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94 Comments
The Week Ahead: More Bad News?
For as long as so many people want to keep leftists in power so that they can create more government to combat the problems and disasters that their government programs and legislation caused in the first place, we are eventually doomed economically.
And government bureaucrats do this over and over, but always wiggle out of what they've done by blaming private industry (Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the like, and of course a bogeyman such as Bush or Cheney or Rove), and the people for what they have brought about.
With the help of the Marxist media, the people then yell for the government to do even more, thus causing problems that will have to be faced in the future—and that means more government rules, regulation, and legislation that brainwashed parrots scream for.
And clearly, it doesn't help sending our forces around the world to carry out other nation's wars for them. You can't blame Bush for all of this either. The Dumborats in Congress voted to go get the Toy Tiger in Iraq (except for the members of the Black Caucus, which only votes for bills to punish American businesses and individuals); and Bush didn't put troops and bases in over 140 nations around the world. They were there when he took office.
Meanwhile, America has an invasion from the south, crashing stock markets and the dollar, along with hyper-inflation, declining property values, exploding crime (see Sean Hannity's America from Sunday, June 22, `08), and energy and food prices nearly equalling Germany's in the 1920s.
Enjoy the ride, especially those of you who're calling for even more leftists to take over so they can create more government to punish businesses and anyone else who is succeeding in the private sector.
Parasites engender more parasites of different types, because when one begins its feeding, it weakens the host, which invites even more suckers to the party. The host soon withers to nothing. Consider the American people the host.
More Than Just Fed 'Window Dressing'
No hope in the long run to save our nation, as we've known it.
For as long as so many people want to keep leftists in power so that they can create more government to combat the problems and disasters that their government programs and legislation caused in the first place, we are eventually doomed economically.
And government bureaucrats do this over and over, but always wiggle out of what they've done by blaming private industry (Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the like, and of course a bogeyman such as Bush or Cheney or Rove), and the people for what they have brought about.
With the help of the Marxist media, the people then yell for the government to do even more, thus causing problems that will have to be faced in the future—and that means more government rules, regulation, and legislation that brainwashed parrots scream for.
And clearly, it doesn't help sending our forces around the world to carry out other nation's wars for them. You can't blame Bush for all of this either. The Dumborats in Congress voted to go get the Toy Tiger in Iraq (except for the members of the Black Caucus, which only votes for bills to punish American businesses and individuals); and Bush didn't put troops and bases in over 140 nations around the world. They were there when he took office.
Meanwhile, America has an invasion from the south, crashing stock markets and the dollar, along with hyper-inflation, declining property values, exploding crime (see Sean Hannity's America from Sunday, June 22, `08), and energy and food prices nearly equalling Germany's in the 1920s.
Enjoy the ride, especially those of you who're calling for even more leftists to take over so they can create more government to punish businesses and anyone else who is succeeding in the private sector.
Parasites engender more parasites of different types, because when one begins its feeding, it weakens the host, which invites even more suckers to the party. The host soon withers to nothing. Consider the American people the host.
Worst June Since 1930?
For as long as so many people want to keep leftists in power so that they can create more government to combat the problems and disasters that their government programs and legislation caused in the first place, we are eventually doomed economically.
And government bureaucrats do this over and over, but always wiggle out of what they've done by blaming private industry (Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the like, and of course a bogeyman such as Bush or Cheney or Rove), and the people for what they have brought about.
With the help of the Marxist media, the people then yell for the government to do even more, thus causing problems that will have to be faced in the future—and that means more government rules, regulation, and legislation that brainwashed parrots scream for.
And clearly, it doesn't help sending our forces around the world to carry out other nation's wars for them. You can't blame Bush for all of this either. The Dumborats in Congress voted to go get the Toy Tiger in Iraq (except for the members of the Black Caucus, which only votes for bills to punish American businesses and individuals); and Bush didn't put troops and bases in over 140 nations around the world. They were there when he took office.
