You ask, "what's a whatnot ?"
"Whatnot" is a noun meaning (1) a small, trivial, or unspecified object, or (2) a set of light, open shelves for ornaments. Today's blog contains small items in an open format, hence is a whatnot of whatnots, figuratively.
The Bloviator continues to bloviate the blather of buncombe.
Successful hedge fund managers make billions. And pay low taxes on their skim. Unsuccessful hedge fund managers close their funds and go out to raise more money for new funds so their fee "high water mark" can be low again. The analogy is re-pricing stock options. Heads they win, tails investors lose.
The press reports more whiners and worryers.
Japan GDP falls 12% in Q4 and exports are cut in half. Nations like Japan need a balanced economy with local consumer demand. They cannot expect the US to pull their wagon again.
Ukraine nears financial meltdown. Unfortunately, that nation blew its chance to reform when times were good, so the suffering of the people will likely be great.
The Czech government falls.
A WSJ article about pensions in Hungary shows why its pension system is bankrupting the nation. A 40 year old guy with an injured foot gets a paycheck for life. No retraining, etc. Of course he could do a job sitting on his butt answering the phone or doing paperwork. In some ways it's similar to the pension systems for many US State governments. They will be a huge burden on taxpayers forever unless reformed.
The "card check" bill that would let union goons force people to sign up and then let the union get recognized is losing steam. Good - that was one of the worst ideas ever to hit Washington. Imagine, legislating Stalinist union "elections".
Markets
The big rally held rather well yesterday. I have subscribed to the HBC rights offering in Fido Fund, as did Mrs. B in her Sky Fund.
Word of the Day
"Protreptic" - adjective and noun [$1000]
Protreptic means (adjective) directive, instructive, didactic; (noun) a book, writing or speech intended to exhort or instruct; an exhortation, instruction.
Sentence: When will Obama get off his interminably protreptic butt and do something ?
Le Mot du Jour
"Exprimer" - verb, regular -er conjugation; "s'exprimer" - the related pronominal verb.
"Exprimer" means to express.
"S'exprimer" means to express oneself.
La Phrase: Obama s'exprime, et s'exprime, et s'exprime sans cesse. Faites quelque chose !
Sentence: Obama expresses himself, and expresses himself and expresses himself endlessly. Do something !
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i'm pretty sure unsuccessful beefers are not gonna be able to raise new money anytime soon
'dumb and stupid rich'
ukraine will be a good case study on this global recession
financial collapse..........leads to civil unrest and a violent overthrow of the government.......maybe a coup........wonder if Putin gets involved ....
costa rica here i come !!!!
card check is outright thuggery and intimidation
do you want to organize and form a union ?? no ?? ok ....no problem..........watch your fingers next time you on the assembly line
wsj tremendous editorial on this bogus AIG bonus broo-haha
congress a bunch of gutless cowards.....the spook has no guts to explain the truth to the american people.....shame on him......cuomo a punk and a thug
Ukraine could have shoved out the oligarchs and reclaimed their stolen assets at the early part of the Orange Revolution - they did it for one steel company sold to MT ... but the rest were protected by the President who seemed to have lost his nerve.
Did I miss anythng the last 5 days? I see a dinky rally on Monday.
This clown Arthur Levitt is a complete fool - unable to recognize incompetent in the SEC and foolish theories in the FASB. What an old fart!
The SEC is in the pocket of hedge funds and the Street viking looters.
well............arthur was right about one thing
it's disgraceful that the punks in congress are threatening the FASB......they are and shud remain independent
SEC in the pocket of hedge funds ??? huh ???
i thought you always said that the SEC was in the pocket of the large firms GS MS etc....
well, you missed some excellent writing and thinking and fine new words - even French words, too.
;)
Ove rteh wall, Bud.
Uh .. GS = super beefer, so what is not consistent ?
over the wall - I need to type slower - or check for typos.
Uh ... Bud ... this round of moronic "mark-to'market" rules got put in because of SEC, Congress pressure in the last crisis.
so is obama doing better or worse after about 90 days, than dubya?
some of what obama, biden and hildog is doing, i like, but certainly not all.
i frankly cant think of 1 gud thing dubya did, but cut taxes. but when u cut taxes, jacking the budget up, is pretty fucking retarded, no?
everyone on the right has found religion, its called fiscal conservatism. too bad, when the right is in power, they practice their other religion (and spend like drunken donkeys) called BIBLE THUMPIN.
we clearly need a third party, becuase these two will never really "change".
the dems still seem like the lesser of 2 evils.
i just look at what happened from 01-06, when the elephants controlled everything.......and well, we were headed in that direction but yep, they killed capitalism. any dem thats been in congress for a long time like frank, isnt much further behind in the blame, but seriously his fudge packing FNM execs is nothing compared to what greenspan did (reagan appointed him, right? dubya didnt make him retire when it was clear to any idiot, what he was doing was insane.) and the republican lead congress.
we need joe dumars in their, becuase he will do to the pistons, what we need to do in DC.
