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The Pros Are Preparing For A Drawn-Out Bear Market
You’d expect financial commentators to have discussed the many reasons for the stock market’s selloff lately. After all, waffling is what they do best!
The bug seems to have crept to the onlooking investing public, too, though, with everyone becoming an overnight expert and tossing their two cents into the mix.
But really, when it comes right down to it, alongside widespread fear, there are two main factors responsible for the moves:
- Accelerating & Decelerating Rates Of Profit Growth
- Supply & Demand
Usually, the two work in tandem because changes in fundamentals drive the demand for a stock. However, this hasn’t been the…
25Nov2008 | Smart Profits Report | 0 comments | ContinuedThe ugly Americans
In the mad rush to blame speculators for high oil prices, our solons in Washington have inadvertently revealed a U.S.-centric, 20th century mindset.
I’m sure Sens. Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein think they’re enlightened types, far beyond any sort of “ugly American” mentality. But that’s exactly what they betray with their notion of closing the “London loophole.”
Says Levin, “The [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] didn’t have good information about who was trading how much US oil when, and whether traders subject to US speculation limits were circumventing them by trading in London. That’s why I and my colleagues have repeatedly introduced legislation…
8Jun2008 | Desidooru Saloon | Comments Off | Continued
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