Blue Lips

So, ...the market finally bottomed. I predicted this. The world's top economists kept saying the market might hit bottom in about six months. They are all so wishy-washy. I said one to two months at most. It is Friday but not Friday the 13th. If it were, people would be more panicky than they already are. Courage is in very short supply nowadays. Now is the time to start having a good time. Prices are coming down - gasoline is a lot cheaper, too. There was this Harvard economist on NPR trying to explain why deflation is a bad thing. He just beat around the bush for ten minutes and didn't say a thing. Enjoy falling prices while they last.

Back at the Ranch

Well, as people get used to the recent turn of events and forthcoming changes, the market is down a little bit more - just where I like it. It will hover around 8500 for a while then start to shoot back up. Buy 100,000 shares of anything conservative. Don't get into any penny stocks - too risky right now. In six months, you can reinvest some of your profits in some cheap, high-risk stuff, just for fun. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it appears Putin wants to get back in the driver's seat some time in the future. Communism may have changed, but totalitarianism sure hasn't. That's not him to the left, by the way. That's someone else - from another time and place - Angela, an opera singer. Ciao.

List of violinists

List of violinists - here it is. One of the most comprehensive lists you will find. It is purely arbitrary, of course. If your favorite is not here, just let me know. A-K

Salvatore Accardo, Khachatur Almazian, Frank Almond, Adele Anthony, Matthieu Arama, Cecylia Arzewski, Felix Ayo, David Ballesteros, Alexander Barantschik, Rachel Barton, Monte Belknap, Joshua Bell, Margareta Benkova, Dmitry Berlinsky, Vera Beths, Fabio Biondi, Emanuel Borok, Norbert Brainin, Guy Braunstein, Iona Brown, Adolf Busch, James Buswell, Kolja Blacher, Alfredo Campoli, Serena Canin, Andres Cardenes, Giuliano Carmignola, Jonathan Carney, Corey Cerovsek, Martin Chalifour, Sarah Chang, Stephanie Chase, Robert Chen, Kyung Wha Chung, James Clark, Lucy van Dael, John Dalley, Carlos Damas, Ellen De Pasquale, Philippe Descamps, Lindsay Deutsch, Glenn Dicterow, Rafael Druian, Edward Dusinberre, Christiana Edinger, James Ehnes, Evgenia Epshtein, Vesko Eschkenazy, Hector Falcon, Isabelle Faust, Michael Fernandez, Christian Ferras, Julia Fischer, Jorja Fleezanis, Eugene Fodor, Pamela Frank, Erick Friedman, Angela Fuller, David Garrett, Theodora Geraets, Ivry Gitlis, Midori Gotoh, Vadim Gluzman, David Grimal, Ilya Gringolts, Arthur Grumiaux, Franco Gulli, Hilary Hahn, David Halen, Sidney Harth, Josef Hassid, Jonathan Hill, Daniel Hope, Lei Hou, Bin Huang, Vaclav Hudecek, Bronislaw Huberman, Monica Huggett, Alina Ibragimova, Pavel Ilyashov, Stefan Jackiw, Leila Josefowicz, Ilya Kaler, Michael Karlson, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Leonidas Kavakos, Tamaki Kawakubo, Nigel Kennedy, David Kim, Rudolf Koelman, Sasha Korobkina, Henning Kraggerud, Gidon Kremer, Jan Kubelik, Rainer Kuehl, .... more to come....