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[traderabc] 29/12/2011 19:20

Joe Bodolai Dies: Apparent Suicide For Former 'SNL' Writer



His blog

IF THIS WERE Y0UR LAST DAY ALIVE WHAT WOULD YOU DO?



The Late George Carlin Freedom of Speech Award

[traderabc] 29/12/2011 18:43

[KR229] Jamie Dimon Suckles on Ben Bernanke's Quantitative Easing

[traderabc] 29/12/2011 12:10

Jim Rogers on Chinese Economy Hard Landing
Jim Rogers: Some parts of the Chinese economy are going to have a hard landing. The Chinese for two years now have been tightening up. They have raised interest rates six times. They have raised reserve requirements a dozen times. Just recently they started to loosen this up a little bit but they are trying. They are trying to bring down real estate, they are trying to make real estate developers go bankrupt so you are going to have a hard landing to use your terms in things like property in China. But other parts of the Chinese economy are going to continue to boom: water treatment, agriculture, farmers are not going to know that the real estate speculators in Beijing and Shanghai are going bankrupt because they are working too hard and making too much money so you are going to have sectors of the Chinese economy with serious problems but it's not the whole Chinese economy. It's not like it was here. Some have argued that China has taken the first steps to start pumping more money into the system by cutting reserve requirements, that they will continue to do so in 2012 especially when the government transitions leadership in late 2012, do you think it's going to happen? Rogers: Well, you are right. They have loosened up twice in the last month or two. I wouldn't if I was China but I am not China. It looks as though they are going to start loosening up. I guess the real estate speculators are calling up and saying save me, save me, save me and they are starting to listen. - in The Street

[traderabc] 29/12/2011 12:09

Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The biggest risk in China would be an inflation not a deflation scenario

Jim Rogers: It's a terrible idea. They need to crack inflation. They've got a serious inflation problem. Either they have to beat inflation internally or they have to make the currency convertible. They are apparently not going to make the currency convertible. Now if they continue with inflation, then they are going to have even more problems a year from now, two years from now. The biggest risk in China would be an inflation not a deflation scenario with property prices falling so much? The worst problem is that their inflation comes back – they have all of this money trapped inside of China and its sloshing around and it goes back into real estate. I mean they did this once before three or four years ago. They tightened up but then they got scared and then they loosened up again before they cracked the real estate [problem] and they may do it again – that would be a serious problem. - in The Street.com

[traderabc] 29/12/2011 12:09

Wednesday, December 28, 2011
2013 is definitely going to be a very bad year in the US

Legendary Investor Jim Rogers said in an interview with the Spanish magazine El Economista that 2013 is definitely going to be a very bad year in the US :"You´re definitely going to show big trouble ahead, and make sure you understand in the next few years you´re going to continue to see financial problems, and they´re going to be worse. The world had a problem in 2002, which was worse in 2008, in which the debt was so much higher. The next time around whether it´s 2012, or 13, or 14, I don´t know, it´s going to be much, much worse still but the amount of debt that´s very, very, very high. So the same as everybody the next time will be worse in America. America has had economic slowdown and recession every four to six years beginning with the republic, so we?re certainly overdue at the end of 2011, 12, 13, sometime. " Jim Rogers said "You know 2013 if we last, if we make it to 2013, 2013 is going to be worse. There´s an election in America in 2012. The government is going to extend as much money as it can to win the election, and the people who get that money are going to be better off because there´s a government throws billions of dollars out into the economy. Somebody´s got to get that money. But those people and their friends are going to be better off. But the overall situation continues to get worse because the debt goes higher and higher and higher, and the rest of us ultimately are going to be worse off. And certainly by 2013 when all of that extra spending for the election stops, 2013 is definitely going to be a very bad year in the U.S. and in the world." He added - via Eleconomista.es

[traderabc] 28/12/2011 13:07

Biggest Risk for the U.S. Economy in 2012

[traderabc] 28/12/2011 12:35

26 December 2011 Last updated at 01:21




Farmers warned to do more to prevent sheep rustling

Sheep rustling is a problem particularly in Northern Ireland, Wales, Lancashire and Lincolnshire

Farmers are being encouraged to do more to prevent the growing problem of livestock rustling across the UK.

One insurer says cases of stolen animals more than doubled over the last year, compared to the previous year.

In Lancashire, where the problem is particularly bad, police say they will be doing far more spot checks on vehicles carrying livestock.

[traderabc] 28/12/2011 12:34

26 December 2011 Last updated at 12:25


Brazil economy overtakes UK, says CEBR



A large part of Brazil's economy relies on the production of commodities


Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world's sixth largest economy, an economic research group has said.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said its latest World Economic League Table showed Asian countries moving up and European countries falling back.

[traderabc] 28/12/2011 12:34

[KR228] Keiser Report – Parasites with bailouts

[apdi71] 26/12/2011 21:09

Jim Rogers 2012 Outlook. Pessimism With Scattered Crises

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:51

Check this out..

A spiritual message from a Mexican cemetery from John Perry Barlow: the last American shaman

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:51

This seems familiar, we heard a different song with the same sort of sympathy story on X factor a while back.



Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show





Don't think this is the same kid, but well...





Emmanuel Kelly The X Factor

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:49

Mad Max Jpeg

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:49

Capital Account: Max Keiser, America runs the "Special Olympics for Financial Fraud"

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:49

On the Edge with Mish Shedlock

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:48

Ultra bearish Marc Faber says the whole derivatives market will one day cease to exist, 'will become zero'

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:46

George Soros Openly Discusses The Coming New World Order


From The Economic Collapse

In the video you are about to see, George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency. So just who is George Soros? Well, he is a billionaire "philanthropist" who came to be known as "the Man Who Broke the Bank of England" when he raked in a staggering one billion dollars during the 1992 "Black Wednesday" currency crisis. These days Soros is most famous for being perhaps the most "politically active" (at least openly) billionaire in the world. His Open Society Institute is in more than 60 countries and it spends approximately $600 million a year promoting the ideals that Soros wants promoted. Soros and his pet organizations have played a key role in quite a few "revolutions" around the globe over the last several decades, but these days the main goal of George Soros is to bring political change to the United States.

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:45

The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything

[traderabc] 26/12/2011 08:44

Cheers Balt, Dutch, you may find this of interest.

Stratfor Hacked, 200GB Of Emails, Credit Cards Stolen, Client List Released, Includes MF Global, Rockefeller Foundation

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2011 21:10 -0500





Could this be Stratfor's "private client list"? And what kind of info do you think we have on them?




Then the bbc take

[049balt] 25/12/2011 20:18

trader. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[traderabc] 25/12/2011 11:44

[KR227] Keiser Report – Merry X-Max & Happy New GIABO

[traderabc] 24/12/2011 17:10

Ron Paul's Successful Investment Portfolio



Becket Adams
The Blaze
Friday, December 23, 2011

When it comes to investing, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has made no secret where his preferences lie.