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Saludos.. y "Good Luck Trading"

2011 fue muy dificil para los invesionistas, hasta el Legendario John Paulson, considerado como uno , sino el mejor Hedge Fund manager de USA, sufrio un caida de mas del 50% en su fondo..

Esperemos que el 2012 sea muy bueno para todos !!

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There will be no holiday cheer for hedge fund manager John Paulson this month, as his dismal performance in 2011 is capped off by another miserable performance so far in December.

The Paulson & Co.'s Advantage Plus fund, which has been the firm's worst performer all year, is down another 9 percent through December 16, sending yearly losses to about 52 percent, according to a person familiar with the numbers.

The Paulson Advantage fund, the firm's largest portfolio, is also hurting again this month, declining about 6 percent. The fund is down about 36 percent year-to-date.

The Standard and Poor's 500 stock index has been flat so far in December.

A spokesman for Paulson & Co. declined to comment.

For Paulson, one of the $2 trillion dollar hedge fund industry's biggest stars, 2011 has been a year in which nothing has seemed to work. His funds have suffered badly from big bets on Bank of America (NYSE:BAC - News), Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ - News) and Hartford Financial Services (NYSE:HIG - News) and Sino-Forest (Toronto:TRE.TO - News).

Those losses were compounded by unfulfilled predictions by the billionaire hedge fund manager that the U.S. economy would experience a recovery this year. Instead, the economy has stagnated, and global markets have whipsawed as the European sovereign debt crisis worsened through the second half of the year.

The average hedge fund was down about 4.37 percent through November, according to Hedge Fund Research's broadest industry index.

Meanwhile, the gold fund that earned Paulson billions in 2010, is off about 7 percent for the year, according to an investor. The once safe-haven commodity has slumped 18 percent since September, when it hit $1,920 an ounce.

At the end of the third quarter, Paulson was the largest shareholder of the SPDR Gold Trust (Pacific:GLD - News) exchange-traded fund with about 20 million shares, according to quarterly regulatory filing.

Espero se le haga interesante este dato. USA ya no es el pais de antes..

#1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.

#2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be "low income" or impoverished.

#3 If the number of Americans that "wanted jobs" was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to11 percent.

#4 The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.

#5 One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.

#6 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

#7 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#8 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006.  Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.

#9 A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.

#10 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.

#11 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs.  Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#12 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job.  In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.

#13 One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.

#14 The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.

#15 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.

#16 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages.  According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married.  Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.

#17 The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.

#18 In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked.

#19 Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 months in a row.

#20 If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.

#21 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant.  That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

#22 New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011.

#23 As I have written about previously, 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.

#24 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

#25 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980.  Today they account for approximately16.3%.

#26 One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.