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Everything Is Backwards, But We Can Endure

When you look at this planet and see the billions of people who are obsessed with just staying alive with some sense of comfort and dignity, and then see how few of this number actually are making the decisions which affect so many others' lives, and then become aware that nobody understands the complex interrelationships that exist between all the variables that determine the direction and consequences of how this whole mess moves...it is then you realize that this planet is most likely a DNA experiment of another, more advanced civilization, that has mistakenly over juiced the sexx and greed molecular aspects of the DNA, and is obviously busy somewhere else in the universe and isn't paying the proper attention to this experiment!

Its important that we set up large transmitters and try to contact our creators so they get off their coffee break and get back on the job, because we are going to helll in a hand basket and need their attention now! It is past the point of no return and we are sliding into a financial black hole, and my dividends, I just know, are going to be soon cut!

HHHHHHHEEEEEELLLLLLPPP !!!!!!

12 Attractive Companies That Also Pay a Dividend

This article provides no depth of discussion on the most important topic in stock market investing: dividends.

Long term investing in dividend stocks that have been raising their dividends is the smartest, safest, and ONLY way to invest in the stock market. Academic studies have proven so.

I am getting so tired of shills hawking their investment services via empty articles with out of date data.

The author(s) should be ashamed.

How Much Downside Could Still Exist?

When you look at this planet and see the billions of people who are obsessed with just staying alive with some sense of comfort and dignity, and then see how few of this number actually are making the decisions which affect so many others' lives, and then become aware that nobody understands the complex interrelationships that exist between all the variables that determine the direction and consequences of how this whole mess moves...it is then you realize that this planet is most likely a DNA experiment of another, more advanced civilization, that has mistakenly over juiced the sexx and greed molecular aspects of the DNA, and is obviously busy somewhere else in the universe and isn't paying the proper attention to this experiment!

Its important that we set up large transmitters and try to contact our creators so they get off their coffee break and get back on the job, because we are going to helll in a hand basket and need their attention now! It is past the point of no return and we are sliding into a financial black hole, and my dividends, I just know, are going to be soon cut!

HHHHHHHEEEEEELLLLLLPPP...

Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

"Most reliable technical indicators are being blown away by the strength of the current decline."

That's because technical indicators don't mean anything.

I keep scratching my head trying to figure out you "technicians."

Just what is it about, "you can't drive safely by looking in the rear view mirror," that you don't get? There really is a reason that people must look forward when they drive.

The Coming Depression: See It Clearly Through Historical Eyes

You say you see cycles in the above chart...

I see nothing in it that would tell me when to get fully invested in this market, nor do I see anything in your article that would indicate you are willing to make any such predictions.

That would be a smart move on your part and quite revealing as to how much practical, useful information you really think these "cycles" tell us.

Nothing like having your cake and eating it, too. That's a winner if I've ever heard of one.

But there's more! You conclude by saying:

"If I am correct in the assertions made in this article, it raises serious doubts about the effectiveness of the Obama plan to fix the economic problems of the country."

So let me get this straight. You are saying that these cycles you see, going back hundreds of years, portend the future success of what the government might do now? You realize, of course, that if the government was going to take say, a much different action, that your "model" would still raise the same doubts about its success, too? In other words, no matter what the government does, or doesn't do, it probably won't work, because of what your cycles tell us.

Now, I know you haven't thought this through, because any logical person would see the complete irrationality of such thinking. So please, tell us you were wrong, so we don't have to put your name on the "Never Read Another Article From These People" list.

Forecast: Recovery, But Not Until Q3

The world as we know it is ending.

All the various forms of leverage are unwinding and it won't be until all asset classes stop falling in value that confidence will begin to be restored. And the real recovery cannot begin until this happens. This is going to take longer than most people believe could possibly be the case. After all, don't we live in the best country in the world, and have the best of everything here? Our political system is the best, of course, and certainly our form of capitalism is the greatest, too, right?

These beliefs will die very slowly because we have all been thoroughly brain washed as children to believe in them, and most of us will have great difficulty in accepting the truth, which is that our political system is totally and utterly corrupt, and our financial/banking system is essentially a ponzi scheme.

The worst possible human emotions of greed, and detached selfishness rule the day, and we are destined to repeat cycles of recessions and even depressions, ad nauseum, until we wake up and demand more transparent and equal governance. This won't be happening anytime soon, probably not in the lifetime of anyone reading this. For some reason, few can stand the truth, and no politician can be elected unless they lie to us.

A Financial History of the World

The gods must be laughing their rear-ends off at the big deal "crisis" we are in.

There is no crisis. Its all just an illusion.

Think of it this way: Imagine a large family with four generations of kids, parents, grand parents and great grand parents. Now lets say one of the sub families gets into trouble and may lose their home or main employment unless they get their hands on some money. Because its a big family that cares about its whole self, one of the other sub families loans enough money to those in need to tide them over until better times come. Problem solved. Nobody loses their home and has to live in the street. Now, the family that loaned the money may have to hold back a bit because they now have less money, but they don't care, because they know there is something more important than money.

