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Guest Post: MF Global - A Fractal In A Frying Pan
Submitted by MsCreant
MF Global: A Fractal in a Frying Pan
Gerald Celente, in an interview with Russia Today, claims he cannot access his PM trading account or get answers to his inquiries. It turns out Lind-Waldock, who he originally had the account with, was subsequently bought out by the now bankrupting MF Global. Understandably distraught, Celente asserts, "They took my money out of my account, six figures, and they have it. They closed out two of my positions, and I cannot get any answers, and I can't get my money."
Celente got many of us thinking—"If a guy like him can be refused access to his money, then who is safe?" Some argue he should not have been buying "paper gold." Celente states that he was buying PM futures and taking delivery. "Max Keiser" the "Silver Bears" "Turd Fergusen" and more, have encouraged us to buy silver and "Bust the Comex." Many of us here on Zero Hedge have fantasized in the comments section about someone wealthy enough to lay a few billion on the Comex for PMs and then stand for delivery. Celente, it is arguable, was doing this not only for himself but perhaps for Joe and Josephine Average who do not have the ammunition to fight this fight.
But as I got to thinking, I realized all of the above misses a valuable take away lesson. It is not simply the case that MF Global is a "first domino to fall" or a "canary in the coal mine" or a "harbinger of collapse." MF Global is a fractal in a frying pan. Because of the defaults that must take place (municipal debt, sovereign debt, empty box MBS, CRE, I could go on and on), MF Global is showing us an early template, or fractal structure, for how these bankruptcies are going to manifest in our daily lives. MF Global is now falling out of the frying pan and into the fire and MANY OF US WILL FOLLOW. As the flow of bankruptcies increases, our everyday lived experience will be reshaped by the realities of the new structure as it is branded on our lives—financially and emotionally.
While Gerald Celente is crying about his lost six-figure account, Bill Fleckenstein also has personal money tied up with MF Global. He is hopeful that he will get it back but is critical of the authority figures involved. Celente does not expect to get all of his money back. Ann Barnhardt of Barnhardt Capital Management has shuttered its operations after six-years in the business. She did not feel like her clients' funds were safe in the futures and options market any more. Lawrence Lepard, who posted on Zero Hedge, wonders if the MF Global failure was a hit job done by the Fed. My point is not about who is right or wrong (time will tell), but that we are getting an early, slow paced look at things to come—the story telling, guessing, shock, denial, hopeful strategizing, negotiations. The success, failure, triumph, rage, loss, and sorrow. As we move through time and defaults, the pace of people finding out that they "can't get to their money" is going to pick up.
Today there is headline space to chide or support Celente and Fleckenstein. Today we have time to focus on what the one MF Global bankruptcy might mean about the state of the financial industry, the health of our economy, the impotence (or outright corruption) of our government regulatory agencies, and what it means for some of us as individuals. As more and more defaults and bankruptcies occur, more and more people will be claiming to have been robbed, crying about their lost retirement/college fund/income stream. They will not be news anymore. It will be the new normal. Before this is all over, most of us are going to claim we have had "our money taken" when, in reality, we are creditors who will be caught up in massive, multiple, overlapping, bankruptcy proceedings. We will want to focus on our individual situations—who did what with our money, why it was wrong, and who should go to jail. Many of us will also be the reason someone else has to go bankrupt. We will be their crook, their robber who did this that and the other with their money. And someone might want us to go to jail for it too. We are going to be at each other's throats, in courtrooms and on the streets.
Gerald and Bill—you are not special. Today you can garner attention and sympathy (or contempt) for your plight. Tomorrow you will be but a grain of sand in an avalanche of financial discord, fuel long burned off in a raging firestorm that will consume everything, a fractal spark that flew out of the frying pan, giving us a glimpse of the future.
My husband read this and asked, "What do you advise?" At first blush, I find advice to be condescending. Who am I to advise? Buy precious metals? Have some cash on hand out of the banking system? Take all your cash out of the collapsing financial system? Stock up on some basics for emergencies? That might be decent advice but it is not the point. We need to be flexible. Focus on one individual's situation, one company, or one country for that matter will soon be unsustainable. Few of us will escape the consequences of participation in the financial system. It is both broken and corrupt. Our "inability to get to our money" is going to cascade into each other's lives, blowing up all kinds of relationships. We must keep our eyes and ears peeled for stories from multiple perspectives. This is why we read ZH.
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In China they execute evil criminals like Madoff and Corzine.
I seem to recall Fleck commenting in a KWN piece not too long ago that he had money in BAC and was not worried about it.
Few of us will escape the consequences of participation in the financial system. It is both broken and corrupt. Our "inability to get to our money" is going to cascade into each other's lives, blowing up all kinds of relationships. We must keep our eyes and ears peeled for stories from multiple perspectives. This is why we read ZH.
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MFG isn't the first...Reserve Primary, anyone? JFC, that was locked up for months and it was supposed to be a cash equivalent.
Primary reserve fund broke the buck on Lehman paper. It was locked up for over a year...
got inside information from TPTB?
I am cutting in here because I know you will forgive me.
Thanks to everyone who commented, positive and negative. It would not be fight club without both.
BOP knows and respects Missy. Very nice indeed...
Primary Reserve was a case illiquidity. When you say breaking the buck, you are talking about a 3 cent / dollar haircut on cash reserves. Sure, the funds were tied up and redemptions were frozen, but all you really had to do was hold the rest of its securities to maturity to get back 97% of investor funds.
MF Global on the other hand was insolvent. The money is gone. Period.
