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..