The landscape of bear blogs and their brethren in the blogosphere is in a sorry state. Gaze out upon the smoldering ash heaps and witness:
xTrends – once the most popular destination for bearish traders and recipient of thousands of comments per post – – now a virtual ghost town, with perhaps a few posts a month (only one of which is from the chief there) and a smattering of grateful fare-thee-wells in the comments section;
Market Ticker – our beloved Karl, the Don Quixote of the blogosphere, tilting against the insanity that surrounds us but few can see; Karl seems like a mensch, but one wonders when the black helicopters are going to make their landing in Niceville, Florida to take him away for re-education at the Bernanke Center.
noXtrends – shuttered, due to the departure of its most frequent commenter and the fact that their principal target (that would be xTrends) doesn't really offer anything at which one can take pot-shots anymore
Slope of Hope – populated largely with True Believers, but increasingly the home of agonizingly smug bulls who are there to cluck their tongues and pat the poor, misguided heads of the few bears that have survived the past year.
One recalls the suicide note of Abbie Hoffman – "It's too late. We can't win. They've gotten too powerful." Virtually everyone believes this of the satanic Blankfein/Geithner/Bernanke triumvirate. We'll see. Until then, Slope is here to stay, smoldering ashes be damned.
