IF YOU INVEST IT, HE WILL COME

yo!.. when you're broke don't fix it... innit!

in palookaville..

they've fixed the market..

they've fixed it so good..

it's not a market anymore..

it's the world series of fixes..

SHOELESS JEROME POWELL

has fixed the world series..

by buying everything..

the balance sheet is out of the ball park..

the fed has bought..

all the farms in iowa..

all the corny has been removed..

and a baseball diamond..

complete with bleachers..

has been erectioned..

Shoeless Joe Jackson:
Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. 

 I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose..

the cool of the grass on my feet... 

The thrill of the grass.

SLOPE OF HOPE

tim knight

It’s plain to see the tug-of-war going on between FACTS (when the market plunges) and FANTASY (the counter-trend rallies, fueled by trillions of dollars from the Fed).

What’s of interest, as you can surely gather from what I’ve drawn, is how each totally fake and fraudulent rally has fewer and fewer participants.  

Lower highs, every single time.

This is a broad, sweeping verdict about the nature of these bogus rallies. 

That traitorous bastard Powell is able to create headline prints..

which make the public think that things are peachy, 

but under the surface, it is slowly rotting out.

IT'S WORSE THAN THAT

"I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America

Shoeless Joe Jackson:
I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. 

The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. 

It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. 

Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Man, I did love this game.

I'd have played for food money.

It was the game...

The sounds, the smells.

Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?

Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham:
Well, you know I... I never got to bat in the major leagues. 

I would have liked to have had that chance. 

Just once. 

To stare down a big league pitcher. 

To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. 

Make him think you know something he doesn't. 

That's what I wish for. 

Annie Kinsella:

Who's for Eva Braun here?

Who wants to burn books?

Who wants to spit on the Constitution of the United States of America, anybody?

Now who's for the Bill of Rights?

Who thinks that freedom is a pretty darn good thing?

Who thinks that we have to stand up to the kind of censorship that they had under Stalin?

WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

yo!.. vaccine ready yet?.. innit!

in palookaville..

two gamblers..

are desperately..

waiting for alpha..

WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES

an on which streets do they live?

bull an bear..

the flowerpot men..

wall street an lombard st..

IT STARTED ON YANCY STREET

“You have a sense of humour..

I am in favor of jokes..

They have political value..

Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.”

 The Comedians 

In our call of the day..

former Goldman Sachs hedge-fund manager Raoul Pal..

said the dollar was the world’s “biggest problem” 

and that the signal to sell equities was coming soon.

He said the narrative that the Fed printing money..

would causes a dollar collapse was “very wrong.”

The chief executive of Global Macro Investor..

who predicted the 2008 financial crisis..

“You see the biggest problem the world faces is the dollar..

We are in a viscous doom loop..

where slowing growth causes the dollar to rise..

which causes slower growth..

which causes the dollar to rise..

as all borrowers play musical chairs..

to get access to the dollar to service debts..

“Dollar swap lines, QE, jawboning, etc. 

have done nothing to stop this,” 

..he added in a post on Twitter..

He said no printing of money 

— by the Federal Reserve — 

would solve what he described as a “structural” problem..

 “All attempts to create more money..

to solve the dollar standard issue tend to devalue all fiat versus gold..

Gold is rallying on debt deflation probabilities.”

“My guess is that the next debt deflation signal..

will come when bonds begin to price in negative interest rates..

That day is coming soon... 

and that will be the signal to sell equities..

and the insolvency phase will begin.”

FIXING THE WORLD SERIES

 "'Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler..

' Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: 

'He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919'. "

The 1919 World Series..

was between the Chicago White Sox (Black Sox) and the Cincinnati Reds..

The book and what really happened in history are similar..

because the World Series was fixed in 1919 by gamblers!

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity..

For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. 

The same is true of the laugh.”

Samuel Beckett,  

Waiting for Godot
 

  SEEKING ALPHA 

KennethY

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The Fed has rigged the stock market!

