Barry Ritholtz over at thebigpicture.com is great. Here is a post from today explaining how even though rates were lowered yesterday the market is down today on inflation fears. In Barrys typical fashion he lays out several reasons and warning sig

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Mebane Faber over at WorldBeta consistently has good useful posts. This one is no exception where he points out some research that he has come across to better understand inflation numbers as well as how you can supposedly duplicate the RenTec Inst

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Does a yearly average 3.7% of salary increment consider good for those who works in IT related fields? The recent report published by ComputerWorld shows that there is an yearly average of 3.7% salary increment for IT personals.

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To me, this does not seems to be a interesting figures, compared to our inflation rates! Prices increa

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Cheap goods from countries like China have an expensive price. Right now we are paying that price through our loss of jobs and the increasing safety risks of imported goods.

But, who really should pay that price? If US corporations are experiencing increasing profits, is it right for us to pay the price for their profits?

Who should pay

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Inflation has picked up again but that should have been expected if you consider the effects of the last few Fed actions and who who engineered them.

The ignorant behavior by the Fed and the lack of thought about long-term (and even short-term) impacts of idiotic decisions will only increase in size and add more negative pre

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According to the Fed there is no inflation problem (but of course they live in a world where food and energy has no impact at all on your life) and many investors hope for more rate-cuts to come.

What they seem to ignore is that every rate-cut has more of a negative impact on the economy that the positive impact hoped for. I

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The markets have closed a third day in positive territory and each day the reason for the rally seem to get more and more ridiculous. Yesterday it was the rating agencies today it is IBM but all of them really have no impact on the real problems such as inflation, housing and even consumer confidence.

The ignorance of probl

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You have to ask yourself the following question:

When is enough enough?

The Fed is clearly on the wrong path and Bernanke makes one bad decision after the other. It is about time for someone to have mercy on the economy and the consumers and stop Bernanke (it may be already to late for that).

What has the economy, the

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This post outlines why Bernanke fights the battle on the wrong front and why it will cause him to loose the war.

The majority may not care about what Bernanke does but everybody will see the effects of his decision making and may be impacted by them one way or the other.

Is there anything that you can do about it?

No,

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This post briefly details the four economic reports released yesterday and 'decodes' the message send by those reports to market participants. There is no doubt among the 'sophisticated players' in regards to the state of the economy, equity markets and consumers but the majority insists to be ignorant about the subject...a

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You just have to get your money to work harder, and get a return that’s higher than inflation rate.

In the area of wealth accumulation, inflation is an enemy that approaching you step by step quietly. By the time you notice that and feel the pain of its attack, it is probably too late. The last resort is to see your standard

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This post gives the two economic reports which were released today a closer look and what the data translates into for the economy.

Equity Markets had a seesaw session as some desperate fund managers and possibly retail investors mistook the 100 point dip as a buying opportunity (which is a bit funny and sad) and tried to ig

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Today saw another seesaw session but with a negative touch to it. The bears went to sleep after a long walk and the bulls charged ahead amid bargain hunting (always funny when you see professional investors try to hunt for bargains where no bargains are to be found).

There are several more economic reports to be released th

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Several major economic report were released earlier this morning and this post takes a closer look at them. Markets managed a slightly positive close but this can be viewed as the calm before the storm. Tomorrow's initial jobless number may have a little impact but the big news will come out on Friday...the Employment Report..

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This post gives a (somewhat long) review of what influenced global equity markets today and gave the economic reports of the day a quick look.

What happened this week was probably a bit too easy to predict but the majority seemed to be surprised which is another reason why false optimism and ignorance will always cause you t

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