De Val Yood Buck

The Great Awakening: Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrived (Part 3 of 3)

I'm about as tired of simplistic theories like this as I am of either/or solutions (e.g., either we are headed for WW3 or back to the land to weave hemp and eat beets). Would you rather be right or happy? See, there's another one! Seeking Alpha has higher quality posts that other fin blogs, all of which offer more insight than the MSM -- but we are still just chattin it up in the cheap seats & takin pot shots at the participants. Think I'll go outside and enjoy the fresh air...

Manufacturing Collapse Reminiscent of Great Depression's Beginning

yuck. I just hate this market! I like that gradual up and to the right, not this wa-a-ay up and wa-a-ay down every 3-5 days, bear rally every 2-3 months, etc....Volatility requires a trading strategy, not buy and hold... Pushing 60 and not working right now, I am trying to "get into" the trading thing.... but it is scary compared to just rebalancing my mut fund portfolio from time to time... wah wah -- high class problems...I just know that, whatever happens, I want to be sure I did the best I could....thanks to all you seeking alpha posters -- you are a cut above the MktWtch peanut gallery...

'You Are To Blame': Sobering Words From Dallas Fed President

Agree that the central bankers and Fed are responsible for devaluing our dollar, IMHO by excessive interest rate cuts and injections of "liquidity" in the past 9 months. The sooner they start raising interest rates the better, altho bankers and financial jockeys will whine and moan. Don't bail anymore of them out! Let them die (more likely, let them make tens of millions this year instead of hundreds of millions). If I have to pay $4.00 per gallon for gasoline, I'd sure like to also be getting 4% for my checking account balance, and 7 or 8% for my CDs!

The Financial News Shakeout

Like The Street, MarketWatch had a bad redesign, too -- certainly cost them a lot of my (former) page views.

Money Flows Into the Market: What They're Telling Us

Brett -- The dollar continues to lose value. What would your chart look like if you made it in terms of (a) Euros, (b) gold or (c) oil?