We're Moving, Bitchezz.

Thanks for coming here the past 3 years!!

Yes, that's right, amazing, 3 years of doing the blog thing.

And THE blogspot did well for us, and now it's time to move on.

Seeing as I still don't know how to link here, although I just tried for the millionth time...

Here is the new spot: www.epicfaileconomy.com

Much love to you.

Will keep this site up 4eva, so the skeptics can come take a look at the record.

But likely, no more posts here.

Thank you Google, blogger is an amazing tool, no doubt, the go to spot for new bloggers.

See you all at the Epic Fail.

Peace & OUT!!

NYC First 24

New mates.















Heart beating faster!










Cash rules. King Dollar...??













Recession Pizza. Best ever. 43rd and 3rd.















Weather on the Ones. NY icon. Hot.







Four of the Eight Horseman.

...of the Apocalypse.

Thank you JPM Morgan!






Deutsche. Douche. Long Euros.









UBS. Long tax evasion.










Etrade. Long idiots.







Recession hits said bailed-out-bankers as Ferrari store near empty -ex Euros looking to unload worthless paper.



Church of Jobs. Our father who art in heaven, hallow be thy name...







Uptown. For the crown, baby...






Oddly enough, NBA store jammed... Long Yao Ming.








Prayer makes sense.

















Atlas shrugging.

I'm Lying to You

This is the most important book I've read and I'm only half-way through it.

The level of misinformation presented by Big Gov and Big Corporate and Big Media has reached catastrophic proportions.

But as Brad Blanton points out, IT'S ALL A LIE. All of it -at the individual level as well, and especially.

Moralism, he says, is killing us.

Our evolutionary predisposition to see truth as a permanent construct is killing us.

Truth changes in the moment, moment by moment. What is important is what is true NOW.

Our learned ability to fit into the mores of our culture, so as to not rock the boat, to be "good" boys and girls is KILLING us.

As children, to be "good", we start lying, and from there we create our "story" built on thousands of fabrications on top of that initial big lie: to be "good" boys and girls.

We carry around this tension, this stress from constantly lying all day, every day, selling ourselves, presenting our best face, never telling the truth.

This is killing us.

A big fucking lie. We are bullshitting each other all day long.

His solution: Start telling the truth. Everything. No withholding. To everyone.

Starting with anything left unsaid in your life ever. I believe this means basically telling off your parents.

Fuck you Mom and Dad!!

And then it means telling your partner everything. So, if you slept with your wife's best friend, you tell your wife all about it, how much fun it was...

Everything. Even your fantasies about your husband's co-worker that you want to fuck.

Let the chips fall...

You won't do it. And it will kill you (so he says).

Radical Honesty.

In our communication, we are constantly selling ourselves. How great we are, how pious, how exemplary, how much better we are than you.

Truth telling he says, is sharing, not selling.

Start telling the truth and you'll get "the unpleasant uncertainty of freedom". Start practicing it all the time, and you'll reach "the paradoxical state... of comfortable uncertainty."

You won't do it. You don't want freedom.

Maybe I don't either...

He does a great job of telling us why he wrote his book -basically to become famous and get power and to hate you. In that vein, I'm gonna do my thing here:

I wanna be famous too. I want to show you how fucking great I am, and how much better I am than you. I want your approval, I want you to love me and envy me at the same time. I want you to think I'm smarter, better looking, out of your league, way too fucking cool for you, way too rich for you...

I want you to read this, see my videos, and say, "Wow, that dude is advanced, quite evolved, I would love to have his approval, and his offspring!!"

I hate you. I am so fucking angry at everything.

I love you. I see beauty everywhere.

There.

I feel better already.

American Dream

An Australian mate just received his US citizenship. We were laughing about it this morning, asking why the fuck bother...

He's a film maker, living here 18 years, paying taxes, doing all the right things so it was no big deal to get the papers.

Yet, he sees the US collapse coming and has left a relatively healthy economy in Australia... and we both smile, what the fuck...

He was happy, and so was I. The American Dream lives.

Fascinating.

I have been blessed, and cursed, to work for a firm that has access to, or better yet is highly incentivized to get the Contrarian take on world affairs and markets.

