Showing posts with label Jimmy Carter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Carter. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

"no good deed goes unpunished"


In the words of an old wall street sage, "no good deed goes unpunished" and seems bankers and auto companies have found out the hard way. The big banks Faustian deal with the government has not gone the way they had planned and now perhaps way too late there is an attempt to undue the damage.Auto companies tried but failed to stop their demise, for everyone except the UAW fell short and their attempts to save them selves.

With the 1970's ideology of failure taking hold ,the government appropriately reaches for someone with no auto experience to run an auto company but if you look at the level of gross incompetence of guys in Washington with one failure after the next stacking up it may not make any difference anyway. These are the same guys who want to tell you how much money you can make . I do have to laugh when even the administrations full blow attempt to destroy the US economy has in it self met failure, failing to fail sorta speak.

And this is where we sit only four months in ,huge deficits .increased taxation ,heavy regulation, zooming oil prices and absolutely no job creation what so ever! No administration not even Jimmy Carter failed so massively so quickly !

dare I say GO OBAMA ,keep on keeping on


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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Carter Era Portfolio

February 20, 2008

Hello,

Clients continue to ask, what era do compare the current market environment to ? I don’t think things are as dire as the 1930’s, and the politicians of today are just totally incompetent, they couldn’t screw things up that much as they did in the 30’s they just don’t have the skills. Nothing like 1987, the market has not moved adjusted for inflation in almost 7 years ,in 87 it have almost tripled from 1982 , To me this smacks of jimmy carters 1970s’ an era of dumb dumber and dumbest .Most of today’s politicians and pundits sound like the dopes form the 1970’s . And everyone is just going along for the ride with the big lie. I see almost no difference between Hillary Obama and McCain they sound like jimmy carter 2 to me. And this idea that if you challenge the Medias forgone conclusions you are an enemy of the people is also so very 1970’s, so break out the DISCO ball and look toward our old nemesis jimmy carter and “peak oil” for investment advise.

Therefore continue to focus on what I call a Carter Era Portfolio, sector focus is on:

Metals and Mining
Energy
Agro business
Utilities
Gold