Old Rick

Expecting a Sell-Off: 35 Ways to Protect for Less

Wouldn't the simplest strategy be to purchase slightly in the money puts on SPY or QQQ or (if you feel real lucky) QLD puts for say October09? It eliminates a lot of commissions and note that individual stocks can still go up even if "The Market" declines.

Six Myths About Smart Grid

The story is pretty pointless (as are most stories by entities labeling themselves as "Green" something or other) . Taking the actions enumerated by Dirk and Perki is the real way to go. We don't necessarily need a smart grid, we need smarter people who are equipped to handle their own decisions!

Marc Faber on the Economy, Gold, WWIII

Cafengo: I'm glad to hear that you've done EVERYTHING right. I'm sure your stock portfolio is up 37% in the past 12 months too! The "we" that whisper discussed (correctly) is the collective "we" of 330M people. For sure, there are a lot of "I" who did some things right, but it is clear that "WE" did most things wrong in the last 4 years and will suffer for it for the next 3-5 years, maybe more if the incoming prez has his way and saddles our kids and Grandkids with another $4T of debt.
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>"What is this "we"? I had the opportunity to get a large second mortgage on >my home at a cheap rate. I thought about it and finished paying of the home >instead. Over 2007-8 I got everything paid off because I didn/t think those >upside down interest rates portended good. Now here I am not owing anyone >anything.

Marc Faber on the Economy, Gold, WWIII

If you subscribe to WSJ/Barrons online, it's Interesting to look at Faber's picks in the Barrons Roundtable of 2007 here:

online.barrons.com/art...

For those who don't, a partial list of his Longs were:
proshares short midcap 400
Gold
Silver
Yen
some S.E. Asian stocks (no China)

Shorts included:
30 yr U.S. Bonds
iShares DJ U.S. broker/dealer Index fund