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ChrisBern commented on an article. 3:47 PM

How Banks Became Too Big to Fail

+1 JCoeur. Until we're willing to suffer short-term pain in order to have long-term stability, we're going to continue to have emergency crises with emergency "must-have" bailouts for TBTF banks, manufacturers, etc.

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 4:10 PM

A Ratio That Insults Investors' Intelligence

The question I would ask is "why do I care". e.g. why do I care that Larry Ellison for example is making $46,000/hour? I have never bought an Oracle product in my life. I don't own Oracle stock. Oracle does not get any of

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 2:54 PM

Bad News: Everyone Is Right!

Say what you will about Dr. Hussman, but he backs up his thoughts with rigorous regression analysis and research--and he is very transparent about it all. The primary way to disagree with his conclusions is if you use the "this

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 1:26 PM

Gold Collapse: The Start of Something Big?

Ah yes, another false choice article--gold vs. stocks. Same as another false choice I often see bandied about--stocks vs. bonds.

When is a Fool going to have the prescience to write the real article, which is

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 4:48 PM

Why Wal-Mart Needs More Workers

"Americans should be outraged because more companies should do their best to start hiring right now, since that's the only way our real economy will improve"

Is this statement a joke? When was it the

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 4:43 PM

3 Signs That the Bull Market's Days Are Numbered

Good article, and I'm surprised by the vitriole in the other comments. The facts are the market is overpriced despite slowing economies all around the world and an artificial economy in the U.S. that is reliant on record deficits

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 4:04 PM

Conversations With a Bear

Morgan: "The S&P 500 trades at 14.3 times expected 2013 earnings, which is nowhere near the priciest of all time."

But what would lead you to believe that earnings will indefinitely remain 60%

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 1:27 AM

Cyprus Bailout, and Twilight of the Financial Crisis

optimist911 said it best. It's called COMPLACENCY, and pretty much every major market drop is preceded by COMPLACENCY.

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 12:44 AM

The Difference Between Inflation and Outright Theft

TMFMorgan-- "Shareholders have been wiped out. Bondholders have been wiped out. Who do you want to write the check?"

Yeah, exactly. That's called the Rule of Law.

You'd really

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 12:37 AM

Cyprus' Unprecedented Bailout: More Common Than You Think

"It took the least bad option." Uhhh, no, the least bad option would be to impose the penalties on, oh I don't know, maybe the people who made the loans that have now turned sour? Those people are known as

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 12:29 AM

4 Interesting Charts From the President's Economic Report

All due respect to the author's article, which was interesting...but TMFGortok's response really hit the nail on the head.

Ask yourself what the economy would look like right now without QE, without

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 12:15 AM

Will This All End Badly?

I used to believe in buy and hold, but after reading "The Ivy Portfolio", it's just a MUCH more effective method. Higher returns with less volatility--what's not to like.

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 1:29 AM

The Ugly Truth About the Federal Deficit: It's Not Just Entitlement Spending

I was about to type a reply to the article, but @fiscalconserve1 said it best. Simply put we need to quit being the world's policemen and arbitrators. I am dumbfounded at the things we do as a nation that are at best tangentially

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 12:19 AM

7 Employment Charts You've Got to See

"It's the other way around: Government employment is shrinking while private employment expands."

That's the one bright spot then in an otherwise dreary article. :)

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 11:53 PM

Scorched-Earth Policy Could Fry Portfolios

@smartmuffin-- exactly.

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 11:47 PM

How the Postal Service Is Being Gutted

My question is why are government and quasi-governmental agencies (like the USPS) still paying pensions? I'm 40 years old and have worked in the private sector since I was 15, yet I've never had anyone offer me a pension.

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 10:54 PM

How the Coming Demographic Shift Will Affect the Economy

Some say 40 is the new 30 and so forth.

Maybe the point of many of these comments is that 30-44 is the new 18-25? :)

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 9:57 PM

The Greatest Threat to the United States

@DrJCA1 -- all due respect, you clearly don't understand what is happening here. It's not that these companies are "putting sensitive data on the internet". It's that companies store intellectual property and sensitive

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 8:57 PM

The Next Bank Bailout, And Why It's (Sort of) Different This Time

What is wrong with this picture:

a) With its .25% payment on reserves, the Fed is currently handing banks several billion dollars per year.

b) The Fed is supposed to conduct monetary policy,

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ChrisBern commented on an article. 7:57 PM

The Economy Might Be So Much Stronger Than You Think

I think this was an interesting article. That said, the easiest way to tell how strong this recovery is would be for the Fed to discontinue buying $85B in bonds every month and for the Federal gov't to discontinue its $100B per

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