Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Biden Doctor reassures skeptics that the former Veep really has a brain

Comment:

His brain works as well as always, or so we have been told.  That might be news in itself.




Germany's bond yields go fully-negative

Comment:

As opposed to Germany, the 30-year yield is still above 2%.  Which of these would YOU prefer?

Might explain some of the lowering long bond yields.

As for the inverted yield curve here in the States, a few oddities need to be mentioned:

  1. Usually the short term rates RISE and overtake the longer term rates.  This time, the longer term rates are taking a dive below the shorter term rates.
  2. Usually the press doesn't go gaga over an inverted yield curve.  Normally, it is a non-event.
  3. Recessions are never blamed on Federal Reserve Policy.  If the Media is complaining about the yield curve now, then this is a first.  When a recession finally hits after a long time with an inverted yield curve, the blame goes to greedy corporations.  If it is a Republican administration, then it is their fault.  If not, it is somebody else's fault.  Never left-wing political moves.
  4. A recession is usually accompanied by news that sounds like a recession.  Layoffs, poor economic numbers, and so on.  Instead of that, the numbers are good.


News reporting sucks.  But I repeat myself.




Money talks

Comment:

So what explains the lack of movement in the Rasmussen polls?  If Trump is gaining among those core Dem constituencies, shouldn't his overall polling rise too?  Or are Trump's followers dropping out?

The last election shows how people will vote.  Nothing much has changed since then since this kind of talk didn't show in the last election results.

Perhaps the voting patterns will change.  If the reporting changes, it will speak louder than these polls since "money talks".  If the public has had enough of the anti-American reporting, the big media conglomerates and multinationals will lose their audience, and hence ad revenues.  Once that starts happening, then the reporting will have to come around, or they will lose even more money.



Tuesday, August 20, 2019

"Iwo Jima" hill as the garbage heap known as the "news" media

Comment:

Planting the flag like the Marines did in the Pacific.

Nobody is shooting, yet....


Monday, August 19, 2019

Can't be this bad

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This is Bee-Ess.  The only people who would be harmed would be the ones who don't have the sense to come out of the rain.

All you have to do is unplug.  How friggin' hard is that?

"Beam me up Scotty!"



Or, get the eff outta here.



"Hold on to your butts"

Comment:

The title line was from the movie "Jurassic Park", in which the decision was made to shut down everything and restart.  Nobody was sure what the effects of such a move would be.  Everything seemed okay, but eventually, chaos ensued as the raptor pit was affected in unforeseen ways.  The raptors got loose.

The reason I'm using this phrase is that the political situation is unstable.  Trust is being destroyed.  Epstein's suspicious death raises questions on both sides of the aisle.  Each side is just as likely to blame the other for the convenience of his death.

Now Mifsud is worried about his own safety.  No doubt that there would be people who could find his death very convenient as well.

If he dies mysteriously, who knows what could happen.  Hence the phrase in the title.

Somebody could be setting this whole thing up as a real coup.  The soft coup isn't working, so this one could be the real thing.



Sunday, August 18, 2019

Mainstream Media is not Mainstream

Comment:

They might as well be Tass during the Soviet Union Cold War Era.  At that time, Tass was anti-American and quite hostile to the United States.

If the so-called Mainstream media is mainstream, then I'm an astronaut.