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       <title>The Business Insider: Henry Blodget</title>
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       <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:23:32 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>100 Things Restaurant Waiters Should Never Do (Part 2)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4aee26720000000000360728" border="0" alt="skatingwaiter.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restaurateur Bruce Buschel continues&lt;a href="http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-2/?em"&gt; his list in the New York Times...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As with the first 50 things waiters should never do, the underlying logic here applies to a lot more than the restaurant business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;51. If there is a service charge, alert your guests when you present the bill. It&amp;rsquo;s not a secret or a trick.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;52. Know your menu inside and out. If you serve Balsam Farm candy-striped beets, know something about Balsam Farm and candy-striped beets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;53. Do not let guests double-order unintentionally; remind the guest who orders ratatouille that zucchini comes with the entree.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;54. If there is a prix fixe, let guests know about it. Do not force anyone to ask for the &amp;ldquo;special&amp;rdquo; menu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;55. Do not serve an amuse-bouche without detailing the ingredients. Allergies are a serious matter; peanut oil can kill. (This would also be a good time to ask if anyone has any allergies.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;56. Do not ignore a table because it is not your table. Stop, look, listen, lend a hand. (Whether tips are pooled or not.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-2/?em"&gt;Keep reading &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-100-things-restaurant-waiters-should-never-do-2009-11"&gt;Read the first 50 &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-100-things-restaurant-waiters-should-never-do-part-2-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-100-things-restaurant-waiters-should-never-do-2009-11"&gt;100 Things Restaurant Waiters Should Never Do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>The Hot New Business Of Virtual Goods</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af597310000000000be8045&amp;amp;maxX=414&amp;amp;maxY=323" border="0" alt="foopetbengal.jpg" width="414" height="323" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As we've noted frequently over the past couple of months, virtual goods sales in the US are finally starting to take off.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This has been a big business in Asia for years, and we see no reason why it won't soon be an even bigger one here.&amp;nbsp; It's also an extremely profitable business, with&lt;a href="http://www.tbiresearch.com/casual-gaming-profit-margins-near-90-2009-10"&gt; margins near 90%&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And don't laugh at all the fools buying imaginary stuff until you understand why they're doing it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of our favorite examples?&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.foopets.com/#pet-39"&gt;FooPets.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt; Click on &lt;a href="http://www.foopets.com/#pet-39"&gt;our friend "Bengal" here&lt;/a&gt; and see if you don't see the appeal of having a virtual cat.&amp;nbsp; And then ask yourself whether, once you've adopted him, you really want to starve him to death by not buying virtual food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The NYT provides a quick overview of the business today.&amp;nbsp; And we've added another couple of interesting links below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/technology/internet/07virtual.html?_r=1&amp;amp;ref=business"&gt;Claire Cain Miller and Brad Stone, NYT:&lt;/a&gt; Analysts estimate that virtual goods could bring in a billion dollars in the United States and around $5 billion worldwide this year &amp;mdash; all for things that, aside from perhaps a few hours of work by an artist and a programmer, cost nothing to produce.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fantastic business,&amp;rdquo; said Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, a &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/v/venture_capital/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Venture Capital."&gt;venture capital&lt;/a&gt; firm that has invested $10 million in several virtual goods companies. &amp;ldquo;Because it&amp;rsquo;s digital, the marginal cost for every one you sell is zero, so you have 100 percent margins.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/technology/internet/07virtual.html?_r=1&amp;amp;ref=business"&gt;Read the whole thing &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tbiresearch.com/casual-gaming-profit-margins-near-90-2009-10"&gt;Casual Gaming Is A Spectacular Business, With Margins Near 90%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;U&lt;a href="http://www.tbiresearch.com/casual-gaming-profit-margins-near-90-2009-10"&gt;S Virtual Goods Revenue Ready To Explode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-the-hot-new-business-of-virtual-goods-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tbiresearch.com/casual-gaming-profit-margins-near-90-2009-10"&gt;Casual Gaming Is A Spectacular Business, With Profit Margins Near 90%&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-us-virtual-goods-revenue-estimates-2009-11"&gt;CHART OF THE DAY: U.S. Virtual Goods Revenue Ready To Explode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/slow-lag-time-for-us-in-virtual-goods-market-2009-9"&gt;The U.S. Virtual Goods Market Is FINALLY Catching Up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Insider Trading Probe Closes In On SAC Capital</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:30:47 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=c8b9b914ddaa424960c1e600" border="0" alt="SteveCohen" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A cooperating witness in the Galleon bust has agreed to tell the Feds everything he knows about SAC:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125756405277235519.