tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post8617466509921308549..comments2024-03-22T05:15:17.042+02:00Comments on Sudden Debt: The Oh, Very Funny Index (tm)Hellasioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-3110533214339825582009-05-28T11:48:21.770+03:002009-05-28T11:48:21.770+03:00How is the index looking now please ?How is the index looking now please ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-14841478572555349602009-05-21T16:32:19.027+03:002009-05-21T16:32:19.027+03:00Much of the non-economic discussion has migrated t...Much of the non-economic discussion has migrated to Dink's new link (above). We're having fun!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-1833795790656941902009-05-21T07:23:05.292+03:002009-05-21T07:23:05.292+03:00The game is over, but some people keep playing nev...The game is over, but some people keep playing nevertheless. What's more, some onlookers, seeing the action are fooled into thinking that there is a there, there. This is all by design as the big boys are looking for bagholders. They will either find them, or not. Either way the gigue is going to be up.<br /><br /><br />With that in mind we have been, for the better part of the last three months anyway,experiencing the effects of massive denial by a number of market participants. The fools will have to learn their lessons the hard way, with the next and most viscious leg down playing the role of the strict school teacher, or more accurately, cruel drill Sargeant.<br /><br />Keep your eyes open and prick up your ears for the inevitable,<br /><br />"Now drop and give me fifty!"Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-18894832422423151872009-05-21T06:36:48.698+03:002009-05-21T06:36:48.698+03:00Dink, If you think my exchanges with Thai are stre...Dink, If you think my exchanges with Thai are street-rat-crazy, you don't know the street.<br /><br />One of the things I like about Hell's blog is his obvious passion for the subject presented dispassionately. I plead guilty of ad hominen behavior and I will try to avoid it, but I don't think its a virtual knife fight.marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-42625238672845476982009-05-21T06:19:53.458+03:002009-05-21T06:19:53.458+03:00Thai, "Is there good data suggesting federal corru...Thai, "Is there good data suggesting federal corruption is worse than in the past?"<br /><br />I have read about the enormous growth of K Street in Washington. Other factors that show evidence of an "increase in corruption" might be out there also.<br /><br />Like to present charts and other data but can I post that here, or are we limited to hot buttons to another site?marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-70499039767648872992009-05-21T04:48:22.723+03:002009-05-21T04:48:22.723+03:00Its....alive<A HREF="http://streetratcrazysaloon.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"> Its....alive</A>dinknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-44605478068233732472009-05-21T00:49:45.290+03:002009-05-21T00:49:45.290+03:00I agree with Dink- Hell has always been the perfec...I agree with Dink- Hell has always been the perfect gentleman. <br /><br />Deb I don't think it fair to ask Hell to come up with a solution to this tragedy of the commons. <br /><br />Please understand, <A HREF="https://www.blogger.com/start" REL="nofollow">it is quite easy to create a personal free blogger account</A>. <br /><br />If you make your own blog, and you want to have an off topic conversation, you can post whatever you want on your blog and then just create a comment saying something like "off topic conversation" with a link on it to your post.<br /><br />Actually the best place to do is just add your links to the very bottom of the "links to this page" area but I have not figured out how to do this yet (or I actually would have done it a while ago) and am unsure it it requires Hell's permission or not. <br /><br />If anyone knows how to do it, please speak up.Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-7470922210879168482009-05-20T23:09:00.727+03:002009-05-20T23:09:00.727+03:00So, I'm waiting to hear Hell's propositions (he he...So, I'm waiting to hear Hell's propositions (he he...) for what we can do about all the extracurricular studies we are indulging in on his site.<br />Frankly, I would miss Hell's humor if I cleared out to Thai's blog, even if I really like Thai and others here.<br />Plus, I've already stated that I feel like I have a MISSION here...Debranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-41651350890730873802009-05-20T22:30:50.569+03:002009-05-20T22:30:50.569+03:00SS,
