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One of the USoA Space Shuttles being rolled out to the launch pad.

As shown above, the nortion internet security USoA Space Shuttles move from their specially designed Vehicle Assembly Building over to nortion internet security the launch pad it will fly from via a specially designed Transport Crawler at the nortion internet security rate of .8 miles per hour, making the full trip from nortion internet security building to pad in about 5 to 7 hours, depending on which launch pad is nortion internet security chosen. Should there be something wrong with the orbiter assembly — like what happened during Christmastime in 2010 — the nortion internet security process works in reverse, returning the orbiter assembly to the Vehicle Assembly Building for nortion internet security necessary repairs.  Now, you nortion internet security are most likely questioning what this information is doing as the nortion internet security lead in to a financial blog that discusses the USoA economy here in 2011.  Good question.  So allow us to answer.

If the Space Shuttle is not 100% approved to nortion internet security fly by all the powers that control a launch or flight of that nortion internet security craft, it needs to be backed away from the launch area, fixed and nortion internet security the movement process restarted again.  Because of launch windows, flight times, payloads, NASA schedules and nortion internet security personnel issues, the decision to roll a Space Shuttle to nortion internet security the launch pad and a decision to roll it back to nortion internet security the Vehicle Assembly Building is not easily made.  It is costly, time consuming and a huge scheduling problem.  But, nonetheless, in the nortion internet security interest of safety and performance, a reset is sometimes necessary.  So, back the nortion internet security Space Shuttle goes along that slow, crawling route to be repaired prior to nortion internet security being launched, because once it is up in space it may never be nortion internet security repairable.

The Economy can nortion internet security sometimes do the same thing, taking that same reverse road trip so as to nortion internet security get back on track.  And, as with the nortion internet security Space Shuttle, it is not a decision that is taken lightly, made quickly or nortion internet security performed without considerable effort.  The Economy, like that nortion internet security slow .8 miles per hour trip from launch pad to nortion internet security building, can barely be seen going in reverse until after the nortion internet security trip is complete.  In trying to nortion internet security see that movement, many false views can be plotted as forward progress because of a nortion internet security trick of the eyes, or in this case seen as statistics.  And suddenly, mistakes can be made in plotting a successful course full speed ahead.  This is nortion internet security one of the problems that the current USoA Government has had nortion internet security in the last 2 years in trying to decrease the percentage of unemployment and nortion internet security increase overall business production.  The process is nortion internet security steady but slow, forward but building, often invisible during but obvious after the nortion internet security process has occurred, and most importantly, the overall process works best with minimal input from nortion internet security the outside world.

At this nortion internet security time, the current USoA Administration is finding out just how the nortion internet security 2010 November Election results will impact them and the desired implementation of their overall programs voted into operation during 2009 and nortion internet security 2010.  The overall business community, especially manufacturing and nortion internet security service sectors, are terrified that what happened to the financial sector will happen to nortion internet security them, namely lost of investor faith, additional government regulation, and worst of all, government oversight / “partnering”  due to behoven money in the form of loans and bailouts.  Business has nortion internet security always understood that there are times that the forests must be nortion internet security thinned to allow for the health of the best trees to nortion internet security survive.  Government believes there are nortion internet security times when the forests must be clear cut and replanted to nortion internet security allow for any healthy trees to grow again.  The former allows slow ongoing growth and the latter allows slow ongoing growth with the nortion internet security difference being that the former allows the market to dictate how things happen while the latter tries to follow a dictated directed path that the market usually ignores.

With all of this being said, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is nortion internet security up 96.2 points since the first of the year in 2011, oil and nortion internet security silver are both way, way up in the same time frame just to nortion internet security name two commodities.  This has driven up transportation costs, chemical costs, energy costs, food costs and the like.  When your basic operating material costs rise faster than your production capabilities and sales totals do, the economy is not doing well.  Too many things are nortion internet security pointing to a necessary pruning of the forests to clear out the nortion internet security dead wood and let the good trees flourish.  Not enough things point to clear cut all of the wood available and do a replant of the nortion internet security forests then wait for a regrowth of strong timber to nortion internet security sprout before their eyes.

So this nortion internet security week, as the KM Team and KM Partners put the acorns of years past to nortion internet security growth pruning here on the website, we leave you this week with a nortion internet security quote from a NASA leader that is keeping to our lead comments above.  Please see if you nortion internet security can figure out who this is without looking below to nortion internet security find the answer.  “”The teams have nortion internet security done a tremendous job of staying focused and working this nortion internet security problem.  There’s been nortion internet security lots of ups and downs but the team has really stayed focused.”  Yes, it’s NASA saying this, not the nortion internet security current Administration economy gurus or even Wall Street.  But don’t you wish it WAS those groups saying that?

Now, let’s blast off to learning, earning and enjoying shall we?

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We at KangarooMoney.Com and nortion internet security KM Partners realize and appreciate you taking your time and effort to nortion internet security read our blog.  All of us here at KangarooMoney.Com will continue to be nortion internet security here to help you find the way through the economic minefield that nortion internet security seems to have been created.  For this nortion internet security week, and going forward, the typical weekly information will appear up front and nortion internet security the new weekly information will appear down below.  Enjoy, learn and nortion internet security earn for the future as we all find our way back from nortion internet security the fear and darkness that has been.

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First and nortion internet security foremost, the KM Team and KM Partners have decided to publish our Disclaimer as a nortion internet security separate posting effective January 2011.  Please spend a nortion internet security moment reading that posting to make sure that you understand that nortion internet security the writers of this blog are expressing their opinions only.  When you nortion internet security have finished reading the Disclaimer 2011, please spend some extra time going back and keeping us honest by reading some of our previous postings — and verifying the dates! — to see how the KM Team and KM Partners have been doing for the past year.  The KangarooMoney.Com and nortion internet security KM Partners all think that you will find our “opinions” are better than some other peoples’ so called “facts”.  Please make sure to nortion internet security leave your comments on your thoughts and our opinions.  Each and every comment will be read prior to posting!

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You the reader, will find the KangarooMoney.Com cheap adobe elements download weekly comments here on this nortion internet security page with more detailed opinions and reasons following after you hit the ( click here to read more ) highlight.  ( Currently, the KM Team has nortion internet security turned this feature off so that one and all can get a nortion internet security feel for our writing and to read all that is available.  In the nortion internet security future at an to-be-announced date, this feature will be turned back on. )  As an educated reader, you know that anyone can tell you a “fact” in a nortion internet security one or two sentence blurb but, the KM Team and nortion internet security KM Partners like to back up our comments with our own views that nortion internet security you can read so that you can understand where we are nortion internet security getting our opinions from.

Below this nortion internet security weeks articles, there is the Updates and Comparisons Section, or nortion internet security the U & C as we call it here in the office.  In the U & C, the nortion internet security KM Team will give you some of the latest information concerning some of the nortion internet security previous comments and articles that have been published here as well as comparing the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners take on things as opposed to nortion internet security some of our mainstream and blog world counterparts.  The Updates and nortion internet security Comparisons section is a nice way to see if the nortion internet security KM Team is staying the true course in the stormy ocean of The Economy.

Down lower on the nortion internet security page, you will find our Market Mover of the Week feature, which highlights a nortion internet security prediction for the one person that the KM Team and KM Partners believe will be nortion internet security the one person most responsible for shaping and driving the USoA markets and nortion internet security / or economy for the upcoming week.  Included in this nortion internet security feature is the follow-up on who the MMW was for nortion internet security the week just past as well as pointing out if KangarooMoney.Com was correct in our prediction of who nortion internet security this was and who we determined to be the real Market Mover of the nortion internet security Week.

