Sunday, August 5, 2012

TRUTH IS : Private sector activity shrank for the tenth time in 11 months

Who on earth is investing to raise these stock markets so high? If I were Warren Buffet I would say this is a typical bubble Companies are not making real profits Banks aren't either so who is doing the investing????...Bond yields are down, oil prices high, USA crops are devastated by drought, housing in USA is still very much wasted. So are "the powers that be" simply doing what analysts do talking up the benefits of share ownership until even "my mate Joe Blw" decides that investing in stocks beats keeping his money under the mattresse ? I have had it with markets banks and politicians lies and deceits. I am closing all my banking accounts and simply paying in earwigs from now on.We are living in the Alice of Wonderland World. The more bad economic data we gets, the more the worlds stock markets rise..... Hopes that Europe’s leaders will act decisively drowned out weak data showing the eurozone endured another torrid month in July. Private sector activity shrank for the tenth time in 11 months and pointed to a 0.6pc rate of quarterly contraction, according to the purchasing managers index. Offsetting that was the strong US jobs data. July saw 163,000 people find work in the world’s largest economy, beating forecasts of 100,000. The sense of relief was sharpened because almost all the recent US data have pointed to a deterioration since the first quarter of the year. “It will alleviate fears that the US might be tipping back into recession,” said Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight. The utterly repellent EU freak show stumbles from crisis to crisis, a crisis which conveniently gives the bureaucrats an excuse to force member countries into a fiscal union with budget control being handed over to Brussels, effectively crushing the last breath of democracy of the nation state in favor of an EU super state, but the light of freedom, sovereignty, cultural identity and the ability to decide one owns destiny will not be extinguished whilst the euro sceptics still have a voice. The common market worked well, that is where Europe should be heading not more Europe.....However : While U.S. employers hired an additional 163,000 "human resources" they also sacked an additional 195,000 "human resources" last month, including a decrease of 228k full-time jobs which was only partially offset by a 31k rise in part-time jobs (defined as 1 to 34 hrs/wk). Furthermore, a new group of 199,000 Americans joined the "Working-Age" pool last month and will need jobs as well. Not only is the U.S. economy in such a severe situation as reported, it is, in fact, in a worse one. Currently some 87 million Americans, or about 36% of the working-age population of the U.S., are no longer even looking for work and are considered "out of the labor force." If it were not for workers who dropped out of the labor force, the real UE rate would be far north of 11%. All of this MSM "rah-rah" reporting and "growth and recovery" hopium smoking needs a reality check.

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