Smoke on the Water

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?

A Harshly Divided Planet

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...

Crashiverary Week Continues

"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.

Illusion Based on a Fantasy

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.

The Inimical Inflation Kind

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.

The Calm Before the Storm

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.