by Jason Apollo Voss | 28 09 2009 | Blog
Hello everyone! I hope that everyone’s weekend was relaxing. Here in Santa Fe we had our first Indian Summer weekend with temperatures in the high-70s/low-80s. It was awesome. Last week’s stock market performance was the worst weekly performance since the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 25 09 2009 | Blog
Wow! In an extraordinary development the Group of 8 (G-8) is diluting its power to become the Group of 20 (G-20). The G-8 is a collection of the 8 most economically developed countries in the world. This group has coordinated the economic policies of its members for...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 25 09 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Happy Friday everyone. I hope that this post finds all of you doing well. I wanted to make a few brief comments about the environment, especially as it applies to our modern capitalist economy. Primarily the focus is on two things that dramatically affect the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 24 09 2009 | Blog
I have said for sometime that the job market will be one of the last things to improve as the economy recovers. This is largely due to the expense of finding workers, training them, paying them and benefiting them. So businesses reluctantly hire. Last week the number...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 24 09 2009 | Blog
For the month of August existing home sales were down 2.7% compared to July. This broke a string a four consecutive positive months. My opinion is that this data is a bit of an aberration from overall economic improvement. Also within the report was the fact that...
