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<\/a><\/p>\nLonger-term (like this year), it’s hard to be especially sanguine. Here’s a chart that suggests the growth in share prices from 2009 on to recently was the direct result of the Fed pumping money into the economy. (It’s no longer doing that.)<\/p>\n
You can read entire ZeroHedge article here.<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s not easy out there, though the odds are in favor of more share price falls — Think\u00a0 slowing corporate profits, slowing China, and the Fed upping interest rates.<\/p>\n The New York Times refers to “the looking glass economy.” It did a front page headlined “U.S. Growth and Employment Data Tell Different Stories.” The story began:<\/p>\n \u00a0Think of it as the looking-glass economy.<\/p>\n The stock market has been sinking since the beginning of the year and oil<\/a> prices have plummeted, yet auto sales are at record highs and Federal Reserve officials are expressing confidence that the economy is on the upswing.<\/p>\n Bidding wars are breaking out for sought-after hires in software and technology even as corporate behemoths like DuPont<\/a>, BP<\/a> and Morgan Stanley<\/a> disclose plans to lay off tens of thousands.<\/p>\n Measured by traditional yardsticks for growth, like gross domestic product<\/a>, the American economy definitely looks weak. View it through the prism of hiring and employment, however, and the economy seems surprisingly strong.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a real mystery how you can have nearly 300,000 new jobs created in December with the economy growing by 1 percent or less,\u201d said Torsten Slok, chief international economist for Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. \u201cWe can\u2019t have this discrepancy for a long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n The story contained two charts:<\/p>\n For the full story, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Many of my readers will say what I’m about to do today is not investing. It’s day trading — selling today what I bought on Friday.\u00a0 I guess it is. It’s not my primary income source. But I saw the opportunity.<\/p>\n I’ve been talking to day traders. I’ll report more on what I learned in coming days. Meantime, once I sell today, I’ll be heavily in cash, again. I don’t like present markets.<\/p>\n An amazingly loose cannon.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Donald Trump said if elected, he’ll stop Apple from making iPhones in China. Trump has targeted other U.S. companies for manufacturing overseas. (CNBC)<\/p>\n On the same “logic,” I”m guessing he will try to stop Nike from making shoes overseas.<\/p>\n More here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Old age. Always funny.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n