Have been scanning the conference call archives, and Monster comments on US job market. Clearly the sickness industry perp is a key driver, as is financial paper shuffling. Takes intelligent personnel to doctor diabetics and financial Ponzi scams.
Mark Stoever: The unemployment rate in North America is clearly at relative lows to historical patterns and there are sectors within that, […]
Michael McDonald, writing for Bloomberg is talking about What Fidelity Knows About Bernanke That Gross Doesn’t. Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund…
Is the urban commercial sprawl game on it’s last legs? Are the purveyors of this strategy waking up to the future realities. Opponents of urban and town edge commercial megastore development put their arguments succinctly as:
The 10 sins of retail sprawl
* It destroys the economic and environmental value of land
* It encourages an inefficient land-use […]
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The Fed needs to supply a lot more grease by Thursday or there will be trouble as the new issues settle. Interest rates continued to move higher today. The stock market finally wobbled a bit under the building liquidity pressure. Click here to dow…
Countrywide reported third-quarter profit rose 2 percent, less than analysts expected, as demand for home loans slumped. The company’s shares surged higher on plans to…
With the Sow Jones now over 12,000–2% higher than it was 6 years ago–the financial media is back interviewing all the guys who wrote those "Dow 36,000" and "Dow 100,000" books back during the bubble years.
Not surprisingly, they’re still wild…
Most broad market indicators continue to whipsaw around high levels. The SPX is almost at the top of the intermediate trend channels again, and it has pierced a major long term trendline. The more separation the market creates from that trendline …
Now that the Treasury is back to beggaring the markets, rates are moving higher, ratcheting upward again at today’s auctions. The stock market was able to ignore the building liquidity pressure, as call writers bought back the long side of their h…