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews"&gt;Susan Pulliam, WSJ:&lt;/a&gt; The widening investigation of insider trading on Wall Street is expected to examine transactions at Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors, one of America's largest and most successful hedge funds, according to people familiar with the matter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;A plea agreement between the government and a cooperating witness in the investigation, Richard Choo Beng Lee, indicates that Mr. Lee has agreed to provide information to prosecutors about a hedge fund where he worked between 1999 and 2004. That firm is SAC, according to people familiar with the matter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;In March 2009, after striking the deal to assist the government, Mr. Lee sought to get rehired by Mr. Cohen, people familiar with the matter say. Mr. Cohen declined to hire Mr. Lee because he was suspicious about the recent and abrupt closure of Mr. Lee's hedge fund, Spherix, these people say.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125756405277235519.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews"&gt;Keep reading &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-insider-trading-probe-closes-in-on-sac-capital-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-einhorn-we-need-to-ban-credit-default-swaps-2009-11"&gt;Einhorn: We Need To Ban Credit Default Swaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Einhorn: We Need To Ban Credit Default Swaps</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/aLYqcinYWjs/henry-blodget-einhorn-we-need-to-ban-credit-default-swaps-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=fdb9b9146cc94e48d85f7200" border="0" alt="davideinhorn" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A surprising stance from David Einhorn:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b1945e6-caf9-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;Henny Sender, FT: &lt;/a&gt;David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, was one of the earliest and most prescient users of credit default swaps. Now he is calling for these instruments, in effect a form of insurance on individual firms (or governments) that pays out when the institution defaults or restructures, to be banned.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;I think that trying to make safer credit default swaps is like trying to make safer asbestos,&amp;rdquo; he writes in a recent letter to investors, adding that CDSs create &amp;ldquo;large, correlated and asymmetrical risks&amp;rdquo; having &amp;ldquo;scared the authorities into spending hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to prevent speculators who made bad bets from having to pay&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;CDSs are &amp;ldquo;anti-social&amp;rdquo;, he goes on, because those who buy credit insurance often have an incentive to see companies fail. Rather than merely hedging their risks, they are actively hoping to profit from the demise of a target company. This strategy became prevalent in recent years and remains so, as holders of these so-called &amp;ldquo;basis packages&amp;rdquo; buy both the debt itself and protection on that debt through CDSs, meaning they receive compensation if the company defaults or restructures. These investors &amp;ldquo;have an incentive to use their position as bondholders to force bankruptcy, triggering payments on their CDS rather than negotiate out of court restructurings or covenant amendments with their creditors&amp;rdquo;, Mr Einhorn says.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b1945e6-caf9-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;Keep reading &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-einhorn-we-need-to-ban-credit-default-swaps-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-06-stimulus-2009-11"&gt;Yes--It's Time For A Second Stimulus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/guilty-malcolm-gladwell-caused-lehman-to-fail-2009-11"&gt;GUILTY: Malcolm Gladwell Caused Lehman To Fail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rosenberg-on-jobs-horrible-is-an-understatement-fed-tightening-is-on-hold-indefinitely-2009-11"&gt;Rosenberg On Jobs: Horrible Is An Understatement, Fed Tightening Is on Hold Indefinitely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Andreessen: We're STOKED About Skype</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/eq4ZlbIc4t8/henry-blodget-andreessen-were-stoked-about-skype-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:24:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;Marc Andreessen popped up on CNBC this afternoon.&amp;nbsp; Video below.&amp;nbsp; Some key points:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Skype will soon be a multi-billion dollar company and it's growing like a freaking rocketship&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twitter won't kill Facebook&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Facebook won't kill Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ning CEO Gina Bianchini is indeed one of the &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-sexiest-ceos-alive-2009-8"&gt;sexiest CEOs alive&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, Marc &lt;a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091106/all-is-forgiven-its-a-clean-slate-says-andreessen-about-lawsuit-mad-skype-co-founders/"&gt;tells Kara Swisher that he doesn't hate his new partners, the Skype founders, for suing everyone's asses off&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;As Andreessen told BoomTown in a phone interview about the aggressive legal tactics of Niklas Zennstr&amp;ouml;m and Janus Friis that resulted in them finally seizing a stake in the Internet telephony giant by suing him and many other Silicon Valley players:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;We did not take it personally. It&amp;rsquo;s a clean sheet of paper.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Well, it is actually a torn, stained and very worn out piece of paper, due to all the various machinations, but &lt;em&gt;bygones&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Andreessen&amp;ndash;who knows a thing or two about legal tussles, if you recall Netscape-Microsoft (MSFT)&amp;ndash;said the real point was that it was time to focus on the business of Skype rather than fighting over who controls Skype.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s really good to have everyone lined up and rowing in the same direction. We have to capitalize on the opportunity, because Skype is poised for a new wave of growth,&amp;rdquo; said Andreessen.&amp;rdquo;They have an amazing head of steam, because the logical way for voice and video communications to be conducted will be over the Web.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;* Okay, okay, Marc didn't say that on CNBC.&amp;nbsp; But we doubt he'd disagree.&amp;nbsp; It's Friday afternoon, by the way, so check out the rest of the &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-sexiest-ceos-alive-2009-8"&gt;Sexiest CEOs Alive &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLOSURE&lt;/strong&gt;: Marc's an investor in The Business Insider.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-andreessen-were-stoked-about-skype-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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         <title>Yes--It's Time For A Second Stimulus</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time For A Second Stimulus (4 min):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Krugman's right: We need a second stimulus (focused ENTIRELY on infrastructure)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why?&amp;nbsp; Two reasons: 
