Motley Fool Money: 05.27.2011
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🗓️ 27 May 2011
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. |
| 0:08.0 | From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Motley Full Money. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm your host, Chris Ellin. I'm joined by Motley Full, |
| 0:23.0 | Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Ron Gross. |
| 0:26.0 | Good to see you. We've got some delicious earnings from Krispy Kreme. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got an influential investor calling for Microsoft CEO to step down. |
| 0:35.0 | And we've got yet another sign that we might possibly, maybe, maybe be looking at another tech bubble. |
| 0:41.0 | Plus, as always, we've got a few stocks on our radar. |
| 0:44.0 | But we begin with a disappointing week for the big macro. |
| 0:47.0 | America's economic growth in the first quarter was 1.8% that was below expectations. |
| 0:53.0 | Weekly jobless claims came in at 424,000. |
| 0:58.0 | That was above expectations. Ron Gross, I'll pick on you first. |
| 1:02.0 | What are these number city? Not straw. |
| 1:05.0 | Growth is better than no growth. That's for sure. |
| 1:09.0 | But the fact that growth is somewhat anemic is concerning to me. |
| 1:14.0 | And for many months, I've been pretty conservative here and concerned that once government stimulus is removed, |
| 1:21.0 | with unemployment remaining high, our economy is not going to really be able to be self-sustaining. |
| 1:28.0 | So we'll have to see what the trend continues. A quarter by quarter will be watching this. |
| 1:33.0 | But I'm concerned, QE2 ends at the end of June, quantitative easing. |
| 1:36.0 | The second one ends at the end of June, and we'll see where we go from there. |
| 1:40.0 | But there's not many more tricks the government has to pull out of its bag of tricks. |
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