[email_link] THE euro crisis flared up in early April after three months of relative calm as banks got a trillion-euro helping hand from the European Central Bank. Spanish bond yields jumped on fears that Spain – the fourth biggest economy in the euro area – might be forced to follow much smaller Greece, Ireland and…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/041318.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW Lots of Red I don’t like the way Europe is trading. I follow the German DAX very closely and it was down 160 today and it was very poor action. Not the mention the CAC out of France, and the FTSE in London. Very bad. As you know, yesterday…
[email_link] The most full of crap columnist I have ever seen. This same person was popping blood vessels over Bush’s $300 billion deficit but now says $1 trillion-plus deficits are good…and that we need more. An incredible hypocrite of the highest order. Wakes up each morning asking himself how he can make someone look bad….
[email_link] The low interest rate ‘logic’ is not working and “the economy can’t gain any zest, can’t gain any vigor” is how Michael Steinhardt describes the crushing of ‘widows and orphans’ that the Fed has embarked upon. In a Bloomberg TV interview, the WisdomTree chairman notes the broad ‘pall’ over the equity markets (conjuring images of a…
[email_link] WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen, the vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, said Wednesday that the lackluster trajectory of the economic recovery might require the Fed to continue its efforts to bolster growth even beyond the end of 2014. …She said that one economic model used by the Fed suggested that interest rates should be held…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/041218.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW What would you say if I told you that unemployment claims are up big, meaning the job market is already worsening? What would you think of that market? Well the market had a very big day today…for other reasons. The Federal Reserve – intervened. Now what does “intervene” mean….
[email_link] The Buffett Tax, because it won’t raise revenue, should be understood mostly as Election-Year demagoguery. And like most demagoguery, it is not well grounded in facts. The basic argument is that the rich don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Rather than data, President Obama relies on anecdote — that Warren Buffett supposedly pays…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/041118.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW I treat today as somewhat of a “throw away” day. I can’t tell much from a one-day bounce after a little bit of a trashing we’ve had over the past week. What I do now is my list change. Two weeks ago my list was “this size.” And now…
[email_link] Have you got your schedule C in order? Have you hunted down all your receipts? Have you made sure to count the depreciation on your laptop and the percentage of your cable bill attributable to your home office expense? And what about those education credits?After all, it’s not like you have anything else to…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/041018.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW What Changed Today Yesterday, I told you that the good news was that Growth Stocks, so far, were acting just fine. In fact, there were almost no issues at all in Growth Stock Land. That changed today. I did most of my scans after the close today. I see…
