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Shop the Local Merchant Economy
Right to Work vs Union State Economies
Rational Tariffs Lower Irrational Trade Deficits
International Business - Davos Style
Banking, Housing and Mortgages
David Stockman's Viewpoint on the Obama Budget Disaster
Regulations Harm Small Business and Protects Corporations
Gas Prices as an Indicator of Energy Costs
Governments Acting as Venture Capitalists
College Education Economics
Industrial Wind and the Production Tax Credit
Medicare and the Ryan Budget
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Consequences
Corporate Spying and Intellectual Theft
The Foolish Exporting Natural Gas Policy
A Matter of Time for a VAT Tax
Big vs Small Bank Loans
Bankruptcy Trends in the Post Meltdown Era
Money Center Banks and Stricter Financial Oversight
Electric Power Generation under NYS Article X
Growth in the National Debt
Advantages of Chinese Trade Policy
Unemployment as a Lifestyle
Immigration Hurts American Employment
Bank for International Settlements on Big Banks
Small Business Assault from Obamacare
Compound Interest and the Debt Bubble
The Federal Centralization Economy
Parking Offshore Profits Hurt the Domestic Economy
The Record of Olympic Economics
Financial Algorithmic Trading
Goldman Sachs Above the Law
The MF Global Magical Mystery Tour
Destroying Internet Freedom by Taxation
The Permanent Unemployment Economy
Jackals of Jekyll Island - Federal Reserve Audit
QE3 Blowing Up the Debt Bubble
Riots Over Rotten Apple Mania
Gap Between College Costs and Inflation
Counterproductive Minimum Wage Mandates
Derivative Meltdown and Dollar Collapse
Central Banks Game Plan: One World Currency
European Commission Single Supervisory Mechanism
Lunacy of FEMA Hurricane Insurance Subsidy
Taxmageddon Holding Hands while Jumping Off the Cliff
The Direction of Equities in the Obama Economy
Is it FAIR to Tax the Rich out of Business?
California Dreaming: Bankruptcy, Pensions and Taxes
Pay Differential - Private Sector and Federal Government
Long History of HSBC Money Laundering
Swan Dive of 2013 Economy
Federal Reserve May Pause Quantitative Easing
The Economics of Sequestration
The state-owned Bank of North Dakota
Chinese Takeover with Free Trade Zones
Low Interest Rates Impoverish Savers
Bond Bubble Expectations
Currency Wars - Race to the Bottom
Government Subsidizes and Bankrupt Companies
Economics of Gun Control
Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government
The Cyprus Great Bank Robbery
Keystone Pipeline Blockage
Move Over IMF for the BRICS Development Bank
Obama Budget Proposes Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
The Risk and Reward of Bitcoins
Farm Supports and Social Welfare
Internet and Sale Taxes Dialectic
The Warren Buffett House of Cards
IRS as a Political Hit Squad
Revenue Budget Projections
Google and the NSA Connection
The Roubini - Faber Debate
Hydrofracking Boom or Bust
Goldman Sachs - first learn, then earn and serve
The Federal Reserve after Ben Bernanke
Implications of a Pyrrhic Real Estate Rebound
The New Normal: Part-Time Employmentyment
U.S. & Europe Trade Deal Honeymoon
Detroit City Bankruptcy Blues
J P Morgan and Commodity Manipulation
Strange Business Success Ventures
Business of Evangelism Religion
NFL Marketing Machine
Privacy Gone on Offshore Assets
Chinese Banks Quasi Government Institutions
Forecasts of a Doomed Economy
Financial Meltdown Five Years After
Corporate Profits and Worker Unemployment
Renminbi Soon to Be a Reserve Currency
Rehypothecation of Collateral
IMF Proposal to Tax Bank Deposits
Transfers excluded, JP Morgan Chase is Wired
Insurance Companies Profit from Obamacare
Climate Change by Executive Order
Economics of Non-governmental Organizations
Why Business Franchising is a Bad Deal
The Business of the Christmas Season
China Becomes Largest Trading Nation
Obamacare as a Jobs Killer
Does a 100 Trillion Debt Total Matter?
Underground Commerce is the Real Economy
Technology and the Future of Jobs
The Japanese Debt Economy
Individual Wealth in Perspective
Inevitability of Financial Bubbles
Russian Sanctions Backfire
Is the Dollar and Equities Ready to Crash?
Economic Reality of a Wealth Tax
How stable is the Bond Market?
Are International Stocks Safer than U.S. Equities?
David A. Stockman - The Great Deformation
Chinese and Japanese Deflationary Economies
Euro Crisis Deepens
Russia's SWIFT Settlement Alternative
The Swiss will not have more EU QE
Business of Global Warming Fraud
Economics of NYS Southern Tier Secession
Fear of IRS Tax Audits Diminish
Where is Global Economic Growth?
Government's share of minimum wage increase
Economic Growth Is Impossible
Replace the Business Cycle with Permanent Poverty
Who benefits from the lifting of Iranian sanctions?
Who Wins in a Currency Devaluation War?
Labor Day when there is no work
Municipal Bankruptcies and more on the way
Undeniable Social Security Demographics
Grinch that stole Christmass
Business Mergers Soar in 2015
The Chinese Market Crash
Driverless Vehicles Powered by Artificial Intelligence
U.S. Banks Ready for Negative Interest Rates?
International Trade Sinks with the Baltic Dry Index
SunEdison Green Power Bankruptcy Inevitability
Another Record Collection from Federal Taxes
Absurd Valuations on Unprofitable Tech Stocks
BREAKING ALL THE RULES
BREAKING ALL THE RULES Forum
BATR Index
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Corporatocracy
Forbidden History
Reign of Terror
Stuck on Stupid
Totalitarian Collectivism
Global Gulag
Inherent Autonomy
Radical Reactionary
Strappado Wrack
View from the Mount
Solitary Purdah
Dueling Twins
Varying Verity
911 War of Terror
HOPE

