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Author: Michael Kahn

Ripped from the headlines

My comments in bold within: Initial unemployment claims declined by 31,000 to 473,000 in the week ended Aug. 21, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday (a rare positive). New claims for the previous week, ending...

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Sentiment from inside the markets

Yes, today saw the stock market dip way down and close with a gain. As I wrote in my column,  the S&P dipped into its support zone after falling for most of August. Oversold, ready to bounce and with sentiment growing...

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Things are so bad they are good?

Everything seems to be going wrong in the economy now as today’s home sales shows. Prices in the stock market are sinking again and everything I see technically tells me that we are in for a nasty September.  Yet, we...

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More things that p*** me off

Where are we as a society when lawyers put in or allow this in their contract language? c. You must have express written permission to use another party’s trademarks or trade names, copyrighted or …. What does that...

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Canary in a Coal Mine

First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect You live you life like a canary in a coalmine You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line – The Police...

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Dangerous Stock Pushers

I love how the industry still thinks stocks are the be all and end all for investors. Is there really nothing else? No, not bonds or gold. How about movies, restaurants, inventions, art, baseball teams and a zillion other things...

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Tech follow up

Just an observation. Monday’s column, entitled “What Happened to Tech Stocks?” seemed to strike a chord with readers. It zoomed right up to the most read article on the Barrons.com site early Tuesday. Could it...

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Relief rally

Volume poor, leaders close of their intraday highs. Looks like a bit of relief from the selling. This was in the financial media: “We’ve got a cornucopia of good news. We had upbeat guidance from the largest retailer...

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Predicting Black Swans

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition -Monty Python Below is an excerpt ripped from the headlines, er, “borrowed” from a free email distribution from Casey Research. It gives a nice explanation of how the market...

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