CYRUS : THE HAPPY VIRUS

yo! ... host with the most... innit!

well hello..

palookaville..

jus wanna say..

how y'all doin..

so happy to be here..

with y'all tonight..

me an the wife..

we've travelled the world ..

to be here with ya..

in your very own..

throats

TIME TO TOAST THE HOST

we'd lak ta thank y'all..

fo hostin these..

virus games

MAN WE WAS NOWHERE

we was jus chillin out..

slummin it..

with the other animals..

in a wet market..

in china..

ALONG CUMMA VIPER

and bingo..

we was reinvigorated..

an movin an shakin..

innna..

local human throats..

for ya knew it..

we was outta there..

an traveling the world..

by airplane..

first class.. innit!

THE HELPING HAND

we all wanna thank all you..

palookas..

fo the many..

helping hands..

you have shaken..

to help us all spred..

could not have got..

where we are now..

without you..

PARTY TIME AGAIN

we love ta party..

cos you love ta party..

we love ta boogie..

on saturday nights..

wanna thank alla politicos..

fo turnin..

a blind eye..

fo not buyin..

all those pesky..

masks and visors..

PPE shit..

that stuff really sucks..

if y'all had been..

in full PPE kit..

the virus games..

could never have been played..

DEEP THROAT

we love ta live..

in yo throats..

we gets ta eat better..

an drink better..

an the sex is wonderful..

we could not have found..

a better partner..

for these games..

y'all jus love ..

ta travel..

an hug an kiss..

and sing..

an shout..

this all has..

happened so very fast..

CLIMATE CHANGE

no need ta thank us..

for the cleaner air..

the empty roads..

the fall in greenhouse..

emissions..

the fall in crime..

the time off work..

or the wall ta wall..

binge sets..

y'all..

love ta watch..

IT'S BEEN A BALL

the virus games..

are out playing..

all other sports..

tv ratings..

are through the roof..

it ain't a stretch..

ta say..

we have brought the whole world..

to a standstill..

Man we was lonely
Yes we was lonely

 
And we was hard pressed to find a smile

 
Man we was lonely
Yes we was lonely

 
But now were fine all the while

DESPERATELY SEEKING SYMPTOMS

yo!... testing times... innit! 

in palookaville today..

the world as we knew..

it has ended

DON'T TEST DON'T TELL

is over..

the cat is now..

well an truly..

outta a bag..

GERMANY 5 ENGLAND 0

in the crazy, dystopian,..

3D chess board..

of the virus games..

it turns out that the previous policy..

DON'T TEST, DON'T TELL

is dead..

and that now is the time..

to take our heads out of the sand..

and seek out..

WTF is going on..

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going..

because you might not get there.

 it would appear that the virus..

does not go away..

if you hide from it..

and that chasing it around..

and walking back the duck..

helps to fight the spread..

NO SPREAD, NO DEAD

what the world needs now..

is..

singing detectives..

detect stuff..

an share it..

the boffin community..

will work better..

with more information..

especially..

if it's good info, timely info, accurate info..

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT, IT CONTAIN IT

We made too many wrong mistakes.

shudda followed singapore..

In Singapore..

one of the first places hit by coronavirus..

detectives are tracking down potential positive cases to try to stay one step ahead of the virus..

How did they do this and is it too late for the rest of the world? 

ONE STEP AHEAD, ONE STEP BEYOND

beyond reckless, beyond stupid..

so far here..

it's the keystone cops..

time ta get real..

maybe we have to go beyond politics, beyond national borders, beyond public vs private..

AIRPLANES GROUNDED

CARS PARKED

RESTAURANTS CLOSED

BEACHES SHUT

SOCKS DOWN

MILLIONS UNEMPLOYED 

CHURCHES EMPTY

GAMES UNPLAYED

OPPORTUNITIES MISSED

JOBS NOT DONE

SIGHTS UNSEEN

PILGRIMAGES NOT UNDERTAKEN

MONEY NOT SPENT

PROFITS NOT MADE

HOLIDAYS NOT HAD

EXPERIENCES UNEXPERIENCED

PEOPLE SICK

FUNERALS FOREGONE

LOVERS FORSAKEN

PROPERTIES UNLISTED

HOUSES NOT SOLD

HOMES NOT BOUGHT

deaths died

lives not lived

coming up..

 then it fell apart

when will there be masks?

the big yellow virus

I won't stand in line for this

 

BIG YELLOW VIRUS

yo!... don't know what you've got - til it's gone!... innit!

us folks here in palookaville...

used ta lak a looka rounda shops...

getta bite ta eat...

get a beer...

clubbin...

jumpi an jivin...

doin stuff...

whatevva

6.66 MILLION JOBLESS CLAIMS

now there is no more mornin dew...

the parking lot is empty...

or it's a homeless shelter...

