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2012
Richard Sweum : Happy(?) Halloween and the Economic take-aways. Growing up, Halloween was a big deal. I trick-or-treated from 1969 to 1980, and have a smattering of memories from the holiday events, some of which have lessons built in to them. I know, way to ruin a simple holiday with life less...
10/31/2012
Richard Sweum : Home Prices, is there recovery, yet? It is what it is…we love snapshots, summaries, condensed versions of anything so we don’t have to waste time absorbing lengthy articles and analysis. Snapshots and statistics feed our expectations and wants, when we are confronted with inform...
10/30/2012
Richard Sweum : Sandy, Barry, Willard and the Realtors (new folk music group). Market Update. It is a habit. Any time an infomercial comes on after 10pm that is related to a genre of music of a by-gone era I get sucked in. Of course, they only play the first line of the memorable chorus, but t...
10/29/2012
Richard Sweum Undecided, Unsure, Unmotivated or all of the above! You can't escape hearing about it...the clandestine but ubiquitous category of voter referred to as "the undecideds." Who are these people and how could they have escaped the rabid onslaught the past 12 months of political adver...
10/26/2012
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Richard Sweum Fiscal Cliff Approaches through viewed through 4 possible political landscape filters. Approach #1—best case, Congress and the Whitehouse come to an agreement on a plan to address the budgetary, fiscal and tax items. This is pie in the sky, and the chances of an agreement like th...
10/25/2012
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Richard Sweum, FISCAL CLIFF With all of the media focus on the November elections, possible shift of a balance of power in the Senate, possibility of a new administration, etc., there hasn’t been much attention paid to the impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the laws that are set to chan...
10/24/2012
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Richard Sweum Economic Review : There are many opinions that you can pull out of any news cycle, there will always be "the sky is falling" pundits out there as well as folks who cannot derive any negative conclusions. Last week, several reports revealed some surprisingly good news to the various...
10/23/2012
