ilene's blog

The stock market is likely going to put in a bottom very soon.

The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason. 

Impoverishing our fellow Americans has never been more profitable. 

The more unequal countries are doing worse on all these kinds of social problems. It's an extraordinarily close correlation.

This is a fantastic opportunity to observe the workings of an actual criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people in action.

Gas up, other retail sales down.

The political and social disruption resulting from eurozone nations being processed like sausages will wear on investors’ nerves, in the same way that living near a slaughterhouse and listening to the screams of livestock being rendered, weighs on the mood.

Reality is just too complicated. So they give us a cartoon instead. 

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking his show on the road.

Forget Europe though, the scariest news of the week to me is HSBC taking $1.8Bn of loan impairment charges last quarter as large amounts of customers simply stopped paying their mortgages.  

"This will not be resolved quickly or easily." Maybe it will never be resolved. 

You can't handle it. 

The notion of more austerity and  economic growth solving Italy’s debt trap is the pinnacle of silly season.

This is a tough market to trade in, and I don’t want to get chopped around or do any heavy lifting.

Welcome to Post-Information Age Investing!