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Tuesday November 10, 2009

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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTCBB: PWRM), a leader in neurodegenerative disease and cancer biomarkers and diagnostic tests, announces further international recognition of validity as the company’s President and CSO, Dr. Ira Goldknopf, will deliver an invited Keynote address and chair a session on “Biomarkers and Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine (Track 6-4),” at the BIT Life Sciences 2nd International Congress and Expo of Molecular Diagnostics in Beijing, China, November 19-21, 2009. The Theme of the meeting is “New Leadership of

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This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Doug Kass (TheStreet.com): Bearish arguments are roaring, September 14, 2009. In summary, the market has discounted favorable expectations (certainly against forecasts four months ago!) and seems more “certain” of a self-sustaining recovery cycle outcome. Reflecting the gravity and weight of so many inhibiting factors, I see a much broader range of possible outcomes and less certainty than some of the newly printed bullish market participants. The credit expansion of the last several decades has reversed, it will take time to reverse the damage to net worth and confidence, the consumer remains in a fragile state, corporations will make do with more productive but fewer personnel (job growth could continue to disappoint), there are no apparent drivers to replace the role of

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Casey Mulligan rebuts my post asserting slack in the economy by posing the scenario "Construction Workers Teaching Kindergarten". He writes:

Econbrowser now claims* that the stimulus bill can be effective, because unemployment rates are high (whatever that means) in health care and education. Let's take a look at employment changes Dec 2007 - June 2009 (millions) by industry:

Total nonfarm payrolls: -6.5

Construction: -1.3

Manufacturering: -1.9

Education and Health: +0.7

How exactly is fiscal policy going to create 3.5 million jobs by primarily hiring people in education and health? I see only two scenarios, both absurd and/or dishonest:

He argues these two scenarios are: (1) "The construction workers become kindergarten teachers" or (2) "The people in construction and manufacturing stay unemployed."

Are Unemployment Statistics Meaningless?

Professor Mulligan apparently disbelieves unemployment rates, preferring to ascribe greater importance to employment figures. I think I understand why he does, given the optimizing theoretical framework he works with (see

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In today's Economix post, Casey Mulligan argues that the greater than predicted unemployment numbers should not be ascribed to the negative effect of the stimulus, but rather to bigger than anticipated negative shocks.

We cannot blame the Obama administration for failing to predict June's 9.5 percent unemployment rate. That result just shows the size of the shocks hitting the economy: Even the best forecasters can miss the unemployment rate by almost two percentage points, even when forecasting fewer than six months ahead.

That makes sense, and is in line with my previous post. But he then argues that since we’ve seen little stimulus effect so far, we should cancel the stimulus, since it'd be costly on a per-job basis (and in any case, he believes the effect on GDP to be small [1]). These are interesting assertions meriting further analysis.

Stock-Flow Mismatch

We're all free to use whatever multipliers we

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Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA) has seen solid share price advances against the broader market. The company has also been the subject of higher estimate revisions on a record first quarter.

Company Description

Strayer Education, an education services holding company, owns Strayer University and other assets. The company's mission is to make higher education achievable and convenient for working adults in today's economy.

Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, and public administration to more than 45,000 working adult students at 65 campuses in 14 states, Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Rising Forecasts

The company, which has outperformed the market over the pas year, is seeing higher estimate revisions on a record first quarter.

Analysts are

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The Consumer Discretionary sector is one of the more intuitive sectors, with earnings driven by consumer spending.  The consumer-led nature of this recession has driven discretionary stocks south, with households cutting spending and increasing savings rates (to 3.6%). The companies that have faired the best over the 18 months have been those with strong balance sheets and large market caps that offer less discretionary product lines. Sub-sectors that have performed especially well are discount restaurants, discount retailers and education services. Subsectors hardest hit, on the other hand, include specialty stores, automotives, publishing, and gaming. Some of these sub-sectors, particularly automotive and publishing, have inherently flawed business models whose recover-ability is questionable. Others have been pulled down by their ultra-discretionary product lines as consumers cut big ticket items. Left in between are companies that offer products discretionary in nature but without the big-ticket price tag. These companies were heavily discounted as

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Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA) recently posted record results in the first quarter. Revenues jumped 28% year-over-year, while earnings per share of $2.08 came in 6% ahead of the consensus estimate and topped the year-prior $1.64.

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Strayer Education, an education services holding company, owns Strayer University and certain other assets. The company's mission is to make higher education achievable and convenient for working adults in today's economy.

Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, and public administration to more than 44,000 working adult students at 60 campuses in 12 states, Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

A Record Quarter

The company recently posted record results in the first quarter. Revenues jumped 28% year-over-year, while earnings per share of $2.08 came in 6%

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Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA) delivered robust fourth-quarter and year-end results in mid-February. The company's fourth-quarter earnings and revenues climbed 28% each on a year-over-year basis.

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Strayer Education, an education services holding company, owns Strayer University and certain other assets. The company's mission is to make higher education achievable and convenient for working adults in today's economy.

Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, and public administration to more than 44,000 working adult students at 60 campuses in 12 states, Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Higher Estimates

The company has seen analysts boost forecasts. Analyst estimates for 2009 are at $6.99 per share, up from $6.95 over the past 60 days. For 2010, projections have been steady over the past 3 months

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Strayer Education Inc. (STRA) has seen analysts boost forecasts. Analyst estimates for 2008 are at $5.66 per share, up from $5.54 over the past 60 days. For 2009, projections of $6.97 are above the two months-ago forecasts of $6.71. The company has been trading ahead of the Dow Jones ($DJI), S&P 500 (SPX) and NASDAQ (COMP).

< ?DART(15);?> Company Description

Strayer Education, an education services holding company, owns Strayer University and certain other assets. The company's mission is to make higher education achievable and convenient for working adults in today's economy.

Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, and public administration to more than 44,000 working adult students at 60 campuses in 12 states, Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Higher Estimates

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Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA) boasts a return on equity (ROE) of 43%, surging past the industry average of 11%. Equally as impressive is the fact that Strayer's balance sheet shows no debt.

Company Description

Strayer Education, an education services holding company, owns Strayer University and certain other assets. The company's mission is to make higher education achievable and convenient for working adults in today's economy.

Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, and public administration to more than 44,000 working adult students at 60 campuses in 12 states, Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Founded in 1892, Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Quarterly Results Reflect Solid Growth

The company posted third-quarter revenue growth of 25% on a year-over-year basis. Net income increased to $11.8 million from $9.3 million last year. This translates into earnings

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