Marc To Market's blog

What if there was some degrees of freedom in the centrally planned capital markets that rational, non-emotional and non-ideologically-laden thinking could shed light on ? Here is such an attempt

The may be secret agreements and a grand conspiracy to manipulate the capital markets and commodities, but they are still largely understandable through rational analysis.  Not being privy to such secret deals, here is one man's view of the near-term technical outlook for the foreign exchange market, bond, commodities and stocks.  

Thesis:  Oil supply is where the pressure is coming from and the China-Russian oil deal has not undermined the dollar, but OPEC. 

Bitcoin is so last year.  The price of it in dollars made a new low for the year today.  Is the dollar's future as bleak as it looked?

While the 0.001% of the world dine together and plan their next moves, here are the main events in the week ahead.  

Yes the US does not practice laissez faire capitalism.  It never did.  It manipulates sets intersest rates.  The fx market is still understandable and the dollar is moving higher.

Straight forward discussion of the key events next week.   Weak on bluster.  Strong on analysis.   You've been warned.  

There may be one great conspiracy dictating the course of the capital market, but if there is not, what is the near-term outlook for the dollar?  

Is the Great Republic been on the verge of fragmenting as classic political philosphy said was the fate of all large republics?   

Just one guy's attempt to make sense of what is likely to happen in the coming days.

The world may be a big conspiracy and civilization as we know it may end soon, but if you care what the dollar may do next week, take a look at this post.

A look at new arguments suggesting that globalization is fragmenting.  Are they really new?  Are they true? 

Forget the Siren calls of the impending end of days and the imminent collapse of civilization.  Here is a non-polemical non-bombastic overview of three key events in the week ahead:  FOMC meeting, TLTRO launch in Europe and the Scottish referendum.  

Simple review of technical condition of the capital markets.  Light on polemical zeal, and heavy on technical analysis.  

Quick update, and outline of reasons to suspect anxiety over Scottish independence has peaked.