Posts Tagged ‘US consumer’



  October 16th, 2012

US Banks Safer But Still “Too Big To Fail”

Looking at the stock market, the story of corporate American is strikingly different. Balance sheets are
flush with cash, debt is being serviced relatively easily and corporate profits as a percent of GDP are
amongst the highest on record. As the chart shows, if real corporate earnings are growing …
  January 22nd, 2010

More Evidence the US Consumer Will Not Lead the Way Out

As the economy continues to shake off the cob webs of the last recession, some observers have long held to
the idea... More Evidence the US Consumer Will Not Lead the Way Out Pacifica Partners' Financial Post Weekly
Column - January 21st 2010 This and other articles also available online at: Financ…
  January 21st, 2010

Newsletter: Trading Fear for Complacency

Trading Fear for Complacency - the move from Recession to Recovery Pacifica Partners' Investment Compass -
Quarterly Market Commentary- January 20th 2010 In this issue: Pacifica Partners' 2009 fourth quarter
Investment Compass Quarterly Market Commentary examines the trade-off of fear for complacen…
  September 10th, 2009

Falling Consumer Debt – Short term Pain Long term Gain

Falling Consumer Debt - Short term Pain Long term Gain Pacifica Partners' Financial Post Weekly Column - Sept
10th 2009 Preview: It is said that the hallmark of a bull market is its ability to shrug off seemingly bad
news and continue to scale the “wall of worry”. The current bull market’s ab…
  July 2nd, 2009

The US Consumer: Engine of the Global Economy Gears Down

Pacifica Partners’ July 2nd 2009 Financial Post column entitled: "The US Consumer: Engine of the Global
Economy Gears Down" Can be read on the Financial Post website by clicking on the above hyper link or by
pasting the following link into your browser: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fp…