This steroid stock market recently broke a major uptrend line in force since the March 2009 bottom.

Big news today: News perhaps only to be reported by government monopoly media in passing. As this is written, earnest Senate Debate on confirming a widely expected Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chair reappointment [...]

Today was the time that tried men’s souls in DC.

http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4756&Itemid=2

Members of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee Members knew full well since the Mass Brown Kennedy Senate Seat shot heard round the world, their electoral survival hinges on doing their job supervising the Fed and Treasury on behalf of the little [...]

We have a lot of respect for Warren Buffett, perhaps the most successful investor of all time, exemplified by his Berkshire Hathaway Holding Company. And today the bullish rumour is BRK may be added to the S&P500 as a bellwether for the economy.

Nature abhors a vacuum and Americans apparently prefer political gridlock in Washington, DC.

In a state that already has government healthcare and a supermajority of Democrats that voted two to one for President Obama, Democrats stayed home and Independents won the day, sending a strong message to John Kerry and the Democrat Monopoly in [...]

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality
Dante Alligheri, Inferno, The Divine Comedy

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence and Framer of the US Constitution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Most people hate politicians and politics.

What a difference a day and another dollar can make.

Over the weekend we posted the ISEE Call to Put Volume Opening Ratio from the International Securities Exchange, the world’s largest equity options exchange.

http://www.ise.com/

Aloha All, with multiple blessings for happy, healthy, joyful prosperity in the New Year and onward.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:10 (King James Version)