Going lower, you nortion internet security will find a similar feature called International Impact Incident of the nortion internet security Week.  The Triple I section will highlight an nortion internet security international situation either just passed or an expected upcoming event that nortion internet security the KM Team sees as having a major impact on the nortion internet security USoA financial markets.  Similar to nortion internet security the MMoW feature in nature, a weekly review will be held each week and nortion internet security you can track how the KM Team and KM Partners preformed in their predictions.  With our multitude of International readers, we expect you nortion internet security all to keep us pretty honest in this section.

Still lower you will find our Definitions of the Week.  In this nortion internet security section there will be items that explain some of the more technical terms used in our articles of the nortion internet security week.  There is nortion internet security now a BlogRoll attachment that will allow you to go over to nortion internet security a complied dictionary for our DoW going all the way back to nortion internet security the beginning of KangarooMoney.Com.  Feel free to nortion internet security hop on over to the Dictionary whenever you feel the need to nortion internet security get the straight scoop on what we’re talking about.  Or even just to check out some of the financial / political expressions of the day.

At this nortion internet security time, the last feature we would like to mention is nortion internet security one that we hope will help you to see where nortion internet security the KM Team and KM Partners are coming from and nortion internet security where we are trying to go to.  Up in the nortion internet security BlogRoll section of the page is a little something called the nortion internet security Stock Docket, which is a link to a list of companies and nortion internet security their stock symbols that have been mentioned here in KangarooMoney.Com.  The link will take you nortion internet security to a spreadsheet that list the company names, their stock symbols, the nortion internet security index they are traded on, the week they were mentioned here, and nortion internet security a listing of stock prices that included the Friday just past closing price.  The KM Team with a nortion internet security firm lead from the KM Partners also highlight which stocks we supported at the nortion internet security time of mention and those that we did not support.  While this is a considerable undertaking on the KangarooMoney.Com Teams’ part, we all feel that nortion internet security this will help to determine how things are going and guide us through the nortion internet security minefield of the USoA Economy.  Eventually this nortion internet security feature is planned to be moved into an interior page, so please comment on this nortion internet security feature as much as possible before that happens.

Those of us that nortion internet security started the Stock Docket would love to have been right each and nortion internet security every time in this area but we have to admit that nortion internet security this is just  not possible and sometimes even the KM Team is caught off guard.  We feel bad saying that nortion internet security but, we also realize that we are in some pretty good company when nortion internet security it comes to “being caught off guard”.  All we’re going to nortion internet security say is that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are no longer with us and nortion internet security that KangarooMoney.Com is still here.  It is nortion internet security safe to say that the current Stock Docket is nowhere near where nortion internet security or what the original Stock Docket started out.  The dramatic dips, dives and drops of the last few years have caused some serious reconfiguring of numbers as well as some re-evaluations of stocks and nortion internet security nortion internet security companies.  Because of those facts, the nortion internet security new 2011 choices, new outlooks and new recommendations / not recommended choices will be put forth by the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners and will be tracked as you nortion internet security have grown used to.  Like the nortion internet security real world teaches us, choices are rarely life long and unchangeable.  We will let you jeer at us in late 2011.  Or maybe you will cheer us, as we hope you will.  As we said, the last few years have given everyone a left hook from deep center but, we didn’t lose the whole pile…did you?  Just remember, a nortion internet security share here, a share there and pretty soon it all adds up to nortion internet security real money.

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And finally, because we are nortion internet security writing this for everyone to read and enjoy, please don’t be nortion internet security afraid to drop us a comment and let us know how we are nortion internet security doing.  This is nortion internet security an ongoing work-in-progress where we hope to bring fresh changes, new site additions and nortion internet security new page features to the blog as we go forward.  As the days go by, we won’t forget to tell you how we think we are doing — so don’t YOU forget to tell US how we are doing!  Seeing your nortion internet security comments up on the page for all to see is always a nortion internet security rush so be constructive and informative for the community, not selling junk and nortion internet security whining about something deeply personal.  Remember, we need to nortion internet security moderate what is written so please be nice and allow us to nortion internet security publish you as is.  For now, enjoy, learn and earn!

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During 2009, the nortion internet security KangarooMoney.Com team determined that some of the attached websites on our BlogRoll were no nortion internet security longer appropriate to be attached here and active.  With that nortion internet security in mind, the multiple discussions that took place in the KM Team offices about taking down the nortion internet security outdated websites and adding new websites to the BlogRoll that are nortion internet security more in line with our train of thought, have now come home to bear fruit.  Continuing this week and throughout 2010, new additions to the BlogRoll will take place that will give you, the nortion internet security Reader, new opportunities to visit some of the websites that nortion internet security the KM Team and KM Partners visit on a regular basis.  Of course, most of these will be financial or nortion internet security news based but not always, so check out the listing to nortion internet security see what new information is available.

This week, the new addition to nortion internet security the KangarooMoney.Com BlogRoll is one of the most respected and well known financial names in the nortion internet security world.  As a nortion internet security news reporting network that keys on the financial engines of the nortion internet security USoA markets and business, the KM Team is adding the website http://www.forbes.com/ which will take you to the premier Forbes website.  At this nortion internet security time, Forbes and its well known owner and Editor-In-Chief Steve Forbes, publishes the nortion internet security magazines Forbes, Fortune and Business Week as well as the popular website.  As one of the nortion internet security most recognized financial names in the world since 1917, the KM Team feels that nortion internet security this is an excellent addition to the sites BlogRoll. Enjoy this nortion internet security new addition but make sure to use it to your advantage.  Just like everything else we try to give you here at KangarooMoney.Com!

