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Starting to look around for a car or van for the wife. Trying to get her into something smaller, with better MPG without her feeling like she is a bug waiting to be squished. Any general reaction to quality, ride, value, troubles, would be appreciated.
I would go for the van route myself. I haven't owned either one but knew a couple people who owned a PT and it was very cheaply built.
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I had one for my work vehicle for a while (HHR).
Pros: rode smoothly, good gas mileage (maybe 28 mpg)
Cons: bad blind spots
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I had an HHR as a rental once. Hated it.
The PT cruiser is a glorified neon. Lousy engine and frame.
I recommend a Mazda 5. Good mileage, good storage, and a third row seat if you need it.
I have a company HHR and I actually really like it. Drives really well and has great fuel economy.
In looking for family cars I thought the Mazda 5 would be the perfect car. Drove it and was not impressed--somewhat noisy, cheap and poor interior. Granted, my HHR is the top model and the 5 was the sport--the touring/loaded version may be really nice.
Rented an HHR once, and was a terrible car. The engine sounded like it could explode at any moment. Also had a co-worker who had one, and it was very poorly built. He had quite a few mechanical problems, and got rid of it when the warranty expired. Besides, I think it looks like a cross between a PT cruiser and a hearse.
Everything I have read the HHR is one of the worst reviewed vehicles on the market. And speaking from experience, I would never buy another Chrysler car. We had a Sebring for about a year and couldn't get rid of it fast enough. It felt like it was made out of plastic and I was pretty sure it was going to break down any day. I realize it's not the same car but it's the same company.
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Starting to look around for a car or van for the wife. Trying to get her into something smaller, with better MPG without her feeling like she is a bug waiting to be squished. Any general reaction to quality, ride, value, troubles, would be appreciated.
For the last few years, lower priced rental car companies have had tons of PT Cruisers and HHRs. Perhaps a sign that the manufacturers unloaded a bunch on them at a bargain price. I've had to take both plenty of times and never liked them. They are kind of cool to look like, but not so good to drive. They look bigger than they are. Not much storage space. Not much space for the driver. Very poor turning radius.
Try the Kia Sorento. I've rented a few of these and they are great. Good option to a van.
Or the Kia Vibe. Wierd looking, but actually quite nice. I ask for them when I rent. Lots of head room. Okay storage space. Nice power and responsiveness. Carried three other big guys and had no trouble with the suspension, even going into driveways. Good option if you want something a little smaller without going to something tiny.
I was rather disposed against the Kias, but they have really impressed me.
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I had an HHR as a rental once. Hated it.
The PT cruiser is a glorified neon. Lousy engine and frame.
I recommend a Mazda 5. Good mileage, good storage, and a third row seat if you need it.
I concur. The Mazdas are also great. I take a Mazda "any number" whenever I can get one as a rental.
HHR is easy to drive in town, park, and is 27 mpg on the highway. Seats in back fold down easy. They are larger than PT cruiser. They were built on a Saturn Vue car frame.
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Another vote against the HHR, from a rental experience. I thought the driver seat felt cramped, and as someone else mentioned the blind spots are atrocious. I'm not sure what trim level I had, but the engine seemed to run out of power quickly. Lots of oomph up to 30 mph, but above that (getting on the freeway for example) it just died. I drove my rental up to and around the Twin Cities. And the cupholders were in a horrible position.
I made the same trip in a Hyundai Sonata which was better but not great. A Mazda3 was probably the best car I rented the 8 or so times I made that trip from April - December. I also had a Malibu that was okay, but was "just a car." I had a Cobalt that I didn't like either.
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Why not a Ford Escape?
stupid bug, you go squish now!
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
ya hhr is terrible.. I drove one for my old job.. it had under 30000 miles on it and the struts were going out and the thing was just a piece.. I couldn't stand it..I too would go with the Mazda
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I own a 2001 PT Cruiser and enjoyed every minute of it! Mine was manufactured in Canada, and I have never had an engine problem. It has over 109K miles on it, and I think about now is a good time to sell it to someone who'll continue to take care of it. If they are well taken care of, a pretty decent ride it is.
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|OBJECTIVE: To provide insight into food allergy knowledge and perceptions among pediatricians and family physicians in the United States. METHODS: A national sample of pediatricians and family physicians was recruited between April and July 2008 to complete the validated, Web-based Chicago Food Allergy Research Survey for Primary Care Physicians. Findings were analyzed to provide composite/itemized knowledge scores, describe attitudes and beliefs, and examine the effects of participant characteristics on response. RESULTS: The sample included 407 primary care physicians; 99% of the respondents reported providing care for food-allergic patients. Participants answered 61% of knowledge-based items correctly. Strengths and weaknesses were identified in each content domain evaluated by the survey. For example, 80% of physicians surveyed knew that the flu vaccine is unsafe for egg-allergic children, 90% recognized that the number of food-allergic children is increasing in the United States, and 80% were aware that there is no cure for food allergy. However, only 24% knew that oral food challenges may be used in the diagnosis of food allergy, 12% correctly rejected that chronic nasal problems are not symptom of food allergy, and 23% recognized that yogurts/cheeses from milk are unsafe for children with immunoglobulin E-mediated milk allergies. Fewer than 30% of the participants felt comfortable interpreting laboratory tests to diagnose food allergy or felt adequately prepared by their medical training to care for food-allergic children. CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of food allergy among primary care physicians was fair. Opportunities for improvement exist, as acknowledged by participants' own perceptions of their clinical abilities in the management of food allergy.