February Durable Goods Orders +3.4% vs -2.5% consensus, prior revised to -7.3% from -5.2%
08:30 ECONX February Durable Goods ex-trans +3.9% vs -2.0% consensus, prior revised to -5.9% from -2.5%
What happened to the Depression ?
I guess it went the way of last year's "inflation" - into the dustbin of doom-monger delusions.
gosh, another alliterative home run by Bman !
come on Bunkerman...stop drinking the Obama kool aid....you know this # will get revised down just like last month...lets not data mine sir....
Bman.........please don't listen to ace.........these numbers are good.....but they ain't good for the doom and gloomers
depression ?? armageddon ??? pfffffffffffft
ace.....he's a punk
Back from picking up "jim's" dry cleaning so soon Bud? Don't forget, you have to cut his grass on Wednesdays....This time make sure you use the weed wacker to trim the edges....you know how pissed he gets when you don't do that...
what an incredible run the shark tank has been on........totally nailed this rally......trim the edges......no problem......plus i'm gonna spit shine the cars........be happy to do it
sharkinvesting.com rules !!!!!
PS.........well played ace.......i like to start the day off with a some high cheese.........just lettin the bunker know i bringin the heat today
looking at 01-06 is ezpzjapneze..now....like some things BO plenty and the gang are now...dont like some things....even-steven.....make sure in 2012 you tell us how everything went ok?..looool
.."plus i'm gonna spit shine the cars.".......
uhhhh..thats not his car...the cars out in the driveway..thats his cock sir....
lmaoooooooooooooo
"I feel lost"
"Small caps can really cut you"
"Market needs a rest"
"This rally is senseless"
indeed........................
curtain call?..(spin tips his cap)
spin !!!!!
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
well played ......well played SKF quenn
yes, spin hits grand slam.
roflmao.
omg, Timmy at the CFR - the birchers are going to go ape-sh*t.
New World Order déjà vu.
the birchers ??? huh ??? is that some sort of animal
huh ?? new home sales up, inventory down ???
I thought things depressed in a depression ?
birchers = John Birch Society
They think a New World Order is being created to take away freedom, led by people in the Council on Foreign Relations (= "CFR")
Elmer, W, W's father, etc. all members of CFR.
in their view, people like William F. Buckley were CFR stooges, crypto-commies.
They have a magazine called "The New American". See ->
http://www.thenewamerican.com/
In some ways they are quite lucid and eloquent kooks. Fun reading sometimes.
good housing number
still think it's 'data mining' ace ???
pfffffffffffffffffffffffft
PL
LZR
CBG
ACAS
CKSW
RGR
FEED
THANKS JIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No Bud I believe housing has bottomed......you have to be an idiot to think it hasnt....
boy Bunkerman I cant get you to swing at anything...good eye sir good eye
http://247wallst.com/2009/03/25/homebuilder-etfs-hope-this-is-a-bottom-xhb-itb/
Homebuilder ETF’s Hope This Is A Bottom (XHB, ITB)
fwiw
Bunky...are we making any sales...lil trading around the core.
I am contemplating that, frosty.
A guy calls his buddy, the horse rancher, and says he's sending a friend
over to look at a horse.
His buddy asks, 'How will I recognize him?'
'That's easy; he's a dwarf with a speech impediment.'
So, the dwarf shows up, and the guy asks him if he's looking for a male
or female horse.
'A female horth.'
So he shows him a prized filly.
'Nith lookin horth. Can I thee her eyeth?'
So the guy picks up the dwarf and he gives the horse's eyes the once over.
'Nith eyeth, can I thee her earzth?'
So he picks the little fella up again, and shows him the horse's ears.
'Nith earzth, can I thee her mouf?'
The rancher is getting pretty ticked off by this point, but he picks him
up again and shows him the horse's mouth.
'Nice mouf, can I see her twat?'
Totally mad at this point, the rancher grabs him under his arms and rams
the dwarf's head up the horse's fanny, pulls him out and slams him on the
ground.
The midget gets up, sputtering and coughing.
'Perhapth I should rephrase that. Can I thee her wun awound a widdlebit?'
sold 1/2 of positions in FCX, MT, X
Sold all GE in Obama.
Sold FCT.
Sold bit of 1/3 CETV added much lower.
Some more I can't remember tnow.
Obama is almost off margin.
rofl spin. good one.
sold a bit of CAB, too.
sold 1/2 MS, too.
