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The Honeymoon Is Over: Gauging the Market with an Obama Presidency

This Bud's For You said:

"There are 55 million Americans who did not swallow the Obama Kool-Aid." Speaking for myself, I can only hope his statement is the truest one uttered by him in at least 21 months. He promised more than he could payoff, but the pandering got him the votes he needed to get elected.

But to be fair, the only difference between him, the Democrats collectively, and the Republicans collectively is the speed with which they will bankrupt the nation and confiscate our individual wealth through monetization of the ever increasing debt.




If you didn't drink the Obama KoolAid did you drink the McCain KoolAid? Or just not vote? Or go with a third party candidate that does nothing but appease your inner self as they will never win and have no power base once in?

Especially since you said the only difference is how fast either will get to the same spot and that Obama won because he pandered. And McCain wasn't?

So did you vote at all? If so, McCain? Obama? Third party?

Your statements would imply that it's useless to vote for either or any, yet if you don't vote then you have no point to complain. Yet you then attack Obama... interesting.

First Solar Spreads Some Sunshine

solar is not very labor intensive so China doesn't have this huge leg up like they do with toys and other heavy labor oriented type industries (toys/garments/etc). With solar its execution, not who pays the least labor that wins. FSLR has been flawless since IPO'ing last year. I expect more of the same.

First Solar Spreads Some Sunshine

Um... most all the China based players?

Is Energy Conversion Devices Ready for a Comeback?

Regarding meursault's post and the new patent that was filed...

At first, like many things, I thought 'yeah right, here's someone pumping up so they can dump later'...

Went to the USPTO site and checked it out. While it has only been filed and the actual implementation of this tech/machine may take a few years to work out the kinks, I have to admit this sounds very interesting. They claim to be able to use a plasma deposition process instead of the current process that will enable an increase in the run rate per machine/line from the current rate of about 30Mw per line to Gw's per line in the same space due to increased throughput rates from new deposition process. If actually true then this is big. Really big. The question is how long it takes to actually implement. Now I wonder if the reconfiguration of their plant has anything to do with this machine/process, or if its just normal optimazation of current plant space.

Energy Conversion Devices: An Amorphous Gem

Hey, Mark Anthony, we get it already. You're short FSLR and need it to fall to get back to even.