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Now, about gay marriage. Sorry, but the court ruling was correct. The Constitution didn't lay out moral law. If it had, the issue of slavery would have prevented the founding of our nation. Instead, gay marriage is about contract law. Marriage is a legal contract. And there lies the issue.
For 50 years, we've loaded the contract with all sorts of goodies, benefits and tax deductions, then we created an open-door policy for those who breach the contract, something my grandparents wouldn't have tolerated. Under today's easy-out laws, my paternal grandparents would have divorced. Morals, not goodies, kept them together. Miserable? Not according to my cousins.
Yes, some goodies were designed to protect children, but the bennies go way beyond kids.
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On Yams (Part 2)… Yam Porridge
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Developing familiarity with yams, true yams, particularly for folks who have none, is sure to surprise. As mentioned here, they are not the soft, sweet tubers Americans in the United States use to whip up pies, or casseroles. Those dishes are the domain of the delicate sweet potato.
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I am late with this, at least here on the site. I've been talking up the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent since late 2010 with friends, on Twitter and on Facebook but haven't done anything special to commemorate it with Roots Cuisine, for various reasons. Most of them logistical and […]
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Yam, igname, ñame, inhame… all rooted in various West African words: nyam, iyan that not only refer to the tuber itself, but can also mean food, or even to eat reflecting the importance of the vegetable to cultures throughout the region . In Jamaican the word for eat is nyam. No coincidences here. I have […]
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As some of you know I've had a great opportunity to advance the cause of Roots Cuisine. I was offered the opportunity to be part of the U.S. State Department Speakers program back in November, which meant that I would be traveling to Turkey to speak (initially) about Louisiana foodways. Interest in topics has expanded […]
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Hibiscus sabdariffa. Here in Jamaica, jamaica is sorrel. But, much like everything else throughout Diaspora (and around the world), there are one hundred and one names for the stuff. Alright, perhaps I exaggerate a bit, there are about five that I can think of including jamaica (my personal favorite) and sorrel. There […]
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2004-11-20 Ronald Wright w pts 12 Shane Mosley, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - WBA/WBC/The Ring. Referee: Joe Cortez. Scorecards: 115-113, 114-114, 115-113. Defending his three belts against the man he took two of them off, Wright (154) outpointed Mosley (154) yet again, although the margin was not so great this time round. After eight rounds, Mosley was just ahead according to the cards, but he took so much out of himself in the eighth as Wright put up a clever defence that he was not the same afterwards. It was clear that Wright had paced himself well and he pumped out the southpaw jab in the ninth to great effect as Mosley failed to get the majority of his punches off. In the tenth there was only one man in it and it was not Mosley, and while he came back in the 11th to nick the session after dragging Wright into a brawl, it was the latter who dominated the final round to retain his titles.
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While both drivers have been linked to possible World Series deals in recent weeks, ironically both with UK team Comtec, the idea of placing them together came as a result of A1 Team GB and Canada 'seat holders' John Surtees and Wade Cherwayko deciding to extend the driver development scheme set up for the A1GP series, which led to Kerr and McIntosh getting their chance to race for their countries.
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On the "Beat the Press" segment of the July 27 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, MSNBC producer Willie Geist discussed a segment of the July 26 edition of CNN's Live From ... in which anchor Kyra Phillips talked about the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. As Media Matters for America noted, Phillips asked Jenkins and Rosenberg if we are "living in the last days" and whether she needed "to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done." Geist also mentioned a segment from the July 24 edition of Paula Zahn Now in which, as Media Matters noted, onscreen text read "End of the World?" Geist stated that Phillips "is getting a little nervous" and that CNN "certainly seem[s] to have doomsday on the brain." He concluded that CNN should "lighten up a little bit."
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PHILLIPS [video clip]: So, Joel, are we living in the last days? I mean, let's talk about the specific signs to watch. You've written about them. What does the Bible say, and are we there? [...] Joel, do I need to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done?
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When a major new longitudinal study was greeted earlier this month with headlines like "Mental Illness Doesn't Predict Violent Behaviour," experienced news consumers could have been forgiven for rolling their eyes at yet another attempt to convince them that two plus two don't add up to four. Psychiatric discoveries are invariably presented in the media in the most destigmatizing way possible, and whenever a lunatic enjoys some unusual success in following the instructions inside his head, an army rushes forth to convince us that it is all just coincidence, and that you and I are inherently quite as likely as any paranoid schizophrenic to take up the august professions of celebrity stalker or school shooter.
What I wonder is, if mental illness is not even correlated with violence, let alone a recognizable cause of it, why do our courts formally designate the insane as not responsible for criminal actions? Surely an obvious corollary of "mental illness doesn't predict violent behaviour" is that treating mental illness more effectively will do nothing to make our communities safer, and that the psychiatric profession has no appropriate place in the courtroom. When we "offer" therapy or hospitalization to a mad person who has behaved violently, we might as well be giving them free ice cream, for all the good it will do the rest of us.
It turns out, of course, that the study itself -- which appears in the February edition of Archives of General Psychiatry -- says something very different. The data were gathered from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a strongly representative sample of the American populace containing more than 34,000 members. Under the NESARC, subjects were interviewed in two "waves" about three years apart. The authors of the new paper looked at the characteristics of those who had committed some violent act in the meantime; in the phrasing of their abstract, "severe mental illness did not independently predict future violent behaviour" during the period in question.
