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Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout

Tiabbi's NOT in the Mainstream Media. He wouldn't be able to write what he does, if he was.
However, it is a testiment to the times that a Rolling Stone writer is getting more play (much more) FROM the MSM--even if it is only to try to knock him down.

How to Trade the Rest of the Year - Goldman Sachs

Goldman may as well have advertised their short strategy. If you time their moves you make money. If you don't....
That's the only value of listening to their public pronouncements.

11 'Babies with Bathwater' and 20 'Dogs with Fleas' Stocks for the Week

Anybody know what heppened with CHNG--must have been one heck of an earnings report.
Motley Fool is for fools--has been pumping this all year and recently turned up the volume. I've seen their calls and Cramer's immediately crash before...hmmmm

11 'Babies with Bathwater' and 20 'Dogs with Fleas' Stocks for the Week

Well-
If those are "dogs with fleas", CHNG is an Elephant with Fleas--lost more than AIG did in one day. This sucker Hillbent must be very well respected for his opinion.

On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

John--Why are people dumping ZBB, your favorite short term stock?
Now lost 60% in less than 3 months.

Why we should buy at $1.08?

Nouriel Roubini, One on One: More Doom and Gloom

rcstocks:
"Marx has won"
Marx didn't win, nature won--as always. Marxism was never an "ism"--Marx entire "manifesto" was just an explanation of why the capitalist system would unwind and trend toward socialism (not even communism). He considered it an unyielding natural phenomenon.

It wasn't even a philosophy--just an academic exercise. For that, he became a convemient bogeyman of the West.

Gold Party Has Barely Started

With Gold, add some other alternative forms of currency:
Try barter systems: ITNM an example

CONCLUSION

Given the shakiness of the FDIC, the routine bank failure Friday and counter-party risk from OTC derivatives, financial weapons of mass destruction, it still makes sense to establish an alternative and eventual substitute monetary system for your ordinary daily and business transactions.

Investing in Farmland: Considering Schober's Article

AgCapita is only available for investment by Canadian citizens according to an e-mail I got back from them. They promised to let me know when things change. I don't know what would make that happen.

Why Is the Fed So Secretive?

I would hope that this isn't the first time the origins annd truth about the Fed has been discussed on this website.

Problem is, everything we understand as the increase in "standard of living" and lack of turbulence during most of the 20th century in the US is directly attributable to the Feds existence.

The Fed enabled "The American Century".

Healthcare, Education: Two Reasons to Worry About America's Future

(1)We'll pay for cost of obesity until we....don't! Currently, there are no restrictions on triple bypasses, nor drugs. Even if you don't have insurance, they'll do the work out of the local emergency room. There is absolutely no incentive for people stay thin. It will be that way until...it can't be done anymore.

(2)Much of the causes of obesity aren't fully discussed in the media--ever noticed how big the ADM-induced chicken breasts are at your supermarket? How do you think these evil people get them that way? What do you think that is doing to human fatty and muscle tissue? Steroids people--we can walk and stop eating fats all day, but steroids make you bigger no matter what you do.
Unfortunately, steroids don't make your heart bigger or pump stronger to compensate for this.

(3)Are you making money investing in the food industry? You are part of the healthcare problem.

(4)Ethics--sooner or later we have to confront the "right" to have the medical/science establishment keep us alive as long as they can. Its not a cost issue, its a common sense and quality of life issue.

(5)Economics will solve this problem. Bankruptcy stops everything. You will go bankrupt if you buy $10 gasoline and work 20 miles from home. You will go bankrupt buying food produced 3,000 miles from home when fuel is cost out-of-sight. Living where you work keeps you in shape--eating food produced in your community (or your back yard) is healthier. Companies will go bankrupt paying for the "outcomes" of misallocated resources.

People will be thin again, it'll be forced economically. There is no point in chasing obesity with today's dollars. Let this "fix" happen naturally.

Why Do Community Banks Oppose the CFPA?

no trust, nuff said
When the small bank lobby knocks heads for real against their big brethren, we'll win. We want the two on opposite sides, it forces the truth out in the open.

Gentlemen Prefer Bonds

Blacksporan:
You may be right--huge pro-deflation coreection on T-bill short funds today. Is the market betting on inflation after all.
We'll see if this is temporary next week. Scarred by TBT today.

Why to Short U.S. Treasury on the Next Uptick

Well Madman:
You must not be using TBT as your short. Ballistic is right--down. Tuna -- you're right--the market did respond--too much or not--bad day for this hedge.
Too much unanimity here--next thing you know, we'll see serial deflation--not inflation.
One of you guys said keep your stops on a short leash--short enough for you?

Get Ready for Rising Interest Rates

Can't wait--
Went with TBT today and personally sent the high flyer straight to hell.
When exactly is this hedge supposed to work? Was it over bought? Did Obama do something to erase inflation fears today? Are the deflation people taking over?

What happened to make a week's worth of gains go away in eight hours?

John Paulson Piles into Gold; George Soros Sells Petrobras and Potash

Too bad we can't get a report like this for recent transactions. Why is the Soros Goldman Sacs sale going unreported in the news?