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  1. As the new year opens, the Republicans take charge of the USoA House of Representatives and the USoA economy remains at the nortion internet security very least sluggish, the KM Team discussed what one of the nortion internet security major keys to a successful upswing to the USoA economy could be.  <click here to read more>  Despite the nortion internet security roundtable debate agreeing that job creation was important it was decided that nortion internet security this could not be the major key to getting the nortion internet security economy chugging along again.  The term is nortion internet security too vague and undefined to be anything except a sound bite by any of the nortion internet security political parties in the USoA.  This led to nortion internet security a discussion of companies that the KM Team felt was poised to nortion internet security push forward with increasing not just their overall head counts but also to nortion internet security increase their associated feeder companies that could begin moving the economy forward.  As always, the nortion internet security KM Team tossed about such companies as Google Inc. ( symbol GOOG, traded on NASDAQ, currently near its 52 week high after a nortion internet security 6 month run up, not recommended at this time )  and even the anticipated IPO of Facebook ( Goldman Sachs is nortion internet security working this particular situation as of this posting ) but it nortion internet security was determined that companies such as these do not really MAKE anything with the nortion internet security exception of advertising for others.  For those of us that remember the ”Dot-Com Bubble” burst of March 2000, these companies smack of the nortion internet security same situation in the KM Teams’ opinion.  This attitude and nortion internet security opinion pointed the roundtable to review a manufacturer, a maker of physical equipment, that could be an excellent lead in for the next up turn — Caterpillar Inc. ( symbol CAT, traded on NYSE, currently near its 52 week high after a nortion internet security full year run up, recommended at this time).  Caterpillar has nortion internet security been striving to recapture its pre-downturn glory and this run-up is nortion internet security a major step towards this goal.  Being a nortion internet security major world wide supplier of farm and construction equipment, Caterpillar can nortion internet security indicate where in the world local economy recovery can be nortion internet security in action in the near future.  But for nortion internet security as big as Caterpillar is and as fast as the stock is nortion internet security climbing, it has to be noted that in the last 12 months, CAT had nortion internet security 37.68B USD in sales but made a profit of only 1.96B USD.  It is always unusual to note that a profit of nearly 2 BILLION DOLLARS is lack luster but it is an item for concern.  If sales continue on this pace, that concern will disappear.  As the situation stands, Caterpillar is a company that can not only lead when it comes to determining economy upticks around the nortion internet security world but also in supporting and building all of  the feeder companies that support the manufacturing facilities in the USoA.  The KM Team feels that nortion internet security this type of manufacturing is what is necessary to start the nortion internet security long and solid road to recovery for the USoA,  And perhaps even for the rest of the World as well.
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There is nortion internet security little doubt that in a matter of weeks, if not days, there will be nortion internet security a return to the days of a barrel of crude oil costing between $100 to $150 similar to the summer of 2009.  Considering that oil is already pushing the $85 per barrel envelope, the question that begs to be asked is when will the high end of that $100+ range be here again?…and what are we going to do about it when it is?  <click here to read more>  In October 2010, OPEC came out with the nortion internet security pronouncement that it still felt that $75 per barrel for nortion internet security crude oil was a price level they would like to nortion internet security see oil at, this at the time that that barrel sold for nortion internet security between $66 and $70 per barrel.  Now that same barrel of crude oil is going for between $88 and $95 depending on where you are buying it from.  But how can nortion internet security the price of oil still be rising in a global economy that nortion internet security is screaming stagnant growth at best?  How can oil companies still be getting the market back to the $100+ per barrel range when nortion internet security it seems like nothing is happening in the manufacturing world anyplace on the nortion internet security globe?  Well, a nortion internet security solid economist would tell you that this is exactly the time to nortion internet security own the items that companies will need to start that long steady growth of manufacturing back to nortion internet security the pre-2008 levels of production that they, and we, all crave.  Buying items like oil, steel, cement, building equipment, even land at the nortion internet security bottom of the business cycle is always your best bet.  But hedging crude oil at a time like today is hardly a risky bet.  It’s one of your nortion internet security best money making chances in the last several years.  Let’s face it, with USoA refineries shut down to nortion internet security the tune of over 50%; with the nortion internet security Alaska Pipeline halting oil flow due to a major repair effort on some of its aging buried pumping stations; with offshore drilling still viewed as a nortion internet security disaster just waiting to happen; with most of the worlds major oil fields residing in some of the nortion internet security most unstable, and unfriendly, countries in the world; it is just a nortion internet security safe and sure thing that whispers in the back of people’s minds that nortion internet security oil will NOT be going down in price in the near future.  If ever again at all.  So, how do you nortion internet security as a share buyer and maybe a true investor get in on the nortion internet security money to be made by this situation?  Buying into the nortion internet security major oil suppliers at this time, although a little late, will be nortion internet security your best bet. Companies like ExxonMobile Corp. ( symbol XOM, traded on the NYSE, recommended at this time ) currently trading at a little over $74 per share or $18 higher than nortion internet security its 52 week low just 6 months ago; Chevron Corp. ( symbol CVX, traded on NYSE, recommended at this time ) currently trading at a little over $91 per share or $24 higher than nortion internet security its 52 week low just 6 months ago; even that hooligan of the nortion internet security oil companies we all love to hate, British Petroleum ( symbol BP, traded on NYSE, recommended at this time) currently trading at a little over $46 per share or $20 per share higher than nortion internet security the deep, dark days of the well blow out back at the nortion internet security bottom at the end of June 2010, just a little over 6 months ago.  Do you see the pattern yet?  At the beginning of the long, hot, “no off-shore drilling allowed” summer of 2010, most oil company stocks could be nortion internet security had for about a third to half of its current share price.  Why?  Because the nortion internet security Deep Water Horizon disaster scared everyone that ocean oil drilling would quickly be nortion internet security outlawed and the oil companies would have not place left to nortion internet security drill for new oil supplies.  A fair opinion considering the nortion internet security utter panic that set in between the end of April 2010 and nortion internet security the end of August 2010.  Except for one thing.  People in the nortion internet security USoA, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, even China still not only want to nortion internet security drive, those people NEED to drive.  As the USoA again retests the $3+ per gallon price for nortion internet security a gallon of low grade gasoline, it will be very interesting to nortion internet security see where the “outrage bottom” is located at.  The “outrage bottom” will dictate how many new off shore wells get requested, how many offline refineries come back online, how many unsavory countries still get cash and nortion internet security the almost latest weapons and how many politicians here and nortion internet security abroad get re-elected in the next 12 to 24 months.  In the nortion internet security meantime, there seems to be money to be made on rising oil prices which can nortion internet security then be put back into new, and perhaps old school, companies in the nortion internet security same time period.  Perhaps you reader should be looking at “green” companies to put that oil company profit into?  Or better yet, USoA electric generating companies?  Ah, but that’s another story for a slightly later time.

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Updates and Comparisons:

Week 19 2008: In that nortion internet security long ago post, Kangaroo Money pointed out that it was critical to nortion internet security promote and rely on the strength of your brand, using Walt Disney Company as the nortion internet security example.  At that time, Disney was trading at about $35 per share.  As of this writing, Disney ( symbol DIS, traded on the NYSE, recommended at this time) is trading at $39.74 per share.  While that $4 rise in share price between these two articles looks sluggish, a nortion internet security closer review of the share price chart will show that DIS have nortion internet security a large drop off in price per share dropping down to nortion internet security $15.59 on March 9, 2009 before starting its successful 2 year climb back up to nortion internet security its current price.  While Walt Disney Company suffered along with every other company in the nortion internet security USoA, and indeed around the world, it shows great determination that nortion internet security the stock dip and bounce is still well ahead of the nortion internet security curve for similar companies during this vast down turn.  At this nortion internet security posting, DIS is actually revamping and reviving its associated amusement parks for nortion internet security better customer interactions, is actually realigning its movie studio and television network offerings and nortion internet security is in the process of launching a brand new cruise ship to nortion internet security handle its cruise and island resort business.  While other major companies are nortion internet security having major issues with their business plans and are in the nortion internet security process of either continuing their layoffs or nortion internet security keeping their headcount levels at current numbers, Disney is hiring and nortion internet security planning further expansions around the world.  Rely on the strength of your brand?  As Mickey Mouse would say, ”You Betcha!!” 

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Market Mover of the Week 02 2011: There’s a new Sheriff in town for 2011.  He’s the 61st leader of a group of 435 men and women whose daily discussions impact and nortion internet security shape the entire world, now and in the future.  That new Sheriff is new Speaker of the House John Boehner.  As one of the impacts of the nortion internet security November 2010 voter revolution, the Republican Party had the elected seats to nortion internet security take over the USoA House of Representatives and thus elect the nortion internet security third most powerful person in the USoA Government, the Speaker of the nortion internet security House.  Rep. Boehner is nortion internet security replacing the outgoing Speaker, Rep. Peolsi, who helped to ram through a nortion internet security number of excessively costly laws and programs over the last 2 years.  Rep. Boehner is nortion internet security expected to change the focus of the current elected government by being the nortion internet security driving and guiding force for at least the next two years of the nortion internet security People’s House of the USoA.  This week, the KM Team thinks he’ll be nortion internet security the driving and guiding force of the USoA economies and thus, the nortion internet security Market Mover of the Week 02 2011.