Our view is this: The MSM is owned by the Corporations which rule the world, they are nation-states in their own right. Their main objective is to keep you numb, docile and believing everything is okay, fair and balanced, so they can keep selling their wares and looting Sovereign Treasuries.

We (I) are also biased in our worldview, our bias is to challenge anything coming out of the US government, or US media.

Therefore, if the the USG or BP or Goldman Sachs are telling you the truth, then we will be dead wrong in our assessment of world affairs.

An example I can share with you now in real time, is that while you may believe the BP well is capped and all is good, we believe that this is not true.

Why, you may ask? Well we have sources telling us otherwise and of much more massive leaks elsewhere (not on camera). But much more obvious to us than any evidence or credible sources is this:

Corporations are designed to lie to you. So, whatever they say, assume it is the opposite.

Ask Goldman Sach's clients...

Please also know this: The debates you have over this and that, are non-debates, they are smokescreens, distractions. Even the debates that seem real and do pull at your heart-strings like Gay Marriage and fake healthcare are all fucking smokescreens.

You are being manipulated, such that the real issues are never discussed.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild quote: "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."

Learn about this quote and this man, learn about the Federal Reserve, learn how all of it affects everything you do, how it controls you, makes a slave of you and me.

What is heartening though, is that many of you are not buying it either. Less and less of us are swallowing the nonsense that comes out of Big Media and our Dear Leaders.

Many of us realize we are the biggest Banana Republic.

We have Socialism for the rich and connected, awful governance, dumb media, an often ill-informed populace, and lead the league in obesity food product as well as pharmaceuticals to cure said strangely ill populace.

Disaster Capitalism.

Yet they come, they come from across the world, the best and brightest still come...

Why...

Well, contrary to what my firm would say (so now I'm Contrary to Contrarian which makes me mainstream..??) is this:

We are still better. We are still better than Communist China. We are still better than Socialist no-growth Europe. We are still better than no infrastructure India.

We are the least worst still. The New American Dream is "Still better than my home country."

Oye vey. The Dream Lives.

Here Comes The Liquidity Nuke

Feels like Big Ben is going for it!!

Print or die, bitchezz!!

Americans must take on more debt, must spend more, must consume more, must not let markets fall, must eat more fucking FOOD!! More fucking FOOOOOOOD!!!

Get ye gold while ye can, mates...

Shanti Shanti AngloGold Ashaaaaaaantiiiiii

Hare Ooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Friendly Reminder: Please Everyone Gently Stampede Toward Exits While Screaming. Thank You.

Please Everyone Calmly Scream and Simultaneously Run For The Exits Hair On Fire.

Are you enjoying the collapse of Western Style Banana Capitalism?

I for one, am very excited.

It seems that relentless money printing did not provide the expected stimulus.

How surprising!! Zero value was created.

No worries, I know the solution:

More printing!!

Destroyers Shall Not Be Fixers

Lack of private sector experience is making Obama mad.

It is commendable that he somehow avoided the Disaster Capitalism that made this country tick, but it's crushing him now.

Anyone that has spent a day in the rat race understands this:

If someone fucks up Royally (pun intended) then yes, they should be directed to clean up the mess, but NEVER given responsibility to DIRECT the clean-up.Common sense, if you ever did the Ratatouille...

The reason (and I can't believe I have to explain this to Commander):

The fuck-ups main incentive is to cover their ass, not fix the problem. Ergo, the Taxpayer Bank Bailout Massacre and BP Atlantic Ocean Top Kill.

I'm glad he's mad now. Three Step Solution:
1) Eliminate Geithner and Summers, bring in Volcker like you promised.
2) Eliminate BP, bring in the Russian Nuclear Navy
3) Eliminate your entire Cabinet.
Simple. Kick ass.

Last Week

It's Not Your Fault, Will.

No crying.

My argument, my complaint, my whining last post, has been pointed out to be a bit of a cry.

And way simplistic...

Looking back, it's true, I needed a good cry as the Atlantic Ocean was destroyed.

And I put all the blame on Obama which is patently ridiculous. This problem, this mindset, has been in the making for decades.

It's not your fault, Will! It's not your fault!!

