Liveblogging Lagarde's LuckySeven Bedlam!

[elfismiles]

China’s terrifying debt ratios poised to breeze past US levels
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: July 22nd, 2014
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/am ... us-levels/

Billionaire Warns: Yellen Collapse 'Will Be Unlike Any Other'
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/Billio ... /id/583962
MoneyNews.com = NewsMax.com

Market 'Black Swan' Fear at Record High
By Anthony Mirhaydari, The Fiscal Times, July 22, 2014
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2 ... ecord-High

[JackRiddler]

Interesting, thanks. Some thoughts: first, the mention of the G20 is hardly gratuitous. It includes the BRICS countries, which have just started their own development bank, and clearly the massive Chinese reserves are going to have to play a role in inflating the next bubbles. Lagarde has said that she will be 'delighted' to work with that institution, and I don't doubt it.

Second, it's not that strange for her to riff on numbers, a lot of mathematically inclined people begin to see number patterns everywhere. A lot of technical traders use the Fibonacci series in their strategies, for instance. So it could have been her version of starting the speech with a story about an Englishman and a Scotsman.

Third, that bit about her predecessor and doing what she's told - in the context she's obviously talking about her predecessor on the stage but I couldn't help thinking about her predecessor in the job, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Yes, pretty much. Thank you, sane person. No, wait a minute: What are sane people doing here? Get out!

I'd say in the explicit play with what she after all called "numerology," she was indeed delivering an encoded message to self-defined insiders. The video, however, ran into two harzards. First, in its pre-determined assumption about who these insiders are. I don't think this was "revelation of the method" and I don't think Lagarde delivers sensitive messages to networks of the global ruling elite via press conferences. There are board meetings and telephones and even annual conventions for that. The second hazard was in its largely pre-determined translation of this message to fit the "Global Reset" propaganda, and (as usual) to predict some Day of Apocalypse. (Just keep doing that, and when it happens, people will only remember the time you were right.)

Notwithstanding the fun I had starting this thread, my translation is this: "Before I bore you with party-line economics for an hour, let's play with numerology to deliver some possibly controversial points I'd like to evoke in a light and easily digested fashion. First of course, we are all incredibly connected and inside people in this room, also those of you watching me on C-SPAN 26. We're privy to secrets of the temple, which is why I'm seriously talking about magic with you, as if, wink wink wink." This part is a matter of flattering her listeners and creating group and class cohesion. It's sociology. Conceivably, it does evoke rituals and handshakes at gatherings of her class, but seemingly not to deliver a secret message beyond that, but to give viewers a little taste. Otherwise, seems she wants to indicate (whether she means it or not) that it's been 100 years since 1914 and things could blow up again, she hopes it gets better instead -- using ambiguous terms like "bright" and "magic" -- and she likes G20 better than G7.

Anyway, fuck the IMF & Co., fuck imperialism, fuck capitalism and fuck the ruling class.

Now let's see if there's a crash later this week.

.

[smiths]

posted for a bit of humour

North Magnetic Pole Is Shifting Rapidly Toward Russia

http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/n ... _pole.html

[semper occultus]

We're privy to secrets of the temple, which is why I'm seriously talking about magic with you, as if, wink wink wink." This part is a matter of flattering her listeners and creating group and class cohesion. It's sociology.

…elite occult secret societies are about the sociology-stuff…but ofcourse not just about that....otherwise you'd just have exclusive well-manicured golf-clubs in expensive stock-broker belt locations and not Bohemian Grove owl-incineration rituals……

Now whilst deploring this rather outrageous & blatant thread heist to divert eyeballs away from the loving curated Bush in a Goat Mask thread..the serendipitous title of which so picturesquely encapsulates the essence of this conversation…. I will also generously contribute this snippet about what appeared a very intriguing well–researched book that crossed my radar recently , in which I have just invested some of my rapidly depleting shelf-space……

….check out the rather interesting CV’s of these 2 authors…

The doors of some of the worlds best-hidden places and most secretive organisations have now been thrown wide open! Some of the names are familiar: Area 51, Yales Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, the Esalen Institute. Others are more obscure, hidden by fate or purposeful deception, such as the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, the super-secure facility where Vice President Dick Cheney was secreted after the 9/11 attacks and Germanys Wewelsburg Castle, which was intended to become the mythological centrepiece of the Nazi Regime. Readers can take an unprecedented look deep inside the off-the-map military installations and shadowy organisations that operate in the murkiest corners of our world.

http://www.secretsanctuaries.com/table-of-contents/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geral ... your-case/

Stephen Klimczuk is a world traveler and corporate strategist who recently served as head of strategy for late billionaire Sir John Templeton's main private foundation. In addition to his current external faculty appointment at Oxford University, he advises philanthropies and companies in more than a dozen countries.

