﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>topsecret10's Blog</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/</link><description /><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 05:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Small Cap stocks verses the Dow</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=659286&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Small cap and micro-cap stocks have largely beeen taking It on the chin In th e last few months,and especially the last few weeks even thogh the Dow has rocketed straight up again on perceived &amp;quot;good news&amp;quot; ?&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;I have been at this game a very long time,and I cannot remember a more Irrational stock market behavior with regard to the fundamentals. The FED cannot keep Interest rates at ZERO forever,a...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:23:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Employees bid goodbye to corporate America</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=631963&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;With the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1 percent as of July 31 and a fragile  economic recovery underway, many workers feel they are left with no choice but  to take their careers into their own &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Employees are bidding farewell to corporate America in the  hope of finding a more secure, or at least fulfilling, future. They are  reinventing themselves by starting their own companies or by pursuing  long-put-off dreams...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:51:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recovery Lost: Why the U.S. and Europe Are Back at the Brink</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=627257&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;em rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;How did the road out of recession lead into a cul-de-sac? And why, all of a sudden, is the world economy falling apart? The answer is all about growth and debt.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;&lt;em rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Is the stock runoff for real? &lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;&lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;Are we falling into another recession? &lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;&lt;br re...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:38:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Slump Creates a Sheetrock Ghost Town </title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=605887&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;An entire city simply disappears&lt;/strong&gt; ...&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;By: Jessica Bruder&lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;Christian Science  Monitor&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Empire, Nev.  —&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This mining town of 300 people clings like a burr to the back of  the Black Rock Desert. For years, it was ...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:46:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Misery Index at worst level In 28 years</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=605556&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;I have documented for over a year now In many of my blog posts that this so called &amp;quot;recovery&amp;quot; was an Illusion of the highest order. The &amp;quot;pros&amp;quot; are wrong as usual about the direction of the stock market as we head Into the summer. The other shoe has not dropped yet folks. I just got back from the grocery store,and for the second time In two weeks I had to spend $125.00 for my BASIC groceries. (I am single) So what Is It costin...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:14:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=605022&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for U.S. economic  growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that  they are &amp;quot;playing with fire&amp;quot; unless they take immediate steps to reduce their  budget deficits.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;The IMF, in its regular assessment of global economic prospects, said that  bigger threats...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:49:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pandora goes public next week and opportunity knocks</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=602288&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#160;I have been waiting for this IPO,and It looks like they will finally&amp;#160;become a public company next week!&amp;#160;Anyone that uses Pandora knows how exciting this company Is. I will be accumulating the stock for the long term. I will be curious to see what happens In the first few days of trading and I hope they don't bid the stock out of sight. Will probably wait to buy It when all the dust has settled after the debut of the stock. Lookin...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:30:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Am I seeing things,or do we have 8 posts In the Buzz Box again!</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=601027&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;If this Is the case,Kudo's to TMF for restoring the blogs back to normal !!!&amp;#160; :)&amp;#160; It makes for a better experience !!!&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; TS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:02:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>This is no double dip</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=601025&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Posted: June 06, 2011&lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;1:00 am Eastern&lt;br rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"/&gt;&amp;#160;By Vox Day&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &amp;quot;The Great Depression 2.0 is what is presently developing, although due to a  reactive wave of positive social mood, statistical obfuscation, and  understandable denial, it will take about a year for the consensus &lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="/#" target="_self"&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt; to cycle through th...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:48:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic Concerns Sink Stocks For 4th Straight Day</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=600697&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;quot;Wall Street came back, quickly and very strongly, at a time when the populace was still weak in terms of low job growth and low wage growth,&amp;quot; said Daniel Penrod, a senior industry analyst at California Credit Union League. &amp;quot;That appeared to be overly optimistic.&amp;quot;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Pretty much what I have beeen saying for MONTHS In a nutshell....&amp;#160; &lt;/strong&gt;TS&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:50:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Avoiding a Double Dip Recession, or Worse</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=600531&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; The smoke and mirrors economy supported by&amp;#160;electronic money created out of thin air Is being exposed for what Is&amp;#160;happening In the REAL WORLD. Gas and food prices have tapped out the average consumer,and home values are at depression levels. I have been talking about this for months,as have others here on the fool. I have never In my lifetime seen&amp;#160;our economy In this much trouble. I have only worked for 3 months ...