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


To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (71689)3/8/2011 2:04:04 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217523
 
Am on bus home, for emergency, per urgent call from wife, that

- nearly 7-months young jack squiggled out of his 'chair' that was thankfully placed on the floor n boinked his head on said floor, helped, calmed, placed back in chair then quickly tried again, smiling

- must make adjustment to jack's crib so as to make impossible for him to climb out whilst no adult is supervising. Jack is beginning to stand while holding on, even though he is not yet adapt at crawling

- besides, I want a nap before I determine what if anything to do about the market.

Had drinks with a faber and a walker, and dinner with a bunch of big boyz last night. The (time horizon w/i 4 months before clarification day) judgment is that some very large and traditionally astute as well as timely boyz are raising serious cash by preferred shares for no clearly stated purpose, even as they are seriously back-stopped by some of the largest as well as the largest of sovereign wealth funds, to either

- shop now, before clear recognition of very serious hyper flaming inflation, or
- ready to shop, after some deluge

I am afraid.

In the mean time, just in in-tray ... I quote,

" Is this right?

"Despite the labor market's recent improvement, wages and salaries accounted for a record low 50.6% of U.S. personal income in January. Fifty years ago, notes Yardeni Research, that share was up around 66%. With more Americans drawing jobless benefits and food stamps, the proportion of government transfer payments has been steadily on the rise."

online.wsj.com "