By Tim Iacono (Guest Post) The chart below would be far less terrifying if August were almost over, but, since we’re only about half way through and have already seen the most 200+ point days for the Dow in a...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) The August 2011 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released on Thursday puts the July year-over-year inflation rate at 3.63%, which is fractionally below the 3.96% average...
Read MoreBy JW Jones (Guest Post) Back on August 7th the S&P 500 was in the midst of a panic induced selloff and the bulls were running scared. Prices were collapsing and the bulls were racing to the exits. In the following...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) You’d have to think that, at some point, the Commerce Department is going to lose interest in reporting the monthly housing starts data since, if the graphic below were an EKG, the...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Here is my weekly gasoline chart update from Department of Energy data with an overlay of West Texas Crude (WTI). Gasoline at the pump continued exhibit price declines over the past week. On...
Read MoreStarbucks Bao Zheng Mug (added by EconMatters) By Stan Abrams (Guest Post) Here’s a little intellectual property story you’ve never heard of and will care about even less after reading this post. But since...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis (Guest Post) Is the PBoC going to stop buying USG bonds? Once again we are hearing very worried noises from various sectors about the possibility of a reduction in Chinese purchases of USG bonds. Here...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Here now is a fresh look and the world’s reserve currency and the two metals, starting with a 20-year timeline for the Dollar and Gold. Since late April, the Dollar has been in a narrow...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen (Guest Post) The past few weeks traders and investors have been completely spooked from the surge of negative news and collapsing stock prices. This fear can be seen by looking at the volume on the GLD...
Read MoreBy David Banister (via The Technical Traders) (Guest Post) Let’s clarify the SP 500 situation here: The lows at 1101 were a convergence of fibonacci weeks, months, sentiment bottoms and VIX extremes along with major...
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