It's that word "independently" that demands some exegesis. People who were severely mentally ill were, in fact, more than twice as likely to have earned the "violent" tag between interviews. So from a social standpoint, mental illness is, in fact, an excellent predictor of violence. If your sane neighbour moves out, a demographically identical mentally ill person moves in and all you know about that person is that they are mentally ill, your known risk of having violence next door has, as you would expect, risen significantly.
(The degree of increase in the risk is quantitatively less, mind you, than you would experience from, say, merely having a female neighbour replaced with a male one. But in matters like these, we are often rightly more concerned with a 10% increase to a high background risk than we are with a doubling of a low one.)
What the authors found is that the severely mentally ill do not, in fact, display a statistically significant increase in propensity for violence if they are not substance abusers. Rates of violence exploded when drugs and alcohol were thrown into the mix with a major psychiatric syndrome. The depressed, for example, were only two-thirds as likely to be violent as the rest of the sample, including the apparently well, if they were sober; those who suffered both depression and addiction were 2.7 times more likely to become violent. Where schizophrenia was combined with substance abuse, the rate of violence was elevated by a factor of three. In the case of bipolar disorder it was more like five.
So this is the limited sense in which mental illness is not an "independent" predictor of violence; it does not seem to make violence much more likely on its own. Unfortunately, this is cold comfort, since it merely conceals the fact that mental illness is a relatively strong predictor of becoming a self-medicating drug or alcohol abuser -- which, in turn, is an excellent indicator of violent propensity.
The authors played a similar game with a history of violent behaviour as a distinct analytical factor. They write that "if a person has severe mental illness without substance abuse and history of violence, he or she has the same chances of being violent during the next three years as any other person in the general population."
This was literally true of the sample, whose median age was 43, and which therefore contained a great many people whose impulsive boiling-over-with-testosterone days are over for good. But it was also true that the mentally ill were three times more likely than the general public to have accumulated a history of violent behaviour in the first place. This, indeed, could have been the finding in the headlines quite as easily as the somewhat misleading feel-good message that was propagated instead.
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4 Major Secular Bear Markets, 1900-2011
by Barry Ritholtz - November 7th, 2011, 12:00pm
Dow Jones Industrial Average 1900- present (log scale, monthly)
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Source: Monthly Chart Portfolio, Merrill Lynch Market Analysis, November 4, 2011
I mentioned yesterday I had a long term chart of secular bear markets that was informative; the above chart (via Merrill Lynch) is what I was referring to.
There are three issues worth noting here plus one important caveat:
1. The long 10-20 year secular bear moves seem to have lots of major rallies and sell offs; the ups and downs are intense, but make little in the way of net progress. After 15 years, the average secular bear is essentially unchanged.
2. The roller coaster ride leaves investors psychologically exhausted. They come to forget the good times of so long ago, and believe there is no way out of the morass. Naturally, they are reluctant to believe in the new bull market once it begins.
3. The major bottom seems to occur about halfway through; this implies that the March 2009 lows will not be revisited (note I only wrote IMPLY and not guarantee or forecast!) If we look at the current Bear versus the '66-'82 (with lows like '73-'74), it suggest that 8500-9000 on the Dow is possible, but barring another crisis 6500 is much less likely. And it also suggests that the next secular bull might begin around 2016-18.
Now for the caveat: We have but one century of data, and within that 100 year span, only four examples of long term secular bear markets. We really need 500-1000 years of data, 20-40 secular bears during the era of modern capital markets. That would allow us greater confidence that these four patterns aren't merely coincidences.
See you around 2900 to validate the data . . .
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35 Responses to "4 Major Secular Bear Markets, 1900-2011"
Molesworth says:
If ECRI says there's going to be another recession, I expect the market will be heading down. Rather than your 50% call, I expect it's pretty much 99% based on ECRI secret sauce success.
DeDude says:
To me a big caveat is that we have no good model to explain why the time range given by the 3 previous secular bears should represent the "limit". Why would they not be 8 years or 28 years long? Maybe the length is simply determined by the timing of events strong enough to drive another Bull? Maybe secular bears are the "normal" default of the markets only to be interrupted when some "crazy" thing happens to create a Bull market. I think the next Bull will begin when something happens in alternative energy that will cut our current energy prices down to about 1/10'th. That could provide a serious kick in the ass(ets) of the Bull.
AHodge says:
i bet this vertical log scale is wrong
suspicions hightened by it not labeled
its supposed to show % ch as equal
early 30% down 85-90 last one down 50-60—doesnt look like that to me
mathman says:
That's funny BR "See you around 2900 to validate the data . . ."
We probably won't make it to 2100 the way things are going.
gfeirman says:
"See you around 2900 to validate the data": I guess this is the opposite of "In the long run, we're all dead" :)
I think you are right that the March 2009 lows are analogous to the December 1974 lows from the previous secular bear market. I think we are currently in a cyclical bear but it won't be Armageddon like 2008-09 – though it will still be bad.
BR: It turns out my BP and cholesterol are very good, so I have reason for optimism!
AZmando says:
Looks like there is a 1 in 4 chance of dropping below the box after popping out and over the top of it. N = "too small."
Da55id says:
False picture (unintended)!!
Every few years one or more companies are kicked out of the DOW or S&P. This leads to survivor and selection biases that falsely and misleadingly make it seem that the DOW et al just go up forever.