MF Global definitely isn't the only one and there are more to come trust me. Things are falling apart, and what the system is doing is feeding on itself to prolong itself for a few days more. When a system is down to that it's almost gone. Individuals who thought there money was safe where wrong. People who thought things couldn't happen, where wrong. Even if there was money to bail this whole mess out, it still wouldn't work. Because they are now being told or realizing that no society on this planet has been able to print/devalue their currency and still maintainn it's status. The insidious trap to debt or currency monetization is to not do it in the first place. Once you do it, it ensares you by saying print just a little more, a little more. It's always just out of reach and then you look down and see the ground coming up at you fast.
"...saying print just a little more, a little more. It's always just out of reach and then you look down and see the ground coming up at you fast...."
Pass the frickin' crack pipe -- I need to keep chasing the dragon, BITCHEZ.
Yes and ZH always delivers. Thanks Tyler!
Celente has an interview from several days ago up on KingWorldNews. He turns in an Oscar winning performance in the categories of Best Rant and Righteous Indignation. Classic Celente: http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/11/17_Gerald_Celente.html
Gerald has made the interview circut on his MF Global fiasco. He was on Financial Sense this weekend along with Erik Townsend. Erik also got screwed on his oil futures when the market dropped from $115 down to $75 back in May. Townsend describes how he had protected himself with puts and knew the price of oil would be coming down, but he noticed his account was showing liquidations.
He called his broker and they told them that they were liquidating his puts to cover his longs. He told his broker that he was making a lot of money on his puts and they didn't need to liquidate the contracts. The broker tells him that according to some hidden rule in the contract his account was showing a negative on his longs.... so they had to sell his puts to make good.
Erik decides to sell his longs a at loss to get out of the situation, but he was unable to do so because of this same insane stipulation in his contract. He lost over $200,000 on this trade and explains the whole thing and how he is now deciding not to go back in the futures markets at all.
I highly recommend listening to this interview:
If you think you can take all you money out now and be safe, you may be wrong, dead wrong.
They can clawback your money that you withdrew, even if "organic", back TWO years!
"The Madoff trustee sued the New York Mets owners demanding withdrawals made as long as six years before the bankruptcy, before a judge restricted him to a two-year window. The Mets owners are fighting the remaining demands"
How far back will these criminals "clawback" time to get your funds? They wanted to go back six years in the Madoff case.
I ain't afraid of no ghosts, bitches.
I place my investments through offshore companies held in trust. Any clawback and the company is history.
I keep my money...
Yea like G Celente had GLD cos it could not happen to him , once your money is out of the account its gone.
clawbacks don't work if they don't know where to dig
Great, then we should also be able to "Claw Back" Banker bonuses and alleged profits going back 10 years.
Celente whines about the whiteshoed boys but at the same time wants to make easy money playing their game. Except they changed the rules of the game for their benefit. dUH!
We need to remove all our money from brokerages since its only SIPC insured and basically insolvent. Not federal but private insured. duh. Broker investment houses need to burn.
Yeah, cause "Federal" insured is gonna be sooo much safer....
More like "D'oh!"
"D'oh!" is a catchphrase used by the fictional character Homer Simpson . . .
Anyone who witnessed the failed Hunt play on silver saw the rules changed, but there was little said of this. This oldman was so outraged by this that he dropped out of the market he loved, commodities, and went to trading munis. It was a good decision because a lot of people who said he was mad ion 1981, thought he was a genius by 1984; but no one knew that he had lost interest and faith in the sysytem and had been only a lucky fool.
When everyone knows the future and talks about that and nothing more, it is time to move on---he is getting that sense now. Only a fool would begin nibbling at banks in the middle of a collapse.
wish me luck, dudes om
Yeah...I caught that interview as well. It was quite good.
The Clif Notes:
Rules can get made up and 'jiggered' however the CME and it's Clearing Members see fit...and at any given time. They are no longer a non-for-profit and accountable entity. My mind quickly moves to what Henry Kiss and Rothschild said about controlling the money flow/supply....it's their tool to garner CONTROL.
This is a nice missive from MsCreant...too bad she is preaching to the choir.
Most of the people that visit this place understand MMT and the scam being run behind the scenes. Unfortunately...we reside in the minority. I've turned lots of people onto places like this where they can get a view of the underbelly of the beast that enslaves them. I'm guessing that about 1 % of those people have the mental capacity, attention span, and level of education to absorb and process the material.
When you watch the Occupy Movements....every 3rd or fourth word from the unhappy protesters seems to be the "D" word. These college/university educated people don't appear too educated to me. They appear indoctrinated...and brainwashed....and their levels of brainwashing are thick and deeply rooted. Their cries for "proper" Democracy is a signal that the Oligarchs are winning....and the future looks bleak.
The "Death Dealers" on Wall St. are comfortable in their positionings. Bankruptcy is a right of passage to them....in a sick little game that they joke about later at their private soirees. I'm guessing 98 of the 99% of the Occupy Movement don't even know what a Primary Dealer is....much less what their ties are with the FED windows and their inner workings on the CME's casino.
Americans can't hold these criminals in D.C. and their masters on Wall St. accountable......they believe they are suppose to be living in a Democracy.
All too true what you say, but these dudes are all we have right now. I am grateful that at least someone is in the streets of the US because this is a connection with the rest of the world that we have been cut off from by the msm propaganda. These dudes are a far better Secretary of State than Hilary Dilary Dock.
They need and merit our support unless we are only whining about change om
And send the family an invoice for the one yuan cost of the bullet used for the execution.
Bullets are free nowdays. Just a normal business expense.
They make up for it by selling the organs to Israel.
