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Jun 10 2011

How Screwed Up Is This?

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My ‘How Screwed Up Is This? note for today has to do with the pronouncements yesterday by equity market commentators that the Dow and S&P indexes went up yesterday because of the good news that that the U.S. Net Trade Deficit for April was U.S.$43.7 billion, smaller than the U.S.$48.8 billion that was forecast.

I consider it truly nonsensical that this could result in the U.S. equity markets gaining ground.  Continued monthly U.S. Net Trade deficits signal continued erosion in the U.S.’s world economic status.  In my view the U.S. equity markets are truly ‘grasping at straws’ if they think an April Net Trade Deficit of U.S.$43.7 billion is ‘good news’.

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Jun 09 2011

How Screwed Up Is This?

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On what I think of as a ‘How Screwed Up Is This?‘ note for today, you might consider reading ‘Americans Conflicted on Raising Debt Ceiling‘ – reading time 4 minutes.

It isn’t that American’s are conflicted on this issue that I think is the screw-up, its that I don’t know of a go-forward concrete U.S. Federal Government strategy and execution timeline to reduce the current deficits.  As I see things, without such a strategy and implementation timeline, raising the current debt ceiling is going to be nothing more or less than a further ‘kick the can down the road exercise‘.  At some point the ‘piper needs to be paid’.  From my point of view ‘better sooner than later‘.

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