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zzyzzx
2014 Feb 19, 10:24pm
Why do so many people pay money to visit countries in the Caribbean etc. where conditions are so dire their own people risk death to escape?
Presumably because they are very smug, and want to look at a bunch of poor blacks since they think that will make them feel better about themselves.
smaulgld
2014 Feb 19, 10:31pm
they are reporting it as stress, seems more like they knew something
Bubbabeefcake
2014 Feb 19, 11:49pm
they are reporting it as stress, seems more like they knew something
Yeah, the stress of knowing too much.....
Call it Crazy, some will call a spade a spade but I'll just call it what it is " an Omen is an Omen"
We're glad you can read a calendar... I guess you did learn something in
school after all...
Apparently you can't.
Isn't slumped a past tense form of the word slump, which would then mean that Feb. is in the past also?
You're quite the beacon of knowledge, or it seems now that you have some sort of crappy and cracked, crystal ball.
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 12:40am
Shorts are long term my boy.
And getting longer and longer as the weeks go by. What is the market up by since you made up your fantasy claim of your biggest ever short, followed soon after with a claim of a double-down? It's about 3-400, isn't it?
I guess you didn't read the link in the OP to see where the title came from,
just jumping into the end of the thread, as usual....
Why would I, considering that the title of the post contained this word:
Slumped
So, Feb. isn't even over, and was what, maybe 2/3s past when the article was 'researched' and written, so is it really an accurate description of confidence, especially Feb.? And then claim that it did anything?
Never mind, I forgot for a moment who I was responding to(you can beat a drum, but you can't drown a fish).
New Renter
2014 Feb 20, 12:56am
Why do so many people pay money to visit countries in the Caribbean etc. where conditions are so dire their own people risk death to escape?
Presumably because they are very smug, and want to look at a bunch of poor blacks since they think that will make them feel better about themselves.
Such people don't need to travel outside our borders to do THAT.
A quick trip to your local prison will do just fine.
Why do so many people pay money to visit countries in the Caribbean etc. where conditions are so dire their own people risk death to escape?
Presumably because they are very smug, and want to look at a bunch of poor blacks since they think that will make them feel better about themselves.
I don't think so. People go to puerto plata and punta cana because of all inclusive resorts. Wifey and I got a room for about $150 a night - all food, drinks, entertainment, beach access, sauna/pool/jacuzzi/gym included. The only extra costs are if you take optional tours out of the resort. You can't get these types of deals in united states. In fact, I don't think we have any "all inclusive" resorts. I am sure that labor costs have quite a bit to do with it. Even if we had such a concept, a couple would probably spend at least $600 per day if not more.
Yeah I like the taxi concept in central america. You negotiate with the driver and can hire them for a day or multiple days. Equivalent types of rides in america will land you in bankruptcy.
I guess you should contact the NAHB and tell them to stop publishing their
reports in the middle of EVERY month and wait until Feb. 28th so the grammar
police don't show up...
Would that make you feel better???
The NAHB jumped the shark long ago, the evidence is what you posted 'about' Feb., and they've turned into some ideological based joke that mostly lobbys, which is why Businessweek ran the story, and the same reason that you posted it here. You ever go through ANY of their data and see just how it's compiled or how they get to the conclusion that they always come to? I just answered my own question, because it's obvious that you never have.
Most of the data that maybe worth anything is done outside of the NAHB and they don't give it away for free, even to the media.
Since you're such the expert, why don't YOU go through the data in the
article and tell us why it's wrong or tell us the true data??
Just as I thought, you haven't. Have you ever answered ANY of their polls/questionaires? Doubtful, at best.
If you had, and been burned like I have by buying expensive and basically useless data(but they give you a small break if you're a member), you'd agree with me instead of resorting to you're well worn out routine of trying to antagonize me.
Since you're such the expert,
This much is definitely true, you aren't.
BTW, how did you not ever lose internet access recently, but yet you lost power and had to rely on a generator?
anotheraccount
2014 Feb 20, 2:07am
What is the market up by since you made up your fantasy claim of your biggest ever short, followed soon after with a claim of a double-down? It's about 3-400, isn't it?
