tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59032312012-05-26T10:22:30.217-04:00A Progressive Blog: Examining the American post-industrial dystopia and its new Proto-Fascist Politics. Wit, wisdom and shameless pontificating from the Internet's best and longest running Political and Economic Blog. Always fresh 24.7.365. Bookmark this Page now....and come back daily. Always on the cutting edge of editorial and market opinion since 1999. And your best portal into the Blogosphere...BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14180125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-17187817687701064832012-05-26T10:05:00.011-04:002012-05-26T10:22:30.222-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-size:130%;" >IRAN KNOWS THAT AN ATTACK BY THE ZIONISTS...WOULD BE A DISASTER...<br /><br />WOULD ACCOMPLISH NOTHING EXCEPT TO INFLAME OUTRAGE AROUND THE WORLD AT THE ZIONIST BLOC... HENCE...THERE IS NO NEED FOR IRAN TO OFFER ANYTHING...<br /><br />THE ZIONIST BLOC IS ONLY NOW ENDING THEIR OCCUPATIONS OF OTHER MUSLIM NATIONS...AND IRAN KNOWS THAT THERE IS NO APPETITE TO START ANOTHER ENDLESS WAR OF OCCUPATION...<br /><br />THE WEST...JUST CAN'T AFFORD IT...AND THAT IS NOT EVEN CONSIDERING THE $5 GAS PRICES IN THE US...THAT WOULD BE INEVITABLE AFTER A ZIONIST ATTACK...<br /><br />AREN'T THE GROWING ISLAMIST TROUBLES IN EGYPT AND SYRIAN AND LYBIA...ENOUGH FOR NOW...?<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-1718781768770106483?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/iran-refused-second-class-nation-status.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-24023331351026766062012-05-26T08:43:00.005-04:002012-05-26T09:07:20.964-04:00<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Money is wasted on the rich...<br /><br />Most of them only know how to make it...but not how to enjoy it or use it...<br /><br />The Best example is Buffett... He still lives in the modest house he bought in the 40's...and he gave $30 billion to Gates...because he didn't know what to do with it... Kinda sad really...<br /><br />People who have a goal or plan in life...usually start DOING IT...as soon as they can afford to...<br /><br />For the rich...the plan is mostly to just keep making money...with no plan or idea for what...or why or what to do with it...<br /><br />The Hoarding becomes THE PLAN...<br /><br />Their families become afflicted...often alcoholic or addicted...or otherwise damaged....<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >Society and the economy are damaged by their inevitable push to protect their compulsive hoarding and greed from benefiting others...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />Yet we call this mindless hoarding "power"...very sad really...<br /><br />The estate tax needs to be about 70% for estates above $10 million...to save these people from their hoarding and destructive compulsive tendencies... </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-2402333135102676606?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/money-is-wasted-on-rich-estate-tax.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-69275821842620242162012-05-26T07:38:00.010-04:002012-05-26T08:52:08.574-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >I SMELL A BOOK DEAL... THE PATZ CASE HAS BEEN ORBITING IN NEWS ROOMS FOR DECADES...<br /><br />EVERY 5 YEARS OR SO IT POPS UP AGAIN...LIKE A KNOWN COMET... AND AS EVERY OTHER TIME... PEOPLE WILLING TO CONFESS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK...PER USUAL...SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN "CONFESSING" FOR YEARS...!<br /><br />WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN...?<br /><br />MY HUNCH IS THAT SOMEONE HAS A BOOK THAT THEY WANT TO BRING OUT...AND THEY NEED A LITTLE HYPE TO GET IT GOING...<br /><br />THE PERCENTAGE CHANCE THAT THIS RECENT "KILLER" IS REAL...ARE NEAR ZERO...<br /><br />AS TO ATON PATZ...VERY LIKELY THE REASON THEY HAVE NOT FOUND A BODY IS THAT HE WAS ABDUCTED...NOT KILLED... THE ENTIRE PREMISE WAS WRONG FROM THE START... ATON PATZ IS PROBABLY ALIVE AND WELL...<br /><br />I LOOK FORWARD TO SOMEDAY READING A BOOK CALLED :<br /><br />THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ATON PATZ...!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-6927582184262024216?