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Your giving the government way too much credit. And blindly assuming Bernanke knows what is doing is a very bad assumption and I think its going to cost alot of people a lot more money.

So you think the government can legislate higher asset prices and prosperity? I wont make that bet.

This is what most people dont get. The true reflextivity trade is for a deflation. its the ultimate contrarian bet because it hasnt worked in 70 years. I dont think youve read either of his books. He talks about Soros in both of them

its funny, taleb in the CR interview says market gets it terribly wrong, but has the exact opposite conclusion. What I dont understand is how so many people can dismiss him even though he wrote about this happening in the Black Swan. There millions of investors praying that this system...

and thats why equities are a total joke.

theyve been right which is scary

I think the market drops like a stone to nearly 350 in the sp in the next 3-4 months.

Great so now that gm has more money they can continue to overbuild cars and pile them at ports around the world.

i agree.

I figured it out. It was the uptick rule that caused the banks to make trillions in bad loans.

this speaks to the collective denial the whole country is in

what a joke. I suspect this is whats going on at a lot funds. Taking bad assets out of certain funds and hiding them in other places.

Why would they double there portfolio over the next three years?

Face it. the market and this entire system is broken and the economy is rapidly deteriorating. Im all for contrarian thinking, but I think were headed to a world much less dependent on asset prices and nothing is going to stop it. Alot of bulls keep pointing to the fed and government as a...

The number is awful. People have shitloads of leverage and are losing there jobs at the sametime. This is not a bullish scenario. People need cash badly!

Im with cutten. I dont know why people keep shorting bonds. What if the sp heads straight to 400?

this entire system isnt coming back.

I bet a friend of mine 100 bucks yesterday before I saw this news that they would be finished within a year. They wont survive

The volume increases were only because of a massive credit bubble. which is now collapsing

The CME also went to block trading in treasuries which was designed to appease the big funds who surprise suprise are never coming back. Changes need to be made