Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (598)	9/19/2005 5:29:21 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 217743

I went DAX short this morning. Re Siemens people saying "Du lieber Gott" to you - well, I dont know what they meant, I was not present. Right now their reason to say "Du lieber Gott" is "I'd never think they would DARE touch my department". I would just chip in some points, which have not been mentioned so far: 4% of GDP is flowing to the east, without any indication of improving the situation. I'd guess it will take a long time, if not eternity. The gap between haves and have-nots within Germany is increasing. Productivity is increasing, so's the quality of education and some other important indicators. The sentiment is not among them. Re government:the electorate trusts neither Schröder (dispossed switching to a more radical Linke Partei) nor Merkel - a lot of black switchers assumed black to be a home run, so they wanted to tell Angie they dont like her lipstick and gave the very important second vote to FDP. Schröder killed the idea of the black&red coalition right during the elephant round on Sunday evening and the remaining alternatives are pretty wild, like the Jamaica coalition ie Red&Yellow&Green. As opposed to T&T, that schröder killed - if I may use western Indies analogies and make Jay smile. The Jamaica alternative already got a nickname Bermuda triangle. Which all means we will first have to wait for hell to freeze over. Remember a cartoon during some reds convention: it showed the lower part of some pedestal - you knew right away it's the monument of Wili Brandt. There was a pair of shoes lying around there and little grey men were climbing in and out of them.