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SNAFU
Member since January 2012
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58 commentaries, with 19 Replies
38 replies to his comments (66%)
Average Note : 86 / 100 for 42 rated commentaries  304  48 
Last commentary posted on Thursday, February 15, 2018
 
 Profile Commentaries Followed By Following 
 George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic
Better than the alternative  (9)
Many thanks for this enlightening comment
2/15/2018 at 5:58 PM  1  1  Rating :  0 Permalink
 Wolf Richter
What will Self-Driving Cars Do to the Housing Market  (1)
Thank you for your excellent commentary, you are enlightening many points that I was extremely uneasy about
9/6/2017 at 3:49 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM
WILL GOLD REACH $2.6 MILLION OR JUST $150,000  (1)
What I understand is that the dollar is going to zero, which does not seem so unreasonable the way things are going
6/18/2017 at 12:33 PMPermalink
 Sprott Money
Bill Murphy: Silver – The Only Commodity 66 Cheaper Than 37 Years Ago!! - Rory Hall
Right.

Gold is money, but, if I understand well, we have no use for it in the world, because of popular TV show and because the idea has been erased from conscious memory

The idea has not been lost from conscious memory, just wait for banks to go bust and you will see.

You might just want to check Mises regression theorem on money
https://mises.org/library/origin-money-and-its-va...
5/23/2017 at 11:24 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 2 AnswersPermalink
 Steve Saville - Speculative Investor
Inflation/deflation and the desire to avoid short-term pain  (1)
Ahh, central bankers. Infinite money will bring infinite pain, but in the meanwhile enjoy the ride
5/16/2017 at 5:27 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
A Paler Shade of Gray  (8)
It's been a long time since I read one of your comments. Nice to see you back.

And by the way, I agree 100%
5/6/2017 at 3:52 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 1 AnswerPermalink
 Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital
The Fed Has Bankrupted the US In Order to Create Another Bubble  (1)
Time is of the essence. We are many here to have made the mistake to believe inevitable means imminent.
5/6/2017 at 3:24 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Chris Martenson
Get Ready... Change Is Upon Us  (4)
Wonderful video
11/12/2016 at 5:00 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Sports Writer Robots; Will an AI Robot Writer Win a Pulitzer Prize  (1)
I wish they would invent a robot to help me put commentaries...
9/11/2016 at 9:29 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Chris Powell - GATA
If 'hardly anyone' cares about gold, why are central banks all over its market  (2)
Chris what really makes your charm is that you seem to ignore that certain things are not to be discussed in polite company
9/10/2016 at 4:44 PMPermalink
 Ronan Manly - Bullion Star
IMF Gold Sales – Where ‘Transparency’ means ‘Secrecy’
Are you sure about the 1.7 million metric tonnes of Gold you mention ? That's like 10 times more gold than was ever produced
9/6/2016 at 3:15 PMPermalink
 Food for thought
On the need for aversion to conspiracy theories  (2)
Check this :

In 1967, the CIA Created the Label "Conspiracy Theorists" ... to Attack Anyone Who Challenges the "Official" Narrative

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-created-phrase-conspiracy-theorists-and-ways-attack-anyone-who-challenge
8/23/2016 at 3:13 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Steve Saville - Speculative Investor
There will never be a “commercial signal failure” in the gold market  (2)
You are right, Steve, gold mining production has nothing to do with the matter. But gold is not a commodity, it is a monetary metal. Thus the exceptionnal event will not be on production, but on availability in case of a monetary (fiat paper). As Antal Fekete said, the outcome will be : zero supply, infinite demand. You can imagine the effect on the price of gold. A black swan event. Totally exceptionna...
8/3/2016 at 7:44 AM  2  1  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan
“There Is Something Changing In The Market” – CEO Hints Of Massive Shortages As Tech Manufacturers Are Now Going Direct To Mining Companies In Search of Silver  (2)
Seen your list. MAg Silver a 1000 bagger ? That would put the stock at $ 16 000, let me doubt it.
6/2/2016 at 4:36 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
California Cruises Towards $15 Hr Minimum Wage: Expect Budget Deficits, Higher Taxes, Job Losses  (1)
The US going full socialist retard. What could go wrong ?
3/29/2016 at 4:12 AMPermalink
 Wolf Richter
The Big Unwind Hits Investment Banking
Could not happen to a nicer bunch of people
/sarc
3/25/2016 at 4:30 AMPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Poland Flushes Merkel’s Refugee Migration Scheme Down the Toilet
'bout time
3/24/2016 at 3:50 PMPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
RBS Goes to Robo-Advisors, Fires Hundreds; Real Advisor Requires £250,000  (1)
Peak bankers.
'bout time
3/18/2016 at 4:58 PMPermalink
 Warren Bevan - Precious Metals Stock Review
Downtrend Resuming  (2)
You should be fine
12/8/2014 at 8:52 PM1 AnswerPermalink
 Warren Bevan - Precious Metals Stock Review
Downtrend Resuming  (2)
How old are you ?
12/8/2014 at 1:27 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 1 AnswerPermalink
 Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster
Gold Silver Market Morning: Oct-28-2014  (1)
We still have 3 more days until the end of October. Let us leave them these three days to prove their point.
10/28/2014 at 11:57 PMPermalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Lew Rockwell
Why Is the US Destabilizing One Country After Another  (6)
Yes, due to religion, but certainly not those your are thinking about...
9/5/2013 at 8:20 AM  6  1  Rating :  5 1 AnswerPermalink
 Clive Maund
Syria and the Grand Plan  (26)
Wonderful quote. Many thanks !
8/31/2013 at 6:10 PM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Charleston Voice
SYRIA: The horror...of false flag attacks - James Corbett *Podcast*  (8)
You forgot the Lusitania, another false flag which allowed the US to enter WWI.

