Hehe, that got your attention, no ?
In honor of my laughing my guts out on that Sarah Silverman video on YouTube and the follow up one by Kimmel, I decided to use "F" words for my Words of the Day below. [See later comments for yesterday's blog for the links.] This also proves I am not a "blue-nose" if that needed proving.
Hmmm ... I started with a facetious* paragraph ;-)
Markets
Solid day yesterday - perhaps the markets are getting comfortable with Battleship Ben, who signaled more rate cuts are coming. Good - he needs to keep shelling the bears with those 16" big ones. IBD said many stock leaders (as they pick them) had solid days. RBS raised its dividend on good earnings and prospects. Vik Pandit at C beefed up its risk management staff. Large private capital $$$ will be going into Ambac ... providing evidence the doomsayers were wrong in screeching it is a black hole. After weeks of due diligence, I think one must conclude private capital knows better than big mouth pundits and reporters. The same applied to BAC's purchase of CFC.
Certainly the bears will try again. But recent bear raid attempts ran into real buyers lower.
I'll sell some silver Friday if I can get over $18/oz. Otherwise, I'm doing nothing but waiting and thinking. Btw, my Alpha Fund is very long, almost 200% long.
PS: the municipal variable rate note story in the WSJ is another example of how very profitable business is flowing to the big banks. The spreads on these backup lines is superb.
Words of the Day - "F" words
"Facetious" - adjective [old $10 - hmm my handwriting was a lot more readable 35 years ago]
"Facetious" means playfully jocular; humorous.
Sentence: see * above.
"Facile" - adjective [$10]
"Facile" means 1. specious, superficial; 2. mild or pleasing in manner or disposition.
Sentence: Is Obama just another facile politician or does he have real ideas ?
"Fatuity" - noun [$10]; and "Fatuous" - adjective [$10]
"Fatuity means 1. stupidty, folly; 2. a fatuous remark, act or sentiment.
"Fatuous" means complacently or stupidly foolish.
Sentence A: The colossal fatuity of LBJ's strategy for the Vietnam War cost the lives of 58,000 good American soldiers.
Sentence B: Georgy W. Bush and Rumsfeld imposed a fatuous postwar policy in Iraq that has led to wasted time and lives in fighting terrorism.
"Fecundity" - noun [$10] and "Fecund" - adjective [$10]
"Fecundity" means prolific, fertile.
"Fecund" means 1. fruitfuil in offspring or vegetation: profilic; 2. intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree.
Sentence A: The blog of Bunkerman contains unusual fecundity of original thought. ;-)
Sentence B: The blog, "View from the Bunker", shows a profoundly fecund mind in its author. ;-))
Hmmm ... "Fecundate" is a transitive verb meaning to impregnate ;-)
GOOG must be near a bottom....I believe I see 3 different analysts cutting their price targets this morning....
ReplyDelete"facetious"? hmmmm....and my suggestions such as sycophant, toadie, and chalatan get rejected...I'd like to lodge a complaint please sir....Is there a committee?
that should read "charlatan"....
ReplyDeletesycophant is a $10 word.
ReplyDeletecharlatan should be one, but for some reason, I mus thave learned its meaning before I started my card file 35+ years ago.
toadie ... that's a good one .. spelled "toady" btw in my dictionary but both are fine.
toady [noun] means an obsequious flatterer: sycophant. As a verb, means to be a toady or behave as a toady.
If one "ever" has to look up a word to get a better sense of the meaning, even if one "sort of" knows it, that qualifies as a $10 word. Hence "facetious" today. I heard it on a DVD spoken by an Englishman last evening and thought I'd check the exact meaning.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible the fourth glass of wine caused "facetious" to be promoted ;-)
ReplyDeletemfl, saw the PDI guys going off on the 9 yr old for grunting, while playing tennis.
