Interpreting Government or "Official" Reports part 2

The person overseeing the TARP funds says that they can not account for 350 billion of the then 700 billion given out to the financials as bailouts. Much more money is unaccounted for or it could be thought of as simply stolen from the U.S. taxpayer.  We say that it is stolen from U.S. Taxpayers since as you now know, all money printed in the United States for the Federal Reserve banking system is a debt immediately attached to the tax payer.

The following is a video about the Pentagon which addresses routinely cooking its books:

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the current crisis is much broader than anyone could have imagined...a state of shock and disbelief. This is the same man that accomplished gross financial deregulation that then translated out into our own financial downfall.  A financial deregulation on a scale never before seen.

How can this man, not know what is going on when he and his fellow Fed handlers see what the direct result of deregulation causes across the entire country? He was Fed Chairman during the Saving & Loan debacle. How can he not have seen this economic crisis coming after that? He says that we have the highest standard of living...based on what?...the credit program that has enticed every working man and woman to spend beyond his/her means???

We looked to this man as did the rest of the world, as some financial genius...yet he did not see this coming. This is a lie. And before you blame him directly, let not. He was only face and the mouth for the super secret Federal Reserve Banking System. The same system that is not part of the United States government. The same system that no independantly assigned party nor the U.S. government itself can audit by order of pre-agreement. So how can you believe anything that the Fed reports? How can you stomach the creation of money at your expense, the massive bailouts of financials at your expense, the pushing of credit and mortgage at your expense and peril? With the advent of the Federal Reserve Banking System, we have done away with the Free Market Pricing System of Money which has allowed this financial cartel to make money out of nothing and then charge us for doing so. Its like some kind of fairy tale gone quite mad! We are like Alice in Wonderland, in both awe and confusion at what we see and at what we have happening to us...as if on some kind of drug that we can not say no to (Credit). We then listen in nearly total belief when they say that they are doing something about it and will get things back on track and that things will be better in our lives. When will we stop believing that this is some sort of official report? One that means what the face and mouth of the Fed says? Why do we continue to allow them the power to disrupt our lives in this way?

Its just too easy for reports to say that earnings are coming in above expectations when in the first place; expectations have been lowered to the lowest point in how many years???? And what of the housing situation? They don't seem to be reporting on the rising foreclosures in many areas. What of actual bankruptcies? The non-Fed-family banks are expected to go belly up in the hundreds if not possibly a thousand or so. That would not be happening if it was happy days here again would it?

Americans have been lied to now for so long that you just believe anything you hear on the "Official News" or in the daily news papers. So next report that comes out, don't just believe it. Think about it and know that it is NOT a factual report but that of propaganda-speak. Something that those in power feel that they must do in order to keep the peace.

Americans need to take back the power we've entrusted in such people. We've given away our powers as a people for so long that it has been taken for granted and become corrupted. They tell you what you need to hear in "Official" reports so that you do not rise up, like others the world over when corruption goes too far for too long.

Interpreting Government or "Official" Reports part 1

From now on, when you hear that this report or that report came out...you should think about something before you take it to heart. You should think about how many reports come out looking rosy in relation to what actually is. Then, just a week or two or a month later the same report looks quite the opposite. Another kind is where the report says that previous data will be changed (in order to make good the numbers in the current report).

So perhaps it would be in your best interest to view these reports as "What is plausible" or "What we'd like it to say" or "What you want to hear" or "Your Title Here". Because if everything was the way they reported it, things sure would be different around here wouldn't they? Instead these seem to be marketing type reports are made specifically for public consumption, not factual ones which tell it like it is. It seems that those who run the government no longer put out those kinds of reports.

Whatever happened to Just the Facts Jack! ??? Instead we get clobbered 24 hours a day via the media to "think" its okay to part with more of our money and put it into the market because the recession has hit bottom and look to the end of the fourth quarter for happy days here again. Have we hit bottom in the market? Maybe, but that doesn't mean that happy days are here again by a LONG SHOT. What with rail shipments down 20% from last year's levels, UPS package levels down 4.7% from last year's depressed levels, unemployment's continuing new claims (how about the massive number of people no longer on benefits but out of work still? How about those who have only been able to obtain part-time employment?) and all these numbers which are not reported because it would look too close to reality which isn't very good!

Hidden Facts:

• The number of unemployed persons increased by 466,000 to 14.9 million, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage point to 9.7
  
  
• The number of discouraged workers in August (758,000) has nearly doubled over the past 12 months.
  
