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Complete January Chart Porn
Our comprehensive monthly chart porn packet comes courtesy of our favorite chartist: The Punchline's Abe Gulkowitz who has just released the January edition: "Jump Ball 2012 Will it all Fall Into Place in 2012?" - the narrative is brief (by definition) by as always cuts right to the chase. "It’s a new year and US economic activity is looking better. But magic is still needed to resolve the numerous challenges ahead. The best scenario is that the cyclical upturn gains momentum here in the U.S. and the rest of the world falls into place. Many are right to expect fourth?quarter GDP growth in the U.S. to have been a 3.5% growth pace, but still expect the spillover from Europe and policy uncertainty to cause GDP growth to decelerate over 2012. We have attempted to flush out some issues that are inadequately covered in the press… First, despite impressive improvement in the U.S. business scene, the recovery remains awkwardly distorted. The continuing deep slump in the housing market is partly to blame. The construction sector added only 47,000 jobs in 2011. More than 2 million construction jobs have evaporated since 2007, and the sector’s job count is back to its level in 1996, when the population and the economy were smaller. Second, the role of government spending has become so extended that it might take years to correct. Third, market liquidity measures have been drying up as big banks and financial institutions play defense. This is both a function of new regulatory underpinnings and the morass in Europe. While the focus of politicians and market players has been to remedy the short term necessities in the fiscal and debt crisis, the long?term challenge for Europe is to find ways of reducing its divisive divergence in economic performance and boosting overall rates of growth. If these issues are not addressed and resolved, the continent will remain locked in an asymmetric pattern of trade and stagnant living standards for both rich and poor countries. Such broader issues will require imagination and structural changes to the current framework, and faster growth worldwide than is currently on the drawing board…" Must read for even the most time-pressed and ADHD afflicted flow desk traders.
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Speaking of Butts...anyone need a cigarette now? I am sublimely content with the emeliaration provided by the chart porn.
I'm wearing the patch, but would love to join you.
Shit, I'm wearing the patch smokin' a cig and have a fat lipper in.
My cigarette is electric. I just refill it when it runs low, and recharge it when it goes dead.
No BUTTS here!
That's cheating. It's like having sex with a condom...just not the same experience.
And by that you mean sans a woman.
Well aren't you just a witty chap.
Do you get paid for that type of originality?
everyone at the SEC
but don't worry, now you're immune
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Chumba's alter ego?
Well SPLC; you are going to be quite the busy little fella. Go getum tiger!! Milestones
it's ok if you did!
The charts look much better when you view them upside-down.
this is all getting boring with the same news recycled and the same articles,,,,,
Yes, it really does suck when the only news is bad news.
Ah, if only technicals meant anything. For now, this is indeed simply chart porn.
alcoa loss3 cents, revenue better, margins gone down the toilet
Shuttering 12% of their smelting plants, laying off many
But PROJECTING 10%-15% better demand thru 2012 'the year of recovery'!
No QE, all casino players are on their own we're not handing out any more free chips.
Can't have a recovery without more aluminum.
Big tell on the true health of housing construction, and usually held as a big tell on the general economy.
Can you spell "contraction"?
I"m sitting on two-years' of beer cans, copper wire and brass fittings, waiting for the prices to go back up. Last time I remodeled a house I got to sell the scraps at peak prices...
You can't have COMPLETE January chart porn without January Jones...
Meh....kind of a ginger...
FAIL. Gingers are hot!
Dude, he's a master. Miss January. It's almost too much.
Are you a muslim?!?!? THAT IS NOT PORN!
My eyes just went to sleep and my dick looks like a deflated balloon when i see you version of "porn"....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/subliminal-message-in-porn-al-q...
It's funny how corporations use sublimal messages in advertising and then "terrorists' are somehow responsible for adopting that technique,
I guess Cherry 'Machette" McSlut does text but only at really high speeds.
This is something i will investigate!
EVERYBODY TO THE VIDEO STORE!!!!!!
speaking of porn maria bartolomhomo is blowing jamie dimon on cnbc right now.... what a great interview if you want nothing of substance
why is my keyboard sticky?
Sorry about that... I meanth to clean it....
perfect tata's
Im sorry, But no matter how hard i try, Chart porn does not give me a woody. Try some Seymore Butt or Remington Steel videos
I think just the porn would be best right now. Any way you look at it, people are getting f---ed.
I like my president fucking the interns
instead of fucking the nation.
More than 2 million construction jobs have evaporated since 2007, and the sector’s job count is back to its level in 1996, when the population and the economy were smaller
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No how could we fix that.... Population smaller....
Smaller population..... I just know the sollution is in the this little riddle....
Check the Georgia Guidstones for a clue to the riddle.
For some reason, I see Roddy McDowall and Charlton Heston having a conversation there.
Another green rosy close across all indexes! All news is GREAT!
What QE3? Where's the need for it anywhere? Green shoots are coming up ROSES everywhere!
Sputter Sputter
Notice the bounces in between the declines are getting more brittle....
Like a rubber ball falling down stairs, there will be bounces in between the downsizing of America
long dong Silver
Yes. That's been the strategy of my hedge fund: long the Dong/Silver
respect the dong
And Ding Dong Gold!
I hate not being able to print out these scrib things... nice summary.
I hate not being able to print out these scrib things... nice summary.
The value of Chinese companies de-listing exceeded the amount raised in their IPOs.
Now that is funny.
"...the recovery remains awkwardly distorted.."
Would that be so "awkwardly distorted" it doesn't look like a recovery at all?
It's like those colour mixed photo's at which you have to stare for hourse and where you suddenly see the dragon
might eyes might be going, but i can't see the charts!
WTF am i supposed to fap to nao??!!!
my head is spinning....
Spectaular!
Not enough jobs? Maybe we should proceed closer to the old Soviet system. Unemployment was extremely low. They had a different problem though. The Soviet citizens had a saying to describe their condition: "Everybody's working but there's nothing on the shelves."
Great charts and illustrations, but they all seem to point down?
I heard that the economy was recovering?