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Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

Please don't stop you are hilarious. You should be doing stand up somewhere. Wait isn't that really the grow jobs program? Biggest mystery is how to get a job in one of those huge complexes. Thanks for the humor release now I will go buy some more calls. lol

Six Signs Economy Is Turning the Corner

Most comments tell the story above. What I see not mentioned yet is the small business sector. This administration just doesn't get how small business works. Without constant revolving credit they have no reserve to function other than lay people off and stay afloat. CIT is the indicator here by Geithner just blowing this off. Even if private sector provides a backstop to them that doesn't let them keep credit lines open. Some businesses already are filing bankruptcy because CIT is under water. Glad to see some stabilization in the the big bank financial department so we don't have a meltdown, but without small business stimulus unemployment will continue. Really the states and cities rely heavily on small business taxes (think car dealerships) and sales tax from the unemployed people? We have not seen the bottom yet.

Cap and Trade Will Severely Harm the Steel Industry

Remember CO2 is not a pollutant. I am a Biologist and understanding why CO2 vilified as a pollutant is strictly for raising the amount of money needed to pay for more Government programs through 'Cap & Trade' is easy. Read briefly from Wikipedia photosynthesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and Krebs cycle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Simply CO2 gives us the O2 oxygen we need and fixates C carbon into Biomass. "In all, photosynthetic organisms convert around 100,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon into biomass per year.[5]" The 'Plants planet' will flourish and use as much CO2 as we throw at it providing we clean up true pollutants(i.e.. metals,acids,bases, sulfurs, etc.) that kill or inhibit plant growth, and stop deforestation without equal replanting. Clean H2O (water) is a much more pressing concern. I hope this basic information is helpful to show that the lawyers in Washington DC., State governments, who fill our political offices don't remember their High School science, and are counting on the fact that you don't either.

The Risk of Global Economic Meltdown

For those of us who are old enough to remember the path out of the deep recession valley is stagflation. The government doesn't want to use this term because it is death to the markets, and really makes the population of voters angry. Angry enough to vote with not their pocketbooks, (broke) feet, (nowhere to go when broke and unemployed) but actually at the political voting booth. America will vote you out if stagflation is the byword of the next few years. When you are oscillating between the media's questions of inflation or deflation they are just dancing around the issue. No easy way out and with the risk of further deepening of recession. Us old guys have lived through this before.

Pricing Oil in Big Macs

Actually quite intellectual and pertinent for today. Excellent! We need to contemplate oil in abstract ways so we can vote the right people into office to keep energy as an utility instead of a weapon.

Economic Inconsistency: Continuing the Journey to the 'New Normal'

Agree bottom, bounce, and begin recovery through stagnation. Listen to what he says don't project your thoughts into his report. If that is what you are doing for your investments they are deflating your value. Bottom, Bounce, Build. what else can you do?

Unemployment Will Take Out This Bear Rally by July

Why isn't the crux of this supported by the recent stress test put forth by the government? It made me remember when the teacher wants all the students to get A's - write a test on information they have learned. That was a test, but not a stress test. Unemployment mentioned in this article was not tested for. Worse case was 9.9%. If the unemployment does not stop soon then what the author has demonstrated will take place. Geithner by the vales of this test prove it. The banks are ok at this level. So? what about the next level. They could not test for that or they would have collapsed the financial system. Long rough road ahead.

Will Intel's New Processor Be a Game-Changer?

We need the speed and efficiency plus green effect. Speed lets you competent tech people give us average non tech americans the glitch free easy use stuff that makes us multitasking, ten things running on the screen functional. This may deliver the dream/lie that was promised years ago of the new Digital way of life. If this can finally do it the 35 - 70 population will buy in with new computers. I am in my fifties and older younger friends family really have not embraced the web 2.0 because it just takes too long or they can't figure it out. When it works they do get excited and then are willing to buy. So 3 cheers go Intel will be watching for entry point to buy stock

'Bailout Psychology' Destroying the Economy

Great article dead on. Bailouts okay if it is for the people. Give $200,000.00 to everyone 21 years and older and there is real stimulus. Japan tried this way before and lost a decade and a half. Learn from history because it may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme!

Even More Reasons to Worry About Inflation

What is your time frame? You all are right and all wrong depending on when your scenarios play out. For now where is the world going to go for the vast amount of currency needed to back the system AUS? They do not have a large enough fiat to be significant. Yes it may be a place for 10% of your portfolio, but will not hold up the nations. Until the USD is not safe it will be preeminent with deflation in control for next 6 months.

U.S. Economy: Five Things That Could Still Go Wrong

What will prolong this Great Recession is reality concerning jobs. Unless Washington makes an effort to stimulate job growth through tax incentives to small business job take up will lag as it does in every long recession. Larger businesses gear up after they see economy has already turned around. This is what will turn us back down in 2010 massive unemployment translates no consumer spending where remember the US economy is 70% based on this.

The only way to prevent another AIG (AIG), professor Tyler Cowen writes in a NY Times op-ed, is to make sure counterparties do a better job of vetting their trading partners. And the only way that's going to happen is if creditors feel the pain too. Barry Ritholtz agrees, mostly.

Please the rating companies let us down big time, Moody's S&P the government should regulate them. If it is not AAA this doesn't happen.

Oil ETFs: Cramer Discovers Contango, But Forgets History

USO is neither bullish on oil nor bearish on oil. it tracks a commodity future of oil. Through an ETF it allows you to work an option in a stock like manner without purchasing put or calls in an options account. It allows more avenues to the average investor, however the average investor needs to educate themselves on futures. Bottom line you don't get A's without doing your homework!