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OMG. Is the WSJ trying to make rightwinger heads explode?
Yes, the S & P is only up over 80% since the day Obama took office. He's a real enemy of the "investor class."
Obama is fantastic for the economy! By making sure no one has jobs or money to spend, he's keeping inflation under control.
Things will get better if the GOP obstructionists can be tamed....
The S&P 500 was approximately 9,000 when Obama was elected and about 8,000 when he was inaugurated. It is now over 13,500. That suggests that the financial markets have never been disconcerted about an Obama administration.
r u kidding me?
from wsj's own headline this morning: 'Bank of America Corp is accelerating a broad cost-cutting plan and has set a target of shedding 16,000 jobs by year's end'
this on top of 382,000 unemployment claims filed last week - same as the week before.
I love how that fat turd Cavuto has to scramble to come up with ways of avoiding mentioning the Obama bull market. (The other funny thing is Fox LOVES when oiol prices go up: "Is this going to result in higher gas prices that will in turn affect the election????" They HATE when crude drops.)
So, it is true that Obama IS wall street's best friend. How ironic that he has tried to paint Romney as just that. Could it be that Obama temporarily has their heart by feeding them yet more of our tax dollars? The artificial inflation of the dow that this adminstration has created with their spending.....is a sin. Many people are about to be deeply fiscally hurt by his irresponsible policies.
Hey Occupy Wall Street Protesters !!!!!! Looks like you need to vote for Romney, as Obama is the best friend of the 1 percent after all.
Totally illogical ! No one is spending and the corporate profits ARE UP. Go back to your Fox Channels.
where are the articles about obama asleep at the wheel while his ambassador and public servants are sodomized and murdered at the hands of terrorists? where is the article admonishing the president of the United States for attending fund-raisers with drug-dealing rappers, while the bodies of Americans are still be prepared for burial? where is the outrage when obama foolishly frolics with make believe pirates instead of the prime minister of Israel, a major ally, whose very existence is being threatened? where is the article rejecting the administration's lies about the very real acceleration of terrorist activities happening in more than 20 countries at this very moment? where is the article about potus's reaction to islamic terrorists hacking into the computer systems of chase and bank america? is he still watching video of himself on letterman?
Free money from Bernanke is lifting Wall Street Nimrod. Money we don't have.
The amateur-in-chief is so shallow, that perhaps WS doesn't see him as much of a threat. He will have a very difficult time if reelected (and I dismiss the pundits mentioned in this article) simply because Congress won't go along with his marxist ideas. Many Dems know they can't be seen to back Obozo on some of his socialist ideas. The Executive Order route can only be played so much. If the empty suit in the WH does it too much should the unthinkable happen, I expect he will come up for impeachment proceedings. Unlike Slick Willy, I don't think he'll survive that vote.
There were no obstructionists in Obama's first 2 years...and that is when he did us in.
You didn't get it that mid terms were all about slowing him down? Yes, that record number of R's were elected to stop his pushing through of unwanted agenda.
Get it? It was their job.
If he had not been so selfish and stubborn, and ignoring of the right for the first 2 years, maybe he would not now be dealing with those elected to obstruct some of his kingly dictator moves.
Obama bull market? Obama has as much to do with stocks rising as I do. This is the easy money equity bull market of the Fed. For those of you that believe any differently you're just plain stupid.
about fiscal issues, or what?
Bush's failures got the market down to 6500....Obama is riding a natural rebound....and the Fed has to do what it is doing....that and profits are at a record high , with taxes at a low as well.... and we have a stalemate in Washington, as in no new spending....
So up she goes!
Romney's plan is unbalanced, and he wants to go to war to support his buddy Bibi---he's a risk to this conservative.
Checked the SP's P/E ratio recently ? It's well within the NORM....
This is not the New York Times. Please do not insult our intelligence. The Fed has been pumping money into the economy, buying up mortgages and troubled assets, and pumping free money into the economy. It's too easy to borrow money for free and invest in Apple. Please observe how stocks move on announcements from the Fed, not earnings news.
Incredulous Reader
do not appear to know enough to understand that most and average Americans do not benefit from fed inflated asset prices. The artificially inflated dow is not reflecting an improving economy. Neither do they get it that when it drops, and it will when this administration stops feeding it our tax dollars, it will spiral downward, dropping us like a lead balloon.
The top 10 percent of the rich get richer, and the average people, the bottom 90 percent, don't.
This is not the free market at work.
Rob lit...did you know that under Bush, Nancy Pelosi and the Dems took the Hill over 1 year before the market took that dive that you mention?
were behind the housing bubble, bet Rob lit didn't realize that...has he read about Fannie and Freddie?....and now Obama has his magic bubble machine just printing out money as fast as it can.
Get ready for the burst.
You guys have totally lost it.
is high because of quantitative easing, which will lead us into hyperinflation.
Artificial inflation DOES NOT LAST !!!!!
Lately I feel as though I am reading Pravda.
I know this is avoiding this issue at hand, but did I seriously just count four typos in an article from the WSJ? This is a world-class organization. what is going on here?
The rise in the markets is a direct result of inflating the money supply and the devaluation of the dollar. The market is trading higher to revalue the market to dollar ratio. The argument over whether Obama has any to do with the rise in the markets is ludicrous, blame it on Ben. While we're at it lets give Obama credit for $4 gas and $2000 gold, neither of which he has anything to do with. The only thing we can accurately pin on Obama is the wonderful events occurring in the middle east. Directing foreign policy is the only real power the president has, so lets give him credit were credit is due.
If the sitting president can be blamed for high unemployment, why can't he get credit for a rising stock market? If the former is valid, so is the latter.
