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September 22, 2014, 02:26:21 AM |
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buyers are hitting the asks on Stamp:
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September 22, 2014, 02:36:45 AM |
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Dow futures -72
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September 22, 2014, 02:39:13 AM |
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Markets are very active in the early Asian trading session (following the G-20-'s warnings over excess risk-taking). Precious metal liquidations continue with silver bearing the brunt (back below pre-Lehman levels) and gold down modestly. Stocks from China to US are all down notably too. The USD is weakening as EUR strengthens on the back of ECB comments about the possibility of no more stimulus and chatter that the PBOC may be selling USDs. Treasury yields are down (having retraced all FOMC losses). Iron Ore futures in Singapore just hit a record low below $80http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-21/liquidations-continue-stocks-dollar-slide-precious-metals-pounded-asia-trading
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September 22, 2014, 02:39:44 AM |
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Before the agricultural revolution, it took humanity about one million years on average to develop enough infrastructure/capability to support an additional one million humans living at subsistence levels. After the agricultural revolution, that changed to talking only a few hundred years. Now, after the industrial revolution, that takes 90 minutes on average.
There are huge side effects: http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/soil-erosion-and-degradationThat's important but the kicker is overall economic growth, we're moving from a meme of more to a meme of better. The problem is the centers of control are working from the ideology of Co opting / controlling the supply of more. Monopolies have no value when people find alternatives, micro electronics, alternate energy and food security technologies like aquaponics (oh and money) are reshaping everything. Forget it, Adrian. In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) is the proposition that as technology progresses, the increase in efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.[1] In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological improvements could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.[2]
The issue has been re-examined by modern economists studying consumption rebound effects from improved energy efficiency. In addition to reducing the amount needed for a given use, improved efficiency lowers the relative cost of using a resource, which tends to increase the quantity of the resource demanded, potentially counteracting any savings from increased efficiency. Additionally, increased efficiency accelerates economic growth, further increasing the demand for resources. The Jevons paradox occurs when the effect from increased demand predominates, causing resource use to increasehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradoxI'm aware of Jevons_paradox, but much smarter people than me (Satosi) know it's only supply and demand that brings it into equilibrium. The divergence in usage as a result of innovation also express it's self in an economy as art and culture ultimately this is enriched experiences. We won't find a comfortable equilibrium with constant economic growth as managed under the target of central banks. With or without central banks: "a comfortable equilibrium with constant economic growth" is an oxymoron. An economy is a collectivist organisation (state bastard), and: "Essentially, the economy is an engine that transforms resources into waste." http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/ugo-bardi/2011/07/22/entropy-peak-oil-and-stoic-philosophy-part-2An economy is by extension part of an ecosystem, entropy is a feature, one which drives the evolution of life. Waste as president in you referenced material is a byproduct of an economy artificially stimulated by monetarist policy. The homo oeconomicus is an artificially stimulated homo sapiens. Monetarist policies are a byproduct of that artificial life. Touche, but I'm of the opinion we're seeing evolution in progress of a more powerful meme, it is taking hold in this very thread not only usurping the central bank (the armory of the monetarists) but its former long standing champion gold. But just after writing "waste = food" I realised there is one type of waste which is actually waste and that is spent uranium.
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September 22, 2014, 02:46:30 AM |
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10yr UST futures Note turning up tonite. Moar black hole sh*t:
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September 22, 2014, 02:51:44 AM |
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10yr UST futures Note turning up tonite. Moar black hole sh*t: ...
USTs will be the last man standing.
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Bitcoin is the first monetary system to credibly offer perfect information to all economic participants.
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September 22, 2014, 02:51:56 AM |
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they're still hitting the asks:
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September 22, 2014, 02:53:18 AM |
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starting to get a rally on Finex
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September 22, 2014, 02:57:21 AM |
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10yr UST futures Note turning up tonite. Moar black hole sh*t: ...
USTs will be the last man standing. at the expense of the USD?
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September 22, 2014, 03:02:10 AM |
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the tinder is still to be lit:
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September 22, 2014, 03:22:58 AM |
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WSJ: "Is It Time to Invest in Bitcoin?" http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-to-deficer-cryptocurrencies-1411333011Well, they got the title right, but degrades to quotes from Rickards shilling for theoretic alt-platforms toward the end. :/
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September 22, 2014, 03:24:21 AM |
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10yr UST futures Note turning up tonite. Moar black hole sh*t: ...
USTs will be the last man standing. at the expense of the USD? Yup. Just like Japan is doing with the Yen. Buy all the bonds! M2 be damned!
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September 22, 2014, 03:28:54 AM |
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James Rickards, a financier and author, says he sees potential in technologies that process faster, cheaper and more transparent exchanges that go beyond trading money. Companies using these new technologies, he says, "allow consumers to buy products or to send payments in seconds at a fraction of the cost" of regular currency.that's actually very good for him
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September 22, 2014, 03:36:11 AM |
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10yr UST futures Note turning up tonite. Moar black hole sh*t: ...
USTs will be the last man standing. at the expense of the USD? Yup. Just like Japan is doing with the Yen. Buy all the bonds! M2 be damned! sounds about right to me. Moar Blackhole sh*t!
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September 22, 2014, 03:41:51 AM |
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James Rickards, a financier and author, says he sees potential in technologies that process faster, cheaper and more transparent exchanges that go beyond trading money. Companies using these new technologies, he says, "allow consumers to buy products or to send payments in seconds at a fraction of the cost" of regular currency.that's actually very good for him He's been increasingly positive on crypto currency. In sort of a cagey way, he mentioned it positively in his latest book too. He still sees gold as the endgame for the dollar though. He figures that when dollar hegemony fails, all the others will go with it and the US will be the first to issue a gold backed currency, and thereby regaining currency hegemony. Bitcoin is potentially a game changer though. If it progresses in time.
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September 22, 2014, 04:41:20 AM |
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copper futures: oil futures about to break support: CAT heading down:
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September 22, 2014, 04:54:46 AM |
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copper futures: oil futures about to break support: CAT heading down: Any theory why so many commodities are heading down at the moment? Especially when QE is still going strong. Manipulation perhaps?
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September 22, 2014, 04:58:45 AM |
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Any theory why so many commodities are heading down at the moment? Especially when QE is still going strong.
Manipulation perhaps?
QE's all gone to the wrong places, ie, the deflationary black hole of UST's and Fed Excess Reserves. not to mention the stock mkt.
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September 22, 2014, 05:03:45 AM |
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this definitely sounds promising
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September 22, 2014, 05:11:26 AM |
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Squeeze tightening
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