THUMPHREY

Coming Soon: The $600 Trillion Derivatives Emergency Meeting

I enjoyed reading the Spock analogy......I concur...since this was all related to housing a more simple analogy: sometimes its easier to knock an old house down than to completely remodel....we can't keep insuring everything....

Bringing in the FDIC to Bail Out the Bailout

If you want to blame the fringe individual investor verses the bankers who lacked a fiduciary conscience you can go right ahead....keep watching Fox news, you can continue your education. The average price for a foreclosed home was under $170K.....these people were losing their homes because of increasing costs for fuel, unemployment, etc, etc. as well as from those among them who were speculators.....some of them probably wore lapel pins as well....

Usana Gets SLAPPed Down

SLAPPs are no laughing matter. Especially when they are using statutes outside of public issues format and individual v individual. Glad this person SLAPPedBACK....

The Two Housing Crises

Ask any old man on Main Street what the best investment he ever made in his life was and he'll answer "my house". Your article loses focus of the fact that people "live" in their homes as well - they are not just investments. You weigh too heavy on the "costs" and disregard too much assessing "benefits".....best investors know what really matters to "Main Street"......

Short Interest at Record Levels

Check with the guru of short interest...Erlanger Research. Phil will let you know exactly whats up or consequently down with shorts.....