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You decide. O'Reilly put on a story about an illegal alien drunk driving incident. He was preparing to launch a campaign against illegal alien criminals, and to connect this to the immigration civil rights movement, and Geraldo stopped him. That's what this is in my opinion - Brian D. Lichtenstein

Craig Ferguson: I want to sit in this audience if I go to see my brother in California.

Office Depot Commercial.

A huge sell-off lately. IFN (India Fund) down -3.5% to almost 43. I think it is about to tank. I would say buy at 33, or if it doesn't go that low buy at 38. I am giving myself one or two more times to dip into this, and then it is gone. The BRIC index (EEB) is still doing well, but it is down again, I will probably buy more soon. Although the best position I am in right now, far and away, is the EBASX (Eaton Vance Asian Small). It is the only position that I have that I think has unlimited long term potential. They are cracking down on everybody at work. That is bad for me, but its also good that it is everybody, and not just me.

Craig Ferguson

I want to incorporate these words into this article: nuances, talk, don't talk, ask, don't ask, savvy, spin, lie, don't lie, imply, indicate, subliminal, dumb, smart, rich, poor, old money, new money, memory, memorize, social climber, racism, rich, white, elite, the code, the ambiance, the cults, the social clubs, who you are, what you are.

It is the person who can combine the above facets who can succeed in the business world. There are some people who can make it to the top without always asking for things, but once you are at the top, how do you get anything to do anything without asking? Once people reach the top, they are no longer accountable to anyone unless they see fit. But most people are not at the top.

To work your way up from the bottom to the top, is very difficult, and almost impossible. It starts with education, during which time you must be totally accountable, financially independent, and must blot out any fears of doubt, or else you will be left with nothing, and will be back on the bottom.

Many people from the bottom don't learn what the people at the top already know, because they are too busy doing what they need to do. Poor people know nothing of savvy, an usually learn to walk the walk before they learn to talk the talk. Whereas, people who start higher up have been learning to talk the talk, but may never learn to walk the walk.

I am trying to understand whether talking, or walking, is most helpful. Most of these thoughts are right now related to the Apprentice show on NBC. Each show the person who comes from the lower social circle is fired, regardless of ability or talent. As time goes on, I seem to notice that the rich white contestants are favored against the contestants who are less arrogant, and less inclined to dominate socially. What I'm finding is that to work for Donald Trump, you must speak the Trump language. A language with which I have been familiar my whole life. Growing up around market-makers, business people, real estate people, lawyers, and the doctors that cleaned out my ear gunk when I was a kid, I learned a lot about how the upper-class conduct themselves. At this point, those people are now considered old money. Donald Trump is old money, and he speaks the old money language, which is something like this:

1. Don't speak unless your spoken to.
2. You should know when to speak without me asking you.
3. Always be in control.
4. Alienate people who are smarter than you.
5. Don't ever ask me for something, if you want something from me.
6. Talk like a lawyer.
7. Team up against the weak people, and only work with people who are like you.
8. Talk with a lot of financial jargon.
9. Ignore things that are not in your best interest.
10.And don't you ever say too much.

I would that many of the contestants who found success before coming to the Apprentice found it be embracing a more intellectual, and/or new money approach, which is something like this:

1. Do what you are supposed to do.
2. Say what you are supposed to say.
3. Problem solve and formulate ideas.
4. If you don't ask, you don't get.
5. Work at least 8-10 hours a day.
6. Finish your education.
7. Work and acquire money.
8. Start you own business, using your knowledge and skill set.
9. Expand, and dominate, using what you have and making it bigger.
10.Learn to think and act like old money, so that nobody steals your new money.

Gag Reel.

I would say, that of the last 6 years, the biggest scandal has been this recent publicity of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. This includes WMDs, the war, Cheney shooting a man in the face, and the media's coverage of all of this.

First let me say that Hillary Clinton is as much of a degenerate as her husband. I would also say that Barack Obama is a good man. I would also say that neither of these people are presidential candidates.

I don't know much about Barack Obama, except that he is or was an Illinois Senator. I'm from Illinois so I like Obama. I also know that his middle name is Hussein. When I think of destiny, and the fact that Obama's middle name is Hussein, I think of three things:

1)Obama's middle name being Hussein will be the only thing that will stop Americans from voting for Obama.
2)Electing a man with the name Hussein will end up looking like we are as low, or in some way parallel to the Iraqi people.
3)Having a President with the name Hussein will be our greatest defense to the world, because it will catch the international community's attention so much that no one will attack us.