ReplyDeleteumm, ive been playing tennis for about 30 yrs. and i occasionally grunt. either when scrambling to reach a ball that was very hard to get, or hitting the ball as hard as i can (which is rare) or after playing for a gud bit. it is not something i think about.
the peeps at the top of their game hit the ball at hard as they can, id say many of those grunts r natural.
i guess seles took it to a new level, consistently doing it. sharapova does it consistently, which gets me excited. i never thought of it as a ploy, but apperenly wilbon does.
i wonder if he ever played the game once?
last nite i went to pussy practice and it was 48 degrees. maybe u guys r right! i was the only one there. i was pretty disgusted.
geesh, we used to play when it 1 out, in philly. talk about kicking a bowling ball!!!!!
so it looks like we about 130 handles down since jimmy and revy got very bullish. 370 to go. around there they will freak and go bearish, putting the floor in.
Hmmm ... GDP still positive after fist revisions. Guess "recession" did not begin in Q4.
ReplyDelete"But now, with housing prices having gone down, credit becoming tighter and prices of necessities like food and energy going up sharply, it's created quite a squeeze on consumers' disposable income," said Maria Fiorini Ramirez, head of economic consulting firm MFR Inc.
ReplyDeleteThe surge in gas prices has forced Kenny Khan to cut back his weekly 100-mile visits to his sister in Cherry Hill, N.J., to once a month.
"It costs me $50 in gas to visit her, said Khan, 52, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., and manages a gas station in midtown Manhattan. "As a salaried consumer, I can't afford that much for recreation."
Economists fear a continued slowdown in consumer spending will further weaken the economy.
The Federal Reserve's rate cuts won't lessen this inflation, said food price expert John Norris, managing director at Oakworth Capital Bank. As long as the dollar remains weak, the global demand for American exports will remain high.
"Consumers should build into their budgets continued increases," Norris said.
is that stagflation?
hmmm I remember playing rugby in shorts in snow and mud around 35F. But we know that "Real Men Play Rugby" ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe drank beer for warmth.
this one is for frosty!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EacfBi0x-LQ&feature=related
Lisa Lampanelli Pamela Anderson Roast Pam Uncensored FULL
lol
hmmm doesn't that Sarah Silverman look a little like Erin Burnette ?
ReplyDeletemaybe a little, both r pretty hot.
ReplyDeleteanyone see hildog on mad money? i tried to watch but after 30 seconds of jimmy i switched over to family guy.
its comforting to know i am not the grating person in the world. i am a very dissent 2nd!
Two masked and machete-wielding men who barged into a club in Sydney, Australia, couldn't have picked a worse night for their robbery -- a monthly meeting of bikers
ReplyDeleteAbout 50 burly bikers fought back with tables and chairs -- pretty much anything that wasn't bolted down. One would-be robber was tied up; the other in the hospital.
Police arrested both
"They (the robbers) thought they had the upper advantage with their knives and their machetes," Jim Webb, night supervisor of the club, told CNN. "They didn't expect to run into a bunch of guys carrying chairs and tables."
One of the would-be robbers crashed through a plate-glass door and jumped off a balcony.
"All he had to do was push the button and it automatically opened," Webb quipped.
The second man made a break for it through the club's service entrance, but the bikers tackled him near a neighbor's fence.
"We just grabbed him, crash-tackled him to the ground, hogtied him with electrical wire and left him for the cops," Vancornewal said.
Police confirmed in a statement that club patrons subdued the second man until officers arrived, but did not provide additional details. The suspect turned out to be a 16-year-old boy.
is this a soft landing?
ReplyDeleteBunkerman does the US dollar's decline bother you at all sir?
ReplyDeleteThe dollar doesn't bother me at all. It has to come to a level eventually that clears the curretn accont deficit. But that can be a long time.
ReplyDeleteSo far, the landing is soft ... still might be a touch & go.
btw, for the Krypto Fund the sum of my foreign stock postions plus my gold & silver exceeds my US stocks (ex REITs)
ReplyDeleteI just don't see the screeching about the dollar at all. That's really the problem of all those countries of the world that like the US to buy their goods and then not spend their money here. They lose money, not us. Screw'em.
ReplyDeletethose countries have been parasites on the US for decades, using exports to the US to prop up their economies. They need to adjust and have more consumer-driven economies.
ReplyDeleteDr evil...why make billions when you can make millions.
ReplyDeletethe $ going down is the only thing holding up the tape and earnings, imo.
