ilene's blog

Why is it that the average investor has a firmer idea of what his next $50 clothing purchase should be than his next $5,000 stock purchase?

Two and a half years into the so-called recovery and the country is still in the throes of a severe multi-year depression.

The media is still banging the nuclear fear drum over and over again to keep people watching but the reality is that the chance of a catastrophe, at this point is very slim...

Over time, it’s complacency that kills you...

Nobody seems all that alarmed that the largest bond fund in the world has dumped all of their U.S. Treasuries.

So, let's see which of the things we've been ignoring suddenly matter today...

Right now, it's ALL about the dollar and how it performs at it's current inflection point. We are expecting that the situation in Europe will not stabilize and that the Mid-East will, which should drive money out of commodities, out of the Euro and into the dollar...

"It does not get any clearer which way Wall Street is trying to take oil," says Stephen Schork. The Schork Report notes that speculators now own nearly six times as many barrels of oil... as can be stored at the WTI trading hub in Cushing, Okla.

Speculation in oil futures is absolutely rampant.

I wanted to give an overview of how the markets can look good but not actually BE good. It’s important to get the perspective of the WHOLE economy – not just the part that we swim around in.

it's not just the Federal Reserve that is in denial but the commodity speculators, the equity investors and even the bond investors as the ALL believe they are going to get paid while MATH says that's not even remotely possible.

For decades, the entire globe has been blessed with very cheap oil and this has resulted in a massive economic boom.
But times are changing.

So that's why we're shorting small business. The worst part is they are too stupid to know who their enemies are.

Over the past several decades, the American economy has been slowly but surely merged into the emerging one world economic system.

Even Bernie Madoff is disgusted by the nonsense going on in the stock markets as he tells New York Magazine this weekend that the entire Government-run stock market is nothing more than a giant Ponzi scheme.