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Post by Entendance on Jun 4, 2016 7:27:14 GMT -5
The number of non-dead assets is much higher than we let on... "...There is no such thing as a safe asset. The idea that any asset is, or can be made, completely safe, is dangerous folly. Financial markets must learn to price risk correctly and manage it appropriately. Until they do, they will continue to put the whole of society at risk..."
What is it that kills the cat?*** Schroedinger's assets
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Post by Entendance on Jun 9, 2016 11:22:45 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 12, 2016 3:37:25 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 14, 2016 4:58:44 GMT -5
Can You Feel the Force,banksters?
People around the world are sick and tired of the status quo. They are sick and tired of the overly political correctness and the way that the system is attempting to control every aspect of our lives. You can see this growing wave of discontent from the ever-growing amount of politicians getting elected around the world with a nationalist ideology. An increasing mass of people is sick and tired of the welfarestate that has been created around us and want to get back to good, honest work - the type of hard effort and commitment that made the West the most prosperous nation in the world. Sadly, over the last few decades a growing portion of the population has gotten lazy and have expected more and more from "daddy" government...The Establishment Has Lost Its Hold On The People
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Post by Entendance on Jun 17, 2016 7:59:10 GMT -5
In the savannah, the vultures usually leave it at least a few hours before descending to feast on carrion. This lot, though, just couldn’t wait to get their beaks dirty: There are so many powerful vested interests with so much to lose in the case of a Leave vote that is no wonder that advocates of Remain are fighting so hard and so dirty to keep their tainted status quo intact. First came Project Fear; then Project Lies; now – the most cynical and exploitative of all – Project Grief.
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Post by Entendance on Jun 24, 2016 2:54:02 GMT -5
The British are showing the rest of Europe a new way, they no longer have to comply with Corporate EU control.
Unleash hell!
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Post by Entendance on Jun 25, 2016 8:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 27, 2016 3:57:08 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 28, 2016 6:39:06 GMT -5
Listen to "Maiysha (So Long)" Davis' original "Maiysha" was a heady, Latin-inspired groove piece stretching to more than 14 minutes. The Everything's Beautiful version cuts the length in half and adds a thumping bossa nova beat. Badu croons a melody derived from Davis' organ part, singing about an ex-lover who won't get the message: "'Cause we're through/But you keep coming back/So hard, so strong, so long. ..." Midway through the song, Glasper blends in Davis' trumpet, simulating a real-time duet between Badu and the late icon.
We've all heard about performing "in the zone", that state of being in which we are so absorbed in our activity that we lose self-awareness and awareness of things around us. This has been called the flow state, and it's been linked to creativity and emotional well-being. When we perform in the zone, we operate in a different state of mind and body--an altered state of consciousness. We enter that state as the result of intense, sustained concentration fueled by deep interest. Therein lies the challenge for traders. What we do to stay in our comfort zones keeps us out of the performance zone. We cannot stay in our usual states of mind and hope to be unusually focused and in flow. Our normal states of mind are not optimal states of mind: we are too distracted, too self-focused, too broadly aware to be deeply aware. To be sure, those normal states of mind are useful for normal living. Broad awareness and high sensitivity to events around us can be useful when we're driving a car or navigating party conversations. Normal life does not call for immersion and optimal performance, and normal life becomes our norm--what becomes our comfort zone. We prepare for trading by studying market patterns, and we prepare for trading by writing in journals, creating our plans, and anticipating market scenarios. Rarely, however, do we prepare for trading by preparing our state of awareness. If we don't train ourselves to sustain flow states in our preparation, can we really expect to access them in the heat of market activity? -Brett S.
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Post by Entendance on Jul 13, 2016 6:32:35 GMT -5
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -Robert Frost
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Post by Entendance on Jul 15, 2016 8:12:01 GMT -5
10 And then many will be led into sin; they will betray and hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; 12 and because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. -Matthew Chapter 24 10:13
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Post by Entendance on Jul 23, 2016 4:00:01 GMT -5
Simon Mikhailovich: A committed landlubber until ten years ago, I took a few sailing lessons on a dare and unexpectedly discovered the joys of sailing. When a friend later asked if I would stand in for a crew member on his 18' catboat during a Saturday race, I eagerly agreed, although his sturdy but slow boat didn't look much like a racer. It turned out that being slow was not a problem in "one design" racing, just as it isn't in today's investment business. When one competes within the same class, it is through relative, rather than absolute, performance that one wins a trophy. It also turned out that much like investing, sailboat racing is as exciting as it is challenging. I got hooked and started racing my own sturdy and slow catboat, while learning as much about life, teamwork and investing as sailing.
This past Saturday, for example, we all drifted around the course hoping for a breeze. Indeed, the wind soon filled the sails, lifted spirits, and the boats started to move nicely... or so it seemed. After sailing briskly for about 15 minutes, we looked at the shore and realized we had been moving backwards! It happened because the prevailing tide was setting us back, even as our senses, the boat's wake and its speedometer were all indicating forward movement. This episode was nature's reminder that apparent progress should be never confused with making headway.
