Category: econocaste

economics .. the short version, since the long is wasted on the young

To Clarify It…

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Clearly the market fundamentals underlying energy haven’t changed..so says a trader on the exchange floor

while continuing with:

so it, I mean, the run up, sorta, in price is clearly a matter of speculators..

Got that? The price of oil isn’t because of the market, at least not the free market. It is because of speculators. The speculator market. Yah, oh wait, isn’t price always a speculation, a trimming, growing, vital thing. The thing that is the heart of capitalism. Und spekulation is kapital. Otherwise it is set, fixed, static, without changing information, without risk, boring to both bear and bull. Or is that all just so much Bullshit to keep you away from my Lamborghini, my sacred cow is your holy cow.

To Be Clear, A Game Is Always A Game, Until You Fool Yourself.

Stimulation For A Limp Market

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the business cheer leaders are the press, but like tired fluffers at a porn shop they each lack that certain something called presence. Hell, skill to do. They aren’t players as much as they are playing. Playing you, with your money, foool.

consider them as if they were bottled snake oil and such…
Geritol –> Wall Street Journal
Viagara –> Bloomberg
Cialis –> CNBC

Food Fight.. CNBC

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The world’s main food grain seeing greatest gain is rice, not wheat. Pasta prices in Italy increased because of SUNFLOWER increases. Drought is a bigger factor in a farmer’s adjustment of crop. Even truer in global markets. Frankly a larger correlation to price increases of rice world wide goes to Katrina and the failure of water supplies in California than to any tax policy in the United States. Farms run on water. simple enough?