naked capitalism

Anonymous says:

I’ll call you on that and raise you that the entire world economy is a ponzi scheme aimed at future generations, No Joke.

Skippy

tenletters says:

What I want to know is when is the human height bubble going to burst? My back hurts. I’m hungry.

Anonymous says:

The fraudulent conveyance issue is real, but overstated by the linked post. “Actual fraudulent intent” is necessary for a clawback to go back 2 years. See http://www.bayoubankruptcy.com/pdfs/press_release/Bayou%20Story.pdf.

River says:

I believe that we have known all along that Bernanke would reach into his bag of tricks when his conventional remedys to cure the credit woes failed. Now our very expensive entertainment will continue with the new act, quantitive easing.

Excuse me while I go to the lobby for an extra large box of popcorn.

doc holiday says:

I’m so very tired of metaphorical panda photos designed to lure people into the same old trap, but at least it is easy (in this case) to see the interplay related to name calling, as it relates to the story at hand, e.g: “In a nationwide opinion survey on the Internet, Chinese people chose the names of “Tuan Tuan” and “Yuan Yuan” for the pair of pandas — which together mean “reunion” or “unification” in Chinese — through an online vote.”

Although Yves often returns to simplified graphic symbolism to call attention to currency intervention and quantitative easing, I question the use of pandas in general, but see the specific reasoning here with the on-line voting, which represents Communist China mocking democracy by offering the mechanical process of voting as a sort of emotional cleansing tool. The process of voting in this case may also be suggestive of how “The Masses” can get it wrong in making choices.

Some may wonder if this panda is also symbolic of the small changes which swept Obama into a position of power, i.e, the conceptual universatility of “change” is an easy concept to sell, embrace and vote for, but how real is the accountability of that change? People use votes like lotto tickets and find themselves caught up in irrational exuberance and work themselves into euphoria which in and of itself becomes a matter of distraction a matter of getting off topic and then not knowing or remembering what you were doing or why a visual metaphor somehow became a path that you got lost on.

Also See: An internal report sent to physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland, has instructed them to restart the giant machine by end of July 2009.

Anonymous says:

Yes doc holiday, it is good to have you back. Missed that sharp edge in your soft sell, does the topic know how bad its bleeding after your comment. I think not, till it is pointed out by someone else.

Skippy

Anonymous says:

“I’m so very tired of metaphorical panda photos designed to lure people into the same old trap”

The panda is symbolic of Yin-Yang, the natural imbalance present in the Universe.The Yin being the cute exterior, the Yang the sharp claws.

(Kinda like Yves….)

Anonymous says:

I’ve noted a decline in the quality of fuzzy animal pictures.

I think if we each send her 1 choice picture, at least one should be spectacularly cuddlesome. Although animal on animal aggression (ala the cow chasing the cat) is welcome as well.

Although it would be very interesting to see a cow chasing a panda. I might even pay for that.