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The Trouble with Recession Averages
A better measure is net worth, or debt as a percentage of net worth. U.S. net worth, last I looked, was north of $50 trillion. Meaning, for the financially challenged, that U.S. has $50 trillion left over after subtracting debt from assets. More than $150k for each man, woman and child in the U.S. Hardly insolvency.
Another better measure is debt to annual income.
Three Retail Stocks to Buy before Christmas
The Pundits I Admire Are Turning Bullish
3 Reasons This Rally Has No Legs
Suddenly, Everyone's a Day Trader
I have actually done very well lately by BUYING after the market has moved LOWER and selling AFTER the market has moved HIGHER!
Obama Promotes Fiscal Restraint, Big Spending
Now you tell me, how do you get good policy apart from good ideology? Just take action! Do something! Line up behind today's initiative and unite! But if you disagree because you think the plan WON'T WORK, and are in support of a different plan that will work, you are the bad guy. Taking action and having everyone get along trump actual results!
The Broken Treasury Market
Hedge Fund Deleveraging Could Be Half Over
Investing in Stocks: Emotional vs. Financial Costs
General Growth Properties: Leverage Claims Another Victim
'No Bank's Books Are Trusted': Bloomberg's Weil is Imagining Things
Tom Brown: "financial stocks bottomed on 7/15/08." (Intraday low on the XLF of $16.77)
The market: XLF now threatening the low since his call of $12.79 on XLF. That's a drop of 20%+ in 4 months for anyone drinking the Tom Brown kool-aid.
Kovacevich's Delayed Retirement: Bove's Criticism is Totally Off Base
Kovacevich's Delayed Retirement: Bove's Criticism is Totally Off Base
Where have you been, buddy? How did that July "bottom in financials" call work out for you?
Pain, Then Gain
Meanwhile, manufacturing labor is a commodity which tends to be low value added and much cheaper in other countries. So we send the labor over there. This allows lesser developed populaces to earn higher levels of income, emerge from poverty, afford better food and healthcare, etc. as well as eventually afford more of our goods. As a whole, the populaces of both countries win, and the world becomes more "equal" and "just."
There is no question that America has over-consumed, fueled by lax lending standards which allowed credit to grow much too freely. The solution is not protectionism, higher taxes, or redistribution of wealth--quite the contrary! The solution is to promote strong families, the Protestant work ethic, and to introduce merit and accountability into the educational system. Then you don't have to "protect" of give handouts to those who are temporarily sqeezed out of a job by today's fast-paced and global economy.
Smart, creative, well-educated, and/or just plain hard-working Americans will always find a way to add value to the economy, and that will be reflected in their wages. The beauty of this is that not only does the individual worker benefit, but it also serves the collective good by expanding the pie for the whole world. You don't have to pick winners and losers, which introduces dead weight to the economy and opens the Pandora's box of the corruption of the political system and the erosion of freedom for our citizens. Everyone just adds value and the market sorts it all out.
Four Media Stock Opportunities in These Turbulent Markets