I'm sorry, but I have to go with the first 2, even though I'm from Illinois. The problem I have with Obama is that he seems to be inexperienced, unqualified, and does not have the ability to control a tough government, and a tough world. Very simple, nothing too complicated, I just don't think he knows enough to be President. As far as having a black president, that's fine, but I don't see the point of electing a black president just so that we can have the first black president.

The same goes with Hillary, the first women president. A woman president someday? Fine. But not Bill Clinton's wife. I believe that most Americans think of Bill Clinton, and his wife, as old news. Bill Clinton was an illegitimate President, and his wife is an illigitimate candidate. But the press will convince you that this is not what American's think. I would say that the press is wrong, both liberal and conservative.

I would say that at this point, the biggest fans of Hillary and Obama are definetely are the conservative media. Yes, the Conservative media. I mean what 2 people could be the most perfect unelectable candidates other than Hillary and Obama? They are so perfectly unelectable that the conservative media loves to promote them. The amazing thing is that the liberal media promotes them even more. Why do they do this?

They obviously have no choice. Its great for their ratings, and its also great for their ratings. What I find interesting is that the liberal media actually thinks that they can convince Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama! This is just like the thing with Howard Dean, where the smart media people knew that John Carey would actually end up being the candidate. And that leads me to John Edwards.

John Edwards is the only real Democratic candidate. If their was anything presidential about John Carey's campaign, it must have been John Edwards. I would say that Edwards may be a bit of a wise guy, but at least he has the balls, and the heart to run on poverty. I mean, what Presidential Candidate would not run on poverty at this point. The media seems to think that average Americans do not care about poverty. That's funny considering the fact that all average Americans are poor. I think the conservative media is scared to death of John Edwards.

Here's his website:
http://johnedwards.com/about/john/

Borat Jokes.

Ninety-Nine Percent is not enough. Unless, you're able to "not take it." A month ago I believed that Donald Trump was erroneous, and that his style is not the way to do business. Belligerent, abrupt, never taking it, never giving in. During the Rosie O'Donnell thing, Trump told Bill O'Rielly there are two kinds of people in this world, people who take it, and people who don't take it. I thought this was overstated, because I felt that if you are able to be a good person and a good employee 100% of the time, you will not put yourself in a situation where you will be challenged.

One hundred percent, maybe, but if you're not one hundred percent, you better be able to defend yourself, because employers will only be willing to put up with 99% for so long. Let me bring this into context:

1) When I first got hired at Office Depot, it was just an idea, I was a walk-in applicant. But I felt that there was something about that store that suited me. It was low-profile, low-volume, understaffed, less awkward that working for a supermarket, or Walgreens, or Walmart. A store that was a business store, an office store, with a certain among of basic positions open, that did not require too much skill.

2) The first manager was an anxious prick. He liked me because I interviewed well. He put me in copy and print center, where I trully paid my dues. It was a hard position, and at the time where I could no longer take it, I was moved to cashier because they needed a cashier at the time. Since then, I have been the only cashier, except our main cashier who works in the morning. You heard it right, thats two cashiers, and that's for about the last 2 years.

3) The first manager pushed my to smile, and smile, and ask for the rewards card. At that point I was unable to do any of these things becuase I was very much disturbed at this point. Stuck living at home, still recovering from past experiences.

4) The first manager left.

5) The second manager was a Home Depot guy. A tall guy, less business oriented, more of a floor guy. He was stupid. Since he was stupid, he was unable to realize that I was smart, and that created a problem for me. I was able to drag myself through my first year's review be convincing them that I was smiling and asking for the rewards.

6) The second manager left.

7) The third manager was another anxious prick. A carbon copy of the first manager, only a little more personable, and a little bit better. He is not stupid. This was good for me, as he was able to recognize that I had already been previously disciplined, and that I was the only cashier on the night shift. Since he has been here I have given about 99%, and that was great, until it wasn't great.

