Erick Tippett's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.comuser/152589/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/174245-gold-and-silver-etfs-on-fire-get-ready-for-a-reversal?source=feed#comment-767639 767639 hard commodities were supposed to be long-term insurance
against the current weakening fiat currency. Excuse my ignorance
but fancy charting doesn't impress me at all!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:39 -0500 hard commodities were supposed to be long-term insurance
against the current weakening fiat currency. Excuse my ignorance
but fancy charting doesn't impress me at all!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/173607-why-the-stock-market-should-crash?source=feed#comment-764741 764741 exactly where the majority voting american public has through
its unfortunate lack of education and awareness as to how to
insist on responsible government leadership brought us. To the brink of a tragic economic and social collapse.

In what should be a prosperous advanced democracy, such a
dark path is trully a useless waste of human potential that will
be embossed in the annals of history for centuries to come,
that is if the human survives!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois


the ]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:16:29 -0500 exactly where the majority voting american public has through
its unfortunate lack of education and awareness as to how to
insist on responsible government leadership brought us. To the brink of a tragic economic and social collapse.

In what should be a prosperous advanced democracy, such a
dark path is trully a useless waste of human potential that will
be embossed in the annals of history for centuries to come,
that is if the human survives!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois


the ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/171821-option-trader-friday-outlook-is-the-dollar-going-uup?source=feed#comment-750406 750406 bubbles, commodities are merely the latest convenient
vehichle for their specious economic philosophy, though I
agree with Prechter that gold can be tricky and may be wildly
overvalued at present. But there is also the argument that
it is highly undervalued as well. Time will tell which argument
is most accurate as this market continues to give signals that
perhaps a severe correction is at hand with a strong dollar rally
certainly fitting that scenrio, it may not be far off at all!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:59:06 -0500 bubbles, commodities are merely the latest convenient
vehichle for their specious economic philosophy, though I
agree with Prechter that gold can be tricky and may be wildly
overvalued at present. But there is also the argument that
it is highly undervalued as well. Time will tell which argument
is most accurate as this market continues to give signals that
perhaps a severe correction is at hand with a strong dollar rally
certainly fitting that scenrio, it may not be far off at all!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170167-paul-tudor-jones-gold-s-undervalued-and-bonds-are-a-curve-flattener-play?source=feed#comment-738669 738669 to him, gold as undervalued by 20%. Robert Prechter's Gold/Dollar
1913-2009 comparative chart/model confirms gold as overvalued
by 50%! What we can use here in regard to this highly emotional
and obsessive controversy is a fiercely objective editor on this
website to present a detailed analysis of both views so that the
investing public can make their own determination concerning gold.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:02:44 -0400 to him, gold as undervalued by 20%. Robert Prechter's Gold/Dollar
1913-2009 comparative chart/model confirms gold as overvalued
by 50%! What we can use here in regard to this highly emotional
and obsessive controversy is a fiercely objective editor on this
website to present a detailed analysis of both views so that the
investing public can make their own determination concerning gold.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/170167-paul-tudor-jones-gold-s-undervalued-and-bonds-are-a-curve-flattener-play?source=feed#comment-738663 738663 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:54:30 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/164742-the-trend-is-your-friend-until-it-ends?source=feed#comment-704295 704295 in order to have had any beneficial involvement with hedge funds
during this cycle. And of course one must have some medium
for knowing which hedge funds were going to be lucrative and
which ones were not and most people either lack the skill and or
or patience you apparently possess, if in fact you experienced the success you've claimed.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:55:47 -0400 in order to have had any beneficial involvement with hedge funds
during this cycle. And of course one must have some medium
for knowing which hedge funds were going to be lucrative and
which ones were not and most people either lack the skill and or
or patience you apparently possess, if in fact you experienced the success you've claimed.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/164251-the-next-major-crisis-brewing?source=feed#comment-700677 700677 so clearly explained!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:00:30 -0400 so clearly explained!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/163919-marc-faber-equities-safer-than-dollars?source=feed#comment-697923 697923 economic issues and the economy. I thought I was the only one
who recognized that our government houses 'fiscal criminals' as
a matter of course!

But as they say, "it takes two to tango"! Of course only a brain- washed, apathetic public allows such vermin to be elected and
appointed in the first place!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:04:56 -0400 economic issues and the economy. I thought I was the only one
who recognized that our government houses 'fiscal criminals' as
a matter of course!

