Whatcha gonna do now Yellen? Marco just threw a big shot in the race to the bottom in the currency wars.. Whole thing hilarious and global average joe six pack has absolutely no idea how it's screwing him big time as it slowly erodes his standard of living ... Who cares lets talk about deflated footballs instead.. Bread and circus.. As Rome slowly implodes..
It's called Darwinism tiz, nothing can stop the natural evolution of society, Adolf and Communism were mere speedbumps on this road to human destiny, no organised society has ever survived more than 1000 years
If the Romans couldn't make it, when the bosses had no real opposition, then I doubt anyone can
Enjoy any periods of stability you exist in, they never last.
My own countrys leaders have evolved from the honourable men of the post war period to a bunch of slimy corrupt scumbags in a mere 60 years
The only book you ever need to read where people are concerned is Animal Farm by George Orwell
If the Romans couldn't make it, when the bosses had no real opposition, then I doubt anyone can
Enjoy any periods of stability you exist in, they never last.
My own countrys leaders have evolved from the honourable men of the post war period to a bunch of slimy corrupt scumbags in a mere 60 years
The only book you ever need to read where people are concerned is Animal Farm by George Orwell
As an example of human stupidity I have an old colleague who is exceptionally intelligent and capable and closely connected with eggheads winners.(superbrainy people, usually the middle/upper middle classes)
He doesn't like Turkey, so on xmas day his family were not allowed to eat turkey.
This is like banning turkey from your home at thanksgiving, because you don't like turkey
He didn't care that others liked turkey, even members of his own family were ignored because in his head he is the son of god on earth and it's all about him and what he wants and nothing else matters including his own family
This mental disease is especially prevalent in the middle classes, they call it hubris and I'm afraid it's a genetic trait that will contribute heavily to the human race lurching from one millennia to the next
The other trait is apathy, which I'm sure you are well aware of and contributes heavily to compounding various problems
I did eventually suggest to him that perhaps his family could have turkey while he had a curry or whatever, since it was Christmas day and xmas day is a family day
This "brilliant and unforeseen" solution has since been adopted by him, a member of the top 3% intelligentsia in British society, a man who could get a degree in advanced astrophysics... but couldn't get a school leaving certificate in common bluddy sense
He doesn't like Turkey, so on xmas day his family were not allowed to eat turkey.
This is like banning turkey from your home at thanksgiving, because you don't like turkey
He didn't care that others liked turkey, even members of his own family were ignored because in his head he is the son of god on earth and it's all about him and what he wants and nothing else matters including his own family
This mental disease is especially prevalent in the middle classes, they call it hubris and I'm afraid it's a genetic trait that will contribute heavily to the human race lurching from one millennia to the next
The other trait is apathy, which I'm sure you are well aware of and contributes heavily to compounding various problems
I did eventually suggest to him that perhaps his family could have turkey while he had a curry or whatever, since it was Christmas day and xmas day is a family day
This "brilliant and unforeseen" solution has since been adopted by him, a member of the top 3% intelligentsia in British society, a man who could get a degree in advanced astrophysics... but couldn't get a school leaving certificate in common bluddy sense
It's just frustrating and mind boggling to me we've come so far in areas such as math, science, medicine etc... But as far as economics and politics go we still living in the dark ages... Majority of the sharp scientific minds I've met in my lifetime are herd mentality when it comes to politics/economics and have been programmed to play along just like everybody else .. Just makes no sense ... The few that "get it" too comfortable to bother to do anything about it and the system has grown so big corrupt and accepted as norm by society it's difficult to fight and a lost cause for most part
I cut out around 12-13 right before earnings in nov found some financial refiling (numbers fluffed in previous quarters) on sec site before the official press release so ran...
might hop back in at some point but foresee overall market trouble in near future
strong dollar starting to hit everybody.. As I said before whatcha gonna do Yellen..
might hop back in at some point but foresee overall market trouble in near future
strong dollar starting to hit everybody.. As I said before whatcha gonna do Yellen..
Western world as a whole stuck in the Japanese situation long term .. Their solution is the same.. dig a deeper debt hole .. And promote more debt and bubbles... it won't end pretty for average joe regardless of what digits on Wall Street do .. Middle class is toast ...
[h=1]Selloff shows Fed bubble is deflating: Analyst[/h]Wednesday's market selloff is a sign that the bubble created by the Federal Reserve's easy money policies is deflating, analyst Peter Boockvar said Thursday.
Noting the Fed's bond-buying policy ended in late October, Boockvar said the New York composite stock exchange is now back to where it was last July and the S&P 500 will heading back to November levels.
"QE, for example, enlarges the bubble, and once the air stops going into the bubble, the bubble starts to deflate again," the chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Read MoreBiotechs could be the early warning for stocks
U.S. markets plunged on Wednesday, led by more than 2 percent declines in the Nasdaq and Russell 2000. The Dowtanked nearly 300 points, or 1.6 percent, while the S&P 500 finished the day about 1.5 percent lower.
