It is amazing the types of contrived sound and fury we hear on the financial news each day, not to mention the conspiracy theories of all those who love to short the market come up with, yes some are purely delusional, others are market makers and have a stake in the game, while still there are those who make it up as they go for the occasional prime time financial news sound bites. Okay so, let’s discuss all this and what it has to do with the price of rice in China or the stock prices on the NYSE, DOW, or NASDAQ shall we? But first a quick story of something I heard on TV not too long ago.

I’m sorry but I couldn’t keep my mouth shut after I heard the man at Market Watch tell me that Apple will get $ 2000 per share in mid-2014 – “Oh, for Pete’s Sake, give me a chance!” I shouted into the living room! Do you know what that means? That would mean a market cap of something like $2 Trillion, which I might remind you no company has ever achieved, in fact, no company has gotten to $1 Trillion yet. See what I mean?

That kind of reminds me of CALPERS (California Teacher’s Pension Fund) whose brilliant economic forecasters called the stock market to hit 96,000 points by 2075 and as long as everything kept going up at that rate, they’d all be fine. Are you kidding me? No wonder … READ MORE ...