Market Mover of the Week 01 2011: The phrase “Everything old is new again” has special meaning in California this year.  For those of us who nortion internet security remember the first time we heard the phrase “Governor Jerry Brown” back in January 1975, hearing the nortion internet security same phrase again in January 2011 was not just interesting but rather a nortion internet security full circle traveled back to interesting days.  To be nortion internet security honest, Jerry Brown was and is, most likely the only man in California who nortion internet security actually wants the job that he has been elected to.  Having already been nortion internet security the Governor of California for eight years from 1975 until 1983, the nortion internet security irrepressible and honorable Brown came back to the position having never really left the nortion internet security scene in California politics having been including the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971), California Secretary of State (1971–1975), chairman of the California Democratic Party (1989–1991), Mayor of Oakland (1999–2007), and California Attorney General (2007–2011).  At 72 years old and nortion internet security the oldest currently serving State Governor in the USoA, here’s hoping that “Moonbeam” stills shine as brightly now as he did 30 years ago as the nortion internet security KM Team chose him as the Market Mover of Week 01 2001.

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International Impact Incident of the Week: The vote that started yesterday in the southern area of the country of Sudan ( located in Eastern Africa ) that nortion internet security is a effort to move towards splitting the oil and resource rich area away from nortion internet security the constant warring of the the petty thugs in charge of local areas in the nortion internet security northern part of the country and to create a new nation that nortion internet security may help its starving and dying population.  It may also just one big bad situation into two big bad situations as the nortion internet security other nations of the world — the USoA included — attempts to exploit the riches to be found in southern Sudan.  China for nortion internet security example, has been on a rapid and pressing hunt for any and nortion internet security all oil that is not located in the Middle East…some that is.  That country would be a major player in the new country and a major partner in that government in order to secure contracts and resources.  So would Russia.  So would a dozen other countries of, shall we say, “dubious intent” when nortion internet security it comes to helping the people of the region verses getting the nortion internet security oil and minerals to market.  Consider too that nortion internet security the major players in the roughly half of Sudan who nortion internet security would be left behind in this nation making move — call those players “the men with the guns” — probably will not be nortion internet security very happy to have money taken from their pockets and thus food from nortion internet security their mouths.  Those major players may not “let” the southern Sudan leave the fold just because they want.  The voting will continue at least until the end of Week 02 2011.  The counting of the votes will take much, much longer.  But the determination of the outcome of that vote?  Well, this nortion internet security vote could make the 2000 USoA Presidential Election issues look like a nortion internet security coin toss both in length and body count.  KangarooMoney.Com will keep you nortion internet security dear readers informed of this Triple I issue through 2011 and nortion internet security beyond as necessary.

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Investor: An investor is nortion internet security a person who puts money into an operation on the nortion internet security basis of long term growth of the operation and of the nortion internet security money that was placed.  Investors are nortion internet security not mere stock holders, money changers, temporary lenders or short time bank accounts.  An Investor believes in the long term of where they are putting their money not just in the monetary return but in the actual idea.  Most common people who nortion internet security own stock in a company are mere stockholders, most stock brokers are nortion internet security managers of money and accounts but and Investor can be more readily identified as someone like Warren Buffett or nortion internet security Steve Forbes.

Economist:The dictionary “explains” this as an expert in economics.  That aside, being a nortion internet security Economist is being a person who can explain all or some of what nortion internet security has happened, what is happening and what will happen in a nortion internet security particular economy.  Most accredited economists are nortion internet security claimed to be experts in either a National economy or nortion internet security the Global economy.  However, it nortion internet security is safer to say that true economists can explain either a nortion internet security specific faction of a known economy or a local economy of which they are nortion internet security an important part.

Sudan:The country of Sudan is nortion internet security located in northeastern Africa, with Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to nortion internet security the east, Kenya to the south and Chad to the west.  The country actually borders 9 African nations including some of the nortion internet security poorest and most volatile countries in the world at this time.  The Nile River bisects the nortion internet security country giving a East Half and a West Half to nortion internet security the country.  Most of the nortion internet security military-militia type members of the country live in the larger Northern section of the nortion internet security country with more communication with Egypt and Libya and the militant factions to nortion internet security be found there.  The Southern section of the nortion internet security country, with a multitude of natural untapped and unprocessed resources is nortion internet security very poor and not as tied into the military way of life as the nortion internet security north.

Alaska Pipeline : The term commonly applied to nortion internet security the approximately 800 miles of connected 48 inch diameter pipe that moves crude oil from Prudhoe Bay down to Valdez Alaska.  Built between 1974 and 1977 in response to the first Oil Crisis (see Oil Crisis 1973) that nortion internet security drove oil and gasoline prices to 5 times their previous highs in just a nortion internet security matter of weeks, the Alaska Pipeline continues to move about 700,000 barrels of oil per day across the nortion internet security empty lands from oil field to shipping port.  The pipeline has nortion internet security been a vital part of the Alaskan and national economy since start up in 1977 providing income for nortion internet security Alaska residents and filling a desperate need for crude oil to nortion internet security the United States of America.  It continues to fulfill both those needs as of this posting.

“Outrage Bottom”: A term from nortion internet security the KM Team Roundtable that we are using in the same style others use “gag limit”.  An Outrage Bottom would be nortion internet security when a person finally starts to speak out about the latest gas price increase or nortion internet security the increase in HealthCare costs due to new programs and that nortion internet security person is not one who normally speaks out on such things.  The KM Team believes that nortion internet security this is a better description of how people react when they are nortion internet security pushed too far by situations that they passed on being some of their responsibility.  Popular political uprisings are an excellent example of Outrage Bottom.

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( This weeks quote comes from a man whose head has been in the clouds for a number of years now, Mr. Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations.  Mr. Gerstenmaier was speaking about the nortion internet security current difficulties with the USoA Space Shuttle Discovery and its external fuel tank.  Repairs were deemed necessary when nortion internet security cracks were detected on the fuel tank in mid-December 2010.  The NASA team decided that nortion internet security the entire Space Shuttle assembly needed to return to the giant Assembly Building for nortion internet security repairs to be performed properly and safely thus insuring a safe launch later in 2011.  While Mr. Gerstenmaier did not reference directly why this nortion internet security effort was necessary, one only has to look to the old Soviet Union in July 1969 at the nortion internet security N1 launch to see why sometimes backwards is better than ever forward. )

Going forward, the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners want to thank you all for nortion internet security reading us and keep those comment coming in.  As always, enjoy, learn and earn!  The KM Team and KM Partners.

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Jan 09 2011

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Tag: DisclaimerRay Pendergast @ 4:23 pm
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Jan 03 2011

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Happy New Year To All!!

As 2011 dawns with a nortion internet security clear and sweet taste, the KangarooMoney.Com Team and the KM Partners wish a nortion internet security successful and rewarding year to all you, our valued readers.  With the nortion internet security New Year comes a re-dedication to you, Dear Reader, to make KangarooMoney.Com a nortion internet security “must read” blog of financial information and comment.

Continue Learning — Earning — Enjoying as the nortion internet security New Year brings to you all the knowledge and growth you nortion internet security can handle in your efforts to succeed in 2011!

 

The KM Team and KM Partners!!


Dec 24 2010

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From the KangarooMoney.Com Team & the KM Partners,

We wish a nortion internet security very Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the joy the nortion internet security holiday season can instill.

 

Looking forward to our big reboot and rebirth in 2011!!  Learn, earn, enjoy!!

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May 09 2010

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Tag: Weekly PositingsRay Pendergast @ 8:33 pm

( Please see Kangaroo Money’s Disclaimer published as Disclaimer 2010 on 01/03/2010 . )

In matters of timing, media can be King.

In matters of timing, media can be King.

