thestatedtruth.com | January 10, 2010
You wanna see 21 reasons why we’re not embarking on a new secular bull run, despite what you’ll read in the popular press? Check out the table below, courtesy of our friends at Gluskin Sheff: Click on the box below to enlarge……….. Thanks to…..http://www.minyanville.com/articles/todd-harrison-markets-minyanville-stock-finance/index/a/26255
thestatedtruth.com | January 10, 2010
In March 2009 Singapore legalized a government plan for paying organ donors. Although it’s not clear yet when this will be implemented, the amounts being discussed for payment, around $50,000, suggest the possibility of a significant donor incentive. So far, the U.S. has lagged other countries in addressing the shortage, but last year, Sen. Arlen […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 9, 2010
John Mauldin’s  “Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter” Those who are invested in the idea of a “V”-shaped recovery became excited over the jobs report last month. Unemployment rose by only 11,000 jobs, if you did not look at the underlying numbers or ignored the household survey. And the consumer confidence surveys have begun to rise. […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 8, 2010
Consumer Credit in U.S. Drops Record $17.5 Billion By Vincent Del Giudice Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Consumer credit in the U.S. dropped a record $17.5 billion in November as unemployment close to a 26- year high discouraged borrowing and banks limited access to loans. The slump in credit to $2.46 trillion was more than anticipated […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 7, 2010
Contrarian Investor Predicts Economic Crash in China  By DAVID BARBOZA January 8, 2010 SHANGHAI — James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other high-flying companies whose stories were too good to be true. Now Mr. Chanos, a wealthy hedge fund investor, is working […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 7, 2010
Top Banks Invited To Basel Risk Talks By Henny Sender in New York Published January 7, 2010 The Bank for International Settlements will gather top central bankers and financiers for a meeting in Basel this weekend amid rising concern about a resurgence of the “excessive risk-taking†that sparked the financial crisis. In its invitation, the […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 7, 2010
U.S. Warns Banks to Guard Against Rate-Rise Risks By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators including the Federal Reserve warned banks to guard against possible losses from an end to low interest rates and reduce exposure or raise capital if needed. “In the current environment of historically low short-term interest […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 7, 2010
There was a lot of buzz around Wall Street about a report released by TrimTabs yesterday. In the report, Charles Biderman goes through a lot of potential fund flows to fuel the rally that spiked market cap $6 trillion since March. He found them all wanting and speculated whether the rally had been funded with buying […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 6, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | January 6, 2010
FOMC Discussed Expanding Purchases If Economy Weakens By Scott Lanman Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve officials last month debated increasing and extending asset purchases should the economy weaken, with a few favoring the move and one seeking a reduction, minutes of their last meeting showed. Policy makers also differed over whether risks are greater […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 6, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | January 4, 2010
 by RYAN J. PUPLAVA, CMT | January 4, 2010 It’s a new year, and for newsletter writers and portfolio managers it means the bar has been reset. It’s time to put on our thinking caps and make grandiose predictions for the year to come. After watching CNBC for three days last week, I found […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 4, 2010
OUTLOOK FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AROUND THE WORLD Guild Investment In our opinion, stock market appreciation is a function of corporate profit growth. Corporate profit growth depends upon the industry or industries in which the company operates and the growth rate of the countries in which the company operates. A summary of the markets which we […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 4, 2010
The COT chart of the Dollar is linked below. It is extremely overextended internally and if any technical support levels get violated on the downside, a significant amount of long liquidation is going to occur. We got just a taste of that in today’s session as the Dollar came under strong pressure with year-end positioning now […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 4, 2010
Robert Rubin: All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former secretary of the Treasury (1995–99) and now serves as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say: […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 3, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | January 3, 2010
Fed’s Kohn Says Constrained Credit May Curb Spending By Craig Torres Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said tight bank credit and caution among households and businesses may impede spending amid an improvement in financial markets. “Lingering credit constraints are a key reason why I expect the strengthening in economic activity […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 3, 2010
Stiglitz Says Crisis Exposed ‘Major Flaws’ in Economics Ideas By Scott Lanman Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist and Columbia University professor, said economists are among those at fault for the financial crisis, which exposed “major flaws†in prevailing ideas. The now-flawed premises include the ideas that economic participants behave […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 1, 2010
                 Index         P/E        Est. P/E    Div %  Price/Book   Price/Sales  Dow Ind 16.06 16.03 2.67   2.74x         1.33x  Dow Tran 29.60 38.66 1.76  2.25x        0.80x  Dow Util 12.89 13.10 4.21  1.59x        1.16x  S&P 500 22.16 17.61 2.06  2.21x        1.23x  Nasdaq 42.11 25.53 0.84  2.69x       0.20x Source: Bloomberg Key Interest […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 1, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | January 1, 2010
                        Could Commercial Real Estate Trigger A Double-Dip?   CHARLES HUGH SMITH  Reports that commercial real estate (CRE) is suffering from a double whammy of soaring vacancies and declining valuations have been making news recently with sobering regularity. DailyFinance addressed the risks that CRE meltdowns pose to banks in early December. And in […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 31, 2009
What a great investment for the government.  The situation is they are losing gobs of money, up to $400 billion in mortgages, Wallison a former general counsel at the Treasury  said in a Bloomberg Television interview. The Treasury Department recognized last week that losses will be more than $400 billion when it raised its limit on […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 31, 2009
“Through the first three quarters of 2009 state and local tax revenues totaled $875 billion, nearly 8% below the $951 billion collected in the first three quarters of 2008. In the same period, federal receipts were down nearly 19%.” State, Local Tax Revenues Decline 7% By CONOR DOUGHERTY State and local tax revenues fell 7% […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
Security experts say the scanners may be the best defense in stopping attacks such as an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft Christmas Day.
thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
Kazakhstan Claims To Be Worlds Biggest Uranium Miner By Isabel Gorst in Moscow Published: December 30 2009 Kazakhstan said on Wednesday it had overtaken Canada and Australia to become the world’s biggest uranium miner as nations rich in the resource ramp up production to sell into a resurgent nuclear power industry. The announcement came the […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
U.S. Slaps New Duties On Chinese Steel By Alan Rappeport in Washington Published: December 30 2009 The US will impose tough new duties on Chinese steel piping imports, raising tensions with its biggest trading partner and emerging geopolitical rival. With Chinese piping imports worth $2.8bn in 2008, the case is the biggest against China brought […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
From Ian Mathias The 5-Minute Forecast… “One good reason to guard your finances in 2010: The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has quietly ballooned back to near-record highs. The Fed announced yesterday that it’s balance sheet expanded to $2.22 trillion last week, it’s grossest level in nearly a year and just a hair from an all […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 29, 2009
The European Commission warns that public finances in half of the 16 euro-zone nations are at high risk of becoming unsustainable. Governments will spend the next year and beyond balancing the urgent need to fix public-sector debt and deficits — without imperiling what appears to be a feeble economic recovery. Even the staunchest optimists in […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 28, 2009
Mortgage Anxieties Mean Limbo for Fannie and Freddie ………..Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy home mortgages from banks and package them into bonds sold to investors, have been bailed out with $1.5 trillion in direct and indirect government aid.  The approaching withdrawal of Fed support in the form of the mortgage-bond purchases risks a […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 28, 2009
U S Fixed Income Has To Increase  Elevenfold… Or Else  by Tyler Durden on 12/25/2009 17:31 -0500 From www.zerohedge.com As everyone is engrossed by assorted groundless Christmas (and other ongoing bear market) rallies, and oblivious to the debt monsters hiding in both the closet and under the bed, Zero Hedge has decided it […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 27, 2009
If this happens, it will kill what ever bottoming action we’ve seen in real estate, crush commercial real estate and put the economy back in recession…….Yields on benchmark 10-year notes will climb about 40 percent to 5.5 percent, the biggest annual increase since 1999, according to David Greenlaw, chief fixed-income economist at Morgan Stanley in New […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 27, 2009
“(ABC) “        The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year. The Senate’s rare Christmas Eve vote, 60-39, follows House passage last week and raises the debt ceiling […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 27, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | December 27, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | December 27, 2009
Goldman Sachs and Others Investigated for Betting Against Securities They Created Sunday, December 27, 2009 Betting against their own securities has prompted numerous investigations of Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street institutions. Prior to the financial collapse, Goldman and others figured out a way to package risky securities, such as subprime mortgages, and sell them […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 24, 2009
 From The Daily Reckoning The yield curve – the difference in yield between a 2-year Treasury note and a 10-year Treasury note – sits at a record 285 basis points. Fork over your money to the gubmint for two years and you get a paltry 0.88%. But 10 years? You get 3.73%. Yes, that’s paltry […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 24, 2009
YRC Worldwide Inc  was the comination of Yellow Line Freight, Roadway and USF Corp. They’re now the largest trucking freightline…….Uh, here is what Yellow Corp said back in 2005 with the purchase of USF Corp……………….OVERLAND PARK, Kan. & CHICAGO, Ill. –This provides immediate and nationwide scale in next day and regional markets–Significant synergies and operational […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 23, 2009
That America’s precarious financial condition continues to dance on the sharp end of pin is a marvel of modern macroeconomics. Even after deconstructing the whys and wherefores of this marvel, it becomes no less marvelous. Essentially, America borrows and spends as much as it wishes by issuing as many Treasury bills, notes and bonds as […]
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