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Mistrust Leads to Shocking Union Defeat in Tennessee
February 15, 2014 0

Mistrust Leads to Shocking Union Defeat in Tennessee

By News Desk

By a vote of 712 to 626 the UAW Suffers Big Loss at Tennessee VW Plant . The United Auto Workers union suffered a crushing defeat Friday, falling short in an election in which it seemed to have a clear path to organizing workers at Volkswagen AG VOW3.XE +1.10% ‘s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Deflation Theory Reality Check: Why Inflation is Severely Understated; Feel Good Effect
February 13, 2014 0

Deflation Theory Reality Check: Why Inflation is Severely Understated; Feel Good Effect

By News Desk

Amazon: AMZN : The PE of Amazon is 592, Valuation is $160 Billion Linked In: LNKD : PE of Linked In is 837, Valuation is $23 Billion Facebook : FB: Facebook PE is 106, Valuation is $165  Billion Priceline : PCLN : PE of Priceline is 36, Valuation is $64 Billion Hertz : HTZ: PE of Hertz is 37, Valuation is $12 Billion Starbucks : SBUX : PE of Starbucks is 483, Valuation is $57 Billion  Boston Beer (Samuel Adams) : SAM : PE of Boston Beer is 43, Valuation is $3 Billion I could go on and on but I won’t. At current earnings, investors in Amazon will have to wait 592 years for a positive return on earnings. More realistically, they would have to wait forever because Amazon does not pay a dividend.

Rethinking "Paper Tiger"
February 12, 2014 0

Rethinking "Paper Tiger"

By News Desk

Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau says Germany’s Constitutional Court has Strengthened the Eurosceptics . When the first headlines came out on Friday morning, it looked as if the German constitutional court had caved in. It decided to pass the case against Mario Draghi’s “whatever-it-takes†bond-buying programme to the European Court of Justice.