The history of electronic devices is that they garner tremendous profits and margins when they first come out but over time they become commodities and drop tremendously in price and profit margins fall precipitously also.  Look at the price of computers and big screen TVs when they first came out and today they practi...more

Haven't you people figured out yet that more than 75% of the trades made each day are made by High Frequency Traders , Hedge Funds, etc.   They are the ones that are causing all this. Other non-professionsal investors are not selling their shares in large numbers.  Procedures and fees have to be put in place to curt...more

The economy cannot achieve long term robust economic growth  because income and asset accumulation from top to bottom is too lop-sided.  The top 20% own 84% of all the assets in the country.  The next 20% owns 11% of the assets, the next 20% owns 4% of the assets and the bottom 40% owns in aggregate just 1% of the coun...more

The median household income in the United States is about $50,000.  It takes very little common sense to realize that 5 times that amount ($250,000) is not in the middle class.  I would say maybe 2 or 2 1/2 times $50,000 might be the upper limit of the middle class.  It is ludicrous to consider an income of $250,000 ...more

Stocks are not doomed by demographics because the vast bulk of non-professional activity in the trading of stocks is conducted by the top 20% of income/net worth individuals who own 84% of all the assets of the country and affected very little by the demographics of the bottom 80% of the population which only owns 16% ...more

Dear Mr. Reeves, Thanks for writing this ignorant article which some people will believe and sell their shares. This will provide an even better opportunity for those that analyze thoroughly and realize the solid fundamentals and balance sheet conditions underpinning many of these companies to pick up more of the shar...more

There is a huge imbalance in income with a resultant dampening of the growth prospects of the economy when minimum wage in most states is $7.25 per hour which comes to $15.080.00 per year if the individual is working a full 40 hours per week and a household bringing in for example $210,000.00 per year which is 14 times...more

Do you know where the $16 trillion which the country owes and which was poured into the economy, the money supply, foreign wars and failing businesses  is now ??  The vast bulk of that money is now in the hands of the top 20% of income/networth individuals.  I know this because the top 20% of income/net worth individua...more

The more important thing is that we did not fall into the abyss that President Obama faced immediately upon taking office.  We were kept out of who knows how deep a Depression and the economy has improved over the past four years.  Slowly it is true but we could have been a lot worse off with what President Obama fa...more