Economy

You wanna get bullish. I know I do. I mean, the average stock is down more than 1/2 from its highs just a year ago or so. You know that it pays to buy low and sell high…and well, hey, down 50% is by definition pretty darn lower than higher, so what are we waiting for? You lie awake staring at the ceiling, wondering if your investments will get back anywhere near where they were in 2007. Or in ... read more

* My SpokeUp.com Bookmark of the day: ” FDIC's Bair Says She'd Be `Very Surprised' by U.S. Bank Nationalization”. When the largest bank in the US, Citigroup has taken in half a trillion in welfare and the US government is now telling it what assets to buy and sell and when, including forcing Citigroup to sell its brokerage practice to Morgan Stanley which can pay for it with the ten billion in ... read more

Published this intro to the RevolutioNewsletter for subscribers on Monday...you can sign up to get these newsletter intro's which I sometimes publish here and much more in the full newsletter by visiting RevolutioNewsletter.com, btw. Oh man, is the economic and earnings front rough out there.  And the stock market continues to "hang in there". But hanging in there ain't much ... read more

1. Peter Meet Paul 2. Headline of the Day 3. Traders Should Stay Sidelined 1. The Independent Bank of Michigan has gotten $72 million in TARP welfare so far, but they’re not able to lend much out yet because as they tell the NYTimes today – they’re using all of it to shore up its balance sheet and pay back loans to the Federal Reserve. Take from Treasury, give to the FED? This makes ... read more

GE's the shining beacon of all things American -- industrial, technological, medical, financial, Hollywood-al -- is down 30% in a straight line.  And down another 6% just today. Most traders will tell ya that the stock losing another $10 billion in market cap ain't no big deal, but I think we all know it's not that easy. GE's got GE Capital, and GE Capital is totally levered up and full of ... read more

Here's what I'll be speaking up again about this weekend:

*  NY Post: NYers Thought Bubbles

*  Obama Taps Killefer for New Post - ... read more

My recent featured youtube videos from my homepage on SpokeUp.com - Duck Tales Inflation Lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LWQQrpSc4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Tarp Advocates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfyOr3e-34 Han Solo as a Tarp Advocate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTB1uUpu-2w I'll start posting these every few days here on the blog so you ... read more

As I've been so vocal and adamant against all the forms of corporate welfare (you can call it "bailouts" if you want), I've gotten one question over and over as these two real quotes from my blog comments asked: "What should we do about it?" "What are you, we, going to do about all this?" So many people write to me saying they feel that, now more than ever, they don't have a voice as ... read more

Some thoughts that are kicking off the playoffs in my own head this weekend: * I'll introduce this more formally in an upcoming post this weekend, but I want to let readers know now that after two years of blood, sweat and tears, we're proud to beta-launch SpokeUp.com - The social network for individuals who speak up. You can visit my profile page at http://spokeup.com/pg/profile/cody and ... read more

Here's the intro to the latest bi-weekly RevolutioNewsletter that we published today. CLOCK IS TICKING ON THIS LIMITED TIME OFFER: Subscriptions to RevolutioNewsletter (including full access to RevolutionPicks.com) are $20/month or $200/year. But you can sign up before the end of the year and get your first year of the RevolutioNewsletter and access to ... read more