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Put people back to work in construction, manufacturing, and other jobs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rebuild the country's pathetic infrastructure&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unemployment an awful 10%&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Real unemployment--including folks who have given up--17.5%&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We need: high-speed rail, broadband wireless, schools, cleantech&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Produced By: Kamelia Angelova &amp;amp; William Wei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-06-stimulus-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/krugman-its-time-for-the-wpa-2009-11"&gt;Krugman: It's Time For The WPA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Tim Geithner's Reform Plan Is ACTUALLY GOOD!</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:57:29 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=7a7a6c7944d79a499ff8bf00" border="0" alt="timgeithner wideeyes tbi" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We've been hugely critical of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who we feel sold out the taxpayer last fall in his haste to save Wall Street.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also think Tim Geithner's approach to the financial crisis has been warped from the beginning. We hate his decision to protect bondholders to the tune of 100 cents on the dollar and "invest" taxpayer money via preferred stock instead of senior debt--because these decisions made taxpayers pay for the stupidity and recklessness of people who should have known better and deserved to be held accountable for their idiocy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were also appalled last week when we read the Tim Geithner was getting ready to tee up the&lt;em&gt; third &lt;/em&gt;bailout of GMAC and that his new financial reform plan was going to be paid for with an&lt;em&gt; after-the-fact f&lt;/em&gt;ee assessed on surviving financial institutions (Why should they pay for a competitor's stupidity?&amp;nbsp; And why does Tim Geithner think that, in the middle of a financial crisis, other institutions will have enough cash in the bank to bail their idiot competitors out?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But all that said...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MOST of the ideas in Tim Geithner's financial reform plan are actually good.&amp;nbsp; Here, &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/my-sit-down-meeting-with-treasury-part-iii-2009-11"&gt;they are summarized by Kid Dynamite, who met with Treasury officials last week:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) The government has to have the ability to resolve failing firms, with losses absorbed not by the taxpayers, but by the unsecured creditors and equity holders.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES YES YES!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Firms who cannot survive without government support must face the consequences of that failure.&amp;nbsp; The government would facilitate the "orderly demise" of the failing firms, not ensure its survival.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;3) Taxpayers must not be on the hook - the government will recoup losses by assessing fees on industry peers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES...AND NO.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;The taxpayers should absolutely not be on the hook.&amp;nbsp; But neither should less stupid firms who didn't get themselves in trouble.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the exception of that last bit, we agree wholeheartedly.&amp;nbsp; The most important parts of any reform should be:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Let crappy firms fail (in an orderly fashion)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make the stockholders and bondholders pay for the failure.&amp;nbsp; When necessary, do this by converting debt to equity.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That's it.&amp;nbsp; That's all you have to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here's hoping Tim actually gets it done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-tim-geithners-reform-plan-is-actually-good-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-geithner-burned-billions-and-shafted-taxpayers-again-in-cit-2009-11"&gt;Geithner &amp;quot;Burned Billions&amp;quot; And Shafted Taxpayers (Again) In CIT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/my-sit-down-meeting-with-treasury-part-iii-2009-11"&gt;My Sit-Down Meeting With Treasury Part II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-sit-down-with-senior-treasury-officials-2009-11"&gt;My Sit-Down With Treasury Officials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>New Jersey Developer Courts Terrorized Wall Street With "Get Out Of New York" Ads</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/qGpTy-THJQI/henry-blodget-new-jersey-developer-courts-terrorized-wall-street-with-get-out-of-new-york-ads-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;Panicked that any minute now you'll find out that your entire company is just an elaborate sting operation set up by a crusading Andrew Cuomo?&amp;nbsp; Or, alternately, that a desperate New York legislature is going to tax you into oblivion?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then move to New Jersey!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That's the message a creative New Jersey real-estate developer is sending to our readers today, via the banners you might see flashing across the top of your screen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af2d2f300000000000674c2&amp;amp;maxX=619&amp;amp;maxY=78" border="0" alt="nj1.jpg" width="619" height="78" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.newportnj.com/getoutofnewyorkintime/"&gt;live site is here &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And here's who's behind it:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(No, they didn't pay us to write this post.&amp;nbsp; We just thought it was funny.