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The Kitchen SinkWeekly CEO Commentary 9-17-12Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company Last week the Federal Reserve announced additional steps to try to support a stronger economic recovery according to their press release on September 13, 2012. Here's what they are… More >>

  A Housing Head Fake?Weekly CEO Commentary 9-10-12Tim Phillips, Phillips and Company Last Friday's jobs report almost guaranteed additional monetary intervention by the Federal Reserve to come this week at the end of their meeting on the 13th. As I mentioned in last… More >>

  "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory"Weekly CEO Commentary 9-4-12Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company Leave it to Lincoln to come up with another great quip that is very fitting to our current monetary agenda. Allegedly, Lincoln used this phrase when he was… More >>

  Personal Profits and Corporate ProfitsWeekly CEO Commentary 8-27-12Tim Phillips, Phillips and Company Corporate profits as a percentage of GDP are at all-time highs, and according to the Federal Reserve, these profits currently represent approximately 11% of GDP. That… More >>

DivergenceWeekly Market Commentary 8-20-12Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company The definition of divergence: Di·ver·gence (diˈvərjəns) Noun: A difference or conflict in opinions. On the one hand, we have… More >>

Over the Cliff (? Or !) Weekly Market Commentary 8-13-12 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company Over the next six months, the dominant macroeconomic event we will deal with is the Fiscal Cliff. Now that the Republican candidate has picked his Vice President, the… More >>

Confusion ConfirmedWeekly Market Commentary 8-6-12Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company The S&P 500 appeared to have another decent week ending up 0.36%. However, this is misleading because all of those gains came on Friday, whereas the market was actually down… More >>

Is it Time to Speculate? Weekly Market Commentary 7-30-12 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company The Bureau of Economic Analysis has officially confirmed that the economy has downshifted from 4.1% growth to 1.5% growth in the first half of the year. The Dow Jones… More >>

  Norm Sherry Weekly Market Commentary 7-23-12 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company   We just crossed the half way mark for the year, and that means two things: earning season is getting under way in earnest, and we are a little over half way through the 2012… More >>

The Great Recession or the Great Distraction Weekly Market Commentary 7-16-12 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company In a recent presentation by David Rosenberg I was reminded of something that was often talked about prior to the Great Recession, which is the… More >>