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Time To Be Fearful?

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Bond Expert: Tuesday Wrap

The article might have been interesting if it did not presume every investor (even those like me with years of experience and professional licensing) understood all his jargon. If he wants suckers who simply think he knows because they can't understand him, good luck, but they wont have dough.

Fed Rate Decision To Shield Dollar From Horrid Housing Market

Well written facts leaving the reader to draw the obvious conclusion. Let's see more from and of this writer since, she is good to read and great to look at!

There Is Plenty to Fear in This Market

All you bull-market geniuses will be eating crow and asking why the stock market does not always go up, [as the manipulators have told you]? In the long term, we're all dead. If you have profits, take them. If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride. Don't spurn caution.

Morgan Stanley: Is It Paradise Lost for Brazil?

Warren Buffet gets whacked periodically. He took a bath in foreign currencies before. Since he is basically a bull market genius, I'll put my money on the head of the government as to the best predictor of what happens.

Recession Will Be Short and Shallow

I've heard it all. He says, without a scintila of evidence to back his platitude, 'Recessions rarely happen when everyone expects it'??? What kind of Bushite bull is this guy buying into, or should I say selling? Hold on to your hats. This time, the sky really is falling.
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Ten Things You Can Worry About

As a former broker, I don't trust 'wall street' to do anything but lie, cheat and steal from anybody stupid enough to believe that trees grow to the sky. In case you hadn't noticed, hedge funds are not regulated and the managers get overpaid to bet the farm and lose nothing when they loose your (the investors") farm.

World Crisis Not Dissimilar to 1929-1932

I agree that we are heading for very bad times but, it is elementary that when assets simply evaporate (are written down or "off") that deflates the money supply and hence deflation. Even helicopter Ben may not be able to counter such, if, as you rightly suggest, the rest of the World is so highly intertwined. Hence, although all money is relatively worthless, as financial assets decline, so will the price of gold. Sadly, there are no good long term bonds [which during the last great D where the best way to sit it out]. Ergo, today, I like good farmland somewhere safe, with a year round growing season. Buy land from me in Texas.

Losing All Respect for the System

Free trade is a platitude that the modern-day robber barons use to hide their own no-bid contracts on the backs of working fools who believe their lies. Any honest or real economist knows that unfettered markets lead to predatory practices and monopolies. Look at Airlines. they said deregulation is good for the consumer. Hah. They are all bankrupt and flying with duct tape while the bosses get bonuses. Only when the truth is seen as absolute and not a moving target subject to lies called "spin" will there be any hope.

It's Time to Focus on the Value of the Dollar

Neo-cons are old con-men with catch platitudes like free trade and God Bless America. They hate anybody with a college degree and the good sense to let other people live free. All econimists know that free trade ultimately leads to monopolies that restrain trade.

Losing All Respect for the System

You haven't said the half of it. There is more greed, corruption and obfuscation now than in the roaring 20's when there was virtually no regulation. The Bushites have dismantled the regs under a pretense that all government is bad. If so, why should they be different. We are heading for a world-wide calamity worse than the Great D, especially in the US since then we at least grew our own food, made our own clothes and knew how to add and subtract. Bill Gates has turned us into a nation of machinists who wouldn't dare run a machine in a factory. Go figure.

GE's Selloff and the Market's Complacent Reaction

I liked the article especially the emotional aspect which in truth moves the markets much more than the so-called fundamentals. I would really like to see an article on hedge fund manipulation. My theory is that they are colluding to prop-up an otherwise tanking market, e.g., they get together to have a big up day in the midst of all the downs to try to bolster the hangers on. The idea for hedges was to be long and short and thereby lose less in a losers game, i.e., he who loses least gains the most. Fact is these guys get exorbitant fees for generally being exclusively long stocks, or taking big bets on special situtations. They lose nothing when they lose those bets and the nitwits who pile in are unaware of the risks because there is no disclosure under the rubric of trade secrets. Sounds like the Bush regime to me, and they are both not long for this modern world.

Wednesday Outlook: Bulls in Command

Good thorough work and commentary

ETFs Furthest from Their 50-Day Moving Averages

What is wrong with you people? You sound like sheep that want to see only articles that tell you what to do, without any ability to draw your own conclusions. The article is good since it shows oversold and overbought statistical info, that most people understand as the irrational human behavior element that is most definitely fundamental to all markets.

Rising Global Food Prices: Trading Guns for Butter

I thought the article was clear. Only a man without a brain could not see the point. Inflation is much greater than what our Government tells us it is. Kinda like the stories the wire houses tell us about the safety of their crap loan portfolios. The beef is costing more, so maybe you should buy ag funds. Duh