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2009 Is Looking an Awful Lot Like 2008

If the market leads the economy we should be doing now because Nasdaq was 5000 and Japanese market was 50,000 many years back. Any thoughts?

HChang wrote:

1. Stock market leads the economy or improving fundamentals, not the other way round as someone mentioned here.
2. The crowd and economists or experts are often wrong.
3. The worst is over. Recovery may be slow, but many will regret sitting on the sideline, waiting and waiting. Many of you already missed the first run up, do you want to miss the # 2 and #3? The way you guys are spreadng fear, there is alot of caution in the market. So I don't think it will crash again.
4. We cannot catch the timing, so it's better to invest near the bottom or after recovery is confirmed, like right now and sit through for a few years.
It's alright if you don't agree, but I'm doing that, still sitting on my paper profit, when everyone say the worst has YET to come at the beginning of this year, why are you buying, you stupid??. I just laughed....wait and see what happened.

Cash for Clunkers: A Cautionary Tale for Healthcare Reform

I thought CARS program is intended to reduce imported oil use. Seems like it is giving incentive to keep using oil. Yes it may reduce some oil use but would it make any dent. The $1 Billion (or now $3B) would have been more useful for research on alternate fuel system. But that would have taken time. So the congress is propping some markets or keeping campaign promises.

About health care:
If the US can not reduce doctor or hospital bills to Medicare how they can be effective on a larger scale?

Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

Alfredo you are right. The Banks got the bailout money and they are bulldozing some of the foreclosed homes. It was not on TV network. It was a small note written by some one in CA a few weeks ago. This guy found it from the bulldozer driver who was wrecking foreclosed homes in his neighbourhood. You may find still find the story if make a search on the internet.


On Aug 01 07:40 PM Alfredo Martinez wrote:

> I have a great idea on how to fix the housing market.
>
> How about we pay people $250,000 if they burn down their house?<br/>
>
> It will decrease excess inventory, and it will create all sorts of
> new buyers in the market. Also, the new houses will probably be
> more energy efficient.

$200 Oil Is Coming While We Waste a Perfectly Good Crisis (Part 3)

I think this has been good article followed by discussion. Yes time time to do something is now. Most cars in US run on gasoline and are the biggest consumer. We may not be able to use electricity (from wind, solar, coal, geo-thermal sources) till we have efficient and economical electric cars. Only quick solution may be forced upon us may be to convert our gasoline car to consume natural gas. So I should look for a conversion kit. It has happened before. Currently most of our thermal (electric) power plants run on natural gas or coal; they use oil partially and during during start up.

Wall Street Already Back to Its Criminal Ways?

I think this is time that we start sending e-mails to Obama telling him to do the real job that he was sent (to White House) to do make "CHANGES". The administration (White house, congress, senate, treasury and SEC) are supporting the same companies that are BLACK_MAILING the nation. People (owners) of the nation sent Obama to make changes but seems like he is going along with the old system.

Why It's Actually Different This Time

Very well said. We should remember that in case of Japan, it was more or less 'one country problem' and they could export (sell goods) to other countries (US and Europe). In the present case all the countries have the same problem and can not export to other countries. Thus in present case the problem may take forever, since Japan is still not out of it.

An Optimist Looks at the Market

Andy Singh's comments apply for today (9/14/08) only.

LDK Solar: The Brightest Opportunity?

Lu seems to miss many points. Solar power can operate during sunlight hours. Wind energy can operate when wind is available. Wind energy is cheaper than solar. The large consumers like utilities are going with wind energy instead of solar. For homeowners it is costly to install solar but their will be some demand. Seems like the market is saying something that we need to listen.