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The Bulls Are Idiots :: Top Gun Financial Planning
1 hour, 41 minutes ago ago from Top Gun Financial Planning
Last week, two prominent commentators came out with bullish pieces. I was anxious to read them to measure the bullish case, but in the end I was unpersuaded. ***** The first piece was from Princeton Economist, and former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Blinder in last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal : The Case For Optimism On The Economy , Alan Blinder, The Wall Street Journal , December 16. Blinder lists ...
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1 hour, 41 minutes ago ago from Top Gun Financial Planning
Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors and a regular on CNBC, especially The Kudlow Report, has a piece up at Forbes today titled: The Recession Is Over : Now it looks like our V-shaped recovery is underway. When the NBER eventually gets around to declaring the recession end date, we think it will be May 2009. In our view, there are no more shoes to drop. Wesbury is notable mainly for his ability to get ...
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Let's just say OPEC is in an enviable position. Come to think of it -- when hasn't OPEC been in an enviable position? OPEC heads into its December meeting next week "in the catbird seat," to cite an old phrase popularized by the late, great Red Barber . OPEC does not have to cut production to keep prices high -- they're already high: oil closed Friday up 40 cents to $73.05 per barrel. The roughly doubling of oil's price in 2009 is the main ...
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