The Fed is trying to please the unwise. It is the same as "peeing on yourself to keep warm in a blizzard." We willhave to pay a horrible price in the future.
You dont' understand the market, do you?
OK, quantitative easing, which is what this administration has done 3 times now, does not work. It is artificial.
It devalues the money you already have, and artificially inflates the prices of hard assets you own.
It's the market anticipating "Helicopter Ben's" next round of Quezy Eazy -- another artificial market buttress that is merely a quick (and not cheap) patch in a deflating tire that he continues to drive on.
This article was pretty stupid, and the WSJ should not be putting this kind of CNBC grade trash it's paper. After all, we have the NYPost for that stuff.
Inflating asset prices does not make anyone richer. It may make foolish people feel richer in the short run. But a day of reckoning is coming.
10:14 the gop became obstructionists when Americans elected them with that exact mandate in the midterm elections. they didn't become the majority by accident.
- Over 8% unemployment and a U6 stuck at around 15%
- A significant collapse of the housing market and home ownership
- $16 trillion in national debt. $6 of it in the last four years
- A lower US rating, our first in history
- A new entitlement we can't afford
- Social Security and Medicare going broke. No plan from the President
- No budget for four years
- No positive outlook for jobs or the economy
I suppose there may be a few people on in-trade and Wall Street (and apparently the WSJ) cheering this. But there are a significant amount of voters that are not.
I have been actively investing for over 30 years. In that time, I have seen two real estate bubbles, the huge stock market bubble of the 90s, and now this one. And it IS a bubble. Profits that are overwhelmingly the result of cost cutting and not revenue growth, plus HUGE injections of printed money by us and pretty much the whole world, has created this massive mirage. I don't have a penny in the market at the moment as a blind man could see a crash is inevitable and unpredictable as to when it will happen. The present stock market is just a giant printed money addict and nothing more.
profits rise through cost-cutting measures. what's the easiest way to cut costs? cut people. proof is in the pudding. corporate profits perdicted to be flat as no more people can be cut, and unempoyment languishes at well over 11% when you consider those out of the job market as well as college grads that never entered it.
You have to consider why they markets are up to infer the impact of Obama's policies have. Many firms are running lean at this time. They are paying lower wages, productivity is up among a smaller work force, inventory is down and many firms are sitting on cash. Fundamentals are in play. As businesses adjusted to the down economy they were able to turn profits. These profits are not based on any policies in place from the administration, its they are not spending or borrowing (although the cost of capital is cheap today) money at this time. There is no expansion occurring due to uncertainty in the markets.
It does not stimulate the economy, it does nothing to help the jobless, because businesses won't hire, as the gov is buying back debt and creating excess cash. Without real growth as a possibility, business don't hire.
The benefit is that you feel richer than you are. Look at the havoc these policies wreak on retirees who are living on a fixed income. Interest rates have dropped for them because of this fed action. Anyone with savings accounts is hurt too.
Back in 2009, the gov started using the wrong methods, and blew the deficit out of proportion to GDP growth. This administration has regulated business to such a high degree, that they cannot grow.
Perhaps you don't understand qe? The Fed buys US treasury debt, and injects cash into the economy. ( The healthy way is consumer driven) Banks sell these treasuries to fed, then loan money at low rates.
Problem again...no growth in broad economy. China and Europe are in trouble. Businesses are not demanding the money from the banks, so the banks just reinvest it in the treasury market. Soooo....there is no big flow of money turning over through the economy.
Peter, he is responsible for the rising stock market...but it is smoke and mirrors, and is going to fall, big and hard.
Let's put it this way - even if you hate Obama, vote for him anyway, you'll get to like him even better.
I recently moved an account that I have, to a safer investment, as I cannot afford to take the hit that is coming in the next few months. Not a huge amount of money, but it will be needed for college in a few years, and an 8/10 reduction would leave me in big trouble.
This administration has been putting 24k gold bandaids on a broken leg....and the fool's gold is now in the pockets of the happy people who are so impressed with their Obama, Bernanke, and the Dow.
Reminds me of that naked emperor story....someone needs to tell obama that he is naked.
I hate for them that they just don't seem to have the capacity to get it.
Oh, sure. Investors are in love with a guy who doesn't know what the national debt is. The whole article is laughable....spin on WSJ/NBC.
the Dems for helping with that real estate bubble too.....yes, the same Dems who try to totally blame Bush policies for the market fall. The same dems who don't remember that their party held the hill when the crash came.
Seems I recall fannie and freddie being a lefty thingy?
What a stupid article. Many markets are rising - not just the US exchanges.
Easy money by the world's major central banks.
Obama also sends gold to the roof, the USD tanking.
Great piece. Maybe the Obama administration will hire the student that wrote this piece.
don't liberals understand that what is going on with the Dow is not a good thing?
The Rats are a jumping off the good ship Mittanic!
Mitt's campaign chair is leaving to work for lobbyist......for $2,000,000.00 a year.
This pretty much sums up Mitt's campaign:
A money grab for the rich, wrapped in a tissue of lies....for suckers to buy.
Because, in their eyes, everything he does is perfect....even if it is something that they belittle conservatives for doing.
Blind hero worship?
The answer is yes and no. The market likes predictability, and the continued growth story is a good one. It's anemic, sometimes unsteady, but it continues to be growth. And overall, every quarter is better than the previous one. Ironically, more of the same with an Obama 2nd term is being viewed as a good thing!
For all of Romney's supposed business credentials, he's proving to be a guy full of too many surprises, of the bad kind. The SNL skit was right on target - barely working is preferable to the train wreck of Mitt.
