O'Neil's "Super-Cycle" Forecast

The scenario being laid out by William O'Neil for the next upward super-cycle in the stock market is most interesting.  I hope he is right.  I'm not getting any younger.

I place Mr. O'Neil up there with the likes of Michael Burry, Jim Rogers, Victor Niederhoffer, Dave Davidson, David Ryan and afew others.  It's been 30 years since his big score in Price Club  (COSTCO) shares which helped him launch our "bible" here at Chippewa Partners,  Investors Business Daily.  The methodology will always work.  If and only if you do the work.

And again, a huge tip of the hat to Dave Davidson in San Francisco.    

Dean Parisian, GA TECH vs BYU, 10-27-12

4th Quarter earnings........

Know doubt about it.  Every company with weak numbers this quarter has to be lining up to blame Hurricane Sandy for the miss.    Can't you hear the phone calls?   The whispers in the board room?   Directors using cell phones to ask questions about what kind of blame they can lay at the hands of sustained winds?

Everybody.  Looking for the perfectly legitimate excuse.

It gets old. 

For the last 4 years...........

Obama Lied, Americans Died..........

Maybe it really isn't different this time.........

Go to any university, any center of equities trade, any meeting place for financial academia, any fiscal think tank, and they will tell you without the slightest hint of doubt in their eyes that the U.S. economy is essential to the survival of the world. To even broach the possibility that the U.S. could be dropped or replaced as the central pillar of trade on the planet is greeted with sneers and even anger. Whether it's deleveraging, spare capacity, dollar debasement, productivity gains, or just plain old obesity, in real purchasing power terms, an hour of your time has never been worth less. In the 40 years since Nixon's 1971 fiat-fiasco, the value of the average hourly earnings for US citizens has dropped 90% in terms of Gold.

Since the peak in 2001, 60 minutes of your valuable time has lost 81% of its purchasing power!  Is this what globalization looks like?

lil humor.............

A woman was playing golf when she took a big swing and fell.

 

The party waiting behind her was a group from the White House that included Obama.  Obama quickly stepped forward and helped her to her feet.

 

She thanked him and started to leave, when he said, "I'm President Obama and I hope you'll vote for me this November." 
 

She laughed and quickly said, "I fell on my ass, not my head!"

Massive Difference in Obama Romney voters

So, if someone asks you what the main difference is between most of the Obama supporters, and Romney supporters, instead of stammering, and stuttering, and looking for an answer, just tell them that the Romney supporters sign their checks on the front, and the Obama supporters sign their checks on the back.

Gimme, gimme in Native America

Native American Advisors, Inc. has been a success since inception.   In many ways.

Over the years on the desk I have taken some very weird phone calls.  Very weird.   Usually it is someone thinking we deal in Native American jewelry.   Or somehow we have a conduit to the money spiggots of some Native American casino (that is profitable).  Hardly.   That really strikes me as funny as I type this.

Many times it is a poor lost soul looking for a hand-out, never a hand-up.  And yes, we have helped on occasion. 

The conversation generally goes like this.   The phone rings, I answer.   I can tell by the voice inflection it is a "minority" immediately.    I am then told they have a grandmother, or aunt or grandfather or some shirt-tail relative who was Cherokee.  They never can tell me if they might be Eastern Band or Western Band.   They just want to know how they can get that "free money" that they hear about if someone might be a member of a "real" tribe.   (Unlike a nonreal tribe?)

To hear the wind come out of their inquiry is rather amusing.   The something-for-nothing crowd is alive and well in America.    Maybe, just maybe, things can turn in the next couple of weeks.   And I am not talking hope or change.