Wednesday, January 12, 2011

2011 Baby Boomer Affect On Stock Market

The demographic birth boom is considered to be 1946 – 1964.  1946 + 65 = 2011.  Baby boomers start to retire this year.  This could adversely affect the stock market as they start to cash in shares in their 401k’s.  Also full Social Security starts to kick in. 

Monday, January 3, 2011

Consumer bankruptcies hit 5-year high in 2010 - Business - Stocks & economy - msnbc.com

With bankruptcies, comes opportunity; Real Estate that will be left behind for the banks to deal with. And as we all know, banks are not in the Real Estate business, they are in the loan business!