This fucking problem we are having, with multiple species extinction, and oil blob Hampton vacays, is symbolic, is karmically appropriate for our time, and it boils down to this...

We are completely unconscious.

We have no reverence for anything. We want cheap oil so we can get to the job we hate, so we can buy the huge fucking TV, such that we can go completely numb to everything.

American Idol, Dancing With the Dead Dolphins, whatever the fuck the distraction du jour is, gimme some of that, baby! My job sucks and my marriage has become a fucking suicide pact, gimme some facebook status updates!

Oooooooohhhh, calm down guy, take it easy, we all deserve a break, it will all be allright, we don't need to understand any of this... Eighth grade math and fourth grade science are unimportant.. With a liberal arts education, you can have it all!

Look, Obama did not cause any of this, not even close, and he was on the right side of most of these issues before he took command. And he is taking the No-Drama analytical approach which is exactly what he ran on, this is exactly what he promised.

But like the banking implosion, his analytic model is this: let the destroyers be the fixers because hey, this is too fucking complicated, they know best... Thank you Henry Paulson. TARP/ ZIRP was the greatest thing ever for Goldman Sachs and what is good for Goldman has obviously been great for mankind! Look at how great things are now. We did it, America!

Irrationally, I was looking for a bit of drama. Sometimes we need some fucking drama. As Spike Lee said, "Go off!" PR matters, it's energy, it's vibration. It fucking matters.

Bill Clinton... fuck even George W. Bush, would have been down there in waders pulling dolphins out of the ocean, tears welling up.

This country needs exactly this: take BP by the fucking neck, say, "Hey fucko, you're done here, Exxon owns you if they can plug this thing, and even if they cannot, you're still done, in all sincerity, go fuck yourself, good luck in prison. No tears."

My best of friends says PR is irrelevant, what matters is practically fixing the problem, and that cutting down Obama is both way simplistic and counter-productive. He's right, realistically, practically... there is nothing Obama can do about this disaster that is years in the making.

Obama was and maybe still is our last hope. He needs our support, and I support our President as I support this amazing country where I get to make my case and project my voice at full volume.

What does matter is this. The country needs him to lead. Go Drama! Stand the fuck up, make us believe this is being handled, so we can get on with it.

Lead.

Stand up to the Corporate Disaster that has marked your Presidency. Risk it all. Risk impeachment. Risk your legacy. At this point, you have absolutely nothing to lose.

Obama Will Not Save You...

I voted for him too...

Just another Corporatist.

Bank bailouts and BP...

Clueless.

Not that smart, not that conscious. I thought he was our first conscious President...

I was so wrong.

Actually, our founders were the most conscious: Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton; they were real mystics, connected to truth, they knew we were all one, and we were all fallible.

Limited government, limited power.

Obama, it turns out, is not that connected. He faked me out too. My apologies.

He's done...

At the time, he was the best choice, no doubt. Unless you voted for Ron Paul or Ralph Nader, then you are true Patriots and we will look to your wisdom next time.

As a matter of fact, those that voted for Paul and Nader last time should be the only only ones allowed to vote next time.

I am forfeiting my voting rights.

Paul voters on the Right and Nader voters on the Left get to vote. Anything in between, i.e. McCain or Obama voters, we failed the IQ test, we're all banned for at least 10 years.

Party Repubs and Dems alike are both the worst, most malignant forms of Corporatism out there.

We need to clean house ASAP.

I forfeit my right to vote for 10 years. I've completely opted out. Good luck, America

The system is imploding any way, fuck it...

Happy Memorial Day, remember the soldiers please, and have fun this Summer.

It's not individuals that are failing, it's governments, we'll get a new one soon, so keep on keeping on.

Hare Om.

Mutually Assured Default

posted last week on fb, btw.

Run For The Hills.

Hi there.

I have a bigger responsibility here, I'm finding...

First of all, anyone that tells you they know what the future holds is lying to you.

Including me!!

I only speak in probabilities, please understand. If you're new here, some background is in order, so here ya go:

I've been involved in the financial markets on and off for 10+ years. What a fucking 10 years!!

I've seen multiple cycles, mini-bull and mini-bear markets within the context of the long-term bear.

