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Reasoned, relevant and often contrarian commentary on economics

TimingLogic

TimingLogic
Birthday
November 07
Bio
I'm an electrical engineer and mathematician by training. My career has spanned diverse areas of expertise from being part of a team which designed the world's most powerful computers to corporate consulting around business transformation and information-based solutions to being a corporate sales and marketing executive in the information technology and business consulting space. I’ve led teams responsible for innovative and transformative solutions and been part of teams that helped set strategy for many of America's greatest companies. Two of my interests are econometrics, democratic finance and quantitative - qualitative analysis. Over the years I have developed risk-based models and trading systems meant to identify significant investment opportunities and periods of extreme risk. My blog is an outlet for another of my passions, writing. I generally consider myself a contrarian. Therefore, many of my rantings are meant to encourage people to question what they believe to be true.

To summarize for new readers, we were very bearish on banks going into the 2008 collapse.  At the time I even wrote on here that I liquidated my family’s holdings in Wall Street firms at what later became evident was within a few percentage points of the banking index peak.  Then… Read full post »

I really haven’t mentioned anything about my favorite tout TV lackey since the 2008 collapse.  At that point his credibility went to just about zero.  Cramer has proven himself time and again to be one of the best anecdotal contrary indicators.  In other words, he is presciently wron… Read full post »

MAY 21, 2012 11:29AM

Facebook Shares Plunge

Wanna bet we see this company below $1 a share in the next five years or so?

It’s good to see our politicians are diligently serving their masters.  As we have noted before, the total defense bill is most certainly near or above $1 trillion.  The massive bloat propping up the military-industrial complex is absolutely incredible.  The Democrats are no better.&… Read full post »

It has been a while since I have posted anything about colony collapse disorder.  This is worth posting.  Poland just banned Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn.   In the fascist corporate state it essentially comprises the entire population of industrial corn grown.  … Read full post »

You know, I remember half a dozen years ago when Wall Street took to smearing the CEO of Overstock.com as a lunatic.  It was common practice to bully and victimize this guy.  I can even remember reading where some in the criminal cabal tried to smear him because he was dealing… Read full post »

Title link here.

……….Why do we keep trying to regulate Wall Street?  Private, for-profit banking is a criminal enterprise that has never served democracy.  We will never get the psychopaths and corruption out of a private, for-profit monopoly on capital.  Ditch the regulation an… Read full post »

I don’t know that much about Simon Johnson other than he used to be a chief economist at the IMF.  And I consider the IMF to be a criminal enterprise used by mostly American but also European interests to loot countries around the world.  That Johnson served there is nothing more… Read full post »

It’s funny that the dissenting voice is a doctor doing trials into HDL raising drugs for drug companies.  You know, the companies that have sold you 300,000,000,000.00 worth of cholesterol medication. 

To celebrate, why not consider what what your human ancestors did for millions of yea… Read full post »

MAY 18, 2012 5:34PM

Does Sugar Make You Stupid?

Well, if it does, it appears that omega-3 plant and animal fat may be the antidote.    Just the opposite of what the medical bureaucracy told us in the last thirty years.

Celebrate.  Go out and have a big juicy grass-fed piece of red meat that has an omega-3 fat profile… Read full post »

When JP Morgan announced the latest financial crisis, and it is a crisis, Obama couldn’t wait to go on TV and publicly support his favorite bankster capo, Jamie Dimon.  

What does Obama, a far worse president than George Bush in my estimation, know about banking to be able to… Read full post »

I highlighted this story last year and used it as a basis for a lengthy post on aggression, violence and its associated reward in our society.  I’m about to start a new series of posts on violence in our society and by association violence in our economy.   This series of posts… Read full post »

MAY 17, 2012 12:11PM

Indian Gold Demand Plunges

I have been writing that this is going to come to pass for years.  It’s finally here.  Gold demand around the globe is cratering and has been for some time.  It is going to get much worse if central bankers no longer bail out the gold speculators.  Just as we have… Read full post »

MAY 17, 2012 12:08PM

Vermont Bans Natural Gas Fracking

If you haven’t seen the documentary Gasland, you must watch it.  Netflix, HBO, wherever.  This is one of the best documentaries I have ever watched. 

The obfuscation used by corporations around fracking is criminal.  Those who believe there is no environmental impact are idiot… Read full post »

Since the 2009 bottom I wrote over and over and over that this was going to happen.  That Wall Street was holding the bag.  That their monopoly in capital markets ensured that they would eventually be on the wrong side of massive bad bets.  It’s simply a mathematical fact.  Jami… Read full post »

Unregulated capital has been a topic we have discussed a lot on here.   One of the consequences of unregulated capital is that politicians and bankers have given criminals an entree into legitimization.   They have given criminals a way to globalize their syndicates and the launde… Read full post »

Look, this has once again reached the level of insanity that a criminal banking system is capable of generating.  When Facebook IPO rumors starting flying about 18 months ago, I wrote that at the estimated $50 billion offer price, it was valued at 30-40 times what the average stock was valued… Read full post »

We’ve been on this monopoly thing since starting this blog.  I’m not going to rehash it, but as I noted seven years ago, there is some substantial argument to be made that the Great Depression was substantially caused by monopoly.  Our country is dominated by monopoly and oligopoly in e… Read full post »

Of course the communists deny any such effort at orchestrated murder.  I’m sure we can believe an illegitimate bureaucracy that has conservatively killed 50 million of its own citizens and rules through force’s subversion of truth in lieu of an individual who espouses human virtues of kindne… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
MAY 15, 2012 2:43PM

Capitalists And Other Psychopaths

Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that an English professor wrote this absolutely excellent piece.  I do mean incredibly excellent.   One of the best editorials I have read in a long time.  Liberal arts are often denigrated as useless in the corporate state.  “Why are you waRead full post »

Pretty cool stuff for those with visual impairment.

Title story here.

New implant technology here.

We noted early this year that China’s economy almost certainly started the process of implosion in December of 2011.   The data since is confirming quite substantially.  Foreign investment continues to fall as does China’s corporate earnings. 

The status quo believes foreign… Read full post »

MAY 14, 2012 11:29AM

Iceland’s Quiet Revolution

Why  in God’s name is a taxpayer backed bank  allowed to gamble with OUR money?  NOT JP Morgan’s money.  NOT investors money.  DEMOCRACY’S money.  These are high crimes and misdemeanors against our nation.

Jamie Dimon might be the most arrogant sonofabitch on Wall… Read full post »