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Men, I want to let you in on a secret about women: Father?s Day confounds us.
I know that it shouldn?t, but it makes us sweat. What do we give you that you?ll actually want? We know that what many of you really want is to sneak off and play golf, go fishing with your buddies, or work on the yard, alone. We get it. You have precious little time at home and you need to relax, and it?s hard with kids riding piggyback as you push the mower across the lawn. But we can?t give you that because, well, Father?s Day is about us celebrating you, and how can we celebrate you if you aren?t home? So, I guess, we?re all confused about what to give you on Father?s Day.
I?ve learned a few things about you dads over the past few years, because I?ve gotten many amazing letters from you since my book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, came out. To honor you this entire month, I want to share some of what you said to me so that the women in your lives can help give you what you really need.
We mothers can do something special for you this year, and we need to ramp up. So mothers, let?s skip the mall and make a few commitments to the father of our children. Let?s really love them this year. For one month, let us commit to change the way we talk to our husbands (even if yours is an ex-husband), and let?s encourage our children to do the same.
When we change the way we talk to our husbands, their lives change. Here?s how we can start.
Giving our men the gift of admiration and respect changes how they feel about us, themselves, the family and life. Good love is in short supply. So let?s make June a month of celebrating dads in a whole new way. And just wait until you see what July brings.
Pediatrician, wife, mother, and best-selling author of six books, Dr. Meg Meeker is one of the country?s leading experts on parenting, teens and children?s health. Get her book Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters today!
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Bill Russell has 11 rings.
Kobe has five. MJ has six rings.
Would you believe Robert freakin’ Horry has seven rings?
Dirk’s got one now.
Lebron is ringless.
There’s no simpler statistic in basketball than “rings”. They are the metric by which we separate transcendent players from great ones. They are the dominant consideration when judging the success or failure of a player’s career. They are the ultimate trump card in any argument about who’s better than who.
Rings help us understand the careers of players. They are central to how we construct the history of the sport.
So why does Mark Cuban want to do away with them?
Despite our desire to preserve tradition in sports, Cuban is actually on to something here.
It’s completely irrational to give a grown man a piece of expensive jewelry for winning a sports championship. A vanity ring is useless to a contemporary man. It might as well be an amorphous clump of rare metal, because it’s going to serve the exact same purpose.
But for some reason, the ring is the ultimate sign of distinction in this one tiny section of society.
European soccer players, Olympians, and Little Leaguers all compete for medals. Only American athletes in the four major professional sports compete for rings.
It makes no sense.
To take it a step further, the rings that go on the fingers on championship players have very little to do with the “rings” we reference when we talk about sports.
The term “rings” is purely symbolic. When we say that Kobe has five rings, we’re referring to the characteristics that make him a perennial champion. We’re not referring to five actual metal loops sitting somewhere in his house.
Granted, the genesis of the term “rings” could not have happened had teams not originally given out jewelry for titles.
But now a “ring” is its own, powerful entity. Having a ring no longer depends on your ability to put it on your finger.
So while it’s hard to despise with tradition, Cuban can do what he wants and it won’t affect the legacies of his players.
He can give his team Range Rovers or diamond watches, and Dirk, Jason Kidd, and Jason Terry still won their rings.
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How do you kill the Dollar?
That's the question that was on everyone's mind last week. The smallest indication of Dollar strength caused a Global equity meltdown. As Stock World Weekly has been pointing out all year, and as evidenced by this 2-year chart of the Dow relative to UUP (Dollar index), essentially our entire 40% rally since last summer was at least augmented by QE2's 20% weakening of Dollar buying power.
If we give the market the benefit of the doubt and say there should be a 1:1 relationship between the Dollar losing buying power and the price of equities (which are priced in Dollars) rising, then we could assume that 20% of the rise in the market was "natural" while the other 20% was inflated due to the weak Dollar. BUT - you have to take into account the double boost that is given to commodity companies who get paid more for what they sell. That's tremendous over- PRICING of the energy, mining and agricultural sectors. Our exporters also greatly benefited from the strong Dollar and that benefit will reverse itself should the Dollar reassert it's strength. (You can review our Billions of Dollars of profitable trade ideas in the Weekly Wrap-Up, many of which will be useful again this week if we keep falling!)
