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“Complaince Cars”: Another Reason California Is Broke!
It is time to pick on California again. Last week we talked about how California has effectively legislated its way out of the Crude Oil market. Liberal legislators are driving out the tax base
Read More »I Wish I Had This Problem!
In the past six years while its electronic rivals in Asia have been struggling to keep the doors open and the ship afloat Samsung has been going thru the greatest period of in its
Read More »Junk Bonds May Never See A Market Like This Again!
Turn back the clock more than thirty six years and you have the birth of Junk bonds. Michael Milken and his band of entrepreneurs at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. initiated the marketing of subprime
Read More »Why California Is Broke And Texas Is Thriving!
California is going broke and Texas is thriving. Two of the biggest states in the Union are at the opposite end of all most everything. The only thing that they have in common is
Read More »DJIA Reaches 15,000: What Happens When The Fed Stops?
The market can never go down again. That was proven on Friday when the DJIA touched new highs of over 15,000. By anyone’s standards that is quite a feat and everyone knows now that
Read More »Fed To Stay The Course: Is Deflation Back In The Picture?
Yesterday the Federal Reserve Board released the results of its meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday. It has decided the economy still needs cash and it is going to pump billions of dollars into
Read More »Are High Frequency Traders Destroying The Oil Market?
On Monday the news hit the tape that some of the traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were using powerful computers to get an “edge” in the market that retail traders don’t have access
Read More »There Is More Than One Way To Fix A Pension Problem!
Eastman Kodak was one of the blue chip stocks for more than eighty years, before the wheels came off during the Great Recession. Like many great brands they did not change quickly enough with
Read More »Small Companies May Repeat The Great Recession!
Since the start of the Great Recession and the implosion of real estate values home owners are not the only ones who have suffered with the challenge of meeting mortgages, commercial property owners have
Read More »Bond Buyers Finally Draw A Line In The Sand!
The ever increasing search for yield in the current interest rate desert seems to have finally found a line drawn in the sand, and it isn’t some sovereign debt issue from Europe or South
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