Return to Blog..

Well it certainly is not a happy thing for me to have to temporary be absent from this blog here again this year. The good news is with some new equipment upgrade it is easier now to manage doing this for you the readership. I am going to continue where i left off early this year with more financial news and predictions . So I am going back to my style that everyone loves which is to be the economic pundit.. Begin looking for new exclusive exciting articles and viewpoints about business,stock investment and of course financial items of interest. Have a great day..

My Stock Picks For This Coming Week..

Hospital Visit

I apologize for not posting here to my loyal readers but I have been in the hospital..I just got out of the hospital Wednesday evening and hopefully I am getting well sooner..
Thanks for your continued support of this blog and my businesses..

Cheap Imports

Good morning I hope that everyone is ready to make money today.. I got to thinking a lot about how global trade effects America versus our foreign competition. I know you think this means I am going to rant on some tangent about our competition. Truth is our foreign competition mostly is beating us at our own game in all the markets worldwide. Trade is a hot button issue which is important to every business no matter how big or small you are in the pond. The problem is that our competition is beating us by production of cheaper products that they are flooding the market with all them worldwide. OK. You say well it's alright that China combined with Europe have a sizeable lead but we make good products that the world wants to buy. This is the problem we have not figured out how to market our products that will compete with these powerful trade pacts and countries like China and Germany. My thought is we need to rethink how we market our products with a clear message to our customers worldwide showing them the advantages of buying American. If you do make quality products which we definately do that here in America then your buyers shouldn't be buying from your competition. When we can as American business fix this problem so that cheaper products made in China,Malaysia and Germany don't beat our products on the world markets. I think then we will begin to end the massive trade deficit and imbalance that currently exits which is hurting our economy.

Market Predictions

Good morning to all my faithful readers of this blog. Well I hooked another anonymous scoop this day which I want to share with you. You see I am a research fanatic when it involves both business and investment. This time I pulled off a really interesting find when looking over the chart data this morning.. Most of the best financial gurus missed this one by a long shot but I found it. So here it is while the market is on a rocket ship ride past 14 thousand and could go much higher this year. The little known thing I found shows a very steep drop coming before mid year of June. So while it is great to ride the wave of green in your portfolio you better have a bottle of tums soon because the market is going do a reverse course correction. Many investors are going to get hurt by this crash when it hits a bottom of about 500 points.. This is not a flash crash but instead a permanent correction in the market due to poor home sales,weakness in the economy and climbing interest rates. So just invest in a broad range of both stocks and bonds that will weather this kind of market correction. By doing this you will limit your market risk which you need to do so you bullet proof your portfolio and your current investments..

Work Break

This is the most emotional for your employees the three mandatory half hour break times every day. The thing that really as a employer you can do to improvement of this time useage is to offer more options. You see any smart business man knows that in order to keep employees happy you have to add more benefits.These benefits can be a video game system,free lunch and other things that will increase employee loyalty. Giving never hurts when your trying to build a business and your employees are a important part of your business just as much as your customers. So the next time your management teams comes to you to say you need to make changes think about addition of some of these corporate important improvements.

News Channel ..

Yup, it is your financial guru and resident critical tactical business analyst. I just want to rave this morning over my newest ventures with my news channel. You see I have done it again a empire builder.. Oh No!! I can hear the criticism already from other business people and Wall Street investment analysts. You see I have quietly been creating a global news service which is growing in popularity. The facts speaks for themselves according to social media and Google demographic data which I track regularly. Norton News Corporation is on track to become a mainstream media outlet ..Yes, you heard me right this is a global news and information service that will eventually compete with the regular giants like CNN,Fox,ABC etc. Sounds really great to achieve this but I have been building corporate America for most of my life. This is a challenge for me to do with so many good sources of news out there but this is something I want to be offering on a global scale.. So, this year I started this news service to provide just that to a global educated audience..

Stock Market Upswing ..

Good morning to all you early birds it is the fearless critic here.  Has anyone seen the run the stock market made this week? Well it sure is impressive to run up 200 to 300 points gain and maintain that momentum all week. Normally you might get this kind of run following a sharp decline which would be a flash run up or down course corresponding to the way the market correction. This is different this week with a boat load of good economic data. You combine this with the news from the Federal Reserve bank that they are going to cut the discount rate a half a percentage point. The third part that has added more good to the economy is the news from the chairman that they are going to print and pump more money into the economic system. This has fueled Wall Street investors to buy heavy into the market this week. Normally investment gurus like myself are sceptical about the market based on long term experience. This time I have to say I am pleased with the upswing which gives plenty of opportunity to make money if you are investing in blue chips and staying away from bonds. Buying into solutions in stocks that are considered solid proformers like Boeing and Verizon is a wise choice. So, I recommend that everyone jump into the market and go make yourself some quick easy profits this week while the upswing rally continues..
Have a great profitable day.

Support People

I frequently harp on important issues here that are something that most business people don't pay attention to while being a corporate guru. You see in business good people make you money and bad people cost you lots of money when you employ them. So the backbone of any good business is your support people who do marketing,sales,tech and customer service. Yes, every good owner or manager knows that if you want to grow a successful business you need a highly skilled and trained support workforce. This unfortunately is where most companies fail to recognize that you need these types of people. You should as a management promote these types of people since the best possible future chief of operations or another type position would best be filled with a lower level with higher technical expertise. By using skilled workers you increase your productivity but reduce your overall costs of doing business. So does it work?? Yes, you need to tap your labor pool to find out who can do what within your company. A good start to finding out your companies strength is by using a internal survey distribution to all your employees. If you can't do that ask them on social media to respond to a employees survey online. You need to know these items so that you can make a proper management decision with every employee you have working for you. Simply put the support people will grow your business meanwhile costing you less than if you have to train some new outstander. Then the decision becomes easy to make with regarding who is a right fit for your company and what employees are just excess bags.. Think of these things next time you walk past the employees in your business doing your employees review process..

Milestone ..

Well I could be happy with a lot of things but I really have to rave about this blog has achieved another milestone. Yup your hearing me right I just looked at the profile report this morning and I must say thanks to all growing world wide readership. This blog averaged readership is 43 counties and growing give or take some depending on the needs of the massive amount of people that come to read this blog.page. Not to shabby considering that I started this blog because one of my former women business assistants in my company suggested that I should share some knowledge online. In my usual fashion I said well that sounds interesting but I don't think I have the time nor the patience to sit down to write anything. Well,here it is now that she proved me wrong with this blog by the interest that everyone has shown over it's  life cycle. I want to publicly thank Cassady Hurd and Karen Brownelle both my former business assistants for their valuable input with our company. Their contribution to the ideas of creative blogging have definitely shown a need by our company to include blogging as a essential part of our brand management. So congratulations to both of them and good luck on all your new ventures.

The President and CEO

Business Phyco graphics

This morning I starting my day with the usually busy things to get done including sipping my morning coffee. Then it hit me I thought not many things in business really deal with the phyco graphics issue which really has a big important impact on customers purchasing a products or services. Well, what is phyco graphics? Good Question ... It is the collection of different emotional thoughts and responses to a various amount of data collection pertaining to a product or service. In other words if you buddy tells you that when your going to buy a car for instance he has a good deal and no problems with his Chevrolet Malibu. Chances are your going to go out to a Chevrolet Dealer to look at all the different models available for sale on the show room floor.. Then your going to remember the comments of your buddy and go ask the sales person to sit in a Chevrolet Malibu. After looking around at all the other manufacturers and models of cars your most likely to go back and buy the Chevrolet Malibu because it has a reputation for being a good car and higher brand value than say a Toyota Camry. This is a example of brand based customer phyco graphics in which the feeling of a person,family and friends influences every purchase they make in their lifetime. Every business must include this in any marketing program to create a brand that well known for value,quality and being  affordable to the customer. This is essential to building a brand that will sell itself by having a long term product or service life cycle. Simply put if your brand is well known for to the prospective customer for being worth the money chances are the customer will buy your product over and over again meanwhile recommending it to others to purchase it. This reduces your advertising and marketing budget in your business by having a brand that is known for as good investment.. Consider this to be essential to growth in any business for your company to beat your competition by knowledge of your customers demographics and phyco graphics.