I remember my first "real job" as a back office supplier to Merrill Lynch in the late 90's walking into the brand new World Financial Center in the World Trade Center.

In my too-big suit from Century 21, I was a mini-baller, I thought... 22 years old, clueless, scared shitless, I never made it onto the trading floor...

Not once did I think I'd ever have a shot at working there...

Seven years later, I was broker at Merrill Lynch. Five years prior to that, the World Trade Center was annihilated. Four years after Merrill hired me, I had quit, gone to India, returned and was shorting their stock into oblivion.

Dream, reality, nightmare, void. Repeat.

I've enjoyed the ride: the 2003 free money dot.bounce, worked the 2007 glitch, traded the 2008 collapse, worked the 2009 run, the just happened 2010 flash crash, traded them all.

I am a student of Mandelbrot/ Taleb and chaos. I believe there is far more risk in markets than people believe. I believe the bell curve and all it's corresponding bullshit is inapplicable to anything that goes on here. So Modern Portfolio Theory, standard deviations and 99% of the Nobel Prize nonsense that comes out of Wall Street is a sales pitch and ridiculous.

But like I said, I can only speak in probabilities.

I have no fucking clue what will happen next...

My guess is this:

Big leg down. I believe the European banks are facing the same liquidity concerns the US banks were facing in 2008, overnight lending not happening and what-not. The Euro makes no sense, the markets know this.

Of course, anything can happen, the market can rally here, it's just robots trading against each other and they'll take it wherever they want because they're fucking robots. Also, the Fed/ECB could announce another trillion dollar rescue. What's another trillion at this point...?? And it's off to the races.

And I do believe there are great things happening in this country, but the debt overhang is too big. The math does not work. So what I'm saying is: if you own stocks AND YOU NEED THE MONEY ANY TIME IN THE NEXT YEAR, sell them, get out, you had a great bounce.

Run for the hills.

I want you to be successful, I want you to be happy. The stock market is not for you. Period.

Gold, Apple and some cash, that's it. We're gonna do a down and up. Hyperinflation is the end game I believe, but for now, play it safe, and I promise to do my best to get you back in when it's time

But at the end of the day, it's your money. Keep that in mind and you'll be fine.

There that's it, let's talk kundalini yoga now.

And forever.

BFFs

Gold - 100 Oz (Comex) $1,235 Change +33.80

Enjoy Yourself

Everything's Fine

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

Market gyrations down 1000 up 700 in 5 minutes are totally the new, new thing. No worries, mate.

Everything's fine.

Robots have taken over the Capital Markets. Skynet v. the three humans left trading. The Singularity is here.

So better to focus on Kundalini yoga. Or focus on your inside game. Or build your bunker. Or open a vegan hot dog stand.

Or enjoy a deeply discounted trip to Europe.
I for one will focus on Kundalini yoga.

Kundalinis wear white because it attracts all the colors of the spectrum and has higher vibration/ aura.

People in LA wear white because:
a) we are not clinically depressed
b) we are all Kundalini yoga teachers
c) we are all aura sensitive
d) all of the above

The correct answer is d) all of the above.

Actual Human Interaction Might Make Sense At Some Point... Just Sayin'.

Kundalini Woman

This radiant earth being just taught the most fun yoga class I've had in several years, and believe me, I've had some fun fucking yoga classes in my lifetime. She may have the happiest energy I've ever felt in another radiant earth being.

We were doing nonstop crazy Kundalini breathing shit, and I could not stop smiling even though it was killing me.

I am high still, my sushumna nadi is f-cking alive again! Ridiculous.

Here is a little treat for you: the definition of sushumna straight out of mutha-f-ing wikipedia. You're welcome.

Sushumna (alternatively known as Susumna) Nadi connects the base chakra to the crown chakra. It is very important in Yoga and Tantra in general. Alternative medicine also refers to Sushumna sometimes. In Raja Yoga or Yoga of Patanjali, when the mind is quietened through Yama, Niyama, Asana and Pranayama the important state of Pratyahara begins. A person entering this state never complains of Dispersion of Mind. This is characterised by observing the movements/jerks in Sushumna, the central canal in the subtle body. The movements indicate the flow of Prana through the central canal and in the process, the sushumna makes the way for the ascent of Kundalini.

