Race Related Hate Crimes Up, Coincide with Obama Presidency

The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures showing the majority of babies born in 2011 were non-white could fuel those simmering tensions, experts who track hate groups warned.

“White supremacist groups have been having a meltdown since the census bureau predicted that non-Hispanic whites would lose the majority by 2050,” said Mark Potok, [...]

State Finance are Still Doomed

Provided by Business Insider:

Meredith Whitney was on CNBC’s Closing Bell Wednesday.

Jeff Cox at CNBC.com spotlights one area where she’s wildly bullish. She likes the agriculture and commodity states that are ‘right-to-work’ where businesses are creating jobs:

“I am wildly bullish on the U.S. in particular markets…I think the U.S. market looks terrific (though) as a collective the U.S. market is not going to grow all together,” she said during a “Closing Bell” interview.

“There’s opportunity from [...]

Meredith Whitney: State Finances Are Still Doomed, And These Three States Are In The Most Trouble

Meredith Whitney was on CNBC’s Closing Bell today.

Jeff Cox at CNBC.com spotlights one area where she’s wildly bullish. She likes the agriculture and commodity states that are ‘right-to-work’ where businesses are creating jobs:

“I am wildly bullish on the U.S. in particular markets…I think the U.S. market looks terrific (though) as a collective the U.S. market is not going to grow all together,” she said during a “Closing Bell” interview.

“There’s opportunity from Texas all the [...]

David Rosenberg: Equity fund cash ratios are at a -3.6%, the same level as in the fall of 2007 and near its lowest level ever.

The money-on-the-sidelines argument has reached deafening and self-confirming as anchoring bias among any and every swollen long-only manager seems to have made them ignore the realities of the situation. David Rosenberg, of Gluskin Sheff to the rescue with good old fashioned facts – as much as they might disappoint the audience. Barton Biggs quote in the USA Today article points out how bullish he is and how cash levels are very high [...]

Employment Report And The Market

by Lance Roberts from StreetTalk Advisors

Employment Report And The Market

If you listen to the bleating of the mainstream media and economists there is absolutely nothing to worry about and Friday’s employment report proves it.  The official unemployment rate remained steady at 8.3 percent, and 227,000 jobs were added.  Just don’t look at the number of long-term unemployed, or those without jobs for more than six months, that stayed the same at [...]

BAD BLOOD: Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process

Who’s to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Clinton, in a roundtable with bloggers today on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, gave an extensive [...]