December 22nd, 2009 
Before You Invest For investors in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, and that includes just about everyone who invests in mutual funds, the first 10 years of the 21st century will go down as a lost decade.
Barring a stunning—indeed, almost impossible—last-minute rally, the widely tracked index is headed for its first negative decade ever.
Unless the index somehow generates a return of more of 10% by Dec.
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No Comments » November 15th, 2009 Before You Invest The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was an act signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. The ensuing retaliatory tariffs by U.S. trading partners reduced American exports and imports by more than half and according to some views may have contributed to the severity of the Great Depression.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: American Exports, Catalyst, Congressmen, Exports And Imports, Global Trade, Great Depression, Hawley Tariff Act, Hawley Tariff Act Of 1930, Plunge, Retaliation, Retaliatory Tariffs, S Trading, Severity, Smoot Hawley Tariff, Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, Standstill, Stock Market, Tariff Act Of 1930, Three Months, Trading Partners No Comments » November 9th, 2009 Before You Invest (Bloomberg) — Group of 20 governments split on whether to tax financial trading as part of a broader strategy to ensure the global economy’s expansion is less crisis-prone.
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a meeting of finance chiefs in St. Andrews, Scotland yesterday that such a levy could prevent excessive risk taking and fund future bank rescues, adding momentum to a debate begun by France.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Amp, Apps, Banking System, Excessive Risk, Finance Chiefs, Financial Crisis, Global Economy, Gordon Brown, Great Depression, Levy, Momentum, Pid, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Risk Taking, Speculation, St Andrews Scotland, Timothy Geithner, Tobin Tax, Treasury Secretary, U S Treasury No Comments » October 29th, 2009 Before You Invest Oct. 29, 1929, is a day like no other in Wall Street history.
Black Tuesday, the day of the Great Crash, was a day of frenzied, panic-fueled trading, as investors struggled desperately to avoid financial ruin.
When the dust settled, 16 million shares had been sold on the New York Stock Exchange.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Automobile Production, Black Tuesday, Bull Run, Capitalist Engine, Collapse, Coterie, Crash Of 1929, Farthest Reaches, Financial Ruin, Financiers, Great Crash, Great Depression, New York Stock, New York Stock Exchange, Source History, Stock Prices, Verge, Wall Street History, Wealth And Prosperity, York Stock Exchange No Comments » July 3rd, 2009 Before You Invest Job losses in June bigger than expected as nationwide jobless rate reaches 9.5 percent
The overall unemployment rate edged up just a notch, to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent in June, but the loss of 467,000 payroll jobs made it clear that the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression was far from over – at least for American workers.
And the size of the payroll loss was unexpected and reversed a four-month trend in which the size of the loss had been shrinking from the January peak of 741,000 jobs eliminated.
June 21st, 2009 Before You Invest In the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and unprecedented U.S. policy actions, the U.S. dollar is still up 14 percent, against a trade-weighted basket of major currencies, from its all-time lows last year. On top of that, as you can see in the chart below, the dollar remains in an uptrend …
Source: Bloomberg
Meanwhile, currencies in the BRIC region have been decimated, with the exception of China — which has manipulated its currency in a virtual flat-line against the dollar since the crisis commenced.
Today, even after some recovery, the Russian ruble remains down 35 percent, the Brazilian real is down 27 percent and the Indian rupee is down 23 percent versus the dollar.
But most importantly, from peak to trough these currencies lost 58 percent, 69 percent and 33 percent respectively against the dollar at the height of the crisis.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Bloomberg, Brazilian Real, China, Currencies, Currency, Dollar, Dynamic Economies, Economic Crisis, Economic Depression, Financial Crisis, Financial Markets, Fragile Nature, Great Depression, Indian Rupee, Policy Actions, Russian Ruble, Time Lows, Trough, Uptrend, Vulnerability No Comments » May 29th, 2009 Before You Invest
The gradual healing in consumer confidence, which hit a 28-year low in November, has been seen as a sign of an economic rebound from the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its final May reading on consumer sentiments was 68.7, higher than an early May figure of 67.9 and a final April reading of 65.1. This was slightly above economists’ median expectation of a reading of 68.0, according to a Reuters poll. more at http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE54S3F620090529
May 2nd, 2009 Before You Invest On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicated New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turned on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York.
The idea for the Empire State Building is said to have been born of a competition between Walter Chrysler of Chrysler Corp.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Alfred E Smith, Architecture Firm, Art Deco, Chrysler Building, Chrysler Corp, City Residents, Deep Sense, Economic Conditions, Empire State Building, Great Depression, Harmon, Herbert Hoover, John Jakob Raskob, Lightning Rod, Midtown Manhattan, President Herbert Hoover, Single Day, Tallest Skyscraper, Wall Street History, Walter Chrysler No Comments » February 18th, 2009 Before You Invest Quote from Allen Stanford in magazine
“Our world is far different than the world my grandfather lived in when the first Stanford company was founded … As a company founded in the midst of the Great Depression — an environment of despair and negativity — we have a long-proven understanding of how even the most severe downcycles can bring opportunities that yield significant benefits in the long run.”
Following are details from Stanford company websites about his financial empire, including from a 2008 copy of the group’s Stanford Eagle Magazine.
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