Wisconsin pays 1,000 in dues. That was taken out by the city and school board and given to the union you never saw. Now it sits in your pocket until the union guys come and say, can we have our thousand dollars and youre allowed to say no. Oddly enough, several do. And he got a concealed carry in a pass that was one of two with no concealed carry for firearms. And every rich republican has made a contribution to him when the unions tried to recall him. Only governor whos ever been recalled who successfully defeated the recall and got himself reelected. Everyone else went down in american history. Pretty cool. Then go to rick perry. Faltered last time because you shouldnt take large quantities of Pain Medicine during debates. I have not had any in hours. But that said, he spoke at cpac, conservative Political Action conference and establishment press was saying wow, hes incredibly articulate. Yeah, when hes not taking Pain Medicine. Very successful governor for like 14 years. So theres
Russell 2,000, small and mid size caps all good. Liz todays rally started overseas as european markets had a string of gains. Big winner . Germanys index at levels not seen in five years. Investor sentiment in the country rose more than expected. The five year chart, and as you can see, best thing, getting close to the five year level. David gold coins flying off the shelf, you read about that, trading in spot gold is not following suit. It is down today, a little bit, but when you think of all the progress made by the gold coin sellers, youd think that would have a pop on the overall price of gold, but not so. Liz under the Radar Technology etfs that out performed. Internet index fund, moving higher, top holdings, google, amazon, and ebay, and the tech fund, ign, top holdings here, you may own them, cisco, qualcom, a gain of more than one point. David more than a stock market, theres a lot of things today, very interesting lineup of guests, big labor, obviously, about to take a devast
Economy stays on course. And here is the outgoing fed chairman explaining why the decision was made to begin reining in what has been an explosive expansion of the feds Balance Sheet and the greatest capital injection into our Financial System in history. Policy actions today reflect the assessment that the economy is continuing to make progress. And that it also has farther to travel before conditions can be judged as normal. Notably, despite headwinds, the economy has been expanding at a moderate pace and we expect that growth will pick up somewhat in coming quarters, helped by highly accommodated Monetary Policy is and waning fiscal drag. Lou the dow jones, 14 times in the our leading up to the announcement, panicked by an intimation that the fed would cut back the bond purchases. Implementing this socalled paper. This includes investor anxiety over the announcement sent the market indexes lower. Down to post triple digit gains, the market up 2 on the day, the dow jones rallying nea
And here is the outgoing fed chairman explaing why the decision was made to begin reining in what has been an explosi expansion of the feds Balance Sheet and the greatest capital injection into our Financial System in history. Policy actions today reflect thassessment that the economy is continuing to make progress and that it also has farther to travel before conditions can be judged as normal. Notably, despite headwinds, the economy has been expanding at a moderate pace and we expect that growth will pick up somewhat in cominquarters, helped by highly accommodated Monetary Policy is and waning fiscal drag. Lou the dow jones, 14 times in the our leading up tothe announcement, panicked by an intimatiothat the fed would cut back the bond purchases. Imementing this socalled paper. This includes investor anxiety ov the announcent sent the market indexes lower. Down to pos triple digit gains, the market up 2 on the day, the dow jones rallying nearly 300 points. The 45th record close of the
Country grew a whopping 22. 6 million jobs. And he left Office Running an nual surplus of under 128 billion projected to grow into the trillions. Then under the eight years of president bush we added only 1. 2 million jobs. What a stark difference. And the Budget Surplus was turned into an annual 1. 4 trillion deficit. When president Obama Took Office, our economy was shedding over 800,000 jobs a month, and the Bush Administration administration left office with in worst job creation record 75 years. Nevertheless in the five years since prom took office, we have created president Obama Took Office, we have created 4. 7 million jobs, nearly four times what was created under president bush. And we have more than halved the annual deficit to much less than that. The actions of swiftly implemented by the president and Democratic Congress quickly turned the economy around and job losses diminished. And as this next chart shows, those actions have worked. We have been gaining jobs for the la