Earlier this week Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer laid out the conditions for raising interest rates. “The tightening of US policy,” he said …
More Ominous Charts We have decided to expand a bit on our recent post about “ominous charts” and show a few more …
During strongly trending bull markets, investors tend to forget that devastating events happen. Major events such as the “Crash of 1929,” “The Great Depression,” the “1974 Bear …
Erroneous Assumptions “The top 25 hedge fund managers made more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country,” declared President Obama in …
The big economic number this week will be the Q1 Second Estimate for GDP on Friday at 8:30 AM ET. With the BEA’s …
Presidents have always exercised emergency powers, but now thanks to dozens of new laws, regulations, court decisions and executive orders, Barack Obama …
Easy To Blame The Dollar During the May 26 selloff in stocks, we heard numerous “blame it on the strong dollar” comments similar …
As has been noted frequently in the past, most of the business news posted by the mainstream media is a collection of economic fairy-tales which …
In the world of investing, so many things work better in theory than in practice. Executive stock options?
45 days after quarter end, large institutional investors have to report their holdings to the SEC, which are then made available to …
