Anonymous Blogger Speculates Spanish GDP Is Inflated By €40 Billion, Goldman Gets Involved

Yesterday we received a report submitted from a Spanish blogger who wishes to remain anonymous, in which the author, in 7 brief pages, describes why in his view Spain's GDP is massively overrepresented (and coming just before Moody's downgrade of Spain earlier today). The report (attached below) provides extensive validation for this hypothesis using employment data, information from the service sector, construction output, industry data and foreign sector data. The various data lead the author to observe that: "ΔNational Income= ΔDemand of goods + ΔDemand of services = -56,392 – 11,115 = -67,507 million €, which means a fall of GDP by 24.6% for the biennium 2008-2009." As for where this gets really interesting, is the fact that none other than Goldman has immediately issued a rebuttal of the report. Permabull Erik Nielsen has just released a statement in which he says the report is not to be believed at all, as it "makes little sense." Why is Goldman protesting so much, and focusing on an anonymous report if it has so little credibility?

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Spanish_GDP_report.pdf

$35 Billion 5 Year Auction Prices At Fresh New Record Low Yield Of 1.26%, 2.96 Bid To Cover

The demand for Tim Geithner paper continues to be insatiable, as today's 5 Year auction prices at an all time low yield of 1.26%, a drop from the previous record of 1.374% from last month. The Bid To Cover continues to demonstrate just how schizophrenic the market has become, where all normal investors buy bonds to front run the Fed, while the Fed-PD complex itself is buying stocks. Make sense yet? Either way, at 2.96, the BTC was the second highest ever, only lower than July's 3.06. And, just like in the previous auction, the Indirects continue to creep ever to the right, taking down the majority of the auction, or 50.1%, leaving 8.7% to the Directs, and a healthy 41.2% to the Primary Dealers, which of course are merely warehousing the paper for a few weeks/months until they flip it back to the Fed for a tidy profit, and use the proceeds for some more 100 P/E stock purchases. Thank you POMO!

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Former Military Officers Affirm UFO Activity Near Nuclear Missile Sites

Recently, we pointed out that the daily New Highs on the New York Stock exchange were not behaving in a fashion that suggested a healthy rise in the market.

We commented that healthy rallies had buyers chasing stocks and bidding them up higher ... which in turn pushed the number of stocks reaching New Highs up higher in a trending fashion.

Take a look at the New Highs below. There is NO up trend going on, which is a red flag to be concerned about.

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The second indication we've already begun another recession: M3 money supply.

M3 is the broadest possible measure of money in the system including cash, savings accounts, money market funds, etc. The Federal Reserve stopped tracking M3 in 2006 because they say they no longer find it useful.

John Williams of Shadowstats.com, however, has stayed on top of it, easily collecting the data needed to make this prognostication:

“M3 rising to the upside does not necessarily signal and economic upturn," says Williams, explaining the lines on the graph above. "Yet whenever annual growth in M3 has turned negative, a recession always has followed, usually within six-nine months."

Real M3 generated a signal in December 2009 for a downturn. How much time has elapsed? Oh, about nine months.

“The current weakness," says John, "will eventually gain official recognition as the second down leg of a double-dip recession."

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Alex Jones Predicts Staged Terror Attack in October-November 2010

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