Paul B. Farrell: Follow Charles Ellis’ 10 rules and you’ll win Wall Street’s loser’s game

10 rules to keep Wall Street’s sharks at bay

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. — The best part of any game is the halftime entertainment. Like now, between the two conventions, with Team Romney ahead. Yes, Team Obama’s losing, even arch-liberal anti-capitalist filmmaker Michael Moore is predicting a Team Romney money-making win.

But the real game is off-camera, on Wall Street. For them, the conventions are a perfect [...]

Paul B. Farrell: Investors’ biggest problem is what’s going on inside their own brain. Period. 5-part IQ test to make you a better investor.

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

How successful are you as an investor? You a winner? If not, why not? Are you too smart? Maybe too dumb? Too irrational? Uninformed? Deck stacked against you? Too manipulated to invest successfully in today’s uncertain, volatile, insane markets?

Seriously, are you really good at finding and analyzing the right information in today’s overdose of market data … unstable global economies … emerging markets … [...]

WWIII ahead: Warfare defining human life by 2020Commentary: ‘Mother of all national security issues: desperate wars over food, water, energy’

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — World War III is coming. Iraq and Afghanistan? Just warm-up acts. Foreign-policy blunders with huge economic consequences: Massive domestic debt handicapping future generations. But still just warm-up acts.

The main event: WWIII will engulf America in a “New Age of Warfare” with trillions and trillions and trillions of new debt, year after [...]

"Welcome to a bleak second half 2010, worse for 2011."

With so much unfounded optimism pumped out by the MSM, a stock market crash seems virtually inevitable.

“New Normal: Bankrupt nation. Deflation. Zeros. Junk. No jobs. Depression

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, it’s going to get worse, a whole lot worse … Bill Gross warns this is the “New Normal. Forget 10% returns. Think 5%”. … Economist Larry Kotlikoff, author of The Coming Generational Storm, warns: “Let’s get real. The U.S. [...]