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NYT: New Job Means Lower Wages for Many

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Lost in the discussion of job creation or losses is what sort of jobs are being created ...

 
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Ten Bailed Out Banks Spent $16.3M Lobbying in 1st Half 2010

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Long time readers will know that the best return on investment (ROI for you wonky types) in America is lobbying dollars.  For a pittance you can purchase present your case to a Congressman or woman and generate multitudes of that same dollar spent in return.  It appears Federal Reserve and Treasury officials are also on sale (aisles 7 and 10 respectively) so hurry on in, but only those with annual revenue of $500M+ allowed in on the bidding! Our financial oligarchs are top dogs at playing the game but it's across all major industries.

 
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“Eet Eez Ze Costom of Ze Contry, Signore”

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One advantage older investors have is that we have been there, done that, and seen about everything — usually several times. It came as no surprise to me whatever — other than the timing — to hear that Brazil has decided to forbid foreign ownership of land and may confiscate all property purchased back as far as 1988.

 
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Everyone Into The Bunker!

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The title for this post comes from a couple of articles from the other day. One was from The Housing Time Bomb blog (great name) and the other from The Business Insider.

 
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Bookkeeping: Putting Some Index Shorts Back On

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The market was hit with a one two punch today in an otherwise quiet economic week.  Philly Fed, reported at 10 AM, was dismal and just the tonic needed to break below S&P 1085 as traders were trying to mostly ignore the weekly unemployment claims.  With the S&P 500 here sitting around 1080 I will add 2% allocations into short BGU + TNA (4% total).  I still am wary of snapbacks since this market is very stubborn.   My "stop out levels" will be around 1085ish.

 
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Bookkeeping: Trio of Morning Sales - Potash (POT), Netflix (NFLX), Riverbed Technology (RVBD)

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We've had two days in a row of bad housing metrics, weak guidance from Lowe's and not such great data from Home Depot and Walmart, but the dip buyers came in yesterday morning and the Potash news has a bid under the market today.   I said in the weekly summary the best hope for bulls is not that the data in housing/retail will be good but that expectations are so low that even bad news is ok.  So far, that seems to be the case... but all those serial housing bottom callers must be tiring by now.

 
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Trading on the Russian heat wave & wild fires

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Watching the news for the past 2 weeks or so has brought some very disturbing images of Russia and of its capital Moscow which has been suffering from two major threats. First off, the worst heat wave in Moscow has been making life very difficult for its citizens. Even more critical have been the large fires that have been going on in the Western part of Russia.

 
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PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA), get ready for a buy on the dip ?

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PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA).
Current pattern tells me one thing ; Get ready to buy on the dip !

 
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