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Avianphlu
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http://barnhardt.biz/

NINETY MILES AN HOUR DOWN A DEAD END STREET
POSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT - JULY 12, AD 2012 11:39 AM MST
People are emailing asking what firm I recommend.
NONE.

GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.
GET OUT.

The ENTIRE SYSTEM is totally, completely corrupt and therefore NO FIRM IS SAFE. Don't be stupid. Don't be obtuse. Snap yourself out of the Stockholm Syndrome that you are clearly stuck in. Get ALL MONEY out of the ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM, including stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, futures, EVERYTHING.

But what about . . .

What part of EVERYTHING are you not comprehending?

One. More. Time.

If you can't touch it, if it isn't physically on your property such that you can stand in front of it with an assault rifle and PHYSICALLY defend it, you don't own it, and it could be confiscated/stolen from you at any time, if it ever actually existed at all.
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She on the bath salts? I agree, but that sounds like a "sell the house, sell the farm, sell the kids" letter.
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tin today...fact tomorrow...which side of the bet do you want to be on? If you dont hold it you dont own it

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If anyone is going to be ****ed it ain't going to be JP Morgan, chew on this, MFG did not "lose" the money into a black hole, JP Morgan took it when they realized the gig was up. They will take at will when the financial train starts to derail. "who the **** are you again" will be a popular refrain about that time.

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Sell it all into what? Treasonous fiat pieces of paper issued by a criminal cabal whose value can be changed at will by the MoneyChangers?

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As if anything has changed:

Wir sind gefickt.
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Tools of production.

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What I find interesting is an article to which she linked in a prior post ...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-....

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Take it out and put it where? Thieves break through and steal. You cannot sit on a pile and guard it 24/7, unless you have no life. The government will take any pile of cash and charge you with drug dealing, and you have to prove otherwise.

The principle she advocates is perhaps sound, the implementation is not so easy and you still have to be able to function until it completely falls apart.
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Well after MFG she told everyone to get out. Repeated herself as PNSN went swirling down the bowl

And people still ask her what they should do after PFG.

errrr .............

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Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future?!
Dakine2004
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@Goforbroke... Chicago connection, huh? Interesting. And she audits other securities brokers, as well.

Gonna have hubby read this. He's in the field. I'll pick his brain and see what he knows.


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****, I'm goin' long now...

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Take it out and put it where? Thieves break through and steal. You cannot sit on a pile and guard it 24/7, unless you have no life. The government will take any pile of cash and charge you with drug dealing, and you have to prove otherwise.

The principle she advocates is perhaps sound, the implementation is not so easy and you still have to be able to function until it completely falls apart.


She doesn't say it's easy.

Do you know what is easy? For firms like PFG to steal your "segregated" funds and for them to suddenly have the case of "poof it's gone".

Someone can't magically disappear something that physically exists in your possession. They'd have to try and take it.



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gofor's link wrote..
Audit experts say that just because PFGBest hired a small auditor to do its books does not necessarily say anything about the auditor's competence.

Instead, they said, it speaks more to the management of PFGBest and why the firm did not pick a larger auditor with a more established reputation.

"Typically if you are in a business like this, you want to have people have confidence in your numbers and feel like you have got a big name behind them," said Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant for the SEC.

Made me lol @ a 'big name' with a 'more established reputation.'

Like, say, these guys, Ms. Turner?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ande....
****ing dumbass.

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Because I make a living in the capital markets, I have a propensity to physical assets.

Some might call that diversification, I call it don't s*** where you eat.

Others might call that extreme OCD, whatever.

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I wish people would lay off PFGBest's that guy was was a top accountant. My cousin in Chicago that ran a pet grooming business out of shed in her back yard used him and he did a great job for her.

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smiley

I watched the movie "Rogue Trader" last night. It's about a guy who brought down the oldest bank in the world with bad futures trades. The stories about this seem to be similar.
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Being a CPA and the CFO for three Public companies, it is like waving a red flag to show where trouble is when you have one of these no name firms. Automatically sell and run away. I have consulted for 15 years and do a lot of subcontracting for an international accounting firm, but I never take on audits and especially for firms like PFG because there is too much personal liability.

Big firms have poor enough quality, when I have looked at the work of small firms it is laughable.

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Ish--When you read an audit of a firm where you have in-depth information it is an eye-opening experience.

Most audits these days are like broken clocks--right twice a day.

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Jwm_in_sb
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Yep...I said it in the the ticker thread. back in the day the phrase we used was "opinion shopping".
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An audit can only be as good as the data/records provided to the auditor. If those are forged/fraudulent, the audit is garbage.

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It is not difficult to spot forged records. I did that while reviewing Chinese companies while working for a Chinese IB when I'd only studied Chinese for 2 years. All you have to do is be willing to get on the phone and ask stupid questions.

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Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. You'd be surprised how frequently it happens. Cash skimming is one of the biggest problems. Hard for an auditor to catch it when some of the cash transactions are conducted off the books.

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I caught cash skimming at MCSNet. It can be difficult to catch but if you've got a decent eye for what to look for the people doing it eventually make a mistake.

Everything that comes in and goes out ties back to the journal and while some slippage due to inefficiencies or simply missed events is common it's very hard to commit a material amount of robbery and not eventually have it catch up with you, if the people doing the books give a ****.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?

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Doing the books? Yes.
An outsider doing an occasional audit? MUCH harder to catch cash skimming.

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