Jim is shorting US equities again and buying commodities. He tends to think the dollar will rise a little bit more, but it’s basically a rally to short and he wants to unload his dollars at higher prices. Of the many...
Read MoreIn light of a few stocks on the Dow that are virtually penny stocks I was thinking it may be time to dump these stocks from the Dow 30 and replace them with companies more representative of American free enterprise. It may...
Read MoreI’m not a big fan of Taleb’s books, but I do enjoy listening to these two talk about what to look for when the market bottoms, which both seem to think are 4-5 years...
Read MoreI have been very bearish on oil for quite some time now but this week has brought about a trend reversal on many different time frames. Before I go into my analysis I think it’s important to consider this trade without any...
Read MoreHere I thought the jokes about Bush would end once he left the office, but I came across this video while surfing and I absolutely couldn’t believe that he was stumped by a grad student. Looks like he didn’t have his...
Read MoreVia Vix and More. GDP will not improve until the previous two charts (consumer confidence & unemployment) show an uptick, or at the very least stop the bleeding. clipped from vixandmore.blogspot.com...
Read Moreclipped from www.financialsense.com In the end, the financial crisis of 2007-? will be summed up as a fairly simple process: 1) Confidence shaken 2) More debt accumulated to maintain confidence 3) Confidence further shaken 4)...
Read MoreAs I was going over some indicators after the close I noticed that today was the largest volume day on the Dow Jones ever. I joked during the trading day on twitter that we were going to crash on Monday and that an virtual...
Read MoreIt’s headlines like this that investors will read over their coffee this weekend that will plant a seedling of fear in their minds. Maybe then we’ll start to see the fear that these markets we’ve so badly...
Read MoreI guessing that the reaction of the equity markets to the Government’s gradual and methodical takeover of Citigroup isn’t the result they were going for. The writing is on the wall that Citigroup (and most...
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