Chris B

How Will Fortune Magazine's 10 Stock Picks for 2009 Fare?

"Of course, this is a dreadful almost worst case scenario, but, unfortunately, it is also the most likely one. I believe that it is much easier to avoid a personal financial disaster by conservatively preparing and bracing for the worst. "

If you're predicting a worst case scenario, with eye-popping inflation, you shouldn't be buying any stocks.

My ideas for '09?

Short Treasuries: TBT, PST
Long Oil: DXO, RIG
Long TIPs: TIP
Fertilizer/Energy Efficiency / low PE combo play: LXU
Foreign bargains: EWY, ERJ, CHL, AMX
Countercyclical REITs: EQR, SSS

Maybe pick up some temporary staffing companies like MAN, RHI, or SFN on the cheap for an explosive recovery rebound.

Torpedo Dry Ships - Cramer's Lightning Round (10/8/08)

I should start a mutual fund that does the exact opposite of what Cramer says. I'd be the next Peter Lynch.

Torpedo Dry Ships - Cramer's Lightning Round (10/8/08)

It will be sad to see millions of impoverished baby boomers who sold at the bottom on the advice of a shouting head on TV, digging through trash and resorting to prostitution and petty theft. But then again, what should we expect from the generation that gambles on stocks with one hand and pay 15% credit card interest with the other. You know... the folks who bought GMC Suburbans in 2003 expecting that Bush's war against Iraq would lower gas prices. You know... the folks who ship thousands of dollars each year to communist China and jihadist Saudi Arabia buying too much junk and oil, and then slap a patriotic magnet on their car (a sticker would be too hard to remove I guess).