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Obama Is Bad for the Economy - Barron's

Granted, no matter how much Obama wants to tax the rich, it is too late. You cannot touch them. They know the loopholes, they hire the tax attorneys. They have created this system of complicated taxing and accounting, in which no Big Blue machine can figure out what the rich really pay for taxes. An accountant at Big -5 accounting firm now starts with $55K, without any experience and needs to have Masters degree. This is how complicated and overpaid is this mess in taxation. You cannot touch the rich. They know the loopholes.

Obama Is Bad for the Economy - Barron's

McCain has been bought and sold for way too long in Washington. He is way to far in the rich world, in order to relate to the American. His background in military is a non-starter. We can no longer play empire or police state, because we don't have the money for it, and we are centuries behind on free health and education. Granted who the hell cares about spreading ourselves internationally. Why feed the War machine of the defense companies and Big Oil with made-up storied about Bad Russia or Bad China, when the media abroad consistently laughs at our sensationalist stories? So many of our people still live in ghettos, where thugs and drugs rule. Our standard of living has been going down since 1999. This is because of bad decisions on another privileged, rich boy - Bush. It is time to elect somebody who will invest in American people. The management of the companies, the rich are so drunk on paying themselves exorbitant money, that this illusion about how taxing the rich- will hurt the economy - is a dirty lie.

U.S. Markets: Is it Time to Throw Caution to the Wind?

Try to contain your article to one two pages max.

While Iran Threat Keeps Oil Elevated, U.S. Stocks and Dollar Slip

First off, if Bush was a CEO of a company that brings down the dollar 70% versus major currencies and the markets go nowhere for 7 years, I would think about firing the guy - before the term ends. O no, we are too lazy to to do that. Well, welcome to the newly competitive world where no dumb competitors exist, but fast, smart, hardworking countries with no big army expenses.

Passive Investing Wisdom from Taylor Larimore

This is the worst article on ETFs and investing in general.
Just because the guy is old and retired, I would not waste time taking him seriously.

Quotable Quotes on the Market's Direction

Dude, put the dates of these quotes! Some of these are misleading because they are two weeks old, by the time i read it, they have changed their minds.

Stock Market Moves into Critical Testing Zone

Boring article. I can read this on Bloomberg. Have more spice.

The Fed Won't Save Us, But Here's How to Make Money - Barron's Interview with Jeremy Grantham

You go to London or Hong Kong and ask about him and you will gather a few blank looks. Ask for Soros and Faber: Now you are talking personalities that move the markets.

The Fed Won't Save Us, But Here's How to Make Money - Barron's Interview with Jeremy Grantham

Gratham obviously reads Soros and Faber well. However, they made these statements in late 2007. Since then the market corrected well and while there might be 5% downside left, the rest of the traveling from here would be 70's style. What Grantham obviously likes to see is a perfect buying point for his firm, which is a dreamers point-of-perfection. With the $ so low, there are a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to invest in the unwavering Anglo-Saxon machine. While we did pay the price of having this decade go to waste, I think the perfect buying points are starting appear all around and it may take another another 5-6 months but never that late as 2010. Anyone who attempts to predict that far in the future, is a fool, left alone the "grandest thinker and oracle".
Rob
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Maybe Investors Should Fight The Fed

Herb, FRC in Boston is the the only source of money flows for mutual funds that investment professionals all around the world use. TrimTabs is incomplete and what they call - a joke in the industry. Now I am starting to worry about the data in this article.
Their site is www.frcnet.com/frc_hom...

Homebuilders Lead S&P 1500 Performance in 2008

Wait for the final confirmation in a few weeks before you jump in.
Too early to chase yet. Trading is a sport for the patient. Unless you want to have another round of sellers taking profits in your face..

Jeremy Grantham: Credit Crisis Will Last Until 2010

I think he just copied Soros. I would preffer if the PR agency he employs stops circulating his unoriginal thoughts, appearing strangly a few months before bottoms settle in. So it looks like I might do some buying late this year, and start selling it to him in 2010..
Rob,
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Four Myths About the Stock Market

Great integrity? The author is lost in his mediocrity and it is sort a watering down the quality of what I am used to reading here. This article would be great for a 8th grader trying to get into a Yahoo stock club. I don't encourage him to write for WSJ.

Jeremy Grantham: Hold Cash, Not Stocks

Another bear mumbles for attention, dusting off its crappy mediocre returns and hoping to get into the spotlight. Sometimes I wonder why we give outlet to these privileged come-late-to-party blue blood dudes to waste our time? Where was he in the summer, where was he in October when the market topped? Now, he is pointing to the winter and telling me " It snows". Obviously his firm has some heavy shorts, that's all. The third award for " late for the party" goes to Grantham, and yes I may step into your office and tell you why Ken Heebner has outperformed you for almost every year in the last 20 years.
Rob
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What if the Fed Cut Doesn't Help?

What if Herb starts reading Marty Zweig or Norman Fosback?
He write articles that will help investors, not scare them.