[PGalt]

Telling-congress-hands-off-our-money ping

GRRRRRRREAT post and comments BUMP!

[expat_panama]

Happy new week!  Futures trading is generally down 1/4% leaving stock indexes at -0.29% but with metals +0.44% --Itally's downgrade,  Japan's slump, and $68 oil being blamed.  No reports --they always seem to dump the load toward the end of the week.  For those of us w/ individual stocks now have this Yahoo site w/ the earnings reports, kind of a headsup on potential price lurches from unexpected earnings.

• Keep an eye on the Fed's accelerating asset sales
• Japan falls deeper into recession than initially thought
• Dollar basks in post-payrolls glow, touches seven-year high vs. yen
• U.S. gas prices are at a 4-year low
• Economists forecast fast growth for US economy in 2015

[expat_panama]

tx! A lot of controversy over how much good writing to congressmen does, but my experience w/ past issues is that it does have an impact.