Which begs a question : The Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin were about boats.

What is it with the US since 9/11. Don't they have any more boats ?
8/27/2013 at 11:50 PM  7  0  Rating :  7 2 AnswersPermalink
 Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
What Americans Used To Know  (22)
So you think American History has nothing to do with banking ?
7/9/2013 at 4:47 PM  7  3  Rating :  4 1 AnswerPermalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co. - The Real Asset Co
The London Gold Market: What’s behind the smoke and mirrors  (10)
Most interesting essay. Thank you
6/29/2013 at 7:30 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Jesse - Le Café Américain
Obama Discussed During Leader's Questions in Dublin - Never Cross An Irish Woman  (8)
Obama a war criminal ? Wow. She's got balls.
6/23/2013 at 8:53 AM  2  1  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Dan Dontrose - The Fundemental View
Updating the COT Charts For Silver–It Doesn’t Look Pretty  (2)
Agreed on the conclusions, not on the premisses. He has been quite right in predicting downdrafts on silver (quite rare events on this site) , thus I keep reading his posts with attention.
11/7/2012 at 10:53 PMPermalink
 Chris Powell - Gata
If the law won't stop market rigging, what can we do  (5)
It was thievery, pure and simple. The dollar was devaluated from $ 20.67 to $ 35 a few months later and the Treasury made a handsome profit.

http://www.the-privateer.com/gold2.html
10/22/2012 at 7:16 PMPermalink
 Mac Slavo - Shtfplan
What are the MiliPolice Planning On Doing With These Heavily Armored Vehicles  (24)
Amerika.

Corrected for you.
9/13/2012 at 9:35 PM  10  4  Rating :  6 Permalink
 Ron Paul
A Republic, Not a Democracy  (101)
The highest form of civilization is a civilization where there is no government.

Aristotle.

Granted, we are far from it, but just to say that if people are civilized enough government is not needed, wich is the proper definition ofvanarchy. (no one has the power)
9/13/2012 at 7:13 PM  23  5  Rating :  18 Permalink
 Lew Rockwell
Ron Paul and the Future  (45)
Again, it seems you willingly miss the point. I quote Ron Paul in his article :

Quote :

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with freedom. While our Constitution certainly features certain democratic mechanisms, it also features inherently undemocratic mechanisms like the First Amendment and the Electoral College...
8/28/2012 at 8:30 PM  23  2  Rating :  21 Permalink
 Lew Rockwell
Ron Paul and the Future  (45)
Quote : "What would there be to prevent a group (a drug cartel or religious fanatics) from seizing power over others?"

Do you include the financial elite in the groups the government protects us against ?
8/28/2012 at 6:13 PM  29  0  Rating :  29 1 AnswerPermalink
 Ron Paul
Meaningless Words in Politics  (104)
Thanks !
8/28/2012 at 1:20 PMPermalink
 Ron Paul
Meaningless Words in Politics  (104)
No war was necessary to end slavery. Most countries abandonned it peacefully
8/28/2012 at 12:10 AM  36  2  Rating :  34 1 AnswerPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Male Energies  (93)
Inch'allah
8/27/2012 at 8:09 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Meaningless Words in Politics  (104)
Come on. Lincoln was not anti slavery, you know that.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Abraham.Lincoln.Quote.EBA2

The war against southern independance has nothing to do with slavery and all about the empire. Nothing has changed, but it may be the time, or it will implode from within.
8/27/2012 at 7:55 PM  72  7  Rating :  65 1 AnswerPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Male Energies  (93)
Correct me if I am wrong but the US Congress has not declared a war in 50 years or more. You would not let such a mundane decision to be made by the representative of We the People, would you ?
8/27/2012 at 7:49 PM  15  5  Rating :  10 1 AnswerPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Robots to Rule the World Taking All Jobs Replace Women  (8)
I have always wondered if, in the grand sheme of things, men were not the robots of someone else.
8/20/2012 at 9:51 PM  2  1  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Keith Weiner
In A Paper System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond  (9)
Revolutions on tax issues, I would follow that. American revolution and the american war for southern independance.

