But who wants to raise interest rates in the middle of 9% unemployment, asks Signorelli.

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Vlad Signorelli is the Director of Global Research at Bretton Woods Research, LLC in New Jersey, a boutique investment research firm.

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Signorelli held the same title at the defunct Polyconomics, a similar policy focused, supply-side research firm started by former Ronald Reagan economic adviser Jude Wanniski.

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Vlad Signorelli, chief investment strategist at Bretton Woods Research in New Jersey thinks President Barack Obama would come out looking like a winner if he had to make such a decision.

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"Usually on the first hot night, people bust out, " said Walter Signorelli, a retired New York Police Department inspector who is now a professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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With GDP growth generally a lagging indicator, it is often more rewarding to pay attention to policies that encourage economic growth when trying to predict outperforming global markets, says Vlad Signorelli, Global Research Director at Brettonwoods Research LLC.

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In fact, with GDP growth generally a lagging indicator anyhow, it is often more rewarding to pay attention to policies at the margin that encourage economic growth when trying to predict outperforming global markets, says Vlad Signorelli, global research director at boutique investment research firm Brettonwoods Research LLC in New Jersey.

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