The Facebook Glitch: Will Brands Turn Social-Media Shy?ForbesWhat's caused Facebook's rapid reappraisal in the hearts and minds of the public? For me, far more is at work than a bungled IPO. Facebook malaise gestated almost as fast as this behe…
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Real Deal on Retail- Even Worse Than They Said
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The headline number for retail sales today was an increase of 0.1% month to month, seasonally adjusted, which exactly met the conomic consensual sextimate of 0.1%. Here’s how Bloomberg put it. U.S. Retail Sales Cool After Warm-Weather Spree: Economy Retail sales rose in April at the slowest pace of the year as Americans took a…
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Is The Liquidity Tide Coming In or Going Out For Stocks?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
This is an extended excerpt from the Professional Edition Fed Report Executive Summary. Note: Pages 4-10 comments correctly updated at 3:55 PM NY time. The composite liquidity indicator rose sharply last week, driven by a big Fed settlement of MBS purchases. The uptrend in the indicator is accelerating. Over the course of this latest surge,…
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Primary Dealers and Their Biggest Client Off The Hook For Now, What Next?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The composite liquidity indicator edged higher last week, continuing a slow but steady uptrend. In February and March, the indicator had accelerated upward away from its 39 week moving average. That acceleration has slowed, but the indicator continues to advance. With somewhat less abundant liquidity, the government and Primary Dealers have targeted that liquidity for…
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What’s Wrong With America’s Economy?
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
From The Economist….
PESSIMISM about the United States rarely pays off in the long run. Time and again, when Americans have felt particularly glum, their economy has been on the brink of a revival. Think of Jimmy Carter’s cardigan-clad gloom in…
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Jobless America Threatens to Bring Us All Down With It
by a Wall Street Examiner •
Interesting piece in the U.K. Telegraph, exploring how the high unemployment in the U.S. is impacting the global economy…
Jobless America threatens to bring us all down with it
A depression may have been averted, but nothing has been fix…
