For those of you who have not sent any holiday cheer my way yet, there’s still time to pick up a little something for the holidays. I suggest this little bauble:
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via Cabestan
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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December 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
$250k each?
Dude, take it off your wish list — I’ll pick up a pair for the both of us.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
As we near Xmas and head into the New Year, I’d like to wish you and all the regulars here a very Merry Christmas and the best of New Year’s. I’d also like to thank you for providing this blog where we can all share opinions, ideas and thoughts. And you personally for your insights. Peace and prosperity. That’s about all the “holiday cheer” I can afford after the beating I’ve taken this year.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Ugly as sin, expensive as hell, and by any means completely impractical.
Yet another sign of the times (pun intended).
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Designed by Rube Goldberg?
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I’ve got a used pet rock I will sell you for half of this bauble…housebroken, and unlike a teenager, it doesn’t get surly…
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Be honest Barry…
Was the “Tourbillion” typo on purpose?
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BR: That’s a cut and paste from somewhere — pretty Freudian, tho . . .
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I want to second Pat G’s remarks…Merry Christmas, and Happy Chanukah. No watch this year from me Barry; I’m not into trinkets. lol
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Only the rich can get away wearing such an ugly bauble.
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
And what does it do exactly? It looks like a miniature printing press. Does it tell time or keep track of the billions printed by the Fed?
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Just what any Master of the Universe needs this Christmas!
Complete Monty Python collection only $57 on Amazon…
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Pythons-Flying-Circus-Megaset/dp/B0009XRZ92/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1230079139&sr=8-1
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I agree BR, that thing is radical. practical? well, subjective evaluations are just that.
the Watch is good example of what Engineers can do, when there’s a Market at play..
luckily, for us, all the ‘Engineers’ are going to be on a Full-Employment gig, In W.D.C..
somehow, I think the Market, for this Watch, thereby, will expand..
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
OT:
on Kudlow, this evening, he had Heather Boushey, a “Senior Economist” from the “Center for American Progress”, on to discuss 44’s ‘Stimulus’ plans.
If you want to see a disinfo agent/agitprop cut-out at work, see her performance..
here are some background links:
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&fr=h&q=Heather+Boushey
http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?tab=web&q=Heather+Boushey
for my own sense, I’ve referred to LK, previously, as CrudBlow–more out of annoyance with his incessant cheerleading of a mythical ‘Goldilocks’, and a, well-greased, penchant for parroting WH talking points..that said, in these days, he’ll be a useful ‘tuning fork’, against which to judge the pitch of the incoming (hard)corps of command & control freaks..
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
You want the base model, or one slathered in platinum and diamonds…?
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Mark E Hoffer @ 8:11
“…I’ve referred to [Kudlow], …out of annoyance with his … penchant for parroting WH talking points…”
Not so much any more. Bush has moved to the Socialist wing of the Republican party… Kudlow doesn’t want to go there.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
A fusee watch? Wow, 1700s technology for the 21st century. Big and ugly enough to get some billionaire to buy it, just to prove his bad taste.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
The only reason to get that would be to put a little Bernie Madoff/Dick Fuld/Alan Greenspan/ex-spouse figurine on it, as if stretched on the rack.
OT: back in 1986, Stephen Fry did a spoof investigative reporting series for BBC 4 radio, called “Delve”. Episode 4 of Series 3, “City Limits”, is an entertaining look at a case of financial fraud in the City of London. I found it quite funny, and quite timely despite being 22 years old. There’s even a bank bailout. It’s available on a torrent near you.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
“Wow, 1700s technology for the 21st century.”
The new zillionaire trend for 2010: getting your financial data and tracking investments on a jacquard loom.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
This is one of the very few times in my life that I have hoped someone goes B/K.
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Barry,
Your Amazon Wishlist, which clocks in at 46 pages, might just be longer than your book.
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BR: Yah, I need to trim that down. I use the list to just book mark junk for later review.
The book clocked in at 430 pages — of which 100 pages were endnotes, further sources, etc. I decided to put a lot of that online, and cut it down to 310, which made the publishers happy.
UPDATE: Cut the wishlist down to 27 pages
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
What a coincidence – the last time I was in New York City I met a Cabestan Wench in Times Square.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Anyone else immediately think about sensitive body parts getting caught in those gears at an inopportune moment?
December 24th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Pimp watches, for those of us on a budget:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3232/picture/6004/
No, I don’t own and am not buying one.
But, I am thinking of acquiring a USB rocket launcher:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/
December 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
now if that were a functioning Turing machine… : )
December 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
BR: Exactly how does this fishing reel work?