Debt Wave Still Growing

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 27, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments For almost three years now I have been highlighting the dangers of an entire world that consumes more than it creates; read: uses debt to extend its means.  Most recently I talked about this issue on 31 May, 2011 in my post entitled, “Top 5 Problems Facing the Economy: Chronic Fat, That is Spending Beyond Our Means.” The problem is that if the world kept its accounts honestly then...
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Stats About China’s Classes

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 25, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Yesterday I read a fascinating piece published by that scion of geopolitical intelligence, Stratfor, entitled: “The Importance of China’s Rising Middle Class.”  Rather than summarizing the piece I wanted to talk about several of the remarkable statistics from their analysis. First, guess the size of China’s middle class as a percentage of its total population?  Would you...
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28 June 2011: Jason Apollo Voss’ Interview with Holistic Living Radio

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 24, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments Please tune into my upcoming interview with Holistic Living Radio’s Tina Marie and Todd Alan on Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 at 1:00pm EDT. I will be speaking with the dynamic duo for the full hour about The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth.
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Historical S&P 500 Graph Shows Bubbles

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 24, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment To my remembrance today’s post represents a first for the “What My Intuition Tells Me Now” blog: a graph!  Specifically, a graph that shows the adjusted closing prices of the Standard & Poors 500 Index from January 1950 through 22 June, 2011. The reason I want to put this graph up is that very typically graphs of such a long history are rarely shown.  More typically graphs...
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New Hedge Fund SEC Reporting Rules

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 23, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Yesterday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finally released its long-anticipated rules for hedge fund reporting.  As I have long argued regulators cannot do their job if they are blind to the risks in the financial system.  Because of QIB (qualified institutional buyer) rules hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds have lone eluded regulations aimed at increasing...
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Bears on Chinese Economy Start Growling

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 22, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments News is starting to trickle through the financial press this morning that several well known hedge fund managers are placing bets against the Chinese Yuan.  That’s a fancy way of saying that they expect the value of the Yuan to decline.  Such a thing would be in conjunction with a Chinese economic bubble popping and collapsing Chinese gross domestic product (GDP). What does this mean? When...
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Update on the Twin Debt Fears

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 21, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments The summer solstice of 2011 will be remembered by investors as the day that the world’s twin debt fears, those of the United States and Greece, subsided.  What has changed? United States Tuesday saw U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner state that he was optimistic that the U.S. would avert a debt default.  His confidence stemmed from an inside knowledge of the ongoing debt ceiling and...
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