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Why Your Health Care Is so Darn Expensive

Jul 19, 2012 at 14:27

The cellphone in your pocket is NASA-smart. Yet it costs just a couple hundred dollars. So why is it that rising technical capabilities are leading to drastically falling prices happening…

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Job Losses and Unemployment Skyrocketing in China; Thinner, Taller iPhone 5

Jul 19, 2012 at 13:19

In the video below Jefferies Managing Director Peter Misek discusses the coming iPhone 5 with Emily Chang on Bloomberg TV. Misek reports the iPhone will be significantly thinner and taller…

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Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital

Jul 19, 2012 at 13:13

I have written other pieces on the topic of fractional reserve banking duration mismatch, which is when someone borrows short-term money to lend long-term and how falling interest rates actually…

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Sherwin-Williams Co Paints A Picture Of Overvaluation

Jul 19, 2012 at 12:50

Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) reports earnings tomorrow July 19, 2012. The Board of Directors have already declared a regular $.39 per share dividend. Analysts are expecting Sherwin-Williams Co to have a…

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Three Converging Factors May Slash Economic Growth By 71%

Jul 19, 2012 at 12:18

Everything from the ability to pay for Social Security, to projected federal deficits, to retirement planning and stock market valuations is based upon assumptions that the United States and other…

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Earnings Push Market To Cusp Of Breakout

Jul 19, 2012 at 11:20

Tech stocks have been laggards in recent weeks, which has been a little concerning for the current rally despite the numerous bullish signals we outlined on July 16. Earnings may…

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Is 30.2.Au flying in Ben's face? Not yet

Jul 19, 2012 at 09:33

The FOMC announced that Operation Twist would continue through year end. This is where the Fed tries to re-inflate the housing bubble (and related areas) by buying long term T…

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Considering Country Risk in a Balanced Manner

Jul 19, 2012 at 09:04

It is all too easy to see explosive media headlines pronouncing country expropriations of resource properties or companies - events that have occurred in recent weeks in both Argentina and…

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Can Gold's Luster Be Restored This Summer?

Jul 19, 2012 at 06:21

The summer has been a dizzying one for commodities. The last four weeks have witnessed the price of corn soaring toward an all-time high due to withering heat in the…

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Probably Not at the Top But Some Clouds Appear

Jul 19, 2012 at 06:20

It seems clear now that the market is engaged in a double zigzag corrective move. We are probably now in the last part of this counter trend rally, but looking…