Jan

31

There was a time when all big hedge fund managers were bearish. And at the close of a month, they sold in mass, with that ululation that only communality and unlimited funds can match. Where have they gone? Not until the last bear has given up, to say the opposite of what the world's worst forecaster Alan Abelson would say, can we expect those glorious days to come again. One must take sustenance until then with Churchill's guidance: "Twenty to 25. (route 95). Those are the years. Don't be content with things as they are. Don't take no for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes (the next day especially). But as long as you are generous (to those who need) and true, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations". (the drift has subjugated them?).

Jeff Watson writes:

And that's a perfect segue to the idea that has the world in it's grip.

Pitt T. Maner III writes: 

A sentence from a recent column by a surprisingly ebullient forecaster:

"But there's the buoyant stock market, which we've typically found to be in good times and bad a better investment guide than the run-of-the-Street strategist or portfolio pro, and regret not having paid it more heed back in the dark, wintry days of 2009, when it began its long slog back from the depths of the Great Recession."

—Alan Abelson, Saturday, January 26, 2013

 


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  1. Michael Tepper on February 1, 2013 2:15 pm

    I just read Paul Johnson’s wonderful (but brief) Churchill biography. That quote captures him so well.

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