Spiral, isn't amazing the ChiComs adhere more to the rule of law and capitalistic principles than the supposed western democracies?
lol and you take a few isolated cases in a sea of fraud to claim this?
For every one person executed there are 1000s still engaging in counterfeiting in China and with the express permission of the Chicom gov't.
At least they get a couple good hangings. You know how many our corruption musters? A big fat zero.
China 1 - USA 0
Score one for the rule of law in china. While we get jack shit.
Just because the ChiComs decide to hang a few low lying apparatchiks every blue moon and the USComs never do is not a point for the Chinese. Both systems are prison colonies.
They were killed because they didn't pass some of the loot up the chain. Rouge thieves go down every day in the USA, but the bankster group never does. Madoff went down because he was stealing from the protected group, the joos. If he had kept his scam to the gentiles, he would be walking free today.
What do you know about China, besides nothing.
Having been there, I know that the "rule of law" in China means exactly jack-shit.
Capitalistic principles....like censorship, violent repression, and divisive exploitation of the ignorant?
You know even less about China, if that is possible
...and in here, we perhaps have them to thank for sounding early warnings!
That is right. At least mafioso Corzine should go to jail, Marxist Obama removed from the office and shit Behanke kicked out. But do not whine...
All this cascading bullshit is in the minds of people who are reading Zerohedge. DO NOT READ THIS BULLSHIT EITHER. Just choose your banks and brokerages carefully. Take as much as possible of your assets to HK and Singapore. The Banks like DBS, Standard CHartered and HSBC will be fine.
HSBC together with JPM is the other big naked shorter of paper silver on the crimex.
The only good bankster is a dead one.
My own approach is quite simple. HSBC provides excellent services, has good loan to capital ratio and is quite active in Asian Markets. What you can do with HSBC is to open accounts with different branches in different countries of this bank. These branches are licensed in each country and covered by local government insurance scheme. I typically keep funds in local currency and thus covered by government insurance in each location. Not only there is a good chance the bank will be bailed out by UK (where is head quartered) in case of emergency but also that I will be able to recover funds in various jurisdictions if it does not happen. So far, HSBC did not ask for bail out anywhere...
In my view, it is the best global bet.
Perhaps, I need to add here that as a Premier customer with HSBC, I have an opportunity of instantaneous and free transfer funds between accounts in different jurisdictions with excellent exchange rates. If something really serious start happening, I am sure that HSBC will not be the first bank to collapse and I will have plenty of opportunities to move funds or even cash all of them (HSBC has also its own international ATM network).
You, guys are just ignorant jerks sitting in your caves subject to brainwash by various dubious idiots pretending to be in the know. As all absolute idiots, you are absolutely sure that you are right and the rest of the world is wrong. The thing is with such an attitude you will end up where you began: in your filthy cave with nothing.
"As all absolute idiots, you are absolutely sure that you are right and the rest of the world is wrong." Project your own mentality much?
HSBC is one of the global leaders in derivatives trading.
Derivatives are backed up by the deposits at HSBC.
Your money, IOW.
When the flag goes up, CDS, CDO, CLO lien holders are not subordinated - they go to the head of the line, even in front of local government insurance schemes. Your money will disappear like it did at MFG.
HSBC is off the list.
I know a woman who had HSBC accounts in USA and France. Just an ordinary self-imployed citizen (imigrant from France). When the SHTF in 2008, she was transferring funds from a branch in France to her account in USA. They lost the money for 6 months and refused to back out all her overdraft fees even though it was clearly their fault. She, against my advise, did not sue.
what a stupid fucking idiot this guy is...
Yeah sure and that is the big problem with Zero Hedge, it makes too much sense and all us readers are in too similar of a mind set. In the end making sense and the truth should happen but what good is that when on the way down there is so much corruption and manipulation.
Figuring out the likely next move is more intuative. Our those making the moves the best thing for themselves or the country's future in which they have to live? Everyone talks and operates out of their own self interest. CNBC and cramer need investors to have a show and advertising and jobs, look for the spin and timing. They will touch the truth but when at what time of day. Is Congress worried about the next election or surviving? Everyone who is PM crazy here do you really expect Gold to save your ass and stay at a high value?, sure it makes sense but who has the power, the market? Common sense is not prevailing at the moment, and thinking that way should not be the only thought process.
Nice post Ms...thank you!!
Chart of the day: If gold repeated the same price levels as 1978-1986, this is what the gold price would look like in 2011-2019. http://i42.tinypic.com/54gdx0.png
Ever the "Optimist"
You see the US Dollar existing in 2019?
Here's a cogent illustration of the DAX/Gold ratio:
Good. The more bankers, hedge fund managers, and traders destitute, unemployed, and on food stamps, the better off the US and the world will be.
US Corporations in the past have been notorious for lay-offs at holiday time to make the 4th quarter results look better. It's a pleasure to see bankers get their turn. As long as hedge funds blow up, no one who is poverty stricken and no one on Main St gives a rat's butt.
I was speaking to a young insider from one of the major financial companies the other night. He is rising in the ranks. To hear the bullshit that these guys spew, and believe, is truly horrifying. He defended the Squid as being really smart people and contended that such "smart people" deserve to be paid well. It didn't matter what they did to earn it, in his mind. He supported The Fed and Bernanke, pointing out just how smart Bernanke is. Of course his organization has never done anything wrong (even though they have) and he probably believes that he should make five times what he does.
You really have to talk to these sociopathic rejects to see just how deeply entrenched their sense of entitlement is. I am convinced that they fully believe that they are doing nothing wrong and deserve every penny they can get their hands on, regardless of the methods.
truly horrifying is to believe you can become a member of the club ... and i guess thats what this young pretender along with so many stupidos out there dream of ... i am settled on buying the powerball ticket every now and then ... Win the lottery - the New American Dream!