Earlier in his career, he was a director and board member of the prestigious World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, and a member of the Davos program committee. He has also been a principal of the consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

He started his career at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company in New York and San Francisco in the 1980s, and was named a "World Young Leader" by the BMW Foundation in Munich.

The son of Polish political exiles who settled in North America, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA. Given the facts of birth and marriage, he has US, Canadian, Polish, and Swiss citizenship. In his off-hours, he has explored many of the obscure places covered in this book-sometimes dragging his disapproving wife and three daughters along against their better judgement.

Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie is a well-known Scottish newspaper columnist, broadcaster, and former policy adviser to a UK cabinet minister. His Telegraph blog "Is it just me?" is one of Britain's most popular. Apart from his many appearances on radio and television, he has authored six books, mostly on specialized historical subjects, folklore, and curiosities-including Homelands of the Clans (Collins, 1980). He graduated MA (Honours) in Medieval and Modern History at Glasgow University, after which he pursued three years of postgraduate research in Irish history.

During his distinguished writing career, he has been social diarist and a columnist for The Sunday Times (of London); a columnist and leader (i.e., editorial) writer for Scotland on Sunday, Scotland's leading quality Sunday paper; and a leader writer for the Scottish Daily Mail. From 1995 to 1997, he left journalism to become Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland, a member of the British cabinet. He has also been a Parliamentary candidate himself. The Much Honoured the Laird of Craigenmaddie (to give him his full feudal title) holds several distinguished European orders of knighthood. His recreations include heraldry, genealogy, and wine-bibbing in congenial company

[stefano]

Thanks semper! That does look very interesting. And yes, good point that there is magic involved, but as Jack said: Lagarde hardly needs to use a press club of America podium to deliver a hidden coded message to the elite.

[semper occultus]

..do they mean mysterious sites though...

..or is that a code...?

[JackRiddler]

semper, you appear to have used the quote function improperly and are attributing my words to stefano and your own words to me. Please correct this as it's bullshit. Thank you.

As for "the loving curated Bush in a Goat Mask thread," why don't you just kick it? Instead of making up further bullshit that I have anything against it?

[semper occultus]

..to your first point - corrected as requested

..to your second..

....er.....slight sense of humour failure...? ( ...possibly...? )

[JackRiddler]

semper: Ack! Parodically punked in the quasi* parody thread I started! No living it down.

* - quasi since Lagarde's Sevens were genuinely weird, but the "Global Reset" interpretation opened itself to this treatment.

[zangtang]

July ain't over.

cue music..................

[JackRiddler]

July ain't over.

cue music..................

But the "July 20" voodoo almost is.

Everything's unstable, so anything can happen. Something that happens in August will no longer be credibly associated with whatever coded message is in Lagarde's speech.

[zangtang]

disagree.....I will retro-actively de-emphasize the 'twentieth' (day of) component, accentuate the July (big fat seven) aspect to hang it on,
and remain confident that within the next seven days until the 31st, the world will more closely resemble the handbasket heading for hell than it already does.

ahh, i note you say 'happens in August'............i concur.

She lets me down, i'll just have to punish her
........wonder if she uses toys ?

[Ben D]

...ahhh....but September is the real seventh month...the times they were changed to confuse the curious minded...

[semper occultus]

….as good as I can come up with for this homework assignment I’m afraid….

It is weird, but it's not super weird,' he told The Los Angeles Times.

‘To have a spotless day during maximum is odd, but then again, this solar maximum we are in has been very wimpy.'

Phillips is an expert about such activity and writes about it on his site, SpaceWeather.com.
Sunspots attract attention because they highlight the part of the sun where solar activity originates.

……research linking sun spot actvity & business / market cycles is both long-standing & extensive ofcourse….& as if that wasn’t a clincher the DM articles url includes :

article-2699377



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ctive.html

[JackRiddler]

Hmmm, although the "Global Reset" stuff is turning out to be bullshit, what a surprise, I have to say July had a pretty dramatic result.



Oh thank god, a worthy enemy! No more of this penny-ante Osama nonsense!