BOTTOM FALLS OUT OF THE TOP

how did this happen?

slowly at first...

then suddenly

if only we had known...

what exponential growth meant...

how what was no big deal...

became a FGBD

 WHERE WERE THE BIG PALOOKAS AT IN JANUARY  2020

WATCH : CHRIS MARTENSON 

24 January 2020

WHAT CANNOT BE CURED

must be endured

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow virus
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise
And put up a hospital tent

NOT IF

yo...clobberin time...innit!

.

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL

.

capitulation day posponed

.

...in palookaville today...

.

...the truth about this 'recovery'...

.

...is leakin out...

.

THIS TIME IT'S THE SAME

.

...the debt is not back...

.

...it never went away...

.

...the politix mega-d-it-up...

.

...to bail out the bond holders, the banks, and the pals...

.

...now the drug is wearing off...

.

...and...

DON'T LOOK DOWN

.

...you cannot reduce debt with debt...

.

...you can fool most of the people...

.

...most of the time...

.

...now is not the time...

.

...

THE BEAUTIFUL DEBT

yo!...game over...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL

...final score...


...here in palookaville...


...the game is up...

Recovery? Who are you trying to kid?

We are in a deep hole – and it looks like we’ll be down there for quite some time, says Jeremy Warner.

...course...jezzer used to be a booster...

...but...

...that was then...



JOIN THE CLUB

Portsmouth goes into administration

...hoping to win trophies with debt...


...debt and players wages bust the club...


...football is as bust as the banks...


...why not grow your own local players and...


...play football...


...not financial games...?

California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief

...debt is doom...

NO MEANS YES

yo!...result...innit!

CAPITULATION DAY

...European Cup...


...Ireland 0 Germany 1...


WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKING YOU SAY YES


...debt put the Ice in Ireland...


...here in palookagrad...


...we don,t even get to play...


...our great leader...


...comrade mandelson...


...has denied us the chance of...


...victory in Europe...


PRESIDENT BLAIR


...the man who brought us...


...to where we are today...


...hopes to become the...


...first...


...unelected president of the...


EUROPEAN DISUNION


...rumour has it...he hopes to start the...


...next war...


...we are going to invade Iran...


...by proxy of course...


...he will send a team...


...of such...


...incompetence...


...that their economy will implode...


...even with all that oil...


...incompetence is his thing...


...having saved Irak...


...from peace and...


...some dismalness...


...he hopes for the same success...


...with...


IRAn


...with Ireland now fully...


...integrated into the new...


...DISUNION...


...perhaps the IRA can be...


...parachuted in to the desert...


...and paid to blow up the nuclear facilities...


...before the Israelis do...


PEACE IN OUR TOWN


...financial news follows...


...world trade has collapsed...


...tony blair and his team...


...have declared the recovery over...


...all the investor...


...has started to take profits...


...

THAT GREAT DAY HAS COME

yo!...happy birthday...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day+365...

...all is quiet on the financial front...


...in palookagrad today...


...all is changed...


...prime minister mandelson and comissar brown...


...are awaiting re-election...


...on the back of their zombie recovery...



BEAR MARKET BULL


...since the chicken's head was bitten off...


...and the politix danced around the fires of the burning banks...


...all the talk is of the new bull market...


...the great recovery...


...how it was all just a panic...


...well maybe they are right


and we can sleep easy in our beds


and all the young unemployed can play football


travel, crochet, see a movie...



NEGATIVE FOR NEGATIVE'S SAKE


...baltic dry is down again...


...but only 40%...


...ships lie idle all over the world...


...but only 12%...


...house prices have stabilised...


...honest!..


...not...


...cars sales have risen...


...from the ashes...


...on free money incentives...


...in japan...


...they are spending like there's no tomorrow...


...in china inventories are up...


...flats are empty...


...but inventory is up...


SHORT FOR SHORT'S SAKE


...come on sh*t for brains...


...pile in now...


...this is the biggest free ride the politix will ever provide...


...capitulation day?...


...moral hazard...


...what a twat!..



halfcat : don y'all mind petey non...he jus a shadder o his ol sell...



petey : oh yeah...an this...

Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14pc in the three months to August (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn).

"There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s," he said. "The rapid destruction of money balances is madness."

petey : ...disclaimer...an obviously...this aint no advice...etc. etc.

