You will still lose your shirt, Fat, and we'll be stuck having to look at the belly of a great white whale.

Somebody has to write you a check when you sell and you have to cash it. That's where the trouble begins. Never buy junk you can't reconstitute.

Go post Anti... guess who wins? The guys who can't feed themselves but have a bunch of worthless paper, or the world that grew disenchanted with finance and pursued every other alternative and built a society around it?

It's a Central Bank without validity. They can print ad nauseum but Japan doesn't have any way of backing what it's printing. I'm not going to pay anything for something that doesn't have value.

If the QE went to Main Street instead of Wall Street as it should have from Day One, our best would have enterprises with legs and capable of supporting people back into the mainstream, no matter how lost they got. All we got is rot now.

"VL:  I figured your question out months ago."   If you did, your counter-cyclical enterprise should be making you smile right now. As we pump more fiat into the markets and dilute our currency, it sends more consumers out of the mainstream economy to find what they need for less. Quality is the pacesetter now.

"Fake cash" Yes, Bernanke has printed trillions since he became Fed Chair. "Bentley" So what? A Sonic gets better gas mileage and helps our economy. "The stock market is dead" Wrong. It HAS been dead for a long time. Fed cash pumps it to keep the Status Quo. Not one US business platform has the substance to do what ...more

I have no aliases and my children have their own lives. You need to go away, slump or bother someone else's posts.

"... wouldn't real estate make more sense?"   No. The current mortgage rates are too low to service. In a very few years from now all RE will be toxic to the recovery. It's a bubble guaranteed to repeat.