Archive for 'Talking Heads' Category

Roubini bullish on everything! Psych!

4 October 2009 by Christopher Suleske

NOURIEL Roubini states the (I think) obvious:
“Markets have gone up too much, too soon, too fast,” Roubini said in an interview in Istanbul on Oct. 3. “I see the risk of a correction, especially when the markets now realize that the recovery is not rapid and V-shaped, but more like U- shaped. That might be [...]

Recovery… from… what?

2 October 2009 by Christopher Suleske

HOW can there be a recovery from something when the underlying conditions of that something have not been fundamentally altered? I read a lot on the subject of the condition of the U.S. economy, but seldom from sources populated with talking heads, since they are usually parroting one another and are, in effect, parroting [...]

Consumer spending habits “forever” changed?

14 August 2009 by Christopher Suleske

Kristin BENTZ (by way of Peter GORENSTEIN) argues that the recent contraction of consumer spending is a permanent phenomenon:
Someone who wasn’t surprised by the weak data is former Wall Street retail analyst Kristin Bentz. “It’s going to take this consumer a long time to recover,” she says. The author of the retail focused investing blog, [...]

Cramer blows his stack

6 August 2007 by Christopher Suleske

JIM Cramer loses it. Do you believe it’s as bad as he thinks it is? Is the Federal Reserve clueless?
UPDATE (2007.08.07 10:09) – My father in law and I discussed this and he is of the opinion that Cramer’s histrionics are largely rooted in his less than complete embrace of the free market [...]