BABYLON BE THY NAME

yo!..suckers...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL

capitulation day+342

...the story so far...

nouriel : ..."In the last few months the world economy has been saved from a near depression...

...That feat has been achieved by a range of extraordinary government stimulus measures...

In the U.S. and in China, and to a lesser extent in Europe, Japan and other countries...

...governments have pumped liquidity...

...slashed policy rates...

...cut taxes...

...primed demand...

... and ring-fenced and back-stopped the financial system...

All of this has worked...

...but it has worked at a cost...

Governments have been spending and borrowing like never before...

...The question now is: how do they stop?

...This is not a simple problem...

...Restore normality too soon...

...and the risk is that a weak recovery will double dip into a second and deeper recession...

...Restore it too late and inflation will already be ingrained"...

PAINT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

petey :

...here in ...

...palookagrad...

...we are...

...uncertain...

...we would have been much happier...

...if the politix...

...had let the markets sort out the mess...

...but...

...vested interest...

...has stolen the day...

THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN

...yes the game is fixed...

...and yes you have to play...

...just don't be under any illusions...

...about efficient markets...

...or best advice...

...or rules...

...or solvency...

...smoke and mirrors...

...shifting sands...

...moving goal posts...

...it's economics jim!..

...but not as we knew it...

GOOD TIMES AND BAD Extended Recession Version

yo!...for your pleasure...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+269...


..."me, I liked him. He had all the guts they ever made".




oh yeah...an this too

A Zombie Because

yo!...this is not advice...

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+266...


..."The world is setting up for a big crash, again.

Market chatter over green shoots and rising prices has fueled a bear market rally that won't last, despite policymaker 'noise.'

Since the last bubble burst, governments around the world have not been focusing on reforms.

They are trying to pump a new bubble to solve existing problems.

Before inflation appears, this strategy works.

As inflation expectation rises, its effectiveness is threatened.

When inflation appears in 2010, another crash will come.

If you are a speculator and confident you can get out before it crashes, this is your market. If you think this market is for real, you are making a mistake and should get out as soon as possible. If you lost money during your last three market entries, stay away from this one – as far as you can."

petey : sounds about right to me....

always read the full article an we don't give advice. we just suckers like you...

Love Is Not The Drug

yo!...cheap debt is...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+258...


...every day here in...


...palookaville...


...we have the famous fiesta...


ECONOMY OF THE LIVING DEAD


...it's official...


...our prime minister has achieved...


...zombie status...


...dead politician walking...


...all here agree...


...it's the right thing for a zombie economy...



IT'S LIFE JIM BUT NOT AS WE KNEW IT


...long ago there was demand...


...people bought what they needed...


...and were prepared to pay real money for it...


...or...


...pay decent interest rates in order to own their own home...


...now...


...the blood has drained away...


...demand can only be brought back to life...


...by the zirp...


THE ZOMBIE INTEREST RATE


...no one here in palookaville...


...will admit that the economy is dead...


...the banks are dead...


...and...


...our great leader is now dead too...



NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE
EXCESS


...the zombie housing boom...


...is in all the papers...


...brown set out to bring it back to life...


...and has succeeded...


...like he succeeded with the banks...


...now everyone is happy again...


...except the savers and the pensioners...


...and the people who had the money...


...and the first time buyers who were waiting for prices to fall...


...in order for them to afford to buy...



ZOMBIE SAYS DO THIS


...the zombie economy...


...controls prices...


...and knows best what each asset is worth...


...nothing dies...


...nothing new is created...


...this may go on for some time...

..."Large swaths of Britain have been left excessively dependent on taxpayer-funded activity that has crowded out the private sector and stifled enterprise. The State accounts for more than two thirds of the economy in the North East, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Now, with a protracted period of austerity in public spending made inescapable by the Government’s record plunge into the red, these regions will suffer disproportionately as the Treasury is forced to retrench...."

Times

THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW THIS ON THE BBC

yo!...stands with a bowl...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+190...



...here in palookaville all we watch is the msm...

...which is why this will not be seen by the voters...

THE MSM TELLS THE TRUTH AT LAST

yo!...abaht time...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+122...

peteynation : foolin alla the people alla the time is difficult...

...1997 - 2007...

smoke an mirrors...profits of wax...

...less of the benefit...

...more of the tax...

DOWN BY BROWN

albert edwards : ..."What I find amazing is that people aren’t really nailing Gordon Brown and [Bank of England Governor] Mervyn King for this,” he said. “At least in the US they had the excuse of the arrival of sub-prime — a new sector of the market. We didn’t really have anything similar but we ended up with a bigger national Ponzi scheme than the US.”

