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    • Tue Nov 18th 10:34 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      HP (HPQ) doubles its annual holiday shutdown from one week to two. "Shutting down during a period when many employees traditionally take vacation helps HP achieve operational savings and allows employees to enjoy more time with their families."
      I worked for them once, left 2 years ago. A horrible company these days, a relentless cost cutter. They got standard 2 weeks vacation, and people are forced to take most of it at Christmas? Well, what if I prefer summer? That is too bad.
      They are loosing their most talented employees with this kind of policies. In a couple of years the house of cards will come down, just like Dell.
      Plus, they already laid off so many people in the last 2-3 years, the ones who left know perfectly well they could be laid off any minute. The company got no employee morale, jus like GM. Their marketing is very good, but the facade they present to the world is not going to save them forever. Without dedicated employees a company can never succeed.
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    • Sun Nov 16th 18:23 PM | Rating: 0 -1
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      Less Negativity, More Inflation
      > What the Fed is attempting to do right now id save the banking system from outright collapse. IMO they have suceeded. Their next job is to induce the banks to make good loans to credit worthy borrowers

      Credit worthy borrowers don't need anymore money, they are leveraged enough. You don't fix credit insolvency by pushing more credit on everybody.
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    • Sun Nov 16th 18:10 PM | Rating: +4 0
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      The Autos and Mentality That Ruined Detroit
      > GM pays an average of $33 an hour, and those selfish other companies pay a mere $19 plus a host of benefits.

      In the rest of the country one has to get good college education and at least 5 years of experience to make this kind of money. No wonder they are bankrupt.
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    • Tue Nov 11th 13:18 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil Breaks Below $60
      So many issues with this chart, but I'll just give you a couple of points: is the cost of oil production now the same as in 2001 , is supply/ demand ratio the same, how about rate of inflation ? Is the growth in demand for oil is linear? Not every relationship in nature could be reflected correctly by a simple linear trend. As the population growth is not linear, so is the demand for oil.
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    • Thu Nov 6th 12:49 PM | Rating: +3 0
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      Don't Follow the Wall Street Crowd - Prepare for Market Rollover
      It is fairly obvious to everyone that the situation is bad and the government doesn't know what to do. What else caused the panic selling in October? The real question is, medium term, where to put money? If there is going to be inflation, I think it is better to hold stocks than cash. If it is going to be defaltion, then cash is better.
      It is not about optimism/ pessimism, it is about accepting the pessimis and looking forward deciding what it is going to be, - inflation or deflation.
      And don't tell me there aren't undervalued stocks. There are many trading at 5 P/E, where normal for them is 10P/E, and this is already on earnings adjusted downward.
      You need to look a bit ahead, - may be 6 months from now,not what is happening today, to come up with a workable strategy.
      However, most analyst are so used to their "toolbox", such as quant analysis and sentiment indicators, that they fail to see forest behind the trees.
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    • Mon Nov 3rd 15:46 PM | Rating: +2 0
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      The Shallowest Generation
      I give you just one example of shallow generation, and you tell me it isn't so. I live in Texas subarbia, everyone here a manicured grass lawn. This is in 100F Texas heat, lawn has to be watered almost daily. I spend hundreds of dollars to maintain my lawn. I consider it a huge waste of money and precious resource - water, but I can't do anything about it per HOA restrictions. I would rather let the lawn go wild , it wouldn't bother me at all. I'd just cut it to keep animals away or have some sort of garden there. What use is this grass? Caring about such silly things as lawn in a desert is just one sign of irresponsible consumerism infecting this society.
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    • Mon Oct 27th 14:44 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Tax Cuts, Lower Oil Prices Will Boost Economy
      > User 167260 He must be related to Kudlow, How do they figure it will help the broken consumer is beyond me. Gas is still paid with money from a job that people don't have or are losing, most all working people's wealth depleted or will be soon, housing implosion, utilities raised, food raised, taxes raised on depreciating homes,
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      LOL. I agree completely.
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    • Mon Oct 27th 14:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Cheap Crude: A Flash in the (Oil) Pan
      Just one thing, don't forget that it actually costs something to get the oil out of the ground. For this reason alone I don't see it going below $40. I see it being around $80 in a few months after the panic about us going into depression subsides. Remember, there is going to be only one end of the world, and this is not it. And we are pricing like there is no tomorrow at this point.
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    • Mon Oct 20th 09:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Equities: Where Are the Bears?
      If we get anymore bearish, one will be able to pick up stocks for free, the same with oil.
      VIX is at 80. It means smart money is very bearish. Retailer investors pulled record amounts of money out of funds.
      I think we dropped too far too fast. It is hard to be bearish at this level unless you are expecting a complete meltdown. What are chances of that? We are down more than 40% after all. Half of it in just 2 weeks. It is a suicide to go short at this point.
      It is the same as with oil. First everybody was saying oil will go to $200. Now they are saying it will go down to $40-50. Where were all these people just 2 months ago? The truth is, they go no clue what is going on.
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    • Mon Oct 6th 17:57 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      John Hussman: Depression Fear Mongering 'Ridiculous'
      CNBC people calling depression? Never heard it. I always keep hearing them on and on about how market should be up. They only stopped last week when it became obvious even to them that we are in trouble.
      Actully, I think today's panic felt like a bottom. It is not often you see individual stocks go down 15-20% 3 days in a row.
      I bought some stocks in the morning just to see them another 10% down at lunch. And they were already 30-40% down from last week. They recovered toward the close on yet another rumor. But I was impressed with how strong the panic was. People were basically throwing stocks overboards like they were ballast on a sinking ship.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 17:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Die Is Cast
      I will trsut my eyes more than I trust government's fairy tale GDP and unemployement numbers. We have been in recession for 2 quarters already. Why does government increase SSN payments by 5.5% to adjust for inflation but deflates GDP by only 1.3%? Does it make sense to you?
      The official unemployment number is useless. There is another number that is more accurate, - labor force participation.

