How Now Brown Dow?

16 comments on “How Now Brown Dow?”

1. CK,Please check out the pretty picture at the top of this link.

   http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/us-faces-inflation-or-default-1.622397

   As long as the market focuses on the 10% of the iceberg that is visible,it’s business as usual,but when it considers what is lurking,then’s it’s nervous breakdown time. Really,it’s a pride thing,think of the armies of economists,financial advisors,brokers,traders,who have never given a moment’s thought to the perils of fiat,floating currency,having to admit that it ain’t working.

   American Standard Version
   Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

   Bible in Basic English
   Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

   Douay-Rheims Bible
   Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

   Darby Bible Translation
   Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

   English Revised Version
   Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

   Webster’s Bible Translation
   Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

   World English Bible
   Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

   Young’s Literal Translation
   Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling — a haughty spirit.’

   http://bible.cc/proverbs/16-18.htm

   BTW,I’m the poster child for having too much pride so you will never hear from me,”I told you so”,but,I have studied our national economics as an amateur for 30 years,and somethings are falling in place. Many economists now recognize that my concept of our currency becoming a synthetic derivative is a truly original contribution to understanding the effects of all paper currency on our fiscal system.

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2. When the UK election really starts to look like a Python sketch, which
   leaves one of the largest economies in Europe in a precarious state,
   when the authorities rather sheepishly acknowledge that “Wrong way
   Shahzad” is well connected, if a little dim, wonder what professor
   Solis thinks now, when Greece seems to be just one of a whole row of Dominoes I’ll say the situation is complex

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3. I’ll say the situation is complex

   Law of Economics #3128
   Cheap money creates complicated messes,because the goal of loaning cheap money is not to get your “capital” back,but to have a cash flow of interest,FOREVER,and to be able to keep the loan on your books as an asset,FOREVER. This is Financialization,not Capitalism.

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4. “The collapse of the dollar to less than a 1,200th of an ounce of gold is emerging as one of the astonishing stories of our time.

   This is a time when we need a national conversation about the dollar. What is it? What did the Founding Fathers think it was? When they used the word “dollars” twice in the Constitution but did not deem it necessary to provide a definition, what did that tell us? In fact, the historical record is clear. The constitutional dollar was — and is — 416 grains of standard silver, or 471 ¼ grains of pure silver, the same amount of silver as is in a coin known then, and now, as the Spanish Milled Dollar. What were the Founders thinking when they decided to use, in granting to Congress the power to “coin money and regulate its value,” the same sentence in which they also granted Congress the power to fix the weights and measures?

   How are we going to get back to a constitutional framework for our national unit of account? And, most ominously, what will happen if we fail to do so? It is too much to hope that this national conversation might be ignited by Mr. Obama himself. The Wall Street Journal editorial page is doing a heroic job among the newspapers, including a piece in tomorrow’s paper calling for taking another look at the gold standard, and Larry Kudlow among columnists, his latest being here. We hold out hope that some politician will pick up the issue of the dollar. So far the only one who has gone out on the stump to mark its collapse against gold is Sarah Palin. Come to think of it we’re long overdue for having the face of the greenback engraved with a woman.”
   http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-obama-dollar/86943/

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5. Speaking of Monty Python …
   This discussion resembles “The Argument Clinic” meets “The Dead Parrot”.

   HEY! What about that $10 million the Nigerian Princess owes me for funding the new government so she can share her wealth with me? I want my money back!

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6. This is much the way it feels with le grenouille, strangelet, and a few other undead denizens here.

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7. The discussion turns my mind more in this direction:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

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8. @ Rocketman:
   You might want to double check whether it was Niger or Nigeria. If that turns out to be the problem, don’t forget to share some of your massive returns via the “donate” link at the bottom of the main page sidebar.

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9. only one who has gone out on the stump to mark its collapse against gold is Sarah Palin.

   Where are the Palinophiles?

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10. @ Rex Caruthers:
    I think the Sun was exaggerating a bit there. As far as I know, Palin’s never gone beyond referring to monetary policy very peripherally – as part of a scattershot attack on the Ps that B.

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11. I was watching Ironman 2, so I have an excuse

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12. In between all the special effects, there is a commentary on the downsides of nuclear proliferation, that’s the motivation in part of the villain, and a new reflection on the pitfalls of drone warfare, and ‘unlawful combatants’ like Tony Stark,

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13. @ narciso:

    In other, perhaps related news. Japan has reactivated a breeder reactor that was shut down years ago after an accident. Probably no big thing since I’m sure they’re only interested in the electrical generating capacity of the plant.

    There are many consequences attendant on the U.S. being perceived as an unreliable ally.

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14. There are many consequences attendant on the U.S. being perceived as an unreliable ally.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,693336,00.html

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15. Quote of the Day:

    “There’s only one thing that’s safe from that ultimate risk: gold. Think of it as the world’s strongest currency. The one you can spend no matter what happens to the dollar, the euro, the yen or anything else. That’s where I have my bets placed.”

    Donald Luskin is chief investment officer of Trend Macrolytics, an economics consulting firm serving institutional investors. You may contact him at don@trendmacro.com.

    You would think from a guy a smart as Luskin that it’s high time to unite the dollar and gold instead of compartmentalizing them in seperate commodity bins.

    http://www.smartmoney.com/investing/stocks/stocks-slide-its-about-time/

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16. @ Rex Caruthers:

    Interesting, especially the statement that the enrichment is to fuel nuclear submarines and the Brazillian navy doesn’t have any nuclear submarines.

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