Friday, March 8, 2013

Economic Journal - Friday, 3/8/2013

(As of 7:07 am PST)
 
Get ready for a manic market.  The markets are brushing off a great jobs creation number and giving back some early gains.  The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.7% is concert with the jobs creation number.  Why the hesitation of the market then? This is another in a series of positive economic reports indicating that  the economy is starting to take off.  What's the problem?  Stimulus!  Good news reduces the argument for further stimulus and the easy money policies are drawing closer to an end.  Remember that much of our markets gains have been stimulus driven over the last few years.  As the economy presses on, the markets might not follow, fearing stimulus reduction and investment deleveraging.  Still, it is great to see such positive economic data and perhaps our recovery can spill over to Europe as well.

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