Professor Jeremy Siegel thinks it is.His most recent call is that the stock market as a whole is selling for 10-15% less than it should. Fed chairman Janet Yellen in recent testimony didn’t say it was cheap, but she thought it wasn’t very expensive either.Are they right?Consider this. If you compare the price to the corporate earnings, as Yellen said […]
Stock Market Chop, Sadly Continues…..ISM Numbers Changing Unexpectedly…. Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 03, 2014 – 10:27 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
I find it annoying. How about you? Do you enjoy this nonsense? I don’t, but this is what we have and must accept. The market tried hard to sell decently today. The Nasdaq was down over thirty points, […]
Stock Market Over 85 Years – Has the Fed Produced Any Benefits?Stock-Markets / US Stock MarketsMay 30, 2014 – 10:14 AM GMTBy: EWI
By Robert PrechterHas the Fed Produced Any Benefits?
The Fed has benefited the
government
mightily. Its exchange of new accounting units for the Treasury’s bonds
has stealthily transferred value from savers’ […]
By Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense
“In the case of equities or real estate or farms or whatever, other very important variables are almost always at work, and that means the effect of interest rate changes is usually obscured. Nonetheless, the effect–like the invisible pull of gravity–is constantly there.” – Warren Buffett
The way I see it there are currently […]
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NEW YORK — Better results from retailers and demand for telecommunications shares helped push the stock market to a small gain on Friday.Telecoms rose the most among the 10 industries in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Their jump followed news that […]
Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says
By Anne L. Kim Posted at 8 a.m. on May 14
A report from the Technology Policy Institute says there’s no evidence that big data harms privacy. “Privacy advocates, scholars and public officials have raised concern over a number of potential privacy threats from big data,” the think tank’s report says. “As of now there is […]
WHEN the internet was gathering steam in the mid 1990s, White House policy wonks got together under President Clinton’s nerdy aide, Ira Magaziner, to find ways to support it. Principles emerged like the “tax free internet” (ie, no punishing tariffs on ecommerce). Today, with big data in the headlines, a new gaggle of policy geeks have put forward a plan […]
Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we […]
US job gains send stocks higher in early trade
BusinessMay 2, 2014A+A-
NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest hiring surge in two years is sending the stock market higher in early trading.The gains were muted early Friday as several U.S. companies reported weaker earnings.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,886 in the first few minutes […]
22 pages into the White House report on Big Data, this paragraph appears:Government keeps the peace. It makes sure our food is safe to eat. It keeps our air and water clean. The laws and regulations it promulgates order economic and political life. Big data technology stands to improve nearly all the services the public sector delivers.It presents several claims […]
