Archive for July 3rd, 2010

Answers to Swine Flu Questions Presented in Self Published Book

News of the swine flu spread all over the world are still make headlines to this day even as medical professionals scramble to find the vaccine to the H1N1 influenza.

In Southern California, some doctors have expressed frustration over parents who have barraged their offices with calls to have their children vaccinated. These calls have probably come in after reports of a shortage of the H1N1 vaccine broke out.

A spokesperson for the State Health Department, Claudia Hutton, said concentration of vaccination efforts should be directed on pregnant women and children. “Since the vaccine is so scarce right now and since the virus has proved especially difficult for pregnant women and young people — there have been deaths — we felt that the best use of the scarce amount of vaccine right now is for those populations,” Hutton said.

With the urgency of having more supply of the swine flu vaccine, things have now turned into a race of finding an answer to the H1N1 menace.

Dr. F.J. Sawaya understands this urgency and this author emphasizes that on the self-published book, The Medical-Chemical Answer for Swine Flu & Avian-Flu. Sawaya gives a factual analysis of and detailed information on the H1N1 virus and the swine flu outbreak of 2009.

Release on September 11, 2009, this self-published title comes at a time when medical professionals and researchers need all the help they can get to find the medical and chemical answers to the swine flu.

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Bank Stress Tests?? What Stress?

So by now youâ??ve heard the unofficial results of the bank stress tests. Only ONE, thatâ??s right, ONE bank out of the nineteen tested is in need of additional capital.   SHOCKER!!  I mean really, did anyone actually believe that the government would do more damage to the already-fragile banking system?  

  

Last Friday, the government disclosed the measures that were used to test the banks. This Monday, the US markets opened lower. All of the talking heads will tell you that we opened lower because of the dangerous swine flu, but I find this to be a bit too convenient. Wag the Dog, anyone?

 

Letâ??s face it; the government stands to lose far more than any individual bank that could not pass the stress tests!! (I wonder which bank will take one for the team?). One thing is for certain, the Government is â??all-inâ? with a portfolio heavily weighted in banks.   

 

When was the last time you bought a stock and then hit the message boards talking about how BAD of a company it is? Didnâ??t think so!

 

Thatâ??s why itâ??s really important to understand how big of a player government is and how itâ??s decisions can affect the capital markets. Find out what you can do to position yourself properly.   Check out our investing course and currency course to learn more about these relationships and how to profit from them.

 

 

So what have we learned throughout this entire banks stress process? Not much. We still do not have a reasonable idea of the health of the banks, and we know that the government will provide with them all that they need in order to keep the cash circulating. 

 

Letâ??s take a look at what this means going forward.

 

There are two basic schools of thought regarding the stress tests:

 

 You believe that the process for the stress tests was sufficient, and that the results show that the banks are strengthening and the economy is on its way to recovery, or

 

You do not believe in the sufficiency of the stress tests, or that the banks are as strong as the government might have you believe.

 

 

The market is currently weighing these options as we lead up to the â??officialâ? announcement of the results of the stress tests on Mon., May 4th. Expect a lot of political jaw-boning and sideways trading up until the report. 

 

If the prevailing feeling is from the first camp, then the markets could rally on higher expectations for the economy. This could have a positive effect on the US dollar, furthering the safe harbor trade as money comes pouring from abroad to invest.

 

Should the prevailing sentiment come from the second camp, then we could see the exact opposite. Markets could sell off in fear of whatâ??s being hidden, with the US dollar weakening as money leaves the US.

 

Take a look at our currency course, which will explain how this works in greater detail.

 

Regardless of how this all plays out, it has become obvious that the government will do whatever is necessary to make investors believe that the picture is rosy is going forward.   So in this regard, there is nothing to be stressed about at all!

Mike Conlon

Contributing Writer

MyWealth

Policy conflict after first swine flu death

While Maharashtra invoked the Epidemic Act in Pune and Satara districts on Tuesday, the Union government, on the same day, eased its guidelines and said that only individuals with severe swine flu symptoms need to be hospitalised

Swine flu outbreak in remote community

Swine flu outbreak in remote community
The Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control says there has been a swine flu outbreak in a remote Arnhem Land community.

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