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“Your policies have shut down factories, surged energy costs, and brought economic growth to a standstill.” In a memo sent to fellow Republicans, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama outlines how he plans to change the terms of the budget debate with Democrats. The memo outlines how the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee plans to bring the fight directly to Democrats. Sessions is, in his words, is planning a response to [...] by Phoenix Capital Research
The biggest even this week is Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole Speech which will take place on Friday August 31. It was at Jackson Hole in 2010 that Bernanke hinted at QE 2. With that in mind, many investors believe that the Fed is about to unveil or at least hint at a similar large-scale monetary program this Friday. We, at Phoenix Capital Research, disagree for three reasons. Number [...] (Reuters) - The White House is “dusting off old plans” for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen rising gasoline prices and prevent high energy costs from undermining the success of Iran sanctions, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-usa-oil-reserves-idUSBRE87F13T20120816 Counties and cities across America are raising taxes and slashing services as they go broke, the result of decades of “government as usual.” We need to fix Miami-Dade County’s economy and its government before it’s too late.
Your vote for Miami-Dade Mayor directly affects the future of our county—and your family.
If you want “government as usual,” vote for current Mayor Carlos Gimenez (firefighter) or Joe Martinez (policeman). • Higher property taxes (additional $2 [...] From PeakProsperity: According to the conventional account, the Great American Middle Class has been eroded by rising energy costs, globalization, and the declining purchasing power of the U.S. dollar in the four decades since 1973. While these trends have certainly undermined middle-class wealth and income, there are five other less politically acceptable dynamics at work: - The divergence of state/private vested interests and the interests of the middle class. By Farid A. Khavari
The most important step towards jumpstarting and stimulating our economy is unquestionably to stabilize the housing market. Of course the housing market will benefit from my economic plan and create tens of thousands of new private sector jobs, which will allow people to afford their homes. This will happen when the homeowners also get the opportunity to install decentralized solar energy systems, which will lower their energy [...] Sy Harding: Consumers understandably like to see pricesfor commodities decline, the more the merrier, particularly gasoline (NYSEARCA:UGA) and energy costs (NYSEARCA:XLE). Many analysts also take commodity price declines as a positive for the economy, on the theory that consumers will have more spending money in their pockets, and manufacturers will have lower costs, so hopefully greater earnings. Investors tend to also take declining commodity prices as a positive for the stock market [...] by Christ Martenson Well, my hat is off to the global central planners for averting the next stage of the unfolding financial crisis for as long as they have. I guess there’s some solace in having had a nice break between the events of 2008/09 and today, which afforded us all the opportunity to attend to our various preparations and enjoy our lives. Alas, all good things come to an end, and a [...] by Gregor Macdonald, CM Once a year the very chic and exclusive TED conference takes place in Southern California, bringing together entrepreneurs, inventors, and thought leaders from every corner of the world. There, gathered around a stage, a kind of hive mind begins to unfold in which the most cutting edge ideas in healthcare, energy, social development, and behavioral psychology are shared from a very plugged-in, big-screen podium. It’s extremely well done. And despite the reflexive criticism from [...] 1) Real job creation occurs in small business. Anyone going into small business (per SCORE & SBA) alert any prospective new business owner they’ll be one of the 85% going out of business the first year. The single biggest items behind this ominous warning are the IRS and NLRB, respectively. The problem is, while the market is being artificially pumped, the dollar has devalued nearly 30% in the past 4 years, meaning that everyone lost a lot of money thanks to inflation. Add to that the increase in producer costs, energy costs, food costs, and other inflationary consequences, coupled with local tax increases to make up for still falling property values even with 30 year rates at 3.8%, and you [...] by Jim Sinclair
Dear CIGAs, To better understand what China offers to gold, lets reverse the situation. Let us say that China has a means of interfering with the USA’s trade cash settlement mechanism and has threatened to use this interference in order to influence the United States to take such action that the USA does not necessarily wish. The United States announces that on June 28th, more than likely a deadline China [...] From Newsmax: The price of natural gas has dropped below $2 for the first time in more than a decade. A mild winter and production boom has left the U.S. with more natural gas than Americans can consume. Storage facilities are quickly filling up. The glut has pushed down the futures price of gas 59% since it peaked at $4.85 last summer. On Wednesday afternoon, the futures price passed a milestone. Gas fell [...] From The Contrary Investor The Cliff Notes Certainly we’ve started 2012 with a better tone to a number of economic indicators. Employment numbers have strengthened, leading economic indicator series have trended higher, and there’s even a little bit of life in housing as many former savers have now become mom and pop landlords in the effort to achieve some type of rate of return in what essentially is a Fed sponsored yield starved [...] http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/03/austerity-porn-feds-consider-closing-60_26.html The article:
The federal government is considering closing dozens of courtrooms across the country, many located in small, rural communities, as part of an effort to cut costs. The Associated Press obtained documents showing that 60 federal court facilities in 29 states could be on the chopping block. Most of the courtrooms are in buildings that house other federal agencies including in post offices and many are located in remote [...] A Look At This Week’s Show: About the Guest: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, [...]
A Look At This Week’s Show: About the Guest: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, [...] http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/03/eroding-profit-margins-cause-stores-to.html The story: In 2011, name-brand grocery manufacturers’ coupons fell 8.1 percent to 305 billion compared with the previous year, according to Michigan-based coupon processor NCH Marketing. But consumers used $4.6 billion worth of coupons last year — a 12.2 percent jump. Coupon use has been on the upswing since the financial crisis in 2008. As consumers hit the brakes on spending, retailers began discounting, sometimes almost desperately. Companies were “chasing business just [...] The cost of living in the U.S. rose in February by the most in 10 months, reflecting a jump in gasoline that failed to spread to other goods and services. The consumer-price index climbed 0.4 percent, matching the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, after increasing 0.2 percent the prior month, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. The so-called core measure, which excludes more volatile food and energy costs, [...] By Michael A. Gayed “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” — Henry Miller With Greece’s second bailout now (seemingly) in the rear view mirror, it’s time for markets to focus on the next potential negative: Oil prices. It looks like oil is the new Greece in terms of problem spots for investors. The big move last week got a lot [...] One of the striking aspects of the IEA’s $312 billion figure is that more than a fifth of it comes from a single country: Iran. To get fuel prices as low as ten American cents a liter for gasoline (two cents for diesel) cost the government some $66 billion in 2009, according to the IEA: that’s $895 per person, or 20% of GDP. Saudi Arabia’s subsidy is actually higher per [...] Just when we thought that when it comes to nonsensical announcements Europe is second to none, here comes the White House and takes the cake: WHITE HOUSE SAYS RISE IN GASOLINE PRICES CAUSED BY VARIETY OF GLOBAL FACTORS, INCLUDING UNREST IN SOME PARTS OF WORLD, FAST GROWTH IN OTHERS – RTRS Uhm, would the “unrestful” parts of the world be those that have an above average US drone presence. At least we [...] The squeeze is on for the middle class. Health costs rising… the amount that your company is willing to pay falls. Any increase in pay that is connected with cost of living won’t take into account food and energy costs… how crazy is that? The value of the things you own decreases, the cost of the things you need increases… wages stagnate (if you can stay employed). New normal. Every organization, [...] |
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