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CarlosSlim
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Oil Is Up Due to Fundamentals, Not Speculation
A Contrarian Look at Pfizer
That's true. But Drug companies actually spend MORE on marketing, than they do on drug research.
STRIKE ONE!
Plus, Drug companies quite often bring out "copycat" drugs with little or no additional benefits to existing drugs, just to capture new market share, but provide no new drug relief.
STRIKE TWO!!!
Then, on top of all that, Drug companies commision several studies on the efficacy of their drugs, throw out the ones that show their new drugs are less useful than a 5cent placebo and rig the ones they do use by paying "independent"... (yeah, right) companies to test their drugs.
STRIKE THREE!!!
3 Reasons Why the Fed Can Afford to Pause in June
www.marketwatch.com/ne...
The "pause" question becomes irrelevant and superceded by a more important question:
"How much longer can the Republicans rig inflation/unemployment numbers to make inflation and unemployment rates appear artificially low?"
Using the non-rigged numbers, the EAU has a stronger economy, lower inflation and higher employment than the USA.
We have become a Third World country, thanks to the -R's!
Two Cheap Retailers Worth Owning
How's the recession going?
www.marketwatch.com/ne...
Recession? What recession? Bush says the Economy is STRONG, just like our Dollar!
Hahaha!
Just the facts, please:
* All five of the key indicators used by the NBER researchers are below their peaks.
* The index of coincident indicators, which includes four of the five indicators, has not risen since October.
* Payrolls down by a total of 260,000 in the past four months.
* Payrolls have fallen at an annual rate of 0.5% in the past three months (Payrolls need to grow about 1% per year just to keep up with population growth)
* After adjusting for inflation, real average weekly wages are down 1% in the past year.
* Industrial production peaked in January and has fallen at a 4.9% annual pace in the past three months.
* Total business sales have plunged at a 7% annual rate in the three months ending in February.
Real Yields and the Market
None of the new products that have made the greatest impact on our lives were created "on a schedule". None were predicted by the "wise conservatives" ruining our financial markets. If you read Forbes, the companies they feature are old news, has-beens and the innovators of yesterday, not tommorow.
Conversely, you never know when a "Black Swan" is coming--a supposedly insignificant event--that has great impact on the entire world.
A "fat tail", if you will. This is why technical analysis or "quant" stuff is really not reliable means of predicting which way the markets will move in the future.
If it were, these "quants" would be sitting on a beach in Panama, not writing and producing graphs like you see here....
Diving Into the Water ETF
www.veoliawater.com/
But they are in the EAU!
Psst!
That just means they filter out the "Cryptosporidium&... from their water, unlike many locations in North America.
Those crazy Eurozonies, what with their "science" and "education" and stuff!
Oil Bubble: How Speculation May Contribute to Recent Moves in Oil Prices
Just ask Steve Forbes, -R:
"October 20, 2005 Steve Forbes has predicted oil may well plummet to $35 a barrel in 2006"
Get Ready to Short Homebuilders
Not entirely true.
The houses "inside the beltway" that are in SUBURBAN locations far, far, far away from the places where people want to go to eat, drink, play, work, etc are...going down.
HOWEVER, the locations "inside the beltway" that are in URBAN locations close to the places where people want to go to eat, drink, play, work, etc are...going UP, UP, UP:
Home Prices Drop Most in Areas with Long Commute
www.npr.org/templates/...
It's the same in any DESIRABLE urban city:
"Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, San Diego, Miami and Boston."
If you live in OK City, Indianapolis, Kansas City or some other broken down "burg", forget-about-it. You choose to live in "nowheresville&qu... and now you will be paying the price for it.
The kids of the Gen-X'ers, the so-called "Millennials"... don't want to live in the Burbs.
Bo-ring.
Dues-Paying Homeowners Stuck in Foreclosure Mess Too - Housing Tracker
As long as we have jobs.
During the Depression, housing became very "affordable"... but most people didn't have the money to "pick up" a bargain.
I personally hope the Republicans don't "crash" the economy after President Obama is sworn in on Jan 08.
But since when have Republicans put the interests of America ahead of the interests of the GOP?
The days of "moderate" Republicans like Ike and Goldwater are long, long gone.
Options Trader: Friday Outlook
Dollar Sentiment Largely Unaffected by Today's Data
Hahaha! Good one!
Yeah, those "Frogs" have it tough over there, all right.
They got either the Number #1 Best Health Care System (or is it #2) in the world that covers 100% of it's people with little or no out of pocket expense.
If you consider the vacation time, "Frenchies" make more per hour than Americans.
It's a tough, gloomy life, all righty.
Betcha they can't buy "Two Buck Chuck" over there!
Take *that* Eurozonies!!!!
NAR's Lawrence Yun Continues to Mislead on Housing
Generation Y = Millennials = 76 million
When the early baby boomers bought houses, the prices were dirt cheap.
Most Millennials can't afford to buy houses--BECAUSE THE PRICE OF HOUSING HAS INCREASED FASTER THAN WAGES.
Unless the prices come way, way down--THERE WILL BE NET *SELLING*, NOT BUYING GOING ON FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS.
"In the next two decades, as millions of aging baby boomers put their homes on the market, they'll put downward pressure on prices...There are already more sellers than buyers in six states: Connecticut, New York (excluding Manhattan), North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Hawaii. The trend first hits areas with cold weather and traffic congestion, which tend to drive retirees away."
www.usatoday.com/money...
Inflation Falls for Fourth Straight Month
"Anybody who believes inflation moderated is not living in the real world," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak of the consumer price index report.Listen to more.
"I'm not going to say it's a bogus number, but if you look at the yield spread between the 10-year Treasury bond and the Treasury Inflation-Protection Security, or TIP, its 2.47%, an indication of inflation," said Peter Cardillo, chief market strategist at Avalon Partners
Rule #1: Recessions ALWAYS kill inflation.
According to Bush, we're NOT in a recession.
According to Bush, inflation is decreasing.
Then...
EVERYONE WILL GET A MAGIC PONY AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IF MCCAIN IS SELECTED!!!
God bless America!!!
Inflation Falls for Fourth Straight Month
If the Bush administration says inflation is lower, then inflation MUST be lower.
It's not like the Bush administration would intentionally "cook the books" to make unemployment, inflation or just about anything look better than it actually is!
Disclaimer: I believe in the Easter bunny, Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Should We Force a Housing Bottom?
That's RealtorSpeak for "every piece of land would be much, much more productive if it had a 100 story office building on it"!
Not only is that a simplistic view--but it puts the values of Corporations ahead of the values/needs of People.
Following this same "logic", then all churches are "unproductive assets", which produce no product or value-added service.
Similarly, all natural places such as forests, streams, meadows, etc. should are "unproductive assets" and should be paved over to build shopping malls.
Wow.
This P.O.V. is sooooooooo lame--and quite frankly--representativ... of people stuck in the 80's.
The 80s: Greedy Selfish People who think everything is about ME, ME, ME.