Meanwhile, America has an invasion from the south, crashing stock markets and the dollar, along with hyper-inflation, declining property values, exploding crime (see Sean Hannity's America from Sunday, June 22, `08), and energy and food prices nearly equalling Germany's in the 1920s.
Enjoy the ride, especially those of you who're calling for even more leftists to take over so they can create more government to punish businesses and anyone else who is succeeding in the private sector.
Parasites engender more parasites of different types, because when one begins its feeding, it weakens the host, which invites even more suckers to the party. The host soon withers to nothing. Consider the American people the host.
The Mauling of the Dow
No hope in the long run to save our nation, as we've known it.
For as long as so many people want to keep leftists in power so that they can create more government to combat the problems and disasters that their government programs and legislation caused in the first place, we are eventually doomed economically.
And government bureaucrats do this over and over, but always wiggle out of what they've done by blaming private industry (Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the like, and of course a bogeyman such as Bush or Cheney or Rove), and the people for what they have brought about.
With the help of the Marxist media, the people then yell for the government to do even more, thus causing problems that will have to be faced in the future—and that means more government rules, regulation, and legislation that brainwashed parrots scream for.
And clearly, it doesn't help sending our forces around the world to carry out other nation's wars for them. You can't blame Bush for all of this either. The Dumborats in Congress voted to go get the Toy Tiger in Iraq (except for the members of the Black Caucus, which only votes for bills to punish American businesses and individuals); and Bush didn't put troops and bases in over 140 nations around the world. They were there when he took office.
Meanwhile, America has an invasion from the south, crashing stock markets and the dollar, along with hyper-inflation, declining property values, and energy and food prices nearly equalling Germany's in the 1920s.
Enjoy the ride, especially those of you who're calling for even more leftists to take over so they can create more government to punish businesses and anyone else who is succeeding in the private sector.
Parasites engender more parasites of different types, because when one begins its feeding, it weakens the host, which invites even more suckers to the party. The host soon withers to nothing. Consider the American people the host.
When Central Bankers Clash, Stock Markets Can Crash
For as long as so many people want to keep leftists in power so that they can create more government to combat the problems and disasters that their government programs and legislation caused in the first place, we are eventually doomed economically.
And government bureaucrats do this over and over, but always wiggle out of what they've done by blaming private industry (Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the like, and of course a bogeyman such as Bush or Cheney or Rove), and the people for what they have brought about.
With the help of the Marxist media, the people then yell for the government to do even more, thus causing problems that will have to be faced in the future—and that means more government rules, regulation, and legislation that brainwashed parrots scream for.
And clearly, it doesn't help sending our forces around the world to carry out other nation's wars for them. You can't blame Bush for all of this either. The Dumborats in Congress voted to go get the Toy Tiger in Iraq (except for the members of the Black Caucus, which only votes for bills to punish American businesses and individuals); and Bush didn't put troops and bases in over 140 nations around the world. They were there when he took office.
Meanwhile, America has an invasion from the south, crashing stock markets and the dollar, along with hyper-inflation, declining property values, and energy and food prices nearly equalling Germany's in the 1920s.
Enjoy the ride, especially those of you who're calling for even more leftists to take over so they can create more government to punish businesses and anyone else who is succeeding in the private sector.
Parasites engender more parasites of different types, because when one begins its feeding, it weakens the host, which invites even more suckers to the party. The host soon withers to nothing. Consider the American people the host.
The Case For and Against $5 Gas
If there is a shortage of oil, why are there no lines at the pumps? Why are there no stations closing down because they have no product?
It seems to me that if you can afford to pay, you can buy all the product you need --- anywhere in the world!
I've seen the pump game played many times before (in every sector), and the recent run up in oil fits the pattern exactly.
That being true, however, doesn't mean that the price can't go higher. It does mean, though, that when it comes down it's going to come down hard and fast.
Almost every one writing and commenting on this blog seems to think you must either be short or long at all times.
