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Ten Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 9:17 am

Today's news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived--an expansion of only 1.3% and consumer spending up .1% in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account.. The debt ...
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Q2 GDP: So Weak That A New Recession Now Looks More Than Possible

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 8:47 am

The Commerce Department is delivering some awful news on the second quarter preliminary Gross Domestic Product in the U.S.   GDP is coming in at a preliminary second quarter level of ...
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Ten Reasons QE2′s End Should Be Priced Into The Markets

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 7:38 am

Quantitative Easing, or QE, is a term that many investors were forced to understand.  Then came QE2 as an even more difficult pill to swallow.  After the FOMC or any ...
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Is Investor Bearishness Overstated? Or Overrated?

Posted: June 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Investors and economists vary on how much credence they are willing to give to any single survey.   The excessive bearishness of last week's AAII survey  came  as  the Dow ...
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Ben Bernanke Keeps Economic Downgrade-Lite & Inflation-Lite Outlook

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his first real speech today at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in weeks.  He argued that the economic downgrade persists, as does the ...
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Debunking the Summer Stock Market Crash (QQQ, AAPL, GE, DOW, CAT, XLE, XLI, SLV)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Certainly by now you have heard the term "Sell in May and go away!"  This was just one of the ten reasons that we noted why investors might need to worry ...
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A Double Dip Recession May Be Inevitable

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 4:30 am

A potential double dip recession was a large concern a year and a half ago. There was a belief that the deep economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 could not ...
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Today’s Winning Trade: The Impoverished Consumer Returns (WMT, MCD, DG, DLTR, FDO)

Posted: March 10, 2011 at 3:23 pm

On a day when lower oil has not prevented a triple-digit drop in the DJIA and a larger 1.7% drop in the S&P 500, we wanted to see what was ...
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Immense Pain in Jobless Claims

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 8:40 am

The Labor Department just delivered the weekly jobless claims and the numbers are startling even if seasonality is a large issue in January as retailers and transport companies trim back ...
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FOMC/Bernanke Outline Quantitative Easing Measures

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 2:26 pm

We already got past the election news in a hurry.  Now we know what the FOMC's version of quantitative easing, or QE2 by many in the press, will look like.  ...
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Elections and Quantitative Easing Look Price In (DIA, SPY, QQQQ, USO, GLD, TLT, TBT)

Posted: November 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 ...
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Investing in Bubbles: ETFs for Quantitative Easing and QE2 (GLD, DGP, FXF, CYB, CNY, UUP, TLT, TBT, SPY, DIA, QQQQ, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: October 27, 2010 at 8:31 am

Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind ...
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IMF Downgrading 2010 & 2011 Growth Forecasts, No Double-Dip Recession

Posted: October 6, 2010 at 9:07 am

The International Monetary Fund is out taking the wind out of the sails of growth.  Not just in the United States.  Elsewhere too.  The good news is that this is ...
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Two-Thirds Of Americans Expect Double Dip Recession

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 7:47 am

Two-thirds of American expect a double-dip recession. A number of experts have observed that economists who have called an end to the recession are out of step with the public. ...
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Beige Book: Decelerating Growth Prevails

Posted: September 8, 2010 at 2:13 pm

The September 8, 2010 Beige Book release came from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the data is based on information collected on or before August 30, 2010.  ...
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