Monday, June 30, 2014

Market cap to GDP ratios March 2009 vs. March 2014 flash valuation warning

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Probably the broadest measure for stock market valuation purposes is total stock market capitalization divided by GDP. Warren Buffett uses i...

Banks probably will need ZIRP until March 2015 to be fully recapitalized from the crisis

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In March 2013 Warren Sulmasy estimated that banks had lost $1 trillion in the crisis, and had recapitalized as little as $300 billion of tha...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Elton John thinks Jesus would have supported gay marriage when he didn't really support normal marriage in the first place

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I used teh word normal instead of heterosexual just to piss you off. Story here . [I]n the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven...

US company clones 100 cows . . . it's called the . . .

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U.S. Senate.
Friday, June 27, 2014

Five years after the recession ended . . .

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. . . Democrats are still trying to pass "emergency" unemployment benefits. It must be a depression, Obama's depression.

More than 7 years after the crisis began, banks are still failing

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The Freedom State Bank, Freedom, Oklahoma, failed tonight, costing the FDIC $5.8 million. It's the 12th failure of 2014. Metropolitan Sa...

Supremes unanimously slap down the King of constitutional law in the White House for 13th time

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From John Fund here : "Those decisions are very revealing about the views of President Obama and Eric Holder: Their vision is one of un...

The first three months of 2014 were worse than the whole 2001 recession

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Jeffrey Snider, here : "The first quarter of 2014 is worse than anything seen during the 2001 recession – which the worst contraction t...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge is crazy, but you knew that

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The website that specializes in the economic wacky, lately popular on the right as a rhetorical club against Obama which Tyler Durden exploi...

Obama vs. Bush on GDP

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Bush's average quarterly report of GDP: 2.1%. Obama's average quarterly report of GDP through today's final number for 1Q2014: 1...

Too hot to shop: There goes Q2 GDP

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Keeping the people ignorant of their poverty: Obama's media shills bury the awful GDP story

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NBC briefly had a red banner headline at the top of the page and then moved the GDP story to the top left but not among the page lead storie...

GDP tanks 2.9% in first quarter, CNBC shills for Obama calling it disappointing, doesn't even put GDP in headline

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Consensus estimate for GDP has worsened to -1.7% from -1.6% at fxstreet

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Bob Brinker mentioned the consensus estimate for GDP this last weekend on his radio program Money Talk at -1.8%. fxstreet.com had had the co...

The keys to corporate profits since the 2008 panic

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Layoffs and ZIRP and buybacks, oh my! Layoffs and ZIRP and buybacks, oh my!

Art Hogan doesn't think valuation is a fundamental

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Here : "At these levels you need a strong catalyst, and I thought we got that, but we've got investors that are nervous about thing...

$82,077: What you need to make to afford the median existing home price in May 2014

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The median sales price of an existing home in May rose to $213,400 from $201,500 in April. In May you needed to make $82,077 for that home t...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Run away: Today's total market capitalization/GDP ratio is 1.46

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$25.003 trillion -------------------  = 1.46 (June 23, 2014: a really bad time to invest) $17.101 trillion $10.222 trillion ----------------...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Consumer indebtedness has exploded since the 1980s

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Americans haven't saved 10% since 1984

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