Earnings season brings out the big guns

  ummm, really? ...

"fox news tells it both way's they are more trust worthy "

so you think that a company owned and controlled by a single uber-wealthy, uber-greedy, uber-conservative foreigner, rupert murdoch, will provide you with unbiased, trustworthy news and discussions that are not slanted to his benefit?

you think a company intricately structured so as to never pay a dime in US corporate income tax has America's well-being in mind?

have you ever heard the term "brain-washing?" 

active it seems we see eye to eye that was pre nobama2012, people are fighting the wrong fight 30/70......nobama201​​2's policies in all aspect's are wrong and way out of order, JOB'S and economic problems should of been before nobama2012care; now i understand he's trying to bring up illegal immigration again just like few month's ago just to get the hispanic vote....so sad!

illegal immigration/ campaigning for his job/ job's plan that was a failure before it was written up; he went on vacation so they could quickly write up a jobs plan, he had no plan he had no plans for a job's plan but the gop did and he wouldn't listen.........who's​​ coming first for  his action's......he is, not the people, not the country! NOBAMA2012 IS A FAILURE THAT EXCEEDS CARTER!

 hmmmmm.......

The U.S. government reported Friday that retail sales rose 1.1 percent in September, the biggest gain in seven months.

"The retail sales report was encouraging for both the energy market and the health of the general economy," energy trader and consultant The Schork Group said in a report. "Now let's see how long this lasts until European debt concerns send us reeling again."

active are you a leftwinger or you just take harsh criticism of a third party to heart and feel you must protect them?

extremist TP member of the House who have formed the totally partisan "me-first country-second" purely political Party of No "republican

the tea party is exactly what they're name  states, "TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY"; now any sane person would appreciate that idea! from what i have seen on NON-LIBERAL news is 50% of occupy wall streeters(all cities) are commies, i've seen mao/ lennon on t-shirt's, i have heard interviews of people talking socialism/ communism/ marxism/ maoism/ the other 50% half of them are truly sane people and are getting screwed by corporate america and have a legit beef, the last half are people who feel they have no clue but as they voted for nobama2012 it was history in the making and they wanted to get their picture taken while in the crowd!

the ignorance of the people will be the downfall of their nation!

eg: when you join a union why is it that you are automatically in the democratic bubble(is this freedom) what gives the union boss's the right to stump/ pledge/ donate to the democratic party......uh, job's and these jobs come from tax dollars.....so spend your way out, SOCIALISM AT IT'S FINEST! be indebt/ stay indebt; greece is looking so good right now!

of course we are all concerned about obama's shenanigans - but all of that is upstaged by bigger, more important issues that affect ALL AMERICANS and not just the conservative/TP sector ...

if it were reversed with regards to the party, msn would have 10 stories at one time and they would be on every where, that's the problem; fox news tells it both way's they are more trust worthy just the hosts are creepy! 

active the corruption of this administration is beyond bush's b.s.! i don't believe bush had stories of defrauding the public of a few billion dollars just to satisfy his campaign bundlers, perry will though!

  hmmm ...

"This means that anyone who allows the media into persuading him that the Tea Party is bad for the US is a complete, very gullible fool."

have you checked the national polls recently?  looks like there are tens of millions (and growing daily) more complete, gullible fools than conservative ideological extremist supporters these days .... tell us, just who is grover norquist and did you vote him in as the Commander in Chief of this new republican roadblock?

Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, known as the GIIPS, have about 2.9 trillion euros of government bonds outstanding, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Italy, the third-largest issuer of debt after the U.S. and Japan, accounts for more than half, or 1.59 trillion euros, the data show. About 413 billion euros of GIIPS debt is held by 38 of Europe’s largest lenders, according to an analysis of the stress-test results by Alberto Gallo, a strategist at RBS in London. Those holdings equal almost 40 percent of the banks’ 1.1 trillion euros of equity, according to Gallo. European banks, having agreed to a voluntary loss of about 21 percent, are bracing for further writedowns on Greece’s 288 billion euros of government bonds, which carry Moody’s second- lowest rating of Ca and an equivalent CC by Standard & Poor’s. European officials are considering writedowns of as much as 50 percent on Greek bonds as part of a revamped strategy to combat the crisis, people familiar with the discussions said.

  hmmm ...

"...and it'll all be because socialism has run out of OPM"

coming from the capitalist USA with almost 100% of annual GDP in hock, and our third almost unthinkable $1 trillion annual budget deficit in a row, isn't that a bit like the pot calling the kettle black?  living in a glass house and throwing stones?  taking one to know one?  what's good for the goose ....  etc. 

it's about contagion hava and the weakness of the banks.  dexia was ranked strongest under the stress tests and it just vaporized. if the contagion (weakness and defaults and credit crunch) widens then that means recession in the word's largest economy (euro zone) and that pressures china world's number three into recession and ..... pretty soon you are talking real money ... and the US ....

i am no raving bear ... probability is still a low-growth scenario ... just pointing out that ignoring the POSSIBILITY of a very harmful downturn is imprudent .... there is a reason i have a boxful of American Eagles with the rest of my basement bunker supplies ....

have a good one.