RFHTC is making a lot of calls , but I do think he is right on this one long term. The market is easily 20% overvalued and Nasdaq might be even more overvalued. Facebook just diluted shareholders by a lot and stock is not even down. If you look at biotech, valuations are crazy. My point is that we will get a big correction sometime this year, my guess is within three months, unless Yellen starts printing more.
Heraclitusstudent
2014 Feb 20, 2:24am
The problem is sex. This is the most powerful force that shapes humanity.
As long as their lust is easily quenched, there will be no pressure on men to manifest any ambition beyond mere survival.
They need a religion that denounces every natural impulse as sinful, and a state that enforces strictly bedroom decency rules.
And yes, they also need to "educate" their women so they become entitled and spoiled.
Once this happens you will see men there work their asses off and compete hard with each other.
The Dominican Republic economy will become known as the Caribbean Dragon.
RentingForHalfTheCost
2014 Feb 20, 4:00am
Shorts are long term my boy.
And getting longer and longer as the weeks go by. What is the market up by since you made up your fantasy claim of your biggest ever short, followed soon after with a claim of a double-down? It's about 3-400, isn't it?
Actually about even if you took the time to pay attention. 16K is my mark and one that will prove to be the peak in this fake market. Better have clean underwear and some vaseline handy.
indigenous
2014 Feb 20, 4:28am
This article is apt to this
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-19/charles-gave-gold-%E2%80%98deflation%E2%80%99-hedge
Homeboy
2014 Feb 20, 4:38am
"Q: What do you call somebody who hangs around with musicians?
A: A drummer."
A man visits Africa. He has a guide who is showing him around. Everywhere they go, the man hears the sound of drums off in the distance. Finally, he asks the guide, "What is that constant drumbeat I'm hearing?" The guide says, "Drums good! When drums stop - very very bad." The next day, the drums are still playing. All of a sudden, the man can't hear the drums anymore. He frantically asks the guide, "Oh my god - the drums stopped! What's going to happen now????" The guide says, "Now bass solo starts."
If their data is so useless, why did all the other financial news media
publish the same news release yesterday?? Surely, those financial news people
should know how useless the NAHB's data must be.
You apparently didn't read what I posted above.
And just how useful is data about February when February isn't even past yet? You posted it here on 2/18, so the rest of February is irrelevant then????
So they left out 10 days(probably more because of the time needed to edit and post/publish the 'report') worth of potential data, or 36% of their 'field' or the total days of the month, and that's not important?
But I forgot who I was responding to. LOL. You do yourself no favors.
But I forgot who I was responding to.
Yea, I forgot... The irresponsible one, per his wife...
LOL, mean and nasty coming from the p-ro fessional blogger. BTW, thanks for the spam mail, loser.
OOOHHHHH NNNNNNNOOOOOO, what will I do?
What's next on your schedule of useless BS, analyzing 2013 but conveniently leaving out Jan.- Oct.?
BTW, thanks for the spam mail, loser.
Spam mail.... ???? What???
Stay off of the porn sites and you'll won't get any spam..
Are you drinking early again today???
Same old shit with losers like you, isn't it. Maybe someday you'll get yourself out of that rut of meager existence and move on from being an internet bonehead. Apparently it returns a few more dimes than I thought, because you're still here spouting your usual nonsense (that's out of date a couple of years ago), but how you live beyond that is a wonder.
This bears repeating though, I'd have better luck trying to drown a fish than ever expecting and/or getting anything rational or useful from you.
Nice ad hominem attack!! So adult of you!!!
Since you are totally unable to dispute the data in the OP, you resort to the
personal attacks...
Who needs to grow up here???
LOL, and he's/she's off to the races!!! Again.
Sigh. Redundancy isn't an admirable quality, and neither is trying to run me in circles again with your usual circle-jerk routine.
You REALLY need some new material for your act.
Hey Ducky, does that answer your question??
How about this post of mine quite a way up towards the top:
Just as I thought, you haven't. Have you ever answered ANY of their
polls/questionaires? Doubtful, at best.
Is your NAHB membership still valid? LOL maybe you can show the parameters of how the data was collected and based upon what restrictions or by what definitions, right?
Robber Baron Elite Scum
2014 Feb 20, 7:28am
Perfect attack on a topic and then when presented with facts you use the skill of diversion. Nice work. So predictable and becoming of you.
