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The Real Unemployment Numbers

Very good article.

Banking on Wachovia As a Bailout Trade

You have the wrong idea. The stock is doomed and the only trade is to buy calls and sell puts.

The Four Stages of Investment Knowledge

Very well put. If the market never declined, then the risk/reward equation for securities would be greatly reduced. Short-term losses on a portfolio can be painful, but the long-term growth potential is amazing. I like your idea of "market tuition."

Economics of Oil Futures Trading, Part I

Well put. This is exactly how my professors taught me that the market works. The Futures are the most democratic forum ever invented since the price represents and reacts to the sum of all the trader's expectations and decisions. Both Bulls and Bears.

Simply put, if one thinks that the pricing is wrong, place your vote by putting your money where your mouth is.