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-new-jersey-developer-courts-terrorized-wall-street-with-get-out-of-new-york-ads-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jobless-claims-down-productivity-soars-2009-11"&gt;Jobless Claims Down, Productivity Soars!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/15-google-interview-questions-that-will-make-you-feel-stupid-2009-11"&gt;15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Japan's Revenge: The United States Of Hypocrisy</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af2cdb80000000000b5fc0f&amp;amp;maxX=407&amp;amp;maxY=301" border="0" alt="japanrevenge.jpg" width="407" height="301" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the late 1980s, all anyone could talk about was how Japanese companies were going to take over the world.&amp;nbsp; The Japanese were smarter than we were, more disciplined than we were, more team-oriented than we were, hungrier than we were.&amp;nbsp; Japan was taking over.&amp;nbsp; We were done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then Japan's bubble burst.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And it was payback time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the late 1990s, all anyone in America could talk about was why Japan was mired in a "lost decade."&amp;nbsp; It was cultural, everyone explained.&amp;nbsp; The Japanese were just too wimpy and "team-oriented" to face the facts.&amp;nbsp; Instead of just facing reality and forcing banks to write off all the stupid loans they had made in the bubble years, Japan was just playing extend and pretend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And then our bubbles burst.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now it's payback time again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All anyone in Japan is presumably talking about now is how we should change our name to the United States of Hypocrisy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead of forcing our banks to take responsibility for their stupid loans, write down losses, and move on, we've gone exactly the other way.&amp;nbsp; We've changed the mark-to-market rules.&amp;nbsp; We've given away hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money.&amp;nbsp; We've encouraged extend and pretend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now comes the latest in our long line of hard-ass economic-recovery policies, like bailout, denial, too big to fail, zombie banks, and extend and pretend:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Political pressure for regulators to go easy on poor little community banks that got snookered into making those stupid loans...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/11/politicians-pressuring-regulators-on.html"&gt;Calculated Risk:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Tonight from the WSJ: &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125737628347529375.html"&gt;Bank Crackdown Draws Criticism&lt;/a&gt; Politicians are putting pressure on regulators to go easy on small community banks across the U.S. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A self-fulfilling prophecy of community bank failures, shrinking credit availability and a slower economic recovery can all result from a regulatory overreaction to the current crisis," said the letter, which also was signed by Rep. Walt Minnick (D., Idaho)...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is backwards. &lt;/strong&gt;By moving slowly, the FDIC is tainting all small banks and making it more difficult for them to raise capital (ht Pat). In addition, healthy banks are holding on to capital to try to buy assets from the FDIC at a discount, compared to the cost of a similar new loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sooner the FDIC completes the process of closing failed banks, the better for the remaining banks and the economy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Time to wake up, America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-japans-revenge-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-japan-vs-us-interest-rates-2009-11"&gt;CHART OF THE DAY: Bernanke Rips A Page From Japan's Suicidal Playbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/forget-america-we-should-be-worried-about-japan-2009-11"&gt;Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Forget America, We Should Be Worried About Japan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-estill-mired-in-deflation-2009-8"&gt;Japan Still Mired In Severe Deflation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Goldman Only Made $100+ Million A Day On 36 Days In Q3</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:19:49 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d2aa1cb8-c96d-11de-a071-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4aec39250000000000af45e5" border="0" alt="goldinvaultsspdrgld.jpg" /&gt;Financial Times: &lt;/a&gt;Traders at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:GS"&gt;Goldman Sachs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; recorded only one daily loss in the third quarter, highlighting the trading bonanza sweeping &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/usbanks" target="_blank" title="Financial Times - In depth: US banks"&gt;Wall Street&lt;/a&gt; as central banks continue to pump billions of dollars into the financial system.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The performance &amp;ndash; revealed on Wednesday in a regulatory filing &amp;ndash; compares with two losing trading days in the previous quarter and confirms that the authorities&amp;rsquo; drive to revive markets after the crisis is yielding huge windfalls for some banks...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Goldman made more than $100m in profits on 36 of the 65 days in the three months to September and recorded more than $50m in profit on more than eight out of 10 trading days, the filing shows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These figures were down from the second quarter, when &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0860e006-81f4-11de-9c5e-00144feabdc0.html" title="Financial Times - Goldman has record trading days"&gt;Goldman reported record trading revenues&lt;/a&gt; and had 46 days with $100m-plus in profits. The smaller number of days with $100m-plus profits in the third quarter partly reflects the bank&amp;rsquo;s decision to rein in risk-taking in areas such as interest rates and equities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d2aa1cb8-c96d-11de-a071-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;Keep reading &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-goldman-only-made-100-million-a-day-on-36-days-in-q3-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anti-goldman-hysteria-will-keep-corzine-out-of-obama-administration-2009-11"&gt;Anti-Goldman Hysteria Will Keep Corzine Out Of Obama Administration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/it-looks-like-rolling-stone-is-planning-another-goldman-sachs-hit-piece-2009-11"&gt;It Looks Like Rolling Stone Is Planning Another Goldman Sachs Hit-Piece (GS)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-folks-goldman-sachs-was-not-secretly-short-housing-during-the-bubble-2009-11"&gt;Sorry, Folks: Goldman's Bet Against Housing Was Hardly A &amp;quot;Secret&amp;quot; (GS)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: We Each Spent $227 To Bail Out AIG</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outrage Of The Day: &lt;/strong&gt;How Much The Bailouts Cost YOU (5 min)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's hard to appreciate what tossing a $70 billion gift to AIG really means.