The market is positively schitzophrenic.
Sent from Android. On Aug 9, 2011 2:33 PM, "Frank Wimberly" <[email protected]> wrote: > Despite the futures you noted, the Dow ended up 430 today. > > > > Frank > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Douglas Roberts > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:00 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Deafening silence re downgrade - > > > > Dow futures are already down 263. It's going to be ugly again tomorrow. > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm staying at the Chico Hot Springs Hotel in Montana tonight, where the > wireless access is iffy, at best. > > > > My take: we're fucked globally, for a while. Think the 2008 recession and > I suspect we'll be in the ballpark. > > > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Strong opinions stated twice. I did not vote for the Tea Party. > > What's your take on this as a global situation? > > > > > > > > Tory Hughes > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > > > > My nickel: we're fucked. Incompetents are running the country, because > the system encourages incompetent ass-kissing, yes-men to rise to the top: > we get what e voted for. Enjoy. > > > > --Doug > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Like many of us, I have been reading a wide range of opinions online about > this, and had been looking forward to the discussion here. > > So what's the sense here? > > My nickel: despite the gloom and doom, the prophecies of the final demise of > the middle class, the unbelievable behaviour by the Tea Party folks- > petulant, arrogant and childish behaviour- overall I am heartened by the > necessity that we attempt to think like a global culture in order to resolve > and upgrade how we operate. > Similarly to the weather: we finally have to confront that this is all one > planet, like it or not: there is nowhere else to go. > > Our engagement now with these two situations - global economics, global > weather - I think will be seen as our watershed moment in a couple hundred > years. I am a designated optimist, so there's that. However, the demand > right now that we work together requires accountability from everyone to > everyone, no one left out anymore. We are overdue for this. I wish it > weren't happening while I was around, but I am around. > Keeping the big picture in mind, not yielding to panic, and reminding people > we've been through difficult times before. > > Stronger opinions re China and the US/West's addiction to their cheaply made > merchandise and to consumerism (especially after Sarbajit's comments re cell > phones), and the Tea Party will wait until I see if anyone picks this thread > up. > Yes, I read Tom Friedman. > > Victoria > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > > > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > >
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