11 June 2011: Jason Apollo Voss’ Interview with KRXA’s Good Vibrations Radio

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 11, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments Tune in to Jason Apollo Voss’ LIVE interview this evening with KRXA California’s Good Vibrations Radio at 6pm Pacific Daylight Time. The interview should run for approximately one hour – which is enough time to talk about The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth and other important issues in-depth.  I am really looking forward to this!
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An Idea That Might Just Improve Democracy

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 11, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 5 comments I normally don’t blog about politics except as it affects investing.  I consider myself a lukewarm follower of the political scene – having given up on politics as the real source of power in the United States.  One person = one vote, but one dollar = one vote; so businesses are the real source of power in our culture. However, as many of you who follow the blog know, I am...
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The Type of Selling I Hate

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 10, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments This morning the Dow Jones Industrial Average is in free fall and in an information vacuum.  This is the type of selling I hate.  Why?  Because as I read the various quotes from traders that are in the business press they are all saying that the selling is triggered by a lack of good news and a preponderance of bad news. However, there is no new bad news today.  So why didn’t the folks who...
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Intuitive Assessment of Investment Climate update

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 8, 2011 in Blog, Intuitive Assessment | 0 comments On 17 May, 2011 I wrote a piece entitled, “Intuitive Assessment of Investment Climate” where I used the intuition skills I teach in my book “The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth” to make a prediction as to the direction of the financial markets, specifically the Dow Jones Industrial Averages. Then I said: “[I]f I had to place a probability...
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Fed’s Bernanke Sees More Robust Second Half 2011

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 8, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Yesterday the Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, stated that current U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth is slower than the Federal Reserve had anticipated, but that nonetheless, he expected a more robust GDP growth in the second half of 2011. Analysis: I am not sure what data Ben Bernanke is looking at that lead to certainty of a more robust second half of 2011 GDP growth rate.  We...
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Geithner Proposes Global Derivatives Rules

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 6, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Just last week in my post entitled, “Top 5 Problems Facing the Economy 3,” I stated that business frequently throw off the threat of increased regulation by claiming that they will take their business to a friendlier country with more lax laws and regulations.  The focus of the post was the lack of transparency in financial markets. I also said, “Unfortunately, because there is...
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Employment Growth is Stagnating

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 3, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the economy created 54,000 jobs in May.  This compares to economist expectations for 160,000 jobs created.  Separately, the unemployment rate rose to 9.1%, while economists had expected a decline to 8.9%.  Private sector jobs grew by 83,000, while government jobs shrank. Analysis: That the economy added jobs is a good thing.  However,...
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