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2009 Is Looking an Awful Lot Like 2008

message to Graham and Kinabalu:

1) Graham, your charts point out the similar shapes, but not the magnitude. the 2008 peak seems to be at a price nearly 3 times the peak in 2009. This alters the analysis i think. how do you respond to this.

2) Kinabalu: What is this index of 10 leading indicators? Am I missing something?


On Aug 12 02:06 PM Kinabalu wrote:

> "I’ve frequently commented on the eerie similarities between how
> the financial markets behaved in 2008 and 2009."
>
> Well, Graham, on the one hand we have a single global indicator dropping
> in 2008 and 2009, on the other hand we have the U.S. oriented index
> of 10 leading economic indicators improving for the last three reporting
> periods in 2009 and declining in 2 out of the same three reporting
> periods in 2008. If you wanted to data-mine these statistics I'm
> sure you could support, as you have, almost any position you wanted
> to take.
>
> What is it that they say about "figures don't lie..."

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Kevin: according to fidelity "compare stocks" screen STP has long term debt / equity ration (of the last fiscal year) of 58%. I own it and am thinking about buying more, but tis stat seems to contradict what you wrote. Can you address this and the comment from vitamin_j ? Thanks , John

Shorting Citi on Today's Jump

to be clear, i was referring to user 169377

Shorting Citi on Today's Jump

whoa now. that last comment was not cool. the opinion is fine, but the way it was said is unprofessional and unpolite.