But this seems to me a time to sit back and wait. Say oil spikes on up to $150 a barrel, how much have you missed making from $133?
Irrespective of the regnant momentum theory continuing to jump on a trend, why risk buying after such a speedy run up?
Take a break. It's summer.
Rebeldog
Oil Prices and the "Bigger Fool" Theory
If there is a shortage of oil, why are there no lines at the pumps? Why are there no stations closing down because they have no product?
It seems to me that if you can afford to pay, you can buy all the product you need --- anywhere in the world!
I've seen the pump game played many times before (in almost every sector), and the recent run up in oil fits the pattern exactly.
That being true, however, doesn't mean that the price can't go higher. It does mean, though, that when it comes down it's going to come down hard and fast.
Almost every one writing and commenting on this blog seems to think you must either be short or long at all times.
But this seems to me a time to sit back and wait. Say oil spikes on up to $150 a barrel, how much have you missed making from $133?
Irrespective of the regnant momentum theory, why risk buying after such a speedy run up?
Take a break. It's summer.
Rebeldog
Oil and the 'Bad News Principle'
The questions everyone interested in whether there is a shortage of oil or whether the price is being pumped should attempt to answer are these:
If there is a shortage of oil, why are there no lines at the pumps? Why are there no stations closing down because they have no product?
It seems to me that if you can afford to pay, you can buy all the product you need --- anywhere in the world!
I've seen the pump game played many times before (in almost every sector), and the recent run up in oil fits the pattern exactly.
That being true, however, doesn't mean that the price can't go higher. It does mean, though, that when it comes down it's going to come down hard and fast.
Almost every one writing and commenting on this blog seems to think you must either be short or long at all times.
But this seems to me a time to sit back and wait. Say oil spikes on up to $150 a barrel, how much have you missed making from $133?
Irrespective of the regnant momentum theory, why risk buying after such a speedy run up?
Take a break. It's summer.
Rebeldog
Even Priced in Gold, Oil Is High
You're right. But you're on a site with mad, raving, brainwashed oil bulls.
If you make them show you where all the demand for oil is, they'll jump to the Middle East and say the battling swords have run oil up. Then they'll blame the Fed, if you tell them there have been wars in the Middle East since 1000 AD when Pope Urban called up the first Crusade.
If you tell them the Fed had rates at 1% for five years, and oil didn't shoot up over $120 per barrel, they'll blame Bush and his "oil cronies."
You can't win. And when oil prices come crashing down, as they soon will, you'll not hear a word out of all these mad, raving, brainwashed oil bulls.
Rebeldog
What's Behind the U-Turn in Oil Prices?
Certainly they're fudging the number of contracts at the NYMEX to make it look like there's more demand than there is.
Congress should take care of this, but I doubt it will because the Devilrats running the Congress and Senate are happy that oil is so high --- they can blame it on the Republicrats as they do everything else, and it may lessen the use of natural energy resources, which they hate.
The public is obviously skeptical of the current high prices, but they don't understand what's really going on.
Over and over I hear the statement claiming there are 2 mil. barrels more demand than supply. 87 versus 85.
Why then are there no shortages at the pumps? Why are there no oil shortages anywhere in the world?
You can buy all the oil and gas you can afford; there is no over demand for either.
If so, where do you find this 2 mil. barrel shortage?
I've looked at every government site and zero.
Oil bull T. Boone made this statement and since then I hear and read it every day.
Ask the people who claim there's more demand than there is supply to show you the evidence for this 2 mil. barrel shortage. I have been doing that for weeks, and not one person has answered me yet.
And don't let them send you some oil tout's site or article that repeats what T. Boone said. Make them send you the evidence.
Rebeldog
Why the Oil Spike?
Over and over I hear the statement claiming there are 2 mil. barrels more demand than supply. 87 versus 85.
Why then are there not shortages at the pumps? Why are there no oil shortages anywhere in the world?
You can buy all the oil and gas you can afford; there is no over demand for either.
