Filth..............

Let me see if I have this figured out.

Howard Stern contracts for a $500,000,000 pay-off over 5 years to espouse his brand of obscenity on satellite radio?

Mel Karmazin could make it work. Maybe.

But not without the filth.

The best................

In my life's journey I happen on many people who inquire what I do.

My standard answer is, "We manage money for friends across the globe".

They then relate to me on their big losses in the 2000-2000 bear market or tell me about the next Google or Microsoft or why the stock market can never make them money or how their C.D.'s are the highest in the land.

Once in a while they ask what web sites I explore to further my modest level of intellectual capital.

There is only one to feed the mind for a lifetime.

www.dailyspeculations.com

ADVEST and Merrill Lynch

This merger may go down as one of the biggest busts in history.

Talk about rats fleeing a ship!!

It must be time for consolidation.

Who will own A.G. Edwards?

on DELTA pilots............

Taking a 14% pay cut two weeks prior to Christmas is not my idea of holiday cheer.

I thank them every time I fly on a DELTA jet.

Almost like nurses for the responsibility they have. My life.

And almost the same pay scale.

Who would have thought...............

The DOW JONES averages would be negative year-to-date on this December day?

Ann Coulter and U of Conn...............

Even when dealing with the likes of terrorists, convicted murderers, lobbyists, interns and cigars, the liberal philosophy is to preach "we need too understand their problem and plight in life, they are victims of society and need help".

Yet put a conservative speaker in a College of Liberals and it's, "die, die, get out, commie", such compassion and concern for open minded and understanding liberal students. Their teachers are doing a fine job. One would expect nothing less. That is some expensive tuition for such easy lessons.

Their actual philosophy is "do as I say, not as I do!.

Liberals are famous for flip flopping on a dime.

And never with a remedy, vision, future plan, or even hope for America.

New York Stock Exchange

The media frenzy surrounding the merger of the Archipelago Exchange and the NYSE is rather humorous. Where is Elliot Spitzer these days? The move in seat prices over the last 11 months from around the $970,000 mark to $4,000,000 is one of the best moves in the stock market this year. Has anyone figured out the "self-dealing" to run prices higher. There are entities who own 5, 10, 25, over 40 seats who have been buying more to run the price up going into the merger. Anyone figure out who was doing the selling?

Uninformed seat-holders maybe? Nawwwwww. Not a chance

Inside the Beltway............

There will be no Nativity Scene in Washington DC this year! The Supreme Court has ruled there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Washington DC this Christmas season.

This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capitol.

There was no problem however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.