Perhaps they were there for the chance of a free breakfast .

Suzy Orman just predicted on the “Opra Winfrey Show” that the economy won’t turn around until 2015; hardly any doubt about that since since other unemployed moguls at Sun Valley, apparently, can’t even buy a job!

If that’s the case, what good will stimulus do?

Looking back six years there were many transgressions, do we have the same in store for the next six years?

Where is the good news?

Orman makes her money counseling scared people. It’s in her interest to keep people scared. In our business, we’re seeing steady improvement every week, and we are a leading economic indicator. It’s going to be a long haul… but we’ve hit the bottom and will now start climbing back up. People like Orman don’t help matters, though, because half of this problem is all psychology.

Maybe it’s all this Technology Insertion that’s going on…it pokes into products, processes, and customer expectations…things are obsolete in a crack-head’s heartbeat…the way changes quickly…

So what’s a displaced Mogul to do?

Wear your love like heaven?

We had a big house-cleaning where I work…lotsa people gone in 90 days…sucks (but I’m still employed, and indeed that is most important to me, as the.center of my universe…)

Onward, through the fog…

Twitter business model

Just had this discussion with a business associate and the outcome was one said by many…” I don’t know..how would it help us…hmmm”. It was decided that it was not for us to decide however we were tutored for the discussion should it ever arise.

Furthermore the the bigger the splash the longer the waves last…Man those were the days, no dna tests, more loop holes than all the rodeos in Texas and certainly somethings that are better left unsaid…

Yeah… I see you shaking your head in agreement.

Alright I will say one: Being able to sneek out to said event use the T&E account to justify the excess at the event and going in late the next day to work…or not going in at all…because you put in almost two days worth of work just at that event alone…Ahh the good old days…

“Where have all the good time gone…”

It could be that industry is finding out that they have too many six figure executives that don’t have enough to do. They’ve let go all the middle and lower managers and now they are watching their backs rather than go on a Sun Valley junket. Plausible?

Bing – 1

Yogi – 1

Sotomayor: 17

Roger, I hate to tell you, but you’re hopelessly out of date. A “six-figure executive” is a middle manager. These guys are into seven and eight figures.

The bigger they are the harder they fall,,,or is it,,, the harder it is for them to fall…no matter,,,some of those universes have shrunk down to small black holes that suck up dollars faster than Brennake can print it.

One sound that is missing,,is the cheering you would expect because the recovery is under way…I don’t hear that sound and I don’t think anybody else does either….

The former shakers and movers you are talking about remind me of Mexican Generals….lots of gold braid but no troops to command.

We still have a long way to go..

I think of the “Three Stooges” when there’s a contradictory type of fiasco taking place such as the world’s financial dilemma.

Dogs are dumb, but they can learn amazingly well.

The “Three Stooges” acted “Stupid”.

Webster, in his dictionary, described stupid as: “As dense, suggesting obtuseness, an irritating failure to understand quickly or to react intelligently”.

Did Webster unknowingly describe today’s fiasco in the World financial markets?

Somebody please help Bing to understand today’s turmoil. Please!!!

SYMETRY OR IRONY

Formerly relevant titans of industry, with or with out jobs but egos and bank accounts intact, golfing/networking and striving to appear relevant until the upswing lands them a new gig. Things are tough enough for these executives in waiting that they are talking about an application that has little substance in content and no functioning business model that is striving to look as relevant as they are/were?

Bing, your columns often make me think or find something to laugh about. Guess this one is a thinker.

One might believe there is justice in overpaid executrixters being out of work playing the same golf they did when they were working for great pay and T&E as poetic justice of a sort. Trouble is the multiplier effect of how many others down the rung are paying the price for the executrixters’ wrath at being held accountable for their mistakes in judgment that ultimately led to them improving their golf scores. You know, regular folks like the Bob’s in MI who spend their spare time out of work in unemployment lines, looking for any job and hoping to keep their homes and a reasonable diet while these guys are unemployed playing golf in Sun Valley.

It is a little easier to understand why fear mongers like Orman and our ratings hungry media have so many Bob’s to prey on. Yes the economy is turning and so will the market but it will be a long while yet before the fear of the masses eases and pushes us to the next over bought over leveraged part of the business cycle.

See I kept trying but I just couldn’t find a punch line.

The current business climate reminds me of nature footage I once saw…

A large group of penguins were milling around at the edge of an ice floe — desperate to get in the water to feed, but scared to be first because a penguin-ivorous leopard seal was down in the water waiting for them.

Eventually the shore got so thick with penguins that one or two got pushed in. Then all at once there was a general rush — all the penguins started diving into the water. Instinctively they knew the leopard seal was hunting down one of the pushees, and there would be no safer time to jump in.

Right now no business leader wants to be first in the water. But once a few jump in (and don’t get eaten!) the stampede will begin.

Ah, Suzi.

You can’t spell doorman without orman.

Or Norman.

You also can’t spell performance without orman.

Or the Acacia Boormanii plant.

Enough said.

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Bing, your last two paragraphs exemplify the causes of our current economic crisis: powerful people who are believe that they can deny reality.

End of story.

You know what, Don? I couldn’t find one, either. Maybe there isn’t one.

Bing,

Roger must have been referring to Warren Buffett, the ultimate market contrarian, as the six-figure executive. Here we have a market climbing over 500 pnts this week, and Buffet calling for a second stimulus package. “Be fearful when others are greedy.”

For your male friends getting bored at business gatherings, give them half a viagra. For your female friends getting bored at business gatherings, give the men half a viagra. That should present some interesting conversations for them.

I’ll stick by my earlier prediction that we’ll start seeing signs of economic improvement around mid-September.

Yes, Leeroy, I agree…or October at the latest….but until then there will be pants-shitting aplenty all around.

For convenience sake let’s leave off ‘September or October’ of what year.

You’re all whistling past the graveyard, but when the first bony fingers of the lasting recession reach up through the turf and grab you by the ankle it will be a hoot! I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

Leading indicators my ass.

All those ‘master of the universe’ execs should be happy. They didn’t get an all expense paid trip to Butner, North Carolina like their buddy, Bernie Madoff. They probably deserve it – they just didn’t get caught.

I hear that Butner Federal Prision is lovely in the summer. It’s hard to see inside when I drive by, but I don’t think it has much of a golf course.

In today’s crazy enviornment, if you find yourself sitting in a chair facing the psychiatrist, most likely his first question will be, (who or what sent you here); not referring to the referral your primary care physician gave you; but the circumstance that triggered your neurosis.

Your answer might very well be: (Imbedded stupidity and ineptitude in the system that made me free, I have nothing left to lose)!!!