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The "Flash Crash" Was A WATERFALL Event Like The One That Preceded The Fall Of Rome
The Business Insider ^ | 5-18-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 05/18/2010 7:26:44 AM PDT by blam

Martin Armstrong: The "Flash Crash" Was A WATERFALL Event Like The One That Preceded The Fall Of Rome

Joe Weisenthal
May. 18, 2010, 10:07 AM

The famous market philosopher Martin Armstrong, who is currently in prison in Ft. Dix New Jersey, has turned his attention to the "Flash Crash" of May 6, which he sees as a profound event.

He describes the event as a waterfall -- the opposite of a blowoff bubble top -- that presages the start of a profound shift in the world economy.

He calls the "fat finger" or glitch theories nonsense, saying it's all about Greece, and the global debt crisis.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badnewsblam; doom; economy; flashcrash; markets; stocks
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1 posted on 05/18/2010 7:26:44 AM PDT by blam
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Dow Theorist Richard Russell: Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year
2 posted on 05/18/2010 7:28:05 AM PDT by blam
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WTF???


3 posted on 05/18/2010 7:28:24 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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What’s he in prison for?


4 posted on 05/18/2010 7:29:25 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years.)
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“Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 161 Since May 2007”

Eh?


5 posted on 05/18/2010 7:29:37 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: ctdonath2

SCRAP THAT. Darned copy and paste error.


6 posted on 05/18/2010 7:30:15 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: blam

If this was a fat finger incident, details would be known by now. I think there was a crash and somewho the feds moved in to shore it up. Not sure how many times they can do that.


7 posted on 05/18/2010 7:30:50 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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“who is currently in prison in Ft. Dix New Jersey”

Eh?


8 posted on 05/18/2010 7:30:52 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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“The famous market philosopher Martin Armstrong, who is currently in prison in Ft. Dix New Jersey”

It begs the question...


9 posted on 05/18/2010 7:31:07 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: blam

He does have a very good point.

As they say in TPB’s...

The Crapicane is coming!


10 posted on 05/18/2010 7:36:25 AM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: blam; tx_eggman
It's my opinion that is has happened every day since May 6th.

The "Plunge Protection Team" is using the $700B of unallocated TARP money to artificially prevent the crash.

Conspiracy theory? Extremely so.

But take a look at the charts for yourself.
11 posted on 05/18/2010 7:37:09 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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I’ve wondered if this is how the Romans felt when they saw the barbarian armies approaching.


12 posted on 05/18/2010 7:37:24 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I thought he raced bicycles? :)


13 posted on 05/18/2010 7:38:16 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: SpinnerWebb

Notice that the spike of activity is just before close... making all the numbers look nice and pretty for the day.

The next day, the market starts considerably lower.


14 posted on 05/18/2010 7:39:48 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: blam

Bad ticks are always revisited.

Armstrong is a cult figure but is a genius in some ways.


15 posted on 05/18/2010 7:43:08 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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Now we have prison market philosophers,

perverts, lefties and lesbians infest the government,

and Miss USA is a Muslim pole dancer/stripper contest winner,

yep, just move along, everything normal here!

16 posted on 05/18/2010 7:46:49 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: blam

I am extremely well diversified and somewhat hedged against individual currency problems and debt defaults.

Essentially, I own a certain fraction of the whole world, with a couple of conservative side-bets.

I’ll still own the same fraction of the world if there is a crash. The world will just be worth less, and so will I.

But I have ammo, lots of wild critters to eat, and a large fenced yard I farm and can defend. I’ll survive.


17 posted on 05/18/2010 7:50:02 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women; teabaggers"-0 Ageist Racist Sexist Homophobic)
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To: OldNavyVet
What’s he in prison for?

Knowing too much. And fraud.

18 posted on 05/18/2010 7:51:33 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: OldNavyVet

He is in prison for investment fraud. He is some kind of financial ‘genius’ and was a millionaire at age 15. He has published a lot on finance/democracy....

Wikipedia....has a lot more. Actually true or false..I don’t know.


19 posted on 05/18/2010 7:52:32 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: ChocChipCookie

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The barbarian invasions were massive shifts of “civilian” populations as well. Very much like the illegal invasion America is suffering from now.


20 posted on 05/18/2010 7:54:04 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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