&amp;nbsp; So here's what it really means: It means you just dug into your pocket, scooped out $227, and used it to bail out AIG.&amp;nbsp; You and every other American.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We feel &lt;em&gt;pissed&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We feel that the idiots who lent AIG money in the first place should have paid for the bailout--through the forced conversion of debt to equity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But in any event: We were curious--and we thought you might be curious--about how much money you personally spent to rescue the 10 biggest bailout recipients.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Miss: &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/you-gave-away-1517-and-its-probably-not-coming-back-2009-11"&gt;Here's How Much The Bailouts Cost YOU: $1,517&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Produced By: Kamelia Angelova &amp;amp; William Wei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-04-outrage-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/you-gave-away-1517-and-its-probably-not-coming-back-2009-11"&gt;Here's How Much The Bailouts Cost YOU: $1,517&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>EXPLAINER: Bernanke's Secret Plan To Raise Rates Too Late</title>
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                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explainer: Bernanke's Secret Plan To Raise Rates Too Late (3 min):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why is Ben Bernanke being so slow to&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;start &lt;em&gt;talking about&lt;/em&gt; raising rates, much less start &lt;em&gt;raising&lt;/em&gt; them?&amp;nbsp; Because he has a secret plan that he can't talk about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What's Ben's secret plan?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Intentionally keep rates too low for too long, thus encouraging uncomfortably high inflation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why would Ben want that when he keeps talking about the importance of managing inflation?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faster economic growth&lt;/strong&gt;, which leads to more jobs, fewer angry constituents, and a Congress that's happier with Ben Bernanke&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faster erosion of the real value of our debts.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;Consumers and the government are drowning under a massive debt load.&amp;nbsp; One way to make paying off this debt easier is to make the dollars it is denominated in worth less.&amp;nbsp; Bernanke will try to hasten this process as much as possible, taking it right to the point where our creditor China is mad as hell--but not quite to the point where China actually stops lending to us.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Produced By: Kamelia Angelova &amp;amp; William Wei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-04-explainer-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-clever-ben-bernankes-secret-plan-raise-rates-too-late-2009-11"&gt;Clever Ben Bernanke's Secret Plan: Raise Rates Too Late&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Clever Ben Bernanke's Secret Plan: Raise Rates Too Late</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:16:19 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af162320000000000e59f95&amp;amp;maxX=392&amp;amp;maxY=304" border="0" alt="benbernankepray.jpg" width="392" height="304" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As cries grow for Ben Bernanke to raise rates before he plunges us all into hyper-inflation (see gold, oil, and real-estate prices in Asia), Ben will likely continue to implement his carefully devised strategy:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intentionally wait too long to raise rates, get the economy cranking, and, hopefully, trigger uncomfortably high inflation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What will this accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Faster growth, happy Congress, more jobs, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Faster erosion of the real value of our humongous debts (which haven't gone away)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What's the ideal rate of inflation, as far as Ben is concerned?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A rate high enough for China and all of our creditors to be screaming at us and threatening us but not quite high enough that they actually stop lending to us&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So when Ben ignores your cries to raise rates before it's too late, at least take comfort in the fact that he's hearing you, and he's not stupid.&amp;nbsp; He just has a different plan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;amp;sid=a_9QnAkCbyy0"&gt;Bloomberg:&lt;/a&gt; Federal Reserve officials may today indicate their $1 trillion injection into the economy is helping to revive growth without requiring an increase in interest rates from near zero, economists said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Policy makers will probably maintain their commitment to keeping rates low for an &amp;ldquo;extended period,&amp;rdquo; said &lt;a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Laurence%0AMeyer&amp;amp;site=wnews&amp;amp;client=wnews&amp;amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;filter=p&amp;amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;amp;sort=date:D:S:d1"&gt;Laurence Meyer&lt;/a&gt;, vice chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers LLC in Washington and a former Fed governor. They may also start a discussion about altering the wording of their policy statement, to leave them more leeway to signal a change in the future...