Thanks for the info, Dan.

I'd like to avoid any company that might have a geologist on the payroll that trips and falls out of its Cessna on the way home.

Exotic former colonial outposts will take your breadth away. I just don't want 'em to take my investment $$$$$$ as well.<g>

A second-hand Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict sold for 188,938 euros ($244,800) to a U.S. buyer in frenzied online bidding.
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I dropped out at $240,000.<gg>

What's the Blue Book on Popes's cars?

I sold all my real estate last year. Also all my bonds.
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FR--

You have the strength of your convictions. I differ from your views in that I believe an imminent crash is unlikely. The end goal of a SUCCESSFUL parasite(a credit card)is NOT to kill it's host(the public) but to feed off of it. I see this Bear lingering for a good decade and longer, culminating in a deflationary environment.
I recently read that reverse mortages are starting to grow in numbers. No surprise there for those concerned with the Bubble.

Regards
--P

This may well be the first younger generation of people that will NOT be able to either achieve or maintain the standard of living that their parents had.
China right now is the wild card in our hand.

D--

BGO's TA looks compelling regardless of the deflationary scenario that gold stocks seem to be foreshadowing here.
Are you comfortable with its foreign mines...Russia...?

Regards
--P

Fed--

I wus kinda hopin'... sins u all are gonna be jus' fine in the comin' crash... could I send some of my youngin' to live with Uncle Fed... maybee in one of your rhentills... we ain't big people or folks that hang out on porch steps at nite... we got all our teeth... and our nails are klean 'n all...and we will be outta your house in the Fall when they jus' mite cut innerest rates agin caus that's what the Utilities Index is sayin' now, lordee bee.

-Your Favoright Sister's Youngest Sun 'n Law who wud like two move two La Holla two bee in the Land of Big Reel Estate Taxes
<GG>

Lighten' up. Ain't knowbody told u:

"Shrouds have no pockets"

the K-wave is tentatively scheduled to bottom ...around 2012-2014.
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What happens to a country that considers one year "long-term"?

It's my understanding that "leasing" fleets really killed their new car sales not to mention that they thought they were too big to fail.
I think you'll see wind sails atop car roofs before you see hydrogen canisters under their hoods!!
Lastly, AC Delco parts have changed their warranty period and are being man-u-fractured in Mexheeco.

AD, thank you for the read. Will their next advertisement campaign be:

"Caught between the ROCK and the hard-place."

Been reading that overseas investors have been buying up Real Estate, esp in FL
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Twenty-five year old news.<GG>

Z--

KNOCKturnal Musings

I jus' climbed out from under my rock, which i have been studiously hiding under, to watch your trades. I thought since misery likes company...
The TA is strange, no? We are in longterm downtrends for just about everything and yet there is something here that is elusive. Maybe we got your nassacre in STEALTH form. The OddlotSS are big again but they're tearing those up with one day pops. Little follow through.
Then there is still CMN. It's now touching the bottom of an uptrend channel line AND its TA says it may breach support.
BSTE may stay in its channel but its correction is impressive.
Good luck on this round. I have another rock picked out for you. The neighbors have chosen to be KNOCKturnal due to market action (or lack of)!!

Is HAUP a buy at $2.50 in the Fall or is that another HAUPless one?

--P

Ney was correct in his observations about shorting, Z.

here on the left coast
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Anytime you want to relocate to South Florida I can get you a nice 1/1 condoMINIMUM for only 300K.<gg>

In fact, the inventory of these babies should last into the next ice age.

-P

(AP) The Federal Reserve announced today that it would be extending a special invitation to Richard Russell to attend its next meeting. At that time Mr. Greenspan will perform the famous Indian rope trick for all attendees. At the top of the rope Mr. Greenspan will disappear into a vat of epsom salts used primarily for the greening of palms, the printing of Andrew Jacksons, and the shrinking of Mr.G's hemor...

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You watchin' the dollar, Westy? It's startin' to get innerestin' 'specially if they do 'way with so shill see CURE IT tee.

Multi-year Wave 4, ongoing, FWIW.
I missed BOOM and I'm sending Z the bill.


"It's hard, but, it's fair."---The Gingerman

Why?
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Fear of change always chooses an old evil over an unknown.

Jus' 'nother ordinary day. Hai??


http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/

< Do people really understand this stuff?>

A few do.
One has to admire their power of being.

"Moebius rings?" What means a moebius ring? You're starting to sound like...."
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They're ready to pass the hat for Z. (At least he knows how to spell Moebius.)Take pity.
Yes, the natives are nervous about Munday. It's Thor's day that will be the tellin' day. It's gonna get crowded under that bed. I hope it's a King mattress.

AND... Pataki voted down the additional four casino concept for Sullivan County, NY. Hey, it all amazes me. You can't make up this sh*t anymore.

Why didn't GB bring in his Florida brother as Secretary of Asphalt, I ask ya? You want roads. We got roads.
"Schools? We don't need no goddamn schools!"<gg>

http://www.mathemagic.org/MOBM/moebiusmolecules.html

IMO, the Fed may have to start printing more money soon...
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There are plans now to print the denominations in different colors.
"I'll trade ya my Marvin Gardens for..."

