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Let me commend two articles to you today. One is in the WSJ and the other the NYTimes and both address the issue of slowing world economic growth. New Signs of Global Slowdown on the Wall St. Journal site » After Barreling Ahead in Recession, China Finally Slows...

According to John Authers and Kate Burgess of CNBC public pension funds have lowered their allocations to stocks over the past 10 years from 70% to 52%. Since 2007 individual investors have pulled money out of stocks each year so that net flows for mutual funds are...

All you hear on the news is that Greece is being killed by Draconian austerity measure forced on them by Germany and other financiers of Greece's enormous debt. Actually, as far as actual cuts in spending are concerned this drastic, crippling austerity worthy of riots...

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Last week I had a post that included the phrase deja vu, the feeling that we have seen or experienced something before. If you are a fan of the movie The Matrix you know it as a sign that something is not right. Well here we are in mid-May 2012 and both the economic...

Today's unemployment report by the Department of Labor (DOL) disappointed many today and stocks sold off sharply. The report should have disappointed them more. Last month the DOL reported that the economy added 227,000 in Feb. Today, economists on average expected...

The unemployment report came out today and was for the second month in a row, disappointing. The market headed lower but Europe was partly to blame as their markets had been down 1% by the time ours' opened. So far 2012 rhymes with 2011. In the 1Q of 2011 economic...

UNG, which is the ticker symbol for the US Natural Gas ETF is up 15% over the last 7 trading days from its record low. Natural gas prices hit $1.5 at that time. To buy natural gas directly you have to buy commodities, which I don't do, so I use UNG as a substitute. It...