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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24604)	11/22/2009 8:59:54 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	8 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71474

i could start with: he's a professional plagerist. and then work my way up the ladder from there. since it is all borrowed, why would you even mention his name, any more than you'd say reuters reported such and such, which in fact, is what reuters does. but since i said it, and you asked, there's an answer. have fun. i'll be in court on the plaintiff's side, when that day finally comes. and i will pay my own expenses to tell the truth.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24604)	11/23/2009 1:57:37 AM
From: axial	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71474

Skeeter, agreed. There are all kinds of voices out there, and Mish is worth listening to. As is Vi. In the last 2 years, I can't think of anyone who has called everything right, and there have been a lot of really smart people making predictions. This is a crazy market: economic fundamentals stink, and many valuations are out of line. Every sane person knows there's a huge amount of latent systemic risk out there. Major economies teetering: Bets rise on rich country bond defaults ft.com Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse' telegraph.co.uk --- No matter what they say, nobody "knows". Probabilities are changing every day. We look for thinking that's a cut above the average, keep our eyes open, and play the market like hunted animals. Jim

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24604)	11/23/2009 12:40:23 PM
From: GST	13 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71474

Mish is in business -- the business of getting people to pay attention to him. Nothing more and nothing less. He will say and do anything for attention -- that is how he gets paid. Right now he is doing everything he can to pander to people who yearn deep to the core of their souls to believe that the activities of human beings have no impact on climate -- and his little following is sucking it up like coolaid on a hot day. He will not ask the obvious questions -- such as which cast of characters has gone to such extraordinary lengths to target climate change science on the eve of a major political meeting on climate change -- because that will run counter to the base of his 'followers'. This smacks of a conspiracy all right -- but not a conspiracy of scientists. Perhaps if I had hundreds of billions of dollars to lose from the end of oil I too might use CIA like tactics to convince people that they can safely rely on people like Mish to declare that it was all just a hoax -- go back to sleep sheeple. Mish is the ultimate wannabe -- a wannabe that can make a living as a wannabe so long as anybody is willing to pay attention to him.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24604)	11/23/2009 12:52:15 PM
From: GST	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71474

Want to hide this? news.yahoo.com It is easy to hide these floating giants -- just spend millions of dollars trolling stolen email and watch out for anything that might look out of place -- the flippant use of the word 'hide' by somebody who plays with data for a living -- oh, there, now I have done it myself, I said 'plays with data' -- now what more do you need to be certain that these floating giants do not exist -- he said 'hide' and I said 'plays with data'. Case closed, there is no human impact on climate. And you wonder why people think anti-climate-change politcal types are idiots.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24604)	11/23/2009 5:01:42 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71474

"I am genuinely not sure what happens next. Having narrowly avoided a Great Depression by using massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, we are now in uncharted waters. Does the recovery we've seen in fits and starts have any legs at all, outside of the major emerging markets? Or is it a mirage? I don't think it's possible to infer from the stock market rally anything resembling a sustained recovery. The third quarter GDP number of 3.5% growth was at least half due to one-off government measures. In any case, the U.S. consumer is constrained by horrible balance sheet problems – excessive leverage and severely reduced real estate values on the assets side. The stock market rally has been largely due to near-zero interest rates and a weaker dollar. In foreign currency terms there's been no rally." --- Why Niall Ferguson is still bearish theglobeandmail.com Jim