Who was the perceptive Spanish Inquisitor who dismissed the timewasting laying of blame by cammanding: "Kill them all and let God sort them out".
General George S. Patton?
Arnaud Amalric. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Amalricus
With much respect Arius I disagree. It is harder but not impossible. Doing God's work requires sacrifice and dedication. The attitudes and values necessary to gain entry and survive in the "club" can be learned. If you can't beat em join em. I recently qualified for a student loan and enrolled in a local institution that offers the type of skill set development one needs to become a congressional leader or top goldmanite. I start my quest tomorrow and am quietly excited. For years I slept with my sister. When discovered society shamed me. I never felt the shame or guilt I was instructed to feel. I will never forget the intense anger I experienced when my sister wanted to start charging me so I was not incapable of feeling as many suggested. Looking back it is clear I was not mentally ill. I was simply not understood because I was special. I had been blessed with a unique mental structure. One reserved for the special 1%. I look forward to the day when I transition to the correct side of the ratio.
A few spots are still available. Don't worry about question #3, second nature with only 1 hour of training.
yes they are all sociopaths. the one's that aren't will quickly hit the glass ceiling, or leave. it is a self reinforcing culture, and becomes the norm for them. since they make enough they can sisolate themselves from other views. there have been multiple experiments to show how this happens. the one where you shcok people for wrong answers, to the fake prison experiments. it is in effect how the nazi's became the normal waay of thinking.
Supposedly Herman Goering, while standing trial at Nuremberg, said: "if you look up and down the cellblock all you see is `yes men' because all the `no men' are six feet underground."
Basically it's the same thing in finance. Anyone who won't sell out their mother is kicked to the curb. Ever see "The Smartest Guys in the Room?" the traders on tape joking about grandma freezing were just low level amateurs compared to the polished sociopathy of their higher-ups.
It is not just the bankers. It includes a lot of the crowd at occupy wall street. One guy had a master's degree in puppetry and couldn't find a job so that he could pursue his dream. There's a college that has a master's program in puppetry? I don't care if there are people willing to pay for it, but this guy was forced to take a part time teaching job at the same school where he had a full time job before getting student loans and quitting to get the master's. No jobs in puppetry? Who da thunk?
The whole "living wage" meme is a form of this. It doesn't matter how much you produce, just do some work and you deserve a wage that will support a family. We have one or two generations that think they deserve being rewarded for their very existence. They are going to be shocked and angry when real austerity comes to America.
He should move to Bali or Indonesia -
Having watched a full length satire version (which included the memorable line "WHAT?!? People in the West use paper to wipe themselves with?! Gross!") I'm a fan. Although, admittedly, my partner at the time fell asleep.
But, you've accidentally hit a key point to part of the problem: old money used to have time to spend on patronage and being entertained. New money hasn't even the soul to care about the arts.
Sounds like the Radio broadcasting industry. They eat their young.
You mean we're not in Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, afgamastan, Australia, and Uganda for Freedom and to sustain the American way of life??? That's just crazy talk, mister.
I'll tell ya, we're only there for freedumb and democrazy!
Don't forget Somalia. Word is the UK is putting troops into a neighbouring area as well.
Wrong? They are permitted to do what they do. What is wrong lies elsewhere.
"You really have to talk to these sociopathic rejects to see just how deeply entrenched their sense of entitlement is."
Dead on. What is really, really scary is that these guys are literally running the country, and much of the world.
Your CDS are useless.
Your "Safe Client Money" can be stolen.
BAC can transfer $50Tn + of derivatives exposure to depositors.
All in all ........... a cluster f..............
'Your CDS are useless.'
That seems to be an emerging theme. Bond yields are now finally reacting.
As they should do.
Default risk must now be priced in directly.
You cannot trust the ISDA.
And this really is a big deal. Most of the time I'm here to be entertained and hopefully entertain you. CDS's being of value "nil" does represent a systemic breakdown. This "contract" is basically "how we pay for everything."
I don't think it is truly sinking in yet.
Some people probably think if say Italy were to require a 25% haircut that they might collect on their CDS.
They won't. The ISDA will may sure of that.
And even if the ISDA can't make sure of it the entire CDS system breaks down and takes a lot of banks and insurance companies with it.
Yet, banks and insurance companies are valuing Sovereign debt at par because of CDS cover.
If politicians actually understood what you said about how risk now has to be priced into bonds because CDS cannot be considered a reliable hedge, then we might get somewhere.
As it stands now most politicians are financially ignorant. They think they were so smart "renegotiating" those bond deals with banks and getting them to " voluntarily" accept a 50 percent write off.
Now that every bank knows that CDS contracts can be changed from government threats and pressure, we may in hindsight be able to say that was the trigger that collapsed european sovereign bond prices and led to the breakup of the Euro.
As it stands now most politicians are financially ignorant
Or perhaps ....
As it stands now most politicians are wilfully financially ignorant
Politicians are by their very nature entertainers and salesmen. They are not real analysts.
Yep. The only thing holding those markets up was some insurance that was never going to pay out on a failure anyway. Warren Buffet's companies wrote a lot of that garbage CDS. You know that dude can't be touched. He has all his money hiding behind a charity fund now. Would the government take that charity money from the little kids and old women that Buffet is using as human financial shields?
This is the classic tale of insurance throughout the centuries, collect premiums during good times, go bankrupt during bad times.