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/aton-patz-confession-fishy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-11116829077336740162012-05-26T07:17:00.002-04:002012-05-26T07:18:55.387-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >Dubya wasted the Clinton surplus and started 2 unfunded wars and 1 unfunded entitlement...<br /><br />ROMNEY WON'T HAVE THAT OPTION...<br /><br />Romneys role in history will be to tell Americans that they are poor...! And can NOT afford a middle class anymore...ONLY AN ELITE CLASS OF THE 1%...<br /><br />Who better to 'break the news' than a guy who makes $20 MILLION a year...and has most of it stashed off shore...in the Caymans and in Swiss accounts...<br /><br />WE NEED ROMNEY TO MAKE THE TRANSITION FROM A MIDDLE CLASS ECONOMY TO A POVERTY ECONOMY ...BASED ON 3D WORLD WORK VALUES...! </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-1111682907733674016?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/romney-vs-dubyawho-is-better.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-1961400091181973712012-05-25T22:39:00.002-04:002012-05-25T22:42:15.436-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >WE WILL SOON FIND OUT IN EGYPT...<br /><br />THE PROBLEM IS THAT DEMOCRACY GIVES A VOICE TO THE STUPIDER SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION...<br /><br />NOT JUST IN EGYPT...BUT ALSO IN THE US...<br /><br />NONE DARE CALL...ORDINARY VOTERS ...RATIONAL OR EVEN INFORMED... THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM...<br /><br />CAN MASS STUPIDITY EVER PRODUCE GOOD ENLIGHTENED GOVERNMENT...?<br /><br />PERHAPS NOT...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-196140009118197371?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-islam-ready-for-21st-century.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-48722736830880573262012-05-25T22:36:00.001-04:002012-05-25T22:37:27.408-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >LOOKS LIKE ITS GOING TO HIT THE FAN...SOONER NOT LATER...!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-4872273683088057326?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/can-spain-survive-long-weekend.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-10321157522957587342012-05-25T22:30:00.002-04:002012-05-25T22:32:27.624-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >Right now...its all about the deck chairs on the Titanic....5 years from now none of this will make any difference....<br /><br />I'm just waiting for Romney to be elected...and say : LET THEM EAT CAKE... when questioned about the off shoring and unemployed...<br /><br />Then the real fun starts...<br /><br />With the help of the coming Euroland Depression...and with China slowing and finding that its in a bubble...<br /><br />We are only months away...from a date with reality.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Romney will be our transformative president...</span><br /><br />Obama is just a place holder for the real action yet to come... </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-1032115752295758734?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/waiting-for-mr-romney.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-25684301641106074252012-05-25T21:49:00.002-04:002012-05-25T22:07:33.948-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I WOULD AGREE IF YOU MOVE EVERYTHING TO CHINA...AND AMERICANS ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY...<br /><br />MANY AMERICANS ARE TOO STUPID TO LEARN ANYWAY...OR TOO STUPID TO REALIZE THAT LEARNING IS IMPORTANT... American education is too often a baby-sitting service...or a popularity contest akin to American Idol... Education...? <br /><br />Not really valued...no matter what we say... Its what you do not what you say that counts...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-2568430164110607425?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/romney-fewer-teachers-bigger-class-size.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-35153002831003784652012-05-25T16:59:00.000-04:002012-05-25T17:00:45.526-04:00<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >THE ERA OF BIG BUBBLES IS OVER...<br /><br />AND THE WESTERN WORLD IS STRUGGLING...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-3515300283100378465?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-spain-next-to-fall.