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FED UP: Smart Investment Tips as the Dollar Dips

During a Federal Reserve meeting last December, several officials voiced skepticism about the current policy of quantitative easing. According to Bloomberg News, the central bank would continue buying $85 billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities each month to encourage hiring and stimulate growth. Several officials expressed concern about the risks of creating artificial bubbles, as well as inevitable inflation.

Investors need to take full advantage of these conditions and the following are some ways to do so.

Sell Your Home

The housing bubble in the 2000s was created in much of the same way as this current artificial inflater. Though other factors play a small role, home values in 20 cities increased by 4.3 percent from October 2011 - October 2012, according to Bloomberg Personal (Read More....)

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Censored News? The Main Stream Media Is Not Honest

Authored By Dave Webb

This article concerns the importance of the appearance of things to all media out there.

The main line news media has a little problem. Too often these people have refused to report the news in modern times. Instead the main line news acts like an instrument of the government instead. This seriously effects their creditability with anyone that is into the alternate news media on the Internet. Often times this alternate media reports things that the main stream media will not.

The biggest story of the year should be the obvious broken promises of both the Democratic and Republican parties. Here is a list.

Recorded speeches by Obama in the past are in direct conflict with his actions as President. Why isn't he being held accountable by both parties?
What Obamacare is vs what it was claimed to be.
Republicans declaring “no new taxes” then voting for new taxes.
Republicans deploring Obamacare yet voting for financing for it. Why aren't they throwing the law off the books until it is represented right?
A Supreme (Read More....)
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Fickle Financial Markets

The markets these days seem to be taking direction from the most fickle and capricious aspects of fear management. News ? What's considered news these days for binary options traders and other investors? The facts haven't changed over the last 2-3 months, yet looking at the behavior of the markets it would be difficult for the best analysts to come up with a means of explaining why on earth the markets can't decide whether to head higher or lower. Of course, consolidation periods exist in every market. And these periods are even considered the most important momentum builders as compared to any other period. However, when news hits the markets, markets are expected to react. When no news is present, well that's a different matter. It could be that we have simply reached some sort of meta-equilibrium point whereby the balance of bad news and fear and being counter weighted by optimism and hope. Surely, this is far from a rational explanation of what's happening. Or is it?

Europe is simply old news regurgitated nearly each day in a different spin. One day's it Ireland, next it's Greece, then next it's Spain ad nauseum. Where does this leave traders though? it's all the (Read More....)

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Money Games

Money Games

by MN Gordon

Economic Prism

After much anticipation and hoopla, Fed Chairman Bernanke made his post FOMC meeting utterances on Wednesday. In short: No QE3, for now. More Operation Twist.

Markets didn’t know what to make of it. Initially they rose on the announcement. The Dow jumped over 100 points. After that, however, it slid down 100 points before climbing back up…ending the day about 13 points off where it started.

Then, yesterday, at opening bell, the DOW barfed all over itself…and never recovered. By the time the closing bell rang, the DOW had dumped 250 points.

Jim Cramer said it was the fault of commodities. “Today was a day when lots of investors freaked out that there might not be enough end demand for everything that’s fashioned from commodities, not just the commodities themselves,” said Cramer.

Perhaps Cramer is right…and maybe he is wrong. Here at the Economic Prism we don’t (Read More....)

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Is There Financial Security To Be Found In The Stock Market In 2011?

Under the Big (Market) Top

Courtesy of Phil of Phil's Stock World

SPY WEEKLY

1,332.

That is a 100% in the S&P since it's March 2009 low of 666 (see David Fry's chart). Does it matter? Can we expect even a LITTLE pullback after a 100% run or is it "to the moon Alice" and maybe Mars and Jupiter while we're at it as the Federal Reserve's multi-Trillion Dollar thrusters send us to the stars, breaking the bonds of gravity(and logic) as they send stocks every higher in an expanding universe of freshly supplied money. As fellow stock market physicist, Art Cashin said yesterday:

The Newtonian Rally Continues – A mild paraphrase of one Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of force and motion (inertia) says that a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon (Read More....)
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