ngwun

The Big Picture: On Recession and Recovery

Your logic sems good to me.
play games, but keep insurance.

The Physics of the Dead Cat Bounce

"Dead cat bounce"?

Looking @ all the quoterisers, & not referring to this microcosm, i see few who have :
a) killed a cat
b) seen a dead cat
c) dropped a dead cat onto a variety of surfaces & MEASURED the rebound.

Economic trampolines?

Good marks for the article, thank you Mr Butler.

World War III: U.S. vs. China?

"Your enemy cannot defeat you unless you become like them", but also one can not fight a war with so many traitors in the media. Look @ Iraq, where "torture" includes mutilation & beheading, or "pointing @ people's privates" (M Python, & the western press)
The time to argue is before the conflict. During it, the end is hastened by success.
So many theories, but life's not like that.

On Mar 12 01:27 PM Buckoux wrote:

> Then you were not the commander of a US naval combat vessel when you checked.
> What's the matter with you non-military types, Do you really believe the Hollywood stereotype about the military. I can speak for most military personal, enlisted and commissioned, and testify that we prefer peace much more than combat. The only caveat to that is that once a fight has started, it is our duty to go to the fight and win.
> Even if politicians, New York Media and Hollywood tie one hand behind our backs. Our burden is not only the battle, but the notion that we must win, "fair and square" in a "democratic way" in a short period of time, against an enemy that cheats, is totalitarian and has lots of time because it controls its own media.

Market Outlook: What Will the Fog of March Bring?

"Forget about stocks, they are doomed." Guess the troggies will win?

Usually there are survivors. Things can be tough, especially when some overpaid advisor has lost half wun's assets, & billed them for it, but some companies survive, or we would not eat, dress, or drive; except in ways to which most are unaccustomed.

Like the cliff-cloud, or the weather, it IS. You are probably not going back up that cliff [arrow of time constraint], so look around & wait it out.

3 Reasons I Think a Bull Market Rally Is Imminent

...no crap?

When Will Criminal Conflicts of Interest Stop?

"and you're right, this has been a very long-term problem, starting in the Reagan admin."

That would not be very long term. However i agree with your direction, & on an exponential, 1970 could approximate zero.
This behaviour has been occuring for thousands of years, even to the caves. Mutual predation may qualify the gene pool, but the great problem is the hypocracy of saying we believe one thing while being motivated by another, even to rewarding most, as a society, those who dissemble the best.
"Society's to blame, & we'll be charging them too!" (Python), but there is a problem for the group when one born with great riches; physical, mental, or financial, deems that this gives the right to vampirism of the group.
The actors are paid more than the engineers, whether they be on screen, or in the boardroom.


On Jan 06 08:57 AM copperbaron wrote:

> Great commentary. The public is learning more every day about how
> thoroughly corrupt Wall Street is - and you're right, this has been
> a very long-term problem, starting in the Reagan admin.
>
> That's when standards for ethics were allowed to slide badly, the
> major accounting firms began to sell a clean audit (regardless of
> how rotten and fraudulent the company may have been) for "consulting
> fees" that were ten times the 'audit fee' and when Wall Street became
> a promotion machine for many dicey ventures, mostly in the tech space.
> We also made the mistake of putting a former CEO of Merrill Lynch
> (Diamond Don) in as the T-Sec.
>
> Then stock options and crony-packed Boards came into fashion, and
> it has been a mega-theft party ever since. The mass of public equity
> shareholders has had trillions looted from their accounts - yet the
> SEC has reached an all-time low under the laughable Bush admin.<br/>
>
> It's pretty nauseating, I agree.

The "Worst Is Over" Crowd Is In for a Shock

del "is" insert "in" b4 "business" pls. (mentally ☺)

The "Worst Is Over" Crowd Is In for a Shock

Somewhere, in a cave, someone thinks it is working according to plan.
Somewhere, closer to home, a cynical power elite is screwing the average mug. It has only been like that for the last million years.
It is a pity that the obvious & gross excesses is business & government, & society have not been purged by a world which accepts anything, as long as they get a cut.
And the troglodite is no different, to those whom he abuses.

There is no weakness we hate so in another, as that which we recognise in ourselves.

Devising a Defensive Theory

Your hypothetical t/a would have to be exclusively aware, or share. Also innumerable perterbations are introduced by deliberate action, ignorance (ie lack of data) and insanity. And anyone aware of or correctly postulating the actions of said t/a could apply permuted logic to thwart logical outcomes. The spread of assets is a sign of natural entropy. "Power" is applied to elements of the asset set to concentrate them for harvesting.