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Equity Risk

November 28, 2007 Leave a Comment

Now article by Fortune’s Shawn Tully is by far the most sensible article I’ve read in some time arguing that markets could come down substantially more from the 10% correction already in the works. I doubt it’ll play out that way, because in my experience markets only do "the right thing" long term. In terms of months, and even a few years, they’ll do any damn thing they want, no matter how little sense it makes.

Still, it makes a lot more sense to me than any of the scare stories (subprime, dollar, oil, etc.). Ultimately, smart money sells off assets that under-perform as a function of the risk inherent in holding them. Money moves to other assets with acceptable risk/return. It’s simple, and fundamental.

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Predicting the Future

November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment

I’ll be dammed, but Jay Jardine found a sure way to do just that. He’s Canadian, but I think Americans can do just as well.

Eh, how about predictable? Seriously, how old do you think the person who wrote that is? I figure if they’re old enough to use a thesaurus, they ought to be old enough to get over their belief in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or other fantastic wish-fulfillment vehicles like the enchanted poverty relieving spigot of the federal treasury, but maybe not.

Eh, how about surely not?

He’s speaking of Canada’s federal government pledging (with other people’s money) to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Yep, you guessed predicted it. It’s still the same. See, you too can predict the future too.

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You Go, Judge

November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment

Via Rockwell, a must-see, by judge Andrew Napolitano (the only guy on Fox worth paying any attention to).

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Think Globally

November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment

I can’t think of anyone not being pretty shocked, or at least amazed — do I hear surprised? — to take a close look and study of the chart and table to be found here. But wait! Before you do, can you guess the top three stock markets in 2007 in terms of percentage gain?

(It’s nice to see The People’s Paradise of Venezuela 2nd to dead last in the entire world.)

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“Strange Days Indeed”

November 27, 2007 Leave a Comment

A clever little upbeat video, in spite of it being generally a parade of mostly contemptible fools & fuckers (with one notable exception).

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“We’ll Look at That”

November 26, 2007 2 Comments

You really only need to look at the first 35 seconds of this to get the point of this post. Feel free to watch the other three minutes, if you like. Perhaps you’ll realize something, as I did, that I’d never thought about before. How come alcohol prohibition was accomplished through the very arduous process of amending the U.S. Constitution (later repealling it, through the same arduous process)? Ron Paul points out: because they [rightly] understood there was no authority under the Constitution to ban it. Obvious, I suppose, but I’d never considered that. Accordingly, it kind of sheds light on the constitutionality of all current federal drug laws that are sending people to prison.

Anyway, in contrast to how Paul deals with the medical marijuana issue — direct and forthright, without equivocation — see how Hillary and Romney deal with it. "We’ll look at that." What slime; both of them. Can you see it? It’s unmistakable. First, they enthusiastically approach, with their false empathy and compassion. It’s a great opportunity to score points, eh? Then, once they understand that the guy is merely asking to be left alone by the feds, so he can take medicine five doctors have prescribed him, the original phoniness of those two scumbuckets comes out ringing.

Contempt.

Notice also: Paul offered no false, tear-jerking empathetic compassion. He offers real compassion: freedom.

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Compare and Contrast

November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment

Fox’s Neil Cavuto aggressively interviewing Ron Paul on June 26, 2007. (Funniest part: Cavuto asks Paul how the building he was standing in — the one housing the congress and senate — could have been built without the IRS and income taxes. Paul points out is was built prior to 1913. Ha!)

This is Cavuto interviewing Paul five months last, on Nov 23rd (Part 1; Part 2). I’ve never seen Cavuto so gentle. Via Rockwell.

Should lightening strike in the same place twice, and Black Swans begin falling from the sky to coincide with Paul getting the nomination, you’ll see pro-war republican right and left suddenly becoming peace nicks.

You can count on it.

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On SWAT Raids

November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment

I see two arguments in support of this kind of thing, both from the cops and their choirs:

1. Ensure safety of officers.

2. Prevent the destruction of evidence.

To the first, why should cops be entitled to safety that goes beyond their own exercise of reason, civility, and restraint? Put another way, I suspect that one reason for all of the "wrong door" raids is because they are afforded the luxury of overwhelming force — force sufficient to brutalize their way out of the just consequences of their own careless (often capricious or even sadistic) acts. Bluntly: cops ought to be shot when they mistakenly crash through the doors of innocent people who’ve done no harm (the sorting out should come later). They just ought to be, just as anyone ought to be. To exempt cops, because they are cops, completely obviates home defense, because it sets an impossible standard. The burden is henceforth upon you to first determine that any intruder is not a cop.

The second requires acceptance of a collectivist, socialist premise whereby heretofore only imagined, speculated, or alleged "evidence" takes on a value greater than that of the lives and safety of suspects or accused. It’s even more valuable than the lives of the cops, and they’ve clearly recognized this by beefing up. This is a consequence of a willingness to sacrifice the lives of some (break a few eggs) in the pursuit of a collective ideal that justice pertains to a society and not to individual victims.

I’ve got no problem with some willing to risk their lives in the pursuit of catching bad guys, but they ought to bear their own risks, accept the consequences of screwing up — such as if they get shot going into the right or wrong house, and they ought to pay full restitution if they go into the wrong house. They’ve got no right to involve innocent bystanders and the ideal of justice is completely perverted when we accept that completely innocent people ought to accept such risk as a reasonable part of living in society.

It’s funny. We have a pretty decent criminal procedure in court for serious offenses like murder and rape and so forth. The burden of proof is very high, and people generally understand why: it’s preferable that a number of guilty go free than to convict a single innocent.

But when it comes to mere suspicion, many seem perfectly willing to terrorize, maim, or kill perfectly innocent people in their own homes going about their peaceful routines.

It’s called an "acceptable cost of doing business;" acceptable, that is, to everyone but the ones paying the cost.

(My comment to this post at Q&O.)

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James Madison

November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment

Worth a look.

Now, do you ever wonder how it is that you can often read such things and find them to be so prescient, today? Do you understand why that is? Well, for one, it’s because they understood practical politics; they understood human propensity to be driven by fear above all else; and they understood human propensity to seek authority ("easy answers") outside of its own capacity to reason.

They also understood that the only defense against such civilization decline was adherence to a set of principles. Unfortunately, they didn’t go far enough (though they went as far as they could, in the context of an authoritarian state — which is indeed what they established).

The lesson to take away from that is there’s simply no way to establish an ultimately all-powerful institution ("checks & balances" only slow things down) like a state, along with its constitution that, regardless of its seeming "reasonable" nature, is still an imposition upon men. In the end, the core differences between the state they established and the state we have today is primarily degree, not principle. In terms of the logic of human nature applied to political power, everything has marched along pretty much as I’m sure some of the more enlightened amongst these wise men forecast in their warnings.

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“My country ’tis of thee…”

November 26, 2007 Leave a Comment

…sweet land of liberty…Where 2,000 juveniles — juveniles; people who are supposed to be stupid, so’s they can learn the difference — are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. This compares to 12: in the rest of the world combined.

…Of thee I sing.

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