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;They&amp;rsquo;ve got, for a lot of reasons, to say that it looks like what we&amp;rsquo;ve been doing has been working,&amp;rdquo; said former Atlanta Fed research director &lt;a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Robert+Eisenbeis&amp;amp;site=wnews&amp;amp;client=wnews&amp;amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;filter=p&amp;amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;amp;sort=date:D:S:d1"&gt;Robert Eisenbeis&lt;/a&gt;, now chief monetary economist at Cumberland Advisors Inc. in Vineland, New Jersey. &amp;ldquo;But if they&amp;rsquo;re too exuberant about it, it&amp;rsquo;s going to trigger expectations of a policy move quicker than perhaps they might like to do.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;amp;sid=a_9QnAkCbyy0"&gt;Read the whole thing &amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-clever-ben-bernankes-secret-plan-raise-rates-too-late-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-commercial-real-estate-collapse-is-over-2009-11"&gt;The Commercial Real Estate Collapse Is Over!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/6-reasons-the-sp-500-is-going-to-1100-2009-11"&gt;6 Reasons The S&amp;amp;P 500 Is Going To 1100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/imf-the-time-has-come-to-jack-interest-rates-2009-11"&gt;IMF: Dear Bernanke, It's Time To Jack Up Interest Rates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Battle Of The Wall Street Studs: GASPARINO vs SORKIN, DAY 1</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget and William Wei</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af09b040000000000f90fa4" border="0" alt="gasparino-hits-sorkin.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the wait is over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of today, the world's top two Wall Street reporters are going head to head in their fight to have written the biggest bestselling blockbuster about the Wall Street collapse.&amp;nbsp; Bragging rights, movie rights, eternal glory, and &lt;em&gt;mucho dinero&lt;/em&gt; are at stake.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So get ready to rumble!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Andrew Ross Sorkin danced into the ring two weeks ago, of course, with a star-studded book party for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670021253?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=thebusiinsi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0670021253"&gt;Too Big to Fail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebusiinsi-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0670021253" border="0" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" /&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Charlie Gasparino's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061697168?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=thebusiinsi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0061697168"&gt;The Sellout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebusiinsi-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0061697168" border="0" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" /&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;meanwhile, was stuck in the locker-room.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But now the bell has rung and both fighters are swinging away.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And how are they doing?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GASPARINO JUST STARTED THE FIGHT WITH A HAMMER BLOW!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For weeks, pre-orders for Gasparino's book have been buried in the depths of Amazon's bestseller list, while Sorkin's has hung solidly near the top.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But today, propelled by a blast of launch publicity, Gasparino has come out swinging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of 3:30 PM, &lt;em&gt;The Sellout &lt;/em&gt;had climbed to No. 13 on Amazon's bestseller list.&amp;nbsp; Sorkin's&lt;em&gt; Too Big To Fail&lt;/em&gt;, meanwhile, still lingered in the low 20s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af09c94000000000018164c" border="0" alt="gasparinobook113.jpg" width="622" height="153" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af09cbb00000000005c6ce5" border="0" alt="sorkinbook113.jpg" width="616" height="133" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-battle-of-the-wall-street-studs-gasparino-vs-sorkin-day-1-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-gasparino-talks-the-sellout-2009-11"&gt;Charlie Gasparino: Here's The Real Reason Wall Street Imploded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-magazine-planning-sorkin-profile-2009-11"&gt;Andrew Ross Sorkin Is Now The Story!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-tycoons-flocked-to-andrew-ross-sorkins-book-party-2009-10"&gt;Wall Street Tycoons Flocked To Andrew Ross Sorkin's Book Party&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Meckler: Mainstream Media Still Has Its Head In The Sand</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/zjUn784KSDM/nov-02-meckler2-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alan Meckler, CEO of WebMediaBrands&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Media Earthquake... Who Wins?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Traditional media cratering...and the companies still have their heads in the sand&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NYT doing the right thing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Everything's going digital: Media companies need to bite the bullet and take the plunge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Produced By: Kamelia Angelova &amp;amp; William Wei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-02-meckler2-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mediabistro-now-the-heart-of-mecklers-webmediabrands-2009-8"&gt;Mediabistro Now The Heart Of Meckler's WebMediaBrands (WEBM)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Malcolm Gladwell Offends New York New Media Crowd By Suggesting They're Not Changing World</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/lEjEARw480k/henry-blodget-everyone-goes-to-strausss-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=a7b9b914c01d204922dff100" border="0" alt="malcolmgladwell" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a new hot ticket in town for those who work in New York new media circles: An invitation to one of Strauss Zelnick's rooftop salons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Zelnick Media founder holds these gatherings every few months on the awesome roof deck of his building in midtown.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, everyone who is anyone was there at the latest one, which took place last night.