But as they say, "it takes two to tango"! Of course only a brain- washed, apathetic public allows such vermin to be elected and
appointed in the first place!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/163444-you-can-spend-your-way-out-of-a-recession?source=feed#comment-694327 694327
"More spending is needed to generate more income. Therefore
more spending will do the job". Where is the money for all this
spending going to come from, the public that has been the driving
force of this economy by 70% or so as unemployment continues
to rise? Production, the result of job growth has been the only
remedy for recessions and only after toxic elements in the system
economically have been flushed out. Have you any data that
confirms any society that has recovered from a recession by
any means other than job creation? I haven't! What will you do
when your money runs out and you have no more to 'spend'?
Shed some 'Teers'?

By the way, I know that the author of this article did not quote the
comment Hayek supposedly made alleging Keyne's 'greatness',
so I went to the website (hayekcenter.org) to veryify for myself and agree with the listed commentary made earlier by another web visitor. Not one of the 13 or so comments I observed attributed anything to Keyne's comming from Hayek that amounts to a compliment of even so much as Keyne's having barely more than a rather primitive understanding of economics or that much of an interest in the study of it either!

Strange how the thinking of a segment of the population can be
so skewed. But that no doubt explains why the leadership which
foster and intensify these needless economic fiascos get to hold
office in the first place. They get elected and re-elected by those
folks who unfortunately constitute the voting American majority!
Strange how a nation founded upon the word Independence seems
to have such a problem electing "Independent" candidates to office!
Whenever I view the voting tallies in congress and the senate on ESPN, I see Republican and Democratic votes, but none for any
Independents!

How sad for what should be an advanced democratic system
and a model to the world of societal and fiscal excellence. How
sad indeed! Yet again on second thought, perhaps the old saw
still lives "you have to give the people what they want" and these
'people' love their popularity contest winning pathalogical liars who promise what hey can never deliver in order to get elected and proceed to screw the taxpayer who is paying for all of this, just in case you hadn't noticed!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:08:10 -0400
"More spending is needed to generate more income. Therefore
more spending will do the job". Where is the money for all this
spending going to come from, the public that has been the driving
force of this economy by 70% or so as unemployment continues
to rise? Production, the result of job growth has been the only
remedy for recessions and only after toxic elements in the system
economically have been flushed out. Have you any data that
confirms any society that has recovered from a recession by
any means other than job creation? I haven't! What will you do
when your money runs out and you have no more to 'spend'?
Shed some 'Teers'?

By the way, I know that the author of this article did not quote the
comment Hayek supposedly made alleging Keyne's 'greatness',
so I went to the website (hayekcenter.org) to veryify for myself and agree with the listed commentary made earlier by another web visitor. Not one of the 13 or so comments I observed attributed anything to Keyne's comming from Hayek that amounts to a compliment of even so much as Keyne's having barely more than a rather primitive understanding of economics or that much of an interest in the study of it either!

Strange how the thinking of a segment of the population can be
so skewed. But that no doubt explains why the leadership which
foster and intensify these needless economic fiascos get to hold
office in the first place. They get elected and re-elected by those
folks who unfortunately constitute the voting American majority!
Strange how a nation founded upon the word Independence seems
to have such a problem electing "Independent" candidates to office!
Whenever I view the voting tallies in congress and the senate on ESPN, I see Republican and Democratic votes, but none for any
Independents!

How sad for what should be an advanced democratic system
and a model to the world of societal and fiscal excellence. How
sad indeed! Yet again on second thought, perhaps the old saw
still lives "you have to give the people what they want" and these
'people' love their popularity contest winning pathalogical liars who promise what hey can never deliver in order to get elected and proceed to screw the taxpayer who is paying for all of this, just in case you hadn't noticed!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/162422-why-is-paul-volcker-being-ignored?source=feed#comment-684955 684955 him sit around in the present administration having to wait on
queue to see the president! In my opinion he is the only person
in anyway connected to the present administration who could
possibly offer substantive policy conerning the economy based
upon both his performance in the Carter and Reagan administra-
tions and his background.

My question is why he has waited so long to speak up concerning
economic issues. What does he have to loose? His 'job', his
popularity. I don't think so.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:51:25 -0400 him sit around in the present administration having to wait on
queue to see the president! In my opinion he is the only person
in anyway connected to the present administration who could
possibly offer substantive policy conerning the economy based
upon both his performance in the Carter and Reagan administra-
tions and his background.

