By Prieur du Plessis (Guest Post) The update on U.S. sector PEs below comes courtesy of my friends at top-quality research house Bespoke.Below we take a look at where the P/E ratios (trailing 12-month) of the S&P 500 and...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) The Depart of Transportation’s Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through June. The lead observation is that travel on all roads and streets...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Gold continued to make headlines this week, reaching nearly $1,900 an ounce on Friday before resting around the $1,850 level. Gold’s 15 percent rise to new nominal highs over the past month has...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb (Guest Post) It is becoming standard procedure these days to decry those who oppose you politically as radicals as in “radical agenda,” “radical views,” “radical friends,” and...
Read MoreBy Russ Winter (Guest Post) Good quality water sources in the right locations are the key to basic civilization, let alone even minimal economic growth. Like hydrocarbons, water is now the weak link to the maintenance of 7...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Catching up on my new reading on a Sunday afternoon, top of the headline at Bloomberg was an investigative piece finally revealing how much, when and whom the Federal Reserve provided the discount window and...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) Until yesterday, the big China story of the week was U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Beijing. A fight that broke out during an Aug. 18 “friendly” game between the Georgetown Hoyas and the...
Read MoreBy Ramki Ramakrishnan (Guest Post) The Medium Term Outlook for the GBP/USD using Elliott Wave analysis is best figured out by starting your query from the longer term chart. A clear five wave decline from 2007 ended in 2009....
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis (Guest Post) The Swiss franc has been in a strong uptrend since June last year, and rose in parabolic fashion during the first two weeks of August this year as safe haven concerns channelled massive flows...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) I’m a little slow, but perhaps someone can tell me what happened to the crowd who were jumping up and down screaming that US Treasuries were a bubble when the yield was 3.7%? If that was a bubble...
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