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NYSE Dollar Volume and Average Closing Prices, to March 31st

No chart today, it’s boring: totally flat since the last update 2 weeks ago.
Both price and volume are nearly flat.

$$ Republicans vs. Democrats, Market Returns by Party

You can moan and whine all you want, but the facts are facts. Stock market does better when a DEM president is in power. Granted, it’s not a huge sample.

Average annualized return in pretty chart form

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(Hat tip to my friend Peter for finding this; credit for the creation of the original chart – Bloomberg.)

Economy of the Future

I wanted to share a couple of blogs I follow:

Copyright Alliance, latest post

New Rules for the New Economy, latest post

The last one there is especially interesting. The author wrote a book in 1998 predicting the move towards network economy we’re experiencing now.

It’s all coming true. Maybe the old economy will die and we’ll still be kind of alright. We’ll just sell ebooks, stocks and advice to each other and make a living that way. Corporations will for the most part take care of growing GMO and cloned food and building cardboard homes.

Meant as a joke, I’m not sad, depressed or anything. Maybe just a little tired.

Twitter Find

WTF Vintage Photo

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$$WMT, H&M Merchandise Thrown Away Wasteful!

So wasteful, incredible. H&M and Walmart damage and throw away unsold merchandise because suppliers don’t want to pay for shipping the items back. There has to be a better way of discarding them.

New York Times

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