Tim Knight from Slope of Hope's blog

Can you imagine, say, Steve Jobs allocating 30% of Apple's profits - - forever - - to a given charitable cause?

I just saw this exciting offer to enter a contest for the chance to meet Hillary Clinton

Innovative, successful companies are formed due to almost astronomically-unlikely pairings of the right people, at the right time, in the right place. And that place isn't going to be Startup Castle. Promise.

Now a startup shutting down isn't any bigger news than someone finishing a satisfying lunch somewhere, but the "Ferrari" mention intrigued me, so I read further.

 I would like to make my own modest effort to put to rest a trite little phrase that gets trotted out every time silver and gold are getting trashed.

All the comparisons to 2000 seemed a little far-fetched.........until today.

The past six years have transformed my disposition toward the markets from excitement to frustration to despair to disillusionment to sheer tedium.

Just got this in my email, and if this isn't a sign of a top, I don't know what is.

In 2007 we see another dive in correlation as the last high close occurs and fades away. We are again seeing a violation of the sub-60 area.

What's that? It sounds just like Starbucks, Peet's, or any other coffee place on the planet? Yeah, well, I guess you have a point there. But there's a big difference: you have to pay to sit down.

Perhaps, as in 2008, commodities are a very large canary in a very crowded coalmine. I am highly confident Mr. Stockman's prediction about North Dakota is going to come all too true.

 I was always a little curious how much my fair city was spending on these guys, who basically sit on plastic chairs and stare into space all day.

"Oh, he's there to make sure high school kids don't jump in front of a train to kill themselves", I would reply. And you, assuming you come from a place that isn't insane, would be puzzled and appalled at my answer.

A mere 70 million people will have more wealth than 6.93 billion. Thanks, banksters!

Remember, years ago, when the markets were a mechanism for honest price discovery and a gathering place for buyers and sellers to participate in open, unvarnished capitalism?