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  • It's Inflation, Stupid
    "...You can continue to buy your near zero yielding U.S. Treasuries with the belief that you are gaining any sort of real return. I should be thanking you. After all, I need someone to be on the other side of the trade while I short those worthless pieces of garbage."

    Good article; good thought above. How does an average investor short U.S. Treasuries? What vehicle(s) is/are available to the retail investor?

    Thanks in advance for educating me! ;-)


    Dec 18 08:56 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Rioting at the Gates of Thermopylae: The Fed & Central Banks Shudder
    "It's the end of the world, as we know it....but I feel fine..."

    Appropriate song quote, IMHO
    Dec 15 10:16 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • We Can't Get No... Satisfaction
    Do you think that 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had a wee bit of influence?!
    Oct 08 08:36 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Obama vs. McCain: Who's Better for Dividend Investors?
    In light of the fact that the Congress and the Fed have MUCH greater impact on the economy that any President, correlating stock market returns to who is President is about as useful as those I've seen correlating it to phases of the moon.
    Sep 17 11:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Bullish Sentiment Drops 30%
    If you really want to make your point, deal in a longer time period ( i.e. back at least through the last major bear in 2000-2001 ). How low did the numbers go then? The short-term graph you use doesn't correlate to anything but short-term price movements.
    Sep 12 10:52 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Oil, Stock, and Housing Declines
    The last time I looked, neither housing or the S&P essentially doubled in less than a year.....unlike oil.

    So what's the big surprise here? From a MUCH greater speculative peak, comes a bigger decline in a shorter period of time.

    More "insight" from Bespoke? Duh!
    Sep 07 09:24 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Investors Intelligence Bullish Readings
    IMHO, 6+ years is way too short a period of time to attempt to draw this sort of correlation.
    Jun 20 13:36 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • AAII Bearish Reading Above 50%
    ...and therefore...what?!?

    Quit stirring the pot; take something out now and then!
    Jun 17 10:24 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Friday the 13th Returns
    What absolutely useless information! If this is your stock in trade ( useless statistics for the sake of sound bite headlines ), you won't last very long.
    Jun 13 10:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Financials Give Up Most of Bull Market Gains
    I'm with CloroxCowboy on this one...all you do is present statistics with no conclusion or analysis. In fact, having read a number of your articles over the past few days, the same pattern occurs in almost all of them.

    Bottom line: If you don't bring anything to the table, I ( and probably many others ) will simply put you on the "ignore " list.
    Jun 13 10:47 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Safety in Dividends?
    1.Did you include the dividend's contribution to total return when figuring out whether a stock was "up" or not for the year?

    2.Could be a spurious correlation, in that dividend paying stocks are dominated by a currently out of favor sector-financials.
    Jun 04 10:14 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Stocks vs. Bonds: A Surprising Result
    The last time I looked, a 10.5% return rate was 25% greater than 8.4%...a tremendous difference when compounded over a lifetime.
    Apr 10 11:19 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Stocks vs. Bonds: A Surprising Result
    The last time I looked , a 10.5% rate was 25% greater than 8.4%....a tremendous difference when compounded over a lifetime.
    Apr 10 11:18 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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