Want to Double Your Money? Fold it in Half!

I am feeling a bit better today, but that is not saying much. I probably should have taken today off from work, but I thought it would be better to be up and about. Great idea.

In the Money?
Tonight in the Massachusetts Lotto game Mega Millions, the jackpot is around $315 Million dollars! When lotto jackpots get over $100 Million I always buy 20 quick picks just in case. When I win I will handle it very calmly.

I plan on blowing about a million in Vegas, handing out millions to my close friends (there are not many) and with the rest I would try and get either Josh Brown or chessNwine to manage for me. It's all planned out. Wish me luck.

JP Morgan and Silver - The Story Never Ends
I do not want to get all into this issue, either you believe JPM has silver games going or you don't. I do. For some interesting commentary I would point you to today's post over at The Golden Truth:
The COMEX goes "Extend and Pretend" on JP Morgan's Paper Silver Short
Whatever you think about the JPM/silver connection the move to allow JPM fast track access to silver storage (by the CME) cannot be dismissed as nothing.

Market Operations
I was ill most of the week, but I did open some positions:
-On Tuesday ,after something my wife said
put an idea in my head, I went long SHW (Sherman Williams) and RPM (RPM International). I also bought TAN (solar ETF) but that was a rip off of chessNwine.
-On Thursday as I waited for my doctor's appointment I went long YGE (a solar company) again ripping off sir Chess, and KCG (Knight Capital) which was a chart I liked before and I wonder if all the volatility and trading volume might just make it's way to their next earnings report.

As always, not investment advice. Just telling you what I am up to.

Friday Night Entertainment
Some non-financial related items for a change of pace.

Old but Weird
Somehow I do not think this was the original title for Mary Wollstonecraft's book "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman":

see more Historic LOL

Now I want to bowling after seeing this vintage ad:

see more Very Demotivational
Sometimes I get this feeling that the 1950's were more fun than people think.

Fishing Flu
I may be sick, but it is that time of year to get ready for fishing season! Time to buy a license and do that most sacred of all outdoors man ceremonies; cleaning your gear and buying new stuff!

It may be a bit before I can get out there, all the snow has raised the Merrimack River to dangerous levels for a Kayak and the cold meltwater may delay the fish waking up. Here are a few posts that show EonomicDisconnect out on the water. There is even a post with a real picture of me! I still am able to remain anonymous/mysterious/afraid to show my face:
Quabbin Reservoir 1
The Mighty Merrimack
The Kayak Rigged for War
Quabbin Reservoir 2
Can't wait to get back out there.

Film Clips
Well sort of.

I just got the new Star Wars book "Deceived" by Paul Kemp via Amazon. This novel covers the origins of the upcoming game "Star Wars: The Old Republic". If you have not seen the game trailer, well you should remedy that:

SICK! Better, clearer version here. Second trailer here.

One of my favorite scenes of all time: Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) embeds the mythical sword Excalibur into the stone (skip to 1:50 mark on):

That rocks I don't care who you are.

Rock Blogging
Low on energy, low on concentration, but EconomicDisconnect always delivers on Friday night.

The last time I had "Green River" by Creedence on, I also featured a DNA based puzzle in this post. Check out the puzzle and see if you would like more, and of course check out this tune:

Love that tune.

The yearly appearence of "Libera Me":

So nice.

Ok, for all you "Princess Bride" maniacs out there (I am one of many, 'My name is legion for we are many') here is "My Love is Like a Storybook Story" by Willy Deville:

Mega points for who can source the quote above.

Still going strong, Bon Jovi with "Who Says You Can't Go Home":


Two left and that's it.

Please enjoy Anthrax with "Black Lodge":

HA, you had no idea they could play that kind of tune!

Last call!

Closing up shop with Depeche Mode and "Wrong" with a great live show:

See I can stay off the heavy metal at times!

Have a good night.

Another Mixed Bag

I am not sure where the time went, but I am a little late getting to the blog. A few things to look over.

They Seem Confident
At 7:35 am this morning I saw this headline over at Yahoo Finance and I knew I had to capture it for later in the day:

They seemed confident of a Wall Street up day! Why not? It is Monday after all.

I figured this would happen so I sent the link home; here is the address I copied:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/European-stocks-gain-ahead-of-apf-1007474471.html?x=0

When I punch it in now this is what I get:
US housing data weigh on world markets
Interesting, yes? I love this kind of stuff.

Throttle Linkage
Way short on time so here is the obligatory linkfest. Use the comments to give me a writing idea, I need inspiration!

Illusion of Prosperity highlights a nice article titled:
America's AAA Rating Is Cut in Land of Bubbles: William Pesek
Well worth a look!

Econbrowser struggles with how the FED can fight deflation and seems to come up a bit short on new ideas:
Fighting deflation

Clusterstock opens a can of worms with this post:
An Economic Recovery With High Unemployment Isn't So Crazy If Laid-Off Workers Weren't Producing Anything To Start With
Look out! Instant flame-a-thon sure to ensue. Still, worth a few minutes of reflection as there is merit to this line of thinking.

Zero Hedge item with great title:
McKinsey Study Confirms Sellside Analysts Are Conflicted, Slow, Biased And Generally Stupid
Stuff the people here would already be aware of, but still:

In what will come as a surprise to precisely nobody, a new study by McKinsey has confirmed that sellside analysts were "typically overoptimistic, slow to revise their forecasts to reflect new economic conditions, and prone to making increasingly inaccurate forecasts when economic growth declined."

Indeed.

Stoneleigh of The Automatic Earth has another wonderful essay up that relates to what can happen to trade given deflation and credit collapse:
The Rise and Fall of Trade

Over at the Keg boards a member used this quote from "Bladerunner" and it has been sticking with me all day long:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die."

Little did I know the Tanhauser Gate was used in other films as well. Learn something new every day.

Have a good night.