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Apologies! Missed that, didn't look close enough.

I would gouge my own eyes out with a popsicle stick before relying on a high yield chinese ADR. No debt - ok that one looks interesting. My favorite in a combined FA/Yield/safety combo in Intel (INTC). Was around 5% before the last hour Miracle Ramp, tons of cash, minimal debt, real...

The Oracle is short large quantities of equity puts. Why would you expect him to say anything different? Not a criticism of Mr. Oracle, by the way, as he at least has skin in the game.

With all the publicity this is getting, you can bet the pirates are themselves going to become targets of, shall we say, less sea-faring militias.

Having the gov't buy C stock on the open market does not get any fresh capital onto the books. Doing a preferred or convertible would, of course, but in circumstances like these those generally involve wiping out the current common.

No. I can easily see it being chopped up into pieces and disappearing as a distinct corporate entity while the viable parts live on as parts of other companies.

Anything that shows up on your screen is historical and by definition lagging. Anything that uses multiple elements of historical data - eg, "higher high" - is an indicator. Anything that uses indicators with a time cutoff - eg, only look at "today" data - has time dependency and therefore...

Saving Citi is not the same as saving C.

When he starts getting swamped with interview requests.

Not making myself clear here - their (potential) lenders are scared shitless - if Citi started wasting money on "investors" who are back of the bus in terms of priority they'd be shut down in a NY minute by their lenders. Citi in some form will likely survive - but I am doubtful the common...

Social security has an expense ratio of under 1%. Medicare and Medicaid are under 2%. That's two of the biggest line items - do you have specific examples for any of the others?

Why make shareholders happy when it's the bondholders/lenders that need to be pacified?

It's too late, and unproductive, to have these conversations in the "general" sense. It's time to start pounding some stakes in the ground. Stake #1: Federal income Federal income for '08 is ~$2.6T, or around $9,000 for every citizen/resident. If that isn't the right number - what is...

You're calling for a stock that's already dropped $130 to drop another $20? Impressive...

Using "off grid" in the metaphorical sense, this used to happen, regularly. History of western civ is of mass migration to one off-grid continent after another (yes I'm ignoring local populations that provided little more than speed bumps for the spread of western "civ"). Now, there's...

If someone uses fibs or EW or oscillators or trend definitions or anything else TA-like that instills disciplined entries, exits and risk control, they are *miles* ahead of someone who assumes it's all hocus-pocus and flies by the seat of their random-walk pants. IMO, etc.

Now there's (potentially) an interesting fractal for the next 15 years... :)

Seems a good question to test is whether following that bearish fractal under- or over-performed a selection of arbitrarily chosen alternative bearish fractals.

If the Y2K high is significant, why did only one of the several widely followed US indices stop near it? Nasdaq, Dow, Russell...all had '07 tops a long long way from the '00 tops. Not asking that you believe it - just keep an open mind. ;)

Some of your questions in #4 illustrate why your assumption in #1 can't hold. Boom/bust is written into the very fabric of natural process, trying to prevent those cycles in economics just leads to the kinds of dislocations we're seeing today.