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The Current Market Mess: Avert Your Eyes

10 millions of unemployed WITHOUT medical insurance.

The Current Market Mess: Avert Your Eyes

"Goodness knows this society, this country is soft. So a little dose of reality, a little toughening up, is not going to hurt anyone."
Not going to hurt anyone? You are out of your mind!
Guess you don't personally know any of the 10 millions of unemployed with medical insurance.
Fool.

Bankrupt Banks Wiped Out by Tulip Backed Securities

Actually, less so "black swan" event(s), than what would just be adverse developments that could hurt MLPs

Bankrupt Banks Wiped Out by Tulip Backed Securities

mplaut -
Thanks for your response. I currently have some TCLP, but as a follow-up, what kind of "black swan" event(s) could sour MLPs as "safe" havens?

Bankrupt Banks Wiped Out by Tulip Backed Securities

If the answer is, "stay in cash", how does one do that "safely"?

Bankrupt Banks Wiped Out by Tulip Backed Securities

Re PastTense "So how do you do this?"
I've asked this same question in response to other commentators on The Big Picture.
So far...? no answers.

What's Changed on the Seeking Alpha Website?

David -
DaveW's last post fairly well sums up my feelings.
I too, with all due respect, beg to differ on your perception of my desires and preferences:
"you don't have a group of stocks or portfolio that you track, you're not interested in following particular authors, you're not interested in news about the market"
I do follow a group of stocks (elsewhere), I am interested in particular authors, and am looking for the news captured by the wide cast of the SeekingAlpha net.
I doubt I'd ever log in, set up any watchlist on SA (I do that elsewhere) or use any of the new bells and whistles.
Please, right next to "See articles BY SECTOR" just put a second link "See ALL articles" that takes me back to the old reverse chronology format and I'll be happy ever after.
As it is now, I might click on one of the top headlines and then move on to other news websites, whereas formerly I'd keep SA open all day on my desktop and check frequently for the latest articles.

What's Changed on the Seeking Alpha Website?

David -
The general tenor of the comments above captures far better the concerns I tried to express when I emailed directly to the SA Website comments.
DaveW is especially on point:
"To be able to broadly screen the daily market information in a non-quantifiable or categorical way was crucially important. I cannot make a watchlist that captures the broad sweep I used to do each day on SA."
Ditto for me.
Given the preponderance of negative feedback, I wonder just how the new format was user-tested.

An Open Letter to the Plunge Protection Team

OK, so one has now gone mostly to cash (with some GLD, CEF and SLW) and those dollars are sitting on the brink of a downhill slope.... (precipice?)
Converting low six-figures into physical metal has practical impediments to say the least, not the least of which, the tax consequences...
What's a safe haven?
e.g., distributing over multiple foreign currency etf's?
I'm fresh out of ideas

Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

Gabe -

NBER sez:
"The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. For more information, see the latest announcement on how the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee chooses turning points in the Economy and its latest memo, dated 07/17/03." www.nber.org/cycles.ht...

Don't know about you, but I not buying a new SUV or Ford-150 pick-up this year (or next).
The corn mill machinery manufacturer for whom I do tech writing isn't seeing new orders (domestic or export).

Just had to reduce the rent on a rental despite all those foreclosed, previous home owners forced into the rental market.

DHL likely to close its hub in Wilmington OH (6,000more unemployed).

NASCAR fans still going to the races, yes, but camping and grilling out instead of staying in hotels and eating out.

So a consumer-led recovery not likely.

If I were a foreign investor I likely wait for more of the trillion dollar (or mote) write-downs to find their way out of the financials woodwork. In the meantime, I'm just sitting on my hands for a spell rather jump into a "bargain" U.S. equities.

A Sideways Market For the Next Decade?

I agree, one of the best posts/comments seen on seekingalpha in a long time. HOWEVER I hope for some concrete suggestions in response to punk-ash's question: In what else could one invest?
Looking out to my 5 - 10 "retirement" (is there such a thing anymore?) horizon, what defensive postures are viable?