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  • Why a Market Crash Doesn’t Matter [View article]
    What's all this nonsense about the stock markets and the middle class and morals and ethics; if you can juice the markets, sucker the retiree, and squeeze some blood out of the average schmuck investor do it.

    Stock markets? Humbug!

    Milk the peasants, starve the orphans, steal from the widows.

    Humbug I say, bah humbug!

    Get to work Cratchett - you worthless buy and holder!
    Nov 23 02:18 am |Rating: +8 -1 |Link to Comment
  • NY Times lashes out at Lloyd Blankfein's (GS) non-apology for "participating in things that were clearly wrong and we have reasons to regret." Times wants Goldman to give "a multibillion-dollar gift to the federal Bureau of the Public Debt... The donation can come from the bonuses; that way, it would not harm shareholders, because they only get their cut after the bonuses are paid."  [View news story]
    A nice riot is what we need; 85 Broad Street surrounded by an angry mob. A tar and feathering would be refreshing as well.
    Nov 23 02:09 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Twenty Year Stock Bubble Is Still Inflated [View article]
    Wow - lots of stock and equity bugs reading your article John.

    I wonder what platitudes and slurs The Roman prelates and wealthy merchants flung the way of the Barbarians at the Gates? They no doubt ate their words before much time passed; and were shocked to see the spear in their gut.

    Rome wasn't built in a day, but it didn't collapse in a day either.
    Nov 21 22:19 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • A Rough Day at the Office for Tim Geithner [View article]
    Hangings are in order for all of these two-faced equivocating baboons.

    It's political theater; nothing more, nothing less.
    Nov 21 21:34 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Market Volume: Still an Unanswered Question [View article]
    Low Volume = money on the sidelines staying there and rightly so.
    Nov 21 21:29 pm |Rating: +3 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Tax Uncertainty and Homebuilder EFts [View article]
    SA - Please dump the spamming jerks ASAP

    Real Estate ETF's or Real Estate in general at this time = buying ocean front property with 80% down and no insurance at the height of hurricane season.

    Honestly, housing prices, sales, and the whole market have nowhere to go but down in the next 3-5 years.
    Nov 21 21:25 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Scariest Financial Site On The Web: Part 3 [View instapost]
    U.S. Debt Clock = Nice link, thanks.

    The crisis solution will be to confiscate personal assets and allow you to live here and be defended or drafted by the military when the war with the Russian/Chinese alliance begins and we fight over the oil fields in the Middle East so we have fuel to grow food (run tractors, harvesters, make fertilizers and pesticides, transport and process the food).
    Nov 21 21:19 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Scariest Financial Site On The Web: Part 3 [View instapost]
    As soon as they pass national healthcare, add 3 trillion, and figure in another 12 million that won't look for work or cross the border because they'll get free healthcare. Increase unemployment due to layoffs to unload healthcare liabilities and taxes for employees.

    Yikes.
    Nov 21 21:10 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • 25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression [View article]
    Well...someone has to pick the daisies for the funeral...
    Nov 21 21:04 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • 10 Reasons to Believe That We're in a Depression [View article]
    Oh dear, too much koolaid.

    Politics is the distraction.

    Demicans versus Republicrats is old hat.

    Get with the program.


    On Nov 20 12:41 PM jr007 wrote:

    > Healthy comments??? This site has more downers... than a roller coaster.
    > Positive attitudes produce positive results. You "shorters" are probably
    > deserve to take it in the shorts. This country is doing everything
    > possible ...to rectify the serious Repub's pandering to their corporate
    > contributors for the last 8 years. Go Obama!!
    > Jr007
    Nov 21 04:44 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Regulators close a Commerce Bank in Fort Myers, Fla. - the year's 124th bank failure - at an estimated cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund of $23.6M.  [View news story]
    "There is no banking crisis..." (wave of the Jedi hand) "Yes, there is no banking crisis..." guard respsonds. "That is not HFT done by our droid's..." (wave of Jedi hand). "Yes...your droid...perfectly legal..proceed".

    "You will not report a crisis, a depression, or a run on the banks..." (wave of GS Jedi Finger)..."Yes, there are no problems whatsoever..."
    Nov 21 04:34 am |Rating: +5 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Yields on three-month T-bills are back at 0.005% after spending part of Thursday and Friday in negative territory - considered extreme risk aversion, where institutional investors are paying the government just to safely hold their money - but John Jansen says compared with last fall, this time negative rates are just a technical phenomenon.  [View news story]
    .0005% is better than losing 40% any day
    Nov 20 22:13 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • [[UPS]] says that on Jan. 4 it will raise rates on ground packages by about 4.9%, and hike rates a net 4.9% on air express and international shipments originating in the U.S.  [View news story]
    Inflation? What inflation? Oh wait...
    Nov 20 22:12 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Twenty Year Stock Bubble Is Still Inflated [View article]
    A 40% drop in markets (market cap. versus GDP of 100% current - 61.8% average) would bring them back to a rational amount, which would be the March lows.

    However, the March lows were so much worse than the insane highs of October 2007 - with everyone's retirement and pension invested - that they have desperately reflated the bubble.

    Inflation adjusted gold should be $2,000 an ounce, and the value of the markets in relation to gold is inflated as well. Housing prices are similarly inflated and require a 40% drop as well to be in line with historical prices in relation to wages.

    The liquidity driven bubbles are huge and out of touch with the reality of median wages, healthcare costs, and overall employment of people in CAREERS, not just "jobs".
    Nov 20 12:01 pm |Rating: +2 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Japan in the Tank [View article]
    A weak Japan will only embolden China and North Korea. People in Taiwan must be worried.

    A weak Japan means that we have a weak ally in the Pacific if we could call them that; or a weak deterrent to communist conquest. I don't know how much Australia could help if China decided to acquire Pacific territory.

    I sure hope our Pacific Fleet is growing and updating but I kind of doubt it.
    Nov 20 11:50 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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