Business Week : Five Reasons to Sell, Sell, Sell !!

Business Week ^ | 07/20/2007 | Ben Steverman

[enough_idiocy]

if this starts to be the new MSM meme it’ll happen. they’ve proven to be great to creating self fulfilling prophecies - see the housing market and Iraq as examples.

[.cnI redruM]

So which shares have you shorted and why?

[ChocChipCookie]

No matter how wonderful things look, the good times won't last forever.

Nominee for Stating the Obvious award.

[steve8714]

Heinz would be a good start.

[.cnI redruM]

Yeah, that John Kerry will never quite Ketchup.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’m still in a buying mode for energy stocks.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Stocks are safer storehouses of value than dollars, right now. Bernanke can’t print billions of stock certificates every month. ;)

[BlabItGrabIt]

Watch CNBC and they’ll lay out the future in front of your eyes.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Anyone who might be under the impression that Business Week is a conservative publication just because it has "Business" in its name would be quite mistaken. They have leaned to the left for years.

Caution on the part of investors may be warranted at this point, but BW overlooks, intentionally in my opinion, the biggest hazard: the probable Democrat takeover of the White House, and Dem gains in both the House and Senate after the 2008 election. The Democrats haven't even been subtle about their war on the achievers who fuel the economy. Unless there's a major change in the political landscape -- and, try as I might, I can't see it -- look for a taxation and regulatory nightmare beginning in 2009. And that's what is likely to end, at least for a while, the bull market in U.S. equities.

[cinives]

They just can’t stand the Bush economy :) and need to bring it down so the Dems can win next year.

[org.whodat]

see the housing market

So in your world, over building and over pricing, and bogus appraisal value, when there is no correlation to the time and value of money is the result of the MSM. LOL

[CharlesWayneCT]

Please sell. I’ve got a few years left of buying for my retirement, and it would be helpful if you all could sell all your stocks so I could buy them cheaper.

[CedarDave]

I sold some alternative fossil fuel energy stocks last week —

Though a promising technology, Canadian tar-sands will be saddled with the horrible carbon “tar-baby” syndrome as the energy needed to produce the oil releases a lot of heat and CO2, which is a no-no for the enviro-politicians and will require imposition of additional stiff taxation.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Not if the Canadians retain their normal clearheadedness.

[dakine]

OIH...VLO...

[Veto!]

the biggest hazard: the probable Democrat takeover of the White House, and Dem gains in both the House and Senate after the 2008 election

Right, and a good reminder.

[InterceptPoint]

"The Fed has said, 'We will stop at nothing to defeat inflation,'" says Richard Sparks of Schaeffer's Investment Research.

This is probably a misquote. A more likely version:

"We will stop an nothing, except slowing down the printing presses, to defeat inflation.

[longtermmemmory]

IT'S 1999 AGAIN!!!

WE ARE DOOMED.

MARKETS ARE GOING TO CRASH

AAAAAAAAAhhhhhh


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[Son House]

Right, if everyone else is selling, that sounds like a buying opportunity, and being it’s for retirement account, buying below record levels would be the preference.

The big down turn will be when the Democrat Majority Press will tell us how stupid we were to elect Democrats, who will only raise taxes, and use lawyers to fight terrorist.