Comments on: Obama takes to the road

By: best fruit machines

best fruit machines — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:26:13 +0000

hey cheers for that… very informative – i’ve added your blog to my netvibes account – thanks

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:20:23 +0000

Which includes George W. Bush.

I didn’t vote for him in 2000 because I was a Democrat and because his resume — in that halcyon time — seemed distressingly thin.

I couldn’t imagine we would ever see such a bizarrely unqualified and fringey character as BHO running for President, much less winning the office.

I just think we got lucky with GWB.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:16:40 +0000

I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
–William F. Buckley, Jr.

Or its graduates.

By: FredHjr

FredHjr — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:01:06 +0000

Has anyone noticed a pattern in the last 100+ years of our nation’s history? Harvard people – and other Ivy League grads – consistently, in the world of politics and finance – have brought more grief and trouble? FDR was a Harvard grad (and was described BY HIS PEERS as a very mediocre mind).

Harvard, as a going concern, is wrecking the country and its people are in the lead of the intellectual movement to destroy Western Civilization.

Supposedly bright folks who let the barbarians inside the gates. And they give them the torches to burn it all down.

By: Scottie

Scottie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:54:43 +0000

Ok huxley, I bit and googled it.

All I can say is having a lot of education does not make one intelligent, and I’ve met my fair share of educated idiots in my lifetime.

I think I’ll leave it at that….

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:28:06 +0000

Google “mitsu harvard physics -mitsubishi”; that’s our guy.

If you have ever worked with an arrogant programmer, it makes perfect sense.

By: FredHjr

FredHjr — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:19:23 +0000

I was 32 years old when I cut my ties with Marxist thinking (that was in ’87). During the Nineties I was one of those moderate Democrats that was moving towards a conservative position.

Our President is, what, 47 years old? And he’s still a Marxist? If he’s brilliant (and I’m not) and he’s still a Marxist, perhaps we are talking about a character deficiency? LOL!

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:08 +0000

Forties? Yikes.

“A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:20:09 +0000

As to Mitsu's claim about how pleased the American public is with Obama, check Rasmussen's Obama Approval Index where the strongly disapprove numbers are subtracted from the strongly approve. By this measurement, Obama's approval index has dropped from 28 to 15. The erosion of support for Obama is quite clear and remarkable given that is only a few weeks since his inauguration and all the spectacular adoration Obama has received after his election.

By: Oblio

Oblio — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:15:09 +0000

I just wonder where people get ideas like that and how they have the audacity to throw them out in public, if they don’t know what they are talking about. Or do they think it doesn’t matter?

Fred, I’m with you on EMH (I think). People misprice assets all the time, in the short-term. You can see very great divergences between market-value and intrinsic value, which is determined by long-term cash flows, interest rates, and risk premiums.

I have been loathe to try to time the market, as you suggest, but I need to revisit my assumptions. I wasn’t well-served by deciding not to sell in the Fall of 2007.