I would say that the Fed is lifting Wall Street and Wall Street is lifting Obama. Of course, for 90% of Americans, monetary inflation means a net loss in the purchasing power of their retirement money, but when stock market numbers go up it makes people "feel good".
Speaking of rats....didn't Obama lose Kevin Jennings and Van Jones?
Guess there is still enough cheese for Holder and Jarrett....and speaking of lies, did you hear that they are FINALLY admitting that Fast and Furious was actually a problem. (you know, what the conservatives have been saying for a long time now)
Of course however, they are naming 10 or 12 scapegoats, none as high as Holder. I imagine that Obama is keeping him around, because if he got rid of him, he would sing like a bird, tweeting that the knowledge did go to the top.
that wall street protesters will be voting for Mitt since Obama's ties to wall street are the stronger ones?
LOL....Obama was one of the one percent before he was against them, and he was against them while he was for them. Now he says he is not for them, but the numbers show that to be false, he is for them. Geesh, and the left says Mitt flipflops.
Obama's handling of the economy gives us the fact that he is for the big guy......support the top 10 percent richest with how you handle the market, and hurt the bank interest rate of the 90 percent.
Shame on you, Obama.
Federal reserve is lifting wall street with constant bail out stimulus programs, such as QE3.
"Investors are just beginning to try to understand the complexities of Washington's fiscal politics."
Seriously? What part of "I want to spread the wealth around" don't they understand? You earn money legally and through hard work, and Obama takes it to give it to people that voted for him or deserve it more than you in his mind. That's all there is to it.
I don't have much money in the stock market, some in my retirement. I can't help what that does. I am middle class, and these very low interest rates have been hurting me in my bank accounts. I enjoyed the reader above explaining how that happened. I am feeling angry at the people doing this to my money so that they will look good and the rich people will get richer.
Just another house of cards, spinning plates, smoke and mirrors statistic. Big Business is good in this crony capitalist, corrupt, public-private "partnership." Small business id being crushed.
do the occupy wall street set know the 1% is being aided and abetted by obozo? hooorah
Yeah...as if the WSJ or the vast majority of it's readers want to give Obama credit for ANYTHING other than ruining the country.
The problem lies here in the simple fact that Obama has failed to create jobs. There in no chance in hell that the economy will rebound any time soon. All they are doing is to add artificial ingridients to fix to the potage. So the outcome will be instant flavor. Hokus Pokus!!! Obama gets re-elected.
But the reality will suface again NO JOBS, NO DISPOSABLE INCOIME, NO GOING SHOPPING, HA HA HA
To the looney tunes who thiink obama has anything to do with the market rise, let me burst your bubble! The bernanke QE3 is what's raising the market SHORT TERM, because it is the only place where returns can beat Treasuries at near ZERO. Once the inevitable inflation kicks in, AND IT WILL, the market will drop like a rock. For those old enough and WISE enough to remember carter we KNOW what's coming. Good luck libbies.
obama has nothing to do with the bounce back of the market. He has merely put a floor on stupid and that is viewed as a positive. At least now we all know what it looks like.
GOP to Obama: You didn't build that Stock Market!
To see the new obama flag for the United Socialists States of America go to FOX today. I have predicted for two years obama would name himself socialist dictator if he gets another term and have takenOnly FOX so far has published obama's new United Socialists States of America flag!
For two years I have warned if obama gets another term he wil name himself socialist dictator! Now Former Supreme court Judges are on board and predicting the same. I can't give you the link because this site censors that so suffice it to say go do a google search. washington blog dot com
Donkey dummies think communism will work this time if they get absolute power. Morons.
Apple's 200B increase accounts for $SPX 1.6T increase? Definitely redistributive math...
Of course they are "cheering." 1) Markets don't like change. They've figured out how to deal with the current admniistration, and they've ramped up whatever's necessary to deal with regulations like Dodd-Frank. 2) Easy money will continue, as will spending on the kinds of things where it's easy to make profits, like large infrastructure projects; and, 3) huge displacements like investments in "green" energy provide substantial opportunities for arbitrage.
Dear Diana:
Those with no argument go ha ha ha!
Now instead of "simple facts," look at the actual facts: President Obama has created 4.2 million jobs.
He saved one million jobs by his loan to the auto industry
Also, many studies are pointing to economic recovery, so where do you get your statement "not a chance in hell?" Back it up.
Obviously you're anti-Obama, but at least present an argument.
The right wing peons simply can't process this piece. One minute, they are taught that Obama is a Socialist, Marxist, Redistributor in Chief. The next minute they discover that Obama has loads of fans among the
uber-Capitalists on Wall Street. The sub-literate Republican base is going to go into fulminating seizures if this keeps up.
To Ken from Auston: Morons throw around the word "communism" without knowing what it means. They just parrot GOP lies. FDR was called a socialist too -- you know, the guy that gave us Social Security, which many Tea Party members are on.
I'm starting to hope Obama wins now. With his and his cronies bad decisions the country will collapse sooner than later. The sooner we bottom out the quicker we can start over.
Not either one of the choices we have will do whats needed to right the sinking ship. I call the political elite members of the club and not one gives a rats behind about non club members.
As the old saying goes: The new boss is the same as the old boss; just another set of players.
If obama wins, the next 4 years will unveil the"work" of his first 2. Big wake coming.
I don't think that most Americans will approve of what his policy is going to do to our system...and if Romney wins, the left will blame him for everything from the increased taxes coming from the stimulus and healthcare bill, to the 9/11 murders that we just had in Libya.
Either way, the market is going to tank....and it is solely on the shoulders of his administration. They are irresponsible.
