Friday, March 27, 2009

TGIF and taxes

Ugh ... it's time to do my taxes. I do my own with a spreadsheet that I wrote long ago and have slowly embellished. The spreadsheet simply mimics the actual tax forms and worksheets that I need, so when I'm done, I can just copy the entries onto the actual forms with perfect arithmetic. But I still have to compile all the data, which is a lot of work. I think I'll start today with the brokerage statements, that have to be combined for aggregate numbers for things like interest and dividends, etc.

More ...

The Brazilian president made some stupid statements about "white people" with "blue eyes" causing the crisis. I suppose he's speaking to the folks back home. And he seems to have never taken a look at Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch debacle fame.

Markets

Another up day. The few living bulls are very wary and the more numerous bears are complacent, either lurking in the woods (in cash) for victims to maul or suffering as their existing shorts are bleeding while they wait for (certain) redemption. It makes me wonder about this market. I've written before about the 1974 analogy. Today Blabberg described it rather well from the charts - that is, if you were up at 3:30 AM ET to watch it. The guy did a pretty good job. He was British, by the way. That figures. Few American faces can articulate a complex thought.

The 1974 analogy implies a fast rally back to around S&P 1500 in 18 months. That would completely kill the bears with losses or permanent underperformance. Aw shucks, can it really happen ? Of course, analogies are just ... analogies.

Word of the Day

"Invious" - adjective [$1000] and "inviousness" - noun [$1000]; obsolete
Invious means impassible; inaccessible; without paths or roads; trackless.
Inviousness means the state or condition of being invious.
Example from geography (original usage): some places in the Rockies, or the Scottish highlands, or Siberia.
Sentence: The bears (and Krondrativans) claim that Tolstoyan historiography applies: that the economic crisis is invious and man cannot find a short cut out of lengthy purgatory. The bulls deny this, thinking that massive monetary expansion to replace vanished credit, plus plenty of stimulus to generate demand, is the short cut to economic paradise, viz., moderate growth. Time will tell.

Le Mot du Jour

"Internaute" - noun, MF.
Internaute means net surfer, Internet user.
La Phrase: Augmenter les nombres des internautes tue lentement des journals.
Sentence: Increasing the numbers of internet users is slowly killing newspapers.

43 comments:

Bud said...

this year is looking exactly like 1938........( i read that in Gilmoreport )


remarkably similar so far

Bud said...

what bears are you talking about Bman ???

the ones that quite accurately predicted the cdo and cds scams ??? the ones that predicted bank balance sheets were a house of cards ?? was that not a service to the nation ??


'victims to maul '

pfffffffffffffffffffffffft

Bud said...

btw..........the Bman was screaming and yelling and warning about cdo's and cds long before the crash of 2008


i guess that made him an evil bear too

Bud said...

oh wait.......did that make the Bman an arsonist ???


i think so

Bud said...

YGE

TSL

JASO

SOL

SOLF

CSIQ




THANKS JIM !!!!!!!!!!!!

Bud said...

thanks to sharkinvesting.com...........i will be teeing off at 2pm


that site completely nailed this week.......nuthin new there.........tremendous ping-pong players they are


PS.........i can't wait to stick my new wedges..........assault on yhoo hcp begins today

mfl59 said...

$50 says you dont break 90

Bunkerman said...

unfortunately for the Bman, he did not act ... he had clues, but insufficient knowledge to pull the trigger. And is an optimist by nature.

Bud said...

lessons.....new clubs........makin some major adjustments to my swing.........this is a process......todays score is only the beginning


ace.....what a punk

mfl59 said...

The Big East....A man's league...

tonight Syracuse will put a beating on a Big 12 team....

mfl59 said...

lessons...new clubs..."swing changes"

oh man....go out and play the game...

half-a-fag indeed....

Bunkerman said...

Bud is merely eliminating all sources of golfing error except one ... himself.

Bunkerman said...

I do that with my rifles & ammo ... with great success.

1 MOA with a scope; 2 MOA with iron.

Spin-em said...

lessons...new clubs..."swing changes"

oh man....go out and play the game...

half-a-fag indeed....



ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Spin-em said...

brand spankin new "range finder"

loooooooooooooooooooooool

Bud said...

'half-a-fag'


lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo



no changeup....curveball...slider.......ace bringin the heat.....high cheese indeed



PS.............speakin of fags ........yankees havin trouble sellin tix?? A-fraud ....only 270million left on that contract

Bud said...

