Consumer sentiment
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3/12/11 Day After Report: Market Hit by a Spoogenami
While there may have been a tsunami in Japan (and Money McBags heard rumors that it was caused by everything from Godzilla and Mothra learning that they had invested their savings with Bernie Madoff to a rush to the Apple stores to buy the new Hello Kitty themed iPad2), there was a spoogenami in the…
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1/30/11 Two Day After Report: Protests in Egypt Cause Market to Take It in The Sphinxter
Holy(land) shit did the market sell off on Friday as civil (or more exactly, uncivil) unrest overran the streets of Egypt like Ben Bernanke overran the Fed’s printing presses or hepatitis C overran Pam Anderson’s liver. Protesters were apparently frustrated by government corruption, economic stagnation, a lack of political freedom, and Ehsan Hatem El-Kirdany‘s refusal…
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10/15/10 Midevening report: QE2 is coming! QE2 is coming! And inflation won’t shoot (up) until it sees the weights of the Fed buys
Aww yeah, QE2 is finally on the way in news less surprising than learning another politician is a hypocrite, banks may have forged documents and been untruthful about disclosures, and Bar Refaeli is hot. QE2 became official when Ben Bernanke got in front of a room of top economists at their annual coven and clam…
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10/1/10 Midafternoon Report: SEC says Waddell and Reed caused the flash crash, also blames them for stuxnet virus, and Jay Leno’s career
The market treaded water again today as all 1,800 (give or take ~1,795) macro reports were vague enough and relatively inline enough (though absolutely out of line, like the phone number on a Chad Ochocinco cereal box or Fed Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas “T Ho” Hoenig after one too many brandy snifters…