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  • The Fed Didn't Cause The Gold Bubble - Or Any Other Bubble [View article]
    So your view is the opposite of Gage, and that the Fed will cause bubbles?

    Do you even know who Lyman J Gage is?
    Apr 23 05:27 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • 'Obama Is Dead' Tweet Makes For Flash Crash [View article]
    It was probably a sudden horror that Biden would take over.
    Apr 23 05:22 PM | 8 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Fed Didn't Cause The Gold Bubble - Or Any Other Bubble [View article]
    Wait a second, Abegaz. Are you not the same guys that said that without a central bank, collapses such as that experienced in 1893 would be repeated?

    Well,they're still happening.

    "Without such a central bank, he declared in alarm, "individual banks stand isolated and apart, separated units, with no tie of mutuality between them." Unless a central bank established such ties, Gage warned, the panic of 1893 would be repeated."

    Lyman J. Gage
    Apr 23 12:25 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Fed Didn't Cause The Gold Bubble - Or Any Other Bubble [View article]
    "The idea of defending the Fed is now catching on."

    What do you mean "now"?

    Its been a coercive policy favored for a long time by those wishing to cartelize the system, and getting cover for that by getting suckers to preach the benefits of cartelization much the same way Bossuet would say, "Absolutism is now catching on."

    http://bit.ly/10wyZbc
    Apr 23 11:10 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Fed Didn't Cause The Gold Bubble - Or Any Other Bubble [View article]
    "The real cause of bubbles is human greed and corruption."

    I would say its coercion. Greed is just want. Want is just instinct. Want propels you to survive. There are only two options for survival. You can either produce or steal. The problem with stealing is that precludes production. When production declines, so to does the standard of living. A declining standard of living is not desired by anybody, so to allow it to occur requires one person to use coercion against another. That's where the corruption comes in. Its just another world for stealing.

    This is where human reason comes into play. We figure out that if we can get rid of coercion, then stealing is not possible. Everyone has to produce, and then they can trade. Productivity goes up, and consumption goes up, which is an improved standard of living.

    Coercion causes the bubbles, because it facilitates wealth transfer. One person inflates and another deflates. Coercion is the inflationary force.
    Apr 22 01:13 PM | 4 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Fed Didn't Cause The Gold Bubble - Or Any Other Bubble [View article]
    "Carrying the Fed's water because bubbles existed before central banking is one of the simply laziest intellectual arguments I've read here at SA. "

    A great example is LM Shaw in 1905. He basically used the US Treas to mimic QE. What followed was the panic in 1907. Another example is John Law and the Mississippi bubble. In fact it was France allowing Law to monopolize bank notes that created such an inflationary period that the word "millionaire" was first coined. What followed was yet another crash.

    All through history what has caused the booms and busts has been the intervention of gov coercion causing wealth transfers. In a free market there would be no business cycle. You might have short lived bubbles in specific sectors, but you would not have a system wide collapse that brought down an entire country, or in today's world, the entire globe, into a recessionary/depressio... period.

    The "blame the free market" is a classic regulator deflection. Politicians and their regulators interject their coercion into the system, resulting in wealth transfer, this results in asset inflation (CPI assets are assets) that current technology cannot create the income to sustain, eventually nature reveals that the PV of future cash flows does not justify the asset prices, then you get a mass exodus, and asset values reset to what their natural price should be. Book wealth is destroyed (the balance sheet gross up), people become afraid, and attempt to save. Keynes hated this so much because it revealed his fraud that he would call it "hoarding".

    The Fed is just another manifestation of this coercion (price fixing). So whether you use fiscal policy to transfer wealth or monetary policy, either way, they are both consumption subsidies. When you look at the bubbles of the past, you will see these consumption subsidies causing the bubbles and busts. Then in true Randian fashion, the cowardly politicians and regulators start the, "its not my fault, its not my fault" blather, and their saving grace is a gov schooled populace that have been trained to be suckers.
    Apr 22 09:14 AM | 11 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Gold: Where Are We Now? [View article]
    If you were that lucky.

    http://bit.ly/14BhQ1s
    Apr 19 07:10 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Gold: Where Are We Now? [View article]
    It does smell fishy. Lots and lots of chatter about it.

    http://bloom.bg/17rGZHC
    Apr 18 10:49 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • QC #256, April 12, 2013 [View instapost]
    I think stories like these are fascinating.

    http://bit.ly/YxgDAf

    Another interesting story along these lines.

    http://bit.ly/Zu2VkY
    Apr 18 09:29 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Don't Get Caught Up In Panic Selling And Capitulation In Precious Metals [View article]
    "And then what benefit is having a hard currency, if the government can still devalue it? "

    Well, that's the main argument for having money private. The devaluing (aka inflation) is a stealth tax. Its a nontransparent way for a gov to impose a consumption tax that most of the populace won't see or catch on to, at least not for a very long time. Then politicians can set about buying votes to get rich and make other people poor. That's why they love fiat so much, and have to use frauds like, "fiat will make us all richer" or "don't crucify us on a golden cross".
    Apr 17 11:51 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Stability Of The European Union (18) March 26, 2013 To April 18, 2013 [View instapost]
    I always thought it would eventually make sense for Germany to cuts its losses and leave the EU. Eventually, they would make up the losses by not having to subsidize AR accounts they would never really be able to collect on.

    http://seekingalpha.co...
    Apr 17 09:29 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Gold In The Crosshairs [View article]
    "He has lost all his credibility in my mind."

    There are a lot of failed predictions running around. Here are some other predictions that I'm sure you will announce who else has lost creditibility in your mind.

    http://bit.ly/Zxjk4S
    Apr 17 09:22 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • QC #256, April 12, 2013 [View instapost]
    A lot of what I read has Yellen in line to replace BB.

    http://bloom.bg/17nLh2G

    Here's a fun theory. The reason that Germany can't get its gold back is because BB doesn't have it, and the reason he doesn't have it, is because he has been using what supposed to be in the vaults to keep the price of gold depressed. If gold is low, or suddenly drops, then that keeps people scared of bidding up the price of gold. As such, they chase equities and not gold, and no one can point a finger at the Fed and say, "see gold going up is a vote of no confidence in the Fed". So now, BB can say, "What? Gold isn't going up. That means we are in a full on recovery, which means that equities will go up because people will want to invest in real economic opportunities and not gold. If you want proof, just look at the equities markets. See they are going up." Which they are because he has been using the gold that is supposed to be in his vaults to sell into the markets to scare people away from gold and thus make his point.

    So then Germany shows up and says give me my gold back, which BB doesn't have, but in order to get it, he would have to print to buy up what he has sold off, and thus raise the price back up, which is exactly what he has been trying to stop.
    Apr 17 09:17 AM | 5 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Stability Of The European Union (18) March 26, 2013 To April 18, 2013 [View instapost]
    What we need is a law that says large corps can't charge anything for their products. Then we can have all the benefits of slavery, or at least get rid of all the laws that are apparently forcing us to buy the products of large corps.
    Apr 17 06:23 AM | 3 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Don't Get Caught Up In Panic Selling And Capitulation In Precious Metals [View article]
    Yep, that's it.
    Apr 16 03:08 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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