Author: Michael Kahn

With apologies to the Europeans who were paying $6 for petrol last year, I can now whine about paying $4 for gas here. My next fill-up in my premium gas fired sedan will likely be at $4.09 per gallon, which is actually a bit...

For those of you pop culture junkies, the headline is the short-version of today’s message. Who knows this open from a 1960 TV show theme? (post your knowledge here)br /br /div style=”text-align:...

In today’s column I covered a few heavy construction stocks with nice bullish patterns. Rather than think about buying them as anything more than bear market rally plays, let’s think about what that might mean for...

Actually, it is egg on the faces of the bears. And EVERYONE seems to be talking about the Dow Theory buy signal. I’ll add that EVERYONE knows the Dow broke out from its 2008 trading range.br /br /As I and many others say,...

Today’s Barron’s Online column made a case for a long-term bottom in stocks later this year, for bond yields right now and a top in commodities next year. All of this was thanks to the folks at the a...

I’m not going to go doomsday on you but here is a post from a chat room that got me thinking more about gold, and in turn, stocks. I was not able to verify the fact this person put forth so I will leave his/her name off it...

You know the old saying about what happens when you assume. You make and a** out of you and me. Yeah, yeah, I put asterisks in there for decorum’s sake (or were they assterisks?). Here is a chat room post stolen verbatim...

For those of you old enough to remember or pop culture savvy enough to have ordered the DVD series, you can almost hear Maxwell Smart reciting this blog post’s title. The stock market just missed breaking down today and...

No, this is not a dissertation on sentiment or similar things but a diary entry about how I felt today. And no, it’s not about my cat (which I don’t have) or a bad trade. Today, my column was on chemicals stocks with...

The title is written both with amazement and doubt. Lehman begs for more money and the market goes up. Merrill says we don’t need no stinkin’ money and the market goes up. And now Fitch downgrades MBIA and the market...