If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

I find it funny that people who didn't think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation. This is nothing like the 1970's, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.