Wow... The hypocrisy in your statements are astounding.
Here's an example of the validity of your BS poll.
From Fox:
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0LEV0IwjAZTNwcAW8BXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcmE4b3FnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDOARjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTMyMF8x/SIG=13gr0j5sj/EXP=1392966832/**http%3a//www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/01/16/home-builder-confidence-ticks-down-in-january/
And for the same month from Bloomberg:
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0LEV0IwjAZTNwcAVsBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEza2VlYjVxBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTMyMF8x/SIG=140cua6gk/EXP=1392966832/**http%3a//www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/homebuilder-confidence-in-u-s-held-in-january-at-six-year-high.html
And from your same source, Businessweek:
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0LEV0IwjAZTNwcATcBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzMmd1dWFzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTMyMF8x/SIG=137v1bal6/EXP=1392966832/**http%3a//www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-01-16/us-homebuilder-confidence-dips-in-january
All the 'news' sources used the same source for their story, the NAHB homebuilder confidence poll.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Feb 20, 7:50am
Throw in come garlic and anchovy paste and you gotcher self a decent Caesar salad dressing.
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 12:04pm
1. Market depth. It's much harder to find the fool willing to pay up $930 for a used coke can than finding people willing to buy an ounce of gold at substantial price.
It wasn't that difficult seeing as he just put it on ebay.
1. Market depth. It's much harder to find the fool willing to pay up $930 for a used coke can than finding people willing to buy an ounce of gold at substantial price.
It wasn't that difficult seeing as he just put it on ebay.
Do you really believe the transaction is legit? Or if you have 1000 of those, you can retrieve nearly a million $'s stashed away in that vehicle?
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 12:12pm
1. Market depth. It's much harder to find the fool willing to pay up $930 for a used coke can than finding people willing to buy an ounce of gold at substantial price.
It wasn't that difficult seeing as he just put it on ebay.
Do you really believe the transaction is legit? Or if you have 1000 of those, you can retrieve nearly a million $'s stashed away in that vehicle?
I think you need to wind your neck back in.
1. Market depth. It's much harder to find the fool willing to pay up $930 for a used coke can than finding people willing to buy an ounce of gold at substantial price.
It wasn't that difficult seeing as he just put it on ebay.
Do you really believe the transaction is legit? Or if you have 1000 of those, you can retrieve nearly a million $'s stashed away in that vehicle?
I think you need to wind your neck back in.
So you choose to weasel out of the issue instead by launching into personal attacks.
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 12:33pm
Can dish out, but can't take it, can you? Your "wind your neck back in" comment could be construed as "up pop the weasel."
No, it can be seen for what it obviously was - you getting agitated for no reason about a jokey comment that didn't require a response. And if you think 'wind your neck back in' amounts to 'launching into a personal attack,' then you need to develop a thicker skin.
You have been living in an echo chamber of your choice if you thing "everyone else" has the same prejudices as you do.
Sure. I'm a middle-aged man who has never personally known anyone to spout the sort of shite you come up with for your vision of the world. If that's what you take to be an echo chamber, then fine.
No need to complain, just carrying on as usual, in a new thread.
Of course you are complaining. That is why you started a new thread to complain about what he was doing.
unless you consider the authors of Declaration of Independence to be "America's skinhead freeman." They were freemen all right, but they wore wigs, not skinheads, and yes they were quintessential Americans.
Whom you despise and consider fascists. They structured a nation around voting therefore to you they are fascists.
Where did you learn your American history? In the Soviet Union? No, the authors of the Declaration of Independence did not structure a nation. The American nation was born in trade amongst the colonies. The Declaration of Independence did not involve the establishment of any new government, but declared the independence of 13 colonies; i.e. the un-establishment of the British government over the 13 colonies.
What you are advocating is not nationhood, but state coercion.
Another bullshit diversion. Every patriotic statement I have made leads to your ejaculation "fascism". Nationhood in America is fascism. You own this. Eat it.
Nope. You have not made a single patriotic statement, but only scandalous faux pas trying to hide your ignorance in the last refuge of flag waving.
The very existence of the institution of slavery relied upon the government
No, it relied upon the pricing powerlessness of slaves and the violent pricing power the southern freemen.
