Index of Leading Indicators Rises

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 19, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Conference Board data show that their index of U.S. leading indicators for economic growth in the next 3 to 6 months rose in May by 0.8%.  This compares to economist expectations of a rise of 0.3%. Analysis: Eight of the ten components that make up the index rose.  Pundits tended to focus on two factors in particular. Increases in commodity prices are expected to peak and then fall.  This...
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Research In Motion, A Case Study Revisited

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 18, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Yesterday I used Research In Motion as a case study for several of the tools I share in my book, The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth.  But wait, there’s more! Specifically, I wanted to talk today about: How “the market” is often representative of the extreme inclinations of several investors, and not necessarily every single investor The asymmetry...
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Research In Motion, Intuitive Investing Case Study

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 17, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Research In Motion, the Canadian maker of Blackberry phones, serves as a very nice case study for many of the elements of my book, The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth.  But today I want to focus on just several of those elements; specifically: Archetypes Are No Substitute For Analysis. In case you haven’t heard the firm has gone from hero to zero over the last...
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Intuitive Assessment of Greek Debt Crisis

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 16, 2011 in Blog, Intuitive Assessment | 2 comments There are currently two crisis pendulums swinging back and forth over the financial markets, threatening to drop the corpus into a deep pit of despair.  The first is the U.S. debt crisis which has a certain deadline of 1 July, 2011.  Whether that crisis is truly resolved or not I cannot say.  The other large crisis is the Greek debt crisis. As I have done in the past, here is my intuitive...
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U.S. Military Spending Compared to Everyone Else

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 15, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments 1 July, 2011 marks the deadline for the raising the debt ceiling in the United States.  Republicans are wanting dramatic reductions in spending before they will agree to raise the debt limits.  What you won’t hear is the United States could immediately cut its spending by cutting military budgets.  Let’s take a look at U.S. military spending compared to everyone else. At the close of...
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Social Unrest in China On the Rise

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 14, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   In my “What My Intuition Tells Me Now” 2011 Predictions post of 13 December, 2010, I said that China was going to experience a lot of social unrest this year as they tried to reign in their overheated economy and inflated gross domestic product (GDP).  Here specifically is what I said: “The Chinese are on the brink of two ugly things: massive asset inflation and the...
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Disappointing Supreme Court Ruling for Shareholders

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 13, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments News you aren’t likely to read anywhere else: this morning the U.S. Supreme Court disappointingly voted 5-4 against shareholders in a lawsuit brought against the Janus Funds.  The lawsuit had been brought back in 2003 when shareholders in the Funds complained that Janus allowed certain shareholders (read: large) were allowed to make frequent, short-term trades in the funds. In other words,...
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