Instead, what is needed is a series of DOWS per decade (etc) that are shown by their vintage. For instance, DOW 1929 – 1939. What would it show? That 1929-39 decadal DOW vintage series would be ridiculously lower than the 1999 – 2009 DOW. Which itself would be lower than the ongoing 2010 – 2011…because a significant number of the companies in each 10 year vintage are simply DEAD, TODT, DECEASED, Bleedin' demised!!
How can this series be constructed…anybody? Beuhler?
mathman says:
sorry, i forgot the link to my statement:
(from the article, toward the end)
"Energy Flow Decline and the Collapse of Complex Societies
Joseph Tainter has it right. In The Collapse of Complex Societies he developed the thesis that societies try to solve problems by increasing complexity. But complexity has costs associated with it that are sometimes hidden from the normal accounting. These hidden costs often show up as new problems and the societal response is to increase complexity yet more. And increasing complexity follows a law of diminishing returns*. At some point the next unit of complexity has a much greater cost than what it was supposed to fix. That is when things start to break down.
Lately Tainter is speaking to the relationship between problems, complexity, development, and energy flow. He recognizes that it is energy flow that allows humans to attempt solutions to problems. And it is energy flow that is needed to maintain the structures developed. He speaks to the historical patterns of civilizations, fueled mostly from real-time solar flows (i.e., agriculture), growing to a point where the energetic cost of shipping food into the core became too high. The civilizations could not sustain themselves but also could not recognize what was really happening.
Tainter and several other social scientists, are using systems thinking and analysis to see this pattern in all of the collapses. There is invariably a proximal cause or two that everyone can see, such as the invasion by barbarians or climate change, and that everyone concludes is THE cause. But now we are seeing that the real underlying cause of collapse is the decline in energy flow that was needed to sustain the complex organization that had evolved over time and many generations.
Today we are a global civilization even if we still recognize borders between nations. Our commerce is global in scope and is fueled by prodigious amounts of fossil fuel energy. Our agriculture is totally dependent on fossil fuels (the Green Revolution) for growing and delivering the food. Every home in the developed world depends on heating and cooking from advanced power sources like natural gas and electricity (only some of which is produced by nuclear or hydro power). We need powerful transportation vehicles to get us to and from work. Our system is completely and irreversibly dependent of fossil fuels. And guess what is diminishing**?
Our global society is in the beginning stages of collapse. The wealthy sense this even if they can't put their fingers on what is wrong. They are more motivated than ever to try to aggregate all of the paper wealth they can. I do think most of them believe that their efforts to create paper wealth are on a par with manufacturing, for example, in helping to lift all boats. I suspect some of them feel totally justified in taking home huge bonuses as they attempt to build a hedge for themselves against what seems to be a sinking boat. They are working on their life rafts after all. This is a normal human proclivity and you, dear readers, and I, and all of the occupiers would probably do something similar if we were in a position to do so. None of us has transcended our biology and all of us will do what we can to protect ourselves when we sense the impending loss of the system that gave us our sense of well being. Of course I support their demand that what wealth there is being created now should be more equitably distributed. But it has to be real wealth, not the phony money created by Wall Street gamblers and fractional reserve banking. I continue to urge that real jobs can be created for many of the unemployed in a modern version of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) where the goal is to restore depleted soils for organic agriculture under the permaculture methodologies. So what if these are government jobs. And so what if the rich are taxed heavily to fund it. That would go a long way to doing something worthwhile, investing in real infrastructure. And it would provide incomes for many currently unemployed (it could also be a way to reabsorb the military personnel coming back, at long last, from our foreign adventures.) A program like this could help alleviate the inherent conflict that is boiling up and it would slow down the collapse somewhat."
kaleidic says:
To say that major bottom occurs halfway through implies that March 2009 lows will not be revisited logically assumes that March 2009 was halfway through – not! In fact the worst may yet be to come.
[...] A look at four secular bear markets. (Big Picture) [...]
crunched says:
My vote is we're not halfway through this one either. I think all the meddling the government/Fed has done in this one will prove to make it much longer in the end.
We won't be coming out of this one until some amazing new industry or technology comes along. Or there's a war. I don't see either anytime soon. I think this one is more about digesting the gains of the last 200 years, not 20.
JDinCT says:
Hey Barry,
What would make you sell your longs?
News? Price action? Both.
randy says:
@ Da55id: The cycling of companies in and out of the DOW is a very good point, but I don't think it is valid at this level of analysis. This is a 100,000ft analysis, which is intended to take that cycling into account. That cycling is part of the pattern, at this height. If we dig much deeper then we will have to take that cycling of companies into account.
With an analysis at this height the important question to ask is what trends have changed during this period. I'll rattle off a few that I think have changed:
Over this period of time, how has X changed? where X is:
* number of investors (increasing during this span?)
* average age of investors (increasing during this span?)
* average expected remaining lifespan of investors (increasing during this span?)
* average net worth of investors (decreasing during this span?)
* number of companies in the market (increasing during this span?)
* number of companies that cycle in or out each year (Da55id's point)
* number of computer trades occurring per day (increasing during this span!)
* percentage of the market held by individual versus institutional versus corporate investors (I think that institutional investors have increased significantly over this span?)
* average leverage of the financial institutions holding positions (increasing during this span?)
