Guys, can we try to filter out the woo woo stuff, please?

What makes you believe you can objectivly judge the expertise of a book that increasingly appears you never read?

 

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The end is near. the collapse. buy gold.

 

Get old........Then you'll understand.

 

"Time out for fun" -D-E-V-O

 

I couldn't agree more with you... but I can't say why, because my post would be deleted ;-)

 

The end is near...Sell everything

 

That's quite a book report. Soon you'll be able to do the fox, the chicken and the bag of corn.

 

I must have been absent From class that day. Last thing I remember was the fox, the crow, and some cheese........

 

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HAIKU

 

I got it from my grandfather so maybe it was an earlier version. He also liked the one about which way would the smoke be blowing from the subway...

 

Bad form.

How dare you

 

So far we have kept this as skillful repartee. That post is over the line.......

 

I at least learned a new term by reading this thread: "woo woo."

I'm not particularly annoyed by this "woo woo" stuff. Some of it is at least anthropologically fascinating, entertaining or enlightening about human psychology and epistemology. I sometimes watch conspiracy videos for fun or simply as an argumentative self-challenge: can they convince me? What is the evidence? Is there any? What are the counter arguments? Etc. It can be fun.

Ultimately, no one really knows what will happen. No one knows the future. But some people think that they know. Those who don't at least entertain possible alternative future outcomes may find themselves surprised or caught off guard.

I can't count how many people told me in the years running up to 2007 - 2008 that the US housing market would never crash. I didn't believe it at the time, either, but I at least thought it was possible. And it definitely was, as we found out. Do I think the US economy will collapse? I don't think it will, but I don't know whether it will or won't, either. Ultimately, I really don't know. No one does. To entertain the idea isn't irrational. To live one's life as if it's an inevitability is probably going too far, as is, arguably, living with the opposite conviction.

So "woo woo" has its place as well. Don't take it too seriously, but also embrace it for the very human activity that it is. People like to speculate and form theories. At least they're being creative.

 

Markets are based on investors anticipating the future. If it's "woo woo" because stackers anticipate doom and gloom then what is it when PM haters anticipate status quo forever? Is it plucky-ducky gusto?

 

What it is is horse pucky. Quarter-horse pucky actually. 50% of you will be right and 50% of you will be wrong.

 

Thank you. Someone needed to get this thread back on track.

 

D'unt George Harrison have a song called Woo Woo?

It went....woo, woo, I don't need your woo woo.....dang good song as I recollect.