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      The official unemployment rate only includes workers who are actively seeking a job. The labor force participation rate, which includes the number of working-aged people with jobs, fell slightly to 66.0%.
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      Even if you assume that 10% of these people choose not to work because they have other means to provide for themselves( and that is a high number), then is still leaves 23% of people who need a job and don't have one.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 16:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Tuesday Overview: Confusion and Caution
      thedozer, I am in the top 1%. Even though I started my life very poor.Yes, I am here to make sure we get out of this mess. But I disagree with the method.
      I am russian and I can tell you that when rich hoard everything and forget to share with the poor it always ends in a disaster like a revolution or a depression. Give some thought to less fortunate, could you? We all will be better for it.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 16:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Hedge Funds Eat Their Young
      Where can I see the said list? Is MA, NOV on it by any chance?
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    • Wed Oct 1st 12:43 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Tuesday Overview: Confusion and Caution
      People talking about eliminating taxes make my blood boil. It seems lower taxes can right all wrongs. Will that cure cancer too?
      Eliminating capital gains tax will only benefit top 1-2% of people who have significant investment income. These are not people who are forecloising on their homes are they? The benefit for the rest with 401K plans will be too small to notice. Especially since gains are deferred.
      As much as I hate to pay capital gains, I hate income taxes even more. Why don't we eliminate income taxes so I can spend this money and inflate the wonderful economic balloon even further?
      Be realistic, lower taxes are not cure for all, they are just one tool in a toolbox and it has been abused last few years already.
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    • Sun Sep 28th 21:36 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Banning Shorts Works in Fancy Restaurants, Not the Marketplace
      Expose, who says shorts are against regulation? Individual investors that use shorting for hedging have no say one way or the other. Exactly as we had no say when government changed short selling rules overnight, causing 10-20% short squeeze. How would you like to loose 20% on a fundamentally sound position just because of government meddling?
      You don't want shorting to be allowed ? Fine. Just warn about the change in advance. It is much easier to work on long side anyway because long-term the market is long biased. Lets all be happy and continue inflating the bubbles. I have no problem with that . I'll be careful to get out on time. Just don't cry wolf when the bubble pops again.
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