“It is an understatement to say Michael Belkin is somewhat skeptical of all the bullish sentiment around these days — and in response to that, he put together a list of his favorite “reasons” to be bullish:

Top 10 Reasons to be Bullish in 2013

1) Congress and the Administration have spending, taxes and the budget deficit completely under control. Fiscal imbalances have been solved and won’t be a problem for the economy or markets anymore.

2) S&P500 earnings are declining and everyone knows stocks go up when earnings go down.

3) Hedge funds have their highest stock market exposure since just before the last time the S&P500 tumbled 50%. 10,000 hedge funds controlling $2 trillion can’t be wrong…”

 

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