Tuesday, January 21, 2014

January 24, 2014 Obama is too busy harassing patriotic Americans who love America, and illegally wire taping potential political challengers to pay much attentions to the American economy or the collapse of American influence around the world. The issue of “America’s troubled alliances” is cited at the top of global risks for this year by the Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk research and consulting firm. “I travel all around the world and I hear unanimously that the United ... is on the wane and that bad things are going to happen,” said McCain. Bad things are always going to happen when we have a president who does not believe in American exceptionalism.

 
Jan 23   The federal privacy board said in a report issued today, that the U.S. National Security Agency under Obama has been and is still illegally collecting phone call records, and emails, and other information from millions of Americans and the program should be stopped!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-23/nsa-s-spying-on-phone-calls-illegal-u-s-privacy-board.html
 
Obama is destroying any confidence Americans ever had.  One knows just how bad our nation’s mismanagement is when they claim the American economy is doing very well now.  It shows the socialists haven’t got a clue.   If Morgan Stanley, Standard and Poors, Republicans and Conservatives are harassed for telling the truth that will cause American people will stop believing the redistribution minded Democrat socialists.  Also, the rest of the world economies will stagnate whenever a Democrat socialist is elected as long as the world is on a dollar standard.  Obama has done all he could do to pick the pockets from the working middle class to give it to the work shirkers who live by the credo of, “I don't need no stinking education.”  Obama collected more campaign contributions while in the White House than anyone else in world history.  
S&P claims that Tim Geithner specifically threatened them with bad consequences the moment they made the decision to downgrade the Obama administration’s credit rating.  Today, Tim Geithner was on Squawk Box while in Davos and said that government harassment of critics is nothing new.  As an example he said that President Kennedy had all of the steel company executives investigated (harassed) because they raised steel prices. 
If we do not depose the socialists in the USA, the USA will spiral down and take the free world with it.  The socialists do “need a stinking education” despite what they say.
 
Virginia's ex-Gov. Bob McDonnell’s smeared by dirty tricks as harassment of by Obama continues. 
 
It is clear that Obama had the Christy’s and his staff phones and e-mail tapped because those two unintelligible emails of the staff could never have been found before the news even broke and the information was subpoenaed.  Obama violated the American Constitution and had Christy illegally taped with the intension of sabotaging his promising career.  The information was then leaked to the press to smear Christy.  That was Christy’s just reward for sabotaging candidate Mitt Romney and helping Obama.
 
Mohamed El-Erian abruptly leaves mid-March as chief executive of Pacific Investment Management Co., after seven years running the world's largest bond fund.  He will leave in after seven years at the helm of the firm, which manages $2 trillion as a unit of German insurer  Allianz.  His departure leaves Bill Gross, the founder, as sole chief investment officer.  Pimco's effort has faltered and the Total Return Fund suffered industry-record outflows in 2013 just when stocks posted their biggest gains in over a decade.  That turn about is 180 degrees from just a few years ago, when investors poured hundreds of billions of dollars into high-rated bonds to avoid risk during financial crisis.  Now, with interest rates rising, bonds are losing as fast as they gained when interest rates were falling.
 
Hurt by slumping end of year sales, Coach (COH) disclosed a 16% drop in earnings, driving the luxury retailer’s shares steeply lower.
 
Jan 22  Just as American Republicans and Independents were harassed by Obama’s 20,000 new IRS agents in 2012 and 2013 for their pro Constitution and pro free enterprise views, now businesses are beginning to come forward to complain too.  Tea Party and people who believe the Founding Fathers were great men were primarily Republicans.  Obama did not harass Democrats.   Even European socialists do not harass individuals the way Obama has.  You have to look at Russia, N. Korea, Iran and Syria to find Heads of State who harass their citizens the way Obama is doing.  Most are communists, dictators, religious fanatics and KGB type presidents.  It is now apparent that Obama used the NSA to tap the lines of Governor Christy’s aids to get those two five word comments about the traffic situation.  This is further evidence that Obama is violating the Constitution and illegally politically harassing Americans and corporations.
Americans who believe strongly in the entire American Constitution and American liberty were harassed by Obama’s IRS in 2012 and 2013, and now businesses are beginning to come forward to complain. 
American corporations are beginning to prepare to sue Obama/Holden administration for deliberate fraud and harassment.  It is deliberate government harassment for the government to make punish those who do not support bankrupt economic leadership.  They eventually forced the Kenneth D. Lewis, chief executive officer of Bank of America, the man who built the bank, to resign in a coordinated political orchestrated Socialist-Democratic attack.  In the first attempt, all the Blue States sent their Democrat State Treasurers to vote all their state pension BOA stock to unseat the BOA chairman the year Obama took office.  But when that failed the Obama administration harassed the bank until the BAC president resigned in disgust. 
S&P now says they are currently being harassed because they downgraded the USA rating when Obama was within a month of making America insolvent the first time in American history.
 