ReplyDeleteat the same time, i think the $'s weakness is why t boone mite have to cover his short without taking any sugar.
at 100 bucks a barrel the saudi r basically making the same vig they did 60. the $ was about 1.10 then, now got the 74 handle. so 100 dont like that high to them, imo.
bush must have washed down some little blues this am to take the edge off his morning 8 ball.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs are a prime reason for a drop in the dollar. Most of their money is spent in Europe. Russia, too.
ReplyDeleteIf they want the dollar to stop going down, they need to spend money on American goods & services. Or invest more here.
Otherwise, screw 'em.
i just checked with the tax collector. last yr they assessed my home at 339. this yr is looking like 278.
ReplyDeleteif i cud dump this place for 225 it wud be a miracle.
not that i care. i love where i live and dont care to move until i get well into my 60's. if i make it that long, id probably move back to philly suburbs. my soccer playing will be behind, and my working days. i miss the changing seasons and by then i shud be able to buy wallingford for about 300k.
ya the rag heads ruled paris after mid nite. in thier designer jeans, drinking cokes, and smoking cigs.
ReplyDeletethe women who were allowed to show their face, where pretty damn gud looking!
btw, my tools are all Craftsman or other US made tools.
ReplyDelete"diplomatic head butts" W...I will miss the quote machine.
ReplyDeletehmmm the converse fits, too: diplomatic butt-heads.
ReplyDeletelooks like the xanies r wearing off the coke still hanging in their.
ReplyDeletethe drips can last for a gud bit.
gosh, mernspeak sometimes baffles me.
ReplyDeleteis that deadspeak ? or ?
ReplyDeletedoesn't sound like ebonics.
bush pushing for the "colombian free trade agreement"
ReplyDeletei wonder y?
LOL LOL!
u wud have to have tried cocaine to get the drip comment.
ReplyDeletebud wud understand, but i think he got a little banged up yesterday.
i shud layoff hildog for a bit, she is done, for sure, anyway.
i just dont buy bush doesnt drink and snort coke, still.
ReplyDeletehe is a pro!
he is no quitter, thats for sure!
Dennis Miller: I don't wanna go on a RANT here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowolf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antetum. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnakov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate.
ReplyDeletePeter: What the hell does RANT mean?
FAMILY GUY A MUST BMAN!
Mern, how are we playing DELL earnings?
ReplyDeleteill be in the stands, drunk, popping valuim and eating sushi. with a lexapro kicker on the backside.
ReplyDeleteit was my birthday on sunday and the wordens parents r taking me out for sushi tonite.
where is my bday salmon, frosty?
mr reed from RI says
ReplyDelete"in my area i an see rising costs, flat wages and a falling housing market."
is that stagflation?
the jimmy/revy mush has handed the darkside 200 handles in a day.
ReplyDeletemaybe i shud just go back to trading using the front page of RM as the holy grail.
cud it be that simple?
'screw the arabs'
ReplyDeletethen why do you own a hummer? why not do your part to help us of our arab oil addiction? does any civilian really need a hummer? guys like the Oman them to show off their wealth
Chris: What do you do at a Young Republicans meeting?
ReplyDeleteAlyssa: We help those who already have the means to help themselves. Also, we perpetuate the idea that Jesus chose America to destroy non-believers and brown people.
Chris: I don't know why, but I feel safer already.
LONG LIVE FAMILY GUY!
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ReplyDeletethats a pic from clemens in the mid 80's.
pretty amazing how much bigger his head is today, no?
how did him and bonds do that. that is certainly a neat trick.
Use of the word "addiction" to a usefel commodity like oil is just nonsense.
ReplyDeleteTalking about "need" as a requirement for economic choices is fascist or leninist or both.
ReplyDeleteBen needs a lesson from the Bunkerman ie singing the praises of the virtual cycle of sound, but slowing economic growth...he sounds so nervous....time to fire off another nasty gram to the fed...confidence game indeed sir.
ReplyDeleteFRE 24.08...luving these pinko fag goverment scammers.
ReplyDeleteIt may be sound unbelievable, but conservative Rush Limbaugh is urging Republicans to cross party lines this Tuesday in primaries in Ohio and Texas and vote for Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteDuring his No. 1 rated radio show and on his Web site, www.rushlimbaugh.com, the former Clinton archenemy has told listeners to “pimp themselves” for just one day vote by voting for Hillary to keep the Democratic Party “at war with itself.”
