{"id":2628,"date":"2008-10-06T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2008-10-07T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T08:38:36","slug":"im-shorting-amalgamated-lint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-shorting-amalgamated-lint","title":{"rendered":"I’m shorting Amalgamated Lint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or does this “Get out of the stock market!”<\/a> rant by Jim Cramer sound even wackier than Gomez Addams’<\/a> call to his broker: “Sell! Sell! — what? everyone’s selling? Then buy<\/em>, man! Buy!”<\/p>\n

Update: Good to see that the NYPost’s financial columnist John Crudele — whose work I really appreciate — agrees with me<\/a>! Plus, when I saw that the stock market made an inexplicable last-hour bounce yesterday, my first thought, <\/em>pace Crudele, was, “Looks like the PPT jumped in<\/a>!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or does this “Get out of the stock market!” rant by Jim Cramer sound even wackier than Gomez Addams’ call to his broker: “Sell! Sell! — what? everyone’s selling? Then buy, man! Buy!” Update: Good to see that the NYPost’s financial columnist John Crudele — whose work I really appreciate — … <\/p>\n

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