Anthony is actually sticking his neck out calling today the turn.   Don't see much of that in these articles.  Personally I have been waiting for the turn for over a year and I'll keep waiting.  It hasn't made sense to me for a long time.

Yes it's funny how the number they quote as being healthy has dropped from 350,000 to 250,000, to 150,000.

There is simply too much money (a la FED) and no place for it to go but the stock market.  How you can have so many negative indicators and yet the market still skyrockets?  For a while the institutions would wait for good news days to dump money into the market.  Then it became Ok to pump it up on days where there was...more

When the first coffee vending machines came out, they had trouble getting people to throw the paper cups away.  They would wash and save them.  It took a few decades but corporate america has trained us to treat everything as disposable.  I'm afraid tupperware got pulled along with that mindset.  Even though it might l...more

I try to buy american made products when I can.  What I abhor are american companies who manufacture overseas and still want me to consider them American.  For years, many companies were cheapening their products and still charging the same for them.  After a while you realize I can buy the chinese tool or I can pay mo...more

Just fear that ammo will be taxed out of existence as a way around the second amendment.  Not a big chance of that happening but enough of a worry to load up anyway.  Crazier things have happened.    The gun industry loves these manufactured crises.    I long for the good old days when I could get a case of .308 f...more

It's not new. The old recession never went away.  Take away the QEs and nothing is any better than it was in 08.   The Fed just bought some time for the financial institutions to get their feet back under them.

Bushmaster is just one of dozens of AR-15 makers.  They flatter themselves if they think they are that significant.  Cerberus is more likely concerned that profits will no longer meet expectations.    Most AR15 makers just assemble parts from other manufacturers onto their branded receiver.  It ain't rocket science....more

Bushmaster is just on of dozens of AR-15 makers.  Well actually one of dozens of AR receiver makers.  There are far fewer people making barrels and bolts and such.  Machining the aluminium receivers is relatively easy so there are many many brands of ARs floating around.   Bushmaster just assembles other people's par...more