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-34052921373813225182012-05-25T10:58:00.003-04:002012-05-25T11:00:45.623-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >THERE IS THE DEPRESSION...BUT THEN THERE IS THE BERNANKE PUT...BUT THEN THERE IS THE DEPRESSION...BUT THEN THE FED WILL BAIL US OUT...AND THEN THERE IS THE DEPRESSION...<br /><br />HOLIDAY WEEKEND .... AS SUMMER DOLDRUMS LOOM...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-3405292137381322518?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/dow-in-undecided-camp.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-32502068071232418532012-05-25T08:22:00.006-04:002012-05-25T08:26:35.734-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" >WE KNOW ITS COMING...BECAUSE IT MUST...NOT IF BUT WHEN...<br /><br />AS THE ELECTIONS NEAR...THE US DEPRESSION DEEPENS...UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOR DROP OUTS GET WORSE...<br /><br />VERY LIKELY CHINA TRADE IMBALANCES WILL BE MORE AND MORE OF A HEADLINE ISSUE...<br /><br />AND CHINA HAS THE "BIG STICK"...ITS US BOND HOLDINGS...!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-3250206807123241853?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-china-us-trade-war-starting.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-34600955030504221812012-05-25T08:11:00.012-04:002012-05-26T10:01:48.518-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-size:130%;" >COULD IT BE THAT AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA GOT THE SHORT END OF THE GENETIC STICK...?<br /><br />AFTER ALL BOTH WERE "SETTLED" BY CRIMINALS AND MALCONTENTS...BOTH WHERE "PENAL COLONIES" FOR THE BRITISH...<br /><br />AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY SAYS:<br /><br />SEND ME YOUR HUDDLED MASSES...YOUR POOR, YOUR WEAK AND YOUR STUPID...<span style="font-style: italic;">OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT...</span><br /><br />SO SHOULD WE BE SHOCKED AT THE RESULTS NOW.... FROM THIS "FOUNDATIONAL" GENE POOL...?<br /><br />INDEED...THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA IS OFTEN SAID TO HAVE BEEN NECESSITATED BY ENGLAND LOSING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN AMERICA...! THUS NEEDING ANOTHER PLACE TO DUMP ITS SOCIAL REJECTS....<br /><br />WHEN EUROPE FLUSHED ITS GENETIC TOILET IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES... ALL THE SHIT WASHED UP ON THE SHORES OF AMERICA...!<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-3460095503050422181?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/to-understand-america-you-have-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-53698128272540400932012-05-25T08:00:00.003-04:002012-05-25T08:03:24.164-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGE THAT AMERICA IS A POOR NATION THAT "CAN'T AFFORD" A MIDDLE CLASS IS BELIED BY THE MASSIVE PROFITS OF CORPORATIONS...AND RECORD CEO PAY...<br /><br />MOSTLY THANKS TO THE OBAMA "RESCUE PACKAGE" FOR THE ECONOMY AFTER THE BUSH ECONOMIC DEBACLE OF 2008...<br /><br /><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/typical-ceo-made-9-6m-100244495.html">CLICK HERE FOR PROOF...!</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-5369812827254040093?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/romneys-message-to-america-you-are-poor.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-57994084427715823002012-05-25T07:48:00.003-04:002012-05-25T08:21:14.035-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >Use of drones would be the perfect solution to the US border problems... Assuming that you think it is A PROBLEM...<br /><br />Building a "wall" is an Ancient and Dark Ages "solution"... We have ways to build high tech "Walls" nowadaze...<br /><br />Big Ag and Big Business and the Democrats don't see the border as a major issue...<br /><br />Its only the local White Folks and Snowbirds from Arizona to Texas...now awash in the fast growing....New Hispanic Culture... that are complaining...<br /><br />If the corporations want cheap Mexican labor...Red Neck Bubbas can complain...but nothing will be done...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-5799408442771582300?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/using-drones-on-border.