Have a great day..

Business politics

I my usual fashion of trying to bring the truth to both business and investment worlds I sometimes have to add a new ideas to everything. Today is one of those days where I am going to tackle the other side of what business and investment van do to help.the community. So here is all the bananas in a one boat load for you to think of at the same time. LOL .. OK .. To do business and investment means that you make money which makes everyone happy and successful. However the downside of what most business and investment people do is be greedy so they never turn to helping the community that made them wealthy. I know your thinking here dude that is not true most business and investors give back through charity contributions to their community. The unfamiliar truth to most people is that greed runs high in the growing amount of people with financial wealth. In fact the people surprisingly who give the least to help the community is one top ten percent of the worlds most financially successful people. So giving to the community and charity organizations is good as a investment and great public relations for your business. In fact by giving to the community you reduce your marketing and communications by giving your business a good name for the giving it does to support the community. Consider this the next best marketing tool when your sales and marketing department tryouts new ideas to lure in new customers to your business
Have a great day..

Market Gain

I often like to poke fun at the pundits most of them are very critical of my market analysis. Today I think I will just point out something that is beginning to be a narrow but important trend in investimg. You see while a lot of the big guys who are institutional investors are ingnoring the facts while some smaller guys are making big gains by buying alternative energy stocks and bonds. Yup, that's right while most of the herd guzzles down expensive technology stocks some smart guys are putting their money into green energy. I will be the first one to say that while it is not attractive looking part of the market compared to say big technology stocks like IBM and Cisco but it sure does make a lot of money. You see that even some big names like Warren Buffet have started to really realize that you have to look for new investments. This is the right place to invest your money so that you make a consistent profit even if it becomes a bear market. That is the beautiful part of this that no matter which way the market goes up or down your still a winner. Why?? Well Green energy is the present and is here to stay including more users and technology that is being put into use every day. So with that thought in mind it is a solid investment that will continue to grow with more products,producers and higher demand for total consumption with this industry.

Happy investimg and have a great day.

Stock Futures

Good morning my fair weather robbins I hope your day is a gourmet breakfast feast with plans to.make money. As you know I am the fearless investment guru who pulls the punches on high volume investments on the market daily. Today I thought I would share something with all my readership about making money on stock futures.Yup it sounds silly to think that you as a investor can bet and hedge on future things on the market but hold your britches up because you really can do it. I know your already muttering to yourself saying I am nuts that for certain this time I have lost my mind. Just a minute there party of readers while I pause to sip my morning Java boy does that taste good today. OK .. Here's the thing guys and gals you can make money on futures with a not so well known instrument called ETF (Exchange Trading Funds) which has just as much value as the physical stock or bond but without the bear risk involved. I am not saying that it is bullet proof from market swinging but as a short term investment vehicle it beats the market by about a five to one margin reliablility. Not to shabby for just owning a piece of paper that can be bought and sold many times in almost assured your going to make double or triple your original investment back in a short time. What I am saying is if you want to make money on the market you need to reduce your hyper inflation risk so you increase your portfolio instead of losing your shirt. To the small investor this is really important since capital investment is usually small so it is easy to lose it all in a bear market or with market flash crashes which sometimes happens even to the wisest investors. It is important to know when to invest but you need to know what is good investments in the market with a large volume of choices to pick from stocks,bonds,ETF,mutual funds and the lists continues. So be a contrarian by buying into solutions that group your portfolio into a winning combination of a broad spectrum of investments so you keep your risk low. If you do this your going to.make money on your portfolio by consistantly beating the market no matter how much bear or bull swing your faced with daily..  Have a great day now..Smile ....

Unintentional Absence..

I just want to post to here to apologize for.my absence from regular posting to.this blog but due to management of lots of new projects at the same time I have not posted to this blog recently. Sometimes other things get in the way of keeping up with this blog so I am just a very busy person. However I am going to change the posting schedule so that it does post important things using the auto post option on this blog. Many readers over the years have comment statements suggesting that I should consider additional media output through useable networks. I have to some degree done that with this blog but not done all of it to current date. In between my busy schedule I will began to add these new networks to increase the function of this blog. Hopefully everyone will have a positive response to the new changes that I am making which reflects the comments as you the readers of this blog. I tip my glass in toast to you as my readership of this blog with a big smile to have a really great day.

Business and Life Lessons..

Well, I thought I would share some valuable lessons about being a business man including some valuable life lessons that I have learned from when I lost everything in later part of 2010 going bankrupt. I have to say that looking back about two years ago I made some bad company decisions including investments in the stock market that all lead me to fail and have to reorganize my business ventures and how I invest money. That is how you learn is from your mistakes which is very painful to do and by using a different plan for rebuilding your businesses and portfolios by never making the same mistakes again. I look at some examples of corporate failures turned into a larger success like Donald Trump who went 440 million dollars in the red and lost everything only to have the clothes on his back after all the creditors got finished with him. While my mistakes as a Executive have not been as bad as Donald Trump and many others who have hit bottom their is one thing you learn from Donal Trump and my own mistakes is to get back up and go start something new with a new larger plan to gain back all you lost. I know it sounds absurd but really if you think about it you can really turn everything around if you already have the knowledge and the skills to do it plus having the contacts in a network to accomplish it. If your a good manager you know how to turn failure into success and success into a conglomerate company because you have already learned from your prior mistakes and made the changes to fix the problems. So this is what I have done with our businesses is to make the changes that are needed and go after a aggressive corporate strategy to grow our businesses into the global conglomerate which is what we are becoming as of now from our reorganization of two years ago. The future has changed for our business in the fact we have put in place many new people and technology that will continue our vision of growing a global conglomerate business that will compete in the 21 century with other multi national and international brand names. So looking forward to the future of our brand we hope to make it a well known name that is based on quality and diversity of products including services that will make us the preferred choice of all consumers world wide. So sharing with everyone some of our global vision to hopefully to become a greater partner in business development including the global community with lots of new ideas,products and services that will put us as the recognized leader in the world. So this is what we are all about in our businesses and our plan on continuing to expand our broader base of business in the world today with all the future of our businesses.. One day in the future we hope to be a trusted brand that is like Wal Mart,McDonalds, Starbucks,Shell Oil like so many others that no matter were you go everyone will knows us and use our product and services, this is what we hope to achieve.

Have a Great Day!!

Blog Changes Today..

Hello everyone I just added many new options to this blog and updated the blog to fix outdated stuff that no longer works..

John Norton

My News Business

Norton News Corporation

I would like to introduce all my business readers to my new Global News Channel as I finally decided to do this after many close business associates and friends convinced me that I should create a company that will compete with the mainstream sources like CNN,ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX NEWS etc. ... This will become a branded company offers a effective alternative to the current media outlets and will eventually serve in the future the entire planet earth including America. This company that I just started 30 days ago is providing current news and opinion stories that effect and shape the world we all live in today. So it is my pleasure to announce this news channel and it's growing important status to become what I hope will eventually serve as a global brand for accurate and reliable journalism delivered in a timely manner worldwide. You can read now the blog and be connected to it on most social media such as FACEBOOK,TWITTER, BLOGGER,TUMBLR,OAKURT,PINTEREST,GOOGLE,YOUTUBE and soon it will be a dot.com web site that will serve the entire planet including America. This is just the beginning of this new company with a ambitious plan to make this a mainstream news source that will beat the competition with a better brand and more interesting diverse items of interest..

BLOG- http://nortonnewsco.blogspot.com
(Nortonnewsco) on social media listed above...

EMAIL- nortonnews63@gmail.com

Blog Hits Milestone..

Hello to all my readership well this is really awesome to report that this blog has hit a new milestone now with over 10,000 readers total in just a short amount of time. I never thought that this would ever happen in my wildest dreams but I just looked at the new stats and sure enough it is really showing that is how much this blog has accomplished in such a short time. So with my profound thanks to all my readership worldwide I wish to thanks everyone for their participation and continued support in this business blog..

