Paper Economy

Hitting a “B” instead of an “M”!… HUH?! Sorry if I’m having a little difficulty believing this story… something is amiss… Could a single tra...

Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing simply stunning declines to the aggregate producti...

Subtitle: The (Suckers) Rally Has Left the Building? And a very weak rally it has been… amazingly weak given all the talk of the new adminis...

So, today we bounced off of the dot-com bear market closing low of 776.76 (occurred on 10/10/2002 with an intraday low of 768.63) on the S...

This post is a follow up and further elaboration showing the current and historical values for some key interest rates . These interest rate...

Subtitle : Ouch! Or Just Blowing the Head off The Beer? The era of the orderly broad market selloff has clearly drawn to a close leaving in ...

Let me be the first to give a cheer for the Invisible Hand! … Hip Hip Hooray!... You go Hand! So, why do you think the markets sold off so v...

Subtitle: The Big One? The S&P 500 has dropped sharply in the last two weeks leaving the broad average at a level first seen in the summ...

Home Prices, Home Sales, Housing Permits, Jobless Claims, Unemployment Rate, Foreclosure Rate, Stock Market, Consumer Confidence, Homebuilde...

Following up on a prior post , take a look at the trend and most recent state of the S&P 500 index and compare it to the last major bear...

As you know, in recent months I have been tracking the S&P 500 index as it has descended into a classic “Bear Market” trade down that ap...

Following up on a prior post, take a look at the trend and most recent state of the S&P 500 index and compare it to the last major bear ...

Following up on a prior post , take a look at the trend and most recent state of the S&P 500 index and compare it to the last major bear...

Although I don’t usually comment directly on the stock market or stock indexes and generally limit observations of individual stocks to thos...