Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can"

Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can" | Zero Hedge:


 In all his years and all his experience of the desperation of the European Union's leadership "never did [he] think they would resort to stealing money from people's savings accounts." 
The simple fact is that they know they cannot let any country leave, no matter how small, for "once one country goes, the whole deck of cards will come tumbling down." 
There is now "clear irreconcilable differences" between the North and the South of Europeand now that they have done this in one country, "they are quite capable of doing it in Italy, Spain and anywhere." 
The message that sends to people is "get your money out while you can."
As far as his British constituents, he strongly recommends George Osborne (UK Chancellor) urge ex-pats to remove all their money and do monthly transfers from home. 
"Do Not Invest In The Euro-Zone," he concludes, "you have to be mad to do so - as it is now run by people who do not respect democracy, the rule of law, or the basic principles upon which Western civilization is based."
"They are propping up a Eurozone that, in the end, will collapse in disastrous failure and they are prepared to do anything to do so."

Lack of job seekers -- not jobs -- haunts this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo

Lack of job seekers -- not jobs -- haunts this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo | MLive.com:
"An underwhelming turnout of applicants – not a lack of companies with open positions – was the bane of this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo.
As the event began to wind down Tuesday, March 19, only about 100 applicants had walked through the doors of the at the Bishop Williams L. Burrell Multi-Plex Center in Muskegon Heights, said event organizer Paul Billings.
He had earlier predicted more than 700 people would come, based on the turnout for last year's event."

2013-3-19 Talkin' Muskegon Mike Hewitt, Oscar and me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAo8aTcc6DY

$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'?

$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'? | CNS News:
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.”
The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, "Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians," which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks."

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand | Scoop News:
"The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, the Green Party said today.
Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English’s favoured option dealing with a major bank failure. 
If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank’s bail out.

Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs from foreign airports... where their English leaves a little to be desired

Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs from foreign airports... where their English leaves a little to be desired | Mail Online

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU – Telegraph Blogs:
"One's first reflex is to gasp at the stupidity of the EU policy elites, but truth is that most EU officials handling the Cyprus crisis know perfectly well that their masters have just set the slow fuse on a powder keg – and they can only pray that it is slow."

Michigan Airport Home to No Planes Or Hangars Receives Over $150K A Year In Tax Dollars

Michigan Airport Home to No Planes Or Hangars Receives Over $150K A Year In Tax Dollars [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Evart Municipal Airport has two flights per day, one runway, zero employees and five "likes" on its Facebook page.
Yet, the federal government spent $150,000 on the airport in 2012 while state and local taxpayers spent thousands more."

The Disappearing Volume of the Stock Market

Captain Capitalism: The Disappearing Volume of the Stock Market:
But ask yourself a question.
"How great of a reason is THE LACK OF VOLATILITY for a stock market rally?"
It once again is another desperate excuse, a desperate reason for stock markets to rally that once again ignores the only two things that should drive a true stock market rally -
1.  Increased profits
2.  Increased dividends
The fact volume is tanking, leaving a higher percentage of trading in essentially connected firms' hands, AND there has not been the increase in profits to bring the P/E of investments down to a sane level, means this is a rally only for the connected.
You might as well be a man trying to rationalize driving a VW Cabriolet by citing its fuel efficiency."

Climate Change = Armageddon?

Climate Change = Armageddon? | Ottawa County Patriots:

Chart of the day: As a share of household spending, the US has the most affordable food in world

Chart of the day: As a share of household spending, the US has the most affordable food in world | AEIdeas

Europe’s Cyprus blunder

Europe’s Cyprus blunder | AEIdeas:
"European policymakers work in strange and mysterious ways. 
Over the past year, they bent many rules and threw literally hundreds of billions of Euros at Greece to prevent that country from exiting the Euro. 
They did so for fear that a Greek exit might cause contagion to other countries in the European periphery. And then over this last weekend, they chose to spook financial markets and risk the very contagion that they sought to avoid in the Greek case, by demanding that as part of its bailout package Cyprus imposes a tax on bank deposits."