Quote from 1flyfisher:
Too early to invest in stocks.
Buffy said BUY at DOW 9000.
He was WRONG.
Ignore Buffett
Trust Barton Biggs
Biggs said Buy at Dow 8378 , CSCO at $16.31 (today CSCO at $18.31 )and PG at $58.87 ($63.23 today)
October 24, 2008 17:21 EDT
Barton Biggs Says U.S. Stocks Are `Very, Very Cheap' (Update2)
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. and European stocks are ``very, very cheap'' after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost 40 percent this year, the worst annual drop since 1931, according to Barton Biggs, managing partner at hedge fund Traxis Partners LLC.
``U.S. and European markets have blown out to record levels of attractiveness versus bonds,'' Biggs said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. ``We're at very, very cheap levels.''
``One of these days, even if the world is going to hell, we will have a tremendous run-up,'' said Biggs, 75. ``There is an extreme level of pessimism and almost despair. As long as I have been in the business, those have always been good signs.''
The investor said large, ``high-quality'' U.S. companies including Cisco Systems Inc., 3M Co. and Procter & Gamble Co. are the cheapest in the world. ``And if you've really got the intestinal fortitude, these emerging markets have been absolutely crushed,'' he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aBTL.Wro3MEQ&refer=home