President Obama Lectures Wall Street. My Lecture on Symbolic Expression.
President Obama’s statements at a press conference yesterday lecturing Wall Street does not help the economic crisis. By chastising bank executives for their billions of dollars in bonuses they paid themselves only months after the federal bailout, however, Obama points out to America how out of touch Wall Street is with the rest of the [...]
Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY: A Defense.
Jim Cramer, the host of the stock trading television show Mad Money on CNBC, has received a lot of unfair attacks during this economic crisis. I first started watching Mad Money a couple of years ago as a guilty pleasure. With Cramer’s myriad sound effects, turbo charged segments—like the famous “Lightning Round” in which callers [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
English Professor’s How To in the Stock Market: For Those of Us Wall Street Outsiders.
How to invest and trade in the stock market. This is the opening line to countless articles by how-to gurus in the financial world. Particularly since the collapse of housing, banks and the major Wall Street brokerages, the gurus are out telling everyone that they have the secret to locking in gains in a down [...]
How to Fix the Economy: Obama Gets to Work.
Before this past fall, 2008, the Iraq War concerned most Americans. As September stumbled into October, the stock market crashed, the flow of credit froze, and money began to evaporate in banks and the auto industry, suddenly the economy concerned Americans the most. As the adage goes, people vote their pocketbook.
I think that Obama is [...]
The Best Way to Lose All of Your Money in the Stock Market!
When you are saving for the future, do not use the excuse that you do not understand the stock market. Learn! And take control of your own money and your own investments!
I’m As Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take This Anymore!
In the 1976 movie Network, Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a seasoned anchorman on a failing network news program, UBS, learns he will be let go in two weeks, so he goes on the air to announce his plan to commit suicide. Fittingly, the network’s ratings soar, and UBS keeps him on the air, profiting from [...]
SANTA CLAUSE RALLY. The Stock Market is a Sucker’s Game.
Like Obama, I have the audacity to hope.
But I am losing hope in the stock market. We always wait for the so-called Santa Clause rally. On CNBC, the biggest question they have been asking for the past week is, “are we going to have the Santa Clause rally?”
We all know the aphorism, “what goes up [...]
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