Author: Michael Kahn

’cause I gotta peaceful easy feeling and I know you won’t let me down ’cause I’m already standing on the ground – The Eagles (1972) Ireland won’t take it then they will. But uh-oh, now...

I am in Orlando today to speak at the Advisors MoneyShow.  Every February, I am down here to speak at the “regular” MoneyShow and there are usually 3000 attendees. For the Advisor show,they tell me 800 people...

The Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart Is this in the CPI? Or is it considered to be food and therefore not “core.”

They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning, No-one you see, is smarter than he, And we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder, Flying there-under, under the sea! – from the 1964 TV show...

I see a lot of headlines today about the weak euro boosting the dollar. Problems in Europe have resurfaced, not that they ever went away, and global jitters are back in general. But look at this chart:This is the Euro index (E)...

Retail data was good today and the stock market responded with a rally. Unfortunately, retail itself did not. Yes, some superstars such as AZO stayed firm in nosebleed territory. ODP was up big but after a crappy 2010 who cares?...

A lot of bombs dropped this week on Wall Street and we can begin by just digging in. Boeing suffered a big problem with its brand new product and tanked Apple broke its trendline Gold and Silver bonked big time Oil had a fake...

While I wish the “Yield Wave” were the name of a new analytical technique I discovered it is more mundane – and negative. In today’s Barron’s Online column, I talk about the wild ride all markets...

Is this why the Fed and Treasury are playing this game? From MarketWatch: The U.S. has been after China to loosen the peg on Yuan against the Dollar.  So far, China has committed only to a gradual devaluation of the...

From Phil Flynn, energy guy at www.pfgbest.com How will the Chinese get even with us for our dollar printing ways? Well the easy answer is to just buy more commodities. The hot money is pouring in as the dollar gets wacked and...