curious cat

Japan Offers a Small Demographic Window of Opportunity

the rapture?

Friday Roundup: Commodities, Emerging Markets

wherever there's money to be made, someone will game the system. you can't go to the racetrack, the casinos, lotteries, wall street or washington, expecting to get an even break. i know you won't believe this, but even professional wrestling is fixed.

god, master of the universe, please do not smite us all. some of your rabbis seem to have taken berney madeoff as a role model. every politician in new jersey has been arrested. everyone and their mother is on the take. where will it end?

ok, the house has an advantage going in. once we know those odds, the best we can hope for may be... beating other suckers. just remember that luck still favors the prepared mind.

What a Look Back at the Japanese Market Tells Us

flyfarmer: there was a time when almost all the goods in england were made in america. they stopped producing goods because it was more economical to import them. they raised the standard of living in this country by consuming our goods. we are now returning the favor, by raising the standard of living for people around the globe. sure, we have lost some jobs. so did the english. we have devalued our money. so did the english. they no longer rule the waves and we have learned or should have learned in the last fifty years that we can no longer project power around the globe, at least, not on the ground. the english learned to adjust their life styles and still found a way to continue paying royal family members a yearly stipend. we can probably manage to do the same for our democrats. hang in there.