Posted on 08/07/2011 7:04:28 PM PDT by dollarbull
Highlights from the just released G-7 statement:
G7 Says Will Take Every Action to Stabilize Financial Markets G7 says it will commit to secure liquidity in market G7 will cooperate closely on currency market actions G7 says it will be in close contact next few weeks G7 says disorderly moves in markets hurt economy G7 says currency rates should be decided by markets
But the winning bullet point of the year is...
G7 says currency rates should be decided by markets
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Hey - anyone know why Toddsterpatriot got banned. I was looking forward to asking him "why goldbugs are so bad at math"...ya know..it's getting hard to do the math on gold's relentless rise.
Should be able to remortgage your house for UNDER 1% in a week or so.
USA should be able to take all its sort term and long term debt and replace it with paper paying only a fraction of a percent ~ or maybe NOTHING AT ALL~!
They are running out of options and just like every tyrant in the 20th century did, they will flood the market with currency now and try to figure out how to deal with the hyper inflation later.
The addict cannot get clean on his own and will die with a needle in his arm...complete devastation in his wake.
I know some FReepers who won’t shed any tears over Toddster’s departure.
He got the zot? When did *that* happen?
Did he opus out, attack a moderator, pull a pissant, or what?
But Ben Bernanke said we are all ScrXXXXXD!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059/
Saw that, that was epic.
Regarding holding bonds ~ bank deposits are worse with banks offering "negative interest' ~ that is, you pay them good money to just hold your deposits.
Did you ever wonder what the world would be like the day the computers really took hold?
This may be it.
It appears somebody thought he was trying to sell a newsletter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:toddsterpatriot/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
First I heard of it was this thread. But not surprised.
don’t think that was it. that discussion looks like it was referring to john williams of shadow stats and his newsletter.
Fed's Dudley Hints iPad Deflation Trumps Food Inflation - No Tightening Seen Soon
Gold is mighty purty.
Did this article just claim a great faith in the currency market as preparations are being made to intervene in that market on a massive scale?
Dollar -- Oh, OK, you haven't been here very long.
Some of these predate me, so there's probably history beyond what I'm giving you. But it'll serve as a start.
An opus is a "final post" where the poster tells everything that's wrong with Free Republic, or Jim Robinson, or the quality of the posting (usually a decline from the 'good old days') or blames the Admin Moderator or some shadowy cabal on FR for their posts not being received well, etc. etc. Basically they're calling a Waaaahmbulance for themselves.
There were two main types that happened during my limited time here.
The first was in reaction to a long standing complaint of some of the pro-Evolution posters on the crevo threads. They would be subject to having their homepage disappear without warning (and apparently it was either Jim Robinson or a high up admin doing that, and it *IS* his site)...
Or having the mods take the side against them during flamewars, with arbitrary capricious enforcement of rules, etc.
So a number of them ended up publishing various opuses, that all they wanted to do was save FR and/or the conservative movement from the vile calumnies of the left that all conservatives are a bunch of Neaderthal Luddites, etc.
A number of them are practicing scientists and / or at govt. labs and / or real research Universities; several have *very* impressive credentials (not just PhDs but from, or affiliated with, top World-class institutions) but in the interests of FR anonymity I will not elaborate: people have been banned over posting the real-life names of FReepers, even when the person "identified" had been posting in public elsewhere under their real name and not hidden the identity.
Most of these people went over to a site they founded called Darwin Central. This name was chosen explicitly to tweak the nose of people with whom they disagreed, since Darwinism proved such a bone of contention: it started out as semi-tongue-in-cheek but as hurts deepened so did the seriousness. It is like FR in that it is a political site, but with a MUCH stronger libertarian emphasis, and much more robust discussion of hard science from a scientists' viewpoint. There is also a strong subset of atheists there who are NOT shy about sharing their opinions, much as there is a STRONG subset of Christians here who are not shy about their opinions. There don't seem to be as many denominational flamewars among atheists, btw. ;-)
They seem to have been upset as much by the maltreatment, as having to answer ad nauseum the *same* set of questions seemingly cut-and-pasted from Answers in Genesis or similar sites, by the SAME people, no matter how many times the subjects had been discussed or answered.
The other type of opus occurred in what is now known as the Bug-Zapper thread, which happened in the pre-runup to the 2008 election, when a number of people were pushing for Rudy Guiliani to get the nomination. Jim Robinson was and is dead set against this, and people started getting zotted. A number of people flamed out in truly spectacular fashion, hence the name "bug zapper".
As far as pissant -- he was an anti-Palin troll, who finally got the zot for a post I will not reproduce, where he rather graphically accused Gov. Palin of an active lesbian affair with Tammy Bruce. ZOT.
Any other questions, look up FReepers with older signup dates than me. They'll be able to tell you all you want to know.
Cheers!
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