Stock Market Volatility Back Again: The S&P 500 has had 3 Major 10+ Percent Moves to Downside Already in 2009: -13.8%, -14.4%, and -11.1%. Market Volatility a Sign of Unhealthy Markets, and We’ve only gone through 2 Full Months.
The S&P 500 has lost 26% of its value in 2009 and we are only in March. This comes on the back of the S&P 500 losing 36% of its value in 2008. Market volatility is typically a sign of major uncertainty and while we did have a slightly stable period once we bounced off […]
Major Trends in Employment: College Graduates Now Facing Higher Unemployment, U-6 Rate now at 14.8%, and 4.3 million jobs lost during this Recession.
The BLS has put out its monthly employment report and the data is once again showing weakness in the U.S. employment market. What we are now seeing is conformation that this will in fact be the deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression. What is more troubling is in light of the multiple bailouts […]
American Consumers Cutting up that Final Credit Card: The End of a 30 Year Consumption Era and the Nervous Breakdown of the Spending Psychosis.
Imagine sitting in a messy room. Chopped plastic all around you as you sit there clasping a set of red scissors.  Only one more credit card sits in the middle of the room starring back at you. Can I do it you ask? Is it possible to go forward in life with no credit cards? […]
Stock Market Volatility is Back: Approaching a Decade of Lost Returns on Investments. The S&P 500 can fall another 42%.
The stock market is off to a horrible start for 2009. Many thought that things could not get worse than what we experienced in 2008. Yet market volatility, a sign of an unhealthy economy, is still with us and appearing again in a ferocious way. From January 4, 2008 to February 21, 2008 the S&P […]