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:53:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>US Has To Create 250K Jobs A Month For 66 Months To Return To December 2007 Unemployment By End Of Obama's Second Term</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=600091&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Submitted by &lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="/users/tyler-durden" target="_self"&gt;Tyler Durden&lt;/a&gt; on  06/03/2011&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; It was difficult rerunning this chart with a straight face, make that near impossible, but here are the results. Following the most recent NFP disappointment, the simple math indicates that for the US to return to its December 2007 unemployment, when factoring in the natural growth of the labor force of 90k pe...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:05:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Phantom Jobs Mask Extent of Joblessness</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=600017&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;I have been sounding the alarm for months (others here have too) that the unemployment numbers are nothing more than smoke and mirrors ....&amp;#160;&amp;#160; TS&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;By &lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="/author/1170648/Jeff%20Nielson/all.html" target="_self" title="See Jeff  Nielson&amp;apos;s bio and articles"&gt;Jeff  Nielson&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;NEW YORK (&lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofo...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:11:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=599123&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;I said that we were double dipping In housing months ago ...&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160; LOL!!!&amp;#160;&amp;#160; Everything that I have been saying for MONTHS Is just now being realized by the so called &amp;quot;pros&amp;quot;....&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;An index of home prices in the country's major metro areas has sunk to its lowest level since the housing bubble burst in late 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" ...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:41:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. economic recovery is faltering</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=598982&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Boy,there's a headline LOL!!!!&amp;#160;&amp;#160;We are STILL In a recession !!!&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; TS&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; By  &lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="/neil-irwin/2011/03/04/ABSudxN_page.html" target="_self"&gt;Neil Irwin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;The U.S. economic recovery is faltering.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Manufacturing — a consistent driver of growth over the past year -- slowed dramatically last month...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:24:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Higher food, oil prices weigh on US economy</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=597008&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;I have been saying this for the past 9 months !!!!!!&amp;#160; The economists are surprised ??? !!!!&amp;#160;&amp;#160; LOL !!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; All of the market manipulation Is coming to a head.... look out below ....&amp;#160; TS&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;By Paul Handley (AFP) – 6 hours  ago&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;WASHINGTON — New data released this week suggested the US economy remains  deep ...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:41:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MDB's BRIGHT LIGHTS CONFERENCE 2011</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=585807&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&amp;#160;Featuring small cap companies with disruptive technologies that will forge our new future ... TS&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;We are proud to host this year's second annual Bright Lights Conference on May, 10 -11th at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City.  This event will again feature over 40 of the most innovative companies (&lt;a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="/assets/files/BL%20Presenters%20PR%20-%202011%20Final%20Draft(u...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:31:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>QE2 Was No Help - Hoisington Investment Management</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=581909&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;We are now roughly just 11% from an ALL TIME HIGH ON THE DOW....&amp;#160; NEW HIGHS FOR GOLD AND SILVER BEING HIT ALMOST DAILY....&amp;#160; Food and gas prices are skyrocketing....&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; We are definitely In the twilight zone...&amp;#160; TS&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; If the objectives of Quantitative Easing 2 (QE2) were to: a) raise interest rates; b) slow economic growth; c) encourage speculation, and d) eviscerate the standard of living of the...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:48:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>35 Statistics That Show The Average American Family Has Been Broke Down</title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=580922&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;W&lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;hat Is happening to your family? Are you seeing the benefits of a recovery In the economy? Anybody have a real story to tell ?&amp;#160;Does anyone care?&amp;#160; TS&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; 35 Statistics That Show The Average American Family Has Been Broke Down, Tore  Down, Beat Down, Busted And Disgusted By This Economy&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; The economic statistics that you are about to read are ...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:09:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>S&amp;P Slashes Outlook on U.S. to 'Negative' </title><link>http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=577235&amp;t=01008014497619256705</link><description>&lt;p rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;p rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Looks like I am not the only one &amp;quot;sounding the alarm&amp;quot; on our very precarious financial situation here In the United States,   TS&amp;#160; &amp;#160;   By Matt Egan  Published April 18, 2011    &lt;strong rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;em rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow"&gt;Sounding the alarm about the country’s deep fiscal problems&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Standard &amp;amp; Poor’s on Monday became the first major credit ratings agency to downgrade its outlook on t...</description><author>topsecret10</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:03:06 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>