Saturday, 19 July 2014

Age of Aquarius Economics


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From: Len Cranford
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:32 AM
Subject: Age of Aquarius Economics

{While Wall St.`s "Caligulla`s Orgy" on the free coke snuffing-shooting - cheap money of Stock buy-backs and just plain "buy the dips forever"; Likely, insider-Bankster advice - Well! It`s the only game in town!  Whoa! The "FED" really looks Jewish now! Soooo,,, Bernanke was just a Rabbi with a short haircut? And Janet Yellen is a sorta [Female?] Rabbi?  Since those with this insider knowledge will be the only one`s to continue to prosper.  The Baltic Dry Index tells the tale on "Real" Economics. Chart below;  L.}

The Price of Shipping Is Collapsing

A recurring theme of mine is that one cannot understand the world in terms of the linear Quantity Theory of Money. Let’s look at the cost of shipping.
The money supply has certainly been expanding since 2008. And yet the price of shipping has almost completely collapsed. From a high over 11,000 it’s now down to 755. This is a drop of almost 94%.
The Baltic Dry Index is a dollar price of moving the major materials by sea. The chart shows from just before the acute phase of the crisis to today, July 16, 2014.

chart-1-Baltic DryI like to look at the Baltic Dry because, unlike commodities, there is no way to speculate on it and hence drive up the price. (If readers are aware of some sort of futures market or other way for speculators to use credit to bid up prices, then I encourage them to please contact me.) – via Monetary Metals, click to enlarge.

{So the Jews Socialize France then FLEE the effects. Hollande was going to take this even further. Make`s perfect sense. You know, a few of those old French guillotines are still sitting around Europe in various locations!  L.}

 

http://www.acting-man.com/?p=31540

 

Fleeing the French Welfare State

July 2, 2014 | Author Pater Tenebrarum
   
 


“Good Riddance, Rich Bastard”

We have actually discussed the flight of the best and brightest (as well as the  richest) citizens from president Hollande's socialist paradise before – see  “Regime Uncertainty in France” for details. We have just come across the video below, which is also slightly dated by now, but since nothing much has changed in France, it is worth reviewing it.
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, the London journalist (born in France, and now living in France's six-largest city, far away from the clutches of Hollande and Mountebank) is interviewed in the video as well.  As she points out, when France's richest man decided he would rather leave than keep feeding Leviathan, the French press reacted with the headline “good riddance, rich bastard”.
The anti-capitalist mentality is deeply rooted in France, which leads even to escapades such as unions kidnapping and blackmailing managers.  They have nothing to fear – for some reason it is apparently considered perfectly legal when unions do this. This is not to say that there are actually legal exceptions in the statutes regarding kidnapping and blackmail by unions or workers, but they are simply never prosecuted for it. On the contrary – they get gifts from the courts! As Business Week reported:

“Bossnapping” and similar tactics have turned out to be pretty effective negotiating tools for French labor unions. Workers who have participated in past hostage-taking incidents haven’t been prosecuted, and most have won sizable concessions from employers.
After four executives of Caterpillar (CAT) were held hostage in 2009 for 24 hours to protest layoffs in Grenoble, the company upped its total severance package from €48.5 million to €50 million, amounting to an average €80,000 ($108,000) per worker. The same year, appliance maker Ariston (A3E:GR) agreed to severance packages of up to €90,000 for workers at a factory in Brittany who protested planned layoffs by locking the manager out of the building.
In still another case—among a spate of 10 French “bossnappings” in 2009—the manager of a 3M (MMM) factory in the town of Pithiviers was taken hostage in a dispute over severance pay. The workers served him a takeout meal of mussels and French fries before deciding to let him go and pursue their grievances in court. An appeals court ruled in their favor last July, ordering 3M to pay €800,000 to 110 laid-off workers.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced the hostage-taking, but public opinion polls showed that many French sympathized with the protesters and no charges have ever been filed against them.”

(emphasis added)
However, in spite of all this “popular sympathy” for leftist causes, even if they involve violence, today a full half of France's youth say they would immediately leave the country if they could. The main reason why many feel that they can't do so is probably that they are out of work and are getting welfare checks they would have to do without if they left.
However, as the video indicates, those who have the gumption to leave are naturally all the movers and shakers who want to get ahead, plus all those who are already rich. So the country is increasingly left with slackers dependent on the State – but who or what will pay for their upkeep in the future? Hollande's quasi-Zwangswirtschaft has created a huge economic crisis in France. The economy seemingly cannot get out of its rut, in spite of all the talk about “recovery” in Europe. The unemployment rate remains above 10%, GDP growth has slowed down again recently, and GDP per capita remains below the level of 2008 to this day....


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