Another Not-Quite-a Linkfest, filled with random holiday weekend linkage . . . ~~~ INVESTING & TRADING ??? How to stop the next bubble (Prospect) ??? Markets calling Bernanke's bluff (Reuters)    ??? The aughts are well on their way to being the worst decade for stocks since 1930-40 The return on the S&P 500 was negative for the decade that ended on June 30. (Marketbeat) ??? Lesso...

Yesterday's Bear is Back table was re-envisioned and reformatted as a chart by Jake: via Jake I don't really buy breaking the 2000 Crash into 2 pieces, but that's how it was done in the table . . ....

I forgot to mention yesterday that some recent comments were picked up in Barron's The Trader column this week:"While the bear market could persist (as this week's cover story warns), the stock market's worst June in 78 years -- and its worst first half since 1970 -- have encouraged bargain hunters looking for at least a short-term bounce.They were egged on by a few signs: Large-cap indexes ha...

Here is an odd little Fourth of July weekend data point.  I didn't realize how much of the West is essentially empty Federal Lands. > via Strangemaps Political maps of the USA seem skewed by the West, which is mostly Federal Land. Turn that into neither Red or Blue, and you get a country that has been fairly evenly divided. That seems to be changing this year . . .  ...

Regarding the prior post (Barron's: The Bear's Back), Jason writes in to remind us that: "Barrons had a bull at the pool, on the Cover a few months ago and almost 2000 points ago too." Then the Bear this week...holy moly...who's zooming who?" We noted the article that Jason was referencing back in April: Professional Money Managers Are Bullish. The most interesting part of the survey...