  
• Big layoffs at major automakers, suppliers and dealers are just one of the latest signs that the recession is still hitting the U.S. economy fully
  
  
• Related drops in consumer spending will continue to affect corporate earnings that will be hard to continue hiding, perhaps even among financials
  
  
• The majority of this recession was caused by the greed of Federal Reserve leaders and their banking friends via the whole subprime mess and longstanding credit pushing policies.

There has to be 150,000 new jobs each month just to keep up with population increases. Job growth over the last five years has pretty much been wiped out. It took 4.5 years to recover from the job losses of the 2001 recession. With this being the worst recession since The Great Depression do you think we'll be out of the woods in any less time? We would have to add 17 million jobs over the next five years just to get back to the levels we had in 2007 of 4.5% unemployment. Do you think that is going to happen any sooner? Like in 2010 or 2011 at the latest as they are saying on the boob-tube? Really? Oops! There goes another 12,000 jobs...this time from AT&T. 

Add to those numbers all the people that aren't reported on any longer, including those who have only part-time work but want full time and those numbers rise to like 23 million new jobs needed to get back to what is normal. So perhaps those in power will come up with a "New Normal" to define so that we won't fret and get upset at them. But wait until "normal" taxation returns! When the need to return to normal taxation levels can no longer be denied. OMG! What will you think then? Your decreased pay-check, or the pay-check that didn't see a cost of living increase in over five years will suddenly be like...OMG! But then it will come from other taxes as well, not to mention the indirect tax incurred because we have allowed the Federal Reserve to put more and more newly printed money into the system from which you are directly indebted for!

Add to this the baby boomers who, thanks to regulatory decreases in the stock market and financial sector, can no longer "afford" to retire because their investments have been largely wiped out. Which puts us on another topic we won't cover here...programs which will be needed by the elderly but will be cut despite the need. A whole new can of worms opens up here, that which would include new poverty reports, not the "official" ones. The last recession "ended" in 2001 as goes the "official" report but unemployment continued to rise till the middle of 2003. Again, this doesn't bode well for us in this...not this bad since The Great Depression-recession of 2009. If only that ringing of Change which ushered in a new U.S. President could have the power to put this country back in the great race to be #1 again. So far we're being out-performed by the likes of China, Germany, Spain, and even South Korea while we're still stuck, sucking on the oil nipple for all that its worth.

They...the U.S. Oil companies want you to be mad at the Saudis for the price of oil. Who made more money last year than any other time in their history???? (U.S. Oil companies) We are the Saudis!!

We've been told from those in the Mid-west that insurance companies are freezing their own clients out of their Annuities for up to twelve months! If  you need money and your sources are dried up, demand a hardship dispensation from your insurance company. Does this sound like happy days??

We've also been reminded of how those on Social Security have received notice that their payments won't be adjusted upwards now for several years. This is being blamed squarely on the baby boomers. But in-fact...Social Security has been raided every year to pay for part of the government debt and received nothing but I.O.U.s which have not been honored in a very long time. So its not the Baby Boomer generation that is the problem with the government not being able to do cost of living increases to SS recipients.  Whatever happened to Social-"Security" for the lifetime worker in America???

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

Happy days...normal times...won't be upon us until these numbers return to pre 2008 levels. That is when business is doing well again, and orders are being placed regularly for goods and services by business and by the people. Not just because we've run out of inventory which sat for months and now we have to order more or we'd be completely out of business. 

World’s First Solar-Powered Car Carrier

The Auriga Leader, the world's first partially solar-powered pure car carrier vessel, docked at the Port of Long Beach for the first time. The ship has been contracted by Toyota to exclusively carry Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles to the west coast from Japan.

The 656-foot, 60,000-ton vessel's deck is outfitted with 328 solar panels that can generate up to 40 kilowatts. Unlike other ships outfitted with solar panels that feed power directly to accommodation and cargo-hold lighting, the Auriga Leader feeds power to the generator, which contributes to the whole ship.

The Auriga Leader, operated by NYK Line, was launched in December 2008 and can transport up to 6200 vehicles. NYK Line has set a goal to reduce car carrier energy consumption by 50 percent by 2010 through solar power generation, ship operation improvement, redesigned hull form, propulsion systems energy savings and improved cargo handling. 

Larouche, on The Dollar, Jobs, and Healthcare

The video comes from the Larouche political action committee.

Recession IS Ending, DOW 10,000 ...Right?

We've been getting e-mails and voice mails all asking: "how can you print that the recession is far from over, when the DOW has hit 10,000?

Larry Levin says it best in his daily comments:

Dow 10,000! Uh Really?