Wait a minute...they are already trying to shift the attention from obama to romney on the middle east...and romney isn't even in charge.
Why shouldn't tea partiers draw social security, if the government MADE them pay into it? Fact is, the gov has mismanaged and abused what they make us pay in. You haven't heard that SS and Medicare are broke????
FYI, The Socialist Party and The Communist Party supports your party, missy.
That alone, is enough to make me not vote DIM.
The left are the ones having trouble processing this...if anyone reads, they have known all along that obama was two faced in supportins ows, because he also supported wall street.
Isn't that what you lefties, who have painted him as the hero of the under and middle class, are having trouble with?
The fact that he is and has been, for the 1 percent behind closed doors...because he is one of them? Right wing talk radio has been saying for a long time that the liberal 1 percent really don't want to pay more, because if they did, they would be forking it over. It is a ploy...a deception...to make people think that they are different from the conservative rich....they are not.
Hope and change...shattered? Guess he is for whoever can help him at the time, eh?
That...dear libbies, is what we call a politician.
China and Russia are both net sellers of Treasuries. The only thing keeping borrowing costs low for the Treasury is the Federal Reserve buying their worthless paper to inflate the money supply. Romney's comments (if you actually listened to the whole thing and not the sound bite) are spot on...
watched news that was not slanted left, he would know that the media is in the tank for Obama, and that obama is in the tank for anyone who can help him...fiscally, politically, etc.
if you help the right people, rich or poor...and btw, Obama is a socialist, with marxist and fascist tendencies.
Dont' burst their little bubbles and tell them he is a human politician.
He is their messiah.
The Administration has nothing to do with Wall Street showing record highs. Where else, other than offshore funds can you get a 3 % yield on your money. The stock market is the default investment vehicle with companies having great balance sheets due to high cash balances contributing to high stock values. But, what goes up must come down and the Q3, I think will backfire within the next 30-35 days.
it is apparently time for them to believe in something else.
How about Green Lantern?
Does Streisand know that he is Wall Street's best friend?...after all, the Dems used her song in the video that demeaned ROMNEY for being wall street's best friend !!!!!
"I was against the rich before I was for them."
Trick. I was really for them all the time, I like money too...but I had to keep that Dem party thing going.
All of you little people whose bank interest I have dropped to nothing, by fixing the stock market for us richies, don't worry, there is another tax on the way in my healthcare bill for you.
All of you middle class people, I am going to make you disappear....you and your little businesses too.
In my new world, there will be the rich like me, and the poor, who we control.
So which is it? Is Obama a Marxist or a crony of the arch-capitalists on Wall Street? The RepubliCON brain trust still cannot muster any semblance of a coherent response.
To TO1147 BROOKLYN FEMALE:
Thank you, you've just exposed the Romney lie about the "47 percent" -- supposed freeloaders.
Also, Social Security isn't broke, - more Republican lies, it's shored up until 2037 and then can still pay 75% of benefits (worst case scenario) -- that gives a lot of time to fix it.
Medicare costs need to be reined in and President Obama has come up with good ideas for digital solutions to this, to cut costs -- except the obstructionist House won't pass anything, just for political reasons -- and the hell with the rest of us.
FYI, lots of fringe groups attach themselves to lots of parties -- that doesn't mean the parties support them back. The Democrats have never reached out to the Communist Party, as Republicans have distanced themselves from white supremicists and neo-Nazi groups.
You haven't presented a convincing case.
Americans have absolutely no idea how much Romney types and other Wall Street hotshots are using government handouts and government-funded zero interest rate loans to make absolutely staggering amounts of money. Romney didn't start a single business--he merely got some very cheap money from the Fed (funneled through government-backed banks) and did a lot of buying and selling and churning of assets and stocks, paying himself a huge amount of money in the process.
Basically, Romney got a bunch of free money from the government in the form of low interest loans, and laundered it and stuck it in his pocket. And he got the dirt cheap money in the first place because his Dad was a big shot.
The whole game is set up to funnel easy money to Romney-like big shots, and all they have to do is stick out their hands. They hire a few lawyers and accountants to put a "legit" stamp on their money laundering, and they generate no actual economy, hire very few people, and keep the rest of us toiling away at go nowhere jobs or worse.
That's why Romney knows so much about "dependency" on the government. He and his kind are the master of that game.
Obama is a Marxist by any definition. He is merely at the Kerensky period of his revolution and dares not to show his hand.
Romney has outed his own base by trashing the 47%. Most of the 47% are Republicans, many in southern states, who take Government dole in the form of food stamps, unemployment, disability, medicare, medicaid, social security, etc. Yet these dreamers fantasize themselves as "rugged individualists" and go through life in a state of bad faith, lying to themselves. They are too weak to face up to the fact that they are dependent on government, so they focus hate on others, worrying that someone else, probably of a different race, is getting more government cheese than they are. It's truly a pathetic situation, and its about time these people were forced to confront the lie at the heart of their own ideology.
If you read Scott Burns, we are so doomed, it doesn't matter what young people think or how they vote.
We're into debt so bad, it is going to be an eternity before we get out.
Wall St. may think Obama will win, but that does not mean they think it is best or that they know who is best for the country.
There is no connection between reality and the stock market--stocks are pumped and dumped at will, depending. Similarly, there is no connection between reality and politics--we are doomed with either party in control. Clinton destroyed Glass-Steagall and saved Long-Term Capital. Bush started two wars. Obama wants all working for the government. Does it get better?
Remember, the religious SOUTH gave us BILLY Clinton and JIMMY Carter - DEMOCRATS - both were from small towns in the not-so-polished SOUTH, while Nixon (San Clemente cool and polished) and Reagan (California polished) were Republicans.
