Just a few of our favorite stories from the past week.The Markets: Jeff Saut: Prepare Yourself For S&P 1500 Have stocks peaked? The “warning signals” are everywhere according to this report. Dennis Gartman Just Dumped All Of His Stocks Investors are starting to embrace this rally… but bullish sentiment is still not “extreme” The Economy Dr. Copper’s Economic Prognosis Is Positive Commodities break their downtrend Michigan Begs For $100,000 Engineers After Auto Rebound New-Home Sales Jumped 26% in July, inventory of new homes available 4 sale lowest since data tracking began in ’63 Gen X Bears the Brunt of The Real Estate Bust ‘Globalization makes many workers borderline-replaceable and nothing borderline-replaceable is expensive.’ Your Money So it looks like Morgan Stanley used their mutual fund investors to try to prop up the FaceBook IPO And Now Facebook’s Bankers Are Divvying Up The $100 Million They Made Shorting Facebook’s Stock Let me be the first to say, “nice trade, @peterthiel“ Regulators warn that bad advice is now one of the top threats facing investors So crazy that people buy into this kind of thing time and time again Financial Expert Says Ponzi Scheme Victims Are Just Gullible Brokers aren’t required by law to put your interests first and they’re fighting like hell to keep it that way Warren Buffett seemed happy to back the solvency of certain municipalities… until recently I guess he agrees – “Muni Bonds Not as Safe as Thought” Last chance for 0% tax on some capital gains Is The Collectible Car Market The Place To Put Your Money? LOVE THIS: “The complete cynic’s guide to investing” Miscellaneous Giving In to the Surveillance State: the NSA is building a 1 million square foot facility just to house all the data on YOU Here’s what successful people do with the first hour of their day Meet the man who just bet $5.7 Billion on Obama’s reelection Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8 If Steve Jobs were still alive he could add the values of Microsoft, Intel and Google and still have more than $13B daylight for Apple You know what J.S. Bach’s business model was? Repairing organs for money. The music was usually for free So it turns out Bank of the Cascades lied to regulators about their financial health during the crisis 10 shortcuts for using your iPhone or iPad – I didn’t know half of these Finally, the wristwatch is getting a technology makeover Door Does An Incredible Miles Davis Impression