This has happened before, not too long ago in fact.  Each time I turned the channel from one financial station to the other yesterday and this afternoon, I thought I was watching a scandalous XXX movie.  I kept hearing, "Oh Yes!...OH GOD, OH YES!  That's the stuff 'Big Ben and Timmah'...you know how I like it.  Oh my GOD!!"  Was I hearing an audio replay of Mr. Spitzer's liaisons with his high priced call-girls?  Nope.  I was once again witnessing the on-air hosts experiencing multiple DowGasms.

After all, isn't Dow 10,000 exciting?  Dow 10,000?  Uh, really?  Not so much.  As usual, the so-called financial experts are not giving you the whole story.  And why would they?  The truth sucks.

The truth lies with the value of the US dollar.  Another great illustration of the amazing loss of purchasing power by the US public are the recent ignorant statements about the Dow at 10,000.  While in absolute terms the Dow may cross whatever the Fed thinks is a sufficient mark before its quantitative easing begins to taper off (Dow crosses 10k just as Treasury purchases expire), the truth is that over the past 10 years (the first time the DJIA was at 10,000) the dollar has lost 25% of its value...TWENTY FIVE percent!

On a real basis (not nominal) the Dow at 10,000 ten years ago is equivalent to about 7,500 today!  In other words, not only have we had a lost decade for all those who focus on the absolute flatness of the DJIA, but it is also a decade where the consumer has lost 25% of its purchasing power from the perspective of stocks!  You won't hear this fact on TV.

You don't believe me?  The value of the US dollar only effects high-flying world travelers you say?  Huh - that's odd.  Then why did President Obama give a special $15-billion "bailout" to the elderly this past February?  It was part of the "spendulus bill" in case you forgot.  By definition they're already retired so they haven't lost their employment.  They are losing their purchasing power, like you, so the Pres stepped in for a lil' bailout.

What else should we expect with trillions upon trillions of new dollars flooding into the system via the Fed's printing machine?  It makes the money supply that was available before the money & credit that was created out of thin air worth less than other wise would be.

President Obama, Helicopter-Ben at the Fed, and Tax-Cheatin-Timmy at the Treasury all apparently want the U.S. currency to be used as Kleenex and toilet paper.

With such a great reaction by the media to Dow 10,000, Big Ben and Tax-Cheatin-Timmy must be receiving many messages: "Hey big boy, voulez vous coucher avec moi?"

Trade well and follow the trend, not the so-called "experts."

Do Banks Make Money On Foreclosures? JPMorganChase Does!

Consider this - JPM Chase bought WAMU in September of 2008 for all of $1.9 billion dollars. For that they got a bank with almost $310 billion in assets, $188 billion of it bank deposits. Now Chase will tell you that the deal wasn’t that great as they had to absorb a hemorrhaging mortgage portfolio of $176 billion that they immediately wrote down by $31 billion. That’s true, but hides what really is going on.

If you ignore all the other debt and assets, Chase got $176 billion in home loans for $1.9 billion. That’s just over 1% of face value. Assuming an average loan balance of around $300,000, that’s almost 600,000 mortgages and corresponding homes. That means they paid an average of only $3,000 for each of those loans. Even if they foreclose on the ENTIRE portfolio, do you think they can make money by reselling houses they got for $3,000 each? -Loan Survivor

The Recession Has Ended They Say Part 1

Fact: US foreclosures jumped to an all-time high of 937,840 in the third quarter. According to RealtyTrac that's a 23% rise from the same time last year.

Fact: According to the Mortgage Brokers Association, 58% of the foreclosure starts are now in Prime Loans, not subprime loans.

Fact: 46% of Option Arms are currently 30 days past due. An Option Arm is A monthly adjusting adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) which allows the borrower to choose between several monthly payment options.

The bottom line is that far too many Americas, not simply those with low credit scores, have borrowed more money then they are realistically capable of repaying. The credit boom was created by initially low adjustable rate mortgages, interest only, or negative amortization loans, and an appreciating real estate market that allowed homeowners to extract equity to help make mortgage payments. Now that real estate prices have stopped rising, and mortgage payments are resetting higher, borrowers can no longer “afford” to make these payments.

According to the Financial Times, JP Morgan's U.S. credit card division lost $700 million in the quarter, it wrote off $7 billion in noncollectable consumer loans. So how is it that they are making profits? JP Morgan took bailout money, paid bonuses, then played the stock market before paying some of the bailout money back which was the profits it made in the market. They also got some multi-billion worth of mortgages for a song and then wrote down some $31 billion of that which means that their profit was a sure thing from the get-go. Yet despite the bailout, JP Morgan is not lending much of anything to spur the U.S. economy. It made more profits recently trading the stock market instead.

