Igor The Troll

The “change” that Barack Obama has promised us is nothing more than a campaign slogan. While change is desired, it is very difficult to implement. Nobody needs ideological change, but we all want practical change. The later takes time and lots of work.

I am happy to say that Obama’s administration is beginning to take shape. It is being assembled of moderates from Clinton’s administration. I am also elated that the extreme liberal wing nuts that supported Obama during the campaign trail are not being included in this administration.

Let us all hope that the next 4 or 8 years are going to be taken in stride and caution. No one needs radicalism. American economy is not some “Hot IPO” that needs to skyrocket in growth. A little economic austerity is not going to hurt anyone. We need to learn how to be frugal and not live beyond what is reasonable. Let us all deflate our grandeur expectations and come down to reality!

As far as American political situation with the rest of the world goes, it will take time to resolve and stabilize relationships. It is not as simple as let’s bring American troops home and disengage from the Middle East. America has been in the Middle East for around 60 years now, and will still be there for a long time to come. While many people mistakenly think it is about Israel, it is not! It is about Oil and America’s stable supply of it. America serves as a protector and a conduit to all the parties involved in the Middle East equation.

Barack Obama I hope you can steer the American ship gently through the rough Geopolitical waters. You do not turn around a Great Ship like America 180 degrees and not expect grave ramifications. Do you want Titanic on your hands? So as long as you adhere to the advice of moderate politicians we will recover from these turbulent and complex times. But if you diverge from modernism to radical social liberalism, regulating and constraining American society and economy, you will find a lot of opposition and enemies on your hands.

So please do not rock the boat, and we as the society will get through these difficult times.

Barack Obama says Iran is not dangerous, that it is just a tiny country! Mr. Obama is this your wishful thinking, or are you just being a politician spreading lies and fallacies to get support from your constituents?

With the world economy at the brink of collapse FRB - Greenspan and Company are trying to resuscitate the patient living on life support. The Zombies which are the banks, insurance companies, and brokerage houses are all lined up to receive oxygen - Dollars before they mortally die bring the world economy to a stand still.

Some people say Allen Greenspan is not responsible for this economic collapse, but I vehemently differ. Greenspan has created a real estate bubble by keeping short term interbank rates low all through the Bush administration’s two terms, hence creating an oversupply of liquidity. Too much easy money allowed ignorant borrowers to borrow and buy houses with almost no down payment. The greedy banks more than welcomed to land to these subpar credit borrowers, thinking they discovered the fountain of youth! Money pured out from the facet until housing prices started falling down! Too late the banking system was infected with a perpetual cancer, because falling housing price made the properties worth less than the actual mortgages. Smart consumer realizing this readily defaulted on the loans!

Banks and Brokerage houses holding the Derivative Mortgages and insurance as Credit Default Swaps obligation fell to their knees. Bear Stern collapsed and was picked up by JP Morgan avoiding bankruptcy. Not far latter Lehman Brothers filed for chapter 11 bringing down AIG to its knees. Freddy Mac and Fanny May were nationalized by the USA government. There is more, much more, and the consumers are begining to feel the pain now with layoffs and unemployment. When is this Beast is going to be contained? In Japan the real estate bubble happened 20 years ago, and the economy has not been fixed yet!

This is not the first time Grreenspan screws up. During the IT bubble of the 90’s he waited to long before he raised the short term interest rates causing the Nasdaq to inflate to about 5,000 before it dropped to around 2,000. Retail investors wind up holding the bag and accumulating large loses to their 401 K portfolios.

It is FRB’s job to make sure the economy does not overheat and to help the economy not to fall into the recession by increasing M 1 and M 2 money supply.

Did Allen Greenspan fall asleep at the wheel or did the Bush administration forced him to spur the economy forward to take the attention off the unpopular war in Iraq? If American people are happy economically they do not care much about a War in some faraway place!

Greenspan Pumping Life into the Zombies

Artwork by Noah David Simon

Loren Feldman The Puppet from 1938media interviews Michael Arrington from Techcrunch about VC - Venture Capitalist market. Michael Arrington complains about him losing money in Seesmic video platform run by Loic Lemeur and Twitter. Looks like the Web 2.0 investments are going down the drain! Flush, Flush, Flush down the toilet for the Social Media Bubble!

Iran is a threat to the whole world! Iran has medium and long range missiles that can reach Israel, Turkey, Greece, and other European nations! Iran is working on developing a nuclear weapon!

Is America attacking Iran pragmatic and even feasible? as soon is Iran knowns it is going to be attacked it will start attacking Israel an Europe with its ballistic missiles! Iran will attack the Strait of Hormuz making the channel unnavigable!

America attacking Iran is a disaster waiting to happen! It will force oil to 500 usd a barrel. It will create chaos in global economy with collapse of world’s stock markets!