{"id":8807,"date":"2011-11-23T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2011-11-23T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:56:16","slug":"real-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/real-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to agree with this <strong>post<\/strong> from BeSpoke\u2026 it has been a bad week and appears that it will just get worse\u2026 Stupid <strong>Congress<\/strong> couldn\u2019t agree on the <strong>color<\/strong> white\u2026 Stupid <strong>people<\/strong> thinking that the \u201csuper-committee\u201d would get anything done\u2026 Stupid Euro group for doing the same <strong>thing<\/strong> we did\u2026 <strong>hell<\/strong> they could see it didn\u2019t work for us\u2026 Stupid me for thinking I would every get to retire\u2026 What next?\u00a0 looks like I still need to <strong>buy<\/strong> that \u201c<strong>STUPID<\/strong>\u201d t-shirt and wear it often\u2026 \u00a0WD0AJG<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bespokeinvest.com\/thinkbig\/2011\/11\/23\/a-real-turkey-of-a-week.html\">A Real Turkey of a Week<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bespokeinvest.com%2Fthinkbig%2Fatom.xml\">BeSpoke Investment<\/a> by Bespoke<\/p>\n<p>In what is traditionally <strong>one<\/strong> of the stronger weeks of the <strong>year<\/strong> for equities, this <strong>year<\/strong> the S&amp;P 500 is down every day this week. 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