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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (20925)	8/8/2007 6:47:56 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 217977

Trend for total personal income is up ... more recent numbers - ************************************ EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007 James E. Rankin: (202) 606-5301 (Personal Income) BEA 07-35 Michael Armah: 606-5302 (Personal Outlays) Kurt Kunze: 606-9748 (Annual Revision) PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: JUNE 2007 REVISED ESTIMATES: 2004 THROUGH MAY 2007 Personal income increased $51.7 billion, or 0.4 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $42.1 billion, or 0.4 percent, in June, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $11.1 billion, or 0.1 percent. In May, personal income increased $50.5 billion, or 0.4 percent, DPI increased $41.1 billion, or 0.4 percent, and PCE increased $62.5 billion, or 0.6 percent, based on revised estimates. *************************** Those numbers do not include capital gains, since the methodology is based on a national accounts matrix. So people are in better shape when capital gains are included in evaluating where the "consumer" stands. Of course, most people at the 44k level don't get a lot of capital gains... *********************************** The 44k people are going to fight back doing what ? Most of them don't make political donations is excess of $10, many of them don't vote in every election... ************** crime dramas : I like Da Vinci's Inquest, which is filmed in Vancouver, somewhat realistic, with lots of political infighting, three dimmensional characters, good acting etc. The series ran for about 6 years. The audio and production values on the first ten episodes was a little poor - (you can hear the floors squeak during the dialog) but gets much better. A gift from Canadian Taxpayers ;-) Probably made the Vancouver tourist board cringe, as each episode tended to feature junkies and hookers. *********** Another good series is the original "Law and Order" - anything with Jerry Orbach (playing Lt. Lenny Briscoe) in it tends to be good. There is sometimes a dose of liberal politics toward the end. The other "Law and Order SVU" and Law and Order Criminal Intent" tend to be poorly done. CSI: Las Vegas is interesting, but gruesome, lots of blood and gore, seems to do better with female audiences than with us delicate males. Much, much better than CSI: Miami