Long Lines Everywhere

• Today's the big Xbox 360 release. Local TV obliged by showing the long lines at retailers. People were camping out all night, all over the country.


• The market opened soft, but the Semiconductors are rallying hard today. We'll see if we'll just grind higher all day.


• I made fun of the Vikings-Packers game yesterday, but it turned out to be a pretty good game. Vikings have quietly turned their season around.


• Some early Xbox 360 buyers are already listing them on Ebay with quite a mark-up in price!!! I see one for $6250. Uh.... pass.


• I wish folks would stop bringing in their Halloween leftovers. I love Twix!


• I wonder how Enya's new "Amarantine" CD is faring today on it's debut release? I just checked Ebay, and looks like folks who bought early are flipping it for $13.99!


• Lots of folks are waiting for Playstation 3, thinking it'll be a great deal as Sony bundles Blu Ray DVD with it. But the Xbox 360 has HD output, a removeable 20gig harddrive that may have larger drives available later, and can connect to the net. Someday soon, we'll be downloading HD movies.


• While the Democrats are telling us how lousy the economy is and how there aren't any jobs, companies are saying exactly the opposite. In today's WSJ, companies are having difficulty finding enough skilled workers. Well, at a 5% unemployment rate, the labor market is fairly tight. That's why moderate job growth is good. If we saw huge job growth, we'd see wage pressures, and then we could really worry about inflation.