Gross Domestic Product Percent Change (Graph)

Gross Domestic Product, 1 Decimal, Quarterly, Billions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate.

Bar Chart, Percent Change

$14,149.8 Billions versus $14,497.8 a year ago.

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Nasdaq Composite Outperforming on Rally from Lows (Chart)

Nasdaq Composite (Red) versus Dow Jones Industrial (Green), Percent Change, Chart

The comparison chart shows that the Nasdaq is more volatile than the Dow.

Since the March lows the Nasdaq has dramatically outperformed the Dow. This indicates that investors are very bullish on tech stocks. Tech stocks are usually good investments in an economic turnaround. An added plus is that Tech stocks are not usually burdened by debt.

The Nasdaq is likely to be extremely vulnerable or any market correction. It is time to be careful.

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Corporation Net Income Taxes in the United States (Graph)

• This is the most recent data from the St. Louis Fed and it was just released.
• There is a lag in the data. Current chart is up to date through January 1, 2008.
• The numbers in this series are most likely worsening.
• As you can see, the numbers continued to worsen through the last recession. However, that included the period immediately after 911.
• Also, this chart is change from previous year, in thousands of dollars. This gives a better picture of the trend of taxes being collected.
  

State Government Tax Collections, Corporation Net Income Taxes in the United States, Annual, Thousands of Dollars

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Government versus Civilian Employment, Which would you rather be? (graph)

Government employees enjoy a tremendous amount of job security. This is evidenced by the blue line on the chart.

The red line represents civilian employment. The bottom of the red line, current data, shows the loss of 5.1 million jobs.

While government employees often make less, there is an obvious compensating balance.

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Yes We Can Include Energy

Investor should be paying attention to these words. There will be some excellent investment opportunities as a result of these words in the months and years ahead.

President Obama made it clear in his Inaugural address that energy will play a central role in the “remaking of America”. In his speech, the President cited both energy and the environment as symptoms of the crisis facing America.

The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

“With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.” He even nodded to America’s higher per-capita use of energy and natural resources: “[N]or can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

Obama’s Big Speech: Yes We Can Include Energy

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