Tale of Two Stories

Yes there are two sides to every story, sometimes more. But one thing you can count on is that one is right and the others are wrong. Why are they wrong? Because they are telling you a tale, a fictional story. The tale they tell is intended to lull you into believing everything is working out the way you nearly want it to. Don't Worry...Be Happy! Don't Worry, Be Happy! Its like a trance or a song line that repeats to the point that you can't get it out of your head and eventually, you start saying it over and over to yourself. That was the design of the story and you believed it. Now that you're baited, they can tell you anything. You have become the drone captive audience of their lies. Yes, I know...you've heard it here before, but get it into your head...you've got to question everything that they tell you because much of it is no good, still more of it is not the whole story...not the true picture, just twisted-wrung-out tiny truths that you should question how much is just plain baloney!

Hey! If you don't believe me, then I've got some AAA rated securities from 2007 and 2008 that I'd like to sell you!

The Federal Reserve Bank or Fed (not a U.S. government entity but a private syndicate/cartel/group) wants you to believe in all their stories and diversions from the truth. "Things are now much better" they say. "Don't worry. Everything is going as planned and the recession is soon ending, so give us more of your money (via your credit card purchases) and we'll get back to business as usual. Good times are coming soon." But step away and the reality speaks the real truth in both Asia and the West:

• Continued weakness in consumption spending in the world's largest economy, the U.S, the consumer sentiment index unexpectedly declined, economic data released one recent Friday in New York revealed.
• Exporters, automakers, trading companies and banks declined on concerns about economic recovery.
• In China, sea ports are full of product which are not leaving port because the U.S. consumer is not buying. This has forced closures of Chinese manufacturing facilities which produce goods specifically for the U.S. market.
• Bank deposits are on the rise which is no longer a good sign within a financial industry that has grown from encouraging customers to buy what they can't afford using credit cards, home equity loans, and the like. Deposits, (those that come in and don't go out in bill payments) mean people aren't spending. It means that they're doing the right thing for a change. Meanwhile bank's non-performing assets are also on the rise which will continue to hurt these institutions in the coming quarters.

Banks which are not intimately connected to the Fed, hence not one of the Friends of the Fed are going to be failing in large numbers. They aren't privy to the bailouts already given to the Friends of the Fed.

Its a Game & You Are the Pawn

We know that the Federal Reserve has inaugurated a policy of aggressively buying Treasury bills, agency debt, and mortgage-backed securities as part of what is often described as Quantitative Easing. The numbers are hard to absorb: $300 billion of Treasuries, $200 billion of agency debt, and $1.2 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, all between March and September.

The Fed doesn’t tell us whom they buy their Treasuries from, but it seems likely to be the same big banks that serve as primary dealers buying the debt from the government. The primary dealers appear to be holding a slice of this paper for only a short term before selling it on to the Federal Reserve. The net of those transactions becomes a further monetization of the federal debt. So whats going on here?

Lets see:

Banks buy debt and sell it to the Fed for profit.

Banks take the extra money and invest in a distorted market for more profit.

What have they actually done? Essentially nothing. All that really happens is that the banks get free money from the Fed so that they can "legally" make more money. The Fed takes the debt and contracts it to the U.S. Government/The Tax Paying U.S. Citizen. The Tax-Payer is on-the-hook for his/her lifetime including the lifetime of their children. Yet another scheme to make banks even more money!

Remember: The Fed makes money from nothing. It costs them only a few pennies to have their own Federal Reserve Notes (not backed by anything of worth/value, it is FIAT money). They loan out this paper via contract to the government who then guarantees that every U.S. citizen will be taxed in some way and that money will go to the Federal Reserve Banks. The IRS is a tool that exists only to serve the Federal Reserve Bank obligation.

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So even in times of recession or economic downturn, the Federal Reserve & Friends are making money on the backs of the same people it busted in causing the recession, in order to make even more money. I hope that is simple enough for most of you to understand.

The Fed is also buying even more mortgage-related debt. With the government now guaranteeing mortgage-backed securities, those securities are not that much more risky than actual government debt. This gives the Fed further rationale for having purchased almost $600 billion of mortgage-backed securities since March. Which brings us to a likely connection to the speed of the stock market rebound since March 2009. Looking through the evidence today, we can see that the Federal Reserve has purchased close to $250 billion in Treasuries, and that may have provided the liquidity needed for the big banks to turn around and dump new cash into stocks. Goldman Sachs made upwards of $100 million (per day) on many days through its trading activities in just one quarter alone.
You can compare the surprising stock market rally to the Fed’s purchases of Treasuries. You can likely suspect despite what they say in the media, that our stock market is far more manipulated than most people realize. As a cautionary note, many of the emergency programs of making direct loans to financial institutions are being wound down by the Federal Reserve at the same time it is focusing on direct purchases in these specific markets. Those countervailing actions have kept the total balance sheet of the Federal Reserve relatively stable since it doubled in the second half of 2008, but that could quickly change if the Fed wanted to launch new programs.

