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Stimulus money flows to savings

Households save and invest in equities

Household savings rise in 2009

Government economic stimulus programs that have sent money directly to US households have resulted in more saving and less spending.

Low interest rates have encouraged individuals to move from debt instruments into equities.

Should extreme government spending programs lead to inflation, as expected, the 2009 recovery in equity prices may prove unsustainable.

US politics:

Why Congress won’t kill ACORN

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Closely connected with President Barack Obama, the ACORN group of “community organizers” has drawn censure from the Democrat-controlled Congress as a result of daring investigative reporting by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles.

However, effective Congressional action seems unlikely. The HUD grants program is a ‘honey pot’ that has kept legislators of both parties in slush funds for generations. Take the case of the sidewalk in Sandy, Utah …

Obama's Sunday Blitz:

The decline of the mainstream media

A hard sell for the main stream media ...

During September 2009, President Obama dominated television in his attempt to sell his government-run health plan, despite massive public opposition. Over-exposure is already damaging Obama’s popularity. Now the Main Stream Media is seeing falling ad revenues and market share as the public turns to the prime source of unbiased information: Fox News.

Unpopular policies, imprudent economics, and Obama-linked scandals like ACORN, are weighing on this Presidency.

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Stock buybacks

WSJ exposes the 9/11 caper

In a major exposé of misused executive options, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page article, reporting that as stocks sank after the the 9/11 attacks, scores of companies rushed to issue options to top officials. Some executives reaped millions.
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Securities Analysis

Managing complexity

Modern capital markets have become so complex that security analysis methods of the 1930s are no longer adequate. Complexity goes beyond financial data to collateral issues such as operations, foreign and domestic taxation, and structural risks. More ...

US Politics

Why are the Super-Rich often liberals?

If we are to believe the old adage that, 'people vote their pocketbooks', why are so many of the Super-Rich ardent supporters of the Democratic Party? Why do the liberal Super-Rich seem to act in a way that is so contrary to their selfish interests and economic well-being? Here I show how capital flow analysis of the Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts provides an answer to this apparent conundrum. More ...

US equities

Stock values and cash dividends wither

Wall Street ballyhoo and flim-flam to the contrary, the year 2005 closed-out half a decade of misery and pain for the average investor in US equities. Average cash dividend yields never surpassed 3.8% during the period, and most of this was consumed by taxes and management expenses of the open-end mutual funds. More ...

US Bonds

The collapse of the dollar and US bonds?

The extreme spending of the Obama government, combined with irresponsible bank lending policies promoted by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, portend rising interest rates, the collapse of the bond market, and the end of dollar supremacy. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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