My question is why he has waited so long to speak up concerning
economic issues. What does he have to loose? His 'job', his
popularity. I don't think so.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/161265-economic-recovery-determining-the-undeterminable?source=feed#comment-676676 676676 market determined by market mood and the skillful and adroit
machinations of seasoned traders expert in timing them. After
all that's how they make their living, they should be that good
at it! They have no doubt figured out already when this rally is
going to dry up, or if not will pick up the signals like ravenous wolves as and when the haunting hour approaches.

This economy has nothing to do with the markets in any manner
whatsoever!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:56:44 -0400 market determined by market mood and the skillful and adroit
machinations of seasoned traders expert in timing them. After
all that's how they make their living, they should be that good
at it! They have no doubt figured out already when this rally is
going to dry up, or if not will pick up the signals like ravenous wolves as and when the haunting hour approaches.

This economy has nothing to do with the markets in any manner
whatsoever!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/160757-recent-oil-rally-another-crowded-trade?source=feed#comment-671458 671458 globally in the future? When China and India begin accelerating
their purchases of automobiles you will see what supply and
demand can do to oil prices in a way you have not yet witnessed!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:03:44 -0400 globally in the future? When China and India begin accelerating
their purchases of automobiles you will see what supply and
demand can do to oil prices in a way you have not yet witnessed!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/160456-is-the-u-s-dollar-finished?source=feed#comment-669849 669849 time now that Gold will top even if it goes over $1,000.00 and
the Dollar will experience a significant rally, problem is timing.
When will they top and bottom? That is the question.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:02:35 -0400 time now that Gold will top even if it goes over $1,000.00 and
the Dollar will experience a significant rally, problem is timing.
When will they top and bottom? That is the question.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/160154-strong-start-for-bull-market-but-investors-are-nervously-eyeing-the-exits?source=feed#comment-664767 664767
You don't define whether this is a secular bull market or a
cyclical bull rally in a larger trend bear market secular in
nature. As a consequence your information could be harmful
to inexperienced investors who don't have the educational
background in market cycles to differentiate between the two!

Try to be instructive as well as analytical in your future articles.

Thank you.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois
]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:21:21 -0400
You don't define whether this is a secular bull market or a
cyclical bull rally in a larger trend bear market secular in
nature. As a consequence your information could be harmful
to inexperienced investors who don't have the educational
background in market cycles to differentiate between the two!

Try to be instructive as well as analytical in your future articles.

Thank you.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/159833-money-supply-the-myth-of-hyperinflation?source=feed#comment-662829 662829
Not to rain on your parade (and I do agree, Mr. Bernanke and
company have proven skillfull in shifting money around from
pillar to post, and I do agree that there has not as of yet been
a frenzy of printing press activity at the FED ), but the history
of central banking systems does not augur well for financial
stability and never really has. Regardless of the polished
balancing act Mr. Bernanke and his jongleurs pull off with impressive aplomb, the die has already been cast for serious
heavy duty deflation/depression and an examination of the
historical data on the Federal Reserve Board bears this out,
a fact you fail to mention.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:15:01 -0400
Not to rain on your parade (and I do agree, Mr. Bernanke and
company have proven skillfull in shifting money around from
pillar to post, and I do agree that there has not as of yet been
a frenzy of printing press activity at the FED ), but the history
of central banking systems does not augur well for financial
stability and never really has. Regardless of the polished
balancing act Mr. Bernanke and his jongleurs pull off with impressive aplomb, the die has already been cast for serious
heavy duty deflation/depression and an examination of the
historical data on the Federal Reserve Board bears this out,
a fact you fail to mention.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/159960-marc-faber-buy-a-machine-gun?source=feed#comment-662724 662724 Administration? Certainly, not someone who thinks".

But Mr. Faber, wasn't that the reason Adolph Hitler once
made the comment before the start of World War II that
it is the people who don't think (according to a History Channel
presentation) who make it so wonderful for the governments
to do as they please?