MOA ? what's that

Bunkerman said...

minute of angle.

1 MOA: one inch at 100 yards is about one minute of angle.

1 MOA = 2 inches at 200 yards, etc.

A good mearure of accuracy.

Spin-em said...

$300 a ticket pffttttF-THAT.....GO PIRATES

Bud said...

mrG in the ft today.........'i saw the housing bubble coming'

and wsj editorial defending him today


boring

Bunkerman said...

Elmer must need new consulting clients.

mfl59 said...

I just finished reading Greenspan's book....he claims he was a great baseball player as a kid...and thought he was going to get drafted...

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

tejasjeff said...

Weirdest thing about Greenie was that he was a Ayn Rand Groupie. He was prolly one of her boy toys.

Frosty said...

real men play from the tips, obviously...me thinks someone measures their game (yhoo hcp) form the white tees..."hey boys, a mulligan a side and pick it up in side four feet, I feel an 89 coming today."

Bud said...

lmaooooooooooooo


PS.....no mulligans.........i don't touch my ball until it gets to the green.........and i putt everything out

Spin-em said...

how bout your golfball?

Spin-em said...

jim to kass

Dougie...I was..wrrrrrrr...I was...wrrrrrr....I was wrong..Im witcha now pal....ALL IN TODAY!!!

maverick said...

ROFL Elmer and Sandy the tokens?

Bud said...

well........at least i have a pair.........f'ng SKF queen


'helluva call bob'


pffffffffffffffffffffft

mfl59 said...

$50 says you hit at least 2 balls in the water

Bud said...

well.......this course has a vicous par3

180 from the blues.........sort of a peninsula green.......that could be #1 ball in the water


and another par 3.... hole 17 has water in front too.....depends on wind


over under is 1.5 in the water


ummm........over looks likely



update monday





THANKS JIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bud said...

oh........also


sharkinvesting.com rules !!!!!!!

mfl59 said...

wow you just talked yourself right into it....

fix your head....thats where golf is played sir...

"lessons"..."new clubs"...."swing changes"


lmaooooooooooooooooooo

Spin-em said...

you play the blues...right....150 6 iron....sell crazy somewhere else
lmaooooooooooooooooo

mfl59 said...

180 over water...hmmmmm...that must be a choke down driver?

Frosty said...

with Skip on the bag, a most versatile coach, and certainly for less than a tank membership, we could have the first paki on the tour.

Master Champion perhaps.

You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve Mutton Curry next year. Got it." Zoeller then smiled, snapped his fingers, and walked away before turning -nearly spilling his gin & tonic- and added, "or Raita,or whatever the hell they serve."

mfl59 said...

mutton curry....raita...

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

maverick said...

tell us how the new Patty Berg driver hits sir

mern said...

man trey and matt r pulling a andre smith, but they got paid first. since they inked that 75 million $ contract south park has sucked.

finally a decent episode, but really cud have been much better.

fave part when they asked the economist to assess the situation and he just blew his brains out.

i guess they r out of religions to make fun of.

Cartman: Don't call me fat, you fucking Jew!
Mr. Garrison: Eric, did you just say the F-word?
Cartman: Jew?
Kyle: No, he's talking about "fuck". You can't say "fuck" in school, you fucking fat ass!
Mr. Garrison: Kyle!
Cartman: Why the fuck not?
Mr. Garrison: Eric!
Stan: Dude, you just said "fuck" again!
Mr. Garrison: Stanley!
Kenny: Fuck!
Mr. Garrison: Kenny!
Cartman: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck.
Mr. Garrison: How would you like to go see the school counselor?
Cartman: How would you like to suck my balls?
Mr. Garrison: What did you say?
Cartman: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was...
[picks up a megaphone]
Cartman: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, MR. GARRISON?
Stan: Holy shit, dude.

mern said...

Mr. Garrison: Eric, did you just say the F-word?
Cartman: Jew?


LMAO!!

Spin-em said...

thanks Bunk you have a great weekend sir......SPIKE!!!! arf..arf

Frosty said...

Bunky good stuff this week...enjoy the bunktini and the dog show...Mrs B, your the best.

Bunkerman said...

Enjoy the weekend.

Bud, I hope you break 100 for the first nine ... oops, I mean time.

;)

Bunktinis already made in the freezer.