&amp;nbsp; The featured speaker, moreover, was the brilliant business thinker &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-malcolm-gladwell-stud-2009-9"&gt;and ladies man&lt;/a&gt;, Malcolm Gladwell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nick Denton's list of attendees:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Malcolm Gladwell speaking, &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[David] Remnick, &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lerer father [Ken] and son [Ben], &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lessin father [Bob] and son [Sam], &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Heather Harde [TechCrunch CEO], &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fred Wilson [NY super-VC], &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[News Corp M&amp;amp;A boss and stud] Jeremy Phillips, &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ricky [Van Veen] and Josh [Abramson], &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scott Heiferman, &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;etc etc&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Denton adds:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;[It was] like Founders Club [another excellent series of events] except without the consultants and the bozos from big media companies hoping some of the pixie dust will rub off&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And there was even intellectual stimulation!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Gladwell was excellent -- challenged the self-satisfied crowd...&amp;nbsp; thesis: maybe new technologies *don't* accelerate social change.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; i.e. challenged the tech elite's conventional wisdom on Iran, Obama, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Was fun to watch -- some people got really defensive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-malcolm-gladwell-stud-2009-9"&gt;Malcolm Gladwell, Stud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-everyone-goes-to-strausss-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-malcolm-gladwell-stud-2009-9"&gt;Malcolm Gladwell, Stud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Meckler: The Semantic Web Will Be Bigger Than Google</title>
         <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sai_henry_blodget/~3/srmofCVTIOc/nov-02-meckler3-2009-11</link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alan Meckler, CEO of WebMediaBrands&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alan Meckler's Next Play&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Media Bistro: Small, but powerful&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We have lots of tuck-in acquisitions to make&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Also, the Semantic Web is going to be huge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The next Sergey Brin and Larry Page are in a garage somewhere&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; 
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Produced By: Kamelia Angelova &amp;amp; William Wei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/nov-02-meckler3-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rumor-paidcontent-is-for-sale-2009-9"&gt;Rafat: PaidContent Is Not For Sale*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/meckler-hey-calacanis-what-you-thinking-with-this-mahalo-thing-2009-9"&gt;Meckler: Hey, Calacanis, What Are You Thinking With This Mahalo Thing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>CNBC's Rovell: NYC Marathon Winner Is Only "Technically" An American</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4af0375600000000004cd8b1" border="0" alt="mebkefle.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An insidious form of nationalism is threatening the very core of what makes this country great.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There has been an outcry of protest that Meb Keflezighi is not really the first "American" to win the New York marathon since 1982--because he was born in Africa and moved here when he was 12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Never mind that Keflezighi is an American citizen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Never mind that he's lived in the United States for 22 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Never mind that he has raced for the United States in the Olympics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Never mind that every single person in this country who doesn't happen to be a Native American either came here from somewhere else or is descended from someone who did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the most surprising advocates of this position is&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/33587668/site/14081545"&gt; CNBC's Darren Rovell:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;It's a stunning headline: American Wins Men's NYC Marathon For First Time Since '82. Unfortunately, it's not as good as it sounds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack" style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Meb Keflezighi... is technically American by virtue of him becoming a citizen in 1998, but the fact that he's not American-born takes away from the magnitude of the achievement the headline implies. Given our disappointing results, embracing Keflezighi is understandable. But Keflezighi's country of origin is Eritrea, a small country in Africa. He is an American citizen thanks to taking a test and living in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack" style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Nothing against Keflezighi, but he's like a ringer who you hire to work a couple hours at your office so that you can win the executive softball league.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;Nothing against Rovell, but this is seriously disturbing.&amp;nbsp; (It's also probably racist.&amp;nbsp; Would Rovell be saying the same thing if Arnold Schwarzenegger had won the marathon?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;Since when did we define who is and isn't an American by their "country of origin"? [which is apparently defined as where, through no fault or glory of their own, someone happens to have been born].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;The greatest strength of this country is that people can &lt;em&gt;choose to become&lt;/em&gt; Americans.&amp;nbsp; It's that act of will--the decision to take action to change your circumstances--that has made this country the most vital and successful on earth for the past 200 years.&amp;nbsp; It is also what can pull us out of our current economic slump and re-light our competitive fire.&amp;nbsp; It is what can save us from becoming, say, Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;Let us not wreck the magic of what makes America great by suddenly dismissing every American citizen who didn't happen to have been born here as only "technically" American.&amp;nbsp; They're not "technically" American.