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Durable Goods Data Becoming “Less Good”

By Steven Hansen According to the US Census, the advanced data released for durable goods shows new orders for durable good declined in October 2010. The headline: New Orders New orders for...

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Manufacturing Industy Flat in November 2010

By Steven Hansen In October 2010, US Census reported manufacturing new orders down – and Econintersect’s analysis (click here) reported sales flat.   This month (November 2010), US Census reported...

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Trailer Bridge Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBR): Shipping Without the Pirates

By Jim Van Meerten This afternoon I added Trailer Bridge Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBR) to the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative portfolio. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, they are an integrated trucking...

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Durable Good Data Points to Flat Economy

By Steven Hansen It should come as little surprise that durable goods data is inconsistent with economic expansion. Econintersect further disagrees with the US Census Bureau whose analysis concludes...

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Taxes and Inflation Are Draining Us

By Jeff Pierce The entire time I’ve been in Canada the price of gas has baffled me. I’ve been so used to measuring my tanks of gas by the gallon that when I got here and tried to think in terms of...

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BLS Employment Data Is Too Bad to Be True

By Steven Hansen As a devout skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) methodology, the January 2011 jobs report filled my wildest expectations for nonsense. In a series of moves over the last two...

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Robert Reich: The Republican’s Social-Darwinist Budget Plan

By Robert Reich In announcing the Republicans’ new budget and tax plan Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said “We are sharpening the contrast between the path that we’re proposing and...

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The Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Decent Society

By Robert Reich The returns aren’t all in yet on today’s Republican primaries but President Obama didn’t wait. He kicked off his 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney with a hard-hitting speech centered on...

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United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) Report Fans More Economic Worries

By Michael Tarsala The number of packages shipped help give us insight into the economy’s strength. From that perspective, second-quarter earnings from United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS) present...

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The Best Market News All Week Was The Event That Didn’t Happen

By Michael Tarsala This week’s stock buying binge that sent the S&P 500 to multi-year highs also kept the transportation index from reaching new multi-year lows. That’s huge news! For now, it helps...

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Robert Reich: The Non Zero-Sum Society

By Robert Reich As President Obama said in his inaugural address last week, America “cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.” Yet that continues to be the...

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New Age Diversification with the $50,000 Portfolio (CVX, VZ, LO, BBT, F,...

By Brian Nichols The primary goal of diversification has always been quite clear: It is to invest in a number of sectors, markets, and types of investments to be better protected from volatility and to...

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Robert Reich: Why Politicians Are Sensitive to Public Opinion on Same-Sex...

By Robert Reich Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support...

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