That Is All

Yeah, okay the longs (me) are getting smoked today. Sorry.

Not really.

The previous call below is now down. The easy thing to do if you know me is mea culpa: I'm wrong, get short, move on.

No.

QE 3-100 is inevitable. And yeah, maybe you take a beating for a month, but you do NOT want US cash.

That is the bubble. Repeat. The US Dollar is the bubble

Gold, always working, that's the old/new reserve currency.

I am reversing one trade below as I actually looked at the pricing and did the due diligence.

*Long Facebook at any price.

Everything else is as is, stay long, stay strong.

Uncle Ben will not let you down.

That is all.

Macro-Managed is the New Micro

Panic?

No way.

The only thing that pisses me off about losing all the epicfaileconomy posts is that I was on the record like 12 separate times telling you to buy stocks, or buy the dip, or buy the f--king dip.

That wasn't an easy call then, it's actually easier now...

This is the most managed tape I've ever seen, you get about a 5% correction then you need to start thinking about getting long again.

The US Dollar is going way, way lower, and that is something that still so many people are not getting.

Gold is great here. The margin hikes on Silver knocking it down 20% are a f--king gift. Buy as much Silver and as much Gold as you can.

If you can't stomach the corrections, stomach it.

You do not want US Dollars until we start selling assets like the Grand Canyon.

The dip. Buy it.

Here's a great pairs trade if you fear the crash: Long AAPL, short LNKD.
Here's another when available: Long Twitter, short Facebook.
Buy the silver miners here: First Majestic: AG.

Buy gold bullion, hold it forever.

We're Back, Fuckerzz.

Well that worked out well...

Okay, so we've come full circle after a massive total meltdown fail @ epicfaileconomy.

Long story short: we pulled a piece of code out and the site went into an infinite loop of death. After months, several attempts at recovery with the Godaddy people, and then flat out quitting, we just this Friday were able to recover it, and now have a simple landing page there.

We are not fucking with it. Because the problems seen to recur when we revert to the old template and actually start blogging.

Several other reasons have brought us back here to the yogatrader @ blogspot:

1) Yogatrader is an awesome name. And this site still has decent Google ranking even after a prolonged absence.

2) The term "epic" is so over-used at this point that epic is no longer epic. We'd need to start a new site called colossal-epic-mess-disaster-fail-economy.

3) The whole "Living is Failing" meme is now so obvious that we'd rather not beat a dead horse/ human.

4) We want to keep it positive, the epicfail was cathartic and necessary. We believe we were part of an army of truthy-tellers that kind of won the war. Matt Taibbi, Zerohedge and Al Jazeera now have more credibility than the MSM. This was not the case just a few years ago.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

Not really.

Nothing has changed at the top and likely it never will, but something huge is obviously happening globally. That something is that nobody believes anything the MSM or the Corporatocracy/Gov't says anymore, and that is victory enough. That is a big shift since we started the Crusades here in 2007.

Mary Magdaline is the wife of Christ, mother to the Christ-daughter-child FYI (the original cover-up).

5) Finally, while we do not plan to post with the intensity we did at the Fail, there is still a need for non-insane financial advice and we will give it to you here.

Obviously, we enjoy the process as well, so we thank you for coming back.

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.