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BTW, the market went down 2% on Friday, not 5%. Get your numbers right if you are going to use them for your half brain argument that the Fed and Treasury are protecting us. Yeah, sure the market woul d have gone down 25% because of Bear Stearns not being bailed out. You sound so scientific...

Good point. That's why the US has to print and print. They are so deep into debt without the ability to pay it back that devaluing the currency is the easiest way to pay back the debt, without formally defaulting. The Fed is doing this as we speak, thus the rally in commodities and euro...

Right, we just haven't gotten to levels where people are really disgusted and scared of putting money to work, it seems there are more people afraid of missing the rally back to higher levels. This is of course anectdotal evidence, just as the bulls use anectdotal contrarian evidence such as...

We're just not there yet. Not even close to capitulation. A bump over 30 on the VIX in a entrenched bear market is not capitulation. In the media, I am hearing calls of a bottom, from guys like Barton Bigss and other guests on media outlets telling you to buy into bad news, from articles in...

I haven't heard as many bottom calls in the media and among traders as I have on Friday. Not on January 22, not on January 23, not on August 16 2007,.... The game is not that easy. Bottoms don't come so conveniently gift wrapped for the masses to buy at great prices and sell dear right...

From watching these situations where stocks that get cut in half in one day, they almost never bounce back right away. Many of them just keep going down and eventually fade away. If they do come back, it is a painful crawl back to former levels that takes several months. They are so tempting...

Totally agree. The flabby and overbloated banking system needs more liquidity like Fat Albert needs more Krispy Kreme donuts. Bernanke and his meddlesome behavior with constant out of left field bailouts when stock markets are weak prevent true levels of fear from entering the markets. This...

We cannot have a serious bear market anymore. The country cannot afford it and would go bankrupt. So many pension and retirement plans depend on the stock market returning 10% a year to meet obligations that if the printing presses aren't run overtime to make up for a weak economy, the stock...

Why can't Americans take any kind of pain? This horrible fear of a recession like its the end of the world is laughable. Not saying this is you, but for the average American, Is your financial situation so precarious that if you depend on an economy or stock market being strong to keep food on...

There is no turning back now, hello 1400! LMAO. Action is so manipulated by press releases and chicken little shorts who don't know when to get in and out. Look for another short squeeze as the shorts throw in the towel again at another short term top. Rinse and repeat, buy the dips, sell...

Bazooka Ben obviously is trying to inflate out of this mess. He will gladly accept $200 oil and $2000 gold as long as his banker friends keep their fat bonuses and Wall Street remains prosperous. Of course, middle class has no clue that they are being inflated away into oblivion. Only...

The market was hated just 24 hours ago when the market was much cheaper. Now people like the market much more and prices are much higher. The Fed intervention is another gimmick aimed at giving out more liquidity, until investors decide to take credit risk in significant numbers, there is no...

Name calling, good job! I knew you would show your true colors. Fed policies don't affect commodities? What planet are you from? Commodities are priced in dollars! If the Fed pumps out a huge amount of liquidity like it is doing now, that weakens the dollar and causes commodities to...

LOL. The TIPs are showing that there is going to be more inflation, not deflation. The Treasury market is telling you there will be inflation down the road, that's why the yield curve is steepening, Sherlock. Oil at $107 is not inflationary? Corn at $6. Wheat at $12. Copper at $4...

WRONG! The banks that want to lend have ample liquidity, they only will lend money to people with only the best credit ratings and not to those who really need the money. The last thing the banks need is to loan money to deadbeats just because they have cash lying around, extending the credit...

Oh sorry, we've got deflation problems, I see that oil is at $107, gold is almost $1000, Fed is pumping money up banker's asses, and yeah, deflation is our big worry. Ok McFly.

Just get this devaluation of the dollar over with, print as much money as their is paper in the US. Then we'll finally have finished the devaluation. Until then, more printing to come.... All roads for fiat currencies lead to zero.

That's asinine. Anybody who is NOT trading doesn't care. Obviously if you are long or short today, you care if the rally fizzles or not.

Bernanke is Wall Street's cocksucker. He will do whatever the banks or Cramer want him to do. He has no backbone or monetary discipline. If this rally fails, we'll have a $500 billion auction facility and they will accept any rated debt probably at that point. If that doesn't work, $1...

From Howard Simons at Thestreet.com: Howard Simons Champagne Socialism Indeed 3/11/2008 10:04 AM EDT Great post, Tero. The sad legacy of the Greenspan era (and too bad he exited before his chickens came home to roost) is we had free markets on the upside and government safety nets on the...