I have built a nice lil book off the Bunky bottom in an attempt to get long term...best run since 38' about the time you graduated MIT, taking sugar here.
Since aazzhead is so in luv with GS, I put it out today as a hedge.
aazzzhead....
lmaoooooooooo
mr. drool bucket
capricious ($10) indeed
"well done bunk"..lol
After screwing up that last big rally, I am trying to be not overconfident again.
here we go again ....with the ass kissing
the f'ng triplets
atta boy Bunky, well played sir...while overconfident is a rather mild, and odd under embellished self assessment...I can live with that :)
Nice work Bunkerman....when Bud can't control himself with bullish blather you know you have to take some off the table....
here we go again ....with the ass kissing
we prefer THE FIGHTIN ZAHARIAS BROTHERS sir
http://pro.corbis.com/images/U443294ACME.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B31C2373A-F43B-4511-8553-3963A175C70C%7D
ace on the left
lmaooooooooooooooo....good one spinny....
Mern did you look at that bed and breakfast for sale that I posted last night?
http://www.dos-palmas.net/
listen ace
that stupid joke wasn't funny last nite.........and it ain't funny today
tete de noeud indeed
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- California home prices dropped 41 percent last month from a year earlier, more than double the U.S. decline, as surging foreclosures drove down values, the state Association of Realtors said today.
whoaa
"GS going to 200"
"Bunkerman I think they have changed"
"thanks Bud"
that's what bottoms are made of tejas......
right Bud?
welp kass said he called the bottom, and we all know what that means, right?
maybe ill check tonite, mfl.
spin not only did i bitch about my P&C i did something most 34 yr olds cudnt do. i didnt carry any P&C for almost 18 months, until prices became sorta resonable. is my policy worth enuff to burn my crib with all my worldy positions, and run the risk of being caught...............
obama, mcant, god, no one will save us from depressflation!
the economy is contracting clearly. frankly dont see inflation rolling over, actually going up again. gas spiked down here 8 cents from last nite.
im gonna add to my CHK, on the next leg down.
anyone with any gud currency ideas, becuase the $ is worthless or like costanza balding, and will be bald.
The Dude: It's like what Lenin said... you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh...
Donny: I am the walrus.
The Dude: You know what I'm trying to say...
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch...
The Dude: Oh yeah!
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about, Dude?
SKF KING preparing for leauge today with gold plated clubs...rented the golden bear to smooth the swing plane...can he punk the great white shark skins format...I think so.
I guess the game is ping pong again.
FXA or FXC....Aussie $ or Canadian $.....
as long as that faggot Geithner is in charge, you cannot own US dollars...
SKF queen no practice for league tonite.......she busy............new victoria secret summer panties collection is out
PS.......stop using my f'ng line you prick !!!!!!
uhhh Spin why wasn't I invited to practice? I thought I was third alternate?
What a sucky pitch bud..lool.....rates up there with Pedro's broke arm...you may kiss my ring....THEN MY AZZZZ!!!!.....puckerup buttercup
lmaooooooooooooooo
always room for ace!!!!!
MVP MVP MVP
ps...the team uses Clevelands for practice..one and done..they're throw aways....lool
anything I can do to help the team....all I care about is wins for the team....
"Pick it up Bud....that 7 footer is good by me"
"Nah those arent out of bounds stakes...just drop one by the green...."
yhoo handicap indeed
Goldman Sachs (GS) just made a negative call on the financial sector, saying "no faith in rally ... take money off of the table."...BAC the same call yesterday...UBS sell MS, missed Q...fyi
Date: 3/25/2009 10:38:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
THE FIGHTIN ZAHARIAS BROTHERS sold and shorted at the top....thanks to FROSTY ALERT!!
"what a call Bob"
jim????.......jim????......JIM!!!!!!!
ace.....pick it up!!!
lamooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yes, frosty is the Man.
Thanks Frosty.
Allez à l'enfer, Jim.
good timing on those sales Bunkerman....you still have the tradin touch big fella
note to self..Krypotonites keep ya sharp
"helluva job scott"
nice recovery ... I wonder if underinvested real buyers stepped up "on the dip" ?
real buyers....
is that a fluttering meatball down the middle?
yes Bunky, real buyers coming after the tape, a mere three week 24% spiddy run into the end of the Q, averaging up indeed...Mrs B, did you forget to lock the liquor cabinet again, shame on you, it's not Friday.
spin not only did i bitch about my P&C i did something most 34 yr olds cudnt do. i didnt carry any P&C for almost 18 months, until prices became sorta resonable. is my policy worth enuff to burn my crib with all my worldy positions, and run the risk of being caught...............
sorry I didnt read this earlier..too fn long
I see the burn still stings 24 hours later..lil Noxzema will take of that pal...
you needed a solution..I offered one...lol
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