John Norton

Global Sales

Well it is a touchy subject that not every company wants to tackle how do you sell on a global scale. Most people in business think that your gain your customers through aggressive local based sales tactics that is all good but that misses the great profit potential that is available to grab out there in the world today. A global sales and marketimg program will achieve more for your business than a tunnel vision local programs. Simply stated if your going to be marketing your products or services you had better be proactive in using your resources to achieve a greater customer base by targeted marketing and sales to a various wider customer base in which you spread your brand in a global market. If your a good executive or marketer then you already hopefully know the potential your going to gain by doing a strategy such as what I am talking about here. Now a days business has to be more flexible in order to compete in a global networked world that is more depending on technology and human infrastructure that at any time in previous history. You know that as a mid size or large scale business your company has to control the competition by one updated strategy which is do everything bigger and better than your competitors do. Be really good at pointing this out to your marketing and sales departments so your company keeps it edge with a global view allways.

Thanksgiving..

I just want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving and hopefully everyone is spending it with your family and friends today..

Business Attorney

Well any good business can not do with a good attorney to sift through all the mountains of red government tape and papers that have to be filed every year. In this every changing world of the mode of business you need a person who can take the load off key personnel. So having a full time attorney that works on behalf of your business is very valuable since it makes your business run smoothly. If you want to be a successful business you have to pay the price for good help to accomplish your business goals.

Hurricane Profits

Good morning,
I know that everyone is focused on the election today so I am just going against the tide here. Has anyone stopped to think of the financial benefits to a large natural disaster such as hurricane Sandy? I know that I have with all my businesses that I own how much money is going begging. Quite simply stated anyone with long term business experience can and should see the potential profits that are for needed products and services. You don't have to be a five star Harvard economic guru to tap into the money tree that is the end results of this hurricane. Yes, sure I feel really bad for all the victims of this hurricane but I am also a business man by trade. So in my zest to smell out the next big money making idea or place to investment our company resources I allways am going against the gurus and the herd. I have built my conglomerate businesses on never following what others do which is why I have succeeded while others flopped. So on to the ideas here about making money with this new pot of gold called hurricane Sandy. First thing is to realize that all these products and services are in high demand. Then developing a ambitious detailed plan to filling the customers needs which are multitudes of needs that they have. The next thing is to get out there and start filling those needs before everyone else jumps in on the band wagon. You got to be the one business conglomerate that steps forward to do everything while others just sit on there comfortable executive chair debating what to do. Lets face it folks if your lazy the others who are your competition will profit over your mistakes. So being number one in business takes a lot of guts and zeal to keep your competition from eating you for breakfast. The best thing with this pot of gold opportunity is to just make your plan and go after it. Some piece of important business wisdom in another day of a large scale national disaster called hurricane Sandy.

Have a great day...

Good morning..

Well this is Sunday and so it is something important to let everyone know that Norton News Corporation is now publishing articles on the blog and most social media sites effective last week. So just to let everyone know this is just the beginning of a global news service that I hope will become a standard for excellent journalism. This new venture is about to make a new standard for how the news is reported online and in.print published articles. So it gives me great pleasure to tell everyone about this news business and what I envision for it to be in the future..

Have a great day.. Smile.

Hurricane..

<p>I just want to warn everyone to stay safe with this current hurricane. Hope you all stay safe and don't take any unnecessary risks.. Have a safety minded day... smile ..

Globalization..

I think today is a good day to talk about the economy in a different way than what I normally do. In the unpleasant world of change in modern society you do see some interesting new development in how businesses are dealing with global issues. No longer can a mom and pop enterprise survive without feeling the overall effects of the global market share influences. If your going to be competitive in whatever field of business your doing you had better be using a global plan. If you expect to be successful in business you have to be cutting your overhead by using technology to simplify your products and services. The only way these days to stay competitive is to outsource and offshore your workforce and production to cheaper nations so you still make a increased profit. This idea is taken hold and is becoming the standard by which business ventures and investors make increased profit share for all the people involved. We live in a increasimgly connected world that makes it easier for business to comprehensive planning for production and marketing on a global scale. To quickly sum up what I am talking about is that you have to be a business that uses a global plan to achieve both production and marketing to many countries in order to be a success.. So including a global plan for your business is a very good thing to be doing to growing your business in the modern age..

Have a great Day.. Smile ...

Business and Stock Growth..

The good news is better than expected with most mid to larger companies showing a bigger profit margin than prior quarter reports..Then add the stock market going up at 2.7 percentage points including the technology sector which has been flat or in mostly lost money. Well the question is whether this is just another short term growth?? I have looked at the economy over the last three years and the charts speak volumes about what is happening to our economy. The first thing is a lot more companies are cutting their work force by outsourcing it to cheaper labor in countries in Mexico and India. The second thing is the use of more robotics to create products and use of technology instead of humans to do the same jobs. Lastly more businesses are moving their operations to overseas to ovoid taxation in America. When you add all this up it certainly shows a bleak picture of economic growth for the future of business and stocks in the coming quarterly reports. So what does it all mean for main street? Things are going to probably going to get a lot worse before they begin turning up hill again which unfairly we will be facing as a economic future in America..

Rosey Report

Today is a day of some good news on business and Investment as the Dow edges up on reports of some companies actually post profits. The good news is a huge shot in the arm for many companies and smaller investments. The unfortunate part of this is it is not a reflection of long term growth in the economy. With unemployment still average at 10.8 percent and many companies still forced to downsizing the workforce the effects have certainly being felt at the middle and the bottom of the economy. The flip side is that more people are getting richer at the top end of the spectrum and moreover salary in this bracket has seen the largest increase. This is good for business and investment but bad if your like most people who are the other ninety percent who ate the cost of job failure. The rosey picture is becoming only for the select few who have adjusted to this global economic shift in this recent decade. To be a success now you no longer can do it with simple sales and products but instead you have to add many new components to add value to beat your competition. This does reflect the overall attitude and climate of both business and investment in the 21st century.  Completely different from even a decades back when the product or services just sold themselves. This is how much business and investment has changed just in this century to a value added technology based profile..

Labor Day

I want to wish everyone a happy labor day today...

VJ DAY Holiday...

Good morning to all my readership I just want to wish everyone a nice holiday today. Hope that everyone attends a veterans celebration and  goes to a veterans cemetery. Everyone should honor our veterans with putting flowers and a American flag on all veterans graves even if your not blood family related..

Thank You
J.N.

Next Big Tidal Wave

I think I will state the obvious and then hit the nail on the head this morning. Well to my readership it is obvious that what I predicted is true with wall street clearly cheerful over the movement of the markets to a positive position with some quick dips. If you look back a few weeks ago that I said this is going to happen with the market data bringing lots of smiling faces. So I hit the nail on the head about what the markets would do in the coming weeks. It is time to roll the clock ahead to now to look at the market data to see what's up next. Here's what I see which is that the cheers are going stop when the news that has been affecting Europe hits here on our shores of America. I am talking about the massive debt crisis that has buried several countries like Greece. When this economic tidal wave hits our country the effects are going to be devastating. The market effects are going to slam head long into investors with major declines in their portfolios. This wave of bad economic decline is just a preview to a the Commerce Department and Treasury department reports which will floor most people. Yes the full impact of this second wave of economic data news is going to cause lots of people to loose their jobs and everyone to feel financial pain. This will happen this year most likely within the next six months with the data that I am reading on credibile sites like Market Watch. So here I go again making a perdition about investing,jobs and the economy. I just hope that this tidal wave will not reach our economy here in America. The problem is that we in America are already reeling from poor GDP growth and chronic debt burden. This tide of upcoming crisis is going to worsen the ailing economy we have in America. I am hopefull that this wave of bad economic stimulus will be adverted quickly.. We in America have to our our financial house in order so that overall problems like the ones that come from overseas don't do damage to us. Have a great morning everyone and a wonderful day.. Smile..