What the heck are you talking about? Run-away slaves could find jobs in free soil states that were not enforcing slave-return laws.
Your North Idaho freemen cohorts would hold black slaves as legitimate firearm practice targets, and true to Austrian economics it would make perfect sense to buy them. True to the hypocrisy of such lunatics, they would lobby the government to give them a grant to do it. Your point is meaningless.
You are just making up shit as you go. You are the type of loser who lobby for government funding, and you are the type of losers who, if left to your own device, will end up at the receiving end of a firing squad, just like Eric Rhom, the former SA leader who got slaughtered during the Night of Long Knives. Some "national structure" all right!
Go to bed, or has your "model-grade sex partner" given you blue balls? Or has your "worshipful kid" gone on a bender and left you contemplating a new Skinner box timeout therapy?
Kids are doing fine, as are most former sex partners. The most recent one has to stew in her own juice as she managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
You are actually the advocate for violent coercions
Your dick goes limp and you trot out "projection" again? Loser. Anarchy is "without structure".
So which government told you to have what for breakfast this morning? How about lunch and dinner? Did some government order you around to have your meals? Are you living in a prison? The market place has its own structure.
To you any national structure is fascism,
Nonsense! The American nation was born decades before even the Constitution was written.
and any advocate of that order is violent.
Again nonsense! The market place creates its own order through the freedom and liberty exercised by individuals. Coercion upon individuals to do things that they do not wish to do obviously is violent and violating the freedom and liberty of individuals, usually leading to chaos as individuals then seek to subvert such imposition.
Your blithering narrow mind is almost too dull to tolerate. The example of American freemen are the idiot anarchists who see themselves as sovereign nations unto themselves and drape swastikas across their livingroom.
You obviously know more about the neo-Nazi skinheads than you know about the authors of the Declaration of Independence, or for that matter what's in the Declaration of Independence. No wonder you would have mistaken anyone worshipping Swastika (presumably the Nazi variety, not the Bhuddist or pagan variety) as liberty loving; the Nazi Swastika is a symbol of "national structure" that you love so much.
What do they pay you as a consultant when they warm up the presses and build white-trash websites about assuming the true will to power? Do you feel powerful preaching to the toothless morons who hate America as much as you do?
Stop projecting. I'm not even white. You however do sound like trash, regardless of your skin color.
Can dish out, but can't take it, can you? Your "wind your neck back in" comment could be construed as "up pop the weasel."
No, it can be seen for what it obviously was - you getting agitated for no reason about a jokey comment that didn't require a response. And if you think 'wind your neck back in' amounts to 'launching into a personal attack,' then you need to develop a thicker skin.
Then why are you agitated by someone pointing out your weasel reference? Shouldn't you grow some thicker skin before asking others to do the same?
You have been living in an echo chamber of your choice if you thing "everyone else" has the same prejudices as you do.
Sure. I'm a middle-aged man who has never personally known anyone to spout the sort of shite you come up with for your vision of the world. If that's what you take to be an echo chamber, then fine.
Then you are just ignorant. There have been hundreds of books published by economists of the Austrian School, Public Choice School, etc. etc. If you think that are all "sort of shite" then you are just proving your own ignorance.
No need to complain, just carrying on as usual, in a new thread.
Of course you are complaining. That is why you started a new thread to complain about what he was doing.
No I did not. The thread was started with a repost of the post that he deleted, with a preface/forward added to the front explaining why a new thread became necessary.
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 1:30pm
Then why are you agitated by someone pointing out your weasel reference? Shouldn't you grow some thicker skin before asking others to do the same?
I'm not agitated. I'm pointing out what you did and why it was an overreaction. And it was you who made the weasel reference, not me. I said you should wind your neck back in. Personally, I've never heard anyone use the expression 'up pop the weasel' before.
Then you are just ignorant. There have been hundreds of books published by economists of the Austrian School, Public Choice School, etc. etc. If you think that are all "sort of shite" then you are just proving your own ignorance.
Disagreeing with you and your love of Austrian economics isn't ignorance, it's simply a fundamental disagreement with the views that you hold. And as I said, I have never met anyone who holds the views you promote on here. You called that living in an echo chamber, I said that I've simply never met anyone with your professed views despite 20+ years working around the world as an expat. That's my life experience. The fact a bunch of economists have written some books is utterly irrelevant to that. And when you quote someone, it's best to actually quote what they say rather than making up a comment.
