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Here Comes the Depression. What Do You Do? |
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By bburrell on
2/20/2009 12:05 PM
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This is response to many questions, many keyed off the now verified Dow Theory Sell Signal yesterday.
I told eveyone that the insane volatility of our market in October, November and December were a bad signal.
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Criminals, Their Facilitators and Problems of the DOJ. |
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By bburrell on
2/19/2009 11:23 AM
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As is becoming more and more evident, the criminals here, with Madoff standing as a shining light to guide all others like himself, had to have had a lot of serious dirt on the many industry executives and their regulators. Why hasn't there been a single indictment of their co-conspirators and facilitators? Going a step further, where have the promised super-ceding indictments promised in many of our cases never come down, not one?
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The Crisis in Consumer and Investor Confidence. |
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By bburrell on
2/14/2009 3:09 PM
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One perspective for all. This whole thing is turning nasty.
Generally, we choose up sides in elections. That isn't working anymore.
I'd like to hear others ideas. I am in a dark-side mood here.
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A Bodyguard of Lies: How these strategies have been used by our Protagonists in this Financial War. |
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By bburrell on
1/29/2009 2:49 PM
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The phrase "A Bodyguard of Lies" come from a quote by Winston Churchill in World War II, when he spoke about the War of Deception brilliantly employed by Britain and the Allies to wage this war. Much later, author Anthony Cave Brown wrote a now famous book of the same title, "Bodyguard of Lies" to tell the whole story of this Secret War. I ask you what secrets are our enemies trying to protect with their half-truths, obfuscations, lies, and more here?
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Political Will and the End of Financial Terrorism |
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By bburrell on
1/12/2009 3:31 PM
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Nothing happens in a Democracy without the forces focused by unified Political Will. What happens when not enough people get hurt across the board at the same time?
What steps have to be taken to begin to dig out of this hole?
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On Understanding Markets in a Recession |
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By bburrell on
10/22/2008 5:59 PM
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This is a brief simplified explanation for non-technical market participants. You need to understand how expectations affect markets and their levels.
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DTCC Wants to Be Clearinghouse for CDS paper! To compete with CME/Citadel, I THINK NOT!!!!!! |
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By bburrell on
10/8/2008 3:42 PM
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DTCC has shown itself to be a shameless facilitator of Counterfeiting of Commercial Securities, many of which are tied to hedging naked ownership of CDS paper, another kind of put insurance product.
Given their role in the NSS scandal, how can they be trusted? They can't, and someone needs to pull their head out of their respective patoots before this happens.
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Over Eighty (80) Years of COUNTERFEITING, COUNTERFEITING,COUNTERFEITING, Ad Infinitum, Ad Nausea |
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By bburrell on
2/28/2008 3:42 PM
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Senator Bennett used the word the word EIGHT (8) times in the broadcast meeting of the Senate Banking Committee with Paulson, Bernanke, and Cox. He directed most of his comments directly to Honorable Chairman Cox, who reacted with about 40 tells indicating he was being less than totally honest at best, constantly touching his lips, eyes, ears, and mouth. In my basic training in interrogation, such actions were a major RED FLAG. Maybe a little recitation of the case history of Counterfeiting would be helpful here. There is nothing here not contained in my previous writings, but a linear recitation could be of value, with a single focus on Counterfeiting.
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Mencken's Creed |
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By bburrell on
2/20/2008 3:51 PM
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Here a classic statement of a great libertarian, and honest and ruthless critic of fools and chalatans. I will let all of you guess who I think is which.
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Drips of Water on a Stone |
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By bburrell on
1/12/2008 6:35 PM
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The last of the cases here will be heard many years from now civilly, while 99+% of the thieves skate off into the sunset, their warchests replete with massive assets stolen from their helpless and undefended victims.
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Have Regulators Shown Their Hand? It is game, set and match for conventional exchanges. |
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By bburrell on
10/28/2007 5:29 PM
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Looking at the basic statistics of traditional floor auction exchanges, it is clear that the SEC and the NASD have determined to either shut them down entirely, or morph them into something looking like an electronic NASDAQ market maker system. The NYSE members who damned Grasso with faint praise are going to look back on him as the very last great white hope. The AMEX, which was so instrumental to the maturation of the Options Market Place in the US, is now just a high profile target. Again, we have a bunch of lawyers with absolutely no business background making fundamental strategic decisions about business and market matters they know nothing about. The move that made the NASD the sole regulator should have been a signal of the intent.
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The Psychological Crises and Burdens of Crusades. |
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By bburrell on
10/6/2007 10:36 PM
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I have repeatedly cited the abhorrent nature of the crises faced daily by those have crusaded for 7 or more years against the collective sociopathy of the manipulators here. Psychological studies of those who wage war on its front lines have pointed out that absent some recurring positive reinforcement, the front line warriors will burn out, almost without exception, after some specific period of time. I am there now, and I need a break before I break something else.
