It seems clear that a large number of folks have departed reality and intead gone rather insane. Oh Well!

Here I see a lot of predictions that may be good for wall street and the financial weasels but bad for almost everybody else. And the federal reserve individuals will be happy because they will have provided the inflation that their friends need to keep getting richer. Pardon me for not cheering.

Comcast is the only cable company that I am aware of that had to change their name because of their bad reputation.

OK, VL, This article loses me. That may be exhaution, or something else, not sure..

I think that thi might be quite educational. Except that I got lost.

A always, VL, well written, informative, and interesting. It will be interesting and possibly exciting to see how the dealings with China develop. My observation, after spending a year there one month, is that with one technically literate generation China will be an equal world power, at least financially. The only possible way to prevent that is to have all of their labor become members of either the UAW or the Teamsters unions, and contantly demand more money and less work. Yes, I am aware that this is dirty fighting at it' very worst. But that is what it would take to win.

The source of the problem is that the fools handing out the money are giving most of it to the people who are not suffering hardships at all. Certainly there are some folks who do desperately need help, But the INCREDIBLY STUPID choice was "to be fair" and give lots of money to everybody. ( That is so very California). The result i an incredible amount of debt created without delivering the intended benefit. In addition, a secondary result was much less money for those folks with actual hardships. And the third result is that a whole lot of money, many millions at least, was given to criminals stealing it by means of fraud. Thus future generations are now saddled with trillions of dollars of debt before they are born, AND the poor folks are having the purchasing power of whatever they have eaten away by the inflation caused by all of that free money.

So the biggest problem presently is that the financial people are purposely doing the wrong things every time. I assert that it is intentional because nobody could possibly be that stupid that they would believe it was the correct choice. Thus I conclude that they have an entirely different agenda.

Certainly this is interesting, and the cautions against Bitcoin totally reasonable. Any form used to represent wealth without any physical value, and that can be generated by hackers with computers, is grossly suspect. It Bitcoin certainly ha the smell of bogus wealth, at least.

The predictions about inflation,and the assertions as to what it already has cost certainly rational, given the known effects of printing tons of excess money, no matter what the purpose is. Slow poison is just a deadly, it simply takes a lot longer to kill, but the result are just as dead.

So thank for an interesting and educational, although depressing, article.

An interesting history of Wells Fargo and certainly an interesting analysis shared with us. The explanations of Why, instead of just What make it both useful and educational.

So now let's hope that the new management does indeed succeed in avoiding those same mistakes a those before them. Sometimes the propensity to really "screw-up" is part of a company culture. Hopefully not here at this time.

Confusion here because a second analyst sets a price target of $29. The appearance is that they are not on the same page, maybe not even in the same book. Evidently the "price target" is rather volatile presently.