That certainly explains the present crisis concerning central
banks that have been pointed out by Ludwig Von Mises and
others but ignored by the people who don't think, the majority
voting populations here and in Europe where all this stuff
orginated? They came to this continent then conterfeited and
devalued the lucrative wampum of the Pequot Indians before
massacring them and taking their land! The present world
economic malaise has its roots centuries deep and needs to
be thoroughly studied and evaluated by all those who do think!
A competent educational system in so called democracies
should have provided truthful historical instruction concerning
this and other issues years ago and affluent citizenry should
have demanded such whenever it went lacking. Unfortunately
a brainwashed public lacks the awareness and presence of
mind to demand such things of their elected officials in the so
called modern "democracies". They apparently find other things
more important to their everyday concerns such as having their
neurtotic fantacies satisfied and thier hedonistic desires indulged.
Do the "hard working Australians function in that manner in their
day to day existence, I don't think so.

All this is a sad testiment to a lie that the people who don't think either cannot or do not want to see or hear about!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:28:38 -0400 Administration? Certainly, not someone who thinks".

But Mr. Faber, wasn't that the reason Adolph Hitler once
made the comment before the start of World War II that
it is the people who don't think (according to a History Channel
presentation) who make it so wonderful for the governments
to do as they please?

That certainly explains the present crisis concerning central
banks that have been pointed out by Ludwig Von Mises and
others but ignored by the people who don't think, the majority
voting populations here and in Europe where all this stuff
orginated? They came to this continent then conterfeited and
devalued the lucrative wampum of the Pequot Indians before
massacring them and taking their land! The present world
economic malaise has its roots centuries deep and needs to
be thoroughly studied and evaluated by all those who do think!
A competent educational system in so called democracies
should have provided truthful historical instruction concerning
this and other issues years ago and affluent citizenry should
have demanded such whenever it went lacking. Unfortunately
a brainwashed public lacks the awareness and presence of
mind to demand such things of their elected officials in the so
called modern "democracies". They apparently find other things
more important to their everyday concerns such as having their
neurtotic fantacies satisfied and thier hedonistic desires indulged.
Do the "hard working Australians function in that manner in their
day to day existence, I don't think so.

All this is a sad testiment to a lie that the people who don't think either cannot or do not want to see or hear about!

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/158941-weekly-etf-rewind-short-term-top-or-consolidation-before-pop?source=feed#comment-653989 653989 Geflop!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:13:41 -0400 Geflop!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/158886-how-to-play-the-dollars-low-rates-with-etfs?source=feed#comment-652755 652755 of movement of no more than $6.00/share over a ten year
period. What's the use? What's the point?

I don't get it. Explain please.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:25:49 -0400 of movement of no more than $6.00/share over a ten year
period. What's the use? What's the point?

I don't get it. Explain please.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/157722-why-a-repeat-of-the-great-depression-is-unlikely?source=feed#comment-642733 642733 historical cycles since 1873 here in which depressions have
followed on the heals of inflation followed by the deflation of
credit. "hints" of an upturn in global trade, U.S. and Iran making
peace?, these are more fantasy when one realistically exams
euro-american meddling in the middle east since before the
Balfour agreement . As far as Iran building a nuclear bomb is
concerned, I certainly hope Mr. Mesquita's "computer model"
is far more reliable and accurate than those used by U.S. banks
in projecting exotic stock market packages before foisting them
on the American public! "Market analyst's radar screen'', where
was this wonderful device in October 2008, or had you noticed
what happened to our indexes at that time? And the final dot on
all of this "Highly unlikely the world is goint to repeat the mistakes
of the 1930's", get a life fella, aren't you reading the headlines on
unemployment? And incidently, according to a study of over three
hundred years of market movement of British and American stock
markets indicates quite clearly that from 1720-1932 there occured
three depressionary declines in the markets. This study is based
on data from the British-American Stock Price Record 1700-2002!
Go study it, real hard!

Tally ho!
E. Tippett
Chicago, Illiniois ]]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:45:58 -0400 historical cycles since 1873 here in which depressions have
followed on the heals of inflation followed by the deflation of
credit. "hints" of an upturn in global trade, U.S. and Iran making
peace?, these are more fantasy when one realistically exams
euro-american meddling in the middle east since before the
Balfour agreement . As far as Iran building a nuclear bomb is
concerned, I certainly hope Mr. Mesquita's "computer model"
is far more reliable and accurate than those used by U.S. banks
in projecting exotic stock market packages before foisting them
on the American public! "Market analyst's radar screen'', where
was this wonderful device in October 2008, or had you noticed
what happened to our indexes at that time? And the final dot on
all of this "Highly unlikely the world is goint to repeat the mistakes
of the 1930's", get a life fella, aren't you reading the headlines on
unemployment? And incidently, according to a study of over three
hundred years of market movement of British and American stock
markets indicates quite clearly that from 1720-1932 there occured
three depressionary declines in the markets. This study is based
on data from the British-American Stock Price Record 1700-2002!
Go study it, real hard!