And during the good times engage in appropriate financial planning so they cannot touch your money when the insurance plan goes bankrupt.
CDS is an insurance product, pure and simple
No one will ever collect on CDS. Not a penny. It was all smoke and mirrors.
I suspected ZombieLand was a metaphor for the banking system.......
Geez I'm gonna hate working on the farm.
Unless you own the farm :)
And one can be sure that is not the case. Land is rented by the salves from The State. Property taxes.
If you are a sovereign and you get a land pattent then you own the land free and clear, so you do not pay property taxes as you do not have a deed with the state, in fact when you become a sovereign you no longer pay any taxes, because you are not in contract with " United states corporation". You will become "we the people" of the real United states of America for the first time in your life , welcome to America
So true, a frend invited me to his frends land in up state New York out by the finger lakes. It was a few years ago around this time of year for deer hunting. His frends turned out to be the famed Hatfield family who sided up with revilution and not the king back in 1776. The Hatfields where promised never to pay land tax but back around 1920 the revenewers as they say, tried to change the contract. They had to defend the land with guns and balls. stories live on in hillbilly folkelaw of how they stood there ground. i feel priveliged to have hunted on the mountin the the Hatfields own.
You want to see a metaphor for the banking system? Go watch the movie "In Time".
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
This should be the theme song for the revolution.
20 pristine acres, $500 a year in taxes. Room for more.
Land spreading out so far and wide, forget Manhattan just give me that countryside.
Time to get back to the basics, with dirt under your nails.
Been a long time comin'.
A lot of us would love to get back to the basics and would be willing to sacrifice our materialistic lifestyles to do it. But, what do you do when you need healthcare?
You go to a doctor? Not that it matters really, in the end no one gets out alive.
One thing I know, there's a lot of sick people around doctors. Now I know that correlation does not mean causation, but the more I learn about western medicine, the more I think that, in this case, the correlation does mean causation.
Example: US kids are, by far, the most heavily vaccinated in the world. Right next to the pediatiric clinic I take my kids to is an "injection clinic". I kid you not, it has a big sign up, it's only there for giving vaccinations. Always got kids lined up outside. Yet the US ranks about 35 in infant mortality. Cuba has a lower infant motality! So why do we vaccinate our kids so much? It's good business, that's all. And if you think that's not true, then you probably think the financial system is fine, too. And the political system. We kill and fuck up our kids with vaccinations mandated by big business.
My kids (1 and 2 years old) are unvaccinated. They don't get "checkups". They go to the doctor on the rare occasions that they have something wrong that I can't handle. And they're healthy as shit.
Stay away from doctors, is my advice.
One of the main reasons for our higher infant mortality rate is that extremely premature infants are counted as live births and given intervention in an effort to save their lives. Other countries don't count them in their stats.
The primary reason Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the United States is that the United States is a world leader in an odd category — the percentage of infants who die on their birthday. In any given year in the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants die before they are even a day old.
Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of
emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive
in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.
How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.
In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics.
Stay away from doctors, hospitals and germs.
We are walking petri dishes for virus. A good immune system is a wonderful thing. Eat well in moderation, Clean water is a must. We are all responsible for our own health, try to help yourself by treating yourself well.
The modern world is insane, do not try to emulate the nonsense surrounding you, it is an illusion. A good life may be lived anywhere, but it always cost something, do not confuse that with a life on a treadmill pursuing a carrot always out of reach.
Good health is the root of life, for without it nothing else really matters.
Think of good health for individuals as how it compares to good health of economic and business systems. Our current system is heavily diseased, because it is not healthy and has a very poor immune system. It has been weakened over the last 40 years by various infections and wounds, like the destruction of the gold standard, this was a mortal blow but only made itself appear as a slight clogging of the arteries of the economy. Over decades the arteries have become so blocked they have weakened or destroyed all the other organs. Even the so called brain, the federal reserve, is brain dead as it keeps putting its finger in the socket trying to bring the corpse back to life.
A dead economy is flailing and we all may be collateral damage as its death throes may be prolonged. Where to put your money? Where is the safe place in a sinking ship? Sometimes there are none and even the lifeboats are lost.
There are no guarantees in life, many random acts occur everday. Sometimes the pure as snow fall while the black hearted become heros, sometimes the world is a stranger, unrecognizable as the same place we went to sleep in the very night before.
We are in a transition period in which systems are struggling to regain balance, this will lead to wild swings producing further stress on the system. Some may make huge fortunes, but most will lose as there is no rhyme or reason, just luck and timing.
Even the safest bets sometimes lose. Which leaves us in the quandry of preparing for so many unknowns that we cannot be prepared for all events.
Cover the basics, food, water, shelter, if that leaves resources invest in those things you understand very well, and watch them cosely and respond rapidly to changes.
Eventually this will pass, Try to ride it out and don't swim against the tide.
I.S., you go visit the local family/country doctor. So many complaints are just simple illness/injury and these are easily remedied by some caring hands, wise words and common sense. In medical school the thing I remember most clearly is that "common things happen most commonly". These are the venue/specialty of the family doc.
Absolutely, access to high tech diagnostic/therapeutic gadgetry CAN be useful but in the end MAY also cause increased suffering and torment. Hell, let us not forget what is at the end of this roller coaster ride anyway. To acknowledge our morbidity and mortality and then face our ultimatum in comfort, peace and surrounded by loved ones is the best we can ask for in this life. Better than being strapped down with tubes everywhere, IMHO. Sorry for the editorial.
billhilly hits the head on the nail!! The older I get the more I realize the end is inevitable. I would much rather find the end with family and friends surrounding and supporting me than be strapped to a gurney with untold poisons coursing through my veins!!
