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...Corporate earnings were worse than expected in the fourth quarter of last year. With the end of the current quarter a week away, the largest American companies will begin the process of "pre-announcing" their numbers. Most public companies want to race out bad news quickly, so that they cannot be accused of sitting on material information that could be damaging to shareholders any longer than is necessary. Earnings for the first quarter of 2009 will be dismal. Securities analysts, with a multi-decade track record of being overly optimistic, are the very people whom investors rely on for forecasts...
...Unemployment lags by a quarter or two, but the jobs picture should begin to improve by the end of the year. But, that is a classic recession and the economy as it is moving now, may not follow a pattern that looks anything like what it has done in the past. It may not even share many traits with The Great Depression. This downturn is likely to be sui generis...
...Last November, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he wanted the portion to be one-third by 2020. Now the feds are bringing the money to help fund all this sunny energy, with the Obama Administration's stimulus package promising to pay for 30% of solar-power projects that begin...
...this new era, everybody must begin to account for his or her behavior. Wall Street executives cannot get fat on paper profits from powder-keg transactions. Government regulators cannot take long lunches to toast the invisible hand. Investors cannot expect new bubbles to bailout their busts. Congress cannot send home boondoggle pork projects while whining about government spending. And the President of the United States shall no longer have the liberty to dodge the big issues. He will have to lead by example and make the hard choices. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...Starting May 5, Virgin America will begin charging $15 for each checked bag. Previously, the first checked bag was free. But there is some good news, the airline is lowering its charge to change or cancel flights, from...