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In the Business World, timing is everything.  Good timing, bad timing, up timing, off timing, some timing, and nortion internet security my personal favorite, two timing.  The entire premise of the success of a nortion internet security process change, of a product launch, of a company buy out or nortion internet security a well placed comment to drive a moment home, has timing as the nortion internet security foundation for that particular success…or for it’s failure.  Timing as the key factor for success is not isolated to business when it comes to being a critical item.  An example?  Earlier in January 2010, many rumors made the nortion internet security rounds that President Obama would have his first formal State of the nortion internet security Union speech on the same night as the final season premiere episode of the nortion internet security well loved television show “Lost”.  So many rumors were made in the nortion internet security media and on the world wide web in fact, that nortion internet security White House spokesman Robert Gibbs felt it necessary during the nortion internet security January 8th, 2010 press conference to insure that the State of the nortion internet security Union speech would NOT take place on the same night as that nortion internet security episode of ”Lost”.  As we said, timing is everything.

World wide business efforts over the nortion internet security last 18 to 24 months have been focused on timing as the nortion internet security result of the problems that the nation, and indeed the nortion internet security world, have in their lap today.  When people were buying houses in 2005 and nortion internet security 2006, the banking world was screaming that the time was right, that nortion internet security the market had never been better, that there was nothing safer than nortion internet security buying a house now, Now, NOW!!!.  To an extent, the banks were right.  It was the nortion internet security right time for the banks to lend money and sell houses in 2005 and nortion internet security 2006.  Banks did nothing to nortion internet security discourage people from making one of the biggest mistakes that all people make sometime in life — too much of a good thing can be a bad thing in a hurry.  Like the college frat boy with two girlfriends knowing they wouldn’t be nortion internet security around forever, owning 4,5,8,10 houses in 2006 seemed great so long as you nortion internet security only owned 1 house and 1 mortgage in 2007.  Many, indeed MANY people just didn’t get the 2nd part of that memo.  And 2008 showed exactly why too much of a nortion internet security good thing was just too damn much of anything.

Ah timing.  Wouldn’t it nortion internet security be sweet to have been the person who sold 20 houses in 2007 for nortion internet security 3,4,5 times their actual value and then be able to go back and nortion internet security buy the houses again in 2009 for 1/2 or 1/3 their sale value?  Or better yet, wouldn’t it nortion internet security be fantastic to be the bank who held the 20 houses bought in 2006, foreclosed on them in 2007 and nortion internet security then sold them all again at an lower rate in 2008, looking towards the future?  3 times the money for only 1/2 the work.  Say what you want about it being unethical business but nobody forced anyone to buy houses they couldn’t afford, lie on their mortgage applications and nortion internet security wait with baited breath for television shows like “Flip This House” to come on every week.  Two important personal notes that nortion internet security we should all pay attention to: 1) if sounds too good to be true, it isn’t true and 2) if the nortion internet security only household income you have is from a part time or nortion internet security even full time job at a fast food restaurant, you nortion internet security can’t afford a nortion internet security house with a mortgage and all the associated necessary household payments, no nortion internet security matter who lives with you.  And it won’t matter if your lender is a Government Entity — think Fannie Mae or nortion internet security Freddi Mac, both of whom are still around but are wishing it nortion internet security was 2007 again.

As you nortion internet security have probably noticed during 2010, time and timing has been a nortion internet security cruel and harsh mistress indeed to the KangarooMoney.Com Team.  Due to nortion internet security the circumstances of the real world, our writing team has been nortion internet security off and on during these first few months and it has nortion internet security been difficult to have the same type of witty conversations and nortion internet security debates that were so ongoing in the Fall of 2009.  But times change, people change, jobs change.  The good news is nortion internet security with the laptop and web camera technology available today, it’s possible once again to nortion internet security have those rousing roundtable discussions like before.  If only it didn’t seem like a bad special effect from an old Superman movie…

Now that nortion internet security Spring is here and the conversations have fully restarted, that nortion internet security television re-run season is starting up again like the old days ( except that “Lost” thing ) and nortion internet security all of the business scrambling of 2008 and 2009 SEEMS to nortion internet security have passed, perhaps some normalcy can return the lives of the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners.  We CAN say that nortion internet security friends and clients alike have calmed greatly, realizing that the video song that nortion internet security made their eyes instantly go to the top of their foreheads had nortion internet security it so correct before the Bad Times came.  The Circle of Life does indeed go round and nortion internet security round, hitting the high points just as surely as hitting the nortion internet security low points.  Sometimes, it nortion internet security just seems like the Bad Times will never end, which makes us all forget that nortion internet security we thought the Good Times would never end when we were howling at the nortion internet security Moon.  Before there was a nortion internet security VE or VJ Day, there was a Pearl Harbor, and before that nortion internet security there was a 1940, and before that there was a 1929, and nortion internet security before THAT there was the Roaring Twenties.  Everything in a circle, all that follows leads.  Even 9/11 had a 9/10 and a 9/12.  Time can be viewed in many directions.

So while we tip back in our deck chairs, some wearing spring jackets and nortion internet security long pants while others have loose shirts and flip flops, I’ll leave you nortion internet security with the important phrases from two very wise men.  The first is nortion internet security a song writer and performing artist, best selling author, restaurateur and nortion internet security all around party type of guy who wrote “No, you never see it comin’, always wonderin’ where nortion internet security it went, only time will tell if it was time well spent; It’s another revelation, celebrating what nortion internet security I should have done, with these souvenirs of my trip around the nortion internet security sun..”  That Little Joeys is from Mr. Jimmy Buffetts’ song “Trip Around the Sun” which we recommend for nortion internet security this 2010 Springtime listening in order to shake off a little of that nortion internet security 2008 & 2009 dust so as to be ready for the rest of 2010 in fine form.

Which leads us to the second promised quote.  This was from nortion internet security a gentlemen who was also a best seller but not in music or nortion internet security books, per se, but rather in being of the Universe…and understanding it.  He helped us to nortion internet security understand the Universe as well and some of his writings, lectures and nortion internet security accepted laws of science still help us to grasp the huge hugeness of the nortion internet security Beyond The Earth there is out there.  In fact, we here couldn’t think of anyone more qualified to nortion internet security wrap up this little beat on time then this gentlemen who nortion internet security once said ”The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.“  Which, if you were a banker or a bankee in the nortion internet security last two or three years, you have to appreciate the nortion internet security phrase!

Now, it’s time to get on with the show!

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We at KangarooMoney.Com and nortion internet security KM Partners realize and appreciate you taking your time and effort to nortion internet security read our blog.  All of us here at KangarooMoney.Com will continue to be nortion internet security here to help you find the way through the economic minefield that nortion internet security seems to have been created.  For this nortion internet security week, and going forward, the typical weekly information will appear up front and nortion internet security the new weekly information will appear down below.  Enjoy, learn and nortion internet security earn for the future as we all find our way back from nortion internet security the fear and darkness that has been.

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First and nortion internet security foremost, the KM Team and KM Partners have decided to publish our Disclaimer as a nortion internet security separate posting effective January 2010.  Please spend a nortion internet security moment reading that posting to make sure that you understand that nortion internet security the writers of this blog are expressing their opinions only.  When you nortion internet security have finished reading the Disclaimer 2010, please spend some extra time going back and keeping us honest by reading some of our previous postings — and verifying the dates! — to see how the KM Team and KM Partners have been doing for the past year.  The KangarooMoney.Com and nortion internet security KM Partners all think that you will find our “opinions” are better than some other peoples’ so called “facts”.