Perhaps you understand the principal here. All the people in the family actually CARE about what happens to each other, and so a way is found to solve the problem.

Regardless of the fact that the one big human family that lives here on Earth is composed of parents and kids who are a rainbow of different colors, have different belief systems, different religions, different languages, different class structures, and different judgmental egos, does not change the fact that there is only one human family on this planet.

If we had all evolved spiritually enough by now, so that more of us than just me and very few others apparently, realized this obvious, simple truth, then we wouldn't have a problem at all. We would simply sit down and figure out where all the money is sitting, and move it to where it is needed, and then think together how to change things so that this never happens again. But we can't do that because most people couldn't give a rats asss about their next door neighbor's problems, let alone anyone else's. And most everyone is so utterly self absorbed, that they can't see themselves in anyone else's eyes, except maybe the ones they are in love with, or maybe currently having sexx with.

The supposed "smartest" and most "advanced" species on this planet is totally blind, pathetically stupid, disgustingly heartless, and is being laughed at by every god the universe, because we brought this on ourselves, in endless pursuit of vacuous, spiritually worthless wealth, and junk.

Listen. You can here them laughing.

Four Stocks with No Debt

Although WallStreetNewsNetwork does have interesting potential stock investment databases, most of the ones I checked were more than 3 mo out of date, making them almost useless.

Too bad they don't update more often, especially in these times.

Bank Nationalization - The Max Holmes Proposal

brando - your right wing bias is disgustingly obvious.

The CRA act is not responsible for this meltdown we are in. Most of these loans are doing just fine (see Wikipedia and Business Week Mag:
www.businessweek.com/i...

Its not the "socialists" who don't understand economics, its your neo-con friends and their supporters who have forever fought for deregulation and who have been in charge of the executive dept. for the last 8 yrs (say "no oversight" a few times why don't you?)

Finally, we have an executive that cares more about the health and well being of all the people in this country rather than just the rich and powerfully placed.

Please say goodbye to unregulated, scumbag capitalism for hopefully forever. The rest of us have had enough of your lunatic, money grubbing, criminal excuse for government. I'm afraid its best this way for the vast majority of people in this country. Take off your rose colored glasses. You're blind as a bat.

The Case for Natural Gas

When you make statements like this:

"This looks like an opportuntity that comes along just a few times in an investor's life."

You sound like a used car salesman.

Of course, natural gas will surely be higher in the future at some point than it is now.

But you could make that same case for a lot of other things, too, being what valuations are right now.

Sorry, but I come away with more hype from your post than inspiring content.

Kinder Morgan: A Kinder, Gentler Investment Opportunity

KMP is a "toll road" as the article states, and its share price does not follow oil prices as such, as this article could be interpreted to imply.

Also, there are better plays in the MLP midstream space IMHO, if upside and dividend size is of interest to the investor.

And not every analyst believes that KMP's dividend will be maintained this year at its current level.

There are also worse stocks to invest in.

Peter Schiff Answers His Critics

There is a guy named Joe Granville, who was a big investment Guru in the '70s. He did really, really well...for awhile, then started being wrong...and bingo, lost his Guru crown.

He was just one of many who have come, conquered, and then faded, and who will be followed by many more. They appear to be prescient and attract droves of followers, but alas, it turns out that they are soothsayers but for a limited time only, and not for always. Bummer.

Why is it that they always fade out? Well, obviously, because they weren't really Gurus at all. They were just lucky for awhile.

There are even some around today, and if you were to get into a time machine and jump into the future, you would find them there. They would have predicted, say, for example, the bottom of the Great Recession in late 2008 (or 2009, or 2010, or...whenever it was.) There they are...the Gurus..and they were right!

Except they weren't. They were lucky. How they saw the future happened to be somewhat correct. But do you think this correlation really means anything?

Well, lets say it does. The question now becomes how do I find a Guru before
we all discover he was right, which will then probably be too late to take advantage of his "predictions." There are lots of Gurus around making their prognostications; but which one is going to be right? If you think about this for very long, you'll discover that you can't ever know. How can you possibly know ahead of time which "Guru" will be right, and at what time in the future, unless...

You are a Guru, too!

In that case, you don't need one, do you? Just listen to yourself. But, alas... you know you're not a Guru. So, its impossible to pick one out and know ahead of time when they are going to be right, unless you just make a lucky guess.

So we only know who they are, and when they are right, after the fact, and not before. Again, big Bummer.

And to go one step further, if after all that we still decide to follow what someone says because it appears they were right once, or for awhile, how on earth do we know if they are going to be right again? Jo Grandville was "right" for awhile, and then he wasn't. Peter Schiff was right, it seems, for awhile, if you give him a lot of leeway time wise, (and now recently has been faltering, or just judged incorrectly, perhaps?) Nevertheless, he seems to have known what was going to happen in that future that now is happening...right???

Well, I've got great news for all. Here's a way to find a real Guru who can pick the direction of the DOW at least 10 times in a row! So he's got to be correct on the 11th, too, right?