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Investing in Real Estate is the safest place to be right now in my opinion.
Even with the devistation in Housing Prices from the Bankers wrongdoing you can still get a decent return on your Money in Rental Real Estate.
What is interesting is that even though the Rental Real Estate I own has gone down in value the Rents have not declined that much.
The price on the Houses bought in the 80's are still worth 2 to 4 times what I paid and the Rents are at least 1/3 higher.
The only problem with that strategy is we're approaching a time where finding renters who pay on time (or at all) will become more and more difficult.
30 mostly-wooded, rural acres. $400/yr taxes. I hope I never have to live there, but it's there. I add new fruit, nut, and berry plants each year just in case.
Hopefully, this all works out and I just make nice cherry furniture for the grandkids, take them on 4X4 rides, and bring home blueberries and apples for pies. The corn harvest can be used for Halloween decorations.
I still hope the numbers on the monthly statements represent real stored wealth and a future with a stable standard of living, but if not, "I got skills" and a backup plan.
If you ever do "have" to live there, you're going to spend a lot of time clearing those trees. With an axe, if you "have" to live there. You can't live under trees. You have to have sunshine, and lots of it, to grow things. Can't live on fruit and berries. Hunting? Give me a break, how long do you think it will take the starvine, well-armed masses to exterminate anything furry or feathered and edible in this country? About a month from the time the trucks stop deliveries to the supermarkets, I'd say. You need to be able to grow shit to eat.
Clear some now, while you still have gas for your chainsaw.
On a 30 acre lot, you only need 1/2 to 1 acre of clear land with good soil to feed yourself an produce a surplus. But it does take preparation, The soil must be healthy, raised beds are much easier to grow and tend by hand. Crops must be segregated to control pests and disease.
A good wood lot is a handy thing for heat and lumber and shade. A house beneath a substantial tree is naturally air conditioned.
fruit trees must be tended, they need to be pruned and fenced or deer and others may not only destroy your fruit, but your trees as well.
Water is as important as land, probably more so. A stream can turn a couple of acres into a lake with a little earthworking, and a shallow lake will influence micro climate and be a good resource for growing fish. In the old days, natural refrigeration was storing butter in a water tight bag in a cool lake or river.
Farming is a 365 day job, but the tasks vary by season, it need not be boring especially if your survival is at stake.
I would at the least, build a lake, build raised beds, clear brush and make paths, fence the orchard and build a couple of storage buildings that can be used as shops or temporary housing. Used rv's are very cheap right now, and an Rv in a storage building is a self contained home that is sheltered from the weather and prying eyes.
All the capital improvements make the property more valuable should you need or want to sell it. They also make you understand the lay of the land and what sort of wildlife and varmints are living in the area.
Farming is good, honest, work. I look forward to the day I can spend most of my day being truly productive as opposed to pushing paper at a desk.
Modern farming is mostly sitting in an air conditioned tractor watching DVDs while the automated software follows the GPS patterns these days (in the West). Otherwise it is fairly back breaking, and requires a lot of oil products to keep it from being drudgery. And yes, I come from a place where many people voluntarily do back-breaking work looking after vastly pampered equines as recreation.
Serfs did have more days off than modern grunts, but let's not forget that they hibernated in winter (those French!):
But the French seem to have been particularly sleepy. They "hibernated" even in temperate zones. In Burgundy, after the wine harvest, the workers burned the vine stocks, repaired their tools and left the land to the wolves. A civil servant who investigated the region's economic activity in 1844 found that he was almost the only living presence in the landscape: "These vigorous men will now spend their days in bed, packing their bodies tightly together in order to stay warm and to eat less food. They weaken themselves deliberately."
But your nostalgia is noted.
I suppose I should have said "homesteading" rather than "farming." Currently, my family produces all or our own eggs with our backyard chickens, and most of our vegitables and greens on our tiny urban homestead. This is in addition to my wife and I working full time and renovating a 100yr old bungalow [doing all the work ourselves - not GCing] - se we are intimately aquainted with hard work.
Our plans are to move up to a 5 acre spread in the mold of John Seymour. In the proper local, we envision that this should be enough to supply our family and provide enough surplus to barter for items we don't/can't grow ourselves.
No airconditioned anything in our future, I anticipate - more like a broad fork and scythe.
+100, respect and good wishes.
5 acres usually requires a (small) tractor or at least some small automation - if you can find a decent mechanic or have the skills, it is invaluable. If you need some hot-shit links to seriously smart engineers producing self-build machines (for production in Africa) I'm happy to share.
Seymour's plan is scalable and is based upon a "Home" acre that covers your basic home garden and chickens, some nut/fruit trees, etc. While the remainder of what you've got capitalizes on your land's assets, ie woodlot, pond, pastures for rotating a few cows for dairy and beef, maybe some pigs.
Joel Saladin is somebody to check out on what could/should be the future of localized larger scale farming. It is a no-till system that involves rotating cows through small sections of field, followed by poultry, using electric fences and large mobile coops - based upon prarie cyces. Very sustainable, very good yeild. Check him out.
PS I'm a former aircraft mechanic, so I've got the maintenance angle covered!
Oh. And well said MsCreant.
An excellent, thoughtful post. I feel like a citizen of 5th Century AD Rome contemplating the rolling thunder coming down from the North. Nothing will stop the hoards, and our lives are soon to be changed forever. I agree that giving advice can be presumptuous, but sharing ideas is not. Therefore I offer - learn to garden, get in shape to walk long distances, start riding a bike, gather your loved ones and friends around you and hold them close, and try to keep a sense of humor.
