bob?

rayj wrote:I'll go a little farther here. A good friend of mine says "Total paranoia equals total awareness."

Total awareness is not a state that you can ever know you achieved. Because of that, there is always a level of paranoia greater than the state you're currently in. I don't believe that paranoia grows from awareness, anyway- I think it grows from the suspicion that you are being lied to.

clocker bob wrote:

rayj wrote:I'll go a little farther here. A good friend of mine says "Total paranoia equals total awareness."

Total awareness is not a state that you can ever know you achieved. Because of that, there is always a level of paranoia greater than the state you're currently in. I don't believe that paranoia grows from awareness, anyway- I think it grows from the suspicion that you are being lied to.

Yeah...I just think it's an amusing statement with a seed of truth. Paranoia is a horribly draining emotional state, really...you could probably eventually get to some powerful truths through paranoia, though.

rayj wrote:Yeah...I just think it's an amusing statement with a seed of truth. Paranoia is a horribly draining emotional state, really...you could probably eventually get to some powerful truths through paranoia, though.

I don't find paranoia to be a draining state, but that's just me. I find it inspirational, as long as I feel that I'm in control of it, and can channel the paranoia into energy. I hunt every day for more signs of the impending clampdown. I feel like I have seen powerful truths already. It doesn't put food on the table or win you any medals, but it makes me feel free. I can't accept the idea that bad people think they can fool me with their lies and propaganda, even though they may succeed more than I know, because if they did, I wouldn't know.

The very orderly rush to the exit.

bloomberg news wrote:OPEC Dumps $10.1 Billion of Treasuries as Oil Tumbles

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- OPEC nations are unloading Treasuries at the fastest pace in more than three years as crude oil prices tumble, sending bond yields higher. Short-term yields have remained above those on longer-term securities since mid-August. That situation, known as an inverted yield curve, has occurred only 11 percent of the time in the past two decades, according to Bloomberg data. Traders watch that difference because four of the past five recessions have been preceded by inverted yield curves.

``The pickup in oil revenues and the recycling of the petrodollars'' was one reason for 10-year yields falling as low as 4.33 percent last year, said George Goncalves, a fixed-income strategist in New York at Bank of America Corp.

China, the second-largest holder of U.S. debt, also is cutting back holdings. The central bank, which owned $346.5 billion of Treasuries as of November, trimmed purchases by 1.7 percent in the first 10 months of 2006, Treasury figures show.

``The Chinese are slowing down their buying, so that leaves a big hole after the oil money,'' said Brenner at Hapoalim Securities.

last night on one of the moronic network news shows, they did a fluff piece on the weak dollar and how it's affecting americans abroad. there was no serious acknowledgment as to why or what this means.

when I heard this morning that the fed cut interest by a half percent instead of the quarter that people expected, I got a little nervous. sounds extra bad.

what ever happened with that crazy options play that somebody did, the one where they were gonna lose like a zillion dollars this month?

Rick Reuben wrote:Lastly, if you're one of the three people on this forum who reads a thread like this one

Hey Bob are you familiar with the Post-Autistic Economics movement? I came upon the PAE website a few months and was blown away that they are engaged in a real, coherent challenge to the monopoly of Milton Fucking Crapitalism and Freedman and his seeping ilk. Actually, I have no idea nowadays what the hell people in school are studying. Is the PAE movement old news? Am I as out of it as the multiple copies of E Pluribus Funk used record stores used to keep around just to pad out the "G"s?

One the other hand, if the PAE site is lucky to get three readers
a day, I recommend it to everyone here. They are worthy of your time.

I guess it would help if I included a link here, huh?
Hey, where'd my reading glasses go . . .

http://www.paecon.net

I'd speak but I'm busy using things I just bought with my sturdy Canadian dollar.

aww but minimum wage is up

and thats all that matters for me haha