I enjoyed reading through it and looking at the pic's….

Keith

Sorry about the comments getting lost. Comments with lots of links (ie more than one!) get automatically canned because of the HIGH frequency of spam posts that do that! And this blog gets a lot of spam… I have had to tighten SK2 a lot.

But what choice do they have? They can’t run a campaign saying: Save money and buy a smaller bike… they don’t make smaller bikes!

Between a rock and a hard place. As are many other luxury goods companies, like Starbucks, Department Stores, …

Kenneth

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN0229405520080503

Now they are running a goofy campaign called “screwit” to convince idiots to keep buying expensive bikes in a recession.

BTW: I passed along some Twn bank exposure links last week, but they must have gotten lost in your comment spam filter.

Can you cite some newspapers stories…? That’d be great.

Are you suggesting that bond prices will fall because yields have to rise to reward investors better?…

Kenneth

Asia will not be decoupled from the coming bond market crash.
Anyone that buys and expensive machine like this is a fool. At the very least, wait until late 2009 just to make sure life still exists as we know it (!).

Cracks have already appeared in the news regarding how the banks here in Taiwan area exposed to the MBS and credit derivative problems. I have a feeling the mega financial corporations are treading water just to stay afloat until Mr. Ma steps in. Then they can beg the Chinese wealth funds for support. (which means the PRC will take financial control of Taiwan once they run the banks) – just my opinion.

With Asian incomes heading ever upwards, this kind of ‘toy’ becomes increasingly affordable, and popular.

Kenneth

Harley-Davidson cuts shipments, jobs at quarterly profit skids

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fiw-harley18apr18,1,7579215.story