Suspect the opposition to giving women the vote was partially the fear we’d turn into an impulse ridden shop till you drop economy.

My parents taught me that living slightly below my means and investing what’s left over was the key to long term financial success. I also identified with their aversion to debt which is why from my success investing for over 30 years I pay cash for big ticket items like cars and homes.

How can we expect the majority of Americans to be financially secure in retirement when the cultural ethic is shopping until dropping? Rather we should again be a savings and investment society. For Americans I don’t think there’s a more economically braindead policy than our support of globalization. Really pretty pathetic the common response to the loss of decent paying industrial jobs to moving production overseas is to open more casinos! My elementary school in the mid to late 1940s had a savings program integrated into the arithmatic program. Once a week we deposited at least a dime in class in individual accounts set up by a local bank. The program’s motto was “Save your dimes and watch your dollars grow”.

Bonnie, men’s tepid interest in women’s team sports is the result of most female athletes lack of the neuromuscular gifts which creates the magic people love to watch.

The performance of above mentioned companies are nothing to write home to mama about. Archer Daniels Midland’s shares dropped 1/3 in recent months despite soaring food prices! Lucent got bought out for song in an all stock transaction with a French communications company. Xerox shares went from $60 in 2000 to about $10 today. Western Union’s shares made some money in a business almost entirely dependent on ilegal aliens stealing American jobs, undercutting American wages and consuming precious taxpayer supported public services. Also Pepsi’s tanked recently the result of a product mix under tremendous cost pressures of raw materials, transportation, and increasingly public awareness of just how unhealthy the company’s products are.

I doubt Denis had much a sex life at home given the naturally long work hours of top politicians and the peculiarities of how Parliament operates. Votes (division calls) happen at 10 PM.

A very seasoned an successful investor I think the women who’ve risen to high positions on Wall Street thus far simply don’t cut the mustard. To be charitable perhaps they were very talented women moved up too soon as affirmative action window dressing. Once a Citigroup shareholder, I thought Sally Krawcheck totally stunk as CFO. What on earth was she doing when the bank was making totally crazy loans and grossly overpaying for acquisitions? Best I could tell she was primping for the next media event celebrating her success. Don’t even get started on Abby Joseph Cohen whose very very bad advice in the tech boom cost naive investors countless billions in the crash. My comment is not sour grapes because thinking Cohen was just shilling for her bosses peddling crap didn’t own any tech stocks in 2000. My policy is I won’t own companies where women hold key top positions. My short on all my banks is working like a charm. I anticipate the Treasury and/or the Fed will force most banks to suspend or sharply curtail dividends and dilute their shares to raise capital levels across the board.

My advice to Michelle is to avoid making Barrack sleep on the couch too often. Since FDR, it’s been presidents with loveless political marriages, e.g. Truman, JFK, Johnson, Clinton and Bush, who’ve used warmaking as anger management therapy. My take on Michelle is she’s a very tough cookie. Thacher’s psychologically castrating behavior towards her husband might explain the counter phobic psychodynamics of their son Mark who is caught up in the “Dogs of War” style abortive coup financed by oil interests to seize power in Equatorial Guinea. If that country’s extraction request is granted, he could spend remainder of his life with the already convicted plotters in the infamous Black Beach Prison.

Things are so bad in America I replaced all my industrials with high yielding first class natural resources like Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG) which is up 80% since I got it. On Friday shorted all my banks against the box to lock in the 20% not including dividends I’ve made overall YTD. The short is working so well considering selling the underlying shares and ride naked. Americans are total dummies to back globalization!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Globalization killed our children’s opportunities by replacing our once prosperous middle class with the appearance of being middle class financed by debt. A prosperous retired physician I live at about the same level as my late father who owned a small butcher store in New York. On a modest income my parents owned a suburban home, never seemed pressed for money, had 3 children, and my mother didn’t work. Only upper class professionals can enjoy such a lifestyle today. We’re in this fix because we systematically deindustrialized to ship our best jobs overseas while allowing foreign producers to flood our markets with cheap goods. Globalization is the modern equivalent of how we subdued American Indians with the reservaton system plus cheap “fire water” and basic foods. Ms. Desai’s arrogance is insufferable!

Yes, Judith, it’s time for the feminists to reboot by pushing their collective intellectual reset buttons. They’ve so wrecked family stability, children’s health (obesity epidemic) and the economy I now understand why there was such resistance to giving them vote! Dangerous and absurd a candidate’s “sex appeal” can be a determinitive factor in the voting patterns of women who now comprise at least half of the electorate.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Long overdue for women take a second look at the having it all nonsense. For the average women having it all meant divorce, children raised in daycare, working very long hours and rejection by men.

Identified with how Bernard Baruch likely felt in 1929 before the crash when over the course of this year I unloaded all my industrials and today shorted against the box my remaining banks—JP Morgan, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. I suspect they’ll all be deemed insolvent when the full impact of the credit losses are known along with the massive damages ordered from civil lawsuits for fraud by euchered investors in funny money credit instruments. Very likely the Treasury and/or the Federal Reserve will order most banks to stop paying dividends as part of a program to recapitalize the banking system. Today’s mess reminds me of Citigroup’s near collapse in the early 1980s over defauled Mexican loans and implosion of the savings and loans. My fully covered short against the box today was actually a profit taking. Up 20% not including dividends YTD on my success with Fording Canadian Coal Trust and Visa. Seemed prudent to take my profits off the table while retaining the chance to make a bundle shorting should bank stocks totally implode.