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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Boehner Releases Revised Plan: To Cut $91.7 Billion Each Year For A Decade, Buys 4 Months Before Next Debt Ceiling Hike

The epic revision in the just revised Boehner plan is to cut a grand total of ... $91.7 billion per year for 10 years (back-end loaded of course: 2012 will see just $22 billion in cuts - can't have any real cuts too early or else). The spin is that this is sufficient because the $917 billion in cuts is more than the proposed $900 billion debt ceiling hike, so all shall be well. Of course that is only part one of the two-part debt ceiling hike process. The next step is a $1.8 trillion cut to "protect programs like Medicare and Social Security from bankruptcy." The problem is that Boehner continues along the path of a two-step debt hike, a formulation that Obama will never agree to, since it effectively guarantees him no-reelection chance, as the last thing the people will want is the same bickering as we are experiencing every day again some time in 2012, when the current $900 billion in incremental debt capacity runs out. And actually, with the US debt already $300 billion below trendline and with the government's two pension funds already plundered by a like amount (which means they have a net IOU position), it means that the Boehner plan really buys only $600 billion of dry powder. At a burn rate of $150 billion a month, this means the first step of the Boehner plan buys precisely 4 months before the debt ceiling has to be raised again! Oh yes, this plan also guarantees at least a one notch downgrade to the US debt, with more notches coming up before the end of the year when this whole farce is repeated.

Harvey Organ, Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Greece Downgraded by S and P/ Economy continues to soften/ Vintage gold and silver raid

Gold to $1,750 soon, Cazenove's Griffiths tells King World News

Today's Politically Incorrect Laugh:
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"On The Beach Getting Tan And Sipping Corona, We Got A Monetary Plan-- And It Involves A Lot Of Toner..."

Yo, we up in the Fed and we living in style
Spending lots of money while we sipping crystal
still making it rain and yeah it be so pleasing
wait, not making it rain-- we be "Quantitative Easing!"
QE1, QE2 QE4, QE3 Dropping IOU's
in every fund that I see
printing the cash inflating the monies
callin up China "a-yo we straight out of 20's!"
in the club we be louding out
while to the market, yeah we be crowding out
on the beach getting tan and sipping Corona
we got a monetary plan-- and it involves a lot of toner...

White House Says Treasury Will Be "Running On Fumes" Shortly

Contrary to calculations performed by Barclays and other analysts (including Stone McCarthy first presented on Zero Hedge), which speculated that the Treasury would have enough cash to last it through August 15th due to an increase in tax receipt, the White House's press secretary Jay Carney said that the Treasury will be "running on fumes" if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2, naturally adding the traditional doomsday phrase that it is a "crisis situation." He had also added previously that tax revenues are not coming at an accelerated pace and that the cash will not last longer than Tim Geithner's original forecast of August 2. As the chart below shows the Treasury had $75 billion in cash as of last night, and will raise another $55 billion in net cash over upon settlement of this week's auctions. In other words, Geithner now predicts that the pro forma cash of $130 billion will last the US just one week. Well, at least we can see what the source of all the problems is.

Guest Post: In The Land Of Self-Interested Pygmies, No One Advocates For The Nation

The great cold lie at the heart of present-day America is that the nation will magically benefit if we each single-mindedly pursue our self-interest to the exclusion of all else. The idea has a sleek quasi-free-market sheen, as it borrows the market's "invisible hand" and applies it to social, fiscal and environmental policies. That is a magical-thinking fantasy. If I pursued only my own self-interest, I would dump the toxic effluent from my factory right into the river ( a la China's very laissez faire economy) while I lived far away in an exclusive community far from the stench and poisons. Why pay for costly remediation when the "free" river beckons? After all, it all works out wonderfully if we each pursue our own self-interest with methodical, nay maniacal, single-mindedness. (Recall that rivers in America caught fire in the 1960s, before environmental regulations limited corporate self-interest.) "The good of the nation" is now a code-phrase for "good for me, and to heck with the country at large." Every self-serving fiefdom, every self-serving cartel and every self-serving constituency (a.k.a. special interest) claims that its pathetically obvious self-serving lobbying "serves the national interest." It's all lies, blatant emotional manipulation of the vilest, crassest sort. Yet we as a nation have sunk so low that the entire notion of a national interest which doesn't benefit a powerful lobby or constituency has been lost. We are now a nation of self-interested pygmies, blind to any national interest that isn't devoted to enriching us personally.

ES Volume Surges At Close As $3.3 Billion Sale Hits The Tape

It appears someone rather big just couldn't wait until the debt ceiling resolution was found, and instead decided that defection is the better part of a ponzified game theory. As such, just after the last second of trading, they dumped about $3 billion worth in ES. In the last tick, or just after, over 65k contracts of ES were sold at $50k per. Obama better find a resolution tomorrow or this dumpathon will be a humble appetizer of what is coming up.