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-36158572441743532732012-05-24T23:03:00.003-04:002012-05-25T08:29:17.835-04:00<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-size:130%;" >GREECE IS NOT A EUROPEAN COUNTRY...WHY THEY WERE LET INTO THE EURO IN THE FIRST PLACE IS THE REAL QUESTION...STILL UNANSWERED... EUROPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BATTLE BETWEEN THE TEUTON AND THE SLAV....<br /><br />A TEUTONIC EURO WOULD HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVING...<br /><br />THERE SIMPLY MUST BE A MECHANISM TO GET RID OF ECONOMIES THAT CAN'T SUSTAIN THEMSELVES...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-3615857244174353273?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/euro-better-off-without-greece.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-44146038457984170882012-05-24T22:58:00.005-04:002012-05-24T23:02:16.525-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);font-size:130%;" >THIS IS GOING TO BE MUCH MORE SERIOUS THAN THE MEDIA AND WALL STREET ARE LETTING ON...<br /><br />CHINA IS AS TOXIC AS THE US IN THE WAY ITS ECONOMY HAS BEEN DISTORTED OVER MANY DECADES....<br /><br />AND THE IDEA OF CHINA GOING INTO RECESSION AS EUROLAND GOES INTO A DEPRESSION...IS A WORST CASE SCENARIO...<br /><br />EVEN AS THE US LEVITATES WITH THE "BERNANKE PUT"....AND THE MONEY PRINTING...<br /><br />WE WILL NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THIS YEAR WITHOUT SERIOUS ISSUES FOR THE MARKETS AND THE ECONOMY...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-4414603845798417088?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/china-bubble-pops.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-16739179002909619162012-05-24T22:51:00.004-04:002012-05-24T22:57:11.059-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >ALLOWING POTENTIALLY UNSTABLE PEOPLE TO "CONFESS" TO CRIMES IS NOT A WAY TO SOLVE CASES...<br /><br />THERE SIMPLY MUST BE MUCH MORE HERE THAN A MERE CONFESSION...FROM SOMEONE WHO MAY BE UNSTABLE ... OR WANT NOTORIETY FROM HIS CLAIMS...AND OF COURSE THE "BOOK DEAL"...<br /><br />SOMETHING <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-1941780.html">VERY SIMILAR</a> HAPPEN IN THE COLORADO CASE WITH JEAN BENE RAMSEY</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-1673917900290961916?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/patz-case-likely-crackpot-confession.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-88795159529835247842012-05-24T15:24:00.004-04:002012-05-24T23:03:04.994-04:00<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >UNLESS AND UNTIL THE EURO IS AT PAR WITH THE DOLLAR...TO WIT: 100 TO 100...NOTHING WILL SAVE EUROLAND...<br /><br />THE CURRENCY IS OVER PRICED...SORT OF LIKE FACEBOOK...<br /><br />IT NEEDS TO COME DOWN TO MORE REASONABLE LEVELS...<br /><br />I MEAN...$8 FOR A BEER IN FRANKFURT...! GIVE ME A BREAK...!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-8879515952983524784?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/euro-at-par-with-dollar-needed.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-9884807228400756412012-05-24T12:39:00.005-04:002012-05-24T14:32:55.056-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >We tried coddling the rich...the FED printed money for them...Bush cut their taxes...Bernanke fears them and acts like their stooge...and they just took it ALL off shore...<br /><br />After the coming collapse...there will have to be a different paradigm...where ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL...AND PEOPLE NOT PROFITS MATTER...<br /><br />No...we aren't there yet...but read the Teabagger Internet postings...and you will see that we are making progress toward the <span style="font-weight:bold;">NEW PROGRESSIVISM</span> ...every day...<br /><br />FEAR NOT...AND VOTE FOR ROMNEY...WE NEED HIM...TO BE THE REAL TRANSFORMATIONAL FIGURE...NOT OBAMA...!<br /><br />THE ERA OF "LET THEM EAT CAKE" IS UPON US...<br /><br />GET READY FOR IT...! </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-988480722840075641?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/romeny-let-them-eat-cake.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-59672924790110947072012-05-24T08:45:00.002-04:002012-05-24T08:47:46.183-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-size:130%;" >WE ARE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE ON IPOS...!!