So we are the Fed's important game pieces in a giant profit-making game. The Fed is the game's creator, rule-changer, banker, and extra player, all rolled up into one entity. The Friends of the Fed are additional players in their game. Try as we might, or not so much, the odds are heavily stacked against us (the tax-paying American). In fact, the way the Fed writes the rules, there is no way that You and your family members have any chance to beat the game. And to not play?? Well, its not an option at this point because your leaders have opted you, your family, friends, and co-workers into the game. After all, your leaders are your representatives and they do so on your behalf. Don't you like those odds?

WAKE UP AMERICA!
WAKE UP UK!

What The Banks Don't Want You to Do!

American consumers are in debt to the tune of $2.5Trillion dollars. This is part of what makes the Fed & Friends continue to find new ways to entice you to buy even more of what you can not truly afford. It is why they lower interest rates. It is why they shower you with credit card offers with perks for using them. But what the banks don't want you to do is to save your money and liberate yourself from your credit cards.

What is the fastest way to save money? Stop using credit and pay off your cards. Those little devils in your purse or wallet are constant temptations to buy something today and pay for it tomorrow. Problem is...you pay, and pay, and pay some more for the privilege of a little piece of plastic. Is it really worth it? Since the start of the recession, banks have been raising interest rates on the average consumer. They know that many are in trouble (reduced wages, hours, or both) they know that you will rely on the card for quick cash or that special present to yourself, even groceries this week and next. So they're jacking up the privilege as much as 29.9% for many. Banks aren't your friend, they only pretend to be.

They fill your statement envelopes with more offers and ways to get the most out of that card and to get the most out of you! They'll even offer to have you skip a payment or two...isn't that nice of them? What they will ever rarely do is suggest that you stop using the card and save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year in interest payments. Even carrying a fairly low balance can eat up valuable buying power if your interest rate is in the double digits.

The banks won't tell you to follow their lead. Banks got overly greedy again and continued with criminal-like zest despite the risks. They got themselves in trouble. What to do? Walk away from the problem/or shove it to the consumer, the tax-payer, the hand that feeds them. The very financials that walked off with big bonuses did so at your expense while your buying power diminished further and your investments shriveled under the heat. You could follow one from their own play-book and walk away from this wholly lopsided obligation. Why should you pay when they addicted you to easy credit? These dealers are the bad guys here, not you. You are just weak minded and they like that an awful lot don't you know? So stop paying more interest on owed interest and fee upon fee. Or what about this: How much are all the bailouts worth on a per tax-payer level? Thats your leverage, your credit, your payment towards the account!

War...Its All About Money, Even At The Cost of Lives!

Think of what you could do with all the money you will save by not using credit. My Father never borrowed money. He wasn't interested in credit. He saved for his homes, cars, and vacations. The savings he amassed by not paying for what he could not afford, allowed him to invest and have a decent retirement account for himself and his wife. While he enjoyed working, he did not have to ask his wife to work because of necessity, except in the very beginning, nor did he need to seek part time work to make ends meet. Not borrowing from the banks or living with credit was a financial boon for he and his spouse. Sure they worked

hard and pinched pennies when needed. But in the end, they didn't need to worry about not having enough to take care of themselves.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Smart or Irresponsible?

"Mr. Geithner, in a letter to U.S. lawmakers, said that the Treasury projects that the current debt limit could be reached as early mid-October. Increasing the limit is important to instilling confidence in global investors, Mr. Geithner said. The Treasury didn't request a specific increase in the letter."

Do you think this is a wise move? Our debt with respect to GDP is currently reaching into the 90% range with the U.S. expected to be fully extended by some time in 2010.

It seems that this is a blatantly irresponsible move from a fiduciary standpoint. So I guess the question is: Does Mr. Geithner have an ethical duty to act in the best interests of the people of the United States?

Obviously the Federal Reserve wins by the debt limit being raised again but do the people? What happens when debt to GDP reaches 100% or more?? This means even more than saying that your personal credit is maxed out!

