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As the bear market grinds on, here are the clues to a bottom: MSNBC hangs up on Louis Rukeyser when he tries to get them to pick up his canceled show "Dogs of the Dow" You hear that Maria Bartiromo of CNBC has become a stand-up comedian, and that Stuart the Ameritrade guy has gone back to cleaning pools You never hear the phrase "maximizing shareholder value" except at a party as part of a dirty joke Martha Stewart is released from jail early for good behavior Allan Greenspan retires and nobody cares who his successor is Most people think...

since cbs, nbc, abc, cnn (and even fox), et al, won't give anyone any hard figures on oil, here's a few interesting ones from the api (condensed by me), followed by my commentary, for whatever it's worth - U.S. petroleum imports in July were 11,072,000 barrels per day Total imports in July as a percentage of total domestic petroleum deliveries 57.7 percent Persian Gulf petroleum represented 20.2 percent of total imports in May (note: opec includes more than persian gulf countries) U.S. crude oil production in July was 5,812,000 b/d Count of active rotary drilling rigs in the U.S. as ...