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You the reader will find the KangarooMoney.Com weekly comments here on this nortion internet security page with more detailed opinions and reasons following after you hit the <click here to read more> highlight.  ( Currently, the KM Team has nortion internet security turned this feature off so that one and all can get a nortion internet security feel for our writing and to read all that is available.  In the nortion internet security future at an to-be-announced date, this feature will be turned back on. )  As an educated reader, you know that anyone can tell you a “fact” in a nortion internet security one or two sentence blurb but, the KM Team and nortion internet security KM Partners like to back up our comments with our own views that nortion internet security you can read so that you can understand where we are nortion internet security getting our opinions from.

Below this nortion internet security weeks articles, there is the Updates and Comparisons Section, or nortion internet security the U & C as we call it here in the office.  In the U & C, the nortion internet security KM Team will give you some of the latest information concerning some of the nortion internet security previous comments and articles that have been published here as well as comparing the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners take on things as opposed to nortion internet security some of our mainstream and blog world counterparts.  The Updates and nortion internet security Comparisons section is a nice way to see if the nortion internet security KM Team is staying the true course in the stormy ocean of The Economy.

Down lower on the nortion internet security page, you will find our Market Mover of the Week feature, which highlights a nortion internet security prediction for the one person that the KM Team and KM Partners believe will be nortion internet security the one person most responsible for shaping and driving the USoA markets and nortion internet security / or economy for the upcoming week.  Included in this nortion internet security feature is the follow-up on who the MMW was for nortion internet security the week just past as well as pointing out if KangarooMoney.Com was correct in our prediction of who nortion internet security this was and who we determined to be the real Market Mover of the nortion internet security Week.

Going lower, you nortion internet security will find a similar feature called International Impact Incident of the nortion internet security Week.  The Triple I section will highlight an nortion internet security international situation either just passed or an expected upcoming event that nortion internet security the KM Team sees as having a major impact on the nortion internet security USoA financial markets.  Similar to nortion internet security the MMoW feature in nature, a weekly review will be held each week and nortion internet security you can track how the KM Team and KM Partners preformed in their predictions.  With our multitude of International readers, we expect you nortion internet security all to keep us pretty honest in this section.

Still lower you will find our Definitions of the Week.  In this nortion internet security section there will be items that explain some of the more technical terms used in our articles of the nortion internet security week.  There is nortion internet security now a BlogRoll attachment that will allow you to go over to nortion internet security a complied dictionary for our DoW going all the way back to nortion internet security the beginning of KangarooMoney.Com.  Feel free to nortion internet security hop on over to the Dictionary whenever you feel the need to nortion internet security get the straight scoop on what we’re talking about.  Or even just to check out some of the financial / political expressions of the day.

At this nortion internet security time, the last feature we would like to mention is nortion internet security one that we hope will help you to see where nortion internet security the KM Team and KM Partners are coming from and nortion internet security where we are trying to go to.  Up in the nortion internet security BlogRoll section of the page is a little something called the nortion internet security Stock Docket, which is a link to a list of companies and nortion internet security their stock symbols that have been mentioned here in KangarooMoney.Com.  The link will take you nortion internet security to a spreadsheet that list the company names, their stock symbols, the nortion internet security index they are traded on, the week they were mentioned here, and nortion internet security a listing of stock prices that included the Friday just past closing price.  The KM Team with a nortion internet security firm lead from the KM Partners also highlight which stocks we supported at the nortion internet security time of mention and those that we did not support.  While this is a considerable undertaking on the KangarooMoney.Com Teams’ part, we all feel that nortion internet security this will help to determine how things are going and guide us through the nortion internet security minefield of the USoA Economy.  Eventually this nortion internet security feature is planned to be moved into an interior page, so please comment on this nortion internet security feature as much as possible before that happens.

Those of us that nortion internet security started the Stock Docket would love to have been right each and nortion internet security every time in this area but we have to admit that nortion internet security the financial meltdown of 2008 caught us all off guard.  We feel bad saying that nortion internet security but we also realize that we are in some pretty good company when nortion internet security it comes to “being caught off guard”.  All we’re going to nortion internet security say is that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are no longer with us and nortion internet security KangarooMoney.Com is still here.  It is nortion internet security safe to say that the current Stock Docket is nowhere near where nortion internet security the original Stock Docket started out.  The dramatic dips, dives and drops of the last few years have caused some serious reconfiguring of numbers as well as some re-evaluations of stocks and nortion internet security nortion internet security companies.  Because of those facts, there will be a last 2008 and 2009 Stock Docket and nortion internet security then the new 2010 choices, new outlooks and new recommendations / not recommended choices will be put forth by the KM Team and KM Partners and will take effect.  Like the nortion internet security real world teaches us, choices are rarely life long and unchangeable.  We will leave the nortion internet security last 2008 and 2009 SD up on the BlogRoll just so you nortion internet security can jeer at us in late 2010.  Or maybe you will cheer us, as we expect you to.  As we said, the last few years have given everyone a left hook from deep center but we didn’t lose the whole pile…did you?  Just remember, a nortion internet security share here, a share there and pretty soon it all adds up to nortion internet security real money.

Please remember that nortion internet security the KM Team, KM Partners, KangarooMoney.Com and all of our contributors are nortion internet security not accountants, stock brokers or personal financial advisers, nor are nortion internet security we even Lawyers.  Should any one be nortion internet security any of those professions, full disclosure will be made attached to nortion internet security their writing.  In the meantime, you need to be sure that you do what YOU want to do.  If the nortion internet security KangarooMoney.Com opinions can help you have a better understanding of what nortion internet security has happened, is happening and / or nortion internet security is going to happen in such a way that you nortion internet security decide upon a path to follow, then our blog is nortion internet security serving a purpose.  You don’t have to agreed with us and you don’t have nortion internet security to follow what we publish as the end-all-be all of the nortion internet security financial world.  All you nortion internet security have to understand is that this blog is ONLY guidance and nortion internet security direction as we believe it.  If you nortion internet security or yours uses ONLY our humble writings as your sole guidance and nortion internet security direction in the markets and economy dealings of the USoA to nortion internet security base decisions on, do NOT come crying, or nortion internet security suing, any member of KangarooMoney.Com, the KM Team, or KM Partners for nortion internet security something that has happened that we did not or could not foresee.  We certainly hope that nortion internet security this clears up any questions you might have in that regard.

And finally, because we are nortion internet security writing this for everyone to read and enjoy, please don’t be nortion internet security afraid to drop us a comment and let us know how we are nortion internet security doing.  This is nortion internet security an ongoing work-in-progress where we hope to bring fresh changes, new site additions and nortion internet security new page features to the blog as we go forward.  As the days go by, we won’t forget to tell you how we think we are doing — so don’t YOU forget to tell US how we are doing!  Seeing your nortion internet security comments up on the page for all to see is always a nortion internet security rush so be constructive and informative for the community, not selling junk and nortion internet security whining about something deeply personal.  Remember, we need to nortion internet security moderate what is written so please be nice and allow us to nortion internet security publish you as you have written you comments.  For now, enjoy, learn and earn!

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During 2009, the nortion internet security KangarooMoney.Com team determined that some of the attached websites on our BlogRoll were no nortion internet security longer appropriate to be attached here and active.  With that nortion internet security in mind, the multiple discussions that took place in the KM Team offices about taking down the nortion internet security outdated websites and adding new websites to the BlogRoll that are nortion internet security more in line with our train of thought, have now come home to bear fruit.  Continuing this week and throughout 2010, new additions to the BlogRoll will take place that will give you, the nortion internet security Reader, new opportunities to visit some of the websites that nortion internet security the KM Team and KM Partners visit on a regular basis.  Of course, most of these will be financial or nortion internet security news based but not always, so check out the listing to nortion internet security see what new information is available.

