Author: Michael Kahn

Yes, ladies and gents, the VIX is under 18 and only 9.7% of the population is out of work!Small cap stocks are at new recovery highs and the Dow is breaking through resistance! Interest rates are still sooo low and retail sales...

Ask a sewer worker (Ed Norton?) about his job and he says it is full of, well, you know. But, it’s honest work. That’s not how I feel on Wall Street when I see juxtaposed headlines like this:• Optimism returns...

1 – Is every politician corrupt? Maybe I am overly sensitive since my last governor was a hooker hound, my current governor is just plain corrupt and a congressman close to my district is a tenured piece of corruption who...

In the previous blog post, a reader commented that volume is lousy and he/she does not even follow it anymore. I sort of agree because we don’t put volume in the bank. We also cannot fault anyone for making money when a...

Yes, AIG and Fannie/Freddy were back at the window looking for more handouts. Nothing topsy or turvey there. Greece and California were on default watch and nothing new there, either.But now the British Pound is in free fall and...

Sorry for the late post today but there is a foot of snow out my window. Yesterday, my part of the world had about sixty feet of rain and it all ended up in my basement. I am reading more and more about debt downgrades, currency...

The Dow is up 3/4% today while Brazil is down about 1/3%. (All of Latin America is down). And half the PIIGS were down, too. That was today’s column topic. Investors are running from risk – either real, as it the...

First of all, the poll to the right is still open —>We’ve gone over this in technical circles ad nauseum but John Bollinger posted the following in a technical chat room this week and it is crystal clear. Unless...

Time frame is “near term.” You can interpret any way you like because the market does not care what we think anyway.

Over the years, I, like many of you, have had business ideas that I never attempted. One was a simple ice cream shop in my home town where there were none. Of course, a year later Swenson’s moved in. That they failed is...