Lets keep calm here. I admit my first reactio...SS,<br /><br />Lets keep calm here. I admit my first reaction was to think of Goya's "Saturn Eating His Children", but I have since meditated upon the matter and found Hell's request to be politely worded and fair. Perhaps a solution would be for Hell to put another website under his Links (FT Alphaville, etc.) so that after reading him and commenting appropriately those that wish can link over and go street-rat-crazy (my new favorite phrase).dinknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-54731723712298409812009-05-20T21:39:12.124+03:002009-05-20T21:39:12.124+03:00@Thai
The question was do you want to host this (...@Thai<br /><br />The question was do you want to host this (Marcus et al) on your blog page and move our often extraneous conversations there as they appear to be wearing out Hell's welcome?<br /><br />SSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-27913063915018970862009-05-20T20:25:26.248+03:002009-05-20T20:25:26.248+03:00@Marcus, I would be happy to read any post you car...@Marcus, I would be happy to read any post you care to write on why you think health care costs are skyrocketing. <br /><br />I think we all agree health care cost escalation is a major issue- you all know it has always been my big issue.<br /><br />In fact, as I think on this, and remember Hell's comment that household debt is made of housing, education, etc... It seems to me we have really been/are in the midst of 4 major bubbles right now: housing, health care, education and retirement and that all of these have contributed to our current predicament.<br /><br />Do any of you see any other bubbles I am missing?<br /><br />Is there good data suggesting federal corruption is worse than in the past? This would be serious.Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-67048230902958872532009-05-20T19:09:41.798+03:002009-05-20T19:09:41.798+03:00Just out of curiosity Hel, the spider comment caug...Just out of curiosity Hel, the spider comment caught your attention but comment #32 on the May 8 post slipped your radar:<br /><br />"We need to invade some poor country.<br /><br />How about Cuba? We kill a few million people in Cuba easy and the women are hot, the army must be getting tired of raping Iraqi women, and I heard on youtube that they often smell bad."yoyomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357340275250708990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-40730757572926985302009-05-20T19:04:27.457+03:002009-05-20T19:04:27.457+03:00@ Marcus
Sounds good to me, let's see what Thai s...@ Marcus<br /><br />Sounds good to me, let's see what Thai says.<br /><br />SSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-20934780838489918112009-05-20T18:51:07.860+03:002009-05-20T18:51:07.860+03:00Hel,
Do you know if this statement is true?:
"As ...Hel,<br />Do you know if <A HREF="http://www.brucewiseman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:hitlers-bank-goes-global&catid=34:finance&Itemid=27&ref=patrick.net" REL="nofollow">this statement</A> is true?:<br /><br />"As noted in the first article, the BIS is completely above the law.<br /><br />It is like a sovereign state. Its personnel have diplomatic immunity for their persons and papers. No taxes are levied on the bank or the personnel’s salaries. The grounds are sovereign, as are the buildings and offices. The Swiss government has no legal jurisdiction over the bank and no government agency or authority has oversight over its operations."yoyomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357340275250708990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-1672495660050812392009-05-20T18:41:36.196+03:002009-05-20T18:41:36.196+03:00SS, Be glad to do a simple analysis of the cost of...SS, Be glad to do a simple analysis of the cost of rising health care to the economy, or the cost of growing corruption within Federal government. And submission of the short studies would not be contingent on posts being approved.marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-57578961346352891402009-05-20T16:20:13.124+03:002009-05-20T16:20:13.124+03:00re: Site integrity(?)
Folks, perhaps out of respe...re: Site integrity(?)<br /><br />Folks, perhaps out of respect for our host and ourselves we should think of taking our discussion somewhere else. I believe Thai has a little used blog site up. If he wants he could commission a contribution by someone to kick things off.<br /><br />SSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-30913940341768167372009-05-20T14:23:01.460+03:002009-05-20T14:23:01.460+03:00About commenting...
This is an economics and mark...About commenting...<br /><br />This is an economics and markets blog, in the expanded sense. While I am a rather permissive "host", as everyone has no doubt noticed, staying within the subject bounds and respecting a modicum of brevity are desirable.<br /><br />For example... spiders??? And I don't mean SPDR's..<br /><br />H.Hellasioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-17167566718065500842009-05-20T14:04:36.701+03:002009-05-20T14:04:36.701+03:00Yo, I took Hell's statement in context.
