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    • ON: Thu Oct 9th 12:08 PM
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      Clueless - Cramer's Mad Money (10/8/08)
      It is amazing the way people blame Cramer for his mistakes. He always tells his viewers to do their homework. I watch because I find his analyses of individual stocks informative, NOT definitive. While his shtick is laid on too thick for my taste, his literary, historic, and philosophic allusions amuse as well as inform.
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    • ON: Tue Jul 29th 05:02 AM
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      Who’s Really Getting Bailed Out Here
      Dusty, too early for smoking the pipe - both carrier and bailout valuations are impossible gauge accurately. Additionally it is a cracked analogy; cracked big enough for the investment banker in chief, Paulson, to drive a brinks through.
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    • ON: Tue Jul 15th 17:07 PM
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      Proposed Solution to Decline in American Wealth: Free Trade
      Wow! I want some of iThinkBig's koolaid. And Duuude!, Obama is a sensible alternative to four years of McGrahamonomics, unless you'll enjoy paying taxes on your health benefits and letting the Eronistas set energy policy, while Wall Street grifters take over Social Security.
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    • ON: Sat Jun 7th 16:41 PM
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      Political Party Power and Its Affect on U.S. Market Return
      All that hot air must be bad for global warming; if it were harnassed as energy, the US would become a net energy exporter.
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    • ON: Sat Apr 26th 11:50 AM
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      How We Got Into This Pension Mess
      crowdofcheerlead makes a good point. The irony is that by the time society gets around to euthanizing its elders, CofCheerlead will be getting close to the front of the line.
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    • ON: Tue Apr 15th 21:31 PM
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      Does the Mini-Bounce in Retail Sales Mean Anything?
      Adjust for spending on gasoline and price inflation, and you don't just have a dead cat bounce - you have a dead cat bouncing down the basement stairs.
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    • ON: Thu Apr 10th 13:14 PM
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      Russian Roulette Pays Off for Antigenics
      I guess Big Pharma has not managed to bribe the right people in the Russian drug approval process. Their problem is that US methods of persuasion do not transfer to the Russian economy. Maybe DNDN, etc. will wise up and take their research someplace other than the US so that their products can be delivered to people who so desparately need them in order to survive.
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    • ON: Sun Mar 9th 16:49 PM
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      The John McCain Market Selloff
      Puzzle me this: If the argument is that Dems are bad for the economy and Repubs are good for same, why are we having this current economic meltdown? If Dems are a bunch of Frenchies, are Repubs closet French-o-philes a la dumping Boeing for a that euro-trash hussy Airbus? Let's ponder: 1929, 1987, 2008 . . . .
      If the Dems are smart, they'll make this election close enough for the Repubs to steal again. Then they can watch the wheels come off both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while the economy crashes, thus, creating another FDR scenario.
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    • ON: Sat Jan 26th 17:27 PM
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      Rick Santelli Takes Down Jim Cramer
      Hmm? Is Cramer behind this confit de canard? It smacks of his masochistic self-promotion. Having said that, I watch his show in the same way I watch Kudlow: Both present challenging exercises in logical analysis and remind me of why Fox and the *NBCs are bigger threats to the future of democracy that anything coming out of the caves of Pakistan/Afghanistan.
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    • ON: Sun Jan 20th 11:27 AM
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      The Dow Hates Bush?
      Kudlow's law? Never use "financial market stats to backup a political argument.": From my viewing of the CNBC resident class apologist, that's all he ever does is use "financial market stats" to backup his conservative political position.
      re Market return since 2001 (7 years, in process): I recall a time when banks advertised the power of compound interest, at a modest 5%, would double your money every 7+ years or so. Since the average Joe/Josephine, isn't coupon cutting like the capital gains layabouts and their agent Wall Street touts, he/she is really suffering financial delusions of well being.
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    • ON: Thu Jan 17th 23:56 PM
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      Good News for Dendreon, Bad News for Prostate Cancer
      It's a cancer of the analyst, commonly called the "gem" thus going by the copyrighted "Pro-Strat-e-Gem&... and available on cd. (registration required for free trial.)
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    • ON: Thu Jan 17th 14:07 PM
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      U.S. Supreme Court Screws Investors, Again
      rcuddy, et al, seem to think that limiting the right to sue is in the investors best interest. I agree. Anything that impedes business violates the first principles of free market capitalism: laissez faire, noblese oblige.
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    • ON: Tue Jan 1st 22:45 PM
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      Quiz: 7 Amazing Facts From 2007
      ETFC only declined more on a % basis. In $'s, CFC was way out in front, thus, the big $'s for its strangely hued CEO.
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    • ON: Sun Oct 14th 11:26 AM
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      Countrywide Financial: Time To Look At The Board
      Why are you surprised?
      Enron's board of director's audit committee was chaired by a former dean of the Stanford graduate school of business.
      And least we forget, George Bush was a member of Harkin's audit committee in the months prior to its announcement that it was in serious financial trouble.
      Bush managed unload his stock before public disclosure tanked the shares of Harkin. He was cleared of wrong doing in a subsequent SEC investigation.
      Of course, it helped that his daddy was then the president of the good old boy USA.
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    • ON: Tue Oct 9th 13:42 PM
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      Something's Fishy About the Jobs Number
      The great thing about all the illusionary data which moves markets, is that the game still has to be played with the same players who generate the economic fictions, thus, even though it's all shadow puppets, and smoke and mirrors, stocks go up and they go down; the insiders make the big bucks while rest of us are modern day gleaners.
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