You believe a 15% loss is a wise decision, when the stock market went up 15% during the same period?   And most people here agree with you?   Just curious - what do y'all consider a poor decision?

Your ignorance is mind boggling. By coronary, if I was considering buying gold, the fact that it's supporters include people like you would trouble me.

European stocks, which hit five-year highs Tuesday, might be signaling that they have bottomed?   What kind of crazy logic is that?

The recent surge is not at all puzzling.  Central banks are printing money like crazy.  That money has to go somewhere.   While it is indeed a scary contrary indicator when money managers all agree the market is going up up up, at the same time it can't easily go down while central banks are flooding the world with m...more

Now I've heard everything!   Win 98 (and all dos versions of windows) was a total dog that you couldn't run for more than one day without it crashing!  Win 7 has its problems, but it's a million times better than win 98.

If he ever capitulates and goes long, that's when I'll immediately sell everything.

I'm startled by the low level of comments here.   First of all, even though Germany is the major payer to the Euro zone, they are also the primary beneficiary.  They get to turbocharge their export-driven economy with a currency that is much lower than their own would be, plus they have a huge, open market for their ...more

The negative scenarios described here can easily happen, good article.   The optimistic flip side is that Europe manages to kick the can down the road until after the elections in Germany.  And then whoever wins there has the courage to push forward a long term plan that involves eventual joint debt and/or greater fe...more

This article is highly ignorant. For example, just because an ipad mini costs less than an ipad, does NOT mean it costs Apple's margins.  What matters is how much the profit is on each of those.  IMO, with its cheaper components and still high cost, the ipad mini probably has a very high profit margin.  The author mak...more