I know we have a lot of readers who subscribe only by email and hence do not come to the website itself, but just as an fyi sometimes we run polls and/or there are comments made by readers that you are missing out on ;) Anyhow in this week's poll we asked 'What is Your Long term View on Commodities?' With 97 respondents 16% responded that this is just the latest in a series of bubbles 84% responded that in 5 years we are going to wish we could buy at these prices Now, I assume there is sampling error because I fall more in the latter camp so most blog readers who were less biased probably are leaning to the latter answer after reading the blog or as most humans do, prefer to read sources that agree with their own viewpoints - hence we attract more people who already came to the blog with ...

I posted an opinion poll on the outlook for the US stock market a few days ago. In essence, the post asked whether we were in a bull market, bear market or “muddle-through” market.

In order to try to gain more clarity on the issue, I asked readers to express their opinions on the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Index by posing the following two questions:

• Where do you see the Dow Jones Industrial Index by June 30, 2008?

• Where do you see the Dow Jones Industrial Index by December 31, 2008?

Before sharing the poll results with you, I thought it could

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