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Why So Much Skepticism Regarding the Rally?

Agree with all above and dont forget,
very thin volume can kill any plan.

No Recovery Until Confidence and Trust Return

I am very sad because I am 50 and I do not believe that any of this will get better in my lifetime. It is a fact that wall street has devolved into a game controlled by a few players with the pols in their pocket and the prez wouldn't know a supply demand curve from a hockey stick.
Do you think that you can reverse the crazy tax code, the cap trade to come, the budget debt blowup, the govt in your dr. office, etc.? They have spent all of our money and 12 trillion more, and seek to tax the world further to line the pockets of Gore, Goldman etc.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

Amen, brother.

Dark Pools Are Not Scary Damp Places Where Investors Get Ripped Off

I believe that what you meant to say is that the liquidity HFT provides is really worth much more in better executions than the extra few cents per trade that we pay..
I believe that is true.

The Socialist Calculation Problem and Regulation of Financial Markets

The point is transparency. These should have NEVER been allowed to trade OTC.

The Dow: Ominous Parallels to the 1929-1930 Era

Look at the nasdaq chart from 1995 to 2005.
Now that is an eerie parallel to 1929 of a true collapse.

What Will the Fed Report Today?

Govt created the inflation already by pumping billions into healthcare, housing and tuition loans for years.
And they call the US capitalist-what a joke!

Tracking Two Depressions

Sorry, meant yuan was too low.

Tracking Two Depressions

It is obvious. The yuan stayed too high for too long. When the dollar tanks, we may be competitive again as manufacturers and exporters.
The physical assets here are overpriced by about the size of our debts.

Fed Minutes: We Have Not Yet Even Begun to Print!

USA=AIG
creating and selling uncollateralized securities

U.S. Debt Burden: Negotiate, Inflate or Repudiate?

All you have to know is that we have been BORROWING money to pay the INTEREST on our debt. The interest payment WILL be close to 1 trillion as our debt climbs to 20 trillion according to their budget.
Who will lend us 1 trillion per year then? Pack your bags...

Is the Populist Mob Right?

I think that people are on strike. Noone will spend any money or make any investments. This is their way of protest. It may get huge.

The Rally, When It Comes, Will Be a Doozy

They will adopt FASB 157b-- By next week they will be discussing this publically and then watch the shorts cover.
I figure a 25-50% upside for the banks in a day.

Why the Fed's TALF Is Bad for America

Bravo, you summed it up.

Options Trader Friday Outlook: Stop the Week, We Want to Get Off

too funny


On Feb 20 11:04 AM 3 Degrees of Separation wrote:

> Hey Phil: You don't sound so "Hopey and Changey" anymore.