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Market Opinion Construction Set

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I think i can save everyone, including newsletter writers, a lot of time. Just choose one item from each of the choices offered and, voila, you too can have a plausible-sounding opinion. Let's light this candle:

The market is going to

(a) continue drifting higher.

(b) meander sideways.

(c) collapse when people least expect it.

There are a couple of reasons for this; first, 

(a) there is a Bradley Turn Date approaching

(b) We are completing the 5th wave of a Grand Supercycle

(c) QE2 has $250 billion more to go

, and second, 

(a) I am 35, which is a Fibonacci number.

(b) sentiment numbers are at all-time highs.

(c) JP Morgan is short half a billion ounces of silver.

If the market violates my prediction, then

(a) we are simply entering an extended fifth and will update you as these waves unfold.

(b) the short-interest in Netflix propelled the market higher.

(c) Steve Jobs has an unexpected stomach ache.

See? There's nothing to it!

Relatively Funny Parody

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Here's the video – the lyrics are beneath:

I'm not young anymore.
And old age is a bore.
I just want some cash fast.
So I'll leech off my past!

We're bringing all the old shit back,
'Cos all the new stuff sounds like crap.
Now buy a vinyl and 8-track,
And join me for a retro fap…

And if the haters do dispute
claiming that we're selling out.
We'll just say it's one big tribute
While our culture…

GETS WORSE!
History repeats!
MUCH WORSE!
Reality retreats
THAT WORSE!
Nothing's getting better!
IT'S WORSE!
So I'll be a childhood peddler!

IT'S WORSE making money off nostallllgiaaaaaaa,
MUCH WORSE, We're clearly all out of ideeeeeeeeeaaaaaas.

Support some tired hasbeens!
Play the same games on new machines!
Relive great films that you've seen!
Like Schindler's List, NOW IN 3D!

Go back to when you were less surly,
Buy this memorabilia
There's no shame in being thirty
And still staying pika-pikaaaaaaa

All this junk is really timeless
Pleasing all our demographs!
From mid to quarter life crisis
Meanwhile our culture…

GETS WORSE! 
Fanboys will unite!
MUCH WORSE!
Unless you're Edgar Wright!
THAT WORSE!
The furries are ecstatic.
IT'S WORSE!
IT'S THERMODYNAMICS! 

WE'RE WORSE!
The hipsters put us there!
MUCH WORSE!
Inside a postmodern nightmare.
THAT WORSE!
We're so desperate for new art…
IT'S WORSE
We put this fruitcake on the charts!

IT'S WORSE i'll put myself into deeeeeebbbbbbt,
MUCH WORSE Buying a car city caaaaaaarpeeeeeeet.
IT'S WORSE Quality new work gets snuuuuuuuubbbbbed,
MUCH WORSE. No one wants to grow the fuck uuuuuuuuuuup!