Tom Lutzenberger

Note to Target: Raise Your Prices

I respectfully disagree with your post. My rebuttal is posted on my website.

Looking for a Cause for Thursday's Sell-off? Blame Greenspan

I think the big boogy monster in all of this is that the general population is quite willing to enjoy the antics of investing and institutional investors when everybody is making money, but when the house of cards falls down, as it does every cycle, then everybody looks for a scapegoat. Greenspan did rights and wrongs like anybody else in a leadership position, and he had the uncanny ability to take tomes of government data and crunch them down to their essential meaning. His style of speaking "nothing" or fedspeak was simply being cognizant to the fact that institutional investors were so wired after the great fall in 1989 to jitter on anything, that he would not let himself be the cause of avoidable panics. Sounds pretty downright smart to me.

And who was he to be able to stop a free market from bubbling? All he controlled was the rate at which currency exchanged between banks. It was the banks, the lenders, the borrowers and the investors that ginned this whole house of cards up to where it got to. And while we all made money we all were in agreement. Good job, keep doing whatever you're doing. Bravo.

Until it crashes. Then we need a scapegoat.

Oil Looks Toppy - Time to Short?

Hey TK, nice to see you're doing well for yourself. We were college roomies back at SMC for a bit. And yes, I do agree with your post. The big question is really only when does the pop occur. But I do think longterm, unless supply issues are addressed that pop is only a dip and will return at much higher levels next summer.

The Great MasterCard - Visa Debates

DIS is the ticker for Disney, not Discover.

What's Fueling the Air Travel Industry?

There's a data issue here. The Air Transport Association (ATA) says the number of full time equivalents in 2006 was 544,540. If your DOT number of 2007 says 419,444, then that would be a significant decrease YoY, not an increase, especially since July 2005. Which data source is correct?