Yankee Running Dog

Wednesday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

Kudlow the Clown is a Fractional Reserve Banking shill who is an air money pumper. His mission in life is to help the financial system pump air money in the so called "business cycle" He "gets it right" from 2002-2007. Who knew that air money was being pumped then?? Anyone who had an IQ larger than their shoe size.

Now when the system goes into Ponzi Finance and no one seems to be able to get their hands on the disappearing air money, Kudlow seems to have it all wrong. You have to understand the system and the part that Kudlow plays in it.

On Apr 29 10:47 AM Cetin Hakimoglu wrote:

> Kudlow was right between 2002-2007...bears get 18 months of vindicsation..now
> the bulls are yet again in charge

Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

I think the big picture to keep an eye on is the Treasury buyback of its own product. The treasury has said over the last few months that it has plans to buy back its long term bonds if there are not enough buyers. With the TIC data out yesterday of -43 billion when the market expected a positive 45 billion starts ringing the dive, dive, dive bells... One would think that if the Treasury starts buying its own bonds (equivalent to freely printing money) that the dollar will start to lose its luster, inflation will take off and oil, gold and commodity prices will rise and Uncle Wen will not be pleased.

Does anyone have a good source on where to monitor if the Treasury is buying back its own bonds?

Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

Hey, Jack the Ripper and the Easter bunny,

Go have a drink and chill out, unbridled arrogance gets boring fast.

Yankee Running Dog

Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

Owen,

Spoken like a true insider... Sounds like Dave hit a nerve with you, perhaps you are the insider Shill.

Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

I have read another reason for the strong dollar. This comes from Chuck Butler from Everbank who writes a daily blog called "The Daily Pfennig"

"One of the things we've learned this week is that the European banks are not getting to go Ollie, Ollie Oxen Free, on the holding of toxic waste debt... And since they are U.S. issued mortgage bonds, the trader that called tells me that they need to have capital reserved in U.S. dollars. Well, usually, these banks use LIBOR for this funding... But with the credit crunch going on all over, LIBOR rates have gone through the roof. So... Looking for alternative means of raising capital, the European banks have turned to the euro / dollar swap market... Selling their euro reserves and buying dollars"

The libor rate does not seem to be coming down any time soon, so Uncle Bucky could be strong for a while. Not good for all the foreign currency ETFs I hold.

Thursday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

Thanks for the link to the SEC website the other day, this stuff really opens your eyes...It all starts sounding like a badly scripted cartoon. Let me see, we got to make "le petite bourgeois" feel like democracy actually is working so Round 1 in the house goes to "the people" Then quietly slip in the rule change on Marked to Market so that King Henry can make sure to rip off the taxpayer by buying illiquid lumps of SH*& at retail prices instead of what they are worth, nothing. The bill passes and everyone pats themselves on the back, democracy works, congress can work together and come up with effective legislation in a crisis and the world is saved... Or is it?. Bush is starting to look like the sage with his pronouncement last week, "This sucker could go down"

One sidebar on the marked to market rule change. When cheap fed money fueled a huge bubble and prices were skyrocketing, the banks were not complaining about the marked to market, it overvalued their assets and they were happy. When it goes the other way, time out, rule change and now we can make the US taxpayer buy up our lumps of sh$# at overvalued prices... Why is not someone going to jail? I mean after all, its just a few billion (probably about 200!) of taxpayer money.

Does anyone know a good liquor stock to invest in, I need a drink!

Thursday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

I have been enjoying this post since March. The comments seem to fit into my way of seeing the world, very refreshing. Enough of the intro, I'll cut to the chase.. I'll ask three questions

You brought up a very interesting "incident" with CNY. It dropped from about 36 to 30 in one hour with no movement on the Yuan. Is this the result of some derivatives gone bad or one of the financial backers choking on its own black hole?

One of the money market funds is now at 97 cents. Is this more derivatives going down a hole... With so much cash in money market funds, do you think they are at risk?

TIP is slowly going down hill. I bought some in Feb at 107 and have been pleasantly surprised with the yield. In seven months of monthly dividends, the annual yield is at 7.78%. Not bad for AAA gov bonds. Maybe somewhere in the government data banks, there is a real number on inflation?

Yankee Running Dog