Stock Market Pendulum

Well, it certainly has been a gut wrenching roller coaster ride this week for investors. The news out of Europe just hit hard home here in the US and has given many investment people cause to reach for the tums rolaids. Just when everyone thought the European debt crisis was over here comes the next wave of bad news. It really has investors scratching their head and taking a selling off panic in their portfolio.. The mainstream on main street herd has just pulled out of the market thinking we are heading for a huge gillatine crash in both stocks and bonds. This is not true because if you are a smart investment guy,you are looking at the charts to see what they are showing you.. That certainly is a different picture of a simple market correction that is going to last a short few days. Any good trader knows to be a success in investment you have to jump in when everyone else hits the panic button on wall street. You do the opposite of what the herd does as a contrarian and your the one who gets rich.. If you play your games short and long correctly your going to make lots of money. So with that said about investments this week do yourself a favor and buy in heavy while the market sinks. Then when the reversal comes next week ride the wave to to crest and then sell off your stocks which is calked shorting the market. By doubling your profits this way you beat the market instead of the market beating you on your short game..For the long game I recommend buying solid dividend paying stocks and investment in bonds like Vanguard Total Equity Return.or Janus High Yield Investor to hedge your risk.  Thus you beat the market and make.money no matter which way the markets swing up or decline.. Hope that this helps everyone to make a truck load of dough..
Have a Great a Day...

Economic Perspective

I recently found myself talking to a couple of college students about the economy. In talking to them I found out that they have been actively looking for a job by putting out over fourteenth job applications a week. These students told me that even with the constant effort that they still have not gotten a paying job. They are so dissatisfied with with the situation with employment that these college women are going to move to another state to secure a paying job. This discussion about jobs was joined by a middle fifties person who said that he worked in construction all his life until it went sour in this decade. He said that going back to college was is not a easy decision for him but it seems to be the only one he could do to get a better job. I am finding that lots of people are in the same predicament with the slow economy that is effecting a huge part of the population in America. The disappointed people I am talking to said that the overall job problem is a menace to their lives. For some I have talked to they ate trying to get full time employment but they are currently working part time presently. Many people are doing this type of employment but it is not enough to pay for basic expenses for their family. It is tough to get a job and even harder to keep one because so many people are either under employed or totally unemployed in America. This problem needs to be dealt with so that every American has a good paying job and government is not doing discrimination against any part of the population. In the last decade government regulations have and are becoming more discrimination against everyone except the rich in this nation. This is causes more people who want to work left out because government has taken away their freedom and ability to live through the use of cruel regulations. This is just additional layer of problems to the already bleak economic and social situation that exists in America today. I think back to Ross Perot who said what is needed is to cut government and shrink the number of regulations in America so that we begin to be a nation of freedom instead of a dictatorship. I agree with his analysis of what has to be done to put America back to the front of leadership instead of being nearly a third world nation. I think that if we do tough decisions and do the items listed above America will have a great renewal and experience huge amount of growth in the coming years... Let's do the right things in America and put this country on the right track so that we improve the lives of everyone instead of practicing discrimination.

Business Expansion

I thought today I would turn to something that has been recently in the news. Most businesses both large and small are in certain sectors of the economy are actually growing this year. Yes, even though the economy overall is still showing weakness some well known companies are actually expanding. This is good to see growth in technology and utilities such as Microsoft and Teco which until recently have been hit hard by huge losses. Some other not so well known are making amazing strides in picking up new contracts and adding new workets. This makes the smart smaller companies more able to generate more revenue than the large conglomerate companies in a weak economy. The fitness of the modern business is heavy depending on outsourcing and new product innovation. Some areas of the economy are ready to start booming like the housing sector which has recently started additional new home orders. This will effect a lot of other people in other businesses if this continues since real estate is the core predictor of how much expansion the economy will do in the future. So look for most businesses to group together with mergers and to consolidate in order to go ahead with planned future expansion. This kind of business plans will work for some businesses but for some others it will spell their overall demise due to lack of financial liquidity. The big gains will be in technology,utilities and  manufacturing which continue to most flexibility and profit margins this year. The best business plan is to start into a business that would be in one of the new growth economic sectors so you would be sure of your success..

Market Rally

After a really bad roller coaster ride for investors this week with some flash declines due to economic data. Friday investors decided to weigh in on the European crisis after getting good economic news from overseas. The markets rallied to a 277 point 2.30 percent increase on the Dow Jones and other markets today with short sellers jumping back in on the market rally. Investment brokerage houses however down graded stock valuations on several stocks like Rimm ( Research In Motion) and Ford Motor Co. due to poor overall performance. Some analysts see the market overall weakness as a sign of a possible return to a bear market in the short term future. In other economic news that hit investors and business this week is the GDP fell by more than one percentage point to 2.1 percent. This after the last quarter seen no improvement in growth reported by the Commerce Department for both this quarter and earnings for business in fiscal year 2012 stayed flat. Lots of investors reacted sharply to more companies laying off worker and shrinking investment in new product development by businesses this year. Economic pundits talked over this week if the currently proposed fix to European fiscal crisis is actually going to solve the problems that many EU currency nations are dealing with now. The current solutions to dealing with European problems have been the hot topic of conversation at many board rooms in companies in America and abroad. This month the Federal Reserve changed the interest rate and announced more change to the Twist program. This caused many on Wall Street to review their investment strategy and some institutional investors to bail out before the markets radically declined. On the bright side more investors seen new opportunity to buy cheap stock and make a profit even in a weak baseline market. Look for a new rallies next week as investors size up the news and economic data set to come out from Europe and from the Treasury and Commerce Department. Most analysts project a fiscal expansion on some sectors of the economy but with more bad news from government sources could cause a scale back by investors and businesses. The green shoots in the economy are driving some expansion that both business and investors see as a sign that the economy is about to greatly expand. How the expansion is going to happen is what makes investors nervous about their portfolios. With slow economic growth most business and individual investors are taking a reserved approach presently. When the opening bell for next weeks session on Monday happens for stock markets look for most of main street and wall street to jump fully back in the market indexes. Have a great weekend and enjoy it be prepared to get in early Monday and make some great money..

Dow Losses

It sure has been another blood bath for stocks on wall street today as we feel the pain again of another dose of triple digit loses. Most investors just bailed out of stocks and really went looking for safety in their portfolio after last weeks disaster decline on Thursday. Stock performance started out this Monday as the same sour note with investors hedging bonds over stocks. This shift has driven the market indexes to another 146 plus points decline before closing bell with most stocks and some bonds off a full percentage point or more today. I think this is just a market correction that we have all have to bear the brunt of this week. On the brighter side some under value stocks in the oil and utilities sector actually gained a average of 2 to 3.5 percent  in today's market weakness which is good.
Stocks like Geo Petro and Teco Energy gained a healthy 2.4 percentage on the market share price. Look for a some solid stocks to do well such as Verizon and Microsoft in the coming days as investors buy back in on cheap dividend payers. Good investment in the cheap stocks and bonds are a solution to the building your individual wealth even in a weak market. Have a great day and invest wisely so you earn money on your portfolio especially on dividend paying investments.

Back to Work

Well, It sure has been a rough ride with my health for the last six weeks but I am happy to announce that I am all better now. I know that that I let this blog go dormant and forced to walk away from posting to it because I could not see the screen for several weeks. So I lost my readership on here due to my illness but I am back to work here now. I hope that everyone took the time to read all my back articles and gave a lot of thought to what I have written. It is great to be seeing this page clearly again and be back to writing hard hitting investigation articles with plenty of commentary. I apologize to my readers for being absent but I hope in my absence you found simple quality time to spend with your family and friends. Now that I am here again to stay and write the good opinion articles and investigation news pieces look for a great deal of journalism coming your way. Everyone have a really great weekend and stay cool as most of the country of America is on sweat mode averaging one hundred degrees today.

Pink eye..

This sucks having pink eye in both eyes and dealing with blurred vision. I can barely read this screen today and what would be very easy to do is one heck of a chore to do. I apologize for not being able to post regular to this blog due to health problems. Thanks for your understanding with this blog...

Holiday today

Happy memorial holiday today to all my readership worldwide..

Vision Problem ..

I am sorry to my readership that I have not been posting to here like I promised but I am having blurred vision that is very annoying to me. It is making it hard to read the screen and everything else this week. When it becomes better then I will go to posting to this blog frequently but until I can see clearly I will not be here for a short time.. Sorry for the inconvenience to everyone online who reads this blog..

