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Two Possible Reasons for the Rise in 10-Year Treasury Notes
Somehow, we don’t think this is what Ben Bernanke had in mind when he launched another round of easy money five weeks ago. Indeed, he promised us lower long-term... Read »
Income Investor Red Alert
Yesterday was a “risk off” day. The dollar index floated above 79. Stocks and commodities got hammered. Still, since our mind tends to wander away from the herd,... Read »
Stocks Back at Pre-Lehman Levels
So… This is what life after “QE2” looks like: Record gold prices Stocks back at pre-Lehman levels And a dollar cruising toward its 2008 lows. Everything... Read »
The Truth Behind the Chinese Rare Earths Embargo
“It makes logical sense: Whenever you have a shortage of raw materials in the world, it historically has led to war.” So said investment biker and Vancouver... Read »
If You Don’t Revalue, I’m Gonna Get… Really Angry!
Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. Bigwigs from the International Monetary Fund met over the weekend in Washington to “tackle global imbalances,” as the... Read »
The Rally Looks Tired
It was the best of times… The best September for the broad indexes since 1939. Alas, “the September rally looks tired,” opines Dan Amoss, editor of Strategic... Read »
What’s to be Done with the Current Stock Market?
If you’ve been feeling skittish about buying stocks lately, you’re hardly alone. A poll of investors commissioned by the Associated Press and CNBC finds… 61%... Read »
Is the Recession Really Over? The NBER Seems to Think So…
Unless you’ve been buried under a pile of stock market profits over the past 24 hours unable to breathe or reach your TV set, you know the National Bureau of Economic... Read »
The BCBS Influences Credit Markets for Years to Come
Over the weekend exactly two years ago, a few smartly dressed gentlemen gathered in an otherwise unremarkable boardroom in New York’s Wall Street district. They... Read »
We’re Number Four!
Heh. Has it come to this? Sweden, that notorious bastion of socialism, is a better place to do business than the United States. So it has…at least according to... Read »







