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Why Is the Market Going Up When Jobs Are Going Down?

I suggest there is just a huge disconnect between markets and reality.

What did Nasdaq 5000 predict ? Even last year the Dow was near a high just before the Great Recession.

The best anecdotal quote is that the market predicts or represents fear and greed.

The Problem with iPhone Killers

Interesting the way the debate is framed using the phrase, "I-Phone Killers" considering Apple is currently in third place in the smart phone category worldwide. Any proliferation of Android would push Apple to number four.

Similar to the computer industry, Apple get positive press for going from low single digits to high single digits in market share. Currently Apple is only number one in market hype !

The real I-Phone killer is the ATT coverage network for which any other manufacturer would receive endless negative press.

In Praise of Time Warner's New Look for CNN

No amount of window dressing and new graphics will change the fact that it is a left leaning news organization.

On Short Selling Leveraged ETFs

Indeed, pick your entry points with care.

While both long and short may lose value over time, look at the difference in price with FAS and FAZ and the and their typical average daily moves.

Perhaps not so easy to be find a balanced hedge.

Stocks, Inflation, Speculation: Fueled by Desperation?

For further discussion, what role the government has caused or contributed to inflation over the same time ?

Perhaps the list would be too long !

Jobless Claims Continue to Improve

"Jobless Claims Continue to Improve"

Presumes the numbers actually represent what is happening in the labor market ??????

Is the real unemployment rate closer to 15% or 20% ?

My Options Play on Apple

Why not roll the calls into a higher strike and later date ?

The Facts Indicate We're Not in a Depression or Bubble

I am sure the "Smart people" said the same thing in 1930 when the market was up 90%.

Another correlation is that Obama is trying his to do his best imitation of FDR.

Happy Halloween. Very scary !

Barney Frank's Bad Housing Loans

I am casting Obama in the role of a modern day Robespierre

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On Oct 19 09:08 AM Perry B wrote:

> I was reading the news for the past few years using the back's of
> my eyelids. Then i woke up. As are many Americans The French Revolution
> is a good place in history to start to draw a paralel line as to
> the current state of America. We have a corrupt congress. Gaining
> power with each bill they write. Protecting their lobbyists and cronie
> capitilists. A corrupt military, Central inteligence and police
> force. Preparing to step on disidents. Controlled media to spread
> party propaganda. Counterfeiters printing junk paper (The Fed).
> An angry population of folks of all economic backgrounds. Who are
> tired of getting stepped on, used and accused for political gain
> that profit and aide these corrupt powers, We call our Congressional
> lawmakers. Obama has been trying to tell the American voter since
> he began his race. We as Americans have to get involved and realize
> how corrupt our state congressional delegates and legislators are
> and get rid of them. The media does not want you to hear these words
> as they are a part of the cronie capitalism. So I hope we can through
> sites like these continue to write articles that may wake some folks
> up to read more unbiased net news, and watch less public media. Such
> as msnbc and fox and thier biased lies to the left and the right.
> Yet both groups are centered in thier driving fear bias, on one
> issue. Protect lobbyists and cronie capitalists. The media which
> is not competitive but have a dying readership due to credibility
> issues caused by this bias. Is in the fear of losing advertising
> dollars which truly drive the media not accurate reporting these
> days. We need accurate reporting. Things would begin to change.

There Is Nothing Wrong with Price Deflation

It should be no surprise that the conventional wisdom that got us here is exactly wrong, again !

When first learning about the Great Depression in school, we were told that the cause was an unsophisticated banking system and we ( collectively ) were too smart now for it to happen again.

Evidently instead of being too smart, we were just too arrogant .

Whole Foods Market Well-Positioned for Gains as Organic Food Sales Soar

The "regulations" are so broad as to basically be meaningless.

One minute of research turned up the following;

"Manipulation of regulations
Critics of formal certification also fear an erosion of organic standards. Provided with a legal framework within which to operate, lobbyists can push for amendments and exceptions favorable to large-scale production, resulting in "legally organic" products produced in ways similar to current conventional food"

and

"Manipulation of certification regulations as a way to mislead or outright dupe the public is a very real concern."


and

"In December 2005, the 2006 agricultural appropriations bill was passed with a rider allowing 38 synthetic ingredients to be used in organic foods. Among the ingredients are food colorings, starches, sausage and hot-dog casings, hops, fish oil, chipotle chili pepper, and gelatin. This allowed Anheuser-Busch in 2007 to have its Wild Hop Lager certified organic "even though [it] uses hops grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides"

Thanks to government "regulations", even pesticides can be labeled organic !

Whole Foods Market Well-Positioned for Gains as Organic Food Sales Soar

Good luck with organic fish !

Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Inflation/Deflation Debate

The biggest problem comes from the people in government who think that inflation is good thing. Perhaps for this true for debtors and borrowers, but no on else.

Also, the amount of misinformation being spewed. I actually heard a commentator on CNBC say, "Deflation caused the Great Depression"

While I am not an economic genius, seems to me that is exactly backwards. And these are people setting our economic policy ?

Whole Foods Market Well-Positioned for Gains as Organic Food Sales Soar

Always quite amused by the "Organic" marketing gimmick as here is not even a legal definition of the term organic. I always ask myself , how can a vegetable NOT be organic ?

Likely these are the same consumers who believe global warming can be combated by not turning on the heater in their car or starting a compost pile !

Having said all this I hope enough people will try the organic salmon at $25.00 per pound to make your investments profitable. Also , don't forget to pick up some organic tartar sauce ( on sale , $7.50 for 8 oz jar ) to top it off !

What Will Drive Equity Markets Higher?

What Will Drive Equity Markets Higher?


Consumers buying cars with your money.

Goldman Sachs buying stocks with your children's money.

Federal reserve S&P futures with your grandchildren's money