To: surfbaron who wrote (4705 ) 8/16/2002 10:45:48 PM From: Jim Willie CB Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467 Surfer, I have little original work, mostly digest others the key to getting it straight is following the best of best in summer 2001, I spent several weeks to compile a list of the best of the best for financial market seers and economists I already had a head-start with the pathetic economist profession but I have little original except some style on observing, a sassy demeanor when responding to clear stupidity, incompetence, and transparent whorishness since 1999 thru 2001 was probably the most difficult period in US Financial History to navigate, I decided that if a guy got it nearly right for those three years, then he (or she) is my man (woman) so far the best of best have been Puplava on the markets, Roach on the economy, and Mauldin on the weekly observations but a few others make up a strong supporting cast I want to watch what these 3 superstars have to say now and for the next several months I dont feel I have the audacity to stand and firmly loudly confidently disagree with any of these 3 guys the only disagreements I have had are with Mauldin, regarding the pace of the USdollar decline and its sudden low pressure zones that resulted I thougth it would be sudden, and it was, but perhaps mainly because of Hooverlike Bush trade barrier impositions which surprised even me in their aggravating masochism now I question his Muddle Through Economy position, especially if the US$ resumes its decline I guess I adopt a Wait & See attitude on my oppositional stands I would love to have a paid subscription clan but I make my share of mistakes on calling sectors and their nearterm changes in the wind having a website sounds like self-indulgement having an SI thread where I can contribute heavily is the next best thing, and is fine what company in its right mind would advertise with my offish and oafish confrontational and vulgar diatribes? so many newsletter editors out there are complete fools that is to be sure I have a personal tendency to gravitate toward extreme views this makes me a leading contender nowadays for spotting real trends, since we live in extreme times since 1997 that is year#1 in my book, with the Asian Meltdown that horrific event caught my attention and won my soul as a sympathetic watchman the Asian Meltdown in August-October 1997 marked in my book the first BIRTH PANG of a distorted monster in the world economy, a baby that had only a hollowed out frame a year later Russia defaulted and delivered NYCity a crippling kick to the nuts two years later we could not avert disaster following Y2K I am saddened personally by the Post-Y2K, both for myself and 100's of others it hit me hard since I expected some pain in the spring/summer of 2000 I expected some INDIGESTION, from overconsumption and drought of demand but in a sense I was a neophyte I was not well-studied in Kondratieff's LongWave Cycle in no way did I anticipate the first rumblings of a Modern-Day Depression we are now at risk of a depression the more we treat the illness caused by excess credit using unbacked currency... with more credit tied to printed fiat currency... the more likely we run the risk like UNTEACHABLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE BARONS to walk blindly down a path of destruction... since we know nothing else I dont know what lies ahead in my future I do know I hate my current work with a passion but the degree of opportunity is as great as the degree of danger now just like the Chinese symbol suggests I will keep on keeping on with SI without it, I would feel like a bobbing buoy drifting at sea thanks for the compliment I did save that BLOGGER.COM website for the future if I cannot get my own investing house in order, then I have no right with my own website so I will forge onward as a critical parasite with a keen eye so far so good with my gold positions but in July, my gains went from outsized to damned nice let's see if I can capture that next outsized upleg it is coming like a golden rainfall now... dont you be shining my ass! later gator, Jim