Concerning the French, the tax issue had become so obsolete that it was more productive not to work than work before the French revolution, and all the upper class was in a system of entitlements (charges) which had brought the debt level to unsustainable level. The system was going bro...
8/20/2012 at 3:23 PM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Keith Weiner
In A Paper System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond  (9)
If I may, the remark of your business person " there will be no change until people are hungry and cold" is not true.

When the poor are hungry and cold, they do not make revolutions, because they cannot take the risk and know that they will die of cold and hunger if things go wrong.

Revolutions and change are made either by the structure in power when it cannot be fed or kept at bay anymore,...
8/20/2012 at 11:06 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 1 AnswerPermalink
 Thorsten Polleit
Mind the Theory  (18)
Thanks. On your points, one by one :

- Japan having no inflation. Prices in Japan should have plummeted, which was not possible because the debt structure would have crushed the banks. Prices being stable can very well be the consequence of very high inflation, when prices should have fallen,

- On boom and bust in the gold standard. Boom and bust come from fractional reserve banking, gold ...
8/17/2012 at 5:36 PM  5  0  Rating :  5 1 AnswerPermalink
 Lew Rockwell
The Only Choice on November 6th  (43)
The problem with voting is that as you have been well educated and, as a gentleman, you have been taught to loose gallantly.

But when the game is rigged, there is no way to win. And if there is no way to win, to loose gallantly becomes and absurdity.

This is, to me, the rationale for not voting. Do not participate in a game in which you can only lose.

Thus do not feel compelled to a...
8/17/2012 at 12:31 PM  4  1  Rating :  3 Permalink
 Lew Rockwell
The Only Choice on November 6th  (43)
You win if they lose
8/17/2012 at 1:34 AM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Thorsten Polleit
Mind the Theory  (18)
Thanks for your answer. I maintain that Economics is an a priori science, but differs from physics, for example, in the fact that humans have freedom of choice, whereas observed objects in physics do not.

Thus the same causes have the same effets, but you cannot time the occurence, nor know exactly how it will happen.

A few examples : Print money and you get inflation, control prices and yo...
8/16/2012 at 1:01 PM  14  0  Rating :  14 1 AnswerPermalink
 Thorsten Polleit
Mind the Theory  (18)
Economics is an a priori science. I would suggest you read some basics of Austrian Economics before rereading this article.

For example : http://mises.org/esandtam/pes1.asp

Best regards
8/16/2012 at 5:15 AM  13  1  Rating :  12 1 AnswerPermalink
 Charleston Voice
On being a good neighbor  (2)
The US has become the big bully on the block. Not sure they can come back to being a good neighbor.
8/6/2012 at 4:39 PM  3  0  Rating :  3 Permalink
 Scott Wright - Zealllc
Gold Mining Healthy  (2)
Resources should go to whomever homesteads them, not to a collective mafia and racket called a nation.
8/4/2012 at 1:37 PM  2  2  Rating :  0 1 AnswerPermalink
 Jesse - Jesse's café
Lords of Finance : the bankers who broke the world  (4)
As Hemingway said about his bakruptcy : it came slowly for a long time, then suddenly
7/2/2012 at 8:55 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 David Petch - Treasure Chest
It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn  (1)
No, no.

It's always darkest before everything goes pitch dark
6/25/2012 at 8:58 PM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Gold Forecaster
Gold Silver Market Morning, May 29 2012  (1)
Looks like weather forecasting to me.
5/29/2012 at 10:16 PM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Tim Iacono - Iacono Research
Charlie Munger: “Civilized People Don’t Buy Gold
Makes sense if you have a $60 billion dollar bet on the health of the stock market
5/7/2012 at 9:14 PM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - shtfplan
The Right to Bear Arms: Over 10,800,000 Guns Sold in the USA in 2011  (9)
You may be right.

Probably why so many are washed ashore.
1/25/2012 at 9:54 AMPermalink
 Mac Slavo - shtfplan
The Right to Bear Arms: Over 10,800,000 Guns Sold in the USA in 2011  (9)
Life is a bitch.

You should have more than your bare arms to go though it
1/25/2012 at 9:28 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 1 AnswerPermalink
 David Galland - Casey Resarch
The Rise of the Praetorian Class  (12)
One should admit that America has the best politicians money can buy
1/23/2012 at 10:23 PM  5  0  Rating :  5 Permalink
 Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon
A Normal Mirage  (1)
Nice! I gave you one and a half click up.
1/20/2012 at 5:34 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink

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