Archive - Feb 19, 2012 - Blog entry
ReTuRN To EURO PLaNeT of THe APeS
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 02/19/2012 15:35 -0500You know the saying, "Human see, human do."--Julius
The Volcker Rule: A User's Manual
Submitted by MacroAndCheese on 02/19/2012 13:47 -0500Aspirin at the door
The Trouble with the Volcker Rule
Submitted by rcwhalen on 02/19/2012 13:33 -0500The Volcker Rule ignores the most basic and elementary facts about bank risk taking in the financial markets and must hurt overall liquidity among financial intermediaries and investors.
Shadow Stats John Williams on the End of the Dollar
Submitted by CrownThomas on 02/19/2012 11:07 -0500You're in a situation now where the rest of the world has increasingly lost confidence in the U.S. Dollar
Farrell Sentiment Index
Submitted by Elmwood Data on 02/19/2012 03:10 -0500In this chart and analysis, we compare the S&P 500 (black line) to the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) weekly survey. The AAII reports their respondents in three categories: bullish, bearish, and neutral. To analyze these AAII statistics, we create the “Farrell Sentiment Index,” defined as the number of bulls, divided by the number of bears, plus .5x the number of neutrals = Bulls/(Bears+.5Neutrals). This data can be quite volatile week to week, so we opted to convert this formulaic data series into two different types of charts.
