Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

"Fear, uncertainty and doubt will remain as long as consumers and executives lack confidence in the economic outlook of the United States. The psychological affect of the FUD factor remains a major hurdle to overcome. So far, everyone fears the worst, is uncertain about the future and doubts much can be done to make the situation better. We are in for a slow growth economy for some time. As investors we need to adjust our sails to deal with these difficult conditions."
Hans Wagner, CEO, Trading Online Markets LLC

Mass Social Mood Model

China's Strengths

China continues to make the news as our chief competitor and financier. One of my email newsletters had some interesting perspective.

Robert Hsu claims that China's strengths are:

• China has little exposure to the problems we have here.
• China has no restrictions on spending stimulus money.
• China’s banks are stronger, with no subprime mess holding them back.
• China has over a $2 trillion surplus to spend as it sees fit.
• China has turned its growth internal with a $586 stimulus spending program.
• China has its own 1.3 billion-man market to sell to and a workforce that’s growing richer and spending money every day!