Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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1. TZCA

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM

   Mike W and Mikey O

   In regards to the argument that we shouldn’t cut spending during a recession and that by the Obama adminstration’s own admission we are not in a recession, I agree that the said argument is moot. I am being sarcastic toward a certain other commenter.

2. Cathy

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:44 AM

   Doug Z, it does seem that TZCA and USA8888 are on in the same.

3. Mike W

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:44 AM

   Doug Z

   You are correct “if” the next quarter is also negative then you will have 2 consecutive quarter of negative GDP and this constitutes a recession.

4. AppleStinx

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:45 AM

   TZCA wrote: “lol AppleStinx. I am me. I was hoping my sarcasm was more apparent.”

   You got me. It was so good, I couldn’t tell – through a quick reading – any difference from the usual lefty posts.

5. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:45 AM

   The only way to clone me is to take a DNA chart of a coffee bean

6. Mike W

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM

   TZCA,

   OK, got it.

7. TZCA

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM

   

   @Apple, I think I got Cathy too.

8. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM

   A good example

   *Rand Paul Writes Giant Check to U.S. Treasury

   Sen. Rand Paul cut a six-figure check to the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday in an effort to do his part to put a tiny chip in the federal debt.

   The Kentucky Republican returned $600,000 in funds he saved from his Senate office budget in the last year, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

   “It’s the only budget I control,” Paul said at a news conference in Louisville. “It’s not enough, but it’s a start.”

   The $600,000 — about 17 percent of his 3.5 million office budget — is on top of another $500,000 Paul returned to the Treasury last year, according to CNN. Paul said the total unspent money he’s returned to the federal government amounts to $1.1 million.

   (If Rand Paul becomes President, I’m applying for the Press Sec. Job)

9. Ratboy

   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM

   @ TZCA
   Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM

   @Apple, I think I got Cathy too

   You do a darn good impression of ZERO x 4!!!!! Can you do Nixon? How about Elvis?

10. TZCA

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:57 AM

    *chucklez at Ratz*

11. AppleStinx

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    Coffee Steve wrote: “(If Rand Paul becomes President, I’m applying for the Press Sec. Job) ”

    And which Secretary will you be pressing?

12. Ratboy

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:01 AM

    @ AppleStinx
    Posted February 21, 2013 at 9:59 AM
    Coffee Steve wrote: “(If Rand Paul becomes President, I’m applying for the Press Sec. Job) ”

    And which Secretary will you be pressing?

    If his wife finds out about pressing some secratary he better look for the secratary of defense!!!!!

13. Cathy

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM

    @Coffee, It’s all the carbon from the fossil fuel. We’ve polluted the entire Milky way! To quote the Otter leader from Go God Go XII, “Science help us.” Just joking.

    Raz, you need to look at the break down of Obama’s numbers. 98% of Democrats think he is doing a great job. Only 10% of indep and 5% of republicans.

14. TZCA

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM

    poor Mr Coffee Steve

15. TZCA

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:11 AM

    A man just can’t press secretary in peace anymore.

16. Cathy

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM

    I too dumb to get anything…..

    BTW: My son and a few friends won a Halloween costume contest last year. They went as an Affordable Health Care Death panel. Hooded black robes are required for all panel members but scythe are optional.

17. Ratboy

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    I see Mr Intelligent Zero x 4 is jumping right up to explain how the sequestor would be less painful and in fact helpful to eliminate wated spending!!!

18. Cathy

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    All this secretary talk has me thinking of my favorite Learning to Spell with Darnell joke. Here we go.

    This is “Learning to Spell with Darnell.” I be Darnell Jackson,and today we’re gonna spell the word harassment. Spell it with me now, H A R A S S M E N T. Now let’s use it in a sentce.

    Clarence Thomas told his friend, I never know looking at har ass ment I could loss the nomination.

19. Coffee Steve

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM

    @Rats & Apple
    And which Secretary will you be pressing?

    Awwwww come on guys I get myself in enough trouble as it is. I don’t need any help

20. d.d.

    Posted February 21, 2013 at 11:08 AM

    Matthew talked bubbles in the last room so I’ll talk them up here.
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    Fed minutes send warning on durability of bond buying

    Reuters had this headline & followed up with:

    The Fed opted in January to keep buying bonds at an $85 billion monthly pace until the labor market outlook improved substantially, but the minutes on Wednesday showed anxiety over the strategy’s risks – news that sent stocks sharply lower.

    I saw in the NYT’s this month where :

    Fed Governor Raises the Specter of a Bubble in Junk Bonds

    I think the Fed breeds destructive bubbles, as it is now doing with bonds.

    Noted economist John B. Taylor recently compared the Fed’s ultralow interest rate policy with rent control. Rent controls suppress the supply of housing, and the Fed’s interest rate activities are suppressing the availability of credit to smaller businesses.

    It isn’t just bonds either. James Rickards wrote yesterday in Moneynews that the Fed is inflating bubbles in stock,&, the housing markets

    “Equity prices are higher, housing prices are higher, but they’re higher for the wrong reason,”Rickards said. “They’re higher because of money printing. In other words, these are new asset bubbles forming.”

    The FED’s policy has driven up commodity prices, which in turn drove up farmland prices. . The FED’s policies have destroyed most “safe” investments like savings, CDs, bonds, etc.

    With high commodity prices, farmers bid up farmland rental rates. That’s what started the bubble, because returns against the cost of the farmland was great. But even with the rental rates sky high, the farmland bubble is now unsustainable

    We’re living in a debt bubble . The U.S. GDP actually contracted at an annual rate of 0.1 percent during the fourth quarter of 2012. That was the first contraction that the official numbers have shown in more than three years.

    During the first full week of January, an astounding $114 billion was pulled out of U.S. banks. That is the largest amount that we have seen moved out of U.S. banks in one week since 2001.

    An astounding 33 percent of all “subprime student loans” are at least 90 days past due. Back in 2007, that number was only at 24 percent. Could this be evidence that the student loan debt bubble is beginning to burst?

    The debt bubble that we have been living in has just continued to grow & both Republicans & Democrats are to blame.