Author: Michael Kahn

No, not Barack Me Amadeus or John McBush. br /br /It is time to change posting on this blog to named from anonymous. If you don’t like me or my blog, you are free to say so and comments will not be removed unless outright...

Getting it out of the way up front, I am no economist and I only possess a basic knowledge of statistics. This does not stop me from thinking that this is a scary chart of earnings for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. I found...

Sorry for not posting in a while but I took a few days with the family. Too bad I cannot leave the laptop home but the newsletter calls.br /br /It was a unique (for me) opportunity to get delayed market information and...

Since I’ve been doing this blog, one phrase has continually popped nto my head as I ponder the financial and commodity markets- “What the hell is going on?”br /br /I don’t put much stock, so to speak, in...

It’s time to step back and poke fun at our industry – again. Here is an uabbreviated/u list of funnies posted to a chat room I frequent by a friend over at Thomson Reuters who I am sure does not want his name...

Two weeks ago, the “Montauk Monster” washed up on the beach out on Long Island. Was it real or a fake? And if it was real, what the heck was it?br /br /And now, we have a citing of Bigfoot, caught and killed by some...

Another title for this post was “What the Bagelman knows.”br /br /I know that everyone is quick to raise prices when input costs rise – crude oil for one. But the local bagel shop still sports a sign in the...

Is it just me or has the news that an American attending the Olympics in China was killed by a Chinese been swept under the rug already? Could you imagine what would happen if a Chinese attending the Olympics held here were...

Don’t your love the currency market? The dollar is zooming higher as prospects in Europe have dimmed because if growth there is slower than growth here, money flees euros and moves into dollars. We look good not because...

This is a follow up to yesterday’s post on my radio interview with the “contrarian economist.” He went off on me when I said the dollar was still weak and berated my “narrow focus” for looking at...