The biotech and semiconductor sectors, both down 4 percent, weighed on the Nasdaq.
Boockvar called the move in biotechnology stocks a "classic parabolic reversal," a technical indicator that shows a change in an asset's momentum.
The Fed has missed its window to raise interest rates because it lacks the resolve to hike rates with average economic growth remaining below 2.5 percent, he said. The federal funds rate, the interest banks are charged for short-term lending to other institutions, remains near zero.
The central bank now lacks tools to tackle a further economic slowdown because it cannot drive down rates any further, he said.
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"There is no easy way out of this, and if it means a recession, it means a recession. And if it means a pullback, it means a pullback. But I know looking out over the next five to 10 years, we've got to get out of this," Boockvar said.
He added that the cost of money itself is not an impediment to growth, and low rates have led to a "rotten economy" in which "zombie companies" can stay alive by borrowing in a cheap debt market.
That easy monetary policy does not create growth; it only pulls forward economic activity that would have happened on its own anyway, Boockvar said.
"We can get out of this if the Fed had any guts, but they don't," he said.
Normal interest rates create a more normal economic environment, he added. A federal funds rate near 1.5 percent, roughly the rate of core inflation, would still be extremely accommodative, he said.
Noting the Fed's bond-buying policy ended in late October, Boockvar said the New York composite stock exchange is now back to where it was last July and the S&P 500 will heading back to November levels.
"QE, for example, enlarges the bubble, and once the air stops going into the bubble, the bubble starts to deflate again," the chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Read MoreBiotechs could be the early warning for stocks
U.S. markets plunged on Wednesday, led by more than 2 percent declines in the Nasdaq and Russell 2000. The Dowtanked nearly 300 points, or 1.6 percent, while the S&P 500 finished the day about 1.5 percent lower.
The biotech and semiconductor sectors, both down 4 percent, weighed on the Nasdaq.
Boockvar called the move in biotechnology stocks a "classic parabolic reversal," a technical indicator that shows a change in an asset's momentum.
The Fed has missed its window to raise interest rates because it lacks the resolve to hike rates with average economic growth remaining below 2.5 percent, he said. The federal funds rate, the interest banks are charged for short-term lending to other institutions, remains near zero.
The central bank now lacks tools to tackle a further economic slowdown because it cannot drive down rates any further, he said.
Read MoreTraders say to buy the Nasdaq—'so bad, it's good'
"There is no easy way out of this, and if it means a recession, it means a recession. And if it means a pullback, it means a pullback. But I know looking out over the next five to 10 years, we've got to get out of this," Boockvar said.
He added that the cost of money itself is not an impediment to growth, and low rates have led to a "rotten economy" in which "zombie companies" can stay alive by borrowing in a cheap debt market.
That easy monetary policy does not create growth; it only pulls forward economic activity that would have happened on its own anyway, Boockvar said.
"We can get out of this if the Fed had any guts, but they don't," he said.
Normal interest rates create a more normal economic environment, he added. A federal funds rate near 1.5 percent, roughly the rate of core inflation, would still be extremely accommodative, he said.
[h=1]U.S. Home Prices Are Surging 13 Times Faster Than Wages[/h]You can blame investors for that
For most people, buying a home is no cheap venture. That's especially the case when the growth in U.S. home prices is beating wage increases 13 to 1.
Wages climbed by 1.3 percent from the second quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of 2014, compared to a 17 percent increase in home prices around that time, according to a new report from RealtyTrac. The real-estate data provider used the Labor Department's weekly earnings data to measure wage growth, while home prices were derived from sales-deed data in December 2014 and compared to December 2012 on the hypothesis that a change in average wages would take at least six months to affect home prices.
Using localized earnings data, RealtyTrac also found that 76 percent of housing markets posted increases in home prices that exceeded the wage growth there during that time frame, led by the regions of Merced, California; Memphis, Tennessee; Santa Cruz, California; and Augusta, Georgia. Others include the Detroit, Houston and Miami regions. (To be fair, some of these areas are still considered affordable and experienced massive price drops during the housing bust and recession.)
Source: RealtyTrac
How could this happen? Enter the investor.
In many markets, the housing recovery has "largely been driven over the last two years by buyers who are not as constrained by incomes -- namely the institutional investors coming in and buying up properties as rentals, and international buyers coming in and buying, often with cash," Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac and author of the report, said in an interview.
For demand from traditional buyers to improve, "either wages are going to need to go up or prices are going to need to at least flatten out and wait for wages to catch up," he said. "You might say the third alternative is interest rates go down so you give people more buying power with their wages, but interest rates are about as low as they can go."
The trend illustrates the limited impact of the Federal Reserve's decision to include mortgage-backed securities in its unprecedented asset-buying program. The Fed bought more than $1 trillion of those securities to prop up the housing market after it collapsed and helped trigger the worst recession in the post-World War II era.