&amp;nbsp; They're &lt;em&gt;American&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp; And the rest of us are lucky to have them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-cnbcs-rovell-nyc-marathon-winner-is-only-technically-an-american-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-25-most-hated-ceos-in-america-2009-11"&gt;The 25 Most Hated CEOs In America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>No, Really, Technical Analysis Works.  Seriously.</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="float_right" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=ef7a6c79bde581497578a200&amp;amp;maxX=462&amp;amp;maxY=324" border="0" alt="blackswanchartael4.png" width="462" height="324" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This morning, after we mentioned &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-technical-analyst-the-world-is-about-to-end-2009-11"&gt;our belief that technical analysis is bullsh**&lt;/a&gt;, Registered Investment Adviser Richard Dever was kind enough to write to tell us we were wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Technical analysis works, Richard says.&amp;nbsp; You just have to do it right:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;The real start to a period of shorting technically  was about the 16th of October to October 21st..My own brand of analysis uses the  tools of times series forecasting and exponentially configured moving averages  in a certain combination, plus bollingers.Typical tools,&amp;nbsp;yet not a lot like  anyone else's from a routines standpoint. It is in how you employ everything.  Analysis is on a one by one basis. Preliminary examination of a 250 stock files  takes about 1.5 hours, the, alerts are set up from there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;Every single stock traded in the main U.S. markets  [eg. attached]&amp;nbsp;is covered [over 6,000 ], but due to the constraints of time  only a certain number of files are reviewed. However what you have here  is&amp;nbsp;the full &lt;strong&gt;Smallcap 600&lt;/strong&gt;, 1/12 of the  &lt;strong&gt;russell3000&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;Dow30&lt;/strong&gt; plus a bunch of ETFs a  &lt;strong&gt;'finance'&lt;/strong&gt; file [I have others], a file of ETFs  &lt;strong&gt;'etfNew'&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;'midcap'&lt;/strong&gt;,  &lt;strong&gt;'transport',&lt;/strong&gt; and the 2nd half of the  &lt;strong&gt;'sp500'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;Everything except one of two were shorts and most  are in gear. Entry points are key. It is important for lowest risk. And each and  every selection is determined from a standardized set of criteria. The sole  attention to fundamentals is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;date of  EPS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;The results depend on early entry. Looking at the  figures closely&amp;nbsp;from your own charts you will see real precision. Exit  point is determined from just calculating an annulaized amount and/or &amp;nbsp;from  a turn up of a very short term average of an average.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;Only, available time would have prevented me from  more than doubling these selections.Production is quite high. For instance in  the falloff of around Sept 18-23 there were 230 winners. I define a winner as  anything over 2%. Given a trade time of less than 5-10 days that seems  okay.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;Summary: while you may not pay much heed to a  single chart as with your contributor, there are other kinds of technical  analysis.&amp;nbsp;If one can look at the whole range of ETFs with the  &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same methods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, then it is hard to dismiss such  enterprise as bogus or simply a lucky series of calls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;We appreciate the feedback.&amp;nbsp; Alas, we remain unconvinced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-no-really-technical-analysis-works-seriously-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-technical-analyst-the-world-is-about-to-end-2009-11"&gt;Technical Analyst: The World Is About To End&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/its-official-again-technical-trading-doesnt-work-2009-10"&gt;5,000 Technical Trading Rules Shown To Be Useless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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         <title>Technical Analyst: The World Is About To End</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:59:00 -0500</pubDate>
                  <dc:creator>Henry Blodget</dc:creator>
                  <description>&lt;p&gt;Since expressing &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;ridicule&lt;/span&gt; skepticism about technical analysis a few months ago, we have been politely badgered by reader John Brims, who has been sending us charts and murmuring about wedges.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will confess that we have not been listening too carefully, because, well, because we think technical analysis is a bunch of bullsh**.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But John has been persistent, so we'll give him his chance to shine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John says the chart below indicates that the world is about end.&amp;nbsp; So hang on to your hat!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Henry,  I am going to give up on you.&amp;nbsp; As a non believer you are  missing out.&amp;nbsp; These 5 wedges have clearly shown the end  of each rally and on each occasion have signaled further&amp;nbsp;heavy falls.&amp;nbsp;  The fifth wedge which I have sent you several times has&amp;nbsp;just broken to  the&amp;nbsp; downside and &amp;nbsp; indicates&amp;nbsp; extremely heavy falls are now in  the  pipeline.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(Let us at least go on record as saying that we're generally bearish, too, for reasons having nothing to do with wedges.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-technical-analyst-the-world-is-about-to-end-2009-11#comments"&gt;Join the conversation about this story &amp;#187;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;See Also:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-the-two-views-of-our-economic-and-market-reality-2009-11"&gt;The Two Views Of Our Economic And Market Reality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/in-this-10-year-race-bonds-win-by-a-mile-2009-10"&gt;Bonds Crush Stocks Over The Past 20 Years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/business-news/oct-23-tilson2-2009-10"&gt;Whitney Tilson: The Stock Market Has Gone Mad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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