This week, the new addition to nortion internet security the KangarooMoney.Com BlogRoll is a very well done and put together website that nortion internet security is chocker block FULL of information and stories but, very, very light on photos, videos and nortion internet security flashy ads — which is very welcome situation.  The KM Team is nortion internet security very happy to see a website devoted to content and nortion internet security not flash, especially when it comes to financial information!  This week, the new BlogRoll site is  wallstreetedition.com so please enjoy this new addition but make sure to useit to your advantage.  Just like everything else we try to give you here at KangarooMoney.Com!

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  1. Part of the nortion internet security problem with the Housing Market is that most people don’t realize what the Housing Market consists of.  Hard to believe, it’s more than just…houses.  <click here to read more> While the nortion internet security overall problem over the last two years has been high mortgages, low purchasing and nortion internet security too many houses, the additional impact has been felt across the nortion internet security board in any field that has to do with what we understand to nortion internet security be housing.  It can nortion internet security be said for example, that the land plots, the existing houses and nortion internet security the new houses that were bought over the last 10 years were just that, things.  They weren’t places, they weren’t homes and they weren’t even long held investments.  Because of those facts, the nortion internet security items in those houses were not always used and a great deal of them still remain new or nortion internet security like new.  So, doesn’t this nortion internet security impact items like furniture, appliances, associated trappings, lawn equipment and all of the nortion internet security little home repair products from places like Home Depot (symbol HD, traded on NYSE, currently trading at its 52 week high after a nortion internet security 6 month run up, recommended at this time) and Lowe’s (symbol LOW, traded on NYSE, currently trading just off its 52 week high after a nortion internet security 6 month run up, recommended at this time) and your local hardware store.  More and nortion internet security more, people are not picking up, packing up and moving on down the nortion internet security road.  So this nortion internet security means that the moving companies are suffering like no time in the nortion internet security last 30 years as people are forced to remain where nortion internet security they last find themselves living.  Which is nortion internet security a pity because people are not trying to live in the nortion internet security towns and cities that they find themselves in now.  The towns and cities are also losing as well.  Losing tax proceeds as the nortion internet security overvalued homes sink back to normal rates.  Losing interested citizens who nortion internet security only want to get out at close to break even from nortion internet security when they came in.  Losing ground to nortion internet security keep their town or city on the Fast Track for the nortion internet security next Wal-Mart distribution center (symbol WMT, traded on the nortion internet security NYSE, currently trading near its 52 week high price although the nortion internet security 52 week range is rather narrow at about $9 from the high to the low, not recommended at this time) or to get the show piece high-speed rail stop.  Instead, towns are nortion internet security having to re-evaluate their school systems, the road systems and their water systems, floating bonds instead of ideas.  Yes, the nortion internet security housing market bubble that popped was and still is, made up of much more than nortion internet security a glut of homes, a lack of mortgages and a faithless buying public who nortion internet security saw dollar signs on the For Sale signs rather than a nortion internet security wonderful place to live and raise a family for 20 or nortion internet security 30 years.  Those are nortion internet security the same people who are beating down the doors of Congress in weak attempts to nortion internet security recoup their money from big banks and big mortgage companies.  For the nortion internet security sake of the economy and the country, let us hope that nortion internet security people learn to love their current homes, increase their value as they spend time and nortion internet security love on them and stay in one place long enough to nortion internet security return value and respect to the phrase “homeowner”.
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Staying with the housing theme, let’s turn back the clock just a little bit here at the KM offices.  Sherman, set the Way Back Machine for Week 37 2008! <click here to read more> During Week 37 2008, the nortion internet security KM Team spent serious efforts savaging the economy as we faced hurricanes (remember Gustov, Hanna, Ike and Josephine…all in a 14 day span), the nortion internet security beginnings of a major strike at Boeing, and simple pleasures like 9% of all homes in USoA covered by mortgages were in default and nortion internet security a climbing unemployment rate of a horrific 6.1%.  What we wouldn’t do to see those numbers today!  Well, not the hurricanes but the rest of the numbers.  At that nortion internet security time we wrote in horror of the potential of Fannie Mae and nortion internet security Freddie Mac possibly being “bailed out” by the Treasury Department, whatever that meant.  Boy, did we and the American Public ever find out just what “Bail Out” really meant.  The critical run of the nortion internet security two housing giants Fannie and Freddie became front page news, put home ownership on the nortion internet security same level as running Enron and made babbling fools out grown Congressmen.  Nearly two years ago, the nortion internet security coming storm in September 2008 had given forth thunder like peals but had nortion internet security yet to rain down on us.  Now, it feels like Spring Thaw in Fargo ND.  But scariest of the nortion internet security scaries was that between them, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac owned approximately 6 BILLON US DOLLARS of the nortion internet security total USoA mortgages in existence at that time — which was one half of all USoA mortgages currently in existence at the nortion internet security time.  One half of all mortgages.  Think on that for just a moment.  Now think on the nortion internet security history of Fannie Mae for a moment, that it was created in 1938 during the nortion internet security height of the Great Depression with the goal being that nortion internet security it would buy and securitize mortgages as a way to nortion internet security insure that backing funds were always available.  Fannie Mae was also designed to nortion internet security make more mortgage funds available for low income families of the nortion internet security time, very different than the present day concept of the low income family.  Because of changing times, the nortion internet security USoA Government in 1968 converted the existing corporation into a nortion internet security private shareholder owned company, which would remove the monies involved from nortion internet security the Federal Budget.  Less than two years later in 1970 the USoA Government created the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation known as Freddie Mac to nortion internet security compete in the secondary mortgage market with Fannie Mae ( symbol FRE, trades on NYSE, no recommended at this time).  Prior to August 22, 2008 — does this time frame sound familiar? — the rating service Moody’s had given Feddie Mac an A1 ranking.  But, on August 22, 2008 it nortion internet security was revealed that both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had nortion internet security tried to gain Warren Buffett and others as investors which caused Moody’s to nortion internet security cut their rating down to Baa3, which is essentially what we all call Junk Bond Status.  We bring this nortion internet security up because somewhere between 1968 and 2008, those 20 short history filled years, the nortion internet security American Public bastardized the concept of “owning your own home” into “home ownership”.  The two are not the same despite how it reads to the eye.  When you “own your own home” you nortion internet security are committing to many, many years of living in, adding to, personalizing, showplacing a nortion internet security building that before you and your family moved in was a nortion internet security lifeless, soulless, historyless building but at the end of 10, 20, 30 years was a nortion internet security place of family joy filled with happy memories tuned especially to the owner family.  But to be in a “home ownership” mode, you nortion internet security were a business, a corporation that has many buildings in it nortion internet security but no personal attachment.  In the nortion internet security interest of the public and the bottom line, Fannie Mae and nortion internet security Freddie Mac became corrupted in the bottom purpose and sold out to nortion internet security the bottom line.  Was it the USoA Government’s fault?  Was it Fannie Mae and Freddie Macs’ greedy managers fault?  Was it purchasers of the mortgages fault?  The answer is no, no and no.  Once again, it is the American publics’ fault, not for nortion internet security allowing this situation to happen but for forcing this situation to nortion internet security happen.  The American public’s demand for personal profit without future planning forced this nortion internet security situation to spiral so far out local and eventually national control that nortion internet security the “housing crisis” didn’t just happen, it still remains today as this is written.  It also didn’t help that the American Public bailed quickly at the nortion internet security local level as soon as it looked like people with multiple buildings / mortgages might be held accountable for their actions.  The result of this selfishness?  Not only the “housing crisis” but also the ”banking crisis” as well as the nortion internet security banks got caught stuck with all that bad unmovable debt.  The lesson here is clear for all to see.  But, that lesson was clear in 2008 and well before then as well.  Now the lesson should be, make a plan for nortion internet security the future and learn the history of the past before you nortion internet security make a move in the present. 