With the economy improving and home prices climbing, central bankers seem to have achieved at least part of their goal. However, investors have reaped much of the benefits of rising prices, while meaningful wage growth -- and with it the ability of many Americans to buy homes -- has yet to materialize. That's been one reason housing has posted such inconsistent progress over the past two years, even with mortgage rates near historical lows.
The 24 percent of markets where wage growth outpaced home price appreciation from 2012 to 2014 include Tulsa, Oklahoma; Raleigh, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and New York, according to the RealtyTrac data. However in some places, such as the Baltimore region, it's only because home prices fell during that time period.
Source: RealtyTrac
In such regions, there may be "a lot of distress those places are working through," Blomquist said. Though for someone who's looking for a more "emerging market" where prices have more room to run, "maybe that's a good opportunity," he said.
For most people, buying a home is no cheap venture. That's especially the case when the growth in U.S. home prices is beating wage increases 13 to 1.
Wages climbed by 1.3 percent from the second quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of 2014, compared to a 17 percent increase in home prices around that time, according to a new report from RealtyTrac. The real-estate data provider used the Labor Department's weekly earnings data to measure wage growth, while home prices were derived from sales-deed data in December 2014 and compared to December 2012 on the hypothesis that a change in average wages would take at least six months to affect home prices.
Using localized earnings data, RealtyTrac also found that 76 percent of housing markets posted increases in home prices that exceeded the wage growth there during that time frame, led by the regions of Merced, California; Memphis, Tennessee; Santa Cruz, California; and Augusta, Georgia. Others include the Detroit, Houston and Miami regions. (To be fair, some of these areas are still considered affordable and experienced massive price drops during the housing bust and recession.)
How could this happen? Enter the investor.
In many markets, the housing recovery has "largely been driven over the last two years by buyers who are not as constrained by incomes -- namely the institutional investors coming in and buying up properties as rentals, and international buyers coming in and buying, often with cash," Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac and author of the report, said in an interview.
For demand from traditional buyers to improve, "either wages are going to need to go up or prices are going to need to at least flatten out and wait for wages to catch up," he said. "You might say the third alternative is interest rates go down so you give people more buying power with their wages, but interest rates are about as low as they can go."
The trend illustrates the limited impact of the Federal Reserve's decision to include mortgage-backed securities in its unprecedented asset-buying program. The Fed bought more than $1 trillion of those securities to prop up the housing market after it collapsed and helped trigger the worst recession in the post-World War II era.
With the economy improving and home prices climbing, central bankers seem to have achieved at least part of their goal. However, investors have reaped much of the benefits of rising prices, while meaningful wage growth -- and with it the ability of many Americans to buy homes -- has yet to materialize. That's been one reason housing has posted such inconsistent progress over the past two years, even with mortgage rates near historical lows.
The 24 percent of markets where wage growth outpaced home price appreciation from 2012 to 2014 include Tulsa, Oklahoma; Raleigh, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and New York, according to the RealtyTrac data. However in some places, such as the Baltimore region, it's only because home prices fell during that time period.
In such regions, there may be "a lot of distress those places are working through," Blomquist said. Though for someone who's looking for a more "emerging market" where prices have more room to run, "maybe that's a good opportunity," he said.
Might be about time to warm up this thread.
Hey Tiz what's your opinion of MSLP these days.
I gotta admit I love the combat crunch bars.
I buy them 3 cases at a time.
Quest is certainly the market leader by a long shot but I'm starting to see the combat crunch bar ever so slightly make a dent in the market share.
All someone has to do to realize Combat Crunch>Quest is to try one.
The MACROs are slightly better with Quest 180ish calories vs 210.
Same protein but slightly more fiber in quest but not by much.
But taste difference is night and day.
I think this is MSLPs future.
The protein bar market is starting to boom.
They cost $35 a case so the profit margin is ridiculous.
Hey Tiz what's your opinion of MSLP these days.
I gotta admit I love the combat crunch bars.
I buy them 3 cases at a time.
Quest is certainly the market leader by a long shot but I'm starting to see the combat crunch bar ever so slightly make a dent in the market share.
All someone has to do to realize Combat Crunch>Quest is to try one.
The MACROs are slightly better with Quest 180ish calories vs 210.
Same protein but slightly more fiber in quest but not by much.
But taste difference is night and day.
I think this is MSLPs future.
The protein bar market is starting to boom.
They cost $35 a case so the profit margin is ridiculous.
19.99/case this weekend buddy.
http://www.supplementwarehouse.com/brand.asp?brand=2469&subBrand=7582&pxc=3
Or maybe that's a different product..
Yes that's a different product.
Your link is quest bars. That's a pretty typical price for quest bars when they are on sale.
Im talking about muscle pharm combat crunch bars which cost much more then quest