He has n...Yo, I took Hell's statement in context. <br /><br />He has never asked us to stop chatting before so I thought he wanted us to shut down the prior conversation.<br /><br />Is this not what you were asking Hell? <br /><br />... I guess Dink's question is a good one if you would be willing to clarify.<br /><br />Deb, re: fractals, Okie passed me this <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/tm/3514-l.html?site=35&pl=qt&rate=hi&ch=1" REL="nofollow">link</A>. <br /><br />I know nothing about structuralism so I will need to look it up but thoughts around fractals have existed forever in almost all fields of thought so it certainly wouldn't surprise me. <br /><br />I am rather visual and I just happen to see them everywhere, just the way I am hard wired I guess.<br /><br />RegardsThaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-84020796551140537382009-05-20T10:18:13.705+03:002009-05-20T10:18:13.705+03:00Come back to the last post to discuss your exposit...Come back to the last post to discuss your exposition of fractals with me, Thai. It looks like another variant of structuralism to me, and THAT I know something about...<br /><br />I am going to TRY to get a business going with A NEW, GREEN IDEA of mine. I don't want to make money off it, I want OTHERS to make money off it with decent wages, and non environmental raping practices. I am excited about this... I will keep you posted on the extremely PRACTICAL translation of all of our high faluted ideas into the REAL WORLD OF WORK... Sounds fair, doesn't it ? Now, to WORK. LOL LOL LOL And you thought I wasn't capable of it, didn't you ?...<br />By the way, nobody answered the question I asked in the last post. It was a real question...Debranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-27847793131251647812009-05-20T09:54:08.221+03:002009-05-20T09:54:08.221+03:00So much for:
"Message heard loud and clear.
Will...So much for:<br /><br />"Message heard loud and clear.<br /><br />Will do"yoyomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357340275250708990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-85426965322931767152009-05-20T09:50:01.491+03:002009-05-20T09:50:01.491+03:00Nice work,
I started following your blog recently....Nice work,<br />I started following your blog recently.<br /><br />As Jesse's Café Américain recently said<br />'Never underestimate the power of greed and fear over memory and prudence.davidhttp://thebullishbear.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-5817948069838946012009-05-20T06:36:00.394+03:002009-05-20T06:36:00.394+03:00My favorite way of looking at fractals is in the b...My favorite way of looking at fractals is in the biological sciences but I see them in economics when I stare at an issue long enough. <br /><br />I prefer to think of them as infinite dimensional structures of smaller building blocks (or modules) iteratively combining to form larger modules or building blocks, each with links allowing individual and groups of building blocks to cooperate or not cooperate with each other (or with larger modules, etc...).<br /><br />... Kind of like a infinite dimensional constant in an infinite dimensional equation. <br /><br />For life, the fractals is just a fractal of cooperation.<br /><br />I know you like philosophy (I really have read almost no philosophy in my life except what I look up on the internet as my interest so carries me), don't you call this recursive or <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference" REL="nofollow">self referential philosophy</A>? <br /><br />I learned about this from <A HREF="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter" REL="nofollow">Douglas Hofstadter</A> of Godel, Escher Bach fame.<br /><br />The analogy is very useful to understand physiology since much of medicine is about how various building blocks (molecules, cells, organs or organ systems, etc...) cooperate (or don't cooperate) with other building blocks.<br /><br />Thus we see the loss of cooperation between certain building blocks in the brain (one is taken out by stroke or disease, etc...) causing a man to mistake his wife for a hat.<br /><br />Or you can see "fractal like" structures in the modeling of super computers and <A HREF="http://seedmagazine.com/designseries/henry-markram.html" REL="nofollow">artificial brains</A>, or in the whole discussion (often takes a darkly racist tone) of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intelligence_factor" REL="nofollow">g-factor</A> and intelligence, ... in fact if you really look close enough at any area of medicine, you will see them.<br /><br />Economics seems no different than biology so it makes sense.Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-5522424387674860192009-05-20T05:55:00.871+03:002009-05-20T05:55:00.871+03:00SS- Thanks.SS- Thanks.Thaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-7691149493854946432009-05-20T04:49:36.378+03:002009-05-20T04:49:36.378+03:00@ Thai,
Real good article tonight on the "Financi...@ Thai,<br /><br />Real good article tonight on the "Financial Armageddon" web site about randomness in economics, includes mention of fractals, Mandelbot and why much Nobel Laureate Economics is fundamentally wrong.<br /><br />SSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-7644333124645649502009-05-20T04:47:46.514+03:002009-05-20T04:47:46.514+03:00Yoyomo,
"so what about the camel (pseudo) spiders"...Yoyomo,<br />"so what about the camel (pseudo) spiders"<br /><br />I'll add to May 15th so the current comment section can stay related.dinknoreply@blogger.com