This is why for 5,000 years, a mariner needed a clear view of the skies to gauge his true position. Without the stars as fixed reference markers, there was no way to know one's location. Similarly, for the past 5,000 years, market-set interest rates (the cost of scarce capital) and money anchored to tangible value have been financial stars that have guided capital allocation and served as a basis for setting asset values.
Today, reliance on the self-referencing economic models, epic debts, digital money printing and negligible to negative rates, have combined to blanket investors in the impenetrable fog from which no reference markers are visible. Having long forgotten how to navigate without models, investors and regulators are mesmerized by the virtual reality of computer-driven markets, where asset prices (including gold's) are based on manipulated rates and measured on a USD speedometer that conflates apparent, i.e. nominal, gains with the accretion of lasting purchasing power.
Recently, the U.S. Navy showed that it had a lot better sense than the U.S. financial regulators. Instead of waiting for a GPS cyber attack or malfunction to imperil its fleets, the Navy, after a 20 year hiatus, has reinstated mandatory celestial navigation training for all officer candidates. As Lt. Cmdr. R. Rogers of the U.S. Naval Academy explained: "We went away from celestial navigation because computers are great. The problem is, there's no back up."
As accurate as GPS is, economic and financial models keep proving to be anything but. Despite the Fed's perennial forecasts of imminent recovery and higher rates, neither have materialized. Yields continue to decline and the debts continue to increase. Global debts are up 40% since 2007 to stand at $200T; there are still ~$660T in derivatives; and the utterly inane $13T (and growing) in negatively-yielding debts defy history and common sense. To top it all off, unable to lift rates without crashing the markets, all major central banks keep taking turns at the digital printing presses.
Despite the present and clear dangers, the markets and the global financial system continue to navigate by the rigged markers and operate without any back ups. As stocks and bonds and the USD keep hitting all time or near all time highs, complacency rules. Neither the regulators nor the investors want to question whether the profits are real or merely apparent. My own answer was unexpectedly reinforced last Saturday afternoon - apparent returns won't fund your retirement any more than sailing against a faster current will get you where you want to go.
Until the monetary fog lifts and un-rigged navigational markers re-emerge, physical gold remains the only hard reference point capable of providing an essential back up plan for one's nest egg. After all, just as the Navy took protective measures after realizing that no one can hack a sextant, investors should realize that no matter how many fiat dollars get printed, no one can print gold bars. The time to take protective measures is before they are needed. Now is that time.
H/T Tom from Florida, a true uncolonized mind
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Post by Entendance on Jul 26, 2016 3:00:27 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 29, 2016 2:51:56 GMT -5
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery
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Post by Entendance on Jul 31, 2016 4:58:36 GMT -5
...knowing that we can deliver more tomorrow ... That there will always be further to go ... And that we may never get “there"...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"What is the Life of Excellence?
It is more blessed to give than to receive. -Acts of the Apostles 20:35
Men and Women for Others:*** AXEL MUNTHE
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Post by Entendance on Aug 2, 2016 5:48:04 GMT -5
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." -Demosthenes
Capri
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." -William Hazlitt
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Post by Entendance on Aug 9, 2016 9:10:38 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Aug 12, 2016 4:09:50 GMT -5
"When will people realise that the Stock Market and the Economy are two different things. I often hear people talking about "A Double Dip" in the Economy and relate it to the Stock Market. This is so far from the truth it is often hard to explain to someone who is brainwashed by the media to be true. The Stock Market IS NOT the Economy..!! The Stock Market is the Economy (+/-) DERIVATIVES, (+/-) DEBT, (+/-) STIMULUS..!! With Global Derivatives now in excess of $1.5quadrillion it is this that is driving the Stock Market. Nothing else. With such a concentration of leveraged bets you could force Stock Prices, Asset Prices, and Credit in any direction you choose..!! So the next time you hear someone say "Double Dip" tell them that's something you dip an icecream in..!!" -stephenkendal
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Post by Entendance on Aug 18, 2016 2:52:45 GMT -5
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” -Henry David Thoreau
That quote captures the spirit of “carpe diem”, seize the day - except the idea is to seize every day, every experience, every awakening, and every awareness. It’s following the human impulse to explore the unexplored, question what doesn’t ring true, dig beneath the surface of what you think you know to formulate your own reality, and embrace the inherent ‘now’ of life.
AXEL MUNTHE & Capri
Non c’è che una stagione: l’estate. Tanto bella che le altre le girano attorno. L’autunno la ricorda, l’inverno la invoca, la primavera la invidia e tenta puerilmente di guastarla. -Ennio Flaiano
Villa Malaparte, Capri Malaparte, a house like me
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Post by Entendance on Aug 20, 2016 3:33:53 GMT -5
Sollte dir dieser Strand gefallen, dann kannst du deinen Freunden behilflich sein, indem du sie über Fred & EntendanceInvestors Beach informierst. Lasst uns gemeinsam diesen Ort zu einen blühenden Club für Vortrefflichkeit, Bildung und Information machen!