One just has to laugh at today's young Democrats who don't even know any thing about their party's past.
BILLY Clinton became a DEVOUT Baptist in high school - in ARKANSAS. JIMMY Carter wrote at least two books on religion. He was born in Plains, Georgia and raised in Archery, Georgia.
The Obama bull market is showing remarkable longevity.
No. The market is reacting to the possibility that we might finally be rid of this fool for good, that and Bernanke's QE3 stimulus goosing. Obama has done nothing for the economy over the last 3.5 years except screw it up.
knowing that obama's disgrace of a presidency is over is what has been lifting the stock market for the last few months
We all know the "stock market" is totally unrelated to the typical family without a job, homeless, or in poverty.
More, now than ever, the stock market reflects the outsourcing (esp to China) and multinationals abroad. Even GM went overseas. The "profits" are being made abroad. The jobs are abroad. The manufacturing is abroad.
The stock market has always fluctuated.
This is a non story.
"Is Obama Lifting Wall Street?"
Of course not.
Any positive development has nothing whatsoever to do with Obama. In fact, it happened in spite of him.
Any negative development is all because of Obama.
Is this the first you have heard that Obama's campaign is funded by Wallstreet and the 1%?
Where have you been?
I assume all you Obama supporters are wealthy investors who are supporting Obama simply because his economic failures will continue to cause extraordinary Fed action, thereby inflating your assets. Bravo. Your shrewdness puts the greediest capitalist conservatives to shame. If you, however, aren't laughing all the way to the bank with those investments, and you still interpret the stock market heights to indicate Obama's economic success, you are, quite frankly, an idiot.
Yep, rightwinger heads are exploding. Keep your chicken little heads in the sand. The world will go on without you!
No. Bernanke is. But at some point, the money-printing will stop, the market will crash, and the libs will again blame it on Bush.
If Obama had anything at all to do with the market going up, why did the Fed just embark on QE3 with no end point? If Obama's policies were working, the Fed wouldn't have needed to do this. What 's really happening is the exact opposite of what this article's headline suggests. Wall Street is lifting Obama, because the Fed is lifting Wall Street. To all of you libs who believe the S&P 500 is sitting at 1460 because of Obama, I suggest you pull a tooth and put it under your pillow tonight so the tooth fairy will visit.
Yes, these morons stayed out of the market a few thousands points ago because of ideology. Shoot yourself in the foot some more !
No, my head isn't exploding. My chest might from laughing at all of the libs who think Obama is responsible for the S&P being at 1460 though!
zero rates has raised markets and the money is going into liquid dividend investments. stocks have survived in spite of Obama not anything because of him. Once rates begin to rise the market will crash and inflation wil go through the roof. The Govt. isn't making any interest with the fed funds rate at zero and printing money to keep the fiat economy propped-up.
Want some more of that ???
democrats think insults and talking big means its' "toast" - I remember this same attitude in May right before Scott Walker's recall election - where he won by 7 percentage points. Look at some of the liberal media stories from around May 20-25, they and the polls werre all calling it a "Dead Heat". Sound familiar?
Dream on. Mr. Lazarus....
It's not the Obama effect that is causing the stock market to rise. Its mostly foreign money looking for a safe place to invest their money, and United States corporation are hoarding cash, and therefore not taking any risk. Therefore the Investor class feels like US equities are safe, relative to the rest of the word. Plus there isn't a lot of money in Bonds because of low interest rates.
Could it be that mitt romeny' own mouth is helping to wake up much of the votng population to the truth about what conservative billion-airs are actually doing, with their faux ads?
However "Romney wins on economy," I have to ask: are the American voters that stupid to actually vote for a man who actualy thinks he is a god of profit??
Do ethics and morals not count for anything, anymore? Especially in politics, where the fate of the free world is in danger of being torn down, burned up, and dumped into a land fill??
mitt romeny knows where his bread is buttered; It's called: government hand outs to the very wealthy people. While the rest of the American voters are dumb enough not to understand how it all works. The GOP make it look like it is ALL the little people's fault, for getting that which the wealthy people get practically free; Well, they can afford it anyway. What the American voter fails to see, gets them into the most hot water with the economy, every time.
No surprises here ... the Democrats (you know, those "Socialists"), it turns out, are much better for the stock market than Republicans. Based on data from the Stock Traders Almanac: since 1900, Democratic presidents have produced a 12.3 percent annual total return on the S&P 500, but Republicans only an 8 percent return. The Stock Trader's Almanac came up with nearly the same numbers (13.4 percent versus 8.1 percent) by measuring Dow price appreciation. (note: most of the 20th century's bear markets, incidentally, have been Republican bear markets: the Crash of '29, the early '70s oil shock, the '87 correction, and the Bush plummet occurred under GOP presidents.)
History repeats itself. Republicans distry the economy & Democrats build it. Look what happened under Clinton & now under Obama. The stock markets love Democratic Presidents.
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Cost for the walk through course (50 targets) is $13 for non-members, $10 for members and $6 for youngsters under 18 years of age. Cost for the 5 Stand is the same as Trap or skeet per round (25 targets). For a complete listing of all hours and pricing for all our venues, please click here.

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The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 9km, some 23km from the provincial capital of Lata, the US Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported no tsunami warning was issued.
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2. Disable Page Caching
I've also been able to disable page caching in IE and FF, but cannot do so in Safari and Chrome. Anybody know the trick? Hitting the back button still shows the form-filled data in Safari and Chrome.
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Now THAT, is a nice update.
Minecraft is a first-person fighter/sandbox construction game created by Mojang AB.
