I'm guessing that replying to yourself is a faux pas here. Bad etiquette. Gauche. Oh well. In answer to myself, what's next is just the age...
That worked out nicely. But now I have no ideas about what happens next, not even crazy ones. Continuation of the commodity sell off? Summer...
Silly me. Shepherding us out of the stock market to support treasuries wouldn't be good for our psyches. Shepherding us out of commodities on...
I had a look through the blog and could of course present counter arguments, but let me instead add some fuel to your fire. I very rarely hear...
I reserve the right to change my mind daily, but my new theory is that bond yields have to get more attractive first. So we dip then rally, then...
Could this be the beginning of our being herded out of the stock market and into treasuries? I think not yet, and I will be buying the dip. Soon.
Finished the day up $3610, realized $2021. This post is my way of celebrating having made $6k or more a week for the last 7 months. Just in...
If we are no longer worried about deflation and if the NFP numbers look stellar soon, QE2 could end on schedule or even early. So who will step...
I'm wondering if the drop in gold and oil is the market's way of predicting a good GDP number tomorrow. Not sure about the US markets but imo TSX...
Median age in Yemen is a stunning 18 years. http://www.indexmundi.com/yemen/median_age.html
NYSE Euronext, Bats Extend Circuit Breakers to April Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- NYSE Euronext, Bats Global Markets and Direct Edge Holdings Inc.,...
I like to think of price movement as periods of time where either more buyers or more sellers exhibit a sense of urgency. Perhaps they are...
From the CNBC website: "There's even an increasingly popular index that allows investors to buy options on correlationâthe CBOE Correlation...
"New world currency index launch". The article in the link below announces a $20 bln foreign exchange manager launching a currency basket that it...
http://www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt From Aug 09 to Aug 10, China dropped its US treasuries from $936B to $868B, while UK increased from $104B to...
I think money is moving away from the public markets and into private equity. This is an old article but I think now that we are past the market...
If it were decided that a "commodity currency" was the best solution, would a basket of "useful" commodities (oil/copper etc) not make more sense?...
The less I say, the less likely I will say something stupid, but perhaps it's worth the risk. What I meant by the above post was that it seems...
Apologies in advance for quoting wiki, but... 'On March 24, 2009, Zhou Xiaochuan, President of the People's Bank of China, called for "creative...
"Nearly 93 percent of the 70 respondents, including economists, fund managers and traders, believe the Fed will boost the size of its portfolio,...
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