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Sentiment: Strong Buy

some is loading up

here we go

buy buy

wait and see

it will be in the 20S in 1 week

squeeeze coming

all in

say good bye to 14s

There is no money for the second one anymore.

The county roads here need paving, and the tax collector needs help.

There is no money for them, either.

There is no money for a lot of things around here, not since Jefferson County, population 658,000, went bankrupt last fall. There is no money for holiday D.U.I. checkpoints, litter patrols or overtime pay at the courthouse. None for crews to pull weeds or pick up road kill — not even when, as happened recently, an unlucky cow was hit near the town of Wylam.

“We don’t do that any more,” E. Wayne Sullivan, director of the roads and transportation department, said of such roadside cleanup.

This is life today in Jefferson County — Bankrupt, U.S.A. For all the talk in Washington about taxes and deficits, here is a place where government finances, and government itself, have simply broken down. The county, which includes the city of Birmingham, is drowning under $4 billion in debt, the legacy of a big sewer project and corrupt financial dealings that sent 17 people to prison.

Whether induced by the economy or self-inflicted, retailers' fourth-quarter results brought front and center issues that will continue to plague the sector well into 2013.

While consumers are modestly increasing spending despite having lower take-home pay, the overall sluggishness of the economy and escalating gasoline prices are countering a higher stock market and housing prices.

U.S. incomes fell the most in two decades in January as higher tax rates kicked in; personal incomes tumbled 3.6% in January, the Commerce Department said Friday. And gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, advanced at just a 0.1% annual rate between October and December, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

what a DUMP lol