A large list of all the changes to 1.6 (most of them bug fixes)
Posted by Kizzycocoa on May 23rd, 2011
Minecraft Beta 1.6 is getting released later this week, but hopefully on wednesday.
Here's the changelist so far:
+ Craftable maps
+ Hatches
+ Tall grass in some biomes
+ Mushrooms now spreads (very) slowly
+ Server property view-distance. Sets the radius of terrain updates (in chunks) to send to the players. Range 3-15, default 10.
+ Nether support to multiplayer
* It's no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the maps (sorry!)
* Players stuck in walls will slide towards the nearest gap if there is one
* Made booster tracks speedier
* Severely nerfed fire so it spread slower, and doesn't spread infinitely
* Seeds are now found in tall grass, using a hoe on the ground no longer works
* Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now shows the breaking block particle effect
* Activated dispensers make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer
* Doors make sound for other players in multiplayer
* The record player now supports more than 15 different songs
* Running out of memory corrupting the current level
* The side textures of grass getting extra dark when mining them
* Anaglyph 3d rendering mode having severe visual bugs
* The crash screen vanishing immediately
* Not being able to target blocks when at x or z pos 1000
* The achievements screen messing up the sky colour
* Saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground
* A system clock change messing up the game speed
* Rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled
* Hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players
* The attack/swing animation not being applied to the armour layer
* Player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game
* Arrow physics, making them not get stuck mid-air when you open a door
* Arrows hitting reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks
* Keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions
* The player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti
* A bug where the player could mine without swinging their arm
* Boats placed on snow being placed too far up
* Submerged boats rising very very fast
* Sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation
* A game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the nether
* Falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider
* Buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use
* Dispensers shooting through walls
* Fire hurting through wall corners
* Entities reaching water through wall corners
* Placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors
* Buttons and levers being placeable on leaves in "fast graphics" mode
* Furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed
* Dispensers biasing later slots
* Farmland taking too long to dig
* Tilling below some blocks being possible
* Tilling the underside of blocks somehow working
* Fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible
* Walking on top of fences not producing step sounds
* Fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain
* Fences and wooden stairs not being flammable
* Fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location
* Fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking
* Fishing rods being stackable
* Mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass
* Rain falling through liquids
* Items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly
* Water interacting strangely with glass
* Glass not blocking rain sound
* Fences and signs preventing grass from growing
* Rain and snow being incorrectly lit
* Grass staying alive below stair blocks
* The achievement screen not pausing the game
* Some screens breaking the sky tint colour
* Fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes
* Chat messages surviving through game switches
* Ice so it regenerates regardless of whether it's snowing or not
* Rain falling too slowly
* Levers being placeable on weird locations
* Floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards
* Floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed
* Rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbour
* Minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities (sorry!)
* Wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps
* Creepers retaining charge level when they can't see their target
* Dying in the nether spawning new portals
* "Fixed" beds in the nether
* Inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens
* Wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes
* Redstone repeaters having the wrong particles
* Saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks
* Ore density varying per quadrant from the centre of the world
* Dispenser graphics being one pixel off. ONE PIXEL!!!
* Mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights
* Animals only spawning near light during the night
* The multiplayer join screen input field being too short
* IPv6 addresses being parsed wrongly. To connect to a specific port in IPv6, use the format [1234:567::1]:25565
* Network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent
* Entity positions going out of synch sometimes. They get re-synced every 20 seconds now.
* Inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer
* Mushroom soup not leaving a bowl in multiplayer
* Entities above the map height limit becoming invisible
* Healing not flashing the health bar in multiplayer
* Arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer
* Arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer
* The compass not pointing at the spawn location in multiplayer
* Fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer
* Record players spawning client-side fake records in multiplayer
* Records not playing for other players in multiplayer
* Players spawning in the wrong location and quickly lerping to the correct location
* Monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to peaceful
* Pigs getting hit by lightning in multiplayer spawning client-side zombie pigmen
* Loads of exploding TNT generating way too many particles, possibly crashing the client
* Bonemeal use in multiplayer sometimes spawning fake client-side trees
* Saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side in multiplayer
* Weather sometimes changing client-side in multiplayer
* Grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs
* Stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling
Now THAT, is a nice update.
a little disappointed at some bug fixes since they were useful, but oh well, what's done is done.
which reminds me, theres one bug I wish was fixed, being able to waste bone-meal on fully grown crops.
Bugs wrote: * Severely nerfed fire so it spread slower, and doesn't spread infinitely
;_; But... That's the reason we play Minecraft?
You're just strange, Lex :P
Especially on multiplayer. And when someone makes a house out of something flammable. They pretty much are asking for it.
fixing the mine-cart boosters?
sad :(
no, just the powered track it seems, making it faster.
No he did fix mine cart boosters, it's all powered rails now.
Quote:* Minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities (sorry!)
That's what allowed the old boosters, which are now broken due to the fix.
Think it like this, now you can build rails right next to each other without them going the wrong way because of the carts driving into each other :)
No more entire forested islands completely going up in flames sounds damn good to me.
Wow, goodbye buggies.
wohoo now i can make my mushroom farm!
Awesome, now I can make a freakishly large mushroom farm to go along with all my sugar cane. A bit disappointed about the fire nerf.
Well one thing for sure; We are gonna need to dig out a whole LOT of gold...!
Now that's a s**itload of bugs! :P Glad that finally he fixed them, batter later than never...
Awesome update :D
Now we need pistons ;_;
Yeah! I really want pistons, that's what'll really get me interested in minecraft again.
I hope tomorrow
Notch fixed 100 bugs. That means he added 200 new bugs.
