Author Archives: Jason Kelly

As I see it, the recipe for a double-dip recession is a simple one. The supposed recovery, which we’ve doubted every step of the way, has happened on government stimulus and bail-outs distributed by bought-off politicians to their private sector cronies. Those politicians refuse to raise taxes for fear of losing their jobs. That leaves […]

Two weeks ago, I reported on President Obama’s announcing his sudden desire to reform banks after Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly occupied by Ted Kennedy. I wrote that “after a year of following the traditional Washington way of bending over backwards to hand taxpayer money to financial firms, he was ready […]

We’ve been cautious for a while now, selling into strength and adjusting hedge sizes. It’s been far from perfect, believe me, because some of what we sold we should have held longer into the rally, and we bought our hedges too early. We netted out positive, but would have done better if not for those […]

I spoke with hosts Nancy and Lisa on “Success Express” from 7:20 to 7:40 p.m. ET. We discussed why most people feel intimidated by the stock market, how to make 3% quarterly growth consistently regardless of the market environment, and why the US market is still in great danger because the government followed Japan’s flawed […]

It doesn’t get much simpler than this: Fiscal 2011 Budget: $3,800,000,000,000Fiscal 2011 Deficit: $1,300,000,000,000Savings achieved by “tough choices”: $20,000,000,000Share of budget those savings represent: 0.5% From a January 30 post titled Tough Choices by White House Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer: In the 2011 Budget we will release on Monday we terminated or reduced programs that […]