Tally ho!
E. Tippett
Chicago, Illiniois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/157522-u-s-economy-now-comes-the-hard-part?source=feed#comment-641198 641198 Board or any other instrument of a central banking system that
has done nothing but cause havoc with economies as long
as they have existed is an indication of the lack of edcuation
and ignorance concerning the concept of a sound free market
system. Hazlitt, Von Mises, and many others have spoken to
this issue over the years and only recently through the new wave
of internet education are sane people beginning to pick up on it.

Maybe in the next century people here will be taught in the educational system that there are schools of economics other
than that of 'Lord of flies', John Meynard Keynes!

Amen.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois
]]> Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:32:13 -0400 Board or any other instrument of a central banking system that
has done nothing but cause havoc with economies as long
as they have existed is an indication of the lack of edcuation
and ignorance concerning the concept of a sound free market
system. Hazlitt, Von Mises, and many others have spoken to
this issue over the years and only recently through the new wave
of internet education are sane people beginning to pick up on it.

Maybe in the next century people here will be taught in the educational system that there are schools of economics other
than that of 'Lord of flies', John Meynard Keynes!

Amen.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/156199-time-to-take-profits?source=feed#comment-631354 631354
Though elliott wave indicators show the possibilities for a second
wave up before a rather dramatic decline, even Bob Prechter is
cautioning investors not to expect more from the market "gods"
than they have already allotted us since march!

I'm inclined to agree.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:55:47 -0400
Though elliott wave indicators show the possibilities for a second
wave up before a rather dramatic decline, even Bob Prechter is
cautioning investors not to expect more from the market "gods"
than they have already allotted us since march!

I'm inclined to agree.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/156184-which-banks-are-more-risky-the-largest-eu-or-u-s-banks?source=feed#comment-631345 631345
This is all quite well stated by you concerning the leverage ratio
and exposure to risk levels of this country compared to europe.
This should be no surprise to anyone with some knowledge of
the history of europe and this country though they probably
would not have attained in the educational system here, such
as it is.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:36:07 -0400
This is all quite well stated by you concerning the leverage ratio
and exposure to risk levels of this country compared to europe.
This should be no surprise to anyone with some knowledge of
the history of europe and this country though they probably
would not have attained in the educational system here, such
as it is.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/155986-boom-or-bust-cycle-where-are-we-now?source=feed#comment-630709 630709 this market is rigged (as most things in the United States have
been since its inception....find the word democracy written in any
of the founding documents and I'll pay you, cash!). One point of
disagreement with the author however: "compared to l929-32?, no
not as bad". Oh really? Did the national debt reach the level it is
now at, even in comparative terms? Were we a debtor nation (world's largest) as we are now? Were there awesome amounts
of toxic debit floating around unaccounted for on bank and business
balance sheets?

I think not!

E.Tippett
Chicago, Illinois

]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:05:25 -0400 this market is rigged (as most things in the United States have
been since its inception....find the word democracy written in any
of the founding documents and I'll pay you, cash!). One point of
disagreement with the author however: "compared to l929-32?, no
not as bad". Oh really? Did the national debt reach the level it is
now at, even in comparative terms? Were we a debtor nation (world's largest) as we are now? Were there awesome amounts
of toxic debit floating around unaccounted for on bank and business
balance sheets?

I think not!

E.Tippett
Chicago, Illinois

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/155677-2009-is-looking-an-awful-lot-like-2008?source=feed#comment-629294 629294
It is not often that we hear the truth about these market
reality warnings. I have observed this irrational rally and
agree wholeheartedly with your projection.

Again, thank you for the advice.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:39:26 -0400
It is not often that we hear the truth about these market
reality warnings. I have observed this irrational rally and
agree wholeheartedly with your projection.

Again, thank you for the advice.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/155422-the-market-bubble-is-about-to-pop?source=feed#comment-627240 627240
I'm in absolute and complete agreement with your critique of
and recommendations for market investment. I remember
very well a comment you made not too long ago concerning
the present Federal Reserve Board Chairman and I quote:
"Ben Bernanke should do a fine job as chairman, he cut his
teeth on the depression".