8) I recently got scammed on a $1,000 credit card purchase. The manager chose NOT to write me up. Yes, he chose not to write me up. The other day I made a key error, that caused an item to be retured twice, one time at .09, and one time at $187.99. The .09 was because I meant to mark the item as Saleable (9-saleable), and I forgot to delete the nine cents. I realized what I had done, and consulted with one of the managers on duty, who did not do anything about it, or at least until he was asked to once corporate caught the mistake. So now, I'm written up. Not for the credit card fraud, but for the returned merchandise. It also showed that I sold a donation item on my employee number, but it couldn't have possibly been me. I pretty much took the blame for the penny item, even though it was not my fault. But I'll tell you what I didn't do:

9) I didn't "take it." Instead of cowering in my corner, and allowing the manager to threaten to take me off the register (which he might end up doing if I don't give 100%), I told him that I have a review next month in February, and that I think my job performance is SO much better than the previous year. I also told him dead to his face, that I am the only employee who asks for the rewards, and that I am the only employee who stays at the register. As I went on with this 30 second rant, I told him that just because I'm being oppositional, doesn't mean I'm not listening, and that I thought I could easily do what he was asking. What I basically did, as Don the front end manager watched in awe, was that I told the store manager that I can do what he's asking me to do, but also that I have been doing all of the other things that I have been asked to do in the past. I told him that I ask for the rewards card 99% of the time.

10) Was me using the 99 percent language taking it too far? Or was I just successfully "not taking it." I saw on the apprentice, one of the girls told Donald Trump that she was doing a certain task 99% of the time. She was not fired. Also this is a different situation because I have consistently been up-selling for the past year, whereas this girl on the Apprentice was asked to do something for 1 day.

11) The conclusion that I can come to is that the 99 percent excuse will work, as long as I give 100% from here on in.

12) Because of my father always giving 110%, I have only had to give about 90% for most of my life, but things change.

13) Also, my father went to visit my little brother at one of his games, and my mother blasted him in public. Should my father take this? or not take this? I would have to say that I have absolutely no idea.

Darell Hammond

What does Borat do? The word, and the only word to describe what he does is "satire." Its funny to distinguish between the news people, and the fake people who impersonate the news people on Saturday Night Live. In fact, I think pretty much any impersonation is funny if done well. So many people are so different from so many other people, that it is funny when someone points out an attribute of another person in the form of an impersonation. I think the best person out there is Darrel Hammond who impersonates Donald Trump, Chris Matthews, Jimmy Carter, Donald Rumsfeld, Bill Clinton and others.

I wonder if someone who is able to impersonate someone so well, must be smarter or as smart as that person to be able to be able to do a good impersonation. Take Steve Bridges, the George Bush impersonator, who does as good of a Clinton as he does Bush. (SteveBridges.com) But Borat does not do impersonations aside from the few he does in the 4 or 5 fictional characters he plays. A lot of the intelligent government people who he interviews on the Ali G show, are, for some reason, not intelligent enough to realized they are being spoofed.

I get a kick out of myself at work, where I constantly poke fun at all the latino immigrants who work in the kitchen. They are so easy to impersonate because the accent is always the same, and the language is so simple. I basically do exactly what Borat does by picking away at the language and the gestures they use to the point where they actually look forward to seeing me, cause they never know what I'm going to say next. For a while they used to call me "Nacho Libre," as in the Jack Black movie, but I put an end to that by saying I am "tortilla libre," no nacho.

Check out Darrel Hammond impersonating Donald Trump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2f8TMLbxok&mode=user&search=

Also see my article on Trump, Rosie, and Barbara below.

I'm trying to understand this whole crying at work thing? In Dane Cook's last stand up on HBO, he did a whole 5-10 minutes on crying at work. He was talking about working in an office, during a hard time in your life, and just feeling like you just want to cry, but you can't because your at work. So you wait until your home until you cry. He also talked about looking in the mirror at how sad you look, which I think we've all done.

My boss at my delivery job reported, to me, that during a meeting with the upper management, they asked him a question about how his store was doing and he just started crying. I asked him if the people at the meeting started to question him? And he said, "Yeah." He also told me that he had just broken up with his fiancee, and that he has been prescribed medication.

My judgment about him, is that he's broke, stuck at a dead end job that pays decent, but not nearly enough to ensure any kind of a financial future, or the means to support a significant other. See my article on the Suicide Retail Index. This thing with the meeting is a situation where he was caught off guard.

The emotional chaos of having just lost his girlfriend, being in a mid-life type of crisis, leading the life of being an adult manager of a restaurant, and being confused about basically everything in the world, not to mention an alcohol problem, and the fact that his father was incarcerated while he was a child.

