come we fall 400pts on nothing at all?

The leak that wasn't. 'Bout we should be getting something on the "Super-committee." But we didn't. And now we got the Republican Members actively "lobbying" for on tax hikes. This is gonna put us right on the euro-metaphor merry-go-round as leadership vacuum sucks us down.

I believed that they had found some kind of religion after the last hijinks--indeed, that's the impetus behind the Committee in the first place. Failure into "automatic stabilizers" would be alright. A grand fudge most certainly, certainly would not.

Nice triangle fake-out and keep your eye on the golden peel.
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:38 am Post subject:

Displaced from their park, Occupy will march directly on Wall St. today. Duh!
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:40 am Post subject:

Aloha from Hawaii:

http://www.yeslab.org/APEC

That they did nothing shows they care.
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:00 am Post subject:

Cozy up:

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/11/14/745691/introducing-the-keep-america-safe-job-creating-congress-etf/

It's been a few generations since Wall St. followed politics.
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