Your recent commentary concerning Mr. Bernanke has taken on
a somewhat different tone, as if Mr. Bernanke broke his teeth
instead. Is there any particular reason that you have changed
your opinion of his performance as chair of our central banking system here in the United States?

Again thank you for your propitious and timely advisement.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:04:34 -0400
I'm in absolute and complete agreement with your critique of
and recommendations for market investment. I remember
very well a comment you made not too long ago concerning
the present Federal Reserve Board Chairman and I quote:
"Ben Bernanke should do a fine job as chairman, he cut his
teeth on the depression".

Your recent commentary concerning Mr. Bernanke has taken on
a somewhat different tone, as if Mr. Bernanke broke his teeth
instead. Is there any particular reason that you have changed
your opinion of his performance as chair of our central banking system here in the United States?

Again thank you for your propitious and timely advisement.

Erick Tippett
Chicago, Illinois

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/154281-market-cycles-a-look-at-the-historical-evidence?source=feed#comment-620760 620760
Congratulations on an excellent article. Most investors and sub-
scribers to this web-site (seeking-alpha.com) should read and
re-read its several times, I certainly will. I wish I had this kind of
informational knowlege ten years ago, it could have made a
world of difference in my investing experience which has been
fairly profitable, but would have been much better with the input
you've provided here.

Unfortunately, so many have the tendency to ignore points of view that differ from their emotionally held beliefs and will no doubt find a way to ignore or invalidate your excellent educational presentation.

As Robert Prechter has said, people we be what they will be and
find emotionally based reasons to support that.

Again thankyou for the information.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:50:13 -0400
Congratulations on an excellent article. Most investors and sub-
scribers to this web-site (seeking-alpha.com) should read and
re-read its several times, I certainly will. I wish I had this kind of
informational knowlege ten years ago, it could have made a
world of difference in my investing experience which has been
fairly profitable, but would have been much better with the input
you've provided here.

Unfortunately, so many have the tendency to ignore points of view that differ from their emotionally held beliefs and will no doubt find a way to ignore or invalidate your excellent educational presentation.

As Robert Prechter has said, people we be what they will be and
find emotionally based reasons to support that.

Again thankyou for the information.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/154024-why-another-stock-market-collapse-could-be-imminent?source=feed#comment-619199 619199
"A debt bubble cannot be reflated by issuing more debt. A second
grader can undertand this......"

Your comment is quite true, however only a second grader who
has been taught sound economic principles can understand how
a efficiently functioning free market works. Of course the Austrian
shool of economics doesn't believe a free market can exist when
it is manipulated by some outside agency, government, etc.,

The reason college grads "don't get it" is because they recieve in
their education the Royal Lord, Sir Meynard Keynes brain washing
programing! Aside from from an inflate your way out of economic
trouble consciousness, their training does not allow them to think any other approach to economic challenges exists in the reality of
this world, such as it is. As long as our educational system remains in its primitive state, all the degrees in the world will not
change their thinking.

How much less do you think the average american stock investor
who pops on CNBC's talking head's knows why this economy is
headed for a cliff? If millions of voters can be fooled by banking
tycoon J. P. Morgan and his cronies into ratifying a bill legalizing
the present central banking system here (the FED), why expect
them to know or want to know or hear anything other than that
which indulges their desires and caters to their emotions and fantacies? (like one commentator who sarcastically said you
would probably be unhappy if the recession does end!)
No wonder Adolph Hitler is reputed to have said "it's so wonderful
for the governments that people don't think."

No doubt this is why investor sentiment and psychology determine market movement certainly not logic or the present state of the economy.

Sad but true!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:25:39 -0400
"A debt bubble cannot be reflated by issuing more debt. A second
grader can undertand this......"

Your comment is quite true, however only a second grader who
has been taught sound economic principles can understand how
a efficiently functioning free market works. Of course the Austrian
shool of economics doesn't believe a free market can exist when
it is manipulated by some outside agency, government, etc.,

The reason college grads "don't get it" is because they recieve in
their education the Royal Lord, Sir Meynard Keynes brain washing
programing! Aside from from an inflate your way out of economic
trouble consciousness, their training does not allow them to think any other approach to economic challenges exists in the reality of
this world, such as it is. As long as our educational system remains in its primitive state, all the degrees in the world will not
change their thinking.

