Archive - Aug 2014 - Blog entry

As of today, the forecast of fall/winter rain is in doubt.

For 40 years, the financial world has experienced a bull market in bonds. What this means is that for 40 years, bond prices have risen while yields fell.  As yields fell, it became easier and easier for investors to borrow money.

... Who America and Her Close Allies SUPPORT (the Terrorists, That Is) ...

A limerick for Barry Jung Un...

Below is my one-hour video debunking all the critical points Reich raises in “Inequality for All.” 

He also warned that all countries would have to face up to mounting debt levels and said that central bank’s ultra loose monetary policies were not the answer. King echoed the IMF’s Lagarde recent declaration that the world needs a “global economic reset”.

One notices how the United States never has to go in with the military and bail out the Scandinavian countries? At some point the Iraqi people will have to take responsibility for how they want to live and deal with the consequences of these choices.

Please do not worry...

Overview of the investment climate and the likey impact from data and events, delivered in dispassionate, even if dry prose. 

In so many ways caged from birth, is it any wonder we exhibit clear and disturbing signs of depression, neurosis and self destructive behavior?

Give me Football Season over the Federal Reserve any day of the week in terms of actual ‘boots on the ground’ stimulus.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.--Charlie Chaplin

Direct Edge wasn’t the only exchange, nor the first exchange, to do what it did, which was the creation of symbiotic relationships between exchanges and HFTs.  

Overview of the price action in various currencies, S&P 500, Treasuries and the CRB Index

Any Bond Idiot Can Buy into Fear, but they are Forced to Sell into ‘Good Times’!