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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (54745)	9/24/2013 2:27:08 PM
From: CrashDavis	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 222197

So the people who have figured this out, are making money in stocks. Big corporations benefit from repressed interest rates. Plus the high unemployment rate keeps corp's cost low, since people can't threaten to quit if there are loads of un-or-underemployed people waiting for their jobs. And, the big companies can use cheap financing to buy back stocks, keeping shareholders happy and increasing the management bonuses. Kirk posted a chart of VTI. Look at PKW a buyback acheivers ETF. Main street isn't benefiting from all of this (unless they own equities, but they mostly got scared out in 2007-09). And increasing regulation reduces new startups, also eliminating some competition from the big established companies. The effect is a huge transfer of wealth from most of the country to financial centers and DC. Crony capitalism Read this below a few days ago: According to the Census Bureau’s latest “American Community Survey,” between 2000 and 2012 the nation’s median household income dropped 6.6 percent. Yet in the District of Columbia median household income rose 23.3 percent.According to a 2010 survey, seven of the nation’s ten wealthiest counties are in the Washington commuter belt.

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