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Regardless...the edge has clearly diminished.

( DJ ) 11/30 10:00AM DJ Table Of Data From US Chicago Purch Managers' Report Seasonally Adj. Indexes Nov. Oct. Sep. Aug. July June Business Index 61.7 62.9 60.5 49.2 63.5 53.6 Production 63.8 68.3 62.4 56.2 70.5...

This point we agree on. Despite Chicago pioneering the "integrated communities," I suspect this is going on in metro areas nationwide. Some of the neighborhoods are lipstick on pigs...humboldt, little italy, Hyde Park, Lakeview, Bucktown... And yes, the scary part is that people are putting...

I am actually EAST of the interstate...but looked at the Skybridge a couple years ago though....typo there

Obviously you haven't been to Greek Town recently... the bums stay away from the Greeks!:D The Skybridge does in fact have a desireable location in the west loop. Come visit again! The west loop has been torn-down and is now yuppie soft-lofts. Four blocks north...they have already...

A rapid price decline is precipitated by excess-supply. Today's October sales release takes me back to 2001-2002 when the auto manufacturers took many buyers out of the market with substantial incentives. When the big three announced their post 9/11 incentives the used car market got...

I think those are the commissions he pays!!:D :D

Gotta love it when prices and inventory increase rapidly together...a nice pop will inevitably occur. I will be ready to add some support to the real estate market when it happens! :D:D:D

What you aren't acknowledging with your reasoning is the number of rookie/novice real estate investors that have purchased properties in the past 2-3 years...Your next door neighbor who decides to "invest" in a rental property or second home. I think that might fill in your gap. We have also...

Sounds like you have it all mapped out!:eek:

What party was in office at that time? What term is the current president in?

I think the most interesting thing in that article is the substantial increase in GM swaps recently.

I am still waiting for GM to crap out... Otherwise, I am market neutral with outstanding short-straddles (hedged on both sides) :D

Buffett may lose $34-mil on Value Capita hedge fund Value Capital LP, a $570 million hedge fund backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, may report an annual loss for the first time in seven years after making a bad bet on U.S. interest rates. The miscalculation cost Buffett's Berkshire...

You can't fight the Fed, no one can...

Look back about ten+ years, the VIX has been moving at extremely LOW levels! You can't fight Wall Street, wait until Q1 '06...evaluate then.

LOL...While I can imagine the sarcastic tone of you saying this, I again don't believe it encourages anyone to post their trades...this is for the benefit of traders afterall! Having said that, it is funny :D:D:D

MSFT does not need to make a profit on the XBOX, nor do they care to. THey would probably give them out for $99, but the anti-trust prosecuters would be all over them. MSFT is looking for marketshare with the XBox and will build their profit with Xbox live. A product with a high profit...

If this guy actually made this trade, which I doubt, I don't think he needs any more insult to injury. I think you guys have all beat on him enough, this kind of activity doesn't encourage others to post their trades in the future...:cool:

The general public has NO idea how formidable MSFT is. They think MSFT and Gates just got lucky... I have friends at HP that worked directly with MSFT executives on the HP preview project...they characterized the entire organization as extremely intense, cut-throat, and performance driven. I...