drhall

What Can Stop This Market Rally?

This is not your vanilla inflation problem. That problem will not be solved until employment is solved. Period. The employment factor, the commodity and the housing/lending has melted into one big lump sum factor/indicator. (Smith)

The True Cost of Living / Quality of Employment (Hall) indicator is that we are in the crapper! (we all cannot work at McDon's - who employs the customer?)

Disjunction of import - export ability (Keynes) and funny money props up false economies the world over - beginning with the USA and CHINA.

Suddenly Everyone's a Market Expert

Right feelings, wrong words. Wrong words, right feeling.

A view that has a point should not be disparaged regardless.

True, many so-called experts may not know how to choose a classical parametric measurement tool vs non-parametric, he may not realize which uses the ordinal/nominal derived data or the interval/ratio data ...

Symantics / Biased information, may be a good indicator of how many arrived at this point and I don't see a good cocktail in sight.

I'm Speechless: Palin on the Bailout

Dumbo's and Repugnants - stop playing into the hands of the great Delphi(Rand Corp. 1965)Technique, people diversion from the real facts, divider! Really, how easy it is to nitpick dimwit VP and purely ignorant VPs and who has the greater candidate, yada yada. sound like couch potatoes and spoiled brats.
Grab your congressman (by the throat if at all possible) and demand they read and LEARN the constitution, take your socialist programs that have sneaked into (maybe not since the great Johns Hopkins sponsored it)education and get educated on why you are being stolen into identity poverty, you are a social security number to a national debt collateral, your money is WORTHLESS (well, maybe not at the dollar general, but on the world scale it soon will be like the WWII german mark),you are voting and ignoring a pretty decent guy - Ron Paul, not perfect by any means, but superior to very very questionable choices you are so hot to defend, inclding a very embarrassing girl with as close to zero credentials as you can get in national politics.

Brookings Panel on Economic Activity Conference: Housing Market and Fed Activity

nuki, capitalism and socialism, both exist as a fantasy, on paper at that.
Fair Trade and commerce rules bend and twist to enrich those engaged in the process of exchange. The growing interest in economy comes to the lower reaches of the fairytale by way of bad times ... the good times are tossed to housing purchases, auto and job pursuits.
The same can be said for the world economy, the dogged ability of oversight has come to roost. I find the comments of Balance Sheet ratings perfectly normal ... just as we lie to protect assests from the IRS we lie to sell assests at any cost, and at any rating, in order to plug holes in debt servicing and possibly, instant profits. Like the famous button says (back in the sixties) Where Does It End? With the proper fuel, in revolution. Revolution of economics only exists at the behest of the drivers and those drivers are now fueled by outside interests and intertwined goods and services. This should be a doozy !(Hazel)
You have five bad years to decide an economic direction. You have three to engage the results. You have two years to sell it to the public(now, the world). You are lambasted or hailed in one year. If it sucks too bad, you find yourself in all out anarchy. Economies are whipsawed in years now, not centuries. Campaigns work best upon admitting income to fuel the homeowner earnings and sustained ability to produce goods for trade. What A Rush!

RNC / DNC: Crisis? What Crisis?

rusbear - you were not around (I am guessing here) the same atmosphere surrounded the 1929 panic and bank runs, one day the world is tea parties, the next, your cooking soup in a partridge lard can. No,this is not a disney movie and visits to many retailers will tell the tale, this a Big Badass Bear. Many retiree's and wannbe retired are reeling from botched management of 401k' and retirement grade finances.
Also, just pay the grocery bills, lately this making the news too. This is bad and has no way to get better.

Sarah Palin: Wall Street's Candidate

Who is really running this show?The newly elected president must rely on congress and senate backing, so ... let's review this ... the dem's get elected and use the democratic congress, what kind of record have they produced, not good for sure. The repub's get elected and we have the usual republican - democratic split public debate, and what good has it produced so far? A nice guy who has no qualms spending the USA into the dirt to fight an untenable war(s) and a lipstick nuclear power kisser. I mean really people, you are lost to the political norm, whoever wins, everybody still loses!
Somebody earlier said the elite just laugh all the way to the bank, and that is not completely accurate, however true it may be. (spoken like a true politician) OK ,so why not just elect Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura?
Think congress or senate would support these guys? Ron Paul is a true Republican, not the plastic version you are voting for. Jesse is a true governor, tested in battle and he also tells it like it is. Why do American's always end up fighting over such lackluster presidential candidates? Because they are "herded" into political camps and easily put under the Delphi(debate tactic developed by RandCorp in the sixties)spell maybe?
C'mon America you can do better than this - stop yelling at each other and start researching before you destroy each other. The elite love to see the gladiator small guy's tear each other to pieces! Quit the habit.

Foreign Treasury Buying and the Dollar Rally: Debunking a Theory

Rate cuts insane? Not at all, just too much too fast without balanced economic overall restructuring plan. Greenspan warned us, we don't listen. Yet, how could he have possibly known - why he must be privvy to the upper levels of financial hanky-panky, of course.