What I'm getting at is that he should have done his crying before the meeting, or should have waited after the meeting to collapse. The problem is that he didn't realize that he was about to lose it, and should have realized that earlier, so that he could have lost his mind in private, and not in front of management.

The whole crying at work thing has never happened to me. The reason I think is because I do not have a pressure-cooker type of job. I do not feel like I have to live outside of my skin at work, because the tasks I perform are pretty basic.

This whole thought came to me thinking about my younger brother who just got his first real job, and just closed a deal on refinancing a $100,000 loan for a client. He called me in haste to tell me about it. Instead of just complimenting him, I also told him to calm down, and that I know he has never done anything like this before. He has been through so much trauma in his life, and I'm worried that he might get caught off gaurd and feel like "crying at work."

I want to restore some of my memory of college by commenting on some of the great sociology classes that I took. My father once told me, "get a good liberal arts education." But I never understood why they called it liberal arts. I didn't understand until I started watching the news. Most conservative news shows are bigoted, socially ignorant, and dare I say "racist." Whoo ahhh, racist. I remember Lou Dobbs telling Bill Maher, "I urge people to be extremely cautious when using the word racist."

Why is that? Lou Dobbs. Because if we used the word racist, everyone would call Lou Dobbs a racist. Everyone would call Bill Orielly a racist, and would call everyone who is anti-immigrant racist. And guess what, They'd be right. I mean common! (sounds like something Orielly would say....common!)

Let me simplify this by talking about the immigration issue, and the english language issue, and the secular progressive issue, and the income redistribution issue. They sound like liberal issues. Maybe liberal in the sense of liberal arts, but not in the sense of leftist, or SP, or far left- liberal. The word "liberal" is used by conservatives to pin point a small group of people, mostly in the media or politics, who don't really even exist in the big scale of things.

I'm talking about liberal in terms of humane, humanitarian, prolific, and socially correct. Let me think back to a race relations class I took at Vermont. The professors name was Moustafa, and was African. He basically talked about separating race from labeling people. He believed that schools should cater to young students of different languages, and that different languages should be taught in school.

What I'm getting at is that the media paints everything as white, and as business, and you know they do. You cant look at Lou Dobbs and Pat Bucanan, and all these people and tell me you agree with them. I mean Common......

Market Reflux-

If there was an index for the amount of retail employees that commit suicide, I think it could soar higher than gold, energy, or anything. As the purchasing power of the dollar decreases, retail associates all struggle to survive. I care not to go into detail on what I mean exactly, but let me comment vaguely on the problems created by working retail. Lets start with managers:

Young managers: are offered petty pay to perform tasks at a rigorous level, for which they barely get acknowledged. Most acknowledgment comes in the form of a write up, when managers are pegged for a technicality that they had no control of. These managers are drained by the burden of the job, and these people have a great deal of difficulty finding a way into a higher paying career, especially when they have been with the company for a long time, it is a vicious circle.

College and High School Kids: Working retail at a young age is a good experience. However I hate to say that even exposure at a young age can end up causing kids to resort back to retail once they leave school. Also, retail can be stressful on students who are in school, because you are not left with enough energy or time to complete your work.

Poor Folks: Immigrants, inner-city people, and most of the people you find working at the register and stocking the aisles have no guarantee of any financial future at all. I think that much mental illness occurs as a result of people feeling like there will never be a financial reward for the hard work they put in, and that they will never get a break. I must say that retail can be a great job for people with mental illness, assuming they can get some form of financial and emotional support to help them progress into a raise, or hopefully a much more prosperous life.

Market Reflux-

This should be a short one. As I predicted, the foreign markets bounce up again. I still believe that they will go lower. The largest problem still lies with China, and some traders will actually be shorting that fund. I must also recognize a problem with India, which effects me, as I own IFN (a india ETF traded in the US). India is high, as in China. The problem with India is not only that it is impacted by China because they are in a similar region, but also because the Indian Stock Market the SENSEX operates separately from the U.S. Market. The last correction occurred in may and june, and happened so fast you could barely blink. The market then immediately recovered, and rose to where it was before. There has been a small sell-of in the last few days. Although it has only returned to "where it was," I still feel as though the momentum does not look favorable at all. IFN, for some reason, did not recover from the correction as well as the market itself, and now I will probably have to load up one or two more times, before I probably set a limit order around $48.