Get a thousand people together on your web site to pick whether the Dow will go up or down tomorrow. The next day we'll find that about half of the group was right. Keep only those in the group who were correct. Then repeat for nine more days. In the end, one or two people will be left who will have been correct for ten days in a row! Will this be the Oracle we are looking for?

This is what PURE CHANCE gives us: people who stand out and appear to "know something" and have methods which appear to "predict" what is to come. But its all just a coincidence.

We all have to have a very strong desire for the truth in and of itself, in order to be objective enough to see past our own rose colored glasses. Whether we have this desire or not, says far more about us in this present moment - our desires, our agendas, our beliefs, etc., than we will ever be able to accurately predict about the future.

The Cult of Peter Schiff - Is It Deserved?

There was a guy named Joe Grandville, I believe, who was a big investment Guru in the '70s. He did really, really well...for awhile, then started being wrong...and bingo, lost his Guru crown.

He was just one of many who have come and gone, who will be followed by many more. They appear to be prescient and attract droves of followers, but alas, it turns out that they are "soothsayers" but for a limited time only, and not always. Bummer.

Why is it that they always fade out? Well, obviously, because they weren't really Gurus at all. They were just lucky for awhile.

There are even some around today, and if you were to get into a time machine and jump into the future, you would find them there. They would have predicted, for example, say... the bottom of the Great Recession in late 2008 (or 2009, or 2010, or...whenever it was.) There they are...the Gurus..and they were right!

Except they weren't. They were lucky. How they saw the future happened to be somewhat correct. You think this correlation means something?

Well, lets say it does. The question now becomes how do I find a Guru before
we all discover he was right, which will too late to take advantage of his "predictions." There are lots of Gurus around making their prognostacations; but which one is going to be right? If you think about this for awhile, you'll realize you can't ever know. How can you possibly know ahead of time which "Guru" will be right in the future, unless... you are a Guru, too! In that case you don't need one, do you? Just listen to yourself. But you know you're not a Guru. So, its impossible to pick one out ahead of time, unless you are lucky, of course.

So after their "predictions" come true, we know who they are, but not before. Bummer.

The problem is, if we then follow what they say, are they going to be right again? Jo Grandville was "right" for awhile, and then he wasn't. Peter Schiff was right, it seems, for awhile, if you give him a lot of leeway time wise, and now recently has been wrong again. But in there for awhile he just knew that future...didn't he?

Well, I've got great news for all. Here's a way to find a Guru who can pick the direction of the DOW 10 times in a row! So he's got to be right on the 11th, too, right?

Get a thousand people in a big room (or web site, maybe) to pick whether the Dow will be up or down tomorrow. The next day we will find that about half will be right. Keep only those in the group who were correct. Then repeat for nine more days. One or two people will be left who will have been correct for ten days in a row!

This is what pure chance gives us: people who stand out and appear to "know something" and methods which appear to "predict." But its all just a coincidence. And you have to have a strong desire for the truth in order to be objective enough to see past you're own rose colored glasses, which gives us a view of reality that really says far more about us in this present moment - our desires, our agendas, our beliefs, etc., than it ever will say about the future.

Buy, Sell or Hold: IBM Runs Away with the Market

We'll see what the next quarter brings...I think that will be more telling

At Least 43,000 New Obamaconomy Workers Freed Up

I think its important to understand one fact that most people seem to miss when the discussion turns to comparing the "government" to "private enterprise," and proclaiming that one or the other is "bad" and the other is "good."

There is something fundamental which each share, that neither can do without, because we are talking about the literal essence of each. Do you know what I am referring to?

Human beings. Human beings are underneath both, and run the Gov and private enterprise. And human beings can be selfish, short sighted, ignorant, lazy, prejudiced, blind, and intelligent, aware, etc., and whatever else we can say about ourselves. There's a big difference between George Bush and Abraham Lincoln. Would we not expect their presidencies to reflect this?

Gov and PE have their value for any society. The more intelligent and concerned their leaders are, the better they will be run and the better off their constituents will be.

If Gov is run by people interested more in the society as a whole rather than moneyed special interest groups, won't that be a better deal for all concerned? And if PE is run by people who have more in mind than short term profits and bonuses for higher ups, isn't that also a better deal for all concerned?

The wrong people in charge of any institution can destroy it and severely hurt other institutions it is connected with, Gov or PE.

It all boils down to the people running things, their sense of ethics, and the spirit of the motivations that guide their behavior.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We see this in both Gov and PE, and we see the opposite, too.

The fact is, we have both of these institutions and we can get rid of neither. They both will vie for power and as such, must be controlled by us, as history has shown us time and time again. We must insist that both Gov and PE be limited power wise and answer to us for their behavior. We are in charge of them and simply have to exercise our power when necessary to control them. We are the "government" and we are the "private sector." Not realizing this has allowed these institutions to wreck havoc on our economy and our lives. But we are waking up and the slow process of bringing them under our control is again beginning, as they both have gotten way out of hand in recent decades.

This will not be easy or happen quickly, but don't forget who you are.

We will take the long view and we will prevail.