If you like this beach, then you can help your friends locate it by letting them know about Fred & EntendanceInvestors Beach. Let's all make this place a thriving sheltered Club for excellence, education and information!
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Post by Entendance on Aug 21, 2016 7:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Aug 24, 2016 4:21:39 GMT -5
"...The idea of voluntary community is so foreign to the public today that it would probably need a catastrophe before such a system is ever adopted. But, since the global elites have already taken it upon themselves to create the catalysts for an economic and political crisis, we might as well take advantage and rebuild from the ashes with voluntary community in mind. The elites never let a good crisis go to waste, maybe we should use the same strategy. This, of course, requires that the liberty minded not only survive the catastrophe, but also fight back and remove the elites from the picture. There can be no voluntary tribes with the globalists in control of the mechanisms of power. They are themselves, in effect, a bastardization of a tribe that has been allowed through lack of vigilance to subversively and systematically destroy all other tribes. They have convinced much of the world through chicanery that their tribe is the ONLY tribe with merit. The propaganda only works to a point, however. During any breakdown in normal social order, people invariably create their own social order, and they usually do this by forming small tribes. Families come together, neighborhoods come together, towns come together and so on, and they do this voluntarily, without being aggressively compelled by others. The natural default of human beings is freedom and tribalism; two things which do not necessarily have to conflict. Our natural default has never been to pursue globalism or utter collectivism at the expense of the individual; those kinds of machines are products of the treachery of a power-mad minority.
In the end, globalism is doomed to crash in a ball of flames, but not before the globalists attempt to take everyone else down with them. It would behoove us to start constructing our tribes now, rather than after the situation has become grim in the absolute. Through localized production, alternative trade models, local organization for mutual aid and defense, and the principles of liberty, America could become a network of tribes within a tribe; a self reliant system built around redundancy rather than interdependency. The globalists? Well, they will try to stop us. But at least at that point the sides will be drawn more clearly. I cannot think of a better war to fight than a war to stop the barbaric trespasses of the global elites. And when it is all over, I look forward to a more complex and “chaotic” society where collectivist streamlining is abandoned for a wild west of voluntary associations. A land where tribes roam free." ***Globalism Is A Barbaric Relic - Voluntary Tribalism Is The Future
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Post by Entendance on Aug 30, 2016 4:01:53 GMT -5
Leuchtende Tage Radiant Days Ach, unsre leuchtenden Tage Glänzen wie ewige Sterne. Als Trost für künftige Klage Glüh’n sie aus goldener Ferne.
Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber! Do not cry because they are past! Lächeln, weil sie gewesen! Smile, because they once were! Und werden die Tage auch trüber, Unsere Sterne erlösen! -Ludwig Jacobowski
At Anse Intendance...
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Post by Entendance on Sept 1, 2016 3:24:02 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 6, 2016 3:00:07 GMT -5
"...Suffering is required; if you can’t hack that, stay home. And while we’re at it, let me give you a few more stark statements: •If you care more about losing money than gaining liberty, you’re not going to get liberty. •If truth isn’t something you’re willing to be hated for, you’re not going to get much truth. •Entrenched hierarchies always oppose progress. They’ll want to tear down the things we build. If we can’t accept losses and rebuild… and then rebuild yet again… we’re not going to get past tyranny..."
The More Sand Has Escaped from the Hourglass of Our Life, the Clearer We Should See Through It
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Post by Entendance on Sept 7, 2016 5:57:18 GMT -5
You know you’re in a bear market when people are losing money but feeling pretty good about it. -Wall Street Adage
***The banksters
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Post by Entendance on Sept 13, 2016 5:36:05 GMT -5
Security is our nearness to God, not our distance from danger. -Kenneth R. Hendre
"You rescue those who are humble, but you humiliate the proud." -Psalm 18:27
"God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble." -James 4:6
"So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense." -1 Corinthians 1:20
"We were deceived by the wisdom of the serpent, but we are freed by the foolishness of God." -St. Augustine
Life is filled with near misses. We know only a fraction of the many situations in which God preserves us from severe physical and emotional injury.
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Post by Entendance on Sept 21, 2016 4:42:58 GMT -5
...and quit facebook,*** here is why
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"You’re never going to save everyone. There are some people that are never going to get it. It’s sad, but true. There will always be investors that can’t help themselves or get out of their own way. I used to think everyone could be saved if they would only learn. But changing behavior is simply too difficult for many. In order for one group of investors to prosper, another group has to fail. It’s an unfortunate truth of the financial markets." -Ben Carlson
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Gold and Silver will thrive as paper assets are increasingly infected by financial viruses!
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Post by Entendance on Sept 24, 2016 7:09:30 GMT -5
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical. -John Steinbeck
"The horror stories that continue to spill out about what Wall Street banksters are doing behind their cloistered walls have blurred the actual function of Wall Street: to efficiently allocate capital so that new industries can be born and thrive in America, creating new jobs and a rising standard of living for all of our fellow citizens..."
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Post by Entendance on Oct 1, 2016 5:01:34 GMT -5
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