Check out the SENSEX and IFN at:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^BSESN&d=t

and

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ifn

I am bothered by this feud between Rosie O’Donell and Donald Trump. I am most concerned about the psychological effect that this will have on the public. I am also curious as to who of the culprits in this scandal are the most mentally disturbed themselves.

To bring you up to speed, this problem started by Rosie mocking Donald for pardoning Ms. USA. Obviously Donald Trump is not a moral compass, but is he maybe in some ways? I would say NO. Donald then attacked back on TV. Barbara Walters called Trump, and told him that she did not like Rosie, in attempt to defuse this situation. At first Donald did not go public with what Barbara actually said, but that has changed recently. To make a long story short, Trump is trying to create chaos between Rosie and Barbara, so that Barbara is forced to terminate Rosie.

This is basically Trump, attempting to “fire” someone on National Television, as he will be doing over and over again when the Apprentice premiers this next week. So the psychological question is: Do Americans often feel as though they are being fired by Donald Trump whenever something goes wrong in their lives or careers? Does Donald Trumps show inspire and teach people what it takes to be successful in the world, or his he creating a sort of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), onto the people he fires, and the community who watches his arguably sociopathic behavior, and dominating egotistical style as it feeds into their living rooms?

I would say it is about neutral. I would say that the impact of the Apprentice is neither bad, nor good. Overall, I would say that Donald Trump himself, has a negative impact on society. It should be recognized that he himself is a spoiled brat, and that he did not come from nothing, as he inherited a great deal of money from his family. He does show that it takes courage to succeed in the business world, but there are so many other role models that could serve this role so much better. Take Will Smith, in Pursuit of Happiness. He showed that while trying to solicit accounts from high powered companies, it takes a sincere approach, and high frantic level of studying, working, and making phone calls, without taking time to over-drink and go to the bathroom, and to not hang up the phone in between making calls.

The most important psychological point that I want to make here is the following. The pressure put on society by people like Donald Trump effects different people in different ways. I would say that the most basic examples are the following three:

1. To rich successful people, Donald Trump is great entertainment.
2. To successful young adults trying to better their careers, Donald Trumps impact may be positive or negative.
3. To poor, unsuccessful people, Donald Trump’s antics are distressing, and abusive. I do believe that he is capable of driving people into feeling doubtful about themselves, and that this worsens people’s mentalities about themselves and their careers. I will not go so far to say that there have never been any poor people saved by Donald Trump and his business plan, because there are probably some.

Check out Darrel Hammond impersonating Donald Trump at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2f8TMLbxok&mode=user&search=

Also see my article on Borat above.

Market Reflux-

I was thinking about George Bush, and the fact that he has been going around promoting his IPod. He was quoted as mentioning his IPod on David Letterman's "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches," and also read the names of the artists on his IPod to Brit Hume of Fox News in a recent interview. I noticed that most of the names of these artists were songs from the baby-boomer era, Beach Boys, etc. But why doesn't he have any rap music on his IPod? Perhaps his old fashioned mentality helps him in decision making as a world leader. I would like to say, that I am not anti-bush.

Speaking of Apple and it's electronic sector, Steve Jobs has renamed Apple Computer to Apple, Inc. This is because Apple is becoming more of consumer electronics company as opposed to a computer company. They will now be releasing the IPhone, and will be entering into the cell phone business. The stock was up 8.31% today, AAPL 92.57(7.10, 8.31%)

As I predicted, the emerging markets and China continues its sell off today. China (FXI) was down -4.45% FXI 104.20 (-4.85, -4.45%), BRIC Index EEB 30.17 (-0.93, -2.99%), and EEM 108.55 (-2.48, -2.23%). I still think that China FXI will go below 100, for a period of time, or perhaps will develop a short term resistance point at 100. The other problem is that the Diversified fund EEM, is also developing, or maybe breaking out of a resistance point at 100 as well, as you can see above.

I would say buy more tomorrow, and that this has been a significant part of the correction. It may bounce up before it goes lower again, but I do think that China FXI is due to go as low as 90, and EEM could go as low as 95.

Apple, Inc. (APPL)- Do not buy apple. It is way to high. I do not own an IPod, nor do I own Apple computer, and I will not buy the Apple phone when it comes out. I do not believe in Apple products, and do not believe in Apple stock. I would say sell APPL (Apple, Inc.).

