Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Leveraged ETFs: A Seeking Alpha Expert Panel

Unfortunately I had to leave like two minutes into this thing. But this live meeting with a couple of professionals was a great concept! Very useful, I applaud it. I left it open so I could read it when I came back to my desk. If possible I think you guys should have one of these per week and post the transcript. Well moderated, Mick.

Why Magazine Covers Are Historically Great Contrarian Indicators

I think we should remember that the point of this is that when this kind of opinion permeates all of a potential market, even the least informed (as is evidenced by the kind of person to get their financial information from Newsweek), then we know that all the bears/bulls that there can possibly be have already taken their position. So the only way for the market to go is in reversal because the bears/bulls have been exhausted.
The problem is defining when the point of saturation is. For example, some liberals have scoffed at buying gold because Glenn Becks' followers have done so, and those who take financial advice from Glenn Beck certainly don't seem to be sophisticated investors, so they think gold must be bound to trend downward. On the other hand, Beck definitely is not geared for a general audience, only a very specific section of the population. How many media outlets, and how financially oblivious their audience, must tell you to do something before it becomes truly "mainstream"?

Employment: Neither Quality Nor Quantity

wchatar: It's not about when things were "great", it's like your health. Maybe you don't feel "great" on an average day, you complain about your weight and you didn't get enough sleep. So to combat your fatigue you eat a lot of sugar, but then you develop type II diabetes. You may not have felt "great" before, but you were still a whole lot better.

Hyper Prosperity Will Replace Hyper Inflation

I think that South East Asia will become hyper profitable.

Japan to the U.S.: 'We Don't Want to Exclude You, But...'

As terrible as the next decade will be in America, as long as we don't have a civil war and our currency does not become *literally* worthless, I think we'll be fine after that. It's crime two or three years from now when unemployment reaches its peak that I'm most concerned with.

Closing Update: Dow's 0.6% Advance Leads the Way

Great, he calls himself "MIT_certified" now. Whassa matter, couldn't pass the first year of college so you gotta pretend you went to MIT? You couldn't even handle writing an article that anyone on SA could stand, Cetin (if that is your real name).

Today in Commodities: A Respectable Asset Class

Also, spammer, your website SUCKS. It's a featureless, ugly, crap site designed by idiots and used by dumbasses.

Today in Commodities: A Respectable Asset Class

Dammit, let's ban this guy. Add a filter to eliminate posts that say "hat tip to", not just his website name, he obviously found a way around that.

Could China Propel Gold to $2,000?

If the Chinese dump US treasuries, their own holdings will fall and the Yuan holdings of its citizens will fall because it is still pegged to the dollar.
If the citizens buy gold, the Chinese can dump their US investments and the average citizen will still have valuable gold, AND a cheap currency so their exports will still sell well and unemployment will remain low. But they will also have wealthier citizens to stimulate domestic spending.

Gold and Oil Part Company

I like how "cetinsucks" was followed two posts later... by Cetin himself, spamming away as usual.

The Nine Best Natural Gas, Oil Pipelines for Income and Capital Gains

Yeah, K-1s are weird.

Anybody with any thoughts on WPZ? 11.66% yield, divs keep increasing year after year. Looks quite interesting.

Today in Commodities: Will PPI and CPI Tell the Truth About Inflation?

Your article has nothing to do with PPI or CPI.

Gold Prices Are a Sign of Nothing

I said LONG-TERM confidence. The idea that the market is up yet gold remains high as well points to the idea that there are a lot of people that want to protect themselves. Gold has been creeping up slowly, meaning that there are a lot of holders and not a lot of buyers, which makes sense because we're not trying to get rich off gold, just preserve wealth. Gold is only gonna do well when and if really significant bad shit happens, so most of us only own a small amount as a hedge.

Greenspan: Bubble and Crash Still Not My Fault

Hey Alan, I know another thing about human nature, if you give people free money they will spend it on stupid crap that they don't need and won't pay you back.
Oh, another thing, financial crises may be inevitable, but crises that DESTROY THE BANKING SYSTEM may be preventable.

Gold Prices Are a Sign of Nothing

Gold price is useful to measure long-term confidence, or lack thereof, in other investments.