Beyond The Static

• "Fiscal actions are unlikely to promote a lasting recovery unless they are accompanied by strong measures to further stabilize and strengthen the financial system." - Ben Bernanke

• Big changes to Obama stimulus plan

• Obama’s Wall Street buddies

• More bank bailouts are needed!

• How is the government going to pay for all of the bailouts and stimulus? A new financial transactions tax!

• The Terrible Lessons of TARP

• Goldman Sach's 2009 forecast - uncertain, but not uncharted

• Economists now see longest recession since World War II

• Spooked by The Federal Reserve

• Leading economist fears decade of weakness in US

• Central bankers expect global recovery in 2010

• It's possible that this downturn could end quicker than anyone thinks

• Earnings trends!

• Five things to know this earnings season

• The good, bad, & ugly this earnings season

• From one perspective, earnings season may be not half-bad

• Welcome to the age of Gigonomics

• "I expect that unemployment in the current downturn, which will be particularly deep and protracted, eventually will rival, if not top, the 25% seen in the Great Depression." - John Williams

• The economic weather station

• California is facing America’s worst budget crisis

• Searching through ancient history for future clues to the market

• U.S. stock repurchases plunge more than prices

• "To sustain the bull market, we need to see new 20-day highs continue to outnumber 20-day lows and we need to see a resumption of strength among sectors, money flow, and NYSE TICK." - Dr. Brett Steenbarger

• U.S. bank earnings may be frightful

• "If the banks can't participate in a market rally then there can't be a decent market rally. That is why I watch that ratio of the bank index relative to the S&P like a hawk." - Helene Meisler

• Go ultra short the financials?

• Remember the December Low Indicator?

• Checking the Super-Bowl Indicator

• "After reviewing each year ending with a 9 going back to 1909, we are predicting a tremendous similarity to a pattern that seems to exist at the end of each decade. Almost all years ending with a 9, except 1949, show a pattern that indicates a steady first half of the year with a low in the third week of February moving higher into the first week of May. Then another low appears in the last week of June with a rally into late August." - Daniel S. Shaffer

• What happening with market sentiment?

• High net worth clients rethink concept of risk

• Cash keeps pouring into money funds

• But the stock bloggers are bullish!

• "Worry, whether about yesterday or tomorrow, will grind your possibilities into dust and leave you without hope. Never be a slave to the shadows of fear." - Alice Ruddy

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