If so, where do you find this 2 mil. barrel shortage?
I've looked at every government site and zero.
Oil bull T. Boone made this statement and since then I hear and read it every day.
Show it to me, please.
And don't send me to some oil tout's site or article that repeats what T. Boone said.
Rebeldog
$125 Oil Not Sustainable for the Time Being
Over and over I hear the statement claiming there are 2 mil. barrels more demand than supply.
Why then are there not shortages at the pumps? Why are there no oil shortages anywhere in the world?
You can buy all the oil and gas you can afford; there is no over demand for either.
If not, where do you find this 2 mil. barrel shortage?
I've looked at every government site and zero. Oil bull T. Boone made this statement and since then I hear and read it every day.
Show it to me, please.
And don't send me to some oil tout's site or article that repeats what T. Boone said.
Rebeldog
$125 Oil Not Sustainable for the Time Being
You may not be an expert in the oil sector, but you obviously have a good sniffer for bovine scatology—and it’s swarming all over the place from T. Boone’s false claim that we are using more oil than we’re producing (that’s why he was short oil big time last week in an attempt to hedge his long oil bets) to the all-of-a-sudden huge increase in China and India’s oil usage. (no one knows what China uses or stores, because they refuse to report the figures; every figure you see is a guestimate, and India’s oil usage has actually declined)
What you’ve run into on this blog is an enormous amount of children who’ve swallowed the one-sided Stalinist-like propaganda that the touts at the Big New York Houses have fed them through the one-sided financial media—which tells everyone—as Jim Cramer did the tech stocks just before the crash in March of 2000—to buy, buy, buy, and keep buying, because prices are high now and they’re going higher.
Once the downturn in oil prices gets under way and these touts jump on the sell, sell, sell side—stating then that the world is flush in oil and every nation has cut back its usage—they’ll jump to another sector yelling buy, buy, buy, and the investing public will go for it again.
Last week was an anomaly—oil is due for a huge pull back. It was set to do so last week when, all of a sudden, out of nowhere and for no new reason the Israelis threatened Iran. The Israelis may have been long oil, but this won’t last.
Due to the vast amount of propaganda about the earth’s running out of oil and burning natural fuels causing every disease from obesity to cancer—plus the fact that the American investing public will go for anything (remember the Y2K Con, the Saddam Hussein madman with WMD about to strike the world claim, and more recently the same touts that are now touting an ever-rising, non-stop oil price increase were the ones last spring touting the home builders and the financials?)
It’s the same scam run over and over on the investing public. It’s not really a conspiracy (except at the bottom of the lie), because many touts believe the propaganda—just as most of these young pups do who’re calling you names for voicing a badly needed opinion; but it is a phony story that eventually begins to propagate itself. And the originators of it and the Big Brokerage Houses are the ones that make all the money.
The suckers that fall for it and buy in on top of the early momentum players get slaughtered, just as they did when the Dotbomb exploded in the world's face. (remember when the Big House touts told everyone that things are different this time; the Internet has changed everything, and there's no end to how these stocks can go, even though they're not making any money?)
Obviously, most of the children knocking your article werent' around during those times.
But we’re at a point now that no amount of charts, reason, evidence, and truth will change the perma-oil-bulls’ minds.
Thanks for your opinion: Rebeldog
The Oil Story: Dallas vs. Indonesia
A Yankee with a little sense. Never thought I'd see such.
Rebeldog
The Ever-Surprising Oil Market
Good info. Thanks.
You won't get much comment on this blog, though, because almost everyone is an eternal oil bull. What you've written hurts their ears. They don't at all want to hear their baby is about to puke up an air bubble.
Your info shows what always happens after huge run ups, such as the one in oil: that the wise guys are moving elsewhere for the time being at least and the public is moving in to get killed, as they always do.
The oil run is taking a badly needed breather ifor now, and those late to the party will find that all the meat is gone.
Rebeldog