Since the Federal Reserve makes money from absolutely nothing, (we are not on the gold standard anymore) it would be a huge deal to forgive all debt to-date owed to the Fed. It would do an awful lot it seems to help this country out. After all, its not like the Fed is in any kind of financial trouble. After all, they got us in this mess with their money-making schemes. It seems only fair!

Now on the other hand we've been hearing from the media in an almost droning-like way, that the recession is near its end. Even Bernanke says that the recession has ended. They say that all reports indicate this...well, those reports as we all know have had their data skewed and manipulated in order to make things look rosier than they really are. AND...when the new report is dramatically different than the previous report, they have to re-manipulate all the past data to come into line with the current report. See what I mean?

As recently in 2005-2006 Bernanke said that the U.S. Housing Market is fine and is properly valued. He said that the U.S. is on the path to full employment. Bernanke said that we have a strong future economic growth and boom in exports. To that we simply say: HUH??? Whats you talkin about Bennigins? He obviously doesn't have a serious clue in his body about whats going on unless he's told by those who are really running the show. He's just the puppet on the marionette stage.

Then they point to a lower unemployment claims number and say that this is the biggest proof. Well it seems to us that all that means is that the big wave of layoffs deemed necessary by companies as a cost-cutting device is slowing. It does not mean that near 15 Million people are not still out of work, it does not mean their lowered hours, trimmed wages, or reduced benefits have returned. It does not mean that consumer spending in the retail sector has returned either, nor has discretionary spending. How do we know this? Because brand new manufacturing cities in China had their gates closed to workers returning from Holiday.

This means that the west is not buying. Furthermore, sea ports in China have containers stacked as high as they can possible go and they're filled with product for the west. But it isn't being shipped because there are no buyers. Many real estate markets in the U.S. are still seeing record foreclosure rates. Global shipping companies are bobbing in the ocean rather than going full steam ahead because there is little to ship now a days. Banks still are not lending and this is the biggest indicator! Sadly even banks and mortgage companies are being caught trying to lend to people who shouldn't be borrowing. Those financials should be closed and taken over immediately by responsible institutions. When all this reverses, perhaps then we can say that the recession is ended. Why must they put the proverbial cart before the horse?

Others are pointing to the recent stock market rally saying that the per- severance of the bulls is proof that the recession has ended. Seems to me that maybe this is just another but rather longer bear rally. Even though economists are all calling for the end by the fourth quarter of 2009, these folks almost always lag the market with their opinions. Wasn't the economists that were partying over the economy in 2007 when the market was at all time highs? This was also the point where it all started unraveling.

During the Great Depression, there were eight distinct stock market rallies. The rallies lasted an average of 11.3 weeks during which time the average increase was 52.6%.

The rally that began in March of 2009 is now 29 weeks long and has seen the S&P 500 rise 58. percent. Which is to say, it is now double the average duration of the average bear market rally during the Great Depression.

More interesting is that the current rally is eerily parallel to that of the longest bear market rally of that era – a 52% rally that came at the very beginning of the depression and lasted 22 weeks.

Since history has a way of repeating itself as it has time and time again...the folks here at Future1investors group will wait for something much more indisputable before we start saying and writing that the recession has indeed ended. Until then, we are preparing for a longer road back to recovery. A road we feel must include one well traveled by new innovations and technologies that have mass benefits as in things like alternative energy. We are quick to blame the Saudi's for the price of oil, yet our very own American Oil Companies just saw the most profitable year in the entire history of the black gold!

Seems more responsible to work this way rather than throw caution to the wind, only to be let down yet again. Aren't you tired of it?

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Proof You Only Want to Be Mediocre!

The United States of America was a great country because it strived to make technological advances ahead of the rest of the world. The USA wanted to be #1 and for all accounts and purposes, it was. Lets see that word again....WAS!

What has happened to the USA? Has the credit card charge abilities of the mass public made you mediocre? Is the only thing you think about; that next big screen HD TV?

When the US wanted to be #1, it put massive resources into technological research, seeking breakthroughs and viable products that could propel it into the future. That future is now its past, and very little advances have taken place since. It still uses an un-godly amount of crude oil to propel your transportation system and most of that oil is imported. Yet your American owned oil companies made their biggest profits in the country's history. Guess what America? You are the Saudis!

