On the drive to SE Ohio & back, Mrs. B & I listened to a CD course titled, Great American Music: Broadway Musicals, from The Teaching Company [ http://www.teach12.com/ ]. The course was excellent, covering musicals from minstrel shows dating to almost 200 years ago to some current Broadway productions. Plenty of original recordings were part of the course, and the professor is a superb pianist who played many more songs with considerable skill. If you like musicals, give it a try.
From the course one can easily conclude that without the contributions of Black and Jewish people, American musical theatre would have been a fraction of its greatness; that conclusion might apply to American music on the whole, too.
Last evening we watched Golddiggers of 1933, that fine Busby Berkeley movie starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. Lots of fund, great songs, beautiful girls and a happy ending. What more could one want in a movie !
Markets
The S&P popped up out of an ascending triangle pattern. My gut says its a fake out, to be hit by selling once the beefers book their fees for the year. A weekly chart shows, however, that a move to 1200 is possible in a buying climax.
I don't like the passage of ObamaCare, but the Copenhagen crater outweighs it longer term. Slow growth in the US is possible longer term, but unemployment will be a huge drag for years now. Firms large and especially small will be hugely motivated to shift more & more to machines and overseas production.
For the 1-2-3 Fund, I intend to buy some S&P puts today as a starter. I need to explore how to best implement my 2010 speculative outlook, which is a grinding pullback for at least six months, maybe until the election in November.
Word of the Day
"Toady" - noun & verb [$10]
Toady means (noun) a sycophant, an obsequious hanger-on; (verb - transitive) to behave servilely to, fawn upon; (verb - intransitive) same as for transitive, but followed by "to"
Sentence: When will the media stop being toady to Obama ?
About Me
- Bunkerman
- I have a pioneer mentality. My wife & I live in the woods - neighbors aren't visible except slightly in winter. Our "bunker" - hehe, really a fine home & barn - has plenty of security. We have four dogs: Krypto (age 9, Kelpie), Ava (age 13, Rat Terrier), Sky (Kelpie, age 5) and Lucky Star (age 1, kelpie). I don't take crap from anyone anymore, having enough resources & gear stocked up to survive in any circumstance. I have three degrees from Harvard including a Ph. D. in a physical science, and an MS in Management from MIT. I worked as an investment banker for about 25 years, mainly in secured finance, at three major Wall Street firms and for the last 17 years with my partners at our own firm. I'm semi-retired now, managing some private corporations and business interests and doing my own trading & investing. This is not to boast, but to give you an idea I know a little about some subjects from experience. The photo is my 1943 M16 half-track which I am restoring. These armored vehicles were ubiquitous in the US Army in World War II and Korea. It's driveable.
18 comments:
"From the course one can easily conclude that without the contributions of Black and Jewish people,"
that's mighty white of you Bunk..loool
hahaha
"just the facts, sir."
started buying the S&P puts; will average in today and later.
what month are you buying Bunkerman? are you going with SPY or SPX?
hijak solutions
AKBAR Airlines.."flight as smooth as a flyng carpet to Mecca"
Disney's Caucasian Air..."cuz Whitey cant jump and really doesnt want to fly with you..fly the paranoid sky.. of caucasian"
its a start
Jan SPY for now, for the year end & early Jan angle.
I had forgotten about SPX.
just looked at SPX - spreads look a bit fat. I'll use SPY.
just bought more.
doing a ladder of various strikes.
Rainbow Airlines
"not just for the gays anymore...its for "you people"
gesh Bunk...come back all pissed off I see...Ace did say add some soda to the pancake batter...loser again...I think so.
dick arms reads the blog...2010=1975...Mav was long trim in 75', did very well I hear.
watch out for Ace, Bunk...he's a classic cockblocker.
"Tom, it's been a year...I luv u man...you ain't heavy u my braaadddaaaaa"
who did I miss??? oh yes, where is he...Sal must be stuck at the airport today.
no, we had no pancake contest this year ... too many complications.
bot more puts, ladder now rather full.
Bunkerman did you flip those puts yet?
nfw, mfl.
Beefers are gonna come thru for bman at year end ...
:))
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