{"id":1585,"date":"2009-01-15T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2009-01-15T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:15:09","slug":"report-tdi-1q-economic-commentary-and-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/report-tdi-1q-economic-commentary-and-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 1Q Economic Commentary and Outlook (Free!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each quarter we write a detailed review of how the global economic climate responded to varying conditions and what we see ahead. \u00a0 here are a few of the areas we cover in detail this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, this is only available to clients of Horowitz &amp; Company, but this quarter we wanted to make it available for your review.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic data releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics have been bullishly skewed and subsequently revised downward showing increased bearish sentiment.<\/li>\n<li>Optimism from proposed government intervention should not trump unprecedented unemployment, retail sales and credit problems<\/li>\n<li>Short term effect from economic stimulus in the form of rate reductions can be beneficial, but a longer-term solution is needed.<\/li>\n<li>Legislation needs to be enacted to expand the allowable plan assets and clearly define effective investment diversification.<\/li>\n<li>Mutual Fund companies and buy and hold advisors have failed miserably at protecting investor&#8217;s hard earned money.<\/li>\n<li>Money flows have clearly shown a skew toward ETFs rather than Mutual Funds.<\/li>\n<li>Increased incentive to borrow due to rate reductions will only decrease the chances for consumers to get out of credit problems.<\/li>\n<li>Access to credit by consumers will be limited by their lack of gainful employment.<\/li>\n<li>IPOs have become extinct which has caused investment banks to lose significant revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would to read the detail and our forecast, click <strong><a title=\"Economic Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/economic-review-and-commentary\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each quarter we write a detailed review of how the global economic climate responded to varying conditions and what we see ahead. \u00a0 here are a few of the areas we cover in detail this quarter. Usually, this is only available to clients of Horowitz &amp; Company, but this quarter we wanted to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,220,12,42],"tags":[481,492,497],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-weekly-gameplan","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-economy","tag-weekly-gameplan","tag-strategy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}