How come no one seems to understand this basic concept? 

Every time you pull the slot machine, it is raining taxpayer dollars! 

 The Fed is printing infinity dollars until the stock market goes up. 

No amount of logic, reasoning or common sense..

can possibly stop the Fed's fix in the game.

The Fed wants the market to go up. 

 It will go up. 

They will print as many dollars as it takes until it goes up. 

The Fed cannot lose.

Anyone who doesn't understand this simple concept is just sheep...

Peter Cooper

Contributor

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Warren Buffett is deafeningly silent. 

 But with his market value indicator now..

at 131% of GDP when 50-70% is 'fair value' 

the Sage of Omaha is wise to sit on his hands. 

The next decade may be his finest...

mostly bullish

PREMIUM

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I do not like this article, 

by July 4th many medical tests will be completed..

and doctors will know how to treat the virus, 

by September we will know we have a vaccine that works. 

 I look ahead and so does the market. 

Any downturn in the market will be short lived..

and will not reach the March 23rd lows.

mrenviro

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...The only thing holding the market up right now..

 is the word of panic-mode central banks that they have no regard..

for future generations Debt obligations..

and they will do anything and everything..

right here right now to “save the world“. 

What would we do without them...? 

Ultimately it’s another lesson in sticking to a long term diversified investment plan..

I guess..

Who the hell knows...

Nine9

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This is directly in line with my views. 

How strange is it that a remarkable bull rally..

could actually make one feel more shaken than the previous drop? 

But the idea that our entire retirement and livelihood..

is based off of a stock market so disconnected..

from economic fundamentals and reality..

is deeply disturbing to some of us..

with 20+ years left until retirement. 

RUNNING ON EMPTY

information is not knowledge..

knowledge is not wisdom..

he was a nice boy..

he used to cut the grass..

JUST ONE MORE IMAGINARY GUITAR SOLO

I wonder what it's like on the outside now..

a water melon in easter hay..

a little green rosetta..

DON'T GET ON THE BUS

don work for yuda..

with leather

 Samuel Beckett,  

Waiting for Godot

 

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. 

For each one who begins to weep..

somewhere else another stops. 

The same is true of the laugh.” 

BUT YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE 

...These shirts symbolize extreme luxury and wealth..

but it also foreshadows Daisy's change..

from purity to corruption..

.. It also symbolizes the end of the growth of Gatsby's dream.

 

“Gatsby believed in the green light..

the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. 

It eluded us then, but that's no matter..

tomorrow we will run faster, 

stretch out our arms farther.. 

And one fine morning..

 So we beat on, 

boats against the current, 

borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

J.D. Salinger,  

The Catcher in the Rye 

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ” 

  

“If you had a million years to do it in, 

you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. 

It's impossible.”

A HOLE IN ONE

yo!... whose ya caddy?... innit

it's the time o the season...

here in palookaville..

the big palooka is handicapped...

he has hit a hole in one...

time ta stop diggin...

I SEE NO VIRUS

admiral trump regrets...

sayin all that stuff...

about a pandemic that would not happen...

 he has lead his team out onto the ball park...

without the proper kit...

he plans to keep the game short an sweet...

all ovva by yesterday...

cheap at half the price...

make palookaville great again...

UNFAIR FAIRWAY

we woz robbed...

rubes cheated innit...

wuhan flue...

trade war games...

NOT OUR FAULT

we inherited this virus from the chinese

we are well prepared...

palookas don't catch flu...

it's the economy stupid...

we weren't meant ta close...

democracy will win in the end...

NOBODY DARE LOOK

the scoreboard is obscene...

but the numbers increase exponentially...

ball is inna long grass...

the clubs need a bailout...

THE WRONG KIND OF BAT

can't even reach first base...

balls dropped...

catchers caught...

If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.

IT GETS LATE EARLY OUT HERE

we got enough bullets...

we got the tanks we need...

best soldiers inna wurl...

we have the best golf courses...

the biggest malls...

little fucker snook in...

unner a radar... innit! 

