[email_link] Washington —The United States has ended a 30-year tax subsidy for corn-based ethanol that cost taxpayers $6 billion annually, and ended a tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol. Congress adjourned for the year on Friday, failing to extend the tax break that’s drawn a wide variety of critics on Capitol Hill, including Sens. Tom Coburn,…
[email_link] Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Continued SOURCE: http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/122018.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW… In the past few weeks, I’ve been telling you that the end of the year has a tremendous track record. The last 10 out of 10 years, from Veterans Day until the end of the year – UP. The past 22 out of the 24 years – UP. Yet…
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[email_link] I have been sitting here and asking myself for a couple of weeks: “Where is the jam into the end of the year?” After all, we all know how life works in the market. At the end of every month, more at the end of every quarter…and especially at the end of the year,…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/121918.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW… Since the two big gap-up days on the European news, nothing has happened. In the last week, I’ve been starting to tell you things that I haven’t told you in a while. That the market was acting very bearishly…and I’m worried…even though we’re in this area we call “seasonal…
[email_link] Notice the big drop since in the past 2-3 years. Go back to 66% civilian participation and the unemployment rate skyrockets. If the job market was indeed getting better, this chart would not be diving. Or maybe the ATMs are the culprit.
[email_link] Bring on the war of words. In a frank conversation with MSN writer Lawrence Ulrich, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen has said that the Chevy Volt will fail and that anybody who buys the car is an idiot. Not only that, de Nysschen has lumped proponents of any type of electric car…
[email_link] https://archives.warpradio.com/btr/InvestorsEdge/121618.mp3 JUST LETTING YOU KNOW… 9 trading days left in the year. In the past few months, I made a point of telling you that we’re entering a very tough period for the market…and that’s what we got. I said it based on how many areas of the market that had topped out–combined with…
[email_link] HONG KONG—Real-estate prices are falling across much of Asia as government measures to rein in once-booming prices start to bite and the slowing global economy hits export-dependent economies. The slowdown ends years of increases that have driven prices up by 70% or more since the start of 2009 in the hottest markets, spurred by…
