As Americans await the arrival of a new administration in Washington, investors are worrying whether the financial system is again in the danger zone.
With the stock market plunging and the credit market entering a new freeze, cries are being heard for a new government intervention to prop up major financial institutions before President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
“We can’t get from here to Feb. 1 if the current ”˜who’s in charge?’ situation continues,” said Robert Barbera, the chief economist of ITG, an investment firm, arguing that Congress should adopt a stimulus package, including temporary tax cuts, as rapidly as possible. Instead, he said, Washington seems paralyzed.
Read it all from the front page of this morning’s New York Times.
RE: “Investors Cry for More Intervention”
We are?
Who?
Where?
The New York Times?
Certainly not me. And I’m an investor.
Cheerio and good hunting at the bottom Sarah! See you at the top [he said with a knowing grin]. I am already nibbling in anticipation. It’s like the ketchup commercial…it’s keeping me waiting. I am waiting for real capitulation and a real bottom to form, and then:
“With cat like tread, Upon our prey we steal; In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel. No sound at all, We never speak a word,
A fly’s foot-fall Would be distinctly heard – Tarantara, tarantara! So stealthily the pirate creeps, While all the household soundly sleeps!”
There is a fortune to be made here.
I think the bottom, let alone the top, is yet some time away.
True, #3, true. That’s what I meant about ketchup…it’s keeping me waiting.