SOONER OR LATER

we will beat this thing...

thats fo sure...

once we get goin we really get goin...

How can you think and hit at the same time?

it's just that...

we ain't got goin yet

THE WORLD SERIES

yo!... yogi berra... innit!

in palookaville today...

the virus games are really takin off...

testing times...

NOT !

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

DON'T TEST DON'T TELL

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, 

because you might not get there.

germany way out in front...

testing shows the way... 

while here in palookaville...

It's like déjà vu all over again.

 poorly equiped, poorly armed, out played...

the virus game playbook...

is still to be written

GAMES WITHIN GAMES

some say itta game o two halves...

others that...

some are cheatin...

 It ain't over till it's over

 whatever games they are playin...

the score board is horrendous

HOME RUN 

the big palooka needs a hole in one...

but he left his clubs inna dugout...

refusal to provide his team...

with essential matching kit...

has caused confusion...

and mistakes...

the diamond...

has to become a field hospital...

the numbers carried off...

are scaring the crowd...

in the bleachers

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

games are being played by every body

but behind closed doors

this series is...

too dangerous to watch

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

WHAT A PLAYER

the big palooka...

has knocked the ball...

right outta a park...

his team are runnin around in circles...

try not to make a catch... 

nobody wants to be caught out

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

the sports personalities

are demanding their wages

for not playing the game...

the clubs are demanding...

to be bailed out...

the crowd is baying for blood...

run out, caught out, stumped!

The future ain't what it used to be

the virus as changed the game

it mutates into debt...

it's a new world...

disorder

Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

DANSE MACABRE

              Like influenza he walks abroad,

              He stands by the bridge, he waits by the ford,

             As a goose or a gull he flies overhead,

               He hides in the cupboard and under the bed...

              The Unknown Citizen

W. H. Auden  

1907-1973

(To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.

Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.

Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)

And our Social Psychology workers found 

That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.

The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.

Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,

And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.

Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare

 He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,

A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;

When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.

He was married and added five children to the population,

Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.

And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.

Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:

Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

MORE FAMOUS VIRUS QUOTES 

If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

I never said most of the things I said.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. 

I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, 

I change bats. 

After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, 

how can I get mad at myself? 

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, 

because you might not get there.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, 

but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; 

only at spring training. 

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. 

He never did anything wrong on the field.

I’d never seen him dive for a ball, 

everything was a chest-high catch,

and he never walked off the field.

Take it with a grin of salt.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. 

And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

A lot of guys go, 

‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ 

I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ 

They want me to make one up. 

I don’t make ’em up. 

I don’t even know when I say it. 

They’re the truth. 

And it is the truth. 

I don’t know. 

BACK TO THE 19 THIRTIES

Bagpipe music (1938) 

Louis MacNeice

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Links On

It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Their knickers are made of crêpe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with heads of bison.

John MacDonald found a corpse, put it under the sofa,
Waited till it came to life and hit it with a poker,
Sold its eyes for souvenirs, sold its blood for whisky,
Kept its bones for dumb-bells to use when he was fifty.

It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

Annie MacDougall went to milk, caught her foot in the heather,
Woke to hear a dance record playing of Old Vienna.

It’s no go your maidenheads, it’s no go your culture,
All we want is a Dunlop tyre and the devil mend the puncture.

The Laird o’Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,
Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.

Mrs Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion,
Said to the midwife ‘Take it away; I’m through with
over-production’.

It’s no go the gossip column, it’s no go the Ceilidh,
All we want is a mother’s help and a sugar-stick for the baby.

Willie Murray cut his thumb, couldn’t count the damage,
Took the hide of an Ayrshire cow and used it for a bandage.

His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish,
Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

It’s no go the Herring Board, it’s no go the Bible,
All we want is a packet of fags when our hands are idle.

It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium,
It’s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,
It’s no go the Government grants, it’s no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.

The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.