And when all else fails, look at what others have to deal with and be thankful you are not them.
not the first Rolling Thunder:
but this one's gonna be bigger.
A LOT bigger.
Anybody remeber the year 2000?
That's the year you couldn't get your stocks on paper to take home anymore... Electronic stocks where so much safer...
Three cheers for the wise MsCreant! As I believe Marshall McLuhan punned "don't forget the CON in cofidence and the SIN in Sincere", This is way more imporant than most current lol mainstream news stories....can I hear you Natalie Wood saying from the grave? The deafening silence of the mainstream beholds that once again that the Fourth Estate has no clothes and the financial system has even less than that when this loss of CONfidence spreads.
Good Day!
As far as finance is concerned, today's individuals are not enlightened 21st century beings but more similar to medieval peasantry - ignorant and trustful slaves of their masters. This does not bode well....
I am holding 500 BAC put options just for this reason. At some point they run out of cash in the run. I was holding Lehman puts the day they died. Seems all to familiar.
What's your time horizon on those? I have some BAC puts as well as some way out of the money FAZ calls. I'm hoping they don't put this thing off for too much longer.
so hold 500 put options lol
while the system for derivitives is going down the toilet
what happens when the counterparty is broke .
to use to learn from the last implosion..
the whole thread is warning of just this thing so you hold put options what a logger head
Well-written. I concur that flexibility will be a strength going forward.
Hear, hear. Thoughtful post, MsCreant.
Flexibility will be an asset in coming times. Get used to change, don't fear it. Think of change as status quo so as to avoid the normal, human resistance to it.
Hmmm. Again I find myself urging folks to be abnormal. <chuckle> Well, the sheeple are the norm...
It's about time you arrived as a contributor.
It seems to me that as long as money is being created from nothing it was never really ours to begin with. I'm conflicted when I rage about debt creation and then expect the same debt, once it belongs in my account, to be honoured.
Since MsCreant mentioned me directly, I suppose I should chime in here.
I advise the purchase of physical silver not simply to "bust the Comex". It is, instead, your personal insurance poilicy and it is one which holds no counterparty risk.
Of course as Celente and others have found out, the only PM you truly own is that which you hold in your own two hands.
Still read your blog Turd. Nice piece MsCreant. Thumbs up to both.
This post is a perfect example of why I read ZH, TFMetals (Turd), as well as a few others. MsCreant's post encapsulates and summarizes what's really happening and has opened my eyes that we are now that much closer to the end, how it's going to end, and what we need to do in order to be prepared.
I've been trading to earn cash in order to buy physical but I now see that we are getting awfully close to the time when we need to be cashing our chips by pulling and hoarding cash, buying more physical, taking delivery of stock certificates, etc.
The days of keeping funds in accounts are running short. There may soon come a time when what you own is only what you can find under your roof.
Thanks MsCreant and, as always, thanks Turd.
..... and it's ubiquitious, spoons, tea pots medicine, BULLETS, spoons solar cells, spoons.... hmmm seem to have developed a spoon fetish......
Love you man....... Matt Mays was wrong.... You can polish a Turd.....
Here's the problem of the current environment. It's not normal in any sense of the word. In fact, it's so abnormal it has to viewed form an abnormal point of view to make any sense therof.
In the real world, there are no/few/whathefuckeverhowmany truly Gaussian or Poisson distributions, for most many/most/a lot/enough for the sake of this shit, are leptokurtotic.
So, as one meanders merrily out towards the tails, there are new and big bulges that all of a sudden pop up, like when I've been staring at Deta von Teese for too long. But anyhow, these bulges, of a fractalius nature should/could/just stay with me here for a moment, I'm trying to help, be viewed as their very own little special additional non-Gaussian/Poisson but yes, again, leptokurtotic distributions.
Essentially distributions within distributions when viewed over extremely long/dialiated time horizons.
And once one gets cast therein, assuming the sticky state of reality, almost as if it were a condition similar to stasis, then experiences tend to remain bounded therein, within their own extremes.
It's as if (And probably is near to the truth, but so far I appear to be the only person working on it at this moment... or at least posting it right here if that makes anybody feel any better. Which it should not.) the fractalius nature of events (naturally occurring in mother nature, no different that pi and a few other constants, limits and associated and randomly but not really assorted givens) takes hold.
So we get stuck therein, so to speak.
Think of it as a Ground Hog Day condition.
Which may not be easy from which to escape. So, now that we are here (not about to enter, but experiencing in actuality, real time, now) in an apparently major/the clusterfuck of reality, one can assume that within extreme conditions and given the very illogical, ego driven, emotional nature of the human condition (generally piss poor) that we'll be seeing much more of the same.
So, whatever's worked for you recently, will likely persist as we continue to experience a period of significant turmoil. Sorta "the Fourth Turning meets the Book of Revelations and Murphy's Law. (Hereby termed Bozo's Law)
The moral of the story, in short, is to get as absolutely fucking safe as your little can can, because it's gonna be butt ass ugly out there, way past your fondest nightmare. Like when you come to and your nightmares actually chase you around the bed at 3 a.m. when all you'd wanted was to take a piss and pass back out again. No relief. There are no more good or bad days, for they're all just one very slick, steep slope to social, economic, financial, mental and spitirual hell.
Hope and pray for the best, prepare for the worst.
You spelled Deta wrong...
But seriously, me thinks the battery is about to die on the GroundHog Day clock
Keep writing knuckles, you have the gift of putting thought to keyboard...
Not if your barrel is 18". Which it should be. Handguns are pretty well useless when there's even one guy with a rifle around.
