I have never enjoyed watching the banal and torturous State of the Union Address. This changed last night with the Slope Mystery Science Theater peanut gallery firing off live observations. Nice work!
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Much Ado About Nothing
Here's your guide to the day's Bernanke Vote events, for those who weren't hanging on to every tick:
1. Skittishness and nervousness about the remote possibility of Bernanke not getting confirmed.
2. Excitement and anticipation of the cloture vote and, moments after, the vote to re-confirm.
3. Bernanke is overwhelmingly voted in to a 2nd term, and the market inexplicably doesn't give a flying fig.
Buy the rumor and sell the news continues to hold sway.
Blink Count
I don't think I've ever watched as much C-SPAN as I have today, since the Bernanke matter is being decided. For old's time sake, here's a quick laff:
Harry Boxer’s Charts of the Day
Universal Consensus
