WTF does everybody think they are gaining by calling a bottom every week? Yes 1 week someday you will be right, and you'll still be nothing more then a jackass. Anyway I'm short Bottom Callers This market is beyond awful - I am net short the SP now along with my DRR and Short USO. Even HTS is a play...

We’ve arrived late, Heidi and I. Our cab picked us up after 8 and we were forced to trudge three blocks from Symphony Towers to the NY-style wood-oven pizza dive (delish) for some spinach-and-ricotta-topped-dough before returning to The Towers for intermission. Word in the ladies’ room? The Sym...

Trend: Leveraged and inverse ETFs do not perform as expected due to tax distributions and tracking error.  Jim Cramer on CNBC has been ranting about the problems effects of the double short financial ETF SKF. Simon Maierhofer at ETF Guide describes the illogical returns of leveraged and inverse ETF...

Check... One. Two. Is this thing on? Ahem. Hello. My name is Jana. When Trading Goddess asked me to be a contributor on her blog, I was honored, that is, until she told me the rules. No excessive swearing (when is it ever excessive?) or full blown porn. Anyone familiar with my own blog will testify ...

Good, for all the reasons articulated here and by the Chronicle. City Council, however, should not intepret this as an endorsement of retail subsidies by the public.  Retail subsidies are generally a bad idea and the City ought to stay out of that business. I have never bought the argument that we ...

Daniel Flynn has a piece in City Journal about the support Barack Obama is receiving from former members of Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground, many of whom are involved directly in the Obama campaign: Obama’s Boys of Summer. Michael Klonsky, whose disgust for mainstream...

Please forward far and wide. And feel free to respond at maslauskas84@gmail.com. -Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Student Power and the Sit-in at Evergreen May 30th marked the 10th day of the sit-in of Evergreen State College administrator Art Costantino's hallway. Students are demanding the immediate r...

Don’t you wanna just tousle the little scamp’s hair? I was tickled when eduwonkette said she’d link to a reaction piece re: Ayers, Petrilli and Millot. Time to do my part. Bill Ayers’ March election to the post of Vice President of Curriculum Studies for the American Educatio...

READ FULL HERE: http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/04/promising-organization... Students for a Democratic Society, UBC Chapter, (SDS) is “open collective of students inspired by the movement from the U.S. of the 60s/70s, Students For a Democratic Society.� Their campaigns include fre...