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The Market's Going Nowhere

henarl at least makes sense. Jason? Not so much...

Get Ready for Tomorrow's Employment Data

If the data being updated is only until March 2008, then how does this article prepare us for the employment numbers? Sorry, but I fail to see the value here.

10 Market Thoughts to Start the New Year

These are good, common-sense rules to use anytime. Given the recent volatility, now is the time to re-commit ourselves to these rules.

I suspect that is the author's point.

N.B. rule #2 works best outside of trending markets. Try this during a secular bull and you may get hammered. It's good for now, though, as author indicates.

Ben Stein Watch: December 28, 2008

One of the posters has a link to Stein's article re the sub-prime mess. Beautiful. The man is urging people to buy stocks right at the peak, and making vicious fun of those people who were getting out of stocks.

As I said in my previous post, Ben is a good contrarian indicator.

The author's comment regarding Intelligent Design is also highly pertinent: Intelligent Design was itself designed to deceitfully get around laws against injecting Creationism into the public schools (such attempts run afoul of the First Amendment).

In other words, Ben Stein is just exactly the kind of person who manages to be both clueless (right at the peak!) and essentially deceitful. His support of I.D. is consistent with this.

The author's argument being thus supported, the comment was pertinent.

Ben Stein Watch: December 28, 2008

I started reading Ben Stein a few years ago (well, close to a decade).

At first, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but I quickly found him to be a good contrarian indicator. Whatever he suggests happened or will happen, you can probably bet the opposite was or will be the truth.

Same with this story. Ben tries to frame it as a, "see how smart I was" but the author is completely correct in interpreting it otherwise.

Ben Stein's mind is a hall of mirrors.

2009: Expecting a Massive Rally

This article is perfectly reasonable. The recent melt-down was indeed foreshadowed by the breaking of the 200DMA, as well as by the lack of a Santa rally in 2007 (which was the final element leading me to a short bias this year...thank heavens).

The other statements, regarding the way a rally unfolds and how to judge it, are also spot-on.

The author is simply positioning himself for an upswing but is ready to pull the short trigger if the rally is manic enough to cause suspicion.

Completely reasonable. Good advice (unlike some of the mish-mash I find on this site).

Thank you Mr. Nusbaum.

Considering a Dollar Decline

He says the dollar will "continue" to show strength against the yen.

Reality check: the dollar is falling against the yen. Down about 25% in the past two years.




On Dec 21 03:15 PM Kunst wrote:

> Greenspan, sounds familiar. The Oracle, right? Perfect foresight,
> pinpoint predictions. Yeah, I remember him.

Bernanke's Great Lie: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression

It has been said before, but let me repeat: The mindless declarations of the gold-bugs notwithstanding, gold is itself a form of fiat money as it has no inherent value.

Any arguments which ignore this are worthless. Period.

The Real Rationale Behind Current Supply and Demand for Oil and Other Commodities

Anyone stupid enough to call Global Warming a hoax should probably be ignored.