They calm you by repeatedly telling you that the recession is ending yet there are nearly 15 million out of work families. Salaries are falling, as are work hours for the hourly, companies are going part-time without benefits. People are just getting by while others are not. The country's GDP is still falling and debt is rising like a rocket into space. Your country is so out of kilter that without Social Security to steal from and pay some of the debts, you are already in way over your head. Meanwhile, rather than being a country to compete against, the USA is just a country to sell to because there is little here left to buy. Most notable companies have moved off the US shores and taken their jobs with them. All thats left is just an addicted public that frequently over-doses on anything attached to credit, forever the slaves to your financial masters. The same masters that came up with the invention of the Internal Revenue Service; the tax collector that exists solely to pay for money borrowed from the Federal Reserve. Money that makes money from absolutely nothing. Boy! the Fed & Friends have it good don't they!

The U.S. claims that it is spearheading a major effort to accelerate scientific breakthroughs in order to build a new energy economy. It accompanies that to the tune of $777 million dollars in backing (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science). Hmmmm how many dollars has it spent on the financial debacle lead by the Federal Reserve? Oh you remember, all those banks that made billions off of selling bad loans, and then putting them into a package that carried a AAA rating to sell to unwitting investors, many of the same financial firms who then where handed over how many billions to prevent them from loosing their ill-gotten gains? Money you gave them, so that they could also turn around and pay themselves historic bonuses! You people are out of your minds for letting that happen. You must be a glutton for punishment. Its like the USA is the wild-wild-west of the new criminal world.

Going back to that spearhead....Hmmmm $777 million towards something that might bring the country into sync with some of the rest of the world? Germany, Spain, China are the top three leaders in solar energy already. China has made a mockery of your spearheaded announcement for funding such research. China's effort will equal an impressive $220 BILLION! Just mentioned, China is #3 in Solar. As for Wind energy, the current goal is set for 100 Gigawatt by 2020. They've already begun construction on the first of seven 10 gigawatt wind projects.

South Korea is investing 1.2 percent of its total GDP, or about $30 billion, into new green strategies to drive their own economic recovery. Meanwhile, the United States is investing less than one half of 1 percent of our GDP on clean-energy stimulus programs. But perhaps less than $10B is all the U.S. needs to leap forward technologically, and be #1 again with everyone back to work, the country and its people prosperous once again...... ahem!

Then I guess you believe what they are saying on the news; that your recession is already coming to an end..... ahem!

Your people make me laugh! You are your own reality TV show! Each episode is more outrageous than the last. And while the rest of the world looks on, you are the only ones except for those in the U.K. that don't know what is going on right under your noses because they tell you lies and you think.... What do you think? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? HELLO! ANYONE IN THERE WITH A BRAIN IN THEIR HEAD?

Who wants to be mediocre? Wait...don't say anything. I'm going to tell you cause you believe everything anyway and this is the real truth. You are mediocre. You've proved it to the rest of the world. You don't care what those Banksters do to you because you are oblivious to the truth. What do they candy-coat their lies with over there with anyway?

Who pity the fool? We don't, not anymore anyway. How sad are you?

Update:
In the weeks since I prepared this, a few new bits have surfaced: $3.4 Billion for smart grid investments grant, $6.3 Billion for improvement of bio feedstocks, $32 Million for improved hydro-power. So lets say approx $10 Billion on behalf of the U.S. for alternative energy advancement. Problem is, there seems to be a lack of thrust and importance of this movement. Perhaps the administration is taking the lead from the current energy manufacturers meaning the big U.S. Oil companies...some of who are diversifying into these areas. It is clear however that if this is true, big oil isn't in any big rush to deviate from the product that made historic profits for them last year. And that is despite the fact that there hasn't been any significant oil finds since the late 50's and early 60's. That is with the exception of Alberta Canada!

Alberta Canada has seen major oil companies moving in and literally stripping the land (Alboreal Forest) and turning it into a dump of toxic waste water and cancer killing environment for its residents. But hey! Even the Canadian local government doesn't care because it has brought them the first real significant revenues ever...so why should we care eh? What you can see going on in Alberta is like a fast forward movie of what the planet has undergone in the last million years or so. Amazing how it can take thousands and even millions of years to produce a fossil fuel like oil. Yet put humans into the mix and they can suck it all up in about a hundred years or so, and at the peril of their own health, the health of the animal kingdom, and the health of the environment which is supposed to sustain them both. Well guess what? When you take without providing equally in return, you wind up with devastation. The only thing is how long that devastation will take and will anyone care if they aren't alive when it happens? Do they not care about the unborn and the children now growing up in this toxic world we've created? Wheres the profit in that?

Clearing the Air

Please do not be put off by the negative air that you'll read in the upcoming articles. We are in a recession which was caused by entities who were way more concerned for themselves and cared not for the masses that their work affected.

It is necessary to clear the air so-to-speak and allow folks to know what part they played in it and who where the game designers.