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The Principle of Occam's Razor, and Its Applicability Here. |
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By bburrell on
9/18/2007 7:40 AM
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From studies of forecasting methods, Occam's Razor is broadly accepted as a general rule. It states that in all analytical situations, the simplest solution is most likely the optimum one, even if not the only one. How do we apply it here to our situation of having to confront pandemic corruption?
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Has the other shoe dropped on US CMO’s and CDO’s, per BIS? |
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By bburrell on
6/29/2007 8:27 PM
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In its June 24th report, the Bank for International Settlements indicated its analyses had to allow for the forecast of a Global Financial Depression (their word), to be precipitated by a collapse of US Real Estate Markets. This evening, I received multiple unconfirmed reports from independent reliable sources indicating they had been informed that the positions of CMO’s and CDO’s held by US investment entities had been marked down by as much as 80 (EIGHTY) Percent on Short and Intermediate Term holdings. This will have to hit the hedge funds and Private Equity markets like a bullet if proven to be only partially true.
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The Financial Reality of Japan: A Not So Distant Mirror of the Financial Future of the US. |
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By bburrell on
6/24/2007 7:13 PM
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With credit to Barbara Tuchman's great History, "A Distant Mirror", the story of the turbulent 14th Century, I refer all of you to the collapse of Japanese markets in the mid-1980's, crashing the Nikkei Index from 33,000 to 10,000, and imploding their banks' balance sheets along the Way. All of Japan's banks remain unfiled bankruptcies, including their Central Bank, the Japanese analog to our Federal Reserve. How did they get there, and are we any different?
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Practicing for Patty Cakes with Bubba |
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By bburrell on
6/17/2007 6:24 PM
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We have some commentators and pseudo-professionals involved with this who have shown blood in the water over the Cox/SEC Commission decision on naked shorting and grandfathering. How dare Cox confirm what we have alleged for the last seven years? I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED at their consternation with Cox.
I don't expect it anytime soon, but within a range of three to five years on the downside, and seven to ten on the upside, these same weaklings and cowards should prepare themselves for some infantile games with parties without either the IQ or the gentle nature of children, and the physiques and tempers of Godzilla.
A solid review of rules of Patty Cakes is in order.
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SEC to Webcast June 13 Meeting |
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By bburrell on
6/12/2007 10:39 AM
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The Tab link to get to this webcast will be opened 5 minutes before the meeting is to begin.
You will need to monitor the www.sec.gov site.
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Further Observations on the Effects of Inappropriate Government Actions and Corrections to Those Actions |
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By bburrell on
4/18/2007 9:35 PM
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I look again at the current Oil crisis. While many of you would have no reason to know it, between 75 and 80% of all oil and gas in fields opened and subsequently closed were left in the Ground. What if the US Government had done nothing to change exploration here with the initiatives after 1974? Not only would millions of Americans not Bankrupted, we would have plenty of Oil and Gas, and Texas, etc, would still own their own banks.
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The Weisshole Blog: A Beginning. |
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By bburrell on
4/17/2007 7:31 PM
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Gary Weiss(hole) deserves all the attention he wants. How about giving it to him here, strictly negative, adversarial comments only on his attitude, errors, lies, and worse.
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Eagletech v. Citigroup Complaint |
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By bburrell on
4/11/2007 12:22 PM
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Here it is, better late than never.
I would also like to extend my warmest personal regards to all the vermin who called me a lying scumbag and worse for the last two days. You can shove this where the Sun doesn't shine. It is only 55 pages, so you should be able to insert it pain free in one of your major orifices.
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"It's Back!" |
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By bburrell on
3/23/2007 11:58 AM
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This thing is like a jack in the box. It is of such extraordinary quality, and of such universal importance, it should be.
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On Research Methodology and Forensic Statistical Analysis. |
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By bburrell on
2/28/2007 10:30 AM
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The SEC said that it would do a "Study" of the effects of allowing naked short selling on an unrestricted basis in certain segments of the Market. Either ignorantly, or to serve other interests, these officials were very careful NOT to maintain a "Control" group to compare stocks to. This is a primary violation of principles of basic fundamental research methodology. Going further, the SEC insured that there would be no primary independent third party arms-length analysis of the impact of their actions.
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A "Tsunami" Headed at Our Markets!!!!! Treason Is what this is!!!!!! |
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By bburrell on
1/14/2007 9:48 AM
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There is a pending complaint coming supported by production of documents in discovery coming at our brokers, regulators and their minions that will take down the current system. No later than mid-February, this cat will be permanently out of the bag, in the form of a new complaint that will be filed based on incontrovertible forensics.
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A One Page Synopsis on Sale of Unregistered Securities, and resulting Counterfeiting |
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By bburrell on
11/27/2006 9:53 AM
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This is about the sale of unregistered securities. I wrote first about this over 4 years ago, followed by definitive piece from Dave Patch and, most importantly, Rod Young. Sale of Unregistered Securities is generally a SEC civil cause, while the related criminal cause is 18 USC 514, Counterfeiting of Commercial Securities. Read my one page summary done for a journalist.
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