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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For those who were interested in it,
The Super Bowl was won by the Pittsburgh Steelers with a last second touchdown.
For those who bet the Steelers even though they won the game they still
lost because they did not win by enough points as the Cards cover the evil
spread with its 6 point add on. Over 1.2 billion dollars changed hands based
upon their (the bettors) view of RISK and UNCERTAINY. A perfect zero sum game
with equal winners and losers, almost like the stock market but with smaller
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And what has this to do with this
list, first it is my annual post which all of you ignore, except spike
thank you spike, and of course you are right to ignore it as you are
discussing the American civil war and the social implications of slavery in
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> back in the 1860's. But if you did
not know it and by now you should if you are a viewer of
the marketplace and have opinions concerning that marketplace , you
would see that the Super bowl is a small window of
America's mood not in the 1860's but right now. .</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tickets are 1000 dollars for the
game, and in good years they inflate to 1200 at the door, this year deflation
occurred and they were bought for 700 at the door.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The ads are more important than
the game as they reflect the state of business in this country, but then again
here you fight the civil war, and </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> burns.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Corp parties were cancelled Stock
brokers and manufacturing companies both were absence, normal ad's like
FED EX and such were no where to be found, and the most telling
was of the ad’s was the one for you to send them "cash4gold.com" your gold
earrings which they then would meltdown and send you the cash
for gold that was present in those earrings. Their spokesperson’s were Ed
McMahon and MC Hammer both who filed for bankruptcy.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Unemployment almost double digits
and cars being sold at the employee price, no money down, zero financing, cash
back and 1 basket of apples which you can sell on the corner in your spare time.
But then of course I learned than the civil war was fought because the slaves
were needed to pick cotton, and state rights was just a side
issue.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At this moment in time the world is
de-leveraging 53 trillion dollars of debt caused by unemployed PhD’s who could
not find tenured teaching positions that went to Wall Street and explained
quantum mechanics to Hedge fund managers at Bear Stearns.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Now if you want to discuss football,
or risk or uncertainty or black swan events, with the last one in 2008 that
caused Madoff to blow up, I am all eyes.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But the causes of the civil war, hey
the French are rioting now in Paris in an effort to keep their jobs, the
Irish government just bought bad debt of 24 billion Euros for it's banks and had
to add another 7 billion Euros to stop them from closing the front doors and
could this be the first crack in the EU when nationalism becomes a issue
AGAIN in Europe. Then there is always DAVOS where Russia PM Putin wants five
reserve currencies instead of the dollar, Maybe a discussion that all that
is needed is for the China to invade Taiwan that will take the heat off
America's job market, but worst maybe they will not buy the debt we are issuing
to finance the second new deal.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There is an answer to these times,
but a discussion of the civil war and its causes, my oh my, are you people
out of your league</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Frank</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></FONT></DIV>
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