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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Wow the POTUS just figured out that huge deficits are a bad thing. He seems also to have discovered that cutting taxes on small businesses might create jobs. Who would have thunk it? Now if we could get him to give up on the knee cap our trade tax initiative and the cockamamie government run health care take over we might have a chance at recovery. On the jobs front the Senate wants to provide incentives to workers who will take a cut in their hours to avoid lay offs or allow for more part time hiring. Way to save and create jobs. Incentivise less work.
    Nov 19 08:48 am |Rating: +9 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Equities Update: Markets End Week Up 3% [View article]
    Bloggingstocks.com has an interesting article on Citti Group's (C) divestiture of Primerica via an IPO. Speulation is it could rais over $100M.
    Nov 06 20:28 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Equities Update: Markets End Week Up 3% [View article]
    Marvin: Greetings. Just where will the money come from to pay for this? Pickens would love to start it and even proposed a plan to start out with a fund site( pickensplan.org). However none of it is viable with oil under $100pbl. More over the so called "Smart grid." is little more than a Federal government power grab. While upgrading and expanding our power system is necessary, we need to get it right, and as of now I just can't see any one working on it smartly.
    Nov 06 18:10 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Jenna Lee at Fox Business is reporting that Helicopter Ben wants to decide executive pay at all financial institutions to curb their penchant for risky behavior. He asserts that this will mitigate systemic risk. He also wants to regulate overdraft and late fees. What do those items have to do with risk mitigation?
    Oct 23 11:14 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Board rooms have always been good ol boys clubs. Share holders could deal with some of this with board elections. However getting enough of them moving in the same direction is like herding cats. Just ask Carl Ichan.
    Oct 23 10:59 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Ah yes control the pay. Didn't Barney Frank try to get legislation to regulate every one's pay a few months ago? Will this result in brain drain for the affected companies? Or will this be a cost advantage for them inducing competitors to make similar pay cuts? How will these events affect stock prices and returns? As for leading indicators no one is shipping any thing and no one is buying any thing.
    Oct 23 10:10 am |Rating: +4 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    These great "earnings" are on negative numbers by a three to one margin. Does that puzzle any one else or am I just dense?
    Oct 22 08:49 am |Rating: +9 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Equities Update: Mixed Feelings Ahead of Earnings Season [View article]
    With Pig weed having a larger than expected impact on agriculture in the southern U.S. and drought in much of the west severely impacting agriculture there especially in CA we are likely to see the cost of produce rise. This could mean even more pressure on consumer discretionary spending so I would expect discounters like FDO and COST to do well going forward. Especially if team Obama's energy assessment is off the mark (That never happens) and this winter is more severe than they are expecting ( Two ski areas opened this week the earliest ever).
    Oct 07 18:50 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Commercial real estate is having problem? Ya don't say. Eureka! Set up a new GSE to reinflate that market too. After all Freddie and Fannie are devising new plots...err plans to reinflate residential mortgages just add CRE and the whole problem is solved. The recession will be over and we can all go back to the Kool-aid bowl.
    Oct 07 08:48 am |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
  • Closing Update: Stocks End at Day's Highs, Advance Eight Days Out of Nine [View article]
    At least some of the commodities rising is an illusion through the lens of a falling dollar. Some of it is seasonal as nights get cooler going into winter more consumer money will go to heating fuel and less to other discretionary purchases. I opened a position several weeks ago in Southern Union (SUG) which is up significantly and probably has more up side left as winter comes along and natural gas prices go up as they do every year. Other than that I have taken some profit in the last two weeks and now I am waiting. I am considering opening a position in (HOGS) as a play on the impending chickens VS tires squabble. As usual keep your traveling stops tight and your reserve currency in gold. Good lick all and beware of government agencies offering free assistance.
    Sep 16 17:30 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Pfine job Rachel, hat tip. Terrible tim wants a global consensus on stimulous, again. Didn't we just watch him and his boss get laughed at around the world? Shoot we can't even influence Scotland any more. Now Charley Wrangle wants to stiffen tax evasion penalties. Can we make that retroactive and apply it to him and Tim?
    Sep 03 08:42 am |Rating: +7 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Let's take stock: Unemployment up. Retail sales down. equals consumer confidence up? Where do they get this stuff? It' like they are peeing on our shoes and trying to convince us it's raining.
    Aug 26 08:46 am |Rating: +10 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Retail sales are down but spending is up. Why? Energy costs are rising meaning that consumers are forced to spend more on it. Should the trend up in energy costs continue coupled with the just raised minnimum wage inflationary pressure can't be far off. Even with mortgage interest rates at very low (perhaps artificial) levels and all the "experts" saying that there is no inflationary pressure I'm keeping an eye on it.
    Aug 05 09:02 am |Rating: +5 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Great GS is free of government interference. Now if we can free the government of GS interference we would all be better off. I don't see what Chrysler is whining about. Those dealerships don't cost them anything wether they suceed or not. In fact it would appear that the more indipendant franchises there are the more volume you could move. Go figure.
    Jul 23 08:49 am |Rating: +6 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Wow everyone seems to be doing better than expected. Gentlemen start your spinning wheels.
    Jul 21 08:44 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
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