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Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and
acted, or should we accept their defense that you can't know whether there is a
bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should
have known, and, at the least, policy makers should no longer be allowed to
say, "How could I have known?" Of course, the employment numbers
came out this morning, and the results are mixed; but that is better than they
have been for the past two years. We dig into the numbers to see what they are
really saying. And finally, we examine why the markets are so volatile. Is it
just Greece, or is there more? There's a lot of very interesting, and
important, material to cover. But first, and quickly, as I wrote
in Outside the Box a few weeks ago, I am starting to very selectively buy biotech
stocks, and mostly, though not exclusively, companies associated with the
regenerative genetic revolution that is coming our way. I am convinced that
this is going to be a decade of the most amazing medical breakthroughs, which will
literally change (and in many cases extend) our lives, as therapies to treat
all sorts of diseases become available. This is the last time I am going to
mention it, but here is the link to that OTB, which analyzes why we may see a
bubble in biotech stocks before the end of the decade. The
OTB was written by my friend Pat Cox, who covers these stocks and other
technological marvels in his newsletter, Breakthrough
Technology Alert. I have been following Pat for some time now, have talked
extensively with him, and think he is one of those guys who have a handle on
what by all accounts is going to be an amazing decade of breakthroughs.
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