  Jan 21   Rockwell Collins Inc. Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg reported that the slump in business-jet sales since the global Obama Liar–Loan recession probably will last into 2016 after the next presidential election as corporate buyers wait for their businesses to rebound.
 
World Economies
January 24, 2014  
The worst selloff in emerging-market currencies in five years is beginning to be compounded by political and financial instability.   The Turkish lira plunged and South Africa’s rand fell to a level weaker for the first time than in 2008. Argentina devalued the peso allowing the currency to drop the most in 12 years to an unprecedented low.
Jan 23  
A report on manufacturing in China, suggested that a slowdown at the end of 2013 in the world’s second-largest economy had continued into the new year.
Poll says 57% of Europeans think that after seven years of Obama, the worst of their economic crisis is over.  They say it is almost as bad as it was in 1933 at the bottom in Socialist FDR’s three terms.  Even the Europeans had to deal with the 2005-2007 Dodd-Frank and Obama’s Liar-Loans that sank the banks.
Jan 21  
China is now the world’s primary buyer of gold.
Bitcoin violates US and international banking rules and is the fastest growing world Ponzi scheme ever invented.
The German market is topping out.  The best of the foreign markets is about 15% above the 2007 high which was about 7% above the 2000 high. It however failed to break out from its upper resistance level defined by 2000 and 2007. http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EGDAXI&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
 
The French market has continued to decline since year 2000. At it most recent highs it is still is still down 50% from 2008 and down 60% from 2000.
 http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EFCHI&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
 
Japan’s stock market appears to have topped and begun a new decline. It has declined since 1990 when it began Quantitative Easing.
 
The Swiss market indicates stagnation since 2007.  It has hit the highs of 2003 but could not make it to the highs of 2003.  Obama has destroyed Swiss banking by destroying the Swiss confidentiality that protected people from the Hitlers. Stalins and the current socialists trying to legally confiscate everything people earn while lining the pockets of their friends with Obamcare inept management of $billions.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5ESSMI&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
 
American Economy
Jan 22
MBA Mortgage Index 01/18 4.7% down from 11.9% ---
Jan 23
Initial Claims 01/18 326K up from 325K and very high ---
Continuing Claims 01/11 3056K up from 3022K and very high---
FHFA Housing Price Index Nov 0.1% down sharply from 0.5% --
Existing Home Sales Dec 4.87M flat from 4.90M -
Leading Indicators Dec 0.1% sharply lower from 1.0% ---
AM Crude Inventories 01/18 0.990M gained -7.658M  +
California, the most prosperous state in the USA, posted its unemployment rate at 8.3% 
 
The Markets
January 24, 2014  
Investors are losing confidence in some of the developing nations, extending the currency-market rout from last year. China and South Africa now pose a threat to world financial stability.
Yesterday American markets suffered the biggest drop in over a year.  A 2.4%  drop from this level would likely trigger a massive selloff of at least 14%.  The market would still be more than 40% higher than the previous Obama market low. It looks similar to July 2013 only that time the market held and did not plummet  further.
 
Jan 23
Without small investors the funds have nothing they can do to make money.  Therefore the funds that liquidate stocks first to raise cash and buy gold and gold equities will be the only ones to profit in a massive selloff.  That is because they will have the cash to buy equities a lot lower.
 
Obama just said that after paying off his corrupt health care contractors in full for delivering no socialized medicine, he will not prosecute or claw back their wasted money. He will just fire them to get them out of the limelight.   It had been disclosed that corruption (helping incompetent friends) is the cause of the failure to get Socialized Medicine up and running.  Socialized Medicine will likely be the largest drag on the American economy in 2014 and due to inept government interference will make the whole 26% piece of the American Economy another big economic anchor worse than Medicaid.. 
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/cgi-federal-scrutiny-obama-fundraising/2013/10/27/id/533310
 
World trade is still down about 75% from when Obama was elected, the recent gain has evaporated.   Look at the last 1+ years! Use the graph or snapshot option.  Unfortunately they do not show back to 2007 when trade was five times higher than the Obama administration’s world trade highs.
 http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BDIY:IND
 
Based on history the  best time to buy stocks was when the VIX was above 30.  The best time to sell stocks was when the VIX is below 20.  It is now near 14.  This is not a good moment in time.
 
World market updates:
http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=europe
http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia

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