Stock Correction Coming

Well stocks were mixed this week with heavy trading in all major markets. This week has seen a 217 point drop on the Dow only to have institutional investors come to the rescue after a sharp decline. The decline was due in part to more economic data showing slow growth in the first quarter going into second quarter earnings for American businesses. This combined with some good news that unemployment is staying at 8.2 percent is giving investors pause for thought on this new information. We see that most major investment houses and the federal reserve holding the line on pouring more money into the market. The reaction by the federal reserve this week was the usually muted yawning and we will wait and see if this is going away soon. Mostly investors just held their noses and jumped back in on the upside on late Thursday when the market indicated a upswing starting. Some recent data shows that the GDP for this quarter has actually gotten better with a 2.4 percentage growth over last years report. Still not enough to put joy in the hearts of investors and more money in everyones pockets but it still is better than the last three years. The last three years saw America with crippling double digit inflation and combined with more national debt increases to add to the problem. Credit has gotten harder to get for every part of the economy and banks failures have become more common as pancakes with homemade apple pie. So what to do this year? Investors watch out the seesaw of the markets is going to continue with more mixed economic data to come. However I see the third quarter of 2012 should have a more stable field for the avid marketeer. Why? Simple you will see the big companies shifting to cutting costs meaning that they will be hiring more workers but at a cheaper labor rate. Profits soured by tight credit will be offset by new venture capital being involved in the later part of this year. Overall if your going to invest go with diversity and by all means add plenty of dividend paying stocks to your portfolio. You might want to also go with managed bond funds like Vanguard or Janus that provide you longer term stability with lower market risk. In any investment decision think with your head not your heart so that you win more than you lose by a three to one margin for winning trading. Strap on you jet pack this week coming is going to be a shift climbing up in the markets so everyone should be poised to jump in on the new growth. Have a great Sunday everyone and enjoy it to the maximum. Smile .......

Kid in a Candy Store

I am just feeling really gitty about the stock market today decline. You see while all the investment houses stole the show by telling investors to go in big on the market over the past month. I told everyone to get out now so that they would keep their portfolio intact and wait until the market dropped enough on down swing. OK.. I hope everyone took my advice here and did not listen to the advisors in wall street fat cat firms who lined there pockets when the market nose dives. The numbers don't lie and neither does the chart data which shows the knee jerk tears and sobbing of the outside investment community.  The smart ones in business bailed out when the chart data started to reach toppings at the peak signaling at reverse decline going to happen so they kept their money. This market has been really strange this year so far with many changes in the past few months both positive and negative. Some advisors have suggested that the markets are going to climb to 15000 marker this year but I think it is very unreasonable to get everyones hopes up. The real story is unemployment is up and more businesses are cutting back or folding up shop permanently. This will effect the investment plans of many individuals and corporate investors who feel that they are skating on thin ice praying that they can all stay afloat. Having a good insight as I do I could see this coming and bailed out until the markets go down to the bottom then buy in on cheap stocks. You know folks this decline is temporary so take advantage of the cheap stocks then ride the wave to near the top. Every smarter investment guy will you that your nuts to buy on the down side supposedly because your losing your shirt. Trust in you knowledge he does not know his bank from his wallet so he is a loser doing his advice column. But if your smart like me you buy on the dip and bail out when the charts are screaming sell it before you get to the top of the wave. This after all is a business and anyone who is idiot that treats this any other way is just going to lose their entire portfolio. Take your risk at a calculated ratio so you get at least three to one on wins and losses. This way you grow your portfolio meaningfully while other poor slobs are popping tums and crying in their towel over their losses in the markets. My advice is buy in now while it is low this morning and watch your charts to bail out later this week. Yes there's going to be a few volitle stages but do the smart thing and stay with it unless you think the stock is going to the toilet then by all means bail before you lose everything in you accounts. Following this advanced advice here will make you money and after all that is the business you choose to be in which is a very risky but profit driven one.. Have a good day now and really reap the rewards you deserve..

Factory Output Slow..

You would think that with all the current hype that the economy is getting better. A good prediction of how the overall economy is doing is to look at factory orders for durable goods such as refrigerators and computers etc. Looking at the GDP which is how we currently measure economic output it tells a total different story which is factory orders are sharply down. What does this all mean for our economy and more over how is our trade partners affected. The answer will surprise you in the fact that when our output slows the rest of the world feels eventually the same pain as we all do. If you look at prior documented slow GDP you see a pattern of weakness in the rest of the worlds monetary system. Usually the banks are the first to react to these changes as they have the inside information to know how to deal with their own business interest well before you and I know about it. So watch the banks and the Federal Reserve to see if there is any changes in policy which would certainly show a attempt to heading off a financial crisis. A economic slow down allways has some prior individual indications just like if you look at a chart for a popular stock you want to buy.  Taking a deeper look into the economy you see that the current weakness is due to a combination of factors including heavy handed government regulation of business in America. Every time you add a new layer of regulations more businesses in this country fail which slows the GDP because you are losing output. The larger companies are more able to shift to meet the new government demands. However the small business entry is forced to use more creative ways to generate new revenue or fold up permanently. If the backbone of American business which is the mom and pop shops continue to fail at the current attrition rate we can see more of a deeper recession. This is a pending disaster that the government bean counters and the Federal Reserve have not taken into consideration lately. You can not have a soft monetary policy that does not fix the problem which shows a total lack of understanding of all our countries problems. For many decades we in this country have been like a dumb chicken running around on a drunken spending spree and passing the problem to the next generation. It is time to start supporting our own national interests and let the rest of the world sink or swim on it's own. That is the only way we are not going to have a total financial collapse in every sector of our economy. Having a clear understanding of our overwhelming financial mess we are in is no easy task. We in America do what is right by cutting our national debt and supporting ourselves not on credit then we can fix our financial mess sooner. So let's pump up the GDP by getting our financial house in order and pay off the massive debt we have incurred over many decades.

Stocks Mixing Today

Nice to see that some small stocks have made gains while blue chip stocks are taking a beating. Looking at the overall Dow proformance today can lead me to think that this is the beginning of the course correction I wrote about last week. One can see that looking at the Mac D and other charts this morning that we will see over this week a futher decline in most technology stocks meanwhile raw goods such as sugar and corn will go up. Where to invest this week is of important matter since most stocks are down. Well buy the cheaper beaten down tech stocks and mix your portfolio with some solid dividend paying ones
Everyone knows that buy on the down market is good to do but read your chart data out to one year from date of possible purchase to see if it is a reliable proformer. Look for the upswing on the stock and ride the wave but get out before the stock tops. If you do ride the wave this week be careful not to read the charts incorrectly so you fail to get the most out investments. Hope everyone going to make lots of money this week and this should be a good week to do it.

Wealth Management

Anybody with some good skills can make money but not everyone knows how to do wealth management. You have to know how to invest your savings and make it work for you. Be careful to avoid putting your money in risky bonds as well as other low profit tools. Investment wisdom should be to look to buy cheaper stocks that pay a fat dividend so your money works for you. By doing this you grow your portfolio with tools that help you achieve your goals over both short and long term. Try many new ideas to group your investments into a positive position so that you have more winning trades combination with dividends. Lastly if the market goes up or down read your chart data before buying any securities so you know everything about it before putting your hard earned money in it.

Stocks Waver

It is that time in the new year when most people are focused on all those new resolutions that they would like to fulfill. If your are a investor it is time to create a new strategy to successfully get boat loads of dividend in your portfolio account. It makes sense to do your research and go with cheap stocks which do exist in the busy market. The problem with this is the current market is beating down some big name stocks and pumping up the short term little Guy stocks. So should I go short term or play the long game by buying and holding? This is the matter of which custom strategy you go with as to where you invest your hard earnings into the market. If your like most of the small cap investors you will go with buy and hold in about 10 stocks that hopefully do small shifting in the market. The problem is with this strategy is you stand to loose most or all of your portfolio if those stocks go in the toilet. With the current market volatility you cannot afford to make this kind of common mistake. It is better to put a smaller amount into your stock portfolio and play them on the short game. By flipping the stocks on the short game strategy you minimize the risk and increase your overall profits. Sounds easy but trying to do it takes some skill to make it work in your favor. It is however the best strategy to make your investment portfolios grow at a level above 6 percent. This should be part of any investment goal to achieve a good return on your money. In other words make your money work for you by playing the short game to keep buying and selling on a short term basis. If your like me you look for good deals in the market and buy beaten down stocks then sell them as soon as the.market goes up to a certain accepted level. This makes money while lowest risk at the same time is the way to beat the market by a seven to one margin. Do strategy in the current market and you will become a Wall Street fat cat and a favorite with all your new found friends. Happy investing!!

