Answers: Will Social Mood Matter?

• Have equities ever been this overbought?
  
  
• Will the alleged insider trading scandal impact an already fragile societal mindset as it relates to investor psychology?
  
  
• Given at least ten more people in the securities industry will be charged as early as this week, according to Bloomberg?
  
  
• How far-reaching will these alleged allegations permeate the financial infrastructure?
  
  
• Corporate America?
  
  
• Corner offices?
  
  
• Hedge fund titans?
  
  
• Where will it end?
  
  
• Or might investors deem this cleansing to be a net positive for the financial process?
  
  
• What if some of the accused players prove that their activities were consistent with the letter of the law?
  
  
• How much of the 6% two-day S&P decline last December was related to the Bernie Madoff news following his Ponzi scheme?
  
  
• Has the path of maximum frustration punishing savers who “did the right thing” arrive?
  
  
• As Minyan Peter points out, while investors were licking their chops over Apple (AAPL), how many paid attention as BB&T (BBT), the first “traditional” bank to report, confirmed that deterioration in credit now permeates every loan category?
  
  
• Are corporate bond spreads the modern day equivalent of irrational exuberance?
  
  
• Or is the government debt bubble still in the middle innings?
  
  
• Does anyone else get the sense that policymakers finally awoke to what Minyans have known for a long time; that a stronger dollar will lead to the death knell of deflation?
  
  
• How were your ice skating skills at nine years old?
  
  
• Have you joined the conversation at Ticker Talk on the Minyanville home page?
  
  
• Which banks will California sue today?
  
  
• Crisis? What crisis?
  
  
• Have you seen yesterday’s newfangled Random Thoughts video?
  
  
• Did you see Citigroup (C) and Bank America (BAC) give up pa nub yesterday afternoon?
  
  
• Is S&P 1120 too obvious?
  
  
• Protectionism? What protectionism?
  
  
• Would a transaction tax (like the one that existed between 1914 and 1966) really shock you?
  
  
• Isn’t this consistent with the real employment conundrum we forecasted in January?
  
  
• What does it say that the same type of pushback received on an optimistic article in March was garnered last week when a more cautious tone was syndicated?
  
  
• Have you locked your spot for our unbelievably fun Festivus to benefit children’s education on December 4th in NYC?
  
  
• Is there anything wrong with a little levity on our time?

R.P.