Voice of Reason

Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008

How many successful hedge funds any of you losers run?

How many of you have your own tv show on CNBC?

That's what I thought.

The Market Domino Effect: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Just more gloom and doom. If Columbus worried like Brian he would have turned around and went back to Spain in a week fearful of sailing off the edge of the "flat" earth. Lucky for us, he didn't.

Financial lesson 101: The more nay sayers you see whining about how bad things are, the more likely we are very close to or already at the bottom.

Confession: I'm not that great a stock picker. But of all the advice handed out and the most simple and often the most ignored is buy low and sell high. While they don't admit it, most people most times do the opposite. I wonder... how many right now are chasing Vista, Apple and Google and avoiding banks like the plauge?

I've made a lot of my money getting into stocks when they were beat down and nobody would touch them with a ten foot pole. Sure, sometimes I got burned, other times I said whoopee!

Why the Yahoo Deal Must Happen

Two points.

The typical business user doesn't jump in with both feet until SP1 arrives. That just happened.

Does anyone in this thread do anything with their computer beyond download porn and make moronic comment here?

Judging on what was said, don't seem like it.

Windows Collapsing Under Its Own Weight - Gartner

"...they will fix themself with windows 7" is just too funny to pass up. Microsoft was going to "fix" XP with Vista. They were going to "fix" Windows 98 with XP. There were going to "fix" Windows 95 with Windows 98. And so on, and so on backward 20 years. Ain't happened yet. Vista is the biggest, most bloated slowest version of Windows...yet. Don't even get me started on UAC.

Microsoft's Windows Is a Glacier That Won't Melt Fast

As both a Microsoft long time user and investor I can say it SUCKS on both counts. Big time.