Recent comments by Newsboy

He explains it much better than I, so I recommend watching the lecture
The Theatre of the Absurd - features
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Haven't been on Dickinger's website in over a year, and I certainly would never invest based on the rants of a meglomaniac...
In fact, I haven't been risk adverse since I sold my RE in 2002-2005, and took a defensive "sidelines" position.
Sort of helps when you run a ca$h business that is recession proof though 
P.S. Currently looking for safe haven from Bendover Bernanke's sterlized printing...

Gradually reduced claims numbers simply means (if we a rely on them at all at this point) that we're essentially treading water in an economy with a JOBS DEFICIT of about 12 MILLION .
Why all the gloom & doom? 
Ba-Ba-Ba-Bennie and the Inkjets gonna print all the
'MerIkuns' need, and even sterilize it with flu vaccinations!

As usual, the New York Times is a day late and a dollar short:
Give the NY Trotskyites a break!
I take's time to get the Truth correct, and continue the never-ending revolution(s)...
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This trend may actually accelerate, with all the stealth austerity that the economy is going through. If the high-paying jobs are getting replaced by lower-paying ones, then these inexpensive manufactured homes might become the only option for more and more people.
All hail Grapes of Wrath: Part Deux aka Ma & Pa, we all gotta drag da trailer 700 miles to the nearest employer

Former Obama official Summers calls for more stimulus - Political Watch - MarketWatch
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cdresearch,
Different paradigm this time around indeed, indeed...
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition 

I NEVER believe crap spouted by an investment bank that I wouldn't EVEN trust to handle my dog's portfolio 
Then again, I pulled ALL my capital out twice in the last decade:
2002-2003 Plowed ALL capital into physical Au/Ag
Q3 2007 Plowed ALL capital into T-Direct
Presently, looking for a safe Store of Wealth out of U$D.
Not looking to buy a declining asset with liabilities determined by the apparatchiks and their herd right now...
NO thanks Merrill/BofA, you can keep your 
This time it's about return OF capital; Not return ON capital!

I streamed a couple of shows from pbs.org last night.
Nice to know all that tax money collected i.e. looted by da thugs is entertaining someone, other than the duopoly parasites partying like it's 1999, still...

Oh...but they represent a full 3 percent of The Most Influential Financial Journalists.
You should see the journalistic prejudice aka cognitive biases that are practiced by actual, professional in-house reporters, and not anonymous online Bloges-pierre troublemakers of the ZH variety!

OT: Something wicked has been having its way with 'MeriKa for a long time now...
Emergency Powers Statutes (Senate Report 93-549)

Six months of listed inventory. Six months of shadow inventory. And more on the way.
Buy now -or- be priced out forever? 
lol

JimPortlandOR is mad cause I said the Portlandia word.
He'll never, ever forgive me now!

I don't smoke it no more, tired of waking up to the snore...

So, is this where all the Timmay and Helicopter Ben boo$ters hang out?
I understand that Calculated Risk has went pro-Fed/Treasury...

Seems any icons past -0- is too many for some...
Maybe it's a Portlandia phenom?

Uh...I answered no to all those, and I quit eating gluten last summer!
Instant eject seat?!?

Toddler screenings - Truly unbelievable, but given what I seen strangely normal.

"organic decline', what a quaint anachronism.
Wasn't that banned by the (D) & (R) Duopoly during the "tanks in the streets" meme?

Woohoo! 1/2 finished until the pipeline is cleared! (that's what the AZ Realtor told me and my wife today)....
Sell NOW before you're priced IN forever...



Even an economic amateur like myself could see the housing trainwreck forming in 2003, but when I warned friends and family in Aug. 2005 to sell their RE, the herd was still asleep.
Guess it all depends on the gullibility of the avg. sheepster