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  • California's Default Is Certain [View article]
    Significantly reduce social welfare, beginning with illegal aliens.
    Eliminate CalTrans and go back to local contractors.
    Get our kids off the electronic heroine and back mowing lawns, delivering papers & sacking groceries.
    Cut government salaries benefits (esp. retirement) at all levels.
    Bring all of our troops home.
    Audit the DOD & all contractors.
    Require a high school diploma to get a driver's license.
    Increase taxes on the wealthy.
    Mourn the death of common sense.
    Just some early morning ideas.
    Jun 28 10:21 am |Rating: +19 -11 |Link to Comment
  • Positioning for 2010: 10 Seeking Alpha Contributors Ready Their Portfolios [View article]
    Useless.
    Dec 28 11:03 am |Rating: +7 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Housing Can Indeed Be a Good Investment [View article]
    For the majority of us middle class home owners, it was not done as an investment. It was done as a status move and a lifestyle choice.
    Also, I hated my landlord. (Slumlord, now in jail)
    Home ownership makes sense, but only in that it provides a convenient savings account (very low, if any, interest) for our children.
    Dec 11 09:12 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Intrinsic Value of Nothing, Part 1 [View article]
    just be patient...


    On Oct 27 12:34 PM Thomas J. Gordon wrote:

    > A lot of us have lamented gov't spending in excess of tax take. It's
    > not clear to me that genuine borrowing (borrowing with the intent
    > of paying it back later) is inflationary. Although clearly the u.s.
    > is borrowing a lot more than they have in the past and you would
    > think that would have a bad effect somewhere, at minimum drive interest
    > rates up. but so far obama and geithner are getting away with it.
    > they are spending a ton of money they don't have and there are no
    > new bad effects. no inflation (defined as a rise in the overall price
    > level), u.s. treasury rates are low, the stock market is rising.
    > so when do obama and geithner pay the piper?
    Oct 28 10:45 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Is a Crash Impending? [View article]
    The concept is simple:
    WE will create our future by the our actions, not our opinions.
    Sep 07 10:38 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Scapegoating of Leveraged ETFs Is Absurd [View article]
    By definition, all shorting is leveraged...Duh!!!
    Dec 16 10:19 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Washington Mutual: The Largest Bank Failure in History [View article]
    I would like to know why the people (not the firms) responsible for this fiasco are not being investigatd? prosecuted? & imprisoned???
    Sep 28 11:39 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • McCain ETFs: What If the 'Maverick' Pulls It Off? [View article]
    ETF for McCain: coffin manufacturers & funeral services.
    Sep 25 08:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The US Dollar Elevator is Going Up! [View article]
    I hope that you are right...
    But, everyting that I read says that you are a wide-eyed optimist.
    The US has sold out it's middle class & it will be a long road back, even if we start now.
    If you haven't noticed, great economies are not built on deficit spending.
    Aug 03 10:48 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Commodities: Inflation Leaves Investors Little Choice [View article]
    Betting on inflation will certainly help accelerate it...
    Jun 03 20:12 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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