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To: carranza2 who wrote (87344)	2/21/2012 7:07:13 AM
From: dvdw©	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 219449

That whole piece is the musings of a man or woman whose contrivance based thinking wears thin at the 1st sign of counterprogramming...we could take the piece apart from 1 to 6 as this guys own projective identification....egomania on the wrong side of understanding practically....everything. If you feel this sums up your view...better retire.. "corporate sector – which has a huge degree of "control" over the political classes – will keeps its powder dry until asset prices fall to clearing levels" obviously the above one liner is a single shot, at the whole produced cynicism. In Fact, we are entering a new zone, where the Variable time shapes of capital are conveying every little nuance about the wheres and whats of forward demand and capital flows... team USA is sitting pretty right now, even though its team at the top, is the wrong team...we've overcome worst teams in the past, entropy is easily replaced, under the proper light...natural attrition comes from embarrassment at how badly your contribution to the systems current state, actually reflects on YOU. Yes you, as you just went along in full belief, your momentum all that mattered...that is your error, one that can only be corrected when you realize what you did wrong...believing that contrivance is a certainty is a fault line in your foundation... economies are bigger than your prowess at any particular segments unwinding...you demarcate your success by conversation around your latest cigar....good luck with that...

To: carranza2 who wrote (87344)	2/21/2012 8:56:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219449

C2, I was predicting Dow 16,000 way back in 1996/97 [see below]. But the Biotelecosmictechdot.com bust came along, followed by a decade of anti-AlQ/Iraq war, then the ruination of the I AM A MINDLESS ZOMBIE housing bubble and bust. It's now a decade later and a LOT of water has gone under the bridge. Osama is not planning another attack and Saddam will not be warring against Israel. Big Ben took over from our great and estimable idol Uncle Al KBE and did quantitative easing on a scale never before seen in history [in absolute terms if not proportionately]. Those $trillions are sloshing around at 0% interest looking for somewhere to roost. I am not even paid a Happy Meal for the few US$ I hold. People holding US$ will gradually be forced to do something with them or have them diluted out of existence. As Warren Buffett explained, a small pile of gold or a vast mountain of productive assets is a choice investors have. Gold has been bid up from $300 to $1727, a factor of 6, while the mountain of productive assets has been bid up in the same period from 11,000 to 12,000, a factor of nothing. Contrary to popular mythology, Dow companies are making money as are the likes of Qualcomm, Microsoft, Apple and a LOT more besides. The price to earnings ratios are not too bad and certainly far better than the 0% earned on money and the 0% earned on gold. We are in the midst of a melt-up. I think we will see the 16,000 at last and perhaps sooner rather than later. Maybe THIS February which would be 10 years to the day from the due date. I'm tempted to issue such a sooth. It took another 12 years, but I finally got into biotechs [a Tonka Truckload of GNOM]. It has still not been a farewell to Globalstar or Qualcomm. Some things take a LOT of time. Back into GSAT at 38c last year and now at 85c so that's a work in progress. QCOM at $63 which is back towards Y2K levels. Mqurice ======================================================================== To: Joseph G. who wrote (1692) 11/7/1997 5:07:00 PMFrom: Maurice Winn of 1800 techstocks.com To all who happen upon this old SI stream, which was a stream of a few happy days. A distant time, fondly remembered. A farewell to Qualcomm and Globalstar. Hello to Biotechs - soon. Maurice [Dow 8000 by Feb 98, 16000 by Feb 2002]

To: carranza2 who wrote (87344)	2/22/2012 3:19:52 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219449

The basic wrong assumption in this write up is one very simple fact, which is that a majority of the population is working class and they indeed work and create value, which in turn will counterbalance the bubble. It is true that the main driver of the cheap and unrealistic low cost of funds drives everything up and only increases the wealthy - poor divide and decimates the middle class. I do hope that democracy will win and proper tax code will be inserted into law and act again as redistributor of wealth. The only riddle I cannot see to solve democratically is the huge gap of compensation between the actual workers, skilled or semiskilled or highly educated and the thieves and swindler or buccaneers at the top of the corporate pyramid. It is only highly unfortunate that ingenuity, foresight or creativity at the low level in the corporate pyramid is not at all rewarded but pure greed of psychopaths at high corporate level is handsomely rewarded. Something about this gross inequality which started with WS outfits must be made very quickly to avoid the described disaster. It is inconceivable that one person should grab millions of $$ of shareholder equity as compensation and some one less lucky or less mean or less narcissistic psychopaths or less talented in self-serving schemes of subterfuge will be compensated less than a diminutive fraction of the top dog. Compensation above a certain amount has no incentive to work harder or be more creative, it only promotes greed and self-serving schemes of subterfuge, generate awful pointless waste and depress the moral and creativity of way too many aware of the waste and careless conduct. 7 figure and above compensations if in paycheck or stock option should be outlawed, as taxing this at higher rates will only turn people into tax dodgers. We witness recently the result of such irrational compensation where the taxpayer footed the bill of those high earners mistakes. Same should apply for those state or federal workers who jokey for extra overtime to arrive at pension rates of $250,000 a year or more. Pensions should have a cap, to secure a certain standard of living for ALL and be paid as an percentage (40%) of the average of salary over the lifetime of the worker. I strongly believe that rechanneling those excessive compensation into the real economy will generate more wealth producing jobs and money would not be spent on flying fresh baguettes from France to the private corporate dining room of US corporate chieftains for a breakfast meeting. The writer (Bob Janjuah ) and all those agreeing with him instead of blaming others for the upcoming bursting of the bubble and the consequences hard times would better concentrate their efforts to bring the politicians and decision makers into the right path of implementation of the needed reforms and what defines a prosperous society, which at present time is almost non –existent Therefore to all cheerleaders, stop bitching and moaning and do something by yourself to avoid what seems now as un-voidable.