Knucks, I've been reading your message of late and I hear you. Groundhog Day indeed, the term "suspended animation" comes to mind for me a lot, too. I hope we're here 'cause I'm sick of it. Got myself as "safe" as possible a few years ago. . .hang tight!
And props to MsCreant - nice job!
Nice post, which makes me think my current position in lead as being the "other" precious metal is a sound one.


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Manza Onsen
Manza Onsen (¢£Ź└ēĘÉ") is a hot spring resort town located 1800 meters above sea level, high up on the slopes of Mount Shirane at the northwestern edge of Gunma Prefecture. Its highly acidic waters are obtained from Mount Shirane and are among the most sulfuric in all of Japan. They are known to provide various health benefits through improving metabolism and blood circulation.
Manza Onsen has several hotels and ryokan with outstanding hot spring baths. In particular, the open air baths are a treat with their excellent waters and tranquil setting. Guaranteed snow in the winter makes the town one of the best places near Tokyo to enjoy an outdoor bath in the snow. The following is a list of recommended ryokan and hotels that open their baths not only to staying guests but also to daytime visitors:
Above the town, there is a small network of pleasant walking trails around the valley which contains a lot of the hot spring sources. It is also the site of Manza's yubatake ("hot water field"), a pool in which some of the thermal waters accumulate; however, it is too hot for bathing. One of the trails also leads to an observation point with views over the town. Due to the snow, the walking trails are unaccessible during the winter.
Instead, Manza Onsen offers skiing and snowboarding from around mid December to early April. The town's small resort has four lifts and is operated by the Manza Prince Hotel that stands right next to the ski slope and also offers rental equipment and package plans that combine accommodation with ski passes.
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By train and bus via Manza Kazawaguchi
Trains travel as far as Manza Kazawaguchi Station, from where there are infrequent buses to Manza Onsen (40 minutes, 1350 yen). The Japan Rail Pass, JR East Pass and JR Tokyo Wide Pass are valid on the trains, but not on the buses.
There are various ways to get from Tokyo to Manza Kazawaguchi Station. The most convenient is by direct limited express train from Tokyo's Ueno Station, requiring three hours and costing about 5500 yen for the one way trip. However, there are only around two round trips per day.
Alternatively, you can do the whole trip by local trains, which takes about four hours, requires a transfer of trains at Takasaki and costs 3350 yen one way. Faster and more expensive is taking the shinkansen to Takasaki and transferring there to a local train to Manza Kazawaguchi Station (about 2.5 hours, 6000 yen one way).
By train and bus via Karuizawa
Take the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Karuizawa (65 minutes, around 5500 yen) and then a Seibu Kogen bus from Karuizawa to Manza Onsen (110 minutes, 2890 yen). The Japan Rail Pass, JR East Pass and JR Tokyo Wide Pass are not valid on the buses between Karuizawa and Manza Onsen.
By bus from Kusatsu
Direct buses make about 7 daily round trips between Kusatsu and Manza Onsen, stopping at Mount Shirane along the way. It takes approximately 50 minutes and costs 2200 yen to travel between Kusatsu and Manza Onsen. These buses operate only from around mid April to early November due to road closure in winter.
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PRESS RELEASE – The Great West League made a bold statement today by welcoming the established Medford Rogues to the fold. The Rogues, one of the top teams in the West Coast League, join the new summer collegiate wood-bat league immediately. Continue reading
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Rogues Leave West Coast League, Join Great West League
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Rogues Name New GM
PRESS RELEASE – The Medford Rogues today announced the appointment of Ian Church to the position of General Manager of the Medford Rogues and of Harry & David Field. Church takes the reins from former GM Chuck Heeman, who left the team in December to accept a position with the City of Yuma, Arizona. Continue reading
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Heeman Resigns as Rogues GM, Heads to Yuma
PRESS RELEASE – The Medford Rogues today announced the resignation of General Manager Chuck Heeman and Volunteer Coordinator Mayra Heeman, effective December 26. The Heemans were the first staff members brought on board by the Rogues' parent company, CSH International, in October 2012. The pair came to Medford after serving two years in similar positions for the Klamath Falls Gems of the West Coast League. Chuck Heeman cited family reasons Continue reading
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Rogues Unveil Bobblehead-Crazy Promotional Schedule, Announce Concerts Series
PRESS RELEASE – The Medford Rogues have announced their full promotions schedule for the 2014 season at Harry and David Field. Highlighted promotions include five bobble head giveaways, baseball giveaways, three fireworks shows and additional premium dates. Continue reading
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Rogues Announce Mexican Independence Day Festival at Harry & David Field
PRESS RELEASE – The Medford Rogues, in association with EJ Marketing & Production of Medford, are proud to announce that Harry & David Field will be the home of "Celebra las Fiestas Patrias," a celebration of the September 16 Mexican Independence Day. The facility will host a festival from 1 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, September 15 featuring music, dance, food and drink for the entire family. Continue reading
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Miss Oregon Goes Rogue for Charity
Newly crowned Miss Oregon, Allison Cook, has chosen Harry & David Field, home of the summer collegiate Medford Rogues (West Coast League), to make her first public appearance. She will attend a game between the first-year Rogues and Klamath Falls Gems on July 20 to support a fundraising effort for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Read more here.
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Rogues, HarbourCats Make Debut
Wednesday was opening night for two new teams in the summer collegiate West Coast League. The Medford Rogues made their regular-season debut in front of a "paid crowd" of 1,282 at newly improved Harry & David Field. Read more here. Meanwhile the Victoria HarbourCats kicked off the regular season in front of a sold-out Continue reading
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