* etc…
I think that the presence of robot traders dramatically affects the way that the market behaves. I think that the increased leverage that the investment houses are operating under dramatically affects the way that the market behaves. I think that the increased number and age, and lower overall net worth of investors affects the way that the market behaves.
All of those long-term trend changes over the past century probably alter the markets behavior enough that these sorts of history lessons are interesting, but only lightly predictive.
nofoulsontheplayground says:
In real, inflation adjusted terms, the August 1982 low was the low of the 1966-1982 bear market. This is one example where the real low was at the end of the 17-year cycle. That said, the current bear market is part of a 70-year cycle that suggests the path should follow a similar path of the 1929-1946 cycle.
Barry Ritholtz says:
You cannot adjust the prices on a chart for inflation and expect any sort of useful result.
By that logic, look at an inflation adjusted chart for the 100 years –
Da55id says:
@randy, all Excellent points. I guess my point is that absent the removal of dead/dying companies and simultaneous replacement with healthy hi-growth companies the DOW would not show a flat stairstep pattern, but would clearly show a series of extreme bungee jumps into abyssals followed by much slower ascents.
For a buy and hold investor, the DOW is false comforting deceiving index.
gman says:
Given the potentially record by 10% of profits for SP in 2011 as per todays Bespoke coupled w/ demographics (older more risk averse investers) and the euro dept crisis I am finally begining to see a a bear mkt low in PE in the next handful of years. In the next couple of years have a sp earning $120 w/ a crisis induced flush down below 800…viola..
low-tech cyclist says:
Assuming one's income generated a surplus that could be invested, it seems to me that whether that added to one's fortunes or not depended a great deal on when one had money to invest. If you caught the bull market of the early 1950s through mid 1960s, or the 1983-99 bull market, you probably gained quite a bit from your investments. If you made your big money starting in 1966 and retired in 1983, OTOH, it sucked to be you.
I first became aware of the market around the time the Dow broke 900 ca. 1966. I was in my pre-teen years at the time. The Dow spent the next 15 years treading water; while index funds didn't exist, I remember thinking that if one could 'invest in the Dow' there was no real point to it unless you could time the ups and downs really well.
I spent almost all the 1983-99 boom in an alternation of grad school (twice) and just kinda middlin'-paying jobs (twice). But well before the end of that period, I was realizing that my youthful idea about the Dow was wrong, and besides, there were index funds: if I ever started making money, I ought to invest in one.
In the spring of 2000, after finishing our taxes, my wife and I realized we were finally getting ahead in the game. We finally had money to invest – as we have had ever since. And the $#@! markets have been in that secular bear ever since.
Education, hard work, perseverance – these things matter. Whether you've got macro-level headwinds or tailwinds – these things matter too.
Futuredome says:
I used the investments from the 83-99 market to pay my way through college without borrowing a cent(sans a grant from the veterens).
You can make money in generative markets or you can fail.
nofoulsontheplayground says:
BR, here's an inflation adjusted Dow chart(courtesy of Chart of the Day) from 1900 to March 2011. I know you've seen this many times, but my point is an inflation adjusted chart can be useful if you look at the rising channel within the context of the roughly 17-year bear market cycles started in 1929, 1966, and 2000.
machinehead says:
'You cannot adjust the prices on a chart for inflation and expect any sort of useful result.' — BR
Both BR and nofouls have a point here. Psychologically, it's the nominal numbers that stick in the mind. The 'Dow Thou' was upside resistance from 1966 all the way to 1982, so the nominal index clearly has a psychological impact.
But as nofoul's inflation-adjusted chart shows, stocks were slaughtered for a 75% loss of purchasing power between 1966 and 1982. Anyone who thought in August 1982 (at Dow 777) that the Dow was down only 22% from its 1966 high of 995 was a serious victim of money illusion. People deserted the Seventies 'hate market' in droves when they could earn an easy 10% on T-bills.
Both perspectives are needed. Round numbers from nominal charts can have lasting technical significance. But over periods of decades, one has to correct for inflation. Otherwise you're using a unit of value (the dollar) which is melting like an ice cream cone in the summer sun beneath your feet.
PeterR says:
The Big Churn 1997-2021, posited on August 30, 2001 to resemble the 1959-1983 "flat" appears to be about 1/2 over IMO. [4th chart at link above]
machinehead says:
By the way, BR published this long-term chart of the S&P index a couple of weeks ago:
I saved it because it's a beautiful, long-term, log-scale chart. But it contains a couple of serious omissions. The S&P chart would have you believe that the US economy cruised for an amazing 15 years from 1938 to 1953 with no recessions. It never happened, as can be verified from the NBER's official recession dating page. NBER shows two recessions that are missing from the S&P chart, in 1945 and 1948-49:
The unfortunate lesson is that there's plenty of sloppy data out there on the web, even from highly reputable sources such as The Big Picture. As I've learned from personal experience, there is no substitute for auditing market data year-by-year to weed out corrupted and missing information.
Futuredome says:
Yeah, but 45 was a post-war recession as the US began to demoblize from WWII. Not a 'true' recession.
spigzone says:
1. The world has now entered the age of Declining Oil.
2. The amount of carbon being put into the atmosphere this year was 6% higher than last year, the largest yearly increase ever recorded, and substantially worse than the 'worse case scenario' of just five years ago. This is expected to continue.
By the end of 2016, per a leaked comprehensive study done by the Joint Forces Command of the US (responsible for US Military logistics planning), world oil production will be short 8 to 15 million barrels a day from Jan 2010 levels. A similar leaked German Military study came to the same conclusion.
