Job one for the US Treasury and its Primary Dealer enforcers is to keep yields low during weeks when the Treasury has a big load of notes and bonds to sell. Next week is one of those weeks, so the casino owners and managers will do what they can to gin up reasons for the…
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Strongest Retail Sales of the Century, But Pundits Fail to Blame Weather
by Lee Adler •
As was typical of this morning’s reporting on the Commerce Department’s advance retail sales release for February, Marketwatch (Dow Jones) reported that the 1.1% gain (seasonally massaged) was the fastest in 5 months. It missed their consensus expectations, but only by a tenth of a percent. Bloomberg also touted the gain as the biggest in…
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The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner •
The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
First Posted: 12/ 5/11 08:41 AM ET Updated: 12/ 6/11 06:56 AM ET
It ain’t easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.
Last week, on the netwo…
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PA ends AdultBasic low-income health ins program 2/28/11, 42K
by a Wall Street Examiner •
PA media…
This has happened fairly quickly. Notices just mailed tell recipients that their AdultBasic coverage will end 2/28/11, as the program is out of money & will be terminated. I suspect Corbett may be playing ‘chicken’ with the insurers and …
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Views on why the chicken crossed the road…
by a Wall Street Examiner •
SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because gosh-darn it, he’s a maverick!
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because …
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Quote of the Day….
by a Wall Street Examiner •
One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.”
Al Gore on supporting…