Pratyhara, Kundalini Woman, I love you!!

Feel good, feel alive, Sat Nam.

And enjoy vid 4:

India. Hot.

This blog got its legs when it went from an options trading blog that no one read to an India travelogue that my mother read. The several months I was blessed to spend in the Mother Country still defines and propels me as it does many of my LA yoga brothers and sisters.

So I am super excited to be at the center of India and big media this weekend at The LA Indian Film Festival Shanti Vortex.

"Shanti Vortex" I added. When you Google it, feel free to subtract/add Shanti Vortex.

As I've written, India sucks.

And India is the greatest place you can be.

India is so fucking hard. India is the sweetest place on earth. India, you want to leave as soon as you arrive in Mumbai/ Delhi after your 24 hour flight. India is all you talk about when you're home.

The poverty disgusts you. The happiness makes you question your materialism. You question it still two years later...

They say in the West we are always looking at the guy ahead of us saying why can't I have that? In India the guy in the gutter sees the other guy further downstream and says thank you, thank you, thank you I'm not that guy.

The Indian economy is ripping. The India meme is full on. See Julia in Eat, Pray, Love this Summer. See Bollywood. See what comes after that...

See Oscar.

I wish you all a shanti weekend. If in LA, come see this movie with me.

And enjoy the vid.

Media Here or There

Hello radiant earth beings. Namaste from planet Venice Beach.

Here is what is happening here and there. We are going inside, we are doing the vignettes as promised. Change comes inside out, so we start here and it gets out there. This is also my process, I thank you for letting me articulate and DO it here for you.

The vid here is being cut off on the right, so noted. The response here and on facebook has been kind so we will continue posting it here and there but obv they have a better platform for viewing it.

With that a few things to pay attention to:

1) Social Media/ Marketing is booming: no brainer: have something going on in this space to promote your personal brand. Facebook will continue to be one of the most important tools/ phenomena for the coming decade. However, not widely known: Be different and avoid over-selling/ over-exposure there or here. We don't wanna hear from you 10 times a day: why FB trumps Twitter.

2) The elite banking system which I've railed against for the past few years is starting to finally unravel with the Goldman Sachs Cuomo case. Thanks to Matt Taibbi, Gretchen Morgenson, Louise Story, Mike Lewis and most importantly to all the bloggers out there who kept at it, such that the zeitgest moved and pop media had to cover it.

Truth telling works. I have no illusions that Fab Fabrice will be the fall guy, but the truth is now widely known. IBanking is broken and kind of evil. Back to private firms, partnerships where accountability trumped under bus throwing.

3) The US is coming back. We will undoubtedly default; outright or via money printing, most likely the latter, but asset prices will rise, companies are crushing it like AAPL, and the Google move out of China, best move of all time, that stock goes much higher. Facebook, Twitter IPOs will push Tech higher. Our strategic default has already led to asset price inflation across the board. Where's the inflation? Right there, genius. Asset holders and wealth creators will prosper, middle class, poor will suffer per usual. But a growing economy will lift most boats.

4) Obama will have a major geopolitical crisis to deal with, and like the financial crisis, he may look like an idiot at first, and then be vindicated, he has proven way craftier that I gave him credit for (Cuomo is his guy). He will go down as an all time great and I will eat a lot of my recent words about him, but my vote for him will also be vindicated.

The invisible hand in the market is his. When he said buy stocks last March, he meant it, markets go higher until he says otherwise. Fat Tony (see Taleb) knows this.

5) The higher consciousness business is booming, be it yoga, holistic health, conscious media, clean energy or higher social utility media, you need to be in the space as a provider, shareholder or customer or all three.

6) Alternative banking is booming. Step in, be the bank, plenty of great projects to fund, traditional bankers sitting on their fat hands.

7) Hollywood is booming. Make a movie, bypass the studio (studios are like IBanks).

8) That's it. Enjoy the vid.

In Sane

video coming late March/ early April

Thank you for your patience. 2010 great year thus far. The time is now. This is it.

Will pick up the slack with more posts in the coming days.

Be well, be present.

Otherwise Kali will chop your fucking head off.