Another Stock Market Warning

| April 9, 2011

More warning signals for the stock market………just the opposite of the bottom!

The The Devolution Of The Consumer Economy…Rising Costs, Declining Wages

| April 8, 2011

It’s here and now folks, the widening gap between declining incomes and higher costs has been filled with borrowed money. Now that borrowing has reached its limit,  the consumer economy is devolving.  Here is what it means. The cost structure of the entire U.S. economy has bloated to unsustainable levels. Here’s the basic mechanism: when money […]

Mall Vacancies Are At The Highest Rate In 11 Years; Strip Mall Vacancy Rates Are Highest Since 1990

| April 8, 2011

Nobody seems to be paying attention to this….. From the WSJ: Mall vacancies hit their highest level in at least 11 years in the first quarter, new figures from real-estate research company Reis Inc. showed. In the top 80 U.S. markets, the average vacancy rate was 9.1%, up from 8.7%. The outlook is especially bad […]

Protests Erupt In Syria

| April 8, 2011

The Middle East is a fuse looking for a match…. Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding hundreds and forcing residents to turn mosques into makeshift hospitals.

U.S. Consumer Credit Rises 3.8% Annualized In February

| April 7, 2011

Here is the secret sauce…..revolving credit, or credit cards, actually fell during this period, down 4%.  But non- revolving credit, which includes student, auto, and other loans, increased by 7.7%. Interesting to note that January’s numbers were revised down which had the effect of making these February numbers look even better.   U.S. consumer credit surged […]

The Top 1%

| April 7, 2011

The top 1 percent have over 40 percent of all financial wealth in this country. And…The top 1 percent has never done so well in relative terms.  In fact we would have to go back to the years prior to the Great Depression to find such a glaring divide with income inequality: Source:  Center on […]

Portugal Lights Out…. Pleads For EU Bailout, Joining Greece And Ireland…Spain On Deck

| April 6, 2011

Portugal has been saying we are good, we don’t need help…they have been saying it over and over…Now, Portugal says we need help fast!  The dominoes are falling in Europe, and we haven’t seen anything yet! Running out of money and paralyzed by a political crisis, Portugal said it would ask the European Union for a financial […]

Some Food For Thought…..Amazing Government Statistics

| April 5, 2011

Did You Know…..More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.  Even more interesting are some of the state ratios. Consider this statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is […]

Obama Healthcare Bill Known As The “1099 Repeal” Has Passed Congress

| April 5, 2011

At least it’s a start…..Congress passes a measure known as the “1099 repeal” because it would relieve businesses of having to file 1099 tax forms for any person or company to which they pay at least $600 in a year. Congress on Tuesday passed the first major changes to last year’s health care law, undoing both […]

Stock Market Tid Bits, And The Long Term Kress Cycles

| April 3, 2011

The Fed Q Ratio (chart below) is signaling a warning for stocks……it is saying that we are currently at a level seen only 6 times since 1900!  So lets look at this in terms of the Kress Cycles between now and Sept-October (the approximate date of the Kress 6 Year Cycle high  This is where we could see a market […]

GOP To Propose $4 Trillion In Spending Cuts…Here’s The Rub, It’s Over The Next Decade!

| April 3, 2011

Over the next decade, a million things could happen, the least of them we think is $4 trillion in spending cuts. From The Wall Street Journal: House Republicans will propose slashing federal spending by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, by capping spending, overhauling entitlement programs and revamping the tax system, the chairman of […]

Food Stamps Hit New All Time Record

| April 1, 2011

The total foodstamp participation in January hit an all time record 44,187,831 according to the USDA.  The average amount recieved per participent is $132.81 per month.  We might add that we are in an economic recovrey….but the GDP growth looks to be about the rate of inflation, which means if we buy the same things as […]

Real Estate Sales Of Tomorrow, Happened Yesterday (Or 2002-2006 As May Be The Case)

| April 1, 2011

Governments are STUPID……Last week we found out that fewer new houses were sold in February than in any month since they started keeping records in 1963….yep, the more you give somebody, the more they become reliant on it, then when it stops, they don’t know what to do.  We’re seeing this same thing happen over and over.  […]

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