Morning Audibles

OK... Since I'm typing this in advance of THE MOST IMPORTANT NFP NUMBER IN HISTORY... I thought I wouldn't take any chances that it might, just might, be fraudulent, prepared by criminals, assembled only to blow smoke up your @ss, end up not being what the market trades on at all...

I mean really... WTF cares? You'd have made a lot more money if you took my advice last night and laid 10 points with the "Dog Killers" against the Texans, or "taken the 4 points" with the Arizona State Sundevils playing Arizona (the Pac-10 conference - fixing college football games since 1959)...

Alright... I'll just dip my big soup ladel in the pot here and slop you up enough mush to hopefully keep you busy over the weekend while you're NOT reading my NCAA & NFL handicaps or look at the winning totals...

Who are the "Black Swans" playing this weekend, I wonder?...

I know it's hard to get through MCC (and why is she looking like Dolph Lundgren these days)?... But if you manage to do that, your reward is getting to see Taleb basically call the Bernank an @sshat... Little rewards are all you get these days Romans... (Wasn't it Nero who started clipping coins)?...

On that note:

Hong Kong Experiences Fake Gold Scam

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46867/

EXCERPT:
"A high-tech scam unfolded in Hong Kong, after at least 200 ounces of fake gold was discovered by a group of jewelers."

Looks like a job for:

"The counterfeit gold was reported to have a street value of about $280,000, according to the Financial Times. While the discovered amount is small, some analysts believe it may be just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger counterfeit metals operation..."

"The fake gold used a pure gold coating to mask an alloy with similar properties to real gold. The metal included 51 percent of the bullion, mixed with seven other metals."

A "high tech scam"? I don't see anything wrong with that... These guys do it all the time:

Fed Officials Say Easing Policy Can Be Calibrated

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40487827

EXCERPT:"The U.S. Federal Reserve's controversial $600 billion bond buying program is subject to regular review and can be adjusted if needed, top Fed officials said on Thursday."


"We should not be the Politburo and we should not be indecipherable," he told reporters after speaking to economists in Washington."

Did someone just use "NOT" and "POLITBURO" in the same sentence? Let's ask these guys (who, like Hong Kong Jewelers, Pac-10 refs, FRB presidents, and Chicago politicians, also know how to "fix" things)...

China Announces Shift to 'Prudent' Monetary Policy

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40486747

EXCERPT:
"China will switch to a prudent monetary policy from a moderately loose stance, the Communist Party's top leaders decided on Friday, a change that could pave the way for more interest rate increases and lending controls, the state Xinhua news agency reported on Friday..."

"At the same time, the Politburo elected to maintain China's proactive fiscal policy, an indication that the government wants to continue to ramp up investment spending at the same time as taking tightening steps to control inflation."

Read that last sentence over, and over, and over, until your eyes turn into pinwheels (and there's that word "politburo" again)...
Oh... and by the way... If you were looking for something honest... Today's version has it that you have to go to Switzerland...

WikiLeaks Moves Its Website to Switzerland After Domain Service Is Cut Off

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-03/wikileaks-site-inaccessible-after-being-cut-off-by-internet-domain-service.html

(Gratuitous Buxom Swiss Miss foto - the thing that makes this blog readable)

The takeaway from all of this (from the very top of the thread) is... If you're "high tech" enough to counterfit a lot of money (whether it be gold bars, FRN's, fake "growth", or fake "employment"), you can use the booty of all that to buy yourself some politicians who order you not to talk about what happened...

Joe Lieberman's Campaign To Trample The First Amendment Is Proceeding Right On Schedule

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/joe-liebermans-campaign-trample-first-amendment-proceeding-right-schedule

EXCERPT:"As if it wasn't enough that America's ruling oligarchs were sufficiently happy with abdicating their governing duties to the Federal Reserve, they have now decided to imitate China in every possible way..."


"After Joe Lieberman made a mockery of Internet freedom of speech (and of Amazon's independence) he has now decided to step up his campaign against un-coopted journalists everywhere, precisely as we suspected would happen next in the USSA. Per MSNBC, the Independent Connecticut senator has told Tableau, a Seattle company that allows Web users to post charts, to remove several charts describing the release of WikiLeaks material"

If, by now you're so confused that you DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK... Then actually, there's help! There are blogs on the internet who specifically cater to people who don't know how to think... I'd start at TWSWB's crib, and then hustle yourself over to all the TWSWB "parrots" who will serve you milk and cookies while you agree...

Oh... and if you're wondering why Assange hasn't been nabbed yet... Well, last I heard he was in southern England... And they were hot on his tail...