Archive - Sep 2014 - Blog entry

WTF is haggis you say...

The single most important item for investors to understand is collateral. Specifically, how there is a huge shortage of high grade collateral backstopping the trillions in derivatives trades owned by the TBTFs

The most commonly used introduction in any Forex business for the past 3 years: "US or Non-US"

BANZAI7 FOOD AND BEVERAGE WARNING...

U.S and NATO Responsible for Ukraine Crisis … and West Has Agreed to Cover Up Details About Shoot Down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17

Straight-forward discussion about the investment climate and the week ahead.  Light on hyperbole, heavy on analysis.  

NO STINKIN' FOOD OR BEVERAGES WITH THIS POST...

A new definition for dry rot...

The euro has fallen an unprecedented eight weeks in a row.  The dollar set new five year highs against the yen before the weekend.  Here is an overview of the near-term technical outlook.  

Decision making it has a lot of implications for your success as an investor, as a business person, and even in your personal relationships. It is a skill which needs to be constantly developed, honed and refined.

At the end of the day, everything the Fed has done has been focused on propping up a broken system. Eventually the Fed’s efforts will fail at which point so will the Fed (just as the last two Central Banks in the US failed). 

A nation of burger flippers...

Financial engineers have taken over; actual engineers are relegated to an expense category that must be cut.

Since the inception of Obamacare, Humana up more than 440% because just as cereal manufacturers decrease their costs by putting less cereal in the same box, health insurers have raised the deductibles and co-insurance.