THEY ARE NOW

from the times :-

The case against Gordon Brown

...seven nails in his political coffin...

THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE SAVER

y0!...long shot kikka buckit...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+114...


...petethepainter is dead but still on the run...

...head shot with a sawn off, reactivated .45...

...he was under water at the end of 2008 by 7%...


...he has been tryin ta get to the bottom of the pension fund collapse...

...by swimming the pools of famous silent movie actresses in downtown palookaville...

...he hopes to find the...

...mother of all bottoms...

Distressed asset indices fall sharply

Indices tracking the value of the trillions of dollars of distressed assets that continue to blight bank balance sheets fell sharply this week as a negative spiral of financial distress and subsequent economic pain continued.

The declines – which signal further potential writedowns by banks – are fuelling fears that the first quarter of this year could herald further pain for the financial system, even as many banks reveal sharp losses for the fourth quarter of 2008.

SHORT FOR SHORT'S SAKE


Short for Shorts sake...

Money for Gods sake...

Gimme the readys...Gimme the cash...

Gimme a bullet...Gimme yo stash...

Gimme yo silver...Gimme yo gold...

Make it a million for when I get old..!

Short for Shorts sake...

Money for Gods sake!


SPECIAL LITERARY EDITION

mish : Huddling Under The TARP

Inquiring minds are reading Andrew Jeffery's column, Bank of America Huddling Under TARP.

To quote a recent op-ed in the Journal, which likened the government response to the current financial crisis to the circumstances described in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged...

"Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism."

The similarities are so striking, it almost seems like regulators are using Atlas Shrugged as a playbook for their policy response to the crisis. They must not have waded through all 1,000 pages to see how the story ended.

Atlas Shrugged: Fiction To Fact

The Wall Street Journal article that Jeffrey quoted is Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years. Here is another snip.

The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers.

With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."

...Mike "Mish" Shedlock...


GROUCHO, HARPO, CHICO,

...KARL...

..."Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take on more and more expensive debt, until their debt becomes unbearable.

The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of all banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

...So says the Karl Marx quote that has been whizzing round Wall Street and the City...

times :

"We seemed a step closer to that prospect yesterday.
Bank shares plunged again on both sides of the Atlantic amid concern that more capital injections will be required. Bank of America shares fell 20 per cent on reports that it needed further government help to complete the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Merrill has suffered higher than expected losses in the fourth quarter and BoA is in talks with the American authorities about an infusion of capital.

Citigroup shares tumbled further, ahead of today's results, which are expected to be horrible.

These falls took the combined value of Citigroup and BoA - so recently the two most valuable banks in the world - below that of Wells Fargo, the conservative West Coast lender.

Back in Britain, bank shares were also under the cosh again, as ministers scurried to finalise another package of measures designed to get credit flowing again.

Gordon Brown said that the toxic assets of banks had to be dealt with, which could require more capital, while Capital Economics forecasts British banks will lose £85billion over the next three years and lending will be slashed by £400billion unless they get more capital.

At this rate, RBS will be fully nationalised before Sir Philip Hampton takes over as chairman.

According to the Marx quote, this means communism will not be far behind.

Except, of course, Marx didn't say that.

The quote is a fake. You just can't trust those bankers. times

1984 : THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

The Ministry of Truth...

wikipedia : ..."is where the main character of the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith, works.^[1] It is an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete rising 300 meters into the air, containing over 3000 rooms above ground.

On the outside wall are the three slogans of the Party:

"War is Peace,"

"Freedom is Slavery,"

"Ignorance is Strength."

There is also a large part underground, probably containing huge incinerators where documents are destroyed after they are put down...

memory holes.

For his description Orwell was inspired by...

the Senate House at the University of London.<sup>[2]..."




ANYONE FOR KAFKA ?</sup>

Adj.	1.	Kafkaesque - relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings
	2.	kafkaesque - characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations" unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

<sup>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Kafkaesque



THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PENCIL


...so!...

...ayn rand, karl marx, george orwell, kafka...

...things are startin ta look serious...</sup>

THE MORE I SAVE...THE MORE I LOSE

yo!...hell hath no fury...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+109...


...on sunset boulevard...peterthepainter lies...

...face down in vilma banky's pool...

...beulah...a famous ex gansta's moll...

...has shot him inna head with a reactivated .45...



...the lazy, painty b*stard had shrunk the pension stash...


GIRL ON A RAMPAGE


beulah : who soever seeks ta f**k up mi finances shall...pay!...

...itz that brown wot done it...

...alla msm bollox are too scared ta tell atruth...

