From the 1/22 bottom through yesterday, the average stock in the S&P 500 was up 8.96%. We broke the index into deciles (50 stocks in each decile) based on each stock's short interest as a percentage of float and then calculated the average percent change of each decile from 1/22 to 2/4. As shown below, the decile of stocks with the highest short interest was up a whopping 17.1% from the bottom, while the decile of stocks with the lowest short interest was only up 5.3%. This analysis clearly highlights that the most recent gains have come from large amounts of short covering.
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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