Sometimes I just wonder how the hell anyone came across some of these things in the first place. But good job.
with over two million players? I don't. :P


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The relentless rise in health care costs is finally producing its own antidote.
So serious is the problem -- medical benefits continue to soar 20% or more a year -- that many companies can get a good payback by hiring a medical-review firm to scrutinize all their payments.
These firms are now tracking some 10% of the country's work force by auditing bills, precertifying hospital stays, and performing other services in the name of cost containment. "By 1990, virtually all employees will be subject to medical-review services," says Anthony Gajda, a principal at William M. Mercer-Meidinger Inc., a benefits consulting firm. "It's becoming another element in the administration of a benefits plan." Experts say that reviews often reduce medical costs by 10%.
A review of hospitalizations costs can deliver dramatic results for individual companies. Penny Troup, insurance manager at U.S. Rentals Inc., in Irvine, Calif., says that one review firm slashed $178,900 from the company's medical bill in its first two years under the program. Troup calculated that amount by subtracting the total number of hospital days requested by employee's physicians from the number actually approved by Cost Care Inc., U.S. Rentals's review firm.
Employees often save under review programs as well, since many health insurance plans require co-payment by the patient. For example, when a 12-year-old boy needed a tonsillectomy, one hospital estimated a fee that was nearly twice as much as the regional average for such a procedure. Health Risk Management Inc., a medical-costs review firm in Minneapolis, negotiated for a lower fee with the hospital. That saved money for both the employer and the employee -- the child's parent -- who was required to pay 20% of the hospitalization after paying for the deductible.
Physicians usually cooperate with the reviewers, says Gajda. In the event of a dispute, though, an employee could end up the loser, paying the difference between the reviewer's and the physician's recommendation if he or she opts for the longer hospital stay. Experts advise companies to inform employees at the outset of the benefits -- and the pitfalls -- of these services.


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Monday night, taxpayers and local residents came out in droves to North Kingstown High School to express their opinion on the upcoming 2012-2013 budgets of both the School Committee and Town Council and, in this week's Standard-Times, we'll bring you all the latest information on what they had to say and how it could affect your bottom line.
Speaking of bottom lines, voters in Exeter turned out Monday to overwhelmingly approve the proposed school budget and we'll let you know exactly what Superintendent Dr. Thomas Giesmar thinks of the reaction.
A recent Sunday edition of the stateŌĆÖs daily newspaper had two back section articles that can be described as ŌĆ£Good News-Bad NewsŌĆØ.
First, the good news: ŌĆ£Foreclosures drag down median house priceŌĆØ proclaims a lead story in the real estate section. A condo on chic College Hill went for $105K while a single family house in run-down South Providence sold for $20 thousand. Both of these were properties foreclosed on by the lender or a government agency that backed the mortgage.
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆō After he was forced into the spotlight Friday for authorizing a tuition waiver for the executive assistant of the Institute for International Sport, Robert Carothers, ex-president at the University of Rhode Island, made public his plans to retire at the end of June.
Carothers ŌĆō serving as president emeritus since 2009ŌĆō opted to accept URIŌĆÖs one-time voluntary retirement incentive program. He will finish his three-year contract on June 20 with a total $258,882.
In today's paper, Phil's Restaurant in Wakefield gets a full liquor license. They start serving drinks this Friday.
This week, South Kingstown found out it will receive $53,000 from DEM for upgrades to the Broad Rock Park.
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Hybrid Tea
36-48 in. (90-120 cm)
4-6 ft. (1.2-1.8 m)
24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 �C (5 �F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 �C (25 �F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 �C (30 �F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 �C (35 �F)
Apricot and apricot blend (ab)
Tea shaped
Slightly Fragrant
Late Spring/Early Summer
Blooms repeatedly
Can be trained as a standard or tree form
Patent expired
Resistant to black spot
Resistant to mildew
Resistant to rust
Blooms on new wood; prune early to promote new growth
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
From softwood cuttings
From semi-hardwood cuttings
From hardwood cuttings
By grafting
By budding
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Goleta, California
San Jose, California
San Leandro, California
Englewood, Colorado
Tallahassee, Florida
Amherst, New Hampshire
Carrboro, North Carolina
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
North Augusta, South Carolina
Vancouver, Washington
Casco, Wisconsinshow all
On Jan 1, 2011, tgwWhale from Casco, WI wrote:
This is a great rose. Although it is not as hardy as some other hybrid teas, it does get through ugly NE Wisconsin winters if buried in ground. I have two of them, and I get them both through each winter. It grows very vigorously, and produces a fine, attractive bush, not "leggy" like some hybrid teas. Because of its bush form, it throws a lot of blooms at once -- typically five or six. The stems are long and the flowers large. The blooms are classically formed for a hybrid tea. I love to use it as a cut flower.
On Sep 6, 2008, Leslie_Pz from Amherst, NH wrote:
Bought this early spring and it's been a repeat bloomrer, all summer. The flowers are large and spiral out from center as the blooms open. The scent is wonderful; can't keep my nose out of the fresh cut bouquet. Nice long stems are thorny but still are somewhat easy to arrange.
On Aug 12, 2006, greenjay from Centennial, CO (Zone 5b) wrote:
Survived for 10 years without significant problems in part shade, no fertilization, poor drainage. Has since been moved to a better location!
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Very nice overall...disease resistant, dark green foliage sets off the salmon/pink fragrant blooms to perfection! Really pretty!!


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USA TODAY confirms that Universal Studios has acquired the rights for Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel to the 1994 comedy, after Warner Bros. walked away from it earlier this year.
The follow-up will follow the two central idiots, Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels) on a road trip ...