Much about the operation of a large country is about sedating the masses. In doing so you limit the uprising, something the USA has not seen in a very long time. This they've mastered, to the degree that we all just keep turning the other cheek. Well our cheeks are battered now, all black and blue. Its time to put a stop to this and wake us the hell up. We need to know the truth and start to think about what to do in order to make things better.

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“What is good for General Motors is good for America”

For those of you who did not take advantage of the FREE look into MarketClub, a tool we live by and for those who have but have not had the time to really get into all they have to offer, I am reposting a blog post written by one of the founders Adam Hewison. I'm doing so because not only does it follow-up to my previous posts regarding electric vehicles and our country's need to get on the ball, but it shows how MarketClub can be used when a stock is going down, as well as up! This is the case for General Motors (GM). You can read the entire piece here too if you like.

“What is good for General Motors is good for America”

Back in 1955, Charlie Wilson, then chairman of General Motors Corp. made this somewhat pompous statement. Here we are, some 53 years later and look what is happening to the stock of General Motors (NYSE_GM). This stock is at a 53 year low and shows no signs of turning around.

So the question becomes, what happened to America and General Motors? How did this company lose its edge in the marketplace?

HOW DID GM GET IT SO WRONG?

Digging through the history of GM, I found one fascinating item. GM developed an electric car back in 1996 when gas was $1.28 a gallon! They named the battery powered car the EV1 and then basically scrapped it in 2002.

Today there is very little evidence that this car was ever in existence. I am sure you’re thinking right about how we could sure use a car like that today with gas prices trading over $4.00 a gallon.

When you look at the stock of General Motors, you’ll see that the high for the stock in the last eight years was around $68 in 2002. What’s interesting is that high point in the stock was right around the time GM scrapped its EV1 car.

So what happened to GM’s first electric car? GM claims there was not enough public demand. That could be, but I think the story is a lot more complicated than that.

You can see all the GM - Big Oil conspiracy theories in the movie

WHY KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE?

From a business standpoint, why would GM want to improve something that would kill the goose that lays the golden egg? General Motors tends to make most of its money on sales of replacement parts. Up to 40% of its profits come from selling replacement parts for existing GM automobiles, so why would they sabotage their own cash flow?

Unlike a gasoline driven car, which has many moving parts, an electrical car like the GM’s EV1 has very few parts to go wrong, so therefore part sales and cash flow would go right into the tank for GM. The other perception problem GM has with an all electric car with zero emissions is this: if GM produces an all electric clean car with zero emissions, it’s making an admission that all of their other cars are dirty, spew out harmful emissions and pollute the planet.

But look at how GM got it wrong. This may be one of the biggest blunders ever in American corporate history. GM took the lead in electric car technology (smart move), but was not convinced that they as a company could be profitable selling electric cars.

WHO OWNS THE MOST ADVANCE BATTERY TECHNOLOGY?

One fascinating piece of information is that GM acquired advanced battery technology from Ovonic’s in the form of a NiMH battery. This battery produces a stronger, longer lasting charge, and was the ideal battery for their second generation of EV1 cars. What came out later was truly a shocker, GM sold this amazing battery technology along with the patent (dumb move) to Texaco who was later taken over by Chevron. Now Chevron owns the technology and the patent!

You have to ask yourself the question… why would an oil company be interested in purchasing advanced battery technology from a major car producer like GM?

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Fast forward to 2008 when everyone is mad as H#LL for having to pay over $4.00 for a gallon of gas. Back in 1996 when GM launched the EV1 with very little fanfare, the cost of gas was around $1.28 a gallon.

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Why GM decided to scrap the EV1 and look for short-term profits in big cars as opposed to building and preparing to adopt a different business model is still a mystery and one that has decimated GM’s stock price in the last five years.

The automobile business has not changed in almost a century and the industry appears reluctant to embrace change. It would now appear that GM’s business model like many of its big cars is rapidly becoming outdated and destined for dinosaur land.

LET’S LOOK AT THE STOCK OF GM

EV1

Let’s take a look at the GM stock chart and see how you would have fared had you purchased GM stock at $68 in 2003. Then let’s look at the same stock using a MarketClub’s proactive approach. As you can see the results of a buy and hold strategy have been a disaster losing 79% of its value for all share holders while the proactive results have been quite stellar.

EV2

If a major company like General Motors can fall to a 53 year low, so can any stock on the big board.

Readers of this blog know that MarketClub uses a proactive approach when taking positions in the marketplace. The world has changed, and it has changed not only for GM but for many other mature companies that are using business models and products that are rapidly becoming outdated and will prove to be noncompetitive in the long run.

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