How much less do you think the average american stock investor
who pops on CNBC's talking head's knows why this economy is
headed for a cliff? If millions of voters can be fooled by banking
tycoon J. P. Morgan and his cronies into ratifying a bill legalizing
the present central banking system here (the FED), why expect
them to know or want to know or hear anything other than that
which indulges their desires and caters to their emotions and fantacies? (like one commentator who sarcastically said you
would probably be unhappy if the recession does end!)
No wonder Adolph Hitler is reputed to have said "it's so wonderful
for the governments that people don't think."

No doubt this is why investor sentiment and psychology determine market movement certainly not logic or the present state of the economy.

Sad but true!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/154063-fibonnaci-calls-the-38-2-retrace-is-approaching?source=feed#comment-619176 619176 research there are a number of stunning correlations between
this particular market's cyclical rally and depression era bear
market rallies. At least the possibility exists historically for an
extension after this corrective pause.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois


s]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:21:12 -0400 research there are a number of stunning correlations between
this particular market's cyclical rally and depression era bear
market rallies. At least the possibility exists historically for an
extension after this corrective pause.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois


s]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/153203-why-is-deflation-scary?source=feed#comment-614112 614112
You seem quite attached (as the result of your 'research' no doubt)
to the notion that '' there is absolutely no evidence that deflations
will cause depressions". In your references I failed to notice any mention of such economists as Ludwig Von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, or Elliot Wave expert Hamilton Bolton who in a 1957 study
stated:
In reading a history of major depressions in the U. S.
from 1830 on, I was impressed with the following:

(a) All were set off by a deflation of excess credit. This
was the one factor in common.

(b) Sometimes the excess-of-credit situation seemed to
last years before the bubble broke.

(c) Some outside event, such as a major failure, brought
the thing to a head, but the signs were visible many
months, and in some cases years, in advance.

(d) None was ever quite like the last, so that the public
was always fooled thereby.

(e) Some panics occured under great government sur-
pluses of revenue (1837, for instance) and some
under great government deficits.

(f) Credit is credit, whether non-self-liquidating or self-
liquidating*

(g) Deflation of non-self-liquidating credit usually pro-
duces greater slumps.

*(Self-liquiddating credit is a loan that is paid back, with interest, in a moderately short time from production and generates a financial return. Non-self-liquidating credit is a loan tht is not tied to production and tends to stay in the system).

Reference:

(Robert R. Prechter Jr." Conquer The Crash" (2002), Pgs. 88-89)

Though a considerable amount of literature has appeared relating
to this subject of deflation/depression, the few economists who
have warned of the preconditions causing its creation have been
ignored for the most part.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illiinois

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:35:07 -0400
You seem quite attached (as the result of your 'research' no doubt)
to the notion that '' there is absolutely no evidence that deflations
will cause depressions". In your references I failed to notice any mention of such economists as Ludwig Von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, or Elliot Wave expert Hamilton Bolton who in a 1957 study
stated:
In reading a history of major depressions in the U. S.
from 1830 on, I was impressed with the following:

(a) All were set off by a deflation of excess credit. This
was the one factor in common.

(b) Sometimes the excess-of-credit situation seemed to
last years before the bubble broke.

(c) Some outside event, such as a major failure, brought
the thing to a head, but the signs were visible many
months, and in some cases years, in advance.

(d) None was ever quite like the last, so that the public
was always fooled thereby.

(e) Some panics occured under great government sur-
pluses of revenue (1837, for instance) and some
under great government deficits.

(f) Credit is credit, whether non-self-liquidating or self-
liquidating*

(g) Deflation of non-self-liquidating credit usually pro-
duces greater slumps.

*(Self-liquiddating credit is a loan that is paid back, with interest, in a moderately short time from production and generates a financial return. Non-self-liquidating credit is a loan tht is not tied to production and tends to stay in the system).

Reference:

(Robert R. Prechter Jr." Conquer The Crash" (2002), Pgs. 88-89)

Though a considerable amount of literature has appeared relating
to this subject of deflation/depression, the few economists who
have warned of the preconditions causing its creation have been
ignored for the most part.

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illiinois

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/153060-how-to-catch-the-corporate-bond-etf-wave?source=feed#comment-612270 612270 with so much off balance sheet debt floating around. Hello!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:47:17 -0400 with so much off balance sheet debt floating around. Hello!

E. Tippett
Chicago, Illinois]]>