Be alert for a lot of new posters today that will show up in the mod queue, awaiting approval.  Lots of lurkers may want to wish TF a happy birthday.  I just approved a couple, and I expect there will be more.

AND TO ALL:

Happy Birthday!!!  Not just to TF, but to this entire community.  It's been an interesting year, and it seems things will just get more and more "interestinger".

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Happy Birthday! This is by far the best site on the net. I learn more and more every day. Thanks again Turd, my family owes you bigtime.

And keep up the good work!

Friendly advice for Year 2: ignore the naysayers. When something evil appears to be happening in the financial markets, yours is *the* go-to site for honest, open-minded discussion of the motives and potnetial ramifications of the obvious malfeasance we're subjected to by the greedy, sociopathic scum who run the show. Everything else, including your fine TA, is gravy!

To one heck of a year!  Life wouldn't be the same without this place.

Happy 1st Birthday TF and all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

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Happy Birthday TFMR!

@Turd - I don, know Mr. Bones. What is the most important of markets telling us?

(Cpnscarlet - willing to be a straight man for anyone).

I just noticed that Turd opened this thread at 9:16 AM.  Then, I look at Kitco for PM prices and I see they stepped off a cliff.  I don't have access to a minute by minute chart, but something looks a little hinkey.  You don't suppose the B-cup Barracuda is trying to send Turd a message.  She still hasn't gotten over him rejecting her advances.

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From all the residents of "Atomic Avenue" -

FX markets are bracing for the swiss peg to give, the Swiss came out today adamant it will defend it. Reminds me of Ireland not needing a bailout, Spain being fine etc, etc.

I think it more likely that Syriza will win a majority in Greece, then the poo starts flying. (Unless they are compromised or liars, imagine that!)

A very happy birthday to "King Turd" and all of us minions.

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Lately i am playing with the thought that despite what the whole world hopes for and thinks, the FED will not deliver a new overt QE program.

I think the end game of the banking cartel (and the people behind the scenes) is to create the problem (imploding financial system, derivative bomb etc) and then hand out the solution: a new global financial system, 100% electronical fiat with them at the steering wheel. Every country that is like Greece is today, has to either accept this new system or be destroyed due to their debt burden.

In order to achieve that, they will need a certain critical mass of countries that will have no other option than to accept the new world currency after their economies collapsed. The big question is, did they already get to that point.

In any case, i think Romney has been chosen behind the scenes to lead the US to the cliff, and what better way to achieve this than to crash the economy even more than today.

This line of thinking would also answer one of my questions right from the start: why would it be that a seemingly intelligent guy like Bernanke would do things that a 3 year old would understand to be wrong...We usually tell ourselves he is arrogant, stupid, or clueless, but somehow i never took that answer for granted.

Now, if all of the above is true, it would mean an imploding Europe, with Japan and US following soon. It would imply massive bank runs, only to find out that whatever we stuffed under our matresses will have no value after all.

It would mean, to keep stacking......

114 points already on what??? sniffing QE fumes????