Trade the Congressional Effect: How To Profit from Congress's Impact on the Stock Market

Notes

¹ www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html

² S&P Press release, “Home Prices Continued to Decline in November 2011 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices,” January, 31, 2012, www.standardandpoors.com/spf/docs/case-shiller/CSHomePrice_Release_013118.pdf

³ http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/08/8687925-nearly-29-of-mortgaged-homes-underwater-report-finds?lite

⁴ Jia Lyn Yang, “How Bad Is the Mortgage Crisis Going to Get?,” CNNMoney, March 17, 2008, http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/14/news/economy/krugman_subprime.fortune/index.htm

⁵ David Kirkpatrick, “Mortgage Default Rates Stunning,” March 6, 2009, http://davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/mortgage-default-rates-stunning/

⁶ Bill McBride, “Report: Record 5.4 Million U.S. Homeowners Delinquent or in Foreclosure,” March 5, 2009, www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/03/report-record-54-million-us-homeowners.html

⁷ Dealbook, “As Goldman and Morgan Shift, a Wall St. Era Ends,” September 21, 2008, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/goldman-morgan-to-become-bank-holding-companies/ and Bethany McLean, “The Meltdown Explanation that Melts Away,” March 19, 2012, http://blogs.reuters.com/bethany-mclean/2012/03/19/the-meltdown-explanation-that-melts-away/

⁸ CrisisSite.com, “Impact of Debt Crisis on Financial Institutions,” www.crisissite.com/an-insight-on-impact-of-debt.html

⁹ www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-01/gross-says-savers-face-lengthy-financial-repression-video-.html

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