<br /><br />THE WIZARD HAS LEFT THE BUILDING... OZ WAS NEVER REAL...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-5967292479011094707?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-called-fiasconot-quick-flip.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-49301500802914117242012-05-24T08:37:00.003-04:002012-05-24T08:42:19.527-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >WITH THE DEPRESSION DEEPENING...AND CENTRAL BANKS PROMISING NOT TO PRINT MORE MONEY...UNLESS THE MARKET ASKS THEM TO...BY FALLING...!<br /><br />GOLD SEEMS STILL A SAFE BET... EVERYONE KNOWS THE DOLLAR IS NOT STRONG...AND THERE IS A HUGE CRISIS COMING AFTER THE ELECTION...AND ITS AFTERMATH...THE LOOMING DEBT CEILING DEBACLE 2.0....AND THE OMINOUS SEQUESTER...<br /><br />GOLD IS STILL A SURE THING...EVEN IF BERNANKE EVENTUALLY GIVES US "AN INTEREST RATE"...ABOVE ZERO...!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-4930150080291411724?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/gold-slide-creates-opportunity-to-round.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-71743026857187893312012-05-24T08:33:00.001-04:002012-05-24T08:34:50.018-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);font-size:130%;" >THE END OF MAY...AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GO AWAY...OR AT LEAST THINKING ABOUT IT... <br /><br />MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY LOOMS...THE OFFICIAL START OF THE SUMMER DOLDRUMS...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-7174302685718789331?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/markets-in-us-ease-into-holiday-mode.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-10650647982253278962012-05-23T19:27:00.004-04:002012-05-23T19:30:19.886-04:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >ITS HARDLY WORTH THE EFFORT...TO FOLLOW THESE MARKETS<br /><br />THE MARKET IS LOOKING FOR THE NEXT BIG EVENT...<br /><br />BUT WITH THE BERNANKE PUT...ALL NEWS IS GOOD NEWS...JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BREAK OUT OF THE TRADING RANGE...<br /><br />THE DANGER IS THAT THE "NEXT EVENT" COULD BE A DISASTER...BECAUSE UNLIKE IN 2008...THERE ARE NO MORE "RABBITS" IN THE CENTRAL BANKERS HAT...!<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-1065064798225327896?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/range-bound-markets-flailing-aimlessly.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-22193394695703513012012-05-23T16:29:00.009-04:002012-05-23T19:32:09.425-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" >I LOOK FORWARD TO GOING BACK TO EGYPT...STANDING IN THE TOMB CHAMBER OF THE GREAT PYRAMID...AGAIN<br /><br />WALKING AROUND THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS AT LUXOR...<br /><br />WATCHING THE NIGHT BOATS ON THE NILE... LETS HOPE THE RIGHT DECISIONS ARE MADE...AND THE TOURISTS CAN COME BACK... I'M READY ANYTIME...</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasenka/5480403111/" title="Night Boats on the Nile...Cairo... by Vasenka, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5138/5480403111_37633bfb14.jpg" alt="Night Boats on the Nile...Cairo..." height="300" width="400" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-2219339469570351301?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/eqypt-needs-touristnot-islamists.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5903231.post-90464151002271189002012-05-23T07:48:00.009-04:002012-05-23T11:49:47.654-04:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" >YOU HAVE TO FEEL THAT SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE... THIS DRIP DRIP DRIP OF BAD NEWS HAS TO BREAK SOMETIME...<br /><br />THIS IS LIKE 1939 FOR STOCKS...<br /><br />SOONER OF LATER EVERYONE KNEW WAR WAS COMING...<br /><br />NOT IF ...BUT WHEN...<br /><br />IN AMERICA ITS A CHOICE BETWEEN HATE AND HOPE...<br /><br />AND THE CHANCES OF HOPE WINNING DECREASE EVERY DAY...JUST LIKE IN 1939!<br /><br />OBAMA IS THE NEVIL CHAMBERLIN OF OUR ECONOMIC TIMES...AND THE FED IS HIS MINISTER OF FINANCE.<br /><br />THE GOAL IS TO APPEASE WALL STREET AT ANY COST...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5903231-9046415100227118900?l=gloomanddoom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BALTHAZARnoreply@blogger.comhttp://gloomanddoom.blogspot.com/2012/05/its-1939-for-stocks.html