"... going to pack it up as far as future participation here,"
As the response shows Russ, you are indeed wanted here, and to me needed to a point that reflects your honest even handed and blunt cold hard facts approach giving us that "tough love" every investor needs to keep the sell price above the buy price.
Anyway, its just a short matter of time as in days and weeks before activity and events appear that will be profound in nature causing any dominos near by to be touched and fall.
example
From: Ram Rao "... federal reserve has been printing money like crazy the last week, probably to prevent a derivatives blowup."
another example is a post today about Fed Alan having to place each of his ten fingers in them holes in the dike while new holes seem to be handled so far ok by Alan as he uses his ten toes, and once 20 holes are pluged by Alan he will have his nose to use for #21 and then #22 with the ok from his Wife. After than, well...
But then, maybe Alan should be told that even if he plugs all holes in this barrier so that they do not enlarge and cause a collapse, that he should check to see if the troubled water the barrier is holding back might itself not have been built tall enough if that troubled water is being feed by melting dirty snow etc causing its level to raise with a possible over the top to occure, which if happens will represent a hole of top of the dike its lenght wide and to the sky high.
The Light of TruTh may be melting some of the near by dirty snow.
Another Time & Place a.k.a. Parallel Universe this threads Russ Winter could have been, as follows, but the here and now needs Russ here on this thread.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man whose politics divided New Yorkers for years, has united his beloved city in the wake of a tragedy... whose mere presence often elicited protest. Until now, his term as mayor has been defined by a largely successful combination of confrontation, argument and brute political force — and now, suddenly, Giuliani is praised for his humanity and his command over tragic circumstances. ... Giuliani, clad in FDNY gear, has become a sort of spiritual advisor to a city reeling in shock, his gentleness a stark contrast to the bad news he is forced to deliver daily. Copyright 2001 TIME Inc.
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