Yes nothing much has changed, even with all that has tranpired since you last stopped visiting us, you are still in complete denial. Very sad.

They alreasy have and are continuing to fall in many areas at 100k in 6 months and more.

It was me asking about Gmen.

Aren’t there repercussions if these folks use tapping/taping for personal use? Don’t they require warrants???

WTF?

sl

Richard,

A monte carlo simulation?

Not earth shattering news, Fuld recently said we were in the 9th inning. That was before he begged for $6B. Oh by the way, that $6B has gone up in smoke.

Did your local carnival barker discuss recent tepee sales at the street fair?

Richard,

Quite the contrary, I’m having a blast. Haven’t even heard too much Goldilocks lately. Also, I went against you and took the other side of the trade regarding the resiliency of the US consumer. Just a great trade. I owe you a drink. REM sang about the clueless on Thurs, Everybody Hurts.

How’s your theory regarding unlimited/perpetual liquidity? Trillions in liquidity sucked down the drain. Still buying those financials after a 10% pullback? It always worked in the past. Why not now? Have you retrieved your nose out of the butts of the 5 WS’s that bought in that overpriced/overbought town. Come to think of it, do they still have jobs?

Thrilled to have you back. Please come to the next GTG. Love to hear your next buy, I have a new pair of shorts, have to break in.

I was at a party in the city last month and the topic of Westfield came up. Folks were horrified that the place doesn’t have a direct train line and was more expensive than Summit.
Westfield’s a dying town.

It is amusing to me that criticism of the decision to abandon the government’s public financing system by the Obama campaign has come from both the left and the right.

While the right has distrusted the system because it limits spending and the left because it does not prevent private donations.

What both fail to see is that he has stumbled on the answer to financing that neither really opposes. This new system removes the suspect power of large donors while removing the limits of spending.

Instead of lauding this new funding paradigm, they attack it against the long term best interest of the country.

I argue that his abandonment of the government system is correct and the criticism is inside-the-beltway nonsense. The public has rightly never really supported the system. It used to be that the Republicans got the majority of their contributions from small donors and the Democrats from a few large donors (contrary to what you would expect). Few volunteered to donate to the federal system using the check-off because their donation might well go to someone they did not support.

From now on, both will do what Obama is doing. The 537s will fade away since the amounts available to the candidates will allow the campaigns to swamp their media access.

Woe to the party that tries to run an unpopular candidate in the future. Many will find this scary, but opening up the process in this new way is the best chance we’ve got.

Today, however, I did my annual personal car washing. Two hours of washing, hoovering, and getting the gum out of the mats and the melted crayon off the crush valor. ;)

First time I ever went to a water park with my kids was about 5 years ago. We got home at around 6pm, I was sound asleep by 6:15 …. I was only about 43 at that time!

KL

re: price … we’d never pay that (when we’re buying, in spring 09 when our lease is up). were looking in the 500-699 range now because we think those will fall to about 500-550 when we’re ready to buy.

some folks have scoffed at us for assuming a 675k house could fall 100k in 6 months … we’ll see.