This wikizine focuses on the U.S. economy, including the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ stock markets, industry sector trends, large capitalization U.S. companies, and the U.S. macroeconomic climate. Other topics include economic...
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This wikizine focuses on the U.S. economy, including the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ stock markets, industry sector trends, large capitalization U.S. companies, and the U.S. macroeconomic climate. Other topics include economic growth, employment, capital allocations, Federal Reserve monetary policy, tax policies, energy and environment, and other issues related to the overall U.S. economy.
This popular Zimbio wikizine is edited by Michael Johns, an industry executive, former White House Presidential aide, and conservative policy analyst, blog author and financial writer, along with other Zimbio contributors with credentials in various aspects of the American economy.
Topics not to be included in this page include references to small companies (less than $1 billion revenue) or thinly-traded stocks (including, for instance, all OTC stocks) since the goal is to provide an overview of the U.S. economy and its major components and not to impact market or trading trends in any significant way.
Are you concerned about the state of the U.S. economy? If you are, then consider the findings of a recent article in the American Journal of Medicine (among multiple other sources), which reports that medical debt is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. If you are like most Americans, you live one medical disaster away from poverty. What's worse, many of those who have unwillingly found themselves sunk in such debt had health insurance. The Washington Post points out that of those who were... Read Full Story
For 20 years Retex has offered free membership and served as an intermediary for the retail industry, saving its members over 100 million dollars by lowering costs through high-volume buying and rebates. Now, Retex has formed a strategic partnership with SampleSecure.com in order to offer Retail Marketing Support Services, including Mystery Shopping, Merchandising, Event Marketing and Demonstrations, as well as online ordering and program management, at an incredibly reduced rate to its... Read Full Story
Every time we participate in a focus group, opinion poll, telephone audit, or online survey, send a rebate card with comments by postal mail, or fill out a comment card at a restaurant, we are participating in market research. Mystery shopping is one of the most widely used market research tools used to evaluate customer service, quality, compliance, loyalty, and other issues. This is most widely observed in the hospitality industry. Almost every hotelier and restaurant, whether fine dining... Read Full Story
Proctor & Gamble , Hewlett-Packard , Burger King , General Electric , Walt Disney Corporation , Microsoft along with electric razors , tampax , car radios , Chocolate Chip cookies , and Xerox machines have two things in common. They were all created or invented during a recession or depression . In fact, over half of the companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were formed during a r ecession or depression . The other commonality is not a one was conceived by a politician or... Read Full Story
Forget the bank stress test , leaked in carefully monitored drips, so that investors and the public will actually think the financial system is in good shape because "only" ten of the major banks need to raise additional capital (to the tune of $75 billion) inorder to theoretically survive in an economy with an unemployment rate which we may hit by the end of the month. The real story is in Treasuries . The market has now pushed the yield rate on ten year notes to 3.34 and they are easily... Read Full Story
Why is it that all the hot female economists are the ones that are getting it right? There is Diane Garnick .... and Meredith Whitney , the girl who saw through the Emperor's clothes at Citigroup . And today allow me introduce Michelle Muccio —self-proclaimed Rebel Economist : Does that sound like a plan to any of you? Michelle is a product of George Mason University , which is something of a hotbed of libertarianism , having been founded by George Mason , the father of the Virginia... Read Full Story
America has been drunk on credit card debt for years. Now we are wakeing up with one hell of a hangover and the goverment brand of asprine seems to be doing little to sooth the pounding are economy and are standard of living is taking.
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I see the cutest, angriest Filipino neocon in America, Michelle Malkin , is getting pretty stoked up about Rick Santelli's spaz attack on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange calling for a Chicago Tea Party : There is actually a whole lot of this going on , even up in my old home state, the Soviet of Washington --- land of latte, Marx lite and highly caffeinated Birkenstock hippies. But--welcome aboard Michelle , M r. Santelli and the rest of you born again economists . Just wish you... Read Full Story
President Obama now has the $787 billion stimulus package in hand. The Secretary of the Treasury has announced, nerdy beady eyes darting, his plan to take the $350 billion remaining of the TARP funds -- buy up some T-bills , and then join the other bedraggled financial titans meeting with Ben Benanke in a back alley for a dirty transaction--- and getting a brown paper bag filled with trillions of freshly printed dollars . Even though I have an expired Series 7 license , I don't give... Read Full Story