No I did not. The thread was started with a repost of the post that he deleted, with a preface/forward added to the front explaining why a new thread became necessary.
Based on the fact you were annoyed by his deletion. Perhaps you'd care to look at the title you used for the thread.
Then why are you agitated by someone pointing out your weasel reference? Shouldn't you grow some thicker skin before asking others to do the same?
I'm not agitated. I'm pointing out what you did and why it was an overreaction.
I was not agitated. You made a weasel reference, so I pointed out that you were weaseling out of debate.
Disagreeing with you and your love of Austrian economics isn't ignorance, it's simply a fundamental disagreement with the views that you hold. And as I said, I have never met anyone who holds the views you promote on here. You called that living in an echo chamber, I said that I've simply never met anyone with your professed views despite 20+ years working around the world as an expat. That's my life experience. The fact a bunch of economists have written some books is utterly irrelevant to that.
I doubt you actually expatriated (as in renouncing US citizenship) in any of those 20yrs. You worked around the world as a foreign worker, mostly with very close-knit local "expat"/foreigner chambers of commerce working closely with the local governments, seeking special privileges from the said governments.
"A bunch of economists," sure just so happens that several of them are winners of Nobel Prize in Economics. Obviously, economic theories, especially the free market variety, are of no interest to the chambers of commerce suckling on the teats of foreign governments.
No I did not. The thread was started with a repost of the post that he deleted, with a preface/forward added to the front explaining why a new thread became necessary.
Based on the fact you were annoyed by his deletion. Perhaps you'd care to look at the title you used for the thread.
Annoyed? Yes, because I had to repost with a preface/forward added. Complaining? No.
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 1:49pm
I was not agitated. You made a weasel reference, so I pointed out that you were weaseling out of debate.
Good grief. YOU made the weasel comment. I said wind your neck back in. What has that got to do with a 'weasel' reference?
I doubt you actually expatriated (as in renouncing US citizenship) in any of those 20yrs. You worked around the world as a foreign worker, mostly with very close-knit local "expat"/foreigner chambers of commerce working closely with the local governments, seeking special privileges from the said governments.
Er, I'm British. I'm currently working in the Middle East and have done so for quite a while and nearly all my colleagues are Arabs and Indians. Before that I was in Japan, and there nearly every single person was Japanese, so... And I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'seeking special privileges' and working 'closely with local governments.' I am, however, impressed by the assertions you make based on zero knowledge of what you are talking about.
Annoyed? Yes, because I had to repost with a preface/forward added. Complaining? No.
Oh right, so you were annoyed rather than complaining. Thanks for clearing that up.
I was not agitated. You made a weasel reference, so I pointed out that you were weaseling out of debate.
Good grief. YOU made the weasel comment.
The "winding your neck back in" comment from you was a reference to child toy "up pop the weasel."
Er, I'm British. I'm currently working in the Middle East and have done so for quite a while and nearly all my colleagues are Arabs and Indians. Before that I was in Japan, and there nearly every single person was Japanese, so... And I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'seeking special privileges' and working 'closely with local governments.' I am, however, impressed by the assertions you make based on zero knowledge of what you are talking about.
In other words, you did not expatriate (renouncing British citizenship in your case). What the heck do you think the local British Chamber of Commerce do in every place that you have been going? Seeking special trading privileges from the local governments.
Oh right, so you were annoyed rather than complaining. Thanks for clearing that up.
You are welcome. What's that you are complaining?
Bigsby
2014 Feb 20, 2:02pm
The "winding your neck back in" comment from you was a reference to child toy "up pop the weasel."
No, it wasn't. But it was kind of you to tell me what the expression doesn't mean.
In other words, you did not expatriate (renouncing British citizenship in your case). What the heck do you think the local British Chamber of Commerce do in every place that you have been going? Seeking special trading privileges from the local governments.
No, I didn't, because, strangely enough, I like to have a passport and am happy to remain the citizen of the country I was born and grew up in. And I don't work with or for the local British Chamber of Commerce. And where exactly do you get off telling someone what they are doing or who they are working with when you haven't got the foggiest?
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