Saint Peter II

Has Investing in America Become Passe?

it's the environment, that is the changed global economic environment that controls the fate of national economies and this environment augers against a return to previous prosperity for the large majority of Americans. Things will never be the same as America refuses to address long term and expensive social issues that leave so many potential contributors to the common welfare on the side lines. This with the cost of a crippling federal bureaucracy that Americans work 5.5 months a year to support has made recovery to previously levels of prosperity unlikely. Wanton with our patrimony and careless with future realities America will not resume its prior economic dominance, not to say we will be a nation of beggars, unless our debtors call in the loans and they can't afford to at present.

Let the Detroit Automakers Fail

mitt romney is not a venture capitalist, he is much more a corporate raider and there is a difference. when the average worker spends 5.5 months a year working for the government, capitalism is but a slogan. the real problem we face in this country is bureaucracy, in both the private and public sectors. some think the old russian empire was knee capped by star wars, but the truth is they were done in by a huge bureaucracy whose monumental inefficiency and corruption was matched only by it's relentless drive to grow. if this sounds familiar so be it. downsize bureaucracy both public and private{GN and CO} and this country will stand a chance in what is an increasingly competitive global economy.


On Nov 20 08:19 AM jarco wrote:

> Riding an airline is much different than putting $25K into a car
> without assurances they'll be there to warranty service it. Sure
> there's a risk critical airline maintenance is overlooked, but not
> having a dealer, parts, and good will behind your car purchase would
> halt all sales and put 1 in every 10 workers at risk.
>
> There are better alternatives. First, the Fed shouild name a car
> czar to overlook their "investment" and I nominate Mitt Roomney.
> He 's a former Venture Capitalist head (Bain). They know how to analyze
> companies, re-organize, etc. to assure success of their investment.
>
>
> Next, the loan should be in the name of the Social Security Trust
> Fund. The Fed owes the Fund Trillions. Now the opportunity to reconstitute
> the SS into a live entity which can take control of the tax payers
> investments without objections from anti-socialists

Historical Bull and Bear Markets for the Dow: 1900-Present

American cycles of bear and bull markets are becoming ever more the micro, in that the global economic order is becoming more and more important. after wwII the us economic dominance was so masssive that our economy was the macro, but as that dominance declines and we adjust to the global order the cycles of bear and bull markets seen in the past are effected because they exist in a new environment. In the main we are not experiencing a cycle driven by a single factor, it's not a recession nor a depression it's a adjustment to the new global economic order and concurrently a downsizing of the American life style. This is greatly aggravated by the pyramid scheme that masqueraded as a banking system. sorry i can't up load images here, but I was in DC a few days ago and saw Uncle Sam doing a new kind of investing at The Spank of America. visit www.saintppeterii.com

Yahoo, Microsoft: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

after reading your analysis it becomes more apparent than ever that bureaucracy is the #1 problem facing this country. ibm downsized and is today more successful than ever mainly because of bureaucracy and there is no need to outline the impact of bureaucracy with respect to our government, but corporations also face this problem. it is the largest least spoken about problem in every area of out culture. john k galbraith wrote a book. "the nature of bureaucracy" which out lines the nature the characteristics of bureaucracy, unfortunately it is 700 - 800 pages long and for today's crowd it may as well have been written in Sanskrit! he maintains bureaucracy has a nature, as in the nature of living organisms. it has predictable behaviors in which it will engage in and those it will avoid. quite a while ago pres carter spoke about being powerless in the face of entrenched bureaucrats and things haven't improved since. microsoft and yahoo are huge bureaucracies and it matters not that they are private corporations the demonstrate the systems of bureaucracy namely the negative reinforcement of initiative that leads to brain drain and lost opportunities and stalled competitive position as bureaucracies resist above all things, change. it's incredible that bureaucracy isn't a primary issue but it may be as geo w said when asked how one could fool all the people all the time, "it's hard to see an elephant if it's sitting on you." undoubtedly the Oily One has something there. see listed web on the role of bureaucrats in the death of mister dollar. saintpeterii.com