Blast from the past

This clip is a beauty…sounds exactly like the mainstream fare filling the airwaves today.  These are the same confident fools who saw only upside in 2000 as well. Both times, stocks went on to lose 50%+ over the next year or so.  Ah I remember it all like it was yesterday.  The truth is that most commentators and managers add absolutely zero value because they simply ride risk up and ride risk down, until their clients and followers run screaming from the building missing limbs.  Reckless confidence and willful blindness are the surest way to lasting financial pain.  Capital can go lots of places, but in the end it will only survive where it is treated with patience, care and respect.  Here is a direct link.

And a little reality reminder courtesy of Zero hedge.

“Six years ago today, with the S&P 500 around 1460 – having risen 20% without a correction for seven months – a handful of Wall Street’s best and brightest joined CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and Bob Pisani to discuss the Goldilocks economy, why the bears are wrong, and where the market is going next. Sometimes, we just need a reminder to snap us out of that recency bias… for example, Bob Pisani: “We have got a global rally going on… and the important thing is… there’s a floor to the market – every time, for the last seven months, they sell the market down for 2 days, it comes right back.”

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The economy is much worse than official data shows

“The Great Recession may have officially ended in June of 2009 (according to the National Bureau of Economic Research), but many Americans are still extremely pessimistic about the economy. That’s the conclusion of a national survey conducted by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Nearly 1,100 employed and unemployed Americans participated in the survey from Jan. 9 to Jan. 16. The survey’s lead researcher Mark Szeltner joined The Daily Ticker to discuss the data and what it reveals about the national psyche.”

Here is a direct video link.

psst America: stop wasting precious time and capital re-inflating asset bubbles and rescuing bankers and double down on revolutionizing the way you produce and consume energy and you will find your way to the next boom of prosperity and leadership in the world. Yes you can.

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Basic central banking explained

12-year old Victoria Grant explains why her homeland, Canada, and most of the world, is in debt. April 27, 2012 at the Public Banking in America Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Here is a direct link.

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