Z--

TA confirms your outlook. We completed an A-B-C from Dec 04 and your 1750 (which I think will be 1777 or 1776 if u r patriotic) will complete a larger A-B-C from Jan 04.

I am now sitting all alone on the ice-flow believing we still need a Wave 5 for Super Cycle 3 to close out the Bull market. (That may well be tied into your (Who-leeoh-Augustus) ramp. The e-wavers jus' don't see this goin' into overtime. I think they are wrong. <g>

As we decline the bearish sentiment at Dow 7200 will be "deja vu all over again." Who says there are no mobius strips? <gg>

OT:

***Why didn't the newspapers play up how important it was that both men spoke farsi to one another?

***With almost seven million OddlotSS in TWO days, life is going to be interesting this week!!

Regards
-P





"Buckle up..."- Mzz B. Davis

Green Socialism? Catchy, I tell ya.

How about Englunditis, a severe inflamation arising from a deficiency in...? Where are the Nader Corvairs of yesteryear?

But then 'n agin' u still might be in Wave 4 of Super Cycle 3, a MULTI year Wave 4 at that. Yes, it's an academic exercise but an interesting one.

The real Bear may still be the recession/ compression/ depression/ concussion that faces us ten years after every foreign engagement/ entanglement/ containment/ peace initiative.<gg>

a comp rally is gonna need a long runway, a strong headwind, two six-packs, four rabbit feet, two garmins, aspirin...<g>

i'm patient, i jus' don't want to become one.

O--

summation should be 800+. bounce then a continuation.
this year's worst case scenario still MAY be only a 1777 comp. maybe those 25s will turn to 15s.

--P

drooy

Is CCMP going to drop its other shoe or is this going to be a Zen exercise in the sound of only one shoe clapping?

All this verbiage and the dude wants ya to go back on the Au standard. Yada, yada, yada.
Psst. It's all 'bout the doll-ar and the bond. The story for '05 will be "the strength in the dollar."

I looked at your DNA site. There's nothing like merging new age thought with pseudo-science.
When does the comet arrive?









"A cynic is a person who searches for the truth with a stolen lamp."

Dan--

Did he miss anything?<gg>

So what's it gonna be? An inflationary recession? a deflationary depression? a soft depression? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

--P

The man from Texas may not understand the need to allow your foe to save face EVEN if you are correct in your assertions.

Is there a Statesman that does house calls to explain the fines points of Wei Qi?

"Wei Qi as it's known in China,...or Go, as it is known in Japan and generally in the West, is considered by most Oriental game experts to be the worlds greatest strategic skill game, far surpassing Chess in it's complexity and scope. Wei-Ch'i means "surrounding game" or "surrounding chess" and the object is simply to capture territory by placing down counters on the board.

Z--

Your TASR trade should be framed on the wall next to my TANDON stock certificate.<GG>
drip...drip... haup...drip...sputter...rmbs...drip...

You had a 3 Million OddlotSS last Friday and the horse, named "Soon 2 B Glue," came out of the gate on Monday, tripped, fell on its side, got up, fell down, rolled over...
It was a terrile sight to see, I tell ya.

--P

Lee, I expected a nice upmove on Monday and it never happened. I still don't see the action in here being more than corrective. I don't buy into this being the start of a new downleg. We are due first for a fast and furious run-up.

'nite.

We got our up day. <gg>
There's always real estate, Lee!!

Several indices are poised for the bounce. A selective bounce but a bounce nevertheless.
A rise at the opening makes it just another one day affair. A rise at the close and you have my full attention.<G>

--P
The Sandman Calleth

... the markets... tomorrow...look higher to me.
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Yup. Short covering front and center.

At it's height, stock prices for Japanese companies (e.g. Kirin beer) were going up NOT because of their business prowness but rather because of the valuations of the land they were sitting on!!

sounds a little pricey.
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It's actually on the low end. Use the zip code 20815 at the home page to check out its comparables.

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=46&locallnk=yes&frm=byzip&mnbed=0&a...

Just a footnote if you will:

"Dr Mahathir, is regarded as a visionary in the Islamic world. Two of Dr Mahathir's original ideas of an Islamic Gold Dinar to be used as a common currency between initially Islamic governments and then likely later as a common currency, and Oil traded using the Euro currency as opposed to just the US Dollar are now likely to happen within a decade."


http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=3066

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Does it surprise you that most realtors today have little recollection of what took place in the last RE cycle? We are not talking a generation in time, are we?

I do not see without DOMESTIC job creation how these prices will merely plateau for the next eight years. A decade ago we were not outsourcing to Asia with the ferocity that we are now.

Put me down for the strengthening of the dollar being the catalyst for popping the bubble. That's another post unto itself. (Right now the dollar is due for a correction of its last run.)

--P

What about that .05 today?
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The buffalo escaped.

The point is that the corporate socialists running our corporations with government protection, ...
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Airlines? Corporate socialists? Would Eugene Debbs drive a GM I ask ya?
Why do all roads lead to St. Gaudens? <gg>
Personally, my favorite was the 1916 Standing Liberty quarter.

But what a cacophony it is.