A ship of fools run by amateurs. Heading for the rocks. Rudder gone. No life jackets. SOS!

Iss there any hope that these swell-headed bloviators will ever get the sensible thought that---just because a speaker does not say what you expected him to say does not mean he did not say the right thing. More likely your expectations were wrong. But that is the same way it is with stock analysts. If a stock price or earnings report "does not meet expectations" It was not the stock that was wrong. Just maybe the expectations were wrong, proven by the actual facts.

Sir;... I don't care for Mr. Obama... He sees too much through the forms of law and government and politics and does not see beyond them... He is absolutely correct in his analysis: Too much money to the rich is the problem, and is the problem in every depression... High profits is synonymous with Glut, meaning depression... That is what Das Capital says...Of course, when you working with paper money and not with specie, you can inflate the currency and delay the normal depression until it becomes a major meltdown... All Reagan, and his loyal minions have done is accelerate this country toward depression and revolution.... I know you can sell tax cuts for the rich on letting the workers keep more of their money... It does not work when the rich never were paying their share... Let them have more... Just let them have it all...Then we can all figure out that an economy is made of the free flow of values; and when the rich have all the values, when it owns all the property, and has all the money, and it owns the government, and has a mortgage on all the productive capacity of the country, then there is no free flow of values, and no flow of values what so ever...Your economy is cooked...Can you say it is because the rich have not had their way??? They wanted it all, and now they have it all; but in having it all they wreck the whole thing... The game is not supposed to be won, but played... The rich have won, but now the game is meaningless, and now we have to find new meanings... Will the economy be saved???  Not for long... If the government does not have the courage to tax the rich, to despoil them, then the game is done... As it should be... The parasites have defined themselves... Let us remove them... thanks...Sweeney

"A rookie move?" Get used to it. We've got a rookie leading a bunch of rookies. Only problem is, they think they're smarter than everyone else.
My IRA has lost 1/3 and 3 years into retirement, my wife and I are both getting ready to go back to work.