Monday, April 17, 2017

Absurd Valuations on Unprofitable Tech Stocks

The Treasury Secretary chimes in on what any market watcher should know instinctively. Mnuchin talks tech: 'I don't understand these valuations', yet the price on promises and future expectation of earnings has a large amount of the equity speculators and computerized trading in a crisis of sanity. Avoiding the fundamental relationship that a stock value is based upon the ability of a company to turn a profit, has become the hottest investment hoax since Bernard Madoff was pitching his Ponzi scheme. Uber, Snapchat and Twitter may be high flyers for the smart set, but for rational venture capitalists, plunking down gambles on risky enterprises that only feed on publicity hype is a sure bet on going broke.

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11:47 am edt 

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Another Record Collection from Federal Taxes

There is not a single American alive that has a recollection of a time without a Federal Income Tax. Yet, the country existed and prospered greatly before the constitution was perverted to fleece the pockets of Americans. As with most deceptive schemes to defraud, the sales pitch seldom resembles the reality of the final outcome. The fact that the excessive growth, reach and scope of the District of Criminals government has developed into an oppressive empire during this time, is no accident.
 
8:41 am edt 

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

SunEdison Green Power Bankruptcy Inevitability
 
For all those sun baked brains that see salvation in renewable nirvana, the imminent demise of SunEdison is the latest case that creative green economics is the path to insolvency. After studying the tangled web of cross collateralization and rehypothecation of debt, the WSJ announcement is inevitable, SunEdison Said to Be Preparing to File for Bankruptcy. “Solar-energy company SunEdison Inc. plans to file for bankruptcy protection in coming weeks, a dramatic about-face for a company whose market value stood at nearly $10 billion in July.”
 
9:55 am edt 

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

International Trade Sinks with the Baltic Dry Index
 
Economists and professional investors follow the Baltic Dry Index because it is a leading indicator on the forecast for international trade. A week ago this gauge hit an all time low. Since then a small upturn has moved the index upward slightly. Hellenic Shipping News observes in Baltic Dry Index climbs to 349, up 7.
 
8:54 am est 

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

U.S. Banks Ready for Negative Interest Rates?

The test run proved that negative interest rates can push savers into minus territory. Public outrage, while registered is not heard by the central bankers. The reasoning that commercial banks will start making loans because of the cost of sitting on deposits is pure fantasy thinking. As the article, Low Interest Rates Impoverish Savers shows,
 
11:10 am est 

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Driverless Vehicles Powered by Artificial Intelligence

The joy of driving was once an important part of the American Dream. Take to the open roads meant freedom and adventure. The utilitarian objective of moving from one place to another just does not seem to possess the same romance. As with all reminiscences of the past, the lingering memories like to keep the good times close and block out the troubles when possible. This same trait can be applied to the distinctly national love affair with the auto. But as with all things, times move on and many in the tech community believe that the next advancement in land travel will come from an AI revolution.
 
9:17 am est 

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Chinese Market Crash
 
When the international financial press presents their standard explanation for the panic decline in the Chinese stock market, most want to tamp down the acute apprehension that the long awaited global depression is now at hand. Well, the International Business Times in their account on the China Stock Markets, makes a very insightful appraisal.
12:51 pm est 

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Business Mergers Soar in 2015

What does a CEO do when the economy is in a persistent down turn and your business cannot expand or grow? Jump at the time tested strategy of acquisition to gain market share seems to be the response in 2015. Yet a merger is no sure thing. Anyone remember AOL’s deal to buy Time Warner. How did that turn out? Just how much additional efficiency can be squeezed out of any company? In the era of part time contract workers and low wages, all the fat has been long gone. As for research and development in new technology or products, how will such innovation be marketed in an economy infatuated with the promise of Amazon Prime drone deliveries?
 
7:37 am est 

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Grinch that stole Christmas

The usual holiday cheer that underpins the throngs of shoppers may be missing this season. Political pundits are eager to blame potential terrorist risks as a compelling reason to avoid the crowds at malls, but knowing the sentiments of the consumer culture, it is difficult to accept that retail businesses will be empty. Nevertheless, will the economy incentivize the bargain hunters to brave the added security obstacles to storm the doors for the reward of super discount pricing?

