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Looks like these guys were thinking ahead and getting the suicide over with BEFORE the crash. In the coming months, there aren't going to be any spare window ledges..

Interesting thread. (Autistic) savants are extremely good at solving computationally intensive problems that are complete in the sense that all required inputs are known and the algorithm for getting from inputs to answer is also widely known. 'Predicting' the direction of any asset price...

Did you forget the <sarcasm /> tags? :) But I think Bernanke has some degree of self awareness. Do you recall his quip? "The problem with QE is that it works in practice, but not in theory". Deep down he knows what's going on. You need to think carefully about why QE is not having...

World's perfect business? The best business in the world is, and always has been, finding the world's biggest suckers.

No, you are not betting against the FED. You are betting against the HERD that thinks QE is some sort of magic that makes the stock market go up forever. The same herd that thought the magic was the internet in 2000 and real estate in 2007.

Yah but you are forgetting that spot of bother in between, no? The sort of bother we might just be about to see again..

You know I have a Wired article from 1999 in which a journalist said that word for word :)

You are talking about momentum trading, which is fine, but completely unrelated to my question. I was discussing the topic of highly regarded 'businessmen' touting hot air as if they have invented the cure for cancer, ageing, baldness and hangovers all in one pill. There are a lot of snake...

Yes, along with John Hussman and Marc Faber, I am probably the last bear standing. I can only conclude that the average age of the posters here is about 22? i.e. you were all school kids during the last dot com bubble. The sort of arguments I'm hearing to justify these googoo valuations is...

This is exactly the sort of language everyone was using back in 1999/2000. It's a new paradigm, stupid. Get with the times. BTW "the internet of things" used to be called "java on your toaster" back in the late nineties. Same shit talk, different bubble.

Jeff Gundlach sums it up perfectly: "The thing that I am most fascinated with – and I have done nothing with it – is Amazon. I just can’t get over how little money they make and yet how valuable the company is. The stock price never goes down. It just goes up and up and up and they...

I'll be seeing it on Wednesday evening. It sounds to me like a pure celebration of excess, with any concept of critique totally thrown out of the window.

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/wolf-ball-why-londons-bankers-love-wall-street-fraudster-jordan-belfort-9064038.html Market top, anyone? :)

Yes, it's incredible how accurate hindsight can be :)

Hornby train set?

She's got enough cash already for one of such non-existent talent.. :)

Whether it gets there this year or not is beside the point. What <i>does</i> matter is the way ETers are answering this question.

How wonderfully post modern to combine two current obsessions into one: the mania for day trading and the one for crowdfunding. Maybe you could also give away tickets to "Wolf of Wall St" and beautifully combine <i>three</i> signs of a market top? :)

Does this jack hershey guy have something to sell, or is being a prick just a hobby for him? I have seen some of his other posts and they are a sight to behold (like a school bus crash). Literally pages of pseudo mystical nonsense combined with references to high school calculus. Really...

One of the many things about the site that didn't exactly inspire confidence :)