Consider what the world economy would look like with 10 million barrels a day of petroleum withdrawn from world markets.
Now consider what the world financial system would look like with global GDP steadily shrinking and the price of oil somewhere north of $150/bbl. Forever.
These are hard cold fact based realities. They ARE going to happen.
The past long term stock market behavior chart is USELESS as a predictor of future behavior in the face of such gargantuan 'never before in the history of modern civilization' events unfolding.
jadogsl says:
This is 1936/37 not 1945ish
When stimulus was take away …… Double Dip
penguinsgoldenegg says:
It is also worth mentioning that all four secular bull markets started off with very low P/E's (from 7 to 13), with the last two starting at 7 and 9 (far from today's readings). Typical secular bear market started off from around 19…
All data can be found here:
CitizenWhy says:
I wonder if these three factors make any historic comparisons shaky:
The Fed propping up today's stock market. How long can this go on?
Rapid trading on an unprecedented level. Fueled by the Fed.
Permanent high unemployment and small job creation (in the USA as opposed to US companies creating jobs abroad). For which the Fed has nothing that can help. Supposedly its cheap money is supposed to fuel investment in real companies in the USA but that's not how things work any more.
DeDude says:
Spigzone; actually solar is getting to be competitive already and will become more and more attractive as oil prices increase. We are on the road to a switch to electric cars, so both home and most transportation energy can uncouple from oil if its price go much higher. The main problem with solar is not being available at night, but you can store it in batteries or as hydrogen or methane. I would not be surprised if 20 years from now all new houses would be build off grid and self sufficient, with a small backup generator in the back yard.
[...] Yesterday we looked at 4 Major Secular Bear Markets. [...]
pater tenebrarum says:
It really depends on the bear market and its degree and the amount of monetary inflation that occurs while it is playing out. For instance, the grand supercycle bear market that played out in the 18th century made its lows 68 years after the top. Japan's bear market so far has made a first major low 19 years after the top, and it is not yet certain if it really was THE low.
There is no guarantee that the past will repeat exactly as before, especially considering the extremely small sample size. However, since the true money supply in the US economy is up over 50% since January 2008, a good argument can be made that the nominal lows are in and that the market's collapse will only continue to get worse in real (gold) terms.
davros says:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/71813966/30/David-Ross gives an excellent overview of the current secular bear market and the prospects for it over the next several year. It gives a reason for the generational nature of secular bull/bear cycles and largely supports this article's conclusions as to the duration of the current secular bear. Of course, I am somewhat biased, having written the referenced paper….
Jverse says:
Dow Jones Industrial Average on a log scale monthly chart 1900- present – Today's pattern is similar to '66-'82 with low like '73-'74. Lable was missing from the top of the chart.
[...] A look at four secular bear markets. (Big Picture) [...]
cdwight says:
The Dow in the 1930s was very speculative much more similar today to the Nasdaq that the Dow. If you look at the Nasdaq chart, you will see that 2000 corresponds to the peak in the Dow in 1929. This suggests the bottom in the early 1940s is still a year away, however that may be the final low for this cycle. I would recommend keeping your powder dry unless a clear breakout on the upside happens.


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On Sunday, my wife came home from church with a leaflet and a strange story.
Someone who was a tad bit reluctant to provide her name had passed out a leaflet and attempted to recruit members of her congregation to an organization of parents fighting for better schools, PTA Now. But it didn't really seem like the PTAs she knew, the Parent-Teacher Association organized in your child's school.
It isn't.
According to its web site, "Parents Taking Action (PTA) is a coalition of New York City parents who believe every child should have access to a great public school. We are standing up for our children, holding the Department of Education accountable and ensuring children are put ahead of special interests."
A grass roots organization of public school parents? Think again: "PTA is a project of Education Reform Now, a non-profit organization that envisions an America in which every child, regardless of class or race, has the social and economic opportunities afforded by an excellent public education."
Does Education Reform Now (ERN) sound familiar? It should: on its web site, ERN identifies Joel Klein as the chair of its board, and four Wall Street hedge fund types as the other board members. One of that number and past chair of the ERN board is John Petry. Petry is a co-founder of both the Success Academy Charter Schools, headed up by Eva Moskowitz, and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER). The only mention of DFER on the ERN web site appears in a short bio of Petry, as if it was an incidental relationship. It isn't. ERN is the 501-c-3 not-for-profit arm of DFER. (If you unaware that ERN is an arm of DFER, you have not been following Ken Libby's excellent DFER Watch.)
So there it is: PTANow is a front organization for ERN which is a front organization for DFER.
Democrats for Education Reform: the organization that dare not speak its name, but would rather "borrow" the good name of an organization with a long and honorable history of supporting public education.
And that tells you just about everything you need to know about this "grass roots" parent organization.
