Posts Tagged ‘economy’

If not banks, what are you investing in right now so when the economy gets back on its feet for good you’ll be loaded rich? What’s your industry?

I’ve heard the stock market is an indicator of future economics. We’ve seen a little improvement in the market recently, indicating economic recovery, but when? Also, why does the stock market say it likes Hillary Clinton as VP?

Basically, I’m interested what messages the stock market sends in general.

www.whatwouldyousaytothepresident.com With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama called on the new Congress to act quickly in passing a costly stimulus package to create jobs as a follow-up to the hundreds of billions of dollars the Bush administration has committed to rescue financial markets. “The economy is likely to get worse before it gets better,” Obama said Monday in a downbeat forecast, delivered 57 days before he takes the oath of office and with Americans heading into the year-end holiday season. “Most experts now believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year,” he said, urging the newly elected Congress to act quickly on his plans after opening its session on Jan. 6. At a news conference, Obama was critical of the Big Three automakers, saying he was surprised they did not have a better-thought-out plan for their future before asking Congress to approve $25 billion in emergency loans. He said once he sees a plan, he expects “we’re going to be able to shape a rescue.”

Obama says stimulus bill saved troubled economy
WASHINGTON. – President Obama says the emergency legislation he signed a year ago to help the struggling economy has saved at least 2 million jobs and avoided a deeper recession. Speaking on the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Investment Act, Obama said that embracing the $787 billion measure”wasn’t a politically easy decision.” Obama also acknowledged that current economic …

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In words that I will be able to understand, can anyone explain to me the correlation between the banks, the housing crisis, and the stock market. And how does the stock market affect the economy itself? I am just beginning to understand what the stock market is, so numbers and statistics are really not helpful.