Are You Ready for Eight Questions?

It's a few days old, but this is the first, second or third-best thing I've read this week so it deserves a shoutout--Kent Thune offering eight questions to ask yourself as you consider investment advice. Not least, number eight:

• Have you ever made money by following a “where to invest” article’s suggestions?

Link. I assume that's rhetorical. And note to self, add his blog [I see now that the same piece is posted there].

Three, you say? So, what are the other two? In no particular order, Sanchez on ressentiment, and this cranky morsel from Delong's comments:

WTF does Republican Party has to do with it? At City CEO tried to dilute the shares to kick the government out of ownership - and failed. In the normal country he'd be in jail for gaming the stock. In the moderately corrupt country (think Russia or Uzbekistan) he'd be out of the job for doing the same and failing. In the howling-at-the-Moon United States he ... gets to try again. In the meantime, the guy in Texas gets 8 years for being caught doing graffiti. Can we please wipe this place from the face of the Earth and try again?

Per "Baboon," and damifiknow.