Business Prospects

I continue to see some new economic data that is encouraging business expansion in this new year. If you look closely at the GDP this month the numbers tell the story of a revenue reversal in the positive direction for corporate America. The decrease in unemployment has most business people planning a new phase of experienced worker's hiring. This reflection is good for every part of the economy with most companies saying that first quarter earnings are up.  Better quality workers are now available now with more people having a college degree that makes it more comprehensive the hiring process. Some businesses have now started offering better benefits packages to lure in these high skilled workers. Overall with this kind of improvement it is in favor of making this year a great year for corporate America to beat the overseas competition in every aspect of business. While the stock market is double what it was in the past year it still shows a shaky recovery for this year so far. Hopefully that will change in favor of a more solid recovery as this year continues. In order for this to happen their needs to be more investment by both government and private sector business so that the economy growth is more than 3 percent. It looks like we might see that happen if the stock market becomes more bullish and corporate America become more confident in the new green recovery. This will be good for the economy if all that I am talking about happens this year.

NEW YEARS DAY 2012

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Economic News

Well some new good news is in which shows a increase in overall sales by 27.8 billion dollars. This is good news for most businesses who have seen slower than usual growth this year. Overall this year has been troubled for retail in 2011 with many large chain stores and other small business feeling the pain equally. The last quarter of this year has been the best in three years for many sectors of business that had seen many failures. If you combined all the current growth though over a years time it still is not as good as it could be done. The new payroll tax law that is about to become law will further impact business by making employers pay more to keep employees on the books. The ugly truth is that even with the new economic data for the fourth quarter it still needs improvement. Well I am going out on a limb here and going to stare into my christal ball and make some new years predictions. OK.  Here goes the banned predictions about the economy. Just making a dry humor  joke.. Stop Laughing!!!  The new year will bring a continue growth in retail and other sections of the economy for 2012 year. You will have to watch precious metals prices and employment data as a good indication of how the new year will shape up to being whether mixed or bad results. If precious metals stay high and unemployment climbs to 13 percent average you will see business take a wait and see attitude. This will greatly shape the consumer confidence and buying habits for the upcoming new year. While I am going with mixed bag review here I think that there will be some constriction on the stock market in the new year the market overall will be more favorable to investment. The big question is how will all this good news be received by the Fed Reserve and how difficult it will be to obtain credit for most employers? I think that it will be a shaping factor in year 2012 as business will be more inclined to investment and expansion if fiscal policy is geared to improvement. If the Fed and banks lower the lending rate to a better rate then you will see major economic good happen. Think your exempt your not because your in for a better ride in the new year with lots of good economic data to be happy about. This will make for a interesting new year in 2012 with all the changes that will happen so enjoy the ride.

Vacation

I am still doing my holiday vacation so I just want to update my readers that all is going well with creating a new project list for year 2012. Due to a lot of changes in my business ventures,journalism and other things I doing I am going to bring to the table lots of new ideas. Hope everything is going well with everyones holidays. Next year I will bring a new style of journalism that is going to be interesting. Just having a new step in a futuristic process for development of this blog will bring news combination with video transformation. This process I started early this year which incorporated current news and opinion to bring to my readers a new journalist view. I will continue to add YouTube videos and commentary that is both stimulus to my readers that will increase knowledge to all. Happy holiday to all my readers and enjoy your week.

Holiday Tribute

I know that I have been strangely absent from here but I have been working three jobs plus management of all my various business ventures. So now that I have a little time this Saturday morning I wanted to let my readers know that I am still going to keep posted everyone about current events. I have taken a short vacation from writing and doing news pieces but now I am back so look for the news and great commentary.. I admitted to myself that I could have done a lot better with keeping my readers up to date but my mother and one of my dogs died this year so I took a vacation to deal with the pain. Hopefully I will get to writing investigation news articles soon and so you will have lots to read combined with important topics of interest. So sorry for the vacation but I needed some personal time away from here..

Turkey Day

Well this year has been all about change and most is not for the better of me. My mother died in July and my living situation is a disaster plus way to many other problems. I lost mostly everything I own in a storage unit in February of this year including my beloved truck. So what does Thanksgiving mean to me this year? My answer summed up is I feel I have mostly nothing to be thankful for this year. For the first time in my life I truly feel I don't care about this day since my sweetheart wife is gone and both my parents are dead. My other dog and cat that got stolen from me in 2007 are probably both dead now too. So my day today is just going to be about visiting my other dog that is still living as I have had two dogs. This will be Turkey day and what it.means to me.

Business Flux

This morning has been so far a really great opposite open opportunity to learn how to market trade your investments. You see why this because of the yo yo of the market swing. If you combined the third quarter earnings of all the technology stocks and big bond holders you would see the clear picture. Until now the mostly you would have invested heavy in these companies and your own company because of such rosey economic data. You would now be living a nightmare because you failed to see the landscape ahead of you and fell into this sink hole. If your going to invest in a swing time like this you had better read your plan carefully and allow yourself wiggle room. This way you can change with the times ahead and put your money to work for you making a profit. Watch the stock market when you own and run your own business so you always have a good idea of what the economy is doing at all times. By doing this you are less prone to make a costly mistake and put yourself,your company in a better position to profit from current and future economic data trends.

News Reports

I just want to let everyone know that you can now see my very first news documentry on CNN NEWS by going to I-REPORTS.CNN.COM/JNorton1 or go to CNN.Com and Click I-REPORTS and search for me under my name (John Norton).  I have gone a long way in journalism now being on CNN NEWs and I am proud of this accomplishment as well as now I am told that I have been awarded a new column in one of the newspapers (Street SIGHTS) that I write for as a community service project which is just awesome. I never thought that my creative skills would take me to such a new level much less my becoming a journalist which never had I done in life until the last few years. WOW!! Well I have worked hard at it and it has not come easy doing it but I love doing this I have to admitt to that aspect. Look on CNN NEWS to See my NEWS I-REPORTS and also listen to my talk show (Modern POLITICAL THINKING) on WWW.BLOGTALKRADIO.COM/JOHNNORTON and all the other newspapers and magazines I write for weekly.. Have a great day and enjoy it everyone.. SMILE!!

Financial Volitility

Well my readership I have been watching the stock volitility in the markets on Wall Street and also the recent protests about economics. I do say that it is another system of a larger problem in which is causing the markets to react so sharply to the cuurent trend in data coming from both in Europe and here in America. It shos that the recession is growing much deeper and the financial pain is becoming more felt by Average middle class and rich alike in that everyone has to cut spending at home.

Talk Show Update

Hello to all you wonderful folks out there I just want to let everyone know that I have fixed the technical problems that have temporary shut down my talk show. Yes, as of now Modern Political Thinking is as of this Saturday going to be on radio and online on every week day and Saturday at 12:00pm on WWW.BLOGTALKRADIO.COM/JOHNNORTON
Plus on WKNR radio and other stations so come join the live talk and discussions of current political issues.


Note barring any other unfortunate technical problems that creep into the show I will be on air on this new schedule..