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"The Obama administration played down the tax factor… The healthcare law contains a slew of tax provisions." ("Supreme Court Ruling Casts Tax Shadow Over U.S. Healthcare Law," Reuters, 6/29/12)
"…senior administration officials argued that the penalty was not a tax..." ("High Court Gives GOP New Weapon On Taxes," The Hill, 6/29/12)
- JAY CARNEY: "it's not a tax...it's a penalty" (Twitter, @MarkKnoller, 6/29/12)
- DAVID AXELROD: "…what it is is a penalty…" (NBC's Today Show, 6/29/12)
- STEPHANIE CUTTER: "It's a penalty." ("Obama Campaign Spokeswoman Won't Call Mandate A 'Tax,'" The Washington Free Beacon, 6/29/12)
"…Democratic leaders were stumbling Thursday when asked about the ruling that the mandate was a tax — an argument that was quickly becoming a GOP talking point." ("Democrats Take Short Health Care Victory Lap," Roll Call, 6/29/12)
"The cautious and measured statements from Democratic House and Senate candidates Thursday reflected the unease about renewing a debate that ended badly for the party in November 2010." ("GOP Sees Down-Ballot Gold In Supreme Court Decision," Politico, 6/29/12)
- SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): "…wouldn't say if he agrees with the Supreme Court ruling that the individual mandate in the health care law is constitutional as a tax." ("Harry Reid Won't Say If Obamacare Mandate Is A Tax," Daily Caller, 6/28/12)
- SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER (D-NY): "…who heads the Democrats' communication and policy arm, also sidestepped the question." ("Democrats Take Short Health Care Victory Lap," Roll Call, 6/29/12)
- REP. CHARLIE RANGEL (D-NY): "'Do you think it's a tax in your personal opinion?' 'No, it's a fee for services,' Rangel replied." ("Rangel: Obamacare Mandate Is Not A Tax, It's A 'Fee For Services,'" Daily Caller, 6/29/12)
SUPREME COURT: 'A Tax'
SUPREME COURT: "…the shared responsibility payment may… be read as imposing a tax on those who go without insurance." (Supreme Court Of The United States Syllabus, National Federation Of Independent Business Et Al. V. Sebelius, Secretary Of Health And Human Services, Et Al., 6/28/12)


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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is lining up visits by administration officials to a remote Alaska village where residents are seeking a road through a national wildlife refuge.
King Cove residents want better access to an all-weather airport and emergency medical care.
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The Alaska Republican says the health and safety of villagers should take precedence over refuge wildlife.
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Informed and considered career decisions lead to higher incomes, fewer bouts and shorter durations of unemployment, better matches of person and work resulting in less turnover, better health for the employee and the employee's family, and fewer instances of work-related stress, depression, and violence, which lead to savings in training, social welfare, criminal justice, and health-care costs.
Informed and considered career decisions "... represent a match of person and work in which the individual's skills, interests, values, beliefs, and purposes fit, align with, inform, and contribute to work, and work contributes to the individual's well-being and life goals."1
Informed and considered career decisions are the product of a career development process that includes
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Go to the next milepost of "Knowing Yourself" by creating posts about your values, interests and skills or return to this milepost in the Roadmap or return to the home page at "lifeworkps.com".
1 Gillie, S., & Isenhour, M. (2003). The Educational, Social, and Economic Value of Informed and Considered Career Decisions. Fall 2003, http://inpathways.net/_acrna/iccd-sub1.pdf (p. 18) extracted 4/14/2008. Also see this topic in Career Development Forums.


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Construction has started for Snoqualmie's new Jeanne Hansen Community Park at 34226 S.E. Jacobia St. on Snoqualmie Ridge.
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Re-Visiting the 2009 QB Class:
Thought I'd bring this up. Bring in the Stafford/Sanchez/Freeman debate. All 3 are entering into a critical 5th year.
(1) Matt Stafford Detroit: Started his career off shaky with injury ridden seasons years 1 and 2. Broke out big time in 2011 leading Detroit to the playoffs. Took a back seat in 2012 with some inconsistency. Talent is there. Obviously, throwing to Calvin Johnson helps. One could make an argument the defense wasn't great either in 2012.
(5) Mark Sanchez NYJ: I thought the start to his career was overrated. Masked a lot of deficiancies behind a great defense in 09 and 2010. Once the pieces started falling apart, so did Sanchez. They drafted Geno Smith for a reason. Sanchez has to really impress just to save his job for opening day.
(17) Josh Freeman Tampa Bay: Started very well his rookie yeaer then faltered. 2010 was a very good year that had many believing he could reach elite potential. 2011 was a dissapointment for Josh and the entire team. 2012 there was a stance where he elevated his play from average to top 10 QB status until he played Sanchez esque in the final 3 game stretch against Phi, NO, STL. The talent is there to be a franchise QB. Needs to show more poise and consistency, somewhat similar to Stafford. Defense wasn't all there the past 2 years etiher.
2013 I would say are very critical years for these 3. Thoughts opinions? Debates?
1 guy has shown moments of greatness, but has failed to be a leader. I had questions about Stafford coming out because of that leadership void at Georgia.
Sanchez & Freeman are fighting for their jobs now. Both could easily fail.
But Freeman could rise up and start to blossom into a good QB. He's had moments, but is too inconsistent.
With the Muscle Hamster at RB and more weapons at WR now, he has no excuses left.
Sanchez is mentally weak and has average arm strength. And he's in the middle of a circus.
He's closer to becoming a FT clothing model than successful QB.
I'm not afraid to admit that I really thought Nate Davis would be in this discussion. That was prior to the draft, and not as a 49ers-homer. When the 49ers drafted him I learned more about his work-ethic which turned me off. I absolutely loved him at Ball State. I thought he was going to be a good one.
Sanchez just needs to go. he is on a down fall.
I remember thinking Sanchez was a second round QB at best, then being laughed at when he was drafted at #5. Who's laughing now?
