Charting Stocks

We’ve been warning about the insurance stocks and Hartford in particular for months.  See these posts:
The Coming Annuity Crisis
Forecast 2009 (We predict another major insurance company failure in 2009, with Hartford as the leading candidate)
Today the Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it cut the ratings of Hartford Financial Services Group’s counterparty credit rating [...]

The credit worthiness of the United States is deteriorating rapidly and may lead to a credit rating downgrade.
In our 2009 forecast, we mentioned that the United States may be downgraded this year.  The trillions of dollars being pumped into a dying financial system will have its consequences. The treasury is expected to issue $2 trillion [...]