Just A Running Joke


Just A Running Joke
12-08-16
mpg

When It Feels Like 1929, Quit The Markets And Go Gold Prospecting
This Is An Observation....NOT A Prediction Or Recommendation -- A quote...."There’s a madness in the air at the moment. Like the smell of bacon on a winter’s morning, it is unmistakeably tempting, and the cause of salivating expectation. But stuffing your face with bacon every day is bad for a person. Bacon is a false God. Also it’s not kosher. -- As usual over the last five or six working days, I’ve been Channel surfing, and generally ringing round to gauge reactions to probably the most surreal year of my lifetime. Doing so has confirmed my sense of something beyond bullish taking place. What we’re seeing now isn’t a bull run: it’s a drove of pigs jostling with each other in their haste to get to the cliff edge, where their ability to fly will become apparent to all. -- Except pigs can’t fly. It’s one of many reasons why bacon is never in short supply. -- Across the main business news programmes and channels at the moment, everyone is locked into New Paradigm gabble. I’ve joked before about the way the presenters speak, but the speed is accelerating, the content is wood-for-trees, and the eyes have those unmistakeable post-line pupils and crazy gleam."
The article above was NOT posted on this website as a prediction or recommendation. 

After the last eight years, watching endless iterations of various "market" manipulation mechanisms being introduced to the world: QE (operation print), QE-Lite (operation twist), derivatives, mark to fantasy, stock buy-backs, statistical lying, NIRP & ZIRP, bail-ins & bail-outs, high frequency trading, unlimited uncollateralized selling (naked shorting), multiple hypothecation / re- hypothecation , (fraud)  etc., etc., ad-infinitum.... it's become apparent there is no "market". 

Just a running joke on all of us. 

However, this website editor has also recently noted what the author above has observed, even on perennially doleful websites like ZeroHedge, almost everyone everywhere is actually starting to voice the belief that markets CAN'T go down, that they DO go up FOREVER. 

And that truly is a bad sign.

But again to stress, after watching all the fundamental and technical analysts get it consistently wrong for the last five years predicting that this sort of activity - just - can't - possibly - go - on.... and it did, this is NOT a prediction, just an observation.

Because it really can - go - on!  A lot longer than anyone has predicted, or most likely can predict.

So IF these "markets" go down in "price" (whatever that means), it'll be because the very people who can create electronic ones and zeros out of thin air, and call them currency, the very people who also created all these market manipulation mechanisms, want them to go down.  Having blown an enormous bubble they can choose not to blow anymore....

Or even pull the plug....

And IF these "markets" go up in "price", (whatever that means), it'll be because these very same people have decided to create more ones and zeros in their computers, and more "market" manipulation mechanisms....

But it won't be connected with anything to do with the "real world"

It most definitively won't be for the benefit of the people. 

It'll be for theirs  - mpg