Even Pete Carroll knew something when he declared and didn't think he was ready. Many thought he was unprofessional the way he said it. Who was right?
EDIT: To be fair. Alex Smith was a late bloomer. Eli Manning got a ton of Criticism his first 4 years in. Things didn't start to click til year 5.
That is why in my opinion, it's proper to give 1st round QBs 5 years before you give up, that is if they've shown signs of beig that franchise QB. In this case, both Stafford and Freeman have, but they've had their down falls equally as well. That is why this year is crucial for both.
Honestly i think Stafford relies on calvin TOO MUCH, he gets tunnel vision in the worst way. Doesnt hurt his stat sheet, makes him and calvin awesome for fantasy, but its a part of the reason why they dont put up a lot of wins
Everyone likes to discredit Stafford for throwing to Calvin. Who should he throw to? Nate Burleson? It's great that Stafford has CJ, but other than Pettrigrew, there's not much else to get excited about. The Lions haven't provided Stafford with great blocking or a great running game. The other WRs are not good. Having 1 great WR and a good TE doesn't mean that Stafford is living on easy street.
I imagine that would be so hard to get away from. I was just saying that it has hindered his development a little, and it really isnt his fault. They havent put good targets around him. Obviously they were hoping titus could be that guy, they are hoping broyles can be that guy....but up until now it has kept stafford from becoming as good as i think he can
Calvin and 2 TEs isnt really enough, especially when you factor in the extreme amounts they throw the ball and how poor their run game has been
I might have dropped the Redskins had we traded up for Sanchez.
My QB thoughts from that year:
I figured Sanchez and Stafford as future pro bowlers, Davis as a solid starter for a long time, and Bomar as a guy who had a chance to pan out as a starter with some good coaching. I thought Freeman was a career backup and Pat White didn't deserve to be drafted.
Right now I'm not super high on any of them, but Stafford and Freeman obviously are good enough to be starting. I still think Sanchez could end up being a borderline starter if he spends a few years as a backup QB under a really good WCO coach. He never got the developmental time he needed because he got tossed in pretty quickly. If the Bears could have him on a reasonable contract, I'd be pretty happy with it.
I didn't really like any of them very much. I think I liked Freeman the most. I thought Stafford was kind of inaccurate and interception-prone, and I really didn't like that. His 2011 season was making me eat crow a bit, but then last year I started thinking I might be right again. He's got the perfect player for the way he plays in Calvin Johnson, and I'm really not sure he'd be able to have the same success without him. Freeman just needs to settle down. One of my lasting memories of him is a close-up TV shot of him as a rookie - his eyes were HUGE. He still looks that way sometimes. When he's comfortable, he's got it. Maybe drafting Mike Glennon will light a fire under him, maybe it's just make him more nervous and mistake-prone. We'll see. I'm pretty sure I compared Sanchez to Matt Hasselbeck at the time. The skillset is there, but it's time for him to get out of New York and onto a team with a better environment to develop a QB. I think he could get another shot to start somewhere, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he has a David Carr-like career arc, starting early in his career before spending the second half of his career as a backup.
Stafford is an odd case. He put up 5k and 40+ TDs two years ago and then sucked it up last year. CJ and the sheer number of attempts pumps up his stats and really hurt them last year. I know they don't have the parts to balance out the passing and running yet but they really need to. Such lopsided offense isn't good.
Last tine I checked Reggie bush struggled inside domes. So what makes anyone think it'll change in Detroit ?
I see no evidence that suggests he struggles in domes.
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On a bloody Nakba day yesterday, Israeli forces killed 15 and wounded scores as thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters descended upon checkpoints and borders.
Israel likes to think of itself as the only democracy in the region, but to truly qualify as such it's going to have to do a lot better. Apparently overwhelmed by thousands of protesters descending upon its military checkpoints and borders for Nakba day, IDF troops yesterday responded Mubarak-style, with heavy-handed and lethally violent repression tactics.
When thousands of Syrian and Palestinian protesters began to climb over border fences , Israeli soldiers fired into the crowds, killing at least 15 and wounding dozens more. According to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the protests were a threat to Israel's "right to exist", as he pledged to "use restraint" while defending the country's borders.
The Syrian army had previously allowed the thousands of protesters to cross the Syrian side of the border, probably in an attempt to divert attention away from the country's own internal unrest. Syria yesterday continued its brutal repression of peaceful protesters, forcing hundreds to flee into Lebanon.
Wael Ghonim, Egypt's celebrated Google revolutionary who has become somewhat of a posterboy for the 'Arab democracy' that Netanyahu still considers to be impossible, yesterday tweeted his support for the Nakba protesters:
World must stop its blind support to #Israel Gov settlements policy. Foreign policies must be based on values & not just interests #Nakba
More than 4.5m refuges from #Palestine living under inhumane conditions in camps. 60% of them are in #Lebanon #Syria & #Jordan .. #Nakba
A good Israeli friend of mine sent me the following clip. While the footage is not from Nakba day (it was uploaded two days earlier), it does give an impression of the often hard-handed and brutal response to peaceful popular protest in Israel:
The following video (obtained from this website, worth checking out) shows Israeli activists in an anti-Nakba law protest. The Nakba law forbids Israelis to mourn the creation of the state of Israel.
Finally, also worth reading is this article in Time Magazine, on Palestinian protesters embracing the "Arab spring model for confronting Israel."