Creditor Practices

Well , In a fine style of journalism here I am going to publish a suprising finding about our supposedly economic recovery in America. It might not come as too much surprise to my readers that everything from gas to consumer goods is growing more expensive but then that is widely known. What is not really known much about is the interest rates for homes,car and credit are going through the roof because of a little known law in America that called the FAIR CREDIT ACT that allows banks,lenders and credit card companies to charge asorbant fees for using their services. You must have seen it recently when Citibank and a few other got their hand caught in the cookie jar because they had stuck in a whole host of new fees in fine print that until recently never came to light that they were doing that to credit customers. That is just the part of the whole picture that most people who are on the recieving end got a silent screwing by paying more in endless interest hikes and misalanious fees on the bill statements. Most people unfortnutely neve bother to question what the credit and mortage comapnies are doing because they feel they are trust worthy which is how they have gone under the radar for so long. To add insult to it you have some elected officials who take pact money contributions to get elected from the very same companies that jack up your bill in the mail by adding high rates of fees and interest. It used to be before the Fair Credit Act was passed under a old law that you as a credit company could only charge a maximum of 33 percent interest on all of the balances held by a credit customer. Well, that all changed after the passage of this new law in 2010 in which now the sky is the limit on interest rates as high as 43 percent is now the normal for customers of lenders. Then came the next wave of changes that allowed banks to change the way they do business because before they had to go by what the Federal Reserse rules told them to do. Now a days they can pretty much do what ever they want to do like reposess your home or car with or without ever having real creditor interest in the item. Think back only about a year ago to when it came to light that  Bank of America was and still is silently continuing to repo homes and cars etc. that it has limited to no stake of ownership in which is wrong to do. Some of the companies I have mentioned and others not listed but well known here certianly have profited from this parctice as well as from the legal changes that now allow them to do this to customers of credit. You see that if you do it long enough and you put laws into place that allow you to get away with unfair business practices then nobody after awhile complains about it. The fact that that is being allowed to happen is actually hurting lots of people in America by hiking interest rates and adding hidden fees and other things that make everything more expensive to live which in turn drags down a our economy. So what do you do? Well, good question and this is the reply to that in that you have to red the fine print before you sign any loan agreement including credit cards or you are opening yourself up to being stuck once you agree to their terms. The second thing is which most people in America find it hard to do is not to overspend and then you don't need credit to sustain your life. Third is cut up all your credit card and pay off all your current debt to zero balance then start a new saving and investment plan which is what any good investment advisor will tell you is how you begin to build wealth. Then you don't have to worry about what the creditors are doing because hopefully they will not have any stake in owning your lifes saving and investments like your home and your car etc. This is wealth building tools that any smart person can use to grow a good debt free life and use resources wisely to gain everything that you want and need for yourself and your family.

World Finance Problems

I can sit here today and say I told you so about the stock market combined with the Jobs Bill in Congress including bailing out overseas financial problems but that would be just the tip of problem. You see as I reported last week on my radio show and this blog that with all the debt being racked up over in Europe some day it is going to come back here a effect us in America. Well, look now as the very same scenario is playing out in both America and the EU global banking system as it is hemorrhaging and guess who gets the job of propping up all those foreign banks and failing countries like Greece? It is America if you guessed it right and we kicked in more billions this month to the IMF and World bank combined than even the rest of the powerfully industrial countries called the G-12 league of nations. It is ironic to me and I think to my readership here that I called the play first on what Washington was going to do even before it happened that one persons vision on business and finance could see what it took a army of Washington bureaucrats months to come to the same conclusion on policy. Look at the bright side this so far the stock week market has done just what I said it would do in that it surged in most areas of the economy but be for warned that it is only too many that forget what happened last time investors got this kin of green light from Washington and overseas. They found out the hard way that putting your money at risk is like watching your hair on your head get burned and saying to yourself oh that does not hurt so bad because the Fed and others say good things this week about how rosy the economy really is doing. Come on lets face the real facts our overseas partner countries are failing and so are we doing the same and it seems that some fat cats are white washing the truth to America. I said it a while ago if we as a nation accept the status quo we are only cooking our own goose by spending more than we as a nation can generate in overall wealth. Today we are the second largest debtor nation on all of earth and fastly spending ourselves into a pit that we will never get out of if Washington's bureaucrats have it their way as they have completely mismanaged our nations finances by writing bum checks with promises to pay our creditors which they know will never be paid in full. If you do that to many times to the likes of our largest creditor which is China and others on the list what do you think they are going to do after they see the light of day? Simple answer to that and that is they are going to have a sweet talk with Washington and a ceremony of ripping the rug out from under us as a nation which is going to turn America into a depression economy worse most likely than what happened in the 1920's when people starved in mass and not many had a paying job except if your were a government bureaucrat in some fat cat cushy job at tax payers expense. Now a days it can be seen quite clearly that more time this recession continues it continues to become more pain for the regular working class and businesses to function with any kind of good coming out of it. You know what I mean you walk down the local street in your town or city and look at how many businesses have closed up for good and more people are losing their jobs every day and maybe your one of them of someone your know is drastically effected by this recession. Do the math and you see for yourself that at the current rate of decline and debt spending we are doing in America most businesses and people will be unemployed for long time to come or go belly up completely sooner. If your going to run a nation on debt your going to fail and that is just what we see here in America and in Europe that is mirroring our own financial crisis by doing the very same idiot policies that put everyone in a giant global financial hole. If you run a country with sound monetary policy which means that you got to balance the books just like running a business by doing that you then begin to success in paying your debt off and gaining in overall wealth by investing it wisely in production output combined with quality goods and services. Well America can do the same thing and achieve a greater profit share to our nation of about 350 million people if we just stop the insane way we spent money we don't even have on garbage programs and bloat in government. Yes, business can make the changes but so can as a partnership government can do it here in America. We as a nation got to buckle down to the task at hand which means not putting it off to the future and just do it in that we stop our failed investments and policies that have buried us in the monster hole we find ourselves in currently by doing the jobs and getting it done to save our own nation.

Apple Stocks Climbing!!

Well with the new generation of Ipad and other Apple products coming out soon to hit the store shelves it is a sure bet that those wise investors who put their money invested into to tech stocks like Apple will see the dividends share price make them very wealthy this quarter of year 2011. I am a firm beleiver in solid investing strategies like using tech stocks as a platform to leverage profit. If you buy good dividend paying stocks you will add value in your portfolio especially if you do it on a up swing in the market. Recently market data has been poor proformance in many different areas that used to do well. Hold strategy is not dead but it is better to not do this strategy unless you are only care about your monthly dividend check. Proper investment requires lots of research into what solid companies are a good value. If you do investor pulse on the market you will get to see what way the is going if you are a smart contrarian. So fix your eye on doing this investment decisions on good data instead of using your heart and running with the bulls on wall street..

Business Journal Update Week Of Oct.3,2011

Video Added and Important News

I just want to note that this blog has come a long way from being a rank of nothing to finally adding video to it weekly now. Wow, folks that is really quite a jump forwards towards pleasing and keeping my readership you all out there around the world happy. Well, It sure is a learning curve doing this blog and I have come to the conclusion that more work is needed to be done to get to the blog where I want it to be as a respected news source. I am committed to constant improvements on it and as you see already I have added a new dimension to this blog by adding video and more commentary on it. So keep checking back as I tackle the news and important issues of the week that hopefully will interest my readership and keep the coming back for more of this blog. I want to let everyone know that you can call a new phone number for my new media company (Norton Media Group Co.) and leave comments about this blog and my talk show.. The phone number is (727)-487-2060 and that is a business number anyone can use or email MODERNPOLITICAL@GMAIL.COM ....  I am also in the process of creating a paying newsletter that will be available hopefully next month for anyone to subscribe to online and available on a email system of some type but I am figuring that all out presently how that will all work out for doing this new project. So lots of new things to do and in between my business ventures,talk show,market trading,publishing and music just to name a few things I will get this newsletter going and get it deployed soon..

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Business Journal for Week Of September 27,2011

Wall Street Investing

Well, It is another ho hum day on wall street today as the doldrums continue in financial markets with most everything losing traction on the Dow and NASDAQ composite indexes. If you want to make money in a market like this one this month you better get your pencil ready and do your homework really good. It sure does not hurt to keep a pack of tums next to your bed and desk to ward off the restless market syndrome you are going to have before closing bell each day. You see with this kind of market down slide and then sharp jerk up before closing bell at the end of trading day you could play long ball on your game. If you are a good contrariety investor then only do it if your investing in dividend paying stocks that offset market panic swells when the investors hit the exit door. I am always fond of trading on the down swing in the market so you can pick up some good cheaply beaten down stocks and bonds at a below fair market value. For with this strategy by doing this you are going to severely increase your profit potential when it is time to hit the dump button at the top of the of swing up hill on the stock or bond. You got to be proactive on this way of trading on a uneven market and use your available tools to achieve real time strategic success on wall street investing. I have said it many times before but it is worth repeating here that if you don't have the guts and nerve to be a investor then you should consider going back to working a nine to five job making peanuts for yourself. On the other hand if you want to risk it all and want to make money hand over fist in a just a matter of minutes or a few hours a day then you come to the right vehicle to do it. Wall Street is by no means for everyone and it has taken me two decades of learning to come to understand how to correctly invest a portfolio and where,when to do it so as to minimize core account loss. If you think your good at a lot of things you will have a rough ride with investment at first because let's face it the ones on Wall Street don't like new people horning in on their secrets of getting rich and they will do most anything to get you to lose your shirt while laughing at you. In one word money managers are RUTHLESS and that is why they are rich just like bankers are rich too because they guard their wealth and secrets of making it available to a very select few insider.. Market insiders are a complete contradiction to every ones sense of fair game and that is how they keep getting richer by normal peoples ignorance of how everything works on a trading platform. How do you think the rich in investment banking and Wall Street seemingly never go with out a Gulf Stream jet,Armani suits and fancy everything in life? It is pretty simple to see it if you look careful at the whole idea of investing it is a game of chance an big risk involved in doing it but play the game the right way and you gain a quick fortune like all the bulls do or head for the exit door with your crying towel and your tail between your legs. Having said that you can minimize your portfolio risk if you watch for certain signs that the market gives out on a minute by minute real time basis on what ever stock or bond your invested in at the time you trade it. Yes, it is a business and it is a very profitable one at best but you got to learn not to put your heart in it like prize possessions and know when to buy and when to sell it to make your profit quota for that day. If you learn by doing it and minimize your mistakes which you are bound to make then you can make yourself into another Warren Buffet as this is part of how he made himself the richest man on earth. Take my advise it is a good wealth building vehicle that will if done right wipe out all your debt and make you a overnight favorite with your new found friends as being rich does that on Wall Street over and over again..

New Bailout Spending Package

Well it is soon to be a break time here at work so I want to address the new 4 trillion dollar deficit reduction bill proposed by president Oboma. With out getting to much flower in the yeast here it is just going to make things better for all of America when government spends less and taxes all of us working folks less too. It is really going to help American business which will look at this with much enthusiasm but remember how many times they have been promised something and had the rug ripped out from under them. When it is all said and done my thought is that it really is just a smoke screen for new taxation on everyone because now supposedly the US Treasury is going to broke. HelloWashington DC., Americans are saying wake up you can not spend us into oblivion without some kind of pain along the way in economics and the rest of our country becoming the single largest debtor nation on earth. It seems that as soon as most people get elected to office they make a u-turn and forget they work for this country and go to the side of greed not caring who they make the laws about just simple exempting themselves always from it. That is the same attitude of political correctness that has made us a debtor nation with China our biggest creditor in the world and also our biggest threat to our soviernty. You see when we as a nation continue to over spend our GDP and our capacity to pay our bills what do you think is going to happen? The answer does not take a economist to tell you that your stupid and you SPENT yourself broke on all the government socialized state combined with over taxation and killing the business creative people with burdening regulations that drive them out of business. You can not expect to keep business in this country afloat when you tax them into never land and you drive investors way from investing in America. I remember Ross Perot who said that if your going to get America running again you got to cut government bloat and stop taxing and heavy regulating everything and  everyone in this country into being broke which makes sense to me. you see the last round of blind side economics that just happened recently by raising the national debt another 2.7 trillion dollars is just madness. When is the elected people in Congress going to start making the right decisions and reverse the economic pain that is being felt by the rest of Americans? The answer might not surprise you if you are old enough to remember alot of history in America. Congress loves to spend money and write blank checks that you and everyone else is stuck paying for while quite factually exempting themselves from all the wrong that they are doing to all of America. If the Fed would get the monetary policy right and stop monkeying with interest rates that cause flash stock market crashes and nervous investors heading for the TUMS for bad stomach jitters then we could solve another problem. By working on the problems that America has instead of failing to address it you can get a clear direction to go and make a sound policy decisions that put America back to work and back to economic stability. You have to at some point make the right decisions that put America back on a solid ground by doing it or you will fail completely as a nationn and that would be the wrong thing to do for a great nation that our founding fathers so wonderfully created called America. In order to right all the wrong that is being done to current generations and all future generations the right time is now to begin cleaning up our mess and getting our country out of the economic hole we have dug ourselves into by changing how we do business. That is really not as hard as it si to do but we as a nation have to come to terms with our mistakes and start fixing them before it really is too late to fix these mistakes later in the future.. Food for thought to all my readership as to how much you are all going to effected by the coming wave of new spending and taxation in our great nation of America..

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Tax Code Changes

I am writing today to update everyone on the new tax code changes that are being kicked around in the U.S. Congress and by the President which are going to significantly effect everyone in America. Let us start out with how this new proposal will work at it's present bill state without admendements as it is a giant step in taxing corporate America into a higher bracket by adding another 22 percent tax hike to every American business. While not addressing the real issue of government spending gone way out of control in the matter of way to many programs that do nothing except spend tax dollars that are wasted on them. For my readers you can look for the combined income tax rate for personal income tax is according to the now sponsored bill going down by 12 percent in the next year but if your the employer your going to feel the pain of a giant tax increase. This kind of taxation is going to chill the economy and with the allready high unemployment rate at 9.1 percent employers are going to seek to not hire any more new workers for the immediate future until government gets it's act together on controlling spending. If you tax the rich who all make over a million dollars which is also a new proposal then what will ahppen is the loss of blue collar sector jobs that make the goods and services that the rich people buy which is nuts to do that. Of course some tax on wealthy people  is good but not to tax them at 43 percent of their income is just not going to help the economy in America get out of the very serious hole that it is in presently. If you tax corporate America into a position of nearly failure on the bottom line then you will see the back lash over it in the banking and every other critical part of the economy. WHY? Well that is eay to answer in that big and small companies combined are more likely to look overseas to continue in business since tax codes in most european countries like Sweden favor American investment. So the the next thing that will happen is a sucking sound of more current jobs and companies moving their operations over to europe and malaysia which will hurt more deeply here in a worse recession in America economy. By shifting jobs over seas which will happen with the new tax code structure you will have less investment and innovation in America combined with more unemployment plus more need to spend money on government social programs in order to support the people who are effected by it. It results in a losing scenario that will push America into a more difficult phase of government growth and less private sector jobs combined with little to no investment here at home in our economy. You can only think back a few years to when Steve Forbes proposed the flat tax and bingo card tax form on how easy it would be to to get America back on a solid financial footing but sadly it failed to gain the much nedded support in Congress and the White House at the time. It really is part of the solution that both Steve Forbes and Ross Poreout combined came up with that would begin to fix our tax code and all the financial mess.

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I have some reflections of doing a new talk show in which is harder than I originally though it would be for me to creating a interesting radio show. Well, Modern Political Thinking is continuing to keep going on blogtalkradio and live on radio stations so I have decided to make some changes in that area in order to attract listeners base. I am now going to offering a new segment part on my show called (TURNING POINT) in which we will be exploring one currently important issue in major depth every week. I am asking my blog readers and listeners to my talk show to email me suggestions as to what issues you would like to see on this blog and hear me talk about every week. You can now Email them to me ..... 
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New Video Magazine

In keeping with doing a lot of progressive changes that I feel keep things interesting in response to some recent requests to put a video business magazine online. I have started a new weekly video series that everyone and my blog readers can go to now to view it on YOUTUBE. This new weekly segment is called (Business Journal) which is dedicated to business,jobs the economy and much more.. just pont your mouse to the following address..      Look for Business Journal
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