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Sobering Stat: ARMS Index Indicates Market Is at Peak, Not Bottom

Either bias is speculation today. If you buy you are speculating that things will improve. If you sell, you are speculating the things will get worse. If you just base your decision on real data. Then the decision becomes relative to what? What will change? What has changed? Where have trends gone? And will they continue? In my eyes; Too many businesses have sold their futures for yesterdays bottom line appearances. Good economies have increasingly gone toward more questionable activities The middle class, is disappearing and will contine to dwindle. Hot air may continue to bouy the economy for the near future. But for how long?

Wall Street's Post-War Reconstruction

What real good does trading monies around for what ever reason really do? A banker gets money from one person for safe keeping and gives it to another for interest (reward). Then he uses the interest as profit. So he can exist in the economy of today! For various reasons values of almost everything is skewed by propaganda made to make values either more acceptable or palatable. Values are what they are. Is there any real value in anybody? Is the value of all infinite? People power is control power. Control power is manipulative power. Manipulative power skews values. Skewed values cause embalances in societies. embalances in Society cause changes in values. Changes in values cause people power to increase. The whole world can be explained by cause and effect. I believe the roller coaster is about to reach high speed. Will the tracks hold it?

Increased Regulation of the Financial Sector or Simply Micromanagement?

regulation would be treating all the same under the same situations. this is micromanagement. You are right about Barack being like hugo chavez. Look at who he worships and you see who he admires and what he strives to be like! As to the election, I may be wrong but I think the future will show everything has been manipulated in recent politics for Democrat (undemocratic rule). I believe the name is for contol purposes and not to promote democracy. The recent close elections where votes have been found from strange places and votes taken away for arbitrary reasons mean non- democrat winners will need a clear and decisive victory to win. I think that is unlikely to happen because some evil will be invented at the last minute to knock the opponent down. Do you think the Alaska seat was just an accident? Look around! You will see nondemocratic actions by almost exclusively democrat leaders or groups. Why?

The Common Refrain, To Our Detriment

I do not understand how people think anything that happens in the US is Capitalistic policy. Capitalistic policy is let the market decide all! Socialistic Policy is control is the best policy. Communistic policy is fair treatment for all based on the leaders beliefs. All government policies are a combination of all of those policies. Government is socialistic in nature. Programs like roads are Communistic in nature. Individuals are Capitalistic in nature. All nations need a balance of all those policies. When any nation moves too communistic or socialistic they are on their way to collapse. Any nation must have real encouragement of capitalism along with rewarding capitalism in order for the nation to flourish. The government has two roles: Supporting comunistic programs and making reasonable socialistic controls over the private sector. Any serious failure in balance will cause problems within the system. That is where we are now. You guess the outcome! What needs to change? Obamanomics will be seen as negative change.

The Fed and AIG Still Give the Market Troubles

Big Gorillas are easier to see but harder to kill. King Kong has been established as the size medicine needs to be administered while the monkeys need to fend for themselves. How wise!

Economic Terrorism and Market Weakness

Hmmmm! Interesting I may be wrong but I think Banks and Insurance companies have sucking wealth from the people and businesses for years. Excess wealth in both of those hands has dried up. Government recently has acted like it has the wealth so the Banks and insurance companies need to get it from somewhere or fold! Wealth is currently mostly in the hands of the rich nonproducers and foriegn hands. Good luck geting that wealth into the system. The legislature is filled with nonproducing wealth possessors. They will not introduce anything that hurts themselves. All know how much wealth goes to entertainers sports or otherwise. I expect their wealth to be the next great wealth grab. I expect another year before that becomes ovious because the president really believes entertainers deserve their wealth. After all, many entertainers supported him! welcome to the fairness abyss everybody! Cuba appreciates fairness! If you wonder what the US may look like in 20 years following the current policies look at Cuba today. And realize the US will probably not have other countries help by supplying goods and monies to this country. I know! It is the people not the policies. I say 95% of the people will ride the policies. They will soar with good policies and they remain under water with bad policies. Guess where we are now! Social policy is good only if it does not overwhelm private wealth. Is it?

Misunderstanding the Great Recession

The problem with technological expansion is the need or want for those needs and wants. Many of the new technologies are temporary items which lose their value in a short time. That type of item is good for boosting the economy for a short time. But the wealth invested in those items is often expired and worthless over time. Of course most things often lose value over time. My take is worldwide there is too much production in relation to consumption. I think in 1980 in the US there was too much consumption for the amount of production. The best situation is production equaling consumption. How should we move toward that balance? Those who want goods often can not afford them and recently spent more than they could afford exhasperating the situation. would increasing the wealth of those folks help things? If so how can it be done? My take. The poor needs to recieve enough to take care of their needs. If production is in excess then the middle class needs to recieve and spend enough to utilize production. And the wealthy should be a sink to soak up excess wealth. If all is balanced then the economy will follow a smooth path. The government job should be to have policies which adjust that balance through taxation and labor laws. Business taxes should be based on $ earned per full time employee. Thus encouraging a business that makes money to hire more people. Technology will improve peoples lives. Will it help the economy? I say not really!

The Nefarious and Destructive World of TARP

The Detroit car companies have really been in trouble and getting worse for 30+ years. As they had problems, they would make minor changes. leverage up their value and continue on their way. Any companies that do not contain excess wealth over expenses will collapse when economies cause a reduction in revenue. Laying off workers is the current fix. The snowball is growing! I expect it to fly apart and make the world deal in real wealth not wealth in appearance only. Auto workers are only worth the amount of wealth they create! Anything in excess is borrowed wealth or with a bailout ...wealthfare.