Citing a story in a Texas newspaper headlined “Many Republicans to Vote for Obama," Limbaugh told listeners this week: “I understand I've got a big challenge here to try to get Republicans to change their minds on this and vote for Hillary to keep her in the race, to keep that party at war with itself . . .
“It's clear that Republicans in Texas have been listening to this program where we have advised Republicans to pimp themselves for a day and go vote in the Democrat primary . . . I just think, at this stage, the longer Hillary can stay in this, the better for us.”
BOY IS THE RIGHT SCARED OF OBAMA!
liking him more by the day here
i agree frosty. was thinking to myself: elmer shud be texting him on his blackberry "shut up ben, they cant handle the truth!"
ReplyDeletebut after watching the news last night, it fairly obvious the avg american knows we r stuck with stagflation and it sux!
I dont know the answer Senator,,,,,,,aye carumba!!!!
ReplyDeletephooey ... to the average American, "stagflation" sounds like a word for a deer farting.
ReplyDeleteread my last post from late last nite Bman.
ReplyDeletepeople r choosing whether to eat or fill up at the pump?
is that stagflation?
Peter: It's already done. I dropped them all off at Toys for Toddlers last night.
ReplyDeleteBrian: All? Peter, only only one gift was for charity, the rest were for the family.
Peter: No, the rest were from the family. Weren't they? (Pauses.) Oh crap...since when did they change the meaning of "for" to "from"?
Brian: They had a meeting about it last night.
Peter: Why wasn't I told?
Brian: They sent you a card, but it said "for Peter" on it so you must of thought it was from you, so you didn't...you know, its just easier to call you stupid.
Peter (after Lois tells him he's childish): "If I'm a child that means you're a pedophile, and I'll be damned if i'm going stand here and take this from a pervert."
ReplyDeleteMern, post some trades, I need to make some money...what are you long right now.
ReplyDeletelooks like AAPL double load point isn't going to happen :-(
ReplyDeleteI replied to your late post, mern.
ReplyDelete200 KFT.
ReplyDeletei handed over 500k to my old manager at shields. he trades munis only.
i gave him full discretion. he is leaning on the short end becuase he believes the fed will have to hike rates by the end of the yr.
ive let him manage money before, but i pulled it from him when i bought the dog shop and paid for the house in full.
HE IS VERY GUD! probably as smart as u and bman, but on the muni side. he think 5% a yr tax free is very doable.
so the worden makes 60 + my 80+ 25 (tax free) + 13k (from the dog shop for another 3 yrs)
so we make about 170 and our bills r about 40, a yr.
sadly i am in the distinct miniority of my generation.
i guess we can take the extra 110 k a (after tax) and flip 90 treasuries until we have a kid or 2.
u ok with that?
interesting comment late last nite.
ReplyDeletei think a lot of people, especially my age, just have a cell phone and no land line anymore. at least my friends and family.
the last time i rode the bus was in 94 when my car was recalled for a defective engine. i took the bus for a week to get to work and back.
holy grap, u want talk about the lower class. people that ride the bus, smell, look disgusting, and r just broken down from head to toe.
not a gud sign if u have to ride the bus in tampa
dont worry frosty. after friday, u wont really see me in here much.
ReplyDeleteill be in philly/pittson next week.
then i start 3/10, and will vanish like a virgin on prom nite.
still smoke free here. gonna hang at BSC for a bit, and make sure that is the only pee test i take, unless i pass out at work with a bottle of valuim spilled all over my desk. im pretty sure that is the case,but better to be safe than sorry.
I CANT WAIT TO BECOME A POT HEAD AGAIN!
That bank failure comment just means that small banks that were aggressie and can't raise capital will have trouble. No surprise. But that means more business for the big banks.
ReplyDeleteI suggest you give the weed free zone at least six months. That's the usual probation period for companies.
ReplyDeletecareful Bunkerman, you may be learning the vernacular, ie "weed"
ReplyDeleteMern...looks good to me...you have done well young man...smart indeed, some of the smartest people are completely insane, case in point.
ReplyDeleteuh ... mikey ... I went to college at Harvard in the early 1970s ... the first smell at the window of my dorm room was ... yes, the weed.