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BAGHDAD — If Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wins a third four-year term in parliamentary elections Wednesday, he is likely to rely on a narrow sectarian Shiite base, only fueling divisions as Iraq slides deeper into bloody Shiite-Sunni hatreds.
After eight years in power, al-Maliki is facing sharper criticism from all sides.
The Sunni minority views him as a diehard champion of Shiite power. His former Kurdish allies now shun him, accusing him of trying to impose Baghdad's power over their autonomous region in the north. And even some of al-Maliki's Shiite backers denounce him as a would-be dictator, amassing power for himself.
The 63-year-old al-Maliki is still seen as likely to keep his post. Many in the Shiite majority see no alternative, and he holds a trump card — the support of neighboring powerhouse Iran, which al-Maliki's own aides say will use its weight to push discontented Shiite factions into backing him for another term.
That, however, could mean a victory on an even narrower base than in his re-election four years ago, when he barely managed to cobble together enough Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni backers to form a government.
The Shiite al-Maliki rose from relative obscurity to office in 2006, when Iraq's sectarian bloodletting began to spiral out of control, with Sunni militants and Shiite militias butchering each other's communities. He quickly became known for a tough hand, working in alliance with American forces in the country since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Over the years that followed, Sunni tribes backed by the Americans rose up to fight al-Qaida-linked militants, while al-Maliki showed a readiness to rein in Shiite militiamen — and by 2008, the violence had eased.
Since the withdrawal of American forces in late 2011, however, it has swelled again, stoked in part by al-Maliki. His moves last year to crush protests by Sunnis complaining of discrimination under his Shiite-led government sparked a new wave of violence by militants, who took over the city of Fallujah in the western, Sunni-dominated province of Anbar and parts of the provincial capital Ramadi. Iraqi army and police forces battling them for months have been unable to take most areas back.
At the same time, many Iraqis increasingly complain of government corruption and the failure to rebuild the economy.
"Al-Maliki has had enough chance to prove himself, but he failed," said Hassan Karim, a university graduate from Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district. "Iraqis lack security, services and housing. The only two things available in the country right now are corruption and checkpoints."
The normally aloof al-Maliki has struck a populist tone in his campaign, aiming to show he is tackling problems like corruption and poverty that cross sectarian boundaries.
He has distributed plots of land to poor Iraqis in ceremonies carried live on state television. He made heavily televised visits to government departments that provide vital services, like car registration and ID and passport offices, comforting Iraqis standing in line. During one visit, he berated an employee for being insensitive to the hardships endured by Iraqis seeking services.
In a slick campaign video, he speaks of growing up in a village south of Baghdad in a family of clan chiefs and fondly recalls playing football and swimming in a local river. He affectionately remembers a grandfather who used his poetry to criticize British colonial rule and talks of his own love for Iraq.
"I believe the election will not produce a prime minister better than al-Maliki. He is the lesser of many evils," said hotel employee Mohammed Hadi, a Shiite from eastern Baghdad. "Al-Maliki has good experience ... Any other prime minister will be starting from scratch."
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A 54-year-old man was arrested for stabbing another man to death in a fight over tobacco at Futye, in Mqanduli, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
"Apparently the deceased asked for tobacco from the suspect, who refused, and the deceased took it by force," Major Zamukulungisa Jozana said on the murder, which took place on Saturday.
He said they had been eating and drinking at a traditional ceremony at the time.
The man deprived of his tobacco became angry and allegedly stabbed the other man, aged 30, to death.
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Ben Bolch: I asked Austin Rivers about being in an awkward spot if the Clippers held a players-only meeting and he had some interesting responses. Austin Rivers: "If we have a players meeting, it's about what the players need to say and whatever we say is going to stay in that meeting. If they said something about my Pop, my father, I wouldn't care because if it needs to be said, it needs to be said."
"I think what we get caught up in, in our league too much is trying to compare greats to greats instead of just accepting and acknowledging and saying, 'Wow, these are just great players,'" James said. "I think in the NFL when you talk about great quarterbacks, they don't really compare great quarterbacks. They say, 'Oh, Joe Montana is great.' You know, 'Tom Brady is great. Aaron Rodgers is great. Steve Young is great.' (Terry) Bradshaw, all those great quarterbacks they never compare them as much, but when it comes to our sport we're so eager to say, 'Who is better, Oscar or (Michael) Jordan?' or, 'Jordan or LeBron or Kobe (Bryant) or these guys?' instead of just accepting greatness."
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A Rome man was hospitalized Saturday after a car-snowmobile accident in the Town of Vernon.
A Rome man was hospitalized Saturday after a car-snowmobile accident in the Town of Vernon.
Oneida County Sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 report of a personal injury collision involving a vehicle and a snowmobile at about 7:10 p.m.
Investigation revealed that Zachary Reader, 25, of Rome, was operating a 1997 Ski-Do on trail S70B, deputies said. He failed to stop his snowmobile prior to crossing State Route 26 and drove into the path of a southbound 2010 Chevrolet SUV that was operated by Robert Clemons of Holland Patent, deputies said.
Reader was ejected from the snowmobile and his helmet was knocked off his head.
He was transported to St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica for non-life threatening injuries.
Clemons was seen by emergency medical personnel at the scene but declined medical treatment. Both vehicles sustained major damage as a result of the collision, deputies said.
Reader was issued tickets for imprudent speed, failure to stop prior to crossing a highway, unregistered snowmobile and operating a snowmobile on a highway without insurance.
He is scheduled to appear in Vernon Town Court at a later date.
Vineall Ambulance, the Vernon Fire Department and State Police assisted at the scene.
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