See the Apple Article about Apple, Inc:

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/finhome/topstories/apf/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070109/apple_macworld.html?.v=44

Market Reflux-

Today I got scammed by a man who stole a credit card from a lady's purse at Bailey's and came and purchased a $1,000 Flat Screen at Office Depot. I processed the transaction, and am waiting to see if I will be written up or terminated.

I was tempted to blame this lapse of attention of mine on this blog that I have created, and that thinking about the blog was distracting me from stopping this crook from robbing my job. However, I have chosen to continue with the blog, if only for therapeutic reasons:

While I was pacing at work, I thought of a new theme: CNBC, "Stop Watching!"

Cramer says "Stop Trading!", I say "Stop watching CNBC!"
If you want to be on the floor without being on the floor, watch CNBC. Obviously, CNBC is an essential tool for many pro's, but I find it erroneous, distracting, and confusing. CNBC covers the market, like the paparazzi on the Brangelina Baby, and Paris and Britney.

Media coverage of the market is, "a beast that needs to be fed," as is coverage of the war on terror. Oh, and I was thinking, I think now would be the best time for liberals to try and bring Saddam back, especially now that he's gone, but back to CNBC.

Cramer is obviously erroneous, and his show is on CNBC. However, I would endorse some shows on the market, such as the bulls and bears, and the Cost of Freedom on FOX News Channel. This is a show that is mostly aired on the weekend, with a limited amount of information and recommendations. In fact, the last time I watched this show they were actually recommending the emerging market indexes, including EEM Emerging Index, EWZ Brazil, ILF Latin America, as well as mexico its self. The man who recommended these funds at Fox is called "Chart Man," which I find amusing. See my last article, on how everyone is a chartist.

I hope to spin this problem at work into something good, assuming I'm not terminated. I intend to pay more attention to detail, and be more thorough in my work.

Market Reflux-

Are ETFs retail products? Will the emerging markets indexes lose steam? Are these fake indexes?

All I know is, the more products they come out with, the more real it becomes. Marketmakers continue to mastermind lists of big companies with large market capitalization. It seems fascinating that every single fund chart connects to every other index chart in its category, and every chart for a given region tends to connect to the top 3 holdings of that fund or index.

Is everyone a chartist now?
YES!!!

A share price means nothing if you do not look at where that share price falls in a fund’s chart. Looking at a share value price one day after another gets you nowhere, you have to look at the chart. Then you will easily know where the next peak is, and the next valley.

Look at the china chart, it gradually became almost inverted in the last couple months. If you look at that chart, anyone could spot that correction coming. And of course it is down 10% for the new year, as Cramer so brilliantly wrote, “stop trading!“ Anyone can look at a chart, and that includes Cramer.

Cramer is a quack for recommending anything but funds or ETFs at this point. So where do you buy? There is plenty of potential for huge moves in emerging markets.

Everything is high now. India way to high. China way too high. Brazil High. Russia who knows?

But what if you can combine them, or blend them? Well that’s what we hope the market-makers continue to do. Over, and over, and over again. The hottest new index is the BRIC index EEB, which has soared and probably helped and will continue to help this blend of indexes. It was down 1.00 (3.23%),EEM 3.32(2.92%), ILF 4.35 (2.59%),FXI 6.35 105.95 (5.65%) Jan 4.

Eventually, china will be a 100 dollar index, but not yet. Even though it has gone over 100 in the last month. It will go below 100, and I would watch the chart as it falls apart. The chart is definitely ready to correct, and this could perhaps cause a bigger correction in the diversified emerging markets than was expected. A correction began in the last two days. But I think it will be a short correction, although China will probably drag it farther, and we’ll have to see how this china bubble bursts and recovers.

See these articles:

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/tsmfe/SIG=121nc23t9/*http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/funds/stoptrading/10331018.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/SIG=12qplpc4h/*http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/emerging-markets-funds-could-see-strong/story.aspx?guid={C5BF1EDD-9260-4974-B652-AACFAA26BF8A}&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/mfool/SIG=127a40ig6/*http://www.fool.com/investing/etf/2007/01/03/a-big-year-for-etfs.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/tsmfe/SIG=126q8hg8f/*http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/investing/10330674.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
http://biz.yahoo.com/ifunds/061213/20061213_eem_com_etf_jb.html?.v=3

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/tsmfe/SIG=126q8hg8f/*http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/investing/10330674.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA