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..

Have a great day everyone .. Smile...



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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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