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U.S. Stocks & A Concerned Populace

I was answering a general question on another board, when vista decided to install an update on my PC and reboot. My blowhard, wordy response was lost. Since it’s a general question I see frequently, I’ll attempt to recreate my arrogance here on this medium, since blogger has autosave the question (edited [Continue]

Silly Rabbit….

…Trix are for kids….and people who want their poop to turn green Being one that occasionally reviews his fecal matter, I noticed a disturbing correlation between eating Trix cereal and disturbingly green poop. It doesn’t quite turn “fubarrio.com” green, more an army olive drab…but definately GREEN. [Continue]

Markets SURGE — Caution is Still Warranted

The numbers are staggering… biggest move in the up in the dow since 1932, s&p moved up over 10%, etc etc etc. On Sunday I said, “i do believe we see *some* firming of prices over the next little while.” hahahahha…yeah, i guess that was “some”. No, I didn’t turn into a British gentleman over the [Continue]

The Russian Online Casino Scam and Bank Guarantees

This post is going to be a little bit about the proposed government guarantees for deposits, interbank lending, commercial paper and mortgages. Beyond the risk of encouraging carelessness on the part of the bankers, there is a gaping hole forming for the a truckload of fraud coming your way….which is appropriate i guess….in every [Continue]

Margin Calls — Another Bad Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

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Do I Have Your Attention Yet?

In case you’re one of those that just doesn’t open your 401k statement when stocks are selling off, newsflash: Government Intervention into Markets Doesn’t F’ing Workand, to be quite honest that is about the only thing that can be predicted when you the govt starts meddling in systems that are far too complex and [Continue]

.50 point coordinated rate cut announced

Gosh, and they did it before market opened too…. This whole game would be alot more fun if it wasn’t so predictable, huh? The “problem” is these fools already made shorting almost everything illegal — so they won’t even be able to engineer a short squeeze out of this…s&p futures hopped up to 1040 in [Continue]

Seeking Safety in the Storm

My feeling is that you could see a short term technical bounce in the markets tomorrow. I’ll pulled 2/3’s of my shorts yesterday. Still looking for intermediate term support at 975 s&p and if we see it and any the downward pressure relieves at all may be tempted to pull the last 1/3.(that’s only about 2.5% down [Continue]

Rate Cut Warning

be advised, the tin-foilers among us think that things are shaping up for a potential “suprise” inter-meeting rate cut….i’m not entirely sure it will help however. stay tuned.UG If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [Continue]

What’s On Your Mind?

This is part one of what will probably be a multi-part series regarding what’s on my tiny cadre of readers minds. Every now and again I check out google analytics’ stats to see how people stumble on this site — usually after getting reader emails or commentary that don’t know the first thing about Uruguay. I’m [Continue]