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Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

Please, please keep publishing articles like this! I've made more money in the past 8 months than at any other point in my life, and the whole time I've heard nothing but bear-market whining from supposed pundits.

Keep up the negative articles, so when all the losers who have missed the boat finally grow a pair in I can REALLY cash in.

Will Microsoft Get Squeezed by Chrome OS?

"Google’s ChromeBooks are really a new category altogether."

False. Google is jumping on the Netbook bandwagon that's been going strong for a year, and hoping that putting their brand on it will create a breakthrough. They're striking at the right time, so it just may.

They're also solving the biggest problems with Netbooks (lack of storage & processing power) by leveraging -- and at the same time pushing -- their cloud computing model. This is really where Chrome is superior to the average Linux netbook, and where there is room for a revolution in computing.

There's little need for the cloud on the desktop, no matter what people getting paid to push that idea might say. But on low-powered Netbooks the cloud can be very advantageous, at least for the next 2-3 years.

Why GM Is Repaying Bailout Money

99.9% of car buyers in the U.S. know absolutely nothing about such things. Despite what you read here in the echo chamber, SA is not representative of typical Americans. The idea that typical consumers know -- let alone care -- about bailouts, unions, or executive pay is absurd. Most consumers couldn't tell you who their Representative is, where Iraq is located, what socialism (or even capitalism) is, or the name of a single Wall Street executive. They buy a car that appeals to them aesthetically and meets their immediate needs -- period.

On Nov 16 05:08 PM William Legrand wrote:
> Far too many U.S. consumers will no longer consider GM or Chrysler vehicles after the very-public taxpayer-funded bailouts, union givebacks/gifts, and astronomical executive payouts/bonuses.

Why the Stock Market Should Crash

If you haven't made a small fortune in the past 6 months, you are an utter fool.

On Nov 16 01:35 PM herbert hoover wrote:

> There's no way anyone can invest in these markets unless they are
> naive, delusional or have more money than brains. if this market
> goes up another ten percent, the DJ is at 12000! With these fundamentals,
> that's insane

The Unsustainable Lie of Inflation

On Nov 10 03:42 PM Paco Ahlgren wrote:

> You've just advanced my point. Thank you.

A truly lame response that denigrates only you, and that solidifies my opinion of your intellect formed from reading the original 'article'.

The Unsustainable Lie of Inflation

On Nov 10 09:50 AM emily x wrote:

> oh brother... after 8 years of Bush & Cheney, THIS is the "lie"
> that upsets you?

Without making any particular political argument, emily x is exactly right. Pulling out the Goebbels quote -- which is constantly trotted out by everyone for everything -- for something so relatively trivial is fairly ridiculous.

There is no shortage of quotes relevant to your thesis -- why use this old workhorse?

This entire post is like smashing home a staple with a sledgehammer. Yes, it works. But it makes you look more than a little ridiculous. Make your argument without the histrionics and you might find an audience beyond the already-converted here.

The Mac vs. PC Debate Was Never Clearer

By suggesting that MS's recent ads are pointless, the author shows a misunderstanding of the computer-buying public: the vast majority of them know NOTHING about computers, including any difference at all between a Mac and a PC. To these people (80+% of computer buyers) "Macs cost more for the same thing" is a powerful message -- that's why these ads have shown success.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

> Can you believe how bad Chinese-made
> stuff is?.....pure junk.

And yet Americans -- including yourself, no doubt -- line up to buy it.

Remind Me Again, What's a Bubble?

Bubbles are the financial manifestation of groupthink. Right now, the groupthink is "Oh NOES THE SKY IS FALLING!!!1!" So banks aren't lending, consumers aren't buying, businesses are laying people off, etc. The ridiculous bear bubble will pop just like all others do, and the market will begin making sense again, and those of us who've invested against the bubble -- buying stock in strong companies for next to nothing -- will make out like bandits. Some of us have already seen amazing gains over the past 6 months.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

So people were crying because the TARP $$ was "never going to be paid back," and now people are crying because it's being paid back too early and without sufficient interest??!

Does the whining never end?

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

On May 19 09:42 AM sidestick wrote:
> The article mentioned the increased cost of a car as $1300 by 2016.
> Will the savings in gas offset that $1300?

Surely your computer has a calculator built in.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Cetin,
You accidentally made a comment that wasn't your typical inane spam -- congratulations. It's nice to send you kudos for a change, instead of hitting the "report" button.


On May 13 01:55 PM Cetin Hakimoglu wrote:

> Retail sales are not such a big deal. Even during the 2002-2007 bull
> market retail sales were occasionally negative. Don't celebrate yet,
> bears. We may have a 3% rally later this week.

Why Stimulus Funds Need to Be Spent Everywhere

It doesn't help that those states and localities most in need of stimulus are the same areas where the politicians are most vocally (and hypocritically) "opposed" to government spending. Alaska, Mississippi, etc., are the biggest drains on the rest of the country, yet their politicians pretend they don't need Federal funds: www.taxfoundation.org/....

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

I would go further and say that those who have stayed out of this market have already missed some of the biggest and easiest gains they're likely to see for a very long time. 3 of my stocks (C, STP, BYD) have nearly tripled since I picked them up in January. I expected to wait at least a year to see doubling!

Volitility has made for easy pickings -- I'll be sad when the economy finally straightens out.


On May 07 10:47 AM jr007 wrote:

> Like it ..or not, things are getting better in the market. Those
> in denial..will be left stewing in their own lost opportunities.
> The Republican shorters will get their "Just Dues". Sorry.

GE's Immelt Thinks for Himself: U.S. Not Shifting to a Service Economy

Fixing U.S. education will fix all our problems:

1) Americans will have the math and science background to continue leading innovation.
2) Americans will be educated enough to not vote for the morons who wind up in Washington year after year.
3) Americans will commit few violent crimes.
4) America will produce visionary leaders rather than followers.