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Central Bank Protection Is Alive And Well
Bank Bounce Leads To Dow Rebound
Doing Real Fine
Hot Option Plays: Leary Of The Bounce
The Coming Revolution In Information Technology
America’s Manufacturing Renaissance
Maybe This Helps Explain Why Europe Is In Trouble: Workers Now Get A Paid “Vacation Do-Over” If Sick
BPP@MIT Annual Inflation Rate Falls Below 1.5%
Taibbi: Wall Street Bribes, Bid-Rigging & Collusion
Willis: “Seeing Reprieve Rally Off The Lows”
Japan Turns Back On Nuclear Reactors: Could This Be A Boost For Uranium Miners?
Week Ahead: EU Summit, US GDP
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Central Bank Protection Is Alive And Well

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:19 PM PDT

Two good videos explaining central banker protection (or what some call a Bernanke Put).

Jim Bianco on the Biderman interview

In … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT

06/22/12 Stocks ended higher on Friday ongoing in banking shares, this as the S&P 500 index bounced back from its second-worst decline of the … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Doing Real Fine

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:34 PM PDT

More evidence, as President Obama said a few weeks ago, that “the private sector is doing fine” (via The Christian Science Monitor) [italics mine]?
A shocking figure from the Wave [Accounting] survey [of their 250,000 micro and SMB customers] relates to how well the business owners were able to meet their basic needs through their business. An incredible 52 percent of American small business owners can't put food on the table through the earnings from their business over the past 12 … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Hot Option Plays: Leary Of The Bounce

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:24 PM PDT

Cusick’s Corner 06-22-2012
This has been a tough week, and this bounce into the midday still has the market at hard resistance levels. The commodities are in a very hard sell off, the kind you see when there are large liquidations because of margin extension — that could explain some of the recent action in Oil, USO, and the Metals, SLV, GLD. This commodity downturn could continue to worsen if small traders, those who have decent sized positions, are forced to liquidate in order to drum up … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

The Coming Revolution In Information Technology

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT

From my article in the Detroit News this week:

We are on the cusp of a revolution in information technology that will be even larger than the one that’s taken place over the past 40 years. Evidence of this transformation is emerging in what’s known as direct-digital manufacturing, an innovation that could lead to the “desktop” printing of entire products from automobiles to washing machines.

Some products developed from three-dimensional computerized manufacturing — such as patient-specific … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

America’s Manufacturing Renaissance

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

From my article “Manufacturing in Our Favor” for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:

Intro: There were three related and important manufacturing trends that emerged in 2011:

a) American manufacturing remained at the forefront of the United States' economic expansion for the second year in a row and re-established itself as one of the economy's strongest sectors;

b) An erosion of China's manufacturing cost advantages, especially for wages, started to bring manufacturing … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Maybe This Helps Explain Why Europe Is In Trouble: Workers Now Get A Paid “Vacation Do-Over” If Sick

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:51 AM PDT

BRUSSELS — “For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vacation leave. But it was not clear just how sacrosanct that time off was until Thursday, when Europe's highest court ruled that workers who happened to get sick on vacation were legally entitled to take another [paid] vacation.

"The purpose of entitlement to paid annual leave is to enable the worker to rest and enjoy a period of relaxation and leisure," the Court of … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

BPP@MIT Annual Inflation Rate Falls Below 1.5%

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:27 AM PDT

The Billion Prices Project @ MIT just released daily online price index data through May 31, and the annual inflation rates from that price index are displayed in the chart above going back to late 2009 (red line). According to this real-time information of major inflation trends in the U.S., inflationary pressures have been subsiding for the last year, and the current annualized inflation rate of about 1.5% through May is the lowest rate since late 2009. In contrast to the MIT-BPP … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Taibbi: Wall Street Bribes, Bid-Rigging & Collusion

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:07 AM PDT

There are many markets on Wall Street with very serious ethical issues. From my perspective, no market over the last number of decades has been more ethically challenged than the world of municipal finance.
In the spirit of fairness, I would maintain once again that the overwhelming percentage of people on Wall Street in general and municipal finance specifically are very good and decent people. Regrettably, though, the premise of fair and ethical dealings within many markets and certainly … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Willis: “Seeing Reprieve Rally Off The Lows”

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT

06/22/12 Albert, Fried & Co.’s Ben Willis dissects the latest economic data, central bank developments and Moody’s downgrade. The outlook for the equity markets are … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Japan Turns Back On Nuclear Reactors: Could This Be A Boost For Uranium Miners?

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:49 AM PDT

Japan's devastating disasters last year derailed some growth in the nuclear industry world-wide, but demand for uranium is poised to strengthen after the nation that fed doubts over safety approved its first restart of nuclear reactors since the catastrophe.
"Stealthily … developments in the nuclear industry are moving ahead," said Jeb Handwerger, a natural-resource analyst and editor of GoldStockTrades.com. "Homage was paid to Fukushima," but it did not deter companies in the … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Week Ahead: EU Summit, US GDP

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT

06/22/12 The EU Summit will be held in Brussels on June 28th to 29th. The global economic calendar will be packed with key data … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards