• Does this make you feel safe or scared as it relates to social unrest and the potential for geopolitical strife?
  
  
• Particularly given that Emergent Biosolutions (EBS), which develops and produces a vaccine for anthrax, is up 342% this year?
  
  
• That’s a bittersweet hedge, eh? “I’m riiiiiiiii...?”
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• Wasn’t it about a year ago when I went on television and said “I believe we’ve already entered a recession, one that’s been masked by the 40% decline in the dollar and skewed by the spending habits of a slimming margin of society?”
  
  
• And they all but giggled out loud?
  
  
• Is that endemic of shifting social mood and the other side of the immediate gratification, A.D.D. Red Bull society that dominated conspicuous consumption?
  
  
• How much of yesterday’s mess was buyer's fatigue, how much of it is forced selling and how much of it was repositioning into a new month?
  
  
• Why is everyone I grew up with getting older than I am on Facebook?
  
  
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• Even though Citigroup (C) will likely be capped on the front end of double digits, does it become attractive again for a pure trade as it slinks through the ring sizes?
  
  
• Or are we back to "forget the financials as they'll likely be nationalized and there are plenty of other fish in the sea?"
  
  
• The BKX (bank index) and XBD (brokers) were down 17ish% yesterday.
  
  
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• Lou Ashby? Really? After all this time? When she finally showed up?

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