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8:34 am est 

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Undeniable Social Security Demographics

What are the consequences for Social Security in an economy where fewer and fewer workers have a job? Add in the tax burdens that come to comply for Obamacare coverage and it is difficult to see where all the needed new employment will come from to keep funding the government Ponzi scheme? Government apologists will just compose a new “Washington Two Step” routine to dance around empirical facts, but just maybe part of their next choreography will be to allow even more illegal’s pay into Social Security so that the transfer system can continue.
 
6:39 am edt 

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Municipal Bankruptcies and more on the way

Even to the casual observer, the financial condition of government budgets are under severe stress. Taxes have gone up consistently and have outpaced any meager adjustments in income for most taxpayers. No one can reasonably expect that municipal financing is assured by simply raising assessments and rates to keep their bloated bureaucracies solvent. Since the middle class has never recovered from the money centered meltdown, the average community struggles with diminished resources.
 
6:39 am edt 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Labor Day when there is no work

Celebrating Labor Day is poised for a fundamental transition. As the work force shrinks, the 21th Century version of the nature of employment is undergoing deep and primal changes. Some stats that are relevant point out that 62.8%: Labor Force Participation Has Hovered Near 37-Year-Low for 11 Months.    
 
5:54 am edt 

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Who Wins in a Currency Devaluation War?
 
The paradox in the question of who wins in a currency war presupposes that any participating combatant can actually claim victory. If winning means ending up with the most cash, when the value of the money as a store of tangible wealth is debased, it is doubtful anyone can be declared the victor.  The absurdity of lowering the purchasing power of a countries currency to enable exports to be more competitive is economic sacrilege that the heretical “Free Trade” mythos is based upon. Without a reliable standard of objective comparison, floating currencies maneuver their exchange rates to disguise internal imbalances in their own political and economic expenditures. 
 
6:57 am edt 

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Who benefits from the lifting of Iranian sanctions?

With the approval vote in the United Nation Security Council of the P5 + 1 Iranian agreement, a smorgasbord of eager trading partners claw themselves out of the woodwork. The liquid black gold rush is on. With the rescinding of sanctions put into motion, over time the wheels of commerce will be put back on track. No matter what the U.S. Congress does, the flood from international trade will start making deals with Iran.
 
2:14 pm edt 

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Replace the Business Cycle with Permanent Poverty

The lethargic performance of the U.S. economy going back decades and plunging into an embedded depression, since the financial meltdown of 2007, has caused permanent damage. The business community and the financial press have yet to acknowledge that prospects are not going to improve. It does not take a commercial genius or an academic professor to look around at the shrinking middle class and conclude that the lessons of the preverbal business cycle no longer apply. In order for any economy to prosper, the fruits of commerce must improve the financial conditions of the producing contributors.
 
7:56 am edt 

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Economic Growth Is Impossible

The quandary of the economic dilemma continues. A globe suffering from a deflationary financial impact, while consumer prices rise well above the reported cost of living increases, does not bode well that prospects of commercial growth can rescue the world economy. What changes can overcome this predicament? Well, some academic scholar’s offers serious concern that a long term rebound towards prosperity is no longer possible.

7:30 am edt 

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Government's share of minimum wage increase

The working poor suffer disproportionately from the offshoring of high paying jobs. The upsurge an hour in the minimum wage economy is the net result of a consorted effort to lower the standard of living of not just the struggling impoverished but for all scrambling households. When the communist manifesto advocated a progressive income tax, the proletariat was supposed to get a sliver of social justice. Just how well did that hogwash turn out?  
 
10:26 pm edt 

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Where is Global Economic Growth?

Remember the stagflation years? Maybe the current world economic environment is just in an enduring lethargy awaiting the bottom to fall out. Seldom has flat performance lingered as long as it has. Meaningful expansion, under a zero interest rate strategy has failed. Even much lower oil prices have not jump- started the engine of growth. Prospects for an upturn and a return to producing constructive activity still seem to be years away. Or is this a permanent outlook that baffles business executives and frustrates creative entrepreneurs. For the rest of us, waiting and hoping for a viable economy has become wishful thinking at best. 
 
7:40 am edt 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Fear of IRS Tax Audits Diminish
 
The announcement that Federal government’s tax-take hits all-time high as the federal government collected a record amount of taxes in fiscal year 2014, topping $3 trillion in revenue for the first time in its history, has the tax man taking a bigger bite than ever. Yet, the take that the collection bureau seems un-phased from all their scandals to put the taxpayer through their third degree audits are easing up. Why? The answer may surprise when the ledger is tallied up.
1:26 am edt 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Economics of NYS Southern Tier Secession

With the media account that Upstate NY towns explore seceding to Pennsylvania over taxes, hydrofracking, the stage is set for a clash of constitutional power politics.
 
7:42 am est 

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