On the road...

And if there's one thing I enjoy when traveling, it's exposure to the overly simplistic journalism presented in print by USA Today.

Here's the big story on Money section front page that greeted me at breakfast this morning.

Seriously, I've been watching the stock market with an especially sharp interest the past few weeks.

It's my opinion the market's under some pressure right now, and may be on the verge of a consequential pull-back. The BABA IPO may be big, but it's small potatoes in terms of the systemic problems bubbling under the surface in our present economy.

 (BABA is the ticker symbol for Alibaba Group, which just began trading on the NYSE).