{"id":171812,"date":"2010-01-12T14:36:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-clouds-are-gathering-time-to-be-fearful-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:36:35","slug":"the-clouds-are-gathering-time-to-be-fearful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/171812","title":{"rendered":"The Clouds Are Gathering, Time To Be Fearful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the following clouds gathered:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>renewed fears of populism as the administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/business\/economy\/12bailout.html?ref=business\" >considers<\/a> launching a tax on financial institutions.<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li>a disappointing <strong>Alcoa<\/strong> <span class=\"TICKERFLAT\">&nbsp;<\/span>earnings release;<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li>China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=an75YWncih4E&amp;pos=3\" >guided<\/a> the one-year bill higher to curb lending and this morning raised bank reserve requirements; and<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li>we experienced a different sort of market close.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My responses?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/10652062\/1\/kass-populism-will-unclog-the-beltway.html\">remain fearful<\/a> of the ramifications of populism in 2010-2011 on economic growth and on the market&#8217;s prospects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/10659649\/1\/kass-waiting-for-a-correction.html\"><strong>Read the rest of the post at TheStreet.com &#8212; &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-clouds-are-gathering-time-to-be-fearful-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-sneezed-and-brazil-australia-the-commodities-industry-and-the-us-market-all-just-caught-a-cold-2010-1\">China Sneezed And Brazil, Australia, The Commodities Industry, And The US Market All Just Caught A Cold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-bank-tax-plan-is-yet-another-empty-populist-gesture-2010-1\">Obama&#8217;s Bank Tax Plan Is Yet Another Empty Populist Gesture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-considers-hitting-banks-with-services-fee-to-trim-national-deficit-2010-1\">Barack Obama About To Whack Banks With Deficit-Reducing Bailout Fee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/C_aNjUetY2Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the following clouds gathered: renewed fears of populism as the administration considers launching a tax on financial institutions. &nbsp; a disappointing Alcoa &nbsp;earnings release; &nbsp; China guided the one-year bill higher to curb lending and this morning raised bank reserve requirements; and &nbsp; we experienced a different sort of market close. My responses? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}