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The official national debt figure is widely trumpted as a bit over $14 trillion.

Because big companies dominated the top performers lists back in 1999 – 2000 their share valuations grew to unsustainably overpriced levels.

Not everyone seems aware of how big an impact government transfer payments (food stamps, unemployment compensation, welfare checks etc.) have had on the “recovery”.

Every morning and evening I get a free e-mail from SmarTrend, a market information service, with a few snippets of information meant to be a teaser for their paid subscription service.

Many people subscribe to the theory of ‘buying what’s working’.

The markets collapsed in late 2008 and the world as we knew it seemed to be gone forever. Credit was frozen and America looked to be headed for the next Great Depression (or worse!).

An unintended consequence of the Fed’s near-zero interest rate policy is the crippling of savers’ ability to get interest income from their often substantial lifetime savings.

I received a sample issue of the Dow Theory Forecasts newsletter (dated Sep. 20, 2010) in the mail as a teaser to induce me to subscribe.

The following chart was published on Clusterstock yesterday with commentary explaining how this proved that stocks were no longer a good place to invest…

For seventeen straight weeks ‘mom and pop’ investors have been heading for the hills when it came to equity based mutual funds.