By Robert Reich
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney’s reaction to J.P. Morgan Chase’s (NYSE:JPM) mounting losses from reckless trades is “the market will take care of it.” His spokesman says “no taxpayer money was at risk” so we don’t need more financial regulation. Romney has even promised to repeal Dodd-Frank if he’s elected president.
Yet at the same time, Romney has come out strongly against same-sex marriage. He’s also against abortion. He has no problem with government intruding on the most intimate of decisions a person makes.
He’s got private and public morality upside down. He doesn’t want to regulate where regulation is necessary — at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate — at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern. Read More
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John Hussman: The Market’s ‘Dancing on the Edge of a Cliff’
Category Investing, Market News, Stocks, Technical Analysis, Trading
By Mick Weinstein
John Hussman
In his recent weekly commentaries, mutual fund manager John Hussman has warned that current market internals – vis-a-vis its return/risk profile – are among the worst recorded on the historical record. In this week’s commentary, Hussman finds that over the past 7 days things have become even worse, and offers a chart to illustrate (emphasis added):
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