by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 01 2009 | Blog
I had wanted to mention several posts ago about December’s unemployment numbers that pushed unemployment up to 7.2% that this figure is fairly normal historically speaking. The recession of 1991 had higher unemployment than 7.2%. The recession of 2001 had about...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 01 2009 | Blog
I wanted to provide some commentary about the Democrat’s stimulus package that has just been introduced. The most important thing about the plan is not the dollar amount of the package. That will surely change as the proposal makes its way through Congress and...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 15 01 2009 | Blog
Hello everyone, Just a quick note to let all of you know that for the first time in about 4 years I bought U.S. equities today. Absolutely everything is on sale. We are talking about businesses whose future prospects remain strong for the far foreseeable future that...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 01 2009 | Blog
In this posting I wanted to address the bizarre, ominous and ponderous fear that is hovering over the financial markets. Where is all of this coming from? Do you remember early on I wrote a piece about the fact that around 60% of all U.S. equities were owned by...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 01 2009 | Blog
OK, you probably saw, or heard, that retail sales were down 2.7% in December according to the Commerce Department. And you probably saw that the DJIA, due to the retail sales figures and banking industry problems, was down 2.9%. All I can say is: “Give me a...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 01 2009 | Blog
Another post. Today almost-President Barack Obama announced plans to create 212,000 jobs by creating digitizing healthcare records for the nation over the next 5 years. This suggestion is an effort to help revive the economy and it appears that it is being met with...