Obviously, no one is ready for this. The weak Dollar was pretty much the only reason we had the pretense of a global recovery. It made it look like there was a demand for commodities (there was not), it made it look like there was a demand for American goods (there was not) and it made it look like we were paying our debts, which we were - but with discounted Dollars that were being created by the Federal reserve at a rate of over $50Bn per month.
In fact, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet (ie. printed money) by $2Tn since October of 2008. As you can see from the chart on the left (from the Cleveland Fed), there have been huge increases this year in "Long-Term Security Purchase" (T-Bills) as QE2's primary purpose was to keep our lending rate artificially low by faking a demand for the $140Bn a month of debt paper that is being issued by Treasury.
This chart just covers the first four months of the year and you can see Long-Term Security Purchases (in Red) grow from $700Bn to $1.3Tn in 5 months of QE2 (beginning in December). This has not been an issue of the Fed putting training wheels on the bike for us - this is the Fed drugging us, sitting us on the floor, playing a video of a bike ride and pretending we are ready to go on our own.
Clearly we are not ready at all! Just the threat of the removal of QE2 has caused the global economy to begin to wobble and we've fallen 7.5% in 30 days and we can't get up. The Dollar hasn't actually gone anywhere - it has simply stopped going down. We spiked to a low of 72.95 at the beginning of May and are now back to the 75 line, that's up 2.5% from where we called a market top due, in fact, to the Dollar bottom call we made at the same time.
Now we are, hopefully, about halfway through a correction IF they can get the Dollar to stop at the 77.50 line, which is the falling 200 dma. We discussed this last night in Member Chat so I won't go back over it, but it's all very dependent on whether or not we can slow this descent of the Global Markets and stop them from breaking critical technical support (as I mentioned last Tuesday, S&P 1,266 is the single most important line that needs to hold).
The entire financial sector threw a temper tantrum starting with JPM's Jaimie Dimon, who whined almost as much as Bernanke as he spun his little tale of banking woe if Uncle Ben should cut off his QE2 money and leave him at the hands of the evil regulators and their "rules" that might stop him and his pals from destroying the Global Economy (again). That sent XLF down to new lows and the financials are down over 10% since early April. We're now playing them for a bounce this week in to option expiration day on Friday. What Dr. Bernanke and Mr. Dimon both seem to forget is we used to regulate banks just fine under the Glass-Steagall, which worked well for almost 70 years until it was repealed and replaced by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that paved the way for a decade of Bankers Gone Wild.
So here we are, 11 years after Gramm-Leach-Bliley began the destruction of the Global Economy, and what are we going to do about it? We've created a monster and that monster is the heart of our economy - we can't kill it. We could have/should have let it die back in 2008 when the whole system was collapsing but, instead of spending $8Tn on unemployment and infrastructure (enough to give 150M US workers $53,333 each!), we gave it to the Banksters so that they could get back on their feet and, hopefully, eventually, trickle down some of their wealth on the rest of us.
Of course it's stupid. It's also stupid that we have the World's lowest EFFECTIVE Corporate Tax Rate and that our top 400 households (who average $300M a year in income) pay an average of 16.6% in taxes while the average family earning over $1M a year pays an average of 22.8% in taxes - 33% LESS than families earning $50,000-250,000 a year! Our ENTIRE deficit is right there - in our lack of collections, not our excess of spending, which is in-line as a percentage of GDP with the rest of the World.
Keep in mind that the 11.2% per Million ($112,000) that a wealthy family doesn't pay, represents 11.2% MORE that 10 families earning $100,000 have to pay ($11,200) to balance out the revenues. This does not even take into account regressive taxes like Social Security, Medicare, Sales Taxes and Property Taxes - all of which disproportionately tax the poor as a percentage of their income. For people with fixed mortgages, rising property taxes are the number one reason families can no longer afford their "mortgage payment".
