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To: RetiredNow who wrote (253722)	6/12/2010 12:51:39 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>> It'll be tough to make money in this country for awhile IMHO.<< Agree, whether it's L-shaped or W-shaped. The only way to make money is to be a bankruptcy lawyer or an oil slick remover.....(or maybe a Pawn Shop owner).

To: RetiredNow who wrote (253722)	6/12/2010 5:06:18 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

" a jobless recovery " There are many ways to make money in this economy easier and faster than getting a job. Day-trading, house-flipping to name a couple. There are plenty of success stories on the TV and free seminars for people to learn and make money. Best of all, there is no experience needed. Old school education is unnecessary. Good economy takes advantage of the immensely available global resources. There are billions of talented people around the world, in addition to the Chinese, Indian. People need to look for the real jobs available in USA. The homeland security should have plenty of openings once the 'block captain per 100 household' bill passed the senate and the house and signed by the President and then the trickle up effect will take place..... and just like that the economy will expand. AWESOME.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (253722)	6/18/2010 3:28:37 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 306849

'An investment letter that called the Crash of 2008 said that this would be a bad year — and it now says it will get worse. A whole generation of investors think that Robert Prechter and his Elliott Wave Theory letters, Elliott Wave Financial Forecasts and Elliott Wave Theorist, are permabears. And they've certainly seemed that way for the last decade -- although it should be noted that the stock market is now roughly back where it started. But Prechter was very bullish after the 1974 low and, briefly, after being one of the very few services to make money in 2008. Then he announced that "2010 is the year when the bear market in stocks returns in full force." Elliott Wave Financial Forecasts (EWFF) makes recommendations specific enough to be tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest. (The Elliott Wave Theorist is too, well, theoretical.) Over the year to date, EWFF is up just 0.4% by Hulbert Financial Digest count through May vs. negative 0.3% for the dividend-reinvested Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index. Over the past 12 months, its bearishness did cause it to gain just 4.75% compared to 22.89% for the total return Wilshire 5000. But over the past three years, the letter's bearishness paid off handsomely. It's up an annualized 5.25% against negative 8.12% annualized for the total return Wilshire 5000. And even over the past 10 years, so badly damaged have stocks been that the letter was up an annualized 1.05%, outperforming a mere 0.22% annualized gain for the Wilshire 5000' finance.yahoo.com Heads they win tales you lose in the casino? KISS method says just buy solid cash flowing assets when they are cheap..