Architectural Billings Up, Bullish for Stock Market?

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Architectural Billings Rise

An Obscure Real Estate Indicator Is Looking Like a 'Huge Tailwind' for the Stock Market 

(Business Insider) The Architecture Billings Index jumped to 54.2 from last month's 51.2 reading, the fastest rate of growth in more than five years.

The index is a leading indicator for commercial real estate.

Dave Lutz, head of ETF trading and strategy at Stifel Nicolaus, sent along the chart below (the billings index in red versus the S&P 500 in blue), describing the surge in billings as a "huge tailwind" for the market.

The chart below suggests that billings can at times correlate with the market – but of course, that is not always the case.

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Peter Schiff: Black Friday, Fiscal Cliff, Gold, Dollar

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Peter Schiff

Black Friday, Fiscal Cliff, Gold, Dollar

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Peter Schiff: Fed Launches Operation Screw, Goes All-In on Quantitative Easing

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Peter Schiff

Operation Screw: The Fed Goes All-In on QE

The geniuses at the Federal Reserve have concocted a bold new plan to revive the U.S. economy -- print a bunch of money, loan it to Americans at super low interest rates so they can speculate on rising real estate prices, extract the appreciated equity and spend it on consumer goods. In other words, build an economy of real estate, by real estate, and for real estate. The only problem is we've been there and done that. The last time it almost destroyed the U.S.economy.

I guess almost isn't quite good enough for the Fed, so now it's determined to finish the job. These actions will destroy Americans' savings and hurt people on fixed incomes. To protect yourself, I recommend a strategy of foreign equities, commodities, and gold and silver.

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John Williams: America is Bankrupt, Economic Collapse in 2014!

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John Williams

John Williams of Shadowstats.com Interview: The Next Crash Will Be A Lot Worse

http://usawatchdog.com/ - Anyone who thinks the U.S. is in recovery should stop listening to the mainstream media and listen to John Williams. He heads up Shadowstats.com, and is one of the few economists who crunches the numbers to give unvarnished true statistics.

Adjusted for real inflation of about 7%, Williams says, "GDP has plunged, and we have been bottom bouncing" ever since the financial crisis started. Williams says, "The next crash will be a lot worse (than 2008) because it will push us into the early stages of hyperinflation." He predicts this will happen "by the end of 2014" at the latest.

Long before 2014, Shadowstats.com thinks there is a good chance of "panic selling of the U.S. dollar," if the Federal Reserve starts another round of money printing (QE3) to save the system and the big banks.

No matter what Williams predicts, "There will eventually be a crisis to bring the system down as we know it. We're on the brink." According to Williams, "at some point, you will see a new currency in the U.S."

The founder of Shadowstats.com sat down for a one on one interview with Greg Hunter to talk about the mathematical certainty of a systemic collapse in the not-so-distant future.

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Peter Schiff: USA Jobs, The Real Fiscal Cliff, Obamanomics

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USA Jobs, The Real Fiscal Cliff, Obamanomics The Schiff Report - 7/9/2012

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