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American investors in the stock market deserve a break this week. After falling 20% in the first two months of the year it is time for the market to begin a rally. Investors are battle weary and worn down by an economic tsunami that has generated an onslaught of negative economic performance in wave after [...]

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As the stock market, continues to tumble, the pressure mounts for Barack Obama to address the nation on Tuesday evening with a message of economic hope for a nation that continues to be battered by a global recession. Obama’s utterances to date on the economy have not been well received by investors as he seeds [...]

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlined in broad strokes, the Obama administration’s Financial Stability Plan and emphasized the government’s focus on visibility in an obvious attempt to placate the electorate at the expense of bad policy. Reaction on Wall Street was an immediate sell off in the markets. Touching on financial sins of the past and [...]

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Barack Obama is clearly a student of history. He has studied the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and allowed comparisons to be made. As the first biracial President of the United States, President elect Obama is already assured of a place unique in history, for becoming the symbol of a democracy whose electorate has proved to be color [...]

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As oil lingers below $40 for a barrel of crude and heads toward $30 , the world seems to have turned upside down. It was only six months ago that we were accepting that oil,  hovering near $150 per barrel,  would soon be at $200. Now while contemplating $30 oil we can see the benefit at [...]

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The stock market will rally on the first trading day of the new year on the heels of a year that saw the deepest declines in the market since 1931. Markets were heading up overnight in Asia and bode well for a strong opening on Wall Street when trading commences in the morning. Will we [...]

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I have just completed viewing Paramount Pictures, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. A tale of fantasy based on a Fitzgerald short story in which the premise of the story evolves around a character who is afflicted with a reverse aging process. Given the events of the past several months in the financial markets as [...]

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A tip of the hat to the Fed for their dramatic response today to the continued economic plight that we find ourselves in as we count down toward 2009. I can’t imagine that  many Americans ever envisioned the Fed establishing a Fed funds target rate of between zero and one quarter of a percent but,  that [...]

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