...he caused us ta lose...

...our pension stash...our holiday...our savins interest...


BROWN : BLAME ANYONE BUT ME


...he allas sayin it were a sub prime or it caused by america...


...he says he saved the world...that he saved the banks...


...but the banks is still bust...an they won't lend...


...an they gon be commin back fo mo...



BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS


edmond conway :..."

Definitive proof that the Bank of England saw the financial crisis coming

edmond conway : ..."As we wrote in our City Comment that day: "One statistic in particular shows precisely how exposed the City is to the bursting of the household debt bubble. At the beginning of 2001, our banks were not lending customers any more than the total amount of deposits they held. By the end of 2005, banks were lending customers £500bn in cash which simply wasn't in the vaults. Should customers default on their loans, these banks could be in trouble, having to resort to borrowing chunks of money at penal interbank rates."

Not only did the Bank's report, which can be found here (page 28 is the one on the funding gap - p30 on the pdf version), lay out the City's increased reliance on wholesale funding - it also warned that this leaves banks extremely vulnerable in the event of a slowdown. Now, the Bank was not the first to diagnose the seeds of the crisis: there were one or two hedge funds which were already trading on the likelihood of a UK banking breakdown caused by this reliance on securitisation. There were plenty of commentators warning on the excessive build-up of debt. But as far as I can tell this was about the earliest warning on the problems inherent to the UK mortgage market.

The report completely debunks the notion that the financial crisis came as a surprise to the City, or indeed the Bank. The Government had been warned explicitly not by some crackpot economist but by its own employees in Threadneedle Street about precisely how the crisis could erupt. Not only this, but the report also revealed that its "war games" plotting out scenarios including a credit crunch revealed that a debt-fuelled crisis could cause a severe UK recession, a 25pc fall in house prices and a wiping out of a third of banks' tier one capital - around £40bn at the time. It is difficult to think how it could have made more noise about the possible risks the debt build-up entailed...."

...Of course, the eventual crisis has been far greater than even this worst-case scenario, but remember that this was a warning delivered more than a year before the securitisation markets broke down in August 2007. Had it been heeded in Government, Northern Rock - not to mention the rest of the banking system - could very possibly have been saved from complete collapse. The UK could have been let off with a mild rather than severe recession. House prices could have been brought back under control, rather than booming again for another breakneck year of growth." Telegraph


HERE IS THE NEWS

...vilma banky looks out of the orangery at the leaves floatin in her new pool...

...yikes!...is that petey?...floatin there?


...petey is sayin nuthin...not because he's dead...

...thats just a minor detail inna much bigger plot...


...he's waitin fo beulah ta git dahn ta the msm bollox...


...she gon tell em fo sho...


...yo sat on yo asses an did nowt...

...while brown and his gang...


...bullied their way ta this bust...


...the plan ta bust the country was in place from the start...


...increase taxes, increase the public sector workforce, create a client state...


...put alla the voters onna state payroll, nationalise the banks...


...punish savers, rob the private pensions, complicate the tax system...


...increase treasury power, politicise the civil service...


HERE IS THE BILL


...a devalued currency...

...unsustainable public finances...

...insolvent banks...

...pension funds in deficit...

...no income for people who rely on interest on their savings...

...house price crash...

...negative equity...

...first time buyers kept out of the housing market...

...rapidly rising unemployment...

...stock market crash...

...commercial property crash...

...20% cuts in with profits policy bonuses...

...no jobs for graduates...

...middle class poverty...

...a new wave of violent robberies...

...car sales slump...

...tax revenues wiped out...

...massive national debt...


INDEXED LINKED PENSIONS FOR POLITICIANS


...and when you have gone...

...whether we recover or not...


...you and your gang will have the best pensions in the land...

safe from any inflation you will have caused...

SANTA CHECKS IN

yo!...back inna saddle...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL stardate : capitulation day+105



...evvabody know they aint no sanity clause...

paintybynumbers : yo beuly!..yo said santa lookin pooped aht...innit!..onna 24th dec...

beulah : f**k off paintstain yo bein a pain!...anyway...wottin doin from here on in?

NB chart is uk based and funds reflect the effect of currency movements

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and not as a commentary on their investment performance. no opinion is offered here either for or against equitable life as a pension company...

...they just happen to have these charts...
...which i find very helpful...
...when comparing sector fund performance...

...THEY IS A DISCLAIMER AT THE TOP O THE PAGE...

...THIS AINT ADVICE AN WE AINT IN BUSINESS...

...WE JUS SUCKERS LAK YOU...

...PISSIN INNA WIND...