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One Dam Metaphor for the 2012 Global Financial System
What do you do when flood waters threaten the dam? If you’re the Federal Reserve, you close the floodgates and let the water rise.
Metaphors have an uncanny ability to capture the essence of complex situations. Here is one dam metaphor that distills and explains the entire global financial system in 2012. The way to visualize the current situation is to imagine a dam holding back rising storm waters.
The dam is the regulatory system, the rule of law, trust in the transparency and fairness of the system and the machinery of perception management. All of these work to keep risk, fraud and excesses of speculation and leverage from unleashing a destructive wave of financial instability on the real economy below.
As legitimate regulation and transparency have been replaced with simulacra and manipulated data, the dam’s internal strength has been seriously weakened.
Depending on how you date various rivers of financialization, water has been piling up behind the dam since either 1982, 1992 or 2000. In this metaphor, the water is comprised of multiple sources of destabilization: rising money supply, debt, speculation, leverage, fraud, shadow banking and lax regulation.
Common sense suggests that water rising to dangerous levels would trigger an official response of opening the floodgates to relieve the pressure. Unfortunately for the real economy, common sense has nothing to do with the official response of central governments and banks. Their entire raison d’etre (reason to be) is self-preservation and the preservation of the financial Elites that set the context and policy of the State and central bank.
In effect, the State and central bank recognize that it is highly dangerous to let any water out, lest the toxic waste of fraud, speculative incentives, excessive leverage, etc. corrode the spillway and cause the entire dam to give way.
The official rationalization for keeping the gates closed even as the water is rising to the very lip of the dam is that the flood water released might harm the real economy downstream. (more…)
The Goldman Sachs Careers Page
Look, I help my readers out. Here’s the Goldman Sachs “Careers” part of their website.
Be sure to tell them that you read this blog religiously — and you’ll be so in.
One more thing, here are the Do’s and Don’ts for your Goldman internship:
No matter where your summer experience takes you, you can benefit from these useful tips and hints. They may seem simple, but your colleagues will notice if you aren’t acting on them.The Do’s
* Be eager for a challenge
* Be yourself
* Be open-minded
* Be on time
* Know the dress code
* Observe and ask thoughtful questions
* Treat everyone you meet with respect and professionalism
* Understand that everyone makes mistakes
* Carry a notebook with you at all times
* Pay attention to the details
* Be proactive
* Show energy and interest
* Set goals for yourself
The Don’ts* Let a bad day get you down
* Take on more than you can handle
* Pretend to know something you don’t
* Have nothing to do
* Ask everyone the same questions
* Take yourself too seriously
* Talk negatively about co-workers
* Focus all of your attention on senior management
* Bring your personal life into the office
* Surf the web all day (BWAHAHAHAHA – Eddy)
* Spend working hours on social networking sites or texting friends
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20 years of confluence
An Interview with a Modern Day Nicolas Darvas
Don’t Miss to Watch 3 VIDEO’s
Who is Dan Zanger?
Dan Zanger is the modern day version of Nicolas Darvas.
His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock explode across the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1. He made his first purchase and sold the stock a few weeks later at over $3. From that sale on, he was hooked on the action of the market tape, usually carrying a quotetrek with him to stay up on stock prices on his jobs in Beverly Hills as an independent contractor building swimming pools. (more…)
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Standard & Poor’s 500 Guide, 2013 Edition
It’s commonplace for authors to write revised editions of their books. But book reviewers are not supposed to serve up revised editions of their reviews. The former are billed as new and improved; the latter seem nothing more than warmed-up fare. The problem is that sometimes it’s difficult to start from scratch when reviewing a book that, while completely new, is also identical in structure. Such is the case with the 2013 edition of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Guide. So, with apologies, herewith a revised edition of last year’s review.
This is a very big paperback—8 ½” x 11”, more than 1000 pages, and weighing in at about 4.5 lbs. With so much information available online, why would anyone need this book? I can think of several compelling reasons.
First, a personal preference: I enjoy flipping through pages, making serendipitous discoveries. (The one downside this year: thanks to UPS, the bottom of the book got wet, so the pages don’t exactly flip.) I don’t have the same kind of experience online since I normally am looking for something specific, not just seeing what comes my way. (more…)
13 Risk Perception Factors
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