This was a very clever offshoot of the Reagan Revolution, where home ownership was encouraged under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 while, at the same time, the Government "de-centralized" and shoved a huge portion of the tax burden away from the Federal Government (where income is taxed progressively) and down to the Local Level, where regressive taxes were the norm. Over the past 24 years, this has shifted over $2Tn worth of tax payments from the top 1% to the bottom 90%.
Well, no use crying over spilled middle-class dreams, is there. What we have now is an economy that is almost entirely driven by Banking Interests so, if we want our markets to be strong, we need to do what is good for the banks. At the moment, that means keeping the Dollar as weak as possible. All the stops were pulled out this weekend, beginning with Jean-Clade Junker on Saturday, who lashed out at the US - calling our debt levels "disastrous." That managed to knock the Dollar down from Friday's 75.30 level back to the 75 mark in early EU trading and at 9:30 this morning we hear from the Fed's Fred Lacker and then, at 7 pm, it's Fred Fisher's turn to give us an Economic Update.
On the other side of the pond, Bundesbank's Jens Weidmann says a Greek default would not destabilize the Euro saying: "If the commitments are not met, that cancels the basis for further funds from the aid package. This would be Greece’s decision, and the country then would have to bear the surely dramatic economic consequences of a default. I don’t think this would be sensible, and it would surely put partner countries in a difficult situation. But the euro would even in this case remain stable." Weidmann’s depiction of a default as a liveable outcome contrasts with warnings from fellow ECB officials Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and Christian Noyer, as well as European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, who described it as a “Lehman Brothers catastrophe” last week - causing the Euro to hit new lows for the month.
Meanwhile, heading a little further East, China's June CPI will not hit a record high of 5%. According to the China Securities Journal, it is now likely to hit 6%. Meanwhile, our friends at the IBanks have boosted their bullish bets on Agriculture for the third consecutive week. If all goes "well", maybe we can shove China's food inflation high enough to push the CPI over 7% in July! It doesn't do any good to burst the oil bubble if all the money just moves into a food bubble. We made great money betting that just 369,000 oil futures contracts were unsustainable at $101+, now there are 759,974 net long Ag positions. This can get really, really ugly if they can't find some way to knock the Dollar back down.
Let's be careful out there.
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Turntable is a brand new online social network that revolves around listening to music with others, giving thumbs up to tracks you hear that you like, and earning "DJ points" that win you cool new avatars.
We've had our eyes on Turntable for a little while now because they've been getting a ton of buzz from angels and investors in the startup community. They already raised $1.6 million for the project.
Today, we finally got a chance to give it a real shot.
Click here to learn how Turntable works >
Once you join Turntable, you create a virtual DJ avatar that can listen to music or DJ music on stage.
You can enter a DJ room and, if there's a spot available, start playing music for others using a music search tool which had every song we were looking for.
If Turntable doesn't have the song you want to play, you can upload it.
Everyone in the room listens simultaneously, so you can talk about the song via a chat box while the song is playing.
One of the most fun parts (or most depressing parts) about Turntable.fm is getting confirmation that music you like is "cool." When you're up at the DJ booth, you get to choose what song comes on when it's your turn to DJ.
People can choose to mark your song "Awesome" or "Lame." Each "Awesome" gets you DJ points, which you must accumulate in order to buy cooler avatars.
If you don't feel like getting too social on Turntable, you can always create a room of your own and just play as much music as you want for free.
We had a blast using Turntable, but we do have a few complaints thus far. First, we wish there were more options for purchasing songs you hear that you like. Currently, the only option is the iTunes Music Store. We would've loved to see Amazon MP3 on there, for one.
Second, sometimes songs start off choppy, then end five seconds early. There just needs to be a little more polish.
Still, Turntable is definitely worth a try. It's a fun way to listen to music "with" others without having to say "ok, press the play button NOW." It's also a fun way to discover new music, meet others with similar taste, and customize an avatar (which everyone loves to do).
Turntable shows a ton of promise, even in its very early stages. Eventually, it might choose to monetize itself using virtual goods like new avatars, venues for DJ'ing, and more.
Turntable also has plans for an innovative iPhone app that would let multiple people at a party request songs that would all feed in to one playlist.
As of now, Turntable is only available to people whose Facebook friends already have access to Turntable. But soon, it should be available to everyone.
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