Serious Money: Washington Compromise Stinks, but Here Are Some Stocks to Look At

Perhaps BASF in addition to ADM. Both are in good positions. Deere has brand recognition, but a lot of competition and they don't have any price advantage. Kubota, Bobcat & mahindra are all after the smaller, compact and subcompact lines - and thats not all of their competitors. Case/IH has a big push on right now and that's the big stuff.

As to the hill - I agree. Lots of B.S., politics as usual with what will be detrimental result. Interesting enough CNBC had a segment on this subject today and one of the commentators stated that there had been a review of the 250K bracket in which they stated that 6 households were surveyed. As I recall, the one in the NYC suburbs paid 29K(rounded) in other taxes and the one in Fl. paid 13K. I have to presume this to be real estate,fuel,sales and perhaps even phone as they did not delineate. They also failed to say whether these families were making 250K or 750K. The only thing that was implied was these people were "struggling". They did admit that they had an average disposable income of 14K a month, after paying full boat into their 401K's, taxes, etc. Of course, all are living in a nice home and the high rent district. Since I put a few years in Fl and owned property there I can say that even if the figure represents 10K in real estate that it's tax value is around 750K-1M. Don't take me wrong as I don't begrudge those that are making a good living, but the country has produced more millionairs in the last ten years than ever before and we are running up one hell of a bill. Someone has to pay and you cannot squeeze water out of rock. It would be far better that those who can - pay something. It would also be in their interest as at current rate they will be paying more at the end of the two year time frame on the cuts. The government cannot push this into the future forever and you cannot keep spending what you don't have or don't expect to make.
The people have no bread - let them eat cake.
Marie never said that, but rumors can be a bitch as
it cost her head ---

We may not be going quite in that direction but more "tea parties" and the like are starting to look to be the next rage.

Sheldon,

You've hit the key fact. "Deficit Reduction" makes a good electioneering slogan but is a lot more difficult to achieve in practice. When (if) you remove Defense spending from reductions, there aren't that many options available.

It will be interesting to see what the Republican Congress will do next year, aside of course from investigating President Obama's missing Birth Certificate.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how you compromise your plan to lower the deficit by 1) raising it and then 2) tacking on 3 additional measures to raise it further (payroll tax cut, education tax credits, unemployment benefits)

I hope this is the same compromise tactics my boss uses when its time to negotiate my raise.

Anybody that wants to donate money to the to the Federal reserve can, they even have a number to call.
Feel free to give as much of your money as you want.