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If you are looking for a better career or higher wages, go to where the jobs are. In this case, the top ten metropolitan cities with highest employment growth are in Florida, Texas and California. Oh, and two of those three states have zero state income tax. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There is an old saying on Wall Street that earnings are the lifeblood of the market. Stocks are apt to follow earnings, both up and down. As the chart below illustrates, operating earnings during the dark days of the great recession plummeted to $39.61. This sent the broad market index spiraling downward to 676, its

The 2009 Secular Bull Market is now up 1,477.31 points, that is, 218% from its “great recession” low.

Joe Donadio is 1DB’s modern day Yogi Berra.