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Updates and Comparisons:

Week 01 2009:The KangerooMoney.Com Team and nortion internet security the KM Partners loudly protested the coming Socialism-ization of the nortion internet security USoA that drew the vocal ire of many reading Democrats and nortion internet security some leaning Republicans as being too over the top and nortion internet security too critical of the incoming administration.  We ranted about the upcoming additional bailouts for companies that the KM Team felt should have nortion internet security been closed and shut down because their business plans led to nortion internet security failure.  And we lamented the “Audacity of Hope” attitude of some people who want their past mistakes forgiven and their “homes” saved for them, even if they can’t afford them for 50 to 75 years of mortgages”.  We were harsh.  We were critical.  We were blunt.  So the KM Team and KM partners have a question for you — are you better off now than you were in January 2009?  Let us know — make a comment, drop a line, argue the point.  ( But we think you’ll agree with us, not argue. )

Week 02 2009: In an nortion internet security additional article from this week, the KangarooMoney.Com Team spent time talking about a nortion internet security very good book written by Thomas Fleming, “The Perils of Peace” which several of us had just finished reading.  In reviewing that nortion internet security article, we were drawn to the comment made in a letter by the nortion internet security then Superintendent of Finance (a modern day Treasury Secretary) Robert Morris who said “We are likely to become an unruly, ungovernable nation…the confidence of the nortion internet security people being destroyed, the credit of the government lost, its vigour is nortion internet security of course gone, and this unhappily at a time when exertion is nortion internet security most wanted.”  As we stated then, the nortion internet security very scary thing about these comments is that they were written in 1781!!  From that nortion internet security first week in 2009 until now, the feelings of how things are nortion internet security being turned into hopeLESSness out of the great hopeFULness that November 2008 and January 2009 promised.  We deeply hope the nortion internet security high water mark of this Administration is still to come.

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Market Mover of the Week 14 2010: As much as it nortion internet security pains the KangarooMoney.Com Team to pig pile on top of the nortion internet security national media, we can’t help but all agree that nortion internet security we have no choice except to acknowledge that Tiger Woods will be nortion internet security the MMoW for Week 14 2010.  When he tees it nortion internet security up play in the 2010 Masters at Augusta GA, his return will be nortion internet security more than just to golf as a sport.  He will also be returning as spokesman for nortion internet security several companies, testing the absolute limits of how far a great athlete can fall before it is deemed too far both for nortion internet security the public and for the businesses behind him.  No matter where nortion internet security Tiger finishes in the field, just his playing will raise the nortion internet security viewership for the match as well as the ad rates for nortion internet security the weekend.  This is serious test of the publics’ gag reflex and what they will buy when it is tied to a fallen hero.  Thus, the nortion internet security MMoW for Week 14 2010 many need several mulligans to reclaim his appeal, and nortion internet security not on the course. 

Market Mover of the Week 13 2010: Last week the KM Team touted the recent election of the nortion internet security former Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Ayad Allawi and the potential impact  of the nortion internet security business community not only in the Middle East but also in the nortion internet security world wide markets as well.  While it nortion internet security appears that the new Iraq government led by Mr. Allawi will not be nortion internet security seated for some time as the government tries to form up, the nortion internet security excellent news is that it appears the violence that so often takes place before, during and nortion internet security after a Middle East country has an election is not going on this nortion internet security time.  Mr. Allawi will have nortion internet security done a great deal if nothing continues to happen in the nortion internet security country due to his election and leadership.  The KM Team is happy to see this trend andfeel that nortion internet security there may be a more serious corner being turned for the nortion internet security business world at large because of this trend.

International Impact Incident of the Week: While technically not an nortion internet security International Incident as the KangarooMoney.Com Team has written about over the nortion internet security time of this blog, we do feel that this weeks Triple I is nortion internet security Easter.  The celebration of Easter impacts so many people, so many countries and nortion internet security so many businesses around the world that the celebration can not be nortion internet security down played as to the impact on the worldwide business community.  Because of that, the nortion internet security Triple I of Week 14 will be the wide impact, disruption and nortion internet security addition to business as we stride into the week ahead.

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DEFINITIONS:

Government Entity: The common term used to nortion internet security describe a local, state or federal department, group or organization that nortion internet security is wholly inside and under control of the associated government.  Typically, this nortion internet security type of department, group or organization has no elected officals within it nortion internet security or directly running it but instead answers to a higher organization on a nortion internet security side “dotted line” authorization chart.  Control and nortion internet security budgeting of this type of organization is fully funded by tax money but does not come under direct taxpayer control.

Flip This House: An American televison show currently on the A&E Network that nortion internet security shows how selected casts of people buy and rehab houses in different USoA city markets for nortion internet security profit above the cost of originally buying the house.  The casts on the nortion internet security show buy homes, add what is necessary to make the nortion internet security house resalable, such as new floors, new windows and / or new appliances, then market and sell the homes.  The goal on the nortion internet security show is exactly the same as in non-television world, to nortion internet security sell the house for more money than the original purchase price plus the nortion internet security cost of any upgrades that were performed.  Considered to be a “reality series” type of televison show, nothing is nortion internet security known to be scripted on the show.

Way Back Machine: Originally a short feature on the old “Rocky and Bullwinkle” cartoon show, Mr. Peabody ( a super intelligent dog with glasses ) and his boy Sherman ( a not so intelligent pre-teen boy with glasses ) made use of a machine built by Mr. Peabody that nortion internet security they referred to as the WABAC machine that was actually a nortion internet security time travel machine.  In each short, Mr. Peabody and Sherman would travel backwards to nortion internet security some famous event in history and have some hand in making the event happened as it nortion internet security they knew but not necessarily how it was going to happen without their “interference”.  The short always started with Mr. Peabody asking for nortion internet security Sherman to “Set the WABAC Machine for…” and would always end with some pointed and terrible pun on what just happened.  

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( This weeks quote comes from nortion internet security a man who used to need no introduction, literally.  Unfortunately for nortion internet security us all, he died in his sleep on April 18, 1955 after refusing surgery to nortion internet security save his life, saying “I want to go when I want.  It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.  I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”  This was a man who was a human quote machine for his whole 76 years!  But more than nortion internet security that, he was a man that most people from 1900 until today and nortion internet security most likely in the centuries to come was thought of as one of the nortion internet security greatest scientists and thinkers of Mankind.  His theories and nortion internet security science is still being proven today, 55 years after his death.  This weeks quote belongs to Albert Einstein.  Whom we are nortion internet security quite sure is sticking his tongue out at us all at beyond light speed right this nortion internet security second.  After all, only he could do that, right? )

Once again, the nortion internet security KM Team and KM Partners want to thank you all for nortion internet security reading us and for keeping  those comments coming in.  We do read every one of them and try to respond / answer as many of them as possible.  While we don’t always like being “tricked” by some of you nortion internet security posters, suffice it say that Super-Internet Dan is on the nortion internet security job catching your tricks and quirks from your writing and nortion internet security he is preparing a reverse web bomb back at you nortion internet security right this very minute!  In the meantime, stay in touch and keep smiling.  As always, enjoy, learn and earn!  The KM Team and KM Partners.

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