This Week’s Data
Other
Rail traffic ends 2011 strong (short):
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/01/rail-traffic-shows-strong-gains-in-2011.html
More on last week’s employment stats (medium):
http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-million-discouraged-workers.html
Politics
Domestic
More on the ‘recess appointments’ (medium):
http://www.nationalreview.com/author/56454/latest
More defense cuts (medium):
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/americas-disarmed-future.php
Monday morning humor. This is off the Bloomberg news screen Friday:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/12/Friday%20humor_0.png
International
The latest developments in Italy (medium):
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-has-italy-gone-fascist
Steve Cook received his education in investments from Harvard, where he earned an MBA, New York University, where he did post graduate work in economics and financial analysis and the CFA Institute, where he earned the Chartered Financial Analysts designation in 1973. His 40 years of investment experience includes institutional portfolio management at Scudder, Stevens and Clark and Bear Stearns. Steve's goal at Strategic Stock Investments is to help other investors build wealth and benefit from the investing lessons he learned the hard way.
