Moon Kil Woong

While Financials Drag Markets Down, Five Ways to Stay in Play

Those who want Banks and AIG money back, you can try getting it if you bankrupt them and then find there was fraud or other illegalities in their business dealings. It's called clawback. Ummm, unless they go bankrupt then the documents can be protected from being looked at. That may be why they are trying so hard to prevent any bankruptcies. If one goes under the cross relationship derivatives deals all start opening up to the astounded public.

Conspiracy no, common interest greed and avarice, most certainly.

Global Markets Week in Review: Will 2009 Bring Calmer Financial Markets?

Thanks for the plethora of information and the comic. If you ask my opinion 2009 volatility will be less. Most everyone already acknowledges the downside and it's hard to top the volatility of 2008 which was pretty much unheard of in most everyone's life.

That being said, the market remains downwardly skued so I would not be surprised to see the martket end down again by the end of the year. Be cautious of any January rally or cyclical summer rally.

But my biggest caution is for everyone. If you see mass inflation sparked by recless actions by the government (Bush's Admin already began it, however, the Fed seems to be hitting the break pedal unintentionally by convincing banks to keep money parked at the fed where it is sterilized by not entering the monetary system and helpds finance their backstopping just about everything) then getting out of depreciating treasuries and investing in anything that rides appreciation up is your only way to keep your wealth. Such a game will increase hoarding and erode any last vestiges of the sense of safety you may have left, especially if inflation happens when the market is still contracting.

Let's hope for a quiet 2009 even if we can't hope for a happy one.