Comments on: 10 For Tuesday http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:51:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: update http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205932 update Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:10:59 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205932 Well this is news for tuesday...Obama was bribed a $150 million dollars and he took it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/internal-memo-confirms-bi_n_258285.html Well this is news for tuesday…Obama was bribed a $150 million dollars and he took it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/internal-memo-confirms-bi_n_258285.html

]]> By: call me ahab http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205928 call me ahab Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:51:31 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205928 thor- i have 3 kids- always trying my best to populate the earth thor-

i have 3 kids- always trying my best to populate the earth

]]> By: DiggidyDan http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205927 DiggidyDan Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:48:22 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205927 @Ben. .. I thought his name was Charles? @Ben. .. I thought his name was Charles?

]]> By: Seattle Chill http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205916 Seattle Chill Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:40:36 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205916 Quoth the Pew: “Do you think the government does more to help or more to hurt people trying to move up the economic ladder?” That, my friends, is an brilliant example of "begging the question!" Quoth the Pew: “Do you think the government does more to help or more to hurt people trying to move up the economic ladder?”

That, my friends, is an brilliant example of “begging the question!”

]]> By: Thor http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205897 Thor Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:06:39 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205897 I wonder about our long term population prospects looking like Japan. Projecting demographics out that far is very difficult - remember in the 70's they were worried about over population. Now they're having to re-do all of the population projections because even the third world countries have drastically reduced their birthrate. Lot's of things could change and there's no real reason we couldn't have another baby boom at some point. I'm also suspicious of any population projections for the over 65 crowd. Most of the country is obese now, we won't have nearly as many people making it into their 70's and 80's unless we somehow get everyone thin again. I'm curious though - does anyone reading this have more than 2 kids? What's that like in this day and age. I wonder about our long term population prospects looking like Japan. Projecting demographics out that far is very difficult – remember in the 70′s they were worried about over population. Now they’re having to re-do all of the population projections because even the third world countries have drastically reduced their birthrate. Lot’s of things could change and there’s no real reason we couldn’t have another baby boom at some point. I’m also suspicious of any population projections for the over 65 crowd. Most of the country is obese now, we won’t have nearly as many people making it into their 70′s and 80′s unless we somehow get everyone thin again.

I’m curious though – does anyone reading this have more than 2 kids? What’s that like in this day and age.

]]> By: Moss http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205895 Moss Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:26 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205895 A real revolution http://www.marketwatch.com/story/advertisers-deserting-fox-news-glenn-beck-2009-08-14 A real revolution

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/advertisers-deserting-fox-news-glenn-beck-2009-08-14

]]> By: leftback http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205894 leftback Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:57:00 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205894 Some thoughts on the crude oil trade, which LB shares, more or less. Note the tight correlation with EUR:JPY. Anyone who doubts the power of yen and dollar carry trades in the recent rally should spend more time with charts. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pending-weakness-crude-oil Some thoughts on the crude oil trade, which LB shares, more or less. Note the tight correlation with EUR:JPY.
Anyone who doubts the power of yen and dollar carry trades in the recent rally should spend more time with charts.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pending-weakness-crude-oil

]]> By: mobiaxis http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205892 mobiaxis Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:48:10 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205892 "For all its pretense and manufactured consent, our government is just a corporate racket now, and probably will remain so from here on out. This is a white people's thing, an Anglo-European tradition. Moreover, we no longer get real dictators such as a Hitler, or a good old bone-gnawing despot like Idi Amin. We get money syndicates in powdered wigs or Savile Row suits, cartels of robber barons and banking racketeers." If you thought Kunstler could rant, you obviously haven't read Joe Bageant http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/08/corporations-are-now-after-our-very-beings.html#more “For all its pretense and manufactured consent, our government is just a corporate racket now, and probably will remain so from here on out. This is a white people’s thing, an Anglo-European tradition. Moreover, we no longer get real dictators such as a Hitler, or a good old bone-gnawing despot like Idi Amin. We get money syndicates in powdered wigs or Savile Row suits, cartels of robber barons and banking racketeers.”

If you thought Kunstler could rant, you obviously haven’t read Joe Bageant

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/08/corporations-are-now-after-our-very-beings.html#more

]]> By: jeff in indy http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205888 jeff in indy Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:30:25 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205888 nothing like the Barrett 50cal. to produce 'the pink mist...' nothing like the Barrett 50cal. to produce ‘the pink mist…’

]]> By: leftback http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/08/10-for-tuesday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-205885 leftback Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:27:04 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=35836#comment-205885 Like watching the Boomers move along the curve - like a mouse in a python. By 2050, or earlier, we are Japan. Like watching the Boomers move along the curve – like a mouse in a python. By 2050, or earlier, we are Japan.

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