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Nuclear Radiation Soaring in Japan + Update
Doubtless you have heard about the continued explosions at Japan’s troubled nuclear power plants. I am sorry to report that the radiation levels are soaring in the vicinity of the plants and the winds are now northward – meaning that the radiation is blowing toward Tokyo. This is a horrible set of circumstances. Specifically, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant radiation levels were reported to be 163 times previous levels at the number 2 reactor. Meanwhile, at the number 3 reactor radiation levels were reported to be 400...
read more14 March 2011: The Intuitive Investor is a Book of the Year Finalist!
The folks at ForeWord Reviews have named The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth as a Book of the Year Award Finalist. The Intuitive Investor was named a finalist from amongst 350 publishers submitting 1400 entries. I am proud to be competing for the award, to be announced at the June 23 to 28, 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. Regardless of whether The Intuitive Investor wins or not, I am honored to be included in the list of finalists! Yea!
read moreIntuitive Assessment of Japanese Disaster
Unfortunately the news of the world has provided another opportunity to use intuition to assess a very complex situation: the disaster in Japan. As a full understanding of the facts is sketchy at this moment, and the facts keep pouring in albeit in a scattered, incoherent fashion, it is a natural use for intuitive assessment to get a sense of the big picture and what the key elements of the crisis are to focus on. Sense of the Big Picture As of 11:43am MDT on 13 March, 2011, there is a very strong sense of accelerating disorder in...
read more11 March 2011: Belief Net Interview About The Intuitive Investor
Belief Net’s Therese J. Borchard interviews Jason Apollo Voss, author of The Intuitive Investor, for her Beyond Blue column. Thanks Therese for the interview, I appreciate it!
read moreOil Discomfort is Overblown
Stock market investors are very nervous about the Middle Eastern unrest predominately because of fears about disruptions to oil supplies. The panicked opinion obsesses about the possibility for a double-dip recession. Blah, blah, blah. I consider this possibility to be almost impossible. The reason is that the most important thing to focus on is not the overall level of oil prices, but the marginal increase in oil prices, and their affect on individuals’ and businesses’ profitability. Resident in the collective...
read more10 March 2011: Interview with The Street.com’s Gregg Greenberg
Very good news folks! Today I was interviewed by that most prestigious of web investment sites: TheStreet.com and their excellent reporter, Gregg Greenberg. Listen to hear me talk about the Four Principles of The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth, the essential beating heart of my book. JasonApolloVossStreetdotComRealStory031011 Thanks Gregg and thanks TheStreet.com!
read moreMortgage Applications Strongly Up
Yesterday the Mortgage Bankers Association announced that its index of mortgage applications rose (a whopping) 16% for the week ending March 4, 2011. Analysis: I have been saying for many months now that the supply and demand fundamentals of the housing market have been in a state of massive disequilibrium. Predominately there has been too much supply of homes at prices too high in order to attract that critical element: a buyer. That mortgage applications are up 16% is clearly a sign that supply and demand in the housing market are...
read moreEthics for Sale According to New Survey
Fuld and Company, a competitive-intelligence consultancy, released the results of a survey it conducted in the third quarter of 2010. The survey was given to a number of executives spanning many different industries throughout the United States and was designed to evaluate the ethical response of executives to various business scenarios. What Fuld and Company found was that executives in technology and financial services companies were much less squeamish that most other industries when it came to ethics. That is, they were much more...
read moreConsumer Debts Are Up – Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
Yesterday the Federal Reserve released its January data about consumer debt levels. Growth of 2.5% was logged which puts total consumer debt on pace to hit $2.4 trillion by the end of the year. The breakout for the increased debt levels was interesting to say the least. Non-revolving credit (e.g. loans for autos, boats and education) was up a massive 7.0%. By contrast credit card debt hit a six-year low. Analysis: I have long decried the level of consumer debt in the United States. However, my focus has always been on unnecessary...
read moreJob Openings Are Increasing
Yesterday, according to the Conference Board the number of job openings listed online in the United States grew by 400,000 to 4.2 million last month. In percentage terms this is a 10.5% increase. Analysis: Clearly this is good news and is among a number of recent positive labor market signs, including the recent unemployment figures for February. For the number of actual new jobs to grow businesses have to actively be prospecting for candidates. An increase in one month of over 10% is a fantastic result and indicates an interest in...
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