Heracleum Persicum wrote:monster_gardener wrote:Heracleum Persicum wrote:Typhoon wrote:Bloomberg | Portugal Leads Rise in European Bond Risk as Coalition Crumbles
Portugal’s 10-year bond yield topped 8 percent for the first time this year after two ministers quit the coalition government, putting budget cuts at risk as the country works to meet the terms of its bailout program. Rating downgrades of European banks and unrest in Egypt also drove up credit risk.
“Portugal is almost certainly going to become a crisis,” Bill Blain, a strategist at Mint Partners Ltd in London, wrote in a note to clients today. “When politicians walk away from government, you know a new election is coming. That’s the point economic reform dies.”
The cost of insuring European corporate debt against default rose to the highest in a week, signaling deterioration in perceptions of credit quality.
What's going on?
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Paradise (Persian word) for "Junk" bind buyers .. Portugal bonds as good as US T-Bills
best deal right now is :
Short US T-Bill
Long Portuguese long bonds
a money machine
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Thank You Very Much for your post, Azari.
best deal right now is :
Short US T-Bill
Long Portuguese long bonds
a money machine
Calling Mr. Perfect.........
Azari has a deal for you!
Also channeling
Ibrahim
This post should be in the Finance thread!!!
Just joking........
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Look, Monster, US interest rate going only up, question only is how fast .. higher yield means lower T-bill prices .. that's no brainer
and
Angela guaranties Portuguese government bonds .. Portugal defaulting means Angela defaulting
in that sense
US T-bill SHORT // Portuguese government bonds LONG, better than money in the bank as the bank could fail as they all miles under water, pretty much all of them
am sure MP already to the eyeball into that
Mosh*e (hedge funds) getting out of "long Nikkei-short Yen" and into "short Bernanke- Long Angela" government bonds
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Thank you Very Much for your post, Azari.
And the financial advice which I hope Mr. Perfect will comment on........
But foreign bonds are really probably finance above my level.......
Down in the Black Gang it is probably better to just make sure your house is paid off and invest in cans of soup & beans & shotgun shells & bullets........
And know what you can eat that grows wild..........
Today's plant is purslane.........
Although purslane is considered a weed in the United States, it may be eaten as a leaf vegetable. It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, the middle east, Asia, and Mexico.[1][3] The stems, leaves and flower buds are all edible. Purslane may be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked as spinach is, and because of its mucilaginous quality it also is suitable for soups and stews. Australian Aborigines use the seeds to make seedcakes. Greeks, who call it andrakla (αντράκλα) or glystrida (γλυστρίδα), fry the leaves and the stems with feta cheese, tomato, onion, garlic, oregano, and olive oil, add it in salads, boil it or add to casseroled chicken. In Turkey, besides being used in salads and in baked pastries, it is cooked as a vegetable similar to spinach. In the south of Portugal (Alentejo), "baldroegas" are used as a soup ingredient. Because of its high water content Purslane cooks down quite a bit. Pick more than you think you will need. Makes a quick cold soup in hot weather by cooking and blending together with other vegetables.
Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular[4]) than any other leafy vegetable plant. Research published by Artemis P. Simopoulos states that Purslane has 0.01 mg/g of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). This is an extraordinary amount of EPA for a land-based vegetable source. EPA is an Omega-3 fatty acid found mostly in fish, some algae, and flax seeds.[5] It also contains vitamins (mainly vitamin A, vitamin C, and some vitamin B and carotenoids), as well as dietary minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, and iron. Also present are two types of betalain alkaloid pigments, the reddish betacyanins (visible in the coloration of the stems) and the yellow betaxanthins (noticeable in the flowers and in the slight yellowish cast of the leaves). Both of these pigment types are potent antioxidants and have been found to have antimutagenic properties in laboratory studies.[6]
100 Grams of fresh purslane leaves (about 1 cup) contain 300 to 400 mg of alpha-linolenic acid.[7] One cup of cooked leaves contains 90 mg of calcium, 561 mg of potassium, and more than 2,000 IUs of vitamin A.
A half-cup of purslane leaves contains as much as 910 mg of oxalate, a compound implicated in the formation of kidney stones, however, note that many common vegetables, such as spinach, also can contain high concentrations of oxalates.
When stressed by low availability of water, purslane, which has evolved in hot and dry environments, switches to photosynthesis using Crassulacean acid metabolism (the CAM pathway): At night its leaves trap carbon dioxide, which is converted into malic acid (the souring principle of apples), and, in the day, the malic acid is converted into glucose. When harvested in the early morning, the leaves have ten times the malic acid content as when harvested in the late afternoon, and thus have a significantly more tangy taste.
Traditional medicine
Portulaca oleracea showing blooms
Seed pods, closed and open, revealing the seeds
Known as Ma Chi Xian (pinyin: translates as "horse tooth amaranth") in traditional Chinese medicine, its active constituents include: noradrenaline, calcium salts, dopamine, DOPA[disambiguation needed], malic acid, citric acid, glutamic acid, asparagic acid, nicotinic acid, alanine, glucose, fructose, and sucrose.[8] Betacyanins isolated from Portulaca oleracea ameliorated cognition deficits in aged mice.[9] A rare subclass of Homoisoflavonoids, from the plant, showed in vitro cytotoxic activities towards four human cancer cell lines.[10] Use is contraindicated during pregnancy and for those with cold and weak digestion.[8] Purslane is a clinically effective treatment for oral lichen planus,[11] and its leaves are used to treat insect or snake bites on the skin,[12] boils, sores, pain from bee stings, bacillary dysentery, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding, and intestinal bleeding.[8]
Strangely, Portulaca oleracea efficiently removes bisphenol A, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, from a hydroponic solution, how this happens is unclear.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_ ... nary_usageFor the love of G_d, consider you & I may be mistaken.
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