ReplyDeleteThat was the first time I have ever smelled it, btw.
But most post-1980 slang I won't understand - was suit-bound then.
i already suspect there r several burners in the office and 1 of em belongs to my country club.
ReplyDeletei will find out in about 2 weeks after i start, what the dealio is.
i can last another 6 months. wont be happy about and neither will my liver, but whatever it takes.
i just hope BSC doesnt do a huge round of layoffs at the end of the yr and im the first one cut in the office.
i know that is a real possibility
well last nite i was gud. 4 miller lites and 15 milligrams of valuim. with my blood pressure meds and lexapro kicker.
ReplyDeleteevens me out!
ROFL
doubt it in your section, mern. Mortgage securities, very likely. Not stocks. That is a valuable "rich man's" franchise. You'll probably be working for a foreign bank next year.
ReplyDeletethey found the valuim in my pee. but a legal drug dealer makes that a non issue. ie, my shrink
ReplyDeleteWHAT A COUNTRY!
actually that is what i am being brought in to do. they r opening a lot of institutional accts in asia, and they need help walking those customers through the platforms and hunting down dividends.
ReplyDeletei have to become familiar with the settlement rules in almost every country in asia and europe.
still seems pretty easy unless they expect me to speak maradin chinesse
I'm not sure what all the worry is about....President GWB says there is no recession looming on the horizon....
ReplyDelete4 more years!!!
jimmy pumping natural gas.
ReplyDeleterevy still bullish.
President Bush, saying he was unaware of predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline in the coming months, told reporters Thursday that the best way to help Americans fend off high prices is for Congress to make his first-term tax cuts permanent.
ReplyDelete"hey dubya do less cocaine and read the journal and barrons from time to time!"
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The UK's Prince Harry is in Afghanistan and has seen combat, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed Thursday.
ReplyDeletesooooooooo mitt, now your boys r not helping getting u elected, they gonna sign up for a tour in iraq? like u suggested in a speech about 30 days ago.
im sure they pretecting him bigtime, but still a very honorable thing to do. he clearly does not have to be there.
the revys of the world shud pay attention. revy supports the war, but wud never let his son go near iraq in say another 10 yrs or whatever.
i dont mind if obama raised my taxes to pay for the war. the lower class fights it, we mite as well pay for some decent body armor.
jimmie wrote the foreward in Rev's book.....hmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteU R JOKING, RIGHT?
ReplyDeletethis is the same james deporre who trashed jimmy every chance he got, in his tank. the same guy who said if he ever got the chance to bury him on tv he wud. only the first time he got the chance he shoved his head so far up cramers ass, u didnt know where revy ended and cramer began.
rev is a facist. he uses HGH to lose weight, rather than eat right and exercise. and from what i can tell, is about as gud as a trader as me, which is pretty bad!
Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market (Hardcover)
ReplyDeleteby James "RevShark" DePorre (Author), James J. Cramer (Foreword)
where is chum boy...been warming up in the bullpen all day...reday to go "mad hungerian" on him.
ReplyDeleteBud thinks he's the "toy cannon"...but I'm ready snap his flaps off.
ReplyDeleteI believe Bud is teeing it up at Doral's Blue Monster today...
ReplyDeletemfl, that is sooooo funny, it has to fattening!
ReplyDeleteonce hildog dies, i think bud and will patch thing up as we catch the OBAMA wave into victory lane in november.
im still undecided and respect mccain tons. but i think i just want someone who hasnt been in DC all that long, and really shake things up.
the more i read about obama, the more i think he leans to the right than most think.
we will see in the debates, this summer.
i dont think rush limbaugh and ann coulter r going to help hildog, in fact, probably hurt her more.
i wonder who obama chooses as a running mate. edwards wundt be a bad idea.
keep an eye out for my new book
ReplyDeleteInvest Like Frosty....the tale of a drunken janitor at the federal reserve who's random slat shots scored big though often wide of the net, his slobbering rants allowed him to pay his rent and stock the frig with 40's.
LOL!
ReplyDeleteRev probably got a bit more humble after doing so poorly in 2006, so decided to kiss Cramer's butt to get the endorsement. Hmmm ... birds of a feather flock together ... rats in a nest together infest ;-)
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