Bearish Rationale for Shorting the Market
- + Europe is about to enter contagion phase, with Spain standing at-the-ready;
- + The most widely-followed stocks have gone nothing short of parabolic;
- + The United States has a debt that will crush it, sweeping away its present form;
- + The unemployment situation is much worse than the government is letting on, and critically-needed tax revenue can't be faked and redefined by the Feds like the BLS numbers can;
- + Sentiment is at historically bullish levels;
- + Any rational person looking at a long-term chart of the market knows it's phenomenally overpriced;
- + The excesses of the 1990s have been papered over and not legitimately addressed.
Bullish Rationale for Buying the Market
- + End-of-quarter window-dressing, because everyone knows AAPL at $620 is a fantastic bargain.
- + That traitorous scumbag Bernanke will never stray from his dual mandate, which is to (a) sacrifice the future of the U.S. for the ceaseless avarice of his friends; (b) assure his own future's financial fortune at Goldman.
- + Facebook, ba-bee!
