The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454) passed the House of Representatives last Friday - but only by seven votes. Obama focused today on making his case to the U.S. Senate, confident that they will “move this country forward.” He cited the case of California, where tougher energy legislation in the 1970s has both created jobs …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 29th, 2009 under Obama, Energy, The First Year, Environmental Issues.
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Many major news networks reporting on Obama’s June 23 press conference focused on what he said about Iranian elections, healthcare, and his own smoking habits. But they left out the biggest impact the administration will have on the stock market in the near future: the alternative energy bill (H.R. 2454) that will come to a vote tomorrow.
The fact …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 25th, 2009 under Obama, Energy, The First Year, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure.
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On Monday, President Obama signed the Family Smoking and Tobacco Prevention Act into law, giving the FDA unprecedented power to regulate the tobacco industry. This was an issue we discussed way back in 2008. We pointed to a statement by Dan Clifton that indicated a Democratic administration would be more likely to support the regulation we have …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 23rd, 2009 under Obama, The First Year, Tobacco.
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Obama’s healthcare plan apparently costs $1.6 trillion, not the 1 trillion he indicated on the fifteenth, prompting Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus to try and slim down that number by about $600 billion. Baucus claims that his healthcare reform can be paid for entirely with “tax increases, spending cuts and other offsets” - which is interesting because Obama did …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 22nd, 2009 under Obama, Healthcare, The First Year.
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Obama sold the public pretty well in a speech to the AMA earlier today, but what we’re most interested in is how reform will be paid for. He broke down the trillion dollars healthcare reform cost over ten years into two main ways.
First, we have the $635 billion set aside in the budget called the Health Reserve Fund. $300 …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 15th, 2009 under Obama, Healthcare, The First Year.
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Dan Clifton was on Fast Money last night talking about his favorite sectors if Obama manages to pass some major healthcare reform. He reiterated a lot of good ideas that we have already addressed on the site: generic drug companies are golden, the fate of healthcare insurance a little less certain, and big pharma is going to take a hit.
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 12th, 2009 under Obama, Healthcare, The First Year.
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House Democrats finally got their hands on Obama’s healthcare draft yesterday. The Hill notes that the more moderate Democrats were not all that happy with the plans for the overhaul so far, which leads us to believe it could be a serious problem garnering sufficient Republican votes to pass the legislation. Oh, and the …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 10th, 2009 under Obama, Healthcare, The First Year.
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There is a growing sentiment (mostly among those who never wanted the stimulus package passed in the first place) that it might be possible to ‘cancel’ spending the rest of the stimulus money. After all, we are seeing signs of economic recovery - right?…
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 4th, 2009 under Obama, The First Year, Economy, Infrastructure.
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The Dow Jones Indexes revealed an index of stocks and sectors that are expected to receive a substantial portion of the taxpayer money from the stimulus package. The index is split into six sectors: “Alternative Energy, Construction & Materials, Energy Grid, Environment, Technology, Telecom/Internet” - which is surprisingly close to the very same categories we use ourselves. It has …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on June 1st, 2009 under Obama, Energy, Construction, The First Year, Economy, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure.
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Today, following the White House’s 100 days of the stimulus package report, CNBC ran a short segment with several different analysts reacting to the stimulus package and the programs it has put forth so far. We at Election Stocks particularly support the arguments presented by David Min.
Many people mistakenly thought that the time …
Posted by Guy_in_a_Suit on May 27th, 2009 under Obama, Energy, The First Year, Infrastructure.
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