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  • Real Retail Sales Fall to 2003 Levels
    Dear User 129600 a.k.a. Barry Ritzholtz, the author of this article:
    Try giving advice to your Dad. You are misleading the readers with this title. This is not an indicator worth trading to, it is severerly lagging and manilulated not only by the statisticians but by the collectors of the data. In addition, if you remember the market bottomed in 2002-2003 and rallied like crazy.
    Feb 15 11:20 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Real Retail Sales Fall to 2003 Levels
    Another overly bearish article. The author is attempting to lie to the readers, because, it is not that "retails sale fall to 2003 levels", but the rate of increase falls to this levels, which is not the same and much less important. But it does mean that the author is biased in favor of shocking us with negative data, in order to gain personally from what we may believe to be some short positions.
    Feb 15 01:26 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Fed Won't Save Us, But Here's How to Make Money - Barron's Interview with Jeremy Grantham
    You go to London or Hong Kong and ask about him and you will gather a few blank looks. Ask for Soros and Faber: Now you are talking personalities that move the markets.
    Feb 11 03:22 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Fed Won't Save Us, But Here's How to Make Money - Barron's Interview with Jeremy Grantham
    Gratham obviously reads Soros and Faber well. However, they made these statements in late 2007. Since then the market corrected well and while there might be 5% downside left, the rest of the traveling from here would be 70's style. What Grantham obviously likes to see is a perfect buying point for his firm, which is a dreamers point-of-perfection. With the $ so low, there are a lot of money on the sidelines waiting to invest in the unwavering Anglo-Saxon machine. While we did pay the price of having this decade go to waste, I think the perfect buying points are starting appear all around and it may take another another 5-6 months but never that late as 2010. Anyone who attempts to predict that far in the future, is a fool, left alone the "grandest thinker and oracle".
    Rob
    WallastonInvestments.c...
    Feb 10 22:29 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Why I'm Long Mastercard, Short Amazon
    I think you have a good long/short idea on your hands. However, both MA and AMZN are going to be killed when the corporate slowdown trickles down to the consumer. And while AMZN has some very interesting innovative products as of lately, MA will face extremely high rate of personal debt that is mounting all over the U.S. Rob,
    WallastonInvestments.c...
    Feb 10 22:19 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • SunPower Has a Shiny Future - Barron's
    Wait out on the downturn to play out, everythings gets killed in a bearm market. Then we can enter, but not until Euro banks sell all their stock supply that they need to before they raise cash for the rating agencies.
    Rob
    WallastonInvestments.c...
    Feb 10 22:13 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • 3 Tech Stocks With Serious Potential - Barron's
    AKAM CEO's doubting that the economic slowdown will affect the company. That sounds like Cisco in 2000. Look at a chart os Cisco in 2000 and now, the copmpany is still down 30-40 % since then. A nice outlook and a blatant lie for the shareholders.Rob
    WallastonInvestments.c...
    Feb 10 22:10 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • ETFs and Mutual Funds: A Reality Check
    Just when recession is announced is when the stock market is on the way up again. Time to buy my friends.
    Feb 08 09:32 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • BCA Research Offers Rare Optimism
    Maybe this is why BCA Research is not Goldman Sachs.
    IF they were, then they would talk about market recovering in the second half of the year. Goldman does. BCA is early. Every bear takes at least an year.
    Rob,
    WallastonInvestments.c...
    Feb 06 23:26 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Google Riding In To Yahoo's Rescue?
    Wouldn't I find this exact article in every single business paper yesterday? C'mon Paul write something original and longer.
    Feb 04 07:55 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Dynegy Could Surge on Increased Demand for Power - Barron's
    Boring play here, but remember when we used to play Monopoly, whoever has the utilities, never falls off the game.
    Feb 04 02:23 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Lazard's Bruce Wasserstein Is Overpaid
    Wasserstein means a mug full of water in German.
    So if we assume that he got paid in dollars, then his name will be changing to Wasserbuck.
    Jan 31 03:46 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Time to Reconsider REIT ETFs
    Too early. European banks have been selling into this rally.
    Someone will blow up soon.
    Jan 31 03:43 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Market Bias Slightly Favorable on Fed Days
    The more relevant info is the find the # of consequtive rate cuts and then run the data anly on these points..
    Jan 30 11:51 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Maybe Investors Should Fight The Fed
    Herb, FRC in Boston is the the only source of money flows for mutual funds that investment professionals all around the world use. TrimTabs is incomplete and what they call - a joke in the industry. Now I am starting to worry about the data in this article.
    Their site is www.frcnet.com/frc_hom...
    Jan 30 11:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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