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Subject: David Letterman

David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman. Only Letterman’s friend and mentor Johnny Carson has had a longer late-night hosting career. [Wikipedia]

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.

US politics

Governor Sarah Palin waves goodbye

Sarah Palin waves goodbye

On the 4th of July weekend, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, resigned her position as Governor of the State of Alaska. This has raised questions as to her political future.

Sarah Palin and her family have been severely, viciously, and unfairly attacked by far left ideologues who hate her and her family as a representatives of a traditional, Norman Rockwell America. Is Sarah finished? Her enemies hope so.

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Stock buybacks

Buybacks + options + hedge funds

Stock buyback programs are a legalized form of market manipulation, sanctioned under SEC Rule 10b-18 and that serve to drive up the price of a company's stock and to give false value to executive stock options.
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Securities Analysis

Some banks are too complex to manage

It is no secret that Citicorp no longer earns the same respect in financial circles as in days of yore. The problem is excessive complexity. This article describes the simplicity of the Citibank operation in 1956 when the bank was the world's most powerful financial institution.
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US Politics

America grows with legal immigration

Legal immigration has resulted in solid growth of the US population, despite declining birth rates and an increasing number of old people. This is good news for investors in stocks and real estate. Illegal immigration appears to be less than 5% of legal immigration, and legal immigration is at an all time high.
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US equities

The productivity vs. population debate

The 'Baby Boomer Bomb' refers to the expected effect of the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation on capital markets, particularly equities. Two proposed 'solutions' to the problem are examined: Boomers being 'saved' by productivity and technology; and, alternatively, by selling their financial assets to the next generation..
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US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

Working off the US trade deficit

Foreigners hold $16.8 trillion in US financial assets as a result of selling more goods to Americans than they buy from them. Since the 'deficit' is in dollars, the US has no problem in 'paying it off'. More ...

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