- Obama's clearly digitally assembled and altered birth certificate is a white out
- Fukushima is in a news black out
- News related to the 98% mortgage market shutdown is a black out
- News from Syria is a brown out
- News from Libya is a brown out
- News from Egypt is nearly a brown out
- News related to massive increases in leverage and fraud in the largest financial institutions is a black out
- 100+ Price to Earnings ratio for the Russell 2K is a smoked screen
- The complete failure and financial destruction at the hands of Fed and its QE2 are a black out
- Unemployment is a full white out
- Inflation is a white out
- Supply and Demand is a white out
- Integrity with in the ECB, Central Banking Cartel is a full white out
Marc Faber was recently interviewed on CNBC and while he made some very interesting and valid points...the dynamics he is talking about are old...QE has failed and there is no chance that it or any future version of it will succeed. In fact the super destructive nature of the malinvestment paradigm that BURNanke has created with this version of QE will likely lead to his ouster as Fed Chairman...notwithstanding public pressure caused by his many lies and manipulations. I think that it should be clear at this point that, though margin selling has had some effect, the primary driver of the increase in commodities was tons of available liquidity from QE and not supply and demand as the ever blind fearless leader has professed. There is simply no way that collapses like we have see can be caused due to supply and demand in such a short time and in so many markets. The reality is that the shortage of dollars, real purchasing power and the greater fool have been the primary culprits for the contraction (or demand fall off as Ben would have you believe). Additionally to that, the margin collateral increases will be blamed for the the commodities and equity markets collapse...however, though the impact of leveraged securities in notional value can be large, the reality is that the amount of money required to satisfy the margin increases pales in comparison to the notional losses. Technically, the margin increases have not required such a significant amount of cash or collateral as to be the cause of the declines. The cause is the dynamics of liquidity or absence thereof...and the results of an absence of liquidity are usually increased margin requirements - and that, while inconvenient, is the way it should be. However, there are many who are blaming the entire silver debacle on the margin increases. What will they be blaming the decline on when silver breaks $4.39 which it is highly likely to do? The same situation will repeat for market after market.
Additionally to this, we have Warren Buffett downright lying to attempt to encourage complacency and talk his book...we have Obama attempting to reduce prices by solving an apparent supply problem via the acceleration of oil production. This is for a market that Exxon testifies, is suffering demand problems...and under normal conditions should be trading at $50 to $60 a barrel. This is coming the CEO. So, any further intervention by the Government is likely to create another overshoot in the prices of oil on the downside...which by the way works rather well with the charts I have been showing. Rather than oil settling into a trading range in the 50 to 60 dollar area, intervention stands a very good chance of overshooting because its working on the wrong problem and oil can easily decline to below $30 or $20...nobody could have imagined a greater than 70% decline in 2008 and the can not imagine it now...though it appears likely to happen.
Below is an analysis of the Fukushima situation...why is this not on the news? Why is so much information repressed or preprecessed? Clearly, as I see it there are not very many explanations as to why we are not hearing about the large scale violence and killing going on in Syria...we only hear about Isreal defending its borders...but not that Syrians are being murdered enmass and are trying to get away...to anywhere including Isreal. Its kind of funny, I agree in a very perverse kind of way with BURNanke on inflation...inflation is not the problem...however, though I see the net environment in our economy as deflationary, there are pockets of malinvestment caused by increases in credit and leverage in those markets which have directly resulted in higher prices...but remember higher prices are NOT inflation...while they are generally a symptom of inflation we must be sure not to confuse them for an inflationary environment which we most certainly do not have.
The concept that equities can be trading as such high multiples with analysts all forward guessing the exponential curve of earnings expections in a vacuum is truely mind blowing. The PE of the Russell 2000 is over 100 and the index is at the highest valuation relative to large caps ever...many of the small companies in the Russell are commoditiy related or financial...these areas are not setup for expansion of anything in my opinion. What every these people are smoking...I refuse to try it because its just much to hallucinogenic.
I don't think I need to even address the outright fraud in the BLS and unemployment rate reporting. NFP was a 75% overstatement of the amount of jobs created in the last report and the revisions continue to be in the wrong direction with such consistency that its clear that the numbers are deliberately misstated.
Then we have the absolutely high level of ethics that are underlying totally fraudulent wealth transfer and global government front operations like the IMF and ECB...fun stuff and one day soon enough people are going to get pissed enough to do something about it!
When you add to this weekly engulfing candles on a very large number of markets I think the realities are starting to reinforce what is going on...and its not a pretty picture.