After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

P.J. O'Rourke


Chartses and Table Zup

The newly revised 401a management site appears to be an all new shell over the original apparatus. It does not light my fire, but it works just fine.

I'm all cash on the 401a (again). I tried to play the dead cat bounce of last week this week and I was too late. I paid a rapid trading fee on one fund and triggered trading restrictions on two others to get back to the all cash position, and the price was cheap. Here's what I ended up with, YTD.

CLICK THIS!!


Between what I lost and what I paid, it was a major owie. I'm major pissed at myself; I know I gotta be aggressive when the time is right. Like 9/13/04 until 9/07. I did that part OK. And.... looking at the chart above, I haven't done too bad so far this year. But I could have done better. So it goes.

Radical shit from the WSJ...Who'd a thunk? How will it affect the pension plan?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1202433 ... inion_main

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... 384407.htm

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/08/business/yen.php

http://www.iddmagazine.com/issues/2008_ ... =thestreet

http://www.iddmagazine.com/issues/2008_ ... =thestreet

http://bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/mm ... tory2.html


I'll lay out what I'm thinking about the near and far future of my 401a sometime this week.

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