"The market is not a sofa, it is not a place to get comfortable."
Jim Cramer


CHARTZ AND TABLE ZUP ON WWW.JOEFACER.COM, (FUNDALARM material excluded. Stay tooned...)

More Stuff Onna Way... YOU KNOW THE DRILL!!!!!!


IT'S BEEN AN EVIL WICKED WEEK IN AN EVIL WICKED YEAR, AND IT'S JUST BARELY MARCH!! IT'S ESPECIALLY WICKED AND HURTFUL IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO TAKE UP CONTROL OF YOUR FUTURE AND FORTUNE IN YOUR OWN TWO HANDS.





A.I.G., Where Taxpayers’ Dollars Go to Die
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/busin ... f=business
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displa ... d=13237211
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29517442/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/cost-concerns/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/busin ... f=business
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/your- ... f=business
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29553363/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29532976/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29582828/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29525238/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/bi ... nalty-box/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29582822/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2 ... stems-lie/
http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/07/news/co ... 2009030713
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magaz ... ure-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/busin ... f=business
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c130f6 ... g-citibank

JEEZUS!!!!!
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/ba ... man-sachs/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/ib ... lout-cash/






Things are gawdawful. The financial markets, industries, employmees, employers, homeowners, merchants, international and national and local businesses and purt' near everyone else has taken a tremendous amount of financial and psychological damage. The drop in confidence, real estate and jobs has accelerated and has been unremitting. The typical "market working its way lower" ain't happening. It's more of a 'WHOOSH" with pauses as we hit stuff onna way down. The Fall/Winter bear market rally has brutally betrayed everyone who believed in it. Death Darkness Despair Devastation. Then things REALLY turned to shit. So what to do?

For the 401a, not much. Money in bonds is a comfort. Government securities are more comfortable. Assuming we don't end up in the dark ages or the Pleistocene, corporate bonds offer me possibly serious upside as well as cash flow inna meantime. I'm just about all bonds; mostly gov's but some corporates too. MET Life pays better and more consistently, but it is kinda scary. See below in some previous posts. There's damn little I'm afraid of, but there's a few things I'm respectful of, and the markets' ability to put you into poverty in an eyeblink is one of the things.

Eventually such stuff creates a market bottom; usually only after mentioning stocks or investing causes a fight or projectile vomiting from a complete stranger who overhears you. So I'm gonna wait for the market to prove itself to me before I get serious. Once things burn themselves out, if not down, we may get a bear market rally. There are more effective and nimble ways to play them than in a 401a account, and they are available to me..... Still....


MONDAY

I don't agree with 100% of this, but I do with most of it.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/come-on-buffett/



This too shall pass.....




TUESDAY

http://www.newsweek.com/id/188565

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/ba ... -coverage/

http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/j ... bites.aspx

SMOKIN' UPSIDE DAY!!!! WE'RE ALL THE WAY BACK TO WHERE WE WERE LAST WEDNESDAY!!!


OF COURSE, LOOKED AT IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE YEAR TO DATE......

Steady as she goes... I'm looking at maybe putting some money to work if this turns out to have legs. We'll see....check back tonight or tomorrow....

GREAT TO LOOK AT.....





Stay tooned.