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• Stock Market Today Reacts to Merger Monday on Wall Street

  
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  It was a muted start for U.S. equities when the stock market today (Monday) opened. But by mid-day, the bulls were back and benchmarks marched higher. Just before noon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 13.41, or 0.09%, to 15,354.40. The Standard & Poors 500 Index added 2.54, or 0.15%, to 1,670.01. ...
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• Caterpillar North America Sales Collapse Suggests US Economy Back To 2010 Levels

  
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  zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 20, 2013, 11:50 -0400 While we have wondered on numerous  occasions previously  if the collapse in lumber prices is the far more accurate indicator of end demand for housing (as confirmed by the recent collapse in  multi-family housing starts ), perhaps an even better ...
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• The U.S. Economy May Be Adding Jobs, But They Are Not Equal To The Jobs That Were Lost

  
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  Thanks to, among other things, a falling labor force participation rate, U.S. unemployment is now down to 7.5% . It’s important to note though that the job gains of the last few years have not been equivalent to the jobs that were lost. Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin asserted in a recent speech  that the jobs ...
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• An Invincible Portfolio

  
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  Every once in a while, it behooves an investor to stop, take a look at his portfolio, and ask himself the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s favorite question: How’m I doin’? The answer can be instructive. For instance, over the last five years the Dow has moved over 16,000 points. It’s gone from a high of ...
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• What Wal-Mart’s Same-Store Sales Say About the Economy

  
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  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE/WMT), the biggest retailer in the U.S., just reported its second-quarter same-store sales declined 1.4%. As a reader of Profit Confidential , this should come as no surprise to you. Consumer spending in the U.S. economy is bleak; it doesn’t seem to be improving, and it’s nowhere near ...
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• Okun’s Law And The U.S. Employment Recession

  
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  A new paper considers what portion of those unemployed in the U.S. are unemployed due to structural, rather than cyclical, factors through the perspective of Okun’s law . The researchers find that of the 11.7 million unemployed Americans , about 10% of them are unemployed for reasons that are not cyclical. “ ...
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• What Obama’s “Bulworth” Comment Shows About Us

  
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  Almost forgotten within the whirlwind of last week’s columns and news stories covering the Obama Administration’s scandals was a piece from The New York Times discussing the “ onset of woes ” he’s had to deal with. Various aides told The Times on, and off, the record how the President is doing all he can ...
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• CFNAI Slips Further To -0.53

  
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  The Chicago Fed reports that its national activity index (CFNAI) declined to a reading of -0.53 in April. This compares to a -0.23 reading in March, and indicates that the index is below its historical trend. 32 of the 85 individual indicators made positive contributions to the CFNAI in April, while 53 made ...
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• Beware of This Insidious New Currency Scam

  
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  It’s time to put some ice on a hot investing topic. Some ice cube , that is. In his 1993 hip hop anthem, O’Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube, raps… “You better check yo’ self before you wreck yo’ self. Cus’ I’m bad for your health, I come real stealth.” And that’s exactly the warning ...
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• This Company’s Valuation Becoming Attractive

  
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  An enormous amount of effort goes into building a decent golf course. It isn’t just some nicely cut grass carved out of the bush. After several summers as a teenager working in golf course construction, I can tell you that building a golf course requires a lot of planning. The crew I worked with would go into an ...
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• Dr. Bernankenstein Created a Monster, Not a Normal Economy

  
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  When a man is up to no good, it doesnt help that he gets lucky. A fellow goes to rob your house. He finds the door unlocked. He enters without breaking. He steals everything. Mission accomplished. Later on, he is arrested for robbing a bank. He gets 10 years in the slammer. He would have been better off if he ...
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• CBO – US Economy Set to Soar On Obamacare?

  
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  brucekrasting.com / By Bruce Krasting / May 19, 2013 The Congressional Budget Office put conservative economic thinkers on their ass this week. In this  Report  (pdf), the CBO concluded that the US budget deficit is about to collapse to insignificance. The improvement in the deficit outlook is so large that it ...
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• VIDEO ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

  
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• In Bernanke we Trust

  
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  Do you feel it too … The air of complacency that has engulfed financial markets and policy makers in the last month. With inflation falling and even the spectre of deflation now returning as a market meme as well as stubbornly weak growth, more stimulus and less concern about debt and deficits might of course seem ...
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• UK exporters whistle up success in a thriving new market: America

  
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  Amid all the talk of Brazil and China, British companies are targeting the wealthy millions in the worlds largest economy When the New York Philharmonic needed cuckoo and nightingale sounds for a performance of Haydns Toy Symphony, it was a whistle factory in Birmingham that took the call. Acme Whistles dispatched ...
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• Three reasons why the US got itself out of an economic mess

  
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  Americas economic structure, its leaders ability to make rapid political decisions and cultural memories of the Great Depression have been the engine of its recovery Any way you cut it, the US recovery from recession has been weak. Measured by jobs growth, factory output, growth rates, house prices or the federal ...
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• A Big Surprise From Mutual Funds

  
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  [embed_weekily_video] There are two things I am absolutely certain of. First, next April 15 I will be writing a check to the IRS. And second, natural gas will be the primary fuel for the next 100 years. Well-positioned gas companies will be golden for many years to come, and no one is doing it better or has more ...
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• How the Sequester is Killing Healthcare Jobs

  
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  Sequester -driven budget cuts to Medicare are threatening to spur massive job cuts in the healthcare industry. And the pain doesnt stop there - the sequester cuts are already making healthcare harder to obtain for some Medicare patients. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning. The longer Congress allows ...
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• Its Enough to Make Your Blood Boil

  
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  Here are two items that will upset you... First, back in February, Attorney General Eric Holder christened the unofficial official doctrine of "Too Big to Jail." He told Congress, "The size of some of these institutions [TBTF banks] becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when ...
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  Fed Money Printing is No Longer Working: Karl Denninger Interview (April 30, 2013) Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org says Fed money printing is no longer working, "Were seeing the leading edge of a great deal of softness, and this means the Federal Reserves money games have run out of gas." A weak economy ...
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