Have a column on Iowa coming soon, but first, a quick but absurd note from the world of high finance.
It seems Jim O'Neill, the head of Goldman's Asset Management department, is predicting that the United States stock market may go up "15 to 20 percent." O'Neill apparently believes Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve will resort to another round of money-printing, and finally green-light the long-awaited "Qe3," or third round of "Quantitative Easing."
The QE programs involve the Fed printing hundreds of billions of dollars and pumping them into the marketplace, where they ostensibly stimulate the economy (although recent experience tells us that the money mostly ends up being swallowed by the financial services industry - but that's another subject for another time). Anyway, Bernanke declined to go ahead with a third QE program in late 2011, but O'Neill apparently thinks we'll get it in 2012. From Bloomberg:
"If QE2 doesn't work, then we'll get QE3," said O'Neill, who was named chairman of the money manager in September after working as the co-head of global economics research and chief currency economist at New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. since 1995. There's a "good chance" the S&P 500 will rise 15 percent to 20 percent in the next 12 months, he said.O'Neill added that he thought a 20 percent bump would be "relatively straightforward" for the U.S. S&P.
Comment: Most Jews really are 'anti-Semitic' because they are not real semites - their Arab cousins are descendants of the Semitic people. Coupled with their brethren in the US, real anti-Semites have been imposing their final solution on the Semites since 9/11, targeting Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians, Libyans and now Syrians.
Read Secret History of the World and 9/11 The Ultimate Truth to find out more.