its just delaying the inevitable transition from a market driven economy to an economy based primarily in rat pelt barter.

i, for one, welcome our new rat pelt overlords.

Father_Jack: to an economy based primarily in rat pelt barter.

Like we need another bubble.

Aaaaand I'd still be down 10%.

Rat pelts? Everyone knows the future is in squirrels! Thicker coats AND tastier meat.

Seeing how the market has fluctuated over the last year (esp. after the debt downgrade) it's entirely possible that at some point in the next six months, it'll be up 10%. Then this guy will claim victory and be hailed as a visionary. Then the market will be down 10% again, and nobody will hear anything from him.

Farkn Yaj Yenrac: Rat pelts? Everyone knows the future is in squirrels! Thicker coats AND tastier meat.

Bah. I could sit out on my back porch and kill squirrels with a .22 all day. Just throw out a little dried corn and they'll run right up to you.

When society collapses, squirrels will be extinct in 3 months. Rats have long term investment potential.

Stock market ! = Economy

Algorithmic high frequency trading has decoupled the stock market from the actual economy. When the Squid can do things like dump 10,000 buy orders at a time to raise the price of a stock and then pull those buy orders back a few milliseconds later, with no intention of actually buying anything, why should anyone participate? It destroys real price discovery.

Many investors have seen this and refuse to even participate in the market anymore. Hence the pathetically low volume these days. Volume is non-existent, the economy is worse off than ever, yet the market somehow keeps charging back? Haha.

House of cards.

The market will be up 10% in six months, according to an analyst who just polished off a fresh crack rock

LOL. I dunno why the phrase 'just polished off a fresh crack rock' made me laugh, but it did.

jayhawk88: Farkn Yaj Yenrac: Rat pelts? Everyone knows the future is in squirrels! Thicker coats AND tastier meat.

Bah. I could sit out on my back porch and kill squirrels with a .22 all day. Just throw out a little dried corn and they'll run right up to you.

When society collapses, squirrels will be extinct in 3 months. Rats have long term investment potential.

The risk adverse deer pelt investor scoffs at your predictions.

Arkanaut: Seeing how the market has fluctuated over the last year (esp. after the debt downgrade) it's entirely possible that at some point in the next six months, it'll be up 10%. Then this guy will claim victory and be hailed as a visionary. Then the market will be down 10% again, and nobody will hear anything from him.

Yes. This.

A lot of people dont realize that economists all have the same data, so what sense does it make for them all to make the same predictions? There would be no need for all of them. So they deviate slightly or make bold predictions in the hopes of being right. It's like, if you're betting, now, on the superbowl, how much sense does it make to pick the packers? Everyone is doing that, pick a good team like the Lions in the hope they get lucky.

As long as the roots are not severed, There will be growth in the Spring!

Non-Prosecution Agreement - Freddie Mac (new window)

Non-Prosecution Agreement - Fannie Mae (new window)

SEC complaint vs. Freddie Mac executives (new window)

SEC complaint vs. Fannie Mae executives (new window)

I say this because today the SEC charged 6 executives with securities fraud.

Merry Christmas.

Babwa Wawa: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: jayhawk88: Farkn Yaj Yenrac: Rat pelts? Everyone knows the future is in squirrels! Thicker coats AND tastier meat.

Bah. I could sit out on my back porch and kill squirrels with a .22 all day. Just throw out a little dried corn and they'll run right up to you.

When society collapses, squirrels will be extinct in 3 months. Rats have long term investment potential.

The risk adverse deer pelt investor scoffs at your predictions.

You illiterate rubes. You have to diversify and hedge, people! I've got a fund that pools rodent pelt outfits (rat, squirrel, chipmunk, vole), and hedges with the eutheria infraclass pelts (deer and horse, primarily).

Pfft! The market for deer will never go down!

Because after Europe goes down, the DJIA will crash to 5000 and the dead cat bounce will take it to 5500. 10% gain. Ta-da.

GaryPDX: I can see that. All it takes is for Ben to keep devaluing the dollar with his printing presses.

So buy gold stocks!!!

As a Canadian, I demand we return to the previous North american standard Beaver pelt trading!

John Henry Eden: Stock market ! = Economy

Algorithmic high frequency trading has decoupled the stock market from the actual economy. When the Squid can do things like dump 10,000 buy orders at a time to raise the price of a stock and then pull those buy orders back a few milliseconds later, with no intention of actually buying anything, why should anyone participate? It destroys real price discovery.

Many investors have seen this and refuse to even participate in the market anymore. Hence the pathetically low volume these days. Volume is non-existent, the economy is worse off than ever, yet the market somehow keeps charging back? Haha.

House of cards.

This.
I've been 100% cash since July. And I have to put some of it in RRSPs, but I have no idea what to buy, and the deadline is a few months away...

/maybe a TSX/S&P500 short EFT?
//Sobey's / Lablaws?
///no farking clue

Pfffft All my money is invested in stray cat futures. Hollow two out and you got slippers with night vision.

In six months we'll be lucky if the unemployment rate isn't up 10%.

Father_Jack: its just delaying the inevitable transition from a market driven economy to an economy based primarily in rat pelt barter.

i, for one, welcome our new rat pelt overlords.

Future Self-Help Book Title:

Bludgeoning Rats for Sustenance: Needed Skills in the New Economy

Babwa Wawa: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: jayhawk88: Farkn Yaj Yenrac: Rat pelts? Everyone knows the future is in squirrels! Thicker coats AND tastier meat.

Bah. I could sit out on my back porch and kill squirrels with a .22 all day. Just throw out a little dried corn and they'll run right up to you.

When society collapses, squirrels will be extinct in 3 months. Rats have long term investment potential.

The risk adverse deer pelt investor scoffs at your predictions.

You illiterate rubes. You have to diversify and hedge, people! I've got a fund that pools rodent pelt outfits (rat, squirrel, chipmunk, vole), and hedges with the eutheria infraclass pelts (deer and horse, primarily).